And so its the last sunday of the year, also the last blog entry before I head back to camp for the week, also the last book-out/book-in for the year. Oh well when you come to think about it 2003 just zipped past me, but that don’t seem to bug me one bit either.. maybe because I am in the army? dang yea- ORD is not near, no holiday ending (school re-opening) blues or any school related shit the education system had casted upon our “poor” kids of Singapore.

On a sunday note:

Woke after today at 9am feeling great and better than the last few days, no sore throat bad nose or feverish feeling. Only some minor cough and lots and lots of plam. icks! With that aside, who cares bout the sickness when I’ve got a nice french garlic bagle, clam cowder and tea coupled with the sunday comics, ahhh it was a good morning. *cough**cough*

After some morning guitar practice and some light dose of usual Counter-Strike after lunch (The SG CS friends server had this new matrix mod running on their servers quite cool but rather stupid). Checked out some of my usual “to-be-surfed-to-get-updates” sites and hey Rob Alvey got 2 new coaster videos for download, always like their theme park movies.

Would be going back to good old Tekong on mon and tuesday, had been sometime since I did too and when I did that, it was like “haha sucker! never gonna set foot on ya again! ” oh well… *grunts* on top of that training would be tough the next few days, hope I am up and recovered by then. Don’t want this dang cough to hold me up so much next week.

Any new year resolutions?

With that discovery aside, it had been quite a nice week so far with the exception of me almost catching a fever 2 days ago after the dumb mud pool experience and having a bad flu this morning. However, Its neat to have a day off midweek to let of some steam, esp with the fast pace of incamp training, sa “breather” is very much appreciated.

Yea! theres only tomorrow (friday) and saturday morning of “work” till I book out of the hellhole again, hope it will be fast, then out to civilian life again! But first, gotta book-in back to camp tonite to actualy make that happen…

But hey I didn’t go back empty handed either, they had a neat sale list pasted on the door too, showing the in-store special offers not even advertised on their website. Let me name afew:

1) Washburn wing series guitar bundled with an ibanez 10g amp and a HoM guitar case for $349.

2) Washburn deluxe WS with a bd12e amp and HoM guitar case for $399-$449.

3) Fender Squier Affinity Stratocaster series with a Frontman 15g amp bundled with accessoires and stuffs, very much like the Squier official starter pack, all at $599.

The one I am getting is the Peavey sale bundle, with a Peavey predator plus, Peavey Rage 158 amplifier and HoM bag for $310. A very good bargain. At first I was rather paranoid of the lowly offered price, but hey its a year end clearance sale and everything’s at 20%-70% off, even drum sets and electric piano sets are going at half price. But I still won’t let my guard down either and would really check and test out my equipment before making the final purchase.

For me, that guitar’s mine man!

Then I thought, oh shit, sick on chirstmas eve? but then thankfully, one of my platoonmates offered me some panadol which kinda brought the fever to a (36.7) this morning. Feelin kinda “heaty” now and having not a very good throat either but otherwise “manageable” and recovering after some drinking some “cooling tea” my mum specially brewed for me. Really appreciated that.

Too bad I gotta miss my old sec sch classmate’s bbq last night, if not it would be a bash. Had a nice time dudes? Think so…

Dad’s off for some special overtime work today hadn’t been back since. Oh well, that sucks personally, for me even if there overtime. I think I would be dropping by sometime today of tomorrow to get my new electric guitar, hope by brining mum along, she would pay for it as a christmas present *duh, evil me*

Last night’s dinner was good, held at Orchard Hotel, my family and uncle’s usual international 5 star buffet hangout. Only this time he’s treating (but as usual, everyone will just fight to foot the bill, its just so natural, but something fascinating to watch as to see whose credit card reaches the waiter first). The cuisines available that night are chinese, seafood, japanese and western, PIG OUT! Left the hotel with a deja vu of exploding if someone were to press you in the stomach, man should have cut down on the ice cream…

On a side note, returning now from camp is really now.. a drag… not to mention all the outfield activites, fast marches and PT we have in-camp. Usually our weekends are just spent at home resting and sleeping, hoping to recover from the strains and muscle aches in time for next week’s training schedules. Oh well, thats life in the army, *grunt* Now lemme see… *checks calender* its about slightly more than 1 and 1/2 years till I ORD and get out of army life. Then there comes freedom… I wonder fo people miss army life thereafter… they better not, cos there RESERVIST! argh! arrrggehh *getting into spasm* Mmm, on a bright side I did considerably well on my first in-camp theory test 98/100 to be exact *grins grins* And I wonder how can people get 10/100 in the same test too… ack ack *head exploding from ego-overload*

My usual net surf dosage gave me some money purging side-effects today. Its so as Swee Lee music store virus (or maybe the christmas shopping virus) is presently having this christmas sale going on lately- With a guitar set comprising of a Peavey Predator Guitar, Rage III amp and a HoME bag for $480!!! ($345 online payment, though I don’t really get the reduction in price for online payment) its a steal for such a price. Whats more? theres even free home delivery yipee! Hopefully it won’t be a “real steal” (gimmic) in the end. Would be trying to get enquires on the offer when their shops open tomorrow.