Monday, March 17, 2003
Friday after work I met up with Mervin and we had dinner at East Coast. Curry chicken! Bought drinks after that and chatted at the big car park at Fort Road. Lots of bladders. A few minutes later a few 3-tonners drove up and out came an entire platoon of NSmen. They assembled at the area near the big drain, I think they were about to start a route march or something. Pity pity. Went home early to prepare for tomorrow, I had to report back to camp for a Workplan Update very early in the morning.
Saturday
Reached camp at 730am. And even the reporting booth wasnt setup yet. This is crap. Alpha and Charlie officers started to come about at 8plus, I felt uneasy and went up the auditorium. There were only 3 other people sitting inside. Great. I slouched back in my seat and daydreamt about something. 1 sheep 2 sheep... WO Alagappan came in and began the briefing when the hall was about half full. 845am. Good news, no ICTand no NDP for 583 Guards this year. Some might be selected to support 582's ATEC in Jan 2004. New IPPT system, and mob dates. Yada yada yada. "And gentlemen, the briefing has ended. You may go now." Time on the watch - 9:20am. Wonderful. I had to wake up at 6am on my precious Saturday off and drive from the most east of Singapore to the deadend west (a 40mins journey travelling at 100km/h) and for what? To listen to a 30mins briefing. And the information could have easily been disseminated through mail. Or even email. What am I going to do now?
I popped by at NTU, new buildings coming up, the School of Biogical Sciences, the TechnoPlaza, and some other building I dont recognise. Had breakfast and read the newspaper. The Recruit pages had some interesting job openings. MUST apply. MUST. Left NTU and drove to town. Gym time. Ran, BodyPump with Julian, and right after I showered, I got a SMS from Poh asking me whether I wanna go to the IT show. Sure! Anytime.
Met him and KC later and we went round and round the jam-packed Suntec City halls. Tungsten... drooool. Apple G4... Droooool. Sony VideoCam, Drool droool drooooool. We left at 8pm and met Mervin at Raffles Hospital for dinner. I believe this is the first time all 4 of us sat together and had a proper meal and conversation. I was really really glad Merv and KC seem like they're back on good terms. I hope. We talked about a lot of things, Poh kept saying "I have to go back now" but eventually left with us at about 10. KC sent him back and Merv and me still had time to go for one more cup of tea at Ubi. Excellent Saturday.
Sunday I rushed to Toa Payoh first to pick up my tailored pants before going to BBDC for a repeat of Subject 4 - the figure 8. But I aced it this time. No more problem with the gears, and I was experimenting on ways to clear it faster. I mounted the kerb twice. Hah! I think the instructor saw it, but he still passed me. On to subject 5 on Thursday! Narrow planks and err.. I cant remember. Right after the lesson ended mom called me and told me Aunt wants to treat us to dinner again and can I join them this time? I felt really bad, I did not join for the last 3 dinner appointments, the last one being the time I went to the fish farm with Merv and Audrey. Mom said that Aunt lamented I was becoming arrogant (sombong) for declining her past invitations and that I was becoming "TOOOO" busy. Heck thats the last thing I want her to think about me. I am most grateful for her for helping with my Uni fees. So I gave Merv a call and told him I cant meet him today. Besides, Sofian was also busy, he had to report back to VideoEzy Siglap to look at how Sundays store closing are done. I think they have to print out special weekly reports or something.
We had dinner at Banquet foodcourt at EastPoint. The whole family had chicken rice, I had Ramen. I was expecting she will ask me to accompany her shopping after that, like she always does, but this time she said that 2nd bro can send her home and she's too tired to do any shopping today. So by 7pm I was free again. Called Merv but I think he wasnt very happy with the last minute cancellation. Oh well, I'm sure he'd understand.
I remembered I wanted to buy the casing for my Palm Zire and I know Poh is at the IT show again to buy his PowerShot G3 (he made like a thousand bucks from the Man U and Arsenal matches last nite) so I gave him a call and asked him to buy it for me. I then drove to Bedok South and picked Sofian up and we had snacks at KFC Parkway. Poh joined us there, gave me my casing and I wanted to take a look at his new G3 but didnt ask. I thought he might wanna show it to his wife first. Dropped Sofian at VideoEzy then sent Poh home. While talking inside the car at under his block, a taxi pulled over and his wife came out with Joshua sleeping in her arms. He immediately said goodbye and jumped out, running towards her. Married man. With a kid. Something to think about.
Saturday
Reached camp at 730am. And even the reporting booth wasnt setup yet. This is crap. Alpha and Charlie officers started to come about at 8plus, I felt uneasy and went up the auditorium. There were only 3 other people sitting inside. Great. I slouched back in my seat and daydreamt about something. 1 sheep 2 sheep... WO Alagappan came in and began the briefing when the hall was about half full. 845am. Good news, no ICTand no NDP for 583 Guards this year. Some might be selected to support 582's ATEC in Jan 2004. New IPPT system, and mob dates. Yada yada yada. "And gentlemen, the briefing has ended. You may go now." Time on the watch - 9:20am. Wonderful. I had to wake up at 6am on my precious Saturday off and drive from the most east of Singapore to the deadend west (a 40mins journey travelling at 100km/h) and for what? To listen to a 30mins briefing. And the information could have easily been disseminated through mail. Or even email. What am I going to do now?
I popped by at NTU, new buildings coming up, the School of Biogical Sciences, the TechnoPlaza, and some other building I dont recognise. Had breakfast and read the newspaper. The Recruit pages had some interesting job openings. MUST apply. MUST. Left NTU and drove to town. Gym time. Ran, BodyPump with Julian, and right after I showered, I got a SMS from Poh asking me whether I wanna go to the IT show. Sure! Anytime.
Met him and KC later and we went round and round the jam-packed Suntec City halls. Tungsten... drooool. Apple G4... Droooool. Sony VideoCam, Drool droool drooooool. We left at 8pm and met Mervin at Raffles Hospital for dinner. I believe this is the first time all 4 of us sat together and had a proper meal and conversation. I was really really glad Merv and KC seem like they're back on good terms. I hope. We talked about a lot of things, Poh kept saying "I have to go back now" but eventually left with us at about 10. KC sent him back and Merv and me still had time to go for one more cup of tea at Ubi. Excellent Saturday.
Sunday I rushed to Toa Payoh first to pick up my tailored pants before going to BBDC for a repeat of Subject 4 - the figure 8. But I aced it this time. No more problem with the gears, and I was experimenting on ways to clear it faster. I mounted the kerb twice. Hah! I think the instructor saw it, but he still passed me. On to subject 5 on Thursday! Narrow planks and err.. I cant remember. Right after the lesson ended mom called me and told me Aunt wants to treat us to dinner again and can I join them this time? I felt really bad, I did not join for the last 3 dinner appointments, the last one being the time I went to the fish farm with Merv and Audrey. Mom said that Aunt lamented I was becoming arrogant (sombong) for declining her past invitations and that I was becoming "TOOOO" busy. Heck thats the last thing I want her to think about me. I am most grateful for her for helping with my Uni fees. So I gave Merv a call and told him I cant meet him today. Besides, Sofian was also busy, he had to report back to VideoEzy Siglap to look at how Sundays store closing are done. I think they have to print out special weekly reports or something.
We had dinner at Banquet foodcourt at EastPoint. The whole family had chicken rice, I had Ramen. I was expecting she will ask me to accompany her shopping after that, like she always does, but this time she said that 2nd bro can send her home and she's too tired to do any shopping today. So by 7pm I was free again. Called Merv but I think he wasnt very happy with the last minute cancellation. Oh well, I'm sure he'd understand.
I remembered I wanted to buy the casing for my Palm Zire and I know Poh is at the IT show again to buy his PowerShot G3 (he made like a thousand bucks from the Man U and Arsenal matches last nite) so I gave him a call and asked him to buy it for me. I then drove to Bedok South and picked Sofian up and we had snacks at KFC Parkway. Poh joined us there, gave me my casing and I wanted to take a look at his new G3 but didnt ask. I thought he might wanna show it to his wife first. Dropped Sofian at VideoEzy then sent Poh home. While talking inside the car at under his block, a taxi pulled over and his wife came out with Joshua sleeping in her arms. He immediately said goodbye and jumped out, running towards her. Married man. With a kid. Something to think about.
