yes, yes... i haven blogged for sooooooooo long... and it's all course of my stupid internet problem... had trouble coming to my create post page... cause it the page always get hijecked by this internet optimiser thingy... anyway, been busy preparing my vehicle for Logistic Readiness Inspection (LRI) and trying to clear the SOC (ah!!!)... managed to come near to my personal best timing of 10.26 by running a 10.27... but tt's not enough!!! need to get a sub-ten timing... sianz...
going for a upgrading course in the upcoming week... should be a rather relaxed one (i hope...)... so wat happened during my absence here??? hmmm... played v little gunbound... think i sorta sick of it... giving myself a break from it... been playing pokemon gold lately... haha... kinda childish game, but it's fun... wat can i do? my com is not in the pink of health and the specifications are not good enough for me to play the games tt i wanna play...
ah!!! i want to just go straight to uni... rite here rite now... 2 1/2 yrs... no i mean 2yrs 4mths... it's still such a long way to ORD... *grumble grumble* still only a 1st year soldier now... sad...
just bought a new hp cover yesterdae... black... expected... my old hp cover's screen cracked... ya... and i dunno y it cracked in the 1st place... come to think of it... i think black dun really look tt good with my hp... hack...
met my new OC some time ago... looks like those garang, no-smile-on-the-face type... and the 1st thing tt he did was to give the SOC failures a surprise RT yesterdae...
some sidenote on Ex Wallaby: man... i drove a LOT... managed to chalk up an amazing 330.6 miles or 528.96km and 27.5 engine hours... bite into tt...
discovered tt being a consumer, we really have some good deals out there... problem is u have to find out where... been to chinatown some weeks back... there's a shop selling quality stuff at 3 for $10... souvenirs, sun glasses... quite a lot of good stuff... shop name? 3 for $10... u can't possibly miss it... quite a prominent shop sign i must say... heard from my friend tt there's this shop selling original cds at prices as low as $5+... titles include the latest hits like Stephanie... y it's so cheap? cos it's imported from china... supposed to be only for sale in china...
rain rain rain... tt's wat have been happening lately... sigh... both good and bad for me... if it's rain before the start of an activity then it's good... if not, then it's bad...
was sitting a cab home from my grandma's place yesterday... this newbie cabby's the kinda talkative one... started to rattle off on how tough it was being a taxi driver and the interesting encounters with all sorts of ppl... esp funny when i heard on the part where he told us of his gay customer... kept touching him... mao2 shou3 mao2 jiao3... distracting him from driving... poor cabby... haha...
saw fei1 chang2 tou4 shi4 yan3... were talking about these girl flag day volunteers... they had to do the flagging for 3 months, about 5-7 times a wk, ~8hrs each time... tt's some tough task... kudos to them... ah... tt's not the main point of the show... it talked about the kinda treatment they got from ungracious, no manners Singaporeans... ppl who scolded them, threw their 'donations' onto the floor expecting the volunteers to pick it up, etc etc... just disgusts and irks me to hear tt such ppl exist...
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Sunday, November 28, 2004
Thursday, November 04, 2004
fine weather, cloud cover? not sure... can't be bothered...
back from Rockhampton Fair... a modern, single storeyed complex similar to a decent shopping centre in singapore... things are as usual, expensive... just knew tt i have yet another part-time job: money exchanger... have ben providing the needy singaporean shopaholic with Aussie notes in exchange for SG$ at varying exchange rates... had given out A$161 for S$203... quite surprised at how loosely my fellow mates are spending their bucks... all trying to finish up their Aussie bucks before landing in singapore... it's late now... 2255h... was watching tv whilst blogging... guess i'll continue writing tml... it's time to get to dreamland... *yawn*...
back from Rockhampton Fair... a modern, single storeyed complex similar to a decent shopping centre in singapore... things are as usual, expensive... just knew tt i have yet another part-time job: money exchanger... have ben providing the needy singaporean shopaholic with Aussie notes in exchange for SG$ at varying exchange rates... had given out A$161 for S$203... quite surprised at how loosely my fellow mates are spending their bucks... all trying to finish up their Aussie bucks before landing in singapore... it's late now... 2255h... was watching tv whilst blogging... guess i'll continue writing tml... it's time to get to dreamland... *yawn*...
fine weather, can't be bothered to check the cloud cover
blogging from my motel room... have been a few daes since i blogged... tml finally going back to singapore... well and good too... cos the things here are ex and having been overseas for many a times before, i completely agree with the saying tt there's no better place to be than home... a couple of things have been bothering me lately and making this trip less enjoyable than i wish it could have been...
my groin abrasion's back, but luckily enough, it has yet spread to cause more irritation and misery... spent 50 bucks yesterday at this Rockhampton village... bought a cute koala soft toy, a shirt, dozen small koala clips and a desktop clock... think my parents are gonna nag at me for buying those stuff... but hack it... staying at this motel called A1... located at 134 Gladstone Rd, South Rockhampton... a neat place to stay in... was much better than how i thought it would turn out to be... now lazing in my room, making use of the free time before we get down to Capricornia College for lunch and to Rockhampton Fair after tt...
Rockhampton town is a self-sufficient (correct use of word?) town located on the Tropic of Capricorn and self-proclaimed beef capital of australia... cinema, shopping mall (to be exact, Rockhampton Fair), McCafes, KFCs, Subway, schools (including this Central Queensland University, countless motels)... all these can be found in the town... so the town wasn't as undeveloped as i thought it might have been...
blogging from my motel room... have been a few daes since i blogged... tml finally going back to singapore... well and good too... cos the things here are ex and having been overseas for many a times before, i completely agree with the saying tt there's no better place to be than home... a couple of things have been bothering me lately and making this trip less enjoyable than i wish it could have been...
my groin abrasion's back, but luckily enough, it has yet spread to cause more irritation and misery... spent 50 bucks yesterday at this Rockhampton village... bought a cute koala soft toy, a shirt, dozen small koala clips and a desktop clock... think my parents are gonna nag at me for buying those stuff... but hack it... staying at this motel called A1... located at 134 Gladstone Rd, South Rockhampton... a neat place to stay in... was much better than how i thought it would turn out to be... now lazing in my room, making use of the free time before we get down to Capricornia College for lunch and to Rockhampton Fair after tt...
Rockhampton town is a self-sufficient (correct use of word?) town located on the Tropic of Capricorn and self-proclaimed beef capital of australia... cinema, shopping mall (to be exact, Rockhampton Fair), McCafes, KFCs, Subway, schools (including this Central Queensland University, countless motels)... all these can be found in the town... so the town wasn't as undeveloped as i thought it might have been...
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
fine weather, no cloud cover
"Ding!" microwave oven door opens and a dish of chao4 ta1 songluck meepok is dished out... hot ah!!! this stupid weather combined with the hot engine is making my driver compartment so bloody steaming... i wanna get out of this sauna man... just calculated tt i've travelled a whopping 195.1 miles or 312.16km... guess i should be able to chalk up 400km or probably even 450km by the end of this exercise... the heat is killing me... so contary to Day 5, when it was raining cats and dogs like nobody's business for the whole day... flashfloods and thunderstorms... all the wetness u can get... and it didn't help when we realised tt water was still able to leak through the closed hatches... 2 more daes... 2 more daes and i'll be back to Diao camp... hot ah!!!
"Ding!" microwave oven door opens and a dish of chao4 ta1 songluck meepok is dished out... hot ah!!! this stupid weather combined with the hot engine is making my driver compartment so bloody steaming... i wanna get out of this sauna man... just calculated tt i've travelled a whopping 195.1 miles or 312.16km... guess i should be able to chalk up 400km or probably even 450km by the end of this exercise... the heat is killing me... so contary to Day 5, when it was raining cats and dogs like nobody's business for the whole day... flashfloods and thunderstorms... all the wetness u can get... and it didn't help when we realised tt water was still able to leak through the closed hatches... 2 more daes... 2 more daes and i'll be back to Diao camp... hot ah!!!
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
fine weather, no cloud cover
just reached my 1st deployment ground, some 15.2 miles/24.32km from the field camp... back to Day 1... had actually wanted to do some blogging from the computers available there... but then, haiz... no time... the plane tt i took was SQ8931.. the services provided on the plane was much better than expected, with the standard? SIA inflight entertainment system, games and movies... didn't get to play the games or watch the movies though... it was eat and sleep, sleep and eat for me... well, there's always the return trip to enjoy the services... hehe... reached Rockhampton Airport at 0500hrs on Day 2, Aussie time... quite an experience walking down this stairs from the plane to the aiport ground itself...
1st time not using the bridge link/air bridge? to disembark... or issit the 2nd time? the airport is a small, neat bricky structure, the control tower reminding me of the one at Paya Lebar Airport... lucky, lucky, lucky, the people in front of me helped me to fill up the space allocated for the emptying of stuff from the bags... just some casual questions asked and i'm past customs, preparing to board the coach... waste me time in cleaning up my equipment... !%!^*%*... moving on... heard tt a 2-way trip from the airport to base camp would set the SAF back by A$700... take tt... sure a gd and easy way of earning some bucks...
the base camp got a 3.5/5 rating from me.. not too bad a place to stay in... the rest of Day 2 to Day 4 was basically unpacking/repacking of stores and taking over of vehicles... Day 3 was orientation driving, day and night... the land around here is pretty enjoyable to drive on as a whole... but when the land gets dark, the road starts to get less distinguishable from the short grass on its sides... sidenote: the vehicle tt i took over was in a pleasantly good enough condition and driving it was great... oh yar... did i mention tt SFI followed us from singapore to australia? omg! so si3 can2 lan4 da3...
Day 4, 20/10... moved out from camp and started our 1st outfield... had my 1st long drive, an unbelievable 29.9 miles or 47.84km... wow! wondered how i managed to survive through tt night drive... Days 5-9, 21/10-24/10 rounded up the outfield... very happy to be able to catch sight of a group of ~7 kangaroos lazing ard... managed to see some more kangaroos, a joey and an emu on later separate days... to be able to see animal life in their natural environment and up close... cool... now just trying to see if i'm lucky enough to locate a wallaby... oh... hmmm... realised tt i've jusst used up 7 pages of my new notebook to write down these stuff so tt i can blog them when i reach back home...
Day 9 saw us arriving at Diao camp, an open patch in the outback, with makeshift shower and shitting facilities... i give tt place a 2.5/5.. shithole was a ~8m deep hole where u see yr shit seemingly fall into a black hole... :p... gross? haha... it's a 4/5 toilet (bush toilet to be exact) on Day 9 and a 3/5 toilet on Day 10, as more er hmmm... human waste? start to pile up and generate more fragrance... Day 10 was service and maintainance, mainly catered for the vehicles... lucky only 1 of our vehicles in my platoon broke down...
seems quite a serious case to me... heard tt it's only coming back to action tml... and finally Day 11!, which is todae... set out for the BPT early in the morn... looks like Day 1 of the BPT is gonna be a slack one... heard yesterdae tt we'll be getting an additional dae of R&R... woohoo!!! shiok! guess the main tough things are gonna end after this BPT, so really looking forward to Day 14, 29/10, when we get back to Diao camp to relac... and get a gd bath too...
just reached my 1st deployment ground, some 15.2 miles/24.32km from the field camp... back to Day 1... had actually wanted to do some blogging from the computers available there... but then, haiz... no time... the plane tt i took was SQ8931.. the services provided on the plane was much better than expected, with the standard? SIA inflight entertainment system, games and movies... didn't get to play the games or watch the movies though... it was eat and sleep, sleep and eat for me... well, there's always the return trip to enjoy the services... hehe... reached Rockhampton Airport at 0500hrs on Day 2, Aussie time... quite an experience walking down this stairs from the plane to the aiport ground itself...
1st time not using the bridge link/air bridge? to disembark... or issit the 2nd time? the airport is a small, neat bricky structure, the control tower reminding me of the one at Paya Lebar Airport... lucky, lucky, lucky, the people in front of me helped me to fill up the space allocated for the emptying of stuff from the bags... just some casual questions asked and i'm past customs, preparing to board the coach... waste me time in cleaning up my equipment... !%!^*%*... moving on... heard tt a 2-way trip from the airport to base camp would set the SAF back by A$700... take tt... sure a gd and easy way of earning some bucks...
the base camp got a 3.5/5 rating from me.. not too bad a place to stay in... the rest of Day 2 to Day 4 was basically unpacking/repacking of stores and taking over of vehicles... Day 3 was orientation driving, day and night... the land around here is pretty enjoyable to drive on as a whole... but when the land gets dark, the road starts to get less distinguishable from the short grass on its sides... sidenote: the vehicle tt i took over was in a pleasantly good enough condition and driving it was great... oh yar... did i mention tt SFI followed us from singapore to australia? omg! so si3 can2 lan4 da3...
Day 4, 20/10... moved out from camp and started our 1st outfield... had my 1st long drive, an unbelievable 29.9 miles or 47.84km... wow! wondered how i managed to survive through tt night drive... Days 5-9, 21/10-24/10 rounded up the outfield... very happy to be able to catch sight of a group of ~7 kangaroos lazing ard... managed to see some more kangaroos, a joey and an emu on later separate days... to be able to see animal life in their natural environment and up close... cool... now just trying to see if i'm lucky enough to locate a wallaby... oh... hmmm... realised tt i've jusst used up 7 pages of my new notebook to write down these stuff so tt i can blog them when i reach back home...
Day 9 saw us arriving at Diao camp, an open patch in the outback, with makeshift shower and shitting facilities... i give tt place a 2.5/5.. shithole was a ~8m deep hole where u see yr shit seemingly fall into a black hole... :p... gross? haha... it's a 4/5 toilet (bush toilet to be exact) on Day 9 and a 3/5 toilet on Day 10, as more er hmmm... human waste? start to pile up and generate more fragrance... Day 10 was service and maintainance, mainly catered for the vehicles... lucky only 1 of our vehicles in my platoon broke down...
seems quite a serious case to me... heard tt it's only coming back to action tml... and finally Day 11!, which is todae... set out for the BPT early in the morn... looks like Day 1 of the BPT is gonna be a slack one... heard yesterdae tt we'll be getting an additional dae of R&R... woohoo!!! shiok! guess the main tough things are gonna end after this BPT, so really looking forward to Day 14, 29/10, when we get back to Diao camp to relac... and get a gd bath too...
fine weather, 50% cloud cover
have been in the australian outback for quite some time already... generally much better than the outfields tt we have in singapore, less for the fact tt the afternoon sun is terribly scorching hot... so hot tt i guess tt's wat caused my testicular abrasion (hmmm... sounds a little crude... but yah... tt's wat happened...)... the coverall tt i was wearing must have contributed to giving me tt annoyance... think i'm more or less recovered from tt abrasion... good... cause i guess u won't be able to really understand the situation tt i was in unless u've been through it yrself before...
when i had the abrasion, it took me a jolly miserable 15mins just to walk to the peeing point and back... really horrible abrasion... well, enough of tt... got to make good use of the free time tt i have... pretty much sure tt little sleep, hunger and thirst are going to accompany me for the next few daes... not tt they dun provide us with water and food... it's tt there aint much time at times to eat and drink up... we're pretty much on the move very often... now just wishing tt i can just get through the next few daes of Battalion Proficiency Test (BPT) peacefully and tt i dun have to break track in the middle of the road, under the sun...
maybe i should start to tell u wat happened since Day 1, from the moment i reached Changi Airport... so there was Day 1... my family sent me off tt dae... should have gone into the departure hall earlier (not sure if i called the place correctly... it's whree u find those DFS shops and boarding gates after clearing the customs... looks like i gotta move soon... will be continuing this entry later...
have been in the australian outback for quite some time already... generally much better than the outfields tt we have in singapore, less for the fact tt the afternoon sun is terribly scorching hot... so hot tt i guess tt's wat caused my testicular abrasion (hmmm... sounds a little crude... but yah... tt's wat happened...)... the coverall tt i was wearing must have contributed to giving me tt annoyance... think i'm more or less recovered from tt abrasion... good... cause i guess u won't be able to really understand the situation tt i was in unless u've been through it yrself before...
when i had the abrasion, it took me a jolly miserable 15mins just to walk to the peeing point and back... really horrible abrasion... well, enough of tt... got to make good use of the free time tt i have... pretty much sure tt little sleep, hunger and thirst are going to accompany me for the next few daes... not tt they dun provide us with water and food... it's tt there aint much time at times to eat and drink up... we're pretty much on the move very often... now just wishing tt i can just get through the next few daes of Battalion Proficiency Test (BPT) peacefully and tt i dun have to break track in the middle of the road, under the sun...
maybe i should start to tell u wat happened since Day 1, from the moment i reached Changi Airport... so there was Day 1... my family sent me off tt dae... should have gone into the departure hall earlier (not sure if i called the place correctly... it's whree u find those DFS shops and boarding gates after clearing the customs... looks like i gotta move soon... will be continuing this entry later...
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