Saturday, June 26, 2004
I just received 3 mails: 2 snail mails and 1 email.
All three are useless.
Mail 1 was read with a little excitement initially. Apparantly, i got selected for the interview for the post of pilot in the air force! Of course, i'd decided long ago that i'll prefer to stay in Commandos, but i spent a few minutes mulling over how nice (and profitable) it'll be to be a pilot. Then i realised i'm already bonded to SIA cause of the scholarship, so there's no way i can join the air force and sign on. (anyway, who the heck would wanna sell their life away to the stupid SAF? hee.. sorry regulars and would-be regulars, thats the way i feel) Dang! so dreams of being a pilot would just have to remain as that: dreams.
Mail 2 was from the NS insurance company telling me they'd deduct money from my account. Okkkaaayyy.. wasnt that in the contract already? why do they waste money and paper telling us this sort of thing?
Email 3 was a rejection letter from the Firefly scholarship board. Notice that it comes like 2.5 months after my (slightly disastrous) final interview with the "im a bastard and im short" EDB chairman and his crazy committee (including the Toshiba chairman who doesnt understand a word of english). Notice that they addressed it as "Dear Applicant" instead of "Dear Mr Yeo". Notice that they dont realise they wasted my 4 months comprising of 5 rounds of gruelling interviews and stress from booking out multiple times from camp. Ahhhh.. who cares..
I'm an SIA Scholar.
so SCREW YOU EDB. Hah!
When i make it big in SIA, i shall ban that shorty EDB chairman from all my flights, so he'll never be able to take a holiday!! hahahaah!
Ok, ok, was kidding. Im not a spiteful person.
he rocked the party at 1:59 AM |
Sunday, June 20, 2004
Why has everyone received letters to ask them to collect their A Level certs from college and i havent?
Maybe they want to frame it up or something...ahahah
Give me my cert dammit!
he rocked the party at 2:06 AM |
Two weeks into the 47th Commando Section Leader Course and i've:
-Had the toughest PT in the world
-Done "one for Leaders!" when doing push ups.
-For the first time, eaten instant noodles, pringles, peanuts, oreos, mamee and other snacks in the bunk.
-Failed 5km Standard Obstacle Course for the first time in my life. (By 21 seconds, dammit!)
-Passed 7km Standard Obstacle Course for the first time in my life (By 2 mins! whoohoo!)
-Realised how much physics one has to do in operations (did you know that setting up a drop zone site involes the calculation of three physics formulae?)
-Thrown a smoke grenade for the first time.
-Maintained comms with a Super Puma helicoptor pilot to guide him to land.
-Set up a helicoptor landing site.
-FLEW IN A SUPER PUMA HELICOPTOR! Fantastic feeling.
-Been able to call and say goodnight to chienling in bed almost every night.
-Had one nights' out (as compared to SIX for the boatmen.. grr)
-Carried and squeezed more load in my field pack then i ever thought possible. (and i thought squeezing 10 pack items + combat rations for BMT was impossible)
-Had the most slack of slack water parades (drinking a sip and walking back to the bunk)
-Gained respect for a couple of people from other platoons who are so good, so fit, so skilled, and so helpful that its no surprise that they are leaders.
-Been pissed off with a LOT of people whom i seriously doubt would become leaders if they were in platoon 8. Seriously. I never knew i could be so pissed at people. The world is full of bastards.
-Because of the presence of these people, am considering the fact that OCS may be a possibility after all. (But then again, do i really want to? 13 years of reservist training is a big turn off)
-And of course, like everyone else, received news that my ORD has been reduced to two months earlier!! ORD loh!!
Its an experience being in the toughest vocation in the toughest unit in the army. Its a long 11 weeks to attaining our sergeant rank, during which there will be seven weeks of outfield, three of which will be spent in Taiwan! Crap. I dunno how im gonna survive.
And its weird how sometimes i feel that i love being in Commandos despite the challenges, maybe its because of the pride and honour and all, but at other times i hate the friggin place so much i wreck my brain thinking of ways to downgrade.
A paradox indeed. Ah, i just hope ORD will come soon. Another.. 600 more days in the army?
he rocked the party at 1:30 AM |
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
I'm down with a humongous stupendous splitting headache, and an irritatingly slight fever. I hate this. I feel well enough to go out for a movie (on this lovely sunny Vesak Day holiday too!) but not well enough that i'll know i'll fall super sick after the movie.
Just like yesterday.. grr. So irritating. Woke up yesterday feeling the same as today, knowing i was sick but not THAT sick. Considered the factors:
1)Battalion outing is a waste of time
2)But i'll get to meet up with my platoon buddies, some of whom i wont get to see for the next 3 months.
3)I was platoon i/c for yesterday
4)Will get to know all our vocations! So exciting!
5)Will get to see my lovely lady after the outing
6)Have to submit cheer lyrics to OC sir.
7)I'm sick.
8)I'm not THAT sick.
9)How streneous can a day at the beach be?
So off i trooped down to East Coast Park for a day of fun, sun, and laughter. Big mistake. By last night, my head was throbbing so badly it felt like there was an alien inside trying to get out.. -roar!!-
I had a 38.0 degree temperature, couldnt walk properly, and played the worst game of pool in my life.
And they didnt even announce the vocations yesterday! Grr. But i already know mine la, a mole managed to sneak a peek at the list for me. Ahahaha. But i shant say it yet. Shhhhhh..
So now, im stuck at home, having eaten half a loaf of bread, room in a mess, rejected 5 groups of people's offers to go out on this lovely sunny Vesak Day.. -scowl- But i have no choice... i HAVE to recover by today, cause i shall be embarking on my 35km route march tomorrow night! Crap, and im in no condition to do that now... Very exciting, the march is gonna end at changi beach, where we'll get presented with our Corporal stripe. Finally, something to wear on my sleeve! Hahah!
Something to cheer me up when im stuck at home.. an amble downstairs to look for breakfast made me come across this letter of good news:
Dear Lionel,
Congratulations!
It is my pleasure to inform you that you have been selected as the recipient of the following award(s):
Leong Jee Award
Meritorious Award
Jacob Ballas Scholar's Award for five distinctions
The award(s) will be presented on our 27th College Day which will be held on Friday, 9 July 2004 at 5.30pm in the Loke Cheng Kim Hall.
Please accept our congratulations for being the 24th Leong Jee Awardee for St Andrew's Junior College. Your name will be inscribed on the board in the Loke Cheng Kim Hall.
Woaahh..so cool right? I've never received multiple awards on the same day before. And i'll get to zhao army for one more day! -grin- Hope i wont be in Taiwan or something at that time. Guess I'm just a sick winner. -grin-
he rocked the party at 9:35 PM |
