Back from Phuket.

Came back from Phuket a few days ago and tomorrow I'm headed back to camp, but this time in Clementi.

I'm already missing Tekong.

Phuket wasn't very fun at all, it would probably be fun for people who enjoy party, dancing and getting drunk because the nightlife there is very happening. What I did was spend my time in the hotel room playing my Nintedo 3DS... $300 well spend on the ticket and the DS. <- Oh I just did a double entendre. Oh hohoho~

Well I actually did some shopping beforehand, bought myself a shoe, was too lazy to actually how much it would cost in Singapore dollars, so I just roughly guesstimated and bought the shoes anyway. It was only after I paid the cashier did I realise I just spend half my entire money on a pair of shoes on the first day, just hours after landing in Phuket. Which was why I retreated back to the hotel room after that and didn't dare to go out anymore because I felt poor... the shoe was very comfortable to wear, but that was not a valid reason for it to make me feel like a beggar for the rest of the trip.

Overall I think I wasted my money because the trip wasn't fun at all, the only fun I had was coming from my Nintendo 3DS.

I couldn't join my Mum and Grandpa on a massage because I am ticklish... the masseuse will probably feel insulted if I were to be giggling while she or he was massaging me, it's like when your little brother is really small and the girls sees it and starts laughing to herself... same same but not really. At least the masseuse get paid for feeling insulted, the guy will probably turn gay afterwards.

...and me and nightclubs don't go well together, especially with female hookers dancing around poles giving you a hard on, only to confuse your boner after they rub that bulge in their pants on your face.

The food on the other hand was pretty good, the seafood was great and I had Dunkin Donuts on the first day, oh such fond memories of Dunkin Donuts I had when I was younger in Bangkok... vomited in a restaurant right after eating them.

You know how rockets have this booster at the end that thrust them up?... and they have structures to hold them up before lift off... well my father was the structure holding me up by my arms and the booster was my vomit... only thing was the structure was very strong so I was just mid air vomiting the whole time while being dragged to the toilet.

It was a good thing I didn't vomit this time round.

Jetstar Asia is not a good airline for people with long legs such as myself because the amount of leg space in that aircraft is claustrophobically small. It's like when I want to sleep I can't because I'm sitting upright due to the face the chair can't incline to a comfortable position, and I can't my rest my head in front on the pull down table because my head will just end up on the back of the chair in front. It was a nightmare that lasted for an hour. Thankfully it was only 1 hour... I can't imagine sitting that and going to Australia... I will probably be send straight to the mental institute after landing.

Anyway. Tomorrow will be my first day to Clementi Camp... not looking forward to it because the faces that I will be seeing there tomorrow won't be familiar faces anymore, really missing my bunk mates now.

I will miss the first few weeks when my neighbor bed buddy will just pop into my bed and chit chat with me about random things.

When my other neighbor bed buddy will start talking to me and the conversation will just become really dirty and I will start laughing till I tear.

When my old Buddy started talking to me and becoming really good friends.

I will miss my section "mascot". Forever slow, forever blur and always get scolded by us but loved by everyone in the Platoon nonetheless.

Ah well... guess POP is not as great as I thought it would be. Especially after spending 17 weeks with them instead of 9 weeks. If it was 9 weeks I probably wouldn't be as attached to them as I am now, in fact 9 weeks into BMT I still wasn't really starting proper conversations with them at all.

Trying to stay positive for tomorrow because apparently it's more "lepak" then BMT. It's gonna be hard to beat though because my Coy in BMT was very lepak.

Hello

POP LOH~!

It's been a great 4 months, PTP Phase was great because there was so much free time and BMT Phase was great because I started getting close with my section mates. In the end BMT wasn't so bad after all.

Definitely gonna miss Jaguar Company.

All that aside. Tomorrow I'm going to fly to Phuket with my family. Initially it was Taiwan, but because the Army isn't paying me enough, I have to settle for Thailand. And to join me on my Phuket trip would be my new Nintendo 3DS that I have purchased today.

WHAT?

A self proclaim Sony Fanboy getting himself a Nintendo 3DS is BEYOND forgivable.

Well this was a pathetic attempt at a blog post.

K43S

After 4 years or so of using an Acer laptop, I have finally made the switch over to an ASUS.

I guess making a switch from a Windows to Mac would be more exciting news but since I have such a tight budget of what was meant to be only $700 initially and since I haven't been robbing any banks lately, I can't get a MacBook even if I want to.

Headed over to IMM yesterday with my Mum to take a look at the laptops, which I think would be better than Sim Lim Square and Funan, because that's where (Sim Lim & Funan) all the really techie guys work and even though I'm not a complete computer idiot, suddenly telling me a AMD Processor is better for gaming as compared to a Intel Core Processor or that Graphically speaking ATI is more popular than Nvidia is enough to turn me blonde straight away.

After hearing a lot of bias opinion from the Fujitsu guy in Challenger at IMM, I decided to go to another shop ,Newstead, to get the laptop. The guy from Newstead was so much more professional plus he knew what he was talking about, and as long as he know what he's talking about, I'm good, because I have no idea what he was talking about, I just kept nodding my head pretending I understand.

At least he was talking about the internal hardware of the various laptops I was asking him about and even making comparisons to one another, the Fujitsu guy at Challenger just kept going on and on about build quality, I understand what he was saying but I didn't really care. I have been using an Acer for 4 years or so, I am pretty sure any other laptop I get will have a better build quality, and the fact that the laptop actually lasted that long with me says something about me.... that I am a gentle and loving laptop person who even though doesn't clean his laptop as much as he should, I cleaned it like 4 times so it's like once every year... the point is I care for my laptop.

What I wanted was hardware capabilities, not external durability, if I wanted durability I would have gotten the Panasonic Toughbook, but because that's one mofo ugly laptop, obviously not gonna get that.

After much hesitation, I decided to go with an ASUS. It was initially a Lenevo I was planning to get since I saw that there was a promotion going on in the newspaper, but apparently there wasn't any because the news paper blatantly lied to everyone in Singapore, I decided to try my luck with an Acer, but then getting an Acer again would be a bad idea because even though my Acer has served me well, the amount of system failures and shitty gameplay was not worth the 4 years of software maintenance at all. It's probably Window's fault but I'm gonna blame Acer as well. Went for ASUS in the end, it wasn't really calling out to me, but I heard from someone that ASUS was a good alternative for a gaming laptop so that fit the bill, plus they gave me a RAM boost from 2GB to 6GB.

Total cost - $999

My mum decided to chip in $400 at the end because she wanted to share the laptop with me and that's very possible because I will be in Tekong more than half the time. What a bad timing to get a new laptop for a gamer who enjoys RPG games who doesn't have the time to play any of it.

Ready for hibernation.

Currently I am able to do 5 chin ups. In order for me to be able to come back this Friday, I have to do 6 because that's the passing score for IPPT.

The only way one can train up for chin ups is by doing chin ups everyday until your muscle feels so sore they feel like they are about to fall off from the bones and cause permanent damage to your entire left arm, but that's probably just me.

Lucky for me my brother has a chin up bar, but of course since it's a portable one, I don't really feel safe using it. It's the type that you tighten between the door frame and hopefully when you do your chin up, gravity isn't being a bitch, and that no one's is filming if gravity is being a bitch since you don't want to appear on Youtube's front page because that would be HILARIOUS... in a mean bitchy school girl way.

Let's see, I don't think I did anything yesterday except getting 12 muesli bars, a can of nuts among other junk food for my consumption, I have to recuperate myself with junk food before returning to the dreaded island that's Tekong. I'm like a squirrel who's stuffing himself with food before winter hits, except instead of sleeping all day long, I'm gonna be sweating my butt off.

This week I had 4 days off, which sounds long but it's actually really short. Can't wait for National Day, more break please, I want to spend more time with my lazy, couch potato side.

Pwned

A bug flew into the fan yesterday and ricocheted to my forearms before ricocheting into oblivion, because I couldn't find it after.

Anyway I decided to try a new game genre yesterday, DotA, because I needed a game that I could play quickly, I mean I don't have that much time to waste on an MMO now because of Army, now I don't have as much life to waste as I did in the past.

There were 2 options available for me....

Both games are really similar and since I'm super shallow I decided to go for the one with the nicer graphics. Heroes of Newerth it is!

I kinda got the gist of how the whole game works. You control a character, you go around destroying key points before heading for the main enemy building and destroying it. So it took like half an hour or so for me to install the game and log in to play.

As an MMO gamer, I have no idea what I was suppose to do in a DotA styled game so I was very very lost. In Aion before doing anything with a group of people, be it taking down a boss or running an instance (dungeon), I will always disclaimer myself if I had any primary roles like healing.

So in Aion it usually goes like this...

Party Member A : "Finally a healer! Yay!"

Me : "Hey guys, I haven't played in a while so do pardon my bad healing."

Party Member B: "Don't worry about it. Just do your best, we are pretty well equipped."

Me : "Ah okay, that's good."

And then I heal really well simply because I'm awesome. And I am awesome because I have a lot of time to hone my gaming skills due to my lack of social life.

In Heroes of Newerth. I disclaimer myself, not to be humble like in Aion but because I really am a noob.

Me : Hey I'm still pretty new to this game so do excuse me.

RG (Random Gamer): POS (which I guess is suppose to be an acronym for something)

RG 2: SOE (another acronym for something)

And then the game starts and I die

RG 3: SPY! SPY GAME! (Whatever the fuck that means)

RG 2 : NOOB! NOOB! NOOB!

RG 4 has voted to kick you from the game. Vote Failed.

Me : Sorry guys, I'm still new at this.

RG 4 :Spy! You are a spy!

Me : Me?

RG 2: NOOB!

Me : I'm not a spy, I just started this game like less than 10 minutes ago.

RG : Go fuck yourself!

The response I get from a game that's OBVIOUSLY filled with trolls and keyboard warriors who range from the ages of 12 and below. The amount of hostility in the in-game community is crazy.

Didn't plan to start an argument with them because it's really pointless so I just left the game, I mean they are obviously kids or adults who are suffering from mental regression. The only comeback they can come up with is "Fuck you!" or "Noob!", the latter I have already accepted and told them but they can't seem to get that into their skull , which is very very thick to compensate for the very very small brain that's encapsulated within.

And that's the reason I hate kids. Whoever said kids are angels have never played a round of DotA with them before.

I guess...

I will be leaving for Tekong in about an hours time and by allowing myself to successfully write a blog post and post it would probably take me an hour, so you're welcome for the update.

Managed to spend the past 3 days doing absolutely nothing productive, then again I guess Civilian Life is meant for the conscripted soldiers to actually waste their name since they can't do that in the camp... as much as they would like to.

Yesterday and the day before I was just at home surfing the net the whole day, on Youtube trying to look for videos to watch, ended up just watching a lot of SNSD videos.

Had lunch at a 5 star hotel (Pan Pacific)today with my Mum, sister and my brother along with my Mum's relative, who are technically mine as well but I don't really know them that well. It's like me saying I know Angelina Jolie because of the 6 degrees of separation.

When I think 5 star dining, the first thing that pops in my mind is "Quality over Quantity"... and that was so very true at today's lunch. Everyone was served a single dim sum of each variation and my Mum's Aunt ordered about 5 different types and a plate of noodles... the bill arrived, it was $217 and I didn't even feel full at all, that's saying something for a person whom people always mistakes suffers from anorexia and bulimia.

After lunch I scoured the entire Marina Square for a new book to get because the one I've been reading I've finally completed after 1 month, found it in the 3rd book store.

I guess wasting your life at home and doing absolutely nothing actually bores you to death to the point you actually don't mind going back to Tekong to do some physical training. I had that mentality yesterday because I was so bloody bored at home. When you want time to pass slower, doing boring stuff helps I guess.

Next book out is on Saturday. And then book in on Sunday. It's gonna suck.

Novel Needed

2nd book out from Tekong today, I'm going to have to admit this one came by really quickly compared to the 1st bookout.

I can't believe I actually managed to stay sane during the 18 days confinement period because Booking In on Sunday was an instant turn off, saw my bunkmates, took the bus back to the ferry terminal and got instantly attacked by a rush of sianess, alas it was only 5 days long so it wasn't so bad.

Bought my cup of bubble tea as I arrived in Pasir Ris, tasted a little weird and didn't felt as awesome as the one I had last week despite it being made by the same person.

I have no plans whatsoever this weekend and for all my other bookouts, so they will all probably be spend at home surfing the net till 10pm before lights out and waking up again to repeat the process till I book in, and people say I don't have a life. Pfft~

Will probably have to get a new book since the one I'm currently reading in the army entitled "The Strain" is about to come to an end. For me, reading a book takes ages, my bunkmate can read the entire book in 2 days, I received the book 1 month ago and I am only 2/3 done.

I thought reading "The Da Vinci Code" in 6 days was an extraordinary feat, turns out its below average because whilst bragging about that to a group of people when I was in in the band practice room in Secondary School, instead of getting the "Ooos" and "Ahhhs~ I want to have your babies" respond, all I got was... "I read it in 3.". She wasn't trying to brag because there can only be one bragger and he was the deluded as hell.