Saturday, July 14, 2007 -

~And thus today.....So Endeth the first two weeks of university for me.......~


Yup.......today is the last day for my first 2 weeks of studies at SIM.........6 days of lectures a week for the past 2 weeks.....plus doing duty back in base after lessons..........its been a long-ass week and man am I beat....hahaha....but its over....Fer now that is......


The First 2 weeks of lessons has been a surreal experience for me.....I don't know if it's because I'm still in my army mode or what but it feels weird to be rushing for classes,listening to lectures and taking down notes,buying textbooks,checking my timetables and seeing so many girls in one place............just being in a lecture theatre again.....it feels familliar yet foreign...man...my head is still trying hard to process coming back to school......hahaha.....


I think part of my confusion is due to the fact that most of the days,after lessons I gotta report back to base for duty from mid afternoon till about 9-10pm........because when I'm at school I have to switch to student mode,then 2 hrs later....I'm dressed in full uniform and completely in army mode.......so switching from one mode to another just screws with my head.........Am I student or am I a soldier now? Somewhere in between?!.......a schooling soldier? A combat ready student?!.............haha...I sometimes I am in the school's LT with my full uniform folded in my bag and sometimes I'm in my camp with a bag full of school notes.....haha....I feel like freaking Clark kent or something....mild mannered student by day, field defence trooper by night!!....hahhaa


The first day of school was a real killer though........dunno what the hell I ate but I think I kanna food poisoning........so at 2.00am on the first day of school, I was like curled in a foetal position on the floor of my toilet after puking my guts out and feverish.....yup.....as always Starting the Term with BANG!!!hahhaa......Dammit......felt like shit on the first day of school.......headache, loud growling tummy,fever....the whole freaking package!!!.........and ater school?! why....Its 6 more hours of Duty Time!!wow......hip-hip-frickin' Hooray.....hahaha......


I think the whole fever/vomiting thing lasted for 4 days........on the second day,my fever was down but I had a vomiting relapse and puked all the way from the bus stop to my camp ....on my third day, against my better judgement.......haha....I went out with Wenjun and Huiling for the whole day........and I had a fever relapse during the evening........man when they were looking at shoes and cosmetics....I was just staring off somewhere and my head felt like a 10 kg sandbag........by the time they were looking at DVDs and Fridges, I was looking at my whole life flashing past me...hahah.... lasted all the way till I got back home when I promptly crashed in bed and slept..........and the 4th day, the puking was mild and the fever was gone...........man......I went from like 64 kg to 59 kgs now........hahaa....why exercise when you can shat those unwanted pounds?!hahaha.....I felt like the possessed little girl from The Exorcist...projectile vomiting and projectile pooping at the same time......Now THAT'S Multi-tasking !!hahaha


And guess who's the Familliar Face that's my one companion for my studies at SIM??!?! Who Pray tell?....why it's none other then my old mocking partner and the nightmare of Japanese School Girls all over God's green Earth....FELIX!!!!hahaha......after a 2 year hiatus....once again we've reunited and joined forces against all that is fat,buck-toothed and sharpie-browed.......hahahaa............man somethings just never change I tell you......right on the first day we were back on form,firing at all cylinders and mocking everything in our way......ahhaa...everytime there was anything even remotely funny,Felix would turn and look at me and give me that face....hahhaa


Felix being Felix of course Gravitated to the fattest guy in the module.....for the first 3 days, he wasn't looking at any girls instead he was always keeping an eye on what the fat guy was doing , walking near to the fat boy and telling me that he wants to go approach the fat boy and be friends.......and I told him that the only reason he wants to befriend the Fat guy is so he can mock him over and over again behind his back....ahahha.....while seeming like a nice,sincere, friendly school mate who just has a penchance for gravitating towards befriending overweight folks......hahaha...

Felix is back doing what he does best.....errr....embarassing himself repeatedly?!hahahah......within the first 5 days, he was on stage doing a presentation and telling the most groan-inducing jokes EVER.....ahhaha......he was presenting a question of how to promote a new cigarette made of cocoa and citrus....and Felix was on stage yammering about how he wanted to promote the cigarette by bundling it with Mcdonald Happy meals so that when Kids open the box....they get a nice Nicotine surprise.......dammit....hahaha

Oh and today? guess wat folks.....He FARTED in lecture.haahaha..........a girl from our project group was sitted with us and Felix was right in the middle of 3 of us.....and halfway through the lecture....I heard double farting sounds breaking the tranquility of the LT......damn...not one but TWINS!!!hahaha....the girl could'nt believe her ears and kinda turned to felix with an expression of disbelief..........and I looked and felix and said "What the hell was that dude?"......and Felix turns over to me with the most innocent eyes he could muster,with the most sincere look he had and pursed his lips and started making Farting sounds.....and replied"Hmm....Nothing....I'm just making some weird noises"...and he continued making fart noises.........but since I KNOW every freaking trick in Felix's book.....I saw right through his painfully obvious ruse....hahaha

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I did'nt want to embarass him in front of the girl so during lunch I looked at Felix and said:"Dude.....You Freaking FARTED in the LT just now did'nt you?"....hahahaa....and Felix looks at me,laughs and said.."No dude... I swear I did'nt....did you smell anything?...no right....I was just making noises lar dude...I swear sia!!.........hahaha...so I replied:"Aye please lar dude..........i know you for how long sia....you freaking farted and then pretended conceal the truth by trying to make farting noises to pretend like those noises actaully came from your mouth and not your fricking' ass!!hahaha...Admit it fool!!"..................hahahah...Felix of course burst out laughing and said:"Dude...I think you know every trick in my book sia....wah lau...aye Please don't tell the girls about it man!!!"...........hahaha.....So I told him how can I let him live this down......He knows I don't keep anything from Wenjun and Huiling....hahaha...Of Course i'll tell them!! DUH!!!....ahhaha......sorry dude.....but the truth will set you free!!!hahahah.......but if the truth smells like your farts then Jack Nicholson was right:"I CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!"......Hahaha

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Hahhaha.......its a wonder how easy we both slip into our old roles and old habits so quickly,........when I was given a piece of foolscap.....the very first thing I did was to doodle on it just like I did back in my poly days..........and when we see odd-looking people or whatever fat girls ,the mocking will just start flying...fast and furious....I remember that on saturday, after lessons.....me and Felix went to town...............and we were passing Takashimaya when we saw that this big Cos Play event was going on and there were LOADS of Over weight Inuyashas,Card captor Sakuras and sailor moons just walking around the exterior of Takashimaya..........hahha....Man It was Early Christmas for us!!!haha.....we were like kids in the candy store......who to mock first?!?! So many to mock so little time!!..........back in SIM,we only mocked people here and there......but now this was an entire sea of weirdos concentrated in one area....parading around for our benefit.....hahhahaa......so me and Felix got some Old Chang kee Curry puffs, propped our selves on one of the seats.........and just mocked a whole afternoon away....hahahhaa.......aaaaaaaaahhhhh......reliving the good ol' days.....hahaha



But I REALLY gotta say..........that both Felix and me are MUCH more serious about our studies this time around when compared to our poly days.........ya know....mocking people is only our way of killing time and just a form of relaxation but I think we're both pretty serious as far as work and school is concerned.........I can see quite a big chnage in Felix's overall attitude.......back in Poly he's either snacking,making fun of the lecturer or doing his own crazy versions of pop songs dedicated to Siew Yong.........but now he's always taking down notes,highlighting stuff,never skips lectures.....heck he was even early for lectures for the first 3 days of class(BUT OF COURSE.....It did'nt last...hahha).......and he even went to the SIM library to borrow Books on Organizational Behavior to read up on......HAHAHAHA.....I felt like i just walked into the twilight zone or something!!.............as For me, I'm glad to say that I've not skipped a single day of lecture despite being really tired and having to go back to cap regularly, I've NEVER been late for class for the past two weeks and I'm taking an ASSLOAD of notes down in every lecture........(back in Poly days,i only copied notes when ABSOLUTELY necessary...otherwise they're mostly blank except for sketches of Batman that is...hahaha).......and I've got a very short attention span but I find myself really working as hard as I can to concentrate on the lectures instead of just wandering off...........I'm really trying my best to not stray off in my own thoughts like I always did in poly.....
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I think Army has indeed made us more serious about a lot of things in life, after being goose stepped on by all those high ranking officers in charge of you..........telling you what to do,controlling your every step,forcing you to do everything according to their specifications............it all just kinda cultivates a dislike for Authority figures in you, you just wanna work hard when you get out of army to ensure that you get good grades,get a good job and take charge of your own destiny......to ensure that in the future instead of having people step all over you and order your around for the next 20 years...........you'll be the one in charge, the one running things and making your own decisions.......all I know that I freaking' want that Degree with Distinction Reeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaal Bad!!!hahahhaa...
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Studywise, a lot of the stuff that the lecturers are teaching I already know, so I pretty much walk out of all the lectures knowing what is going on instead of scratching me head...........although after 2 years, I really got this nagging worry that I won't be able to perform up to snuff...............I mean its been a long time since I studied,2 whole years of brain dead duties...........I dunno whether I can memorise the assload of notes that I used to, I don't know whether My project skills have gone to shit by now or if I can put together a cohesive essay for my individual essay...........this is just kind of nagging at me.....what if after 2 years, I just can't perform as well as I did........I was thinking the other day that instead of waiting for the day where I go for a test and can't regurgitate everything word for word...haha....I better start going through the lecture notes gradually day by day, so if today lecture is on chapter 12,after school I'm going to spend 2 hrs maybe going through the notes again and trying to commit it to memory..............hahhahaha....if I really do bother reading up on the notes ta home,every day after lecture.....My God.......I'll be a changed man!!!hahaha.....it'll be like a new milestone in my road to Personal enlightenment.....hahhaa...I've never been so hardworking.....EVER.....hahaha
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I also had the chance to see many old faces in the first 2 weeks,most of them from my old marketing cohort....it's really a small world.......I saw Cai Hong and Adeline my old TB31 classmates,JianNing,Gavin, Eve and Gloria from TB03, Kat and one of my old secondary school friend Kai Qi and my BMT platoon seargent are in the same Marketing course as me.....man what a coincidence........hahaha....well in any case I had a nice chat with all the old faces I met and it was nice seeing them again........I was telling Gloria that It did'nt seem that long the last time I saw her during Graduation....then I realized Graduation was 2 years ago.........damn....time flies.....but it's always delightful to meet some old faces again........
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As for meeting new people, well me and Felix already manage to source out two different groups that we can join for different subjects............so in the coming weeks ahead...should be knowing these folks a little better...........although Felix and I are still mourning the loss of 3 extremely pretty potential project group mates...after Felix TURNED them down when they approached us to join them.........hahaha....Thanks Dude!! the highlight of my day is reminding him that its the biggest mistke of his life...everytime they walk past us......and seeing him clutch his head in shame!!!hhaaha.........but oh well,no point crying over spilled milk,the lack of pretty group mates will ensure that i'll be more hardworking because instead of looking at my current group mates...I Think I'll rather look at my lap top screen.....hahaha.....yup....can you see that I'm trying to console myself?!hahaa.....
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Felix tells me that when they asked us about joining them,he could'nt believe himself and was speechless when he was looking at the girls and anyway he said some mumbo jumbo about how his subconscious mind was telling him that there was no way he could get such pretty project mates and so he just decided to reject their offer.....WHA-HUH?!......thanks dude....hahaha
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As for me..........man its the first 2 weeks of school, so as usual I'm about as sociable as a menstruating Bear.......ahhahaha....I just hate the whole breaking the Ice process man......I'm getting too old for it.....having people ask you the same old basic questions again and again and again and having to introduce yourself once again repeatedly and trying my best not to roll my eyes and not being able to make any sarcastic jokes because the new people will not be able to handle it just yet........hahaha...plus after being a Regimental Policeman who's bread and butter is to put the fear of God into hundreds of base personnel......my socializing skills are even worse.......hahaha.....sometimes instead of giving a friendly "Hey...Let's be friends" face...I flash my "Do Not F*CK with me in my base" face instead....hahahah....but still Its going to fine later on....I just prefer to observe and draw my own conclusions rather then shoot my mouth off when I first meet people....a trait somebody I KNOW could learn from....bwahhaha....
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But seriously I told Felix that we need to compliment each other......he needs to tell me to snap out of it whenever I'm not being too responsive and I need to tell him to tone it down whenever he's about to make a flaming ass of himself.....in other words.....I need to hype myslef up and he needs to tone himself down......hahha..........ah well, it always takes a long time to develop some chemistry and synergy between school mates..........yeah....it takes about 5 years of beating,screaming,scolding,demanding,online death threats and hand bag bludgeoning to develop a super high level of synergy and chemistry where everything runs as smooth as clock work.....hahhaha.....right Wenjun?!?hahaha.....
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Oh well...........the first two weeks are over and my Juniors have finally completed their job training...........so come next week I officially start clearing my leave and off....No More Duty For EVER!!!!hahaha...........I have to go for my m-16 firing range/combat shoot on the 16th and 17th of July though..............sian man....well at least....me and my platoon mates get to go on one last big event together in our original group before we ORD.....the last time we did our range was 1 1/1 year ago when we were still trainees...hahha....and this time since we're no longer the newbies,I think the range will be a fun experience for the old gang......have to skip lectures on this two days though for this compulsory event.....hahah.....but after 17th...I get a 6 day break until 23rd July...............Man I'm going to really ENJOY myself and rest for these 6 days. REALLY looking forward to taking a break and having some time to myself.....
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Alright that's about it for this post.............I already planned my next post which I will be posting Very,Very soon............to celebrate my new found freedom and return to the drawing board, I'm going to Draw an all-new picture of Batman in the Black and white Chiaroscuro "Sin City"style that I've spent months trying to master through constant research and I'm going to post pictures detailing the process it takes to complete the drawing............from the preliminary pencil layouts to the finalised marker roughs, white paint splatter experiments, the loose pencils,the final pencils, the partially inked version and the final inked version........also I'll post a comparision of two of what is essentially the same drawings ...one I did in 1999 and one I just completed today and show you the evolution of my inking and drawing style.....and I'll take pics of the drawing in the different stages while I'm working on it and break down my whole drawing process for you............Its going to be good....an intimate look at the creative process..........REVEALED for the first time EVER....hahha....it'll show everybody that it takes a HELLUVA lot of planning and hard work before a final art piece is finished and drawings don't just flow out of my pen fully formed......STAY TUNED True believers!!.......hahaha
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Well Lemme end this post with what I think is PURE Genius for a marketing strategy....as part of FOX's promotion for the upcoming Simpson's movie, they're signed a deal with 7-11 that will allow 7-11 to change various of their outlets in US into Apu's Kwik-E mart.........selling Donuts,Duff Beer,Krusty-O's and stuff we only get to see in the cartoon!!amazing stuff that will give the hardcore Simpsons fans multiple geek-gasms.....D'OH!!...ahhaha....Enjoy.......
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Ok Folks..........I'll be signing off now.........stay tuned for my upcoming Post!!I promise It's gonna be a good one........haha.... alright Adios mi hombres!!

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