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All the hype about how successful China had been in hosting the Olympics is now forgotten as the issue on poisonous Milk Powder hovers around the mind of almost every individual in the world.

Though this might seem like something that wouldn’t concern that many people out there. But considering the number of distinct features that comes out of people mind when we think of China, we would probably get a clearer picture of what is going on.

• China being the biggest nation in the world, has one of the biggest manufacturing industries. The label “Made in China” has almost transformed into something that we are expecting to see when viewing the side/bottom of a product. It wouldn’t be surprising to know that their products have transcend beyond boundaries to other nations out of China.
• The high demand for milk. Milk could be consume as a primary product, or from a secondary product. The number of food products out there in the market that has milk content in it. Though it could be arguably said that the product is manufactured in Singapore or any other country, but the primary source of milk could well come from China. Turning white, grey. Not forgetting our famous Chocolates and yogurt are modifications of milk as well.

Now the air is starting to rumour the fact that these milk diseases have already been circulating ever since before Olympics started or even much before it. It is believed that they are trying to cover in order to build up trust and reputation before the Olympic. Though the Tibetan issues have already dirt them a little.

Skeptical it might seem to be able to keep away such a big thing from the public. But if China can ban the word “Democracy” on Google, there’s nothing much they can’t do. 

Until the verdict is set, there is no concrete evidence to pinpoint the Chinese officals in misappropriating handling this incident. Just to keep people’s views about China on a fluctuate axis.

So till then, try something else for calcium. For babies, go breast feed then.

Life is pretty shit, shit in a sense where it’s starting to get monotonous. The same whole routine follows everyday, day in day out.

What’s more shit is when there are people that are working with you, “working” i mean, people who are just around because they are around. If sleeping around and getting people to do their job is a kind of work done, i don’t mind doing that as well. All the excuses, to cover up his own ass, and making people around follow nonsensical instructions. We are all here to work, why make life difficult for us. So they higher the hierarchy of ranks one achieve, doesn’t one have to make more contribution, serve more..? Since you are  proven to be able to hold that stupid rank on your shoulder, then prove your capabilities, rather than make people prove yours and turn yourself into a laughing stock. ..

Well.. What to do..? I am serving my term, not as if i had a choice.

It’s almost 10months since i was recruited. A couple more to go..

Like many other guys out there, we look forward to collecting back our Pink IC. That is the end of the challenge, and the start of another. For me, it’s still a path of unknown. All lies ahead is a misty road, where i’m not even sure if its a road or is it the verge of a cliff. It’s not within what i can control.

It’s going to be another birthday in one day’s time, another one i mean. 18 one of them have passed and what have i really achieved in those 18years of life. Mostly uncertainties i suppose. It probably time to think about the future, of the next 18years of my life what do i really want to achieve.

Life is like a race, make sure every pit stop you make is worth it, so that the drive thereafter would be smoother.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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!