Bleak blea ble

I agreed with what hh mentioned wholeheartedly. I’m not confident that my A levels will get me into a local university. My parents are not willing to send me to an oversea university. But they gave a very reasonable reason. Since I undergone a major operation before, the University will be reluctant to accept me in the first place. I did hear this before, so I understand.

This means that my future is very bleak. Seriously, I do not want to retake my A levels. It is just too tedious for me to restudy the stuff again. I couldn’t do it. There’s the next suggestion of going Poly instead. If this happen, it will most probably be Business. But that is like wasting a lot of time, which I will try to avoid.

The last suggestion would be to work. My father said he would provide mee with the starting funds to come up with a business. However, I’m not feeling too good being a businessman. Speaking of this, do you know what I had in mind? My ideal job. Quite simple actually. I buy houses and shops. Rent them out. Huge capital? Not quite. Buy a nice house, rent it out at a high price. Because it is renovated so nicely and public transport is abundant, the rent would be naturally higher. And with the money earned from a year buy a smaller house and rent it out. A shop could do as well though. And my wealth will accumulate and accumulate! Then I will buy more shops and houses and form a monopoly! Very soon, I’ll buy a whole block of building! Wahaha! When that happen, call me tycoon Lee!

But yah anyway, what made me think that I’ll not be able to get into university. My section mates are like so far off from me la! RJC could get 4As and 1 Dist and 1 merit. NJC could get 2a 1b 1c. and even NYJC and TPJC could come up with As and Bs average. These are for prelims mind you. So how am I to compete with them for places in the University? Furthermore, the more I think, the more I felt that my Maths and Econs are totally screwed up. It’s just real bad la. Geography and GP, I have yet to register a good grade for either subject so I’m being frank and say that I do not think it will jump by much.

Luckily, I only just read hh’s blog entry, and thus I still enjoyed my Chu San with my cousins. It is really a pity that not all are present, however, it’s still ok la. It’s actually quite fun talking with them la. Made me feel lots younger. It’s actually quite fun la. But yet again, my arms are filled with scratch marks. -_-”

Happy Chinese New Year!

第一次

I did something really extrodinary tonight. It’s like something which I always had the temptation but yet did not managed to muster the courage for it.. until just an hour ago.

I was dining in Cafe Cartel in Tampines with some friends and was attended by this petite lady asking us to wait in line and stuff. I didn’t notice her initially because she looked 16 and sounded 14. (That’s a compliment ok!) Anyway, we had our dinner after much change of menus as many dishes are sold out during this festive season. And the story really started when I’m heading out of Cafe Cartel.

As I was sitted right smack inside the seat, I was the last to walk out of the entrance. I asked the lady this question

“How old are you?”
“Er.. 18,” came the reply.

It was then that I started noticing the girl.
She wore spectacles and had braces on. Despite that, I sort of liked her. You know, like a crush or eye candy and stuff only requires a few seconds to register.

We proceeded to Macdonald to eat some light snacks, and along the way, I’m only thinking about this thought.
“Should I ask for her telephone number?”
I actually brainstormed many ways to get it, or pass mine to her. (I was actually inspired by my platoon mate when he tried to ask for a Mac Donald’s girl number.)
I don’t know how I managed to muster the courage to ask a total stranger for her number, but I proceeded.

I waited till she finished her job and walked u towards her, careful not to look or sound nervous. I asked:”Hi, are you attached?”

I seriously thought that this is an important question. Cause if she is attached, there is no reason in getting her number!

“Huh? Er…. No” was her reply.

“Yes, I thought in my heart. The largest obstacle is removed without even lifting a finger.”

I carried on and asked: “Would you like to make friends?”
I thought I could just get her number easily from that moment on, however, I’m wrong wrong wrong!
“Er.. I don’t know how to answer that question.” Was her reply. She proceeded to walk away hastily to arrange the already neat tables.

“Ok, thanks” was my reply. I tried to say that while hiding my disappointment.

I think I made her felt quite Pai Seh and stuff la. But I’m not so thick skin to stick around there and continued to pester for her number. I’m not that low. Not yet. I don’t know if she saw me walking away dejectedly from the side of her eye, or did she tilt her head towards my direction like how they always show in movies and stuff.

Hmm.. But this is definitely something new which I have never tried before. I don’t know if I will try it again, but if I found the right person, just perhaps. But she really caught my eyes just now, and I thought it will be a pity to not even make friends with her. But oh well, not everything have a fairy tale ending and I just have to accept my defeat.

Better luck next time I suppose.

Misses

Before I make you people jealous with my life in BMTC school 2, let me first tell you what I missed most inside Tekong for the past 8 days there.

In no particular order,

Bolster
This is actually a very serious problem in Day 1. I really couldn’t sleep. Okay, partially is because it is a new environment and we are suppossed to sleep at 2230 on a Saturday night. However, I figured that with my bolster, I could well sleep by 0030. It didn’t happen. I was kept awake for most of the time, closing my eyes but somehow knowing I wasn’t sleeping. I was so glad when the alarm rang at around 5 whereby I woke up gearing for the next day. I really missed my bolster but life in NS, well, have to get used to it too. I managed to start sleeping real well by Day 3 in case you are wondering.

Family
I feel that most people will miss their family members in som ways or other even though you feel that you have a stronger relationship with your friends. The blood tying each and everyone together, their actions telling how much they cared and stuff, are not only on the surface. Threfore, it is natural for me to miss my family members.

Computer
Surprisingly, this feeling is not very strong. I don’t miss dota for a tiny little bit. Nor do I miss msn, miss blog or whatsoever. I don’t have a logical reasoning for this, but maybe I just feel that I could live without the computer for that period of time.

Freedom
This is serious! There is absolutely ZERO freedom inside Tekong. The food you eat is predetermined, the time you sleep is compulsory, the things you have to do and cannot do is made sure of. The amount of water you drink is forcefed to ensure you have sufficent h2o inside your body. However, after some days of “climatising”, things just fall into place easily. Just that during my book out day, at brunch with my platoon mates, they pointed out that there is actually a freedom of choice at MacDonald, then I realise that we did not have much freedom inside Tekong.

Friends
Well, not much of an importance when you have new friends to make, new bonds to create, new buddy to chat with, new people to entertain each other. Don’t worry la, old friends will never be forgotten. In fact, I do see many many famaliar faces inside Tekong during lunch hours. I saw Peng Juay for many times, Arthur (But he didn’t see me), Kim Hock, Audrine (I don’t know how to spell his name), Shawn Paul (Though I only know him by name), Heng Lip (I saw him giving timing to his section! So proud of CCHS NCC peeps! But he probably didn’t see me) Some of the rest I don’t really know them la, just that I recognise their faces and stuff.

So friends wise, not much of a problem really.

Romance
You see ar, people get to talk to their sweet heart nightly. While I’m just chatting with my section mates, and sometimes, my platoon mates. I do longed for a relationship. But I shall not rush matters. It’s said that in the year of the dog, rabbits will find a relationship easily, especially in the month of December. Wahaha! So shall I wait for December? Haha! But that would defeat the purpose. However, it is not practical to find a girlfriend now lor. And it’s kinda impossible too, so well, just see how ba.

So this sums up the stuffs I missed while I’m inside Tekong.

Bon Voyage!

I’ll be gone in 2 days, and be back in around 8 days time. I’ve never even travelled for such a long duration in my whole life! The longest camp I’ve done was a 5 days 4 nights OBS camp.

Saying that I’m perfectly fine and calm is a lie. In actual, I’m actually jumpy about what may happen the day after tomorrow. It’s the same thing you feel during the first day of JC orientation, as well as secondary school orientaton. I did say that I adapt easily to surroundings, however, not in all occasions.

However, enlisting with the JC people probably makes things easier as we’ve been through the same sh*t for the past 2 years. Most would have outdone me, but it doesn’t matter. University worries are just another worry for another day.

Do I still have the social-bility? Could I mingle into the people easily? Shall I be lame? Serious? or expressionless? Shall I admit I’m from NCC before? I think I will la. It’s much better than learning to tie shoelaces, folding the sleeves all over again. Even footdrills for that matter. However, I seem to hear very little of footdrills from blogs that I’ve read. The most I’ve read about is actually IFC which I provided a slight glimpse in one particular entry which I am just so lazy to link.

Nevertheless, I have to brave out this new adventure no matter the outcome. I just hope to be able to adapt well, and get my bloody 6 pull ups ready by then! Argh! Freaking Pull Ups really got me this time.

In case you people misses me more than I misses you, here is a shot of me in my cap and new specs! Cheers!

Life as a PES C

I benefitted a lot while reading this. That is written by an ex PES C cadet on the life as a PES C cadet inside the army. I must say that initially, he also felt the same way as me (wanting to be in pes A so hat I could go OCS or SESPEC), much to the disgust of a finger of people. Some of the things he wrote actually kinda made me panic a little.

Need to do IPPT meh? Maybe for him still need ba, but I’m kinda sure I don’t have to do that. Not that I don’t want to la. I think I can still clear most, other than SBJ! I just can’t jump la ok!It’s just that I need to be mentally prepared ma.

Har!? Need to do a minimum of 6 pull ups before breakfast and dinner? Siao Ar! Now I’m only averaging 2, on form, 3! How to manage 6 before enlistment in 3 days time! Xiong! He don’t have to worry la, cause he sounded so fit!

Ok, there’s no SOC, for PES C people, as mentioned by him. And why! Ok, I may not be a good runner for the first 800 or 700m. But I think the obstacles should be challenging! Argh! But well, I’m not complaining for this.

And Jun Kit, bath is averaging at 1-2 mins.

I’m only getting 4 days and 3 nights Outfield, compared to the 7 days and 6 nights outfield of the PES A and B. This is something I’m actually VERY glad for! Because outfield, well, digging trenches and stuff, and sleeping with bugs is not my kind of things. And the powder bath that require you to be stripped down to ur undies sounded er…

Another thing I’m glad for is that, PES C route march is only a progressive 5 km to 10 km and it ends there. PES A and B have a 4 km, then 8 km, then 16 km, then 24 km progressive route march, so comparatively, it’s excellent.

The swimming test of 50m sounds cool as well. Cause, I should be able to pass that, and thus will have free time during the remedial session!

And I’m actually quite bemused at how he got confinements. Failure to drink enough water in he time limit, tio confine! Wahaha! That’s is pretty sad. But I don’t understand the rationale though.

Therefore, other than the Chin Up part, all others are actually a confirmation to what I already know. The only thing is that he enlisted on 1998. Wahaha! So some things may have changed, for example the camo no longer use crayon. They uses camo CREAM. Which my house got some tubes. Haha!

And well, I’ve actually looked up on many blogs which had the words PES C written on them. Many of them, like me, only feel slightly uptight that they would not know people there as most of our friends enlisted earlier or later. However, most also mentioned that they do not fear that much as they make friends easily, and I think I fall under that category too.

Well, I really do not know what else I have to bring in extra for the camp. Messaged 2 close friends regarding that and hope to hear from them at night when they could use their phones. Gonna get a lock and an alarm clock after lunch. After which, shall hit the gym to build up on my strength! Argh! 6 pull ups. Siao ar!

Gone the days of Dota, in come the days of storm the house!

*EDIT* Morale booster! Now, I could use SA to play in IRC le! Haha, I think so la. The previous 2 games rocks! Nice teammates again, but this time, my frag and death ratio is the best~ 10-5 Woo! We won eventually, cause their team got 2 person who need to work! Lol! At 5+ –>? A bit the strange, but SA rocks man! Cool!

*EDIT* Haha! I got so much time and nothing to do in the morning that I decided to play another game of DOTA! To my delight, it;s a much nicer game, people cooperate, but well, we still lost la. However, my frag and death ratio is not that bad la. Good team. better luck next time. SA still rocks la.

*EDIT* Gone were the days of DOTA, in come A day of Storm the House. After another try after typing this initial post, I conquered the game. played all the way till Day 49 before the window mysterious disappeared! Argh! Does that game even end? However, with all that being said, it is still a jolly good game to kill time, though it’s kinda boring in the end as it ends with Tank and I thought there will be Airplanes, but no, there isn’t. Computer players just got their limits. As for human players, it seems that I could not reach the “elitism” amoung the human players in computer games I played, whether it is Counterstrike, Gunbound, Starcraft or Dota. Argh! Must be beause of bad foundation! Hahahahaha!

You know, after every game of dota against the IRC people, it tends to be very demoralising. They are just too pro le. Many levels above me. And after demoralising for 3 days, I’ve already decided that I shall step down from dota, at least till I enlist. Those games were really bad. However, it’s nice of Cheng Yao to be so modest and taught me many pointers which I guess I’ll have to use only after quite some time. For your info, I played a grand total of 6 games and only won 1. Got called a noob in 1 of the games i lost, notably, the last game I played last night, which triggered off this decision.

But fret not, my computer will not rot just because it is lack of dota action! Hereby, I present you this game that got me hooked for 2 hours since 3 pm till now!

http://www.addictinggames.com/stormthehouse.html

Since the guys are enlisting, it makes this game even more fun! The objective is to kill the stickman before they charge past the walls. You could equip yourself with many items in a bid to “last longer”

It’s really not easy la! And I still do not know if it is better to defend or attack. As in buy defending items or attacking ones. So far, I’ve only got to Day 18. And my, it is such an accomplishment! Fighting against Tank. For beginners, I recommend a very important item. “Fortify”! I couldn;t even have time to try on the sniper rifle. It’s too expensive! If you managed to get past Day 18, please tell me what items u bought, roughly! Important ar! Thanks!

Enlist faster leh!

*UPDATE* Remember I said that Man Utd form is directly related to my health? When I’m not feeling well, they lose games? Look! Yesterday they lost 3-1 to Man City! I’m not a swindler, I had my blog entry before the kick off! It just coincides (All the time). If I had betted, maybe I would have won some money. But who would bet against the club he support? -_-”

Seriously, I’m bored staying at home THESE few days. I feel bored when I’m at work. However, when I’m not at work, there’s nothing to do! Those that are working are working. Those that are schooling are studying. Those that had enlisted, are in the army. And therefore, explaining my current situation. And if you realise, there isn’t much one could accomplish by himself in Singapore.

Furthermore, it could be due to the boredom that I’m sick once again. It’s the flu this time. Remember that I’ve got a nose block every 24 hours in a day, sometimes it is the right nose and sometimes it is the left nose? And therefore, I’ve set out to solve the problem once and for all to get more fresh air! And thus I keep trying very hard to blow blow blow in a bid to clear the passage way. And I have no idea what happen, but soon after, I got my flu. It all happened like in 30 minutes and I’m down with the virus.

It’s 6 more days before I enter army. Minus the 6th day, I still got 5 days to spend. Minus 1 day of packing, I still got 4 days to spend. And you can;t expect me to pack for 1 day!? But nevermind, 4 days. Library, I will probably not be able to return the book, so forget it. Beach, I’m still considering. Tomorrow maybe, since tomorrow is a Sunday and going to the beach is Free! Unless you consider sentosa or cycling la. Yesterday managed to find the touch to pull my 3rd pull-up since before the A levels. I doubt i could hit my peak of 7 before enlistment le. I just feel so tired.

Anyway, on a side note, the staff in 77th Street (Parkway) are so nice! Or rather, the manager too! Was buying a cap u see, for obvious reason, and therefore i headed down to parkway. Was going there to meet Junyi (Yian Sin was with him, and Jun Kit joined in too) to return him a book and have dinner also la. But anyway, the manager is so friendly lor! Firstly, a nice wide smile. Then, he don’t hurry u to buy things, He let me try out the caps, and best of all, provide me with recommendations! I actually eyed a green one, however, I personally think it;s kinda unauspicious, you know… so I really had trouble finding the next best colour. And there he came, knowing that I do not exactly want the green one, he didn;t hesitate to show me a colour close to green and brown. Sort of in between. And he talked about it, saying after BMT, will be tanned, and stuff and thus that colour, since it is bright, it will look nice on my already tanned skin. It’s like, he linked everything so well together! (Yes, I told him I’m enlisting on the 20th)

He also mentioned that Pes c also need to chiong at times one. Not as slack as I thought. So it’s like cool! Haha!

Argh, but I really need to find something to do for the next 4 days! -_-”

BTT

Ladies and gentlemen, I’m pleased to announced that I, Han Zhong, passed the basic theory test! Haha! Even though it’s just a simple and test which just reading through the book like 4 times should be able to do the job, I just had the feeling of satisfaction when the screen showed the PASSED word. I didn’t hesitate to punch my fist up into the air as an expression of my joy, much to the annoyance of my fellow testees who are still in the process of doing the test. (Nah, the person sitting beside me smiled at me after he saw my screen. )

Perhaps it is the lack of such tests in daily lives that made this small achievement felt so dear. Or rather, it is the release of pressure by parents urging me to take the test ASAP before NS, that made me so happy, or rather, relieve.

Or another explanation could be that I did not have much life these few days before my NS that a small excitment could spark the andrenaline (Whatever!) rush inside of me.

A little reminder is that I will be enlisting in approximate 11 days time! I’m still having mixed feeling about the PES C thingy la. I do crave for people who are fit to be in the same company. However, on the other hand, since I am in PES C, I do not feel obliged to train up as I know the training won’t be as xiong as it could be. In fact, I sorta feel that the training will be rather slack and not much enjoyment. All I hope for now is probably people within the company to make lives fun for each other!

Gym, here I come!

Pre-enlistment jitters?

Somehow, the idea that there will be lesser people online over the next 3 days didn’t struck me well. It’s like DOTA will be restricted to very few people this way, and the only way out of this sticky situation was to download 1.20b when I’m not exactly sure if the patching works for me. It never did.

(Do I sound like I’m writing a typical thriller?)

Anyhow, I’ve only got about 15 days to MY enlistment and yet more people will be feeling the way I am now.

I still have no idea how I will be feeling this day, for those who are enlisting tomorrow. Will I be in a state of frenzy, not knowing what I forgot to bring and stuff? Or will I be feeling nervous that tomorrow I will be meeting a whole new group of bloody slackers? Maybe I will be feeling cool and calm, afterall, I’ve been in NCC before should have given me more exposures then those people not exposed to life in uniform groups. Even worse, those who have not even gone camping.

But, for the benefit of people who will be enlisting soon and not gotten a list of what is required to bring, I was told to just bring

IC
Medical thingy
Hangers
Pegs
A lot of underwears
And perhaps just 1 more set of clothes

As simple as that as NS should provide you with the rest of the necessary stuffs.

Please may I enter the batch with the coolest people in town! The funniest yet serious people will be most welcomed. I would gladly put myself into that category, if I had a very good pal or 2 whom could click with me there. That will be the ideal scenario, perhaps the 4 of us will bring the whole platoon into recognition with the bond we made and we could rock the whole company down with our enthusisms and eventually produce the Overall outstanding cadet or some sort? Haha! *Ideal scenario*

*Worst case scenario* Er, I’m still thinking what’s worse. To be otracised or to have a whole batch of sian sian people.

-_-” Well, I certainly hope I do not need to find the answer to the problem.

But rest assured, I just feel that I will settle in somehow easy. (=

But overconfident could lead to arrogance!