From The Straits Times, Friday 13 June 2008 :
"The Singapore Armed Forces yesterday called an unprecendented three-day halt to all physical and endurance training ... Until Saturday, the entire force of 300,000 active personnel and national servicemen will not be on obstacle courses, route marches or doing any fitness tests. Physically demanding field training is also out."
YA RIGHT. So what is climbing up a steep slippery slope for 70+ metres with a 45-50 degree incline? Oh, it is SO not physically demanding. It is nothing! It is just.. a walk in the park! very relaxing!
Huh? what? everyone was breathing heavily as we were reaching the top? No no, they were just trying to breathe faster to enjoy the fresh jungle air.
what? the instructors were all barking and shouting and swearing at the trainees to hurry up and run up the slope even faster to overexert themselves? No no, they were just being motivating and encouraging the trainees.
what ? There was still a fire and movement which involved dashing from point to point? No no.. it was just a short distance sprint which is very invigorating and helpful to strengthen the heart and avoid exhaustion or cardiac arrest.
what? the sun was scorching and draining everyone of energy but the exercise still went on? no no, there was excellent vitamin D supply and so it was deemed healthy and good for the trainees to stay in the sun to get the necessary vitamins.
GG.
Friday, 13 June 2008
Comfort is Comfortable
Woot, booked out today (friday). after some crazy field camp. imagine carrying 20kg of load and running. CAN DIE AH.
then when i come back on thurs from field camp i learn about all the army-related deaths.. i'm just .. sad. i mean, what the hell la. these kids are so young (lol i'm talking like i'm some old uncle) and because of something they were forced to go through (NS BAH. )they .. die.
but it's really very scary la, seeing how people are so susceptible to cardiac arrest and heat exhaustion (got quite a few cases but i think they cover up =X oops did i leak a secret. ok la not they cover up, just that it never leaked out.) , there are SO many times in army when you just literally feel like dying.
Like today, climbing up some steep hill to do some firing from the top, and all the sergeants were like 'HURRY UP )!@*(#!(*JSD" when it was obviously not possible to try to hurry any faster as the ground was slippery and climbing up wasn't easy. I was just waiting for someone to collapse of exhaustion.. then the sergeants will get into trouble. rawr.
Anyway, i just wanted to comment that the Comfort taxi booking service is quite good. i don't know if it was the M1 tracker or their tracker, but when i called just now they actually knew where i was (the answering machine) . And i think they keep records of repeat callers, cos i didn't give my name but the taxi uncle knew my name.
To end, i dont know who the hell 'passerby' is or why he is so interested in my blog (i banned his IP but he used some other com to access), if the arguments continue i'll just delete all msgs, but his recent comment was freaking funny:
"aruging on the internet is like running in the special olympics. Even if you win, you are still retarded."
HAHAHHA.
then when i come back on thurs from field camp i learn about all the army-related deaths.. i'm just .. sad. i mean, what the hell la. these kids are so young (lol i'm talking like i'm some old uncle) and because of something they were forced to go through (NS BAH. )they .. die.
but it's really very scary la, seeing how people are so susceptible to cardiac arrest and heat exhaustion (got quite a few cases but i think they cover up =X oops did i leak a secret. ok la not they cover up, just that it never leaked out.) , there are SO many times in army when you just literally feel like dying.
Like today, climbing up some steep hill to do some firing from the top, and all the sergeants were like 'HURRY UP )!@*(#!(*JSD" when it was obviously not possible to try to hurry any faster as the ground was slippery and climbing up wasn't easy. I was just waiting for someone to collapse of exhaustion.. then the sergeants will get into trouble. rawr.
Anyway, i just wanted to comment that the Comfort taxi booking service is quite good. i don't know if it was the M1 tracker or their tracker, but when i called just now they actually knew where i was (the answering machine) . And i think they keep records of repeat callers, cos i didn't give my name but the taxi uncle knew my name.
To end, i dont know who the hell 'passerby' is or why he is so interested in my blog (i banned his IP but he used some other com to access), if the arguments continue i'll just delete all msgs, but his recent comment was freaking funny:
"aruging on the internet is like running in the special olympics. Even if you win, you are still retarded."
HAHAHHA.
Saturday, 7 June 2008
conclusions
i came to many conclusions today.
Firstly, i conclude that specialists are super money suckers. They earn money quicker than you can blink. Before you can say the amount which they have earned, they've already earned more than that. Try it. say 'Two - hun- dred"
Too late. They've already earned three hundred.
i just went for my 2nd spec visit at Mount E, did a skin test and a short 5 minute talk with the doctor. Guess how much that cost? $210. + the report which costs $150.
?!?!
that equates to about 500 dollars an hour (ignoring the cost of the report)
what kinda ridiculous nonsense!
Well, apparently i'm allergic to dust and some other stuff. They poke me 11 times with some tiny thing on my forearm.. and some areas had swelling, etc. So.. the doctor's gonna write a report to my army doctor. and i'll most likely carry on with the course cos everything is too minor for the army doctor to downpes me. :(
sigh.
Second conclusion i made - one 4gb memory card is not enough for a PSP.
Come on, one game is already around 600-1gb. Let's take the average of 800mb. That only fits 5 games! Add on the fact that you will have songs and videos you want, sometimes movies that you want to store.
I'm seriously struggling with the tiny piece of space. Now it only fits Winning eleven, crisiscore(which i'm seriously considering deleting but it seems like a waste), tonyhawk (which i havent touched in a long time. cant clear mission), bomberman.
Left 400mb which fits nothing. besides maybe an episode of prison break.
I NEED A NEW MEMORY CARD
but guess what, one measly 4gb mem card costs about 70 dollars.
!!!
(i'm trying to draw wings on the dollar but am failing badly)
thirdly, i'm really lousy at warcraft now.
played about 6 games today, lost 4 only won 2. The games that i lost were highly frustrating too. They were not against players of better skill or considerably better. Just.. i played BAD.
So it was highly frustrating. Hence i stopped playing and am here blogging.
Well, i'm also converting Vantage Point to PSP-playable format so i can watch it in camp tmr. haha.
Lastly, amanda is really really bad at bomberman.
word.
Firstly, i conclude that specialists are super money suckers. They earn money quicker than you can blink. Before you can say the amount which they have earned, they've already earned more than that. Try it. say 'Two - hun- dred"
Too late. They've already earned three hundred.
i just went for my 2nd spec visit at Mount E, did a skin test and a short 5 minute talk with the doctor. Guess how much that cost? $210. + the report which costs $150.
?!?!
that equates to about 500 dollars an hour (ignoring the cost of the report)
what kinda ridiculous nonsense!
Well, apparently i'm allergic to dust and some other stuff. They poke me 11 times with some tiny thing on my forearm.. and some areas had swelling, etc. So.. the doctor's gonna write a report to my army doctor. and i'll most likely carry on with the course cos everything is too minor for the army doctor to downpes me. :(
sigh.
Second conclusion i made - one 4gb memory card is not enough for a PSP.
Come on, one game is already around 600-1gb. Let's take the average of 800mb. That only fits 5 games! Add on the fact that you will have songs and videos you want, sometimes movies that you want to store.
I'm seriously struggling with the tiny piece of space. Now it only fits Winning eleven, crisiscore(which i'm seriously considering deleting but it seems like a waste), tonyhawk (which i havent touched in a long time. cant clear mission), bomberman.
Left 400mb which fits nothing. besides maybe an episode of prison break.
I NEED A NEW MEMORY CARD
but guess what, one measly 4gb mem card costs about 70 dollars.
!!!
(i'm trying to draw wings on the dollar but am failing badly)
thirdly, i'm really lousy at warcraft now.
played about 6 games today, lost 4 only won 2. The games that i lost were highly frustrating too. They were not against players of better skill or considerably better. Just.. i played BAD.
So it was highly frustrating. Hence i stopped playing and am here blogging.
Well, i'm also converting Vantage Point to PSP-playable format so i can watch it in camp tmr. haha.
Lastly, amanda is really really bad at bomberman.
word.
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