Tml is my pageant… I’m so stress now. Tml is my pageant and i’m like haven’t think of what poses to pose on stage and I’m stil not confident in my singing. I need to have 7 single poses, 3 couple poses, sing “At the beginning”, a dance and Q&A. Its like exam to me and i’m not fully prepare. Arrrrrggggg….stress…Hopefully, I’ll not screw up tml and have a wonderful experience. P.s. Happy 1st Month Can’t wait to see what my deardear had prepared for me. haha.  Pageant Photo Shoot. Went for the SCE Pageant shoot this afternoon and we chose Retro as our costume theme. This was before we left NTU. Make up artist and me in my grease theme outfit. After my hair was re-styled. After we were all done. Nice rite!?!?!? Without costume also chio bu and yan dao. =) Dyanne, the future air stewardess to be.  Stress… I feel that life has change since i left army and enter the world of studies.  I found a girl, who is amazing and magical. She is none other then my deardear Dyanne. =) I’ve done alot of things i never did before. =) I’ve finally pierce my ear. =) I’ve dyed my hair golden brown, now abit beng. =) I got sabo into a peagent. =( I need to learn how to walk and smile. =) I have to sing with my deardear on stage during the DnD. =( I still cant get use to school life. =( I need to control my spendings as now my income is not $750/mth. =( I need to start heating up my frozen engine. =( I wanted to start fishing again but it seems abit hard now. =( I’ve join NTU TKD even when i keep telling myself not to. =( I wanted to stay in hall for the 4 yrs in NTU, but I don’t know any1 in my hall. =( My 1st month anniversary is coming and i still donno what to do. =( My deardear Birthday coming and i still donno what to do. =( P.S If any1 wanna help me by give me ideas on the last 2 things, pls sms me or email me. not here arh…=) Guys… i need part time job.. those sat or sun de.. let me know if u all have any. Thanks alot..=) 1st week of sch 1 week had pass and I’m super stress. All the modules are alien to me. Especially JAVA… Alien language….arrg..super sian.. And I still donno my Hall mates. Sad. Luckily my deardear stay near my block. This week pass quite fast with lots of activities. We went to Zouk for hall bash and my dear got drunk…hahaha…super funny. Cannot drink still say she can drink. Next time, max 3 shots for her.   Protected: For my Dear… This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: Loss my hood… yesterday morning, i ask Dyanne to be my GF and she agreed. So guys, I’m currently attached to my dear Dyanne. =) And I’ve loss my Singlehood.=( hahaha…. PS. My 2 Wisdom tooth were removed.. PAIN AHHHHH!!!!! And Mr JH, WL, Daph, Des and FTP……. Why u all so long nv ask me go out?????? Miss u all lei… sat Ubin trip… Sylvia jio night fishing on sat but in the end she Pang Seh… Luckily still got Sunny and his 2 friends, Mervin and Claris. This is e flower crab that i caught using hook. Due to the poor current flow, we didn’t manage to catch much fish. Mervin caught a puffer and claris caught a catfish. Will be back next time. Suay is the word… Had a call from Noel in the afternoon to go to gym in the evening but later, the plan changes to a photo shooting session. As we were reaching ponggol end, the sky darken. We were hoping that it will not rain at the location. Fucking suay. We wanted to capture sunsets but it started to rain just when we open the car’s door… After that, we decided to go Fort canning hill, hoping to catch the sunset before it’s too late. But, due to Noel mistakes, we end up in Mount Faber. Haven’t been to Mount Faber for quite some time liao, the last time i went was like primary 5???haha.. Anyway, when we reached Mount Faber, the sky was dark liao. I’ll post the photos after i do some processing…Should have some nice shots…=) Gyotaku After reading the July’s Rod-and-Line magazine, I was inspired to do my own Gyotaku. What is Gyotaku? You may ask.. Gyotaku is the romaji of the word in hiragana. Gyo, stands for Fish and taku, stands for rubbing or impression. “Gyotaku” is the ancient Japanese folk art of painting fish. The first Gyotaku were created to preserve the true record and size of species caught by Japanese anglers as far back as 1862. Gyotaku is the ancient photograph of the anglers price catch. However, unlike the photography, we cannot perform catch and release if we want to do Gyotaku. There are two methods used in gyotaku. The direct approach is similar to block printing. In order to make a gyotaku print, one places the subject (e.g. fish, crab, scallop shell) on a flat surface and paints one side with sumi ink. Once the pigment is applied to the subject, a piece of rice paper is then carefully applied on top of the fish and then pulled off with a mirror image of the fish having been created on the substrate. The indirect approach requires that the subject is firmly secured into a cradle or mounted onto a firm backing, then a very fine piece of fabric, either silk or polyester, is attached to the subject with a glue that will release (e.g. spray adhesive or a water-based glue that can later be washed out). The artist carefully applies ink to the fabric using a tool called a tampo. The tampo is constructed from a piece of fine silk bound around a soft, rounded ball of cotton. Very thin layers of ink are successively laid onto the fabric, and the textures of the subject transfer through the fabric, creating textures in the print. It may sound easy, like puting a piece of paper on top of a mold. However, to have a nice piece of gyotaku, one needs to have the skills and experience. The skills to have the correct amount of ink applied and the preparations of the fish before the painting. After the painting, the fish can still be eaten, provided that you used a non-toxic ink. I’ll try out Gyotaku on my next catch. Anyone of you interested in doing this project with me? Hope to produce some nice art work before 2008 ends. Final judgement!!! Mon.. I woke up at 0645, brush my teeth, shave my facial hair, put on my smartest No.4 and a polish shine boots. I was preparing to meet the old man. At 0755, I dragged myself to his office. As i walked, i was thinking of what to say to him and what i will be rewarded with. I knocked on the door, already well prepared to accept the fate. It was locked. Damn…so i waited outside at the stairs. At around 0805, i knocked again. It was locked again. He was not in. I went up, back to my bunk, thinking that he had forgotten about the meeting. My face show a sign of relief when i ask Robert to go AH SENG for breakfast. It was then, that my CSM got a call from RSM to ask me go down see him. I quickly put on my No.4 and rush down. RSM:” Do you know that i’ve waited for you for 20 over minutes!!!” ME:”Sir, i was outside the office since 0755 and i waited till 0805.” RSM:” NO! i was here since 0800 and no one knocked on the door.” ME:” But Sir, i was really outside, i knocked on the door and i tried to open it too, but it was locked. Sir, u can ask Wei Jie, he saw me outside too.And sir, i don’t know when u will be here, so i went up.” RSM:” You think i will forget right. Don’t you know something hand phone? Why you don’t call?” RSM:” Go bring down your company informal punishment book.” Fucking hell…I was fucking pissed. It wasn’t my mistake and make it seems like it was mine. I went up, took the book and went down to him. I handed the book to him and I said:” SIR, I don’t think i deserve a extra duties for a small thing like this.” RSM:” You don’t deserve this? You fucking cb. It’s not the first time i tell you.” Me:” Sir, i really forgot to roll down. It’s been a while that i do Guard duty. “ RSM:” If it’s 7 plus, u say forget i still can accept. what time did i catch you? 10plus 11 and u telling me you forget. I say that’s fucking ignorant.” I got nothing to say, all the information i wanted to convey to him was not reaching him. I was fuming mad. So i look at him, waiting for what he was going to give me. RSM:”Ever since you disrupt, you keep showing your fucking attitude. You are lucky that you disrupt, and you are fucking lucky that when u come back, I wont be your RSM. ” He signed on the book and in the end i got 1 extra from him. And this old man had been aiming me since i entered 3sir. Donno why he see me not happy. Machiam shang bei zi qian ta de. Other people committed the same offense as me, but their treatment is always more lenient, telling them to pull down the sleeves and they never get any extras. Army, a place where darkness roam, a place where meritocracy is not present, a place where WA YANG people gets all the good stuff. CAN’T WAIT TO ORD!!! Are you a god to determind that i was wrong??? Yesterday guard duty fucking pissed me off. I don’t know why i was involved in guard duty when our CSM told us we had served finish our duty. In the afternoon, I injured my already injured left leg again. Haiz. suay. I was opening the heavy gate when the base of the gate hit my left heel. Crap, i was limping the during the rest of the duty. Another super suay thing is that I kena something from my RSM. It goes like this… I was opening the gate for my RSM to go out and he stop his car, lower down his side window and stare at me. ME:” Yes Sir?” RSM:” Eh. U know or donno that after 7pm must roll down your sleeves?” Oh shit..I’m dead. I forgot to roll down my sleeves. Die liao. Me:” Erm..Yes Sir, I know.” RSM:”So you know…You know that you have to roll down your sleeves and yet you don’t want to do it.” Me:” Sir! It’s not that i don’t want to roll down. I forgot about it.” RSM:”I have enough of this bull shit. Monday come to my office at  0800hrs.” Haiz..When our men did something wrong, we, Specialists were the ones to be blame.Why u never teach your men the correct thing; Why u never remind your men; Why u never check your men; These are the questions we are alway being bombarded with. When we did something wrong, we will never be forgive. Why they cant think this way; Why they never remind us? Why they never teach us the correct thing? What is wrong with this army… To err is human, to flawless is god. I have not done any guard duty for a few months, of cause i will forget la. Haiz… but i cannot say this to him. Tomorrow is my judgment day. More of my weekends going to be burn liao. In case of him finding more faults from me tomorrow, i had to go for a hair-cut. Sian liao la…i wanted to grow longer and then cut 1 week before ORD de. PS. Justin…Why i was chosen for this Guard Duty la… Fishing trip-210608 Finally, i broke my dry spell. It was Full moon and we went to the spot when the tide is rising. All the fish was caught during the rising tide with live prawn. 1st fish of the day was a puffer fish caught by me, follow by a Barramudi by Sunny and then a stingray by me, followed by a KUKU fish by Sylvia…forget to take the photos of the KUKU.. so wait for the next episodes… Protected: When the cycle repeats… This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: 1st car lesson.. Just came back from my 1st car lesson.. I was a bit hum ji…lol scare bang into ppl’s car. Today, I’ve learnt how to move the car from stop, turning, U-turn, change lane, braking, change gear to gear 3 and dropping gear, and stop the vehicle. And i got a serious problem, i don’t check blind spots and mirror. arrg…always forgot…and i tend to start the car abit slow…haiz…any tips to do better??? Ubin trip with da jiu This morning, i accompanied my da jiu to ubin to do a recce on a new spot. Due to the poor current, the 2 of us only manage to catch a grouper,a catfish and a mud crab…all fish were caught with live prawn and the crab is caught using crab net with stingray meat.. Overall a very promising spot for gao he… Last section outing…  Went for a house visit to every one in my section last week. I’m stepping down as being a section com liao…new commander taking over..and ah tan treat us all to Bali thai for dinner…below are some candid shots i took…hehee.. Dennis aka Buddha, my 2nd saw…chill la…eat until like that.. Leonard seems to be enjoying this scene =p Jun Min…my 1st matador, Buddha…still not full ar?? Marshall, my 2 IC, 2nd M203, loud and effective…help me alot and hope he pass his O’s next year..good luck..study hard..=) My dinner..Yammy!!!…got salted eggyork, prawn, fish, sotong, and spices rice… Ps tan enjoying his food… Wilson, my 1st M203. Same age and same sec school as me wor!! Just found out..hahaha. What a lousy sect com i am…=p Victor, My group 2 IC, 2nd Matador…tall friendly giant…*_* Leonard, my 1st Saw…must take care of urself when i not around arh!!! Photos of previous shooting session. Due to time constrain, I’ve only upload a few photos. New Bed Frame From this To This Time to rest my buddy… My 10 years veteran buddy was injured on one of the mission due to old age and i had to replace it with a new one…Hope we can work well and fight effectively. New reel new luck…hope this reel will bring me luck and break my dry spell…=) Old friend Bass One XT.. New Buddy.=) Revo SX Ok…now new reel liao… have to eat grass for a month…=( Fire Fire Fire!!! Now is 5am and i had to wake up at 6am…holly crap.. At around 4am, my mum woke me up as she smell something burning. She thought that our electronic stuff in our house caught fire, end up seeing smoke from outside our windows. We quickly wake my little brother up and do our common fire drill…lol… automatically, we close our windows, switch off all our electricity, went out of house, wake my neighbour up and we went downstairs. On the way down, the smoke was getting thicker and thicker. When we reach the 3rd floor, it was totally impassable. We had to walk up again to the next staircase and went down together with many of our neighbours. The fire engine, the red rhino and fire fighters just arrived when we reach the ground floor. The fire fighters were fast and the fire was put out easily. When i went up my house, it was already 430am, so I decided to blog the incident and stay awake till its time to book in…=( My Stupid Kastari makes me suffer for a month… Just when i thought i was able to rest and wash hands on my guys, this MSK just pop up and change my life. Right after i was returned from Brunei, i was deployed. That why i can’t go out so regularly and i can’t fish so regularly. Last week, had a photo-shooting session with noel and daph at CBD area. The padang was packed with lots of Formula 1 and photography enthusiast, taking photos of the Formula 1 and seeing the machine sped through the road, doing professional stuns on the way. After the F1 show, we went to the esplanade to take some night scenes and tried a new stuff, light graffiti. Although it was a failure, it was fun and did some interesting photos. =) Will upload the photos once my dad come back from China. I took this at Maxwell market…lol…We can sit at any TABLES……Is this sentence correct??? hmm…I myself not really sure, but i just don’t feel that its right. haha Below are some sun-rise photos taken from my K810i… Special thanks to Mr Robert AKA Ratatouille for this shot…although he didn’t know about the rabbit…=) HEHEHEHE I’m Back!!! I’m back! This trip to Brunei really teach me how to appreciate Singapore, my home, my life, the convenience in living in SG… In Brunei, I’ve participated in 2 exercise which name cannot be disclose…I’ve cross several river with or without life-jacket, climb several knolls, fell several times, walked several ridge-lines, shivered during at night, perspired during the day, built my own shelter, bitten by leeches, sand-flies, weird insects…It’s a challenge to me but both exercises really let me learn alot, about the jungle, the preciousness of water and food, the good and bad side of people, and the main thing is the experience.  Brunei, a fruitful trip for me but it’s still hell to me. Those tough times will be embedded in my mind forever and hopefully, I will not go through it again. =) TOUGH TIMES DON’T LAST, TOUGH MEN DO! Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:58:22 +0000 I visited my Ah Ma at SGH just now. The doctor can’t take out the string used for the stitching in her surgical wounds in her right leg. And the surgical wounds in her ankle cant close back and there is a risk that the artery there will burst and her life will be in danger. When i saw the pain she suffers and I cannot do anything to help her, my heart just ache. Hope that she will get well soon. Brunei My Brunei trip is getting nearer and nearer. Last year i was talking about it and now, this Friday, I’m going to fly to Brunei with C130. 1 month of suffering. =( 1 month and it seem so long!!! It’s been a month since i log in to my blog. Time pass so fast and alot had happen within this busy and stressful month. I had ATP,24 km and 32 km route march, coy live firing, commanders’ training, coy UO training, coy mission, SOC. Within a month, I had to do all the high keys training, meaning XIONG laa….And my grandmother was warded in the hospital due to her wounds in her toe. She had to amputate her toe due to diabetics and she had to undergo surgery to bypass her artery in her right leg. Luckily, her surgery was a success. I’ve also help in coordinating our 3sir Chinese New Year celebration today. It was quite a large scale project. Imagine we build a stage with 2 truck and our dining tables form a huge chinese letter 吉. Everyone in our Bn had fun tonight with steamboat as their dinner and a variety of shows and competitions. Overall, it’s a success and our few months’ of effort are well paid as CO gave us 1 day off and OC gave us 1 day off. So we had 2 day off extra…yesh. Lastly, within this month, I’ve achieved a few things: my 1st 1ooo pieces puzzle. completed a distance of more than 100km. my longest distance I’ve run so far is 16km non-stop. slim down 2kg. learn to appreciate the things and people around me. Next month, I’ll be flying to Brunei for training and a bilateral exercise with the Brunei army. Another stressful trip as I have to present to the Brunei army our UO equipments and performs to them. More things to come, more things to learn. Can’t wait for ORD =) Happy New Year!! This year, I’ve spend my last day of 2007 with my friends and in the end count down at JC hse…Although 2007 is not very eventful, I’m quite happy spending the times with my family and everyone I’ve met and have fun with. Arigatou gozaimasu. Now comes my new year resolutions..haha: I wanna meet more people. Try any interesting stuff that i am able to find. Able to save $$ for my studies. Have more time with my family. Catch bigger fish.=) Slim down. Take more interesting photos. Do well for my future studies. Cut down on drinking. Learn classical dance. Anyone interested in joining me on the above..do call me and have fun. =) Cheers… Happy 2008… Financial break down till july.. hmm.. have to start before its too late.. Amount i want to save before i enter University = S$1000 And now till July before i disrupt = 6 months Per month i have to save = S$1000/6 = S$166.66666666666666666 =S$170 NS monthly income = S$750 Long term investment plan = S$200 Saving =S$170 Then my monthly expenses = $750- $200-$170 = S$380 OMG…i had to survive on S$380/month. Per day i can only spend =  S$380/31 = S$12 Per meal i can only spend = S$12/3 = S$4 Ok… I have to be more DISCIPLINE liao. Decision decision.. Went to meet up with my usual gang shopping today…and guess what…we’ve got a xi ker today…Yvonne joined us for the shopping too…haha… That’s a topic we’ve talked today about Uni stuff… how stress is Uni, the people in Uni, politics in Uni… waaaa..this give me the fear of entering Uni… haiz…but what to do.. i still have to complete my studies and go to the society to work…Life is all about handling human relationship and stress…Then a question suddenly pop out from my mind… studying 3yrs is better then 4yrs rite??? Hmm…I applied for computer science and it will take me 4 yrs to complete it…Y not i apply another course that allow me to complete by 3 yrs???hmmm…SHOULD I??? Queenie I had just finished my Platoon mission exercise, a 2 day 2 night sleepless mission. I need a rest, I need to pamper myself and I need peace. So, this morning, I took a cab down to my usual spot. Tide was good, weather was abit on the downside with rain drizzling in the late afternoon. I took out my new bought Angel and i let it fly with the hope of getting a reward. And truly, my angel gave me a present, the QUEEN from the sea and a spectacular phenomenon, tornado in Singapore. Place: usual spot D-day H-hour: 151320 Lure: Angel Kiss Technic: Slow retrieve Fish: Queen Fish Fate of the fish: catch and release (CNR) Was shock to see this 2 thing on the surface of the sea when the sky going to turn black. After the luring session, I meet up with syl and noel for another fishing trip at SAFYC. Kelong sotong was used as bait, but no action the whole night. Fish nowadays like plastic more then real food…Poison by luring liao…cant wait to land a kim. Overall, today was a good experience.=) Fresh!!! Pulau Huntu Trip..=) (Photo intensive) On Wed night, i got a call. Its my younger brother. With the thought of something bad happening at home, i picked up my phone. “hello de jun ah, sat want go pulau huntu camp anot”. Haiz.. i think too much liao. On Saturday afternoon, my dad send us to my bro friend house. I think he is my bro best friend. i also not very sure..haha. I just failed at being a eldest child. Ok, went to the house, talk to his parents, bla bla bla…and finally, after they finish their lunch, we were ready to set off. We took a mini-bus which belongs to his dad company to the marina at marina south. On the way, the bus went to pick up two of his dad friends Jeremy(SMU vice Dean) & Shawn. After the journey on road, we reach marina south pier and we load our stuff onto his dad’s company boat. OMG Go see the bottom right of this photo… Is she the human or huntu??? Please don’t pollute the island. Huntu stands for ghost in malay. So i name this photo “Path to Hell”. =) My shadow and the signboard Abit lame..i almost fell taking this photo as i was standing on a steep slope. My only fish(Kelong Chi) caught on my new lure IMA Sobat80. On the way back to mainland, i took this photo. From the photo, I just realise that port at PSA is so huge and effective. There are so many ships docking at our port. Thanks Uncle Albert and my little brother for this trip. I enjoyed this camping trip and the food uncle Albert cooked. Hehe…got chance i would like to taste all his cooking. Too bad, i was busy fishing that i forgot to take photos of everyone and of cause, the fabulous dinner, breakfast and supper. Overall, Pulau Huntu is a good place to chill, relax and getaway. However, if u want to catch big fish, its not a ideal place as the sea there is full of seaweeds and u will be busy handling seaweeds more then fish.