Mama Mia
While I was watching this movie, I particularly like the screen where Meryl Streep sang The Winner Takes It All to Pierce Brosnan
However, when I listened to this song again on my ipod, I realised that Meryl Strep, being a great actress, cannot sing.
And she did try out for the role of Eva Peron in the movie adaptation of the musical Evita, which subsquently went to Madonna instead.
Okay Meryl, you have done one musical. It's time to move on and never to look back again :)
I've survived Southern Ridges Walk
Yes, all 9km of the walk, and under the hot hot sun starting from 1230pm.
The whole journey took us about 1h 30mins. Not too bad for a walk in the park.
Started at Pepys Road and ends at HarbourFront. It's hard to find Pepys road.
Watched Mama Mia. Not too bad. Worth that $7.50 ticket price.
Kinda lazy now hence the lack of content in this entry....
Gathering
@ Harry's
A gathering, three years on.
So glad to see old friends once again, after we graduated from NUS, and UCC.
Really miss those times working together in UCC, especially those big events like Channel U's official opening, RenCi Charity shows, National Day Rally (Goh Chok Tong's last and Lee Hsien Loong's first), lots of commencement graduation ceremonies (long hours, good pay!!!), Asian Television Awards (where I got my first photo shot with Kit Chan).
My HKG trip was fun. Lots to eat and shop. Didnt buy much though.
Famous roasted goose *yummy*
Alright, shall not reveal who's bear is this. Is that phone disinfected?
HKG, here i come!
Finally, I'm going hong kong in a few hours' time!
Yeah!
Will come back with lots of food, photos and shopping
:)
Monsoon Season
Noticed that it has been raining for the whole of last week?
I felt so lucky that the monsoon season started only last week instead of the week before. I cannot imagine me soaking in the rain for many days in a row during my power-combo 7 days 6 nights outfield training during my reservist.
Have you ever experience getting soaked completely, down to your briefs and socks? And the best thing is, you have to deal with the wetness until you have an opportunity to change into a fresh set of clothes, which unfortunately is not a every day affair.
So one has to walk around with soggy clothes and socks (yucks!)
So thank god that the rain comes in ONLY after I am done with reservist.
3 more days to my Hong Kong trip! Yeah!
2 more days to Teachers' Day celebrations. Anyone coming back to school to visit mua? School closes at by 12pm on Friday as the school decides to have lunch instead of dinner for all staff members. So catch me if you can :)
SAF holiday package
At least for now.
Noticed I've been missing for a while?
I am away on reservist (note the present tense because I
am still in reservist).
This new camp is much much better than the previous old one. The accommodation, food, and environment are way much better than the previous one. Best of all, there is a business center where we can use Internet facilities! Unheard of in the old days where you cant even bring camera phone into camp, not to say having Internet facilities for our use. While, the camera phone prohibition still remains but you can still smuggle in. Don't tell anyone you heard it from here ya.
Okay, let me talk about the highlight of my 17 days ICT (In-Camp Training aka reservist)
I had just finished a 7D6N
free and easy package outfield training.
YES! 7 days and 6 nights without creature comfort. No shower (yucks), bad food, harsh environment, sucky weather. And my 2 sets of uniform smelt badly. Real badly. I had to sleep in countless forests, together with all the complimentary insects, mozzie and whatever that crawls. Looking back, I dont know how I survived the last 7 days and 6 nights. This was my longest stay outfield since 1998's training in Australia.
Some highlights of my milestone package:
- At least God cared for us by only giving us rain on only 1 out of 7 days. I rather have hot sunny weather than a wet one! It's always better to trek on dusty and hard trails than a muddy one.
- First time taking a ride in a helicopter (Chinnok to be precise, the same type that carries the state flag during each NDP). While there are no pretty stewardess asking what beverage you would like, the 10-minutes ride is once in a lifetime's experience!
- Two nights were spent walking some 5km each. And these are no walk in the park! I had to lug around 2 weapons and my personal belongings and it's miracle that my shoulders are still intact. Some bruises though.
- I realised that during a very hot day, it's always cooler to stand in the shade under a tree than a building
- My company has 3 missions to complete, one of which is FIBUA (Fighting in Built-Up Area aka fighting in HDB buildings). This was the best mission we fought at 3am in the morning, where everything, everywhere was so dark that we cannot recongnise who's who and whether the person standing in front of you is an enemy or not. For this mission, I had a fun time running around the abandoned HDB building, bashing into rooms and shooting friends and foes (remember it's too dark to see?) a-la counterstrike style. Bang Bang
- As all three missions are all fought during the dawn and spread over 7 days, there are plenty of time during the day to sleep and eat and sleep and eat (well..you get the drift). The longest I have slept was some 10 hours! Shiok!
- Outfield training means no luxury of showering facilities and hence, we had to do 'powder bath'. Highly recommended powder would be the snake brand pickering heat powder. Using it is like taking a real shower (well, at least the illusion is)
- Back to the absence of bathing luxury, we also dont have the luxury of changing our clothes on a daily basis. One often has to wear the same set of clothes for a few days before changing a new set (we cannot lug around a 40 by 30cm pulling luggage around unfortunately). When I mentioned clothes, I do not refer only to the uniform but also our socks and briefs. I shall not go into details how my briefs turn out after every 3 days in terms of its colour, smell and what's not >.<
- I tend to eat much lesser during fieldcamps, which is good as it can help me shed a few extra pounds
- The best command that everyone cheered was 'Exercise Cut! Return to Unit'. Yes, I've survived my longest fieldcamp training as a NSman *beams*
One more round anyone? *pui!*
At least the whole of today is spent doing nothing but listening to ipod and sleeping away in the bunk. Cant wait to return to school (I love my job!) and civilisation.
I shouldn't be alive
There was this wonderful series on Arts Central, shown every Friday.
Each episode recounted how people got lost out in the forests, mountains and seas, how they struggled to stay alive and got saved in the end.
Too bad I realised there's such a nice show on TV and I only managed to catch the last few episodes. Damn.
My year 1 MYE results are just in, and for the kids' first major examination here, the passing rate is not too bad. At least the number of U-grades are lower than the number of S-grades, which is another good news.
Quite frustrated at work with another colleague regarding a particular school event, that has caused my councillors to spend so much time on a particular activity. And the best thing is, the organisers only informed us at the very last minute and AFTER my councillors informed me about the plan.
One needs to lead down and across, not only
suck lead up! Read Maxwell's 360-degrees leaders, duh.
*did i sounded sour?*On a happier note, I am going Hong Kong with 3 good friends-cum-colleague come September. Yeah Yeah! Something to look forward to during my 16 days paid holiday by SAF (damn)
