Didn’t get much sleep over the last few days, partly because of duty on Friday. On the contray I was glad it was weekday duty or it could be worst… Weekends away from camp are the ONLY time to enjoy life we so long desire in camp, so Saturday was pretty much spent at home with my family. To start the sunday, spent a few hours fragging people on XP cases servers before dropping by BayArea TFC servers for awhile, as I don’t really feel like working… Had this very typical “feverish feeling” throughout the day, maybe I didn’t get enough rest or so, resistance must have greatly deteriorated. But I more of less drank lots of water to keep the fever at bay. Looking back funny I didn’t feel sick yesterday- at the peak of my triedness. On top of the 10hours of sleep I’ve yesterday, I still woke up tried this morning & dammit its back to camp again tonight with me as a duty sgt for the day. Hope I can come out better tomorrow or I have to give tomorrow’s schedule & training a go with somemore rest.

And here I am posting from my friend’s house after waterpool training tonight. Cheers to Whelan, Darryl & John who’s computer I am at posting this blog now. Looking back, Its a rather interesting week, firstly with me getting another shitty extra from my PC *darn* together with John, who actually ummm, got 2? Theres more, followed by lots of prep for activities in camp. Furthermore didn’t know that the Army open house thing which I expressed interest in joining was actually something at a scale so big: our job scope is very much a publicity job, very much of promoting the event with the media, adverts & even the NDP. Though I don’t want to count the chickens before they are hatched but the shirt which could be used in the open house may actually be designed by my commitee- the AOH creative commitee.

Upgraded to wordpress 1.2, didn’t really know bout the new version, thanks to Lest who I met online just now.

And mm its sunday & the long block leave is coming to an end now, & its time to book into camp tonight… again.. *dang!*

And mmm wonder how is the Singapore idol auditions going on now?…

Received an unexpected message from Lester this morning my old secondary classmate asking to meet at 2pm for the usual “old class gathering”. So how can I pack 5 scheduled items nicely in one day…

As first things first, as planned in the morning theres an interview in the morning with crescene. Besides some minor problems on the meeting place, everything went rather smooth & fine.

Cleared all my driving lessons in 18 sessions fast & swift, but its something my instructor today didn’t like. He said that I am too fast, people usually complete it within 20-30 lessons, so I don’t have enough experience which he demands. Personally, I went for my all my other lessons as it is, no bugging or rushing & its up to all my other instructor’s decision to give me how many stamps per lesson depending on my performance, I didn’t choose the pace, all my other instructors did, I don’t know why this one is such a sore thumb. He passed my evaluation anyway. Funny despite all the comments though…

Met up with my cousin at Jurong East after. Took a train to Dolby Ghaut, dropped by PS for some long john silver’s followed by a walk to shed the calories towards the nearby Sunshine Plaza near Parklane to buy a birthday present for my sis. Got an Anime DVD “Full Metal Panic” at $60, luckily mum & dad agreed to chip in a sum, so it won’t be that bad… And mmm *noting on the calender* Father’s day would be on the 20th this month, same day as my sis’s birthday double the gift expenditure, but less the need for 2 dinners for the occasion(s).

Linked up with Lester, Desmond & gang at hereen, as usual the topic for guys our age is always army talk… Had a light dinner at one of my friend’s shop at Chinasquare.

Went to chomp chomp at serangoon for dinner, the place is so packed- literally a smoke house crowded with people, dunno how can people survive in there its just too hot in there, even the ventilation fans server no other purpose but to blow back hot oily air emitted from the hawker exhaust. We couldn’t find a seat anyway so we had dinner at a much well & spacious new hawker center nearby. My mum did some grocery shopping at her favorite “angmo” supermarket in Angmokio before visiting my grandma & calling it a day.

Well it struck again, I guess one of every 5 instructors who taken me have something against lady drivers, its either being too “careful on the road” or a nitemare when it comes to fine skills driving in the circuit. It all either it boils down to one thing: the female of the species are not very inclined to handle machinery such as cars. Haha, what do you think? I personally do not want to be brainwashed into thinking like the stereotypical male driver, I’ve always believed in equality *yea, yea*. However, I had not driven on the road long enough to see or experience any “mishaps” *whoops* or so, with the all common exception of taxi drivers zipping & cutting here and there. Everything’s fine.

Tomorrow in text…

Would be having an interview in the morning. Then would find some time to zip down the parklane area to find a birthday present for my sis. Thereafter, would be dropping down to bukit batok driving center again for my final driving evaluation. Mmm and guess what? my last practical on my training book was booked with an instructor alocation within my f.i.s grouping. If I can long remember the last time I was actually taught by him was in the very early, first few lessons of the course. Then its always a different instructor day-after-day thanks to my all but never-ending last minute bookings. Guess we would be meeting again for the last lesson… hehheh, then it’s “see here! show ‘em what’ve learnt dude!” After that, think my cousin would be joining me later in the day for some shopping, if time premits, maybe catching Shrek2 shouldn’t be much of a problem. Then its some dinner appoinment with my parents before I could call it a day.

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Its the peak of the driving frenzy. There are 6 more stamps left in my training record book, with a little math here (& there) estimated that I should be able to clear all the lessons in bout 3-4 practical slots.

When things are heating up, just say that I went crazy & went booking 2 consecutive lessons tomorrow from 1pm to 4.30pm & one lesson on friday (I could had got another 2 if the system didn’t stop me ), plus one more on saturday in case I didn’t pass my evaluation . All in hand, hope all will go well this week… Should be able to book my final driving test, targetted in a week or so… mid june at least.

must try to pass on the first attempt then…