Tuesday
Had lunch with my mom and brother at Harbour Front, quite alot of changes have been made since I last went there. The front part of it is now accessible with new shops in it.

Tried out the Noodle Hut, it serves Shanghainess food. The fried la-mien and guo tie is nice but not the xiao long bao. The food is quite expensive compared to Ding Tai Fung.

Had Ice Cafe Latte at Starbucks later. My brother ordered the Ugly Chicken Puff. I had no idea why it is called ugly but it tastes good.

Met up with Johnson to pass him some NS stuffs before meeting LiXiang and Laily to shop for birthday presents. Had dinner at Ding Tai Fung and coffee at Heeren’s Spinelli.

Wednesday
Got woken by some fuckers who keep pestering you after you filled in the survey form at Pasir Ris Interchange, heard from my friend is some MLM stuffs. This is not the first time I getting it. So please do not fill in any survey form on the streets, if you really have no choice, give them a bogus number.

Met up with David and Calvin for lunch at Heeren’s Sakae Sushi. Managed to get the student price after I showed them my tertiary ez-link card which do not have any expiry date on it. Now the buffet comes with 2 Moshi Ice-Cream, 2 red plates and 2 portions of food. Very worth it.

Met up with my army mates later for dinner at Selegie Road, they ate the chicken rice there, I just watched them eat, but I did joined them for tao hui after that.

Went to Parklane for 3 hours of LAN gaming at The Odyssey, 3 hours for $5. We only played CS and WC3: TFT but it was fun, because there are 7 of us. Hope there will be another chance to do that.

Had another round of tao hui after the LAN gaming before proceeding home.

Thursday
Had lunch with my mom and brother at King’s Hotel coffeehouse. The food there is horrible and so expensive considering the portion they give us.

Today is my cousin enlistment day. Such a small world, he is enlisted to Pegasus -> Platoon 3. Same platoon as me somemore. But he is in section 3 instead of section 1, bed 4 instead of bed 7. I think the sergeants should be still in the same platoon.

Happy Belated 20th Birthday Serene.

Quoted From Gabe Newell:

The Half-Life 2 offers have been finalized. Details are pasted below. The Steam offers will be available for purchase next week. Those who purchase via Steam, will receive the final version of Counter-Strike: Source immediately. Half-Life 2 and other games in the Steam offerings will be made available to purchasers upon their release.

Retail Boxes

» Standard Edition
» Half-Life 2
» Counter-Strike: Source
Note: Ships on six CDs. Three different box designs will be made available at launch (cover characters change on the different designs: one is Gordon, one is Alyx, and the third is the Gman).

» Collector’s Edition
» Half-Life 2
» Counter-Strike: Source
» Half-Life 1: Source
» Half-Life 2 T-Shirt
» Prima Book Sampler
Note: This version will contain the games on a DVD.

Steam Offerings

» Bronze
» Half-Life 2*
» Counter-Strike: Source

» Silver
» Half-Life 2*
» Counter-Strike: Source
» Half-Life 1: Source*
» Day of Defeat: Source*
» Valve’s Back Catalog Currently Available On Steam

» Gold
» Half-Life 2*
» Counter-Strike: Source
» Half-Life 1: Source*
» Day of Defeat: Source*
» Valve’s Back Catalog Currently Available On Steam
» Complete Strategy Guide From Prima Games
» 3 Different Half-Life 2 Posters
» Half-Life 2 Hat
» Half-Life 2 Postcard
» Half-Life 2 Stickers
» Half-Life 2 Soundtrack CD
» Chance to win a trip to Valve! (1 trip offered for every 5000 Gold packages purchased).

* To be made available upon product’s release.

No doubt about it, I am going to get the Collector’s Edition.

Reach Tekong at 8.30pm yesterday night, walked all the way to my company line instead of marching. Went up my bunk realise all our food and my liquid shoe polish is gone. Must be those bloody sergeants who took them. Luckily my friend brought in 4 cup noodles.

Only 12 from my platoon turned up, out of around 30. 18 of them must be bloody chao keng idiots. I regretted not getting att c.

Woke up and fall in the usual timing, as usual my platoon sergeants is always not around to bring us for breakfast, luckily the booked-in sergeant was early and brought us there.

Took my IPPT test, before the test start, the officer said those who failed only 1 static station will only that take station. If those who fail more than 2 static stations or fail 2.4km they will have to re-take the whole test. But at any point of time if you fail one static station, you can fall out already. I think all of us in the company fail chin-up. The first station was chin-up, only 1 pass in our company and the rest all failed. Before that the sergeant already said after the chin-up station all of us will fall out and he was right. And he said “Operation: Fallout Accomplished”. LOL. The sergeant who was following the only person who pass pull-up keep grumbling how come he pass. That was really comedy gold.

The whole thing finishes even before 9am. But just as thought we can book out at 10.45am, we wasted too much time waiting for instructions and last minute we have to help the sergeants do shit job again. Got all the stores from Jaguar company and distribute those stores for the next batch, and just as I thought that was suppose to be the sergeants work.

I expected this will happen but I did not expect we are taking the 12.30pm fastcraft instead of 10.45am. Bloody bastards.

Just booked in to do 3 chin-ups which just takes only 5 minutes and spend 2 hours waiting and 2 hours doing shit job. For those people enlisting in NS soon, next time if there is a re-test after POP, just take att c. I regretted not doing so.

Had my lunch at Ikea and went to Outram Polyclinic to get a referrer letter to General Hospital or Nation Skin Center to remove my “corn” on my last toe. It is very irritating. The appointment is at 10.15am, 19th October 2004. Medical benefits for NSF is very good. Almost everything is free. Must fully make use of the benefits, next time must go book a dental appointment.

Saturday
Went to visit my grandfather and my auntie in Toa Payoh, been months since I last visited them. Kinda miss them because when I was young I stayed at my auntie house and my grandfather house was just opposite.

Had Kuay Chup for dinner, cheap and good, 4 of us eat only $7.80.

Met up with YongTang, Calvin, ZhiWei, Victor and JingWei for supper at Maxwell Market. This time round is YongTang come and fetch me. I still dare not drive my dad’s car. Got to wait till my mom’s car come which is somewhere in October before I drive again. After Maxwell, went to the 7-11 opposite Tiong Bahru Plaza, bought some drinks and sat down there and talk cock. Listen quite alot of scary and interesting story from police as YongTang is in police.

Sunday
Went to pray my grandmother, after that went to Lei Garden for Tim Sum. Is really a small world, saw my uncle (mom’s younger brother) there together with his wife family.

Later on when walking to Heeren, saw Lynn. She really slimmed down alot, looks so skinny now. Then in Heeren, I saw one girl look so much like Serene. The way she dress, clothes, her hairstyle and her face is almost the same. For a moment I thought it was Serene.

While buying drink at Spinelli, there was this couple queueing next to me. The guy look so much like Glen Ong, then when I look closely, the girl is Jamie Yeo, so that makes that guy Glen Ong. Jamie Yeo in person is very chio but just a little bit too skinny.

Going to have dinner at Swenens at White Sands before taking the TIBS bus at 7pm.

Thursday
Had my Pass Out Parade(POP) at around 4pm. Everything went on smoothly, even the human traffic is very well regulated as compared to the parents visiting day.

After the parade ended, all of us from Pegasus(including sergeants) form a very huge circle with our OC and 2IC in the middle and we sang Peng You, the feeling was very good.

Alot of people took pictures with our Sergeant Major because he is the only CSM in red berret. Snacks was quite good. We are the 4th company to leave Tekong. Reached Singapore at around 7.30pm.

Met up with Pei Jun at Tiong Bahru Plaza for a chat/dinner, the last time I saw her was before enlisting in army. Had dinner at a cafe located just outside GV Tiong Bahru. Surprisingly the cafe was empty and we are the only customers inside. The food was not bad and the price is reasonable.

Friday
Had breakfast at my house’s downstairs coffeeshop with Calvin. It has been at least 5 months since I ate the Wan Ton Mee there.

Met up with my section mates at Plaza Singapura for a movie, but every single time slot of New Police Story was selling fast, thus we end up watching it at Suntec City.

The show is good, very worth my $8.50, it is not really a typical Jacky Chan movie, maybe that explains why it is good. Wanted to watch a movie marathon all the way till next morning but as usual after the first movies, many of them backed up and we cancelled the plan.

Had dinner at Fish & Co, this time I did not eat the Seafood Platter, instead I ate the fish and chips. It was quite good.

Life In Tekong
On Monday had my OC evening, it was fun, with more than enough food for everyone and I think my platoon and platoon 4 performance was very outstanding because the other 2 platoons just sang songs and it was boring.

Had my SOC Trial Test, timing was around 12.30 because it took me 5 tries just to clear the low wall. Suppose to take the actual test on Tuesday but suay suay there is an IPPT retest on that day and thus I have to take the IPPT retest instead of the SOC test. But I chao keng and did not take the retest because I know I sure fail one. LOL

The thing I hate most torwards the end of BMT is the POP rehearsal, 5 bloody hours standing there doing the whole parade over and over again. And the voice of Mohawk CSM and the School 2 SSM just irritates me further. Mohawk CSM always say “Its Horrrible”.

As usual, our sergeants always not around, wanted to take pictures with them during POP but none of them are around because they got duties to do.

Will be booking in tomorrow at 7.15pm for a IPPT re-test on Monday at 7.30am. Will be booking out at 11am after the test. I don’t feel sian because 3/4 of my platoon will be booking in also because either they fail IPPT or fail SOC. LOL

Thinking back, BMT was very fun and enjoyable but not PTP. During PTP we got fucked like we never got fucked before, almost every 2 days got Stand By Area/Bed because there is just too much free time.

In BMT, sometimes in a week do not even have a standby and we seldom got punished. We suppose to have a Stand By Universe on the last day, but due to lack of time, we just fall in for the POP instead. My favourite item for the whole BMT is still Live Range.

Pegasus Song
I may never march in the infantry,
Ride in the cavalry,
Shoot the artillery,
I may never march in the infantry,
But I’m Pegasus Company ya.

Saturday
Booked out the earliest so far, took the 8am fastcraft, reached Singapore at 8.30am. Had breakfast at Hans with my parents before meeting up with LiXiang for The Terminal at GV Marina.

The show is slightly more than 2 hours long, is a good show, nice storyline (based on a true story) with a little touch of romance.

Tried the new 6 piece shrimps from Mac Donald’s, it is so tiny and nothing special about it, Mos Burger’s shrimp is still the best.

Met up with Laily, Serene, Geargina, Suqin and Johnson to celebrate Johnson’s 20th Birthday at Kuali - The Asian Kitchen in Suntec City. The food there is very average and thus it is overpriced. The Joaquim Buffet Restaurant is much better.

Went to the Chocolate Bar at Esplanade to chill out. Saw Ismail and Hafiz there. Chatted with them for a while. Didn’t realise that Chee Ming, Ismail and Darren is in Ninja, so close to Pegasus but didn’t notice them. Damn, I can’t remember which coy Hafiz is in.

Happy Belated 20th Birthday AiLian and
Happy Belated 20th Birthday Johnson

Sunday
Went to Waterloo Street’s Temple to pray before going to Din Tai Fung for lunch. I didn’t realise that there is Social Studies in ‘O’ Levels till my brother bought the book.

Bought 2 pairs of toe socks from Takashimaya for my 24km road march in the hope that it will prevent blisters. Had some snacks at Blood Cafe before heading home.

This past weeks had been editing Invision Forum skins to match my site layout, screenshot #1, screenshot #2. Will be relaunching my forums mainly for support on my WordPress Hacks. Had been getting lots of email about that, so I think a forum will ease the trouble of replying the emails.

Life In Tekong
Had been in Tekong for 7 days and that sucks. Had my live grenade throwing on Sunday, I think the grenade power is reduced to 30% or was it 70%, but nevertheless it is very loud. Out of my whole coy, there is only 1 blind. Suppose to wait for 30 minutes, but the demo man just go to the grenade after 5 minutes and detonate it and the sound is even louder.

Had my IPPT final test on Wednesday, as expected I failed, failed by 3 chin-ups. Shuttle Run: 10.2s, SBJ: 216cm, Situp: 51, Chin-up: 3, 2.4km: 10.48min. Total 15 points.

Got selected for MP(Military Police) interview, they really did lots of filtering, but luckily I am still in it. Hopefully can get posted to MP.

Had my 16km route-march on Friday together with MoHawk, Raven and Orion. Was the last coy to leave but the 2nd one to come back to BMTC. Raven was the first because they get to booked out after that and of course they will be super motivated. The rest only get to book out on Saturday morning.

Returned all the stores right after the route-march and emptied almost 3/4 of my cupboard to my black trolley bag

Monday: SOC Trial Test, OC’s Evening
Tuesday: SOC Test
Wednesday: 24km route-march
Thursday: Pass Out Parade.

4 more days to POP!

Booked out yesterday night, reached Singapore at 8.30pm. Suppose to booked out tonight, but they had changed the schedule. They postponed the Live Grenade Throwing to Sunday instead of Saturday, which means I will be booking in later at 8.15pm. Very short weekend indeed, less than 24 hours.

Bloody company that organising the CO’s evening set the theme for that night to be cultural (I can’t remember the word to use, but I know the word starts with letter e), which means we are suppose to find cultural clothes within that “less than 24 hours” booked out time. I can’t be bothered about it, shall be wearing formal.

This week is really a hectic week, everyday had been waking up at 4.45am and falling in at 5.15am because of 1 day GAC (Grenade Assault Course) and 3 days Live Range.

Just as I thought my uniform will be free of sand after BIC and BAC, GAC came. I really hate leopard crawling.

Live range was very fun, 1st time I shot, I was shocked by the recoil because it was 10x the power of the recoil in IMT. But once you are used to it, the recoil is nothing much. Live range was quite easy to pass. I think I got 23 shots out of 32 shots. Marksmanship is 28 hots. But waiting to shoot is really boring. Shooting takes around 15 minutes and you had to wait like an hour or more just to shoot that 15 minutes. Night firing starts at 7pm. If you are the first detail, it is not really night, by using the small aperture you can still see clearly. But once night comes, the firing is very spectacular, we used tracer rounds and you can see laser effects just like starwars.

They are plenty of stars in the night, you can never get that view in Singapore. On the 2nd day afternoon, we saw a ring instead of the sun, it was something unique.

Finally Pegasus did well for live range, they did everything very fast, 1st night we reached company line at 11.30pm,2nd night we reached at 8.30pm. Considered other companies reached back pass 12 midnight.

Now left with live grenade throwing, 4 SOCS, 1 IPPT test, 16km and 24km route-march and that concludes my BMT phrase.

Will be having my CO’s Parade and CO’s Evening on Tuesday, IPPT test on Wednesday, Games day on Thursday, 16km route-march on Friday and Saturday will be my last booked out.

12 more days to POP!

Saturday
Reach Singapore at around 12.30pm. Wanted to catch Bourne Supremacy at GV Tiong Bahru at 1.50pm, but couldn’t make it on time, thus I had lunch with my family at Alexander Village eating the Depot Road laksa. No idea why I was so thirsty at that time. Drank 4 types of drinks (soya bean, ice milk tea, banana milkshake and olong tea) while having my meal.

Came home meddle about with my computer. The 2nd phrase of Half-Life 2 pre-loading begun, this time it pre-loads around 900mb worth of audio data. Windows Media Player 10 has also been released. It has so much improvements compared to WMP 9.

Met up with LiXiang and Laily at Far East Plaza for some shopping. I didn’t buy anything though. I spend most of my money on food. Whenever I booked out, I always have cravings for desserts like ice cream, cakes and chocolates. Had dinner at Scotts foodcourt, tried out the stall, Chef@Work. It was rather good. It serves western food at a cheap price with a reasonable portion, even though it was not filling for me. NS guys always eat alot.

Had dessert at Blood Cafe. The cakes, drinks, salads and sandwiches there is fantastic but the price is rather expensive. Not many people know that there is a cafe inside Project Blood Brother Shop at Paragon.

Went to HMV to check out the release date of Fatboy Slim latest album, Palookaville. It will be release on 4th October 2004. Eminem will also be releasing his new album, Encore, on 16th November 2004.

Caught Garfield at Cineleisure at 9.30pm. Suppose to watch the 7.40pm show, but it was sold out even though LiXiang bought the tickets at 2pm. The movie was rather short, around 90 minutes. Overall the movie was ok, animation and physics of Garfield was rather excellent. Heard from Laily that 300 animators did the animation of Garfield.

Sunday
Had brunch at Akashi Japanese Restaurant at Tanglin Shopping Center before going to Orchard Road for a walk. My brother and I bought 2 Adidas polo shirt, it was a new design. My mom bought 1 Adidas t-shirt and a track pants. My family just love Adidas products.

Had dessert at Blood Cafe again, this time I tried the Cesar Salad and the Chocolate milkshake. The salad was good while the chocolate milkshake was excellent. It is the best milkshake I had drank so far.

Mom going to cook dinner tonight. Finally some home-cooked food.

Life In Tekong
Had SIT test on Monday to Wednesday. We had our 8km roadmarch to the SIT test site, which is at the reclaimed land. The roadmarch was not that shag because of the rest during the weekends. 1st day was all lectures. 2nd and 3rd day had our 4km fast march and 2km fast march respectively, and that was quite shag. They are supposed to shag us out before taking the test to see whether we can think when we are shag. The missions was quite fun, it involves alot of tieing ropes on the logs. The walking part before every missions is kinda fucked up, we walked round and round just to get to the next station, even though the next station is just behind us. Kinda lame.

Had BAC (Basic Assault Course) on Thursday, the final run down of BCCT, my whole uniform was very dirty, much more dirty than the BIC. But BAC is not as shag as BIC.

Had IPPT Trial test on Friday. Got 14 points in total, but still fail because of my chin-up. Did 51 sit-ups, 10.3s for shuttle run, 216cm for SBJ, 2 for chin-ups and 11.01 min for 2.4km. Finally I passed my SBJ and break the zero barrier for my chin-up, was quite happy about it even though I fail.

Initially there was RT (Remedial Training) because too many people fail 2.4km in the company, but after some clarification from the Sergeant Major with the PTI, it was the fault of the PTI timing. They are suppose to minus 2 minutes for the interval and not 1 minute. Was very relieved when I heard that.

Had many BTP (Basic Target Practise) this whole week to prepare for the live range. Kinda love the lesson because it is in the IMT, and IMT is air-conditioned.

Going to have my live range on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and live grenade throwing on Saturday. Which means I will book out on Saturday night instead of afternoon. =(

18 days to POP!

Thursday (Graduation Day)
Went back to school for breakfast at FC6. It feels weird when you are the only person wearing uniform, but soon after more NS guys in uniform came. Had wanton mee and seafood soup for lunch. Really missed the food/good old times there. Went to take a token of appreciation from Mr Ahmad for my WSC, it was a pen given by the principle of ICT.

The SP convention center is very nice, with 2 large screens on top on both sides. I was very impressed by it. The whole ceremony took about 2 hours. It was shorter than I expected. You are given 1 white card with barcode on it, once you reach the stage, you have to scan it, then it will read out your name and then you proceed to collect your empty scroll box. Very computerised.

Had a meal at Holland Village Swensens before going back to Tekong.

Another hurdle of studies had just been crossed.

Click here for the graduation photos.

Friday
Reach Singapore at around 7.30pm. First thing I did was go back and bath for 30 minutes, I had never felt that clean for the past 7 days of my field camp.

Had a late dinner at Holland Village’s Swensens, bought back some Ice Cream mooncake. Just love ice cream mooncake.

Met up with my secondary school friends for supper. It has been 3 weeks since I last met them. 1 of them going to ORD in 2 days time, time flies.

Saturday
Met up with LiXiang, Jackey and Johnson at Orchard Road for movie, Alien vs Predator. Also long time didn’t watch movie at Cineleisure because their Internet booking system sucks. They upgraded it, much better but still can’t beat GV’s one.

Got myself a Billabong’s handphone pouch.

Went to City Link’s Akashi Japanese Restaurant for dinner and on they way visited Comex 2004. The whole of Suntec City was VERY crowded. Apple 4g 20GB iPod is just going for $470 and 5 months ago, I bought the 3g 20gb for $748, really heart pain. Sighz.

Got myself a maglite for $29.95 which is using 2x AA batteries which can be used for outfield.

Chill out at Gelato Cafe, it was quite expensive but it is very nice. Had the Banana Waffle with 2 Scopes of ice cream and that cost me $11.30.

Sunday
Went to pray my granny and at the temple located at Waterloo Street because tomorrow is the 15th day of the hungry ghost festival.

Finally had a chance to eat Bak Kut Teh for breakfast after craving for it during the fieldcamp.

Went to Comex 2004 again, got a new digicam, Sony Cybershot DSC-T1. As usual, it will be property of my mom’s company. It is made in Japan and a 5.0MP camera. Got it for $849 with some free gifts. Got a Sony 128mb Memory Stick Duo, Scandisk 256mb Memory Stick Duo, tripod, cleaning kit, carrying case and a $50 Takashimaya shopping vouchers. So the camera just cost around $650 after minusing those stuffs. Wanted to get the TDK DVD DL writer, but it is sold out and I do not have the time to wait for the next batch to come. Think I will get it at Sitex 2004.

Had some light snacks at Marche before coming home.

Will be booking in very early tonight, need to reach Pasir Ris at 6.15pm because tomorrow I will be having my 8km road march and situational test. Another 3 days outfield. Sian.

Life In Tekong
For the past 7 days, I am outfield. You will be shag and dirty like you you never shag and dirty before. But as compared to other companies, I think our outfield quite welfare. We had 1 can drink everyday, had a BBQ session on the 5th day, got to shower on the 4th and 5th day and we got only 1 turn out. We got all these welfare because our OC will be quitting army soon and we are the last batch.

We did 2x 4km run in vest slack, tactical roadmarch in FBO, tactical movement, cover and concealment, firing of blanks, digging of trench and of course BIC (Battle Induction Course).

The reclaimed land is the worst, really a mosquitoes heaven. Mosquitoes fly around like flies. Took me 4 hours to dig the bloody god damn trench there. Had a turn out on that night at 4.30am. Luckily I was awoken by many blue light sticks walking around and I got ready my stuffs before that. As soon as the sergeants threw the thunder flash, I am the first one to take my field pack and got out of my shell script. I feel so proud of that. LOL

Just left with sit test, live grenade throwing and range. Just another 3 more weekends and that marks the end of BMT for me hopefully.

25 days to POP!

My platoon commander must be in a good mood yesterday because he give me such a good book in timing. My graduation ceremony will start tomorrow at 2pm, but must be seated by 1pm. He gave us earlier book out with is today at 8pm and book in tomorrow at 8.30pm. Is more than a day off. Weee..

Finally after studying 3 years, I will be getting my piece of paper tomorrow. Really miss those studying days where the only stress comes from exams and projects, life was quite carefree with less worries.

Those were the days.

Had a SOC rundown today, 500m run + clear all obstacles + another 500m run. Managed to clear all except the low wall. Is bloody shag. I think now I can “fly through” the whole SOC without SBO and rifle.

I also notice that there are not much night training towards the end of PTP till middle of BMT.

35 days to POP!