Last day of November

November is ending and the rain keeps pouring. Hee… this morning I had a very difficult time. The safety rover as I predicted did not come. I had to call the MT Park, Military Transport Park, to reconfirm my indent. It was not indented. Gosh, I called my supervising officer, who is my S3, Major ranking, and he got it settled for me. If it is not for him, my SOC test cannot be conducted without a safety rover. The water point was also set up at the wrong place partly because I did not clearly state where it is suppose to be and it was my battery’s first time having the SOC in our own camp. Other than that, everything went on smoothly. Sad thing is, only 9 passes out of 41 participants.

I had being spending my whole day in office doing some documents editing for future uses. I think we need a library to properly document every single file in the computer server. Always, it is very difficult to get the files we wanted and in the end we have to search for it for very long. Hmm… it seems like I am becoming a clerk. Haha… but I love to organize things in a single format throughout the whole board to use.

My sister made sushi for dinner. I cannot remember the last time I ate sushi. Haha… it was long time ago.

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Working late again

At last I finished my work today. Tomorrow is my first time conducting a SOC Test which I hope will run as smoothly as possible. Oh no, I just remembered, I have not confirm my safety rover driver from one of the office boy. Gosh… These few days I have been working late, all because of the unnecessary waiting time taken to sort things out before i can leave for home. Yesterday's FO meeting has being postponed to tomorrow night. Why must it be night again? I need to go home!

I am totally exhausted today and my legs are aching all because of the life-run. I think I am getting weaker, or maybe today the warming up was not done properly.

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Can't life be more meaningful?

I am getting sick of army life. There are so many unfinished things to do each day when work comes to me. Today, I was in-front of the computer typing out one of the documents because the soft copy is gone after the migration of the offices computer from Windows 95 to Windows XP. It was a torturous job. I had one more set of document to make which I did not manage to complete today. I only completed 4 lines of it just now before I left my office.

Also, just now at 1930, there is a FO briefing by my unit’s chief FO. It is kind of stupid to put it at that time when everyone wanted to go home. I did not attend the briefing and went home partly because I wanted to go back home to make sure everything is all right at home as my parents are both on overseas trip. Sometimes, I really do not know what army wants to do. It is always so irritating to me.

I got a reply email from URA, Urban Redevelopment Authority, about my enquiry on the next online scholarship application. It is from 1 February 2006. I have being thinking of applying from a few sectors such as URA, HDB and DSTA. HDB’s working environment is quite ok I suppose but their creativity seems limited. DSTA works closely with SAF and it is a government sector too. I would like to try DSTA but what bothers me is it is still a place which works closely with SAF. Another one is NParks, National Parks Board. I wonder if they have any scholarships to offer. Maybe I will write a email to enquire.

Can I not go back to camp? Oh well…

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Feeling Lazy

I feel lazy. After 3 days rest at home, I am totally in a hibernate state. I just wanted to sleep and watch television, not forgetting food of course.

Yesterday, I went to Rashidah’s house with Lay Lay, Foong, Su Ann and Ashnah for a small Hari Raya home visit. We watch Madagascar and ate pizzas. We chilled out at McDonald’s in Jurong East Entertainment Centre at night. I had being testing out my GPS system on my PDA phone and it works quite all right. The battery of my PDA drains out very fast though. From my home to Jurong West, it could use up to about 15% of my battery capacity. I think I need to buy a Car adapter to charge my phone while on the road.

This afternoon, my sister made pasta, Carbonara spaghetti. I ate quite a lot which I had regretted. After lunch, we set off to my cousin’s house to watch Mr & Mrs Smith. Later on, we set off again with my cousins and her husband’s 2 friends for a high tea buffet at Swissôtel Merchant Court. I could not eat much, my stomach was still quite full. The food was nice especially the raw Salmon, yum yum.

Thinking of going back camp makes me sick. I had never had this feeling whenever I go to school or going to work. I think I have to pack my things. My room is in a great mess!

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Technology De-Technology

I don’t know I had made the right decision to buy a GPS receiver for my PDA phone or not. It is useful and quite accurate after I tested it out just now. But is it a waste of money to get one? There is a thing called the street directory, why do I still need to buy a GPS and install a map into my PDA? Hmm… Actually the advantage of having a GPS receiver and Map installed into the PDA is convenient and easy to use. I do not need to flip through the street directory or trying to flip through the pages to the adjoining page. What’s more is the ability to help me navigate through the shortest route to my destination. But a street directory book is still the best as I can see a bigger picture of the place than seeing just a small area from the PDA’s small screen.

Technology always advances and no one will ever be fast enough to catch up. It is so fast that once you buy a product, it is outdated almost instantly.

Sucks… my SD memory card is spoiled just instantly!! Oh my goodness! How can it be? Argh… it cost me almost 100 dollars! What had happened! So stupid, sometimes I really hate electronic stuffs. Argh…

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My new camera

My composite battery’s exercise was ended earlier last night. Instead of going back camp this morning, they cut it short to yesterday’s night in account of their satisfactory performance. Their performance is better than we expected even though they come from different batteries. My job there was quite relax but tiring. Duh… I did not do as much fire missions as I did during Bravo battery’s exercise.

Today, my dad went to collect my new camera, Konica Minolta DiMAGE A200. It is an exchange of my DiMAGE A1 for A200. A few months ago, my A1 had some LCD and chip problems. It was sent to service and I had to pay a certain amount for it to repair due to the fact that my warranty was over. Again, the camera had another problem but the warranty had being extended from the last repair.



This time, the spare parts from Japan took too long to be shipped here, since I sent it for service about 2-3 months ago. Therefore, the service centre recommended a 1 to 1 exchange for A200. It is a newer model after A2 was released. A200, a newer model, has of course, pros and cons. It lacks certain functions such as buttons or dials which I had got used to in the A1 model. To me, the more buttons there are, the better it is; functions are easily accessible and used. I don’t like compact cameras because of the lack of these features. A200 lacks a few buttons but is still a good camera to use. I have to get used to it.

In about 1 year or so, I might even consider a more professional camera like Konica Minolta Dynax 7D or Nikon D70s. My passion for photography exploration will never end.

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What a day!

Wow… my legs are aching after the 5km life-run this morning. Partly is because I did not do the cool down stretching after the run due to the rain. Normally the whole complex will do the cool down stretching together on the track.

Seems like a very busy day for me today. I am so worried about the standby stores and parade this morning that in the end I found out that it is actually a simple parade and some stores are not required at that time. Silly me.

The whole battery only left my colleague, Wilson, and me to be in-charge. I lucky my time passed very fast due to the fact that I had joined the other battery’s men to watch Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, extended version.

Tomorrow in the early morning, I will be following the ration tonner to the training grounds to join my composite battery for their training. So I won’t going home for a night. But, Friday I had a day off! Yeah! And I can go to Expo for the Sitex 2005, IT fair.

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Sorrow Moment

Yesterday night, I went to visit Jason, one of my polytechnic buddies who always come to my house to do our project since our year 2 to year 3. He has a cheerful and active character and he is always the one who makes people laugh at his jokes. But yesterday, it was a sad visit. It was his father’s funeral. We all had never expected it to come so fast. It was only last month that his father had being diagnosed with liver cancer. After hearing him talking about his story after the news, I feel deeply sad for him. Also, I am very scared that it might one day happen to me.

Jason had being strong all the while, taking care of his father and at the same time with his work commitment. It is a huge blow for him yesterday morning when his father left his family at the hospital. I send my condolences to him and his family.

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I just got home from my late night movie in Orchard with Lay Lay, Kar Foong, Su Ann and Chee Yong. We caught the 9pm movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, at Lido, Shaw. The word to describe the movie, it was Great! The director had not let me down after the pervious movie, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which is on a 6/10 rating for me. This 4th installment, I would rate it, 8.5/10. The graphic effects were marvelous. Even though I had seen many parts of the movie in short clips before watching the movie, I find that the director had done a very good job in making the movie to portray the funs and heart breaking moments.

Though a lot of the juices from the book did not put into screen, the movie is able to catch my attention and the story goes quite smoothly. I enjoyed myself in the theater as much as I had read the book. I will not mind go watch the movie again, and I cannot wait to get my hands on the DVD!

The movie is about 2 and half hours long, which is longer than the previous 3 installments. I wonder how long the 5th movie will last. 3 hours? As long as it is longer than the 4th installment, I am happy. There are too many events happening in Harry Potter’s 5th year.

It will be around June 2007 when the 5th movie be released. And about 2 years for the last book to be published, Harry Potter’s final year.

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Ever Changing, Ever Green

After spending tedious time on my IPPT AI yesterday for tomorrow’s test, it was cancelled today. Reason because there will only be at most 20 participants due to either their tight workload of stores preparation or an injury from yesterday’s training. Therefore, I was told at 5pm just now that they are changing it to interval training. I had to quickly prepare the AI and let my 2IC to endorse. Through this, I think I am more proficient in preparing AIs.

I had not perspire a lot for a very long time. Today preparing the FO stores, I look as though I had just completed my SOC run. My uniform stinks.

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