this morning was the first time i drove in wet conditions, quite a fulfilling experience. however, weather was so cold, plus the car's aircon, that towards the end of my lesson my feet were getting numb from the cold... so numb that i couldn't properly feel the accelerator. there were even instances i couldn't feel the brake pedal, and i thought i missed it. afternoon's lesson was fun too, get to drive around amk and yio chu kang, as far as to the Teachers' Estate, and amk ave 3, where i previously lived. and ssdc has finally started on their temperature taking measure for all visitors, as with many other places. just imagine, a car at the centre gets used by up to perhaps 7 different learner drivers. and every single driver would touch the steering wheel and the gear...
anyway, been doing some event photography on my own haha.
AMK HUB FOOD FARE
MINISTERIAL COMMUNITY VISIT TO NEE SOON SOUTH
hmm kinda lazy to upload photos for the actual event. but i took pics of a tree planted by minister lee bee wah =D
ok heres 1 pic from the event.
SEMBAWANG SHOPPING CENTRE RACE 2 WIN
my mother was one of the lucky 120 hopeful participants, selected to take part in this event to fight for a chance to win a chevrolet auto car. participants must find different given locations (retail stores) in the shopping centre and collect 6 stamps. the 1st 12 to make it back will then play the final game to stand a chance to win the car. and so, 95 participants turned up, and turned sembawang shopping centre into a obstacle course. for 20 min you can see people of all sorts (gender, age group, fat aunties, skinny geeks, etc) running around the whole place.
generally, the 1st 12 to complete their objectives were young male adults, unsurprisingly... so anyway... the final game...
in order of their ranking in that previous race, 12 participants will take turns picking a key from 16 keys to try and open the car. if they succeed, the car is theirs. if all 12 have picked a key and failed to open the car, the 1st 4 will continue their turns at the final 4 keys. the winner of the car turned out to be the 2nd guy, at the 14th picked key, out of 16. meaning, all 12 tried their luck and failed =/ what are the odds lol. for the 2nd guy, he was to choose a key out of key 2, key 15, key 16. and guess what? key 2 was the fateful one. perhaps thats why its called Race 2 Win (2 wins).
--------------------------- 41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK9th entry; 090209, 2212 HRSLying on my double decker (bottom half), with standard (SAF) blue bedsheet and a damn small pillow wrapped in blue pillow case. While i prefer my bed, I have no other choice but to accept and adapt to what I haveSo anyway, seems like today will be the earliest night I'm turning in to. Might have been more well spent if I can enjoy the full moon and yuan xiao jie with my family. 5 days to V-dae, thus 5 days to Singapore! (and 32 days to pink!)Today's work was the least thus far, as the batallion is outfield and there's hardly anyone in camp, not that there will be work even if the rifle coys were in camp. Managed to play basketball and more DS games. I still suck at B-ball... I think I should stick to playing squash for the rest of the week lol.Today was also eat-your-pills-and-vomit day. However, I did not vomit. which is of coz a great relief.1 month left and I'm starting to slacken.. but I know I shouldn't as I don't want to waste time being unproductive, and I don't want to miss the free time in army enjoying life. ---------------------------41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK is a short ORD journal written, word for word, by Alvin during his last days of full-time NS.
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.---------------------------41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK8th 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!---------------------------41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK is a short ORD journal written, word for word, by Alvin during his last days of full-time NS.
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 PINK7th entry; 070209 2230HRSOk 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...---------------------------41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK is a short ORD journal written, word for word, by Alvin during his last days of full-time NS.
