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.

xin ku le!

Today morning my mum asked me to go her workplace help out.. Thought today i oso nothing to do at home, so went to try.. After personally experiencing working at my her workplace, I just realized how physically n mentally challenging it is for her.. Btw my mum's working in an embroidery factory... I've always pictured it as an easy job for her 'cos she told me that it's about putting the cloths onto the machine and the machine automatically sews on the design.

Seemingly easy, the job actually includes more other things that one needs to do.. For the embroidery machine part, she has to make sure the markings on the shirts/clothings are marked out by at the specified place b4 putting it into the machine, and that the strings don't get used up halfway thru sewing.. There's packaging to do after the stuffs are sewn (the part i was tasked to do). B4 packing the shirts into the plastic casings, i had to button them up and fold them nicely. The hard part was, there's a whole chunk of shirts to be done la.. (near like more than 200 plus shirts?).. i've never folded so many shirts at one go in my life.. ok i sound like a spoilt brat complaining bout such simple stuffs.. but wait till you hear what's more..

The physically n mentally challenging part was, (excluding me) there is only the 3 of them working in the small small room, and they had to stand throughout the ~7hrs(excluding lunchtime n toilet break)... And that is more tiring than doing guard duties or OVL or COS duties la! haha! Halfway while working, i feel like taking breaks la but looking at how long my mum n her colleague can last not sitting down, i told myself not to 'lao kui' (paiseh myself). Hmm.. No wonder mum sometimes complains of her legs aching... Xin ku le! It's been hard on you!

On a lighter note.. haha.. got paid and felt it's quite an experience working with my mum(how many of you actually get to work with your mums or have working mums?) =P Another day well spent!



QuOtE Of tHE wEEk: Money not easy to earn la!
-jon

Happy Mothers' Day

A wish to all mums in the world:

HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY 2008!


this is actually the 2nd time in my life i give mothers' day card to my mum. Past by this shop yesterday in Plaza Singapura selling funky and creative gifts and this simple yet cute card caught my attention. And so.. bought it! Got my bro and dad to also pen their names before giving it to her this morning.

my mum's the greatest mum. haha.

A reminder for myself. Don't bother reading.

Jonny! Rmb! do not rush into things... do not be annoying... learn from your previous mistake... deal problems with a smile... make others happy and you'll be happy... do not be lazy...



QuOtE oF ThE wEEk: Learn from your previous mistakes and never never repeat it again.
-jon

What does love mean.

When somebody loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth. -Billy, age 4.

Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out, and smell each other. -Carl, age 5.

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired. -Terri, age 4.

Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss. -Emily, age 8.

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and Listen. -Bobby, age 7.

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate. -Nikka, age 6.

Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of Chicken. -Elaine, age 5.

I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones. -Lauren, age 4.

I know I'm in love when i keep thinking about the girl almost every minute, no matter when I'm with or not with her. And I'll make sure I'm always be early than her when we meet so that she don't need to wait for me. And when I'm with her, my heart seems to beat faster than normal. And I'll try ways and means just to make her smile, even if I have to embarrass myself. And when she smiles, my heart melts and I'll feel accomplished because i made her happy. And I'll make sure she is well taken care of every moment, even when I'm not with her. And...... And...... And...... -Jonathan(a.k.a. ME!), age 19. =P

Come Holy Spirit

Come Holy Spirit, fall on me now.
I need your anointing come in your power.
I love you Holy Spirit- You're captivating my soul, and everyday i grow to love you more.

I'm reaching out for your heart.
You hold my life in your hand, drawing me closer to you.
I feel your power renew.
Nothing compares to this place, where i can see you face to face.
I worship you in spirit and truth.