Happy Looney-er New Year!

reunion dinner at grandplaza park hotel was (i admit) my fullest and foolish-est buffet dinner i've had in a long time... cuz my palate was heck-caring my appetite... all the blood rush to my eyes n mouth until my stomach n brain screwed up the negative feedback system. but i dont want to waste food/money ma... so must eat 100%!

3 mini- buddha jumps over the wall, some duck, some ham, some rib, abit of roast suckling pig, some smoked salmon, oysters, a little sashimi, jellyfish, some sushi, softshell crab, spaghetti goreng(?!! i dunno wads tt but looked nice), not-very-good-lobster bisque soup, fondue from a chocolate fountain, abit of french pastry, fruit, n ice cream with toppings. all in one sitting, which i dont think i dare to do again haha.

so damn full i think i could feel the last of the food just at the entrance to the oesophagus. i dont think i even ate this full last yr. Greed can kill us, literally.

went budget visiting today- to my maternal grandmother's n that's it. n the thing abt those people we call relatives is that they just have to say the usual abt "all so big already" n stuff. even though im sure they know abt the log phase. y cant they say sth at least different, like mayb "wah u still so young!" or sth else... or if someone's daring enough then tell the older relatives "all so old already" back to them.

a relative's visit made me realize how silver the spoon in my mouth is... his life is somewhat broken now, because of a teary childhood owing to lack of parental love... drove him off the lateral in his learning years n now he can never catch up with time already. relegated to the middle class, doing full-time what my friends are doing part-time. quite sad. now the family's ok (tts y still can visit us), but abit too late to patch the 28-yr-old's life.

changing is one thing; shortchanging is another... if i become a parent, i'll try to not to spoil my kid, but i'll definitely not deprive him/her... i grew up happily n i'll make sure he/she does :D

watched this recently... i think overall its quite entertaining n funny- all the satirical remarks n the small bits. for a local movie its quite gd, n if it were a didactic school project i think its remarkable... but production-wise i think it leaves quite some room for improvement. maybe its just my expectation for visuals, but the fires n explosions n other CGI is really substandard for a movie tts showing in cinemas. graphics aside, i applaude jneo for his critical stance on singapore(reans?)

been playing tennis lately... luckily i havent lost my touch, although my racquet has lost its touch with the game. string loose, body dirty, grip rotten... i only changed the grip cuz tts the most practical thing to do.

n despite what-they-call-NasdfS, im actually even having time to catch up on Death Note! haha what kind of crap solasdfdier is this... forget it la if there's one thing i'm definitely not cut out to be, that's a Solasdfdier. N its not like i can help it... i am not a chao-geng-er!!! haha serious... who the hell in his right mind (or ear) wants to miss out on live firing n grenadsfades n soasdfc n all that. ok im done with my final declaration.

"Chinese New Year not so far,
people gather round to eat ba gua!"

i sorta miss my bunk n locker(?!!). hahaha cya

no before u start calling me an exploit, let me just say first that i didn't try to push my luck n succeed. it just happened, n here i am sitting at home just 2 damn nights after i booked in last sunday.

first lets have a look at our RO for monday.
0515 wake up 0530 fall in 0545 breakfast 0620 area cleaning 0715 first parade 0730- swimmers go swim, the passers go pass their time in one way or the other (i.e. mope around ur bunk for 3+ hours). 1115- fall in for lunch (btw if u finish lunch early u go back to ur bunk.) 1330- fall in for platoon phototaking, take finish, go back do area cleaning. but what were we doing at 0630? 1530- weights training for abt half an hr 1715- fall in for dinner (same thing abt finishing early) 1900- RO for next day 2200- lights out

counted? thats abt 10plus hours of free time spent in my bunk, on the day just after i book in. no wonder we're destined for clerk.

i had a damn bad sore throat when i booked out last fri. the fever went away n the cough came when i booked in. the sore throat stayed put... then mon night i dunno if it was my coughing, or my bunkmates' that kept me awake but either way. no nice, comfy, dreamy sleep.

some of my bunkmates were still coughing like mad this morning, so we reported sick. an exceptionally large number of ppl reported sick too this morning, almost all with cough/ sore throat. so ONLY NOW did the medical centre realize there's a viral outbreak, n made us leave the camp for at least 3 days. for me quite heng i got 4 days so i only book back in after cny... so here i am lor.

those reported sick yesterday r still in there, unable to come out n yet further propagating the virus. i heard the company's 2ic in deep shit now... need to write report n all that.

come to think of it. do they really think tt this kind of army (no matter what pes) actually exudes deterrence... that this kind of overfocus on do-only-as-and-when-you-are-told regimentation will actually be our basis for survival in military conflict... of course this is only my view la but i think that They (hard to elaborate who) think tt the next war is going to be like those kind the king/ govt says, "Tomorrow We Wage War!" then those ancient desert wars or Black Hawk Down-inspired battles commence, with everyone going tactical n physical on the battleground.

come on la. this viral outbreak should be somewhat THE drill, rather than chorusing "Loyalty to Country! Leadership! Discipline! blahblahblahCare For SOLDIERS!!!" or "your left, your left, your left right! (Taurus!)" or "1check1check1check1check1check1!". our togetherness may be impressive but still i think our training should be in the head, not in our limbs. the next war's probably gonna be biochemical if not highly technological. look, one minor virus poorly controlled, already 'crippling' abt 10-20% of a company- blatantly n ironically- while we're learning to manage rifles n how to survive outfield.

our economy's already gone knowledge-based. why hasn't our military? or is there another purpose for our ARMY, which takes in able-bodied(able-minded) men at 18 years of age(just before getting back a level results) ?
a levels coming out soon... maybe i should consider GOING OVERSEAS? No but THIS IS MY HOMELAND! i love it n i will stay here!

yay im so happy to b back in singapore!
not cuz i'll b able to escape army, but because im simply bored and abhor the drag n drear of tekong and miss singapore.

a somewhat (alotwhat) different but simple insight into another side of arasdfmy life. cuz its PEasdfS C life for the physically (some mentally) disabled n impaired.
what u get if u're in pasdfes c. i dunno if its the same for the other plasdfatoons but at least for taasdfurus plt 2.
1. u're allowed to comasdfplain reasonably n most of the time u're given the beasdfnefit of the doubt. most commonly used phrase by them- "anyone not feeling well, u better soasdfund off... dont garaasdfng act tasdfough"
2. in one way or another, get about 5-6 hoasdfurs of adasdfmin (free) time a day till u get sick of ur basdfunk n basdfed
3. all bark n hardly any bite, all buzz n hardly any sting
4. i told them the doc told me i had a mild spine problem (its the truth arh) but i felt a-okay. they excuasdfsed me from carrying the fieasdfld pack

but our pasdfay stops at $300-400, we dont get to go SasdfOC/OasdfCS/n all the other interesting stuff. thats y most of the peasdfs c r unmotivated to serve esp in tekasdfong... although im sure we indicated otherwise in the survey. for me even worse i dont get to sasdfhoot live (real) rounds or throw greasdfnade because im impaired in the ear. only get to play imasdft- some arcade-simulation of the live range. n of course, im not expecting much of an experience from fieasdfld caasdfmp.

thats y Aasdfrmy life for me is simply put, i confess, sort of a poorly-organised boring chalet. just hurry up, let me ORasdfD n go to university.

Have you ever wondered
Why must we serve
Because we have no choice,
And we want to be freed, to be freed yah

[this entry was warbled in case i got slammed n charged]