1.) I've Got a New Job At Pass office.....

Yeah, when last you heard from me...I was on the verge of completing my 4 1/2 mths attachment to Tengah airbase and now I'm back at my old base....about a month after I returned, I was headhunted by Pass Office and was asked to join them for a supposedly Better,easier Job in a cozy Air-conditioned office......no brainer right?

Actually it was one of the hardest decisions I've made......I just did'nt want to leave my current colleagues in the lurch because of the severe lack of manpower on their side and because I got along absolutely famously with all of them....we've been through hell during our course time and it was damn tough leaving them...

BUT.....I took the job because after talking to my platoon mates one by one(23 of them!)....they were kinda sad to see me go but happy that I got a job at the pass office which was pretty exclusive......and because I was just kinda sick and tired of the thankless life of An RP......having to be shouted at and insulted by base personnel,punished and turned out by our superiors and spend ungodly long hours standing......PLUS a week or 2 before the offer.....somebody actually managed to pass the check point me and another guy was guarding with a fake Drill bomb which he promptly brought to my OC's office....that incident scared several shades of shit out of me....also all the advice of my friends and family pointed towards taking up the pass office job.....and I decided to just go for it....otherwise I might not get a second chance...

So after taking the job at pass office....I had to do 3 long weeks of On The Job training that included staying in,memorizing literally a hundred different locations in the base,key numbers and phone mumbers and get turned out in the wee hours of the morning.....Had to deal with two absolutely terrible seargents who could smile and backstab a person in the same breath(both of which has already ORDed recently thank god)......and nowadays my shift IC is kinda a prick....but all the other guys in my shift hates him (4 in a shift) so we do enjoy getting together and bitching abt him....

Also I was....>ahem<>

so I confronted that asshole and in so many words said:" What are you...born in 86' or 87?Thereabouts right? So we're both adults.....anything you're unhappy with...you come to ME....I don't want to hear 2nd or 3rd hand info from my friends about crap that isn't true....everything you've said...I KNOW......my colleagues know what sort of person I am.....the next time if I hear you lying abt me again....I'm not going to be so nice..trust me".......he suddenly went deaf and mute since then......all the way till he ORDed...

Anyway I'm adapting better to pass office now...I can type at speeds unimaginable with one finger and my newers seargents are MUCH better to work with......but I think would go back to being an RP in a heart beat if their manpower is low.....pass offce is a easier job but lacks the camarederie my old job had....to this day, My former colleagues still ask me when I wanna come back and that they want me back cos I'm full of crap(?!).......well.....we still hang out when they're working outside the pass office and whenever possible, I'll always chat with whoever is there until the wee hours of the morning...or pass them coffee,biscuits,fan,radio,drinks or whatever good stuff I can get my hands on....or they would arrange group outings on days where our schedules are aligned so we can meet up to shoot the breeze...

2.)Celebrated My 22nd Birthday....

I had a indoor barbeque this year for my 22nd birthday........with the old gang..Huiling,Wenjun,Geraldine and Felix and my Parents were around too......my mum as usual provided copious amounts of cheese and every single species of mushroom she could get her hands on......haha...after my weeks OJT......having this nice get-together with friends and family was just what the doctor ordered...

Both Huiling and Geraldine were trying to add Mozzarella cheese to any damn thing they could get their hands on....any damn thing siar....even raw mushrooms....WTH....haha

Anyway over the course of the Barbeque......Wenjun and Huiling managed to absolutely pull the wool over my mother's eyes cos somehow my mother seems to think the world of those two creatures......apparently:

1.) Wenjun is a nice and spend-thrift girl who REALLY knows the value of money and who is helping her poor folks in Switzerland to save up money and that I should learnt more about the value of money from her....(yeah like buying $180 wallets,$150 tiffany and Co key rings and $200 citigem earrings....oooh her parents are REALLY saving a bundle!"..hahha)

2.) Huiling is a nice and cheerful girl who is very friendly and well-mannered.......(LOL! damn is my momma clueless!!)

Anyway we had a good time and I got a buttload of lovely gifts(which I have since repaid with 110% interest..hahha)... they gave me season 4 dvd set of seinfeld, An excellent Batman B&W porcelain statue designed by Steve Rude,An AV girl pictorial book, A big-ass T-rex zoid and a yellow Batman cushion(Nothings says obsession like plating ur ass on a batman cushion..haha)

Praise the God King Xerxes.....Gone are the days of Tit mugs and schlong dumb bells!!AWOOOOOO!!!

3) Celebrated christmas 2006 with the gang...

Had to spend a long time planning out our christmas outting and slowly shopping and getting all the gifts for each of them.....anyway Gerald could'nt make it due to an allergy but the rest of us ended up holding our annual Christmas gathering at Essential Brews in Holland Von Christmas Eve......afterwhich the whole group ended up at (Surprise,surprise) My house again......where we attempted to watch some episodes of Seinfeld,Borat,Analyze that......talked crap in my room ......also both girls were whining...with huiling whining about getting a plastic bag and other imcomprehensible whining that I totally could not understand and Wenjun whined up a storm in convincing me to handover a piece of my drawing for her to show her friends......which I eventaully handed to her....RELUCTANTLY....

So when all the dust is settled here's what those mofos got from me:

Wenjun - An exp me-to-you bear, A stained glass jewellery box, a where's waldo mini compilation book set, a pair of ear rings that she picked and a Gumball dispensing machine......oh and a drawing of two Forever friends bear...

Huiling- A precious moments snow globe, a My Girl K-drama dvd set and a Dilbert way of the weasel Paperback....and a drawing that comepletely distilled and captured her very essence...haha...a drawing of a small girl sitting on the lap of santa claus,rattling away about items on her super long wish list until Santa clause basically turns to a decomposing,fly infested corpse....

Gerald- A life-sized Spongebob Squarepants soft toy, a cat shaped necklace from Tangs, Marie the cat soft toy,Marie the cat coasters, a set of tiny Aristocats figues and something else I forgot...and a drawing of the whole gang in the Sponge Bob squarepants series...

Felix- An expensive Japanese imported transfomer toy, a japanese alternate variation of Optimus prime and a drawing of Powergirl with her boobs hanging out,looking at him and going "I have brains you know.....FEELINGS too FELIX!"

And I got....I got.......errr........3 shirts, a cap and a Marvel legends House of M boxed set which was pretty good and a pleasant surprise......hahaha....but I think everyone was happy with their gifts and that's what really matters during occasions like this.....

4.) Spent the very first day of the year Playing Mahjong at Wenjun's place

Our schedules and plans did'nt permit us to meet up on New Year's eve ...and Felix's new year's eve invitation(LOL) was promptly turned down.....so Huiling,Felix and Me went wenjun's house on the very first day of the year for an all-night Mahjong session.......been like a year and a half since our last mahjong session at Geraldine's place.....anyway ended up talking and watching shows more then we concentrated on the game.......managed to watch 3 flicks on that day...She's the Man,Don Juan Demarco and Election 2 ......

Yeah and I had to make corrections to the Forever friends bears I drew Wenjun because apparently I "Put" more effort and details when I drew Huiling's drawing...hahha....had to draw a whole new snow covered background to fill up the drawing....BAH!!I compromised my artistic integrity....haha

Went home around 8 plus in the morning.........All I remembered was I was damn shagged after the session and laid comatose for almost the entirety of the 2nd day of the year..haha...and to think we still owe wenjun Another mahjong session for her recent Birthday....

5.)Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year this year was packed man.........practically filled up with visiting from the 1st day to the very last day...I was supposed to work on the eve of Chinese New Year but got the first and second day off....luckily some of my indian colleagues volunteered to replace me and my shift guys on the eve of new year so we could have our Reunion dinner......had steamboat at my Grand ma's place.....

This year I managed to visit all my aunties' houses and did some wonderful video interviews with my younger cousins that I'm sure would serve as good blackmail material somewhere down the line....haha....other then that it's the usual, going on a eating spree,seeing My grand parents squabbling and collecting cold,hard cash.....hahaha

The thing I really like about Chinese New Year is the Cash Injection and of course I just like to state for the record then My Grandma's Ngoh Hiang,Cuury and Bee hoon kicks an unholy amount of ass.....hahaha...

Of course the aforementioned cash injection is VERY shortlived....due to the next few events on the list...

6.) Geraldine's 22nd Birthday

We did'nt managed to celebrate it with Gerald on her actual Birthday so we celebrated it on the 22nd of February.....met with the Girls for the movie Protege at Plaza Singapura during the afternoon and then went to Aerin's ar Raffles City for dinner,where Felix joined us after his work......

Anyway I thought Protege was a good flick.....Andy Lau was in good form as the film's protagonist and the film really went quite in depth as to how the drug trade worked which was very informative for a Drug-Lord hopefuls like myself....haha.....oh and the Drug addict's little daughter was Damn cute......so tiny and chubby....

So after that we had dinner at Aerin's, where I ordered myself some tasty Bangers and Mash.......and we did a couple of wonderful round table video interviews with the gang which will be going straight to the Blackmail file...hahaha......Felix was pretty excited that day to unload his assload of gifts(inclusive of his belated Christmas presents) that he bought Gerald....

Huiling,Wenjun and Me gave Gerald........A Toy Story Woody Snowglobe(what is it with girls and their snow globes?), 10 pieces of SK2 mask, a small pink Nike Waterbottle and A Dvd of Louis Koo and Rene Liu's romantic "Happy Birthday"(Go watch it....yeah....I'm talking to you Huiling!)

Felix on the other hand gave Gerald an individual gift consisting of a whole lot of sub-gifts(A term coined by your's truly for a gift within a gift within a gift..).....when interviewed by the BBC,he claimed that the gifts did'nt cost him a bomb......just an arm and leg......haha....his Christmas gift was this big wardrobe-like box filled with different drawers containing stuff like lego keychains of Mister Crabs,Sponge Bob and Patrick,Sponge bob bath gel, a Paper weight(?),accessories and a Spherical Marie the cat puzzle....and for her birthday,he gave her this expensive Dressy Top that he picked out himself ..........everybody together now...."aawwwww"....haha...

All in all...Gerald's birthday was one of a kind....some might even call it......YOU-NIQUE....hahhahhaha....sometimes I can't control myself.....

7.) Huiling's 22nd Birthday

• No figurines
• No perfume
• No dvds,vcds
• No acessories
• No clothings(I don't mind having a new jacket though)
• No books

Hoho....buy any of the items and it shall be cast right back upon your face.....haha...and so it was written and so shall it be done.....she don't mind a new jacket though?... ooooooooh...I'm SURE she don't...hahhaha

Man.....this Birthday took some serious planning and re-planning.......we could'nt celebrate with Huiling on her actual Birthday on the 4th of march too...because felix could'nt make it and after listing out a whole series of dates that ranged from the 1st of march to a joint celebration with wenjun on the 13th of march......we finally found a date where all our schedules are more or less aligned and celebrated on the 9th of march....

Huiling's Birthday was a full day event......went for a 11.30am screening of the movie "300"......then she and wenjun went for class till 5pm...this was followed by a ktv session from 5.45pm to 8.30pm at K-box and then dinner and Present opening at Wakaru at Marina Square....

Dammit 300 the movie kicked ass.......I could go on and on about how good the movie was,how faithfully they translated Frank miller's story and art..but that'll take up a whole 'nother post...so I'll just keep it short.......needless to say its one of my favorite movies of 2007 so far.....met and exceeded my expectations.......It was not only a good comicbook movie but a good movie...Period...I'm glad the girls really liked it too because they're really Luke-warm as far as Comicbook flicks go and they absolutely loathed Frank Miller's Sin City.......me? I've been in love with Frank Miller's work for more then a decade and....I'm just glad that Frank Miller's work is being exposed to a worldwide audience....

So after the movie,they went to class and me and felix went back home and met up at Marina Square for the KTV-session.....the k-box place was huge and stretched damn far man.....when the K-box girl led us to the room it was like walking through the mines of Moria.....damn..haha.......anyway the session was fun....everybody was hyped up and singing (Badly most of the time)......Gerald was doing her Sammi cheng songs,Felix was doing his Cao Ge and rapping, Wenjun was doing J J lin,Huiling was singing her fav Wu ding and I was doing Chen lei and Dr Bombay......hahaha....one thing I learnt from k-boxing is that I can't sing any chinese song for nuts because I dun understand the chinese words,my voice is pretty low and is only good for doing impersonations of Ah Do, hokkien Getai singers and crazed bombay taxi drivers and the only songs I know the lyrics to are all from the 70's and all by the Carpenters.....hahaha

After the ktv thing, we went straight to the Japanese restaurant,Wakaru for dinner.....it was a nice,cosy place with a pretty nice selection of food items and we chatted,ate,did nice video interviews again (like the one where Huiling's demonstrates how short Ys's thumb is by using both verbal communication and hand signs to illustrate her points..haha) and finally we had the Presents opening session.....

Geraldine gave Huiling a charm that she personally made which Huiling hung on her handbag , A Old Navy wallet and also another acessory....a bracelet If I remembered correctly...

Felix was supposed to share with me and buy Huiling a Joint gift that she wanted but the fella left me in the lurch and got her his own individual gift.... An expensive and Super-BLING locket that could actually be used as an actual lock albeit a expensive workable lock.....personally if I got her a lock..I would have gotten her the titanium,heavy duty,Rust proof alboy lock....haha

Wenjun completely spoilt the market and raised the bar to the stratosphere with her gift...hahha...she gave huiling a $200 pair of Citigem diamond earrings......when I heard that My nuts went straight up to my throat......and to think a few days before getting the gift she told me:"This year,I'm definetly not spoiling Huiling...I'm not going to get her what she wants but what I think she wants!!"......Apparently not spoiling Huiling is getting her $200 earrings......hahaha......Please wenjun DUN SPOIL ME on my Birthday!!!

Lastly I got Huiling.....That darn exp Espirit Jacket she said she wanted.....flashback a few days before that...I was asking her to please choose a gift she wanted so I could get it before I was confined in camp....yeah Things are different Nowadays...hahha....Nowadays we must BEG the Birthday Girl to PLEASE select a gift so that we can blow our HARD-earned cash on it...hahaha....so Huiling replied:"No lar I will feel bad if you're spend so much money....I will choose a gift that's around 50-60 bucks ok?"...........two days later I receive a call from Huiling telling me she found the item she really,really wanted (Gave me Flashbacks to Ys's I dunno!!I really,really dunno!!!!)....she said she wanted a Espirit Jacket......when I asked her How much? she told me (let's just say I ain't that far behind wenjun's gift..LOL)and there and then in the bus I got my first cardiac arrest at age 22.....haha...Apparently Huiling's from England...cos when she says 50-60 bucks...she meant it in Pounds.....hahahahaha...

I also gave her a small Framed Drawing of The Frog Prince and his Princess(since she like frogs), a Metal Dog shaped key ring (which she said she wanted one day and bought it the next...haha) and a actual-sized light up pacifier because she's the little whiney baby of the group...hahaha

But all nonsense and joking aside.....and despite all the changes and rescheduling......it was a pretty solid and enjoyable outing...and the Birthday Girl was happy with her presents.....half a K worth I reckon....hahhaha...

8.) Wenjun's 22nd Birthday

For wenjun's birthday,all the stars aligned and we were able to celebrate her Birthday with her on her actual day......haha...it was a nicer,smaller-scale and personal kinda outing....

For the few days leading up to her actual Birthday I was trying to get Wenjun Psyched up for her Birthday because flashback a few years ago she would always be so damn excited about her birthday that her head will spin and she made sure Everybody knew it was her birthday....hahha....but this year she was kinda Ho-hum about things.....luckily she got much more psyched up about her Birthday especially after her brother gave her some note he written and her present that he hid in his room......."SO DAMN SWEET LOR!!" she remarked out loud(and I mean LOUD!!).....hahha

Anyway she informed me that this year I was not the first to wish her "Happy Birthday" unlike the previous two years.....apparently she received her first Birthday wishes on the 12th.....which she considers to be the first but technically Its not since Birthday is on the 13th....Hahahha.....and that her Mum also send her an SMS right on the dot on 12am......hahhaha....although I'm pretty sure,and my 3 digital and non-digital watches will back me up that I sent her the messages right on the dot at 12 am on the 13th...hahhahah....ah well I will just sms her "Happy Birthday" on the 1st of March next year...then I will definitely be first....hahhaha

So for Wenjun's Birthday, we had dinner and the present opening at Spageddies at Paragon fand after that we went to Minds Cafe to play some games...and we were joined by Wenjun's two friends,Messrs Jun Hao and Shawn.....who very graciously foot the bill for the games session...

At Spageddies, the usual crapping session started and once again several embarassing and highly amusing video interviews were recorded....hahaha....I managed to film some funny ass clips,one where the Kuchiki Byakuya doll I gave Wenjun comes to "life" and another with Wenjun loudly proclaiming "HOO HAH!!!" when I asked if she was excited about opening her next present.....and in return she filmed me doing all sorts of nonsensical stuff , one of which features me doing impersonations of Martin Yan,George Bush,Yoda,Borat,Sean Connery,Steve Irwin and King Leonidas in real time....when I saw that video clip,it was like seeing THE definitive medical doumentary on Patients with Multiple personality disorder for aspiring doctors......cometo think of it...I seem to be mildly deranged in all the clips featuring me.....hahaha

After all the filming wenjun finally opened all her presents........and what good stuff she received....haha...she was like the little Girl on Christmas eve...chanting"Its my birthday!Its my birthday!" like some high priestess from some Egyptian Death cult.....hahah....here's a list of stuff that we got Wenjun.....

Huiling gave Wenjun a set of 6 cute little My Melody mini figurines......that featured the character being perched atop vending machines.....Correct me If I'm wrong but I thought we were NOT supposed to give Figurines...Cos SOMEBODY did'nt want them.....hahaha....but anyway wenjun seemed to love those little figurines....

Me and Huiling also shared and bought Wenjun a Swarovski Crytsal Bear holding a crystal heart balloon (That she Really,Really wanted...I'm noticing a trend here)...haha...because apparently this bear will be the FIRST item Wenjun buys when she receives her first ever Pay check....haha

Then Felix,Huiling and Me also shared and bought her a Sony photo printer.......the cost of which could feed starving kazakhstanis for half a year....hahha.....With Felix paying for the majority of the printer and the rest was split between Huiling and Myself....

In addition I also got her a bizarre looking Kuchiki Byakuya plush toy that she mentioned she wanted and a wooden,err....spin-able Photo frame with a photo of our entire gang taken by wenjun during Gerald's birthday celebration.......and I gave her a cartoony Caricature of Herself saying her famous catch phrase :"PLEASE LOR!"....haha

After that we went to Mind's cafe where we met up with her other two friends:Jun Hao and Shawn and had a fun time playing games like Blackmail,I'm the boss and some whacky hand and min reaction card game for the next 3 hours.....until 11 plus...then we all got a lift from Wenjun back home to Bukit Panjang.......

Quite a solid day of activities too.......glad The Birthday girl had fun and enjoyed her gifts too....Felix's Birthday is next in May....and Its gonna be "More then meets the eyes".....cue the sound of transforming robots....hahahha....

Well anyway in the aftermath of all those activities.......to make myself happy too, I bought myself a $220 Batman statue that I really wanted.....I know that paying $22o bucks for a statue is insane after spending well over $300 on presents excluding costs for food and entertainment but you know after making other people happy...it was time to make myself happy too......PLUS it wasn't an impulse Buy,I've wanted that statue ever since I saw it on an ad in 1996 selling for us$195.00......but back then I was only in Primary 6 and to buy that statue,i would probably have to save my pocket money every day for 365 days ,repeat my pri 6 again and save some more....hahaha...so now it's like me fulfiling my wish to get that item 10 years ago.....very deep...I know....haha

So anyway it was fate that I saw this Statue collecting dust at some small shop beside funan centre...and I immediately went home and searched for the statue on Ebay and it costs an upwards of $300 us for a second statue,so I thought if i could get a semi good deal I'll buy it for myself......So me and felix came up with this elaborate scheme that we were poor students looking to buy the statue for Our Friend,Kim wei for his birthday cos he was a Batman fanatic and the deal to get the statue was brokered over a period of 3 weeks........I thought after New year i would have some excess cash flow and what better time to splurge on myself then now...

So since i kinda felt bad if I were to spend all the money that my folks and grand parents gave me solely on my friend's gifts and not myself....I came up with a detailed financial plan that allowed me to satisfy me,Huiling and wenjun and keep us all happy.....haha...the $270 I received for New Year would be split into $150 budget for Huiling's gift and $120 to cover for half the cost of my statue.....then when my pay came on the 10th of march I would set aside another $150 for the budget for Wenjun's gift and buy it using my pay and I would draw another $100 from my pay and combine it with the New Year Money to get myself the statue......that way I would be broke but semi happy......

So anyway the plan kinda sucked...hahhaa....but the $300 spent on presents only happens once a year(after I block my memory of christmas that is..haha) and the girls were happy with the gifts ....so It was money well spent I guess.....and the statue was a treat to myself after spending all the money on the gifts....hahah....spending MORE money to make myself happier for already spending a lot of money......I'm certifiably insane...hahha

Thinking about it.... all the cash spent is not a big issue.....I probably won't be basking on the streets for money any time soon.......hahhaa......I just got to spend within a more limited budget this month until my next pay day and force myself to be more practical in spending my cash....which is a good thing for me.....when you have excess money there's a tendency to overspend and buy stuff that is unecessary or extravagant.......cos I'm sure if I did'nt buy all the presents and statues...I would have bought an Army of Persian immortal figures to display on my shelf....hahha.....so instead of going out all the time,this month I'm going to spend more time at home nad find more creative ways tospend my off days... why do you think I'm writing another blog post after 7 months....cos I've got too much time on my hands?!...haha...heck no....Cos I'm at home right NOW.....hahah I'm also going to be training for my IPPT, spending more time drawing stuff(I'm going to work on a two page Batman vignette till the end of this mth) and watching all those all DVDs thatI already bought but did'nt have time to watch......I'm watching this Miriam Yeung,Lydia Sum,Louis Koo vcd drama set that I bought 1 year 2mths ago but did'nt bother watching....hhahha.....so Far...Its pretty darn good!

Wow for a comeback post, I've ranted long enough....for the coming months I'm looking forward to watching Pirates of the Carribean 3,Spider-man 3,seeing Felix and LJ ORD, seeing the girls finish their studies,graduate and get themselves some spanking new Jobs......and of course seeing Myself ORD and going into Uni.........after that who knows what the future will hold...haha

Alright with that I'm Outta here...........Goodbye one and all.....