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For 2007, I hope to...
:Enrich myself as much as possible before Uni:
:Do well in Uni:
:Visit Hong Kong or Taiwan:
:Learn hip-hop dancing:
:Not involve my car in any accident:
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In any case, rather glad that I settled the SIA interview clash thingy. Now I have 2 chnaces!! Yea yeah! Def hope the 4 hour written test at SIA wouldn't kill me. Lolz. Like how long I never write essay liao lor. Hmms...
Ok ok I shouldn't hiam so much. Sry. just wanted to bitch a little. NS life is getting boring-ier and boring-ier by the day.
"TMS, Good afternoon, how can I help you?"
Terence pens his legacy at 1:40 PM Yay my fever has subsided... thanks to the pills I have been popping since last night. But last night's sleep was terrible lor... woke up like 5 or 6 times and head was pounding and scalding...
In any case it's gone now... and I shld stop eating heaty food or cold drinks...
But anyway I finally got the email from SIA today... after I realised my mistake of providing a wrong email address to them haha...
But.... they asked me to go down for a 4 hour written test and interview on the 6th of april... which is the same day I am slated for a psychological interview at CSC. Wth... hope they can reschedule me and not give me up... sobs... haha!
And the other thing is.... 4 HOUR WRITTEN TEST AND INTERVIEW AT ONE SHOT???!!! WTH ARE THEY THINKING???!!! After the gruelling 4 hour written test, which includes essay, mathematical and logiccal qns kind of stuff.... how to interview?? Brain would have been dead liao lor... Depressing sigh
Oh well I shouldn't complain... at least they gave me a chance for interview.
And got worse news... I out of course. Sigh... due to the medical centre needing too much time to clear my medical review. Sigh... Good thing is I dun have to stay in for the course period which I would previously have to attend. But... may not stay in the air force... rly dun wanna kenna post to some infantry camp to be a clerk where the instructors are MCP and unfrenly... unlike the Air Force.
But... I put myself in His hands... hopefully it is for the better...
Terence pens his legacy at 8:57 PM Down with fever today... like quite serious ;(
It came suddenly leh... morning I was still aye-okay. Then after lunch I started feeling colder and colder and then when I left AFS my head was so heavy and I was so feverishly hot...
Last few days go out too much liao la... WTH
Terence pens his legacy at 8:42 PM I had a very long and tiring but nice day today. Thx you guys. Met up with quite a few ppl today and it was rly nice talking and catching with you guys... and girls...
Anyway enuf about the mushy stuff. I watched Ms Congeniality 2 today and it was hilarious. Esp the part at the drag queen club lolz. Ppl pls go watch it despite how critics compare to Ms Con. 1. You wun waste ur money haha.
Oh and I realised that I dun rly sound like how wad I hear myself speaking... or singing for tt matters. Hope din scare u guys away with my *$&^)- singing. Lolz. But Wang Xin Ling's songs are still nice ok??
Yay I started my own PT regime today!!! Healthy lifestyle!!!
Terence pens his legacy at 12:54 AM YEAH!!!! SIA contacted me for shcolarship... din ask me for interview but said wanted to send me documents... Got hope!!!
Terence pens his legacy at 9:17 PM Feeling good today... Cuz I was invited to return for 2nd round of psychological interview and simulation exercise for CPF...
And to think I was scared stiff today cuz they called me 6 times in total then I was in the middle of big shots' lectures so couldn't/felt bad to leave. Yup... twice at 10 plus, twice at 11.45, twice at 2.30... all so suay timings lor...
But I still got the email from her anyway la... so it's all good :)
Anyway I hope the FIREfly 2nd rd experience has taught me to be a little more ruthless if I have to... which I hope is not the case but who noes...
And Woon told me abt the psychology interview.... doesn't sound too good u noe... sigh. Dig and dig and dig... as though every dirty little secret they dig they will get extra commission lidat... wadeva. I promised to be 99.9% honest....
I hate NS because it is so inconvenient... screws schedules and other impt stuff up... But I love it for other reasons too... Bleah... wad am I saying????
Terence pens his legacy at 9:09 PM Started the vocation at paya lebar today. Actually it's not at Paya Lebar airbase and maybe it wun be in the future... elab later. But anywayz it's at Air Force School, also at PL. And Hu wei's there too as a OCT.
So anyway it was rather slack today, and prob for the rest of the week, cuz this week is Airman Orientation Programme so it's mainly like lectures, briefings and tlaks... all at the air-con-ed audi la so it's rather nice :D *grins*
And they told us the timings, Mon to Thur 8 to 5.30 and Fri 8 to 5. So confirmed no stay in. Anyway no sense to stay in lor... cannot have night training and it's super noisy and all. Haha. *grins again*
And my vocation is as an Air Operations Specialist (AOS) and basically we do a rather slcak un-chiong sua job of sitting in an air-coned control room and like watch radars and press control panels and give directions kind of thingey. Cool! Not like the poor ADWO (weapon operators) who still have to chiong sua. Muhahaha. Oh and we would be in No.3 from tml or wed I think! And we have no coverall so it should be No.3 all the way. And it looks smart. *grins once again*
So anyway the superiors there are in general rather nice la. Joking ard with the airmen and all (we are known as airmen as long as we have no promotion). Just a few rather stern ones initially la... not my direct sup anyway. Oh and we have to start greeting all the higher ranked ppl. And it's like OMG so many of them lor. 3rd, 2nd, 1st, Staff, Master, Cpt, Ltc-Col etc etc... sigh It'll take me a while to go recognise them. Wadeva la.
And it was nice having a long lunch break for a change. No rush and got time to chat while eating heh.
It looks optimistic but sometimes u nv noe...
Terence pens his legacy at 9:46 PM Ok... temporary civilian life for 1 1/2 weeks has ended... so sian... always like to tempt us with little quite long breaks like that then make us go back to military life... haiz
Anyway my posting's at Paya Lebar Air Force School... as an air operations specialist. Sounds grand but I wonder if it's sai gang... and wonder if I have to stay in. Hear ppl say dun have to but better dun get hopes up too high. So ya...
Anyway I guess I will be blogging again la... tml should be can come home cuz nv ask us to bring in our stuff unlike kp... poor thing. Dun worry too much ya.
Ok nites all. Tok more abt the AFS tml.
Terence pens his legacy at 11:11 PM
Okay I had a pretty long day today but I'm not sleeping just as yet because I have to drink up this bottle of barley drink which my mom painfully cooked this afternoon...
Anywayz, I overshot my wake up timing this morning... had to rush to the IE Singapore talk at bugis at 11. And I woke up at 9.30. Hmm... not very good. But I got there on time anyways la. So like ya, the something dept head was talking to us about what IE does and mission and vision and tt things, and I realised that it incidentally coincided with my aims/dreams/vision for Singapore. Like REAL close.
Plus they want ppl who are interested in going to non-english speaking ctries and to learn a foreign third lang. Which is what I want. And yet I was rejected in the 1st wave. Thanks ar, really noe how to choose ppl ar... They were talking about IE scholars having to possess teamwork, so I dun really understand how ppl like a certain Boo Boo could actually forsake team interests, steal ppl's presentation points, and get thru to the 3rd rd. Wadeva.
So anyways, I dun really blame IE la... after all the 1st 2 rds were administered by EDB I guess and probably they want selfish bloodsuckers. Wadeva. EDb isn't gonna be impt in 50 years anyway, I think... Cuz SM wants S'pore firms to internationalise anyway. So u can juz &%)* off EDB! Yeah! Wadeva...
So anyway the tea session kind of made me wanna apply for FIREfly (IE) now... But tml is packed too so I'll see if I do take the time to. You still rank eighth tho...
So ya I kinda went sim lim to walk walk, then went to bukit panjang to take passport sized photos cuz the %^(& SAF wants 6. And it's cheap there. But sleep on bus cuz it was SOOOO slow and I ended up alighting 2 stops late and had to bktrack. Got them taken and rushed home.
Then I had like 45 mins to do woon's card... (yes it's last minute so sorry (^.^) ) then rushed out. Still late but of course zing and renna won again haha... so it wasn't so bad.
Anyway I had lots of fun tonite. Thx gals. Ya no other guys there so cannot say thx GUYS! thx ar woon.... haha ok la not ur fault. Our class guys.... .....
Ya it was fun chatting with u ppl, catching up, knowing what's happening in ur lives and all. And thx zing for letting me noe abt the straits time tutor section so hopefully I can find a tuition job soon if my vocation is not stay in. Ya... had lots of fun teasing woon too haha. Hope u dun mind... all juz joking only. Haha.
But it was fun... esp the part where u say im melb the port or great ocean rd there when u jump the breeze is so strong that u land behind ur original position and I said u land back where u were... haha I'm still laughing abt this while I'm typing hahahahahahahahahaha
Sry u noe how I tend to get dramatic.... no offense ok?? Haha. And the part in the lift.... ok shall not elab further. Yup. Had fun. Will definitely miss these days and opportunities to poke fun at you... But anyway if u do go to US then this will be the last bday party but I'm sure there'll be more opportunities for gatherings la... so stay cheerful ya.
Friends are ppl who pass ur test of time. Nites.
Terence pens his legacy at 12:22 AM Hmm... the slew of scholarship applications have ended... sort of.... Well I kind of shortlisted 9, but only have applied for 7... DMS I have submitted the online portion but realise that the supporting documents are gonna be late, cuz I only applied yesterday haha.... DMS kind of din pop out in my mind while I was applying... In any case they have directly shot down Germany as a study destination so I guess it wouldn't really be to my best interests?? And FIREfly I'm still considering... so it stands at 7 I guess?
In any case, I just returned from the CPF interview today... It went quite well except at parts... maybe it's just me but I feel that the interviewers kind of could see that I din really noe about the structure of the organisation, so maybe it is a minus point? They din ask me direct tho... In any case, for those yet to go for CPF's, u may wanna just find out more about the diff depts in the board? Might help... anyway the list of qns was loooooong... well longer than what i expected la. They really ask a lot of qns on ur intended course of study and what contribution u can bring to cpf... oh and they asked me to rank them among all the scholarships I've applied. I shunned that haha.
Yup yup. Always be well prepared!!
Terence pens his legacy at 9:51 PM Hmm I'm being overwhelmed with all the scholarship forms and applications that I've been sleep deprived for like so long liao! Maybe it was a bad decision to apply for so many scholarships... it is really tiring especially the essays but what to do? No money mah... have to bank on scholarships.
In any case today's lion's trail din exactly help in giving me mroe time to do what i had to. It was a complete waste of time lor... what with all the travelling to Changi which costs me like 2 hours??!! I did learn a bit about Singapore during the WWII period la I have to admit, but I guess I wasn't too keen on committing the amount of memory needed to remember all that stuff... I mean, hello?
Whatever la... I'm glad I'm just left with SIA, which is quite a nightmare actually. So many qns which require deep thinking. But snail mail applications have to go off tml! And tt's what i have to and am going to do...
My thoughts are rather disorganised now and I attribute it to a lack of sleep. My apologies...
Terence pens his legacy at 12:01 AM I realised I have not blogged for a while. Even after my POC which is supposed to be a super joyous event. Well apparently not, not until today at least.
Anyway POC was on tuesday, where we officially become privates muhahaha!!! But then, there catch is (yes there's always a ctach in the army) that we have to still go back to tekong the next day to do sai gang (sai gang, noun: shit job; jobs that degrade your human personality and is totally and completely brainless). Yup. And it's for the PES A and B ppl from school 2 companies passing out that day, who inceidentally always like to laugh at us PES C (it's a neurological thing, don't ask me why). SO of course we were sian diao la, cleaning up and moving stuff and all.
And to makes matters worse, right before our really late book out (8 plus as compared to rest at what, 5 plus??), we received news that whoever missed out on BIC (Battle Innoculation Course) and Hand Grenade have to come back and make up.
WTF MAN!!!!!
I was so sian diao-ed I think the world froze and held silent for a minute for me. Wadeva la. I thought Wednesday was going to be the last I see of Tekong.
So I went back in last night, and I thought ok it's late time for us to sleep now and prepare for the tiring day tml. NOT. Because, our dear PTP batch is enlisting into Ulysses the next day (today) and we have to help to clean up Platoon 1 which is for parents to visit and go "Wow their living conditions are SOOOOO good now! Not like last time!" and for MCP fathers to go talking about how bad their training and all the wadevas they went thru last time. Try harder man.
SO anyways we had a late night. And some fu*king morons came to sleep at my section to fill up the empty beds. They sure made their presence known man. All the talking loudly and the radio and the coughing and the shuffling and the packing and the kao-bei-ing and the... you get the idea.
Then I did BIC today morning la. Then after we finished we were at Peg's bball court resting and I happened to chat with ppl from other coys. "so what time are u bokking out today?" "Eh our officers told us around 12.45pm lor. Ya..."
WTF!!!!
Our officers told us we'd be booking out at 8.30pm.
Ya...
So never mind. We went to coy line. And we asked them why we so late then book out la. They say "oh cuz today got 3 coys enlisting so a lot of parents coming in and out, a bit inconvenient to let u all book out la..." LJ ok! Then how come other coys can book out??!!
Then we realised their ulterior motive. More sai gang. They want us to help with the enlisting of the new recruits. Things like making sure they know which pt,sect, bed they belong to and where they will be sleeping. Then after that Lincoln and I had to settle some lost sheep and bring them to change items that don't fit, then also bring 2 platoons and lost sheep to cut hair blah blah blah... sai gang all the way until 6 la. Then slack at Pt office.
The only fun I had was in ordering the recruits around. After all I'm a private right??!! Muhahaha!!! It feels well just a little fun only la. I was very polite ok? I kept using "Excuse me" and "Thanks". Wadeva. Greet the private here k??!! Muhahaha! No la I din ask them to.
SAF is rather fu*ked up la. Must be careful when I go to new posting. More politics and catches and all the little traps and all...
Terence pens his legacy at 11:45 PM And yet by another interesting turn of events, I am back home blogging now. Lemme explain. We had our POC today which means we officially finish our modified BMT liao la, but we can only leave tekong for good tml cuz we have to saty back and help to clean up the parade square after the school 2 ppl pass out tml. So anyways, today our OC wanted to give us a night off to compensate for the early book in last sat (which din affect me anyway cuz I took an MC). And so happily the Pt 1 and 2 and 3 ppl left smoothly. We were supposed to go last. But because today was school 1's POP, what with all the parents coming and all, the ferry terminal was packed with impatient ppl.
Of course, because we are in the army and the parents are almighty taxpayers and civilians, we have to let them board the ferry first. After all we are just bloody privates right?! Nvm... so we were originally supposed to book out at 6pm, come back at 10.30pm, but a very optimistic estimate told us that by the time all the parents left, the next fastcraft would be at 8. Great! So we went back to company line to wait and then OC (Amen to that) suggested that we book out at 9pm and come back only the next morning!!! In CV summore may I add! So yup :) here I am now
Ok it's rather late now. I should get some sleep cuz I have to bloody hell wake up at 5.15am tml! Stay at JE is really damn suay man!!! Arrrrgh!
Terence pens his legacy at 11:59 PM Today is the A levels results release day.... Ya, was very nervous the past few days actually... nervous until my migraines came back a few days ago.
Anyway, all the nervousness has subsided... and joy taken over!!! Yup yup, I am very satisfied with my results! 4 A's, A2 for GP (which is such a bonus, Amen to that) Distinction for Maths S and Merit for Econs S.
And I'm glad most of my good frens did well too! Woon got almost the same as me, Ngai got 4 A's too, Jan got ABB A2 (which I think she is really overjoyed about the GP grade), Ray got AAB B4 (he din expect any A's) and Ren got 4 A's B3... yup yup, so I'm in a really good mood today although I'm rather shagged.
Anyway tml there is still a whole day of stuff to do. In the morning I have to *beep* go down to Paya Lebar for a Haemoglobin blood test, which I incidentally did last year at a polyclinic and the results show I'm regular. But the aeromedical centre insists I do another one THIS year. Whatever. Then there's the DMS talk in the afternoon, which is quite tempting since it is non-military... heh. See how it goes tml. Being in PES C is such a GREAT help. Heh.
POC is in 2 days! And I will be leaving Tekong for good in 3 days! So there. Hopefully my Paya Lebar stint is a 8 to 5-er. That will be the best man!
Terence pens his legacy at 12:13 AM
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