一只鲸鱼 要怎么放进冰箱
打开门 然后用力关冰箱
然后呢 如果你还想要 放一只大象
一份希望 要怎么放进心脏
如果你 活的有一点悲伤
答案是 用力丢掉鲸鱼 用力甩悲伤
是谁说半夜不能吃便当
是谁说彩虹不能长头上
是谁说蓝色就等于忧伤
你看看天空和海洋
顺风时就展开双翅飞翔
逆风时就当成在冲浪
没有风的时候那就让我
开开天窗
一句歌词 怎么让你很难忘
方文山 林夕和我都在想
想破头 也钻不进一个 紧闭的心房
一个难题 要用多少的智商
多少泪 还有多少的盼望
多少人 变成紧闭门窗 孤独的国王
Saturday, July 26, 2008
开天窗
一只鲸鱼 要怎么放进冰箱
打开门 然后用力关冰箱
然后呢 如果你还想要 放一只大象
一份希望 要怎么放进心脏
如果你 活的有一点悲伤
答案是 用力丢掉鲸鱼 用力甩悲伤
是谁说半夜不能吃便当
是谁说彩虹不能长头上
是谁说蓝色就等于忧伤
你看看天空和海洋
顺风时就展开双翅飞翔
逆风时就当成在冲浪
没有风的时候那就让我
开开天窗
一句歌词 怎么让你很难忘
方文山 林夕和我都在想
想破头 也钻不进一个 紧闭的心房
一个难题 要用多少的智商
多少泪 还有多少的盼望
多少人 变成紧闭门窗 孤独的国王
Friday, July 25, 2008
the alarm clock that wakes everyone up except the setter himself
Not as xiong as had anticipated; only a 6.4km run on Monday and a 8km today, where Wednesday's run was cancelled because there was no safety rover coverage. [The above statement is to let everyone know that our military views safety as a top priority!]
The National Education trip on Thursday, could well by far be one of the most interesting, if not the most interesting, excursions I ever had. The trip took us to the Singapore Crocodile Farm and the temple opposite it, as part of explanation of the history of Serangoon and the economy status of olden day Singapore.
The trip also took us to the Japanese cemetery, where the tomb of the man all grandfathers and grandmothers hated and war memorials for Japanese soldiers who died during and after the war were located. Actually I do wonder if the Japanese soldiers had been glorified for all that they had done, but I suppose one can put oneself in a German's shoes and wonder why the Allied soldiers were glorified after they had killed so many German soldiers, many his friends and brothers.
The last part of the half-day trip took us for a look at our sand stockpile, where the construction industry tapped into after Indonesia banned sand exports to us a couple of years back. As the tour guide said, Singapore is probably the only country in the world to stockpile sand. Actually there was really nothing much to see other than sand and more sand, but that was just about the only time in my life that I could physically be in there.
Unfortunately just like all other National Education trips this one was laced with heavy propaganda and brainwashing, saying how important it is to defend our country blah blah. I think I have enough of that.
Kiwi - the substance one turns to for turning anything black, everything black. From boots to rifles to helmets to vehicle tracks.
As preparations for the one big wayang show continues, this week saw us kiwi-ing our vehicle tracks, which were too, full of dried mud from Sapper Trail and could not be washed off, so the entire company was activated, with kiwi cans and brushes the size of my handphone [yes you guessed it; my handphone is in front of me and I am not a geek.] in hand, and turned the brown tracks into black.
Together with the new coat of paints the drivers gave to the vehicles earlier on, now they really looked as if they were brand new.
Early book out today for platoon cohesion! After the 8km run the entire platoon went down to 湘城酒楼 for a rather expensive lunch dim sum buffet! Food was good, though we underestimated the small size of the various foods and ordered a little too much haha. Ended the day with a walk around Funan IT Mall and Marina Square.
If there is one thing that Microsoft's products does better than open source products, it will be compatibility with Microsoft's Windows >.<. There were two instances this week where OpenOffice gave weird problems I have never seen before; I couldn't solve them even if I wanted to.
Careless me stepped on one side of my earphones one fine day and broke the external shell, although it still worked because the wiring was still intact. Today I bought a new pair of earphones which I thought was the exact same model as the pair I broke, only to realise when I returned home that it wasn't. Worse, the sound quality of the new pair doesn't match up to the broken pair. So now I am getting my father to glue the broken shells back together. I am blaming Creative for making all earphones and their packaging look so similar to each other, and also myself for buying without making sure first.
Haix.
Upcoming next week: more runs, more preparations for the one big wayang show, and keeping ourselves 'on the ball' as the green flashing man draws near.
The National Education trip on Thursday, could well by far be one of the most interesting, if not the most interesting, excursions I ever had. The trip took us to the Singapore Crocodile Farm and the temple opposite it, as part of explanation of the history of Serangoon and the economy status of olden day Singapore.
The trip also took us to the Japanese cemetery, where the tomb of the man all grandfathers and grandmothers hated and war memorials for Japanese soldiers who died during and after the war were located. Actually I do wonder if the Japanese soldiers had been glorified for all that they had done, but I suppose one can put oneself in a German's shoes and wonder why the Allied soldiers were glorified after they had killed so many German soldiers, many his friends and brothers.
The last part of the half-day trip took us for a look at our sand stockpile, where the construction industry tapped into after Indonesia banned sand exports to us a couple of years back. As the tour guide said, Singapore is probably the only country in the world to stockpile sand. Actually there was really nothing much to see other than sand and more sand, but that was just about the only time in my life that I could physically be in there.
Unfortunately just like all other National Education trips this one was laced with heavy propaganda and brainwashing, saying how important it is to defend our country blah blah. I think I have enough of that.
Kiwi - the substance one turns to for turning anything black, everything black. From boots to rifles to helmets to vehicle tracks.
As preparations for the one big wayang show continues, this week saw us kiwi-ing our vehicle tracks, which were too, full of dried mud from Sapper Trail and could not be washed off, so the entire company was activated, with kiwi cans and brushes the size of my handphone [yes you guessed it; my handphone is in front of me and I am not a geek.] in hand, and turned the brown tracks into black.
Together with the new coat of paints the drivers gave to the vehicles earlier on, now they really looked as if they were brand new.
Early book out today for platoon cohesion! After the 8km run the entire platoon went down to 湘城酒楼 for a rather expensive lunch dim sum buffet! Food was good, though we underestimated the small size of the various foods and ordered a little too much haha. Ended the day with a walk around Funan IT Mall and Marina Square.
If there is one thing that Microsoft's products does better than open source products, it will be compatibility with Microsoft's Windows >.<. There were two instances this week where OpenOffice gave weird problems I have never seen before; I couldn't solve them even if I wanted to.
Careless me stepped on one side of my earphones one fine day and broke the external shell, although it still worked because the wiring was still intact. Today I bought a new pair of earphones which I thought was the exact same model as the pair I broke, only to realise when I returned home that it wasn't. Worse, the sound quality of the new pair doesn't match up to the broken pair. So now I am getting my father to glue the broken shells back together. I am blaming Creative for making all earphones and their packaging look so similar to each other, and also myself for buying without making sure first.
Haix.
Upcoming next week: more runs, more preparations for the one big wayang show, and keeping ourselves 'on the ball' as the green flashing man draws near.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
6km + 6km + 6km
That was just about the main highlight of the week as training for the run that we are not going for continued.
Friday guard duties were thrown to us at the last minute, and I decided to switch my duty on the 29th with someone who could not do it yesterday, simply because there were five other friends joining me yesterday; if I were to do my 29th duty I would be doing it alone. Besides it doesn't seem to make a difference that I spend another night away in camp.
The biggest boss to rule us all is changing, and a change-of-command parade is upcoming soon. Part of this one big wayang show is to have our vehicles participate in the parade as well, so for the past few days we had to clean the interiors of the various vehicles which were choked full of sand, mud, oil and rubbish from previous exercises. Unlike the exteriors we could not simply turn on a tap and spray water into them; we had to use sponges no bigger than a hard disk [No i'm not that geeky. Its just that a hard disk happens to be lying in front of me now to do the comparison haha] and wipe them off inch by inch.
Came home this morning to be greeted with a blank screen when my Vista refused to boot up. Fixed it by plugging out the hard disk cable and plugging in again, but hell what went wrong I have no idea. Hopefully this thing doesn't crash fatally on me.
Received a red-and-black shoebag for my unit's 38th anniversary, which I thought was more suitable for use during Chinese New Year because of the overwhelming red. I should count my lucky stars its the 38th and not the 35th or worse the 40th, or definitely there would be more shit than just a shoebag and watching Hancock. You know how this world loves multiples of five.
Had lunch with a smart geek, a super smart geek, and a super smart half geek, in one of our annual meetups as the super smart geek returned to Singapore for his summer vacation. Just like the days of VJC where we would had lunch at Parkway Parade every Saturday after our programming, our conversations still never deviated too far away from computers hahaha.
Money is the root of all evil, as everyone says. One may be a kind person who sets up charities to help the less previlged, but when one sees the huge amounts of money flowing in one still can't help but falls for the temptation.
Went down to National Library's old book sale at Expo. Bought four rather random books in two days; either I couldn't find the books I wanted or the entire area was so messy I missed them out. Good thing was both days I went in the evening, so they were selling the books at two for the price of one.
This year's E3 just concluded, and one game that has caught my attention is Tom Clancy's EndWar. So far it looks good, so together with World in Conflict: Soviet Assault and Red Alert 3 [which actually looks a little disappointing, but oh well.], coming few months got games to play lor!
Upcoming next week, 8km runs on alternate days, getting my systems up and running, and woohoo a National Education trip!
One of the many kopi-tiams opposite my house just finished its renovation; I don't know whether its still the same shop and I never noticed its name in the past, or its a new one, the shop name reads:
Jurong Cafe @ Tampines.
Friday guard duties were thrown to us at the last minute, and I decided to switch my duty on the 29th with someone who could not do it yesterday, simply because there were five other friends joining me yesterday; if I were to do my 29th duty I would be doing it alone. Besides it doesn't seem to make a difference that I spend another night away in camp.
The biggest boss to rule us all is changing, and a change-of-command parade is upcoming soon. Part of this one big wayang show is to have our vehicles participate in the parade as well, so for the past few days we had to clean the interiors of the various vehicles which were choked full of sand, mud, oil and rubbish from previous exercises. Unlike the exteriors we could not simply turn on a tap and spray water into them; we had to use sponges no bigger than a hard disk [No i'm not that geeky. Its just that a hard disk happens to be lying in front of me now to do the comparison haha] and wipe them off inch by inch.
Came home this morning to be greeted with a blank screen when my Vista refused to boot up. Fixed it by plugging out the hard disk cable and plugging in again, but hell what went wrong I have no idea. Hopefully this thing doesn't crash fatally on me.
Received a red-and-black shoebag for my unit's 38th anniversary, which I thought was more suitable for use during Chinese New Year because of the overwhelming red. I should count my lucky stars its the 38th and not the 35th or worse the 40th, or definitely there would be more shit than just a shoebag and watching Hancock. You know how this world loves multiples of five.
Had lunch with a smart geek, a super smart geek, and a super smart half geek, in one of our annual meetups as the super smart geek returned to Singapore for his summer vacation. Just like the days of VJC where we would had lunch at Parkway Parade every Saturday after our programming, our conversations still never deviated too far away from computers hahaha.
Money is the root of all evil, as everyone says. One may be a kind person who sets up charities to help the less previlged, but when one sees the huge amounts of money flowing in one still can't help but falls for the temptation.
Went down to National Library's old book sale at Expo. Bought four rather random books in two days; either I couldn't find the books I wanted or the entire area was so messy I missed them out. Good thing was both days I went in the evening, so they were selling the books at two for the price of one.
This year's E3 just concluded, and one game that has caught my attention is Tom Clancy's EndWar. So far it looks good, so together with World in Conflict: Soviet Assault and Red Alert 3 [which actually looks a little disappointing, but oh well.], coming few months got games to play lor!
Upcoming next week, 8km runs on alternate days, getting my systems up and running, and woohoo a National Education trip!
One of the many kopi-tiams opposite my house just finished its renovation; I don't know whether its still the same shop and I never noticed its name in the past, or its a new one, the shop name reads:
Jurong Cafe @ Tampines.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
what's new
After a month of Ops this week marked the first back in unit since Sapper Trail. Like what a friend said, no longer used to staying in camp for five days in a row haha. Daily physical training in the past week left me aching all over and a half-sprained ankle, after one month of zero PT, and apparently its just the beginning of what is to come, because the instruction passed down is that we will still train for Army Half Marathon even though we are the organisers, albeit not the full 21km.
A bunch of new birds just came in! And a couple of them are damn zai, holding diplomas in network programming and IT and whatnot. Which means I can switch myself to ORD mode sooner than usual loh!
Had a peek at ST Electronics when we went down there. Not a bad place to work in, but I don't really want to work on the same things I have worked on for the past year.
Staying in camp for five days makes me carve for the computer and the Internet, but whenever I turn it on on weekends I realise, I don't know what to do with it.
A bunch of new birds just came in! And a couple of them are damn zai, holding diplomas in network programming and IT and whatnot. Which means I can switch myself to ORD mode sooner than usual loh!
Had a peek at ST Electronics when we went down there. Not a bad place to work in, but I don't really want to work on the same things I have worked on for the past year.
Staying in camp for five days makes me carve for the computer and the Internet, but whenever I turn it on on weekends I realise, I don't know what to do with it.
Sunday, July 06, 2008
vroom
Grid's multiplayer has one of the most idiotproof interfaces among games that I have came across. No network configuration required, no port to forward, no IP to set. Just create an account, and the game throws you lists of sessions in play which you can join, easily fulfilling those with adrenaline rushes.
Too bad multiplayer games does not come with artificial intelligence, so you either play a rather lonely game with one or two other friends of yours, or you play with strangers from around the world.
The downsides are the lag which can sometimes spoil the game, and that you get to meet @#$%! people who do everything except do a proper race. They remain stationary when the green light goes off, so cars behind crash into them. Or they drive the opposite direction and crash into those who are really trying to race properly. And they laugh happily [in the chatbox] at the damage they have caused.
But otherwise, damn fun ah! Everyone should go get the game so we can all race together!
Of course for now in terms of entertainment value no game can come close to that being provided by our neighbour and her politics =X
Thank you for all the lunches you allowed me to have with you.
Hopefully the coming week will be a good one.
Too bad multiplayer games does not come with artificial intelligence, so you either play a rather lonely game with one or two other friends of yours, or you play with strangers from around the world.
The downsides are the lag which can sometimes spoil the game, and that you get to meet @#$%! people who do everything except do a proper race. They remain stationary when the green light goes off, so cars behind crash into them. Or they drive the opposite direction and crash into those who are really trying to race properly. And they laugh happily [in the chatbox] at the damage they have caused.
But otherwise, damn fun ah! Everyone should go get the game so we can all race together!
Of course for now in terms of entertainment value no game can come close to that being provided by our neighbour and her politics =X
Thank you for all the lunches you allowed me to have with you.
Hopefully the coming week will be a good one.
Friday, July 04, 2008
anniversary
Celebrated my unit's anniversary today at the Grand Cathay, which I thought was quite a good way to end my off with.
Speech, cut birthday cake, redeem our coke and popcorn, then Hancock.
I'm quite happy they decided on a simple movie instead of some elaborate activity which might just involves us pasting white tape on the floor or packing hundreds of water bombs. Past experiences included a supposedly half-a-day "amazing race" which became a one day navigation exercise. I was, fortunately, absent from it.
Spent the rest of the day gaming away with friends at a LAN centre, something I have not done for quite a long time and really enjoyed. As I [still] firmly believe, games are best played against friends, not some dumb artificial intelligence.
Two more days before I return to normal unit life. Although the stint was a waste of my life it also meant booking out and seeing the outside world every two days, no guard duties and no saikang for one full month, and OTOT eat lunch and dinner in singlet, shorts and slippers haha. Normal unit life means a return of all that I dread, but finally some personal time to do what I need to do.
***
Link
Strictly only for geeks.
Speech, cut birthday cake, redeem our coke and popcorn, then Hancock.
I'm quite happy they decided on a simple movie instead of some elaborate activity which might just involves us pasting white tape on the floor or packing hundreds of water bombs. Past experiences included a supposedly half-a-day "amazing race" which became a one day navigation exercise. I was, fortunately, absent from it.
Spent the rest of the day gaming away with friends at a LAN centre, something I have not done for quite a long time and really enjoyed. As I [still] firmly believe, games are best played against friends, not some dumb artificial intelligence.
Two more days before I return to normal unit life. Although the stint was a waste of my life it also meant booking out and seeing the outside world every two days, no guard duties and no saikang for one full month, and OTOT eat lunch and dinner in singlet, shorts and slippers haha. Normal unit life means a return of all that I dread, but finally some personal time to do what I need to do.
***
Link
Strictly only for geeks.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
sierra november zero niner,
kampung now forever, over!
Absence of entries for the past two weeks was because, well, there was simply nothing to say.
And so my one monthlife rotting, youth wasting extraordinary stint has finally ended. To be more positive, it has been a "National Geographic" for many of us, like seeing seabirds and eagles grabbing fishes off water surfaces and catfishes feasting on dead fishes, admiring magnificent intercloud lightning storms, having close encounters with crabs, dogs, cats, rats and mosquitoes[haha], among others. Some got away knowing others better[Twelve hours of no PSP, no handphone, no MP3 and no book meant the only thing you can do is talk to your buddy] But otherwise all we got were screwed up biological clocks.
I cannot describe the happiness I felt when I finally returned my security armband and the weapon, for the last time.
Hopefully.
I got to enjoy the privileges and the 'privileges' of being a commander, and I think I prefer being a man. Ha.
July apparently will not be as free as what the very big boss claimed to be. News of a traffic control job is coming up, sounds very, very dumb. But for now I just sit back and enjoy my off.
***
Link
And I thought I saw a huge banner hanging down from their building commemorating 100 years in Singapore.
Absence of entries for the past two weeks was because, well, there was simply nothing to say.
And so my one month
I cannot describe the happiness I felt when I finally returned my security armband and the weapon, for the last time.
Hopefully.
I got to enjoy the privileges and the 'privileges' of being a commander, and I think I prefer being a man. Ha.
July apparently will not be as free as what the very big boss claimed to be. News of a traffic control job is coming up, sounds very, very dumb. But for now I just sit back and enjoy my off.
***
Link
And I thought I saw a huge banner hanging down from their building commemorating 100 years in Singapore.
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