Happy New Year.

Okay 2009's here.. Wishing all to have a great year ahead and may all be blessed with great health and happiness! Hopefully more peace in the world and economy gets better!

Here's some of my personal new year resolutions:
- ORD happily (that's a definite thing)
- Go for overseas beach resort holiday (been yearning for one for years le! anyone interested?)
- Find a part time job that can last me till uni starts (or else no $$$ to last me for 6mths!!)
- Teach more dizi students (any lobangs?)
- Learn driving
- Go for dizi diploma grading exam
- Get myself (mentally) prepared for uni
- Maintain fitness n stay healthy (O_o!)

qUoTe OF tHe DaY: Life will be better for everyone if we fret less, smile more! -jon

Movie outing

Went for movie outing with Kr, Py, Christine, Pl, Franc and Jas Foo today... Watched Twilight... It's niccceeeee... Will definitely catch the other 2 parts next time (if there is, haha)... And i wana watch the Jack Neo movie and the Ponyo cartoon! XD lol...

After movie went Esplanade rooftop chill... Taught them how to play hunter-n-bear and after a few rounds we played hide-n-seek... okay okay -_-! haha....

qUoTE oF tHE dAY: I'm so happy~~ XD -jon

CC outing

Had CC outing today at ECP.. din expect so many to turn up.. =D arnd 22 i guess.. the bad thing was we din really prepared much fun activities.. Ate lunch tgt at mac, den went cycling with some of them while the rest played cards n sand.. Cycle until legs cui.. super shiok. haha.. After cycling played frisbee.. den go home liaoz.

qUoTE oF thE dAY: Anger makes you small, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. -Cherie Carter-Scott
-jon

Escape outing and SY chalet.

Yesterday sunday... went cc for prac in the morning, then went Escape with kr, fran, vann, ngolaam, xenia, pl and christine. 3rd time going.. and the only time i neva puke.. lol! yah lousy i noe.. had alot of fun screaming my lungs out thou... haha..

After escape trip end arnd 5plus, den went over to SY chalet at downtown east.. we actually took 2hrs to start the bbq fire.. -_-" (finally started the fire with the help of neighbouring chalet mates) hahaz... few of us went arcade after bbq-ing.. jing wen n jun yuan made our jaws drop with their super pro skills on the set drum thingy... and i actually played para para for the 1st time.. i swear it's freaking awkward yet FuNnAy.. den we went back n had gossip session all the way till 4plus most of us cannot tahan den slp liao.

quoTE oF tHE daY: Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. -George Iles
-jon

It's been awhile.

Finally my hse laptop's fixed! but the bad news-- whole com's reformatted and all my pics gone! W.T.F. zzzzz.... luckily still got some old ones saved in cd... had a hard time finding n installing drivers and finally able to use internet today.. finally can update the blog... =D

I'm clearing my leaves all the way till next yr! woohoo! and that means (free time X unlimited= holidays)... except x'mas which i'll be doing freakin COS in camp.. -_-" jio me go out!

Went watched bro's SP symphonic band concert on wed... i finally got to see him do a 'solo' on stage... was a duet actually.. and he did quite well.. gd job! it's quite an enjoyable concert..

Gd news~ juz received letter from SYCO ytd informing me that i got shortlisted... greats =D suay thing is i cant go for the compulsory orientation bcos of freakin guard duty.. F that shit man.

Went parkway play pool with kr, julian, cynthia n loretta today.. and i sucked. dats all. haha.

qUOTe of ThE daY: Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. -Confucius
-jon

Load lifted!

Finally i'm back to blog! Hse com was down so din manage to use com for the long period till today(hari raya). i'm actually in camp doing cos! -_-" sianned.

Finally the big loads' off me!

Have been busy lately with preparations for cc concert and competition..

CC concert on SAT was kinda successful, although we nearly had thoughts of canceling it at the last moment due to bad ticket sales.. luckily at least 90% of the seats were filled on the concert day itself. I swear this will be the last time i'm gonna plan a concert.. It's damn tiring! So glad that everything went quite smoothly for the concert, including my solo.. Million thx to those who had put in their efforts in helping me throughout (Zhongming, Julian, Michelle, Delia, Ann Nee, Cynthia, Vengwai, Huizhen, Millennia, Peiyin, Peilin, Benjamin, all my guest performers and backstage crews), especially to the few who did the costumes and ticketing!



Competition for solo categroy ytd was quite an experience for me... although din manage to get into finals, i din really feel that surprised or sad.. i guess i din performed my best on stage at that moment.. wasn't mentally prepared for the close distance that i was performing in front of the judges.. alrdy had the gut feelings about the results right after performing.. only felt kinda disappointed with my own preparations prior to the competition and sry to disappoint the whole lot who went to support me.. but still thx lots for being there to support!

Now with the last hurdle to clear.. 13th dec.. ensemble finals competition..prac hard n jiayou BHCE!

-jon

syco audition..

Went for SY auditions ytd... arrived slightly later n found out dat i was last to audit... got so many applicants for dizi.. total of 11.. ironically, sheng section only has 2 applicants-- one for gao yin n one for zhong yin! Waited from 7 to 9 for my turn to begin... Din really played my normal standard for it.. played quite a number of notes not in tune and the judges din comment or ask me anything.. is that gd or bad? haha... hoping for the gd news to come soon..

qUOTE oF tHE dAy: You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and I say, "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
-jon

Downcast. Negative.

Shuckz... Most or all of my surrounding frens have finished 'O's n 'A's, enjoying their holidays while i, even though finishing the last impt hurdle of my army life, am still feeling super stressed n low, with so many impt events ahead of me for the coming weeks...

Up till now, i'm still having doubts about whether the concert will be successful... Shortage of ppl here and there, lack of prac, administrative stuffs not yet settled...

Next in mind is the competition.. a mere 10days without practicing, and i can actually hear how much my already-low-standard has dropped...

Next tue's the audition for syco.. i can only say i'm 60% prepared, with queries not yet answered for some parts of the set pieces... Pass or fail? It's all up to my last few practs this week le.

As for guard duty matters, i haf to say sry to all those whom i caused trouble for... seriously i didn't took mc for any-ol'-how and skipped my guard yesterday, which i wasn't informed of. The only med appt i can take for the week was wed n the treatment for my foot made me limped for the past 2days. Maybe due to last min changes i was told i only have one on next thurs. Only ytd i'm told my slot has changed to this sun n tue, on which the 2days i'm having concert rehearsal and audition separately. I oso haf no choice and cant do both cos the 2events are way too impt for me. (Sry Syivest, to trouble u to find replacements for me).

Haiz... just cant wait for all these to end quick then i can finally get to relax. Hope the concert will be a success. Hope i can at least pick up my standards at at least get into finals for the competition. Hope i wun screw up the audition. Hope i can get replacements for my duties.

Hope i wouldn't fall despite the narrow and rocky road in front of me. Hope that i can pick myself up even if i do fall.. Stay positive, jonny!


qUoTE oF thE daY: Good luck, Jonny! -jon

Super high fun day!

Went out with Kr, py, pl, fran n vann to orchard today... Starting all quite sian sian nothing much to talk about then after lunch at Pastamania, we watched The Coffin at Cathay... Something about lying in a coffin will get rid of ur bad karma, but the bad karma will land on someone you love. Kinda scary n bloody for a few parts of the show... but quite common effects of Thai movies so the scary parts were sort of expected..

After the movie, we actually wanted go Marina to bowl but in the end cancelled as Kr need to go alter his jeans... so the rest of us went over to Esplanade.. Halfway felt like having craving for ice-cream so we shared a big bowl of ice cream scoops at Gelare.. super shiok.. different flavours de...

Over at esplanade roof top... (ok i noe this is super childish), we played hide-n-seek! super fun la.. ultra long time neva play liao.. lucky not much ppl arnd there.. or else super malu.. lol! (Will post pics after i receive them)

Off to india tml! Hope to haf a successful n fun live firing experience.. =D

qUoTE of tHE dAY: Fun is not restricted to when you are a kid; You can always have fun anytime, anywhere, any age. -jon

stressed up shit.

shucks.. feel so shitty over so many things now...

had a bad day at the cc... nobody informed me or boo about a function going on at the auditorium.. and we are supposed to hold last 5th combine today before the concert on 6th dec. Got freaking angry dat until today, concert so near alrdy the cc still allow other ppl to hold function at our only place to haf combines.... and boo had to make it worse by nagging more to me.... -_-! zZZZZzz x 100. ended up having to prac at the 'fish tank'... freaking squeezed everone inside.. cramped up.. super felt like flaring up at that moment but managed to control luckily... after lunch self-prac for awhile den went off arnd 4plus with kim, hz n julian to play pool at roxy..

nac competition is juz a month away! and it has to be arnd the same period as the concert... which means double-the-stress.. Cool... I 'love' stress man.. haha.. zzz.. so far i still feel dat my standard is not really up 'there' yet... and i've yet to prac a single prac with my piano accompaniment yet! okay juz planned our 1st prac next wed before i'm off to india.. hope there wun be any changes to the plan so we can at least prac half the song before i'm left with 2weeks to prac after coming back. Freak shit! i swear i'm so gonna SUPER CHIONG dizi every single available day when i'm back..

Sian1/2 tml morning still need go back camp for guard briefing shit. Which means waking up early.. actually doesnt matter much.. used to waking up early anyway... only sian thing is spend one hr going back for the 30min thing and spend one hr returning home. Shud i go swimming tml? shall see tml.. :D

QuOtE of ThE dAY: Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -Mahatma Ghandi
-jon

My own sports day.

I'm on leave for this whole week! yeah cool. Long long rest all the way to 6th nov before flying of to INDIA with army for live firing.. Will be back on 17th nov.. So far haven spending these few days quite 'fruitfully', (not staying at home n rot is considered fruitful to me le.. XD)

went for dizi lesson n co practices as usual on sat n sun... Mon n today were 'sports days' for me.. haha.. did 4 sports.. Mon: had morning run plus statics training, evening my neighbour gerald came over n we decided to go play table tennis with my bro too. Both of them are freakin funny n standards still as gd as few yrs ago when we last played.. had a gd laughing session instead.. =P Tue: Went for swimming, swam a reasonably gd 20 laps.. greats.. timing improve le.. Afternn met up with Kinren, Peiyin, Peilin, Francine n Vanissa for badminton.. initially wanted to play at kallang cc but no available courts end up playing at whompoa cc(cui-ed), but it was fun though.. super long neva play badminton oso.. glad that i still cud hit arnd 70% of all hits.. LOL! guess tml will be resting day.. or mayb go orchard? haha! still pending.. =D

sianz.. ytd juz noe that i have 2 guard duties waiting for me, one per week, right on the week i come back from india.. eff-ing sian man... somemore got guard comd for one of it.. neva do before sia... -worries- grr... rsm power la.. give us 5guard slots... but who cares... ORD mode after come back from india... wahaha!..

qUOtE of tHE dAY: The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is chemical reaction, both will transform. -Carl Jung
-jon

last local Bn outfield.

This week's last Bn outfield was rather quite relaxing for me n my bty, esp for D6.. 1stly, 4d3n exercise last min changed to 3d2n... haha.. 2ndly, 7-ton happened to breakdown in the middle of the road, end up doing 1 less deployment.. :D somemore 2nd nite got Bn BBQ.. shiok la.. eating bbq prawn, satay, chicken wing etc etc(plus our self supplied beer!!) during outfield is an enjoyment.. The only sucky thing was that after ex finish go back camp still need settle stores n handover standby items to bravo..

today best.. morning's 7km live run cancelled due to rain.. slpt all the way till 10plus.. :D afternn packed most of the stuffs for india trip... den evening go spec mess 'celebrate' deepavali n makan indian cuisine.. den book out!

gosh, juz gotten the set piece n scales for syco audition on 25th nov.. hope got enuf time to prac before audition.. :D

qUOtE oF thE daY: Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein
-jon

Cc pract n julian's bday celebration.

I thought today's pract at cc was quite good, and i was quite satisfied with the attendance.. only thing we're lacking now is the need for more erhu, zhongruan, pipa and cello players for a more balanced orchestra.. another thing is that members really need to put in effort in reaching on time for pract.. the best scenario i can ever imagine happening is that by 9.30 the whole orchestra can be sitted there waiting for conductor to start pract.. haha..

Went to E!hub to celebrate julian's bday after pract.. played arcade 1st.. haha.. the look-out-for-the-diff-between-the-two-photos game was fun and challenging.. after that we ate at this bbq chicken shop.. the 7 of us(julian, huizhen, zhongming, mic, delia, noelene, me) ate 2 family meals.. plus the cake mic n delia purchased from Prima, it was awwwwwssooome(for my stomach) haha... sinful sinful... (will post photos for the celebrations after i receive from mic..) after that went home.. :D

qUoTE oF thE daY: Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. -Czech proverb
-jon

practice today.

today's prac at bhcc went quite well as usual... joel and jun yuan really make good erhu partners.. haha! they actually can play sai ma in this manner: 2erhus, and they each play using each other's bow. Seriously challenging but super entertaining.. haha.... other than practising, mr ng taught us about posture today and i tot it was quite useful for us as performers on stage.. arghz.. still need more prac on bawu to improve for the feng wei zhu song... jiayou jonny!

qUOTE oF THe DAy: Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. -Samuel Johnson
-jon

Prof test week.

This week's been quite similar to previous weeks.. only dat this week we had the 'outfield' in camp, doing det prof test.. luckily for d6 we were blessed with a good deployment ground for action front cease fire.. for hooking unhooking was quite lucky too cos was given time to read up the 'secret manual' a night before the test. For misfiring drill, haha.. i kinda screw up but shud be still pass la. haha.. Results not computed yet, but hopefully pass with not so bad result la... :D if results are good, i seriously think 90% credit goes to the men, 10% for me only.. gun knowledge too lousy le and cant really memorise things last min, plus answering 'uncle momo' makes one super stress.. haha.. answer actually correct he can confuse you till you give wrong answer.. power la.

sianz.. doing COS now in office.. super boring. zzz

qUoTE oF tHE dAY: Be WOW. Be Wild.
-jon

fri nite fever.

Went out with the bravo guys huiyong, ryan and yong tat on fri nite to makan dinner and watch movie at Cathay at dhoby ghaut.. we watched Eagle Eye by Steven Spielberg... quite action-packed and exciting but cudn't catch up till the end of the show... fell aslp by 1.5hr after show started.. guess was still too tired from outfield... hahaz...

qUoTE oF thE dAY: If you can solve your problem, what's the need of worrying? If you can't solve it, then what's the use of worrying? -Shantideva
-jon

3d2n Bn Ex.

This week's battalion ex was rather ok.. think we're kinda getting the hang of it already... actually supposed to start at 9am on 1st day but ended up starting arnd 4plus in afternn, due to lack of drivers... hengs :D everything went quite smoothly, only few minor problems but we still managed to remedy... super shiok on 2nd nite...d5 n d6 kinda 'celebrated' andrew's bday outfield with carlsberg and Sng managed to call thru 98.7fm and dedicated a song for him.. the conversation on the radio was super funny... here's a part of it..

Sng: we're having outfield now!
DJ: Wah! now can bring n use phone at outfield ar?!
Sng: yea.. now 3G army mah!
DJ: woah ok..!

went for medical appt today.. was supposed to have a minor surgery for the wart on my foot but ended up being cancelled cos the doc said it's quite painful and will take quite long to recover... was thinking: 'still got 3more outfields how to do sia...' so changed back to normal treatments again..

sux.. gotta burn some sundays doing sentry duty for standby.. super sian..
stressed... left with LESS THAN 2mths to concert, yet still got so many things not settled. haiz.

quoTE oF thE daY: There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. -Christopher Morley

-jon

No more boring saturdays.

Saturdays' no longer will be boring for me.. yipee.. haha.. at least till end of this yr... Gonna teach dizi lessons for mornings and have BHCO practices in afternoons.. great.

Lazy to write today.. haha. =P

qUotE of ThE daY: You play music, don't let music play you.
-jon

Upcoming army events.

Woohoo! Left with 4mths plus to ord! yet Oct and Nov will be the lastest busiest and most challenging period for my ns life.. heads up for upcoming events starting next week..

1st week oct: 3d2n Bn outfield ex. =(
2nd week oct: Detachment proficiency test. =(
3rd week oct: 4d3n Bn outfield ex. =(
4th week oct: Deepavali + Clear leave whole week. =)
1st & 2nd week nov: India live firing 6-15nov. =S
3rd week nov onwards: ORD mode. =D

qUoTE oF thE dAY: The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
-jon

Boozie Fri, Boring Sat.

Woke up late today... reached home about 3plus am ytd(nope.. today) after playing pool at parkway and drinking with andrew... power la.. we played at the best table they've got and can really feel the diff(although i keep losing to the pro).. still got way long to learn man.. haha.... guessed i broke my record again ytd.. super shiok.. drink till seh seh... a few more glasses wud haf knocked me out le.. haha...

Today's boring again.. (seriously need more lobang if not my life will be no-life haha!).. practised abit of dizi... After awhile got bored watched bro play dota.. Looked thru my cupboards and happened to saw the old letters and the only printed photo dat 'we' took. Somehow the past memories appeared vague n blurry in my mind.. maybe it's been quite awhile le.. duno wad made me do it, but i decided to fully forget everthing.. took a last glance thru the stuffs then dumped them away. Well... guess there's no need to reminisce thru unhappy past.. Wad matters now is that everyone's happy can le. :)

qUoTe OF the DaY: All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it! -Bob Newhart
-jon

1st Battalion outfield Ex.

Period: Last Sunday to this Tue.

Sux.. gotta book in on sunday early morning to prep stores-- finished packing by 10 plus and waited all the way till 3pm den finally set out for the exercise.. wasted time waiting n waiting for the drivers to reach Bn line..

Deployments for the 1st n 2nd days weren't dat bad.. only till the nights came..
-1st nite: started raining right after we action-front.. instructions passed down to wear rain jackets.. (it was alrdy pouring and doing dat doesn't help much in keeping us dry. -.-").. after awhile when we were near fully wet den they told us to seek shelther in the vehicles. Only had a minimum of 2-3hrs rest before the day break. Shivered all the way arnd 5-6am.. zzz.
-2nd nite: i made a serious mistake of leading the towed gun in the opposite direction.. only to realised it after halfway thru action front.. damn.. got super gan jiong but luckily lao koh was there to remedy the situation for me.. felt super guilty to my men cos of the mistake den the layout of the heavy stores need to be changed 180degrees. Treated it as a serious learning point.. Lucky thing for the nite was that sufficient rest of 6hrs was given.. but all still woke up shivering at dawn.

Packing up, cleaning stores n gun was the faster for my det at the end of the day.. as we cant wait to finish things up and freakin get back to our bunks and rest.

*Gd points to take note of:
-Longan,lychee cans, 100plus and nutella n bread are gd to have for outfields.
-Help other detachments when your's is rdy. They'll in turn help your's back when you need help. (jus like D5 n 6! brother detachments :D)


qUoTE of THE dAy: A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. -Patricia Neal
-jon

bugis.

Went to bugis today with ngolaam.. arrived abit late :D Went to Eason to buy dizis for my new student for the lesson starting next week.. got G key n D key dizis.. After dat bought a cheap buy nice lookin digital watch for my upcoming outfield (TML!!! :/)... After dat walked arnd aimlessly in bugis shoppin centre for awhile, bought a damn nice white choc at Cocoa Tree, ate snack at BK den went home..

qUotE of ThE dAY: To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -Karen Sunde
-jon

Super high day!

Today's my camp Alpha Bty cohesion day.. SUper ZUN. Went Sentosa early at 8 with them.. haha managed to 'book' the whole volleyball area as we were early.. Played volleyball(Officer team got the championship title! congrats!), soccer, basketball all at the beach.. The bday boy(aka me =P) got dunked into sea and sandhole and 'forced' to take pic with 3jap girls(steady la! haha) ... finished the games n cohesion arnd 1plus.. den went off with jeremy to vivo to accompany him buy present for his soon-to-be gf(or alrdy is le? =x).. haha.. walked for arnd 30mins all around vivo till we finally found the ATM.. by then legs super cui liao.. =S din managed to find a suitable present so we went eat laksa at Food Republic at 3plus(ultra hungry by then).. super-duper-sinfully-deliciously big bowl! After done with lunch we went to this chocolate shop den jeremy bought me 3small balls of choc which costed $8.80 as present! super gd quality choc.. thX Jeremy! haha!

Thx to Alpha bty who were there today at Sentosa to celebrate my bday and also to all who sent me bday msges! Had a wonderful 20th bday today! :D

[Photos for today will be posted asap when i receive them! :P]

qUOtE oF tHE DaY: Tough times don't last, tough men do.
-jon

Shucks!

WED:
Shucks! i freakin' failed SOC by freakin' 2SECS!!!! damn.. shud haf brought along my watch... zzzzz.... need re-run again... -_-

-jon

THX guys...

SAT:
Went out with The Gang(michelle, delia, yihui, hanyun, zhong ming, julian).. At 1st tot it's only a normal dinner but it turned out to be a celebration for my upcoming bday! haha.. Anna accidentally jie chuan the secret.. :D
They actually bought a newurbanmale singlet(SPAIN) for me! Seriously one of the best present i've gotten... Like it lots! promise will wear it someday for u all.. HAHA! =P
Went Cafe cartel at marina sqr to makan.. End up all eat till supaaaaarrr full. I feel ultra PIG eating the big serving of pork ribs after dat.. ^(o o)^ Up next was the Awfully Chocolate cake(it's not awful.. jus that the brand is called Awfully Chocolate)... Again, Seriously, it was awfully nice la! got banana in between the layers.. thx yihui for choosing this flavour! =)
After that we went arcade play Daytona, bishi bashi and.. the Pushing Game.. haha.. think it's a newly introduced one.. fun sia.. Den we saw Choon hong n his gf.. haha.. talked abit bout eoy concert den we all left for home.
Thx guys for the effort to celebrate for me and oso the present... feel quite touched seriously.. haha.. mayb too long dun haf celebrate liao.. =P










SUN:
Celebrated boo bday at cc today.. went to tamp inter to buy a blueberry cheesecake.. zhong ming brought along cant-blow-out-candles and mr boo was like blowing super hard n the candles keep lighting up.... den when finally blow out all were clapping n laughing den suddenly light up again... den laugh more. haha!
We went SYCO beautiful sunday concert at esplanade in the afternn.. starting songs like dizi n suona ones not bad.. but last few songs really can slp.. haha.. all slow n ting bu dong ones.. :P






qUoTe oF thE dAY: There is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don't, or do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology.
-jon

shagged out.

This week's quite a challenging week, with OUTFIELD on wed, thurs and.. abit of fri..

WED:
Went for commanders' training outfield at Lam Sam with 2guns at the start but 1gun happened to be down halfway(HOSEI! meaning 'less' shiong. haha..) and we worked with the other gun. The sian thing was to camo up our face.. nobody likes the freakin! idea of camo-ing our face when we are alrdy under camoflage net. Learned and settled some SOP with BSM n BC along the way and overall we did 2day n 1nite deployments den got the hell back to camp, which was like 1plus.. and we got to sleep at 2plus.

THURS + FRI:
Woke up early at 7 to prepare stores for the main outfield with the rest of the guys.. although only 2 tonners provided for 6 gun stores, still managed to accomodate enough space for all to sit in.. This is the 1st time working with my detachment outfield.. and they really gained my trust for their full effort put in to the drills, where timings are of concern. Admittedly, few blunders made by me esp for the broken air hose during the demo part n the aiming posts joke.. Was too gan jiong i suppose.. I better be more alert n steady the next time...
The guys really noe how to make outfield less sucky as it is, by bringing 'exotic' food like H2O drinks, tuna n bread, and longan n lychee cordials along.. The feeling of sharing a COLD n COOLING can of longans with my fellow detachment guys is like woooh! orgasmic man... it's like eating estacy(ok i duno how it really feels to eat estacy but i guess it's something around the same) haha.
Worked throughout the night all the way till 3plus am den we ceasefire the guns to go for cleaning.. got back to camp arnd 5 and managed to get into bed at 6am... super duper wobbly tired by then.. lucky we got to sleep till 12nn and we booked out anrd 5plus..

After booking out, went parkway to meet up with hz, her bro, mic, zhongming, julian, junpeng, kr, zw, noelene n peiyin to celebrate hz's bday.. Ate there den we went ECP for talkcock n games session.. Had fun taking pics tgt esp for those who got the forfeit.. =D ended arnd 10 den went home.

qUoTE of ThE WEEk: Take charge, Walk the talk, Own the outcome.
-jon

Argghhzz.

DAmn pissed with myself... grrr.... knew i'll screw it up at the beginning.. ZZzZZ.. .

Happy Bday Papa!

Stomach Suuuuppppeerrr full! Juz came back from my dad's B'day dinner at the kopitiam nearby house with family... Tml's pa's bday.. but is weekday so we celebrated today. :D ate curry fish head, fried tofu, fried oyster omelette n hotplate deermeat... =D

HAppY Bday DAD!

Saturday. Orchard.

It's a Jonny Wallie saturday! so happy i din waste today at home. HA! Went orchard today with kr, peiyin n peiling.. Been quite some time since i last went there so i suggested the location.. :D actually went there to check out at places that offer plain colors ties which the CC CO will be using for concert at end of yr... Used to haf one shop at Far East that sells v cheap one but to my despair i guess the shop's closed down.. Other shops that sells ties offered much higher price, but lucky one of the shop owners suggested to me that there's one at clarke quay that may suit my preference. So i guess i'll be making a trip there soon.. But i duno where exactly it is!! o_O

After lunch we went walking arnd den went Cathay watched Wall-E digital... when i asked the person at the counter what's the diff between Wall-E and Wall-E digital, she said the graphics are better and the prices are the same! ...... -_-'' like dat ppl confirm buy the tix for the digital la! haha.

Woah sept's a bday month for many ppl i noe.. DK, jeffrey, jun an, mr boo, hui zhen, millennia, ah tuck, mc ron etc etc... including myself la... =D and since i went orchard today n did some window shopping... tot i shud update some goodies to my long-long-neva-update wishlist.. haha!

1 World peace!
2 Healthy lifestyle plus keeping fit
3 Spending more time with family
4 Get into finals and at least 3rd for dizi NAC competiton
5 Teach dizi students
6 Pass my btt next mon, future ftt, driving test and get a license
7 NewUrbanMale singlet
8 BeachPants
9 Casual shoes/slippers
10 Cool shades
11 Swiss Watch
12 5kg Dumbells
13 New Handphone
14 Pass 2nd yr SOC
15 successful CC eoy concert
16 Fulfilling all of the above. XD

QuoTe of ThE dAY: It takes only a smile to brighten up a person's day. Smile more. =)
-Jon

random quiz

ok i rarely do this kinda quiz.. kim tagged me to do it and since i'm kinda free.. thx for giving me something to do! haha.

Name 20 people you can think of:
1. Kim
2. De Kai
3. Jeffrey
4. Syivester
5. Hui Zhen
6. Ann Nee
7. Delia
8. Michelle
9. Anna
10. Zhong Ming
11. Sheng Yong
12. Wei Hao
13. Noelene
14. Andrea
15. Belinda
16. Jun An
17. Zahreen
18. Andrew Mark
19. Zhen Hui
20. Cynthia

How did you meet 14? [Andrea]
Through CO. At CC.

What would you do if you never met 1? [kim]
I'd probably be short of one nice fren and wouldn't have done this quiz. XD

What if 9 and 20 are fated? [Anna and Cynthia]
hmm.. quite fated i tink.. both plays Erhu! haha.

Will 6 and 14 date? [Ann nee and Andrea]
=S doubt so. it would be disastrous.

Describe 3. [Jeffrey]
High intelligence guy and really remains calm in any situations. Super likes jogging long distances. Future Chinese Sinseh. haha!

Is 8 attractive? [Michelle]
Yes. it's hard to lie. =D

Describe 7. [Delia]
Super clever girl who aced her olvls and plays dizi also.

Do you know 12's family members? [Wei Hao]
Not really.

What if 18 confess that he/she likes you? [Andrew Mark]
OMFG. lol it wun even happen at all.

What language does 15 speak? [Belinda]
English and abit of Chinese.

Who is going out with 9? [Anna]
Not sure..

How old is 16? [Jun An]
15.

When did you last speak to 13? [Noelene]
Last sunday at cc.

Who's 2's favourite singer? [De Kai]
used to be JJ Lin. now duno..

Would you date 4? [Syivester]
No. He's attached. I'm straight. =D

Would you date 1? [Kim]
good qn. XD

Is 19 single? [Zhen Hui]
Yes.

What's 10's last name? [Zhong ming]
Ming.

What is the school of 3? [Jeffrey]
ARMY.

Where does 6 live? [Ann nee]
Bedok?

What do you think of 5? [Hui Zhen]
sweet n cheerful most of the time. a very true gd fren to have.

Have you seen 2 naked? [De Kai]
sadly... YES! lol. We are BMT mates, course mates n we're in the same unit! buddy man..

Choose 5 people to do the test.
1. Syivester
2. Ann nee
3. Delia
4. Michelle
5. Andrea

hosei liao.

it's so bored staying at home on an off day....

next week hosei liao. going outfield! from tues to thurs.. this is going be my 1st outfield with D6.. i'm actually abit worry, not too much for the guys (they sounded quite enthu n have the want-to-win spirit) but more for myself.... so long neva go outfield and so long neva touch on laying especially... i better not screw up for my part and better meet the timings.. or else we will need to redo... and that's shiongz. The most shocking news we heard this week was that for our subsequent outfields... we haf to put on.. CAMO CREAM. yes.. WTH!~!~! tot i wun be touching camo cream anymore after sispec.. arty oso need camo cream?! this is really a new thing. haha. 'thx' to our garang CO.

bloody sian.. tml still need book in morning go guard duty briefing n do guard in the afternn till fri morning..

qUoTE oF the daY:
-jon

Happy Tchers' Day

Went for prac today as usual without knowing that tml is teachers' day only after Zahreen gave Boo a brownie she made and wished him HTD.. I got the yummy brownie from her too! thX yea! Din noe she treated me like teacher also.. 1st teachers' day present. i'm so touched! (really!) hahaz..
Was like 'oops'. =X lucky is tml and not over yet...
Tied down some concert issues with the comm.. Am going Orchard! next wed or fri or sat, to search for places which sells ties, as part of the attire for the concert. Who wan go with me?
We bought a small heart-shaped cake and the girls made roses with ppr napkins(okay that is pro.)
Zhong ming brought his new Hulusi to cc today! and he lent me play and that is.. shiok la! 1st time playing the hulusi.. and the fingering is similar to bawu! niccceee.

QuOTe oF thE dAY: Next week wed to fri off! Long weekend. SHHIIOOK la. XD
-jon

camp.

last sat & sun:
had to book in on sat evening to prepare for AHM fatigue work... suayz.. unit kena chosen... worse thing had to work throughout the night to prepare the stuffs.. den morning stand there be spotters for the ppl running(in case anybody needs medical attention we'll call for the medics).all the way from 5am to 9plus am. tired like siao. wads worse we had to keep the whole stretch, yes the whole stretch of barricades and send back to not our camp, but other unit's camp. and that is demoralising when u were told at 1st u do not need to do it but last min say u need to. o_O!!
mon: OFF!

tue:
did DI duty... and i freakin dashed my hopes of ord-ing without kena extra. details not worth knowing... but it's ok actually, since it cud have been a worse case if i dun help Kelvin take the extra, and since it's DI duty.. :) and thx to those who console me by saying "wads a specialist without extras?" ha ha.

wed & thur:
had super duper long meetings with bc,2ic,bsm discussing about us specs n them n bty issues n bty outfield sop. 2ic can hold meetings n talk n lose track of time one.. and that is.. zzz.

fri(today):
FrEaKiNg Busy can! one of the busiest COS duties i've ever gotten, even thou the rest of the bty got half day off after noon time. ate breakfast at 0530 n only got to eat my lunch at 1330.. nearly blacked out in the armskote sia... afternn still need keep going ops hub n qm n armskote n office... only after dinner den can finally relac...

qUoTe of tHE weEK: Work hard, play hard.
-jon

This week in camp was quite short, yet busy, yet fulfilling...

Mon n Tue:
Had Acct trainings in mornings n afternns... only did revision, going thru the moves for thurs' grading test..

Wed:
Went to Gunhill for simple outfield training... thankfully i haven really forgotten much for the action front n cease firing... but i tink i need to recap myself for laying... Moved in over to another bunk to join AM, ZH n YS... hopefully i can manage to psycho them to work harder.. hahaz.. Ys's showing improvement (but the crapping neva seems to cease!).. Hope the others will give him a chance.. as fellow specs, we shud support each other.. right? Anw, thx to AM n YS for helping me shift my stuffs over! =)

Thurs:
Quite a tiring day with the Acct test in the afternn... we almost failed the test on the 1st go as aggressiveness wasn't present in all the moves.. after some lecturing.. we went hard n serious for the 2nd go and there's like super duper huge improvement la! haha.. Million thx to my buddy DK for volunteering to be my sparring partner!(he's the only one doing sparring for 2 times!).. Went for dota and i freakin lost 2 out of 2 games. ok. normal. -_-"

Fri:
Half day. Thought we had to go for live run today but ended up cancelled! wootS! went for soccer n bball.. the most fun part for soccer was the 'penalty-kick-aim-my-butt' (oops forgot wad u all call it)... hahaz... Did pmcs den book out!~

After dat met up with 'andra', b-duh n JN to go buy dizi n tuner.. walked to peninsula plaza to bras brasah to rochor centre to looked for the suitable one.. somemore under the drizzle.. tired. BUT managed to find one which was rather gd.. in tune and sounds bright. Lucky us. :) after dat i tried some E diao dizis.. i freakin need get a new n better E diao b4 the competition manz. The current one not really suitable for me. zzz.


QuoTE oF thE wEeK: Give and you shall receive.
-jon

guard duty.

this week's abit tiring, with one DI duty n one weekend guard duty and close combat training...

tink i strained my arm with the many slammings for the ACCT.. till now yet to recover.. zzzz... however it was actually quite fun to learn the various ways to self-defend and at the same time take down the attacker(if u can get somebody the same size as u to partner u. haha!)

ytd's my 'virgin' weekend guard and guard 2ic.. weekend guard is really eff-ed up man... especially doing guard 2ic or guard comd.. it's either physically or mentally stress... somemore got 2 Reservice Training slots(1 morning, 1 afternn) and we'll get freakin busy when the bulk of them book in arnd the same time, clogging up the area outside pass office to either change for camp pass or surrender camera hp... some of them freaking inconsiderate n no patience.. jus knock n rush us to hurry when we're alrdy super busy n cant handle more ppl until we finish with the current ones. Lucky got the duty RP.. haha.. he jus 'rudely'(actually righteously) shout back to the guy to wait, making him diam diam.. =D and and.. for guard 2ic, need at main gate for long hours.. can really shag out man..

haha... ordered mac during guard last nite.. been quite awhile since i actually eat a full upsized meal.. super bloated after that.. eat le den go power nap. sinfully-shiok!

Rushed down for prac at cc today despite guard ytd... was slightly contented with today's overall attendance.. can tell that some of the SLs are doing their job... was more contented with perc section as i can see the huge improvement.. ben's got a way with teaching them.. i guess.. =) practiced with tanbo yue for zhan song qu in the afternn. it's the 1st time they combine for this song. picked up quite fast, managed to finish the whole song, hope the next prac i can add in the perc instruments... shucks... next week got AHM cant go for prac... zzz.

shiok tonite no need book in... tml got medical appt... and next fri off! woots. =DDD

qUoTe Of tHe WEEk: i like your smiles. i'm carrying a torch for you, yet i do not know how to express it to you. Is it fear of rejection or is it lack of confidence or both?

-jon

NDP outing

Sat:
Went out with M.A.D, zhongming, sy n james to lau pa sat for dinner then managed to find a spot around the CBD area, with not so many ppl (somewhere opposite the floating platform) where we had quite a gd view at the fighter jets stunts and the fireworks... After that go jalan jalan at Suntec till 11plus... It's been quite awhile since i last went out with 'The Gang'.. did some catching-ups with them and had fun doing funny poses for the cameras.. :)

Sun:
Went down to cc as usual.. din really liked today's prac... boo only spent an hr for combines and we did only one song... not wholly his fault actually.. the strength of the orchestra is bad enough with near 20 ppl every week and most are sec1s.. seriously we need more players, if not i really cant imagine how we gonna do the concert in dec(which is like 3more mths away ONLY!)... oso.. got quite pissed today when someone(named ANDREA!) msged me that she thinks prac is boring so she left cc after passing sth to kr.. nearly wanted to scold her for her attitude but on a second thought, i realised i cant blame her for wad she thinks... since i personally oso feel the same way... haiz... sometimes i really feel like giving up my hopes for this orchestra... but somehow i guess its hard cos of my long 8yrs bond to the orchestra... haiz... 'walk one step see one step' bah.........

-jon

Performing under stress.

Back from duty in camp! kinda nearly screw things up and get myself into trouble for my duty ytd... Seriously, i need constantly remind myself to perform and maintain my composure better under stress conditions..

Yay! i passed my combat shoot! and.. i got my $ for marksmanship for the long-long-ago ATP range~ Woohoo.

To Singapore: Happy National Day.


qUOtE of THE dAY: i need to perform better under stress. Have more confidence.
-jon

Off dayS!

Off days always rawks, especially for army personnel, when one can actually not be in camp, and even if the day is spent stoning n doing nothing at home, it still rawks, cos it's just the way it is.

Didn't do much things on thurs... whole morning playing com.. only till afternn den went for medical appt at ttsh..

Today's slightly better... spent half the afternn playing pool with andrew at PP.. learnt abit from the pro... haha.

qUOtE oF thE WEeK: There's no such thing as lousy; laziness is what makes one lousy.
-jon

Finally back!

WOohs. i'm finally back home from the 10day operation... freakin hell burnt whole of last week, including weekend, sitting at some park in the east blowin sea breeze n sun tanning n ZBL-ing... End result: a burnt face n palms n nearly gone mentally crazy/drained.. YES. nearly. Plus having 2 ulcers in one's mouth sux totally to the core, especially when every single lunch n dinner provided has at least one spicy meat/veg.. two words to describe: super orgasmic.

Anyways, went to watch SCO concert (The Legend of Silk and Bamboo) ytd featuring dizi n erhu masters Zhang Wei Liang and Yan Jie Min.. actually one of the few times hearing comtempory/new age CO music.. songs super power n skills super power.

Made up my decision to participate in the end of yr NAC music competition... this yr's gonna be super competitive especially for the open category, with so many pros participating too... well.. at least i can make use of this opportunity to prac dizi and not slacken down... need to gain some experience too.. gd luck to me and Sheng yong!

QuOtE Of tHE dAY: Practice makes Perfect.
-jon

LiZhen dizi master class.

Went to Hsing Hai at 2pm with kin ren to listen a master class by Li Zhen, a dizi master from China.. Quite worth the trip, after hearing him talked about his bibliography in learning dizi and some history about Mongolia and the '草原笛派' style of playing on the dizi. He had a few demonstrations on his dizis, two of which are the big D major with 2 di muo holes and one with 8-holes, which are less seen around locally. Arghz! jus found out that the recording i did for the master class is too soft and cant hear much.. zzzz... wasted... Can't wait for his concert tml la! hahaz..

-jon

Today's practice at cc.

It's been a long time since i have a good practice with the guys at cc... today's attendance was well, better as compared to previous months, especially for woodwind section.. there's some improvement for other sections like erhu and tanbo yue recently, with a few new guys coming for practices almost every week... Had fun playing combines with them and also the mini-intro-icebreaker session today...
Haven been putting in effort to organize the co for quite some time... guess it's time for me to step up again into the committee and reorganize things and get the co to be more lively... i hope and i trust that the newly chosen committee members today are able to work hard together to plan and make the coming concert in dec a success. :)

Took off on Mon so, not wasting it at home whole day, did 3 main things...
1. Tried to call up singtel to ask for assistance to install the wireless connection on my bro's laptop.. wad could have been a 5min thing ended up near 1hr! Duno y got connection alrdy but still cant surf the net.. spent the near 1hr on the phone with the guy troubleshooting all the possible problems that may occur but still to no avail.. sux... arranged for technician to come fix the problem this comin sat...

2. Went to sign up for basic theory test for driving at CDC... opening an account plus the trial test plus the test itself added up to near $30 la! haha.. shudn't haf opt for the trial test... but after asking arnd some say the trial test is useful for the test.. so... :)

3. Lent one of my G diao dizi to Andrea since she so interested in playing dizi.. and 'threatened' to tell her mum that she misbehaves while on the way to her mum's car.. haha.. it's so fun bullying her! (wahaha)


Today heng got to book out... cos tml is the run at East coast park.. haha! rain again den HosAY liao... postpone again... woohoo! next week i'm gonna be on 'forced' leave from mon to wed... duno gd or bad... one time clear 3days leave now left only 10.. end of yr how to enjoy more? haha.. suck thumb!

qUoTe of THe dAY: Rewards don't come easily. Work hard for it.
-jon

short week.

Had quite a short week in camp this week, with only 4days spent in camp..

MON:

did guard duty with jeremy and jeffrey... ok.. we're the permanent J-Team for guard duty liao.. haha not bad.. and the next morning at rear gate lucky i neva meet Big Head LIM(the csm for the camp; we all call him Tua Tao Lim) lol... he usually books in thru rear gate and questions the guards and finds faults with them.. And threatens them with extra! :S sux la... haha..

TUE:
Guard rest! sshhhiokk la.. came back from guard at 9am and rested till lunch time(that means half day over :D)... den after lunch went to workout at gym for awhile with Andrew, Jeff and Desmond...

WED:
Did DI duty for the day... i was lucky today no need go safti do 'SK'(ask any army personnel wads SK and u'll get the ans.)... so woke up in the morning brought the men for breakfast den did area cleaning after that... went for lunch den got area cleaning (AGAIN!) but at the ground floor around the perimeter of our building... 'they' say it's to prevent the dengue cases from increasing.. ok lo.. jus do lor.. o_O

THUR:
With more than half of the batt booked out for their offs and leaves, today was considered most slack le... slpt late last nite and woke up late today.. :D shucks.. set alarm to wake up at 2.45am to watch Germany vs Turkey, but i tink i din even hear my watch n hp alarm sound offf.. too tired i guess.. slpt like a log.. went for gym den lunch den booked out for my medical appt at ttsh... after that walked around novena n square2 for awhile den bus-ed home.

-jon

3,4,5.

Wed & Thurs:

Sux. Heard last min news that we were going outfield on thurs and had to prepare all the stores n stuffs needed... Wads sian was that i was one of the few who need to do overnight sentry on wed for the stores which are gonna be sent to the camp where we do our deployment.. It was freakin hard to slp in the tonner la! even when sitting at the front seat with cushion, there wasn't any comfortable position to be in..

On the day of deployment, was quite excited and eager (at first) as this was the 1st time doing deployment with my men... but after one deployment plus camo-ing up the net plus the freakin hot sun above us, totally shagged out.. man.. that's when we realise we were lacking teamwork and communication.. (ok i cant actually expect perfect on the 1st time we go, but i guess the commanders need to shout more to motivate the men to work faster)...

Fri:
Booked out on thurs nite as we're supposed to have inter-bty run at East Coast Park on fri. Woke up early to go ecp, and saw Jeremy while walking towards the gathering point. Actually we cant find the gathering point so we went into Carl's junior to wait.. Ended up there was cat1 status and heavy rain... called the rest and they told us the run's canceled.. Swee La! lucky no need run cos i'm yet to recover from the pain on my feet since ytd's outfield.. the only sad thing was that the planning all gone to waste...(i guess they'll be holding it again someday? mayb in camp?!) haha..

Went watch CO camp concert at 4pm. This yr's choice of songs weren't as nice as i supposed them to be, as compared to previous years... and they planned the performers into 2 orchestras A n B... i dun tink it was a gd decision as it allows others to compare standards between the 2... but i guess the management's thinking is that they want to allow more ppl to get into the camp for more learning experience and interaction between schools.

After the concert i went ECP(again! haha so zun) for jc class bbq and gathering... hmmm... wasn't as fun as i thought with the usual common 2 topics that we talked about.. army stuffs and uni... but it's not strange i guess since it's wad we're all currently doing now... i spent most of the time listening instead of talking... didn't really had a gd topic to talk about... but still wan to thank CT for organising the bbq and preparations done. (:


-jon.

LAzY.

I'm too lazy to blog. Here's a kung fu panda picture i've drawn during my COS duty ytd.. was so bored that i picked up the markers n scissors and did some art n craft... end up 'not bad' huh.. haha...

this Weekend.

SAT:

Went to bugis with weihao & dalston in the afternn for some shoppin n makan... was supposed to meet them at 4 but end up meetin up arnd 4.30 cos we got mixed up with the meeting location and oso got one Prudential promoter talked to me bout some advance savings plan... it was sth like they take out $75/mth and there'll be a 3% interest on it den until duno when i can take out... sounds like not bad mayb i'll give it a consideration. haha. after that got myself 2shirts n a watch... n after that went for dinner den go for SYCO concert.

I can say this yr's SYCO concert's awesome. They started with 将军令 and i tink the conductor did a very gd job for his 处理 of the song... and i like his conducting style.. the concert carried on with 2 other songs which i neva hear b4 but was quite nice. Then next was 丰年祭.. got abit blunder for the cello bow on guzheng part but overall was one of the better 丰年祭s that i heard b4..

2nd half of the concert got even better with 2 solos and Gada Meilin. The suona solo by Chang le was terrific la.. seriously.. i've neva seen so zai suona-cum-stage performance b4... comparable to SCO players.. after reading his profile den i knew it was a no wonder cos he's from a family of suona players from China. well.. another foreign talent. (: The guzheng solo piece by Yvonne was equally nice and oso majestic at the same time. It's my 1st time listening to Gada Meilin.. heard many ppl talkin bout how nice the song is and finally heard for it personally. Hope to train hard and get into SYCO end of this yr..

SUN:

Went for practice at cc as usual... lian wif the dizi section for a while and corrected some small mistakes like sitting postures and breathing properly. Today's practice wif them was better than last week's so.... Good! got improvement haha. Halfway while lian-ing wif them Boo asked me go teach 2 sec1 percussion 奋勇 and i nearly lost my voice speaking n counting beats to them in the noisy room.. both of them can make me vomit blood sia.. haha.. keep playing wrongly on the same bar lah.. but it's understandable cos they are sec1 la... after lunch was plainly anyhow la.. the group of us was exchanging instruments to play.. awhile play suona, awhile erhu, awhile cello, awhile yangqin... had fun though.. haha. B4 going home, played a round of bluff wif xiaotou they all... haha(our usual entertainment when we not lianing music at cc)..

ok thats all for the week.

QuOTe of ThE wEEk: You say it best, when you say nothing at all. (:
-jon

swEE la!

this week had been quite relaxed for camp life.. well, as compared to last week... although still on standby, but we still have some free time slots in between 1st, mid-day n last parades for ourselves... spent most of the free time resting and doing area cleaning and playing dekai's/jeff's guitar... come to think of area cleaning... i sometimes do want to change bunk to chuan xing's bed cos of area cleanliness in the spec bunk... cos it's always messy n in not-so-gd condition, as compared to the men's bunk... oh yah.. ytd was chuan xing's ORD! he came back camp to take pink IC! haha finally saw him after his long offs and leaves... a pity we not going to reservist tgt cos of different batches.. he's a wonderful storeman la... always tink bout our benefits(taking more drinks and nite snacks! haha)

Alrights! managed to get off for 26th... that means plus 27th off-in-lieu i'll have long weekend.. sweE la! plus this morning junyu told me next fri's gonna be halfday(due to best bty performance for ippt and a Good mob standby activation on thurs)... super swee! (although the next sat i got COS duty)...

Gonna meet shengyong n the rest @ bugis later on in the afternn... hope to get a watch(my current one's spoilt! super sad cos it's been thru with me since bmt till now). Tonight gonna watch SYCO concert! wonder how this yr's standard will be... will blog bout it mayb tml. ok byebye. -_-!


-jon

long long week.

wahseh super sian plus tiring week...

tue was start of standby.. and we were like started preparing only on mon... settling stores n stuffs made us all busy running here n there... plus this time standby seems so different from previous ones... everything so strict..... still got 2plus more weeks to go before standing down man.. haiz...

since AHM training has started, mon n wed n fri became live run days.. this week's 5,7,9km runs were quite challenging since there isn't much rest in between cos of standby preparations... however still feel gd to haf completed all 3... (:

sianz... today finally home le... tml morning still need go back do garage duty... burn half my sat... GSS start 1 week already i still haven go shop for stuffs la! zzz...

-jon

Wei Loon's wedding dinner.

Woahz.. really enjoyed myself alot at Wei Loon's wedding dinner @ M'sia ytd and today!

Met up with jeffrey, bsm, bc, lao koh and a few other guys at Woodlands before going off to JB tgt around 4. Was caught up with a short traffic jam but we still reached early around 5plus. Lao koh brought us to makan abit and then we took taxi to Holiday Plaza to shop around and buy dvds with him. Haha, 1st time taking taxi in M'sia.. learnt that one actually can bargain for the trip fare before deciding whether he wants to take that particular taxi for his trip. (So the fare for the same trip from one place to another can actually differ between drivers). Actually wanted to do some shopping for apparels over there but ended up not spending any cents as most of them didn't bring much money and didn't intend to shop.. zzzz...

It wasn't long before we went straight to New York Hotel where the wedding dinner was held in taxi again.. (haha taking taxi there is like so cheap la.. not like S'pore de.. Some taxis do have meters but the driver whom i took his taxi tried to bluff me n say $5 instead of the meter's $3.60. WTH i can read the meter la!). Wei Loon's bridegrooms(Desmond, Juen Leong, Wang Jia, Ah tuck, Kian boon and Jason) all so smartly dressed la.. haha.. The dinner course was quite nice... We all drank quite alot too(haha my table alone down-ed 7bottles of red wine)... and Mr. Lucky a.k.a. Wei Loon de wife very pretty sia! All of us took quite a number of photos but pity i didn't manage to take close up photos with both of them.

After the dinner, only me, Wayne and Sng planned to stay overnight to party with the bridegrooms who alrdy booked a room in the hotel... Wei loon's fren drove us to Jazz n Blues to club.. (lol 1st time going clubbing somemore at a foreign country!) Really had fun dancing there with the super duper loud music... they seem to only play techno which i didn't really like... but who cares, juz party! haha... Oh.. and my deepest impression there was that i saw ppl eating yea.. something that makes them high. (It's like wad i see on tvs but live la.. starting they dance like mad den some down there shake shake shake their heads and ltr vomit. Yea freakin' lame.. Some of them actually offered us drinks with the thing alrdy in it but we know wad was right for us and luckily Sng got warned us beforehand not to touch any of their offered drinks). Anyway we juz party on our own and didn't care much bout those guys.. haha... We went back to hotel to change for supper around 3am at the malay kopitiam juz opp the hotel. Ate Ramly's burger.. cheap sia.. only $1.20 there whereas it's sold for $2 or $2.50 locally. HAHa!

After that we go back hotel sleep all the way till 10am in the morning and prepared to book out...Went for brunch at the (i forgot wad name) shopping centre near the custom.. Ended up settled down at food court after a hard time deciding where to eat. -_-"

On our way back at the m'sia customs, i saw a group of Chung cheng high students and while waiting for the bus, i actually heard Mabel calling out to me! haha.. so zun la.. the world is so small... she was actually bringing the students for their outing.. but we didn't managed to talk much before my bus came.. wasted..

Since it was early like 1plus when i reached back S'pore and didn't feel like going home yet, i went cc to chill out... And when i arrived, yea.. the few of them was like cheering... like huh?! (yah Andrea ur the one leading them! and weiling was like 'Jonathan, jonathan'... ... ...) -_-" i know wad u all are implying hor... wahseh make us paiseh sia... haha... Stayed till 5pm den went home after that...



-jon

Fried friday.

Freakin shagged today... Had a 9km live run in the morning with insufficient sleep last nite... dang.. only got to sleep at arnd 1am after the lights were finally off. Wahseh 1st time ran non-stop for a 9km run lah... Legs damn cui alrdy.. but nevertheless it's gd training... got sense of achievement.. lol..

Today was my battery's cohesion day... and so after the run, we went straight to our planned destination which was at Downtown East... shiok.. took Tee's car down with Syivest, Andrew, ZH and Jeremy... Ended up 4 of us squeezing behind... We reached slightly early so went played pool at the new entertainment centre there.. ok only few of us played.. i was watching Andrew pwn-ing others la... quite godlike man.. After an hour we went for Sakura for our lunch.. shiok la.. they used the cohesion fund to pay for the buffet... ate until v song la...

Then after we finished the specs were saying wan go play lan at Paradiz... sian.. lazy to travel plus a headache had to come at this time... eff-ing hot weather again... plus had to go TM there exchange for M'sian ringgit for tml's trip to M'sia... Woohoo! Damn exited la.. tml's Wei Loon's wedding dinner... Gonna see him at his big day man... Hope can do some shoppin there too if got time on sun... wahaha...

QuOTe oF ThE dAY: err.. i'm too tired to think of one. Here's one by Martin S. Dangier... "Knowledge is not power by itself. It becomes power only when it is applied."

-jon

Dizi students wanted.

To all! I'm looking for dizi students who wan to improve their basics and learn new songs and skills... And lesson fees are at negotiable rates! Efforts to help me advertise will be greatly appreciated! so... if any one interested or got any questions regarding details of lessons or fees can feel free to contact me @ my hp no: 96499412 or thru email: xiaoqiang_tan@hotmail.com. (:


-jon

Boredom.

ARghhhh... bored to death alrdy... cooping up at home doing basically nothing but nothing... haven been going out these few days from last friday till even a public holiday like today.... somehow i'm clueless on who to find to go out with.... this is bad... need to extend my social circle... makes me wonder if the same thing will happen after i ORD... although after ORD will get a part time job, I still wanna go out n play or shop or just chill out! It's freaking bored staying at home man... Vexed up!

Thinking of ORD, i'm left with 9mths to ORD! gosh.. actually still quite long... with SAF day parade, outfield exercises, overseas live firing and OVL yet to complete...

Recently, well almost every night, cant really get myself to knockout as early as 10plus or 11pm like before... jialat sia... too used to sleeping late... body clock change liao...

Grrr... Forget bout those negative thoughts...

World peace.

DAMN those earthquakes and floods happening in the 2 countries!

Killed so many lives..

Wad have they done to deserve it?!

May the people who are still suffering under these disasters be blessed and help be reached upon them ASAP.

May they recover and rebuild their hometowns...

May those who died, in the hands of the disasters, rest well in peace.

Out in Action.

Haha. Guess where i am.