Friday, October 31, 2008
last weekend was pretty wicked. soccer and supper with dan and sant, it was good to see my favourite thai friend for the first time in a couple of years if i don't remember wrongly. it was pretty fun apart from the fact we didnt get to play cards haha.
saturday was pretty awesome too. yuwei and hoon came over for dinner, we were meant to watch tropic thunder but i wanted to stay home. after that, azad randomly asked if i wanted to go out for supper. he came over, we jammed for abit, and then we went to chompchomp. it's been awhile since i went there and thankfully a few shops were still upon. it was nice tho, probably because it was so impromptu, and going for such suppers used to be part of our regular routine.
everyone's out on this halloween night, trick-or-treating and eating taffy apples at various clubs around the country. haha me and my imagery. somehow, i'm home again. what's new, if it's not the lack of energy, it's the lack of company. something tells me it's actually a combination of both tonight. i really need new friends haha.
it's almost like everyone invariably moves on as the years past and our lives inevitably change. and it's not very healthy if you're stuck in the same moment, refusing to accept the status quo has changed just because you are that comfortable with how things are. i think that is my problem. i need to metamorphosize and start painting a new picture.
halloween's fun. this year i celebrated my first official st patrick's day haha. maybe next year i'll celebrate my first official halloween. hopefully i won't be so tired from camp then. of course, i won't just put on a silly costume, go to a club and find a bunch of awfully dressed people, and use the day as an excuse to have a gothic orgy.
there is a need to celebrate festivals for their true symbolic meanings. even christmas has been transformed into such a commercial moneymaking scheme, and chinese new year is nothing but a reason to get fat.
next year i shall carve a jack'O'lantern and put it at the gate. if i'm feeling nice, i'll prepare some treats for the nice kids, and some tricks for the nasty ones. probably need to read up on a few more traditions so that i can celebrate an authentic halloween.
gosh i must really be bored haha.
keluar baris.
lights off, pyjamas on
11:19 PM
Friday, October 24, 2008
life has certainly been in the fast lane as of late. in a blink of an eye, i only have 4 more weeks before i pass out of basic training and embark on life as a private. things have certainly played out smoother than i could have ever imagined. i have made pretty good friends in camp, as fate or luck would have it, my flat-footed condition has rendered me on long-term light duty, and the instructors are fairly nice.
the monday that just passed was pretty nice. i timed out at 8 in the morning, mom fetched me and i picked up a mcgriddle on the way home. had a horrible encounter with a cobra in the garden before heading to alexandra hospital for my appointment with the orthopedic. we talked about how i wasnt selected for ERS and decided to proceed with downgrading me to pesC. had meepok for lunch before heading back early to camp. i know it sounds like nothing special but when you don't see the outside world for five days on average, breathing the air beyond the gates once in awhile feels pretty awesome.
been spending much of my days writing articles in camp lately. due to being on long-term light duty, the deputy commander somehow targeted me to write an article about the first weeks of Basic Rescue Training. he must have liked it cause he's been asking me to write more ever since, and they've been posted up on the noticeboard for all to read. he's also kinda enquired about my interest in working under him after i pass out. the opportunity has both good and bad but as for now, i'm more inclined to saying yes i reckon. only thing is that i might end up feeling like anakin skywalker in episode3 because it's really kinda like "going over to the dark side".
i'm gonna see sant in one and a half hour's time! he's down from thailand. that's really awesome, when i found out from dan either yesterday or the day before, it really put a smile on my face and i automatically looked forward even more to this weekend. so we're gonna play midnight soccer and hopefully chill. haha sant's great company; along with dan we have the funniest conversations.
i remember how back in trinity i once wrote like my ideal life if dreams were existent. on one of my recent daydreaming bouts then i encounter so often lately in camp, i sort of played out the next two years of my life if they were to go the way i wanted it to. it was pretty awesome haha i might actually write it down later. but i think i have written too much for now.
gabriel out!
lights off, pyjamas on
10:28 PM
