Today. Second off day. Might be able to rest the fatigued mind, well i have gave my tired body the entire whole day! Since i got home yesterday, i was in bed till evening and then i went back to bed at night. Till i had a backache.
Had a nice tour the past days. The incidents are quite managable. Hey, talking about that, about the Cineleisure case, i must say: i am NOT the first PO this time. Not everytime. But i have heard how pityful the person is. Nothing else i heard.
Today. I do not know whether to go to Creative and collect the Zen Micro. Felt much like doing so, especially when there are road works happening down at the tar road at the carpark along the void decks. They are making a new exit for the carpark, and i really had nothing else much to do anyway. i could do with a shopping around Jurong point, or catch a movie there after collecting the player. Well, i will see if the situation permits my actions today. If the day agrees with my thoughts.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Saturday, October 22, 2005
Been Stood Up
Hey, Russell, youu stood me up. Sad man. It's only a minor headache. Sigh. Our friendship is on the threat of a small headache. Haha.The thing is that, i tried calling you up for aapproximately 45 minutes, from 4:45pm to 5:30pm. No reply. Time wasted only. I was so excited to watch that movie. Actually i had a movie marathon event in the afternoon, watching Son of the Mask and Daddy Day Care. Funny show, but Son of the Mask was totally nonsense. Although it's sort of strenous to my eyes, but for the movie, and for going out with friends, i do not mind. I tried messaging Russell sice the afternoon,but then he replied with a message saying he is having a headache. GGGRRR!!!
Anyway, i called up Aloysius right after the last time i tried to call Russell, at about 5:31pm. Then he invited me to his new place. Gladly i accepted the invitation because i do not want to waste a saturday day off. So i sped off and bulleted towards the bus stop.
Just as i reached his place, Valerie called up. I informed her about my curent status and then did not join her in her proposed activity. Oh, wow! Aloysius's new place is big, so much bigger compared to the condominium unit he used to stay. Although some of the furniture are already there, there still are missing some. Thus the cosy feeling of a home is still not quite there yet, but i am sure that soon, when the rest of the furniture comes in, the warm feeling of homeliness will soon fill the place.
Next Aloysius, his cousin Rayn, and i went to Tampines to have our dinner. We went to a restaurant Phins (did i get the spelling correct?). I recommended the Cornish Game Hen to Aloysius, and he regreted it much.Not because of the taste, in fact it tasted great; not any like the regular chicken, but it is the way that he (or he do not know how to) cut the chicken that made him regret. Rayne had a steak with a tinge of alcohol, and i had Kelong Delight. I should say the Tampines branch is not as good as the Bugis Branch. Somehow the taste lsot out by a bit, but overall, i would give the restaurant a 8/10 points! Anyway, he mentioned that that would be my Birthday treat, well, i am fine with that!
Tata for now! (",)
Anyway, i called up Aloysius right after the last time i tried to call Russell, at about 5:31pm. Then he invited me to his new place. Gladly i accepted the invitation because i do not want to waste a saturday day off. So i sped off and bulleted towards the bus stop.
Just as i reached his place, Valerie called up. I informed her about my curent status and then did not join her in her proposed activity. Oh, wow! Aloysius's new place is big, so much bigger compared to the condominium unit he used to stay. Although some of the furniture are already there, there still are missing some. Thus the cosy feeling of a home is still not quite there yet, but i am sure that soon, when the rest of the furniture comes in, the warm feeling of homeliness will soon fill the place.
Next Aloysius, his cousin Rayn, and i went to Tampines to have our dinner. We went to a restaurant Phins (did i get the spelling correct?). I recommended the Cornish Game Hen to Aloysius, and he regreted it much.Not because of the taste, in fact it tasted great; not any like the regular chicken, but it is the way that he (or he do not know how to) cut the chicken that made him regret. Rayne had a steak with a tinge of alcohol, and i had Kelong Delight. I should say the Tampines branch is not as good as the Bugis Branch. Somehow the taste lsot out by a bit, but overall, i would give the restaurant a 8/10 points! Anyway, he mentioned that that would be my Birthday treat, well, i am fine with that!
Tata for now! (",)
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Yesterday, as usual, i went jogging. I met the girl next door, well, more of the girl next block. She is this interesting girl, with loads of wild ideas in her mind, such as passing items by throwing it acorss the block, or using torch light morse code to talk across the block. I met her and her another friend at the park where we all jogged, I tried inviting them to a drink at the coffee shop near to our place, but both of them rejected the offer, saying that they are going to have dinner when they reach home. Her friend also a churchmate, reached her place first, as it was nearer from the jogging place. Then we continued to walked towards our block. She was so worried that people always get her and her sister's name mixed up. Well Candice, i for one, do not have that problem. I can tell you apart from Samamtha. Being a pilot is sure hard work, even for the boys. I really do not know if the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) takes in female pilots. I know they have other key appointments which are being held by female officers, but I am not sure about pilots. Well, Candice, if one have a dream, one got to find out how to fulfil it. Oh ya, then we were talking about a guy's appitite and that he eats everything when we were approaching the coffee shop. Well, do we really eat everything? Guys, say something, defend youeself! One thing for sure is that, for so long I have been in church, this is the first year that I have really get to know more people from the other Church ( 1 Building holding 2 Church. Mine, for the chinese speaking community, and theirs, for the english speaking community).
Today, i did not go out with Russell, neither did i go to Creative. It was too late by the time i finish typing my entry just now, should have decided earlier, really. I was disappointed with the decision. But besides the bad decision made, the weather did not really grant anyone the permission to go out. The rain simply keeps one in; makes me want to stay home instead of getting wet. That comforted me a bit. I then called up Russell, and i can hear that he was also a little dejected, but he made me promised to go out with him on saturday, I'm okay with that. Haha. After that, i stayed home and had a great dinner.
Tomorrow is my day shift. It is not the end. After the shift, there will be a operation going on. So my working hours starts on 19october 0800 till 2000, then at 2200 report fot operation and it will end at 20october about 0700 hours. In a sense, in any organisation, whenever is punctuality a problem? Usually we will need to report earlier and kock off later, that is all. Technically, it is about 24hours, plus plus plus... ...
Gotta sleep now! For tomorrow! (",)
Today, i did not go out with Russell, neither did i go to Creative. It was too late by the time i finish typing my entry just now, should have decided earlier, really. I was disappointed with the decision. But besides the bad decision made, the weather did not really grant anyone the permission to go out. The rain simply keeps one in; makes me want to stay home instead of getting wet. That comforted me a bit. I then called up Russell, and i can hear that he was also a little dejected, but he made me promised to go out with him on saturday, I'm okay with that. Haha. After that, i stayed home and had a great dinner.
Tomorrow is my day shift. It is not the end. After the shift, there will be a operation going on. So my working hours starts on 19october 0800 till 2000, then at 2200 report fot operation and it will end at 20october about 0700 hours. In a sense, in any organisation, whenever is punctuality a problem? Usually we will need to report earlier and kock off later, that is all. Technically, it is about 24hours, plus plus plus... ...
Gotta sleep now! For tomorrow! (",)
Wah! Sightings!
It woul be weird if you are an office worker and suddenly, one day while working, your friends (lots of them) pop up right in front of your face. But it will not be if you are doing field work and you get to walk the streets of Orchard Road, especially on one of the Saturdays. Last saturday, 15october, my team was dispatched to attend an incident along Orchard MRT station underpass. While proceeding to the exact location,my partner saw her frined, while i was wondering what was the probability that i would chanced upon mine, Daniel and Minqi (JC peeps) saw me, well, as expected, Daniel gave me a very gay slap on my arm. I was initially a bit shocked to see them, but got over it a second later, as I need to concentrate on my job. At my standby point, the underpass itself, Joe Koh (Secondary school buddy) chatted with him, he asked me about my NS and was sort of comparing with his, he also commented that i did not change one bit since the last time he saw me. Haahaa, is that good or bad news? Next I saw the Police OCT guys Xiao Hui, thought he did not reconised me, and also Song Loo, who gave me a very warm smile and waved to me. My team was stuck there for about 3 hours and man, our poor feets were tired. The day was not complete yet for without the next incident which adds to more torment to our legs. Right after we left the underpass, along the filter lane of Scots road into Orchard road, an accident, right in front of our eyes, actually it was right behind our heads. We were walking from a Toyota Wish parked at the end of the filter lane, when a motocycle sped past us and smashed right into it. We had to get the ambulance and to inform the incident to the various departments while standing. Directing taffic, waiting for Trafic Police arrival, and looking after both parties. Tired legs. Few case, but long procedures.
Well i was accused of seeing something that i did not see, and because i was true to God, true to myself, that i would be like Job, that i have made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl (Job 31:1). Well, it was like this, there was a commotion among a couple, and by the time my team arrived, the guy was like pulling and tugging the girl. As she was wearing someting like a tube, certain something should be out on the lose according to me partner. We were right in front of them, when i saw to that they have stop the struggle, i saw the girl pulling up the tube like dress. During debriefing, they were like teasing me saying that i should have. I denied i saw anything. Truth. My TeamLeader jokingly commented that he know that I did not see, but since the whole team was so sure that i did, it was really such a waste that i did not. Well, i beg to differ. I have a covenant with my eyes you know, and I have a covenant with God.
And yet, the tour was not completed yet when we had not once again came across incidents during my night shift on the 17october. Some security guard has to be so fussy such that he had wanted the Police to do something when someone kicking some bin along the road, the best is that he could not really tell if the damages were done by the people whom he pointed out. It was during our standby at a certain Nightspot along Orchard Road. Well I have learnt a lesson to ask when in doubt no matter how pissed off or how busy my in-charge is, and to record the correct person's statement. Silly me.
Today, now is 1645, and i am still considering if i wanna go out or not; to Creative to collect my cousin's Zen micro and for a movie with Russell after that. We will see.
Well i was accused of seeing something that i did not see, and because i was true to God, true to myself, that i would be like Job, that i have made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl (Job 31:1). Well, it was like this, there was a commotion among a couple, and by the time my team arrived, the guy was like pulling and tugging the girl. As she was wearing someting like a tube, certain something should be out on the lose according to me partner. We were right in front of them, when i saw to that they have stop the struggle, i saw the girl pulling up the tube like dress. During debriefing, they were like teasing me saying that i should have. I denied i saw anything. Truth. My TeamLeader jokingly commented that he know that I did not see, but since the whole team was so sure that i did, it was really such a waste that i did not. Well, i beg to differ. I have a covenant with my eyes you know, and I have a covenant with God.
And yet, the tour was not completed yet when we had not once again came across incidents during my night shift on the 17october. Some security guard has to be so fussy such that he had wanted the Police to do something when someone kicking some bin along the road, the best is that he could not really tell if the damages were done by the people whom he pointed out. It was during our standby at a certain Nightspot along Orchard Road. Well I have learnt a lesson to ask when in doubt no matter how pissed off or how busy my in-charge is, and to record the correct person's statement. Silly me.
Today, now is 1645, and i am still considering if i wanna go out or not; to Creative to collect my cousin's Zen micro and for a movie with Russell after that. We will see.
Friday, October 14, 2005
2nd event, coming right up
The Next event, was also near. At Pasir Ris. it was Andy's birthday celebration in advanced. Well, it was meant to be a surprised ne. But things went a bit wrong here, and a bit haywired there. The suspicion factor was basically, there. Yupp, it all started when early in the morning when Andy found out his mom had bought alot of fresh ingredients, commonly used only for steamboat. Next was Amanda showing him her phone displaying the missed calles from Andy's mother new number. Earlier, on a different date was Leo's and Bamboo's miscommunication about going out with him one of the coming saturdays.Subsequently the afternoon og the 24th was a hard time for Amanda to keep Andy away from home while preparation works comence.
We had a hard time laughing real hard after the steamboat dinner, and the cake treat. Why? Because all of us dig out several "Campfire games" such as [Black Magic], [How many mae mae jumped over the wall], [1 2 3], [I like mummy but I don't like mum] etc etc. But one of it was one weblink Aloysius just found on the Web. We used real dice to play the game at Andy's place. http://crux.baker.edu/cdavis09/roses.html Try it, its called [Petals around the rose] take note of the last sentence of the first paragraph of the Background. The funny part is not about figuring out the pattern of the game, but figuring out the pattern of Bamboo figuring out the game. I am telling you this, it was really a hard laugh. Haahaa!!
Leo And Andy, after the Cake cutting ceremony.
We had a hard time laughing real hard after the steamboat dinner, and the cake treat. Why? Because all of us dig out several "Campfire games" such as [Black Magic], [How many mae mae jumped over the wall], [1 2 3], [I like mummy but I don't like mum] etc etc. But one of it was one weblink Aloysius just found on the Web. We used real dice to play the game at Andy's place. http://crux.baker.edu/cdavis09/roses.html Try it, its called [Petals around the rose] take note of the last sentence of the first paragraph of the Background. The funny part is not about figuring out the pattern of the game, but figuring out the pattern of Bamboo figuring out the game. I am telling you this, it was really a hard laugh. Haahaa!!
Leo And Andy, after the Cake cutting ceremony.
3ed event, coming right up!
This was a really really recent event. Well on the 10 october 05.
I went out with Nigel, of NPCO 1. Well we could not get the other peeps go come out, either they are enganed with pre-planned activities, or that they are on thier shift work thay day. Well, we will have to do with it.
Do it Logsheet style?
1335 Met up at tiong Bahru MRT station, beside Macdonalds. Resource Foot patrol, no sign of one Nigel approach resource.
1346 Arrival of one Nigel.
1352 Proceed to tiong Bahru Plaza, top floor, simple restaurant, set lunch @ $9.90.
1400 Lunch Commence
1425 Lunch Ends, paid bill at counter.
1427 Proceed to Arcade next door. Played Car-racing game and shooting game.
1453 Comments by Nigel, "Car-racing, shiok!! Next time must come play more, experice driving!"
1510 Proceed to Cinema ticket office next door, purchesed property, 2 tickets for [goal!] 1545
1514 Proceed to basement one Cold storage, purchased property. 2 Bottles of drinks and 3 packets of snacks.
1540 Proceed back to Cinema
1545 Arrival at Cinema, entered premises, visual inspection around vicinity. Crowd size about 10. Commence on movie trailers of [Little Chicken], [Flight plan], [Doom] and [Sky High]
1550 Movie Commence [goal!] at Cinema 6
1750 Movie Ends
1754 Proceed back to Arcade
1757 Arrive at Arcade, played more car-racing game and more shooting game
1813 Comments by resource,"Car-racing really helps in real time on the road experience." Comments by Nigel," in time to come, these games will help Singapore roads become a hazadous onee"
1835 Left Tiong Bahru Plaza, proceed to Tiong Bahru Food centre.
1842 Arrive at Tiong Bahru Food Centre. Ordered Roast Meat & Char Siew rice and Soya bean Drink. Nigel had a Soya bean Drink.
1859 Dinner ended
1815 Proceed Home
Haahaa.. too much work, too little play. That's what happened: you bring work into play. Haahaa.
I went out with Nigel, of NPCO 1. Well we could not get the other peeps go come out, either they are enganed with pre-planned activities, or that they are on thier shift work thay day. Well, we will have to do with it.
Do it Logsheet style?
1335 Met up at tiong Bahru MRT station, beside Macdonalds. Resource Foot patrol, no sign of one Nigel approach resource.
1346 Arrival of one Nigel.
1352 Proceed to tiong Bahru Plaza, top floor, simple restaurant, set lunch @ $9.90.
1400 Lunch Commence
1425 Lunch Ends, paid bill at counter.
1427 Proceed to Arcade next door. Played Car-racing game and shooting game.
1453 Comments by Nigel, "Car-racing, shiok!! Next time must come play more, experice driving!"
1510 Proceed to Cinema ticket office next door, purchesed property, 2 tickets for [goal!] 1545
1514 Proceed to basement one Cold storage, purchased property. 2 Bottles of drinks and 3 packets of snacks.
1540 Proceed back to Cinema
1545 Arrival at Cinema, entered premises, visual inspection around vicinity. Crowd size about 10. Commence on movie trailers of [Little Chicken], [Flight plan], [Doom] and [Sky High]
1550 Movie Commence [goal!] at Cinema 6
1750 Movie Ends
1754 Proceed back to Arcade
1757 Arrive at Arcade, played more car-racing game and more shooting game
1813 Comments by resource,"Car-racing really helps in real time on the road experience." Comments by Nigel," in time to come, these games will help Singapore roads become a hazadous onee"
1835 Left Tiong Bahru Plaza, proceed to Tiong Bahru Food centre.
1842 Arrive at Tiong Bahru Food Centre. Ordered Roast Meat & Char Siew rice and Soya bean Drink. Nigel had a Soya bean Drink.
1859 Dinner ended
1815 Proceed Home
Haahaa.. too much work, too little play. That's what happened: you bring work into play. Haahaa.
1st events, coming right up!!
What a wonderful day. Yupp, it was one of the saturdays (24th sept 05) when i have 1724, a fellowship of my church that comprises people of 17 till they are 24! Cool combination. I remembered that day was emotional. Remembering the times about 5 years ago, when my Student Fellowship organised a night tour, and the last destination was Changi Beach. On 24th, it was a picnic outing, and while on the journey, we passed by the route when we used to reach Changni beach 5 years ago. Fascinating.
Emotional would be the right word that day. Because Qin Qin was sharing about her plans for her future; retaking O's english as she required the grade to enter the Polytecnic, and as such the date clashes with her trip to Taiwan for the Church's chior. She had mentioned that she had missed the trip the last time, both the paper and the trip are very important to her future. Emotions filled the air. I need not spell out what happened next. Well, we (SFers) had just received news that she had been accepted into the Polytecnic of her choice, which means that she could rest assured that the results O'levels English paper will not make much of a difference to her future now! Glory to the God!
Well another emotional event happened on that day, if you consider being hysterical to be an emotion. After the sharing session we had a short game of frisbee. It was when the frisbee entered the waters that such emotion was being displayed on our faces. Excitment turned hilarious. The disc was mot far out at sea, but the continouous taunting of the graceful waves attracted it, like how a magnet, though small, but able to pull the weight of a heavy metal weight. Bit by bit, the disc inched towards the freedom of its own destiny, along time. Against this destiny came one man, a young one, hot-blooded, well, sort of. Using his intelects, initially, with improvisation, a stick to lure the disc back to where it belongs. But the elegant waves has been out too far, too dangerous. With the last breath, the man though that if he had missed this final chance, there will be no tomorrow for the disc. There goes him, waddles through the now angry waves which attempt to stop whoever wanting to rescue the disc.
He got it. Undaunted by the futile attempts of the evil waves. The pureheart raised his sword, i meant his stick, the shield by his side, i meant the frisbee disc in the other hand. He proclaimed victory!
I found out the truth
Actually, a lot of people have been wondering why i ipdate up blog so irregularly, and also at such a long time lapse. This is because, i have some problems with the computer/s at home. Either they refuse to connect or the computer system is totally down. My own's mainboard was short-circuited and my sis's had a bit of trouble while connecting, because there was an additional phone to the router, once removed, well, all is fine. Sad Life, without connection...
Upcoming are the entries for the recent events!! (",)
Upcoming are the entries for the recent events!! (",)
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Friends & one's Golden age
Yupp, Yupp, you are right, there are, as usual two posts today, so read on, enjoy.
Hmm, i really enjoyed my secondary and JC life, with all true friends around us, we will not need to worry that you might get stabbed in the back anywhere you walk; friends who are true, who are pure at heart, most importantly, freinds whom anyone can trust.
It got me into pondering about all these, on saturday night, when i met Hui Yee at Dolby Ghaut MRT station platform; i was on my way home from work. Seeing her let me thought of the times i was in my JC classes, the interaction between people of our ages then. Samanthia & Li Jia were also there, it was their secondary school class sort of mini gathering. Yee and i brought up a lot of other people's name, like Aloy, Val, Russ, Hailing, Daniel, Fanny, Victor, Ibrahim, Ashik, Jerome etc etc. We find out about each other's life, also about the people-that-we've-mentioned's life. I actually realised how thriled she was to see an old friend, and also how she responded to htis very old friend. How true, how pure the friendship of ex-classmates.
To be frank, i would really want to meet up with another old pal cum Metal Gear Solid fan cum partner. Edwin Kee. Where are you, man?? Hope to get in touch with you once your vacation starts. Really.
Alright, i'm hitting the bed, gonna go work tomorrow. See you at Orchard!
Hmm, i really enjoyed my secondary and JC life, with all true friends around us, we will not need to worry that you might get stabbed in the back anywhere you walk; friends who are true, who are pure at heart, most importantly, freinds whom anyone can trust.
It got me into pondering about all these, on saturday night, when i met Hui Yee at Dolby Ghaut MRT station platform; i was on my way home from work. Seeing her let me thought of the times i was in my JC classes, the interaction between people of our ages then. Samanthia & Li Jia were also there, it was their secondary school class sort of mini gathering. Yee and i brought up a lot of other people's name, like Aloy, Val, Russ, Hailing, Daniel, Fanny, Victor, Ibrahim, Ashik, Jerome etc etc. We find out about each other's life, also about the people-that-we've-mentioned's life. I actually realised how thriled she was to see an old friend, and also how she responded to htis very old friend. How true, how pure the friendship of ex-classmates.
To be frank, i would really want to meet up with another old pal cum Metal Gear Solid fan cum partner. Edwin Kee. Where are you, man?? Hope to get in touch with you once your vacation starts. Really.
Alright, i'm hitting the bed, gonna go work tomorrow. See you at Orchard!
Follow-up
Yupp, as of that day, do not you people out there thinks that the Orchard incident is some sort similar to Happy Tree Friends. You know, good friends, then somehow, in the end, the body ends up in pieces. No offence to anyone.
I am now begining to see how adults behave, how different people treat other people in front and behind their back. Really experience the errieness of this whole behavior thing.
For those faint hearted, prepare for the bloody image.
Human. Adult humans are masked creatures, i hope i will not grow up to become the beasts that i detest most. Dear God, guide my path in this influential society.
I am now begining to see how adults behave, how different people treat other people in front and behind their back. Really experience the errieness of this whole behavior thing.
For those faint hearted, prepare for the bloody image.
Human. Adult humans are masked creatures, i hope i will not grow up to become the beasts that i detest most. Dear God, guide my path in this influential society.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Orchard Road & Me
If you are reading this, it happened to be the third day in which the Fillipina maid's body was found. Orchard road and me. I work at orchard road. I did not expect to chance upon such raw stuff, except in the biology laboratory, in which we students cut things up. A head with long hair, in a red plastic bag, exposing the left ear. Beside it is a blue travel bag, unzipped, and also a blood stained newspaper.
Well, 4 hours in the sun, i have to direct passer-by to use the Orchard MRT station underpass because the other underpass was being cordoned off. 4 hours in the sun, i have to respond to passer-by's questions on who, what, when, where, why, how.
I took MC the next shift,because of 4 hours in the sun and 1 wedding dinner, in which a colleague warned me about the food there. i went ahead with my plan to go to Creative headquarters in the morning with Aloy to get my cousin's Zen Micro repaired, and also to take a look at the sale there. Bought a Singapore design mouse, nothing else. Went to the doctor's later in the evening.
Great, my stomach still feels funny right now.Sigh.
Well, 4 hours in the sun, i have to direct passer-by to use the Orchard MRT station underpass because the other underpass was being cordoned off. 4 hours in the sun, i have to respond to passer-by's questions on who, what, when, where, why, how.
I took MC the next shift,because of 4 hours in the sun and 1 wedding dinner, in which a colleague warned me about the food there. i went ahead with my plan to go to Creative headquarters in the morning with Aloy to get my cousin's Zen Micro repaired, and also to take a look at the sale there. Bought a Singapore design mouse, nothing else. Went to the doctor's later in the evening.
Great, my stomach still feels funny right now.Sigh.
Lonely, i am so lonely...
Being a Police National Serviceman , especially now, since i am working shift work. Good, i gives me freedom, but then so, it does not give me the opportunities to meet up often with my loved ones, people like good buddies from the JC/Secondary school, people like my brothers & sisters from church. i feel so empty when my off days falls on a weekday.i cannot ask them out. Either they are studying or in camp serving SAF/NS. Last tuesday ( i think), my father was gong to suntec, i thought why not i go watch my show and he would go do his stuff but by traveling the same way. i would wanna catch as it was going to stop showing soon. I called up my several friends, none of them can make it as they either required some rest or they are engaged in either working or still in campus. My father left the house first to go to hougang to pay some bills. He ask me to decide where i wanted to go, then give him a call. Subsequently, i decided to go to cathay to watch as i was not in time for the suntec's show. When i reached the bus stop, i told my father my decision, but after a while i got the "WHAT-THE-HELL-AM-I-DOING" feeling. i called up my father again and met him soon afterwards. We went to suntec in the end, done some window shopping.
Friday, August 19, 2005
New Life, Or rather, a Different life.
New Life, Or rather, a Different life.
Yupp.
You know in the English language, the way one pronounce different words in a statement makes the statement have various meaning. For example the title of this post:. You might want to try the different ways to read this title. Like :"new life, or RATHER, a different life" or "NEW life , or rather, a different life" etc. But for this post, read it with the emphasis on "different". "new life, or rather, a DIFFERENT life".
The life as an frontline officer is totally different from the life inside the Academy. Totally. I mean we have heard a lot (trust me, it is really a lot) of what is the jobscope of an officer once he or she passed out from the academy. I thought I was prepared enough to face the changes that I am going to face once posted out after hearing all those stories, facts, experiences of the senior officers who took us for classes. No, I am not, i dare say that the other squadmates are not too.
Being an NPCO, a police officer, a public servant. Really, a public servant. No doubt it will be one of the most interesting and fruitful post one might get in the force, but the message is that all those crime fighting drama mama action will most probably not happen in my lifetime as a NPCO.
So far, I have seen that we are actually more like servants, only that we are the public's. Why? Because we have to respond to the public's call for "help". Sometimes little things like small time couple quarrels, or "i suspect someone stole my bag, you know, the expensive brand, LV?" when in fact is that they hav misplaced it when we ask them do they have any suspect in mind. " Oh! em... i left it on the foodcourt table to 'chop' place, then by the time i return, vanished". We must be cautious, especially with LV bags. Or bigger time llike drunks fighting after mere seconds of night spots when they just walked out of the bar's door. Then police have to go there stop the fight. What are bouncers for. I mean the stsation is a few streets away, by the time we reach, we might be down there looking at dead corpse. Right? Sometimes, drunks call up police to say that people are harressing them, when we reach the scene and ask them, their friends keep on pulling them away, then say to us, "sorry sir, my friend had too much a drink, sorry to bother you" still trying to pull the friend away from the police. Crime fighting might not be the phrase, Crime management is more like it. We came to contain the situation, protect life and property. Well people do not call for the police before they see a crime in progression, do they?
Drame mama action. Not in my lifetime, but i wondered if it will happen at all. I am happy with the more noble management job. Manage the peace around townsville. Haha!
Yupp.
You know in the English language, the way one pronounce different words in a statement makes the statement have various meaning. For example the title of this post:
The life as an frontline officer is totally different from the life inside the Academy. Totally. I mean we have heard a lot (trust me, it is really a lot) of what is the jobscope of an officer once he or she passed out from the academy. I thought I was prepared enough to face the changes that I am going to face once posted out after hearing all those stories, facts, experiences of the senior officers who took us for classes. No, I am not, i dare say that the other squadmates are not too.
Being an NPCO, a police officer, a public servant. Really, a public servant. No doubt it will be one of the most interesting and fruitful post one might get in the force, but the message is that all those crime fighting drama mama action will most probably not happen in my lifetime as a NPCO.
So far, I have seen that we are actually more like servants, only that we are the public's. Why? Because we have to respond to the public's call for "help". Sometimes little things like small time couple quarrels, or "i suspect someone stole my bag, you know, the expensive brand, LV?" when in fact is that they hav misplaced it when we ask them do they have any suspect in mind. " Oh! em... i left it on the foodcourt table to 'chop' place, then by the time i return, vanished". We must be cautious, especially with LV bags. Or bigger time llike drunks fighting after mere seconds of night spots when they just walked out of the bar's door. Then police have to go there stop the fight. What are bouncers for. I mean the stsation is a few streets away, by the time we reach, we might be down there looking at dead corpse. Right? Sometimes, drunks call up police to say that people are harressing them, when we reach the scene and ask them, their friends keep on pulling them away, then say to us, "sorry sir, my friend had too much a drink, sorry to bother you" still trying to pull the friend away from the police. Crime fighting might not be the phrase, Crime management is more like it. We came to contain the situation, protect life and property. Well people do not call for the police before they see a crime in progression, do they?
Drame mama action. Not in my lifetime, but i wondered if it will happen at all. I am happy with the more noble management job. Manage the peace around townsville. Haha!
Friday, July 22, 2005
GOSH!!!
Oh My... It seems to be months ago that i have touch you, Mr eternity.
Okay, i will have to make some quick updates since then.
First, i passed my driving practical test with 6 demerit points, Thank God for keeping me calm while on the road. Next we, all the NPCOs have passed out from the Police Academy! But, but not without a powerful impact of a very very terrible changing parade on the second last day of the course conducted by our very weird OC squad. It left us with a deep impression because we deemed that our mistakes would not qualify us to be beiong punished this way. For what? Watching an original VCD while waiting for his ultimately late arrival to class, besides he has no plans for lessons anyway. We have not been having proper lesson for the last month of our course. Just wait in class, waiting for breaks, waiting for the meal times, just like in the zoo. The whole session included a raincoat PT session which was stopped by FI Hassan, then that was when the changing parade commence. Good, at least we have some sort of parade for our passing out. POP lo!!
Next for the relaxing part of our time in Police academy. Our peeps realised that actually we should have started playing volleyball a long time ago, beacuse it is simply so fun. One thing is that it is quite a new game to everybody, everyone has their own fun in making funny mistakes, hilarious in fact. Another thing is that the bond is there, it's exciting to just really play together. Simple enough.
Now, The JC gang. Although the outings has been a little in draps and bits, but we somehow managed to get together. We went to Amanda's dad, stingray stall along kallang on one of the saturday Joanne fetched the rest of them (without me la, so late already) to some bar to have a drink., Then i think the following week we went to watch initial D at Suntec then play pool at Marina Square; spent the rest of the night searching for Joanne's car in Suntec's carpark. The previous week i went to Marine Parade K-Box, with the Double As , Aloy and Hailing. First time there. Felt weird at first, until i know how to just 'let go' Haha. Oh ya, i still owe you some money, Aloysius, this blog entry is the IOU... haha, so informal, i now. How?
Dear Sfers, i have got to tell you peeps that my schedule is irregular, so, plaeae do take note and try to remind me if my assistance is required whenever. i will not be able to attend neither service nor Bible Study regularly, so update me on the happeningd within Church. Trust me, my Faith is still strong, i will promise to so my own quite time.
We went to Yan Fang's new house for house warming right after Bible Study the previous week. Then i went to watch War Of the World with Min Hui. Weekend tickets are still so expensive.
Posted out to E Division, Orchard NPC. The very first duties i have performed is the one at the NE show last week saturday. It was exhausting standing there monitoring the students and bus. Now i know that not everybody really understand the meaning or co-operation.
i think that's about it until now. i think the frequency of me updating would be iregular too, but certainly more often now, after posting out.
Cya!!
Okay, i will have to make some quick updates since then.
First, i passed my driving practical test with 6 demerit points, Thank God for keeping me calm while on the road. Next we, all the NPCOs have passed out from the Police Academy! But, but not without a powerful impact of a very very terrible changing parade on the second last day of the course conducted by our very weird OC squad. It left us with a deep impression because we deemed that our mistakes would not qualify us to be beiong punished this way. For what? Watching an original VCD while waiting for his ultimately late arrival to class, besides he has no plans for lessons anyway. We have not been having proper lesson for the last month of our course. Just wait in class, waiting for breaks, waiting for the meal times, just like in the zoo. The whole session included a raincoat PT session which was stopped by FI Hassan, then that was when the changing parade commence. Good, at least we have some sort of parade for our passing out. POP lo!!
Next for the relaxing part of our time in Police academy. Our peeps realised that actually we should have started playing volleyball a long time ago, beacuse it is simply so fun. One thing is that it is quite a new game to everybody, everyone has their own fun in making funny mistakes, hilarious in fact. Another thing is that the bond is there, it's exciting to just really play together. Simple enough.
Now, The JC gang. Although the outings has been a little in draps and bits, but we somehow managed to get together. We went to Amanda's dad, stingray stall along kallang on one of the saturday Joanne fetched the rest of them (without me la, so late already) to some bar to have a drink., Then i think the following week we went to watch initial D at Suntec then play pool at Marina Square; spent the rest of the night searching for Joanne's car in Suntec's carpark. The previous week i went to Marine Parade K-Box, with the Double As , Aloy and Hailing. First time there. Felt weird at first, until i know how to just 'let go' Haha. Oh ya, i still owe you some money, Aloysius, this blog entry is the IOU... haha, so informal, i now. How?
Dear Sfers, i have got to tell you peeps that my schedule is irregular, so, plaeae do take note and try to remind me if my assistance is required whenever. i will not be able to attend neither service nor Bible Study regularly, so update me on the happeningd within Church. Trust me, my Faith is still strong, i will promise to so my own quite time.
We went to Yan Fang's new house for house warming right after Bible Study the previous week. Then i went to watch War Of the World with Min Hui. Weekend tickets are still so expensive.
Posted out to E Division, Orchard NPC. The very first duties i have performed is the one at the NE show last week saturday. It was exhausting standing there monitoring the students and bus. Now i know that not everybody really understand the meaning or co-operation.
i think that's about it until now. i think the frequency of me updating would be iregular too, but certainly more often now, after posting out.
Cya!!
Sunday, May 29, 2005
Right on target.
I forgot to bring the book : to camp. So KY and Nigeress can't read.
This week was plain old uninteresting... until wednesday.
Come Wednesday, our barrack was raid again. PT punishment. PT kit, then did pumpings, crunches, jumping jacks, then 3 minutes change to full uniform. Afterwards another round of pumpings and jumping jacks. Afterwards we had a session of feedback session.. F I Danil asked us, " what u think of your squadmates?" sigh... The whole process took about 3 hours, then it was dinner time.
Come Thursday, 3 pm, F I Danil took us for PT. First, he came into our barrack, "PT kit in 3 minutes, bring some cash". we thought " wah, gone case". We had a round of warm up exercises at the basketball court, followed by a run to Macrichie reservoir via Mediacorp, then we went to Thomson Macdonalds. we had a break, got a drink, then off we go again, back to Tracom. then whole thing takes about 3 hours. Next was dinner, followed by movie night.. Guess wat.. i actually stay there trying to watch SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS. i sat there, frustrated, because i was hoping that the show was spoiled like last week's amtyville horror, then the management changed to show to the exorcist. In the end, i started messaging the people seated within the near proximity. Bored i was. I did not enjoyed the movie one bit, i do not know why. actually i'm okay that i did not enjoyed it. Fine.. weird guy.
Friday was okay. we got to walk out a bit earlier, it was Family Day.
The weekend was not bad. i attended my church's hokkein worship enent. the song was Fascinating. Title [i want to sing aloud] in hokkein. The live version made the audience so emotional!
This coming week will be our fingerprint dusting & photography course, and we'll be apply for for our PDL tomorrow!! yeah!
My sister will going over to Australia for her overseas learning journey organised by the school. Hmmm, hey Dawn, if you are reading this, Haha, you better take good care of her while she over there!! Haha!! Or else i'll take good care of you!! MUHAHAha (evil laughter)
God Bless us all!!
This week was plain old uninteresting... until wednesday.
Come Wednesday, our barrack was raid again. PT punishment. PT kit, then did pumpings, crunches, jumping jacks, then 3 minutes change to full uniform. Afterwards another round of pumpings and jumping jacks. Afterwards we had a session of feedback session.. F I Danil asked us, " what u think of your squadmates?" sigh... The whole process took about 3 hours, then it was dinner time.
Come Thursday, 3 pm, F I Danil took us for PT. First, he came into our barrack, "PT kit in 3 minutes, bring some cash". we thought " wah, gone case". We had a round of warm up exercises at the basketball court, followed by a run to Macrichie reservoir via Mediacorp, then we went to Thomson Macdonalds. we had a break, got a drink, then off we go again, back to Tracom. then whole thing takes about 3 hours. Next was dinner, followed by movie night.. Guess wat.. i actually stay there trying to watch SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS. i sat there, frustrated, because i was hoping that the show was spoiled like last week's amtyville horror, then the management changed to show to the exorcist. In the end, i started messaging the people seated within the near proximity. Bored i was. I did not enjoyed the movie one bit, i do not know why. actually i'm okay that i did not enjoyed it. Fine.. weird guy.
Friday was okay. we got to walk out a bit earlier, it was Family Day.
The weekend was not bad. i attended my church's hokkein worship enent. the song was Fascinating. Title [i want to sing aloud] in hokkein. The live version made the audience so emotional!
This coming week will be our fingerprint dusting & photography course, and we'll be apply for for our PDL tomorrow!! yeah!
My sister will going over to Australia for her overseas learning journey organised by the school. Hmmm, hey Dawn, if you are reading this, Haha, you better take good care of her while she over there!! Haha!! Or else i'll take good care of you!! MUHAHAha (evil laughter)
God Bless us all!!
Missed!!
Sigh.. I'm delayed again.
Last week. Ah, last week. Let me think.
Last week was quite an event filled week. Firstly, we, NPCOs, got to know our Final theory results on the same week (on friday) as we took it (tuesday).. Wow. Most of us passed! It was actually quite like a joke as the practice session was so tensed up because the instructors kept on saying how tough, how tricky the paper was, choose A, B, C or D booklet, Never take the E or F booklet. I got the E booklet, it was actually very easy, so i can imagine how the previous booklets would look like.
Another eventful situation, sort or rather related to the Final theory test. On the test night, F I Danil raided our barrack. Of course being old birdies of TraCom, we were taking matters into our own hands: bedframes with hangers/clothes, bed messy, shoes arranged atrociously.. worst of the worst.. my bedframe was shifted from my place to the front to join with my another 2 squadmates, it will book like 3 bedframes together, mine in the centre, except that my frame was a single frame, the side ones are double deckers. So, after his raid, he made wat it looks like a aftermath of a typhoon out of the barrack and made those who were not taking the test do PT. As we received the news just before we entered the testing ground, somehow it affects our feeling at that point of time. The next thing we knew, the next day, or Officer-in-charge, blew his top, and left the classroom. we never get to see him for the whole week after that, partly due to our actions, partly because he was also on course.
Last week. Ah, last week. Let me think.
Last week was quite an event filled week. Firstly, we, NPCOs, got to know our Final theory results on the same week (on friday) as we took it (tuesday).. Wow. Most of us passed! It was actually quite like a joke as the practice session was so tensed up because the instructors kept on saying how tough, how tricky the paper was, choose A, B, C or D booklet, Never take the E or F booklet. I got the E booklet, it was actually very easy, so i can imagine how the previous booklets would look like.
Another eventful situation, sort or rather related to the Final theory test. On the test night, F I Danil raided our barrack. Of course being old birdies of TraCom, we were taking matters into our own hands: bedframes with hangers/clothes, bed messy, shoes arranged atrociously.. worst of the worst.. my bedframe was shifted from my place to the front to join with my another 2 squadmates, it will book like 3 bedframes together, mine in the centre, except that my frame was a single frame, the side ones are double deckers. So, after his raid, he made wat it looks like a aftermath of a typhoon out of the barrack and made those who were not taking the test do PT. As we received the news just before we entered the testing ground, somehow it affects our feeling at that point of time. The next thing we knew, the next day, or Officer-in-charge, blew his top, and left the classroom. we never get to see him for the whole week after that, partly due to our actions, partly because he was also on course.
Sunday, May 15, 2005
The Fellowship of the Clique
Hey, our clique. Aloy, Daniel, Dean, Joanne, Minqi, Russell, Valerie & me. Some of you all really, seriously, had not meet up for a long while. Phew. So long. Since Prom Night, if i'm not wrong. So yah, the rest of us, like Daniel, Dean, me, met up yesterday again! For a movie: Kingdom Of Heaven. Although it was not an official our clique thing, because one of my squadmate initiated a movie event for yesterday, then ask me along, i took this opportunity to also gather our clique. Great idea, right? So the movie, was a little strange to me, because i lack the background knowledge of Jerusalem then. But the entertainment value is there, definitely, great cinematography, and lastly the message was quite clear.
i realised i am still not so good at arcade games. Lost so easily. This i got to know before the movie, while playing Time Crisis 3 at X-zone Dholby Ghaut. Haha!
i realised i am still not so good at arcade games. Lost so easily. This i got to know before the movie, while playing Time Crisis 3 at X-zone Dholby Ghaut. Haha!
NPCO + Class 3 licence = Better policeman
Wow, i really could not believe the i am going to take my Final Theory this coming tuesday when i just took my basic theory last friday. It is simply too fast, usually other people would require to wait for about 2 months or so to sit for it. But i believe the lessons we, NPCOs attend every night had so far prepared us well for our tests.
This week in camp, was a neutral. Highs and lows. i had good interaction with my squadmates like Eyebrows, Kuan Yong, Yuan Kai, Zhang Feng, this bunch of people, chated a lot, about games, lifestyle, habits, our childhood, NCC, sisters, etc. Bad time, actually waste of time, because of the "too much free time" between programmes. People get restless, peopl gets rowdy.
Angels & Demons. The book i lend to KY and Brows. KY finished it. Fast. I'm currently reading Wisely, book 47: The other species of human. Science Fiction. Chinese book i'm still at chapter 7. Slow.
This week in camp, was a neutral. Highs and lows. i had good interaction with my squadmates like Eyebrows, Kuan Yong, Yuan Kai, Zhang Feng, this bunch of people, chated a lot, about games, lifestyle, habits, our childhood, NCC, sisters, etc. Bad time, actually waste of time, because of the "too much free time" between programmes. People get restless, peopl gets rowdy.
Angels & Demons. The book i lend to KY and Brows. KY finished it. Fast. I'm currently reading Wisely, book 47: The other species of human. Science Fiction. Chinese book i'm still at chapter 7. Slow.
Monday, May 02, 2005
Back to training; 1 2 3 4: left right left. 4 3 2: 1 N P C O!!
Ahem. It has been 2 weeks, right? Nothing much has happened during this time though, that is one reason why i did not really bother to blog in too often nowadays. The NPCO training did not comprise much content. I guess (and the officer in charge's too) that the reason why the training is made residential is .. Well.. Because of the driving lessons. By the way, i started my first basic theory lesson last thursday evening. Then, also, i felt for my Airport police officer squadmates because they are not entitled to the driving license.
So far, other than last thursday evening, the past 2 week has been identical. Morning wake up, flag raising, breakfast, lesson, lunch, lesson, dinner, end of the day; except for wednesday we have mass-calisthenic (basically all staff and trainees will be at the parade square for some light warm up then compulsory run will be conducted by the respective officers) and also some Physical training or Drill lessons by my Field Instructor. The only hilight is that we have change from a slacker instructor to a stricter one who likes running a lot. So, that's about it.
Talking about mentally, spiritually and emotionally, i felt that the 3rd week of NPCO training actually brings the squadmates to a greater extent, if a graph was to be used, i would describe that the graph of unity start to increase EXPONENTIALLY. Wow, that is a strong word, man. But in any case, there would be some people who still do not see the commom direction the squad is heading towards. I hope that they will not take long to realise. God please help to lighten the burden of squad NPCO 1.
For so long a time the clique has not meet up. Finally ther is a small get together of the MJC guys, Aloysius, Daniel, Dean, Russell with a special guest MinQi. Although some people came at the wrong timing and some cannot come due to unforseen circumstances, i appreciate the effort man. We should get together more often man, hang out at great places like Brewerks, Marcee etc.
Ah, yes, i will be walking in soon. Taking taxi tonight, as my father will not be driving me there. Got to go.
So far, other than last thursday evening, the past 2 week has been identical. Morning wake up, flag raising, breakfast, lesson, lunch, lesson, dinner, end of the day; except for wednesday we have mass-calisthenic (basically all staff and trainees will be at the parade square for some light warm up then compulsory run will be conducted by the respective officers) and also some Physical training or Drill lessons by my Field Instructor. The only hilight is that we have change from a slacker instructor to a stricter one who likes running a lot. So, that's about it.
Talking about mentally, spiritually and emotionally, i felt that the 3rd week of NPCO training actually brings the squadmates to a greater extent, if a graph was to be used, i would describe that the graph of unity start to increase EXPONENTIALLY. Wow, that is a strong word, man. But in any case, there would be some people who still do not see the commom direction the squad is heading towards. I hope that they will not take long to realise. God please help to lighten the burden of squad NPCO 1.
For so long a time the clique has not meet up. Finally ther is a small get together of the MJC guys, Aloysius, Daniel, Dean, Russell with a special guest MinQi. Although some people came at the wrong timing and some cannot come due to unforseen circumstances, i appreciate the effort man. We should get together more often man, hang out at great places like Brewerks, Marcee etc.
Ah, yes, i will be walking in soon. Taking taxi tonight, as my father will not be driving me there. Got to go.
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