First day of school...

Today... 31st of July 2007, is my first day at school....

At 1200hrs, i stepped into the lecture theater, on the 4th floor... and sat alone, by the corner, while waiting for the lecturer...

Nothing much interesting happened.... but felt kinda lonely all of a sudden... don't know anyone... don't know anything...
Abit out of the group like that...

At least most of the people there come in groups... got company...

I'm all alone....

Haiz....

But at least one thing is good... the lecturer is quite funny... haha...
We spent around 1 hour plus doing some introduction... actually only the lecturer is talking... then talk some nonsense here and there... first day of school mah....
Only started lesson proper at the last hour.... not bad... haha...

After lesson... went to walk around the school compund... walked into the library for awhile... but decided to walk out after that.... felt too strange liao... 1 person...

Think i need some getting use to life in SIM.... haha...

Since it has been a fact, got to accept it...
In life, you won't always get what you want, so you got to learn to adapt, and make the best out of whatever available...

Maybe i should get my target straight right from the start... FCH...

Yes.. First Class Honours....

That's my target.....

Got to go sleep liao... tomorrow still got work...

The Dark Angel.... lonely in SIM...

Yet another busy week...

Busy busy....

Yet another busy week... and again... worked almost the whole week... except for Friday and Sunday...
Mostly afternoons sessions... sometimes 2 sessions per day.... but got one is 0730 at YJC.... crazy man.... had to drive there... to do a 1 hour lesson only.... think part of their PE lesson...

Friday... LSC.... finally doing some more useful training.... more serious rescues le....

Had initially wanted to quit because the course seem to be going very slow... but now that it is picking up.... guess i will carry on with it... complete the whole thing and get my Bronze Medallion.... then can go Sentosa work part-time liao.... haha...
But think that will take another 3-4 months... or more....

Sian.... very slow course man....

My cousin recently confirmed with me that she got a complimentary diving course voucher, and she want to give it to me since she's not into it... but up till now haven't give leh... then it expires in September...

Darn.... hopes she remembers to pass it to me soon... luckily the course will only take a few day...
Looking forward to learning diving.... read that it is almost like mediation... because in the water... there is only nature and you... no sound... no nothing.... very peaceful....
Unless of course there is a shark biting your leg... then will have abit of blood... but still very peaceful... because you can't scream in the water.... ^_^
Just abit of pain though....


Anyway... this morning had a basketball session.... played with a group of China people... was rather ok... just abit noisy... didn't pay much attention to it though...
Nice weather...because it was going to rain le... so rather cooling.. not hot at all...
But my performance was rather un-satisfactory today... didn't quite get as much shots in... something just didn't seem right when i started playing....
Hmmm... did the climb to MK changed me so much?
Or was it the fatigue from working?
Or was it just plain too irregular playing?

Oh well... doesn't matter.... all in the name of fun... as long as you've enjoyed it... it's good enough....

Unfortunately, our common basketball was lost today, or should i say stolen... due to some unfortunate incidents... don't know who... don't know when... Gone...
Oh well... time to get a new ball anyway...

A conversation topic during lunch today sort of triggered me to make some comments here...
It was about being rich....

I just want to say this.... Rich is a relative term... a billionaire is considered rich to a millionaire, but the millionaire may see other millionaires as normal....
Most of us, to a beggar, are considered very rich... at least we have a roof above our head...
I don't consider myself being rich, i just happen to be more blessed.... Compared to a billionaire... i am peanuts.... maybe roasted ones...

My point here is there, why even compare in the first place? What's with saying other people is rich and stuff?
There's no end to comparing, i'm rich to you, he's rich to me, Bill Gates is rich to everybody....so why even bother about it in the first place?

Being rich in monetary sense is not all there is to life...although honestly, it plays a big part.. What's the use of having all the money in the world, but a sick body, or a sick mind??

I believe we should learn to fulfill our inner self more, enrich our souls, be rich in knowledge, in the soul... in the mind...
Money... as the Buddhist saying... is just a foreign object.... "shen wai wu"...
With or without money, the world still turns... so why lament about not being rich? Instead, why not use that energy to learn how to get rich?

Don't compare... you will only make yourself more miserable .....

Busy week...

Had a rather busy week... worked almost everyday, from Monday till Saturday, except for Thursday... went for a SIM enrollment talk...

A very good thing though... is that my work is usually in the afternoon, so can actually sleep more...
Bad thing... well... i have to keep traveling to alot of places... because i have to get to different schools...
And sometimes, it is quite tiring... if i did 2 sessions per day... back to back... mentally draining man....

But still.... it is certainly better than doing nothing.... like what i did today... felt so bored already...

Oh yar... went to check my bank account today... finally got my first pay slip.. for the month of June... got $133.00... although it may not seem alot, it is at least something i am proud to say is earned by myself...
And considering the hours i put in... it is definitely quite a sum.. $6/hr...

With this week... i will be promoted to $8/hr liao.... Muahaha....

Going to save up for a new back pack that i have been eyeing for the past few months... it's around $175 the last time i check... so maybe i'll go get it after i got $200 of pay...

On Thursday.. had some sort of a break from work... went SIM for a enrollment talk, only to find out that it is the same as the one i attended last month.... but at least this time Luis also went... so got company...
Oh well... at least i got another SIM file package... inside got foolscape paper and pen... haha....
Also get to eat the snacks which i didn't get to eat the other time...
And met Yi Ming and another SRJC guy.. forgot his name.. remember he is from rock moc... they also going SIM... haha...
Oh well... looks like we will be having abit of SRJCians there...

After that... went Luis's house to chill for awhile... play Wii..... and i must say.. it certainly is quite a fun console... can exercise while playing.... quite cool.... no wonder it out sold PS3...
Tried out the bowling,golf, tennis and boxing games.... like the bowling one the most... haha... can train the arm....
The boxing one is not bad too... just that it is nto as responsive... would have been better if they can track your hand movements better...
Then after that, went on to meet SHG for basketball match.... had quite a good session.... yup... just that i found out that my stamina is at quite a dangerously low level liao....
Got to do something about it le...

Just a short comment on my work yesterday morning... was coaching a bunch of secondary uniform group girls.... find that their attitude seriously sucks... not all of them... but quite a handful... they can actually refuse to join in for the lesson... just stand at the back... some just talked among themselves... some went to eat...
Then one even talked to my head coach in a very "piss people off "way... the type of tone and words used reminds me of my own experience in ODAC... because someone actually used the same type of attitude to talk to me... using some other thing to press me when i ask her to do something.... Angry.... -_-

Memories.... haiz....

Made me feel like .. WTH.... what kind of uniform groups is this man... never seen a worst group in all my years of interacting with uniform group personnels...
One thing though.. their teacher quite chio.... haha...
But well... with this type of cadets... i wonder how well did she managed the group....

Question marks....

Well... that's about all le.... go sleep liao...

Night cycling trip...

Went for a night cycling trip with the SHG plus De Ming and Dong Hai on Tuesday night... Cycled quite abit of distance....

The whole journey started with them meeting up at SRJC at 23:59, then i met up with them near Ubi area, then we went to Yong Shen's place for supper, then go Bedok, then link to East Coast Park, all the way till Ford road, then to Suntec (above), then Orchard....
After Orchard, we went through Little India to Boon Keng, had breakfast there, then me and TYS went home by the Macpherson road...

This is a group picture of us at the end of East Coast Park, ready to move onto Ford road to town...






This was taken at the Kallnag river there... forgot what bridge this is called... but it is the bridge above kallang river bridge...




This was taken at the fountain of wealth... was quite a risky shot, because earlier on there was a police car patrolling the area, and if you can see.. we actually put my bicycle and Dong Hai's bicycle on top of the monument...Haha...



And here... along Orchard road at about 5a.m., taken infront of some shopping center... forgot what it was.. think it's Atrium...











And finally.... our last pit stop... a Macdonald at Boon Keng...
And Ronald Macdonald was so kind to help us look after our bicycle while we replenish our stomach inside the shop...
Thanks Ronald!!!

And yep.... basically i reached home around 7 a.m., bath and rested.. then went on for my work in the noon....
It had been fun... haha... but it would have been better if i hadn't have to work the next day... would have gone on for the next day.... go further i also don't mind... haha...

In my personal opinion, a bicycle is really the most powerful transport... you can travel anywhere as long as you want, limited only by yourself...
Well... glad that now at least everyone's got a bicycle... at least almost all... we can have many more night cycling trips le... ^_^

Ok.. got to go rest le... recover from the lack of sleep....

Once in a life time experience....In lentor avenue

Yup... had a really cool experience in Lentor avenue yesterday... something which i think not many people will get to try in their life.... haha....

And i get to experience after doing archery coaching at Northbrooks secondary school, for some boy's brigade...


This was taken when i was heading home... all the cars are stationary here.... no one could move... and from what the motorist from the other side of the road told us, there was an accident involving a bus and a lorry... so all 3 lanes of Lentor avenue was blocked... think only the motor bikes can go through....

We were stuck for around 45 minutes to 1 hour... i just switched off my engine, and sat outside to chat with other drivers....

Saw alot of passengers in the taxis getting off.... they rather just walk back to the MRT... though it is quite a distance away...

We waited until the traffic police came to direct us to do a U-turn on the spot to drive back to the junction... think they didn't manage to remove the 2 big vehicles... either that or it will take quite some time for that to do that...




And here... you can see an SMRT long bus reversing... think it is trying to get back into the junction, because it can do a U-turn... too long liao...












And from here, you can see i am actually driving in the same direction of the traffic as the other side of the road... cool man.... i'm actually driving in the opposite direction of Lentor avenue...

I even made a left turn later on... at the guidance of a traffic police of course... ^_^

Been quite busy the whole week.... working in the afternoons from Tuesday till Friday, and on the morning for Saturday... then get to experience this type of thing... haha...

Quite refreshing i guess..... a rather positive view to this massive jam...

Was most busy on Friday though... because i had 3 events packed together... firstly it was doing coaching at Yishun... then go for my life-saving course.... then after that rush to my classmate, Yan Xi's birthday party....
Kinda fun... got to eat alot of ice-cream there... because on of her relative operates a portable ice-cream stall.... and it's been quite a long time since i ate ice-cream... so i kinda stuff myself with it... haha...

Well... at least i have been spending my time more productively now... working almost everyday... the coming week would be even more packed for me... everyday got job...
It's good... haha... finally bringing in some cash....
The other good thing about this job is that, for every assignment, i get $10 allowance transport fee... so i can actually drive to work le... that amount is enough to cover my trip to the west and back... almost...^_^
And that is what i have been doing for the past few days... more convenient to travel around...

Well... guess that's all.... go sleep le...

I'm back...

Yep... back in this sunny island....

A surprise was at the customs... cleared it so smoothly... abit wasted.. maybe i should have bought some DVDs in then.... didn't dare to buy this time because of the scare the other time....

Never mind... still got alot of chance...

Been rather occupied once i got back.... reached home yesterday early morning... around 0200hrs....

Went for my nephew's full-month celebration in the afternoon... then went for my fellow platoon specialist's birthday celebration... 2 of them, Thet Haung and Leonard... they decided to hold it together for the army friends...
Was a rather fresh concept... they held it at a bowling alley... at the Bukit Batok Civil Service Club...
And so.. basically we have some buffet... which i already ate at my nephew there... so didn't eat much... and we have some sort of free flow of bowling... 4 lanes of it man.... ^_^
I practically bowl until my muscle ached... like i just came out of the gym... haha...

This friend was rather... i would say.. thoughtful too... he invited his NUS orientation friends over too.... quite alot of girls.... haha... got quite a few good looking ones too.... ^_^

Sights and sounds....

In the end... we had some competition between the 2 groups.... i wasn't involved... so i went on to practice a new bowling technique my men just taught me... the spinning method...
And i am proud to say... i've finally mastered the new skill... something which i would call the "Ulti" of bowling... Muahahaha....
Seriously proud of myself... managed to learn it within the 1 hour plus... cool man.... i even manage to get a few strikes with it...
The only problem though... is that it's a either go drain or hit method.... once my release is not in place... "long kao" liao...

Then following that... is the usual strip the 2 birthday boys.. infront of the girls... in the bowling alley.... yes... and cake smashing...
Luckily for them... not much people were left... because they were only left with 1 piece... haha...
Man.... we basically just brought camp out with here.... strip people everywhere man...

Following that.... is the craziest thing liao.... we went to play DOTA... 6 of us... for 6 hours and 40 minutes... from around 2300hrs....
It was suppose to be a around 2 hours thingy... i'm not sure how it ended out that late.... till the point that i have to rush home in the morning... before the 0700hrs curfew for my OPC... i reached around 0705hrs though...
And it sure was alot of effort keeping my eyes open while going fast....

But it sure was a fun game.... been quite some time since we last played DOTA together... and it's certainly been a long time since i last played...
But well.. i managed to warm up abit... and play averagely.... haha....
Well... got win and loses.... but the more important thing was that we had fun together... ^_^

And so... because of that... i have to miss my orientation day today... it starts at 0900hrs at SIM... and i haven't slept for the past 20 hours or so.... can't even drive properly... so seriously have to give it a miss... although i had initially planned to go... you know.. can make some friends.... join the ODAC orientation camp...
Well... because of DOTA... i can't liao... guess that's just too bad le...

Hmmm... hope it won't affect my chances of going into ODAC and making it big there though~~~

And the rest of the day.... was spent sleeping... ^_^

Ok... that's about it.... got to go sleep liao... tomorrow still got work... basically... i got work throughout this week.. all in the afternoon...

Heading back to Singapore... soon...

Yup.... been here a little more than a week already... going back later... catching the 2100hrs plane to johor... then head back to Singapore....

Bought quite abit of stuffs already.... made new spectacles... bought new shoes... stationeries.. etc... cheaper to get them here...

Abit wasted though... is that i didn't managed to learn my scuba diving... even though i found a cheaper alternative...3 lessons only....
I didn't have the time... because they only have lessons on every Monday,Wednesday and Friday.. can't make it...

Going already... go check in first...

That's all...

Living in Sabah....

Yep... been in Sabah... since last Friday night....

Nothing special... came here for family gathering.... anyway... it's just like going home... the 2nd home... very used to life here.....

Main activities are buying some stuffs... eat some good food.... watch cable TV....

That's all... haha... boring huh~~~

Actually planned to learn diving here... but the course that my dad found was quite expensive... remember seeing a cheaper lesson when i came here earlier in the year....
So maybe tomorrow go check out the tourism board... see still got or not...

It'll be good to learn it here.... much cheaper as compared to in Singapore....

Ok... getting boring... nothing much to say le... i go watch anime liao... "Blood +"..