Event: 71/08 Commissioning Parade

After all my complaints, all will know that this is not my commissioning parade (not that i will ever have) but one of my buddy's. The parade was quite outstanding. Its not perfect I daresay, but you can feel the overwhelming spirits in each and every one of the commissioned officers. Their loud singing, their vigilence and their commitment spoke volumes. Although i must say that i did felt a bit offended when some of the ushering cadets greeted the family in front of me but did not do the same to me on my way to the parade square. I almost felt as if my lowly rank was written on my forehead. But then again my doubts were cleared quite nicely when I was making my way out of the camp where the usherers came forward to ask me where I'm headed and tell me where's the way out very politely with big smiles. Kudos to them for making an impression.

The parade was quite fanciful. Marching in, marching pass, turn right on the march, turn right again back to original position, many times they saluted I also dont know what were those for, then they march out of the parade square by forming 3 single files on each side of the parade square by climbing up the steps, coming back in through the same way, putting the ranks on them, pledge and anthem, and finally throwing of their caps/beret into the sky, something I did when i passed out from BMT.

During the putting on of ranks, I went down quickly to Edwin. I came to attention, saluted him, asked for permission to carry on, and thanked him by saluting him again. He seems surprised. Tsk tsk, looks like he will have to get used to being saluted, and having to cut down first.

After taking a few more photos, I left the camp. I wouldnt say that the cadets were very informative cause I didnt get home as soon as i can because of them. By the by, the officers totally looked like kids when they throw their caps/beret and hugged, cheered, dance around. Kids for officers... Or not? Time will tell.

Thats Edwin in the centre of the last row

2LT Edwin. He's da man!

Leonie the band-er and me

The only BMT platoon mate i happen to see. I must say his OCS platoon mate is a good photographer.

Like kids~

I salute you cause I respect you. I call you Sir cause I know you're worth the title. But sometimes I have to salute and call people Sir cause I'm forced to. Dont let it be the latter. The impact you can make on your men is more tremendous than you think so. Let it be a positive impact, for life.

Ramblings: Fit For Fitness

The year is coming to an end, and the window for me to clear my first year tests are closed. 6 months ago i was like that, 6 months after that i am still like that. This calls for drastic measures. Thus on a beautiful friday afternoon which i'm totally supposed to be slacking somewhere, i went to the new (new to me anyways) Sengkang Clubfit Gym. It was not bad, except it was filled with totally new looking machines and i had no clue how to use most of them correctly. The fitness instructor was nice enough to give me an orientation after i asked him. Not bad, i think i'll go there often. 

Photos Galore: Army Half Marathon

Photos Galore: 40th Anniversary Celebration @ Sentosa

The Cute Guy Series

Cute right?

SPA (Short Sexy People Association)

Thought of the Month: Fairness

Stop and Stare - One Republic

This town is colder now, I think it's sick of us
It's time to make our move, I'm shakin' off the rust
I've got my heart set on anywhere but here
I'm staring down myself, counting up the years
Steady hands, just take the wheel
And every glance is killing me
Time to make one last appeal for the life I lead

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah, I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can you see what I see?

They're tryin' to come back, all my senses push
Untie the weight bags, Some never thought I could
Steady feet, don't fail me now
Gonna run till you can't walk
Something pulls my focus out
And I'm standing down

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, you don't need

What you need, what you need, what you need

Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be
Oh, do you see what I see?

Everytime I'm reminded of how suay I am, and how i was condemned into the realms of loser hell for eternity, i cant help but feel angry. I just feel the hatred for everyone build up in me, especially those who brush me off. I dont need fairness, just understanding.

Ramblings: Tired and Sick, Sick and Tired

I've been paranoid with coughs and sore throat ever since my brochitis saga early this year. I tend to restrict my fried food and cold drinks intake and keep my mouth as clean as possible and as often as possible to prevent it from worsening. With cough, sore throat, runny nose, a big ulcer on my lip, new pimples all over the place, and a pair of rotting foot, i couldnt be more ready for the organisation i'm working on. 

I dont like to complain about uninteresting things on my blog, it scares my already few readers away. But some things should be pointed out, lest i go crazy, or you can actually come forward and listen to my complaints and pretend that you understand and show me some sympathy. Then again maybe you should scram unless you can help me change my job.

I love how my organisation like to keep me overnight on friday to go for OT on saturday. I love how they forget to indent ration for us and force us to consume preserved rations. I love how they give us preserved rations which are spoilt.

I love how my organisation insist that we do everything we can to get awards eg. Best Organisation Award. I love how they force us to pass all our tests. I love how they force us to stay back for remedial lessons after working hours.

I love how they pretend to be concern about letting us go home as soon as possible when they are the ones who are actually holding us back.

I love how inefficient they are. I love how lazy their supervisors are, making use of us workers to do every single shit for them. I love the many friday nights i stay without getting OT pay. I love doing all the extra assignments while my lazy fellow workers and supervisors watch/sleep. I love hearing my supervisors spray vulgarities pointlessly at us. I love the many nights i stay in my organisation's hostel while they switched on the flood lights, pointing them straight into my face. 

Thanks for making me tired and sick. No thanks for not letting me take MC.

I'm sick and tired.

Encounter: He Who Once Called Himself Major...

I was at Sitex 2008 with my female friend, helping her to look for a laptop sleeve. I saw him. The same he i swore i will speak to no more. He was walking towards me. I turned away. Before I could turn fully, he smiled at me. He nodded. His smile was kind, it was sincere. I smiled back, I nodded back. It was instinctive. I broke my own promise. I wonder why did i smile back.

Mayhap the Civilian Conversion Course did him plenty of good. Mayhap only the soldier in him was a devil. Mayhap i smiled back because the inner me was a polite, civilised person. For one thing i know, i will never forgive him, for what he did, right from the start.

Mayhap the smile means nothing.

Event: Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day in the states falls on 27th Nov this year. As I will be in camp on that day, I thought I might as well post what i wanted to earlier.

(There's a document which i want to scan to support my thanksgiving justification but i'm too lazy so that will have to wait)

I recently got an award of commendation during the overseas trip. I want to thank the 2 persons that made this possible. No, no, i wont be thanking the person who actually made the recommendation, not that i'm not thankful. But he's not the main cause that i got the award. Dear all, hear me.

The first person i want thank is the medical personel who "recommended" me to not go for leadership training school. He was swift and decisive. Upon looking my resume, he was quick to judge that I would be to get the award as a normal person. Shine among the common ones, than to be a lower-than-average person among the stars, he must have thought. If not for him, i would be suffering in the training school (drawing higher pay), i would have a lot of responsibilities (doing what i really want to do) and i would be training very harshly (becoming fitter). He crushed my dreams, but allowed me to get that special award, in the form of a piece of paper with a few words written down. I believe its worth more than the pay i would have gotten, the experience i would have gained from the responsibilities, and the fitness i would have built up. His professionalism helped him to judge that within less than 3 minutes. Knowing whats best for me, he refused to let me explain my situation. Thanks doc, you suck.

The second person was the second key personel, commanding me as a true follower, he is none other than my direct superior. He knew whats best for him, the organisation and for his followers to be. To build a whole group of good men, he needs initiative, and connection. And so he requested a group with some qualitifications to be drafted under his flag. In a freak coincidence, i was in that group. I was to join some monstrous organisation and spread my wings under my superior's leadership, to prove to others how powerful my organisation is. In that process, i got my award. Now that my superior has fled, with all graditude, i say to him, you suck.

Thank you, the both of you. I want to let you know how f$%^ up you have made my day, my weeks, my months, my national service and my life. I have not gotten over it, and probably never will. The next time i see the both of you, i will throw stones at you. Be careful.

Fiction: I'm Going To Take Over The World

Once upon a time, in a faraway land near the equator, there exist a battalion of soldiers. They call themselves the First Battalion (FB). 

Now, FB has an ambitous group of superiors led by none other than Sir-Short-Potato. Having draft a weaponsmithress known as When Dee, FB holds the strongest firepower the world has ever known. Needing money more than ever, they trick soldiers into investing When Dee's shop by making them buy ziplocs and different variation of soldierly items. Standing on the highest floor of his HQ on a chair, he glances down at the shop with numerous soldiers queuing up outside, with even some having fallen asleep due to the long queue. 

As the queue gets longer, Sir-Short-Potato can bear it no more and laughs out loud 

"Muahahahaha! 

I'm going to take over the world!!!!!!"

the end

(disclaimer: all personels, details and description in this story is entirely fictional, even those based on real people)

Ramblings: What I Hate

1) Smokers 

2) People who spit

3) People who cut queue

4) People who are big, fat, ugly AND (esp) useless

5) People who dont have a clue that people hate them (delusional people)

6) Arrogant people who hold their noses high up in the air

7) People who act as though they are close to me though i barely know them

8) Touchy people who are not close to me

8) People who yawn or cough without covering their mouths right beside me (there are only 3 people in this world whom i can tolerate this)

Imagine how much I would hate you if you smoke, spit, cut queue, useless and dont have a clue that people hate you.

Event: 40th Anniversary Celebration @ Sentosa

My organisation's parent organisation had a 40th Anniversary Celebration at Sentosa. It was extremely efficient of them to tell us like, 4 days before hand so they had to send us home to get bitch beach wear the day before. Then go back to our company again to sleep there for the night, so that we get rise and shine early to get ready for the excitment to come. We were extremely happy that we got to participate in this event since the event was half day and we can go out for a while before we go back to our company at night to prepare for another even more enthralling event the next day (this event wont be featured on my blog, so losers who wants to know buzz off). 

And so we woke up, ate breakfast and changed into our beach wear. We were so excited to get out of our company as soon as possible so as to participate in the event that, during area cleaniness inspection, we were kind of sloppy and did a bad job. But trust me, the failing of the area inspection, meant to ensure that our living conditions were in tip top condition for the less-than-12-hours while we are away, did not douse our spirits. We even played bitchy music on the bus to up everyone's spirits.

Upon reaching there, we realised we were the first to reach, the first organisation, the first company of the organisation, and the first department of the company. There at the beach, we got blasted by loud god-knows-where-they-got-their-music. Being the only ones there, we absorbed the full energy of the sound waves, making us energetic (seriously, we were like constantly "omg!!" "wth is this music!?" "argh!!" "pls stop, just stop!!"). The DJs were short on their supply of music i suppose, as they repeated their 10 tracks or so.

Finally the event started as we welcome our guest of honour. To everyone's horror surprise, the disciplinarian of the organisers had us all stood up and asked us to stand to attention as he did a formal reporting of manpower strength to the guest of honour. After all the cra-, i mean briefing, we set off to play an amazing race game in 3 waves, with me being in the second. When the first wave left, they ran off. When my department started, we strolled the tram-stop to wait for the tram. Lol. We had our fair share of fun (and rest + food during the game itself), and I took the sky ride. Haha, kiddy but it was not bad. Its been long since i went to Sentosa.

We waited impatiently after the game at the beach for the announcement, in hopes of going home that we will win something. Then we took a photo by forming the number "40" on the beach and shouted our parent's organisation's motto when they snapped the photo. Corny but retarded enthusiastic. When we were about to leave, they stopped us and said we have to sing our parent organisation's theme song. We felt so insulted that we are about to make a fool of ourselves proud that we are about to show what we are made of in full view of the public.

Finally we left and we went to a restaurant there where my friend worked before. The staff were so warm and welcoming cause they gave us a lot of free food and seriously i've never eaten such nice pizzas before (one cost about 20 bucks). I ended up only paying 10 bucks after eating about 30 bucks worth of food. Truly marvelous. 

Photo galore coming right up...

Event: Platoon BBQ

The BBQ was full of good food, and was a good treat after the hard work for our overseas trip. Let the photos speak for themselves.

2 cute guys, as usual

Iven and his classic look

Meaty food and eco-friendly food

Buddy's and my leg

Squished~

Shang Long story-telling with his middle finger

Funny video

Movie: Hairspray

This is old news, but i just got to watch it on the flight back to Singapore after my overseas trip. No wonder they said its a nice movie to catch. I'll say its not everyone's type of movie but its quite interesting for me. The soundtracks are also very nice. So in love with the song "You Can't Stop The Beat".

TRACY
You cant stop an avalanche 
As it races down the hill 
You can try to stop the seasons, girl
But ya know you never will 
And you can try to stop my dancin' feet

But i just cannot stand still 
Cause the world keeps spinnin'
Round and round 
And my heart's keeping time 
To the speed of sound 
I was lost til i heard the drums 
Then i found my way

TRACY & LINK
Cause you can't stop the beat

Ever since this old world began 
A woman found out if she shook it
She could shake up a man 
And so i'm gonna shake and shimmy it 
The best that i can today

'Cause you cant stop 
The motion of the ocean 
Or the sun in the sky 
You can wonder if you wanna 
But i never ask why

And if you try to hold me down 
I'm gonna spit in your eye and say 
That you cant stop the beat!

PENNY
You can't stop a river 
As it rushes to the sea

SEAWEED
You can try and stop the hands of time
But ya know it just can't be

PENNY 
And if they try to stop us, Seaweed,
I'll call the N Double A C P
Cause the world keeps spinning 
Round and 'round
And my heart's keeping time 
To the speed of sound 
I was lost til i heard the drums 
Then i found my way

PENNY & SEAWEED
Cause you can't stop the beat

PENNY & SEAWEED
Ever since we first saw the light
A man and woman liked to shake it
On a saturday night 
And so i'm gonna shake and shimmy it 
With all my might today

'Cause you cant stop 
The motion of the ocean 
Or the rain from above 
You can try to stop the paradise
We're dreamin' of
But you cannot stop the rhythm 
Of two hearts in love to stay 
Cause you cant stop the beat!

EDNA
You cant stop my happiness 
Cause i like the way i am 
And you just can't stop my knife and fork 
When i see a christmas ham 
so if you don't like the way i look 
Well, i |ust don't give a damn!

EDNA & ENSEMBLE
Cause the world keeps spinning
Round and 'round 
And my heart's keeping time 
To the speed of sound 
I was lost til i heard the drums 
Then i found my way

EDNA & COMPANY
'Cause you cant stop the beat

Ever since this old world began 
A woman found out if she shook it
She could shake up a man 
And so i'm gonna shake and shimmy it 
The best that i can today

Cause you cant stop
The motion of the ocean
Or the sun in the sky
You can wonder if you wanna
But i never ask why
And if you try to hold me down 
I'm gonna spit in your eye and say 
That you cant stop the beat!


MAYBELL
Oh oh oh
You can't stop today
As it comes speeding down the track
Child, yesterday is hist'ry
And it's never coming back

MAYBELL & ENSEMBLE
'Cause tomorrow is a brand new day

MAYBELL
And it don't know white from black

ENSEMBLE
Yeah!

MAYBELL & ENSEMBLE 
'Cause the world keeps spinning
'Round and 'round 
And my heart's keeping time 
To the speed of sound 
I was lost til i heard the drums 
Then i found my way 
'Cause you cant stop the beat

ALL
Ever since we first saw the light 
A man and woman liked to shake it
On a saturday night 
And so i'm gonna shake and shimmy it 
With all my might today
'Cause you can't stop 
The motion of the ocean 
Or the rain from above 
They can try to stop ths paradise
We're dreaming of 
But you cannot stop the rhythm
Of two hearts in love to stay 
You can't stop the beat!

Aah, aah, aah 
Aah, aah, aah 
Aah, aah, aah

ALL
Ever since we first saw the sun 
A man and woman like to shake it when the day is done
But we're gonna shake and shimmy it 
And have some fun 
For today!

ALL
Cause you can't stop 
The motion of the ocean 
Or the rain from above
You can try to stop the paradise
We're dreaming of 
But you cannot stop the rhythm
Of two hearts in love to stay 
'Cause you can't stop the beat!
You can't stop the beat!! 
You can't stop the beat!!
You can't stop the beat!! 
You can't stop the beat!!