went for my nus pre-enrolment medical checkup today. quite an enjoyable experience. the staff were friendly, and the process was smooth and efficient, quality service u will never experience in a military medical centre. lol.
a fren told me that it's not a fun experience to be lost in nus. but after dropping off at the yusof ishak house, it took us only 5 min to locate the UHC. =D but we kinda cheated anyway, coz we went into the campus via taxi. and wth, i paid the full fare while yx and danny didn't fork out a cent. met this guy named jeremy. apparently i met him at nyjc. he is a fren of jeremy teo who is a 1gdsman. this is the part where i should say "singapore is small" but it's not really that surprising anyway.
on the way home, i saw this pri sch gal wearing a specially designed t-shirt with the words "JING SHAN PRIMARY SCHOOL" at the back. it looked quite cool. it then occured to me that i've almost never seen any jsps students for quite a long time already. it's like, you can see so many other pri sch students walking around but where does jsps students go... maybe they are like me, go straight home after school. lol.
also... it's been a really long time since i've seen any of my pri sch frens... maybe by a stroke of luck fate will have us meet in nus.. any one..
life is like a flawed tetris puzzle, with holes in between every layers, caused by uneven pieces that don't fit each other.
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41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK
8th entry; 080209 2230HRS
A sunday spent in a foreign land. Days to go? Less than ten.
This morning as I went for breakfast, can't help but notice the camp is covered with mist. When it got brighter, the balance of mist and light made me feel like I'm wearing foggy specs. It also casted a dim glowing effect, making the whole environment dreamy-like. It really made me feel like I was in a dreamland/heaven. Certainly a cool experience.
I spent most of the day playing squash and talking to my friends back in SG through MSN, glad that most of them were online on this lovely Sunday. Tomorrow is YuanXiaoJie, how I wish I can be with them...
So anyway, with regards to my progress in mathemagics, I can't master 3-digit squaring as it requires the mastery of 2-digit squaring. I'm talking about mental calculations!
Hope tomorrow may be as fun. However, a week has passed and I need to take my pills tomorrow. So.. another expected round of vomitting...
Good luck!
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41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK is a short ORD journal written, word for word, by Alvin during his last days of full-time NS.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Good Friday
HAPPY GOOD FRIDAY TO ALL~~~
of coz, a holiday seems like any other day now haha. but its still special, coz its the people you know that are free. thats the main point. just hours ago i met up with yk for dinner. quite a rare meeting i would say... but cool yk looks smart in his uh no.3 =D
this is amk hub at twilight
and this is amk hub later in the evening
sorry no tripod...
and there was full moon!
after trying to capture the details of the moon, i realised that it's not as easy as it seems... firstly im inspired to get telephoto lens, 2ndly i wanna get external flash. and i need a tripod. but im gaining experience too =D
so anyway past few days i tried cardstacking. my previous record was 7 storeys high on the triangular pyramid tower, and now i've managed to break that record to an auspicious number 8. nice.
Cardstacking not only requires patience and determination, you need precision, good sense of angles, and a creative mind that understands the pressure points and weight distribution of ur card structure. Of all that i have mentioned, I'm quite lacking in all of it. What I have, was only time...
Took me 1h30min to make that 8 storey tower.
I wanted to go higher, so I discovered another concept of cardstacking. A pattern that goes vertically upwards. This pattern, however, requires much more perfection in it's placement, and a slight deviation often lead to failure. What's frustrating is... everytime this pattern crumbles, the whole tower falls.. So i spent half a day, and I only managed to reach 3 storeys high...
Come to think of it, I wanted to build a tower that was at least my height initially...
So anyway i improvised on that pattern and came out with another pattern... but my skills are quite bad... so I only managed to reach 2 storeys high.
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41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK
7th entry; 070209 2230HRS
Ok I have lost count to the number of remaining days to Friday the 13th...
I'm really starting to enjoy the perks of being what I am... or rather having an admin post. I'm having more free time and the work tasked to me are much more manageable...
I played squash this morning, quite a good workout I would say. But what really mattered was taht it brought memories of JC days back to me. No, I wasn't from Squash, but my friend Gay PR was, and he's a pro. I still remember the fun days of my class playing squash together, and it was Gay who taught most of us how to play. Thanks to him I was able to enjoy the game today. Come to think of it, I miss playing sports with my JC friends. Squash, basketball (I suck at it though), Petanque (my CCA)... You know what, I really want to play petanque right now. It's a pity nobody knows that game.
Today is also the 21st bdae of my BMT sergeant, Daniel Hakkim, and my OGL-mate (both of us were OGLs of OG12), Marilyn. Congrats to them, I hope they had a great time. Mine is coming 'soon', in 9 months...
By the way, I've learnt how to square three-digit numbers mentally! But I need to master two-digits first...
Two days to the end of CNY, Yuan Xiao Jie, and I'm in Brunei... At least I had a good view of the 80% full moon while on my way back to bunk. The bright and beautiful moon casted it's white, dim, radiant glow on the slightly cloudy night sky of Brunei, forming a spiral cone of white fluff around itself from my view. It's beautiful, it's meant to be appreciated, it maks me miss home...
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41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK is a short ORD journal written, word for word, by Alvin during his last days of full-time NS.
of coz, a holiday seems like any other day now haha. but its still special, coz its the people you know that are free. thats the main point. just hours ago i met up with yk for dinner. quite a rare meeting i would say... but cool yk looks smart in his uh no.3 =D
this is amk hub at twilight
and this is amk hub later in the evening
sorry no tripod...
and there was full moon!
after trying to capture the details of the moon, i realised that it's not as easy as it seems... firstly im inspired to get telephoto lens, 2ndly i wanna get external flash. and i need a tripod. but im gaining experience too =D
so anyway past few days i tried cardstacking. my previous record was 7 storeys high on the triangular pyramid tower, and now i've managed to break that record to an auspicious number 8. nice.
Cardstacking not only requires patience and determination, you need precision, good sense of angles, and a creative mind that understands the pressure points and weight distribution of ur card structure. Of all that i have mentioned, I'm quite lacking in all of it. What I have, was only time...
Took me 1h30min to make that 8 storey tower.
I wanted to go higher, so I discovered another concept of cardstacking. A pattern that goes vertically upwards. This pattern, however, requires much more perfection in it's placement, and a slight deviation often lead to failure. What's frustrating is... everytime this pattern crumbles, the whole tower falls.. So i spent half a day, and I only managed to reach 3 storeys high...
Come to think of it, I wanted to build a tower that was at least my height initially...
So anyway i improvised on that pattern and came out with another pattern... but my skills are quite bad... so I only managed to reach 2 storeys high.
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41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK
7th entry; 070209 2230HRS
Ok I have lost count to the number of remaining days to Friday the 13th...
I'm really starting to enjoy the perks of being what I am... or rather having an admin post. I'm having more free time and the work tasked to me are much more manageable...
I played squash this morning, quite a good workout I would say. But what really mattered was taht it brought memories of JC days back to me. No, I wasn't from Squash, but my friend Gay PR was, and he's a pro. I still remember the fun days of my class playing squash together, and it was Gay who taught most of us how to play. Thanks to him I was able to enjoy the game today. Come to think of it, I miss playing sports with my JC friends. Squash, basketball (I suck at it though), Petanque (my CCA)... You know what, I really want to play petanque right now. It's a pity nobody knows that game.
Today is also the 21st bdae of my BMT sergeant, Daniel Hakkim, and my OGL-mate (both of us were OGLs of OG12), Marilyn. Congrats to them, I hope they had a great time. Mine is coming 'soon', in 9 months...
By the way, I've learnt how to square three-digit numbers mentally! But I need to master two-digits first...
Two days to the end of CNY, Yuan Xiao Jie, and I'm in Brunei... At least I had a good view of the 80% full moon while on my way back to bunk. The bright and beautiful moon casted it's white, dim, radiant glow on the slightly cloudy night sky of Brunei, forming a spiral cone of white fluff around itself from my view. It's beautiful, it's meant to be appreciated, it maks me miss home...
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41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK is a short ORD journal written, word for word, by Alvin during his last days of full-time NS.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
XMS HOMECOMING 2009
yest went back to my sec sch for homecoming (after watching slumdog millionaire for the 3rd time). not for the nostalgia though. while certain corridors and parts of the building do make me think back on those sec sch days, the sch just felt different. after all, i spent only my sec 1 and sec 2 days in the hougang site, while the other 2 years (sec 3, 4) were spent in a temporarily holding site at fernvale.
therefore, the memories that played in my mind were of those sec 1 and sec 2 days. but, homecoming had always been a special event. it used to be so fun, all of us planning and preparing so hard for the day, and working so hard on the day itself trying to sell our products. i definitely saw the same spirit in most of the students there.
i went back with the usual gang; kh yk wl hy. met a few familiar faces like renny jiayang, samuel, jasper... and even senior sebastion and junior lisa. both from choir. but... that leaves us with a lot of people who didn't go back. of coz... most of our teachers are gone, mostly transferred to other schools. so.. i only got to meet ms phan. i saw mrs lim hui hui but didn't manage to talk to her. i saw mrs song too, but shes here visiting the sch with her husband and daughters. i guess shes still attached to the sch/colleagues after transferring out.
the 1st stall we patronised was wl's cousin's class stall. we bought "bubble tea" which tasted quite.. bad.. frankly it tasted like mediocre colored/flavored water with fruit cocktails. but it's ok, its the effort they are putting in for the sch that we must appreciate, not the quality of the drink.
i didn't eat/drink anything else becoz i didn't wan to get my hands dirty/sticky when i'm handling my camera. didn't really hunt as many photos as i planned to, after all i'm with a group of frens who were there for a different purpose.
Click to see album
after the homecoming went to dg to play and eat. met maurice while walking on the street. still looks the same haha. thought he would look different after commissioning.
yk met quite a few frens, and every encounter leads to a 10min conversation that leaves wl hy and i staring around lol.
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41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK
6th entry; 050209 2240HRS
Having rain in Singapore is nothing surprising. In fact, the opportunity to sleep with a cold raining night gives thrill to most of my friends. But right now, I really wonder how can anyone live in a place that rains, half the day, every day?! Every night after my shower, I have to go through another shower of rain before reaching my bunk. =/
This week seemed to have an interesting trend for me. Work is ending earlier and earlier while last parade is getting later and later. Fortunately I got to use the internet for 10 min today. Not being able to spend quality time chatting with my closed ones sux though... Lets just say I took a quick gasp of air by seeing them virtually.
The book "THINK LIKE A MATH GENIUS" that I bought at the airport on the night of my flight is interesting! You must be thinking "Why spend $20 on a book on Math when you can buy something else that is more beneficial or entertaining to read?!" I don't know but the book sparked some curiosity in me, urging me to grab it. So anyway I've learnt, so far, how to mentally calculate the square of any number up to 100. Amazingly, the mehod originated from the quadratic equation formula of (x+y)(x-y)=x^2 - y^2...
While the amount of time spent working seems to reduce by the day for me, I can't help but envy my friend (who is going to ORD same day) because he is so free that he can have the whole day to himself, using the internet, have tea breaks, play PSP, read books, sleep, play squash, etc... usually he's tasked with near-negligible work. Compared to me, he is here in Brunei for a holiday. Maybe I shouldn't compare my worklaod and freetime with him just because we are from the same batch though... After all, I received a better ORD grading than him, and a CO medallion...
Today, over lunch and dinner, my colleagues and I discussed about certain people, and their bad points. Work politics & networking of friends came into topic. Come to think of it, I had a failed friendship with my partner, Jimmy. I find that a pity as Jimmy is quite a good friend to have. But I know the root cause of the failed friendship, and I'm not surprised about it. After all, I've always believed that I have a dual personality which is prolly the answer to why people wonder why I am so indecisive.
Breakfast please be good because it's a Saturday and I'm not at home. =(
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41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK is a short ORD journal written, word for word, by Alvin during his last days of full-time NS.
therefore, the memories that played in my mind were of those sec 1 and sec 2 days. but, homecoming had always been a special event. it used to be so fun, all of us planning and preparing so hard for the day, and working so hard on the day itself trying to sell our products. i definitely saw the same spirit in most of the students there.
i went back with the usual gang; kh yk wl hy. met a few familiar faces like renny jiayang, samuel, jasper... and even senior sebastion and junior lisa. both from choir. but... that leaves us with a lot of people who didn't go back. of coz... most of our teachers are gone, mostly transferred to other schools. so.. i only got to meet ms phan. i saw mrs lim hui hui but didn't manage to talk to her. i saw mrs song too, but shes here visiting the sch with her husband and daughters. i guess shes still attached to the sch/colleagues after transferring out.
the 1st stall we patronised was wl's cousin's class stall. we bought "bubble tea" which tasted quite.. bad.. frankly it tasted like mediocre colored/flavored water with fruit cocktails. but it's ok, its the effort they are putting in for the sch that we must appreciate, not the quality of the drink.
i didn't eat/drink anything else becoz i didn't wan to get my hands dirty/sticky when i'm handling my camera. didn't really hunt as many photos as i planned to, after all i'm with a group of frens who were there for a different purpose.
Click to see album
after the homecoming went to dg to play and eat. met maurice while walking on the street. still looks the same haha. thought he would look different after commissioning.
yk met quite a few frens, and every encounter leads to a 10min conversation that leaves wl hy and i staring around lol.
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41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK
6th entry; 050209 2240HRS
Having rain in Singapore is nothing surprising. In fact, the opportunity to sleep with a cold raining night gives thrill to most of my friends. But right now, I really wonder how can anyone live in a place that rains, half the day, every day?! Every night after my shower, I have to go through another shower of rain before reaching my bunk. =/
This week seemed to have an interesting trend for me. Work is ending earlier and earlier while last parade is getting later and later. Fortunately I got to use the internet for 10 min today. Not being able to spend quality time chatting with my closed ones sux though... Lets just say I took a quick gasp of air by seeing them virtually.
The book "THINK LIKE A MATH GENIUS" that I bought at the airport on the night of my flight is interesting! You must be thinking "Why spend $20 on a book on Math when you can buy something else that is more beneficial or entertaining to read?!" I don't know but the book sparked some curiosity in me, urging me to grab it. So anyway I've learnt, so far, how to mentally calculate the square of any number up to 100. Amazingly, the mehod originated from the quadratic equation formula of (x+y)(x-y)=x^2 - y^2...
While the amount of time spent working seems to reduce by the day for me, I can't help but envy my friend (who is going to ORD same day) because he is so free that he can have the whole day to himself, using the internet, have tea breaks, play PSP, read books, sleep, play squash, etc... usually he's tasked with near-negligible work. Compared to me, he is here in Brunei for a holiday. Maybe I shouldn't compare my worklaod and freetime with him just because we are from the same batch though... After all, I received a better ORD grading than him, and a CO medallion...
Today, over lunch and dinner, my colleagues and I discussed about certain people, and their bad points. Work politics & networking of friends came into topic. Come to think of it, I had a failed friendship with my partner, Jimmy. I find that a pity as Jimmy is quite a good friend to have. But I know the root cause of the failed friendship, and I'm not surprised about it. After all, I've always believed that I have a dual personality which is prolly the answer to why people wonder why I am so indecisive.
Breakfast please be good because it's a Saturday and I'm not at home. =(
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41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK is a short ORD journal written, word for word, by Alvin during his last days of full-time NS.
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