Days of my Life

HMV have always been one of my favorite hangout. It’s the only other place in Singapore where you get to ’sample’ songs for free. And it was in one of those occassion where I came across KT Tunstall. I bought her album immediately. Love her voice.

While searching for her MTV in Youtube earlier on, I saw her rendition of The Jacksons 5, I Want You Back. I’m now cracking my brains on how to get the MP3 of it.

I’d asked Maine whether she would like to meet for dinner in Jurong East in the evening. She replied, ‘Later I got appointment with my bf…So sorry..Another time, maybe? =p How’s work so far?’

… She better not complain that I didn’t look her up else I’ll kill her. Still, she’s one very good friend. We are those kind who don’t meet up for months but still can bitch like yesterday when we do eventually meet up.

I’ve lost my faith in Yakult. It’d failed to give me a smooth flow of ‘de-constipation’. Not once, but twice, Worse, I dropped by 7-eleven to get a bottle, only to miss the 0655 bus. What a drag! I had to stand all the way to Bugis on the 0700 bus.

I’d flunked my test yesterday, 65/100. The passing rate is 80%. Back in Poly-years, getting 65% is like passing with flying colors to me. Thanks to the Roaming Subscription part, which I unfortunately, garbra the last minute. Shoot! Jia Yun is more suay, she failed by 1 mark only.

The Biathlon pics are out. About time!

MJ told me to gain more mass on my upper body, so that ‘You will look better’. I told him that I’m not about to have protruding nipples (like his) if I fail to maintain next time. I’m quite happy with this shot. Just finished my 750m swim.

The end point. I should had ran in with my arms in the air, in victory.

MJ had come out with a ‘3 years commitment’ plan. And the below is the flow…

1) Osim Triathlon 2008, Sprint Distance

2) NUS Biathlon 2009, Full Distance

3) Osim Triathlon 2009, Full Distance

4) Aviva Half Iron-Man Triathlon 2010.

He said that by the time he finished that commitment, he’ll be at his peak age of 24. I reminded him that I’ll be at 27 and I will need to think about it. The Aviva Half Iron-Man, I ‘m refering to.

“Can one lah! We are so fierce!”

“But…it’s the Iron-Man we are talking about!”

I had asked what do we have to cover for the Ironman. He said that we will need to swim 1.9m in the open sea ( = 38 laps in the pool), 90.1km on the bike (Our balls can shrink) and followed by a half marathon, 21.1km. I informed Cuiling, online via Live Messenger. She said, ‘Freak’. And I agreed.

He’s dead against joining a Marathon because ‘My max is 10km’. Therefore, I did a trade with him. I’ll join the Iron-Man, if he promise to go for the Standard Chartered Marathon this year. And I didn’t expect that he would say YES! Gosh! I’m in deep shit… haha

The class is rather uptight today, because there’s another test tomorrow. When I stepped into the class early morning, there were already people flipping through the notes , clicking here and there, looking for information on the web. 3 minutes into TODAYS, and I folded it into half and stuffed into my sling bag. It’s kinda sinful to be relaxing when the others are like working so hard.

So far, so good. Everyone get along well with one another. The only very boring thing was the lecture. I even fell asleep 2 times today.

We had changed our seats as the rule required us to. Once a week. I’m now sitting between Eliza and Kenneth. Next to Eliza is Jia Yun.  We were so bored yesterday that Eliza suggested BINGO. Cheap thrill! That senseless game made us more alert. Haha…

I WILL PASS THE TEST TML…

MJ called me last night to inform me that the results are up on the web. He told me that I’m inside the Top 50. I couldn’t believed my ears. I quickly go to the website and found out that I was, indeed, inside the Top 50, finishing at 49th place. The total number of participants are 117, for my wave.

MJ said that it’s considered good for a first-timer and ‘I was born to do it’. What rubbish! Haha… Nevertheless, I managed to complete the 750m swim and 5 km run in 50.09 mins. Darn! I should have picked up my pace to hit a below 50. Never mind! There’s another one coming up in July.

Yesterday was the first test. And I managed to score 86%. The passing mark is capped at 80% which is like, ridiculous. When I was going through Primary/Secondary/Poly-Technic, all I needed to get was 51 marks. Therefore, it was quite a torture to go through it.

 The test is split into 2 parts. The open-ended question before lunch, and the MCQ after lunch. Luckily they scheduled the MCQ and not the open-ended test after lunch, else my lunch would test like fuck!

Lou left yesterday. She had been posted back to Jurong East. Though it had only been a short 5 days, the group of us ain’t strangers. During our 15 mins break, we talked about excercising. She has a membership at Fitness First, which by the way, is rather expensive. Other than that, she also ‘hired’ a trainer to help her during the early stage.

“So they attached a guy or gal to you, or rather, a gay or gal to you?” I asked her.

She told me that a male trainer was attached to her and assured me that he’s 100 percent straight. I questioned her about on her ’sure-ness’, she said, “He got a kid!”

Haha…

Something went wrong with MJ’s transaction the other time. He had asked me to help him register for Biathlon the other time. I helped him first before registering myself. Despite registering later than him, I managed to get the Early Bird Special.

His transaction sort of hang, therefore I had to re-send it. -_-” Later that day, he told me frantically that the Organiser had received 2 transaction under his name but had promised to cancel off one for him. Oops… They cancelled his early bird registration instead.

Upon getting our goodies bag, he went into the ‘Wau Lau!’ mode. As in complaining. I tried to ‘console’ him by saying that maybe it’s the same after-all. He said, “They even took our goodies bag from different sides!” Which is true.

After comparison, I found out that there’s an extra MOS pass (worth $20+) and a sample bottle of Suntan Lotion in my bag. He went banana and accused me of being a bitch for making that error in transaction. He said, “That Suntan Lotion is from Japan and you know how much that cost?”

I shrugged and told him that I ain’t a clue.

“$25!” He snapped. I it out and sort of admire it against the streetlight, and said, “Please! This is only a Trial bottle! At most, it cost only $5!”

Due to the ‘amazing race’, I offered to help him take his bag as he’s on the cell, finding his way around. After all is done, I handed it back to him. He said, “I’ve got your bag!”

I told him that I’m absolutely sure that it’s my bag I’m holding onto. Followed then, I took out the Suntan Lotion and waved at him.

Happy Days!

Jordan be flying off next Tuesday to Sydney for further studies. What a drag! Hopefully, he will be free this Sunday evening for Dinner. It had been a long time since I last saw him.

I got along well with him during Modified SPEC 2. The thing is, we were from the same company, Echo during BSLC in SISPEC. However, it’s only till in Nee Soon Camp that I know of his existence. Same goes for Lubin too. The worst thing is, after exchanging  information, we realised that we had actually bumped into each other during one of the Navigation Exercise in SIPSEC.

It was a night Navigation Exercise. The teams will have to find 2 day check points and 1 night check point. To cut it short, we played cheat. We went to find the night checkpoint during the day. Night came, and in order not to arouse the suspicion of our commander, we sat down, and relaxed one corner.

That’s when I saw this group approaching my team. The one thing that I remembered clearly was that everyone in the team are hobbits. And I talked to one of them. That person is Jordan. He told me that someone had lost a map and if we were to see it, kindly hold on to it.

I remembered thinking to myself, how in the world did that someone loses something that important? Turned out, that someone was Lubin. Later, my group would crossed path with Lubin’s group too.

The group that I’m in was the firs to ne out of the forest but FUCK! We lost the antenna of the signal set. The whole lot had to re-track our steps to look for it.

We did eventually, managed to find it. Not by any of us, but by the Company Sgt Major. Lubin’s map was found too. My group and Lubin was made to go back during one of the public holiday to do area cleaning. Haha… How memorable. I can seriously live without that though.

Anyway, I’d asked Jordan to get me a Vodka when he come back for semester break this November. And he told me that I can stay with him if I ever go to Sydney for vacation.

I’m planning to go next year. If I’m not wrong, the floating Opera House is there. @@

Today is ‘Dress Down’ day. Literally, I don’t really mean taking down the dress but we need not wear formal. The other catch was that the class be ending @ 1730, thirty minutes earlier then the norm. Which is like a ‘Shuang Xi Ling Men’ to me.

A fellow coursemate, Jia Yun, had already made plans for dinner and a movie in the evening. I opt out on the movie the last minute because I’m totally ’shag’ out. It had been tiring for the past 3 days. And I could use the rest. However, both Jason and Jia Yun, managed to persuade me over to the ‘dark side’. Eliza snub me for having a very soft ear and said that I will be bullied by my girlfriend in the future.

It’s a shame that both Esther and Kenneth couldn’t join us for the dinner @ Pastamania. The initial plan was to go cheap. The Foodcourt. However, someone which I had forgotten who pointed out something about us ‘won’t be that close’ and ’sitting in groups’ , that we decided to switch turf to Pastamania. Like other places, there’s a price hike in Pastamania too.

Before we went there, Eliza was so hungry that she said, “I can eat a buffalo, but not pizza!”

Lou and I raised our eyebrows and laughed ourselves silly. We were thinking about the same thing. Isn’ t a pizza way smaller than a Buffalo? I thought that she’s on diet, but she said no. All she said was, “I can only eat 3 pieces and I’m full!”

Ermm…

While waiting for our Pasta, Lou shared with us some of her experience in her ex-company. She said, “I’d once received a call from this guy in the morning! And he’s masturbating!”

The rest of us (including her) laughed ourselves silly. In between laughter, I managed to ask, “How do you know! I mean, How can you tell?”

“He was moaning and groaning away!”

“And what you did?”

She said, “I told him that it’s too early for THAT, Sir! And I hung up!”

Eliza, being an employee from one of the Telecom before, also fed us with information. Lou concluded that it’s the cheapest cybersex around as the 3 various hotlines are free. She also said that once you start, you will know that there’s actually alot of sick people around.

We didn’t managed to get the tickets for Jumper @ The Grand Cathay. While waking back to Plaza Singapura, it suddenly dawned upon me that why Jia Yun (being the organiser) didn’t think of watching at Plaza Sing in the first place? -_-”

Ended up, we also couldn’t get any seats @ Plaza Singapura. Is the show really that good?

Starting tomorrow, I may have to take bus 960 at a stop earlier. Mainly because when I board the bus today, there isn’t any seats and I’m not about to stand for the next 50 mins, doing nothing. I tried reading but had to stop as I felt my stomach churning. Doing a ‘Merlion’ on board bus is the last thing I want to do.

Lessons are quite tough today. I almost dozed off. Not that it’s boring, but I just felt tired. Thankfully, I managed to stay awake throughout.

One of my coursemate, Mary Lou, be leaving on Monday. She’s only in for a 5 day programme as she was once a M1 customer service officer. Lou is a very friendly and cheerful person. I’d fun talking to her. She told me about her days in Starhub, and how different it was working with M1. We concluded that M1 is still the best. Haha…

I met MJ after work. We had agreed to go collect the Biathlon Race Pack together @ NUS. Since he lived in Tampiness, and Paya Lebar just along the same track, he took the MRT down. I sent him a message, asking him to walk against the direction which the train is going and I’ll meet him at the last cabin.

That bitch called and said, “I’ll be in the middle! The cabin where the blue seats are! I have got myself a seat already!”

-_-” Honestly!

Since he never failed to remind that I’m old, I told him that he will have to give up his seats to the elderly (i.e. me) later. Of course that’s just for laugh. Best of all, MY be meeting us for dinner after that. Woohoo!

It suddenly occurred to me that it’s Valentine Day and I’ll be having dinner with 2 guys. Which is quite sad.

MJ truly lived up to his formation. He’s from Guards and he really know his way around. He said with pride, “I didn’t even ’ho lan’ in Brunei!” We don’t know which way to go upon reaching Buona Vista and he’s the one who worked it out.

Kinda Lao Lan of him to say that, but well, that’s him. Haha…

The goodie bag is a steal. Just the free MOS passes alone and our registration fees are ‘covered’. And thanks to early bird special, I only had to pay $29.70. Other than that, there’s the NUM vouchers (I like) and a free NUM cotton Tee (they better give it to us as promised, on the race day), and a swimming cap (I can live without that!).

I make a mental note to join any upcomings major events. Just for the freebies. Haha…

If MJ didn’t brought the issue up, I had totally clean forgotten about it. Out of the Charlie Batch, we are the only 2 who are posted to ’siong’ units. He went to Guards while I went to HQ 2SIB, later attached to 1 SIR for their Atec. And he said, “You and I are the strongest of the lot!”

I told him that if I survive this, I may join the Osim Mini-Triathlon. And he said, “That’s for kids! Don’t make me despise you!”

I couldn’t sleep well last night. Not that I have butterflies in my stomach, but I just can’t seem to sleep. Just when I was a step away from Dreamland, I suddenly remembered that I’d forgotten to tie my Oreo Tornado Donuts from Munchie up. Fearing that it’ll be infested by a colony of ants the next morning, I dragged myself out of bed to see to it. I even did a double-knot, just to make sure. And when I got back to bed, I was staring at the wide space ahead.

0241. I woke up for a pee. That’s something I like about waking up around that time. Call it psychology effect, but if you were to wake up around that time and find out that you have 3 more hours of sleep, it’s a good feeling! Isn’t it? I’ve trained myself well in army, waking up for a pee (I swear by H20, you see?) then back to bed again.

0521. I woke up with a startled. What the fuck! 39 mins more and I’m awake already. I tried to laze around on my bed but the feeling of only able to sleep for 30+ more mins, totally turn me off. I woke up, ate my donuts and read the papers from the previous night. Shit! I’d woke up too early. I made a mental note to set my alarm clock @ 0615 instead of 0559.

I managed to reach the training center @ around 0810. Thanks to the recce yesterday, I’d saved myself an amazing race moment.

I’m quite disappointed to learn that there’ll only be 8 people in the class of 02/08. I was kinda expecting to meet more people. On the bright side, I managed to knew each and everyone of them (by name) by the end of the class. We sticked together as a group.

I don’t know whether is it part of their plan to make us communicate with one another, but they only issued us with 3 security pass. And I’m holding onto one of them. One way or another, we will have to call each other up to open the door for the other one.

And woohoo! There’s a swimming pool beside the training center. I’m toying with the idea of having a swim on Friday, to prepare myself for the Biathlon on Sunday. -_-” I’m still thinking of a cheapest and fastest way to get to East Coast. Urghz…

Maine called while I was on bus 171. I swear to god that I won’t choose option C again. There are 3 best options from the training center back to my home. A) Mrt to Bugis station, then transfer bus 960, B) Mrt to City Hall Station then transfer bus 700 and C) Mrt to City Hall Station then transfer bus 171. It took my close to 2 hours to reach home.

Anyway, she asked me how was my first day. I told her that it was like going back to Poly and attending lectures again. The conversation led to me asking her how long does it take for her reach Bishan (her workplace).

” About 1 and a half hour!”

” Oh my god! That’s long! How come? Oh Yar! You have to walk to the MRT station!”

“Yes! And it took me 15 mins!”

“”15 mins? So long?”

“I have short legs, you see?” She said.

Haha… I almost forget about that!

I went for a recce today, coz the place where I’m supposed to report to tomorrow morning is near a remote industrial area. And the last thing I really need is to do an amazing race in formal race @ Paya Lebar.

My supply of alcohol had been stocked up. Thanks to WL’s Da Gu. She had bought me a Jim Bean @ the DFS the other day. She’s back from England. And today, she offered me a bottle of Rum which she had found at home. Cool! I’m one step away from making Long Island Iced Tea.

While going for my cool-down walk after my 3 rounds around the big drain, I received a call from Shirmaine. That bitch asked me, “How? How’s your first day?”

I pointed out to her that it’s only Monday and I’m only due to start week tml. Still, it was kind of her to call and ask.

… I later found out that the reason why she’s still in the office @ 1809 is because she’s waiting for Desmond to pick her up. Just as I’d expected! I’m a ‘time-killer’ (again). You know? Someone whom you call up just for the sake of killing time, while waiting? Yes! Those kind!

I was shoced to learn that she hasn’t buy a V-Day gift for Desmond yet! By the way, V-Day is just 3 days away. I wonder what’s with her hesitation?

And again! I can’t blame her. This kind of ‘I don’t know whether should I or not’ feeling is something I can relate to. I’m also one of the Virgo Clan and that is a stupid innate personiality all Virgos have.

We had made a pact to meet up for dinner on one of the Friday. That is if I can make it through the training phase. The place where I’ll be working at is at Jurong East and Maine lives around that area. Haha…

You are a seeker of knowledge, and you have learned many things in your life.
You are also a keeper of knowledge – meaning you don’t spill secrets or spread gossip.
People sometimes think you’re snobby or aloof, but you’re just too deep in thought to pay attention to them.

You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone.
You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together.
At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together.

You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow.
You are light hearted and accepting. You don’t get worked up easily.
Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is.

You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It’s easy to get you excited… which can be a good or bad thing.
You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don’t stick with any one thing for very long.
You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start.

You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people.
You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts.
You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.

…

…

…

While waiting for the laundry, I did this test.

Gosh! And it’s very true…