My Story.

Chapter 20

Friday, November 20, 2009,
11/20/2009 10:26:00 PM

Booked out after LIFE run. (Apparently it's LIFE now.) Whatever. Like I care after 2 months or so more. Anyway went home, changed, and waited till the time was about right before I left. You know for something like this, people are definitely going to be late. And sure enough, they were. So eventually we made our way down to Raffles Hotel. Had a rich lunch there (in more ways than one) and then they decided to go play LAN. IT's so typical. Whenever they can't think of anything to do they play LAN.

Oh well, on the bright side, it's cheaper then a movie and I don't play that often cos it's not my thing so it's ok I guess. So we went about attempting to blow little digital analogues of each other to pieces. Battlefield wasn't that great because we lost. =.= And there just wasn't anyone to snipe. Damn. I love picking unaware people off from a really high place. However I did get a couple of good shots in with a tank. And ventilated a few people with the mounted machine gun. Unfortunately they won't really be breathing that easily after.

Left4Dead was much much more fun. Haha. Miraculously we survived getting pretty lost in the maze of drains under the city. Everything was just wall, tunnel, waist high shit, and more shit. Running madly headlong into unknown masses of zombies helped us get to the Safe House quick. And although being the insane point man leading them into this zombie madness cost my life, at least 2 people lived. And I got to say "Go on without me!" Lol. Though it kinda sucked that I was scratched to death outside the entrance of Mercy Hospital. Oh yeah, overall we won.

After that, we decided to take a break. So we left, browsed the old books upstairs and then went to this place for chicken rice. Went home after. Would like to lbog a little more creatively but a litttle tired. Haha. Maybe next time.

Thursday, November 19, 2009,
11/19/2009 08:07:00 PM

K lay curled up on his bed, enjoying the cool rainy weather as it poured outside. The sky was iron gray, the clouds a sheet of torrential rain. In the darkening gloom, he drifted away in the soft folds of his blanket...content to be away from this world. Suddenly, two figures barged in in civilian attire, one with a large bag.

"EH! You all know or not? Can go already leh!"

"Waa?Who?Whyye? OKAY! LET'S GO!" K mumbled the first partial words, but by the time he reached OKAY, his brain was up and running and he was positively sprightly as he grabbed his specs and put then on. After confirming the validity of the claim, in less than 2 minutes he was in his bookout clothes and had yanked out his bag, filled with glee. (Him filled with glee, not the bag. Although one wonders what a bag filled with glee would look like...but I digress.)

"EH. Not go home leh! Nights out only!" said one of the civilian-clad heroes aka JR.

"HUH? But you? Your bag?" As it turned out, even though they were having cohesion tomorrow, this was only a nights-out-book out, not a book-out-sleep-at-home-attend-cohesion-book out. Oh well, better than nothing. Jamming some clothes into his bag, they were downstairs and in JR's car in no time.

With nary a look back, they became a pair of fading tailights in the rain. He was positively sure it was his fastest bookout yet. Pity there wasn't a Guinness World Records Official around.

Hmm. Not much on today. Helped out with IPPT, then made it back to the mess for a laksa breakfast which was pretty good. =) Then nothing much went on, except for finishing my last library book. and the aforementioned event. So I came home, did my usual online stuff. Time flies. Need to leave soon. Crap. Haven't had time for dinner. Book in for instant noodles then...

Apparently, guys can't be trusted. So I'm a bastard by association. Lovely. Is that true? So how fucked up am I really? Considering that pretty much by that assumption I am a horrible person too? Am I that bad? Cos I never knew, but then again you can never tell by judging yourself right?

Wednesday, November 18, 2009,
11/18/2009 09:29:00 PM

Nothing much today. CO dialogue, then OC dialogue. Haha. Just talking and feedback. Can't sleep in tomorrow. Helping out with IPPT. Rar. A lot of times there's a chance of sleeping in, some thing crops up. :( I've always been on the cutting edge of technology (my 3G phone and super useful data plan), and my GameBoy is too now, relatively speaking. Since MP3s and PSPs are nonexistent. It's like the most popular toy in bunk. :(

Oh well, just gotta get through tomorrow, then Friday is cohesion. Cookies on Saturday! (Note to self: Borrow brown sugar from YM) Next week is going to be busy but the end will be good, with a long break at the end. Thinking of clearing my off. Hmm.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009,
11/17/2009 11:43:00 PM

Today was cool. Morning we left for some ord roadshow. They encouraged us to use the credits the army gave us online to pick up courses so we can reintegrate into normal human society and lead normal human lives again. Way to go, pluck us from society, squeeze every last drop from us, them pump us back to normalcy as efficiently as possible and hustle us back as thought nothing ever happened. (wow you really can complain about anything if you really put yourself to it. Lol. And sometimes, you don't even have to.)

Anyway the thing that caught my attention was the language courses, and i think i might take us the French one if possible. =) Magnifique! After that we came back, then went on a mess trip to Asia Pacific Breweries. The places where Tiger Beer is born. Nope, contrary to popular belief, there are no tigers. Just lots and lots of steel piping and tanks. It was pretty cool to see the manufacturing and packaging process.

Afterwards, we experienced a cosmic lining up of two stars of the English language. "Free" and "Beer". (I have GOT to learn how to say that in French.)
And fresh beer from the tap is indeed very different from the can. It tastes nicer, and more palatable. Which means you can drink it faster. I downed 2 plus a little more in the short span of a few minutes and got a nice healthy buzz going. Lately everytime there's been free alcohol, i've been glad to make use of it. Huh.

Nights out, they went JK for tau huay. We came back early to nothing to do.

Monday, November 16, 2009,
11/16/2009 11:48:00 PM

I finished HIMYM S04! Lol. Attempting to procure S05 now. Basically i woke up and did all my usual online stuff today and finished S04, which only had 13 episodes. Been a long and packed weekend but it's been fun and gratifying. Enjoyed myself. It actually passed quite fast. Looking forward to this week. Tomorrow booking out twice for stuff, and cohesion on Fri. Long break coming at end Nov. The tough part's over. Looking forward to baking cookies this weekend.

L-O-V-E's just a word I never learned to pronounce.
-Starstrukk, 3OH!3 (ft. Katy Perry)
(Funny how it can be used in the exact opposite context of the song too...)

Sunday, November 15, 2009,
11/15/2009 06:11:00 PM

Wow this has been a really packed and busy week. I'm surprised I have so much energy. Pretty eventful too. Lol. Okay, from the top.

Sat morning finished my Guard2 duty. Friggin' tiring. I slept like 1 hour only. Somemore it was stressful for most of the night as I had to be on my toes in case they turned out the guards. (I'll need to wake all of them and give them their rifles and rounds and report strength within 4 mins.) In the end it rained till 3 plus and it turned out that there was no turnout. (ha-ha) Well thank goodness. Being really tired, I packed up and went home straight. * Remember this key point.

Next I reached home at 9 plus, rested and unpacked and go ready to go val's place for tuition by 950. By then my body had given up on being tired, seeing as how it was early morning already. Something I've pretty conditioned to, from many nights studying overnight. Val was going suntec in the evening, and since tuition was over, I asked to tag along. =) We then asked XW and Ben out too. So we left.

Since we were rushing for time, we bought along a pack of charsiew rice which she finished in the car. Lol. Ben and xw were on the way, so val stopped by The Face Shop. And promptly got kidnapped. Verbally, by the salesgirl. She bought val on a magical fantasy tour of the shop, proclaiming the virtues of a small bottle of magic juice before cleverly linking it to another similar bottle out of the tens of similar bottles which if used in conjuction with the first bottle of magic juice when the stars align will result in a small bright nuclear explosion, whitening your skin or something. Or other.

I kid. I was listening to the conversation but I couldn't really find a convenient time to hint to val. She only went in considering the masks, and chose the $39.90 one. She went out with $109 in facial products. =X lol. No offence, but it was quite surprising as I watched her defences go down and she just started buying. For the salesgirl it must've been something like 3 hit combo! GOOD! 6 hit! EXCELLENT! K.O.! Face Shop Winner!

After the Face Shop spree, we went to settles some M'sia stuff and went to meet ben and XW. By then they had been waiing about half an hour for us. =X We just met up for about 20 mins before Xw and to go, and so did I. Ben and I took vals car. I just remembered, on the road she said "today, don't need to worry, cos traffic jam I can't drive fast."

Then she started looking for her sunglasses. So I helped too. Shortly after the aforementioned accident, while I was hunting for the spectales worth 4 car rims, there was a THUMP-SHUDDER-SHUDDER-SHUDDER... I looked up with a start and thought we were grazing the kerb. In fact, we had somehow hit the kerb at an odd enough angle for us not to mount it, but to achieve a complete tyre blowout, causing the car to shudder. Our hopes that it was temporary faded when the car shook non stop.

Val stopped the car and we got out. About 30% of the tyre was blown and the rim looked like a particularly hungry metal-eating robot dog had taken a chunk out of it, decided Nissan flavour wasn't to its liking, and spit it out. She got the limping and injured car to the roadside and ben set up the hazard sign. On the job experience then.

We whipped out all the tools and set about fixing the car. I jacked it up while ben tried to remove the nuts. Eventually removed the tyre, and rolled in the new one which was attached below her car. But I was in a bit of a rush so I hailed a cab first though I wish I had been able to help them finish the job. Well it was quite the learning experience.

Went home, changed, and went out. Watched Coraline in Tamp cos it's one of the few w/ 3D technology. Anyway, I think it was kinda good that I haven't watched a 3D movie. Because unlike movies with a 3D option(i.e. UP), this one is a true-blue, dyed in the wool, genny-wine, for sure 3D movie. It's just Coraline in 3D. And it was COOL. The glasses need a little getting used to because although they're not uncomfortable, it's something extra on your face but it was really really fun to watch! I loved the experience. It's so much more successful compared to the old green-red 3D screenings. It's less effort on the eyes. Wonder how it works. Wiki it later, I guess.

After that was supposed to meet up with some army friends for drinks but they didn't tell me it was off. =.= They figure i'd call or sms b4 I came. =\ Oh well. I still had a direct route so I wasn't too troubled. Went home, online till about 340 something. Slept, woke at 545 today. 3 hours of sleep in 2 days. RAR. Quite tired in the morning which wore off. Picked up at 630, drove to town area. helping out with APEC, security stuff. Very interesting experience. Quite liked it. Freaking cool.

After that went to Raffles City Subway for breakfast, then took MRT back. Found out YM and his bro and SW were watching 2012 at 1130. Turned back and YM booked a ticket for me too. Changed out of work clothes in the toilet. I knew extra clothes would come in handy. =) 2012 was epic. Not that it was VERY good, (firstly the plot is a tad thin) but mostly because everything happends on such an EPIC (in capitals) scale.

Plots thin but for a movie like this, I think the plot is just a metaphorical hanger to hang a really BOOMZ metaphorical suit on. And this suit is the whole host of disasters that ravage the earth like its 50% off on destruction for the Closing Down sale. Sure some scenes are TOO coincidental, and some too implausible, (can they really drive a car through a superquake and have EVERYTHING miss them?) but the pure visual splendour is awesome. The graphics are amazing.

It sorta taps into the little perverse side of us that delights in seeing things fall and stuff go BOOM. Without the z. Somehow you derive pleasure from seeing the fall of man and all his building go tumbling like so many LEGO towers. How easily our consrtuctions may be overwhelming. Sure there's the lives lost and damage and sad stories, but i already said it was a perverse side. If you're the type who built LEGO stuff to stomp them flat cos it was fun, this is definitely beyond your wildest dreams. Contrived, but fun to watch as long as you don't take it too seriously.

After that, went to compass point to have lunch with YM and came home. Wanted to go out tonight but XW and the Val are studying. See how. Maybe supper. =)

Eventful day. Will blog tomorrow. Need to catch up on sleep for tomorrow, scratch that, TODAY early. And I think my MP3 cannot connect to my Win7. =S

Friday, November 13, 2009,
11/13/2009 11:38:00 PM

Still doing duty. Started at 5 plus. Manned the gates from 6 to 7, then just the usual. Been a stressful time now because they may disturb us at anytime. Just gotta hope and wait for the morning. Wait for dawn when i can leave.