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USP O-week was one of the most laidback camps that I've ever attended. There were only about 40-50 freshmen attending the overnight program as the majority chose to attend their faculty / hall orientation week(If SOW wasn't fully subscribed I would've hopped over as well). The majority of the freshies who attended the O-week did not attend the FOC held in July. This means that I've got to know

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It has been a rather long time since my last article for I've been held up by a number of time-consuming events for the past fortnight. First of all, this is my first article following my 21st birthday which fell on the nineteenth of July! Frankly speaking, I still do not feel twenty-one even thought it has been more than a week ever since my birthday. The next two weeks is going to be a busy

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Yes peers, I'm suffering from July Blues right now. What does "July Blues" first mean to me? My faithful readers will first know that this month is my birthday month! The "Blues" come in as I realise that I am indeed getting older and older each day. Birthday celebrations may be a fun thing and a useful tool of maintaining friendships, birthdays also means increased responsibilities. For example,

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I'm now typing this article from the very privacy of USP's Computer Room. Noone's around cos' it's the lull period for USP as no modules are conducted right here. Yes, this is the first week of Special Term Part II and I am so totally relieved to have survived my hellish six weeks completing my two USP modules. This probably explains why I have not updated this blog cos' I was so stressed up and

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Check out the right sidebar below for Photos of the two field trips that I took for both my Nationalism and Biodiversity modules respectively. Enjoy!Second Field Trip to Tiong Bahru and Macritchie Treetop Walk coming this Friday and Saturday respectively, so it's going to more pictures rollin' in......And wish me luck for my upcoming projects... haizzz..And lastly, WELCOME HOME, SU HUI!!!

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Starting your undergraduate life early as a "Year Zero" is considered unorthodox from a NSMen's point of view.Starting your undergraduate life after two years of hiatus from the academic world is considered a daunting task.Starting your undergraduate life to realise that your female junior is now your university senior is humiliating.Starting your undergraduate life in NUS's University Scholars

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I'm now blogging from NUS Central Library's Computer Centre. (Yes. I didn't want to bog myself down with a heavy notebook yeh.) So the first day has been quite a slow but good start to undergraduate life right here. I got to know six other RNSmen as well as the scholars' club committee and senior management. This included a very nice reunion with Lynnette, my fellow TJ-mate who is now the Welfare

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Amidst the heavy shower came many ants scurrying towards Yusof Ishak House. These ants were fresh soldier ants ready on a new mission. They were going there to be commissioned as "mugger ants", emblazoned with an orange beret and a set of "scholarly" clothes in exchange for their worn-out green camouflage uniforms. They received an orange-white ID card... they were now university students...Yes..

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Yes.... Finally.... It took me a long time to search for a blogskin that would reflect my personality changes especially when university is just fifteen days away for me. I apologise for the long hiatus, as writers' block; computer hangouts and sustained fatigue arising from work destroys any inspiration for me to write something meaningful.First of all, allow me to explain the choice of blogskin

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I'm back....The CNY trip to KL was good with lots of food and the catch-ups with my cousins and relatives. It was not as demented as what I had initially expected but it was well coupled with the good food and good shows on TV (yes. Astro.) The food over here in Malaysia would make we Singaporeans feel that the food we have back home is as good as "rabbit food".By the way, we also played around

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First of all I'd like to inform my readers that I've been unfortunately too busy in various household stuff in preparation for the Lunar New Year. Yes, I actually intended to write a sequel to the earlier article to describe my 'demented' feelings that happened the fast few weeks but......I'm spending my CNY again in KL with my maternal relatives and I'm leaving tomorrow morning! At this hour my

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It has been an interesting weekend as I spent my Saturday night attending Michael Tan's 21st birthday celebrations. It was basically more of a talk-cock cum makan session as Michael forced most of the guests into some "saturated" bonding within their own cliques. (As Nelson puts it, the guests are treated like unwanted rubbish.) Hence, I treated the birthday celebrations like a reunion session

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It has been a busy Friday (as compared to a rather laidback week) and here I am blogging at library@orchard. Yes, I've a huge affection for libraries since it is the place I can both read and surf the internet at the same time. I'm badly broke today because I spent my money on presents for my mother and Michael Tan's birthday. Michael's birthday celebrations is tomorrow and I miss him very dearly

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I'm now making use of the Wireless@SG service at the Marine Parade Community Library. It's quite a cool relief from the hot sun, which has been a nice relief from the long weekend's worth of heavy rains and floods in Thomson.Went back to Chung Cheng last Saturday to meet up with my juniors in the band. They were having a reflection session on last year's concert (Variants III) where each section

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I just received my Compaq Presario Laptop just this afternoon and this is the very first blog post to be written with this laptop. I'm very excited of the prospects of being connected wherever I am. I often tell my close friends of mine that blogging requires a level of inspiration similar to that required of a writer of a book, a poet, an artist, a musical composer and so on. Anything out there

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The year 2006 closes with the headline that Saddam Hussein was hanged by his fellow Iraqis the day before one of Islam's holiest day (which we in Singapore know as Hari Raya Haji or Eid al-Adha, the day of Sacrifice), and the his last few hours was filmed in video to the very end for the world to see. In addition, this year closes on a significantly high point where the world acknowledge the

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It's Christmas Eve today and it's the only REAL day that I really can write an article undisturbed by anyone out there. You might be wondering why this errant blogger here took such a looong hiatus despite having ORD-ed a fortnight ago. Well this blogger had a hangover over his ORD, a band concert (two days after his ORD), sore throat and hibernating in his mum's salon, only getting to reach at

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It has been a week ever since I started my ORD leave. Some of you may jokingly call it the "Civilian Conversion Course" and I would agree to a large extent. I realised that I've alot of things to do as part of transiting from a NSF to a NSman (or anyway, civilian!). The Band Concert is nearing (10 Dec) and so is my ORD (9 Dec). In addition, the Christmas season means the splurging on clothes and

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The North-East Monsoon kicked off on the Muslim holy day of Adil Fitri as we finally get to breathe in some fresh and good air following the harrowing haze. I see this as a prospective sign where I am going to enter a new phase of my life. As I'm writing this article I'm currently listening to Phillip Sparke's Hanover Festival. My secondary school band performed this piece for their SYF 2003 and

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The haze this evening is showing signs of improvement even though it has been making me rather irritated for the past few weeks. My nose has been irritating me as I find myself blowing my nose for nothing! White, gross mucus, with no signs of infection nor signs of improvement. Somehow this reminds me of the days I was stuck at home back in 1997 when Singapore faced its worst haze crisis. I ever

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The past two weeks has been rather monotonous for me despite the voracious change in events in the global front. The coup in Thailand made my mother shelve a CNY 2007 trip to Bangkok, doing so on the grounds that the military government is 'unpredictable' and that horrible things could happen beyond one's control. Somehow the coup is somewhat a necessary evil to help Thailand shape up its shaky

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Project VARIANTS... yes it sounds like a codename to some MINDEF classified project or plan but rest assured it's not. It's the codename to symbolize the transitionary period of my life from that of a conscript to that of a civilian. Some people call it the "CCC" (or Civilian Conversion Course). However, I choose to codename my transition to the word "Variants". Why do I use the word "Variants"?

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I took the opportunity to witness the Istana's Changing of Guards Ceremony which took place yesterday evening, and hence decided to take a couple of pictures of it. I could have taken more photos but I was limited by the small size of my memory card. In addition, I was filled with some excitement when I found certains portions of the cermony intriguing, which explains why certain photos are

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The weather has been very erratic these days that it has rendered a couple of my colleagues and superiors down with flu, myself included. My nose is quite red and runny right now (argh), in which one of my colleagues was quite proud in acknowledging himself as the superspreader. My colleagues and I actually found ourselves taking medical leave at times that my warrant taught there we were in some

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I have not been in much of a blogging mood (again, thanks to Maplestory and lethargy following a hard day's work) and somehow when I logged in into blogger I realised that I have yet to write my 200th entry after almost two and a half years into blogging. In addition, I realised that I had just celebrated my twentieth birthday! Back in the Commando Formation, the Battalion Boys are all wearing

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I have not been blogging very frequently (sigh) again for I find myself exhausting my legs all around to walk around one of my favourite haunts again. The scorching Sunday afternoon(the usual July summer) did not deter the crowd from piling the pavements and parks. Nevertheless, the typical Singaporean mentality of pursuing the "aircon" environment translates into packed shopping centres. It's a

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This weekend has been one of the hottest weekends ever.... While I'm sweating at home writing this article, I believe that the cinemas, shopping centres and swimming pools would be crowded at this moment. And of course, an overdue article for Suhui. I attended an a cappella concert with Qiong Hui, Kelvin, Wanhui, Shiqi, Yvonne (Suhui's sec sch friend) and her boyfriend Danis. It was held last

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The fact that I've not been blogging frequently (again!) means another thing: I'm busy with my own life. I was busy with Suhui's a capella concert last night. Last Saturday, I was kept occupied with a band reunion in Chung Cheng. I got to meet a significant number of old friends that I'm feeling very nostalagic for the past two weeks. I found myself humming old band tunes out of the blue while

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I just discovered something v interesting. zeligv. to become exceptional."Frank, I really need to zelig." If you want something similar for yourself, click this link. I guess my readers would strongly believe that the above-mentioned explanation describes my personality to a large extent. Thanks to the incessant rain, my mother's shopping plan was been postponed indefintely. This also explains

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I've not updated this blog for a long time for I've not been in the mood to write recently. A couple of interesting things did happen but I just did not know how to construct them into a cohesive story, let alone to attract the attention of the reader. However, I then looked at my calendar today and I realised that I was starting the clock to countdown my ORD in half a year's time. I wonder how

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I've not been blogging for quite a long time. First of all, I was waiting for the James Gomez issue to clear up before I make some comments about the recently conluded election. Secondly, I have been heavily addicted to Maplestory. Anyway, please do not ask me how I fare in this RPG cos' I'd rather keep a low profile. I think too much Map-ling will take away my precious time for blogging and some

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I have not been in the mood to blog these few days. First of all, I’m leaving for Penang tomorrow to attend my cousin’s wedding dinner. I’d be away till Tuesday, which is indeed a great break from the hectic office life. The election fever has been catching up my mind, but I ever wonder if we are legally allowed to make comments or opinions about the ongoing election campaign. It is indeed a pity

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As the election date ticks nearer and nearer, I have a spoiler warning for fans of 大长今 who are wondering what would happen in the next week (if you have been following the show every weekday at 10pm, Channel U), let me tell you this. The upcoming scandal to hit 长今 and 韩尚宫 is known as the 'Sulphur Duck incident'. Here, the Choi family capitalised on this to chase their opponents out, as I make

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The exchange of conversations between Qiong Hui and Yi Jian was quite a surprise for me, yet it did add a bit of life to my blog. Thanks for the inputs anyway. Speaking of the clash between the study and the practice of a subject, let's say politics, Yi Jian has this to say:well think of it this way. Studying is a zero-sum game. You get only so many hours a day reading and studying, if you divide

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I didn't know that my latest post actually prompted Yi Jian to persuade me to join NUS's Arts Faculty. Well, may I then add that one does not need to join NUS's FASS or to study politics to have some intellectual insight into politics. You just need to have an inquiring and passionate mind. After all, if you look at the educational profiles of our politicians, 99% of them did not study politics

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The week has been rather a tense one for me. It has been rather hectic, especially when my office is shifting to a new location. Sorting through the classified documents has been a mammoth task, let alone shredding much of the archives in my office. I've seen directives and doctrine which were produced before I was even born. It is of good riddance that we destroyed them all, as I joked with my

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The dry spell in Singapore has been unbearable these few days. The Science journal has just published a paper saying that the sea levels has been rising at a rate faster than what scientists have expected. Somehow one would wonder whether humans can really stop the flow of such a potential natural disaster of a scale in which one is unable to control. Anyway, the heat is rising on. The endless

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My mind is currently in a rather confused state. I spend a rather monotonous Saturday in my camp. You might ask that being a weekend duty clerk is rather a blessing cos' you are allowed to eat, sleep, watch TV and play internet games without getting scolded by your duty officer. However, I beg to differ. I spent the whole day destroying the 'archives' of my office for my branch is going to move

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It has been a long time ever since I've updated my blog. Yes. I realised that I do not have time to blog especially when I've so many personal matters and tribulations to settle on my own. This has to do with my future, beyond NS, beyond uni, beyond life. Anyway, the weeks which saw the end of Febuary till now has been very fiery for me. I felt somehow very 'affected' by the events taking place

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I cannot believe that the government is bribing me now. Yes. As a NSF I get $100, and my parents might get $800 or $600, I don't know. I could remember then PM Goh annoucing the implementation of the New Singapore Shares where money was handed out to everyone as a small token to cope with the recession of 2001. However, the last thing Singaporeans was to expect that an election was to be held in

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I'm listening to a march tune playing on Symphony 92.4FM.... apparently I just few very marchy thanks to that tune.... I just love classical music cos it often allows me to listen to music that flows with my changing emotions... And next right now is a nice little serenade which makes feel like going down to the gardens to smell the flowers. It is such a pity that I do not have a girlfriend cos'

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I'm rather busy right now, but I do have something to share with you. See the latest addition in my photos section? This is the first among a couple of pictures I took during my CNY trip to Malaysia. P/S: It's time to act naughty and mischievous..... It was fun taking these pictures and my relatives enjoyed viewing them. Hope you do so as well....

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I watched a NTU hall production last night with some of my former TJC 33/03 friends. The name of the play was "Mixed Signals", written by the reowned Singaporean playwright Michael Chiang, who was made famous by two plays, being "Beauty World" and "Army Daze". It was held in the comforts of Victoria Theatre, a theatre which I have never patrionised even though I ever visited the adjoining

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It seems that alot of people do read my blog. If you see my last post below, I told you all that I would not be available by mobile when I was in Malaysia. Anyway, I was quite surprised that no one send me a CNY greeting by means of SMS. It means two things to me: Have my friends secretly read my blog and hence understood that sending greetings to me would be pointless since I won't be able to

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Dear readers,I'll be away in Malaysia from tomorrow, Friday 27 Jan to Tues 31 Jan. This coming Lunar New Year will be spent in the comforts away from the hectic island of Singapore with my maternal relatives. This is especially more so when one of my aunts is hosting the entire family for the first time in her new home. Basically, it's going to be an interesting way for me to start the year of

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Yesterday was a rather great day for me. I found myself rather lucky that I did not get to meet any familiar friends whereever I went, and for once, I really appreciated the sheer solace while I went on with my work. Anyway, I took a few pics from my Nokia 6020 to highlight what I was doing. (Yes, I know the pictures are damn small) I took a train from my Mum's salon in nearby Orchard to the

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Dear readers, I intend to let this flooble chattlebox on your right shut off by itself, considering that you all rather be ‘silent readers’. That’s rather weird for a blog of a rather popular person and for a blog where one has many readers, regardless of whether they identify themselves or not. I’ll let the comments tab (run by Haloscan) continue on, in which I would expect my faithful readers

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Hey everyone! This is my first post for the year 2006. Frankly speaking, the year started rather on a busy note. Yes, the beginning of the year is always hectic as one starts to pick up the momentum to strive towards fulfilling one’s goals and responsibilities. I’m not going to go into some serious writing this time, but what I envision for myself for this year will be like last year, which was a

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My second instalment of Ominous Thoughts right here, which deals on issues affecting myself on a more personal front. As the year passes by, I see myself taking a new identity, a new self and more importantly, a new personality. The transition from civilian to soldier had a significant impact on my life. It was the first year of my life spent away from the comforts of school and books. I no

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I cannot believe that this blog is already two years old. Well I cannot believe that I have spent one year in the military, which is equivalent to a year away from the comforts of school. I cannot believe that I’m stoning here writing this article here, courtesy of the SAF leave policy that tentatively forces servicemen like myself to clear 14 days by today. With this, my first year in the army

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This week has been a hectic week for me. I found myself in the thick of the greens of Marsiling. What exactly was a clerk doing out there in a place where his job scope does not require him to be in? Yep, it's chiong sua time for the commanders as well as for the troops of my own brethen. Unfortunately, I happened to be the cameraman. Yes, the dreaded paparazzi. The illuminating moonlight in the

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Frankly speaking, I really do not know what to talk about right now. The days of leave that I have been spending has caused my mind to vegetate, for I do not bother to do serious thinking compared to my old JC days. Perhaps, like what Albert Einstein has said, Imagination is more important than thinking. Hence, I find myself in my own dreamworld. I find myself studying the history of myself. (

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The long weekend is going to be extended for another day cos’ I have to clear my leave right now. The leave policy that affected the NSFs of my batch are technically causing problems for many of us. I even have friends who are going to get their leave forfeited! All in the name of ‘operational readiness’. If it is that so, then I wonder why Mindef didn’t consider this problem when they reduced

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Big brother has responded to my article. There is a reason why I wrote to the Straits Times. There is a reason why I risk being disciplined by doing so. Unfortunately, this is the kind of standard reply you always get from a civil servant. You attend a 'straight talk' session, you hust them over the same issue, and you'll still get the same standard reply. As usual, a governmental reply will tend

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I think some of my sharp-eyed friends and colleagues of mine would have read this today. Yes, this is not my first time I've written to the Straits Times, but I was really surprised that they really decided to publish it. This is my first article that got published in a public newspaper. As usual, any person whose letter gets published in any newspaper has to accept the fact that their letter

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MSN Messenger seem to be taking some time away from my blogging regime. MSN allowed me to check out old friends whom I’ve not have the chance to meet face-to-face. As a result, the things I tend to discuss on this blog tend to end up being tackled at MSN Messenger. A very good example is that of France’s Civil Disobedience. We found ourselves comparing the less-educated logisticians of the SAF to

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A/N: Qiong Hui, we'll never know if Mrs Lim ever reads blogs. She admitted that she read the online forums to find out the general sentiments of TJCians about the college as well as their opinions to various issues. Just to tell you something, if you peer through one of Megan's old posts in her blog, you'd realise that she mentioned my OOC from BMT a few days after I annouced it here. When I

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BOOM!!! CAT 1! CAT 1!Jump cancelled!KNN! Scarely I tio ART* then how? CB lah!! *ART = Airborne Refresher Course. Regular Commandos whose jump currency has expired half a year after their last jump will have to go for this course, should they fail to furnish a valid reason (eg. Medical, Overseas assigment) for not being able to keep their jump status current.I think today is the wettest day in the

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Honestly speaking, I'm really suffering from writers' block. I have been thinking alot, yet when I attempt to put it on paper (or rather, on this screen), it's the problem of phrasing. The news has been reporting alot of stuff that has been engaging my mind. Firstly, the botched-up attempt of Warwick University's expansion of Singapore has been a joke to me. They cite 'Lack of Academic Freedom'

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Reading the newspapers seem to be a bad thing for me. It has been painting a very pessimistic outlook of the world. It seem as though Armaggeddon is coming nearer and nearer. Global warming combined with a massive flu pandemic. Who knows what's next... A megaearthquake? A megatsunami? A nuclear holocaust (US vs China)? The drying of the oil wells? Sometimes I feel that the end is near, and it is

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One week in Hendon following my holiday has been okay, for my superiors are away on a classified exercise which basically left me stoning and playing games in my office. While they were in their PBH (Planning before hostilities), I myself was in my PBH as well. Blog-hopping and viewing of Friendster profiles of my peers is something I take fancy with. I am in fact intending to set aside a weekend

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You know what? We all can be our own spies now. Just go on to Google Maps and lo and behold, you can have a detailed satellite view of the entire Earth! This is giving the world's intelligence agencies the biggest fear they can ever have. In the case of Singapore, the map is remarkably clear and sophiscated for a civilian organization which is doing the mapping. However, if you compare Google's

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It has been a boring saturday for me.... as the juniors are immersed in the fire of their examinations, and here I am feeling lonely cos' no one's out there to keep me company... Well, I must tell my faithful readers that the pictures you'll see are just a few snippets of my trip to Malaysia. And unlike you all, don't expect to see the typical bright lights that I frequently see in travel blogs..

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I'm back...... All I can say that time flies so damn fast.... and I'm so damn tired....Well... photos will come later, and so will the commentary... Stay tuned....

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In approximately three hours’ time, I’ll be flying off. It has been a relief for me to take a week’s long break from the confines of the army. It just makes me wonder years later, when we are all working, how are we going to plan our holidays as a family, as a self, or as a group? I nearly didn’t get to go because my superior was rather reluctant to let me go, with the usual excuse that any

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This week, I really have nothing to talk about. Hurricane Rita was thankfully not as wrathful as we all expected, but at least we do not see the "Ugly American" that we law saw during Katrina. However, the sad thing that we still saw during Rita was the piling of highways with thousands of cars, where the people had to brave the sweltering heat while being stranded on the highway. Perhaps the

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The PM has spoken. He had his voice made known as well. He said that the government would use all means to clamp down on all seditious comments in Singapore’s blogosphere. Now we bloggers write in fear. I have the feeling that policemen will come marching to my house and arrest me. So, it is no wonder why multiple charges are made against the three bloggers as an individual. I’m wondering how

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Things just seem to simmer by as we see another gruesome body-parts case as well as bloggers hauled up to court over racist remarks made in their blogs. If you ask me what I feel about this incident, I would just say that in the real world, free speech is a utopian ideal. The other three estates have often tainted the sanctity of the Fourth Estate, and this is indeed a sad reality. This incident

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Hey everyone….. I didn’t know that Hurricane Katrina sought of attracted readers like you to make such ‘contentious’ responses. At least it dispels my thought that army or university sought of make everyone apathetic of such crises. By the way, look at the front page of the The Economist. That says it all about my previous article. Well Dan, can you say that the people were not warned? Unlike 9/

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Hey there….. This is my first post using Microsoft Word as a proxy, which was just offered by blogger.com. Well I do not know how it’d turn out in the end but never mind. At least I would be more aware of the spelling and grammar changes that I’ve made, considering that there’re some readers out where who are very sensitive to my language mistakes. Hurricane Katrina was an utter shock for faraway

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I didn't know that I have a few concerned readers of mine (as reflected in my tagboard), and thanks for those tags. Yes, Qiong Hui, I'm trying my best not to be melancholic! Well at least I have Kelvin to speak to during lunchtimes in the cookhouse. I can only hope that he does not leave the Commando Formation no matter what. Apparently, army is making my language skills decline. This is worrying

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Yes..... Mr Nathan has got a walkover. However, there's really nothing much to talk about this. Well considering my past two articles commenting about the presidential elections and the SAF medical corps, it seems that medical centres in the SAF seem to function very differently. Comparing 24-hour medical centres to other medical centres which are not, it's easy to see the contrast between these

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We just pass through Singapore's 40th birthday and all of Singapore seem invigorated about having celebrated this milestone in our nation's history. This is more so when Singaporeans suddenly put aside their apathetic thoughts to gossip about the upcoming presidential election. No one bothers to question the health of our incumbent, Mr SR Nathan; while the Fourth Estate probes into Andrew Kuan's

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Well I never expect the month of August to open with lots of things to crop up my mind. There're so many things that I have to take note of cos' it might affect my future! First of all, my possible plans of attempting to get scholarships from the private sector can only be better made more worth if I attempt to make applications to overseas universities. You see, a scholarship that can take you

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It's now the month of August and this seems to be a period that we all start with a new phase. The gals have matriculated, ready to start their new lifes as an undergraduate. I ever wonder how it is like from a girl's perspective when it comes to things like matriculation. Matriculation is an ardous process. I can even say that it's like a ritual into adulthood! Getting your matriculation card,

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Harry Potter has been one of my most favourite novels. What makes the series such an exhilarating and thrilling read is that Rowling has been able to blend in both the light-hearted and serious stuff very well in the story. The latest book is one of the best reads among the six books. To be frank, book five took up alot of my time and was very sadistic. In comparison to book six, this book was

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I just finished reading the latest Harry Potter book. Yep. I had it delivered to my home via Singpost.And it's a book without the typical ending you'd expect in the past five books.And this book will reduce many children to tears......Love, drama and war at a new level never seen before...I shall not say more or I'd leaking too many spoilers....I'm going out now... back to reality....

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I'm back! Well sorry for the rather long hiatus cos' I just upgraded my computer. Yep. Now everything just seem faster for me at this moment. How cool Windows XP is. But it shows how lagging I am in terms of computer knowledge... As usual, there's so many things to talk about, yet so little time......You know what? I just realised that I'm actually a University Scholar. NUS sent the offer letter

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Things just seem to be slightly more livelier man. July's coming and it only means one thing to me --- that I'm getting older. Yep. At the meantime, while the girls would be preparing very hard to transit into the rigours of university life; the guys have to look forward to the remaining one and a half years with a strong mind. I realised that I didn't realy miss TJ. Rather, I missed the friends

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=================================================Today was really boring.I got out of bed really early because my mom had to leave the house and hence drag me down for breakfast.I feel unusual because my antidepressants are making me depressed.I'm so stoned.Last night I had to finish my AOR (Approval of Requirement) on the feasibility of installing a washing machine in my block. I focussed on my

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"The most interesting things to read in a newspaper are rapes, murders and even more....", says a SSG from my camp. Yep. He's a Parachute Jump Instructor and I found it quite unbelievable hearing such words coming out from his mouth. Then I asked him what he was doing here in the army instead of the police. He replied that he intially wanted to be in the police but the commandos took him in...My

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URTI(U): Hi Zenon...erm...Zelig-dhi!Zenon(Z): What the fuck are you doing here?U: I'm here to pay you a visit. Why? Don't like me is it?Z: I abhor you. You give me so much trouble.U: Why? I thought I've been taking you off the stress of the military.Z: I don't need you to help me destress. After all, everyone in the army hates you. Especially those from Tekong.U: Haha. Who ask you all to play

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In the early morning busWith a backpack on my backWith an inkling in my heartAnd my body's full of stressI'm a long, long, way from homeAnd I miss my lover's homeIn the early morning busAnd the cold wind blows....And the cold wind blows....And the cold wind blows...And the cold wind blows...And the cold wind blows...I know, I know,You've to go,So hurry back home,Cos' I miss you so.Yep. This is

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While many of us would either be celebrating or whining over their dream courses or scholarships, I'd be the one on the whiny side. Well, MOE sent me a rejection letter, something in which a potential scholar would never expect. It just seem so weird why my peers, who did not perform so well than me academically got a humble teaching award while I got nothing, Maybe I'm nothing to them. Maybe I'm

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Get Rea! just seem to be getting more sensitive and interesting for the readers' soul. It makes the reader more aware of himself. It provokes the reader to analyse his own stand and beliefs about the various issues being brought about. The show is now one of my most favourites. It's an eye-opener for someone who has a limited social circle and understanding of Singapore's diverse society. I'm not

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Steps to getting a double degree / major in NUS especially if you're a weirdo like me whose brain is of two different halves. (assuming you don't get into USP)1) Get admitted into one faculty.2) Spend your first three semesters taking up as many different modules offered by as many faculties as you can.3) Get a GPA of about (was it 4.5 or 4.8?)4) Try to convince the vice deans of both faculties

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Wow...... I didn't expect my tagboard to spark off another dogfight! Would my two readers please calm down? Thank you very much. In fact, I ever wonder if only two people are reading my blog. If it's so, then I'm not a good blogger cos' it's telling me that I've not been able to reach out to all my readers to the extent that it provokes a response....Anyway, life just seem to be rather mundane.

Zelig-dhi Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241947038505501446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152122.post-1115034432187939572005-05-02T19:45:00.000+08:002005-05-02T19:47:12.190+08:00

One important lesson conscription gives you is that to treasure freedom well. The regimental environment in the military is enough to break you down mentally, if you don't account the tough training sessions. Yes, this applies to the combat fit. For someone like me who is stuck in the office, you'd realise that it'd be a dress rehearsal for the corporate world. Well, I'm currently digesting the

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All my life, I could've considered myself an 'Orchard Road kid' even though I'd be more like a 'dinosaur' today in comparison to those youths patronising Orchard during weekends and holidays. Even though I was a resident of Tampines, Orchard Road has always been a siginificant feature of my life. Just as Orchard Road has evolved and has been remade over the years, so was I as well. Let me show

Zelig-dhi Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241947038505501446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152122.post-1114355668147760662005-04-28T22:02:00.000+08:002005-04-28T21:20:48.446+08:00

I really do not know what to talk about right now. Yep. From now onwards I'd suggest that you guys address me as Zelig if you're really unsure. I know it's really a shocking surprise. Yesterday, I told a few of my fellow clerks who were on recall duty about my new name and they were a bit reluctant to see my name change. Sooner or later, the webpage name of this blog will have to change but

Zelig-dhi Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241947038505501446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152122.post-1114180397744268392005-04-22T22:30:00.000+08:002005-04-22T22:33:17.746+08:00

The weekend seems a bit plain ahead, as I ponder upon the past week, and also what to expect in the future. Tomorrow's recall manning, meaning that I'd have to spend a boring day in camp hoping that the Commando NSmen do not get activated. Cos' if it does happen then imagine the administrative nightmare we'll get into....The month of May is coming, and I've the feeling that I'll be meeting up

Zelig-dhi Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241947038505501446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152122.post-1113821514988561902005-04-18T18:50:00.000+08:002005-04-18T18:51:54.990+08:00

I decided to take a break from the army to ponder about myself. To ponder about my future. To ponder about what my life would be like especially when I take my pink IC next December. I wonder how my family would be like. I wonder if I was to be the Zenon you readers know, or to take a different identity. I wondered if life in Hendon has made me go bonkers. (That's why everyone in the SAF says

Zelig-dhi Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241947038505501446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152122.post-1113653667965927992005-04-16T20:10:00.000+08:002005-04-16T20:14:27.966+08:00

Just had a USP interview this morning....and the interview itself was rather academic in nature. The kind of responses that I got from the two interviewers was enough to provoke one's mind very significantly.. One thing that didn't come up was current affairs, despite the hot debate over the casino and also the spat between China, Korea and Japan.. (I'd just say that Japan is bearing the

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There has been so much talk in the news about the elite that I feel very tempted to talk about it. I wonder why Singaporeans are so embroiled over the issue of 'elite'? Even though concerns by the man on the street are indeed valid, I feel that as long as there is a thing called 'meritocracy', I do not see why we should be going so crazy over this word 'elite'. If you look at the structure of a

Zelig-dhi Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241947038505501446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152122.post-1111833881573856442005-03-26T18:45:00.000+08:002005-03-26T18:44:41.583+08:00

A/N: The holiday's boring, and I've some random crap here for you all to think about... enjoy!================================================The haze and now, the rain is keeping me at home this time. (Too bad no CAT 1) I ever wonder if Singapore is being punished by Mother Nature in another way (since she can't give us a tsunami) for being a 'throw away' society. Being consumption driven, we

Zelig-dhi Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241947038505501446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152122.post-1111739342471759122005-03-25T16:30:00.000+08:002005-03-25T16:29:02.473+08:00

It's Good Friday today and it just struck upon me this week that I wasn't really aware that it would be a long, mundane and hazy weekend ahead. The boring clerical work in my camp just made my mind vegetate. Back in Tekong, I was complaining about the 'sheer bureaucracy' of the SAF, and right now I feel like taking back my words. It is not contradicting of myself, but when you yourself are inside

Zelig-dhi Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241947038505501446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152122.post-1111499155469296332005-03-22T21:45:00.000+08:002005-03-22T21:45:55.470+08:00

It has been almost 100 days ever since I've been holding an 11B. Time really flies so fast where the carefree civilian and teenage days are far, far away and where the guys have to embrace the harsh reality of society today. Well, it just seem Darwinian out here. When we ORD, we've to fight for a place in the university, get a job and so on; but I ever wonder what'd happen to our mental states

Zelig-dhi Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241947038505501446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152122.post-1110703927372618652005-03-13T17:00:00.000+08:002005-03-13T16:52:07.376+08:00

Here we go againsame old route again...up and down this avenue...30 months to uni day...Yes... this applies to we guys who have to Serve and Fuck Off, while some will have to Suffer in Silence Plus Extra Confinement....It seems that the university scene has just gone through really a version of radical perestroika. Look back at the past few years where SAT, MT, PW and PEARLS got in and out of the

Zelig-dhi Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241947038505501446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152122.post-1110465909975155112005-03-10T22:45:00.000+08:002005-03-10T22:45:10.006+08:00

This week just seem to be a tense one for many of us out here. Thousands of guys became privates overnight, while even more thousands of 19-year old post A level graduates now find themselves in the baptism of fire. They now find themselves in this Darwinian world. Making the right choice, fighting for a place in one's dream university course, fighting for a place in the elite class of

Zelig-dhi Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241947038505501446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152122.post-1110029938500454192005-03-05T21:41:00.000+08:002005-03-05T21:38:58.503+08:00

Yesterday was the day that all A level students received their results. A day of emotion, anguish and triumph, you can say it all. It was indeed great to see the fruits of the two years of hard work materialise, regardless of whether we really performed on par, above or below our and our tutors' expectations. However, life is an endless journey. Today and tomorrow is the day the guys in Tekong

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