Lights Out!! Leo's one and only blog

...I can get posted out and back to OCS for infantry training to then convert to Guards. Just asked S1 for the form to apply for regular absorption. Please, please god get me out of ETI asap, I really cannot take the monotonous drudgery of being a combat engineer because I'm a very combat orientated soldier. Action's in my blood. Action and action alone... I hate clearing the path/building a bridge/creating a path etc. just to see people off to all the action.

Saw Jiva at army market while getting my stuff for Brunei and found out to my horror that they're starting heliborne ops!!! What the hell! I wanna do that!! That's waay too fun!! And the last exercise, ex-panther! Heliborne ops to a landing zone, then coastal hook and finally fibua!!! All in 1 exercise!!! Just the type of exercise I wanna be the exercise PC of!! Tell you, field appointments are the best you'll ever have. In addition to learning, getting f***ed by instructors and having fun, you really feel a sense of accomplishment at the end of a mission and an overall sense of well being knowing you did your best! Also, I met Tianle who is now a Commando sergeant. Talking to him rubbed salt to the wound because on top of the cdos going to taiwan during cslc(commando section leader course) he told me to sign on as a commando officer! But alas, I'll most probably be confined to bridge building(which sucks!)...

Went to Holy Spirit Church for x'mas mass and a TK sleepover at Basil's place. On the way there, saw a group of young girls talking amusing stuff. The one that made an impression on me goes like this: What's the difference between a man who falls from the 4th and 40th floor? The man who falls from the 4th floor will *makes a thud sound* and AHHHHHH!!! The man who falls from the 40th floor will AHHHHHHHH!!! *then makes the thud sound* haha. That very same girl was also the cutest and sweetest girl in the group and during the journey we kept exchanging glances but I did not make any move even though all her friends left long before her stop because come on, she's like only 15 or16. If she is 17 or 18, I say! Confirm ask for her number wan! So, when she finally alighted from the train at amk, she turned around and looked at me the last time but before I could smile at her, she turned back. Alamak, should've made a move. 16 nevermind lah, can start as friends, then tutor(maybe? aiyah, close friends but not too close) and see where we can go from there... 17 then make a move haha...

Anyway, back to the TK x'mas. After mass, we went to Basil's place and his parents got indian food for us. Then we exchanged presents. I got a adidas perfume from our clan leader, TK Chew. TK chew wanted the biggest present which turned out to be a mug(by the little pervert) and he was not very happy about it haha but it was the biggest present wat... Soo lim(little pervert) got aftershave from Basil who got "Thank you"(merci, pronounced, mehr-see) chocs from Augustine, Bradley got the picard keychain holder by yours truely I cant' remember what Brad and Augustine got already haha... The Absolute Vodka I took no matter how little(only 2 cups lah, mixed somemore!) did it's job in erasing some of my memory! But before the end of the TK x'mas, our perfidious clan leader had to chabot minutes after he got his present! PERFIDY!!!! PERFIDY I SAY!!!!! HAHA anyway, at the end of the sleepover at Basil's place, Basil was kind enough to send all of us back to the step of our houses via his Ford "mustang"!

On x'mas day, went for a TS meet up! This time for dinner at swensen's. Our leader, DONkey was late! Just because one of us said that she would be late he assumed that everyone was late and when I reached out meeting point, he messaged me that everyone is late making me walk around till I met Xiong Di who was there together with her BF, Amy and Steph. Our initial plan was to go around orchard in costumes and sing x'mas carols outside swensen's before and after we had dinner. Don was santa, Piggy was the snowman(woman), Steph was the x'mas gift, Mun was the reindeer, Amy would be the elve and I was the x'mas tree! Whatever became of our plan Don? So, during the course of dinner we had our gift exchange, Xiong Di got the "Drama Queen" cup I bought, I inturn got the box of chocs from her(good, I could bring them to camp and makan them whenever I am hungry which is like everytime!). Don's gift was the BIGGEST. One very big but light box and Amelia got it, opened it to find that it was the SAF shoe box that contained a micro sized waterbottle! Mun got condom sized sweets, Don got facial products and I for got about the rest... effects of vodka was still there hehe... So after dinner we went to my usual bar(read my back posts) but this time the service attitude of the staff was BAD... imagine your waitress saying to you that you have to pay a fixed amount of drinks like this: "it's only $200, we're not asking you to pay $500 right?". That was the final straw, we stormed outta there and went to TCC where we had a much better albeit cold time with a waiter who asked: "do you want iced water or cold water?", believe me the temp was really cold there even though I was wearing my(thick) sweater.

Wow, I haven't typed such a long blog entry for such a long time already! But so what? yesterday was Angel's B'day! Happy 21st gal! Went to her place with my 2 sisters. My younger sis who is 5 was so excited she called me when I was in orchard getting this Volkswagon beetle model I've been eyeing for quite some time saying: "Gor gor, I dress up so nice already. I dun wan to wait for u, jie jie and I take taxi and go without you!". She seemed to excited but even before she reached Angel's place, she cried in the elevator saying she missed mummy when my elder sis and I told her that she had to wish Angel happy birthday... Haiyo. So what to do? I sent my mei mei home and went back to Angel's place lor. So we had a countdown at Angel's place and then her husband popped the sparkling drinks and we wished everyone happy new year even though I felt like it was still the same as last year but heck lah, must have the spirit! The old year has passed and in comes the new with new things to surprise us with!

And finally yes, hopefully I get posted back to OCS to continue infantry training... To all my friends and readers, Have a great and meaningful new year this 2006!