2009

and so we have reached the end of the year. 365 days since 2008. la fin d'année; 今年の終わり; el final del año; Ende des Jahres. jahres, "yas" - don't just you like the way the Germans pronounce it?

2009. a year of tennis courts and wind tunnels. a year in which i met K, got my GTI, hosted G for exchange, finished the thesis, applied for a North Korean visa, completed my DALF C1, climbed Kalapattar, graduated, got promoted to CPT, went monkey hunting with A, ran a couple more races and triathlons, sat through countless polygraph tests, got hooked on Murakami, spoke to Simon and Tsonga in Bangkok, revisited ZoukOut, saw S a lot more regularly, was Macvangelised, and picked up salsa.

the end of things and the start of others. it was not a good year, but not a particularly bad one either. i guess things probably worked out the best they could given the circumstances.

the countdown starts again tomorrow! watch out 2011!

épuisé

i'm drunk and i'm feeling down
and i just wanna be alone
you shouldn't ever come around
why don't you just go home?

cause you're drowning in the water
and i tried to grab your hand
and i left my heart open
but you didn't understand

go fix yourself

i can't help you fix yourself
but at least i can say i tried
i'm sorry but i gotta move on with my own life
i can't help you fix yourself

mary xmus

its the time of the year again.

time to go shopping, time to go festive, eat drink and make merry and what-else-have-you.

all over the supposed birth of a baby 2009 years ago. yaay.

well at least this year i'm not feeling it.

perhaps too much work perhaps friends are all away / have other plans perhaps perhaps perhaps.

i remember Christmas as a love-hate affair when i was younger. it would always be a holiday to look forward to cos of all the presents, but then again Christmas meant that the school holidays were coming to an end. hence the love-hate relationship.

later on, Christmas became a time for crazy gatherings and the perfect excuse to ask that date out for a romantic dinner. not as stressful as valentine's with all the expectations and hidden meanings, but just as effective, and why, they even decorate all the streets for you!

now, I just want to run away from all that. bah humbug, i'm done with all that, i think. no need for all that empty conversations and meaningless merry making.

Merry Christmas everyone. Have yourselves a good one.

atp

“firers, magazine of 4 rounds, load and ready.”

“firers, this is your ATP marksmanship test, good luck, firers, watch your front.”

that is what i have been doing for all last week, conducting this last minute Advance Trainfire Package 100m for the newly posted in officers, specialists, overseas returnees and some “reshoot category” men.

its pretty boring, and i just couldn’t wait for it to be over. i myself had doubts that it would be a smooth conduct, considering i had to organise everything on my own, indent transport/ration, arrange the details, source for TSR. i didn't even have time to read the lesson plan before the ATP. wow.. how's that for a responsible conducting.

but well, i knew the sequence of everything back from my NSF days, made sure everything that were supposed to be there was there, and made sure things ran well. of course i had a good detailing and scoring ic who made sure the majority of the show went on, without which there would be no details for the firers to be in!

it ended early on wed night, was preparing to head back when i got a call. and with that call, i had to head back to camp.. and there i stayed till 4am.

zzz.. how's that for a xmas eve pre-emptive strike?

now for COC parade.

ispoil

outstanding.

my regular ipod classic decided to die on me today after i recently got the imac and ipod touch.

case of sibling rivalry perhaps?

Insolitude

c'est incroyable que après un tel longtemps on a toujours le même sentiment. peut être la vie peut changer mais les sentiments changeraient jamais.

zonkout 2009

after a hiatus for like 4 years, i went for zoukout again yesterday.

wow how things have changed. firstly the prices have more than doubled since 2005! i remember paying like $30 then; for the 2009 version i paid $52. but then the scale of the event has become a lot larger as well: from 2 stages to 4, from foam parties to riding artificial waves.

all in all it was not such a bad event. details of the night are still pretty fuzzy even until now.. haha. i just remember lots of chivas, lots of talking crap, then lots of grinding and groping.. haha.

the only bad thing was that avb really came on a bit too late at 5am. by that time i was already feeling kinda cranky from the lack of sleep.. must be a sign of old age!

sidenote: it would be quite interesting to organise a clean up the beach day for the school kids today. i wonder what would they make of the buried bikinis and condoms in the sand? =D

bad karma

dunno was it plain bad luck or just accumulated karma, but i was unfortunate enough to get into my second ever accident today.

yes, i banged a parked motorbike down. worse, it was my friend's. luckily it was stationary and that no one was injured.

just a bit pissed that he parked his bike so close to mine that i could not see it through my rear view mirror when i was reversing out of the lot; but oh well the fact was that i hit his bike, so now i gotta pay.

c'est la vie.

important life lessons #4236

never eat hokkien mee (of the black tze char variety) if you are wearing white.

it can get very ugly.

absolutely apple

to mac or not to mac is not the question.

rather, to iMac or to MacBook should be more pertinent.

seriously any advice? cheaper and higher spec but non portable
vs more expensive and inferior specs but portable. heart says MacBook but mind says iMac!