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Friday, December 31, 2004

My 2004...

New Year's Eve, to many it marks the impending beginning of the new year. But does anyone else what New year Eve aka Last day of a calendar year mean as well? A funeral...
Yup a funeral for the calendar that is going to be reduntant except for those that has very hot looking babes on it otherwise I do not really see the point in keeping it. Burn those with scenary! J/K!

2004 has passed by in a blink of an eye to me... Let me tell you why:

I began my attachment in end November 2003 and was supposed to go back to school for my Final Year Project in Mid February 2004. However my partner and I got ourselves to stayed on at the company for our FYP and thus I basically did not spend much time in NYP. Early May came and that was where we presented our project and unofficially graduated. We continued staying on and work there as full time admin web developers till mid July. That was when I realised I had little civilian status left to my National Service.

Throughout my first half of the year, I met many people, learn more stuffs, completed SEX & THE CITY Season 1 - 6, earning diploma-like rate pay for the same amount of "workload" as I had during attachment which comprises of pretending to act busy. Took a trip to Redang with mates I met in Poly. Had helluva fun time playing mahjong in m'sian currency, banana boat rides. All this made time go faster.

Celebrated my 21st Birthday.(Nothing special cos to me special would have been to have someone to love)

After I had quit my job, I couldn't belived my luck when just in time, I won a free trip to KL to see The Rasmus Live @ KL Hard Rock Cafe. Got Nigel to go with me as he was the one who helped me in the FYP and staying on in the company. It was a 3 day 2 night trip, we had an excellent hotel room(Free), great clubbing time in KL, missed the A&W that used to be in Singapore, got to know people mainly journalists and other lucky ones who have won the trip as well. But as you know 3 days is fast and before you know it, it was over. Still it was a trip out of Singapore where I had quality lodgings and food FREE!

End of July, I was already running low on cash, god knows why, luckily thanks to Shaun, I got an ushering job at Raffles City for the IBM Forum 2004, $ was good about $270 for 3 days, all you need to do is stand there, help people who are lost, guiding people, opening doors once in a while.
The pay I got from the event got me surviving for until my enlistment.

August came, enlistment or rather the beginning of my slimming down program. Attended a 16 weeks BMT course and has so far lost 18kgs. Not bad! Hope it will hold it there or best I want it to go down another 15kg so I can be acceptable weight.

Went fieldcamps in September & October, life was pretty much boring in BMT. Booking out on weekends and spend the rest of the weekdays counting down towards the weekend and POP...
November became a lobo month or what I would call friendly month, joking around or rather crapping sessions with sergeants and sirs was 1 of the many ways we passed our time in BMT apart from the various exercises and since I'm in the drill team, practise drill for our games day.(Oh! Btw we(Echo) won the 21st Obese games day)

Before you knew it, it was December 2nd, passed out that day feeling tired after the 24km route march, not very motivated as I couldn't really have my loved ones to come see me passed out as a trained soldier. Had a somewhat last BMT Platoon gathering at a friends place before embarking to our respective vocation. Got posted as a Regimental Policeman at Paya Lebar Airbase.IMHO I loved the location not the job. Like many trainings I have heard from the different postings of my friends, it was really quite a culture shock compared to BMT, given a choice, I rather spent my 2 years 2 months of NS as a recruit in BMT.

Spent Xmas @ Shaun's place(steamboat), wasn't exactly how I expected my Xmas will be but like what I have said to NS, since I'm in NS might as well make do with it and do my best.

Currently into my week 3 of training, just got a NYE turnout whereby you got forcefully woken up to fall in FULL BATTLE ORDER within 5 mins which is rightfully, unachievable and is usually just a tekaning session for us all. Was Shocked @ the amount of massive deaths mother nature had presented to us on Boxing Day: Earthquake, Tsunami. Many nations worldwide mourn for the Southeast Asia countries affected. Year 2004 will definitely be a year remembered by the Boxing day present and the many minute of silence before the begining of the year 2005.

New Year Resolutions?

Propably not make anymore New Year Resolutions... But as you know what they say, resolutions are meant to be broken.

jh out!~

ps: "Longest" Bookout ever in NS history! Booked out year 2004..... Booking in year 2005!

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Not boring not exciting, not lazy not hardworking, not handsome not ugly, not short not thin, not a bad guy not quite mommy's boy either. Regular Singaporean guy who like most guys probably get several different colours of the same shirt, t-shirt, berms, jeans once they fall in love with a particular design. Been through the era of cassette tapes of walkmans to discmans(remember the anti-shock technology) as well as MiniDisc(coming out at a bad time) which obviously lost to the emergence of mp3s and the CD to LD which saw LD losing out to VCDs. Next came the DVDs which 0wned the vcds and try to act smart by having 2 groups, HD DVD and Blu Ray. 2 words BLU.RAY. Loves to reminisce the old days when A&W rootbear float was still around and KFC was still a restaurant complete with waiters serving you Kentucky Fried Chicken. The days where bus fares were 10 cents for students and pizza hut's lunch buffets. Moves/dances to the jumpy music of Ipod Ads and likes to laugh at the Hello I'm a Mac, Hello I'm a PC advertisements!

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