3 more days to book out day!
this is damn unexpected, but due to certain circumstances, i am still in tekong, but have gotten access to the computer, and with it, the essential internet.
in summation:
1. i am now out of training. OOT, as i am known by. but not out of tekong, unfortunately :( my back problem is getting worse with every load i lug or lift. but anyway its been given to me the following exemptions-no running, marching, jumping, heavy loads for 4 weeks. so i'm in smart 4 every day.
2. my bunkmates are nice people.
3. i got into a warrant company. hence, its the sergeants who get much of the rap when anything goes wrong. recruits are fairly absolved from blame.
4. i am sometimes known by a few friendly sergeants as the COS(company orderly sergeant) cos i can take on all his responsibilities fairly well. HAHA. and recruits call me sergeant cos i'm at the window. and i'm as kao bei as the COS's themselves. lol.
5. i'm growing fat.
6. i'm going to the medical officer once every few days.
7. i get to charge my phone, but both the batteries my mom gave me are faulty and hence this point is irrelevant
8. i have played advance wars on the office computer with the sergeants, or at least have played, and acted as a tactician to a few of them cos all of them can't play it well.
9. i get to bring all the extra night snacks to my bunk mates, and as i prepared sufficient food before enlisting, i have quite a bit of diversions to get me by this coming-to 2 weeks
10. i spend most of my time reading, eating, going to toilets, talking cock, waiting to see the Medical Officers, explaining to people how i am NOT a chao keng, listening to people whining, waiting(for no specific reason), and getting scolded on behalf of the OOTs while i actually do the most work the most efficiently!!!FUCKKKKKKKKKK
11. i have gone outfield before, to the oil palm plantation on a commanders' course. (actually, as the OOT i was dispatched to man the water point for the master sergeants and the like.
12. i have gone back to the mainland!!!! once to the terminal to carry stuff. another to the discovery centre. its totally boring and not worth the visit, but the journey to and fro gave lots of time off from point number 10, and gave me extra time to sleep. so its actually a good deal.
13. i have seen less than 10 women LOL
14. i go around entertaining people by telling what the sergeants do always. such as "our most stern-faced platoon sergeant was trying to repeatedly feed potion to a full health pokemon....."(cos there's a gameboy emulator on the office comp located in D:/confidential/do not open/games/..) wahahaha
15. i'm getting the hang of the necessary skills in ns. delegating and relegating responsibilities, being seen at the right places at the right time, stealth, evasion, power play, making use of people who think they are making use of you(its symbiotic to the people who are being used actually), hooking up with the right people, etc etc. even backstabbing. the fellow OOTs do this quite often too. but they aren't as good at politics i guess. they are good at slacking and evasion and leaving others to mop up their mess. they are just a bunch of fuckers. and the reason why i want to get my vocation asap. most probably i'll get it by next week. and then i'll be out of tekong,95% chance. kenneth warned me about ns. i guess its real. i trust no one and everyone's to be treated as they deserve(usually like an asshole).
that's it for now. i guess only my sis and si min will be able to keep me sane for this period of time. i really miss them both :(
"plak!";
x 8:32 am
slipped disc!
gym with jian qi in the morning. killed my back. good job, herrick.
went to aj to chat with ms zhu with jian qi and bel and charlene. ms zhu is hotter than ever! she is getting prettier and prettier by the day! and got suaned terribly by mdm ng. as usual, its amusing to them that im a geog teacher. lol. totally no correspondence. we chatted for like 4 hours?!!! yeah, its good seeing our dear beloved pretty geog teacher again!!!!
at night went out with the lao jiao. cw wl jq ht . ter going in 3 weeks later. let the pictures do the talking!
I'M GONNA MISS YOU, HAIR! i'm gonna miss my best friend! and all my other classmates and friends!!! take care sis. and please dun mess up my darling computer while i'm gone, dun lease all my games to them and leave me with minesweeper when i come back. no downloading of funny stuff please..only i know how to handle them and i certainly dun want to spend my precious weekends solving them...and mum please dun message me everyday thinking i'll get bullied
i'll be back in two weeks! off to my offshore island resort, all-expenses paid for. free flow of drink. haha. eat less, drink more. i love fruit punch and cordial!!!! i hate food!!!
"plak!";
x 1:07 am
sausage-eating, beer-swilling Imperial pudding-heads hah!
my sis is still whining about why i always deserve better treatment, dun care about this and that etc. i dun actively pursue a policy of demoralise-and-destroy, but if there's ever such a thing, chances are, its self-inflicted. but why? if she had studied harder for psle at least, she probably would be talking the same language as me(not as in english/chinese). if only you had studied harder..there wouldn't be this rift..no perceived superiority/inferiority gap. Even you know there's such a thing in society. but hey, at least i'm not accentuating it. at least not to you. be grateful. i'm just leading my life..just rather different from my other cousins, different from you. i didn't want it that way. it just happened. not my fault that never looked through the poly courses and skipped right to the jc pages. think if this way, if everyone were in poly and u were in jc you'd think everyone despises you for *insert jc negative portrayal* too...life is never to be balanced..but everyone gets time to grow up..i still am too..and stop asking why i got all the good genes. as far as i see it, neither of my parents have any such good or smart genes so dun blame me for absconding with all of them..everyone has like the same number of chromosomes..you wouldn't want to have extra..you'd instead be stupid. hardly about genetics in these things. even good looks are rarely passed down. it's really not my fault i went to jc. i know i'm different, but it's not my fault!!!!!!!!!!zzzzzz--------
on a lighter note, enlistment's this friday, the 16th of march. notice, *lighter note*. i'm about to lose my freedom as a civilian, and yet the confinement is strangely liberating. i'm about to get away from it all..on most days of the week. my attitude ought to change. when i am faced with physical demands, i'd say, "what could be worse than aj hockey training!" and when faced with mentally challenging tasks, i'd say, "what could be worse than 'A' levels!" and when faced with emotional turmoil, i'd say,"what could be worse than the breakup!" in a way its a healthy sense of oblivion and imperviousness i have regarding the world around me.
anyway i roughly know what to tell the medical officer on friday already(this is the full expanded damn long-winded edition, i will size it down as necessary) :
As you can see from both copies of the memo, my back pathology is more severe than is listed on official documentation, which classifies me under a PES B, with only slight mention of a lower back pain. However, it goes far deeper than that. Why this would be so is the fact that I have lost a great deal of flexibility and sudden erratic movements will cause a whole lot of pain to shoot down mylower right back and into my right leg, resulting in a profound numbing and piercing sensation, which is always an unwelcome experience. Not only that, but my back has been unable to cope with heavy loads, regardless of whether the initial posture for lifting the load is correct or not. The numbing and piercing sensation would usually start the next morning following prolonged stresses on my back, which can be just a mere 5 kg over a couple of hours. the pain usually lasts three days, but it is not uncommon to have it extended. Hence, with these symptoms, i set about inquiring about my condition. Although the causes of back pain are elusive as my specialist has informed me, I do believe it is due to my previous period of intense hockey training, of which tensile stresses are set up along the back muscles and backbone. regardless, the orthopaedist,neurologist and physiotherapist has determined that the one course i should take now is to request for a magnetic resonance imaging to be done up following an initial investigation. This is so, as I have a suspected slipped disc, and all other methods of diagnosis are either currently unavailable, or that there simply is little way to find out other than through the mri, of which i can ill afford on my own expense. (and now, the one phrase i have to sink into that guy's head)
It has been more than half a year and my condition is deteriorating. Apparently, the nerve bundle adjacent to the spine which runs down the spinal cord is being pressurised by an extrusion of the alleged slipped disc, the severe cases of which would lead to PERMANENT PARALYSIS. Hence you would not want to mess with me, and think i'm a fucking chao keng. You won't want to be held responsible for anything untoward, not to my parents.
anyway wee liang just told me the commanders are usually from poly so they wun understand what the heck i'm talking about. that's the good thing about the army. lol. but as long as they get intimidated.
im bringing my parents along to see the MO. and kenneth's going with me too. he'll ensure the MO is gonna piss in his pants. hah. if not for this dumb back ailment, i'd be more than happy thrashing everyone in running, sprinting, pull-ups etc. come on, we're all napfa failures. but at least i have gold for all stations except the sucky big jump. and i've a total of 25 points!!!WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK and with my back i can't even get a pass for sit and reach anymore. its depressing. i used to reach 50 plus cm. touch my toes. touch the floor with my palm. force my forehead onto my knee...too much taunting of my classmates and i finally get retribution. sigh.
really, only one picture can describe the feeling:
"plak!";
x 3:31 am
arrownage
oh alas! my turn comes in a matter of days, say three. the privileged life brakes to a halt, only to be replaced with that of toil and turmoil. anyway, to 'induce' me into the mood, i got this game which totally rocked, and puts me into the mood. medieval 2: total war, puts you in the seat of the one man controlling one of the varied factions. don't be fooled by the short/long campaign differences:a typical 'short' campaign WILL take at least a week for the casual gamer, and at most three days for one who plays about 12 hours a day! i've already finished with the English short campaign by conquering Scotland and France, but it's no walkover-the Papacy constantly intervenes. There was a point where my mortal enemies-the French, and the Imperials(Holy Roman Empire=Germans) dragged on an endless war, not only a military, and also a diplomatic war-ceasefire and declare war, rinse and repeat until done. The half-assed thing about this is that, they had allied with the Papacy, and had my faction excommunicated. Now the mad thing about being excommunicted by the Pope is that the Inquisition will then take place. In the game, all the Inquisitors do are to root out and exterminate your governors/generals all because they are not pious. In fact, they leave you murmuring the words 'unfair' and pump up lots of blood to your eyeballs. Hence, the Papal States, while not possessing the full territorial powers of empires, actually does have a very annoying and undeniable form of lowly existence. War is that cheap. Hah, anyway here are some screenshots. 1. enemy army being flanked on its right, so good day. 2. sign of the cross-let's take it as a homage to the whole lot of religious elements in the game. 3. arrownage. a hail of arrows on a fleeing soldier(at least he was before i took the screenshot). i noticed he had a headshot too. good game, i say. I have seen more, but failed to take related scenarios, such as the whole cavalry unit charging down on the sole swordsman etc..it just makes me laugh maniacally...the best thing is that you get to capture prisoners. I wanted my generals to build on their dread level, so i unswervingly had them summarily executed all at once, instead of ransoming them. i was even happier when i saw the royalty member on the top of the list, himself being worth 1000 florins in ransom, which in itself can buy you a fleet of quality warships already. of course i was glad to have him rest in my prisoners' camp, at my pleasure. i'd mouse over the execute button several times to hear all their pleas for mercy. Regardless, i know the last i heard from them was a painful death throe. and it makes me lol. (rhymes)
"plak!";
x 2:50 am
if world war II had been an online real-time strategy game..
The chat room traffic would have gone something like this.
*Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.*
*Eisenhower has joined the game.*
*paTTon has joined the game.*
*Churchill has joined the game.*
*benny-tow has joined the game.*
*T0J0 has joined the game.*
*Roosevelt has joined the game.*
*Stalin has joined the game.*
*deGaulle has joined the game.*
Roosevelt: hey sup
T0J0: y0
Stalin: hi
Churchill: hi
Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks!
paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks
T0JO: lol
Roosevelt: o this fockin sucks i got a depression!
benny-tow: haha america sux
Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool?
Hitler[AoE]; sure whatever
Stalin: cool
deGaulle: **** Hitler rushed some1 help
Hitler[AoE]: lol byebye frenchy
Roosevelt: i dont got **** to help, sry
Churchill: wtf the luftwaffle is attacking me
Roosevelt: get antiair guns
Churchill: i cant afford them
benny-tow: u n00bs know what team talk is?
paTTon: stfu
Roosevelt: o yah hit the navajo button guys
deGaulle: eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick
Eisenhower: i cant do **** til rosevelt gives me an army
paTTon: yah hurry the fock up
Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded
deGaulle: this is fockin weak u guys suck
*deGaulle has left the game.*
Roosevelt: im gonna attack the axis k?
benny-tow: with what? ur wheelchair?
benny-tow: lol did u mess up ur legs AND ur head?
Hitler[AoE]: ROFLMAO
T0J0: lol o no america im comin 4 u
Roosevelt: wtf! thats bullsh1t u $#%s im gunna kick ur asses
T0JO: not without ur harbors u wont! lol
Roosevelt: u little biotch ill get u
Hitler[AoE]: wtf
Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge fockin army
Hitler[AoE]: thats bullsh1t u hacker
Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler
Hitler[AoE]: tojo help me!
T0J0: wtf u want me to do, im on the other side of the world retard
Hitler[AoE]: fine ill clear you a path
Stalin: WTF u arsshoel! WE HAD A FoCKIN TRUCE
Hitler[AoE]: i changed my mind lol
benny-tow: haha
benny-tow: hey ur losing ur guys in africa im gonna need help in italy soon sum1
T0J0: o **** i cant help u i got my hands full
Hitler[AoE]: im 2 busy 2 help
Roosevelt: yah thats right ***** im comin for ya
Stalin: church help me
Churchill: like u helped me before? sure ill just sit here
Stalin: dont be an arss
Churchill: dont be a commie. oops too late
Eisenhower: LOL
benny-tow: hahahh oh sh1t help
Hitler: o man ur focked
paTTon: oh what now biotch
Roosevelt: whos the cripple now lol
*benny-tow has been eliminated.*
benny-tow: lame
Roosevelt: gj patton
paTTon: thnx
Hitler[AoE]: WTF eisenhower hax hes killing all my sh1t
Hitler[AoE]: quit u hacker so u dont ruin my record
Eisenhower: Nuts!
benny~tow: wtf that mean?
Eisenhower: meant to say nutsack lol finger slipped
paTTon: coming to get u hitler u paper hanging hun #$%@socker
Stalin: rofl
T0J0: HAHAHHAA
Hitler[AoE]: u guys are fockin gay
Hitler[AoE]: ur never getting in my city
*Hitler[AoE] has been eliminated.*
benny~tow: OMG u noob you killed yourself
Eisenhower: ROFLOLOLOL
Stalin: OMG LMAO!
Hitler[AoE]: WTF i didnt click there omg this game blows
*Hitler[AoE] has left the game*
paTTon: hahahhah
T0J0: WTF my teammates are n00bs
benny~tow: shut up noob
Roosevelt: haha wut a moron
paTTon: wtf am i gunna do now?
Eisenhower: yah me too
T0J0: why dont u attack me o thats right u dont got no ships lololol
Eisenhower: fock u
paTTon: lemme go thru ur base commie
Stalin: go to hell lol
paTTon: fock this sh1t im goin afk
Eisenhower: yah this is gay
*Roosevelt has left the game.*
Hitler[AoE]: wtf?
Eisenhower: sh1t now we need some1 to join
*tru_m4n has joined the game.*
tru_m4n: hi all
T0J0: hey
Stalin: sup
Churchill: hi
tru_m4n: OMG OMG OMG i got all his stuff!
tru_m4n: NUKES! HOLY **** I GOT NUKES
Stalin: d00d gimmie some plz
tru_m4n: no way i only got like a couple
Stalin: omg dont be gay gimmie nuculer secrets
T0J0: wtf is nukes?
T0J0: holy ****holy****hoyl****!
*T0J0 has been eliminated.*
*The Allied team has won the game!*
Eisenhower: awesome!
Churchill: gg noobs no re
T0J0: thats bull**** u fockin suck
*T0J0 has left the game.*
*Eisenhower has left the game.*
Stalin: next game im not going to be on ur team, u guys didnt help me for ****
Churchill: wutever, we didnt need ur help neway dumbarss
tru_m4n: l8r all
benny~tow: bye
Churchill: l8r
Stalin: fock u all
tru_m4n: shut up commie lol
*tru_m4n has left the game.*
benny~tow: lololol u commie
Churchill: ROFL
Churchill: bye commie
*Churchill has left the game.*
*benny~tow has left the game.*
Stalin: i hate u all $#%s
*Stalin has left the game.*
paTTon: lol no1 is left
paTTon: weeeee i got a jeep
*paTTon has been eliminated.*
paTTon: o sh1t!
*paTTon has left the game.*
for those who dun know historya simple disclaimer for you..
benny-tow=benito mussolini,italian dictator, generalissimo
roosevelt left the game. he died of natural causes during the war.
hitler left the game cos he lodged a bullet in his head, effectively crumbling the wehrmacht.
stalin wasn't in the same team in the next game, he was on opposing team. the map was called cold war-domination in the nuclear-armed world
and patton got on a jeep and left the game? right after the war, he had a real unfortunate accident while on a military jeep. his neck snapped i think.
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A LEVELS OUT. SIGH.
okay i'm never gonna study history again...geography i'm coming for you! looks like my relief teaching now is indeed an excellent experience prematurely gained..its ending soon, too bad. i enjoyed it for the most part of it. geography cum english teacher. why not? i'm happy doing what i'm doing now. i wouldn't mind if i'd to do it for a substantially greater part of my life. with a D in economics, i know i'm never cut out for business already. waved goodbye to the financial world. and as pledged, never to do history as a subject again. i had thought i'd do worse, but still, affinity ends there. as for geography, bringing back a B would let my students continue to see that i'm qualified to teach them. same goes for my gp, a decent b3. at least i won't have mandatory english modules to take. im considering doing english language and sociology as well. psychology may be popular, but the a few main modules hardly appeal to me. i really hope i can get into nus fass with my barely can-do grades. if i can't get in, then i wun know how to console other friends already. i'm somewhere in between the good and the bad. the uncomfortable tension. the awkward silence. the nobody's child. the vagabond.
caught in the stasis.
"plak!";
x 9:48 pm
not much smarter actually..
A blonde woman was really struggling with the jigsaw she's trying to complete, so she decided to phone her boyfriend.
"Hi Bradley, I'm doing this jigsaw but I just can't work out where to start."
"Have you looked for the corners?"
"yes, I can't find them!"
"Are you using the picture on the box to help you?"
The blonde is now getting really distressed.
"Yes, Yes, Ive got the box in front of me, it's a tiger! i don't know what I'm doing wrong!!!"
"Okay, I'll come over and we'll see if we can do it together."
When Bradley gets to his girlfriend's house, she welcomes him and leads him into the living room, she's explaining that all the pieces looks the same. He takes her by her hand and leads her to the sofa to sit her down.
He says, "Darling, I'm going to make us a cup of coffee and then we'll put the Frosties back into the box."
"plak!";
x 9:46 pm
