Birthday, Graduation & BBQ

Been more than a month since I last blogged. Ha.. Let's start with the bday gathering I had with the 'gang'.


17th October 2008

Still rmbr that I was supposed to meet Li, Jun they all for dinner first. BUT left HTA damn late due to the rehearsals for my squad(C4/2007)'s Passing Out Parade and the Graduation Dinner. Yes! Dinner also must rehearse ok.. Ha..

Left HTA almost 8pm! Headed for a quick dinner with my parents and relatives before my Uncle drove me down to Somerset to meet them. We had our gathering at this open-air place called Bali House. Quite a nice place, especially for smokers since you can smoke there.. hahhaa... Among those who turned up, think didn't see Selene and Dewei for the longest! more than a yr I guess.. and these 2 are the ones always squabbling.. LOL.

Here're some of the pictures :D



Top L-R: Dewei, Dollyn, Lili, Jun, Wei An
Seated L-R: Janny, Myself, Selene

and oh ya.. the seated ones are the bday babies, though all on different dates but all on October.. ha.. and we are all wearing black. Coincidence? Janny is Dollyn's cousin btw


Janny, Myself, Selene together with the 3 cakes the guys bought!

The Fair and the TANNED



Lesbian Couple of the Day.

Haha..

Rest of the pics for the day:

24th October 2008

The BIG day arrives!!! All of us were worried as it rained from the day before ALL THE WAY till this BIG day!! The parade will be cancelled if the rain is too heavy. All of us were all worried as we don't want all our efforts to go down the drain! We want to perform for the crowd! God knows the countless times we had rehearsed for the parade! Luckily, the sky cleared up and it was all sunny by the time the parade was about to start :)


Me and my Roommate of 11 months before the Parade


Our Parade


The parade formed up
Parade Commander: Julius
Guard-of-Honour Commander: Myself
Guard-of-Honour Assistant Commander: Azan, also my roommate for the 11 months of course.. haha.





Waiting for the arrival of the Guest-of-Honour


The Parade Inspection



Award Winners







Me and Rogin
Proudly receiving the Sword of Merit from the VIP :)


Returning the Swords so that we can march back into the Parade


My Sword of Merit


The March Pass
I've made our March Pass into a video.. :D

For those who can't spot me, here're a few pics LOL


I'm leading the 1st batch of GOH. Holding the sword, just behind the Parade Commander





A closer view


After the Parade, I had little time to talk to my family and friends as we had to rush back to our room to change into our Tux for the Graduation Dinner. Only managed to snap a few photos with my family :)


Family








Taken before the Dinner commenced.

The Dinner commences, and I had to give a speech on behalf of the SPF officers, together with Kartika who represented RBPF. Duno how fast my heartbeat was.. ha.. and that's after i rehearsed countless times on the same stage, same rustum! Did screw up a little.. but whatever.. it's over :D


Me giving the speech, with Kartika behind. The Hall was very dimly lit.. and there's the dim picture. Ha..

The dinner food kinda 'buey jia', meaning not nice to eat :( Think that's the last time they gonna get that caterer.



After the dinner, snapped a few more pictures and off I brought my parents to the room which I stayed for 11 months. After that, Home Sweet Home after the long and tiring, but proud and eventful day :D You guys can view the rest of my pictures in Facebook.


26th October 2008


Bade farewell to my dear Brunei buddies whom I spent the memorable 11 months with. All the best in your future endeavours!!

At Changi Airport


30th October 2008

Many thanks to KX for organising this BBQ at her place!

I will be posted to 'J' Division as an IO. Am attached to there for the current week and I can already sense the heat of the work there, especially when we have to make critical decisions on the ground. On 3 weeks leave after this week, I'm quite free and don't think I'm going anywhere, maybe only to Msia with my parents for 3-4 days.
So can ask me out huh.. hahaha..

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Meeting up with Jun, Li, Selene, Ann tml.
Mike Bro's ROM on 22nd Nov.
SAJC 2s7 2000 Gathering on the 28th Nov.
Stand Chart Run on 7th Dec.
Sasa's wedding on 8th Dec.
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Leadership Training in Nepal

feel free to take a look at this slideshow... though not all the pics are inside.. :P

Wala Wala, Acid Bar with Dollyn & Gang

Woot! Redid my blog!! Din realise blogger has an advanced way of setting up and designing your blog till now! wahhaha.. been exploring with the widgets the whole noon! and I just did my lasik last fri! so off with my specs!! :D

Went to wala wala last thurs with Dollyn, Eileen, Kaing, Heng, Winston and MJ!! Not all the photos are up yet though but I just collate the ones we have! ha..

Went to Acid Bar on Tues night with Dollyn, Jun and Doll's cousin Janny.. hmmmmm.. din drive there and luckily i din drive there!! my night vision is not that good for the time being and it rained cats and dogs!

Still exploring and playing ard with my blog................

more arrows flying at me!! now have to give a speech on my grad dinner!!

but i think of it as a chance for me to perform.. shall do my best! can't wait for my POP man!! Damn excited about it! will be wearing my number 1 uniform, carrying a sword as the contingent commander!! get excited just thinking abt it!

so disappointed that so many good friends of mine are unable to attend cos the POP date falls on a weekday, and most of them are committed to their jobs.. =\

what i want now is a simple life with an Extraordinary Career.. is it that tough to achieve....................................?

Hi Everyone! I'm back after a 3 week training stint in Nepal!

Most of you must be thinking that.. "wa.. so shiok! can go Nepal!! Somemore all-paid trip!" ha.. but you guys never see the "dark" side of our training yet lehz and the conditions which we had to go through.. ha.. this 6-week leadership training program(3 weeks in Singapore and 3 weeks in Nepal)really tested our physical and mental resilience.. and I've gotten more tanned as most ppl said.. ha.. hard to imagine right.. for those who have known me for quite awhile should know that I hardly get tanned even under the sun.. ha..

As most of you have a facebook account, I've uploaded most of the photos there.. here's the link to it...

http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=52693&id=610425799

For those without facebook.. erm.. i will try to think of something.. ha..

We climbed numerous steps, battled with battalions of resilient leeches and sweated like a dog! For me i tend to sweat more even more jialat haha.. still remember that on the very first day of the trek we encountered so many leeches! Luckily I'm skillful enough to fend them off.. ha.. but still kana 2 small bites cos I slipped a few times during the slippery trek and they managed to get onto my hand. No leech bites on my legs though :P and for those who think that wearing thick clothings or socks can fend them off right, save the trouble.. they bite through them! hahaha..

Caught a chill high up in the mountains when it's only like 8 degrees during the day? ha.. recovered a few days later but it was really tiring and i was panting profusely while climbing and trekking around the Annapurna Circuit. Phew~ I will tell you all more details when I have the chance to meet up with you guys!

Arrived back at Singapore on 13th Sep Saturday night! Guess who's the first person to greet me?? Ha.. my niece!! came running towards me with a small box of mooncakes for me.. ha.. so nice, sweet and cute! Missed her so much.. and of cos my parents too. Thanks sis and chris for bringing Chloe to the airport! Missed HW alot while I was there too.. At first hoped to see her at the Airport but in the end told her not to come cos it will be quite awkward for her too.. met her later in the night after returning to Singapore :)

I expected myself to be totally burnt out and to be sleeping and resting at home for the next few days which I am on off. Turns out I'm still ok! so unlike myself! ha.. maybe it's because i slept quite abit during the few days of R&R at Pokhara and Kathmandu.. dun really like kathmandu although it's the capital of Nepal. so messy, dusty and yeeeark!! For those who wish to visit Nepal I will advise u to avoid Kathmandu. Just stop by there for a transit to other areas where u can trek and enjoy the mountains and the wonderful scenery over there.

End up I went out the whole of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday! ha.. finally returned to Tracom on Wed morning and I'm blogging now in camp.. On Sunday, acc HW to buy her phone together with Kat. So qiao to know that Kat knows one of my friends who is a teacher too.. ha.. the world is so small and we are all connected in some way or another.. End up HW bought her phone through STshop and was very lucky to have got it at a cheaper price cos the phone's price at the online STshop shot up the next day! I find ST pricing for phones is very messy. The prices are different at a Road Show, the Singtel Shop and the online Singtelshop! So confusing for consumers. They should do sth abt it. ha..

Managed to visit my ex colleagues at MOE. Good to see them doing well and glad that so many ppl still remember me! ha.. Oh ya.. and I went for a pre-Lasik evaluation on Monday morning. hmm.. ya.. i'm going to do lasik.. this pair of specs is proving too much of a hindrance to my job.. find it a total hindrance esp when i was in Nepal for training! Caught a 2 hr 40 min classic movie called "The Banishment". After the show I have alot of doubts and curiosity about the content in the show. Leaves us guessing how the events are interlinked to each other. Hopefully the Director can shed some light soon.

Back at Tracom, back to training. Got chosen to be the Guard Of Honour Contingent Commander for our Passing Out Parade. Woo.. First time I'm doing this though I did alot of drill b4 last time in the Boys' Brigade. But nothing so prominent and high profile as this one! Hope I will train and do well! For my dear friends who wish to attend the parade, please inform me asap so that I can book a seat for u! ha.. come support me!! =P

To all readers and my dearest friends

I will be flying off for my leadership training in Nepal tml!! Tues morning flight.. will be back on 13th Sept night.. c u my dear friends soon!!

Hi guys, I will be going to Nepal from 26th August to 13th Sept

There're a few things which I wanna do when I come back from Nepal.. The top priority will be to free myself from spectacles for life.. ;) The rest I think i will reveal slowly hahaah..

Congrats to bro lay khim!! hope your husband and you a blissful and happy marriage!! will attend your wedding on 20th Sep.. Just nice I come back from Nepal liao =D