Wah, concussed for almost SEVEN hours after consuming the medication. So much for "may cause drowsiness", eh?
Anyway, feeling tons better. Hopefully the rest goes away after tonight, then can go back office... and rush out all that shit. I still have 1 x AHM training to worry about leh. =(
I guess I'll need Eric to help me out this time. Otherwise I've too many thoughts to juggle with for the week.
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Sick =(
Haven't been blogging these past few days. Feeling too sick to think about writing a post...
Decided to visit the polyclinic today. Hopefully the doctor can prescribe me something to make me feel better by tomorrow... feelings of weakness from flu seriously sucks. Can't think, always feel fatigued, got blocked nose, plus got tendency to spread to others... sigh.
A quick summary for what has happened since last Friday:
Sat: 1 x 24 hours mob manning in office. Nothing unusual.
Sun: Went to run 12km plus at McRitchie! (suspect this was the catalyst for me falling ill. Didn't take care of my body, didn't drink enough water) One biiiiig round around the reservoir. I was surprised that I have actually used some of these tracks at certain points of time since 2005, so many places on the trail looked familiar. Evoked many wonderful memories of my days as a student, and subsequently, as a cadet. Can't wait to run again... maybe this time I'll get Eugene to come along, and I make sure I HYDRATE PROPERLY. -.-
Mon: Back to work. Today had CADENCE RUN for morning HLS! Div-SM decided to bring back the good old days in OCS to the camp and made the men from K-9 sing in step. He even got me and Eric to lead the cadence run group! LOL. He garang sia, even led the songs all the way, although his songs are the quite old one I think (airborne, lots of counting, and eh-eh-eh-eh). Not so hip like the ones cadets sing these days. But nevertheless, a lot of fun. Office work... was as usual. Nothing in particular worth mentioning, except that I've had a damn annoying runny nose for the entire day and was feeling slightly unwell already.
Tue: Today went to Mowbray Station for 3 strikes. Wasn't too eventful, just there to assist the NSman COs in delivering the charges. Saved one guy from DB too. (haha okay okay not I save la, but I chipped in some pointers that convinced the CO not to send him in) At noon, I hopped over to DB to interview the detainee for my defence case. He damn sad case sia... feel his pain as he was describing his story. Sadly, there's nothing much I can do for him in the mitigating plea. No MC, no records, no nothing? The least I could do is to check with medical centre when I return, but I doubt there'll be any critical pieces that could turn his case for the better... Anyway, after I was done there, my sickness worsened, so I requested to return home and rest. Took a couple of panadols after that and all was fine. So far.
TODAY: Woke up usual time, didn't feel any better, so I decided to try my luck with the polyclinics. To be honest, I never trusted them, but it's the only place where NSFs can get free medical check-ups. (not sure about medication, but when in doubt, there's always my 11B) So going down later, first thing in the morning. Hopefully can beat the queue... if there's any.
Decided to visit the polyclinic today. Hopefully the doctor can prescribe me something to make me feel better by tomorrow... feelings of weakness from flu seriously sucks. Can't think, always feel fatigued, got blocked nose, plus got tendency to spread to others... sigh.
A quick summary for what has happened since last Friday:
Sat: 1 x 24 hours mob manning in office. Nothing unusual.
Sun: Went to run 12km plus at McRitchie! (suspect this was the catalyst for me falling ill. Didn't take care of my body, didn't drink enough water) One biiiiig round around the reservoir. I was surprised that I have actually used some of these tracks at certain points of time since 2005, so many places on the trail looked familiar. Evoked many wonderful memories of my days as a student, and subsequently, as a cadet. Can't wait to run again... maybe this time I'll get Eugene to come along, and I make sure I HYDRATE PROPERLY. -.-
Mon: Back to work. Today had CADENCE RUN for morning HLS! Div-SM decided to bring back the good old days in OCS to the camp and made the men from K-9 sing in step. He even got me and Eric to lead the cadence run group! LOL. He garang sia, even led the songs all the way, although his songs are the quite old one I think (airborne, lots of counting, and eh-eh-eh-eh). Not so hip like the ones cadets sing these days. But nevertheless, a lot of fun. Office work... was as usual. Nothing in particular worth mentioning, except that I've had a damn annoying runny nose for the entire day and was feeling slightly unwell already.
Tue: Today went to Mowbray Station for 3 strikes. Wasn't too eventful, just there to assist the NSman COs in delivering the charges. Saved one guy from DB too. (haha okay okay not I save la, but I chipped in some pointers that convinced the CO not to send him in) At noon, I hopped over to DB to interview the detainee for my defence case. He damn sad case sia... feel his pain as he was describing his story. Sadly, there's nothing much I can do for him in the mitigating plea. No MC, no records, no nothing? The least I could do is to check with medical centre when I return, but I doubt there'll be any critical pieces that could turn his case for the better... Anyway, after I was done there, my sickness worsened, so I requested to return home and rest. Took a couple of panadols after that and all was fine. So far.
TODAY: Woke up usual time, didn't feel any better, so I decided to try my luck with the polyclinics. To be honest, I never trusted them, but it's the only place where NSFs can get free medical check-ups. (not sure about medication, but when in doubt, there's always my 11B) So going down later, first thing in the morning. Hopefully can beat the queue... if there's any.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Half day off!
A quick summary of today:
Went CDMB to learn and charge NSmen during today's No Show ST. Real eye-opener. Made me realize just how diverse our community is, and how some of us would never see such people if we never open our eyes wide enough. Joined Eric, SY, and Samuel for lunch before leaving the place for Vivocity. Had lunch at Sweet Dreams with Jasmine there, before heading to school. Met Eunice along the way and we got into school compound. I went ahead to the office at the foyer and chatted with Jac and Ms Mazni for a short while. After that, Jac went to find Mr Yap and he gladly showed us around the 6th floor labs - together with the help of the Year 6s Kenneth, Gary, JT, and Nic Yeo. Quite nice la, the 6th floor. Too bad my batch never got to use these facilities. =(
After that, I went to attend alumni meeting with a couple of people from the Class of 09. Mr Ng and I talked abit about what we expected of the alumni and the newly graduated class. With that done, I left school at around 5pm and headed back to camp. It started drizzling along the way, and I had to walk back to camp in the rain. Gee. Showered, changed to civi, then made my way to Raffles Place. Met Jovena there and went up to Boat Quay for dinner. Wanted to go Dallas, only to find the place JAMMED PACKED, along with the neighbouring bars. Feeling a little annoyed, we travelled across the river to Timbre, but it was full house too. Jovena then suggested that since we're just looking for a place to drink, we could go Macs for dinner and then grab some alcohol to drink by the riverside, and I thought sure why not. So we went ahead; ate at Macs, went to 7-eleven to grab 2 bottles of (very diluted) cocktails and sat along the riverside for almost 2 hours, chatting and drinking. We finally called it a day at 10pm and left for home.
It was so enjoyable, to drink and relax after a long and stressful work week. I've never felt so... alive.
I need more drinking buddies. =D
Went CDMB to learn and charge NSmen during today's No Show ST. Real eye-opener. Made me realize just how diverse our community is, and how some of us would never see such people if we never open our eyes wide enough. Joined Eric, SY, and Samuel for lunch before leaving the place for Vivocity. Had lunch at Sweet Dreams with Jasmine there, before heading to school. Met Eunice along the way and we got into school compound. I went ahead to the office at the foyer and chatted with Jac and Ms Mazni for a short while. After that, Jac went to find Mr Yap and he gladly showed us around the 6th floor labs - together with the help of the Year 6s Kenneth, Gary, JT, and Nic Yeo. Quite nice la, the 6th floor. Too bad my batch never got to use these facilities. =(
After that, I went to attend alumni meeting with a couple of people from the Class of 09. Mr Ng and I talked abit about what we expected of the alumni and the newly graduated class. With that done, I left school at around 5pm and headed back to camp. It started drizzling along the way, and I had to walk back to camp in the rain. Gee. Showered, changed to civi, then made my way to Raffles Place. Met Jovena there and went up to Boat Quay for dinner. Wanted to go Dallas, only to find the place JAMMED PACKED, along with the neighbouring bars. Feeling a little annoyed, we travelled across the river to Timbre, but it was full house too. Jovena then suggested that since we're just looking for a place to drink, we could go Macs for dinner and then grab some alcohol to drink by the riverside, and I thought sure why not. So we went ahead; ate at Macs, went to 7-eleven to grab 2 bottles of (very diluted) cocktails and sat along the riverside for almost 2 hours, chatting and drinking. We finally called it a day at 10pm and left for home.
It was so enjoyable, to drink and relax after a long and stressful work week. I've never felt so... alive.
I need more drinking buddies. =D
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Whoa approaching end of the week
Hoo-ah. 57.5 hours of solid work in camp. 2 times 24 hour duties, and a full day's work in office. Ahhh... can't do this too often. Just can't wait for the weekend to come.
I still need to figure out what to do for AHM conduct next week. Can't afford to be caught with my pants down or something. Argh. Still got that recee to settle. =(
1 month down. 11 more to go...
I still need to figure out what to do for AHM conduct next week. Can't afford to be caught with my pants down or something. Argh. Still got that recee to settle. =(
1 month down. 11 more to go...
Monday, January 25, 2010
I'm too tired to think now.
Just finished my first DO duty on Sunday (probably my last time doing it too). Wasn't so bad la, though I've made lots of little mistakes here and there despite concentrating very hard not to miss out anything.
Thankfully, no incidents too. Phew.
Since returning to office, work just keeps coming. Makes me damn tired at the end of the day... but it leaves me damn satisfied. Feels as if I'm finally doing something to move this office!
And feels as if I've been too eager to take everything off my upper-study's hands - though honestly he wouldn't mind me taking the responsibilities from him anyway. Nowadays he spends the whole day in office using i-net or listening to his mp3. Otherwise, he would be out of office settling his ORD stuff, or other things.
I fear making mistakes, and getting scolded for them. Maybe that explains why I am always so stressed out...
Just finished my first DO duty on Sunday (probably my last time doing it too). Wasn't so bad la, though I've made lots of little mistakes here and there despite concentrating very hard not to miss out anything.
Thankfully, no incidents too. Phew.
Since returning to office, work just keeps coming. Makes me damn tired at the end of the day... but it leaves me damn satisfied. Feels as if I'm finally doing something to move this office!
And feels as if I've been too eager to take everything off my upper-study's hands - though honestly he wouldn't mind me taking the responsibilities from him anyway. Nowadays he spends the whole day in office using i-net or listening to his mp3. Otherwise, he would be out of office settling his ORD stuff, or other things.
I fear making mistakes, and getting scolded for them. Maybe that explains why I am always so stressed out...
Thursday, January 21, 2010
TGIF
OK, so we sent ZY off at the airport today. Guess my burning of one evening's worth of running, reading, and computer games was worth it. Met Theo and Mikel early at the airport and talked lots about our days since we commissioned. Yeah guess I'm glad they are doing great in their respective units. Later on when the rest came, I talked to Josh for quite a bit too, and Reico on the way home. Gradually learning more about their work, and realizing just how slack I am in my office. >.<
But I've to give it to Joshua la, respect. Seriously, Dy S3, respect.
AHHH why do I have DO duty on Sunday!!! OSCAR-MIKE EARLY. =O
But next week's gonna be damn xiong: 2 DOs, 2 days of mob-manning, not-so gradual take-over of Matthew and Samuel's responsibilities, figuring out how to delegate my work, and trying to take some of the load off my boss. A hell of a week ahead.
But I've to give it to Joshua la, respect. Seriously, Dy S3, respect.
AHHH why do I have DO duty on Sunday!!! OSCAR-MIKE EARLY. =O
But next week's gonna be damn xiong: 2 DOs, 2 days of mob-manning, not-so gradual take-over of Matthew and Samuel's responsibilities, figuring out how to delegate my work, and trying to take some of the load off my boss. A hell of a week ahead.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Life's like a marathon
People may run with you and encourage you, but it's only your strength and steel within that will see you through to the finish line.
Been on a Fall Out Boy craze again. Just downloaded their 2008 album - yes I'm slow. I didn't even know they released a new album - and listening to the songs. Synced with iPod and good to go. =)
Today's been a tiring day - although honestly I didn't do much work, strictly speaking. In the morning I was IPPT neutral, then went back to office for a short while before going out of camp with HK, Samuel and William to do some signals stuff at Maju and Stagmont. Spent the whole morning plus half the afternoon getting it done. Then upon arriving back at camp, I had to begin work with the ISO stuff again - which I had to ditch all of whatever crap I did for the second time after realizing that Matthew had already done up some of the stuff and I went to talk to Dy about what is expected of me. Looks like I would need to approach him more often to find out what exactly does he expect me to do...... and if only Matthew was more organized with his files!!! >.<
Sigh, but whatever. At least the day's done. Hopefully I've a solid whole day tomorrow to spend on the ISO stuff... *keeping fingers crossed that the DB case doesn't come to haunt me too soon* Get some real shit done for once.
Thankfully Eric's tanking the AHM stuff for now. Will need to shoulder some responsibility come Feb onwards already, so I better keep focused on getting as much stuff cleared this month. Or simply, before CNY comes. Maybe during the CNY period, most of the staff would be entering festive mood and what-not, but once it's over.... GG.
I need to increase my running distance. Well, at least I found a Google Maps distance calculator, so I can plot my running route and see how far I run before I actually hit the ground. One of these days I need to do a personal recee of the McRitchie 10km route too... Hahaha.
The fear does not come from what's around you, but what's within you. I'm sure you'll have the confidence to do well, regardless of the decision you make, and commit to the path you will ultimately walk for the next few decades.
Been on a Fall Out Boy craze again. Just downloaded their 2008 album - yes I'm slow. I didn't even know they released a new album - and listening to the songs. Synced with iPod and good to go. =)
Today's been a tiring day - although honestly I didn't do much work, strictly speaking. In the morning I was IPPT neutral, then went back to office for a short while before going out of camp with HK, Samuel and William to do some signals stuff at Maju and Stagmont. Spent the whole morning plus half the afternoon getting it done. Then upon arriving back at camp, I had to begin work with the ISO stuff again - which I had to ditch all of whatever crap I did for the second time after realizing that Matthew had already done up some of the stuff and I went to talk to Dy about what is expected of me. Looks like I would need to approach him more often to find out what exactly does he expect me to do...... and if only Matthew was more organized with his files!!! >.<
Sigh, but whatever. At least the day's done. Hopefully I've a solid whole day tomorrow to spend on the ISO stuff... *keeping fingers crossed that the DB case doesn't come to haunt me too soon* Get some real shit done for once.
Thankfully Eric's tanking the AHM stuff for now. Will need to shoulder some responsibility come Feb onwards already, so I better keep focused on getting as much stuff cleared this month. Or simply, before CNY comes. Maybe during the CNY period, most of the staff would be entering festive mood and what-not, but once it's over.... GG.
I need to increase my running distance. Well, at least I found a Google Maps distance calculator, so I can plot my running route and see how far I run before I actually hit the ground. One of these days I need to do a personal recee of the McRitchie 10km route too... Hahaha.
The fear does not come from what's around you, but what's within you. I'm sure you'll have the confidence to do well, regardless of the decision you make, and commit to the path you will ultimately walk for the next few decades.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Surprised
As if shit doesn't fly in faster than I can deal with it... haiz. Another day in the office. Tomorrow need to come at 7am to be IPPT neutral, what can I say? At least I am not conducting the IPPT though... not yet.
You can't imagine the surprise I had when I read your sms. For a moment, I thought you were joking... but it explains much. It's a good thing anyway.
And that's another one gone.
It just keeps getting more and more challenging, and I seem to be going nowhere... but you know what, I like the challenge.
...
Perhaps at the end of the day, I'm still waiting for... you to be the one I'm waiting for.
You can't imagine the surprise I had when I read your sms. For a moment, I thought you were joking... but it explains much. It's a good thing anyway.
And that's another one gone.
It just keeps getting more and more challenging, and I seem to be going nowhere... but you know what, I like the challenge.
...
Perhaps at the end of the day, I'm still waiting for... you to be the one I'm waiting for.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
AHM training
Today's conduct of AHM training wasn't so bad. Learnt a lot of stuff from SY and Samuel. Hahaha and a bit about fire-fighting too. Like what Eric's boss said, no matter how perfectly we prepare for the event, something somewhere is bound to go wrong. Guess that's up to Eric and I to tackle for the several months down the road, along the routes of ECP and McRitchie. =(
Went out to lunch with family and got myself a black pair of socks to match my black NB trainers. Had to get some Nike dri-fit running socks at 12 bucks, cos I couldn't find anything decent for cheaper at the sports shop. Or maybe... I was just in a rush to get a pair for tomorrow's run. -.-
Ros seems to be learning how to live independently pretty fast, faster than I would have initially expected. Looks like hostel does have many positive effects on her after all. I guess the school made the right choice to make it compulsory for all Year 5s to stay in then... at least, I know I don't regret my stay there 3 years ago, and I'm certain neither will Ros. Hopefully her sudden burst of enthusiasm for work will last for the rest of the year, especially when all the shit work starts piling in. Maybe that will translate to better results for her too. =)
If only my stay there 3 years ago was subsidized... then I wouldn't have imposed such a heavy burden on my parents. But oh well, life goes on.
My boss lent me his "cheat code" for BTT and FTT this morning! Hahaha so nice of him... really friendly chap. I'm looking forward to a good working relationship with him for the rest of the year - till ORD. xD
I wonder what are the chances my superiors are reading this blog anyway... Hmm. Hunt me down on facebook?! o.O
Haha nah shan't speculate. So long as I don't do anything stupid, things should be alright.
Anyway, shall play abit more MW2. M21 EBR is DA WIN. =D
Went out to lunch with family and got myself a black pair of socks to match my black NB trainers. Had to get some Nike dri-fit running socks at 12 bucks, cos I couldn't find anything decent for cheaper at the sports shop. Or maybe... I was just in a rush to get a pair for tomorrow's run. -.-
Ros seems to be learning how to live independently pretty fast, faster than I would have initially expected. Looks like hostel does have many positive effects on her after all. I guess the school made the right choice to make it compulsory for all Year 5s to stay in then... at least, I know I don't regret my stay there 3 years ago, and I'm certain neither will Ros. Hopefully her sudden burst of enthusiasm for work will last for the rest of the year, especially when all the shit work starts piling in. Maybe that will translate to better results for her too. =)
If only my stay there 3 years ago was subsidized... then I wouldn't have imposed such a heavy burden on my parents. But oh well, life goes on.
My boss lent me his "cheat code" for BTT and FTT this morning! Hahaha so nice of him... really friendly chap. I'm looking forward to a good working relationship with him for the rest of the year - till ORD. xD
I wonder what are the chances my superiors are reading this blog anyway... Hmm. Hunt me down on facebook?! o.O
Haha nah shan't speculate. So long as I don't do anything stupid, things should be alright.
Anyway, shall play abit more MW2. M21 EBR is DA WIN. =D
Walao... all the sunday mornings that are going to be burnt this year... sobs. Include Saturday night in the equation too. Damn it.
And no new blood all the way till June too. And even then still need to train them to conduct... Like that, Eric and I might as well tank all the conducting of AHM training till the end.
This is gonna be one rough year...
At least we'll be getting a day off for our.. services. Hoping to put that to good use when I start taking driving lessons - which I hope will be soon, provided I can balance the crapload of work I'll be getting real soon.
And no new blood all the way till June too. And even then still need to train them to conduct... Like that, Eric and I might as well tank all the conducting of AHM training till the end.
This is gonna be one rough year...
At least we'll be getting a day off for our.. services. Hoping to put that to good use when I start taking driving lessons - which I hope will be soon, provided I can balance the crapload of work I'll be getting real soon.
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