UNI LIFE
Saturday, November 3, 2012
been almost 4 months since I last blogged! wow! thats really long.
I am now in NTU, staying in hall, and joining lots of school activities to the point I cannot cope already!!!
Decided to Join Soul Funky instead of the guitar club cause I want to learn dance, even though is funk style. But like fun and Popping is quite cool.
Joined the JCRC main committee too, partly because I feel like staying in hall next year too. and also some random activities in hall like Otello and Contract bridge, hall dance. FOC as ex-official.
I must say, My year one life in uni is really interesting and eventful.
Lots of commitment to make even though I didnt attend any practise this week...feeling guilty....I so noob already still skip lesson.
feeling the stress now, cause I seriously cannot cope with schoolwork. too busy to listen to recorded lecture and to revise. losing out to alot of people for this part. Hopefully I get the motivation to go revise soon. wah, result damn chui...Uni is all about the bell curve and not the result. even if you get good results, if ppl get even better, your result also means nothing. for e.g, I got B for Astronomy, yet people asking me to SU it already,,,stress....
Feel really lucky to be able to get in with my lousy GPA, cause I havent hear anyone GPA as low as mine yet...guess they do look at CCA records and cert too.
And my jap class every week is practically just going there listen and copying what the teacher write on the board for 2 hrs and end. no revision no nothing. time not enough...
Hard to balance between, sch, hall, cca friends as well as sec sch, poly and ns friends....
wah...I wish I could control time so that I get more hours in a day!
12:34 AM: Izanagi_ang
Post ORD
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Been a month since I ORD-ed. June has been quite a busy month for me.
June 9 - June 17
my grandma's house
My Grandma!
Went back to Brunei to visit my relative and my grandma. Got to say it look almost the same although a lot have changed! What used to be a long distance seems so short, guess is because I was a kid back then.
(the road i mention)
Childhood = go school, go home, watch cartoon, mum drive us go fetch my dad from work, then home, dinner, homework and more tv before sleep. Kinda miss the days all of us will sleep together in one room and i will insist to sleep in between my parents. And on every weekend, my mum will drive us to Labi to visit my grandma, and then drive us to seria to visit my grandpa. Not forgetting "Chenol" or so called "Chendol" in singapore drink which is my all-time favorite and the only thing I can recommend anyone who going to visit Brunei, Seria to try! Not sure whether Bandar(where I used to stay and NS guy go for RnR) there got or not cause I don't have ay recollection drinking it there.
Anyway, visited those place I used to visit when I was young, even though the Jerudong park is closed already, and I cannot accomplished my childhood dream of riding the roller coaster that I been dreaming to ride when I tall enough! I guess that the reason I not afraid to ride roller coaster, cause I been wanting to ride one since I was 5! Too bad I didnt get to visit my Primary school. Need to get a car in Brunei to go anywhere in brunei.
If I ever going back Brunei and if I got money, I will confirm rent a car! My aunt keep saying the "Next time you come back" kind of talk...but I really wonder how many more time I will go back. My mum mention she want to go back again once I finish my uni. hmm...
Going back, I realised how lucky I were born a Singaporean and staying in Singapore now. There is alot of public transport and anywhere is accessible without a car. There is lots of shopping mall and place to shop. Lots of good food. And also how lucky I am to get to local uni, dunnid to go overseas to study. I see my cousin, some go australia, some go canada to study and applying for their PR. Some in brunei, the pay not really that high. Need treasure the chance i have, not needing to leave the country (even though I would prefer to! wahaha)
Wanted to be a laidback trip, but I brought back an iPad preloaded with lots of video, so ended up watching video on iPad instead of walking around and exploring the forest area. Lot of mosquitoes too. scary!
Went to hongkong with my ASLC buddies!
Quite a fun trip and visited a lot of place of interest. Visited both Disneyland and Ocean park thank to my constant forcing! Luck was quite with us cause even the weather forecast showed rainy weather for everyday, we just happened to be in the correct place without rains! Initially didnt shop much cause I just wanted to see if nice then buy. ended up spending 300+ on clothes and new bag. I mean, I needed a new bag for school rite! but the shorts i bought cost me S$100+ alone!
the buddha
at the peak
Visited Shenzhen for Window of the World and Dongmen. and also for massage. Got to listen to their opinion too. all like damn tired cause I walked too fast...wahahhaa...3hrs, could have went for more shopping! Dongmen is like the ameyoko in tokyo! just cheaper! ok la, didnt really see anything i like so its ok.
Macau on the last 2 day. main attraction - Casino!
Thought the hotel i staying do not have casino end up got! dunnid to cross the road for Venetian (the casino inspired by venice) even though I also cross over to gamble...oops!
the view from our hotel in macau
Initially won HKD 1500 after venetian, But my friend want me to treat, so at the cafe in the middle of the casino in my hotel, I told them give me 5 min to win more money. Guess you know what happened next. in a flash, all gone! thus begin my emo night.
in the morning went back down with HKD500 and a ATM card. end up keep losing and I had to withdraw 3 times from the ATM for a total of hkd3500! lucky I managed to recoup and won hkd3500 back, losing only the hkd500 cash i brought with me. More gambling in the afternoon ended up with hkd 500 profit. After going to the so called town "Taipa city", went back to gamble and lose it. zzz...before that, I already pass hkd4000 to my friend to safekeep and prevent me from using if i lose. and I have to beg him damn long and he refuse to pass to me. lucky another gambler friend help me ask for it and I won hkd 500 before we leave for the airport.
Moral of the story - Stop me from stepping into casino!!!!
Still, I must say, I enjoyed this trip very much thanks to the company!
1:43 AM: Izanagi_ang
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Just wanna shout out....
ORD LO!
2:20 AM: Izanagi_ang
reflection of my army life
Thursday, May 31, 2012
5more days to ORD.
Cannot believe that the day finally going to come. Guess I shall do a reflection of my army life even though I think every post I made this past 2 yr is almost the same.
Before I enter NS, I were actually quite scare because of my physical fitness. Being someone who were exempted from PE suddenly, and were told that I got Heart Murmur. I grew up with the mindset I am going to get Pes C/E. However, fate like play trick on people I guess, went for the cardio checkup, and were told the hole in my heart is healed and I have recovered from heart murmur (Read on the net that heart murmur will heal by itself as you grow up) and I ended up as Pes B.
Fast forward to my enlistment day. With my parents, aunt and cousin(they enter to see the island only) I entered the island which at that time I still do not know is the place I spend the majority of my time of NS in. First impression of the island is that the place look like a holiday resort, little did I know my worse time of army is actually during BMT.
Surrender my IC and getting an 11B. rehearsing the pledge while waiting for my parent to finish the tour around tekong. Eating lunch with them for the one last time before getting confine or the so-called adjustment as they want to beautify the word and not make it sound that bad so that the parent won't be that worried. My mum and Dad smilling happily while I am marching away to a completely different lifestyle. All recruits went through this phase I guess. Surprised by my memory, can still remember everything so vividly as if it just happened yesterday. Last time not as organised as now, so they were calling names out for those in the different company. the small slip of paper they passed to me read 7th coy, but I enter up in Taurus. Collected the equipment and shirt and went to my bunk to put the stuff down before heading to cut my hair. Never once have I ever cut my hair bald, so I do not look in the mirror straightaway, but slowly. Couldn't recognised myself but well, all man in singapore have to go through this, so thinking it this way is all that bad. Plus everyone in the platoon and company look the same too. The so-called first night, we sat around the table and my section mates start introducing our name to each other. And me being me, start asking them to play camp games (easier to rmb the names this way).
PTP phase in BMT is tough, doing exercise, running almost anydays.Doing everything together with your section really make it feel it not all that bad, and encouraging each other and feeling happy for each other when we finally break the "Zero" for chin up. We sweat, we joked, we laughed. BMT part started and ADF attached to us. Insane training started and we were treated like a dog, complaining to each other and badmouthing them in bunk is like the only time all of us can vent out our unhappiness (Seriously, I swear I read the part about illigal punishment and I swear none of the punishment or even their traning is approved in the lesson plan!). Guess that how Taurus is the second toughest after 5th coy came about (if I not wrong). Field camp time, hearing stories about how tough it is make me quite worried, but I guess I were too tired to even bother about any ghost or whatsoever that I can just go pee by myself without thinking of anything else. 24km route march, and I finally done with the first 4 months.
Posted to SCS were quite a surprise cause I were damn quiet during BMT, being low profile except for the mooncake incident which I cause the whole platoon to get food ban. Foundation term weren't that tough after going through bmt in my coy, even though I can still hear people who came from other coy complaining it being tough. In Bravo, it seriously heaven already! I think bravo is seriously the best coy with the best OC in SCS! Posted to Professional term back in SCS. I do not know whether I should be happy or not. Happy because I am not in sniper, sad because I know it going be tough and there is chances I might be posted to guards and suffer more trainings. Make more friends along the way, My buddy really help me alot in taiwan and I feel bad asking him sometimes because I'm too weak to carry stuff from the foot of the hill to the top. And also my love for karaoke make me get to know even more friends from the other section and we often go to sing karaoke during night out.
Passing out as 3rd Sergent, I were posted back to BMT, the no.1 place I want to be posted to. And then to SME, at that time I didn't know what they do, but now, really glad I were posted here. Endless laughter and jokes during outfield, fieldcamp and various training. Time would not pass that fast without them or them making fun of me. Even though sometime i really feel what they do is out of the line, but spent one year 3 month in tekong together. that like even more than my BMT and SCS. Eating, sleeping, training recruits together. when you have the authority, it is not really that tough. I got a good encik too, who will help us and fight for our welfare even when some of the coy is unreasonable. The countless night spend in bunk playing "spade", cards game, "in between". shouting at each other and insulting each other. liting the table with fire by Marc. Movie night by using the projector and playing ghost movie at midnight. Running back to bunk when we are suppose to run the coastal route. Night out to eat at Changi Village.
I must say, I will miss all this, and Even though I looking forward to starting Uni life, I won't be surprise if I start saying I miss being a spec in tekong and being part of SME team 2A!
Even though there still 5 more day, I want to shout out ORD LO!!!!! woohoo
"For every singaporean's son, have to serve his 2 months till he's done. For every single breathe he take, come a bond which can't be break. We've been through lightning, rain and sun, and now we are back to where we first began. Forget my friends, you know I can't"
forget the lyrics for the song, but this is what I remembered.
life in army in often what man like to talk about when they hang out, and friends you make when you are sufferign together is friend for life. Really glad that I made quite a lot of friends worth being friends for life from BMT, SCS and in SME!
2:45 AM: Izanagi_ang
Friday, May 4, 2012
Typing this on an iPad. Bought the keyboard for like a few months alr yet I havent try it out yet.
So, in 30mins time, I can start My countdown to ORD in one month exactly! 4th June! This definitely will be a day that I would remember for life! 31 more days to ORD...
So more about life...hmm, I bet every post I been typing these few month is all about how I looking forward to ORD. Truth is I enjoyed army life too. I mean though I will complain about training being tough etc, it feel good looking back and thinking, wow, I can't believed that I actually survived all the shit! And being an intructor in the island actually feel kind of cool cause you get to meet diff kind of people. Even though I not sec com in coyline, it feel good when the rec did the rite drills after training them for the whole day.
14 more working days after deducting weekends, off and leave. and the only work I need to do (If all goes well) will be a 2dn fieldcamp in which i so not looking forward to. will be only the ORD personnel taking, so I dunno how we gg push all the demostration and lessons ard! and confirm all eat snake and shortcuts...wahaha...
Hmm...did something to torture myself for the next 2years. wahaha. hopefully will spend less than then average.
haiz, cant think of anything alr...time to dream of ORD-ing and looking forward to June for Brunei and Hong Kong!!!
12:00 AM: Izanagi_ang
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Task for myself for the next 2 weeks
1. Finish the jap homework.
2. Complete the song I writing (My vocab limited sia, cant find words to express what I wanna say)
3. Revise on Lesson 1 for Jap
4. Read through the notes I borrowed.
Wah....I rmb-ed why I can do so well for jap in the past but not now....Last time, after every lesson, I will read up and practice and re-reading the past lessons. like drilling into my head...but now, After lesson I will throw everything again....hard to get the high score I gt last time I guess.
And Still trying to complete the first song. Need to add more verse I guess...everytime I gt inspiration, I will forget to record and forget afterwards. Just writing for fun...but quite cool to have own song....like see a few of my other friends also writing their own song....wah, my guitar skill sux....hmm, maybe I shld join guitar club in uni to improve ba....
and the notes I borrowed...havent really read up...feel so stress everytime I touch on chemistry and dun understand at all...wah...I already lose the battle at the starting point before it even start due to my foundation. I'm sure the rest can just say the formula, or what element is noble gas, metal, atomic number, etc easily while even as I type these, I dunno sia!
haiz.....
1:57 AM: Izanagi_ang
63 more days...
Monday, April 2, 2012
2 weeks of off/leave/att C except for 2 days of duty....
Finished with all the anime I'm watching for the last season....
Finished with all the Jap drama which I watched halfway...
Left with How I met Your Mother and Big Bang Theory to watch.
Most of the manga I wanted to read is done thank to the ipad being a good platform to read.
Reading on Shaman King from the start all over again...
Feeling damn sian....like nth much to do!
Maybe I should study on the notes I borrowed from my friend...
Maybe I should revise on my jap in which nth is getting into my head. I guess once you reach the high level, everything is hard to get absorb in, Don't remember Japanese language being such a hard language to learn when I first started. Now the grammar list is getting more and more, and all my basics is like chui already. Guess the break I took from studying jap is bad afterall....
63 to D-Day and still counting....
Looking forward to ORD, Go Brunei, and maybe Hong Kong, hopefully the ORD trip can be finalised soon.
Campmate asked me go Thailand with them next month....lucky I didnt say yes, cause is exactly the same date with my clique. lol...dun go with them yet go with another group...if they know, they will kill me sia! not as if I can afford it anyway.
Waiting for my MSA acc $$$ to be unlocked!
This 2 months gg to feel damn damn damn long.....
3:28 PM: Izanagi_ang
