694 SIR

And that's my reservist unit fyip...

It was pretty cool to be with some of the MRF pple again...

That includes Mahathir, Maizal, Borhan and Tiah... Will be part of the BCS team with Mahathir and Borhan. And because of the rank i hold, i will be M's 2nd in command, though i had already forgot everything i learnt. The BCS team is full of nice pple and yesterday night was pretty fun with $1 tiger beers and Chicken Wings to while the night away (though i slept early yesterday though)

Because of M's leadership (he's our senior medic btw), we had manage to successfully get out of any major troubles and an almost hassle free ICT. M's one of the best commander la, he knows what the men wants and what the commanders want and manage to align the interests of both even if both are entirely different... Best...

Nee Soon's refresher course is slack until cannot slack man, we had like 2 hours of canteen break and 2 hours of lunch break for a day's training. 3 hrs was devoted to lessons and it was pretty fun and i manage to learn the M-PAM and CPR once again... And IV also where me and tiah are now buddies (we were like always bickering in MRF back then =))

However, disappointingly, the MRF guys' fitness had dropped. After training under staff for too long, it was really a pity to see the once super fit guys failing their IPPT, which was once no sweat at all to them...

Looking foward to next year's ICT, though it's going to be f**kin siong... hhahahah... Time to get fit again...

HUA!

Very Very unlucky n Hokkien Post

This must be the most farking suay day ever in my whole life as an Arsenal Fan….
Yes, I am being very very very vulgar here, but who can imagine my super duper super duper gross disappointment when Teck broke the DAMN disappointing news to me… Suay Kao Lai Sai…

Teck won an all expense paid trip to watch Arsenal v Everton this Sunday and you know what! He asked me if i am free to watch Arsenal with him!!!!

Hey it’s in LONDON ok… Not ur pub or kopitiam in tampinese
ITS IN THE EMIRATES STADIUM OK!

And you know what, I cant go because….

I am down for reservist on the next day….

What are the odds man… Damn suay la…

Wanted to be irrational and go AWOL, then I decided that is damn irrational… and Arsenal is not going to commemorate me for that if I really go AWOL… haha… Wanted to get MC on Monday, but which doctor will I be seeing? A London based doctor? In the end cannot lor and he got clement (the DAMN man utd fan) to go with him….

Really…

Pui Chao Nua…

Pui!!!

经一事， 长一智

Today at work was almost equivalent to a slap in the face when i call up the relevant party to explain something relating to (numbers aka censored). The result was perhaps anticipated but to hear it from the party himself was extremely painful and made me wonder if the team's efforts had gone down the drain over the past few months.

Obviously feeling damn sore over this matter though my SUP says it's ok as it's obviously not within our control.

Of course, fortunately, somebody came and gave me some sort of a counselling. Thank god for him. I've never realised that there exist someone who takes so much pride in the work he does and remains so passionate about it. I was very very passionate about economics as some of you out there had known it, and here i am talking to someone who is extremely passionate about the investigative work that he does and made me realise not everything is lost and finally not everything is perfect or rather everything is grey. i can really feel his passion just as somebody like Tse Peng or Darryl will have told me that i m mad abt economics...

Such pple are really precious and i hope they will be around to really help the place grow...

For the first few months, i had simply no idea as to what they are doing, but now, i seriously appreciate the role of these pple.

Updates

Finally got a new flat in punggol and make my first cheesecake ever for miss tan's birthday during the past one week.

The steps to making the cheesecake doesn't look difficult from siew wah's recipe, but boy i actually spent like 3 hrs on it at the end of the day, which is pretty exhausting.

Met up with some of the remnant members of G League for soccer. Those were really the days which we must had train much harder than that of the professional soccer players. But of course, these days are gone, and my memories of G League and Ngee Ann are fast fading away.

What's the purpose of life?

To earn more and more $$, to accomplish something magnificent?

Or just to hold on to the pple that you cherish, the times that you cherish and the friendship that once existed but fast fading away as the years past by....

I certainly miss G League... and the 2E vs the Rest of The World... (things that keep coming up in our conversations whenever we met)

Too late, we had all grown up... although there are many more things to look forward to, the aspect of friends and g league can never be replaced, and looks unlikely to be replicated once again...

The Leap Years

In a way, I will suppose this is one of the best local "English speaking" movies ever produced by a Singaporean production team.
Quite contrary to what some of the critics had said, I do not find the characters lacking the chemistry needed to pull the show through. In particular, the performances of Qi Yuwu as the devoted KS particularly stood out. Wong Li-Lin, the protagonist, Li-Ann in the show, put in a very worthy performance illustrating first a young gal who believes very much in the suspense of romance, is willing to wait for the right man to come along to one who is finally jaded and yet, at the very end, refused to believe that the moments of magic are finally behind her.

As for Ananda Everingham who starred as Jeremy, the charming and suave lover to Li-Ann in the show had probably very little chance to shine. Much of the plot had circulated around Li-Ann and the joys and troubles that she went through in her search for Jeremy that very little is being explored and told about Jeremy. In particular, why and how did Jeremy even fell in love with her in the very first place? But of course, this is not strange given the plot is almost unbelievable in reality in the very first place.

Finally, Joan Chen, as the Li-Ann in the late 40s also put in a wonderful performance. It’s rather unfortunate that very little screen time is devoted to her, as she showed her class in depicting a very different Li-Ann, someone who had encountered moments of magic in her life, and yet very very unwilling to stop believing that the next moment of miracle is never too far away. Somehow, the show had flowed in such a smooth manner and perhaps a realist in the theatre will probably laugh at how unrealistic the movie is.

One thing to note though, the use of English in this movie is very applicable, as without this language, the climax of the show will probably not be reached. The final moments before Li-Ann’s moment of magic were wondrously painted by the English medium. This is one scene, which if it was illustrated in Mandarin will probably not reached the climax which was intended.

The story is unbelievable, as the plot happened in the 4 leap days spanning the 4 leap years over a 16-year period. If weren’t for the leap years, perhaps everything would had been settled in 4 days, much to the delight of the Singaporean Government who had been trying to get young Singaporeans hitched…

Of course…

For those who believe in the magic of romance and fate, this is surely one show that you wouldn’t want to miss.
I am emotionally drained after the movie…

There is just one part of me who, sometimes, wishes to believe in the heart rather than the head.

Dogs Avoidance Tactics...

This post is dedicated to all those who had

1. The experience of being chased by dogs
2. The experience of being attacked by dogs
3. Not been through either of the above AS YET.

It was business as usual from Chinatown back to sengkang. But of all strange happenings that could possibly happen to me, i was nearly being attacked by two wild medium sized dogs, on the stretch between upper serangoon road to sengkang east ave. At the very beginning, i tried to skirted around the two dogs by not running on the pavement but on the roads. Apparently that wasn't a very bright idea, as possibly they could sense the fear and trepidation in me.

The next thing i knew, they were already snarling and barking and me...

SIBEH SUAY...

Luckily, my quick thinking got me out of a potential xtra09 vs DOGS situation (which i will surely atand no chance). Sensing their fears of the roads and the cars just as they sensed my fear with regards to them, i made a quick quick dash across the other side of the road (with one eye on the traffic of course!)

Lord and behold... They wanted to try crossing the road, but luckily for me, they were hesistant and before i knew it, they decided not to, as they were really not as adept as me w.r.t. crossing the roads (Luckily for me, there were some cars on the roads) but instead kept barking at me...

That was indeed a close shave, and 2 lessons from this...

1. Will not be taking the stretch between upper serangoon road and sengkang east ave again...

2. The cars and the roads are your best friends in the event of dogs...

I may be over-reacting, but it was a close close shave, at least for me...

I must had set the world record for that stretch in the meantime...
=(

Heroes no more, welcome the legends...

Made the trip to changkat on saturday...
It was a pretty long time since i set foot on the court at changkat on a saturday evening...

The sight of me playing basketball wasn't exactly a sight to behold, especially considering the fact that i haven't been really playing with quality opposition. Yesterday's games proved just that. Made a couple of shots, but surely wasn't really considered being a young hotshot/ sonny anymore. In fact the time where alan is really being treated as the past of Changkat is arriving...

On the whole, however, it was a good effort. The running had helped me in basketball and i was quite glad.

Kudos to wk tan... He managed to get the team in for the competition at such short notice. It was really disappointing on my side, i didn't manage to put in effort for the organising of the team. I have to make especially clear that i wasn't really interested in putting out a team at all though. Definitely, we will be thrashed, without a doubt. But all my salutes to him, he made it possible, something which i reckoned, is definitely not beyond me if i tried. BUT it just going to serve as a reminder to me as to how much one can achieve if one perservre.

Because xtra09's been found wanting for most of the time...really...
Because xtra09's never really tried... unless he's interested...

And it's a timely reminder for xtra09 to buck up, and to try...