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It’s only words.

January 27, 2008 By: darylim Category: thoughts 4 Comments →

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.

Jumping failure

January 27, 2008 By: darylim Category: pure rants 4 Comments →

The reason for me being able to come back every Friday is because i passed my IPPT. But every week i do my IPPT, there would be a fear that i can’t do well in one of the stations.

All’s good but standing broad jump. It seems that this is the station that is obstructing me from achieving my ultimate goal in IPPT.

I merely passed with a distance of 216cm, quite discouraging though as the number has been there for almost 4 weeks while the other stations has improved gradually as weeks passed.

 

Station Grade/scores
Sit Ups 40
Standing Broad Jump 216 =(
Pull Ups 10
Shuttle Run 10.3sec
2.4 Km Run 10.42mins

 

Someone give me some good advices or tips to improve on it please.

The evil’s man talking

January 26, 2008 By: darylim Category: life in blue, thoughts 3 Comments →

Like most people say, in NS you get to meet all kind of people. I can’t disagree any further on this statement. Let me introduce this guy, hopefully it doesn’t stink up my blog.

His name is XXX, shouldn’t be that evil to that extent of revealing his name in the blogosphere, but he has some nicknames that you can follow. They include, “the force”, “el-stinko”, “smelly boy”, etc..

Well, from what you see from the nicks given to him, instant instincts tells you that he’s not someone that is very pleasant to the nose.

Here goes.

I shall address him to be Mr. smell in my blog entry below.

Mr Smell has a distinct BO that one could tell from a distance of 10metres away. Well, coming from a Bp squad, sometimes excessively fat people have a intolerable stench on their body due to the sweat glands and such. We all understand that, so the best possible way to minimize such smell impacts would be to change clothes more often, or to bathe more often ain’t that right?

But due to the nature of Mr. Smelly, he’s a downright stubborn boy. During break times where people usually go take a shower to prepare for the next activity in hand, he never does that, or should i say seldom. He would just sit down beside his bed and quickly change into the next activity’s attire with a stupid alarm clock on his hand.

Well, i forgot to mention that he’s the No.1 paranoid in the squad. He follows exactly what the officers tells us, and is always the first to fall in. Alright, an example would be good..

Let say the time required to fall in is 0900hrs, when we are being dismissed from the Mess/Cookhouse at 0755hrs, he would he changed into his No.3(full uniform) by 0805hrs, while the rest of us are still in singlets and shorts.

Well, any idiot would know that the full uniform makes people sweat more and will stink up the shirt if there is excessively sweat on it. But he just doesn’t seem to bother.

Moreover, he has the fastest flow of sweat that i have ever seen in my life. Standing in attention for a mere 5 mins, you can see his whole face filled with beads of sweat, while the others are still dry and smelling good.

It most probably due to his high level of tensed up feeling and paranoids that make him sweat so easily. 

Furthermore, he sleeps in his PT Kit, which is the kit that we wear for Physical training sessions, which this makes the situation much more worst when he sweats when he sleep on this back. Many complained that even in the morning when the sun is not even up yet they are able to smell his odour while walking behind him or standing behind him to brush teeth. Although he might claims that he does change his shirt, but wearing the PT attire to sleep does make the polo t-shirt smelly over the night.

To sum up, it’s not 1 or 2 reasons that make up Mr. Smell. It’s a combination of the most deadly factors that make up the stench, which not many people is capable of doing so.

  1. untolerable BO
  2. refuses to change new sets of clothings
  3. refuses to bathe
  4. always feeling so stressed up
  5. stubborn nature of not listening to advices

Well, its not like he is not told of his unbearable odour coming out from his body. In the initial stages, we all thought that we shouldn’t be so bad to tell him right straight in the face but to hint him here and there about the intolerable odour that exists on his body. But it seems that it doesn’t work well at all. Despite all the advices of telling him to change and bathe more frequently, he turns them down on deaf ears and even rebuts them with some stupid logic like bathing too often will cause a person to catch a cold easily.

It has now reached a stage where by people have gave up advising him on what to do, since he doesn’t want to comply with what we says, we have no choice but to take actions. It is interesting that whenever we fall in, the people that are standing around him often have difficulty breathing, try marching behind someone like him. I bet you would visit the MO (medical officer) very soon.

Also, during meal times, often the seats beside him would be empty. The very simple reason that the Mess food is already bad enough to consume, additional fillings like such smell would just make us puke out the food than to eat it.

It is bad to a certain degree that there are some that bring air fresheners to class to follow his trail.

You guys must be thinking, who is the unlucky fellow that is sleeping beside him in the bunk. I don’t know if i’ve aggravated him in my previous life or whatsoever, but that unlucky fellow is me. But being a bastard, i am, i have already thought of good plans to keeping myself alive. Stuffs like sleeping in another room, on another bed when the guy is on MC, or not there. Or just spamming the air fresheners around my region.

I give my word that the degree of “bastardness” from me would increase exponentially if this doesn’t improve. That’s how NS works.

Poor ME!

Packed Weekends

January 19, 2008 By: darylim Category: pure rants No Comments →

Apologies for not updating. but the last weekend has really flown by in a flash. With most of the time attending band practices, and rotting at home.

Somehow i feel that my life seems to be stagnated water, with Mondays to Fridays doing the same thing in camp, coming out only in the weekends and to do those same activities all over again.

Well, at least i can have some form of activities, better than rotting at home sleeping and staring at the laptop.

It’s important for someone, especially in my context of myself to be kept busy. One thing that i can’t really stand is to idle around, not knowing what is happening around me and not to be informed of the next activity. Probably because of the fact that i have a higher level of curiosity compared to other people or whatsoever.

Having band practices consecutive on the 2 book out days is a little torturous,  it makes me feel like a lifeless soul.

Nonetheless, its better than not doing anything. I have no idea what i am rambling about though.

End Of Prep Course (PTP)

January 05, 2008 By: darylim Category: life in blue, thoughts, writings 3 Comments →

Yesterday marks the last day for Prep Course, where it is a phase to train up less fit people like me to be geared up for Basic Police Training (BPT).

It’s really rather fast, that one month is gone just like this. Though it’s officially one month, but the actual days that we spent there are only 3weeks or so, thanks to the many holidays during the period and weekends.

We survived Prep Course, more things are coming up in the week up ahead.

  1. Law Lessons
  2. PSOC Lessons
  3. PDT Lessons
  4. Swimming Lessons
  5. Range
  6. More IPPT..

Well, i guess we’re more or less starting to get accustomed to the kind of life we can expect in HTA. In such cases of situation, there’s no point sighing or grumbling about the wastage of life and time there. More complaining and cursing will not make the situation any better.

My piece of true advice would be that to take things in your stride. Regardless of SAF or SPF, i believe it is only through these mindsets that smoothens our 2 years path in NS. We’ve got to accept fate that it’s the path that we all have to go through as guys under the Enlistment Act to serve the National Service for the Republic Of Singapore.

It’s interesting in a sense that when we’re starting to get used the life there, all the punishments and stuffs, we don’t get so uptight about being punished and scolded. Somehow i guess the instructors are too tired and can’t be bothered to scold and nag so much already, unless it’s some major faults and errs.

To sum up my first 1 month there..

5 most hated words/phrase

  • to the left/right on your palms down
  • heads out
  • fall-in
  • confinement
  • “unlimited counts of jumping jacks, exercise begin”

5 most loved words/phrase

  • ” Squad, Keluar Baris”
  • Last count and still
  • walk-out
  • lights off
  • POP

I tend to let my mind run real wild when i’m in camp. Thinking back about the different stages of life that we have walked through.

In Primary School, we always found P.E sessions too short and insufficient.

In Secondary School, we dreaded physical training, but loved the games that we can play then.

In JC, PE was one of the most hated lessons.

But all these were still not as bad as Physical Training (PT) in NS. Like one of the instructors said, back then in school it was Physical EDUCATION, now its TRAINING, different, period.

As true as his words meant, the discipline level is definitely much much higher. More endurance and determination would be required. No more spoon feeding and pampering.

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Also, teachers once tell us to put our fingers on our lips, to make sure we keep quiet. In NS, it’s about the same, just that the action of putting the finger on the lip is replaced by push-up positions and jumping jacks.

In the past, we were not allowed to run along the corridors, if not the prefects will write our names down in the pathetic blue notebook to report to the teachers.

In NS, we’re expected to run everywhere, from this destination to the next. How we wish we could reverse the conditions and the situations around.

Contrary of Life..

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I was bored and tried to login to NYXCHANGE LITESPEED. Apparently, it doesn’t recognise my IC anymore :(   I’m an expired student.

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Cheers!

First Post of 2008

January 01, 2008 By: darylim Category: thoughts, writings 4 Comments →

Happy New Year Everyone!!

It’s the brand new year all over again, like just waking up from your cozy bed, and finding yourself stepping to another realm of the world.

Based on year count, i’m 19 this year. the BIG 2 is only around the vicinity already. Though it’s just a matter of a year difference, it’s starting to gain a whole lot of impact for me, and the friends around me. Especially our pockets.

The transportation fare’s going to cost a bomb, it more than a 100% increase. Now a trip to HTA would most likely cost $2+, with the train service and the feeder bus service.

Like Carol said ” Welcome to the Single Beep World”

or

Daowei : “Please remember to TITO” (Tap In Tap Out)

Looking at the past year, the events and happenings around me. It has inevitably moulded my own character and carved my ideologies and way of thinking.  The exams, the competitions, the stress and everything. Hopefully, it has strengthened my will and determination to handle with things, to becoming more successful.

I’m a little starting to miss school life, it was only 1 year ago, at this exact instant where i guess most students are fretting on their uncompleted holidays assignments , coupled with the excitement of meeting friends again, and new challenges in the upcoming new year.

Though it might sound kind of bizarre to some of you who are still schooling out there, you will understand when you are in the same side of the shoe as me, or the rest of the people in my batch.

I so want to go back to school, why not i pay a Secondary School Kid a 100 bucks a month and go back to school, enjoy all the rates and treatment of a 15year old kid.

Sounds great?

The cheap canteen food, the allowances that our parents are providing which cushioned our path in search of knowledge,  concession charges for almost everything for students. I would gladly do the exchange.

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Back to reality, stop complaining..  You’re no longer a student!!!  Act like an adult, especially when you are paying for it’s fare.

As boring and aimless 2008 might prove itself to be, but some of the things i want to accomplish and hoped for could probably be.. not in any order of importance..

  1. Gold for IPPT
  2. Decent A Levels results, for me to enter ICT
  3.  
  4. Achieve a good posting upon POP
  5. Better health and fitness for all family and friends around me
  6. and the list goes on… ( as time passes due to the unpredictably nature of 2008)

This post sounds more like a complain post to me.. on second thoughts, i think it’s not so much of a ..

“Happy” New Year.. nothing much to be happy about?

pull your own ears instead :)

 

Enjoy 2008 folks, while i silent myself for the next few days and get back to more trainings.

Did i mention that i passed my IPPT? So no confinement for me..

It’s not a crime to be fat, stupidity can lead to more crime due to the incapability to make correct decisions. People from PES Bp can pass IPPT too, so guys in my squad, if i can do it, so can you.

All the way!

Cheers,

2008 and beyond..

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