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This new batch really reminded me of my own batch, being the direct enhanced ippt-silver-and-above batch. but tremendously mischievous. 18 days of confinement indeed put their fires off abit, but come bookout, their spirits soared like nothing before. so did we. wahahhaa...
sometimes we get really bored and nothing to do during our rare free time. most of these times we would be talking and talking and irritating one another, other times just reflecting. tarot cards was also on the house, as we helped ourselves to some tarot reading, courtesy of one of our ex-recruit, now permstaff.
naturally i asked him what was his "verdict" of my character analysis after we analysed a few of our colleagues'. he mentioned that sometimes i would stop myself from moving forward and achieving something when i actually want that something. sixth sense, he said, but i find it quite true.
but why?? is it because im just too passive? or is it i think im not good enough? ponder...
now then, how well do you noe urself? are you sure of what you are doing and where you are heading?
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Then... the parody.
This was after Star Wars, where this young jedi named Anakin Skywalker became known as Darth Vader. So all too familiar. Kinda cheesy too, but there you go. The parody of American Pie, this is "Anakin Guy" =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO7yUpXZA7w
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This one's a song by Don Mclean, an all time classic which was first introduced when i was in pri 4, by this teacher Preston Tan, our then-form teacher. An interesting man, he brought in this song which will be remembered for life. enjoy... the title's American Pie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsZFiMo8TIc
A long, long time ago
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
and I knew if I had my chance
that I could make those people dance
and maybe they'd be happy for a while
but February made me shiver
with every paper I delivered
bad news on the door step
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried
when I read about his widowed bride
but something touched me deep inside
the day, the music, died.
So...
CHORUS
Bye, bye Miss American Pie
drove my Chevy to the levy
but the levy was dry
an them good ol' boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
singin this will be the day that I die
this will be the day that I die.
Did you write the book of love
and do you have faith in God above
if the bible tells you so
now do you believe in rock n' roll
can music save your mortal soul
and can you teach me how to dance real slow?
Well I know that you're in love with him
cuz I saw you dancin in the gym
you both kicked off your shoes
and I did those rhythm and blues... ...
I was a lonely teenage bronkin buck
with a pink carnation and a pick up truck
but I knew I was out of luck,
the day the music died.
I started singin...
Chorus
Now for ten years we've been on our own
and moss grows fat on a rollin stone
but that's not how it used to be
when the jester sang for the king and queen
in a coat he borrowed from James Dean
and a voice that came from you and me
oh and while the king was looking down
the jester stole his thorny crown
the courtroom was adjourned
no verdict was returned
and while Lenin read a book on Marx
the quartet practiced in the park
and we sang dirges in the dark
the day the music died.
We were singin...
Chorus
Helter Skelter in a summer swelter
the birds flew off with a fallout shelter,
eight miles high and fallin fast,
it landed foul on the grass
the players tried for a forward pass
with the jester on the sidelines in a cast
now the half-time air was sweet perfume
while the sergeants played a marching tune
we all got up to dance
oh but we never got the chance
oh as the players tried to take the field
the marching band refused to yield
do you recall what was revealed
the day the music died.
We started singin...
Chorus
Oh and there we were all in one place
a generation lost in space
with no time left to start again
so come on,
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick
Jack Flash sat on a candle stick
cuz fire is the devils only friend
oh and as I watched him on the stage
my hands were clinched in fists of rage
no angel born in hell
could break that satan's spell
and as the planes climbed high into the night
to light the sacrificial rite
I saw satan laughing with delight
the day the music died.
He was singin...
Chorus
I met a girl who sang the blues
and I asked her for some happy news
but she just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store
where I'd heard the music years before
but the man there said the music wouldn't play
and in the streets the children screamed
the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
but not a word was spoken
the church bells all were broken
and the three men I admire most
the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost
they caught the last train for the coast
the day, the music, died
and they were singin...
Chorus
They were singin...
Bye, bye Miss American Pie
drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry
an them good ol' boys were drinkin whiskey and rye
singin this will be the day that I die.
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A definite sense of deja vu.
The start of another new batch, 02/07. Many changes took place in between the 01/07 and 02/07 period, namely the lull period from mid march to mid april. For instance, the insertion of the 41st batch of specialists from sispec and the gruelling training programme which included weapon presentation on the 2nd day(siao eh... how they expect us to finish teaching smart 4, id tag, procedure of drawing arms, wearing of boots, marching, sizing up for the presentation and all the admin work within 2 days?!) By the time we finished the weapon presentation proper, we were really shagged out. Just glad to finish so much within that crammed period. More was to come. Because this is a direct enhanced batch, there were only 9 wks to toggle around with. Time is not on our side this time. Every day seemed like a race, a race to complete what's to be done as well as to instil discipline in the new recruits. Thankfully permstaff do get some privileges like clearing of offs to at least rest at home and yes, update this blog =)
For one, it really reminded me of my own time as a recruit, because we, too, came in under the same circumstances(jc napfa silver and above, 9 wks direct enhancement). Behaviour also the same as us last time, pompous and egoistic. I don't mean all of them, but the general impression was certainly all too familiar. Oh well. They need some brushing up.
okay. getting tired. gotta sleep or else no energy to go out tmr.
jus a quote we all like to say - just shut up and do ur work lah...bodoh...
buaiz...
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Okay... time for another clip. This one's from the movie "Butterfly Effect", one in which touched me deep inside because of its simliarities to my life and why time is such a powerful phenomenon. Ending song's by Oasis, "Stop crying your heart out", absolutely love that song=) A wonderful movie, highly recommended! Enjoy... =)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPssRsMfs5U
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Good Friday!
Okay... 2 more days before i start my confinement... today birthday presents were on the menu, as I went out wif my dear family for a good meal, as well as to pick my gift. Excited sia... finally turning 20. Alas, so unfortunately, that special day is to be spent in camp. Confinement!!!! sianz... but come to think of it, though it is always possible to take off, I'd rather not take just to come out on that day... i think i'd be happier in camp, where all my camp mates are. Gawd, my sis gave me some fake pimple pills, that mean girl. Okay lah... pimples are considered a thing of the past le... but still got abit of scar sia... better go for facial soon.
Oh well. nth to write le. sayonara!
kT
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Hey there =)
Never knew u had a blog. heh. Your blog background is absolutely gorgeous! ^^
By 
cleine, at
April 6, 2007 at 10:39 PM
wahahaaha.. cool blog. i encourage your sis to do that more often.
happie easter
happie belated April fools
By Blursze, at
April 7, 2007 at 11:02 AM
It only seems last week...
02/07 is my 3rd full batch, 4th set of recruits considering the 04/06 leopard batch. How time flies. During the 04/06 period when we just came in as fresh sergeants from sispec aslc, we were still considered "xin jiao" - new birds. Everything we also do, everything we must learn. The bulk of the DI duties fell to us, and field camp was more like a training session for us.
The leopard 04/06 batch, though short (barely a month and a half), was by far the most memorable as it was my very first batch. Looking back, some of the memories still linger, especially the frequent visits to SBL with Jihad and some of the other leopard specs. It was almost like a war, the sergeants were always trying to protect each other's backside from the warrant officers who would dish out punishments for us at any sign of misdeed. I suppose we didn't kena as much only because we weren't permanent specs there. Still, it was one of the better batches as the recruits were motivated ex-poly students with a lot of life. Seeing them progress each day gave me reasons to smile in an otherwise gloomy confined place. Though many would say tekong is the best place to be because of the instructor job, fact is that freedom never seem to appear as prominent in the good points list.
In addition, Leopard pl 3 04/06 had a deep impact on me not only as an instructor, but as a person. My PC, Warrant Lim Chin Yeong (aka yandao lim, aka my mentor, i duno wat else we called him) said this to us at one point of time:
"Only when your personal stuff is settled can you concentrate fully on your work. "
Though it was just a simple sentence without any hidden meaning, fact is that we often mix our personal problems and thoughts with work and let it affect us. Our platoon was just like a family. He was like a godfather, we were like his sons. Any disagreements could be solved easily, if not once he stepped into the picture and put his leg up on the chair in his typical "ah beng" pose we knew we were in for it(haha...not so aggressive la). He was also the one who revitalised that energy into us in army, the urge to do things properly, not because you want to impress upon others or any other motive, but because you really want to do it. im grateful for all that.
Once back in Orion we took the PES C 04/06 batch. My first look at my section and i was like, wow. one was covered in tattoos, one was so round he just reminded me of the smiling buddha back in taiwan, one was already married, and one i even doubted whether he was actually PES C because of his well toned body. 13 guys from all walks of life, from fat to skinny to pai kia to refined, all of them share something similar. all of them has a health problem. i still remember sitting down and asking them one by one to explain to me what on earth their problem was, something so reminiscent of a doctor. as the days passed there were the ever frequent trips to the medical centre, so much so that it became my second home in camp other than my own bunk. attendance was a wee bit complicated given that all of them had a status, and it became pointless to give them status tags if they weren't to become a permanent asset of the no. 4 uniform. field camp (field excursion more like it) was boring, every single day they would go back to bunk and sleep. zZzZz... after 7 weeks they eventually passed out, but not before our heads got big and they got big too owing to their lack of exercise. lol.
01/07 ptp batch came just a few days after 04/06 POP (no rest at all =( ) and confinement again. this time round we didn't have the luxury of lull period, plus the fact that all were jc boys with loads of aspirations. This batch was quite a love-hate batch in my opinion, because on our part the recruits were sometimes just annoying as they can do the stupidest things that we could ever imagine, but yet some were just being funny cocksters that you can't help but laugh. On their part welfare just seemed to be equalvalent to harsh and unreasonable training, given the numerous night PT and the never-ending insulting that we dished relentlessly like a avalanche of bombs on them. Yet, they needed quite lot of "whacking" if they actually wanted to be able to survive in command school. ZUO REN NAN arh...
This was a batch in which i finally decided to discard that "rationale and welfare sergeant" image and play bastard with them. But in the end i realised that it just wasn't natural. it just felt odd being the baddest and unpredictable. It went all the way to irrational and emo (PMS they call it) and it wasn't easy for them as well as for me. Well, towards the end it was just like "another batch passed out". Meaning, half time for us, lull period's approaching. March beckons.
So now, after the so'called lull where we didn't get to enjoy our off and leave properly. sometimes we were at home relaxing, sometimes we were in camp doing outfield urban training. sometimes we were at some course, sometimes we were at chalet without any civilian mood for enjoying. neither here nor there huh. As 10 Apr approaches, the 02/07 batch would be one to look forward to. At the same time, it spells the end of orion pl 3 since 04/06 pes c. Faisal (PS) is clearing his leave and Weibin is moving on to pl 1. In comes Iqbal as PS and new spec Kok Siong. Hopefully pl 3 will keep its culture like before and work together as one. And i suppose it's time to be me again, as being the reel just doesn't seem natural. With that i sign off, with confinement of almost 21 days beckoning. Wah like taiwan sia 21 days... only that $$ wouldn't seem so much of a concern being in camp =) tataz...
---------Always look on the bright side of life - every darkest sky has a shining ray-------------
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hey there! today's a rather serene and peaceful day and i don't really have much to write. so here's a clip that i wish to share, it's a music video from final fantasy x, one of my favs =) enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIV2qCtI61E
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Ego - good or bad?/The only constant in life is change...
Everything in this world needs a balance. You can't do without it, yet too much of it stirs negative vibes. A very good example would be the human ego. Ego often associates itself with the male, as males normally portray themselves as the stronger(at least physically) sex, even though with the rise of feminism the female also starts to show their female ego in recent years. Many would feel that being egoistic is something negative, not socially accepted and detested because it is just so annoying you don't want to have anything to do with it. But yet, without any ego, one wouldn't have any "character" at all.
More often than not we get angry or upset because something or someone has touched that sensitive button of ours - our ego. We feel threatened, which in turn causes us to be on the defensive and say or do things that are not accepted by others. But here's the weird part: We might be ego towards some people, but yet not so towards others, and for somepeople, being egoistic might just be non-existant. Why? Simply because of the level of threat. A former egoistic bodoh, my ego was crushed, renewed and crushed again in the space of 2 years(by many people la, including my sis, haha...). Confidence also fluctuated like the stock market, unpredictable like the wind. Then came NS, where it served as a place to escape from all my worries and troubles. Facing it seemed an inevitability, especially when i was posted back to tekong as an instructor. Now, I'm just numb. Sian of all that ego talk, outwitting of others just to get that so called pride in the hands and waving them like a crazy lunatic who is so self absorbed in his mirage of victory.
In a place filled with guys, it is little wonder how army boys/men can tahan the egoistic nature of the alpha males day in day out. I'm just glad I've walked out of it.
For many, army serves as a perfect recluse to escape from all their troubles, as mentioned above(including me). As we serve our 2 year term, changes take place all the time, not to mention things in the civilian world. Within a yr our juniors have finished their As, 8 months into NS and our female classmates and frens have moved on to university, and not to forget the ever constant gossipping of who's together with whom and broken up. I suppose we as NSFs often desire to keep up with all the changes, but then again when the training programme comes out groans and grumbles fill the saddened heart especially when confinement beckons.
More importantly, people come and go in our lives. Our best buddies(no matter how close or permanent) in pri, sec, tertiary sch, gf/bf or ex(s), once they step out of your radius of close contact, they will drift further apart once they have found their next radius of contacts. Sometimes the rapport will still be there after many years. Sometimes it might just disappear in a matter of weeks. What's important is that we do cherish the people around us and keep a place for them in some corner of our hearts and mind when they're gone. Letting go might be difficult, but to me it's like a new lease of life, a new beginning in a minor way.
Gawd. Too serious le. Duno why but today seem abit lacking of inspiration(or should it be energy) to blog. lolx. neway just made a new spec today... sick of the black and white/frameless spec that looks 25 yr old on me. BUT... a sudden realisation dawned on me... I'm broke!!! Bodoh... money spend like drinking water sia. if only letting away water helps replenish the amount of money in my bank account, I'd gladly go for perspiration sessions or urinate the whole day.
-Balance the ego to have a balanced state of mind-
signing off,
kT=)
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Sinful or xing fu?
Eating is a blessing. But for young people like us whose vanity matches that of a peacock, eating too much can cause an unnecessary amount of distress. Hai. Just look at the plate of pork chop rice and walnut paste makes u real tempted to break your duck and forget about the numerous calories beneath the aroma. Sucks. How many crunches and leg raises would it take to get rid of those excess pot belly lard?
Sidetraking abit, life can be made much simpler if we din have that complicated brain of ours. Associations, assumptions and anticipations (wow, 3 As) often make us rethink our options time and time again, causing great sacrificial rites of brain cells just to make up our minds. what a farce. lesson learnt: just do, don't think so much. time doesn't stop to wait for you to make up your mind. hmm...doesn't it sound familiar? how long does it actually take to get that message into that stubborn mind of mine?
=)kT - jian dan jiu shi mei -the beauty of simplicity
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hey kT, u've got a blog le :) haha.. yea i kinda agree with your 3A's. Actually most of the time our emotions are holding us back from making timely decisions. In fact emotions rein in our daily functionings in all realms of our soul. And sometimes i really do hope that i can be more rationale in life, wielding greater authority over my emotions... thats really a daunting task leh.
By -clong-, at
April 2, 2007 at 11:46 PM
A new month, a new beginning!
Yay...7 more months to ORD! Happy april's fool day(i did it on purpose)
my first post here...duno wat to say actually...kinda shagged out becuz of the ever frequent booking in and out of tekong. looking ahead, this month isn't very friendly... 8 apr cos, 9 apr enlistment duty, 10 apr intake, all the way till 27 apr book out. and 27 apr happens to be another cos day. gawd. sometimes i wish i had a 8-to-5 job in ns. lol wishful thinking huh.
the recruits of 01/07 who went to sispec jus msg-ed me today... all the "wah training very xiong" "wah sian im doing complex guard duty on good fri" comments seem so deja vu. back in my early sispec days i don't remember being so negative about training siaz. i somehow thought that sispec was quite spacious and better in the sense that we were at least in mainland singapore. sometimes it's ironic ya. the recruits come into tekong, with the "i want to become an officer/specialist" mindset and wayang/work so hard just to get there. and when they do, they complain and complain. haha... oh well. my time has passed.
ns is certainly a memorable experience...2 yrs in there and even though we might say it's such a waste of time doing many shit jobs, fact is we'll have grown and matured. not to mention that the 2 yr buffer period often allows us to sit down and think about our past and mend the mistakes in our character so as to make ourselves better people when we come out. im grateful for that.
do u believe that we all get second chances? after a period in mid-march, i certainly believe so. volleyball seldom seemed fun back in secondary sch ya... given that horrid PMS-ing temper of mine and that ever so perfectionist style that often got me into trouble (yes, so very unfortunately), and it's kinda sad that i din actually get to really enjoy the game back then. but back in mid-march i actually got a chance to play competitive vball again, this time for 9 div infantry. though it's more like a recreational competition, fact is it's jus so familiar. the squeaking sounds of sport shoes as players jostle for best positions to place their spikes, the firm long blows of the whistle signalling for the serving player to make his move...all these reek of those days back in sec sch(though the unbearable smell of the knee guards could well be forgotten). it was then i really enjoyed the game and played like i've never played before.
my new year's resolution came abit too late, i guess... but summing it up,
1. no vulgarities(even to recruits, not to mention civilian life)
2.no PMS-ing (don't want to start it again)
3. and for gawd's sake, dun be MO75!
laggy system often produces laggy results. gone are the days of hesitating and procrastination. let the passive side fade away... only to come back when breaks and rests are in dire need. the positive vibes shall fill the arena, dispelling all unfriendly emotions to the abyss... the future is now.
=) kT
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