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Some rebates that you’ll get by donating blood.. A Free Trip To the Zoo on 14/6/08. I was thinking that it would be another boring treat, as there’s nothing really interesting in the zoo. Well, since it’s the World Blood Donor Day, might as well just go for it and make my little cousin all so hyped and excited about the trip. Seems that he’s a little deprived to be so excited about such thing, especially at his age of 12.

Alright then, seriously it has been like almost a decade since i last visited the zoo. I remembered my mum to frequent that place with me and my siblings when we were young. Apparently, we were the “Friends of the Zoo” then, so i guess we only had to pay one lump sum and visit the zoo unlimited times a year or so. It was all a matter of making things worthwhile i think.

According to what other said, there has been tremendous changes in the zoo. I shall witness it myself. Pretty impressive i must say, at the entrance. I kind of miss the “SINGAPORE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN” old sign which was like the trademark of the zoo when i visited it aeons ago.

Somehow, i feel old. My energy level can’t be rivaled against a 12 year old kid. After walking around the zoo for like 4-5 hours, he’s still alive and kicking.

We spotted this tinny weeny snake on some leaf in the vicinity of the zoo not under captivity. It’s really small and cute. HAHAH, if u had a bottle, probably you could placed it inside and bring it home. Then you can proudly say..

” I’ve got a snake as my Pet”

I think the conception of tigers being ferocious animals is pretty deceiving in this context. They don’t seem to be even moving. Unless you tell me they are nocturnal animals and only exercise at night. But they are well fed, so why bother? If i’m the tiger, i would become demure and let the zookeeper feed me.  

This kangaroo’s smart. He purposely stand so close to the enclosure, posing and letting us take photo of him. What vain kangaroo it is.

Anyone remember that i once called my Chinese teacher this animal and got myself into deep trouble? The monkey that has a red mouth and red butt.

This one of my favourite animal, look at it’s posture. So elegant and demure.

There’s this quest around the zoo called the zoolympics, apparently it require the kids to move about the zoo and complete “missions” to win the game. Stuffs like crawling like a crocodile, eating leaves on a branch like a giraffe. I signed my cousin up for it and it seemed that he is pretty proud of himself that he made it onto the hall of fame for several stations. He himself forgetting that he a 12 year old kid pitting against other children of half his age. Shame Shame.. hahaha

However drastic the zoo has changed, they still haven’t revamped the playground. This playground and the ball pool has been around since god knows when. Ever since the first time i went to the zoo until now.

Doesn’t this animal look like the fierce snow leopard in the “Kungfu Panda” hahh.

For a free trip, it’s definitely worth it. Hah, but there were other reaps other than animals though. For me to know, for you to find out.

Maybe there’ll be better treats next time, remember to give blood and you shall be rewarded..

till then..

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Well, bad enough i had to stumble on days where there are water rationing to be carried out.

Not so much of rationing but rather pipe works carrying out on my block that caused the temporary stoppage in water.

It was just like another day when i finished my night shift and zonked out on the bed upon reaching home. When i woke up to bathe, it was only then i realised. I was thinking, sometimes we really take it for granted. Turning on the tap and expecting water to be flowing out of it.

Talking about that, my Internet modem gave up on me the other day, giving myself a perfect excuse to get a new toy.

I was literally stoning at home the days without internet. It seems like having a computer is nothing without internet connection. Just like not connected to the rest of the world but on an island of your own. So sad.

Why are we so attached to this world. So much that we can’t actually be independent with the things around us, or is it just me.

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http://www.quizbox.com/personality/test82.aspx

Your view on yourself:

Other people find you very interesting, but you are really hiding your true self. Your friends love you because you are a good listener. They’ll probably still love you if you learn to be yourself with them.

The type of girlfriend/boyfriend you are looking for:

You like serious, smart and determined people. You don’t judge a book by its cover, so good-looking people aren’t necessarily your style. This makes you an attractive person in many people’s eyes.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship:

You prefer to get to know a person very well before deciding whether you will commit to the relationship.

The seriousness of your love:

Your have very sensible tactics when approaching the opposite sex. In many ways people find your straightforwardness attractive, so you will find yourself with plenty of dates.

Your views on education

Education is less important than the real world out there, away from the classroom. Deep inside you want to start working, earning money and living on your own.

The right job for you:

You’re a practical person and will choose a secure job with a steady income. Knowing what you like to do is important. Find a regular job doing just that and you’ll be set for life.

How do you view success:

You are confident that you will be successful in your chosen career and nothing will stop you from trying.

What are you most afraid of:

You are concerned about your image and the way others see you. This means that you try very hard to be accepted by other people. It’s time for you to believe in who you are, not what you wear.

Who is your true self:

You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues. Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart rather than your head needs to solve.

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It’s almost 6 months that i have been under the Enlistment Act serving my “term”. Well, now i have truly tasted what it feels like, when other people say that serving NS is just another 2years that you waste your time, doing things that are not your cup of tea.

Hearing this obviously is not good news. Well, i’ve got posting which apparently ain’t to my liking. I got posted to the charge office in alpha division though. Which i will be expecting to meet loads of criminals everyday, doing escort duties and such.

Hopefully i will get to experience more and learn more stuffs until i ORD which is like not very soon.

Currently attending the PIC course, which will end on Monday. Well, to a certain extent i like attending course is that it’s super slack and all we have to do is sit and listen, though it can be boring at times.

For the past one month, I have been opscon-ed. Shan’t elaborate so much, but my job is pretty much to prevent MSk from fleeing, since he’s so much on the run now.

What i can say after a month would be that division life and training command life is vastly different. What we learnt in theory might not come in handy when dealing in real life situations. More practical skills and tactics should then be applied to prevent the situation/issue to aggravate. Many of such things we do not actually learn during lessons, it’s more of realizing and learning on the way when we actually deal with it.

Man on ground is indeed the one that does the most work, sad to say though.

I realised i haven’t posted any of me in Police Uniform though being in the force for almost half a year.

Here are some, and the others taken at my point where i was stationed for 1 month.

I must special mention this dog. His name is Johnny. We believed that he was abandoned by his owner, as it is able to interact very well with human beings, esp POs. Hence it will follow us during our rovings, making us look like K9 unit somehow. It helps “guard” our post by sitting and sleeping in front of it though. Pretty lazy i must say, but its really obedient.

Some sunset view..

Well, if based on these pictures you can decipher where my post is.. Good for you then.

The next phase of police life is going to start, gear up and get ready to give it all..!

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Wearing the blue uniform makes me have a different look and view of how teenage nowadays behave and act.

It’s rather shocking that such things are actually are happening and this really reflects on their parental upbringing and school’s teaching. On the bigger picture, the evolution of the whole society; where they’ve grown to become much more daring and oblivious to the people and things around them.

Well, i’m not trying to say that during my time i was a good boy the follow strict rules and such. But never have i tried to punk around with the hands of the law.

Just a few days ago, me and my partner came across these group of kids in school uniform sitting at the parapet near the beach. We decided to move in and conduct some checks on them.

Due to the landscape of the place, it is very easy to spot POs patrolling, especially in our distinct blue uniform and equipments.

So, when they saw us approaching. One guy stood up and walked further up the parapet to sit down.  So we started asking them what are they doing here, in school uniform and sorts. They seem to be a little defensive about their actions.

When my partner asked ” got smoke anot?” One of them replied almost immediately.

“we got no cigarette.” 

Such answers only lead one to more suspicion to whether to search their possession.

After taking down particulars, we got them to leave the place. We comb the surrounding a little and realised that there is a pack of Menthol Lights in the bushes. I went down and retrieve and there were still like 5-6 sticks left inside.

It’s quite obvious that they threw it there, in fear that we search their bags to finding contraband items.

It appears that earlier on the guy that walked further up threw the pack of cigarette there.

Those teenagers were only 14years old.

What is the world coming to..?

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It was only one week ago when i booked in to HTA, thinking of all the POP rehearsals training that i would have to face.

But all these happened like it was all planned.

The past week of wearing the blue uniform meeting the public have made me understand better, what do the people really expects of us.

In this real world, we in this uniform are expected to uphold the law, be the law enforcer…. But do people come across their mind that we police are also human.

All the stories and encounters my partners and all have to say when they are attending to their message, sounds interesting and weird at times.

Tomorrow morning is morning shift, sleep is precious for now.

12hours is a long long time.

so long…

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Some anonymous people are asking me to continue blogging, despite knowing that most of the entries will be filled in with pretty much the same content as before.

Well, i have no idea who “chuks ugoji” is, though the comments look like spams, but somehow they make a little sense.

At this point of time, i have cleared all the possible tests and exams that SPF put in place for me. All i’m waiting now would be the long-awaited Passing Out Parade (POP).

That’s on the happier note, on the sad note, there’s still 3 weeks left. Which means that we will be having full 3weeks of POP rehearsals which is utmost boring because all you do is march and march. What’s worst is the standing still part, where moving an inch will cause one into great trouble.

With a mere 3 weeks left, it means that the squad will probably have another 3 weeks or so left too before being despatch to our new divisions and units. So, will the friendship last..

It’s interesting to see the varying kinds of people with different characters in NS. It’s one of the few chances wear people of different character.

One of the few that i can’t stand most are those who say and act differently. These are the people who are the most despicable, secretly doing things in the sly and make people think they are angels.

But sorry, in Daryl’s eyes, you are worse than crap.

Anyone wants to attend the Police POP parade. Details as follow.

7th May Home Team Academy

Time is TBC

Till then..

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It’s great that the concert ended with a big bang, standing ovation. Marvelous.

Yesterday was probably one of the greatest day ever, in this year so far.

Thanks to all that made the effort to come down and support, though to some of you it might not be the best way you would like to spend the valuable Saturday away, but nonetheless you guys came.

Couple of minutes till i depart back “home”.

Till then..

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The performance is just tomorrow. All the best to all fellow musicians.

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These are some of the problems when you get more undergraduates into the school. Considering the fact that after the dragon year, there will be a start in the decline of the number of local students applying for University due to smaller student population.

But why are we still embarking on a new University and with dorms that are so filled that they are going to launch the triple sharing scheme (in NTU). Foreign students you bet they are.

Sadly, it seems that the project is already on its way on some of the Halls in NTU. Scarly by 2010, the time i enter Uni, it would be more than triple.

Check out the layout of the triple sharing rooms. The study table is directly under the bed and it really does look squeezy, if it reminds you of foremen’s living squatters i wouldn’t be surprised.

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I guess this was created by some student in NTU to try to discourage and portray their negative view/consensus towards  triple sharing. The singing is pretty “good”. But what’s more important is the message that was supposed to send across, which i think was pretty interesting and hilarious with a little tinge of racism if you perceive it in a certain way.

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On the day of Good Friday.

Pretty great that majority of the class was able to make it.

Somehow, it seems that only after graduation that such stuffs will start popping up. Probably could be due to be that school was too tiring for such interactions to take place and it would be totally unnecessary as we’re already seeing each other everyday.

It’s pretty typical that guys would crowd about to talk about their NS life, which could be a little off track for me when most of them are soldiers. Field camp and such.

For the girls, it would be about how they’ve spent their time on their temporary jobs. All the admin staff, office hours..

But overall, it was great time spent though.

It’s surprising to see that there are actually advertisers on this blog that is on the verge of dying. Sometimes, it’s just that NS life is too boring and monotonous to blog about it. Or it’s that i’m pure lazy. The latter weighs more i guess.

Training’s coming to an end soon, with a few more obstacles and exams to clear and that’s the end of it. In about a month’s plus time hopefully. Life’s pretty slack and good now already when we are like the senior recruits in HTA. Looking at the new mangkoks enlisting, it makes us feel like only yesterday that we entered BPT, and in the blink of an eye 3 months’ gone.

Almost done with all the admission stuffs, praying for the best that i’ll be able to get into the course desired.  

Till then,

Happy Good Friday

P.S Westwinds concert ” All things Japanese”, which showcase Japanese works will be held at Esplanade on the upcoming Saturday, 29th March. For more Infomation click here.

Tickets available at Sistics.

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If only it was true that the results are releasing soon. Rumours have been spread from last last friday, to last Friday, and hopefully the last piece of information that it is this coming Friday would be true.

Not that i am very eager to see the “fabulous” results that i am hoping to get. It’s more of the 1 day off that i can get away from NS to collect my results and once again return back to school to visit all the has been all over again. The band, teachers, landscape and memories that was left and kept there.

Hopefully everything goes well, hopefully. Getting into the desired course is the ultimate goal right now, which it definitely has to come along with good grades.

This blog is starting to rot, seriously rot. Whenever i have some thought than i want to pen it down, i would tell myself that i will share it when i get home. But it seems that whenever i reach home, my brain would be so switched off that i forget what i initially wanted to say.

If only they allowed Laptops in camp, which they didn’t forbid just that the chargers are prohibited.

If you are wondering how’s PNS life is like. You’ll get what i mean in a couple of sentences below. Some of the things which we did the last week.

1. Watched a soccer match between Home United and Dalian Live at Bishan Stadium
2. Went for a Heritage Tour
3. Enough time at night to sleep and wake up to find that it’s not lights out time yet.

Well, of course i’m not complaining that it’s too slack in there, or rather it should be rephrased as most of the time we’re wasting time. But if time are being utilised properly, they could have well shorten the training period from 3 months to 2 months. Now that my batch has training for 4months plus, which makes the thought of this even more unbearable.

NS is a whole new disruption to the life for guys. Looking at your female friends of the same age entering University, while we are still serving the Nation. Completely switched off mind during the 2 years period and then back to books again. There are pros and cons to it, but the pasture at the other side always look greener and more delicious i have to say.

This is what has been spread around, and it seem pretty true looking at the state people around us are. The post NS syndrome, which makes people look older than they seem to be. With more serious look, and mature thinking… *shrugs* How true it might be, you determine it yourself.

But still, i want to be myself. The change might be gradual as we start to take on more roles and responsibilities after we pass out, and hopefully it’s for the better.

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I did something extraordinary on Monday for my Night Training.

Still suffering from the depression that i failed my Standing Broad Jump ONCE AGAIN, i decided to do lunges with weights around the Unity Square a.k.a Parade Square of HTA.

If you have doubts about what lunges are the picture below will give you a better idea of what it is.

I thought it wasn’t going to be very tough initially, but when i first started like 50metres, i was already sweating like crazy and gasping for air and breath already.

Thankfully, i have great determination. I managed to finish the whole round of the Unity Square in approximately half an hour. Though i too many breaks, but still i am glad i finished it. I was one of the biggest feat i have completed in HTA.

Some statistics, for my leg length, i take 773 lunges to complete one round around Unity Square. Half an hour, with weights of 4.5kg on each side of my arm.

That explains the unbearable ache i am suffering on my thighs now, it makes it almost impossible for me to go down a flight of stairs or a slope. Slow jogging is still possible though.

Try it with caution, you will love the tightness on your thighs. Hopefully it aids in SBJ, giving me an extra boost in the next IPPT.

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Words can’t express how i am feeling right now. Its like a big battle within myself and i have no idea on which sides to take on.

One side is telling me to go with my heart, give it all out and not regret it. The other is telling me to chill and wait for the best opportunity to come by before striking on it.

I hate this kind of feeling, there’s totally nothing much that i can do now, but to wait.

Probably it’s really true that its not the best time to do this, the feeling’s really terrible. Furthermore, i’m not even at the known of the outcome of it, making me feel more jitterish.

All i could do is to imagine the scenes that could possible happen which i had almost failed to think of the negative consequences of it.

It’s all about myself. Somehow, it feels good to just keep things just in thoughts and wait.

Good things are worth the wait, so why not. Keep on believing.

Taking in mind that these are words, which means it doesn’t really expresses how i feel now, somewhere along the line probably.

Btw, Happy Birthday to Teo Cheng Song. Though i believe he’s feeling great right now.

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