Saturday, April 28, 2007: Its been a long time~~
It's been a long time since i blogged? hmmm.. nothing to do now.. dar dar has her dhscogy gathering and i played maple until sianed liao...

Lets talk bout what happened after my BMT pop. I got posted to 41 SAR.!!! i hate tt MO!!! This is how e story goes. During BMT, i slept at outfield. And i placed my right forearm below my arm as a cushion, den the following morning 3am it was numb. I tot it was normal, so i give it a few massage to let e blood flow and cont back to sleep. When i woke up at 5am, i could still feel the numbness and my whole biceps amd forearm were weak. I didnt report my injury immediately to the medical officer back in tekong medical centre, coz i tot i will recover eventually. But after 5 days, i could still feel e numbness and weakness, so i went to see the medical officer and i got referred to a specialist at neroscience clinic at TTSH. And they diagnosed that its a nerve prob, but its recovering.

Then, its was the day for a mini test which is call Fit For Instructor (FFI) . This test determines where u will be posted to after BMT, whether it is to OCS, SISPEC or UNIT. In this FFI test, they will ask u bout ur medical history. And i honestly go write down bout my hand. Den when its our turn to see the medical officer who will grade us as fit or unfit for instructors, the medical office put me as unfit coz of my hand. And i told him my arms are recovering, so can put me as fit? and u know what reasons he gave? He said : 'cannot cannot, what if u go OCS or SISPEC and you carry and fire gun and then suddenly misfire how?cannot cannot. ' okay, i took his words and bo bian, unfit lo.

After the posting result was out, i'm posted to 41 SAR which is an ARMOUR unit!!! and guess what! armour unit deals mostly with firing and learning bout guns more than other unit. WTH lah, its a stupid reason for the MO to give lah, its so contridicting!! and i've been posted to this unit as men for nothing. I shd be in sispec or ocs lah!! argh.. everytime talk bout this issue my blood will boil!!! BASKET!!! Actually i dun mind been posted to this unit, but posted as a men, its the most least thing i wan to expect and be!!! At least a sergeant lah!!! whatever!

9:06 PM; Mountain <3 Ninja
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Sunday, March 25, 2007: Last day of civilian life
Today is the 25th Mar which also marks the last day of my block leave. Hmmm... pass out of BMT since the 14th Mar and got my posting result on the 23rd. Haiz, got posted to armour unit, quite a big disapointment, but quite expected also. Its a long story and I repeated a lot of times already, so dun feel like blogging it down. Lets just hope armour is fun lo, but I heard that must wash the bloody tank, haiz....

For the past 11 days or so, I've been spending everyday of my time with dar except for the 3 days that I'm in Chiang Mai . Spending time with her is what I want and what I'm looking forward to everyday :D Waiting for her to have lunch or dinner together and seeing her smile makes my mood better a lot. And one more thing I wanna say, she's getting more and more pretty wor,oooooooo...

We went out on thu which is her off day. That day was different. Coz normally we will shop for her stuffs and I'll buy things for her, but that day, it was vice versa. She bought me a white wallet, a topshop bermudas and two briefs hmmmm... But before all these shopping, we went to watch Mr. Bean. haha, what can I say, Mr. Bean is my all time idol!!! After the shopping, we went to parkway for steamboat which I can say is average ba, but worth a try :)

And yesterday I did the dumbest thing. I actually forgot or i noted down her break time wrongly. In fact it was 12nn-1pm which I thought it was 1pm-2pm. okay, I should get punish for that :(

Oh, 10.41am le... no time liao, need to go visit the kranji camp ( the camp that I'm posted to), shall post pictures some other days. After that, off to see my dear dear le.................and she bought me some t shirts and shirts wo haa...

10:20 AM; Mountain <3 Ninja
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Sunday, February 25, 2007: Thank you...
12 more days to the special day~ hoho.. make a guess what special day it tt :P

Thinking of you make my fear disappears... ...
Thinking of you make me feel stronger and tougher... ...

You are the motivation of me... ...
You are the reason why I'm here... ...
You are EVERYTHING... ...

<3

2:38 PM; Mountain <3 Ninja
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007: Happy Lunar New YEAR~~
I'm gg back to tekong land in 3 hrs time.. haiz.. time flies..4 days of holidays flew past just liddat... Was back in sg last fri afternn, Had dinner with her at jack's place...

Hmmm... I cant recall what i've done during cny eve...oh! I went to watch ghost rider with peck and ping at marina oh oh!

Had reunion dinner at night, den countdown with my sis and two cousins at our ah ma hse. This yr's cny eve is a bit different, coz our ah gong is no longer ard le... :(

1039...

Sian... but anyway, i'm counting down to my passing out parade(POP). Hmmm.. still got 3 more weeks, haha, cant wait for tt day. After POP, there will be a one week so call block leave, den aft tt wk, we will know where we are posted to, to either Officer Cadet School (OCS) or Specialist school (SISPEC) or Unit.

P.S. I wish u could come for my POP on the 14th march, I want to show you what I've learn for the past 9 weeks and I'm proud to show you and I want you to be proud of me too... Thats all i wish for...

4:03 PM; Mountain <3 Ninja
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Thursday, January 11, 2007: Bye Bye~~
Sry for not blogging days 4-8 of my japan trip everybody.. Been busy these few days... hehe...

Okay.. tml is my official BMT, 10 am at Tekong Sch 1 ... BB everybody, take care...

I hope the so call confinement is ard 2 weeks... haha..

To my dar... 2 wks is very fast de right? Congratz again for your new job tt will start tml... jia you in ur job k? Although I may not be by your side, but i will always be in ur heart... Be strong okay?
I'll miss you in BMT de~ I love you~~~ love you~~love you~Muackz...


Below is a song for you~~
王力宏 - 第一个清晨

光投进爱
把梦刷白
舍不得你会醒过
来不要现在
昨夜走太快哦…
说不上来
隐隐藏在胸口一块
吻你脸颊
证明此刻真的存在
是你让我相信爱
对我慷慨 hey oh
是爱我们是注定不是意外
这是爱
我们的爱
还不确定却好实在
把你贴在胸怀
静静的代替表白
才不愿放开
给你的爱
没名字却停不下来
在忐忑里期待
雀跃中想到未来是你我才明白
这就是爱
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但梦还在
小心不让你醒过来
也许现在
就是永恒的未来
第一个我们的清晨
迷人和默契都是你的
无限可能
言语都显得太肤浅

10:18 PM; Mountain <3 Ninja
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Thursday, January 04, 2007: Japan 24th-31st dec (Day 3)
Day 3, 26th dec. Hilton Hotel. Narita train station. Utsunomiya. Nikko.

As usual, woke up around 8am, took the hotel shuttle bus to Narita train station. We went to a nearby eating house for breakfast. I had ramen, its just plain ramen with some spring onions. And its SALTY!!

Ultimate salty ramen
Then we are off to nikko. But 1st, we had to take a bullet train to Utsunomiya, then transfer to a subway train to nikko. I feel that apart from Japanese being courteous, they are also very considerate. Look at the picture below. At almost all the escalators whether its in shopping centres or in train station, no matter how squeezy it is, they will position themselves to the left and allow the right for people to overtake them. Speaking about Sinaporeans, we will all chiong to occupy any available space. *sigh*

The escalator

Here we are, at the train station...

Bullet Train

Handicapped toilet

Hurray, we finally reached Nikko after 5 hrs i think. The whole journey should takes about 3 hrs plus but due to the strong wind, the train had to stop and hide inside the tunnel for safety.

Nikko train station

My godma expected snowing, but when we reached Nikko, its raining... We took a public bus to our resort. En route from the train station to our resort, we lost our way because we alighted at the wrong bus stop. Luckily, we found our resort with the help of the 7 eleven people..

A river flow...

The resort is a ryokan style (japanese style hotel). I.e we will be sleeping on the floormat called tatami. Awwww, its awful. You will have backache after that night if you are 1st time sleeping on it.

After checking in, we went to he nikko spa (onsen) inside the resort individually. Its a private spa duh~ Warning to onsen users, remember not to soak yourselves for too long, you will feel giddy when you get up...


The onsen pool

Tatami ( Floor mat bed)

After the spa, we walked a long long way to a Jap-kor restaurant for dinner. Its run by an old couple and the serves delicious food.


Dinner~

Hot Sake

Korean style dish

After the dinner, we went back to the hotel. Of course after a heavy meal, its not possible to go to bed immediately. So we went to dig out the yukata (japanese 'robe')..

Me and my sis in yukata

Thats all for day 3. Turn on the heater and sleep...







8:19 PM; Mountain <3 Ninja
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007: Japan 24th-31st dec (Day 2)
Day 2, 25th dec. Hilton Hotel. Narita International Airport. Narita train station. Tokyo. Shibuya.
Super early sunrise~~ 5am plus and the sun is shinning through the curtains.. But couldnt be bothered, was so tired, went back to sleep until 7.30 am. Wash up and took a hotel shuttle bus to Narita Airport fo our breakfast. Wow! I love the restaurant man!! I really do lo! Their restaurant is divided into non smokers zone and smokers zone without any barrier to block the smoke from diffusing from the smokers zone into the non smokers zone. And I'm practially eating my beef udon with smoke~~ Nice man!!
Beef Udon
After that smoked breakfast, we took a bus to the Narita Train Station and we bought a 5 day trip east railyway 'passport'. Well, it cost 16k yen,about S$213. Its a bit expensive, but it will definitely be cheaper if u buy the standard tix which will cost like 4k-5k yen (S$53) travelling from Narita to Tokyo. And also we are going to travel a lot by train during this trip.

The untimale 16k yen 5 days travel pass

The Narita Express ( from nartia to tokyo, ueon, blah blah )

Inside the train
Thats the inside of the train, there will be a lady with a push cart going around selling food (Its not cheap duh~)
O well, they say the train is rapid, express blah blah, but it still took us 1hr plus to reach Tokyo from Narita. And the train is VERY STUFFY!!! They thought its winter so the air con is switched off, but can they kindly turn on the FAN MODE!!! its bloody suffy lah!! Thats the only time i sweat in Jap, thats in the TRAINS!

The wonderful, complicated, messy, colourful Tokyo city railway line

If you are a 1st timer to Japan, U will die staring at the map and finding the destination you want to go. ITS SO SO SO MESSY!! Over 8 railway lines, think over 100stations ba..

After we reached Tokyo, we went to this Lei Men. Its a shopping street inside, but at the end of the street is a temple. Didnt bought much things inside the street.


Lei Men

The shopping street

Inside the temple

After the temple, we took a subway to shibuya!! Shibuya is basically a shopping paradise. Lots of shopping building, deparments buildings blah blah...


Shibuya cross junction
Our target today is Shibuya 109, a shopping complex. Its a 9 storeys pure full of FEMALE lastest fashion stuffs! Trash our singapore shopping malls! Then we went to Shibuya 109-2. Well, they say Shibuya 109-2 sells men stuffs, but haiz... it has only around 4 floors of men's clothings etc and mixed with 3 floors of female stuffs.. There are just limited Male fashion things lah...

Shibuya 109-2


Shibuya 109


More buildings!

And after the window shopping at Shibuya, took our narita express back to narita. Hehe, I took a pic of the male toilet in the train.

The male toilet




11:11 AM; Mountain <3 Ninja
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