Faris Blog...All me, Nothing but onli me..

2011-08-25T13:30:00.003+08:00

I'm back again from the silence. As usual I've been too tired and lazy to blog. Currently I'm attending a training for my job. We are required to go through the 8 weeks course and currently I'm at the 6 week. To those who didn't know, I've join the ICA. Never in my life i would ever thought that I would join this organization. So far the training has been good. Met great new people. Honestly, the course is quite interesting as I get to learn new things which I never knew about. There are lots to learn and the bad part is having a huge responsibility in our hands. We can't afford to make mistakes In this line as after all we are the country border security. Well i will see how it goes and hopefully things will turn out fine.

5 more days and it's Hari Raya. Look how time flies and another year of Raya is here again. This year, Hari Raya kinda falls on the wrong timing for me and my family as all of us have lots on our hands. Sis and me has just started working and my dad shift work timing kinda clashes and also my brother is taking his o levels this year. The only one that always look forward for the occasion is my mom haha. I don't know but somehow as I get older, I just Don't feel the Hari Raya spirit no more. But one thing which I look forward too is definitely the goodies and the delicious food:D. The one and only thing that makes me alive in Hari Raya haha!

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2011-07-21T02:27:00.002+08:00

9th July 2011 was my Sister Commencement Day. Finally the day she's been waiting for is here. The whole family went but only my parents got to go inside the ceremony as they only gave each student 2 tickets and the rest are only allowed to view at the viewing room. The place looks lovely and they were so many people. I was proud seeing my sister walking down the stage receiving her certificate as all her years of hard work has finally paid off. It reminds me of my graduation day too haha!

Once the ceremony has ended, we took some photos and headed to Arnolds for dinner. One of our favorite fried chicken place & damn It taste as good as ever haha. Once done we head down to IKEA as me and my sis wanna get some stuff and check out the latest products. Halfway through my Aunt called and so we met up and we decided to head down to Changi Beach to chill. My dad bought Otah and we just chatted and relax till late night. Haven't been doing that for a very long time as we use to hang out with my aunt family during my younger days.

Posted at 02:30 am

2011-07-20T16:13:00.003+08:00

Today post is about my ORD Day. It's just a brief short post on my National Service Journey. You can check out my archives If you wanna read my other post on my daily army journey & I can't post all the photos here but you can see them at my facebook.

14th June 2011 marks the day i finally completed my National Service. I can't believe the day is finally here as I would never expect myself to survive the 2 years haha! I still remember the very first time I received the orange letter which every guy in Singapore dread about. The letter indicates my enlistment date & I was pretty shock as I was left with a month. It really ruined my day and I was really afraid as I'm not mentally and physically ready.

Our BMT Roar:

The day of my enlistment, me & my family took the ferry and we were heading to Pulau Tekong where all new enlistees were posted for their Basic Military Training. I was a PTP batch so I was there for 3 months. PTP batch is for those who let's just say are not fit enough haha so we had to stay a little longer to train us up on our physical. I was posted to Quebec company platoon 3. Once we had settle down It was time to do the thing which all of us hate that is going bald. Damn I remember how ridiculously I look with no hair haha! Being a recruit was bad as we get punished a lot haha. Adjusting to the life there too was hard at first as we have to wake up really early and all the constant training was really exhausting. But after a while I got use to it and It was pretty alright. Touch a rifle for the very first time and getting the opportunity to shoot it was awesome.

Once my BMT was done, I got posted to SISPEC but now the name has been changed to Specialist Cadet School. I was in Charlie Company Platoon 1. No longer a recruit but a SCT rank now. Till today I can't believe I got posted there haha. The lifestyle is so much different from BMT as we had more freedom as we get to run the show but as we are training to be section leaders. It was really rushing all the time. The part I hate was the constant lecture's and outfield. We did so many navigation on different jungle's. It was fun but stressful at times. The awesome was navigating at Pulau Tekong Jungle. Oh ya in SISPEC i got to try out many more weapons and grenade's too. But the main issue I had in SISPEC was my IPPT. I remember that very day where I almost had to repeat for another 5 more weeks but a miracle happened and thank god I finally did it!

A video I made:

After SISPEC, I got posted to Military Police. I screamed when I got to know about it haha! It's something I been wanting to get as I hate being an infantry soldier. There were only 30 of us and I was the only malay so It was hard to keep a low profile haha. I love the life in MP as we learn alot of Police stuff and laws too. But we had a lot of physical training compared to SISPEC. But compared to other vocation, I guess MP is much more relax haha! We had a lot of leadership roles too especially during field camp as we had to lead the men under you and It was no simple task.

Finally after graduating i finally became a 3SG Military Police. But my next phase was going overseas as I volunteered to be posted to Brunei at one of our Singapore camp over there for 10 months. Best & bad times of my life but I'm glad I went there as I really learned so much! Did so many new things. It made me discover a different side of me which I didn't know I had it in me. My leadership was really put to the test and It was a challenged being a sergeant over there but overall It was a good experienced.

There's just too much for me to say but words somehow isn't enough to describe my Army journey but Overall throughout this 2 years, I experienced so much. I was glad I made it as I wanted to prove to them that even though I'm weak but with hard work and determination you can make it through. Who would have thought someone like me can be a Sergeant. But definitely there are good and bad days but I learned so much and I was lucky to meet so many great friends. We were like a family & I'm thankful for that. To those who are to be enlisted someday, yes the first step is scary but stay positive and keep and open mind and you will do just fine. Never give up! This is definitely one of the highlight of my life and it's a memory I will keep with me for the rest of my life.

Posted at 04:21pm

2011-05-10T22:18:00.005+08:00

9th May 2011 is the day I will never forget. It's one of the greatest moment of my life as I finally get to see my favorite singer Avril Lavigne perform live and to see her in person. I have miss 3 of her concerts in the past so this time I told myself that I have to go. Her music has help me so much through the years. Her songs have taught me to not bother what others have to say and stand up for your beliefs. Do what you wanna do and live life to the fullest. Be strong and don't take crap from others. Learn to let go and move on in life. I definitely could relate to some of her songs especially those on fail relationships.

Well for her concert, her first opening was the song black star. The crowd when crazy haha. I almost had a heart attack when she came out. She was so beautiful in person and finally I get to hear live and all I can say is that she can definitely sing! She really look like those photo shoot photos that you see on magazine. She was an awesome performer and I love the way she rock the stage and interact with the audience. She was really cute too haha. There was a part where she came really close to my seating area and I get to see her face to face! She really have flawless skin, beautiful eyes and features too haha! Even had eye contact with her haha. I sound like some pathetic loser haha but you can't blame me as it's my first ever concert of her.

All the songs that she perform was my favorite but too bad she didn't sing my personal favorite which was innocence but doesn't matter as her concert was still a blast! This time it's more of her vocals much more strip down raw performance and getting the audience to sing along.

Overall I had an awesome time of my life. Words cant describe on how i felt that day and it's so great to see other fans rocking out to her as majority of my friends ain't a fan haha. Hopefully Avril will continue to do what she's has been doing for the past 10 years and I definitely look forward to her future concerts:).

Photos can be found on my facebook.

Posted at 10:35pm

2011-05-08T23:34:00.003+08:00

A Mother’s Love Never Dies by Nicholas Kenney on Jan 6, 2008 -The Guide

The mysteries of life and a mother’s undying love for her children…

Keegan froze at the computer as the sound of the doorbell sent shivers down his spine.

It was late…too late for anyone decent to be coming over for a visit but there it was again.

Now his wife Jennifer stuck her head into the room with a look of fear and dread on her pretty young face.

“Keegan, did you hear the doorbell?”

“Yes, I did, honey” he answered as he stood to leave the small back room of their Victorian home.

“Who could it be at this hour, Keegan?”

“I don’t know…but I’ll find out!” He said quickly as he rushed past her.

As Keegan neared the small foyer, he slowed his steps and strained to look through the white lace curtains that covered the square window on the antique oak door.

He couldn’t see anyone standing there but yet the doorbell rang out for a third time.

He didn’t turn on any lights but moved quietly in the darkness.

Reaching the door, he very carefully pulled the edge of the curtains back so that he could see out onto the large wooden porch without being seen by anyone standing on the other side of the door.

He smiled now as he hollered out to Jennifer that everything was okay.

“It’s just mom, Jen!”

“Oh, thank God!” She called back to him from the family room.

“Hi mom, come on in!”

“How are you tonight?”

The house seemed to settle in and breathe easier once again.

Church services were over for another Sunday and the young couple now sat down at the usual table to enjoy coffee and donuts with their friends Jo and Carol.

The small church family always enjoyed their time together and today would be no different.

“So, what did you guys do yesterday?” Jo asked as she sat down.

“Oh nothing much…” Jennifer answered.

“Well, my mom came over late last night”. Keegan said with a smile.

“And scared Jen and I have to death!” he added.

“Oh? How late did she come over?” Jo asked with a chuckle.

The couple turned to look at each other before answering.

“What was it, honey…about 11:00?” Keegan asked.

“Yeah, that sounds about right.” Jennifer replied with a somber look.

“Well, that is rather late, no wonder it scared you both, was everything okay with her?”

Jo asked.

“Yes, was she alright?” Carol echoed.

“No, you don’t understand…” Keegan began.

“My mom died five years ago!”

“What?” Jo gasped as she shuddered violently.

“Yeah, she died five years ago, Jo…”

“But how then do you know that it was her?” Carol asked.

“Yes, did you actually see her standing there?” Jo added.

“Well no, I didn’t see her. See, she always knocked on my bedroom door before coming in when I was a kid because she respected my privacy. Now she knocks on the front door of my house before she comes in to let me know that it’s her.”

The two ladies sat dumbfounded but believed their young friends.

“The other thing that Keegan hasn’t told you is that our doorbell runs on batteries. There isn’t one in it now and we haven’t put one in it in over a year, so there is no way for it to ring but yet it does and there’s no one on the porch…so you tell us…”

Both Jennifer and Keegan sat smiling at their friends who still sat speechless across from them.

“Well then, it must be your mom, Keegan…” Jo said with a shiver.

“She’s just watching over us from above and wants us to know it.” Keegan said in a reassuring tone.

“And” he added, “A mother’s love never dies…”

Posted at 11:35pm

2011-05-05T09:36:00.004+08:00

Wow I can't believe that I've neglected this blog for 4 months now. I guess I have lost the blogging bug. But honestly, I have so much to blog about but I couldn't find the time to blog them and plus my laziness is growing even bigger haha. But here's a random short update of my life currently.

To those who didn't know, I'm already back in Singapore since January. Adapting life back here wasn't easy for me but thankfully I'm doing alright now. My National Service is coming to an end soon & damn look how time flies. I can't believe It's my turn now & a new chapter of my life is about to begin. But sadly I'm still confuse whether to pursue my studies or start stepping into the working world. Majority are advising me to continue studying but honestly speaking, I have no idea on what to study & I'm not mentally prepared so most probably I'm gonna work first. But being the typical fickle minded me, I do not know what I wanna work as haha! I have narrowed down to 2 so far which is either to join ICA or try being an air steward. Damn I'm so screwed! I just can't make up my mind! Getting pretty worried as I'm left with 1 more month till my National Service is over. Oh well will see how it goes. Hopefully everything will turn out alright for me.

Other than wondering what to do after my National Service, my life pretty suck actually. How I wish I could just disappear from this world just for a while. Problems always appear in my life & I'm getting sick of it. Sometimes I wonder why I was brought to this world to only suffer haiz. Okay no more being emo. I am gonna be positive and put up a fight. Well I shall stop blogging now.

Posted at 09:17am

2011-05-04T09:17:00.000+08:00

PATIENCE... DO WE EVER STRIVE FOR IT? -The Guide

Human psyche perceives controlling five vices - Pride, Lust, Anger, Attachment and Greed, as being perhaps the five most difficult things to do during our short stay on this planet. And the solution to controlling these vices lies within ourselves only.

Self-discipline comes from Self-realization. Self-realization comes from Self-introspection. Self-introspection comes with Patience and Patience comes from Practice.

When we say that we are fighting these vices, this means we are already aware of these problems, which are hampering our spiritual growth, and we are already on our way. But then this should not be said just for mere saying or for impressing upon others.

Actually, the fact of the matter is that as soon as we are confronted with a critical situation, we simply forget to practice patience with ourselves and are conveniently overtaken by any of the above-mentioned vices.

Example: As soon as somebody offends us, our 'ego' comes forward and we, conveniently, forget about practicing patience. Have we ever analyzed how long a period of time we actually remember an incident that gave us the feeling of hurt or insult, regardless of the magnitude of a dispute?

I would say... not more than 2-3 days at the most. And after that, whatever we recollect from that argument, is just a hazy picture of what had actually happened. But the hurt/insult, of whatever derogatory remark she/he said to us, always remains embedded in our mind.

Obviously, the same applies to the other person as well. Those derogatory remarks play games in our minds, for a lifetime in some cases. We hardly remember the cause for which we had argued and tend to remember only the hurt/insult thus caused. Hurt or insult is caused by our false 'ego' or 'ahamkaar' only. This is the reason we are unhappy for most of our lives.

We always say how dare she/he say these remarks to me? (We can't even recollect the remarks...). But, we do not realize that whatever she/he uttered was restricted by her/his level of thinking/intellect... We feel this hurt/insult only because we take whatever is said to us to heart & mind and that is where all the problems arise. What if we do not take the insult at all? She/he can do nothing about it.

Patience is a rare state of mind, where we are neither too happy on the happening of a favorable event nor too depressed on the happening of an unfavorable event. Our goal: the state of mind in which we are constantly in 'Anand...Eternal Joy...Bliss'.

But this state of mind needs practice; practicing restrain or patience with ourselves. Some would simply argue, "Very difficult! Very difficult!!" But: Is it really that difficult? Have we ever strived for it? I am afraid, no, never ever!

So, one derogatory remark from she/he induces another derogatory remark from us and so this vicious circle continues to a point where there can be no looking back.

And in 100% of the cases, we earn nothing from our false ego-based arguments but rather might lose the blessings of our elders or a true friend for a lifetime. By dragging his/her thinking (derogatory words) into our mind again and again, we are not only corrupting our minds but we also don't allow good thoughts to enter our mind.

If we could just practice patience and just listen to what the other person has to say, without blasting him/her out of his/her 'ego', we would solve a lot of problems. We need to practice patience with our minds.

So, whenever we feel bothered with such feelings of hurt/insult, just go to quieter places and try to empty our mind from such thoughts. By giving our mind a feed of positive thoughts or even think about the positive sides of that individual who had hurt/insulted us in the first place, maybe we could reconcile with him/her.

But again, this comes from practicing patience. Now, whenever there is a situation when we feel that one of the five vices are overtaking our thinking, just take a deep cool breath and hold back. We will certainly cool down.

You could say that the other person would brag/boast that he has proven his point, just because we have stopped responding to the negative arguments. We should remember that nobody has ever won an argument and his/her bragging could just be their 'false-ego' only.

Let him/her feel happy!! We can't be right each time and the other person can't be wrong each time. So, if we can gain something from others, we should feel grateful to him/her. We can at least give Patience a try. Patience definitely breeds peace of mind.

Come on, let us give it a try

Posted at 09:17am

2011-01-01T08:24:00.002+08:00

I celebrated my new year in camp. We had a Christmas plus New Year countdown function. It was great as I get to celebrate with my close friends here in Brunei but too bad not all were able to attend due to regimental duties but luckily they stop by a while to join in the celebration. It was fun as we had great food and the main highlight of the night was playing the game "Bingo!". Believe it or not, It was my very first time playing it haha and not to mention gamble. It's just for the fun of it. Had a lot of fun but It's nerve wrecking as well! I got a couple of heart attack moments as I kept getting "calling" meaning Im left with 1 more number to complete the whole thing. Oh well though I lost about 20 buckaroos but It was all worth it. Had so much fun as our table is full of wooing sounds haha! Everytime every number is being called we will just woo! We are like the "Woo boys" haha! Crazy us:P.

After the function, me and my team members headed to another private event for another celebration. We had a short one as It was already late and we had to work tomorrow. Sucks being us sometimes. Had some food and drink and the fun part was playing Wii haha. Believe it or not again It was my first time playing it haha! Guess I did 2 new stuff before 2010 comes to an end. It was really fun and now Im kinda tempted to get one for myself once Im back in Singapore. Had a great time as well!

As for today, the first day of New Year wasn't a good start for me and my team members as we had diarrhoea haha! Must be the toaster!! Haha i shall not elaborate on that but everything else was great. The day was relax and the main highlight was being able to watch Avril Lavigne perform her first single "What The Hell" from her new record coming out later in March. Even manage to download the full version of the song and damn It was good. She is back:D. Can't wait for her other songs as It said to have more heartfelt and motivational songs. That will definetly be useful for me haha! I could relate to the chorus part of her new song "What The Hell". It goes like "All my life I've been good but now Im thinking What the Hell!". Close friends will know what I mean and I shall not get to that as well haha! Well hope you guys have a great new year as well! Cheers:D

Posted at 03:00 am From Brunei

2010-12-31T08:22:00.001+08:00

Tomorrow will be the end of 2010 and a start of 2011. Time really flies huh! Well for the main highlight of my life in 2010 was when I succeeded in becoming a 3rd Sergeant Military Police and got posted to Brunei from March 2010 till January 2011. I also did and tried something new this year but I shall keep that in private. So mostly my 2010 was spent in Brunei.

Now when I come to think about It I don't really regret making the decision to come to Brunei as I have learned and experience so much. Being independent for my first time in life as Im all alone here in a foreign country & new people. Handling people under you is never easy. Conflict and misunderstanding is always bound to appear and not to mention laziness and Stubbornness as well. Being a NSF sergeant on overseas posting is really not easy. No backing and always stuck in the middle between the top superior and your own people. Well that's life right? Full of up's and down's but It's not that bad all the way as I was lucky enough to meet great people over here as well. They treat me so well & Im really grateful for that. I even found a new side of me and even did new things which I don't even dare to do in Singapore for example wearing daring colors like yellow and red haha. Doing crazy things when I book out as we have this mindset that we are tourist haha. All the silly stuff we did our reason was always "We are Tourist!" haha. Guess Im a little more spontaneous now! :P

For 2011, all I want is happiness & good health. I hope It will be a better year than 2010. First, I will need to concentrate on the moment, future & definetly not the past. I have to put my past hauntings behind me and start a fresh. And also I need to stop being emo haha but that have been my new year resolution since like forever! Guess that's just me haha. Im going to ORD too on June 2011 and heading to a new phase in life and that's pretty scary. Still uncertain on what I wanna do but hopefully somehow along the way I will find the answer. Furthermore Im gonna turn 24 as well! Oh my goodness Im getting old haha! For love wise well let's just say I still wasn't able to find it. Did have a huge crush on someone though and Im still recovering from that. I wonder when I will be able to find the one someone whom I love and would love me back for who I am. Oh well I will let nature take it's course & see how It goes. Maybe Im better off alone....just maybe...

Posted at 03:45 am From Brunei

2010-12-29T13:02:00.005+08:00

MERRY XMAS TO ALL!

I would like to wish all my friends and the everyone out there a Happy Blessed Christmas!

This post is specially dedicated to all my special friends in Brunei. I know It's pretty late as I been busy lately.

Firstly I would like to thank Sam, Francis, Wen Bin & Rahmat for the wonderful surprise! They made me believe in Santa as they came to my bed and place presents beside my pillow while I was sleeping! When i woke up, I was freaking shock! In my heart I was like "Oh my goodness, what have I ever done to deserve this!". I was really touch by their actions. Hope you guys will like the gift that i got for you guys as well!

I would like to thank Sam & Nelson for the coolest gift ever! I'm in love with the skull tie and I will definetly treasure it! You guys know me too well haha:P! Hopefully you will like the gift that i got for you guys as i still feel that it wasn't as great as what you guys got for me!

I would like to thank Ma'am Pauline for the awesome skully speaker! Oh my goodness! I was jumping for joy as skully use to be my nickname haha! Thanks so much again! I hope you will like the gift that I have gotten for you!

I would like to thanks Ma'am Dora for the awesome cherry liq chocolates! I was really surprise when you bought it for me! A million thanks:D. I hope you like the gift that I gave as well:)

I would like to thank my guys Fazli, Hilmi & Anthony for the gifts and everything that you have done for me! For all the support and help you have gave as without you guys I am nothing! And Anthony, thanks for the overkill skull belt haha! Hope you guys love the gifts I bought for you guys as well!

I would like to thank Leong for the awesome unique skull T-shirt and the skull necklace! I love it! I hope you like the gift I bought for you as well:)

Im really touch by each and everyone of you guys. I sometimes wonder what did I ever do to deserve great people like you guys. I never thought I would meet great people on my tour in Brunei. To me, knowing you guys is the greatest gift ever! Saying Thank you is just too simple! I hope that we will all still remain in contact once we are back in Singapore and hopefully the friendship doesn't end here.

Once again, THANK YOU!:)

Posted at 2:30pm From Brunei

2010-12-23T20:55:00.000+08:00

I may not have the softest touch
I may not say the words as such
And though I may not look like much
And though my edges may be rough
And never feel I'm quite enough
It may not seem like very much

But I'm yours

2010-12-20T20:46:00.000+08:00

Last week was pretty intense as quite a couple of stuff happened to me. First I fell sick due to the night before incident while we were celebrating Joe's Birthday in which i shall not elaborate any further but all I can say is that I made a fool out of myself & I shall not repeat that again. Well hopefully haha. Even hurt someone and thankfully the person has forgive us. I was really touch on the day I was sick as my superior came to my bunk, force me to get up & sent me to see the doctor. Even though I was stubborn but It was really sweet of him & thank god he did that as I was kinda dying in my bunk due to the fever. This is the second time I've fallen sick in Brunei. I seldom fall sick when I was in Singapore but somehow It's different over here. Guess It was the season as I wasn't the only one who's sick. Almost everyone around me was sick as well.

Second would be something new for me. I actually issued informal punishment which was asking one of my men to knock it down due to something that he did. I even freaking yell at him till my hands were trembling. I shall not elaborate any further and It was the first time I was freaking piss off in my whole Sergeant life in the army. I thought I wouldn't have to resort to that but I really didn't had any choice. It's my job to discipline my guys & to correct them if they do something wroung. I just hate it when I give the things you request and fight for your priviledge but instead of thanking me you do things which somehow will jeopardize my recommendation and doing the things which i hate the most. Plus I was in a bad mood as I still haven't settle certain problems so i guess i kinda got carried away a little. Haiz sometimes I feel that being a sergeant is really not easy and Im not that kind of person who love scolding and nagging at people all the time. I guess the army really made me experience a new side of me and hopefully It won't be permanent. Hopefully after ORD I won't be like this anymore. I need to be that happy go lucky Faris! But today, I went to spoke to the person that I was piss off with and explain on why i had to do what i had to do and somehow just close the chapter. I don't want both side to hold any grudges or anything like that. I did apologised so I guess we should be fine now.

Now for today the current problem that Im facing now is a missing item. I shall not elaborate much but all I know was that It really scare the shit out of me! I was angry as It wasn't even my fault as I was away for 3 days and it had to happen when I did not check it for just for a day. I couldn't even sleep for the whole night. Eventually I followed my instinct and thank god the person i suspected has it. What a day!

I shall stop here for and hopefully things will run smoothly till I end my tour here but Im gonna hate tomorrow though as something new at work was implemented so i predict more work but oh well I will just do my best. Gambateh Faris!!

Posted at 3:00 am From Brunei

2010-12-06T19:00:00.005+08:00

Yesterday outing was awesome. First we went to this restaurant call the Palm's Cafe. The food there was delicious and unique. It's close to fine dining but somehow It's serving portion was just right. Not too little & not too much. The chicken liver appetizer was awesome. I kinda got hook to it haha. After we were done, we decided to catch a movie & we were considering whether to watch Rapunzel 3D or Haunted Changi. After much discussion we decided to watch Haunted Changi even though we knew the movie review of it was really bad but what the heck we gave it a shot. We got to check out the new cinema that was just open recently. It was small but the chairs were really comfortable. The seats are here. That's really good for me as I don't have to slough everytime I catch a movie as majority of the seats here are low & It's a disadvantage for my long body haha.

Okay I shall not elaborate much about the movie but all I can say is that It suck big time. For once I believe in the movie review. I don't normally believe the movie review on papers as I prefer to judge the movie for myself. It's just so fake & boring. Too much movie slides animation & I was beginning to ask myself whether the movie is about ghost or just to show us how great they are In creating animations. Seriously I will give it 0.5/5 stars. 0.5 for certain scary parts & for the animations that they did for the movie. It's definetly not worth the money.

After the movie, It was shopping time:). Didn't manage to find any great stuff so we decided to get dinner next. After much discussion, we decided to go for Korean food. We were told that this Korean Restaurant was the first in Brunei & the owner is from Korea. So we headed there & the place looks really traditional. I love it as it has this homely feeling, quiet and comfortable. Don't get me started on the food! It was really good especially the hot & spicy soup! It was indeed hot & spicy haha! We also ordered 1 seafood & 1 large kimchi pancakes. Another big bowl of ginger chicken soup, some noodles and mix rice. The portion were really generous and all with reasonable prices. We kinda ordered too much till we had to ask them to pack the leftovers for us. All I can say is that the food was just awesome!

Lastly, we end our day with grocery shopping. Even intro them to something which I never told anyone before haha! It was hilarious when the 3 of us bought it. Smooth and silky like baby ass haha! I shall not elaborate any further. Overall awesome day out! Thanks Joreen for introducing us to a great lunch & dinner place.

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Posted At 3.45am From Brunei

2010-12-04T08:42:00.000+08:00

I think I should stop blogging about emo & sad stuff all the time. I do not know why I only feel like blogging when Im down but not about my happy fun moments in life. Haha i guess Im feeling a little better now & I would like to thank my friends who were there to cheer me up & showering their concern especially to Nelson for lending a listening ear last night. Thanks for the gaming session as well:). It was fun & awesome but the "bitch" is more like a burden than a helper in the game haha! I should learn to appreciate the beautiful moments in life & not let negative stuff get to me. Whatever that happens I will do my best to overcome it with a positive mindset. I would also like to apologise to those who were my victim when I was in rage & to my good friends in Brunei who had to see my sulky face for the past few weeks. Please do not take it personally. I promise myself to not let problems that I face affect the people around me and hopefully I won't have to break that.

Currently Im on duty right now. It has been a busy day considering It's a Saturday but oh well nothing new but It's all good. Glad i manage to clear some of my work and Im left with some planning but that can wait till Monday or next week I guess. As usual the procrastinating Faris haha. The weather for the past week has been pretty bad as It's always freaking hot in the day & It rains heavily at night causing mini floods most of the time. Can't wait to watch the new Narnia movie and thank god It has the 3D version here now so Im looking forward to that. Gonna have a lunch date tomorrow and hopefully I have time to treat myself to my favourite Ice-cream as well. It has been a while since i ate my DQ Pecan!

Im left with 52 more days in Brunei. Its kinda sad to leave but looking at the way things are here and all the great people has already left so I guess It's best to leave as soon as possible. Met a couple of great friends here and hopefully we will still remain in contact once we are all back in Singapore:).

Posted at 04:45 am From Brunei

2010-12-03T09:45:00.001+08:00

I guess the reason Im feeling down lately is partly due to work and also about this person whom Im trying to avoid and forget. It's really hard to do so especially when you see the person all the time and you just can't stop thinking about it. It sucks when you know it's impossible for anything to happen between the two of you. I call it forbidden love. Haiz why do I have this problem? Why do I have to be different from everyone else? Am I curse or something? Im trying real hard to forget this feeling but the longer we get close and continue talking to each other the more harder It is to fight off the feeling. Avoiding is a challenge considering the person has been really nice & sweet to you. Im really tired putting on a mask and pretending that everything is normal infront of the person. A part of me would wanna let the person know on how i feel but Im really afraid that it might jeopardise our friendship & things will turn out bad. Im pretty sure the person doesn't share the same feeling as me. Oh man I just hope that I can still hold on a little longer. I'm definetly gonna do my best to forget! I have to! Arghh It's driving me nuts! It's affecting my appetite and sleep these days. Freaking annoying!

Weird post ever....

Posted at 9:45 am From Brunei

2010-11-29T16:10:00.001+08:00

Today's the day I officially turn 23 years old. Oh my goodness! Turning older and older haha but who cares age is just a number besides everyone thought that Im 21 years old LOL!:). It was a bad birthday eve for me all due to work. Haiz let's just say It's all thanks to my working partner for ruining my Sunday morning. I don't really know why i got carried away and let it get to me pretty bad. I always told myself to not let work problems get to me but sometimes Its hard especially when you know that you put in alot of effort and pride in your work and when someone just come and screw it up time after time it will somehow just get to you. I don't expect too much just minimum standards and yet he couldn't even do that. Im doing all the work and solving the problems while all he does is play games and read his story book. Does he expect me to always shout and scream at him every single time & be the bad guy? Oh well thankfully I have my guys and supporters behind me all the way so I shall not give a damn about him. Just one more month to go so i will try to remain positive and enjoy my every moments in this camp.

Receive a shock of my life during night time as they gave a fake turn out drill while I was sleeping but it turn out to be a surprise birthday celebration for me. It was really unexpected. I was really touch as they put in effort to wait till midnight to give me a wonderful birthday surprise. Im really bless to meet great people like them. It's people like them that make my stay here a wonderful one & It 's even harder when i have to leave this camp in a month's time. I would like to thank all this people for the birthday surprise and the delicious cake. Firstly my team members: Hilmi, Fazli & Anthony. Haikal, Firdaus, Yuan Zhang, Joe & Wenbin for joining in the celebration. Sam, Nelson & Ma'am Pauline for the gift. Wycliff for the cute boxers & especially to Francis for being there for me when i was down. All I can say is that I was really touch by their actions. Definetly a memorable 23rd birthday celebration in Brunei. I would also like to thank my family & everyone who flooded my msn, facebook and phone with their Birthday Wishes. Too many names to be spell out but from the bottom of my heart...thank you:)

I know that I have been neglecting this blog for a really long time & i apologise for that as I have been busy and really lazy to blog oftenly now. I guess I have lost the blogging bug. Just a short update about myself. Well beside yesterday bad day, life has been good so far for me. There are good and bad days but It's better now. Finally I went to Kota Kinnabalu on the 19th till 21st and it was awesome! Photos are all in my facebook. The water sport activites was the highlight of the trip & I just can't wait to go back and do it all over again. The recent memorable outing was on the 27th November. We finally got a chance to go to Shahbander and climb the hills. It was really fun and tiring! The view was breathtaking and the air is just so relaxing. Thanks so much to Ma'am Dora & Staff Ramdzan for organizing it. There are more awesome trip so you can just check my facebook photos as I try to update my facebook as often as I can. Oh ya, I have finally get an official date on when Im coming back to Singapore. It's on the 24th January 2011!:). So Im left with about 57 more days in Brunei. Look how time flies and soon I will be leaving Brunei. I love it here but judging from the changes to be made from the new people that is coming in, I guess It's best i leave and escape the misery haha:P. Well I shall end my post here. To those who are still reading my blog, I thank you for that:). I will make an attempt to update regularly.

Posted at 4:12 pm From Brunei

2010-09-05T09:10:00.000+08:00

Been in the army for more than a year but up till now I still haven't decide on what Im gonna do once I've completed my National Service in June 2011. Before I entered the army, the plan was to explore my options within the 2 years period. It's not as easy as I thought it would be as I still can't decide whether to study, work or both. Tried seeking opinion from friends & It made me even more confused haha. Majority agreed on at least getting a degree as apparantely they say that Diploma is not enough in Singapore. Some also recommended to work & study part time. Well everyone has different opinion so I guess it looks like I have to decide & make my own decision.

Firstly the main reason I haven't thought of studying is because I do not know on what course to take. I do not wish to carry on with engineering as It doesn't interest me and I kinda suck at it haha. Info Tech has been the course that I wanna give a shot at but If i were to take that as my degree course well let's just say that It's gnna be suffering for me as I don't have any background in it or it's basic foundation. Degree ain't cheap either too so I really have to choose the right course. And to be honest, ever since Im in the army I kinda lost the interest to study as my mind is in Army mode & not to study for exams mode haha. Been away from the study world for quite a while now so to adjust back to that might take a while for me.

My main plan was to just work but as usual Im not sure on what I wanna work as. Air steward has been something that I wanna try but Im not sure whether I qualify as I don't have any experience and they normally go for good looking people right? If it does than looks like I already fail. I wanna try applying for those airlines that doesn't serve alcohol beverages but it's not that easy. Well will see how it goes. Worst come to worst I will just grab what ever airlines that is willing to hire me & that will be a miracle haha. I enjoy working in the sales line too though so I would try for that as well If not than I will grab what ever is available on the newspaper job offer section. Worst case senarion I will make use of my engineering diploma & try being an engineer. If all else fails than I will go for my last desperate plan which is to sign on in the Army & hopefully that will never ever happen please. Maybe I should just do what I always do which is let time tell & see how it goes. I will let fate decide for me. But i will still continue to look around & decide slowly.

For now Im looking forward to my home leave this coming 17th. I have so many things that I wanna do or should I say eat haha. Im missing our local dishes like Indian Rojak, Hokkien mee & Mee Rebus especially the fast food that isn't availabe in Brunei. Subway will definetly be my first target! I also got my mum to cook for me the Hari raya dishes which she normally prepares. So thankfully I won't be missing my favourite festive dishes & not to forget the goodies as well:). Not to forget my beloved family & close friends in Singapore. I can't wait to meet them all. 12 more days to go and hopefully I won't overspent.

A little update about myself. Life here is still the same. As usual there are days where It's good and some days it can get bad but overall It's cool. Fasting over here this year well let's just say Im pretty much mess up haha & I shall not elaborate any further. Well Im gonna eny here for now. Cya folks!

Posted at 4:45 am From Brunei

2010-09-04T21:40:00.002+08:00

Life is all about choices.

Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"

Michael replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood."

Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or... I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.

Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.

"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.

"Yes, it is," Michael said.

"Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life."

I reflected on what Michael said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Michael about six months after the accident.

When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?"

I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter," Michael replied.

"Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or... I could choose to die. I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.

Michael continued, "... the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked.

"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Michael.

"She asked if I was allergic to anything.

'Yes, I replied.'

The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity'."

Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead!"

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything. After all, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

LIFE IS ABOUT THE LITTLE CHOICES WE MAKE EVERY DAY !

Posted at 9:45 pm From Brunei

2010-08-25T04:00:00.001+08:00

Going back on my Home Leave on 17th September till 30th September! :D

2010-08-22T03:08:00.000+08:00

Sometimes I wonder where did I go wrong. Being a leader is really not easy and Im getting tired of problems I have to face. Just for once I wish things will be smooth and simple without any drama. Maybe Im being too nice or just working with selfish & unappreciative people. I don't know but if only I could turn back time I would definetly not choose to be here. I don't have any sergeant backing except for one as the rest are all regulars & in a different branch. I don't really have anyone to confide to, someone whom I feel comfortable sharing with my problems with. Wish I could have one close buddy. Guess that's the disadvantage going overseas working at a camp with so little people & the worst part is staying in a place where people eat people, covering their own asses, jealousy, gossip monsters & telling people not to stay close to whom & whom. How childish & lame some of them can get. Im not saying everyone's like that but some or should i say majority of them. Though there are great awesome people as well so thanks to this people that made my stay here a great one.

I was told last week that I have to extend my attachment here so instead of 9 months, now It will be for a year. 3 extra month to endure & I do now know whether I will be strong enough to carry on as soon new batch of people are coming which means new problems will arise & sadly the great ones are leaving soon. Hopefully the new 3SG will be good like my current one because If not than I really do not have anyone to depend on. Well for now I will just live life & remain positive. I will just try to deal with what ever that comes to me.

Well enough about work maybe Im just too emo about it right now. Off to something different. Fasting here in Brunei has been really awesome as time past pretty fast & the break fast timing here is faster compared to Singapore. But the bad part is the freaking weather. The scorching hot sun makes one thirsty really fast.

September is coming soon & I just can't wait for it because Im going back on the 17th till 30th September. Im excited to see my family & hopefully get the chance to meet all my close friends in Singapore. For once I just wanna see familiar faces in my life people & whom I can trust. I also can't wait to indulge on all the local Singapore delicacies that I've been craving for ever since I came to Brunei. Im so loooking forward to my home leave. One thing's for sure Im gonna pamper myself like a king & eat my heart out haha!

This question came back to me recently "When will i find love?". I do not know why I suddenly thought of that. It was pretty random. Im not really bothered by it but I am getting a little concern as Im turning 23 soon & Im still single. Guess I've been enjoying singlehood far way too much long. I just haven't met the "one" yet. Maybe Im fated to be unlove & be alone till I die? hmm....=|

Anyway I better stop here & end my depressing lame post as everything that Im going to say will be just a nother negative topic. Maybe I need to recover from this emoing and certain stuff that is pissing me off. Hopefully after the range tomorrow I will have the time to treat myself to a huge cup of Caramel Cheesecake Ice-Cream=).

Posted at 3:45 am From Brunei

2010-07-28T16:46:00.002+08:00

Once again im back from a very long silence. Been procrastinating alot on blogging. So much had happened ever since my last post. As usual they were good and bad but well that's just life. Anyway moving on Im starting to get a little home sick now and Im really looking forward to my home leave which I projected to be on the 1st of October. Hopefully that they will come as soon as possible!

Look how time flies, August is coming and it will mark my 5 month stay here in Brunei. That's pretty fast! And oh yeah the month of August will be the fasting month. Looks like I will be be fasting and celebrating Hari Raya in Brunei, a new place away from my close friends and family sadly but oh well doesn't matter as Im not a fan of all this but I will definetly miss eating my mum's Hari Raya dishes and also the homemade goodies. I guess these are the things I have to sacrifice when Im working overseas. But my mum promise to cook the Hari Raya dishes once I return from my home leave so Im looking forward to that. Wonder how will it be like celebrating over here hmm...

Just a short update on how I have been doing so far. Work has been pretty alright. Mostly the same old usual routine including getting arrowed to do some work haha. I overspent again this month haha as usual! It's so hard to even save 10 bucks! Spent mosty on shopping, food and more food haha. Crap and I thought I could learn to save money when im here but it seems like Im still bad at saving money haha. Guess It's not easy living near to the city area you will just tend to spent and spent! Well I will try to save next month haha.

I just recovered from a bad flu and cough. Can you believe that they don't have Panadol Flu over here or some other sort of medicine on flu! So my last resort was to see a doctor. Even the clinic is so erm...guess I shall not elaborate as at least the medicine was pretty effective.

Been reading the Singapore newspaper daily and damn so much has happened! From flood to constant tree falling that even causes death. Not to mention constant road accidents and weirdly interesting stuff on the Newpaper. Guess Im missing alot in Singapore. Oh well I just hope things will be back as normal and hopefully all the problems will be over soon. Well guess Im gonna stop my crapping here. This is quite a random blog post. Cya all~

Posted at 5:45 pm From Brunei

2010-06-01T03:47:00.000+08:00

How i wish sometimes good things will remain forever but sadly it doesn't work that way in the reality world. Im already currently working in a new place and environemnt but now sooner or later I have repeat this process again including making friends with new people. It's not that i hate changes or anything but is just that Im kinda getting sick and tired of it. I've been going through so much changes not only in my personal life but also the journey I had so far in the army. It's really tiring but oh well I don't have a choice. Oh well as usual I guess I have to just take it positively & tell myself It's all part of gaining new experience.

Anyway enough about stupid work as my blog is starting to be about me complaining about my work all the time haha. Well this week is has been mostly about paranormal happenings in the camp. Im not sure why lots of supernatural stuff has been happening this week like the other day when we were clacking at the canteen, 2 of the guys went to smoke. While smoking one of the guy heard sounds of a women giggling & laughing loudly but surprisingly the other guy that was with him didn't heard anything. So both of them quickly finish up their cigarettes & head back.

Next was experience by the other team where their whole working area was clouded with frangipani scent in the middle of the night. The scent was really strong. Im sure you guys have heard stories where if you smell that in the middle of the night it means that that "thing" is nearby. Well i shall not elaborate more. My team including myself experience that the following day as well. Night time I was going around to switch on the block lights & crap the smell started to appear. It was pretty scary so I did a fast game & head back as soon as I can haha! The following night at around 4am in the morning, a couple of guys called to tell us that they heard noises & voices coming from the cookhouse. Just the day before the chef complaint that why all the items in the kitchen was arranged nicely on the floor where the night before the previous chef was on duty has already clean and arrange all the stuff nicely. How scary is that! We were told by the seniors chef here that normally the cookhouse lights are always to reaim on at all times or else the following day all the items in the cookhouse will be in a mess. So now i know the reason why no one dares to go to the cookhouse in the middle of the night.

There were a lot more that happen to my team members while they were on duty. Like there was one time while one of them was doing sentry, there was somehow a force pushing him. Another encounter was while they were talking about ghost stories in the middle of the night, out of a sudden they heard loud foots steps walking pass them. There was also one time where one of them was doing desk duty alone, he heard voices coming from the other room. So he went to check it out and to his surprise there was no one inside. We were also told by the last batch on what they had experienced before while on duty. They hear loud rock music coming from a empty building in the middle of the night. Muslim prayers sounds can be heard late at night & knocking sounds. Lights switch on by it's own & flushing sounds coming from the empty building. One of them also saw a human shape figure in the empty bunk & tapping sounds coming from the bunk windows. Some also experience someone touching their face when they are sleeping & also getting hug as well.

For me well so far I experience tapping sounds coming from my woom window but I just assume that It could be fallen tree branches or wind haha. I also experience hearing a little girl voice shouting at me around 6 in the morning. That really scare the crap out of me. But it all happen on the first week of my stay here but now so far nothing has happened to me so hopefully It would remain that way as Im sleeping alone in my bunk & Im mostly alone when im doing night duty at the desk.

Well I guess our camp is not that bad compared to the other camp as it's 10x worst & It's really a forested area and away from the city. Soon I will be going there and I will definetly share with you guys the ghost stories over there but till than Im just content with the paranormal activities over here haha!

Posted at 03:57 am From Brunei

2010-05-08T04:15:00.003+08:00

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First of all i would like to wish all Mother's especially my mom a Happy Mother's Day. Thanks for being a great mom! I love you=)

Hello to all again and Im back for another blog post. It's a Saturday but sadly Im on duty but it doesn't matter as at least I get to enjoy on Sunday instead. Things have been pretty alright so far and i hope that It will remain this way forever haha!

Lately I've been on a dvd marathon as I bought quite a number of movies as there were on offer and I was tempted to get more as the movies were new and cheap. For now I've just finished watching "The Backup Plan", "Bounty Hunter" & "Labor Pain" starring Lindsay Lohan. One thing great here is the cheap Dvd's & It's the main source of entertainment for us to kil time if we were to slack in camp. But i always find that my off days are really short as I would normally wake up at about 2pm after dismounting around 8.30am, shower, have lunch, head out or I would hit the gym and before you know It half the day is gone and It's already night time haha. I can't stay up too late as well as I have to report to work in the morning so that's pretty sucky. Time past slowly during my working days but real fast when it's my off day bloody Cheesebun haha! But Im not going to complain as to be honest Im beginning to adapt to the life here and I kinda like it. It's not crowded, slow pace & I don't have to always rush for time whenever Im out shopping. Currently me and a couple of friends have found this great eatery that serve pretty much similar to Singapore style of cooking & that will definetly be our new chill out place.

The other day I stumbled upon my photo album from my laptop & looking at them made me pretty upset. It reminded me of all the beautiful moments I had in Singapore especially with my family & friends. I really miss the fun I had & I just can't wait to go back home. My projected leave would most probably be on October but nothing is confirm yet but one thing is for sure I am not able to return during Hari Raya but It doesn't matter as It would be pretty cool to experience fasting & celebrating Hari Raya in Brunei with new people & environment. I wonder how It would be like so I shall wait & see. I have uploaded a couple of new photos in my facebook but Im unable to upload here as Im too lazy to edit and post it here haha. Well guess I will end here for now. Cya:)

Posted at 04:00 am From Brunei

2010-05-05T16:56:00.003+08:00

Snap some beautiful moments in Brunei.

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Im eating my favourite wet beef char kway teow right now & enjoying a cup of ice milo. Now this is what's worth living for haha! Finally i get to enjoy my off day as for the past few days I been busy doing work or having meetings with my superior. Well things so far have been okay but as usual there are days where Im met with challenges & having to solve problems. But even all that Im still doing well and Im not so emo anymore haha for now i guess. Thankfully I have Daniel to help me out whenever i have problems with work & im grateful for that.

So much has happened but as usual I don't have time to blog about them daily due to tiredness and lack of time. But despite having lack of rest I would still try to make an attempt to exercise and go out of camp for some fresh airt & try out the great food that they have over here haha. There are still lots of places which I wanna go so hopefully I would get the opportunity to do so.

So far my experience having men working under me is definetly not easy. What they told us in Sispec was really true. It's not easy to please everyone & especially handling those problematic ones well maybe i should rephrase that it's more like each individual character. There are some who are just lazy & do not take their job seriously. Some are stubborn as well. Not that Im saying everyone is like that but everywhere you work at you will bound to meet all sorts of people the good and the bad as no one is perfect each individual have their own flaws but It can be hard sometimes to manage. It's really not easy to be a leader as there are times we are stuck in the middle. Im sandwich between my men and the superiors. Both side should understand the problems Sergeant face. Sometimes the men do not know what exactly happen behind the scenes whenever we have a meeting with our superior and sometimes the superior do not understand what the men are going through but no matter what I will always try to give the very best welfare that I can to my men. I do not know what they think about me but hopefully It's not bad as Im really trying my very best. But no matter what Im really thankfully for having a great team but sadly some will be leaving soon.

Anyway enough of my random craps haha. To all my family and friends just to let you guys know that Im doing ok so far. Still standing and surviving haha like they say when the going gets tough, the tough gets going! Hugs & kisses from Brunei. Take care all and I will try to blog as often as i can.

Posted at 4:54 pm From Brunei

2010-04-21T20:33:00.006+08:00

200410 marks the most horrible day that i've ever experience so far in Brunei. I shall not elaborate more so let's just say it was my first time getting a scolding from the camp commander and it wasn't pleasant at all. What i conclude from the incident is that I've learnt my lesson. Because of this now our work will be even more tougher & Im pretty worried about my team as this new implementation that they came out with it will definetly affect their rest time. How i wish sometimes i could do more to improve the situation but it's hard. I just hope that everyone including other branch will cooperate and work together as the main problem is due to lack of teamwork & cooperation. Well Im not blaming anyone as afterall it was everyone mistake including mine and i hope that after this incident, everyone learnt from it and hopefully it will not repeat ever again. Hopefully this will be the first & the last time.

One thing about here is that bad news travel really fast. Not even 5 minutes after the incident and everyone already knew about it. They kept asking me and some of them were nice as they gave me advice and try to calm me down. It's easier said than done because they are not there to experience it themselves on how hard it is. They do not know the problems we face daily. They only see the good side & to be honest i feel that we don't get enough credit. Bad news really travel fast but all the good work that we do the news doesn't travel at all. It's always like that in the working world. Well what ever it is I'm gonna do my very best but haiz i feel that im such a lousy guard commander. Not even a month here and this have to happen.

After the incident it was nice of the Captain's here & the SM to comfort me and help me out with the situation. Even the people from the other branch came to apologise about it. I also have to thank my team for cracking up jokes and all the laughing made me feel better. In the evening during dinner, the camp commander call me to seat on his table and he was being nice to me. I guess he have forgiven me but he said something that was pretty hurtful to me. Maybe I was too sensitive and took it a little too seriously as he could have just meant it as a joke. Okay they were having a happy hour function in the evening and he said that "Okay as a punishment for your poor performance i want you to dance later at the function". Hearing that poor performace really brought me down as I been working really hard as most of the time I only sleep 1 to 2 hours whenever im on duty. I will do my best to ensure that everything was running smoothly and I try my very best to make everyone in my team happy so that they will be more motivated to work. I guess it wasn't good enough & i really need to improve and be even better. I just hope that I will still remain strong, positive & no more screw up please. Come on Faris you can do it!

Sometimes i wish that i could just run away......

Posted At 8.33pm From Brunei

2010-04-19T21:45:00.002+08:00

Finally i have time to blog today. Soon it will be my 1 month stay in Brunei. Thankfully now i have finally adapt to the life here well almost to be honest. I definetly learned something which is to never take things for granted and appreciate all the little stuff in my life for example the clean water coming out from the tap. We Singaporean's may take this for granted but we should be proud that Singapore is really well built and how great our technology is. Now i will never ever complain about Singapore again haha. I really miss the night life in Singapore too so guys don't ever complain that our country is boring but at least one thing good is that they ordered all the Singapore newspapers so at least i won't miss out on the latest happenings. Though i met some great friends here but i do feel lonely at times as i guess i don't really have someone to talk to as in someone im able to share my problems with or someone i feel comfortable hanging out or just chilling with. I guess what I need is a best friend haha but sadly all are in Singapore but so far the people here especially my team has been great and treating me well so i will not ask for more. One thing i hate about my job is that it's affecting my sleeping hours. I really have irregular sleeping time and it's really screw up now. I don't really have a choice as we have to work 24 hours and I don't really get to sleep properly as being a guard commander is never easy as people will be calling me and stuff. Not only that, im also facing problems as it's never easy being in charge but no matter what i have to be positive and stay strong infront of my men as afterall as i must set an example and not easily admit defeat. But it's just hard sometimes. People may think im a happy go lucky person but they do not know how i feel behind the fake smiles. The things that they do here and sometimes really stupid and weird. Anyway moving on enough of my emo side~

As for today it will be an easy day. I plan to just chill, hit the gym later followed by attending the healthy lifestyle running event & going to shop for some groceries and try this food call nasi todak which im currently in love with as the chilli is power haha! It's about time i burn some fats as i been eating alot here. The people here are really generous to the guardroom as they keep buying nice but super fattening food. I was planning my home leave yesterday and most likely i won't be able to celebrate Hari Raya with my family this year and the earliest i could get is around october. Crap i gonna miss my mom's Hari Raya delicacies especially the Rendang and her home made cookies. Oh well i guess it will be a new experience for me celebrating it here in Brunei haha but i will definetly ask my mum to cook all those delicacies when i get back haha. Can't wait for that! Hopefully next month i will start to bhe more thrifty as i've been spending a lot. I can't believe i actually spent $500+ this month. All thanks to the food, shopping, transport and DVD's! I better try to reduce or else it will defeat my purpose of coming to Brunei in the first place which is to learn to save up. I guess bad habits die hard haha not to mention my cliques here are big spenders too so that's why it's hard to save haha.

Okay well i shall end my random post here for now. I will leave you guys with some photos of Gadong a common area we go to shop and 2 ugly pics of me for you guys to see on how im doing and looking right now haha! So far i only been to Aman, Manggis & Gadong. There are still lots of places to go so i will definetly make an attempt to visit them when i have the time and opportunity. I will definetly share it with you guys:).

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Posted At 9.45pm From Brunei

2010-04-01T15:25:00.003+08:00

Here is my first blog post from Brunei. I have been here for 4 days now and so far all i can is that life here is definetly different. Well let me begin with the first day when we arrive. On the plane to Brunei was scary as the plane was flying through thunder clouds and out of sudden the plane drop and all of us felt that we were flying and hitting the roof. I swear everyone started saying prayers and it really felt like we were about to crash or something and it was definetly one won't forget. Now this is making me think twice of working as a Air Steward in the future. For the first day there was a change of plan as instead of 2 guys going to Jalan Aman Camp & 8 to Lakiun now instead 6 will remain in Jalan Aman Camp while the rest will be posted to Lakiun Camp. Out of the 10 guys there was only 2 sergeant's which was me and my fren and sadly we had to be separated. Haiz there goes my only friend that i know but oh well we didn't had a choice. Also they will be rotating us so about 3 or 6 months the 6 in Jalan Aman Camp will go to Lakiun and those over there will go to Jalan Aman as they want us to experience working in both camps.

Currently im in Jalan Aman Camp and the place is pretty alright but it's rather quiet as there are not much people here even though the camp is huge. The people here are alright and friendly but there are some weird and lazy ones but oh well it's like that everywhere. The canteen here is great as they have wifi, computers and they sell really good food especially prata's. The mess room is great too especially our building as there are video games, the tv has lots of channels and also wifi. The other good thing about here is i guess it's near the city so at least we can shop for stuff and buy good food. We went out on Tuesday to The Mall to shop and look around. The things are pretty similar to Singapore and i was glad that there was a Mcdonald, Pizza Hut and some other restaurants that you can find in Singapore. We went to Mcdonald's as i wanted to try how it taste like as i was told by a friend that it sucks but to my surprise it was pretty much taste the same as Singapore. I bought triple double cheeseburger which was super awesome and i believe double cheeseburger fan's like me will definetly love it. Singapore should have that too. After eating we went to get a prepaid card but sadly everywhere is out of stock so i guess we have to wait. Next we went to the supermarket and it's like Singapore Giant's. Bought some snacks and drinks for my bunk. Oh ya speaking of bunk the one thing great about here for Sergeant's and above is that we get our very own bunk. 1 person per bunk and it's air conditioned as well:). But everywhere here is air conditioned like the bunks, mess & guard room's. Okay after grocery shopping we went to look around for some nice clothes shop as one of them wanted to get a gift for a friend. I came across a nice looking skull hoodie and as usual i couldn't resist so i bought it and the price was reasonable as the quality is good and it cost $40. Good buy indeed.

After that we went for a haircut at this Indian barber and the place is awesome as they cut really good and it comes with massage! Damn nice and it's only $4. Im so loving it haha. Next we went to a shop selling DVD's. It's so damn cheap and they have a lot of latest movies and not to mention a wide range of shows to choose from. There were complete season's of tv shows, movies we don't see in Singapore and many more. The price range and from 5-15 dollars. Damn it's amazing how they are able to open a shop selling pirated cd's haha. Wish we could get that in Singapore. Too bad i couldn't buy them yet as my Laptop cd-rom area is not working and i didn't had time to fix it in Singapore. Hopefully i can get it fix over here a.s.a.p.

Lastly we went to the night market to look around and get some food. They have so much varieties over here. Hopefully i will get to try everything before i have to be posted to Lakiun haha. Me and a friend of mine kinda got cheated haha well actually it was our blurness lol. Ok we saw this shop selling round chicken meat and it look so tempting so we decided to get it and also it's cheap only $1. So when we got back we ate it and after eating 4 pieces i suddenly felt like this is not what we thought it would be as it was fatty and there were small bones. I look at it properly and to my surprise it was CHICKEN BACKSIDE LOL! I didn't tell my friend yet till he was finish as i didn't want to ruin his appetite haha. After he was done i told him and both of us kept laughing and it was our first time eating it as i don't dare to eat it as afterall shit came out from there haha so i guess that will be the first and the last time we will be eating that haha but it taste good though so those chicken backside lovers should try it.

There are still more for us to explore but that will be next outing when we have the time and if my team are willing to bring us again. Right now my job here is a guard commander. We work on alternate days. 1 day mount 1 day dismount and it's pretty tiring working for 24 hours and the guard room here is busy and not to mention the shortage of manpower. There are so few MP's & RP's here so that's why they have to work longer hours. Well it can't be helped and hopefully i will learn fast as there are much to know. They are also very particular about your fitness here as well especially our BMI & IPPT so that's why they have run's on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Hopefully i won't grow fat as the people here are generous to the guard room especially went they go out as they would buy for us food and snacks. That's generous of them. Well i guess i will stop here for now as i need to get some shut eye as today is my dismount day and i haven't slept yet. Good night peepz~

Haiz i definetly will miss my Home Singapore, Family & friends.....

Posted at 3:27 pm From Brunei

2010-03-27T01:57:00.006+08:00

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Had a lot of fun on Friday as i met up with a couple of great friends Alan, Ayu, Edwin, Le Xiang, Yi Siong, Tze Kwang & Tuck Whye. We had supper at Mcdonalds and slack awhile. It was fun chatting and joking around. It's been quite a while since we sat and just talk. After that we went around trying to snap a group photo haha it was hilarious. Once we were done Alan invited us to his house to play some card games and to slack around. We played Saboteur and it was really fun haha! Losers had to knock it down and do 10 push ups haha! The most fun part was definetly the old school card games which was Old Maid & Happy Family! I was the big loser for both of this game as i didn't manage to get a complete family for Happy Family & i became the old maid twice haha! Sneaky and frustrating game indeed lol but I really enjoyed myself. All of us were laughing and really having a great time. We played till it was about 5am in the morning haha! Before going off we try to snap a group photo again and after so many attempts we finally got a perfect one haha! I will definetly miss this moments.

Well looks like today is my last night in Singapore. Will be flying off later at about 12.30am. I will definetly miss all the great moments i had when i was on leave last week. Simple things like watching tv in the living room with my family. Joking around and disturbing my siblings haha. Enjoying my mum's cooking. Sleeping on my comfy bed. Walking at night in Orchard Road. Meeting up with friends for supper. Slacking & shopping around in Singapore. I will definetly miss all this especially my family & friends.

9 months or more i will be living in Brunei. A new place and environment for me and not to mention new role, people and friends. First time being independant & living in a new place. I hope that it won't be that bad and i will be able to adapt to the new changes. Im pretty scared but at the same time im kinda excited as i do not know what to expect but what ever it is I will just deal with it and go with the flow. I will just do my best:). Well before i end this post i would like to thank everyone for all of their well wishes! I will see you guys maybe next year haha but i will definetly make an attempt to continue blogging and also to update my facebook whenever i have the time. Wish me luck~

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Posted At 1.57 am

2010-03-13T23:52:00.004+08:00

I apologised for the lack of updates as i was busy & mostly due to the lost of my blogging bug. But i update my facebook regularly so if you wanna know the latest happening you can always check it out there. I don't really have the mood to blog nowadays as you all know my desktop was down & i have lost all my graphic design tools. But I guess im kinda gotten over it by now as life still goes on so no point crying over spill milk.

Lots have happened for the past few weeks & the most recent event was me extracting 4 of my wisdom tooth. Yup all 4 at once and thankfully everything went smoothly. It was pretty scary but it was a great experience getting to know how it's like being put to sleep. Currently im on 8 days mc and today's the 6th day. Till now im still on recovery but it still hurts and worst part is that i ran out of painkillers. I just can't wait to recover fully & munch on normal food! I really envy people eating burgers and biting a piece of chicken meat! Damn can't wait for that! So you guys should count yourself lucky for being able to eat normally. Now i've learnt to appreciate my teeth even more. Life will definetly not be meaningful if you can't eat good food haha. I also took some photos of the extracted tooth and uploaded it on facebook for memories haha.

Well the main entry for today post is about my Passing Out Parade in Sispec on 5th March 2010. Finally im a 3rd Sergeant and i pass out as a Military Policemen. The experience in Military Police Training School has been great though there were good and bad days but overall it was a memorable one indeed. Met with great new people & friends. Though they are some rotten ones but i won't bother about those haha. I will definetly miss the time i had over there all the fun and tiring training. Congratulations to us all for making it through! The 8 days of combine arms in Sispec was great too and it was pretty stressful for me as i was the syndicate IC. It was pretty challenging but fun as well. Met with new and old friends. It was nice catching up with my old mates and i definetly miss hanging out with them. Overall the experience in Sispec was great as we get to know each other formation and the things that they have to go through.

Now im left with waiting for the official date to fly off to Brunei as you guys know that im posted that for about 9 months or more. I manage to meet up with most of my friends but there are still more which i have not yet able to meet. Well hopefully i still got time. I will definetly miss my family and friends but oh well im sure time will pass pretty fast and before i know it im back in Singapore and ORD loh haha! Ok guess i will stop here for now and end the post with my belated pop photos:).

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Posted At 11.52 pm

2010-02-13T01:01:00.001+08:00

Today i had to wake up really early as i need to make a new passport as mine's already expired and also i had a dental appointment. Thankfully the que at ICA wasn't long as it was a Chinese New Year Eve. Once done i headed down to Alexandra Hospital for my dental. Sadly as much as i tried convincing the dentist to not remove my wisdom tooth but in the end i still have to remove all 4. Oh well i know it's good to remove but im really not a fan of dental surgery especially when it comes to the wisdom as it will freaking hurt! Even if they are putting me to sleep while doing the surgery but still the aftermath will definetly suck big time. After that i ate KFC with my family followed by some shopping.

Night time me & my sis decided to catch a movie. We watched the show "Valentine's Day". It's a romantic movie and I enjoyed myself as it's hilarious and nice. There's a lot of huge stars in the movie as well.

As for yesterday, I apologise to my friends for not replying to the calls or sms as i kinda lose it big time. Thanks to my dad, my computer crash and it just won't load. My uncle came to check it out and he himself wasn't sure on what was the cause of the problem. All my stuff is inside my computer and i didn't made a backup as i just reformatted my laptop. All my photoshop brushes, fonts, design tools, filters and patterns are all gone! Not to mention my army work, photos and my graphic design! Haiz Im really piss with my dad as everytime he uses the computer there's always bound to have some problems. Instead of apologising, he still can argue and he even blame me for not keeping a backup! Well hello, like i have the time to do all this as i only get to go back on the weekends and sometimes i have to do my army work. I swear i can go crazy as i already organised the files neatly and all my awesome programs are inside there as well. Now it's all freaking gone & im unable to find all my photoshop stuff anymore:(. Now it's been sent for repair and i hope they will be able to retrieve my stuff if not im really screwed. Haiz just my luck! First i need to pluck out all 4 wisdom tooth and now my treasured stuff from my computer is gone. Oh well the only thing i can do now is to pray for the best and remain positive even if it's impossible=/.

Anyway i would like to wish everyone a "Happy Chinese New Year" & "Happy Valentine's Day".

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Valentine's Day Card
(Here's a story which i wanna share with you guys.)

A year ago today, I had lunch with my boyfriend and took the opportunity to complain to him.

"Today is Valentine's Day. Why didn't you give me any flowers?" He raised his eyebrow.

"Why should I give you flowers? You are not my anyone."

"Then.. you should at least give me a card!" I pouted my lips, hurt by his tone.

"I know, I know. After lunch, I'll send you an e-card."

"E-card??" That sounds so impersonal, but that's the way he is.

"You have to e-mail it to me. I'll be waiting."

I excitedly smiled and planned to sneak home after lunch to check e-mail.

Even though he wouldn't use any romantic words, I still looked forward to the card.

"I'm going back to work. Hurry and send me the card!"

As soon as I walked in my door, I turned on my computer and got online. Staring at the empty inbox, I began to reminisce about how we met. Maybe no one will believe me, but my boyfriend and I were actually neighbors. Our homes were only 1 wall away. Ever since we were kids, we liked to fight with each other all day long. We were only neighbors. At that time, I hated my parents for making us live next to him. At that time, I had a crush on a senior. After a while, I found out that the senior student had lots of girlfriends. When I cried about it, he silently passed me a handkerchief and awkwardly held me in his arms.

"I told you he wasn't any good." He roughly comforted me.

I cried in his arms the whole night, and began to see him in a different way. Things began to change between us. We still fought all the time, but he started to look at me differently. And I blushed and my heart beat faster when he was near. We both knew: we fell in love with each other.

Even with this knowledge, neither of us said anything. Even though we would not be able to resist and kissed each other constantly.

Even though we cared about each other's every moves. Both of us refused to admit our love. Alright, we became lovers, but we still wouldn't say we loved each other. We didn't even spend Valentine's Day together until he saw me share dinner with a man one Valentine's Day. That night, he waited for me in front of my door and said that he would take me out to dinner on Valentine's Day from then on. I have to say that he was very arrogant. But I nodded and accepted his request. Since then, we spent every Valentine's Day together. On the surface, we may have left each other. But in reality, we were still together. We spent every Valentine's Day together but each year became more dreary than the next because he never told me he loved me even with all my hints.

Still facing the empty inbox, I suddenly grew very angry. He wouldn't say it and wouldn't send me a card. What did he mean? Who did he think I was? I called his cell phone.

"Hello." He picked up the phone.

"I didn't receive the card." I immediately showed my pleasure.

"You didn't receive it?" He seemed really busy.

"But I sent it." He was really busy but I didn't care.

"I didn't receive it. Send it again."

"Okay, I'll send you 100 times. Is that good enough??" He said with impatience. His tone further infuriated me. Is that how lovers speak to each other?

"Don't bother sending it to me. And you don't have to pick me up tonight. I'll eat dinner by myself."

"Don't be childish, ok? I'm really busy."

"I am childish!" I hung up the phone and tears rolled down my cheeks. Childish?? Why didn't he consider the situation?

We've gone out for so many years and spent countless Valentine's Day together. I never received any flowers nor cards from him. Now, I just want a little e-card. Is that too much to ask for?? I unplugged the phone from the wall and turned off my cell phone. I didn't want to hear his explanations.

After I returned to the hospital, I instructed the receptionist not to forward me any phone calls. I wanted to concentrate on work. Because there were so many emergencies today, I was sweating 1 hour later and forgot about our argument.

"Dr. Shu, please take a look at that patient." As I was collecting my equipment, the shrill sound of an ambulance sounded outside the ER. When I stepped out the door, the emergency medics hurriedly wheeled in a gurney.

"What happened to him?" I asked the 1st medic. Everyone else were trying to help put the patient on the gurney. He was covered with blood.

"Car accident." The medic replied.

"Very serious. He may die." I nodded and ran to the operating room with them.

When I arrived, the nurses told me that the man had already stopped breathing and also his heartbeat also stopped.

"Prepare for shock." I calmly instructed the nurses. Saving people is our duty. We can't and shouldn't lose our calm. But when I saw who laid on the operating table, I lost my calm. That person was my BOYFRIEND!

"NO..." I stood in shock. "NO!!!" I grabbed the paddles and continuously shocked his body. His body bounced up and down from the shocks. The scared nurses went to find another doctor, to tell him that I was crazy.

I didn't know if I was crazy or not. I just wanted to save my lover. Even though we fought all the time. Even though he never showed me his love.

I still wanted to save him. He still owed me a card. He couldn't die! I threw away the paddles and began to press on his heart. I pressed with all my strength, hoping it would revive him, but he didn't wake up. He didn't even say "It hurts". He just laid there with his eyes closed, punishing me with his silence.

Dr. Jian angrily pushed me away. By that time, I couldn't see clearly anymore. I cried. I wailed. I bowled until no sounds could come out of my mouth.

"It's too late, Dr. Shu. He's already dead. I'm sorry." Dr. Jian patted me on the shoulder. They knew each other and ate together once. I introduced them.

"He can't die." I shook my head. "He can't die!!" I struggled to run to him.

"Dr. SHU, control yourself!" Dr. Jian slapped me. "I understand what you're going through, but you're a doctor."

Yes, I'm a doctor, but I'm also a regular person. How can Dr. Jian understand how I feel? I've loved him for so many years that it's become a habit. How can I just throw away a habit? Besides, he still owed me a card.

"I want him to live! I want him to live!" I ran to him again and tried to knock the life back into his body.

"Take her away!"

That day, I lost my control and my professionalism. And that day happened to be Valentine's Day. Afterwards, I asked his co-workers why he left work early that day. They told me that after I hung up the phone, he tried to call me several times but couldn' reach me. Worried, he drove to the hospital to find me and got hit by a large truck on the way. When I heard this, I froze. My tantrum killed him. Just because of an unmailed card, he died. After that, I lost my privilege to be childish. Like an abandoned cat,I couldn't even cry anymore.

After his death, I couldn't cry anymore, regardless of how touching the plot or how tear-jerking the dialogue. They didn't affect me anymore. I turned on computer after a year later, even though I know no one will send me a mail, I still hoped that someone will remember me on this day. GOSH....I have.... 100 emails! Who would be bored enough to send me 100 junk mail? I was just about to delete them all when I received another mail, and this one said: "Because of system error, we could not send these until today. We apologize for the delay." The sender was my BOYFRIEND!!! I looked at the 1st mail. It showed the send date is last year's Valentine's Day. My heart began to beat fast. Could he have sent these? With a trembling hand, I opened the mail.

The first thing that popped up was a gorgeous red rose set against green leaves. Then a beautiful melody began to play...."Only Love". I couldn't believe it. The rose was so beautiful and the music was so dreamy. I almost thought I was in a? fantasy.

Most touching of all were the words underneath the rose, because the words read like a beautiful poem. "Only love can make a memory. Only love can make a moment last. You were there and all the world was young and all it's songs unsung and I remember you then when love was all, all you were living for, and how you gave that love to me...."

The lyrics of this song fits our love so closely. When he was alive,my world was so young. Every day, I could find a something different to fight with him about. But after he left, my life is only left with memories and coldness that will never go away. When I read these words, my tears unconsciously came, wetting the keyboard. I replied 100 times, and "Only Love" played 100 times.

In this cold Valentine's night, the line that's been broken for LAST ONE YEAR finally got RECONNECTED.

Posted At 1.01 am

2010-02-06T01:15:00.004+08:00

A big hello to everyone out there. I've been neglecting this blog of mine. The reason mainly is due to laziness and also in Military Police Training School we had to write a journal for every single day so i guess that's the main reason why i lost the mood to blog here as everything is already written in the book.

Life has been pretty ok so far. As usual there are good & bad days. Thank goodness as our main event Moonlight Marshal is over. It was definetly a whole new outfield experience for me. It wasn't easy especially commanding the men but overall i've learned a lot and also i was proud of myself as i never knew i could remember alot of stuff. Though i was kinda disappointed at certain missions as i made a couple of mistake but oh well i will take it as a lesson learnt. There were some burning issues and there are certain situations which i felt really mad but it's all over and all i wanna do is to just forget about it. Even though certain people pisses me off but i was really touch with my men for what they did when i got a earful. So much has happened but it's all coming to & end soon as im left with 2 more weeks in Military Police Training School and after that we will be going back to Sispec for 8 days of our combine arms and pass out there and finally get my sergeant rank. Im really excited about that as i will be meeting with my old sispec friends. All the other vocations will be there as well to pass out together and one thing cool for us is that we will be the only one's wearing the MP uniform:). There is always politics and conflicts in wherever we go and i feel that there's alot of that happening in MPTS compared to my BMT & Sispec days. Oh well there's nothing much that i can do but it doesn't matter as it's all coming to and end soon. I will just continue to enjoy with my close cliques before all of us go to our separate ways. Haiz sometimes it's hard as i have to keep parting with all the great people that i met from BMT, Sispec & now MPTS.

Well for the posting, i decided to be posted to Brunei for almost a year. Friends question me on why the hell would i wanna be posted there as the place is boring. Well i do agree but i felt that i wanna experience what it's like living & working in another country and also it's the first time i'm gonna live on my own and to be independent. The place that im going is also peaceful too so it's a good time for me to destress and relax myself from the hectic life in Singapore. But to be honest, i really can't bear to leave as my Family, friends, home & life will always be here. I'll definetly miss my life in Singapore. I just receive a bad news as those that will be posted to Brunei have to pluck out all our wisdom tooth. I went for the x-ray and crap i have to remove 3!! What a nightmare as i really fear of dentist. Haiz imagine removing all at once! Oh well i don't have a choice and this is something i have to sacrifice:(. But before i go, im gonna try to make an attempt to meet up with all my friends:). All i wish now is that things in Brunei will be better and smooth.

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Posted At 1.15 am

2010-01-09T18:00:00.001+08:00

Glass Of Milk

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.

He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house.. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.

Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water! . She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it so slowly, and then asked, How much do I owe you?"

You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness."

He said .. "Then I thank you from my heart."

As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit.

Many year's later that same young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease .

Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes.

Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room.

Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once.

He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. >From that day he gave special attention to her case.

After a long struggle, the battle was won.

Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She read these words ..

"Paid in full with one glass of milk"

(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly.

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You,
God, that Your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands."

There's a saying which goes something like this: Bread cast on the waters comes back to you. The good deed you do today may benefit you or someone you love at the least expected time. If you never see the deed again at least you will have made the world a better place - And, after all, isn't that what life is all about?

Posted At 6.00 pm

2010-01-03T00:10:00.001+08:00

Well im back from the silence. I have been too lazy to blog lately and i guess i kinda neglected this blog. Look how time flies now and time to welcome the year 2010 and say goodbye to 2009. Lots have happened in 2009 and the most memorable one would be me being able to graduate from Nanyang Polytechnic and obtaining a Diploma certificate. It's something that i finally got to achieved. Next would definetly be enlisting to the army. I have experienced so much, gain new stuff and do things which i never thought i would do. I guess words just won't be enough to describe the experience i have been through. Met lots of great friends along the way from Bmt, Sispec and currently in MPTS. Though things weren't smooth all the way but i guess that's just life as there's always bound to have problems so we just have to face it and find ways to solve it.

Well there were more great stuff that happened in the year 2009 but i guess i can't recall them all unless i read all the past post that i wrote on that year but one thing's for sure is that every year there's something which i learned and gained new experience. Though there were high's and low's but it's ok as it made me a better and stronger person.

For the year 2010, i just hope that it will be a start of a new happiness and lesser burden's. Though i did not find love on the year 2009 but it's alright as im sure someday well hopefully i would find the one. For now i will just continue to enjoy my singlehood haha. Well my resolution for this year is to continue to stay fit, try not to be so emo which is kinda hard to do as i fail to do that every year, complete my driving licence, less procrastinating, smooth journey in MP and just continue to stay happy even when it's hard. Who knows, i might just pick up a new thing to learn as for now i will just let time tell and decide my fate:). Anyong-hi jumushipshiyo(Good Night)!

Posted At 12.10 am

2009-11-29T17:40:00.006+08:00

First of all i would like to wish Me, Le Xiang, Tze Kwang & Hai Kuan a Happy 22nd Birthday! These people has the same birthday as me haha! May all our wishes & dreams come true!

Celebrated my 22nd birthday with my good friends yesterday. We also celebrated with the other Nov babies as well:). Had an awesome time with them fill with non-stop laughing and camwhoring haha. First we had dinner at Fish & Co. We had a scrumptous feast and i ate till i was freaking full haha. Once we were done we had a shocking surprise as the Nov babies were force to wear a pink bunny ear haha! We were also surprised by a delicious birthday cake and the people at Fish & Co sang a birthday song for us. Everyone was looking at the Nov babies as we were like the center of attraction all thanks to the pink bunny ears haha!

After dinner, some had to leave and halfway through Alan & Michelle join us. We went to Timbre first to drink & chill. The singer even sang the birthday guy's a birthday song haha. Once we were done we head down to NANA but me, Alan & Le Xiang don't really like the place as i don't really like the music there and the place feel's like it's some kind of a China slut area haha so we decided to head home first.

Overall i enjoyed myself to the fullest. Had an awesome freaking time joking & having fun. It was a nice meet up as we haven't seen each other for quite a long time now. From Secondary 1 till now and still counting. Wanna thank them for the wonderful surprise and all the effort they made for the birthday celebration. Definetly a memorable day indeed:).

People that were there: Me, Ayu, Anna Moscha, Asyikin, Carolyn, Michelle, Johnny, Edwin, Daniel, Alan, Tuck Whye, Tze Kwang, Yi Siong, Le Xiang & Darbakh.

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Posted At 5.40 pm

2009-11-27T11:47:00.001+08:00

First week of the training in Military Police Training School has ended. 12 more weeks to go. So far the life there is different from Sispec. The discipline is really high and it's really strict. We really have to uphold the discipline and all i can say is that i really miss the freedom in Sispec. In Sispec we can do what we want and there's no one to really do the checking. In MPTC, there's area cleaning inspection daily and there's lots of rules to follow. There's only 30 MP specs that were chosen & i'm the only malay. On the first day many got separated as not all were chosen to be MP specs. The rest was posted to some other place. So i guess we were the lucky one's as they say that they chose the best of the best as we were so call whiter than white haha! But i kinda feel inferior as majority are silver's & gold's in their IPPT and me and a couple of people are just those with passes=/. If not for my chin up, i can get a bloody damn silver by now. Guess i have to work really hard as majority are so fit.

So far all we did was lecture's and some practical lesson. There are load's to learn and i guess the most crucial would be the Military Law which will begin soon. Well they say that Military Police is slack but im not sure about that though as the PT there will be tough. Well will see how it goes hopefully im able to pass the course and wear that MP No. 3 uniform with a 3SG rank. For now im gonna enjoy my 4 off days:D. 2 more days and i will be 22! Damn im getting old haha=|.

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Posted At 11.47 am

2009-11-22T01:19:00.000+08:00

Celebrated Kai Fen & Audrey Birthday today. I would like to wish the both of them a very Happy Birthday! May all your wishes & dreams come true. May happiness & good health be with you always. We met at town first to shop at ION. I was late as i kinda overslept haha. Once we were done we head to Vivo to have our celebration there.

After lunch we head to the Arcade to shoot some hoops and a couple of games. I even played the stupid dancing game haha all thanks to Miss Audrey! Had a great time today! Fun time joking & chatting as we haven't seen each other for quite a long time so we had lots to catch up.

Posted At 1.19 am

2009-11-21T00:07:00.001+08:00

Went clubbing with a couple of friends on Friday. There were about 9 of us. We decided to celebrate our completion of our BSLC course at Phuture. Had an awesome time and i was pretty lucky that night as me and Elias got to see Denise Keller(MTV VJ) in person and damn she's freaking hot! My face was like a kangaroo got shine by the spotlight haha. I was pretty lucky too at the dancefloor as me and Wei Hao got to dance and we grind with this hot brunette Eurasian together with her blonde friend. She was all over me haha! After that i also had the chance to dance with this hot chinese babe as well. She was grinding me haha! We dance non-stop till it was 4am. Had loads of fun!

Posted At 12.00 am

2009-11-14T11:14:00.003+08:00

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Yesterday was the day i officially graduated from my Basic Section Leader Course. We had a simple parade & the hilarious part was that when we were about to sing the Sispec song there was a sudden huge downpour and instead of running for shelter we had to continue singing. We were the first batch to experience such luck during our graduation parade haha. Like they always say the show must go on.

After the parade, we slack & sleep as we were waiting for our posting. We waited for so long till we were sick of sleeping haha. After a couple of hours, finally it was our turn to find out what our posting were. Everyone was freaking nervous but excited at the same time as all of us were dying to know which unit we have been posted too. Majority from my platoon got into Civil Engineering, Field Engineering & the most common one which seldom people wanna go is Advance Section Leader Course(ASLC). Some got into Military Intelligence, Signal, PTI course, Armour Infantry, Guards Recce Spec & Military Police. They informed us the minority unit first and i was freaking shock when they said that i got into Military Police! I have been wanting to go there and i can't believe that it came true! It's a rare chance to get posted there as only 2 from each platoon only got the chance to got there. Me and Qinglong who got into MP as well jump and scream like nobody's business haha! But i was sad though as i was hoping that my 2 other friends who went to the MP interview would get into MP as well as we were planning to be in MP together. Oh well it's not our call to make but i wish them the very best in their new unit.

Thank god i finally was able to pass out as i almost had to recourse for another 5 weeks due to my ippt. We been through a lot and i have experience so much. It's not that easy being a specialist. Now we will be separating again. Everyone is going to their new unit. Guess im gonna miss all the fun time we had during training & in the bunk. First we got separated from Quebec & now Charlie. Life still goes on and i wanna thank each and everyone you guys for all the help you have given. I wish all the very best in our new unit! =D

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Posted At 11.14 am

2009-10-25T15:23:00.001+08:00

Here are some of the Journal's that i wrote during my spare time in camp:
(Part 2)

22/10/2009 (Gypsy)

Today is the day where we finally had our Gypsy navigation in Mandai Jungle. We didn't really know what to expect but hearing from our Encik's, it seems like it's not gonna be easy & it turn out to be true.

When we got there, we were brief & once everthing was settled they deploy us to our first checkpoint. The terrain there was quite alright except for the freaking sharp torns & the muddy grounds. We had problems finding the first checkpoint as we were suppose to find "Moon" but we end up finding OCS "Moon" instead. We tried looking around but we didn't manage to find it so we decided to head back & check with the instructor's. They told us that the checkpoint that we found was wrong so we decided to search for it again. One thing great about our team was that we had a strong fighting spirit. We are not gonna give up that easily.

After walking & searching for hours, finally we found our first checkpoint. The feeling was awesome & our confidence level grew. We head back to report to the instructor's & took a couple of minutes of break.

For the next checkpoint, we didn't had much luck. We stick to the plan that we felt was the best but after walking through tough terrain's we end up getting lost. Everyone was trying to locate where we were but sadly we didn't know where we are right now. So we took a deep breath & discuss on what's our next plan now. After a while we got a message from the signal set informing us to cut the exercise & head back to the endpoint. Before departing, we met up with our other section mates who was in another team. So we set our compass to North & head all the way to the endpoint.

After bashing & walking for quite a long time, we finally reach the endpoint. Even though we didn't manage to complete all the day checkpoint's, i was glad that we put in effort & did the very best that we could.

Soon it was nightfall & it was time for the night checkpoint. I was kinda worried as the daytime was already tough & now imagine doing it in the night when the visibility is low. But i guess we are not gonna give up without putting up a fight first so we continued with what we have planned. It was really hard walking through the vegetation as it was dark. We even had to walk through a difficult log to cross over the swamp & after being able to cross it, we got stuck as we couldn't continue walking as the place is block with with very thick trees and bushes. We reach a dead end so we had no choice but to back track. Damn, now we had to cross the difficult log again & this time i slip & fell with my butt hitting the bloody log. It was hard balancing as my boots were slippery & the signal set that i was carrying was heavy. Thankfully there wasn't any serious injuries haha. So we continued & decided to go with our plan b which is walking along the side of the tracks and head to our checkpoint as ours was pretty near to one of the tracks according to the map. We walk & walk till it was almost time to the exercise cut timing. So we decided to take a few minutes of break & we found this beautiful place to catch a breather. We did some replanning & one of our team mmembers felt that the checkpoint was quite near to the spot where we took a break so we decided to give it a shot. We walk & bash through the vegetation's but sadly we came to a dead end as there was no way we can continue walking due to the thick vegeatation's. So we decided to head back to the end point. It was a long way back & after walking like forever, we finally reached the place & thankfully we didn't got lost.

It was really hard to navigate this time but it was a good experience. We learnt our mistakes & hopefully we will have better luck on the next navigation which is Wanderer where this time it will be at Tekong Island. Hopefully we won't get lost there haha.

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20/10/2009

Today we had the gas chamber confidence course. We got to experience staying in a room covered with tear gas & we were gear up with the suit & gas mask.

When we first got in, they made us do 5bx inside the room, we did some changing of filter drills & lastly we had to take off the mask. That was when the bad part began. Our whole face has this burning sensation feeling & when they made us open our eyes & say out our NRIC/name that was when it got even worser. The gas got into our throat & it causes us to have this choking feeling & our eyes hurt as well.

Once we were out, everyone tears & mucus came rushing down. After a few minutes the effect began to slowly worn off. It was definetly an experience imagine with only just tear gas, the feeling is pretty unbearable. I guess the actual harmful gases will definetly be more painful & horrible.

After we were done with the exercise, we got our Night's Out:D. Me & some of my section mates decided to head down to Jurong Point to have dinner & catch a movie. We ate at Thai Express & watch "Imagine That". Though the outing was short but i did enjoy myself. Overall it was a good day & thankfully everything went smoothly.

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14/10/2009

Today we had to navigate again but this time we had to use the map, compass & plan our Navigation Data Sheet. We will be doing in Section level but too bad our section had to split up & join other sections.

In the beginning, the navigating was alright but going up the slopes was kinda hard & the place was surrounded with so many mosquitos. Once we reach our first check point we had to pause as it was raining heavily.

Finally after a long wait the rain had slowered down so we continued on with the navigation. Now the additional problem that we're facing is the wet slippery ground. It was pretty tiring going up & down the slopes & we had to be extra careful. Navigating in the rain is really a hassle but thankfully the section that i was with didn't gave up & did their very best to overcome the challenges that we face.

Finally we reach the end point. We had dinner & waited for nightfall as we had to do the night navigating as well. Night time came & we continued with the navigating. It's really hard to see our surroundings due to the darkness & we had to climb difficult slopes but this time i felt that we improved compared to the day navigation & everyone moral was high. There was teamwork as well & finally we reach the top. Our instructor brought us to a place where there was a breathtaking view.

What a tiring day it has been but it was a experience one can't forget & overall i really enjoyed myself.

Posted At 3.23 pm

2009-10-24T01:25:00.003+08:00

Here are some of the Journal's that i wrote during my spare time in camp:
(Part 1)

13/10/2009 (Compass Course)

Today we had the Compass Course lesson. First we learned on how to use the pacer. Finally i know on how to use it while ealking. Once we were done, we march to the next location where we will be going inside a jungle & use the compass to find our way to the location's that we were given. Also we will be doing it individually so i guess this a good time to trust our own instinct & built our confidence on navigating.

So first we started with the day navigating. We were given 4 location's to go to. It wasn't that easy as the jungle area is full of high & down slopes so it was pretty tiring climbing up & down. My first attempt on the first station was a failure as i made a mistake so i had to go back & navigate again. Thankfully the second station i got it right:). I finally got a hang of it & learned my mistake. It was fun but tiring at the same time. Once the day training was over, we took a break & ate dinner while waiting for nightfall as we had one more to go which is the night navigating.

This time for night navigating we had to navigate in the dark using the compass. It was pretty tough as it was difficult finding my way due to poor visibility as it was dark & the fogs on my spectacles. I had to be really careful not to walk on holes or fall over slopes. But thankfully i found my way but i drifted my station by 1.

Overall the experience today was fun & i really enjoyed myself. Though it was tiring but being able to find your way in the night is definetly a good feeling:).

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05/10/2009 (First Field Camp In Sispec)

Last Monday was our first field camp in Sispec. I remembered my very first field camp during my BMT days where it was really a challenged not only physicaly but mentally as well. But this time we heard from the seniors that it was better than the BMT field camp.

On the first day, it was pretty hectic & rushing as we kept receiving different information on what to bring for the field camp. I guess next time we should be more prepared and organized. After all the madness finallt it's time to move off to the field camp site. Instead of taking the tonner they actually provided a bus to take us there. I guess the welfare here is better than Tekong haha.

Once we got there, we were brief on the stuff that we had to do for the day. Night time was awesome as we get to experience setting up a real live tripflare & seeing it in action.

The first night was bad as we were sleeping cowboy style without any shelter & unlucky for us it was raining heavily in the middle of the night. We had to quickly pack up & rush to the training shelter.

For the rest of the following days, we did a lot of fire movements. There was lots to learn & the most challenging part was the jungle terrain. The bushes were so thick & there was so many sharp torns not to mention the place was full of insects. I felt that it was worser than Tekong jungle. It was really tiring & we were pretty unlucky as it was a rainy season. It kept raining & our area is always wet & muddy. We really had little rest as it was always raining in the middle of the night & we always have to rush back to the training shelter. Our sleep always got distrupted all thanks to the weather but i guess it was a good experience as even though it was tough, i did enjoy myself & it's nice to experience different kind of stuff in life.

Overall this field camp i felt that it was even more tough & tiring compared to Tekong. The terrain was horrible & so is the weather. Pronning in torns, mud's, thick bushes, bashing through tall bushes & sleeping in a wet area is something one wouldn't want to go through but i guess it's good for us though as it made us to be a more better & braver soldier. It make us appreciate life even more and not take things for granted.

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29/09/2009

Today we had the normal routine such as lecture's & PT exercises. But in the afternoon, we get to experience something new which was shooting of the SAW weapon. Finally we got to use the weapon & experience the feeling of it's recoil & the automatic function. We also learn & got to try aiming using it's so call "scope".

So first was the day shoot. We got to try the 100m & 300m range. Personally i prefer using this weapon as i find it easy to aim. It was really fun experiencing the automatic bullets shooting out more than once. The recoil was good as it wasn't that strong.

After we were done with the day shoot, we took a brak & waited for nightfall as we will be having the night shoot as well. We began quite late as there was a delay & we wasn't fast & efficient so that affected the actual time plan. So once everything was settled, we began the night shoot. The night shoot was a bit different as this time we only need to shoot 50m & 100m. For the 50m we will be using the LAD light & we had to adopt the standing position. The night shoot was pretty tough for me as i had a hard time aiming as i couldn't see the scope due to the darkness. For the 50m's, it was a standing position & taking aim using the LAD light. I didn't even hit a single target as it was hard to control the weapon as the recoil causes the weapon to move.

So once everyone has completed, we went to pick up the RAI's, did our declaration, pack up & we march back to the company line. We had some difficulties in the company line as we had to sent weapons, clean 10 rifles that we borrowed from another company, distribute the night snack's & we had time constraint as it was already late as it was about to reach our light's off timing. So everyone was rushing & thankfully we manage to bath and sleep by 12am. We learned that if everyone do their part, if there is efficiency & teamwork we could have ended even more early. So i guess we still have lot's to learn. But overall it was an enjoyable day & i had a lot of fun shooting using the SAW weapon:).

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28/09/2009

Today was the first time we had SOC in Sispec. SOC is a lesson which almost everyone hates as it's not that easy to pass. So when we got there, they brief & taught us again on how to clear the station's & the correct method on how to clear it safely. I didn't had problems with the other station except for the rope station as i still have problem clearing it since in BMT. Our Encik observe & gave up tips but i still couldn't clear it. I tried 5-6 times but i still failed. But im not gonna give up & i will definetly try again on the next SOC.

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24/09/2009

Today we had our first IPPT in Sispec. IPPT is always the event that i hate the most as now we have to at least get silver to be safe from RT on Saturday's. I'm still having problems with my chin-up. So i guess i will be a RT regular=/.

IPPT test was supposed to begin in the morning but due to the heavy rain it was postponed to the evening so we had some other lesson instead. In the afternoon, we had two other test and lecture's. It's about tripflare & claymore mines. We had the theory lesson first and it was kinda tiring as there was quite a lot to memorize. But during the practical lesson, i had a lot of fun setting up the Claymore mine & i finally get the idea on how it works & how to set it up. Once the test was over, we move on to learning on how to set up the Tripflare. I wasn't really confident at first but after practicing it wasn't that difficult afterall.

Once we were done with the test, we rushed back to prepare for IPPT. I was quite disappointed with the result as i couldn't pass my Chin-up. I guess it was my fault for not training during my block leave. But im not gonna give up & do my best for the next test.

After out IPPT, we had to go back to our bunk and change to admin attire. We had to fall in asap for our dinner but everyone was kinda slow so our Sergeant Major gave us our very first "Knock It Down" punishment in Sispec. During dinner we got another scolding as everyone was too noisy. I guess everyone should try to cooperate as even after getting scolded, there are still people talking and making so much noise. I hope that this will be the last as i have a bad feeling that we will get more harsher punishment if this continues=/.

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25/04/2009

Today was a tiring day as we had to learn 3 new weapons & other devices for the whole day. First was the SAW weapon. We had to learn on loading & unloading of the weapon, stripping and assembling it & IA drills. There will be a test on all of them & we have to do it within the timing that they gave. Thankfully i pass the test & didn't had to redo it.

Next was the Metador weapon. Before that we had to learn on how to use the GPS device & tested on it as well. I made a careless mitake & becasue of that i didn't get any reading from the system. The instructor taught me and i have realised my mistake. It wasn't that difficult afterall. Once we were done, we continued with the Metador lesson. As usual we learn on how to operate the weapon, loading & unloading & what to do when encountering IA.

Finally it was the last lesson which was the M203. I was feeling really tired by then but i tried my best to stay awake & pay attention to the lesson as it was important. Thankfully during the test I didn't made any major mistakes. Overall i had a fun day learning about the 3 different types of weapon.

Posted At 2.00 am

2009-10-18T16:26:00.005+08:00

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Some overdue graphics i made last month. Life in Army has been hectic lately. Will update when i have the time on my next book out.

Posted At 4.26 pm

2009-09-20T00:52:00.003+08:00

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Will be going to my new posting tomorrow. Wish me luck guys! SISPEC here i come!

Reposted on 21st September 2009

2009-09-18T21:21:00.003+08:00

BBQ Chalet with Army Mates:

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On the 15th-17th September had a bbq chalet with some of my army mates. I came on the second day. Had a great time & got taken advantage of lol!. The most touching part was during the night walk due to some stuff. Overall i had a blast & im definetly gonna miss you guys:).

We got our posting results & surprisingly i got into Sispec considering i failed my IPPT=/. Im kinda worried & scared but hopefully i will be able to go through it. Thanks to my friends for all the encouragement and im just gonna do my best & just go with the flow. Huge congrats to those that got into OCS(Officer Cadet School). It's really cool seeing so many people in our platoon going to OCS & Sispec. Good job guys! All the best to the rest with their new posting & i hope we will make it through:). I really hope things will run smoothly all the way for all of us till we ORD.

Tomorrow is the last day of fasting and Sunday is Hari Raya. Look how time flies. Well i don't really care about Hari Raya anymore but for the sake of my parents & grandma im going to celebrate it haha. Too bad i only get to enjoy on the first day as i have to report to my new posting on Tuesday. Haha im not going to care about Army for now, i just can't wait to eat all my favourite dishes on Hari Raya! Eating lots of fattening food, sweet goodies & soft drinks is definetly gonna make me more unfit haha=/.

Posted At 9.21 pm

2009-09-15T01:59:00.001+08:00

Celebrated Farhana's birthday on the 12th Of September 2009. We had dinner at Bugis Seoul Garden as it was the birthday girl favourite place. Me & Ayu decided to throw a special surprise by inviting some of our long lost secondary school mates though some couldn't make it but overall it was still awesome.

First we met at Bugis & i was late as i got held up at home as i had to do some stuff first luckily there was Azfar & Ayu to accompany the birthday girl. Once i was there we walk around at Bugis and halfway through we parted as Miss Ayu a.k.a as Carol on that day haha and Azfar had to do some stuff so me & the birthday girl shop around at Bugis Street & we chatted all the way till we went to some unknown place haha! But the place we went was a beauty so we decided to snap some pics haha. We continued walking & i had a good time chatting & walking around Bugis till both of our legs were tired haha. After that we met up with the 2 again & we parted again haha as we had so much to do. The Seoul Garden kept calling us regarding the tables that we book, the cake has not yet to be collected & the rest were still on their way. It was hard trying to plan with Ayu as the birthday girl was just beside me so end up i had to lie that i need to use the bathroom lol. But after all the madness, we finally manage to resolve the problem & came out with a plan & hell yeah we did it.

It wasn't easy but thankfully we manage to pull it off. We achieve our goal which is to get that shock, red & tears of joy look from the birthday girl haha. To see the video you can check out my facebook video page. Really had a blast as there was full of laughter, joking around and so much fun catching up with one another. Thanks guys for all your help if not confirm me & Ayu won't be able to pull off such a good surprise plan haha.

The dinner was great as we had so much fun. The hilarious part is definetly our old time secondary school joke haha. The place was like ours as we were so noisy & we took so many photos haha. I ate too much till i was freaking bloated but the champion was Miss Ayu as all the guys has already give up & after eating the cake all of us can't put anymore food in our mouth but she's still eating like nobody's business haha. Like what Azfar said don't know her stomach is made of what tank haha!

After dinner, birthday girl had to go so some send her home first while the rest of us headed to Cathay Cineleisure for a movie. Slack around at the parking lot as we were waiting for a parking space & after a while we finally got a spot. Decided to watch the the show "Gamer" but it was at 12am so we slack around and once the rest has arrived we headed to the arcade to kill time while waiting for the movie to start.

Once the movie was over we were thinking where to go next as our princess says that the night was still young haha so after much discussion we decided to slack & eat at East Coast Park but as were driving along they decided to change it to Marina Barrage haha. Ayu & Alan even practice their driving skills at the parking lot haha. So we chill, slack, chat & took a walk. It was nice and relaxing, the breeze was heavenly. Even met my army friend Richard over there as he was with some of his Night Cycling friends. After about 3am plus Chun Onn & Daniel had to go to Clarke Quay so the rest of us were kinda hungry so we decided to go to Jalan Kayu for supper/sahur haha. Ate quite a lot of kosong but the champion was Alan haha as he ate so much haha. After we were done we finally went home. I got home at 5am+ & i crash on my bed with my clothes on haha as i was already shag before the outing lol.

Overall the outing was great and all of us had so much fun. It's been 5 years since i meet with some of them. Though many couldn't make it but hopefully if there were to have another outing, more would be able to join. It was definetly a memorable day which i will definetly remember haha.

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Posted At 1.59 am

2009-09-12T14:28:00.005+08:00

9th September 2009(090909) was my POP(Passing Out Parade). Finally the day we rehearse for 3 days on the hot sun sweating like crazy has arrived and it was definetly a memorable day indeed. Before the parade, we had to wake up at 3.30am to get ready for our 24km road march! It's the most longest road march that we have ever been through so far and let's just say it wasn't that easy. It was tiring as the road was rough due to tons of huge rocks on the ground and going up the hill was tiring as well. The thing that help all of us through i guess was chatting & joking with one another haha. Finally upon seeing the parade area, everyone was so happy and tears of joy can be seen in our eyes as we finally made it and the road march is freaking over! My buddy did something touching that surprised me. The parade was really memorable and i really enjoyed myself & it's pretty embarassing performing in front of the audience haha.

It has been a memorable 3 months in Tekong and im gonna miss the life and especially the people there. Too many names to thank but I was glad that i got into a great Platoon and especially an awesome section. Made lots of great friends. Though there are some bad eggs but overall everyone was great. I would like to take this time to thank all the Sergeants for everything that they have done for us, my platoon/section mates for all of their help and especially to my buddy Mr Neo Wei Lun for everything that you have done. We been through so much together all the ups & down. I was lucky enough to get such a great buddy haha. Im definetly going to remember & treasure my bmtc life.

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Here's a video of us doing the infantry roar lol!

Video made by Lester:

Posted At 2.30 pm

2009-09-11T01:49:00.009+08:00

Short post....

Well today i went out with a couple of my army mates. Met up with Wayne, Richard & Hai Kuan. We went to Far East first as i was planning to get a birthday cake at Han's but it wasn't halal so we had to go to the National Library branch instead if we were to get the halal ones. So before going there we shop around and went to this place for some cake and light snack. The chocolate durian cake was the bomb haha. Once we were done we head down to Bugis to get my cake. Shop around Bugis street and after that me and Wayne was craving for Chendol as we saw someone eating on the television haha so we went to the Bugis Hawker Centre for some chendol. Went window shopping and there was lots to buy but i just wasn't in a shopping mood haha. After we were done we head down to IKEA as Richard wanna get some stool for his printer. Wanted to get some cactus but the ones that were left on the shelves look so dead so i decided not to get them. Hai Kuan was craving for some Laksa at Queenstown shopping centre so we headed there to satisfy his cravings. We shop around to the shopping centre and we parted off around 7 plus. Enjoyed my day with them today:)

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Night time, met up with Ayu, Edwin, Danial & Faris Bajuri at Civic Mac. We slack and chat around till it was almost 1am. Had a lot of fun joking and disturbing each other haha. Well im gonna go crash now as im so damn exhausted! The next post will be about my POP on (09/09/09)! Hopefully=/. I have POP LOH!

Posted At 2.05 am

2009-08-29T16:23:00.003+08:00

What a great week it has been as we got an extra book out day:D. As usual i took advantage of the whole situation by enjoying it to the fullest. Yesterday met up with Brandon, Max & Jughead at Bugis to shop for some stuff. Bought some accessories and once we were done i had to go to Lot 1 to collect my camera. After that met up with Anna & Ayu for dinner. It's been ages since we meet up. It was fun indeed chatting & joking around haha really enjoyed myself.

As for today, Im going to Geylang Serai with my family later to shop for my Hari Raya clothings and stuff. This time we will be going at night and finally after 2 years, i get to see the lights & decorations as im not a fan of going to Geylang due to the crowd and normally i would go in the afternoon. Im not sure what colors to get this time. I plan to maybe wear a black & red theme or maybe gray & light blue. Hmm will see what's available later. Alright i shall end this short post as im so sleepy now. Gonna crash now and wake up when it's time to break fast haha! Can't wait to eat as my dad is going to buy lots of great food to eat later:P. Yum Yum!

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Posted At 4.23 pm

2009-08-23T00:15:00.002+08:00

Fasting month is here & it will be different from the other years as i will be fasting in Army. It was challenging on the first day of fasting as we had strength training in the morning and in the afternoon i had Remedial training. The toughest was during Remedial Training as we had to train on the field and we were facing directly on the scorching sun. But thankfully i was able to handle it and not break my fast. I hope i could continue to fast & not break too much but seeing the activities that is line up for us for the upcoming week well let's just see how it goes haha.

2 more weeks to my Passing Out Parade(POP). Look how time flies and soon i will be posted out to some other place. We will be having our last IPPT this Tuesday and hopefully i can pass but i really doubt so as im still having problems with my sbj & chin ups! Before going into Army, i don't mind being a "MAN" but after going through army for 10 weeks now i suddenly felt like i wanna be a commander. I wanna be a Sergeant and help those that are physically weak like me. Oh well will see how it goes i will just let fate decide but hopefully i would get posted to Sispec. Im just gonna do my best & not give up.

I cancelled all my outings yesterday & today as im just so tired. Don't feel like going out at all. Im sorry guys for cancelling but i promise i will make an attempt to meet you guys some other day hopefully on my next book out:). So i end up resting and watching DVD's during my weekend. Finally i got a chance to touch my Photoshop and made a couple of graphics. Alright im gonna end here as i better crash early as i have to book in early tomorrow. First time getting a book in timing at 11.25am! Damn freaking early! Life of a recruit is so.....(-.-")

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Posted At 12.14 am

2009-08-15T14:24:00.007+08:00

SIT Test Experience.

Last week was our SIT test & im just glad that it's over. The SIT test is a 3 day outfield test conducted during BMT. It is a test that asseses your ability to lead and/or carry out tasks under stress or difficult situations. But before our mission, they would purposely make us shag as they wanna see whether we are still able to think even though we are tired. We will be working with other platoon mates to carry out a total of 12 missions. Each and everyone of us has a role to play. Throughout the SIT test there will be a instructor who is a reservist 1st LT officer from ABSD that will follow us to ensure order, safety and access us. There is also an interview with the accessor at the end of the first day of our mission. On the end of the second day there is a peer evaluation that allow us to grade our detail mates.

Again we had to go outfield and sleep in the jungle for 2 nights. The first day of the event, we had to march a total of 12km and it was different from our other road marches as this was the furthest & we had to wear our uniform. It was definetly tiring and challenging especially the weather as it was scorching hot that day but i was glad that i was able to pull it off. All of us were soaking wet with our sweats. Once we reach the camp site, we started pitching our basha tents. It was hard getting the alignment right as some were align too right and some too left. After we were done, we had dinner and off to dreamland. I couldn't really fall asleep as there was so much noise all thanks to the aeroplanes. I don't know why there was so many freaking planes flying at our camp site in the middle of the night! There was also a hilarious part that happen in the middle of the night. There was this friend of mine who was sleeping next to my basha tent. He was snoring like a wild boar and it scare the hell out of me as i thought that there was a wild boar walking beside my tent haha.

The next morning, we had to do the 4km fast march. Damn this is one hell of a march. We had to march freaking fast and all i can say is that every platoon did really bad. It wasn't easy as majority have not recovered from yesterday's fatigue and our platoon sergeant was moving so fast. For our platoon, only 3 including me were left following our platoon sergeant while the rest were all at the back. Once the never ending fast march was over, we had to endure a harsh punishment due to our bad performance during the fast march. We had to knock it down as usual. After all of the punishment was over, we had breakfast and waited for the instructors to arrive. All the missions aren't really real they are all just simulations.

Once they were here we were brief, group to our details & off to begin our mission. Our first mission was to cross everyone to a quick sand as the enemy is coming in a few minutes times. Second was crossing of a toxic waste land. Third was quite hard as we had to create a ladder to climb on top of a building and also transport a casualty. I was the leader for the fourth missions and we had to clear a mine field & half way through one of the members got "shot" so we had to carry him in a stretcher but unlucky us we had a bit of a problem with the stretcher as it kept opening up and the poor casualty had to drop down twice haha. The fifth was to cross a bridge using a wooden plane and we made a few mistakes resulting in having 2 casualties haha. The last mission of the day was to destroy a bridge and handling of the enemies. Im not able to blog every single details about the mission and all the solutions that we came up with as there's just too many to write out haha.

The Second day of the mission which was our last day of SIT test, in the morning we had our usual 5bx but it turn out to be another horrbile 5bx=/. After that we had another 2km fast march and thankfully it wasn't as bad as the day before. Once done we had breakfast and waited for the instructors again. As usual we had to complete the last 6 missions. The first mission was crossing amo boxes to the river. Second mission was to rescue a hostage from a building while the floor so call has an electric field and there were enemies at the other side. Third was to go down a cliff to rescue a casualty and lift him up with a stretcher and cross him to the other side of the wall. Fourth mission was to build a support so as to support a 3kg amo box. Fifth mission was to go up a building and trasfer down 2 casualties. For the last mission of the day we had to guard the area where the enemy is approaching and we had to carry a casualty using the ground sheet and damn it was really tiring.

Finally it's over. We pack up and back to our company. Once we got back i got appointed to be the next Platoon IC by our Platoon Sergeant! Damn more extra burden on my shoulders=/. I kept making mistakes with the ber-henti command and i need to work on my sedia haha. It's not easy being a IC as it can be hard sometimes getting the strength when some had to go to the medical centre and etc. Getting volunteers and aeroing people is also hard and it's hard to pleased everyone but oh well since i was appointed im gonna do my best and hopefully i won't screw up for the upcoming days.

Overall my SIT test experience is tiring but i really had fun during the missions as i was glad that i got into a good team as we had teamwork, communication and everyone had something to contribute. It was really a fun and good experience and it really thought us some leadership values which i believe that it will be useful in the future.

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Posted At 2.24 pm

2009-08-02T15:31:00.000+08:00

My Field Camp Journal.

On the 25th July 2009 was the start of my field camp. On the first day, we had to march to the camp site. It was an 8km march & even though we had marched before, I felt that this was a tiring one as our field pack felt much heavier. Nevertheless, it was fun as we were singing as a platoon and everyone was excited for field camp.

Once we got there, we started pitching our basha tent. I and my buddy had quite a hard time as the tent pins kept coming off because our ground area was muddy. Thankfully, after a couple of tries and with the help of our section mates, we were able to pitch our tent on time. Once done, we were told to candy wrap our field packs in case if there were any wild boars that tries to come and steal our food. After we were done, we were off to our first activity of the day which was our Urban Orbs Training. First, we learn about the movements. We also had to learn about handling certain situations like walking across danger areas, clearing rooms, walking pass a window, walking through corners & clearing room using a grenade. The training was fun but it was really tiring. Everyone felt so shag and weak due to the scorching hot sun and the exhaustion. Some of my platoon mates couldn’t take it anymore and many were suffering from dizziness & some were vomiting. It was really a challenge and I was glad that I was able to survive the hard day of training.

Night time was a challenge as well as we had to learn to adapt to the noise & lights discipline. It was hard walking around and finding our stuff in the dark. I also had to do guard duty even though I was really exhausted from the day training. So I carried out the patrolling duty. It was pretty scary walking around in the jungle area in the dark. But it was a fun experience indeed. Sleeping on the first night was tough as it was uncomfortable and painful as the ground was uneven and hard but after a while we got use to it.

The next day, we had the Urban Orbs test. It was quite challenging and fun at the same time. We had to do it in groups and it was hilarious seeing each other making silly mistakes. But it was really exciting as it feels like we were playing counter strike or like in a SWAT team during rescue missions and shooting the enemies.

The following day we had to wake up really early and pack our stuff as we were moving to the next camp site. As usual we will be marching there but this time it was better as we won’t be carrying our field pack because there will be tunnel to transport our stuff to the next camp site. Once we reached the next camp site, it was different than the previous one as we had a sea view and we will be camping at the top of the hills. This time we won’t be sleeping in a basha tent anymore but instead we will be digging a Shell Scribe. So once we had settled down, we began digging and it was really not easy as it seems as everyone was already tired. It took all of us the whole day but still many were unable to complete it on time including me. Night time we were told that we were the LP, OP post so that explains why we were separated from the rest. So we had to do the 1/3 look out and challenge those who tries to enter the area. Sleeping on the first night was pretty hard as it was uncomfortable as I didn’t really dig it to my height so I had to squeeze in the hole and the smell of the muddy ground was really a challenge as well. In the evening, we had a surprise from our PC. We had letters written by our families. Everyone was surprised and I was shocked that my family wrote one for me as well. Some were in tears including me as we had a hard and tiring day and seeing our family writing inspirational words made us all feel so touched and it was really a great feeling.

The next day we had our battle course training. It was fun and interesting for me as we had to do in groups and they taught us on how to handle the enemy. It was really fun taking down the enemy and planning out our moves. We had to learn how to cross the Y road as well. The following day was the actual thing and all I can say is that it was really exciting and even though we made a couple of mistakes, it was still really fun and enjoyable. It was really a once in a lifetime experience ever and it feels like we were really in a war and doing a mission trying to take down the enemy. After the battle course I had to rush to the MO as my eye had got swollen and turn really red due to the chemo cream. Sadly, I miss the night cooking as I was told that they got to cook Maggi. I also had to miss the Friday activity which was the BIC but I heard that I might need to do it with some other companies.

Well it doesn’t matter but overall the field camp experience was really something one won’t be able to forget. It was really a challenge and I am glad that I was able to survive it despite wanting to give up and I believe that it made me a better and stronger person. It’s something I will remember and keep with me.

Posted At 3.32 pm

2009-07-04T01:23:00.007+08:00

3 weeks of my army life has past & it definetly was a whole new experience for me. It's not something one would go through everyday. I remember the first week where i was still adjusting to the new life & it was kinda hard at first. Firstly was night time as I had a hard time falling asleep even though i was freaking exhausted as im not use to sleeping without a bolster. We also had to wake up at 5am and do some exercises in the morning. The freaking boots gave me so much blisters on my feet & it was freaking painful. There is more like learning all the do's & don't, commands, the marching moves, all the exercises moves & rifle handling etc.

I remember there was this day where they let us rest in our room quite early in the night & well let's just say there was a reason behind it. All of us were happily brushing our teeth & getting ready for bed & out of a sudden a fire drill alarm was sound. So everyone at 1st thought that it was a joke but fark it was freaking real. So everyone was like rushing to grab our helmet, first aid stuff, id tag, pails & the fire extinguishers. These are the stuff to bring everytime there's a fire drill & we have to shout "FIRE, FIRE!" all the way till we reach the ground floor. It was hilarious lol & our timing was horrible. Those that were showering came down with just a towel haha.

There was also a day where we were told to sleep at 8.30pm & everyone was like shock as damn why do we have to sleep so early. We had no choice as we have to obey the lights out time so everyone just went to bed. At around 3am they woke us up & told us to change to our uniform & we didn't even had the time to brush our teeth & wash our faces. To our surprise we had to march to the Ladang as we'll be having our Rifle Ceremony where we will be getting our Rifle's for the very first time. We had to shout "With this, i will defend my country" & we have to snatch it hard from our sergeant. Haha i kinda screw it up as uppon receivng my rifle, i went to the wrong place as i was suppose to line up at the front haha blur cock me.

There's still more like punishment & stuff but one thing good about the platoon that im in is that they are fun people especially the section that im in. There's teamwork & cooperation. There are times where one screw up or makes a mistake but we all learned from it. I feel that it change us not only our physical state but mentally as well. Some days the training can be so tough till everyone is damn shag & there are aches all over our body not to mention training on the bloody hot sun till everyone skin is getting darker & darker. Too bad we couldn't bring in our own food or mp3 but other than that life in Tekong is pretty alright. Everyone is looking forward to our Passing Out Parade(POP) & ours will be on 090909. We got a special cool date haha. 10 more weeks to go. Well i guess i will stop here even though i still have tons to write but i guess that's all im gonna write for now as im so sleepy right now. Have to book in tomorrow so im gonna go to sleep right now. Before i end this post, as promise from the previous post i will show you guys a horrible black & botak(bald) photo of me.

Huge different right? I look like a complete retard now:(. Oh ya i would like to wish Ruii Qii a.k.a monkey a Happy 18th Birthday!

Wishing you all the great things in life, hope this day will bring you an extra share of all that makes you happiest. May all the wishes and dreams you dream today turn to reality. May this day bring to you all things that make you smile and every passing year bring you wisdom, peace and cheer. Finally your officially legal haha.

Posted At 1.23 am

2009-06-30T11:44:00.002+08:00

Sunday 28th June 2009 was my first book out day. It has been a new whole load of experience for me. Every single day pack with strength, speed training, marching lessons, road march, swimming lessons & rifle handlings. All of us are always drench with our own sweat. There are days where it can get tiring but it's still fun & i do enjoy myself. There's just so much for me to write out but i don't really have the time as i need to pack my bag now as im booking in today later in the evening. But so far it has been good & hopefully it will continue to stay that way haha. I will post my new hairstyle on my next book out haha & im so not loving it. Miss my hair=/. Alright cya peepz! For more updates follow me on Twitter:).

Posted At 11.45 am

2009-06-14T21:58:00.003+08:00

Tomorrow is my enlistment date.
It's finally here!
Im off to the army tomorrow.
I won't be in the online world for a while.
You can still check out my updates by following my Twitter Updates at the right hand column.
I will update there even when im in the camp through the sms.
Wish me luck guys~
Tekong here i come=/

Posted At 10.06 pm

2009-06-13T03:38:00.002+08:00

It's a Saturday today & i had to cancel my outing plans all thanks to my back. I guess i strain it during my workout the day before. Crap i shouldn't have over done it & now i can't even bend down. Im going to the Army on Monday and hopefully by than it will be alright if not i wonder how am i going to survive the training with a backache.

Life has been good so far & im enjoying every single day of it. Been going out daily with different group of friends & if not i will slacking at my crib watching my favourite shows or playing games so that's probably while im not blogging much these days as im not online very often now. Well too bad this enlistment holiday is coming to an end for me but im glad i really made full use of it. Look how time flies & my enlistment date is in a day's time. Im pretty excited though & a little nervous as im not sure what to expect but i guess it will be fun & exciting haha. Finally done with the packing & im good to go. Since i am stuck at home today i took the time to play with my photoshop again:

Posted At 3.38 am

2009-06-09T05:56:00.001+08:00

It's 5.50am in the morning & instead of sleeping, here i am having my half-boiled eggs with hot peach tea and blogging all due to this random irritating thoughts on my mind. Well i guess it's cool though at least i get to have my favourite breakfast & i better enjoy this while i still can as after this week, i won't get to enjoy any of this as i will be enlisted to the Army & im pretty sure i won't get the chance to do this again.

I don't know why but for the past couple of days, im having a hard time falling asleep even though im exhausted as all this stupid random thoughts keep appearing in my mind. All this flashbacks of the past, present & future suddenly appeared. Im suddenly haunted by the past & a sudden worry for the future ahead for me. I even had strange dreams & it ended in me waking up in the middle of the nigh in cold sweat. I don't know maybe im being paranoid or maybe it's probably nothing. Oh well hopefully it won't happen tonight. Alright im gonna stop here & enjoy my breakfast and when im done i will try to get a shut eye or maybe go for a jog.

Posted At 5.50 am

2009-06-02T17:00:00.002+08:00

Made some graphics during my free time.

Posted At 5.03 pm

2009-05-31T23:14:00.003+08:00

Last Friday on the 29th May 2009 was my Graduation Ceremony. It was indeed a memorable & fun day. It's a once in a lifetime experience as it won't happen twice & it's not like everyday that we get to wear the ridiculous "Harry Potter Robe" haha. The worst part on that day is the freaking humid weather. I swear everyone is drenched with their sweats. I was in a mess as i was sweating like a pig haha. But it was still fun. I do feel sad leaving my Poly life but feeling glad at the same time as it has been one hell of a roller coaster ride full of stressful periods but i guess i have learned a lot & gain experience which i believe it somehow made me a better person. It wasn't easy juggling with schoolwork & working part-time at the same time. I was from a Normal Technical stream & a ITE background so it's kinda a disadvantage as i did not have a strong foundation & i really had a hard time coping and catching up with the rest as i was lacking back way too much. But thank god with patience, perseverance & friends guidance i was able to catch up. If you have been reading my blog from the past 3 years, i believe that you will come across post about school & all the stress i had to go through. But it's all over now & Im really thankful to all of my friends in Poly for all of their help. 3 years & i really thank god for pulling me through this journey. Alright enough of my crapping i will now let the pictures below do the talking.

Posted At 11.14 pm

2009-05-22T07:05:00.001+08:00

A lesson in life...

Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, if they be events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere.

If someone hurts you, betrays you , or breaks you heart, forgive them. For they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to who you open your heart to.

If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love and opening your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them.

Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again.

Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you either.

You can make of your life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go out and live it.

Posted At 7.05 am

2009-05-08T03:57:00.004+08:00

I did something unexpectable today which is cooking. Not instant noodles or frying an egg but a real decent meal for my family haha. I made Spaghetti today. Im surprise with myself today as i never cook before in my entire life and im not sure what made me somehow want to cook for my family today haha. It was tiring considering i slept only 2 hours the night before and i had to go to the supermarket in the morning. It was pretty easy but the only part that i hate is cutting the bloody onions. It seriously irritated my eyes but other than that everything was kool. I added some minced meat, mushrooms, green peppers & onions. I added some parmesan cheese for garnishing as well to make it more tasty.

The judges were my parents and i was glad that they love it. My dad even had 2 huge rounds haha. Success indeed:). At least now i prove my sister wrong haha.

Posted At 3.57 am

2009-05-04T20:42:00.001+08:00

Tiring day of farming haha....
Me & a couple of friends are pretty addicted to this game...

Posted At 8.41 pm

2009-05-01T17:14:00.007+08:00

Last Sunday on the 26th of April 2009 i had a bbq outing with my JE friends at West Coast Park. We had so much fun and laughter and like the previous bbq which i had with them, it rain again! Now i have been labeled the "RAINMAN" haha. Why does it always have to rain when im organizing a bbq lol but we sure had fun getting wet. The best part is after the rain as the weather is so cooling and beautiful so i was really glad it rain:). There were tons of delicious food and we had more games to play this time. We played Monkey ball, Human Knot, big fish small fish & multiples of 3 which include water bombing punishment for the losers haha. Alright this will be a very long post due to the photos so i shall not elaborate any further and start with my story.

Ok in the morning, i met with my 3 ~~soldiers~~ helpers(Su Wei, Yau Hua & Ruiq Qi) at Woodlands MRT to fetch them to my home as i need them to carry all the stuff to the park. I didn't wanna bother the guys as they are living pretty far from my home place so i got those that were staying quite near. But not to worry, Popular girls may look small but trust me all of them have muscles due to carrying so much stock in work all the time haha. Went to NTUC to get 2 more bottles of drinks in case it wasn't enough and we went to Vista Point to get the waterbombs. After that we took a cab to the park.

Once we were there we clean up the pit area, pack the foods & started the fire. Yau Hua & Su Wei went to Mcdonalds to get some food for us as we haven't eaten a single thing. While i was starting up the fire, all of us heard a thunderstorm lol! A few minutes later my mum, Veron & Casey called telling me that their home area has already rain heavily but our pit area was still sunny but we can hear thunder storms. I kinda panic as history is repeating itself again! So i got Zhen Lin to bring some umbrellas from her home.

After a few hours, it started to rain so all of them move to the shelter to wait for it to stop. While waiting we chat & camwhore a little haha. We also played waterbomb haha.

After a while the rain stop thankfully it was just a short and small one. Casey, Nicole & Leit arrived and so the 2nd bbq session commences. While waiting for the food, some were busy catching flies and torturing them haha. They are really good i must say as they caught a lot haha. The pest control:Kevin,Zhenlin & Jun yi lol. Me, Boon Seng, Su Wei, Yau Hua, Rui Qi & Veron went to fill up the waterbombs. Since the toilet has this banner saying no taking out of water, me and Boon Seng went to the back where there's a small window at the toilet haha. So the girls will fill it up and pass it to us at the window haha! Crazy us:P. After that some of of us went to play monkey ball and soon after we call the rest to play human knot. It was loads of fun haha really hilarious. All i can say is LOL! :)

After playing the games, we went back to start eating the food. But before that we camwhore again haha.

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We started eating the food. There were so much food! Casey even brought Cheesy Mussels, Corns, Stingray, Squid, Mash Potatoes, Salmon & her delicious spaghetti. Not to mention there was still chicken wings, satays, sausages & fishballs. Wide spread of delicious food. We were so bloated but there was still room for dessert which is bbq marshmallows. It was my first time bbqing it and wow it's really delicious. We even use them for our group photo taking LOL! Look at all of their faces lol! Hilarious.

Here's a short video clip. Casey sabo me twice lol!

After eating, we chill for a while and continue with our games! This time everyone joined in. We played Human Knot and we split into 2 teams. The team that completes the first will get to waterbomb the losing team. First round my team won but the 2nd round we lost haha. Check out the video at the top. Casey & Su Wei cheated lol but round 1 my team also cheated haha so it's fair. All for the name of fun:D.

Jian yong & Casey haha...

Us playing Big fish, Small Fish

Soon it was night time and we were still playing games. This time we played our all time favourite "Big Fish, Small Fish" & a new one Multiples of 3. Haha it was so fun so many blur people this time so they keep getting waterbomb lol. The most to get was Su wei haha. Pity her she totally got thrash on that day. Afternoon Boon Seng waterbomb her hair, during monkey ball Jian Yong accidentally kick the ball to her head & night time she keeps getting wet from the waterbombs haha.

After all the games, we went back to chill & eat again. We brought out a cake to celebrate Yau Hua belated Birthday & an advance birthday for Wendy. We slack, chat, joke around & eat till my stomach gonna explode any second haha. So it was around 10pm and soon we started to pack up, change into something dry and off we go.

(Click On the Pic to enlarge)

It was definetly a fun day indeed. I was glad i pull it off and i wanna thank my helpers Su wei, Yau Hua & Rui Qi for helping me with the carrying & Su wei for helping me get the cake. Thank you Veron for being the tour guide for me haha even though your late! lol=X & getting the extra ice. Thank you Jian Yong for booking the pit. Thank you Zhenlin for helping me with the games & umbrellas. Lastly a huge thanks to Casey, Nicole & Leit for the extra delicious food that you guys brought & the charcoal too haha. These will definetly be the day i will certainly treasure:).

Posted At 5.15 pm

2009-04-29T19:00:00.003+08:00

What an awesome day it was today as for the first time ever, i watch a movie with my family. We went to Cathay at CausewayPoint to watch this malay horror movie "Jangan Tegur". My dad has been wanting to watch this. The movie is indeed scary all thanks to the sound effect. It was hilarious as all the audience were all scared and they were all screaming and laughing haha. All the aunties and the kids there are really hilarious lol. Quite a good story really enjoyed myself.

After the movie, my sister met us for lunch. We ate at Banquet. Once done my mum and sis went to this shop to get some clothes and scarf. My mum bought 2 blouse and my sis got for herself 2 scarfs. When we were finally done, we went to NTUC to shop for some grocery and some food for dinner. It was indeed a fun day hanging out with my family:).

I still have not blog about the outing i organise with my friends last Sunday. Will try to do it by tonight or tomorrow.

Posted At 7.00 pm

2009-04-28T01:17:00.004+08:00

Beautiful imperfections that make a relationship perfect...

The line "beautiful imperfections" is really deep. It serves to remind us to love those we love unconditionally even when they don't live up to our expectations.

No one is really perfect and we should always learn to love what's not perfect about our friends and loved ones as it is that imperfection that makes them who they are.

A beautiful well made ad. Applause.

2009-04-24T23:38:00.001+08:00

I got my National Service letter today and i got enlisted to Pulau Tekong which means i got into the Army. Well it's not really what i have expected as i was hoping to get into Police or Civil Defence but oh well it doesn't matter as one thing that i have learnt in life and from my past experience is that things happen for a reason. It always turns out to be what i don't want but somehow it will all just turn out pretty good and i get to experience a whole new thing so i will just stick to this believe and hopefully it will be alright. Im kinda excited but a little scared as well as im going to experience a new challenge & something new in life. Won't life be boring if there isn't any spice into it? haha so it's cool:). It's time to be a man.

I will be enlisted somewhere in June and damn im left with 1 month to prepare myself. Crap im so dead well i only got myself to blame haha. Well i started to train a little today. Went to the park to do some running to train up my stamina. Ran 8 rounds at the track field, did some crunches & push-ups. It was tiring but fun as i use to do all those before but due to my hectic schedule in the past and my laziness i kinda stop. Well i guess im gonna bring back that old Faris again. Now i need help with Pull up and my broad jump. Im so lousy and weak now (-_-). Any kind soul wanna help to train me till i can do it within this 1 month period??

While after i did my running, i was kinda walking around the field to cool down and suddenly all this past memory flashbacks appear in my head. All the fun times i had and also all the bad ones came as well. Suddenly thought of this condition of mine and it really made me emo again. But im not gonna let this condition of mine distrupt my life. Im gonna fight it and not think about it anymore. Now all i wanna do is to enjoy life whenever i can:).

Posted At 11.38 pm

2009-04-19T23:17:00.003+08:00

I would like to wish Margaret a Happy XX Birthday! May all your wishes & dreams come true:). Met up with Eileen, Audrey & Hwa Nian to celebrate her birthday today. Before that i went out in the morning to met up with Alan as he was kind enough to give me his guest invitation card since he wasn't able to attend for the upcoming Graduation Ceremony. Everyone is like going around begging for more as each student only gets 1 bloody guest invitation card. Stupid right? majority has 2 parents so you can't expect us to only bring along 1 parent. My friend even plan to bring his whole family & won't even care whether they have the guest invitation card haha. So at least now i can bring my mum & dad.

So first we went to catch a movie. While waiting for the movie to start we went to the arcade to play the car racing game haha. It was fun. We watch the movie "Handsome Suit". It's a fun hilarious movie and i really recommend you guys to watch it. Awesome movie i will definetly rate it 5/5 stars. The movie really show us that good looks aren't that important. It's your inside and being your true self makes you more beautiful & that's what really matters. I can't wait to watch this movie call "The Ramen Girl". Judging from the trailer i feel that this is one of the most unique and creative movie. Can't wait for it to be shown on the cinemas. (Haha and guys i know2 next time i better not choose the seating LOL even the seating way i show you guys was relaxing but the neck & back definetly hurts after that haha:P.)

After the movie, we went to Seoul Garden for dinner. Had a lot of fun joking around and chilling out. We ate till we were damn bloated. Delicious food with great friends. After we were done eating, we surprised the birthday girl with a strawberry cake haha. So after dinner, we went to shop around and home sweet home. Had a great time.

Is it me or is the weather getting damn freaking humid these days. I have to switch on the fan or air-con when im at home as i just keep on sweating like a pig. It even made my temper bad haha. How i wish it would rain again. Haiz damn bloody Global Warming.

Posted At 11.19 pm

2009-04-17T01:07:00.005+08:00

Sorry for not blogging for so long as i have been so lazy to blog. Been busy with work, outings & especially gaming haha. I have so much to blog out but i lost the blogging bug so i shall just keep them to myself. Me & a couple of friends are currently hook to a game in Facebook. It's call Farm Town. It's a online farming game where you can plant seeds, harvest crops, meet up with other online farmers from all over the globe.

Today's my last day at work. Many asked why considering i have not gotten my NS letter but i feel that it's time. It's time i move on and do something else in life. But im glad i met tons of great people and i have gain so much experience. Like product knowledge, displaying skills, handling difficult people, self confident, im more outspoken now,i don't feel shy talking to strangers anymore and many more. It definetly change me to the better. There is so much people to thank but first of all i wanna thank my first awesome supervisor Wendy Teo for bringing me on board to this outlet because if not for her, i won't be able to meet all this great people. I wanna thank my 2nd supervisor Su Wei as well for being another great supervisor. Great person to joke around with and we definetly rock went we are working together haha. Gonna miss doing "rescue missions" with her lol. And lastly to Casey Lee for being a great friend. Fun person to joke around with and always giving me advise and tips which definetly helps me be a better person. I have learn so much from her and im so blessed to know a person with a beautiful heart. Not forgetting the rest of my close gang in JE Pop. Too many names to mention but i believe you guys know who you are. Thank you guys for everything!

I can't believe i've been working there for 3 years plus now & finally i decided to quit. I have really learn so much and met all sorts of people. I do feel a little sad but happy at the same time and i will definetly miss the people & working at there as well. The thing that i will miss the most is feeling that sense of satisfaction when i manage to complete a task which is tough & when customers have any enquiries and i was able to help them. Getting praises from a customer after helping them really made my day. I still have so much to write but i guess i will stop here or it will never end haha. Goodbye JE Pop.

Took some pictures with my favourite people today. The rest i will just take with them on our upcoming outing haha.

Now that i have time on my side, it's time i achieve on my dreams. Im gonna work hard and achieve this dream which i have been wanting to do since i was young but as usual im lazy to the bone. But im gonna try my very best now & i hope that i will be able to succeed. Come on Faris. You can do this!

Posted At 1.07 am

2009-04-03T22:19:00.004+08:00

Work has been hectic for the past few days as we had to prepare for our annual stocktake which was today. We already started preparing the week before and damn it was tiring. I had to rearrange and organise all the children tables as it was in a mess. It was really tiring especially yesterday as it was the precount and i had to rearrange and redo the other tables as it was mess up again but i don't mind as im doing this for my department & my HOD.

Today was the actual day & the outcome was shocking. Really shocking. It was so bloody good! We were the champ! Every Department was good. No major problems:). Damn huge improvement compared to the previous year. Everyone was so happy even Casey shake her butt off and even did a seductive dance lol! Im really glad that all the hard work and effort we put in really pays off. Now the only problem for my department is the after effect haha. Everything is in a mess and we have to put all the things back to it's respective places but it doesn't matter as the result was just heavenly. Awesome job to all the staff man we so beat our rival:D! Especially to those HODs from other places who came to help out. They were damn good and helpful! Really willing to help us. I guess everyone can sleep soundly tonight especially the Manager haha. After work, went to NTUC with my sidekick EMOMUNK, Iza & Mr $Boon$ $$eng$ to shop for some stuff. After that me and Mr $Boon$ $$eng$ headed to IMM to walk around and ate dinner as well. This would be my third stocktake in my current workplace and this will definetly be the most memorable one ever. I feel that i gave it my all and im really glad that the outcome turn out great. All the sweat and stress really paid off. That's the least i could do for my last stocktake.

Oh ya finally this blog has a new look. After procrastinating for so long, i finally made one a couple of weeks ago. Haha it was so random. I love the color combination & everyone seem to say that it's another emo layout by Faris haha. Ya i may quit the emo club but im always an emo at heart lol. Emo & shy BADMAN! :[

Posted At 10.19 pm

2009-03-23T00:16:00.001+08:00

I enjoy watching Bunifah Latifah Halifah Shalifah Jackson videos. She's one fine damn hilarious comedian. Her favourite line is "what did i do?" & "black woman....". Everytime went im feeling down, this girl never fails to make me laugh hysterically. If you guys haven't heard or seen her videos well i really recommend you guys to go check it out. I will post some of my favourite videos here. There are tons more at youtube. So if your looking for a good laugh, check her videos out. Enjoy laughing your ass off haha.

My Fav:

Bunifa driving Test

Bunifa ordering at the Circus Burger

Bunifa goes Through Airport Security

Bunifa goes on a Date

Bunifa on a Dating Game

Bunifa in Court

Posted At 12.16 am

2009-03-16T01:11:00.008+08:00

Yesterday i had the most memorable, interesting and happening bbq session ever. It was different from all of the other bbq's that i have ever been and it was also the first time i had to help organise an outing. Normally i would just contribute cash and turn up for the event haha. But it was a new experience for me and after this outing, i already learn on how to organise and further improve if i were to organise further events. Now back to the outing.

I met up with Jian Yong & Rui Qi in the morning as we still need to get some bbq stuff and get more food as i only ordered 50 satay & 30 wings. Once we were done, we head down to the park to set up first. While waiting for the rest to arrive, we started on firing up the bbq pit. After a while Xiao Qiang came with the plates & cups. We kinda had problems getting the fire to start as the starter was kinda screw up so Jy and Rq went to get a better starter while me and Xiao Qiang tried to fire up the pit again. So i gave it a shot and i use my notebook to help improve the flames and thank god it was a success. So we decided to start on the satay's first as they are the fastest to cook. After a few minutes, we start to feel raindrops coming down from the sky. We were a little freak out so we took out the umbrellas while i try to bbq as fast as i could and after a while Jian Yong & Rui Qi came back. The weather is starting to get pretty bad as the wind is bloody strong and the raindrops are dropping more. So all of us quickly use 3 umbrellas to try block the wind and protect the pit from the raindrops. After awhile, Casey came and the raindrops are dropping evern more so we quickly put all our stuff inside the tent and after a while the wind and rain got even worst and finally we manage to bbq the whole 50 sticks of satay, the whole packet of cocktail sausages, 5 wings & a couple of corns. We quickly rush into the tent and ate inside.

Getting inside the tent was hilarious as well. 4 of us tried squeezing in and it was damn hilarious. Xq and Casey was so hilarious. Casey lay an "egg" inside and Xq leg got hot thanks to the corn below his feet. RuiQi couldn't fit inside so she stay out and became the tent maintenance lol. She help to shelter the tent rooftop. But hell yeah we did it! We manage to bbq the food despite the heavy rain. It was seriously fun haha! imagine all of us fighting against the forces of nature trying to bbq our food while the other people around us quickly pack up their stuff and some already went inside their tent. People might think we are strange bbqing in the rain haha but who cares it was really special.

After the rain has subsided, we came out of the tent and played monkey ball. Haha it was fun. After the game me, rq and xq went to prepare water bombs for our next game. I introduce them to the game big fish, small fish. Who ever got it wrong will get bomb haha. The most to get bomb was Xq and the person who always get the chance to throw at him was Casey haha. Poor Xq his underwear couldn't get a chance to dry up. But all of us got bomb pretty much and i even got a combo bomb. 4 bomb came to me at one go haha but the person that got the powerful bomb hit by xq was Rq lol.

So after the game we chill out, ate some snacks and played Uno. Finally Wendy & Kevin arrive and we started on the 2nd bbq. While waiting for the food to cook we played the waterbomb game again and after that we went to the beach to make some sand castles and played with the water haha. It was definetly a beautiful scene and the weather was perfect. We even saw a mudskipper at the sea.

So after awhile we went back to help with the food. Soon it was evening and it was getting dark so once all the food were done, we sat down and enjoy the feast. It was nice chilling out, chatting, joking around and eating all the delicious food. It was definetly one of the most memorable bbq that i ever had and i will never ever forget this day. They are all bloody damn steady bo pi pi. It was really a rare and special bbq ever. Now i will let the photos do the talking. Good night:).

Posted At 1.11 am

2009-03-03T01:26:00.004+08:00

Celebrated Hwa Nian birthday last Sunday(1/3/09). There were me, Audrey, Kai fen, Alex, Angeline, Eileen, Margaret and her friend as well. We walk around town first for some window shopping and also to get him his present as well. It was raining heavily at that time and it was so crowded. We could hardly walk and the worst part is that it was raining so heavily that certain area was flooded and all our shoes were soaking wet. First time experiencing floods in Orchard haha. We brought him to a Crumpler shop. We were suppose to bought it earlier but we wasn't sure on which color to get so that's the reason why we brought him there and let him pick the color he fancied. Once we were done, we continued window shopping. Soon it was dinner time so we headed to Swensens to celebrate his birthday. After we were done eating our dinner we ordered ice-creams! Delicious i must say.

After dinner, we walk around town again to digest. We headed to Coffeebeans for coffee and to chill and chat. It was really relaxing and the atmosphere was awesome. After a few hours we headed home. It was a great day with full of jokes and laughter. Now you guys know about my Ribena secret lol! Better keep it to yourself haha. Enjoyed myself. Once again, Happy Birthday Mr Samuel!

Well a little update on my life right now. Starting from yeterday, i have started working on Stationery Department as they wanted me to work there due to shortage of manpower. I was kinda reluctant but oh well i decided to give it a shot. Today's the second day and so far it has been alright. It's fun when my 2 kaki's are working haha. Too bad i won't get to enjoy life that much this month as im working almost all the time now. Oh well i guess i will just have to enjoy more at work now haha. Tomorrow's my third day but i will be working in English Department. After almost 3 years in English Department, i finally got out from my comfort zone and into a new learning zone. Well i guess i better crash now or i will be like a zombie again. Suffering from sleepiness this past 2 days due to lack of sleep. I only have myself to blame for chatting and gaming till 4am haha.

Posted At 1.26 am

2009-02-27T00:53:00.003+08:00

After much procrastinating i finally went running with Rui Qi today. We ran at Tekong Park which is near my home. Since secondary, i been training or jogging over there as i love the environment and it's windy. Well too bad my running partner did not have the same testament as me about the park environment. I was glad that i was able to run 7 rounds considering i have not run for a couple of months. After running, we cool down and i did some push ups and sit ups. We also played with some of the park exercise equipment. The most fun part was playing with the bicycle merry go round with 2 small girls whom suddenly came to join us. Haha we were like small kids all over again.

After a few hours, we went to change and met Veron for supper as today's her last day of her attachment in Metro. She treat us to Mcdonald's. Thank you chipmunk! Now im too full to fall asleep but i guess i better try as im working tomorrow. Good night.

Posted At 12.53 am

2009-02-26T23:56:00.001+08:00

Today's another easy day. Woke up in the morning to accompany my dad to Sembawang to settle some stuff. Once done we went to Causeway Point Burger King for breakfast. I wanted to get some new shorts so once we were done, we went to John Little since my dad wanna get some new shirt as well. I bought 2 shorts and my dad got 1 short and a button up shirt. Since my dad isn't working today, he decided to make a simple western dinner for tonight. So we head down to Cold Storage to get what we need.

Dinner made by my dad:

Last Monday was one of my colleague last day. Her name is Mee Yin and she's in the same department as me. I made a photo frame design as a farewell gift for her. I will definetly miss her as she's a great, fun, generous person who always treat me to all sorts of expensive snacks & food. I hope that she will find new happiness in her new job and i hope that things will turn out great for her.

The Photoframe:

It's sad as many of my great friends has left. This year i think there's around 5 of my good friends who has left as well. Though we do still keep in contact but the working environment will never be the same again. The newcomers are weird and they can never replace them. But it doesn't matter anymore for me i guess as im only working on Saturday's now. There are still a couple of my good friends who are still around so it's cool. The urge of leaving is there but for the sake of my Supervisor who happens to be my great friend, i will continue to stay till as long as i can. Oh well good things just don't last. Haha i sound so emo but nah i already left the emo clan. Well hopefully i don't get pull back someday haha...

Posted At 11.56 pm

2009-02-25T00:34:00.001+08:00

Went to Town with Desmond, his 2 friends & Kai fen today. Window shopping at Far East, Paragon & Heeron. After that we went to Cineleisure to catch a movie. We settle for the show "Let the Right One In". It's a horror Swedish Vampire movie. The show is about a boy who fell in love with a girl who is a vampire. There are a couple of scenes which are hilarious especially the part where they showed the girl pussy. Shocking. It's a bloody and brutal movie but i do find the movie weird and boring. But it was alright i guess.

After the movie, head down to Bugis as Kai Fen wanted to check out some new spectacles at Eyeplay. Once done we went to Siam Kitchen for dinner. Delicious i must say. I had a great time today with loads of laughter and fun.

Posted At 12.34 am

2009-02-22T00:54:00.005+08:00

My family and i ate out for lunch today at Imm Fish & Co. It's a rare occasion as we seldom get to eat out together as it's either one of us had to work or have other outing plans. After lunch, we went to Daiso to get some stuff and once we were done, we headed to Giant for some grocery shopping. After that, i visited my workplace as i bought some egg tarts for my colleagues in English Department. Had a great time with my family and the food was delicious. What a great day.

Posted At 12.54 am

2009-02-21T02:48:00.000+08:00

Was working today after being away for almost a month. They were cutting cost at a perfect timing where all i plan now is to enjoy myself till i get a letter to when i am going serve my National Service. Work today was great as i had a lot of fun. There were loads to do but thankfully i haven't lost touch with my work. Everyone was commenting about my new brown hair haha. I dyed my hair a few days ago after like trying not to for 3 year i guess. My first hair colour was during the 1st year of ITE. Oh well im gonna be bald once i serve for my National Service so im gonna enjoy while i still can. After work, went for supper at Mac with Rui Qi, Casey, Jian Yong & Wee Tiong. I swear we were laughing so loud and like a bunch of crazy loonatics lol. Fun time gossiping and joking around. Had an awesomely great time:)

I have been going out every single day now and spending money like it grow on trees. Mostly on food, movies & shopping. Bought a new Kappa shoe and bag on Friday. I better stop spending but i just can't help it. I guess im too happy haha. Now when i switch on my laptop i don't have to worry about upcoming exams, assignments, projects, reports or downloading notes anymore. Well i have many plans coming up. For now im gonna start training and prepare myself for National Service, my driving license, work only on Saturdays,bbq,chalets and most days hang out with friends. Planning to go for a short trip to Cameraon Highlands as i wanna go to somewhere where i can just chill and refresh myself. But it's not confirm as im not sure whether im allowed to come out of Singapore due to my National Service. Im gonna call them up on Monday and hopefully it will be good news. Alright im gonna crash now and i guess im procrastinating again lol as till now i have not blog about my lasy day of my Poly life. Haha like what my friends say, Faris will always be Faris. King of Procrastination lol.

Posted At 2.49 am

2009-02-18T00:38:00.005+08:00

Went to the Airport early in the morning today as one of a colleague(Mitchelle) from work is flying back to her country as her attachment in Singapore has finally come to an end. It was a last minute planning to sent her off at the airport as last night at around 4.30am me, Rui Qi & Casey was chatting and playing Pet Society. Haha lame us. Casey told us that she's gonna meet up with Yau Huah at 7.15am later as they plan to go to the Airport to sent Mitchelle Off. She invited us to come along so after much thought, i decided to tag along as i didn't get a chance to meet up with her on her last day at work.

Slept all the way through the bus journey as i was lack of sleep. Manage to sleep for an hour and a half last night but Rui Qi was worser as she did not get a shut eye last night as she was afraid that she might overslept but surprisingly, she was wide awake on the whole bus journey.

Went we got there, we were unsure on which Terminal to alight as none of us has been to a Budget Terminal before. Oh ya speaking of Budget Terminal, in case if your like my friend who thinks that we are so call insulting or looking down at the terminal well let me just correct you as it's not that we are making fun of it but that is the name. It is call Budget Terminal. Understand now monkey? Thankfully we successfully made our way to the Terminal and we met Sisca as well. It was sad seeing another one go as before her was also another Philippines girl. Her name was Desa. A great friend & with sweet loving personality haha. Went we got there, took a couple of photos with her and chat for a while. Well i would like to wish her all the very best & i hope that things will turn out great for her in the upcoming future.

After sending her off, i had to rush to Bugis to meet my dad as i was planning to get a Monitor for my desktop. So we head down to Sim Lim and after browsing all the shops, i settle for a 18.1 inch monitor. Once done, i went to see a Dentist as my last check up is when i was in Primary school. That was like donkey years ago. So the Dentist did a check and thank god that my teeth are all fine. Except for a tiny hole. So i did cleaning & polishing, Paste the small hole & i also did a Calcium something as my teeth has a couple of white patches due to sugar and soft drinks. I hate going to the dentist and after today, i still do. It's just so uncomfortable especially the drilling. Im just glad that it's all over. Tiring day it was today so i guess im gonna crash now. Good night.

p/s:I will blog about my last day of Poly life on my next post.

Posted At 12.38 pm

2009-02-14T22:42:00.004+08:00

What a tiring day of shopping today all thanks to my mum & dad especially my sis! Went to my workplace today to pass my supervisor her belated gift for her birthday and i bought donuts for English Department. After that me and my sis went to Bugis as she wants to get a new pair of glasses. Went we got there, we had our lunch at Long John Silver as my sister is craving for it and went we were done it's time to do something that i hate to do with her which is shopping(-__-). She can shop for hours and damn she bought a belt, bag, dresses and assorted pins. Well since i was there i also bought myself two shirt, 1 short & a white stud belt. Once the shopping was done, I brought her to Bugis Junction to shop for her new glasses. Thank god the choosing of the frame was fast.

Finally when everything was freaking done, we quickly rush to IKEA at Tampines to meet up with my mum and dad as they are getting some new bed sheets, carpets & also a new bed for my sister room. After making payment i decided to go to Courts since it was just beside Ikea. I decided to get a new camera as my old one died a few months ago and my dad didn't get a new one as he thinks it's unnecessary so i decided to just get for my own. So i decide to get a Panasonic Lumix FS3 8.1 megapixel digital camera and im loving it as the quality is awesome.

What a tiring day and i still haven't gotten my shoes. Damn=/

And I have finally completed my 3 years of Manufacturing Engineering course in NANYANG POLYTECHNIC! WOoooOOoHHhhhOOooOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I shall blog about that on my next post. Good night:)

Posted At 10.44 pm

2009-02-11T00:01:00.003+08:00

I am so relieved that my final presentation is over! It surprisingly went well i must say. It was way better than the week 6 presentation. I am so glad that this time, the feedback wasn't bad or negative. But i was nervous the whole time haha. Now all i have to do is rush on the bloody report.

Well after school, met up with my sis to get some food from Pizza Hut and a birthday cake as it was our dad's birthday today. Too bad we couldn't ate out as everyone came home late today. Tiring day but thank god everything turn's out to be just fine.

Posted At 12.01 am

2009-02-07T23:04:00.001+08:00

Instead of doing my report & presentation, i enjoyed the whole day.
So i guess i will be sleeping late tonight until my work reaches 70%.
Booo man:(.

&& screw you XP Police Antivirus spyware creator!
Thank you so much for all the trouble.
But too bad i was able to get rid of it:).
May you get struck by lightning you arse hole.

Posted At 11.04 pm

2009-02-05T16:15:00.008+08:00

Oh shit! Im freaking cold right now=/. Im freezing like a frozen popsicle. It's been like this for the past few weeks. Well it was partly my fault as the other day my supervisor was doing his work inside the lab. He was complaining that the lab was kinda warm & he asked me whether i share the same theory as him. I wasn't really thinking that time so i just agreed. So he went out and made a complaint. A few hours later, everyone in the lab starts to freeze. The next day, everyone brought their sweater & i got an earful from them haha.

Kinda stress up right now. Im not able to do my report and presentation in the lab as i still need to finish up assembling my project & help out my supervisor with his machine. I still need to come up with a design for another project which my partner is currently doing right now and we still have so much more to do! Ok i better stop blogging right now. It's time to put on my fighting gears and ChhHHargeddddDDDD!!!!!.......right after i pee.

Posted At 4.15 pm

2009-02-03T21:05:00.000+08:00

Life's has been pretty good for me. Im feeling much more happier this days and i guess im over with the emoing haha. Life is way too short so instead of making a sad pathetic one, might as well make it a enjoyable and live it to the fullest with smiles every single day.

9 more days and i can finally kiss goodbye to Nanyang polytechnic. Time really flies and im still rushing for my report and presentation which is due next week. I kinda plan to start doing it yesterday but as usual i procrastinate and i was having Monday blue's so instead of doing my report & presentation, i played games, msn messenger, surf the net, chat with friends and check out other people facebook profile haha. And guess what? I repeated the same process for today as well. Damn im such a lazy arse but one thing's for sure, im gonna miss FYP though. All the joking around, gaming & slacking with my lab mates but i won't say the same for the projects & the teachers haha. Well i just hope that i will pass my FYP and hopefully a good grade so that my gpa can increase.

Last Saturday at work, me and a couple of friends were kinda bored and so we decide to play around at the back. Took some photos of us sitting on this foldable car box. Everyone had no problem fitting in except for me=/. My legs are too long. Haha i swear we were insane there were a couple of customers that saw us and i never felt so embarassed but who cares. We were just having fun:).

Posted At 9.05 pm

2009-01-22T21:01:00.000+08:00

Went to Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve yesterday for my National Education Field trip & it was surprisingly fun and interesting i must say. It was a beautiful place but too bad we didn't had the chance to cover the whole area due to time constraint. Oh well it doesn't matter as it was still fun. I will let the pictures do the talking now.

For more information about the place click here.

Posted At 9.01 pm

2009-01-15T17:01:00.001+08:00

Here i am inside the lab playing Pet Society almost the whole day. Not that i have nothing to do but actually i have plenty but as usual im procrastinating. Oh well nothing new so i guess it's officially stuck permanently inside of me. After this week, im left with 4 more weeks of school and i am finally free. But it's also a bad thing as im left with 4 more weeks to complete my final presentation & report. I check out a couple of reports done by the previous student and damn it got me even more worried as their reports are flooded with words and they have around 60+ to around 100+ pages. That's insane. Im getting worried as im not sure on how to start mine as my projects so far are all kinda screw up. Damn im unlucky! >=/. Im hoping for a miracle and it's time i pull up my socks and stop being a lazy arse.

Alright whinning aside, I still feel like im dreaming right now as i can't believe that i could reach this far in Poly. To the smart ones it may be nothing but for blur people like me well it's something alright! Im glad that im left with a couple of weeks but the sadness feeling is also there as my life as a poly student will soon be over. Well that's life right nothing last forever so we just have to learn to move on.

Posted At 5.01 pm

2009-01-01T02:34:00.002+08:00

Goodbye 2008 and hello 2009. Well the year 2008 was again another challenging year for me but im glad that i got through it. The worst was definetly school as 3rd year was really stressful pack with lots of assignments, drawings, projects, reports & presentation & when study path was finally over i had to deal 3 months of attachment. There were good and bad days but well that's just life right it can never be smooth sailing all the time. I have experienced so much & learned from all the mistakes i've made on the year 2008. Hopefully i won't repeat them over again.

Well for the year 2009 i just hope that it will be a better year and hopefully i can pass my Final Year Project. New challenges awaiting as 2009 is the year where i finally graduate from Poly and i have to go for my National Service. Scared? well i am as im still kinda unfit haha but i have started training a little so hopefully i will improved but most importantly is good health & happiness. I didn't manage to find love but maybe in the year 2009? Oh well maybe im just too fickle minded. I just hope that i will find the right one some day.

As for today, when to Jurong Point to catch "Twlight" with a couple of friends. Yup it's definetly a great movie. I love it! No wonder all 4 of the book is so popular till every Popular bookstore outlets doesn't have the stock. I guess im gonna get them when the stock arrives. After the movie, we went to grab a bite and slack for a while.

And this post is for "reader"(who ever you are) asking me to post about Wee Tiong's Birthday Celebration on the 6/12/2008. Well here you go:

Posted At 2.34 am

2008-12-30T23:33:00.001+08:00

Celebrated Jian Yong a.k.a panda birthday last Sunday. Happy Birthday man! It was a blast especially the dirty jokes haha! Alright I will let the pictures do the talking now as im freaking exhausted. Good night!

Posted At 11.33pm

2008-12-15T20:55:00.001+08:00

Come on Faris!
You can do this!
YES YOU CAN!
Don't give up!
Fight till the end!

Our own troubles sometimes weigh heavily upon us. If we let them, our troubles can drag us down to the extent that we are anything but cheerful.

Everyone faces troubles or challenges at some point in their lives. If you compared your troubles, or challenges, with those of others, you would surely find that there are those whose troubles make yours look like minor inconveniences.

We have all heard the story of the person who felt sorry for himself because he had no shoes, but then met the man who had no feet.

By cheering up someone else, you actually minimize and lighten some of your own burdens. You'll feel a lot better when you share you happiness with someone else.

Posted At 8.55 pm

2008-12-12T09:52:00.005+08:00

It's the third week of FYP and so far it has been quite stressful for me but the great part is that my supervisor is a slacker lol. I got attach to the lab that creates project for other companies. It's good that we get to learn and gain experience but the bad part is that this is the most strictest lab ever. Firstly no shorts & slippers. We are not allowed to surf other site except for work related purpose. We are not allow to listen to mp3, gaming or sleep. We have two attendance to sign in. One is from the computer and the other one is from a form. So many rules and i feel that we are in a prison + zoo. Why do i say that? well we have two surveillance cameras in the lab, one huge window at the top so the visitors or lecturers on the 2nd floor are able to check on us & there's always big group of visitors coming to our lab all the time looking at us as if we are some kind of animal or something. The worst is that we have a technical officer who is always in this lab as this is where he normally does his work. His really strict and fierce and he monitors our every movement. We will get an earful if we came back late from our breaks, surf unrelated sites, talking too much, playing games or listening to mp3. I envy those people from other labs as they aren't that strict compared to ours but for work wise ours is the best so i guess it's fair=/.

So far i have been assigned to assemble 3 different sets & to design a machine operation for a certain product. My partner went for an operation so im on my own for now. The assembling looks easy at first but once you start doing it i swear it's not. I encounter different types of problem & one thing good is that i was able to learn a lot all thanks to the technical officer. He may be strict but for work wise his really helpful & always there to help us out. His also generous in teaching and sharing useful information to us. Well he won't give us the solutions right away and that's the good think as his training us to be independant, decision-making and problem solving on our own. So i guess his not bad after all.

As for today the officer is on leave so that's the reason why im blogging right now. I guess i will be slacking more and may or may not continue with my assembling as i just can't be bothered today haha. Alright it's break time now and im going to feed the fishes again.

Posted At 9.52 am

2008-12-01T22:12:00.006+08:00

Yesterday was a memorable day for me as my good friends from my workplace organised a celebration for my 21st birthday after work. I was seriously surprised. Had a great time & i felt really honoured as Wendy, Jian Yong & Kevin came to celebrate too:). There were lots of food & a delicious birthday cake. The most embarassing part for me was that they bought me an Adidas Watch! I almost died of heart attack. I was so touched as so many people contributed to get me this gift. There's too many names to mention. Well to those that contributed, thank you all so much! You guys are great! Now i have 2 adidas watch haha:D

Not forgetting my english Department colleagues(Jasmine & Su Wei) for getting me an awesome wallet, Mee Yin for getting me the book "Yakuza Moon" which i planned to buy on that day & Jenny for the beautiful box of Candies. Thank you guys so much!

I also wanna thank to those who celebrated with me in advanced & to those on the actual day. There's just too many names to mention and especially to you mother farkers for giving me a ~~painful~~ birthday beating LOL! Bloody cuckoos sabotaging me at Clarke Quay. LOL!

Even though my huge kick ass bbq birthday chalet celebration was cancelled but i had the most awesome 21st birthday that anyone could ever asked for. I got to celebrate with my family, all my friends & working colleagues. I feel so thankful & blessed.

Birthday Cakes:

23rd Nov was Casey birthday. I got her a photoframe and created a birthday design for her:

Posted At 10.13 pm

2008-11-29T12:26:00.000+08:00

Today's the day i turn 21 years old. I wanna thank all my friends and family for all the wishes and presents. Thanks to all for flooding my sms on midnight. Sorry for the late reply as i slept pretty early due to exhaustion. I also wanna wish a very happy 21st birthday to my friends Le Xiang & Tze Kwang too. May we be blessed with good health, fortune, happiness and may our dreams come true not only on our special day but always all life through:)

Posted At 12.26 pm

2008-11-22T00:39:00.003+08:00

Yesterday was the last day of my 3 months Industrial Attachment Programme in Becton Dickinson Company. Im really glad that it's over but i do feel a little sad though as it wasn't that bad after all. In fact, it was enjoyable and fun. The people i met there was great. There's still some plus and minus but overall it was still great. Well i guess i will never forget the experience i had during my attachment. Snap some shots with some of my department people and with the IA students that i mostly hang out with as our break timing is the same. Couldn't get to take with the rest of the IA students as i didn't get the chance to meet them today. Too bad i don't have the pictures with my department people as they haven't email me the photos.

Me, Wang Fei, Ya Ping, Pei Feng & Julian

Well as for work today as usual it was busy. There's tons of stock to display and the department was messy as usual. But it's fine as im used to it. Guess i will stop here as i've got tons of work tomorrow so i better turn in early to charge up my power haha. Gambateh!

Posted At 12.39 am

2008-11-20T20:15:00.002+08:00

Today at work is definetly the most relaxing day i have ever had. In the morning we purposely came late for work and after doing some task for a few hours, we went out to Phillips company first as my friend wanted to collect some stuff from his friend. After that we took a bus and headed to Jurong Point to walk around and get lunch as well. It was a hell of a long ride as the bus drove one whole round in Tuas area. There's so many Companies in Tuas. I stumbled upon something that reminded me of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Here's the pic:

So when we got to Jurong Point, we shop around and had lunch at KFC. It's been ages since i ate KFC. Once we were done, we bought some snacks and head back to our workplace. We reach around 3pm and after that we surf the net for a while and around 4pm we went for our tea break and 4.45 it's home sweet home. Lol we dared to do this as our supervisor was on leave for today and tomorrow as he had to prepare for his final exams on Saturday and furthermore the people in our department are all cool people so they won't mind. Very steady bo pipi:). So tomorrow's our last day and we plan to come at 3pm just for the sake of returning our badge, locker keys, boots and signing the clearance form. Wow i can't believe that tomorrow is going to be the last day of my attachment. Im definetly going to miss attachment life. Oh well good things don't last forever. How i wish it would=|.

Posted At 8.15 pm

2008-11-19T22:38:00.002+08:00

2 days left of attachment. Look how time flies when your having fun. Well not all the time but mostly it was. In the morning, my friend Wang Fei wanted me to do a prank call on 2 of his friends. So we use our department phone and started calling his first friend. So i told him that i was an officer and i called to question him about a fight that happened last night. I told him that one of his friends told me that he was involved. Than he was like "A fight?" I couldn't control my laughter anymore so i hung up haha! The 2nd one was the most funniest. I told him that i was an officer at some station and i told him that i received a complain from his neighbour yesterday. The neighbour said that they always hear loud sex noises coming from his home every night. And he replied "But i wasn't at home last night!". I was about to burst into laughter so i told him to wait a while and i quickly hit the hold button LOL!. Both of us laugh like a crazy loonatics. Once we were done laughing, i talk to him and told him that im going to give him a small warning first. I told him to try not to make a lot of noise when doing sex and i reminded him to put on a condom and i hung up. LOL!! We were so farking lame haha. But after a few minutes, my friend called both of his friends back as we were afraid that they will get worried or call back our office number. Haha this is definetly one of our lame moments.

Our department treat us lunch at Sakura today as a advance farewell thank you gift. It was fun and once we were done, everyone was reluctant to go back to work as we were all so bloated. The buffet was delicious and i swear i ate a lot. Me and my partner tried asking our supervisor whether we can go off after the lunch but sadly we couldn't haha. Oh well you can't blame a guy for trying=/. So we went back and continued with our work.

We bought a Parker pen for our supervisor. Too bad today's the last day we will be seeing him as his taking leave on Thursday and Friday to prepare for his final exams. His currently on his final year in NUS. I really gotta hand it to him as he has a huge work load and he has to rush with school projects and exams. It's not easy studying in NUS. He is definetly my role model. Tomorrow's plan to take mc was cancelled as it's kinda risky so we decide to come in late instead. Oh well better than nothing i suppose. Well im gonna enjoy the days left over there and starting from Monday, time to rot at FYP(Final Year Project). Life's full of farking obstacles!

Posted At 10.38 pm

2008-11-04T22:33:00.001+08:00

We had a special visitor at work today. That's one huge kick ass lizard! Is it a komodo dragon? Other than the zoo, i don't think there are wild ones in Singapore...or isit? hmmm....=|

p/s: I hope Obama wins! Go Obama!

Posted At 10.33 pm

2008-10-30T20:19:00.000+08:00

Work today was the opposite of yesterday as im feeling energetic even though i slept around 12am maybe it's because im finally relieved. Well i decided to remove the hair extensions. I only had it like 2 days and i gave up. It's such a hassle to style and care for it especially having to wake up 5.30am in the morning and i look weird with it haha. So i decided to remove it yesterday. I had to go through a quite painful process all thanks to this girl. She's kinda inexperience and weak as the guy that did my extensions for me clip it kinda hard and she had a hard time removing it for me. She pluck out 3 strands of my hair and i swear it was freaking painful. So after a few attempts, she called for help and thank god another guy came to the rescue. The guy did it in just 1 minute. Luckily the girl was cute and pretty so she's forgiven lol.

Once it was done, i rush to Kimage to get a haircut and damn im feeling myself again. I guess short hair still works best for me and nothing beats original. Now i can finally shampoo my hair properly and spent lesser time on styling my hair. Im just glad that this hair nightmare of mine is finally over and it's a lesson that i won't forget haha. Alright time to get ready for a movie outing. Signing off....

Posted At 8.19 pm

2008-10-28T11:00:00.000+08:00

I can't seem to stay awake at work today. Im freaking exhausted right now and i can't stop my eyes from closing. I didn't had enough sleep yesterday as i woke up bright and early in the morning to extend my hair fringe. Ya i did a hair extension on my fringe and hell yeah it's bloody long. The person insist on making it long but i had to kinda force him to shorten it a little. Im not sure if im gonna keep it for long as it's nice but it's such a hassle especially when bathing! Than in the evening, met up with Jian yong, Kevin, Wendy, Yau Huah, Veron, Casey & Rui Qi for supper. Ate satay and fried wings at Bukit Gombak. After that we slack at mcdonalds and i had chocolate sundae. We were having so much fun till we forgotten about the last train. Thank god we manage to get the last train and i reach home around 1am. So i guess that's the reason why im so freaking exhausted right now. Crap my supervisor is here and i have to bring the vendor to the metal chip detector room now. Great at least i can sleep at there for a few minutes:).

Posted At 11.00 am

2008-10-26T02:32:00.002+08:00

I can't seem to fall asleep tonight. Tons of stuff is running through my mind right now.

Today work were as usual but in the evening we had a 007 mission again as we finally spotted the boy whom has been stealing tons of my department comics for the past few weeks. This time we are taking action and putting a stop to his crime. To make the story short, we caught him and found 2 comic books inside his pants. This is quite common in my working place but this is my first time seeing someone so weird. This boy kept lying all the way and dare to talk nonsense and told big lies to the police officer. I swear his one super duper cuckoo loonatic. Oh well im just glad that the comic thief has finally been caught.

After work i had supper with Casey, Yau Huah and Rui Qi at sun plaza. Casey treated us to a cafe selling delicious indian food. It was very cosy and peaceful. We had a nice long conversation. I enjoy talking with Casey as she's someone whom i respect. She's a role model to me and she's a great advisor. Im really glad to have met someone like her. I got to know a lot of stuff regarding my workplace too and im really sad and dissapointed with the drastic change with the working attitude. People change and things aren't the same anymore. It's becoming worst and im beginning to hate it alot. Even the people whom i respected is slowly moving to the bad side. I guess it's typical in the working world as it's also the same for the company that im attach too. There all sorts of people in this world and everyone think differently. Thank god im just a part-timer so i won't really bother about all this crap. My main priority is to work and have fun with the people there:)

Work won't be the same too as one of my good bro has gone to a new place:(. Im gonna miss his dirty talks and bull shitting with each other. His one of my good friends in the outlet. Im still piss off with the people who treat him like crap during the so call "farewell dinner". Im just glad that his finally free from this bloody place and gone to a new place whom i believe and hope that he can sore even higher and hopefully excel as i believe that he has great potential:). So this is the time for him to shine and i hope he will. Mr Jian Yong, this time smile more and no more black faces ok haha!:) Me and the rest(u no who) are cheering for you so jia you man!!

Jian yong & me

Posted At 2.32 am

2008-10-25T01:00:00.000+08:00

Everybody's changing...

&

i don't feel the same......

Posted At 1.00 am

2008-10-10T21:02:00.002+08:00

Something totally unexpected happened at work today. We had a private meeting with our supervisor before lunch about a certain issue and all i can say is that me and Wang Fei are really fortunate to get such caring, protective and nice supervisor ever. His not only a supervisor but an advisor. His my role model and someone whom i respect and listens to every piece of advise that he gave.

Now i know why the previous batch enjoyed their 3 months in tool room. Even though we were a little unfortunate from the previous 6 batches as we join on the time where it's coming to their year end and lots of problems occured on that period of time so that's why my supervisor has been really busy and didn't really had time to guide us. But it's cool as we learned so much and enjoying the time over there well not everyday but mostly haha. Today is definetly the highlight of my attachment period and it's going to be the day that im not going to ever forget:).

Posted At 9.02 pm

2008-10-09T21:40:00.001+08:00

This week attachment has been pretty relaxing as there's nothing much to do which is something that im hoping that will happen almost everyday haha. But all i can do is dream on as there's always work for us to do which is a good thing i guess as time move faster when there's work to do. There were work to do today but it wasn't urgent plus my supervisor is seldom around as his a real busy man so i took the opportunity to surf the net. It's about time i read my friends blog and damn i miss a alot of stuff. Oh well can't be help as i seldom have time to seat in front of my lappy all the time as im either busy or too tired to switch it on. Waking up 5.30am daily makes a person sleep real early. Ever since attachment has started a month ago, i have been sleeping freaking early. Some days i slept at 8.30pm, 9pm, 9.30pm or at most 11+pm. Occasionally i would sleep 2am but that's only when i have something on or was feeling hyper but normally 10pm im already fast asleep.

Well after work, met up with my friends as we are celebrating Jason's birthday at Siam Kitchen. There were about 10 of us and damn we were noisy haha. After dinner, we went to Kbox as they book a room for Jason as this guy loves singing karaoke. We were being so gay as we pick the most lovey dovey gay song and we sang it to each other like a duet haha. It was damn hilarious but the best duet goes to Lan & Rick as their duet was so passionate it is as though they have just got married or something haha. Great food and great people. Overall i had a blast:) Happy Birthday Jason~~

Posted At 9.40 pm

2008-10-05T18:18:00.001+08:00

5 weeks of attachment has passed and so far it's been pretty ok. There are days where it's relaxing but mostly busy as we are given task to complete daily. Me and Wang Fei got attach to Tool Room and unlike the rest, we seldom face the computer the whole day as our department deals with mould repairs. It's like the "hospital" in the company where not only to fix the mould but to find the root cause of the problem and finding solutions to prevent it from happening again. Mostly we helped out in the workshop doing cleaning and polishing of the cavity & core or parts from the mould. We also have to do measurements and using the scope to check for cracks. It's pretty awesome as i get to see a real industrial mould on hand and see every details inside it. Now i finally get the picture on how it actually works. I did learn them during my ITE days but mostly are just theory. I also gain experience on how the company works and now i know why many Singaporean's don't really go for engineering as it's a really tough job i must say. It's not as easy as i thought it would be. It can get really crazy and chaotic.

The rest of the IA students mostly just deal with paperwork or working in the office! I think the most luckiest person was Ya Ping and Julian as they have been doing OJT since day 1. All they do is stare at the laptop the whole day! The unlikiest is me and Wang Fei as we have to be in the workshop. Doing polishing is kinda a dirty job as sometimes the oil may splat on our jeans and we have to smell all sorts of chemical. But unlike the rest, we get to experience things that they don't so it's like a blessing in disguise i guess=/.

Being in Tool Room is kinda fun too as there are all sorts of people with different personalities. Almost all of them were given nicknames made by us. There are Mr Mooncake(his fat and a big slacker but i love him haha he rocks!), Mr Quiet(his good too but i seldom talk to him), Mr Nyp(he studied part time in NYP before), Mr Scared(this guy always love asking IA students to do his work), Da Zui Ba(Big Mouth)(Love this guy too! he doesn't have big mouth he only talks very loud haha) and the worst is Fei Hua. This "Fei Hua" talks crap all the time. He keeps bragging about how good he really is. The most hilarious part is that his 38 and still single lol! Everyone in tool room love making fun of him. Everytime he sees a girl, he will definetly approach and flirt all the way. Horny pervert(-_-) lol. He is Wang Fei's best friend as he always like to pick him to help him out and he likes to talk to him haha. There was once we kick his bag and locker so hard haha and Wang Fei put some dirt inside his bag and some oil too lol! The rest hasn't been labeled yet but they are all fun and nice.

No matter what, me and all the IA students can't wait to go back to school as we miss the south canteen food and the school life. School's more fun even though its stressful. 7 more weeks and FYP here we come:)

Some pictures in the workshop.

Me posing in the workshop haha.

Checking the measurements...

The canteen.
The food is cheap but the taste sux haha

Last Wednesday was Hari Raya. I wanna wish all my friends "Selamat Hari Raya" maaf zahir & batin. It's hard fasting during attachment as it can get exhausting but thankfully it's over;). Well this year i wore black. I was planning to rest at home as i don't really care about Hari Raya anymore but my mum kept persuading me so i had no choice but to go. It's still the same as the previous year's but it's shocking to see how everyone has grown. My cousin's have all grown so big and tall. Well it's nice seeing all of them as i normally get to see them once a year haha. Few days back i did 2 new graphics. Finally i had the time to made some. I haven't touch my photoshop for so long and im beginning to sux at it. Looks like i have to practice more.

Posted At 6.18 pm