Thoughts for food.
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Its slightly less than 1 week into 2004 and my mum is all ready putting on chinese new year decorations around the house, all red, I see. Well Chinese new year is around the corner too, very exciting wonder how much ang pao money will I get this year….
Breakfast was special, as intended we, as a family had tim sum, where? at bukit merah view hawker center, the store is quite popular with the people around there, though I should reco they serve a larger variety of tim sum, as they are definately lacking in some popular dishes such as shrimp puffs and “man tou” (pan fried golden buns). After that, besides gaming all my time away in front of the computer, got some good guitar practice today, few hours in the morning and later in the evening, finally getting my strumming up to some acceptable standards, playing with the E, D and A chords mostly.. *duh* Later around noon, went out to the nearby 162 family restaurant in BM for lunch. Shopped around the central thereafter for some gadgets like a mini fan for “luxuries” whenever I am outfield training and got some grocery chores done roughly within an hour before heading home. And now, Its the same old boring phrase- BOOK IN To CAMP AGAIN…. Only that this time, theres no mid-week breather break like what we had the last 2 weeks (christmas and new year) DaRn! On a note, it’s 2 1/2 weeks before I get my 3rd SGT rank, and the end of life as a army trainee too. Lots of stuff had happened so far on course, very interesting things I say, but very fun too. The instructors are very kind and professional. gd gd. I think I did miss out some thing that the course accomodation is indeed very nice and new, in fact better than what it was in unit.. *dreamz* With that, though sadly, I feel that I am currently under allot of pressure by my OC to get the best trainee position in course presently, well because he knew bout it too. Though I can tell that it is “undirected positive motivation” It just bugs me for him to tell that that he have “something waiting for me” when I return back to unit. Not to mention not wanting to disappoint what my unitmates and CSM have expected on me. Well, I am already trying my best! Moreover, I hope that my achievements throughout the course won’t imply much of an offense to other trainees, esp those who long for best trainee position too. I had seen such “politics” going on in BMT before, but so far I had not seen such behavior here myself, partly everybody as commanders are definately more mature and thinking than those childish BMT bastards… When I come to think about it, it came pretty much of a surprise too me too- The thought of best trainee actually didn’t even dawn to me (being such a slacker myself, through BMT and Sispec) till one of the course instructors told me of some finalisation they had made to so-called “pluck of the cream of the crop”… SHITZ! Hope all goes well. I just gotta stop counting the chickens before they are hatched too. It not end of course yet and anything and anybody could take over my top spot… Mmm though, the title of best trainee does seems good too.. *grins* Just gotta try my best… day by day |
Sleep sleep
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Slept on the bus on the way home today and missed my stop, one of the dumb things I ever get to do in life… I am just super tried today, normally I would try to stay awake to enjoy my weekends but today’s an exception- having slept from 4.30am only to wake up at 7.25am yesterday to complete some dumb planning exercise revision thingy. Its even worst than going outfield (fieldcamp), at least you get you full 7 hours of rest there. This shagging moment is one to be remembered, considering that you are still incamp, near your living quarters where you can move to and fro, in and out, but you can sleep cos you got to much things and planning given to you on purpose late at night to us teams to compile and finish! argh. Concussed on my bed after showering upon reaching home today 3pm (and yea so busy till be even didn’t even get to bathe for 2 days INCAMP, the feeling in just weird!). Plans to go catch a movie (School of rock) in the afternoon is pretty much cancelled too because of this. Woke up around 7pm today just in time for dinner, then did some gaming and reading before concussing for a second time today.
Would be having Tim Sum breakfast outside tomorrow morning, would be looking forward to that! yummy! |
The fun’s over.
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So much for new year’s day, I just wanna update the blog on some new stuffs I tried today before booking back to camp, namely aquiring a new interest- paintball!, with Tippmann USA having a gun of my liking, the A-5. Orchard CC is the place in Singapore with a paintball fighting arena, not to mention the amount of money I have to put in to start such a sporting interest.
Oh well. *grins* Played a little warcraft3 in the afternoon, Installed Gunbound, a cute worms like game and got quite stuck to it for awhile. Ok with that in hand then, I would be back this saturday evening. so tata! |
New year’s morning
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Well, its new year’s day, the morning! A fine day so far, the ambience, the breakfast, the hopes for a nice good 2004. Didn’t have much time to recap actually what happened yesterday in my previous post, so I would just get blabbering on this one. New year’s eve, booked out of camp around noon, got home, ate mum’s home cooked beehoon soup for lunch, slacked and rested as much I can in the afternoon before setting of to beach road for a steamboat dinner at goldenmile complex. As traffic is expected to be quite bad at the central district area, got my dad to park the car at he outskirts of town near the shaw towers area, but very much within walking distance to suntec where I did some shopping around the place (and a nice walk after dinner too), got a paintball games mag and dec issue of total guitar magazine. As the new year’s celebrations are at esplanade area, so we pretty much made our way to millena walk, then marina square, raffles one link thereafter for some hours of coffee and snacks at a coffee club (having 2 shots of their house special brew to stay awake) till bout 11.40pm where we made our way to the esplanade bayfront for the actual event itself.
Guess that covers most of it. have a wonderful new year’s day! |
Happy new year
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The fireworks are up, so are the crowds at the esplanade/ esplanade bridge. Theres more fireworks there than last year’s lasting bout 20minutes worth of continous fireworks at the bay area. Not bad, not bad. I just love the “twilight” period between christmas and new year, everyone’s just simply crazy- everybody’s always happy, smiling, like going with party hats and “honk honk”, horns everywhere, the rampage off plucking stars off the esplanade decoration while the crew and guards desperately try to keep the crowd’s hand off the “masterpiece”. “Kouped” two star screws myself… keke… *snickers* by the time I walked back the same location after sometime, the whole sculpture had been “unscrewed” clean off the deco stars by the crazy mob, spectacular!
The area is just super crowded and some pushing on the bridge which offended quite a few people there, the fullerton bridge is just so packed with people and vehicles, it just seems that it will collaspe under the weight. Somehow, I don’t understand why would anyone still wanna go on it when nobody could even move in there. Its just one time when human traffic wins over vehicular traffic. Lolz! The confetti and horn period was rather fun at the end of the countdown, and everyone was just literally overly showered by those, dispensing and spraying like theres no tomorrow, very messy! Till I get my own digital camera, I just we would have to wait till I develop the film for this year’s countdown photos… Goodbye 2003, Hello 2004! |
