Friday, September 09, 2005 -


Alright Private, c'mon Gimme five.................PUSH-UPS!!!- Sgt Rock

Well.........back for a quick update.......as promised..well,this is probably gonna be one of my last posts......... and its named after a song from Lamb Chops play-a-long to boot!!!........this blog will prbably not be updated for a good long while...but who knows a few weeks on that sunny island called tekong might fill me with enough horror stories to write for an entire year.....haha
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Alright.......I'm all packed up and ready to go. My mum is giving me a crash course in how to wash clothes manually without a machine and and an hour ago she was demonstrating how to use the chain she bought for me to secure my rifle when I'm asleep......of course she demonstrated with a metal candle holder in place for the rifle.......I gotta admit its a bizarrely funny thing to see my mum chaining a candle holder to her wrist with a padlock and chain.....haha... I think managed to do most of the things I wanted to do......and I don't think there are anymore more loose ends to be tied up....at least I hope not....
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You know somethings.......you just kinda leave them alone......and assume you'll just get back to doin them sometime down the road......when you feel like it........I got a load of stuff on my reading list, some stuff waiting to be read for more then 2 years and I gotta say....knowing that you'll be only free on weekends for the next 2 years gives you great motivation to just READ those damn things..........went through like 2-3 books or tpbs a day for the past two weeks......never read so much in my life....hahha.......finally!!........got the whole reading thing over and done with....
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I read this beautifully illustrated story called 300 by Frank Miller( Sin city's creator). This comic story is actually non-fiction....its based on the true life story in 480 BC , when King Leonidas and his three hundred spartans protected Greece from the Army of Persia led by the God-king Xerxes, the mightiest military force ever assembled,an army so large that the earth shuddered with the impact of its march .
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The 300 Spartans were outnumbered a hundred thousand persians to each spartan.However throught strategic planning and cunning....King leonidas ambushed the persian army in a narrow mountain pass known as the "Hot gates".....where the Persian army were funneled into this narrow corridor and the Spartans attacked them from above. The 300 Spartans fought long and hard and at the end of the fight, all three hundred died.....slaughtered by persian assasins and a hail of arrows the blotted out the sun itself. But these 300 soldiers managed to kill so many thousand persians that it gave the mighty army pause enough for Slumbering Greece to rally their own army for War.
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Very inspiring story based on actual historical facts. Its a story about the sheer truimph of the human spirit against seemingly hopeless odds. I heard that the monument to the Spartan's sacrifice still satnds but the Hot gates itslef has collapsed after all these centuries. The last Comic story I read before my enlistment. Great choice for my last comic.....very satisfying.
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Also I recently purchased 3 seasons of my all-time favorite comedy series "Seinfeld" from some very entreprising foreign pirates..........hahha.....my god, It was such a treat watching those 45 odd episodes of Seinfeld.......There's a major huge laugh in each and every one of those episodes I watched.....I always wanted to buy the Seinfeld boxed set, but at $195.........I would have to sell two gallons of my own blood and a limb or two to pay for it.......what Can I say...Thank God for Piracy!! Its a man's best friend........
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For those of you who dunno.....Seinfeld is one of the longest running comedies of all time and It ended in the late 90's.........while watching the shows.........I finally traced my sarcastic and cynical brand of humor to its roots..............I swear my life was forever changed after I watched Seinfeld when I was in primary four.....my sarcasm level went up several ....hundred....levels after watching Seinfeld throughout my primary school days......hahha......its like I'm a walking,breathing mixture of all 4 of the main characters in the show....Jerry Seinfeld, Elaine Benes, George Constanza and Kramer kosmo......its uncanny I tell You!!!
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This comedy could take the most trivial things like the buttons on a shirt, a jacket, a fountain pen, a tape recorder,pizza, hair transplants,soup,condoms,pez dispensers and just weave a 30 min show around this trivial stuff that is so incredibly neorotic and at the same time bloody funny.........the characters can pick on any small minute detail and just become obesssive about them.......it's brilliant!!I'm really glad I watched the first three seasons of my favorite show before NS.....hahaa...sent me off with a big laugh.....
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I also had the chance to draw one last piece of art before enlistment. Strangely enough its a picture of an aged ventriloquist and his dummy.......came out pretty well............so that's good. Scratched a hell of an itch I've had by drawing that piece..........I draw EVERDAY.......I just doodle and draw and sketch whenever I can every day on any material I can find.......it's gonna be weird not drawing on a regular basis.........maybe physically uncomfortable even!!hahaa.....but two years is a good time to digest and absorb all the artsy fartsy stuff I've been learning.........gonna be interesting seeing how my drawing style mutates and evolve within this time period.....
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Also....on tuesday....out of the clear blue sky.....I woke up to find this huge white,leather sofa in my living room.......holy guacamole..........my parents are like revamping the house or something......just when I'm about to leave....suddenly my house has air-conditioning, a plasma tv, a portable dvd player, SCV and this super comfortable leather sofa set.........goddamn........for the past few days I'm like building a nest of the sofa.....I just wanna coccoon myself in soft leather and overdose on the fresh smell of mint,brand new leather....hahaha........my parents were even talking about moving into a condo at Hill view complete with panoramic view of Bukit Timah, a gym layered with beveled oak and this massive swimming pool....hilltop I think the name was.........hope that happens.......hahha........Its strange......I'm noticing a weird trend.....my parents seem to be getting increasingly richer as I'm leaving.......hahaha.......dun see them buying such good stuff when I was with them 24/7........hahhaha......imagine.....they could be living in in a landed property with their own projection theatre and artifical waterfall maybe if not for me!!!hahah.......
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Anyways I spent plenty of time with my parents these few weeks.....so that's good...........I heard they got their programs all lined up to keep themselves occupied when I'm away......hope I get time to call back.......hell hope I get the kind of 2 hr long phone breaks that Liang Jie gets!!....but I Just came back from having dinner with my parents at Sushi Tei........a nice enough dinner...hahhaha.....ate as much as I good without screwing up my overall BMI..hahha
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Well......that's about it........took a nice loooooong bath before this with that bottle of strawberry body foam I never got around using, went through all my items again,managed to do one extra pull-up then normal (2 more to pass My napfa with silver!!), packed up my room once again and cleared up my drawing table.........not a single sheet of paper on it...looks weird....bare...empty.....anyways...the magic eight ball predicts muscle aches,sleepless nights, rigorous training, impending baldness,lack of female contact whatsoever and loss of any semblance of a social life in my future......hahaha
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To all my dear friends....hahhaha...best of luck for your coming exams(if any), take care of yourselves......dun miss me too much...hahhaa..... and if you're a religious person.......please do pray for my well-being......ahhahaha....I will see all of you in two weeks....
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Ironic that one of my last posts should be my shortest.....hahah......well.........all good things come to an end......so in the words of my friend and the cause of hurricane katrina and any natural disaster we can pin on her:SY ........"Abbedi-abedi-that's all folks!!".......wit a minute... that was Porky pig wasn't it? Ah wat the hell.............they both look the same to me........sorry... force of habit.......hahaha......you did'nt really think I was gonna let SY off in this post would you? Hell no.........hahhaha....somethings is life change and somethings just stay the same!!
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Ok...........enough of SY...............I'm letting that fella off easy for these two weeks.....hahhaha.....anways dear friends........another phase of my life is beginning .........when you all next see me.....I would have transformed from a boy to a man........hahhaha.........a very,very bald man I might add!!......ok. got a long day ahead of me tommorrow.......gonna turn in now....surprisingly I'm very excited over going in......hahhah....but for the time being.....well.....this is............
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THE END.

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