Beat the System?

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:05:12 GMT

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Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:41:56 GMT

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee I should read this, my bro has one
6 The Bible I should read this too, it apparently sexist and racist. love it.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell I MUST read this, i love his other books.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger but i forgot the story... dammit.
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell Again, i forgot the story. sigh.
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Damn good book. pretty motivational. or emo.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy i got started, but it was too damn heavy.
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll does anyone have the unabridged version? and the Grimm Brother's Fairy Tales unabridged too? Its supposedly pretty violent :)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown i should get around to reading this... populist fic.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding Read the book, read the play, loved it all. its totally the embodiment of the things we do.
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert I read some of the sister novels, and just didnt get me then. too much politics.. hate that shit. but i should read it tho.
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Again, i had the book... couldnt finish it. :/ heavy stuff.
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding LOL GOOD READ. :0
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens i had a small children book.. but it was unabridged. does it count?
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White WHO HASNT READ THIS? cmon, own up.
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad i REALLY REALLY want to read this. who has it?
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery um, no recollection
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams Read it in Sec2, remembered it was a moving story, overcoming all odds kinda story.
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl PLEASE plzz read the adult short stories by Roald Dahl. They are FAR better and way more deep. and usually, has a lot of murder in them.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

This is after a night in Zouk, where i seemingly ran into the whole world, and the whole world was in phuture. at 11.30 the dance floor was packed to the brim! O_O. Met Prof Zhu, Winfred, Gerbert, their PCME class(no idea what their names were), Donovan and his friends, ATO of BMTC Sch 1, and lastly, Jasmine whom we met in Dbl O.. hahah. Carlsberg! Ftw!

Just one fine day, all alone in Ops Room..

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:29:23 GMT

It has been a long long while i took a book to read in its entirety, and the SDO brought along this book "Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami. 2 hours of solitude, the radio playing softly and total immersion in a sad sad book, with heady feelings of youth.. I can understand some of the emotional undercurrents in the book - everyone has one of the blue days where all your emotions come in in a moment and when you stare out of a window into the clear blue sky and all your memories come back.. where what you love slips out of your grasp, and where sometimes death is all about you - in your mind, your family, and the sudden urge to run away.. all alone. and where you want to remember something in your past, something that impacted you really hard then, but now, its "like shadows lengthening at dusk... a hollow sound that echoes with each kick."

I always struggled with myself and this public image i have to put up - my good female friend once said that i was a "nice guy, but a geek." That crushed me - what i was was NOT right! She was being helpful and constructive, so kudos to her, but sometimes in the midst of change to be accepted, i feel that i am losing what makes me me - this bookworm and net boy. Totally unhealthy, but thats what i grew up as. and even then, i know some ppl wouldnt want to work or hang around me, and thats cos of my lack of? ability and personality.. its just makes me wonder - just what is wrong with me? all my life i have been struggling against this invisible web, that seems to just slow me down; a case of bad karma? everything goes wrong at the most inopportune moment. anything good that comes away just gets taken away painfully later.. as with the case last year. I fear for everything i have.. God? Stop kidding me.

Just let this single application work. Please. I cannot take any more of this. Please dont make me any more lonely than necessary...

Updates?

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:01:45 GMT

I am into R&B! ;D must be all that time in Phuture .. Just went to PartyRendezous on Sat at my friend's jioing - since hes in the organising committee, but the event itself was pretty tame. In short, beauty pageant with some performances interpersed in between.. but R4 SHOULD HAVE been the winner aahhh. Darn it. After that, the bunch of us from HQ went over to phuture.. man. i met quite a few ppl from BMTC. Erwin Shah, yo! Met Kiang Hon and Jason Soh too (He was there purportedly for DINNER, hmmm ;D) Harrison went and got us 2 Jugs of Long Island (ooray for 1-for-1).. Pee and I must have taken 3/4 of a jug together O_O .. Strangely enough it wasnt *as* crowded as Wednesday but still damn crowded.. Did i mention someone did a Merlion at 11pm?? SO DAMN EARLY, rofl. oh well enjoyed myself in the middle but had to leave real soon at 1am, since my mum was bugging me, ahah.

I had been thinking. Ever since i started to clean up my JC stuff, i felt i have become more and more of a stranger.. Ever since i enlisted, i cut a part of myself away and move on. When i come back to it - i find that the old me was too .. inadequate. Not enough of a bastard. Cannot live in this dog-eat-dog world. Everyone was just trying to fuck each other up, save for a small closed group of people you identified with. Army thought me that, and i have less and less tolerance for idiotic people. If you cannot push people down, they will crawl over your head. Hence my zero tolerance for my mum's antics. Just fucking sod off, geez. Everything went to the bastards - guys who act nice are left behind. In all arenas, you get me.

On a separate note, GOTTA LOVE bOA's new single, THE FACE. good beats yea!

LOL, Hilarious Daphy, as usual.

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:16:10 GMT

OH YAH
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I HATE
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HATE HATE4 HATE4 HATE
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not whine
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just
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and bore everyone to death
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tell me what's going on can alr
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plesae lah
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DONT' TELL ME
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ANYTHING TO DO WITH ARMY UNLESS I ASK
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OMG
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i can DIE la
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i mean
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which part of me looks intersted in army???
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O_O
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instead of asking me about my 2342454343 times more interesting life
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tell ME about ARMY?
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WTF?
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as if i know
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all the terms u are referring to
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OMG
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sorry
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im nobt tlaking about you
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u just hit a raw nerve
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cos there's this particular guy who just keeps doing that
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i mean
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id on't even reply periodically
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doesn't he GET IT?!
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...
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i did indeed, didnt i,
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EH
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no lah u didn't
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i don't remember
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=x
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HAHAHAHHAHA
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that is the *1st* time i saw you reply faster than 2 seconds with more than 2 sentences.
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even if u did, that means u pale in comparison to him
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HAHAHAHAHAHA
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LOL
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no lah
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im just
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u know
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TRULY AMAZING, MALAYSIA
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AGITATED!!!
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arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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my god
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Amaziinngg GRACE>>
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i srsly do'nt need to knwo
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I NEED TO PRINT SCREEN THIS
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HOW MANY CLICKS U RAN THIS WEEK
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or what happened
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on this particular day
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Daphy Saying SO MUCH .
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during the run
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etc.
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-,-
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hahahahahha
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sorry
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i mean
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wow, that guy must have really pisssed u off
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its just like
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the right topic at the right time
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so yeah

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that's why

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ARGH

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imba
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-nodnodnodnodnod-
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terrible
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i mean
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it's like wat
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how many months alr
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god.
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can i post this on the net
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seriously, i am laughing like mad.

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:28:08 GMT

i just want a shoulder to weep on..

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:44:06 GMT

commissioning came and went. heh.. i even blocked out everything from my facebook account.. i still have to explain to so many friends that i am NOT an officer, goddamit.

Am i just running away? ..

I gave so much to the Service, and this is what I get back. I shake with anger everytime I am reminded of this.
Forgive and forget? .. Never. The pain may subside, but the anger will remain.

EDIT: Well, one friend of mine said this : Zuo Ren Hen Nan. I'm just saddened by the realities.. to be a bastard to be successful. I have seen people just ditching friends just to be less connected with them - it hurts their rep, u know. in fact my buddy told me that was a valid strategy! wtf man, damn it all!

Now to the next frontier

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:33:02 GMT

I never knew 38 weeks of hell would just... well turn into more hell. This is it then.

I always have this case of staring entrancingly at the forbidden fruit. New Posting tomorrow. Hell in heaven, heaven in hell. As always, the Ouroboros paradox.. how often we misguage situations based on the book covers.

11 more months to ORD. Then i can say, "Hell? Hell, Been there, done that."

Its dark and lonely in here

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:20:01 GMT

I have been reflecting and reflecting ...

so many things have gone wrong.. why? WHY? Most of the time i think its just me, then i think: not everything's wrong cos of me. it just cant be!

its times like this that i feel like just offing myself. You know, if you are just a piece of useless crap, then the world would just be better off w/o you, you know?

Then pride kicks in, and that they always say suicide is for cowards. I aint no coward, i take the bull by its horns!

Then i see so many many flaws with me, and i cant seem to right them.. all inbuilt after so many years.. is that it? Am i doomed for life?

Everyday after that day, i have been thinking. What if?

GOTTA LOVE the new UVERWORLD SINGLE esp: DISCORD ~your voices mix~ ;) ALRIGGHTT. i have to say that group really picks up my spirit. you go UVERWORLD!

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:35:27 GMT

What Beer Are You?
	You are Guinness. You are brooding, bitter, and often in a dark, pensive mood. You are an intellectual and a dreamer, but your passion and emotions can sometimes get the better of you.
Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com

Only after i heard my mum's voice

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:30:46 GMT

I thought i would not cry. But i did.

Now i am determined. Never again. I shall be strong. and prove to you all.

I shall not be trifled with.

I shall not throw any of my stuff away. This shall be the reminder. that Victors write history. I shall now always be the Victor. To the end. whatever the price.

The alternative is just too painful.

As the date draws closer...

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:57:04 GMT

1st up,Helicopter Emplaning and Deplaning (i.e. Boarding and Departure).. Well, after sitting in the Chinook, the Super Puma by comparison is definitely smaller, (I didnt have enough space for my field pack below my seat!) its still quite thrilling to run to the bird (slang for the copter) and board, feeling the thup-thup-thup of the rotor and feeling the downwash and watching the swirl of the dust ... i wonder if the golfers at Raffles Golf Course noticed us?

Ah well, that was fast. The Start of Pro Term has come to Jungle Confidence Course soon enough, and 2 days after National Day shall come the fateful day where i board the plane to Brunei. To me, this has gotta be the hardest exercise, compounded the fact that i have been chosen as an appointment holder (worse case scenario, EX Platoon Commander, which is damn tough, having to navigate in a TOTALLY unfamiliar environment and jaga comms with the Cadet Officer Commanding -- i hope i didnt piss off Nigel too much -- and make snap tactical decisions on the inevitable contacts) i hope to lead my men to victory and not get to our objective with mass casualties or worse, visit the Dutch village, known as Horland. :)

JCC -- Survivor phase... little food and time, wet, humid and dirty.. haix. PRESS ON, SOLDIER!

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:49:01 GMT

Personal relationships, particularly romantic ones, can be the INTJ's Achilles heel. While they are capable of caring deeply for others (usually a select few), and are willing to spend a great deal of time and effort on a relationship, the knowledge and self-confidence that make them so successful in other areas can suddenly abandon or mislead them in interpersonal situations.

This happens in part because many INTJs do not readily grasp the social rituals; for instance, they tend to have little patience and less understanding of such things as small talk and flirtation (which most types consider half the fun of a relationship). To complicate matters, INTJs are usually extremely private people, and can often be naturally impassive as well, which makes them easy to misread and misunderstand. Perhaps the most fundamental problem, however, is that INTJs really want people to make sense. :-) This sometimes results in a peculiar naivete', paralleling that of many Fs -- only instead of expecting inexhaustible affection and empathy from a romantic relationship, the INTJ will expect inexhaustible reasonability and directness.

Probably the strongest INTJ assets in the interpersonal area are their intuitive abilities and their willingness to "work at" a relationship. Although as Ts they do not always have the kind of natural empathy that many Fs do, the Intuitive function can often act as a good substitute by synthesizing the probable meanings behind such things as tone of voice, turn of phrase, and facial expression. This ability can then be honed and directed by consistent, repeated efforts to understand and support those they care about, and those relationships which ultimately do become established with an INTJ tend to be characterized by their robustness, stability, and good communications.

As mates, INTJs want harmony and order in the home and in relationships. They are the most independent of all types. They will trust their intuitions about others when making choices of friends and mates, even in the face of contradictory evidence and pressures applied by others. The emotions of an INTJ are hard to read, and neither male nor female INTJ is apt to express emotional reactions. At times, both will seem cold, reserved, and unresponsive, while in fact INTJs are almost hypersensitive to signals of rejection from those for whom they care. In social situations, INTJs may also be unresponsive and may neglect to observe small rituals designed to put others at their ease. For example, INTJs may communicate that time is wasted if used for idle dialogue, and thus people receive a sense of hurry from an INTJ which is not always intended. In their interpersonal relationships, INTJs are usually better in a working situation than in recreational situations. They do not enjoy physical contact except with a chosen few.

oh well this (and others) just prove everything about me.. i'm a great colleague but a so-so buddy .. and lets not move on to the aspect of a romantic partner. Referring to JuniorFatty's post on I-T- thinking, the whole problem is laid out bare. But what can i do about it? So many variables..

EDIT: To INTJs authority based on position, rank, title, or publication has absolutely no force. This type is not likely to succumb to the magic of slogans, watchwords, or shibboleths. If an idea or position makes sense to an INTJ, it will be adopted, if it doesn't, it won't, regardless of who took the position or generated the idea. As with the INTP, authority per se does not impress the INTJ.

INDEED. Yo Mum, are you reading this?

To the end and beyond

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:49:48 GMT

Stuff worse than 21-days OBS? .. Come join SAF's JCC (Jungle Confidence Course!) Survive on little food and alone outdoors in a foreign land for 9 days! :>... For the pride of the queen of the battlefield and the green beret!

ok i'm really not that optimistic but yeah. a few more final humps and obstacles and i'm through! Commissioning on 15 Dec, here i come!!

EDIT: wtf lol?? our Survival Kit includes 1 Condom each? i guess its for storing water, like the Scouts, i hope o_0

Service Term D+1

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:21:56 GMT

I guess it will never be the same again.. Things always change, and the Army is no different. OCS 'D' 67/07 Service Term (translation: Officer Cadet School Delta Wing 67th Batch 2007) has come to an end, and for me, a conclusive end. Ipassed SOC on the last week of ST, and now all thats left to me are the overseas training assignments over 1/2 a year! whew...

Its just the 1st day, but i guess it would never be the same again. The Corridors are now so quiet, without the constant verbal sparring of our members. Some of our best funnymen have left for support arms, (Lloyd, James) and both Marks (Some of my best buddies) have left for signals.. YOU GUYS OWE ME A TREAT, SLACKER ppl. And of course so many have disrupted for medicine.. you guys are going back into CIVVIE life!! :P Think of us tramping around Brunei when u are sitting on your soft behind in the lecture halls and falling asleep.. Stand to the side! :X and Lastly, to my great pals, Yong Liang, Huan Ting, Kai Siong, all SPF SAF OS scholars, who would be going for OBS (-_-, lame la, 2km march in the jungle. we have done our 23km Graduation March! ow, my abrasions still sting :p) for their Pre-departure Course, and moving onto Overseas life (May you find a chio ang moh chick. hahahax) . May you have the time to come down on 15th Dec to Comission together and wear the no1 :p

"He who stands with me shall be my brother."
DELTA DELTA AWOO!

I PASSED! PASSED!

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:30:43 GMT

WOOOOOOTT I'M INTo Professional Term!! HAHAHHA

SOC NIUUUU~~~

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:48:45 GMT

no more support arms, and say hello to PRB ><

on the other hand, i only failed by 10 seconds. MOFO OMFG RUNSPRINTNOREST -> Passed!! arghhhhh12342104i349-0

on facebook, i'm just quite amused by the fact that on a group called "NS should be appreciated" has most members not belonging to NS, its just bull. Only people who have been through it should be qualified to talk. But i agree that NS should be kept. to me, the main reason is the brotherhood forged in the NS, (probably more relevant to the Combat Services), through the thick and thin. Nothing in the civilian life can provide that tough times. Its just amazing what sitting around in the dang forests, covered in mud, tired, shagged and just talking and chewing on rations can do for friendship.

Now your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Marine Corps

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:39:33 GMT

I will not fail. I must overcome the pain and fatigue. I will pass SOC. I will conquer the wall and rope. I cannot believe that such inanimate objects (a 2m high wall ad a 2m long rope) can induce such strong feelings of hostility and frustration. Damn you all. FUCK you all.

I have went through
Leadership Field Camp: Navigating up and down Knolls up to 85 in height.
Section Field Camp: 7 days of absolute hell in mud, dirt and grime in Tekong.
Patrol Field Camp: 2 days of back to back missions
Platoon Field Camp: Platoon Battle Course, Attack (bashing through 1km of forests in FBO) and Defence (digging for 9 hours through the night up to chest height).
Route Marches

I WILL NOT FAIL AND LET YOU KICK ME OUT.

i think its illegal to do this in camp

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:45:13 GMT

but i just gotta say ciao for 7 days in tekong. cya in 2 weeks. They burned my labour day... i'm booking out for SAT IIs otherwise i'm confined for 3 weeks. ggxx.

rush OCS rush

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:40:31 GMT

well no one said OCS was gonna be easy but hey man its quite tough. Imagine you are in a 17/5 School in which you have to study as hard as you did in JC, + morning PT everyday (Delta Wing is xiong lar our PT is 2x everyone else. who else does 5BX in the morning before a field trip to signals? 1st day was a 3km run, next 2 dys were sets of 50 pushups and crunches and max rep pullups o_0) not to mention that we have to double from point to point .. sigh.

oh the other hand, live range was fun! the SAR21 is much improved for the Asian build and the scope makes it possible to blast targets at a much further distance. anndd.. shooting at night with night goggles is really quite cool. Some bobo shooter 2 lanes besides me shot a 5m spherical radius all around the target. hahah :X the NVG makes night firefights fun .. for once :X

12 hours for bookout! UWA!

LOL!

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:29:32 GMT

I took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test!

"Fascinated by the idea of an idealized association..."

Click here to read the rest of the results.

taken from Juniorfatty and its pretty damn accurate!! HAHAHA.. strange.

well POP just over but damn fucked up, since it only drizzled and they cancelled our Drill Competition 1st Segment, before continuing the rest of the parade. but oh well our Company Sergeant Major says we are good, the School Sergeant Major says we are good, and we got the 98/100 and the trophy to show for it so yeah! We ARE t3h WINNERS!

All those interested kindly make a trip to Pulau Tekong School 1 F Coy Line Coy Office to see the trophy to see my (and 29 other) signature. meheheheheh.

3 days into CNY... or 2?

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:18:39 GMT

hoho what a long hiatus - 1.5 months into army life and here i am - 2 more route marches (16km and 24 km with that goddamned fieldpack!! strangely i like outfield. i just hate the walking- i aint a German landser![a WWII name for German non-mechanised infantry, who walked all the way from Berlin to Moscow, and those who lived, walked back]) and HG throw and we are through..

thank goodness i was in a uniformed group for 4 years so i am more accustomed to the rush to wait and wait to rush syndrome afflicting any regimental group .. as they say "Hurry up and wait, soldier!" all those sportsmen (i have a couple of RJ dudes in my company, Chung Sen is one of them, and he cant stand the lifestyle.. i understand the feeling myself. i mean all of us started raring to go, but now? not many want to go to OCS already - i finally realised what Sam meant when he said he was bored of all the forests!haha ) still i'm just worried about the PT in OCS - its quite sick. 5 BX = 20 counts of 5 BX + 1.6k run w or w/o skeletal battle order inclusive of 2 dummy grenades and 4 full mags which roughly goes to about 8kg of dead weight! and thats without the weapon.. which would push it to about 12kg. o__000!!!

oh well i wanted to claim my extra 12 hours from SAF (tio guard duty on that island!! standing for 2 hours from 1am to 3am on a obviously empty island isnt my idea of fun ;X) but being the kiasu me i'm just gonna book in with the rest of my company.. on tuesday instead of wednesday sigh.

I think Master Warrant Ben's stories aint Restricted so blogging about them shld be k :p I mean this guy is some serious sick shit. Went thru US SEAL, Taiwan SEAL, Ranger, Airborne training o_0! just the morning PT of US SEAL is already suicidal.. swimming 10k in 16 F water (its so cold you get hypothermia the second you touch the water) after which you run in sand! oh btw you are essentially stark naked for the 10km swim. And the Hell week is really hell .. no sleep for 7 days and you have to go thru intensive training. according to him, by the 4th day he was hallucinating and losing control of his bodily functions i.e. you can be standing still and talking to your commander and you would just pass motion or pee, and you cant do anything about it. heck, you dont even know you are doing it!

hes 40+ and his 2.4 timing is sub 9 min. !!!!!

oh wells that shld be all.. for now :)

All the loose ends are finally tied up.

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:45:06 GMT

or maybe not... yesterday was the last day at my temp job at sales.. (it was quite fun and all-out chiong with it being totally based on commission but hey! Now i would like it better to sit down at a desk all-day :)) and the last of my wages trickle in.. (heehee its real fun to count 100 and 50 bills instead of seeing a number in your bank acc but oh well) and its off to Tekong in 5 days time.

Sat a long while looking through the Raffles Outlook and i've been thinking. the sheer difference between our worlds and the rest of Singapore is just so ming-boggling. Surreal. I pale in comparison with my peers who have achieved so much in 2 years, but in my workplace I try not to talk so much about my results, but cant help it. (I achieved too much in too short a time.. at my 5th day at my job, i already racked up 350 bucks in sales value and by my 10th, i was in joint 2nd for the non-leaders section. Not to mention my boss thought i was dependable upon to bring in the sales.. Constantly mediocre, as i would like to think :X) And its just so strange.. Its just so full of people stuck in the lower rungs of the academic ladder, and i just feel so weird about them talking abt my O results. Not to mention they are your proverbial pia kais (smoking since 12, been in and out of jail, stuck at the Ns) but they are still humans, you know? And they do know more about the world than us.. (A Caveat: there was a ACJC girl of my batch working too, so yeah! :P)

I mean, its just a schizophrenic effect. My mind spends too much wrapping and unwrapping about things. And it would just be the same in army. Latest news in, Imppala is in a platoon (of 28 men) of which only 3 completed their As.

But its a great boost to know that our studies WILL get us somewhere. Provided you get a Masters or PhD. If not, you better hope you have a game-winning business plan, otherwise be prepared to be living on 2k a month.

Christmas comes early! ~~ and late for some

Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:27:56 GMT

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL - and poor you if you squeezed your way on Orchard Road. God knows what for :p

Well now that some dudes from BMTC have made their way back for a day or two, its great hanging out with them for a while.

Summary: been doing a bit of parttime work here and there, first as a promoter, then as a waiter and now as sales. being pretty good for the most bit but i know i am doomed in the future - always seem to get off on the wrong foot with the boss; its particularly strange. either they always seem to be there when i take my breaks or they have an axe to grind. meeeep.

Christmas eve: hmm well i had to go to the restaurant to help out, so i left at the normal time at 10pm. And of course SMRT kindly shifts back the time of the train to 1.30am so we say heck? why not go dome..(again) and omg, all the J3s from army booked out at the same time! Kok yeonn, Dai, Ross,(the old Guard of the lab) plus a couple others, and me, allan, joey (the kings -_- of the lab) ... and joey didnt join us for dota! kicked him out :P and left promptly at 1.10 ... the NightRider service is a bitch to pay i mean $3~@!@#(U( to take a damn slow service to tampines. Talk about a inelastic supply with no competition. and people were simply going mad on the spray cans and party strings. One would probably take a couple hours to wash every bit of gunk from your hair. and Cue the screaming blangas, i mean wtf. walk into the MRT also need to scream.

Christmas: 2nd day at sales, so damn shag since i had barely 5 hours of sleep and had to work a full day. got one of the worst pick of the lot - Chinatown. Mann.. the place is so packed, but so many stingy fellows. got scolded a couple of times..went like this "Sorry Sir to disturb you.. YOU ARE DISTURBING ME RIGHT NOW" i mean okkk. just a simple No would suffice. :< zzz collected so damn little today. TOMORROW FOR THE BELL!! the christmas party at orchard road as damn happening.. with the christmas village and huge stage and all. Did anyone stay for the whole duration and catch what was going on? please tell me haha.. i had to rush off.

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Bah Gee. Always take the initiative. Always. and .. oh yes have thick skin.with a good speech making skills.

NO REGRETS!

boo on jobs

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:17:25 GMT

just a warning to all who job hunt - no doubt you have by now realised "Raffles/HwaChong" is a magic word in the educational circles, its a straight drop to hell in the main social circumstance. And my mum thinks its weird i dont tell everyone straight off i'm a rafflesian. asking to get a blanket party. (and this rule pertains to your boss too. basically keep such sensitive info on a strictly need-to-know basis. only let your HR/manager know)

just a demonstration: if you dont like to talk much, and ppl dun know you are from some top school, they think you are shy. if they know, they think you are acting big. soooo. keep your head low.

A more direct example: i just went back to work after a 4-day hiatus and the workplace has acquired a new broom. the boss says, "Go use the new broom". Ok, nothing wrong with that. I innocently ask, wheres the new broom? (Ok, i admit, its a lame question, it should be in the storeroom together with the old broom. but just ask right, it gets the answer faster.) Noooo, he has to shout "4 day break and you want to create trouble here!!??" ooohkay, so we are all peace-loving pacifists. and he proceeds to huff his way to the broom and throw it at me.

Was that really warranted? I don't really think so, and my aim right now is just to avoid the daily tirade in the morning... :X