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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).







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41 DAYS; COUNTDOWN TO PINK
9th entry; 090209, 2212 HRS

Lying 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 have
So 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.

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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.