27 February 2010

Wow! it has been quite some time since I wrote an entry. The last time I wrote was a month before I went to serve in SCDF. Now, only a few more day to - POP oh! With the monday off, due to participation on an event on sunday, it will shorten the time.

So far life as a recruit has been fun. Get to know new friends. Lose some weight. I will be missing life as a recruit. Now, I'm only worry about what vocation I will be getting. Hopefully I will posted to medic, which is my personal 2nd choice, as my first choice was far out of reach.

And thanks to all the Instructors for all the things they have done.

02 November 2009

Well..*sigh* I have got what I wanted. Enlisting into SCDF on 8 December. Have been looking up for infos, you know things I need to know about serving NS in SCDF. And found out a lot of its advantages. So, just looking forward to go through it in the best way.

Wow...Have been locking myself at home since Hari Raya(except to work every few days). Really need to get myself out, maybe watch movie. Some thing I have not done since forever( Hmm what is the current box office hits). And yeah have been reading the Twilight Saga since I found out New Moon is hitting the cinema. And thank God it will be before my enlistment, which is on the 2 Dec (yup, close shave). And sometimes I wonder is'nt it great to have the time and the MONEY. This is one of the reason I've been looking forward to get into NS ASAP. And the irregular sleeping hours is also just making me sick. I miss studying, the stress and datelines. Atleast these things set a routine to my life. And this reminds me of another thing.

I have been hearing some inside scoop about studying in University. Life threatening!! I have heard from a friend who's studying the course that I will be doing, that he/she is not coping well with her study. To the extent of dropping out! I was like , "It's that bad?!" He/she - I believe - has the same capability as me. This is giving me 2nd thought about continuing my study. Not to mention my long long forsaken plan on gaining first honour. But I can't back out now. Everyone like in the whole wide world know about my placement in NTU. For first time in my life I care about face - what others think of my achievement. Urgh. I guess I have to work extra hard.

That is all for now. Anyone want to hang out?

20 September 2009

Well, need to do some dusting of this blog space. Nothing(literally) much has been going on really. First and foremost, goodbye to the month of Ramadhan may we meet again next year and Selamat Hari Raya to all. Yes, again I would like to rant about my NS, something that has been bugging me since FOREVER. Well life is short, 6 months do sounds like forever, unless you are talking about the life of a star where eternal means nothing. Back to topic, after waiting and hoping for the letter bearing the enlisment date for so long, I had decided to call the NS helpdesk. After my first question the operator asked me to hold on for a sec and I heard the rattling sound of the keyboard. Whether or not she did it with purpose I did not know, she could be feigning efficiency. She came back to me, "The ESTIMATION of you enlistment date would be around December". How convenient of her. That's like the only possilibity. I don't need her to tell me that. It's is already late September and I should only receive my enlistment notice 2 months prior to my enlisment(and i've not). I am supposed to start my NS by this year, unless their unefficiency could push my enlistment date to next year(when that happen I will have to kill someone).

That's all for now, hopefully will be able to key in the next entry in the nearest future.

13 May 2009

Well a few random things has been going on in my life. But, at the end of the day it comes down to nothing.

Lets start with something that concerns me the most, which is regarding my NS enlistment. Most of my coursemates that I have known of had received their enlisment letters, which tell their enlistment dates, which will be in June . This makes make me wonder, if I did not receive the letter, its mean that my enlistment is on the later batch - could be as late as November. So..I decided to send an email to CMPB to enquire them on this. Again. (I had emailed them somewhere in March but was unreplied).

The email came back with an apologise of course, and also saying that my enlistment period would be in Sept '09 - Dec '09. Ridiculous! I could have got myself a full-time job and bagged 2 months worth of pay. So now I have to kick start to job hunting mode, since I have like 4-7 months of waiting to do. Four months of commitment may not be enough to convince the employer. But I can't stay idle for another 4 months - and that is like best case. I am already having a pimple outbreak. Continue idling till the end of the year, I'll be breaking a guinness record - world's heaviest man. Time to send out my resume..

26 April 2009

Watched 17 AGAIN. Well just turned legally 21. Maybe I don't wish I'm 17 again at the moment. But trust me I'm on my way there. At first I thought the movie plot was rather expected, about a guy who turns 17 again and try to relive his past. Maybe due to bad editting of the trailers which did not show the good part of the show, simply put that it was not well publicised(eventhough the movie was featured in AI). Therefore at first I was a bit unsure about watching this movie , but I'm glad I did.

Thanks to the character Ned Gold who perks the movie up. He is such a geek but a rich one on top of that and he knows how to indulge, for once I saw the good thing in being a geek. Well I did'nt know that there was actually an elf language, I guess LOTR fans must have come out with an official one. Oh ya, Ned found someone he likes(the principal) and they clicked so well that they actually speak elf.

Zac Efron may not appear to be a comedy material but he was good, eventhough there was no singing involved. All in all the movie was fun to watch and it had given me a good laugh.

18 April 2009

Bad and Good news

On Mon, 13th April the first thing I heard in the morning was "Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilaih Rojiun!". What? Could it be my uncle who was admitted to the hospital. If it's him, then I'm feeling guilty for not coming along with my mother to visit him on the day before. But no. It's actually a call from Pulau Ubin telling that my grandmother was dying(nazak). It's kind of impossible because she was live, well and kicking. She just visited my uncle on saturday. Another half an hour, a call confirmed her departure. Wow! Still unable to digest the previous news, and this! We all get ready in a jiffy and get there ASAP.

This was the second sudden death since 5 years ago and I have since avoided going for funerals. She may not be a grandmother who you can get spoilt with, but she was the only grandparent I had eversince I can remeber. May Allah bless her.

The good news may come a bit late, but hey good things are meant to be shared. I received a letter on Thur, 16th April from NTU. I have been accepted for direct entry to year 2 of EEE (find out yourself what it means) course. But of course that will be in 2011 when I have completed NS. BTW what is CMPB doing, I have been waiting for my enlistment date since forever. Argghh! When will it be. I'm bored.

12 April 2009

I have watched Confession of a Shopaholic(still have the ticket stub in my jacket's pocket)!!

There was a change of plan. I have decided to watch the movie first instead of reading the book. The reason for this was because, I did not want to set a high expectation for the movie by reading the book beforehand. A storybook based movie will never be as good as the book itself (do not underestimate the power of words and of course novels tend to have lots of monologue which makes it hard to interpret into the movie)

It is so like Sophie Kinsella to write a story like this. How someone can ended up in the most unexpecting situation. Somehow the lead actress reminded me of Anna Faris from House Bunny, etc. So now I am looking for the book. Any kind soul out there able to lend me the book?0_0