Random thoughts of a Disturbed Mind: May 2010

Sunday, May 23, 2010

[Already gone...]

Observe...The letter-boxes at a typical HDB void deck. Wait a minute...What's this?

There's a message...

It seems that Stone Lee has moved and he wants the whole block to know.

The tweets are PMS-ing. They sometimes load and sometimes they don't. Don't know what's causing it. Haven't had time to look into it.

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Saturday, May 22, 2010

[Creepy...]

I was walking to BPP earlier and saw that someone dumped a load of rubbish near the lift landing of one of the nearby blocks. I saw this among the rubbish.

I can't tell if that's real hair. Looks real to me. It's not very clear on the photo, but I think it looks like it was bundled together. Looks like someone's pony-tail.

I think it's creepy.

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

[Chased by walking trees! Help!]

I was reading the papers earlier and I came across this article...

Then I looked at the synopsis...

I know what it meant. But the first thing that popped into my head was the walking trees from Lord of the Rings.

Realised the tweets are dead again. Not sure what happened. If it's still down by this weekend, then I'll try to see what's wrong. Also, realised there's a dead picture on the left. I think I know what happened, will remedy it this weekend if it's still down.

I don't like Taiwanese variety shows because they use sound effects for no good reason. But the girls making the "eehhhhhhhhh..." sounds (again, for no good reason) really pisses me off.

And now, it seems that my mum is getting annoyed with it as well. How strange to find myself and her on the same side for once.

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

[Absolut...]

My sister went for her grad trip and I had her buy this for me at the DFS on her way back...

I won't be drinking it tonight, but I'm really tempted to. I have a lot on my mind right now. Many things in my life aren't going the way I want them to. I may have to make a difficult decision soon.

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Friday, May 14, 2010

[End of ICT...]

We managed to out-pro today without much fanfare. We had a new CSM this year...Not sure exactly what happened to our previous guy. Anyway, the new guy's much better.

I have a lot of mixed thoughts about ICT. Right now, I am adjusting back to the real world. Have you ever had to miss the middle of a movie? It feels like that for me right now.

Not entirely happy with how things turned out during ICT. Sometimes I wonder why am I so unlucky to be placed in a platoon of monkeys. All we had to do was clean up our bunks and we were good to go, and they decide that time could be better spent by lying on the beds.

This is just one of many incidents that make me wonder - we are all hitting 30 soon, but have we gotten more mature? I don't think so. These people are of a different background from myself and I supposed I shouldn't expect them to think like me or have the same mindset. After all, they are monkeys.

This is the second time I out-pro with a runny nose. I nearly died the first time. I'm not kidding...I actually passed out on my feet for a second the first time. It wasn't as bad today, and I already went to my GP to get the meds I needed.

Life is back to normal. Sort of.

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Sunday, May 09, 2010

[Tweets dead?]

Realised that my tweets are not showing up on the right. Not too sure what happened, since I was away for the past week (and will be going back to camp later tonight).

My sister told me that it started on Thursday. If it's still dead when I'm back next weekend, then I'll do something to fix it.

I feel like Russell. Someone mind-fucked her. Now I need to bring her mind back to where I want it to be.

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Saturday, May 08, 2010

[Random thoughts from in-camp training...]

I don't understand why do other people say that ICT is great and they can't wait to go back. Why is it like a holiday chalet for other people, and it's as tough as hell for me?

I've made my peace with the fact that it will always be tougher for me. I have two weapons instead of one, so weapon revision takes twice as long for people in my vocation than for the rest of the company.

But why assign people in my vocation to work on the vehicles as well? That's just madness.

If they are not going to take care of me, then I need to take care of myself.

It's been eight years since we enlisted. Practically everyone has gained weight. Why do they still expect us to perform like 18-year olds is beyond me. This is a good way to have someone drop dead.

Be realistic. We are citizen soldiers, not professionals like in the US or UK. Expectations should be realistic.

Do you watch Survivor? If you don't, I suggest you start. I've learnt many things about human behaviour from the show. Some of it could even be applied in NS.

It's sad (although kinda funny) to see when someone simply doesn't get that nobody likes him.

We take a lot of things for granted. Sometimes it is good to leave everything behind and be cut off from the real world for a while. Gives you perspective.

Remember when we were kids? Our parents will tell us to study hard, go to University, find a good job, make good money, and life will be good. Well, at least, mine did. I believe all Asian parents tell their children something similar.

But more and more often, I find that this is wrong.

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Sunday, May 02, 2010

[Training to be soldier...]

I'll be away for ICT for the next two weeks. Not looking forward to it. I stand by a statement I've made before - if you think of ICT as a break from your job, which means you prefer going for ICT than going to your regular job, then you need a new job. My job isn't perfect, but I would much rather be going back to work than to go for ICT.

I've seen the training schedule. I can't tell for sure if there would be outfield exercises, but I think it is extremely unlikely. Even if we were to go outfield, it would probably not be the overnight kind. The first week's schedule is insane. We will only be booking out on Saturday evening.

I'm not sure how many people have actually thought about how big a sacrifice Singaporean men are making in the course of fulfilling their NS liabilities. Just because "everyone does it" doesn't make it less significant. I have several things on my to-do list which I cannot attend to right now because of my NS liabilities. Ironically, as I am trying to get out of my future liabilities, this adds more stuff to my to-do list.

I've been meaning to read up about HDB and CPF and how they work for us. While I have a general understanding about them, I want to have a deeper understanding. Haven't had the time to properly understand how they work, from top to the bottom.

I have tried reading the info on HDB's website but truth to told, while the info seems comprehensive, the feeling after reading them is that you don't really know much about them still. I have some very specific questions that need answering. The other day, someone on a forum asked a question relating to HDB and other people on the forum helped him out, and several of them said that the info on the website was really not comprehensive enough.

I wonder if I should just find out the answers to my questions, or try to read and understand everything from top to bottom.

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