2005
I remembered I had duty on 26, December 2004. Thinking of New Year's Eve and what the next new year's eve would be like. I was randomly selected by my boss to go to Aceh to help out in the tsumami efforts, something that did not happen. Had a wonderful birthday gathering/surprise. Spent the rest of my days in camp skiving and escaping from duties. Going for unnecessary dental checkups, medical checkups and an abundance of university application interviews. Going for more university interviews (which never happened) and visiting the canteens 4,5 times a day. Lots of mahjong in camp and outside camp, winning eleven wherever i can. Got too bored in camp and took pictures of my camp's facilities like the dive pool, jetty and stuff. Managed to run 9.08 for 2.4km run.
And then February flied by pretty quickly. Counting the days of ORD and the exciting trips coming up. Somehow every mother's son in camp somehow got some motherfucking reason to skip work. Suddenly everybody became a sportsmen and took part in sports. People went for their university applications and never returned. Chinese New Year didn't leave much of an impression. The fight for the overseas trips became quite exciting. The prospects of going to Taiwan was enticing but the dread of staying in camp rather than going for trips was simply unthinkable.
And March I set off to the United States Of America. Stanford University, Golden Gate Bridge, Hollywood, Disneyland, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Staue of Liberty, Wall Street, Chrysler, Times Square, Empire State Building, UN, Indiana, The Magnificent Mile. The ugly big red spot on my forehead. The nice people I've met. The highways of America and how me and mx slept through half of it. The weather and the liberty of age. Mid-March I went.
4 days after my return from the States, I left for Kaohsiung, Taiwan with my best buddy and the nicest supervisor. The languorous times on board the ship where we ate, slept, shat, ensconced in our own little corner at the ship's engine room. Played cards, played with Wingsoon's PDA: Bejeweled, read a lot, calling up my friends from their sleep, telling them its meal time. 3 weeks spent in Taiwan and in sea. Talked about our future and freedom. Maybe definitions of freedom are different now. I was so idle then and had the financial freedom to splurge my weekends. Thus the end of April.
I spent the remainder of my NS life alone in camp with most of my batch mates clearing their leave days. I exhausted most of them for the US trip. I was still thinking whether CS was the right choice for me. I insinuated free days and off days from my superior who was kind enough to let me go where there ain't any work to be done. The whole month of May and June was inundated with duties. I strutted around camp like the only survivor and the most senior NSF with tons of people asking me politely but rather hypocritcally why I was still in camp. I had to remind them that I went to US during March when they were losing sleep and sweat over the Singapore Biathlon.
I dyed my hair to signal my return to school life, stirred trouble in both my orientation camps, made a lot of people unhappy and unforturnately did not break anyone's bones. I liked the hot showers in hall which I don't get at home. I have friendly neighbours who turn out to be great people as well and a great buddy as my room mate. My hall life is pretty stale though, didn't make many friends, didn't make an effort to. The morning struggles to wake up for lectures. Diang Nao boys to get me through my first few weeks in school.
A hell lot of competitions followed. The hall paegeant, the IMM competition, the party world competition, the band competition, and finally the song-writing competition from yuneng. Not a terrific record but plenty of experience now I guess.
Many days I recall, Fane and I were 2 inebriated people lying in our beds, talking about school life, gossiping about different people, watching ' The Family Guy'.
The CS 108 project got me involved in schoolwork and projects more than anything else and paved the way for many endearing friendships with my CS tutorial mates. The late nights at the Mac Lab, the many days of shooting and editing to produce a 5 minute clip of MTV which I'm quite glad to have attempted it.
Exams and late night study sessions followed. Late night suppers. Late night snacks. Late night soft drinks. Now i'm close to 70 kg. Something I'm quite proud to tell people. Then, the KL trip.
It was a good year I guess.
And then February flied by pretty quickly. Counting the days of ORD and the exciting trips coming up. Somehow every mother's son in camp somehow got some motherfucking reason to skip work. Suddenly everybody became a sportsmen and took part in sports. People went for their university applications and never returned. Chinese New Year didn't leave much of an impression. The fight for the overseas trips became quite exciting. The prospects of going to Taiwan was enticing but the dread of staying in camp rather than going for trips was simply unthinkable.
And March I set off to the United States Of America. Stanford University, Golden Gate Bridge, Hollywood, Disneyland, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Staue of Liberty, Wall Street, Chrysler, Times Square, Empire State Building, UN, Indiana, The Magnificent Mile. The ugly big red spot on my forehead. The nice people I've met. The highways of America and how me and mx slept through half of it. The weather and the liberty of age. Mid-March I went.
4 days after my return from the States, I left for Kaohsiung, Taiwan with my best buddy and the nicest supervisor. The languorous times on board the ship where we ate, slept, shat, ensconced in our own little corner at the ship's engine room. Played cards, played with Wingsoon's PDA: Bejeweled, read a lot, calling up my friends from their sleep, telling them its meal time. 3 weeks spent in Taiwan and in sea. Talked about our future and freedom. Maybe definitions of freedom are different now. I was so idle then and had the financial freedom to splurge my weekends. Thus the end of April.
I spent the remainder of my NS life alone in camp with most of my batch mates clearing their leave days. I exhausted most of them for the US trip. I was still thinking whether CS was the right choice for me. I insinuated free days and off days from my superior who was kind enough to let me go where there ain't any work to be done. The whole month of May and June was inundated with duties. I strutted around camp like the only survivor and the most senior NSF with tons of people asking me politely but rather hypocritcally why I was still in camp. I had to remind them that I went to US during March when they were losing sleep and sweat over the Singapore Biathlon.
I dyed my hair to signal my return to school life, stirred trouble in both my orientation camps, made a lot of people unhappy and unforturnately did not break anyone's bones. I liked the hot showers in hall which I don't get at home. I have friendly neighbours who turn out to be great people as well and a great buddy as my room mate. My hall life is pretty stale though, didn't make many friends, didn't make an effort to. The morning struggles to wake up for lectures. Diang Nao boys to get me through my first few weeks in school.
A hell lot of competitions followed. The hall paegeant, the IMM competition, the party world competition, the band competition, and finally the song-writing competition from yuneng. Not a terrific record but plenty of experience now I guess.
Many days I recall, Fane and I were 2 inebriated people lying in our beds, talking about school life, gossiping about different people, watching ' The Family Guy'.
The CS 108 project got me involved in schoolwork and projects more than anything else and paved the way for many endearing friendships with my CS tutorial mates. The late nights at the Mac Lab, the many days of shooting and editing to produce a 5 minute clip of MTV which I'm quite glad to have attempted it.
Exams and late night study sessions followed. Late night suppers. Late night snacks. Late night soft drinks. Now i'm close to 70 kg. Something I'm quite proud to tell people. Then, the KL trip.
It was a good year I guess.
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