Wednesday, August 31, 2005

of being a part time labourer and such

0730: I try not to think too much, it will cause my hair to turn grey...faster...cuz all the "grey matter" will flow to the strands of my hair. ha, just imagine that i am going to overseas everyday. like when my father drives me to the airport, then taking the ferry to tekong is like taking the ferry to magic kingdom in walt disney world from the transportation and ticketing center...hahaha. too much imagination liaoz.

1123: i shouldn't be like this...

1601: today's even more tiring than i thought...ha, fun tho.

1850: yeah, another busy, really busy day as compared to yesterday at manpower branch. haha, was the teleoperator and factory packer/unpacker today, really taxing on ur brain...ha. but fun la. oh ya! THANK YOU SGT FAIZAN!!! so u were the one that helped pass out of BMT without recourse! many thanks man!

ok...hmmm, in case u have been wonderin wad i am all blabbering abt for the past few entries, i have been posted temporarily to P. Tekong's BMT manpower branch, haha aka the place where all the BMT schl 1 news come to...and where BMT schl 1 stuff are being dispatched from...haha. fun place. nice pple.

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

of insanity and kiasee-ness

0725: back in the penguin ferry, quite alot of recruiys and privates coming back. shit, the sight of food now appalls me! reall! yuck lor, ee-uur. the sunrise is beautiful. i have got a sudden urge to puke...eek...i think i should skip lunch today...should i? oh no...the smell of the char siwe bao the private 3 seats away from me is eating is nauseating...urgh. it's in the ferry some more.

0736: pple are afraid of me ar? the ferry so crowded yet no one chose to sit with me...hahah...but that could be a good thing...haha.

1013: nothing is more boring when ur job scope is being reduced to the sharpening of pencils. it's really depressing, i am dying of lead cancer...we actually have to sort of forms for recruits... well, i shouldn't be complaining.

1840: now in the mrt back home. today was definitely most ok except for the cutting of recruits' evening coupons. tiring stuff. my fingers damn pain. it's actaully ok la...doing this kind of stuff was my thing. haha. got praised by this sgt cuz i helped him figure out how to punch 3 holes to file in paper into those 3 ringed files. ha. oh yeah, sgt faizan was on lunch duty today...heh...so long din see him he still can recognise me without my recruit look. haha. he looks the same...who doesn't in tekong...haha. hope he is doing fine tho.

Monday, August 29, 2005

"Island Life, Love it.."

"...the days are fun and the nights are magic!"

if only the same could be said about tekong. ok la, it's not that bad over there la.

0812hrs:
finally, my MC ended and i am now on board a fast craft with alot of ghurkas(nepalese soldiers). going back to tekong without being a trainee there feels good since u have nothing MUCH to worry about. i stress on the word "much". think i am early, reporting time 9am, but yar, i love to be early.

1108hrs: the shocking truth: i will have to go back to tekong aka monks' island for the rest of this week, as a slack/sian/gu hun ye gui. sucks! ok, so i gotta catch the 7.30am fast craft, so must be at sft by 715 or by 730...urgh...this sucks. it's gonna be temporary right? but for how long? oh ya, just overheard the major in the office talking to dragon coy(i think) abt sgt faizan...doesn't seem too good to me. something abt not being able to contact him while he is on MC...

1850: dun u love the island life?! *sings the sentosa theme song* (sarcasm intended). but it may not be so bad being a private in BMTC, cuz there are pple lower ranking than u: RECRUITS!!!! muahahahha...to think that i was one of them few months back. in fact it was quite nostalgic going back there today wearing my smart 4. urgh...sian...gotta sleep early and do everything early. aiya...stop complaining liaoz la, ur army life compared to the others considered good liaoz k. haiya...ya...i shall see...

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Mediacorp is overdoing it

mediacorp has been blatantly and any-o-how-ly overusing the soundtracks that they have bought. hmmm. u might not understand, but ya, have u watched channel 5 lately? they have been using the kill bill soundtrack like nobody's business. they used for the "heartlanders" trailer...consecutively for 2 episodes. i know the songs on the sound track is nice la...but dun overuse them ok?! then...for this kang si show on channel 8, they used the da chang jin soundtrack. u think the audience dumb one ar? never watch da chang jin before ar? i think media corp should hire their OWN music director...and hire a music composer, that should create some jobs, and let them compose their own songs for their own trailers. haha. if not i am going to feel evermore so irritated. haiz...maybe it's just me and my too-free-so-i-must-poke-my-nose-into-every-single-thing attitude. i am glad and hope that would change tml onwards.

ha...shall blog about my 1st day back in army tml.

regrets and such

ya...these 3 months and 2 weeks just flew by without me knowing it. and ya, abt 6 months of my NS has been served(or rather, majority of it remians unserved, ha), 1.5 more years to go. kind of fast. i had some regrets not doing certain stuff which i could do during this long hiatus from NS, but there are some good things which came out of it.

first, ya, the AEP exhibition, buying the graphic tablet and practising digital art, practise my painting skills with the UOB exhibition paintings(which sadly, didn't get accepted). oh ya, although i din get to make new frens but at least existing friendships were made stronger. yupz...God bless my posting again...heh.

this is basically like a repeat ofmy previous entry hor? haha...anyway, wad i regretted is not learning a third language...but this could still be possible if my new vocation gives me an 8-5 job. i din go back to rv to visit ms ong, last time i saw her was before i got enlisted. ha. sian diaoz...tml must wake up early...haven done that for like 3months liaoz...haha

Saturday, August 27, 2005

so much for these 3months and 2 weeks

yupz...my MC is ending on monday...going back to work then. haha...my last very very very free week. God bless my posting tho.

Friday, August 26, 2005

everyone's linking this trailer...

haha...the new harry potter and the GOF trailer. they link i also link lor...haha. i love the soundtrack, very LOTR-ish, especially with the female singer in the background. i must watch this movie sia, at least twice in the cinema...like i did for the prev harry potter movies. i think i went crazy with the last LOTR movie...watched it 3 times.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

i like wad i eat now

hmmm...yar...no carbs in my meals now. excpet for the occassional bread. eating steamed fish with my mum's ground ginger and chilli paste...yum. not forgetting the nice vegetables accompanying it. yup, veges are nice.

oh ya! NTUC!!!! fancy building a golf course at marina east, u know that place belongs exclusively and specially for me to build my future theme park?! urgh...k...i am just kidding...

but i would like to see better use of marina east rather than a golf course. a theme park would be a better choice right? mn ji lei dei zheng fu deem miong shiong gae. at least a themepark would be suitable for all ages right? haiya! mn zhee ngo gei lau ar. but anyways, they monopolise the country so ya...we got no right to gong wa right? anything beats a fancy golf course tho. cuz not everyone can afford, or even will like the game...and they are allocating about 0.5% OF TEENY WEENY singapore for this purpose? i dun think so. aiya...k lor...if u guys think it's the best then go ahead with it lor.

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

dun waste my time can?

urgh...today is totally wasted on going down to CMPB for the pilot selection interview. it's actually if u want to sign on then u go. i knew this...but i din know can dun go one. plus summore they have been pestering me since june. lucky i met zixu there...heh, he told me can withdraw...if not i will be one of the last few candidates to go for the interview. that means more waiting...

actually the main reason for me to withdraw is that i have no, zlich, kosong interest in signing on in the airforce. during the briefing, this person(shall not name the rank) told us to prepare answers to questions like "how would u be able to contribute to the airforce?", 'wad aircraft would you like to pilot?", "wad are the aircrafts used in the tsunami relief effort?". like...how am i supposed to know?! i like planes...but not army kind of planes. think if i tell them "urm...i think they use the boeing 747?" i think they will be like "KNN! u trying to joke with us is it? dun waste our time sia!" and if i answered "sorry sir, i dunno". in their mind they would be thinking "chao private, waste our time only". i am a considerate person, so i withdrew for your sakes, and mine too. seriously, i only know about passenger jets...haha. oh ya, they are replaying the same channel u navy show at the waiting room...please la...change new shows can? the last time i saw it was 6months ago...when i went for the pilot selection test(can't believe i passed it).

i still cannot get over how successful the spray-ur-no.4-buttons-if-they-are-discoloured experiment is...haha. oh ya, i am still considered recruit in the list and under BMT...but i believe they made a mistake cuz i am receiving private pay liaoz.

ya...i am counting the days till i return to tekong for my downgrade. and posting...hmmm...i hope they wun drag it till like forever. cuz now...i am like a 孤魂野鬼.

oh...it's the first time i wore my number 4 since the accident...wait...today is the 14th week, or, 3 months and 2 weeks after the fracture incident.

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Fabian's DIY for NSmen: how to save your discoloured no. 4 buttons

Perhaps this only happened to me...the discolouration of the no. 4 buttons that is. the discolouration was caused by me sending the uniforms to the laundry service. i think somehow their iron or wad was too strong and bleached them...when i went back camp i was like "huh?! wah lau, wad happened to my buttons?!" but two days later, i had the fracture and i needn't bother abt them anymore.....until now. why? cuz i will be returning back to work on monday...ya, plus tml i have to show up in no. 4 for my airforce interview. so weird, they actually asked me to go for the interview...lol

ok, so this is the state of discolouration of my no. 4 buttons. it's actaully turned to beige!


so, went down to art friends today to get this can of spray paint...haha, i had doubts abt the colour initially, but it turned out fine in the end. so guys, get the flat green colour of the anchor spray paint series if u have this problem.


a closer look at the awful state of the buttons


to do this, mask the coth area using newspaper, exposing the buttons only...make sure there are no gaps, cuz the spray paint will kena the cloth.


get ready the spray and shake it...


spray....dun spray too near tho...


yeah...finished...now, u can remove the newspaper carefully or wait till the paint dries...quite long if you sprayed too thick a coat.


voila...before and after


pro sia!


muahahahaha...i feel good cuz this method actually worked...i am too lazy to replace the buttons one by one...plus, 3 sets of it are like that...so i will have to change the buttons till very jia lat. but now...haha...the lazy person's method of remedy-ing this problem...hahah.

Monday, August 22, 2005

My burgeoning city


this is wad i have been playing all morning...and i am proud to present my city, tekong...ahhahaha. i actually had built an island and had an army base being built there. it's not shown in this pic but it's suppose to be at the right side of the pic.


BUILTiful tekong at night...hahahha

this city actaully has 46000plus plus pple as i speak now, how i wish i can buy land and build wadever i want...haha. SIM city lets me do this, but it is rather rigid la.

Sunday, August 21, 2005

hmmm

disclaimer: i realised after i posted this entry that the following involves disgusting stuff, about puking and stuff.

as usual, the national day rally was funny...it has to be lor...i wouldn't want to support any un-humourous leaders.

anyway, i am a jealous and spiteful freak...i think those who know be better should know this...haha. but how can u help it when there are so many better pple than you, it's not good or wad, but i never do mean it...hmmm...maybe at times. heheheh. i am merely a miserable, non-combat soldier...how bad can i this get ya...hahahha. i seriously want to run, or jog now...it's better than drinking to make u high. after running, guaranteed, u will feel the high, provided that u dun faint or puke in the end la. but i guess some pple may find certain highs in puking, builemic(think i spelled wrongly) pple i guess. speaking of vomiting, i have this fear of eating certain stuff cuz of vomiting incidents. earlier this year when i went to hong kong, i had a case of food poisoning when i return. a rather serious one that is, since i lost 4 kg in 2 days. before the flight back to singapore, i had food at this restaurant at wing on plaza opposite my hotel, then later went to aji ichiban(remember that shop which sells lots of tidbits?!) to buy marshmallows, tidbits, and more tidbits. to kill time while waiting to check out of the hotel. i gobbled down quite a few marshmallows, the orange and chocolate ones the most. i felt ok. board the plane...urgh...value air...do not fly it, even if u want to scrimp and save...i had learnt my lesson, unless u want to see couples make out to the extent of almost having sex(there's this couple sitting in my row across the aisle doing this most of the flight, singaporean somemore mind u. who says singaporeans are conservative huh!) i ate their fried noodles...which was not bad..mabe cuz i was hungry. hmmm...reached home...stomach felt weird..it was already 12am or around that time. walked abt...walked...walked...thought i was full or something. so i walked around the house, feeling weird. hur hur... i really dun feel well...have to puke abit to feel better. so...i went to the toilet to throw up abit. who knows...the puking lasted for an entire day...plus this weird scrunching-of-the-stomach feeling which was unbearable. had only water for the whole day...but the water din stay in my stomach for long. it got puked out. urgh, now, i can only look at marshmallows and feel like puking...urgh. i din puke out marshmallows, but ya...it was one of the foods i ate before i puked.

moral: i dun like marshmallows now...those round kinds with fillings inside.

Saturday, August 20, 2005

weather unknown?!


look at the top right hand corner of the screen shot...it is a weather widget...which u can get from searching yahoo, it's free and there are loads of widgets that perform alot of tasks. like a lucky 8 ball(which is sort of like a decision maker), calender etc...


here's a close up of the widget...if u haven seen it before...but wait...i sense something strange...why are there no weather symbols displayed on the widget? no temp? no anything?! argh...


upon clicking on it for more info, this is wad it showed me...everything is unknown...wah lau. could it be the haze ar? but no leh, haze only affect msia and indo...not singapore...this is freaky...maybe i think to much liaoz.

i hate the cui family!!!

ok la...this is a rather irelevant entry if u dun watch da chang jin...but ya...at hate the cuis for tyring to persecute changjin and the pple around her...

Friday, August 19, 2005

so tired

so tired...this is possibly the shortest and most least substance post ever...

Thursday, August 18, 2005


this is not completed yet la, as u can see the hair and sleeves still not finished yet.  Posted by Picasa

hoe fan ar!

ngo gui dak ngo ge lou mou lou dao mn eng goi bei ngo yi gor meng: fan teng zheung. yau fan, yau mang zhang. lou mou gong dou hou doei, ngo kei sat yan hou mang zheung, zou si boon tung suei. tai lor, lei tai nog ngam ngam wak dek gor gor photoshop xiu pang yau, wak dou yat boon, zau mou sam zoi wak le. yi gar teen teen gam chee hei san, boon teen yi geng gor zor. lam lam har, zau gui dak si gan hoe fai cui gor, yan sang gei duin zhan. yi gar lok gan yu...kei sat zou sheung oi hoei lau har san boe, dan hai chi hei san, yi gar yau lok yu. hei mong toi yong fai dee chut lei, shi ngo dak lau hoe dor hoe dor hon, shi ngo gae cheng chun dou chuin boe mou zor.

dang zan shueng hui basheer...tai tai ngo oi gae xu lei zor mei. ye shueng man kui dei hor yi mn hor yi cong jui dei kei tar gae deen yap hau gor gor soek ma wak wa gae xu.

kei sat, ngo gam ngyong blog ngo gae gam sheung yau guai yong...haiz...


this is my progress with voodoo girl so far...ya...so u know her idea liaoz...

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

random thoughts of the week...

haha...i decide to write entries with expilicit content in canto...so ya, unless u know canto, or can decipher pin yin canto(which can be quite difficult, cuz there's this canto blog out there written with alphabets that is highly difficult to decipher).

sor yi, ngo gui dak yong eng man sayr gong dong wa hor yi ngan goi ngo yiu yong eng man gong dek wa. *looks like a bunch of nonsensical words, lol* or in canto, it is *hoe chee yat goei lun lun sayr dek eng man wa*. lol...this is getting fun. hoe hoe wan ah! dan hai, oi yong eng man goi sayr gong dong wa fei cheung nam. haha. kei sat, ngo dek gong dong wa mn hai gong dou gam hou, sor yi, ngo bek sou dor dor gong gong dong wa. hai...sek gong dor yat gor wa hai hou gae. hok dak man hai ngo har gor mork biu. haha...ngo tai fan hui, gam dak hou xiu. gang ngo fan lei dok wo mn liu gai. haha. yi gor lai bai ngo zan ge hou fan. yau hoe dor ye si ngo gui dak hour fan. hai, moi hai yi dou sayr, mn hou yi si. hou pa yao yan sek dok ngo yi gor chee seen ji. dan hai, ngo fei cheung sheung sam ngo mou zou di coi kui hang dong, but yean, ngo yi ga mn mui gam fan, gam tau tong lor. yit ga zheng zoi yong ngo lou mou dek laptop da ji, zoi korn gong gui ap liu gai dek gam dan. peng si ngo mn hai hou zong yi tai gong hei, dan hai, zui geng deen si bok dek hei gei mn chor gea.

dou yi ga, ngo zong mei gui deng dai hok oi dok mat ye. yau cheen zau hoe lor...ngo hai yau cheen yan zau hoe lor. hoe sheung sek ou mun si gea dan tart, zui hoe sek gea hai magdelene dan tart, mn ji hai xing ar por zong yau yi gor deen mou.

hai...gei tau tong, gei sheung leem sek ou mun dan tart...

Cute hor?


lol..."i'm not that innocent!". ya...this is the half completed image of something that i have been working on this afternoon. the body of the girl is not complete. it may look like a sweet and innocent primary school girl...but ya, she's not that innocent. you shall see wad's she up too when i complete it.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

well...i am happy again today, cuz i managed to eat my favourite hokkien mee...lol. close friends should only know where i got them...haha. the clue is in the plate colour.


poor NJ students, dun u think they blend into the furniture? poor them, slogging for their As. i guess i am speaking from my point of view since studying in JC was really hell for me. but ya, glad to be out of it.

it's actually the JC syllabus that i dun like...and not so much the school. hmmm...maybe abit of the school la.

Monday, August 15, 2005

i am happy today

yes. God is truly good. i thought i would be spending the whole day lonely and contemplating about certain stuff. but no...met alot of old friends while going to have my lunch at taka after my medical check up today. that kept me rather occupied. ya...i do not think it is a coincidence meeting yiming and kunying...but ya, it's God's plan. please do not think that i am preaching. bought the book expose 2 from basheer today, ya, it's ex, but since i seldom indulge myself on books, i thought i might as well buy it. thought of buying expose 3 initially. but since i had browsed through it, i thought the element of surprise wasn't there. so i bought expose 2, which was the only copy left in basheer and ya..wrapped in plastic. actually my motive wasn't to buy the expose book, but the d'artiste: digital painting book, which sadly is sold out...hmmm...i think i will go to basheer more often, to see if the new book: d'artiste: matte painting has arrived or not. but no matter what, i will get the d'artiste: digital painting book. ya, these are wad made me happy today, although it is temporary, but it's sufficient, let's see how the days pass me by ba.

while going to Mount Elizabeth today, i had a discussion with my parents in the car about going overseas to study. ya, this topic doesn't seem to have any outcome. they suggested going to australia to study first, work for a few years then go to usa to get my masters. ya. but are there any good art colleges in australia in the first place? if you know, do let me know. oh ya, i plan to study illustration or communication arts. the expose books have really inspired me to study this course. heard from mr lee that academy of art in san fran's illustraion course is good. ya. haiz. i need to sort out my problems first...it's so infuriating. actually i never had a good impression of australia...australians, let alone study there. but if it's for the benefit of my future...why not? after all...it's only a few years. sucks, i hate to spend money on uncertain stuff. i think i am doing alot of things of things to keep me preocuppied. ya. oh ya...another thing God planned for me
: i received a lobang from kelvin to keep me occupied...ya...got $ to earn summore. hope i can complete it before i go back to work. all the more i like to do free CIP now...so if u got any thing, please call me...any thing at all.

oh yeah, this girl called wang yan, apparently from beijing, china, added me to msn. i dunno her and she dunno me...but how come she will add me leh? summore sent me an email, possibly in chinese, cuz i cannot read it in hotmail. weird, but i had a short conversation about university stuff with her last week. maybe it's not a her even. but ya, i had to use chinese in my msn converstaion. this is the 2nd time a china girl added me of msn "by mistake" follwing last year's girl called shirley who is studying in UK. guess i am occupied for the majority of tml too...hehe...i am so happy. maybe my happiness is a facade...

k...today's appointment with doctor tay ended up with him writing this excuse letter for me...i try to decipher his doctor styled writing. so here it goes. (goes and look for the letter). eh, he asked the nurses to type it in neat format...so i guess i can decipher it afterall.

here it goes:

RE: MR FAN TING ZHANG FABIAN

the above mentioned sustained fractures of the right fibula on 17/5/05.

the fracture has united but he is not fit to run, jump or take part in his IPPT and strenuous training for the next one year.

kindly downgrade him accordingly.

thank you.

i guess this is the dream of many combat unit pple, but like i said before, i would not mind engaging in physical training, since i do not have motivation to exercise in my free time, actually i do...but ya...now i can't. sad. and PLEASE, don't say i chao kheng. why would i want to sustain injuries to myself for short term benefits?! i am not that shallow k.

tv programmes, blogging and drawing keeps me occupied.

i am still thinking...

...of what i want in my life. this is so cliche...but i bet everyone goes through this phase. like what u are going to do after school and stuff...it's damn sickening. is life a sick process that everyone has to go through? i guess i should not think like that since it is the 7th month now. now i am being superstitious huh. there are alot of things that you kind of regret not doing...not making correct moves in the first place...yes, as cliche as it sounds, it's like playing a game. but the game is not fun tho. life is like a RPG game that you cannot save, cannot undo, cannot restart(meaning u die la, but you will not come back to earth again). hmmm, speaking of restarting, if u restart your life, then begin your life again somewhere on another planet where there is life. that should be interesting...provided that you can remember your previous life(i am just assuming things at this point).

it's another sleepless night for me. yes...too much free and idle time really harms your body. and mind if i must add. hmmm...ya, what do i love? follow your heart. easier said than done. i guess these 3months God gave me to think and contemplate my future is probably being wasted by me. ok la, maybe not, i was involved in the AEP exhibition, got to learn new skills like digital painting and ya...more time with the family, oh ya, i got time to check out the facilities of SADM too. but all these will not be beneficial to me if i don't know what i want to do in the future. ya. it's so sad, but true. crap. haiz...sooner or later i will need to live and depend only by myself, but want can i do in order to have a lobang that is good enough to support my lifestyle? (hmmm...i feel deja vu all of a sudden, maybe it's a sign). lol...signs...watched it yesterday, crappy ending i must say. it's one of those M night shyamalan's shows where stupid twists were lacking. but the suspense is there. ya, i am in search for a good horror/thriller movie. let me ride disney world's hollywood tower of terror 24/7 and i wouldn't puke. ya, i am a thrill junkie. and yet, there are no pple that i know that share this interest.

hmmm...i've this idea of opening a tour agency that specialises in tours to disney theme parks around the world, given the fact the disney themeparks are sprouting like mushrooms in every known and civilised corner of the planet. sure make big business(must try to find out, so any willing partners?). money and power hungry disney has already proposed building a second theme park in china, right after hong kong disneyland, in shanghai's pudong. it will be the "disneyworld" equivalent in china. hong kong disneyland seems pathetic, small and tiny and lacking of classic disney rides. but i would like to check it out tho, to see how small it is, haha. so far, there are already 5 disneyland styled themeparks in the world, disneyland anaheim, magic kingdom in florida, tokyo disneyland, disneyland paris and hong kong disneyland. these 5 parks closely copy the format of the original disneyland in ananheim. the other disney parks are rather independent of one another, each having a own theme. epcot centre, disney studios and animal kingdom in florida, disney's california adventure in anaheim(just opposite disneyland anaheim), tokyo disney sea and walt disney studios in paris. ya...the most popular of the non-disneyland styled parks is disney sea followed by epcot. i personally like epcot centre, for one thing...it's BIG. i haven been to disney sea tho. still waiting for sponsers and tower of terror to be built. oh ya...and willing pple to follow me. hmmm...say so much maybe i can go work as a cast member in a disney park. i went to apply for a job as a cast member at hong kong disneyland lor, but they didn't reply me. sad. my qualifications fitted their specifications. they want cast members that can speak canto, english and mandarin. i do admit that my canto is below par of the average hongkee, but i can manage conversations with locals. oh ya, i know why i wasn't accepted by them liaoz...i am a singaporean. duh... traveling is one of my likes as well. should i go into the hospitality and tourism sector? sounds fun...and people do earn big bucks planning conventions and tours.

hmmm...ya la...money, everyone wants money, people can lose their religion or even their life over money. just look at michael jackson la, rumour has it that he sold his sold to the devil in order to be famous...but look at him now la, prancing to and fro from court houses wearing a handkerchief across his pasty white face to prevent his plasticky nose from falling off. isn't he much better looking when he was black? his perception of beauty is absolutely flawed. but i like SOME of his songs tho.

tomorrow is back to mount elizabeth. for x rays. haha. i don't want any more MCs please(oh wait...that is for changi hospital to decide). can somebody tell me my bloody posting now so that i do not have to be anticipating all day and i can also plan what i can do for the rest of my NS life. oh ya, i am asked to go for the airforce interview. to see if i can be a pilot if i were to sign on. go lor...go for fun...maybe i sign on as pilot also can. i think SAF really short of manpower those sign on one...i think. i wouldn't mind those bmt style trainings tho, if only the instructors are nice.

i read through the above stuff and realised that there are lots of "should"s and "maybe"s...not good not good. must be firm when u are bent on doing something and not be po po ma ma. got any character changing course out there or not?

i am not sleeping tonight...haven tried this for quite some time. better do it before i get called back by the army in 2 weeks time. 2 weeks is rather fast. the last 2 weeks were fast. my dream vocation will be one that is 8-5, moderate amounts of PT, without running...hmmm...like how is that possible sia? haha.

was thinking of being an entrepreneur...haha...but do wad? woohoo...it's 3.22am now, been blogging for about an hour already. digressed a little. i need to do networking sia.

i guess i shouldn't regret about certain things not yet done, or should have done. ya, it's pointless...concentrate with what you are going to do now with what you have. ya, i guess i had been really lucky in terms of my education. hmmm...i think it all started in primary school, end of primary 5...i don't know if it is because of my muggerish attitude then which led me to have what i am now. i admit that i am not clever, only average, i worked hard during my primary 6 period, doing countless of assessments for practice, call me weird, but i found doing assessments thrilling and it became sort of an addiction. because of this addiction, or maybe because i wanted to win the sickeningly smart pple around me that i became addicted to doing assessments. lucky it paid off, i got 100marks for maths in pri 6 prelims and got a grade that got me into RV. honestly, i haven't heard of this school until pri 6, hahah...my goal was RI or TCHS actually. as a matter of fact...i just wanted to be in the schools that most NYPS boys go aspire to go. but ya, i took a different route and went to RV, i think only 7 NYPS pple went there. to tell the truth, i wanted to transfer out of RV after being there for one month. why? no friends i know, the pple there speak too much chinese and (gasp!) hokkien(i was really much of an english speaker in pri schl, heh, some of my sec one classmates even commented that my eng was very liu li). but in the end, i didn't try to make friends with my fellow NYPS pple...and instead, assimilated into the RV culture. and ya, RV pple are mainly peace loving pple. a good bunch of pple to make friends with. but when it boils down to the real world, i find that RV pple will lose out in the end. ya, cuz alot of us are not aggressive enough and take things as it is. correct me if i am wrong, but this is just my honest opinion. then ya, i was kinda hesistant to go JC, mainly because after slogging through the Os...i felt that studying was really not my thing, and i really needed to do something different. wanted to go to TP, but ya, parents won't allow, and i even had sort of a heated argument with my uncle. geesh. k lor...so went to NJ...i chose it for the AEP only...at least it offered something that i had interest in...haha. JC years was another miracle...haha...i never got beyond an E for my econs, phy and maths in year one...haha...and for year 2, lucky with mrs chung's help, i broke the E barrier for maths and got a C for prelims...hehe. but phy and econs where still E. oh yeah, for those wondering what to choose in JC, DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT take econs if you have difficulty in grasping abstract concepts and hate writing essays. oh yeah...A levels was a miracle. i guess not only for me but for many others...haha...can u believe it...after getting consistent Es and Os for my Phy and Econs...i got Bs for both subjs...lol...i was laughing when i saw the results earlier this year in march...haha. but ya...i was rather mugger-ish during the As period. must be my imagination, or is there someone cooking satay at this hour?! oh no...i just remebered it's the 7th month. hahaz...i was rather slack during my JC years...ahha...slack compared to the rest. i wonder how i am going to last in uni...heh.

yawns...

Sunday, August 14, 2005

pure indulgence...

ballistic publishing books are pure indulgence...or rather...the images that are contained within the covers of the expose series and other books are pure indulgence. i can look at them all day and not feel sian. someone please get me all the ballistic publishing books please...they are terribly expensive. oh well...maybe i can just get one of their books, which costs $75...but i will feel terribly guilty after that. maybe i should jsut go to basheer book store every day and flip through its pages. speaking of basheer book store, this book store, although small...is chock full of graphic books(graphic as in art books like architecture and design) that puts kino's graphic section to shame. really lor...some of the books are not even sold in kino. aiya...wish i strike lottery la...haha.

nvm...go find part time job after i get my posting.

Saturday, August 13, 2005

spontaneous

today's activities were rather spontaneous...in my opinion.

wait...i gtg check on my pasta...be right back...

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ok...my pasta is cooked. i was cooking fusilli pasta, ya, for late night snack.

just came home from a totally spontaneous day...the moment i woke up...i heard my mum saying "go tian jin for lunch...faster get changed". urm ya, i woke up at 11plus am. went to tian jin again...my favourite food place. this time we ordered mei cai kou rou and the batter prawns. they were not too bad...of course, the zha jiang mian is never left out. ordered their cong you ping as well...but it's not as nice...i still like their jiu cai he zi.

after lunch...i found a very very good sleeping spot in the national library...good views of the bay area and quiet atmosphere...i am selfish and therefore i shall not divulge the good stuff here...those who want to know can ask me personally. haha. i slacked around basheer and NLB for about an hour when i remembered that jialin is going to see the hip hop fiesta today at the esplanade. so, i met up with her and her church frens...heh...like i told her, it was like a friendster meeting.

we caught the first few perfomances...it was rather not bad, got some standard i must say.

then had icecream at marina square...haha...i realised i hadn't had ice cream very often nowadays....ya...that reminds me that tml need to go and swim, hope the hippos are not there again...

Friday, August 12, 2005

4G is still as united...hehe

yupz...just came back from 4G outing...was rather fun getting to talk to them again...haha. after the last one a month ago...had crystal jade. i think i do another update tml...tired liaoz...ha.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

borrowing of painter books...

i am going painter crazy again...went to jurong east library to borrow painter books, to spur my illustration craze. i have slowly reverted back to my pre army life...slacking and slacking...i really want to run...i got this urge to run and jog...but i can't! (else my bone will break again). BMT has really spurred me to run and run...after running...although u feel exhausted and stuff...u feel extremely good and high(serious). dunno if it is just me but after every streneuous activity in BMT, i will be smiling...then my bunk mates will be like "fabian...how come you are always so happy?" come to think of it...haha...it's pretty weird for me to be like that. but..."做人为快乐资本" (is the "zi" this "zi"?).

oh yea...what was i going to say?

oh, i am thinking of doing a "自恋" series of tee shirts whereby a stylised portrait of the wearerwill be printed in front of the teeshirt and the words "我自恋, so what?" printed at the back of it...ahhaha...came up with the idea while swimming just now...haha.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

bloated me

wahahaa...i made pasta for late night supper just now...really easy to make sia. next time i should make my own food instead of buying readymade ones...so that i now i know wad i put into the food. ahha...all these are inspired probably after watching Da Chang Jin. it's really fascinating when u see the cooking scenes in the show. maybe my new hobby can be cooking...it's unexplored territory for me. drinking starbucks green tea frapp right now too...haha...i love starbucks ever since i tasted that drink. it's weird that whenever i go to coffee bean or starbucks, i wouldn't try the coffee ice blended drinks. i would go for the pure vanilla in coffee bean instead of the mocha or lattes that are preferred by many. dunno.

ok...i should start thinking of what to cook tml...i guess tml i will have to think of a new accompainmtent for the leftover pasta i made just now. hmmm, i think i shall go to national library to look for artistic inspiration tml. or maybe i should go to kinokuniya instead...dunno...

so damn bo liaoz

waiting till the day when i have to report back to tekong...for my posting and downgrading...feels just like the period when i was waiting for elistment. haiz...should have done more things during that period since i have got so many restrictions now...

Random thoughts over the week

i guess this entry will be a wednesday thingy.

i feel really unhealthy this particular week...i am not sick or wad...but i feel particularly unhealthy, must be the food i ate and stuff...i tried to eat as little carbs as possible already. hmmm.

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national day was fun...as in..compared to the prev years when all i did was slack at home. hmmm...the singing of the national anthem together with so many people was really emotional...ya. i could feel the patriotism in me then...haha. singapore is really not bad a place to live in already. but how i wish it has more land...like this.

i am really obsessed with land reclamation and building new stuff...hmmm...maybe i should do archi then. ha. but really...singapore is toooooo small.

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nothing nice happened really leh...so nothing much in this issue of Random thoughts...

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Photoblogging on National Day

Enthu me decided to go and celebrate National Day at the heartlands today cuz partly singapore's 40years old...and ya, it's a whole number birthday, so that makes its special. ha. realised that Disneyland is 10years older than Singapore...hahaha.


oh yeah...on my way to Boon Lay GV to meet my frens for a movie, this auntie was wearing this pair of ultra oh biang sunglasses...haha...


dun say i look down on local productions...but Jack Neo continuously producing low quality works, i wonder why i support them. the poster is rather stupid looking too. sorry jack neo fans.


Jurong Point is built really close to the flats, those units right across JP can see right into the mall.


After the movie, we went to JE... oh yeah...IMO, the movie was boring...


it's still early, so not really that many people YET.


the poor MC 走音 a few times...haha


slacking...haha...


the really impressive tanks


urm...daphne khoo...her voice getting lousier(not as if her voice was nice to start with)


the JTC summit building...a JE icon...haha


Shiekh Haikel


some mass display...haha...damn wuliaoz


i think it's belinda lee and chew chor meng


haha...i think this picture is really cute


the singapore wave in progress


eeee....sylvester sim...his eng song not very nice


hahaz...singapore's ah beng


the gang which came later...weixian, huifang and i, shishir was taking this picture...heh


pretty fireworks...everyone went crazy







yeah!!!! happy birthday singapore!

Monday, August 08, 2005

wad a nostalgic day

woke up damn early to go back to tekong today. actually i couldn't really sleep last night. tekong was pretty much the same...it felt really nostalgic going back to SFT and walking the long road back to Bronco company. the company line was rather quiet, i mean...the whole camp was quite deserted. managed to see moses back there...he's got a new hairstyle. haha. and Wo razali was funny...haha...he did the "ice!" thingy to me to test if i really was from the previous batch of bronco. haha. poor moses, doing duty alone...no other specs were there...haha. but the recruits have to book in tml evening, i saw on the whiteboard. sad. lol.

opening the duffel bag was like opening a time capsule. the memories and smells(yes...literally) of BMT(3 months ago) were locked under the zippers of the black bag, only to be released this afternoon. lol, how sentimental.







a rather ingenius way my bunk mates had came up with to pack the multitude of stuff i had. in fact, they were rather neat in packing them...heh


my helmet and webbing


the things i thought i had lost: my bible, the precious notebooks, my fav watch and the FM radio


and ya...the hideous fonts of the bronco tee...i wonder who paid the shirt for me?

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oh yeah...saw a few familiar faces today when i went back tekong. saw eng keat of 4G when i was at SFT...heh, had a nice chat with him while waiting an hour plus plus for the ferry. heh

then saw daifeng, former plt 2 mate. i guess the army limits one's vocab to "F*** You"s . haha, that's the only thing he said to me when i told him about the long MC i got. he was pissed that he is stuck in SISPEC...ha