Bid farewell to 2008, a year of joy and tears. Many milestones have passed, while many more lies ahead. A year where some goals have been achieved while others still have some way to go. A year where people you know no longer are the ones you used to know, be it a change physically or psychologically.

A year where we saw a sky high inflation rate with crazy oil prices and also the lowest the economy gets since the great depression. A year where the dragon of the east have woken, the best Olympics ever in human history, phelps: a man whos more dolphin than man with 8 gold medals, a melamine food scare... A year ended with a war between Hamas and Israel.

Last but not least and most importantly, with "Change we can believe in" comes the first black president of America : Barrack Hussein Obama.

In short it has been a bittersweet year.

Now comes the time of the year to make new resolutions for the upcoming year. New aims, new targets, new goals...

Hah i always seemed to be catching up with my posts, finally i caught up i hope...

Monday the course started and seriously theres a lot of change, heard the CO say want Specs be better than Officers so they give commanders bag also like OCS, got SISPEC pt top also something like the OCS polo tee and many many more, like give up freebies like that. Haha. There is also a new rank: white half chevrons and called SCT sama like OCT like that then the best part increase pay! by $90 plus $20 increment next year for everybody thats $110! $$$$ i'm cash-strapped now i see the end of my misery in sight...

Wednesday's christmas eve and half day today! WOOTS. Went out with my cousin and my bro to orchard in the evening. Ends up its a walking christmas for us. Walked from far east plaza to paragon for dinner at ding tai feng. Damn shiok. Then we decided to walk away from orchard cause people all spray spray spary very irritating so walked down to plaza sing then to city hall and finally esplanade just in time for count down. Over there its like 5! 4! 3! 2! 1! then ohh, christmas already ar? Orh. No atmosphere there except for the bars. Haha, then we walked down to clarke quay but then reach already then realise that my bro cannot drink so ends up walk around and home sweet home.

Christmas, well did practically nothing except went out with my neighbours i knew from my europe trip to have a game of bowling and lan before booking in :( To make it even worse i'm the only OOC booking in that night! The rest all on leave except for 1 who had a morning appointment friday morning. Lucky got someone to ease the pain =)

Time to book out again on friday, its like booking in and out, the process is quite sian but at least booking out is something to look forward to. Chiong home to change then its a mad rush down to heath's house for a gathering at his super luxurous bungalow. His swimming pool itself is already bigger than my living room! His award-winning-design bungalow is simply beyond words. Can't believe he went through all the trouble to buy a turkey, ham, fish and much more for dinner. Really appreciate it. He also went the effort to buy an xbox before we came as his old xbox died 2 days before. Lols, still got his whole shelf of spirits to help ourselves to.

Saturday spend the day with my parents as they go shopping for bargains. Lols really everywhere sale sia, GAP 3 piece above 50% off, Esprit up to 40% off, G2000, Giordano concepts... Lols everywhere. But didn't buy anything lols.

Learned many things today. Discovered some too. First was driving, finally found the essence in good driving. Driving no longer became driving again. At least so far to today for a start for that 100 minutes. Was bored in the afternoon cause nobody knows if peesheng's lunch is still on anot then kenna stucked at home so went out for a cycle. Thats when i learn alot about the bicycle and parts at the bicycle repair shop but not after an accident. Hah, i'm really lucky to survive it without any scratch but my bike was scratched like OUCH! Heart pain! I'm still slowly finding my internal injuries, discovered 3 blue patches of blue black so far and still finding...




Its the last week of the down period. Nxt week got trainees already. Sianz... no more staying out :(

Went to Malacca early monday morning, my dad decided to drive there. Went through the new malaysian causeway, its not bad, and its operating on tuesday the next day =) So can say we're one of the last few to use the old causeway building. The journey there is quite far about 2-3 hours of drive about 200+ km. When we reach there is really wow! their buildings are like those china town kind quite run down and some black black ones. Went to their coffee shop for lunch and also bought parking coupons. Its damn cheap, its like 40sen for half hour, 60 sen for 1 hour! Lols but i realise most parking spaces have attendants and they charge like 1 time entrance free of 1 ringgit or 2.

The idea of driving around is very fun lah, just pack a few stuffs like a change of clothes, some money and food a map and OFF we go. After trying our best to follow the map we gave up, their maps is really cmi, 1 got say road name but never say place of attractions. One got name of attractions but the road is aga aga one cause that one must take bus. Then the other one got road details and hotel names only. The worst part is that, the road there is so different, some one way some 2 way. On the map see can go through but on the road cannot go through cause 1 way. Damn irritating, take damn long just to go 1 place. Anyway went to jonker's street to eat the chicken rice ball, went to ching ho heritage museum, baba nonya heritage museum, Portuguese village, megamall... The clothes they sell there is cheap, but then the fashion is like all those malaysian chinese kind, then the clothes in those shop like mango and esprit kind lookes okay but then its not cheap. Sian ends up never buy anything, go there walk walk nia. Oh btw their seafood is damn nice and cheap. Had pepper crabs =) its only 36 ringgit per KG and its delicious.

By tuesday we sort of know the roads in Malacca inside out liao, zoom around went to a church to have a look, zoom around somemore before leaving malacca.

Wednesday book in :( sian booked out on thursday after my medical appointment at jurong medical center. Guess what, i saw Gabriel! Haha he also going there for treatment, sat down and have a talk before i make my way home.

Friday, half day today cause we chiong finish everything which needs to be done then we're released. Actually this half day is say nice only cause they eat our saturday morning, though i booked in to book out like a few hours later, the idea was still in general wonderful. Met up with the class for a gathering in the evening. Many things happened like the sudden disappearance of lynette (who agreed to go aston's to queue up before hand and turned up late! ) With a 40 man queue tim and i decided to change to manhattan fish market. I'm damn lucky as i managed to book a table in such short notice. Soon everybody came, shuming, isaac, jacq, xiuting, andrew, lynette, minhui, peiqi, weiji, gerard, gabriel, jasmine, even wenxi and co. and shin and co. came! Dinner was great, and oh lynette and minhui baked ginger bread man for everybody. Thanks. Many people changed, be it lookes, be it personality, probably its what people call growing up.

Sat morning was a mad rush down to tekong ferry terminal at 7am! Meet up with the rest before walking through the nostalgic bridge towards some penguin ferry heading for tekong. Went there to sort out and double check dockets for the new trainees which means no more staying out :( dammit. Then met up with linton to go shopping for chirstmas, okay sounds wrong, more he ask me to accompany him to shop for stuffs. Bought a polo tee for my bro while he bought stuffs. The damn wierd thing is the shopping for female clothes part. Walao, 2 guys in the female section looking for female clothes is damn weird. Went to recee dempsey road for another class gathering i'm planning. Lols that place is damn class, lols ppl sit around drink wine can't really make noise so i guess, its out of bounds for now.

Met up with joseph for breakfast after my driving, which i almost accident again. Haha.



Another short week again cause Monday's Hari Raya. Woots.

Went home on Thursday for fun. Sian, by bro overseas, then suddenly my house so quiet, found it quite weird. Then book in back on Friday just to go around doing nothing much before going to the gym and then book out! Yeah, went home for a while before meeting Shu Ming at bpp for dinner at the streets. Sat down and talked for a while and bought tennis balls! 10 for $15 bucks! Ouch. Then later went to jurong point to meet irene for supper. Haha. Walked around and went to the new wing in jurong point, its much bigger, brighter and also classier than the old wing, but sadly things there also more expensive.

Saturday was quite a day for me. Met weiyi at 7am for breakfast before going to play tennis. Suppose to meet linton and abby for tennis also, but say meet at 8 then ends up linton came at 9.00 and abby came at about 10. Lols so didn't get to play 2v2. By the time everything ended it was about 12 then linton, abby and me head to linton's house to play soccer and bball until 3pm. Aaron came long to play too.

Went to fetch my bro from the airport, as he came back from vietnam OCIP. Was quite bored cause his plane landed abit later than stated. Haha but was glad he's back =) Yay

Alright, lets start with Wednesday cause Monday and Tuesday both in camp doing nothing much. Wednesday i Att C cause i went to the doc for cough medicine.

Thursday was interesting cause i booked out straight after my physio appointment at 12pm! Whee machiam got like halfday off like that. Damn shiok. So i accompany my mum to pick my bro up from school as he just came back from mawai, Malaysia. Went to walk around cj, found that nothing much have changed, prolly cause its only 1 year. Anyway went with my bro to find tan hoe teck and have a long chat at his office. I was surprised he was in my camp about 2 weeks ago when he went back for reservist and also showed me pics of the moon tgt with Jupiter and Saturn forming a smiley shape during their trip and many other stuffs...

Friday, man i can't wait to book out since morning cause nobody is left in the office, OC not arround, 2IC on course CSM also on course, then ASA on leave, COS on medical appointment outside camp. Lols really empty. Anyway i chiong out to book out then meet joseph to go queensway shopping before going to Toa Payoh to meet Min Hui, Pei Qi and Isaac for dinner. That min hui delay the dinner time from about 9pm to about 10.30pm, by the time most shop close liao then when joseph and me want to zao she say eat macs!!! WTH travel so far just to eat macs!!! ARGH Kiam pah. Anyway iz came too but suprisingly this is the first time i met him and he didn't mention anything about his muscles! Thats like WOW! Pq on the other hand was burnt, face as red as wan ching's from t16! Haha lookes damn funny also. Hahaha.

Saturday, joseph came over for gym then lunch at subway before he go church while i go home. Then meet up again after his church for dinner before walking over to ji's house to watch soccer. YES! i'm right, man city drew fullham 1-1. Haha.

Sunday well my driving lesson was another near miss head on collision! Lols, i'm like a driving catastrophe, every week will have a near miss accident. Okay maybe i should not drive. Well meet up again with Joseph for lunch before pangseh him and join linton to play tennis with abigail. Lols tiring but fun sia, keep running and running and running. After that wash up at linton's house before going to alameen for dinner and then off we go to play pool =) My pool really cmi liao 1 game can free ball like 4-5 times. Sucks. Picked up Aaron at about 10pm before going to serangoon gardens coffee bean where we sat down and talk and have a game of soccer in out psp before sending her home. And its home sweet home for me while linton and aaron continue their nights out.

Happy Birthday Linton. Ps missed your bdae by like 2 mins. Haha