Saturday, October 11, 2008

i'm behind the wheel

it's been 6 days since i touched down in singapore on sunday night 11.40pm. it's been a hectic week, and it's about to become a busy semester once again.

overall rating of china? so-so. sadly, china's not the best place to go for a holiday in asia. and to add to the bad review of china, i've got myself intestinal infection on the last week of the trip, again.

still, i missed everyone when i was there. kept thinking of going home most of the time.

the good bit about china is that, the sell stuff there that singapore doesn't have. i got myself a pair of leather converse shoes, a different version from the one in singapore, and i upgraded my wardrobe by 10%.

i'll be honest, i haven't been keeping up with times when i was spending my 6 weeks in wuhan. but even i do know the global economy slowly decayed itself to recession in the past 3 weeks.

and when i got back, its america crashes, europe dying, thailand still struggling with politcal stuff, and anwar still fighting with najib in KL. its all bu ha ha, but when does it all end? even our country's been hit, but how hard? and how are we gonna deal with this?

the answers? let's find out in a few weeks time.


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Sunday, September 21, 2008

14 days and counting

it's 2 more weeks till i get back. its a race against time and patience. meanwhile common test papers are being marked and anxiety is everywhere.

everyone is very tired from climbing wu dang (except for the lot who took the cable car up). from my point of view, wu dang was just good excercise and good views, but very poor experience. the tourists are like all other chinese people, and the abbots are even more like the worst of the people.

this may seem as unfair remarks, but the people there just disgusts me. when i got there, no kung fu. no sword fights. no actors. no condor heores. even the hisotrical stuff isn't there. they tried so hard to commercialize the place, even the abbots have name tags.

apart from all these neative remarks, the scenary there is extremely spectacular. the misty part of the mountains were so foggy, you can't see beyond 30 feet, and the air is so cool and refreshing. when we got to the golden peak, the view there was a knock out. the clouds just cover the mountains, with little bits of peaks and green poking over the top.

nothing less from the most ancient place.

and just for laughs...........

Thursday, September 18, 2008

common test week

we got back our results here in china, and goodness, i got great news. i did very well for this semester. GPA 3.89

well done.... if you didn't do very well, there's always next sem. and for those taking A levels, there is no next sem =)

common test took place today and i don't think i did very well for this module. i reckon i should try to retake this module in a normal circumstance. china is a big distraction.

with common test now out of the picture, wudang mountain comes next. i won't be contactable this weekend, as the mountain has no reception, i think.

and for those back in singpaore, miss you all lots, be back in 2 weeks.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

mid autumn in china

it's sunday, mid autumn and i'm settled in my bunk doing up the last bits of my IS journal.

we've just returned from the 3 gorges and shen nong river, and i'm down with stomach upset. it's been very persistent since tuesday, and i had to shit solid and water anywhere under the sun for 5 days. and for that, i got myself a huge box of cleenex to carry around where ever i went.

other than this outstanding problem, i'm doing fine. although i'm missing everyone in singapore, there's nothing i can do. by the way, semester results are out tomorrow, so, receiving it here in china would be a first.

one last thing before i go, if there's a souviener you'd like, please name it and tagg it.

bye chaps, be home in 3 weeks

Monday, September 1, 2008

it's week 2/6

second week now, and i'm still doing fine. however 2 of my seniors are down with food poisoning, and skin problems. thankfully i'm okay.

until recently, some just found out i'm in china. and when i tell them where i am, they tell me: "good luck", and "i don't wanna be there". give me a break, and show some moral support.

school just started here in te university, and somehow, the ngee ann students feel strangely out of place.... maybe it's because we've got an indian and a couple of muslims..... and we've also just found out that there's a military school nearby, and the girls from that academy look seriously more garang then the men here in wu han.

i'm doing fine with my roomie leon, sometimes he snores quite loudly, but he doesn't tell me if i do (which i suspect i do). but i suppose the lessons are the ones to fear. it's only chapter 3 and it just keeps getting more and more complicated.

good news is, we're getting to interact with the local students tomorrow, see what they're really like. even better news comes from the local students, with 97% of the class are girls, and most of them are cute.

welcome to china

Thursday, August 28, 2008

the middle country

i'm finally settling down in china after 4 days in this humid and unforgiving place. it's always grey skies and haze.... and the air is always thick with smog and you can't see the view of the beautiful scenes.

i did manage to get my pictures. unfortunately...... i was stupid enough to mess with with my digi cam... and deleted everything i took in the past four days.

its hard for even the toughest guy to admit, but living here in the hostel proved to be much of a challenge, and i realized how big a gap there is between us civilized singapore citizens (excluding some of my roomies) and the local chinese.

the conditions were quite horrific when we got here. the place was covered in spiders the size of 20 cent coins and the mosquitos were green. under my bed were old beer bottles, cigerette sticks, 1 year mooncake wrappers and 2 inches of dust. it doesn't sound bad. but on the first day, we couldn't clean the 5 room flat because we didn't have anything with us.

IS lessons are boring to the point where by even mrs bala sounds interesting. some of the chinese teachers can't speak english to save their lives, let alone communicate. and as for SDC core module... one of the hardest nonsense i've ever come across.

time here is the same as singapore, but the sun rises at 5.30am, and sets at 7.30pm. its a hard road ahead. i hope i make it through okay.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

why don't we supersize that?

my classmate abel once told me he had a friend, who eats the main course for appetizers, and that being fat was cool. that thought bugged me for quite awhile, and when i was bored of studying, i decided to check out an old movie, and see it for myself. here, watch this.



and then we debate. we ask ourselves, do we eat to live, or live to eat?

enjoy your meal

Sunday, August 10, 2008

NDP was OKAY

hassan called me this afternoon just before lunch, telling me he's got tickets to the NDP and if i waned to go. i said yes.

as usual like last year, i turned up not wearing red. this time was grey. and i looked odd out of the sea of chinese new year goers. everyone kept making fun of me saying i should hit on racheal, and it really bites me off.

seatings were great at the light blue section. we had jean danker. though we were much too far up to really see her. they all looked like power rangers when they first appeared. then it drizzled and showered alittle. got really humid and sad for everyone, not hyped up.

great performances by everyone. parade was great, even in the damp. performance was awesome, and fireworks were spectacular as usual. black knights and red lions were just amazing, even though the second last of the red lions had a bad landing.

might have been on TV, scenes where they filmed people throwing their thrash into the huge dump. caught me on cam throwing my garbage.

old songs bring me back to the days when i had much fun and laughter, turns out to be the last song.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

dismantle ... repair

its finally submission date for ED gearbox project. after days of rushing through, cut copy paste stick, and a few tantrums, we're finally through with projects.

next week marks the start of the final exams. need's practicing. tomorrow, got to go out and play billiards with freddy and gang. and got to do some shopping before i go to china, need to get all those things i need.

watched several movies recently. Batman, mummy, wanted. i didnt manage to catch hellboy though i really wanted to, instead, we watched wanted. more movies to look forward to, journey to the center of the earth and wallE.

video from anberlin. one of my favourite ones.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

er.... i'm sorry

sorry.... i hadn't really been faithful to my word. i should have kept some post on, but i really couldn't bothered. until maybe recently. i had some pains and i need to get them out.

had a nightmare in may, common test just started, had fun in june, common test ended and night cycling with the guys and girls. had a hard life in july, back to school with lots of work. and a rush in august, preparing for my final exams of the semester.

just last friday, i said goodbye to my laptop for the first time....and 3 days later, it's back. amazingly, i survived a year only with a outdated spyware scan. but at the end of it, there were 309 trojans.....

now, with the school's symantec, with the school's microsoft office, and with the school's help, i can finish up most of my work. though, the laptop still make some strange noises from time to time.

good news, i'm going to china. their processing the visas on tuesday, and i'm pretty sure i'll be going. i'll be leaving on the 25th. be stunned.... because, i'm going to china, to study. for six weeks, i'll be studying my third year module instead of 2months with the china chinese people. if there's anything you'd like me to buy for you, maybe i'll buy it for you.... if you're nice.

then again, i picked up some nice tunes for you this time. christian bands like relient K are quite good, but sadly, relient K's recent album wasn't that much of an ear digger. coldplay's new album was very...."colonial british" and augustana's was really really whiny. this time, i chose, anberlin. they've been around for sometime, and well, they're not too bad. they're christian by the way, like relient K

Monday, May 12, 2008

sully fifth week

it's been a hard day in school. no, i didn't like it. i messed up my first test of the day, and managed my second test so-so.

now how did things go bad? really, i mentioned in earlier posts that the CADM teacher deserved to get walloped hard, but this time was quite overbearing. 30 minutes to do a test was okay, i suppose. but under pressure and lack of practice with the CADM program, 30 minutes was impossible. i finished alright. sort of. and i had one incomplete sketch left, and i saved it. apparently, the idiotic program doesn't save files the way lazy people does, half-done. and, the end result was that, i had only saved 2 curved lines instead of the whole product.

so i asked him for one more shot.

and the bitching baldy had the guts to nag at me for not saving constantly and being fair to the class. i got fed up and started chanting back in his face to give me one more attempt to put it right, and it wasn't fair to me either.

he could have given me another test paper which would have been "fair" to me and everyone in that situation, but no......... he had to give me the old one which it "unfair" to everyone else.... then he goes on ranting and nagging. it was quite tempting to shove his face through the computer, because we were alone in the room... and no one was there to see it happen.

well, moving on, ASAS test. was a headache. turns out that transport aircraft is not classified in the type category. shrugs~~~

and, i've got some good news, my ED teacher has been hospitalized last thursday due to kidney problems, and he's coming back this week! tough old cookie

and that's it for today, here's one on the all american rejects


oh yea, my sister just finished her exams in NUS, and she got us a new album from augustana!

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

the world will wait for you

no, it isn't true. just this monday, i've got problems myself.

as you all know how it feels like to be back in school after a long weekend, yes it's the same for me. i kept my classmates and lecturers waiting for half an hour in the morning because i woke up late, showered slowly, and padded along to class. and he couldn't start teaching because it was important.

and when i finally waltz into class, he had enough and was teaching away.

well. that sums it up for the poor attitude in the morning. but guess what? i found this really cool manga. it's called "akumetsu". really awesome plot, with a slight adult genre. viewer's discretion is required.

common tests is in 3 weeks time. and it's just the 4th week of school. it's creepy when you think about it.....

Monday, May 5, 2008

bleeps and bloopers

yess.... i forgot to mention, that i was watching ironman with freddy and JONATHAN.....

technically, its your fault jon, you are always like the wil'o the wisps.... hard to tell you're there sometimes, even harder to remember.

that was mean, but unintentional

Sunday, May 4, 2008

always put your money whre your mouth is

just recently i spent an evening with freddy in the cinema watching ironman. now technically, he shouldn't be called "iron"man, because his suit is mostly made out of titinanium. though the plot was good, it wasn't realistic, but futuristic. it gets quite exciting when you see him zipping around the sky, dodging misslies and F-22 raptors.

well, let's move on. this week was qijun's birthday, which falls on the same day as labour day. and joy oh joy has he got news for me! i can't disclose though. it's "top secret". and then we've got mother's day coming up.

most recently i've been given a part time assignment. as blogmaster of the ATC blog. here's the site www.wings-and-wheels.blogspot.com. it's really quite dull having to do all the research and stuff, what's more, i've got to keep a lid on what i say? that's really annoying.

more tests coming up in this up coming week. my class and i have all agreed on a few things.
  1. the CADM teacher deserves a kick in the gentlemens
  2. the SOM teacher is really loud and annoying, and deserves to have a firecracker up his bottom, and
  3. the ED teacher is easy to bribe with kachang puteh and black coffee

the funny thing about the ED lecturer is that he usually compares us students, with clowns and kachang puteh men. this intrigues us, as we tend to wonder, if the kachang puteh man really is quite educated with a degree?



now, the last post was one about a fighter jet, and the fastest car. which can go faster, in a drag race.

Monday, April 28, 2008

how hard can it be?

well, it's week 3 since school started. and bad habits were all there is. i still can't get up in time. i still can't get to school in time. and i still can't hand up my tutorials in time.

yes, well, i've got more bad news for myself. which is, the first few test of the term just kicked in. without warning, i nearly flunked them. but the thing is.... it made me realize one thing.... that cheating was legal. hm.... that doesn't sound quite right. but it is, in fact, true. everyone else in the lecture hall taking the test were... well, you guessed it.

and then, back to what's really going on in my daily life. as everyone else is studying and mugging and dropping hair, i, on the other hand watched james may, jeremy clarkson and richard hammond make fools of themselves on television.

as for the guitar, things aren't going as well as i thought it'd be. however, i managed to get as far as learning to strum.... all by myself.

yes, that's all for tonight. here's one for you... if you put the world's fastest car up against the world's most agile fighter.... who would win the race?

Sunday, April 20, 2008

nipple rings and belly-button piercing

sleepy sundays causes hangovers after a nice nap.... if you get what i mean.

it's the end of the first week since i started school. no really. i didn't quite enjoy it. it's the things we learn that gets more complicated and less interesting, and even less relavent.

let's see.... this week was a pretty hectic one. on friday, i played pool with han. and, if you know han very well, it's like a rabbit playing with a fox. then i rushed down to meet freddy and guys to catch forbidden kingdom.... which makes no sense. why is it called forbidden kingdom when they hardly even mentioned it. turns out jet li is sun wukong, i can hardly imagine jet li with more body hair than the bee gees. however, the ladies in the movie makes the show much more exciting. what made me laugh was when the bride with white hair (aka. bai fa mo nu) tried to climb up her own hair with jackie chan on the other end getting strangled XD

well, the other days of the week are pretty plain. thanks abel for the new documentaries. really appreciate it.

here's something to share with you: have you seen james blunt on sesame street before?

Monday, April 14, 2008

and we shall now begin sem 2.1

okay, it's april 14th. it's my first day back in school after a long time-out. and, it's my first blog post in a month.

in the past month, i haven't been really up to anything, well, i did try the guitar, but, i'm still working on it. i haven't got to the strumming part, and i still haven't gotten used to reading tabs. no, i'm doing it for a girl, i just thought it'd be really cool to learn the guitar and some nice tunes.

so far, i tried: title and registration by death cab for cutie, she will be loved by maroon 5, secret by maroon 5, only one by yellowcard, fortune faded by red hot chili peppers, and californication by red hot chili peppers. still, i'm pretty new to this and they don't exactly sound that nice.

and how was the first day back in ngee ann? well... i can foresee dark clouds once again. the new modules are somewhat, alittle more "complicated" and tirelessly "tedious". the only thing that cheered me up was the fact that the new faces in ngee ann are alittle more "eye-catching" and for some sense of relaxation... if you get what i mean...

oh, i didn't expect myself to be taking entreuprenership and the law, but i did because i really didn't have much of an option. and my timetable looks pretty good too. plenty of time to rest, except for mondays and thursdays.

so quickly a year in ngee ann passed... oooo, now the fun starts....

here's a question for you. what would you do, if you were stuck in the toilet with no toilet paper, and no one was in the bathroom.....? here's a gintama answer for you
http://www.crunchyroll.com/media-306174/Gintama-Episode-79.html

Friday, March 21, 2008

when it gets too cold

it's friday morning, hello. i haven't updated in a few days, but it's okay. recently, i haven't been doing anything interesting lately.

earlier this evening, i received an in prompt too call from perry to go out to drink with him and adrian... and i agreed. little did i know where i was going, it was really going to be expensive.

and then we took a ride on 77 to holland village. we wandered around the place, it was full of night life even though it was barely past 9.00pm. we drew some money and headed down to the 2 am : dessert bar. the place was like some mordern studio bar. and the waitress greeted us as soon as we reached the 2nd floor. she asked us if we would like to sit at the window seat (there was only one window seat). we said yes without much discussion and felt, it was very gay. 3 men sitting at the window eating desserts wasn't exactly very masculine.

i had cheesecake (filty expensive and i didn't know). perry had blackberry (really pathetic). adrian had tiramisu (really watery ice cream). and we washed down the food with the recommended drinks. in the end, we were red and high. here's a note: drinking makes people pee more often. it's a natural thing because it stops the body from absorbing water and it makes you dehydrated as it gets rid of water. refer to wikipedia for more information.

we chatted for a while as we ate. adrian commented i seriously needed to work on my EQ as mr loh pointed out to me. well yea, i make fun of people more than needed. it's a bad habit passed down from my dad.

after paying the bill, we left for a round of XO bee hoon at the coffe shop nearby. it prevented us getting high any further. adrian was the worst hit, his alcohol content was the strongest. then we met elvis and strolled back home... as we were walking back, we talked about military life (as expected from BMT and OCS people) but i promised my parents to be home before midnight, so i took a bus ride home.

at least i know i won't be getting a hangover tomorrow. bye for now

Friday, March 14, 2008

it's high time we got this right

after a month of ups and downs, finally, here comes the exam results. honestly, i didn't do too badly or very well. it's pretty much the same as last semester. same GPA of 3.32 . okay... i was really hoping for better grades...

what did i do this week?

monday =)

the guys and some girls (prefer not to disclose) went to watch 10 000 B.C. i think the show was okay to some extent, because they spoke english when it was still 10 000 B.C and the epilouge was really suck. then 6 of us headed down to pasir ris to get ourselves ready for the night's biggest and longest event.

we rented our bikes had our dinner at burger king and talked among ourselves for some 2 hours. and then we headed to the pool room for some billiards. i had a freak accident when marvin threw the ball on the table and richochet into my privates.

then the night becomes alive....

we got on and cycled all the way to changi village to grab some supper. nasi lemak and green tea. this time, something else happened... we were headed to the bathroom when we saw a couple of "ladies" walking towards us in the distance... as we were having a piss, we heard high heels clicking outside the bathroom door as if they were headed inside the toilet....

the action starts here. we planned the route from changi beach park all the way down to the east coast. and then, we left.

sightings include SAF terminal ferry. changi airport. aircraft landings (night) and take offs(morning) and the 5km stretch of cycling path along changi airport. frequent sightings of wild dogs led us to be cautious and we stopped at a jetty like to take a break.

from changi all the way to the jetty took about 2 hours plus.... subsequently, the ride to marine cove took about an hour or so.... we shagged ourselves at mcdonalds at 3.30am and waited till 4.00am to have some breakfast. and then we napped and played some big 2 with the poker i brought along.

at 6.30am, the journey back begins..... we cycled non-stop all the way to the corner of changi airport... where we passed the farking 5km stretch and some fat guy overtook us on his bike. there at the small beach park, we drew some graffitti on the sand.... and i took a long dump in the nearby toilet. the china guy was totally rude when i asked him for toilet paper, and he just ignored me. in the end, after the dump, i realised the flush was broken, so i left him a token of appreciation.

the flight to changi village was a short and fast one. everyone with enough rest cycled with power to the nasi lemak stall and sat on the seat with metal studs (it really hurts the sore butt). we took a shorter break this time. then we began our journey back to downtown. it was the most tiring part... because we were suffering from fatigue... and it was uphill. once we got back to downtown at 10.00am, we returned our bikes, some of us took a shower, washed our feet, freshen up. and headed back to the MRT station. everyone slept through the journey except me and jum jum. then we parted ways at jurong east.

sadly to say, it was punishing for all of us, espeacially men, because we have extended areas at our groin. the lack of sleep made us high to a point we talk rubbish. and for the rest of the day, i slept like a log all the way to 6.00pm....

as for now, the butt has healed and the wounds are gone..... but i won't be doing night cycling for a period of time.....

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

the sky is always clearer on the other side

it was a quiet ending after a long 3 months. i had to leave the SYFC as of today since i wasn't recommended for the second phase.

it felt unreal, yet i already knew it was coming before i sat down for debrief. siva's eyes were yellower and redder than usual. and he kept trying to make me laugh.... wasn't much of a comedic person, but it puts a smile on your face.

i didn't drown myself in teh tarik, but i had lunch with my course mates one last time at jalan kayu. it was regrettable, but i have to let go sooner or later. i took it like a man, but my chest still felt like multiple organ failure.

you want to know the reason i wasn't promoted? nah, i wouldn't tell you just like that..... it still feels painful hearing those last words from my instructor. it's like your girlfriend saying: i wanna break up with you....

feels numb when you lose something you can't replace? yes... it's the only thing i will never be able to replace, for now.

i wonder what i'll do this holiday..........? after all, the sky is always clearer on the other side =3

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

when feelings cloud your judgement

tomorrow is the big day. i'd be saying goodbye to phase 1 at 10am. but it's whether or not i say hello to phase 2. that's the deciding factor.

today was pretty cool. i did my simulator training with siva, and he'd be flying with me tomorrow. along with my course mate hamdan, we'd be facing our promotion test. i just hope tomorrow is VMC, if not, i'd be sitting ducks in the ops room.

10 000 B.C is coming out soon. if i get into phase 2, i'm gonna throw a party (all expenses paid yourselves) and watch 10 000 B.C with "anyone". i'm gonna party all night long and drink all the booze till i hangover. and then i'd have problems with my medical after all that partying =)

i know what your're thinking.... what if i don't get in? i'd do almost the same thing, except no partying.i'd take cliff's advice, and get drunk with teh tarik at jalan kayu.

so wish me luck for tomorrow, and maybe i wounldn't have to go the distance to drink teh tarik and moan over regrets. signing off.......

Monday, March 3, 2008

what's worth my attention is none of your concern

thinking about what i was doing last friday evening, i came to realise how fragile my dreams are.

let's say, i want to be a surgeon. in a million ways possible, i can be one. but would i be successful and happy?

my mum always made jokes about surgeons, come to think aout it, it's really funny. imagine some guy with a bullet in his gut went for E.R surgery and 2 day after the surgery, he spoke to the doctor, telling him that there was something poking his liver. i guess you can imagine what's left in his body =3 and as for dad, he had more than a bad experience with surgeons.

but when the brothers started discussing about which university and what kind of career i had in mind, for the first time i really felt insecure. always, i thought my future was planned out nice and neat, but as you know the ups and downs in life can be very hard knocking. so to think about what lies ahead, i'm really afraid of entering the age of adulthood.

cowardice, fear or just ignorant? life wasn't going the way i wanted it to be. looking as things are right now, i really whished that i had given my all back when i was younger so i wouldn't have to live with a regret. when people say "a man without regrets leads a happy life." i kept my mouth shut because, if there ever was such a person, i'd eat my hat.

hooo kay, enough of that. recently, i've been rather caught up in games. Heroes V tribes of the east. i was so caught up in it, i lost track of time and forgot to prepare for my sorties. eeeew shit.

speaking of which, my final sortie for phase 1 is coming up this week. and its going to be a panick for me. i'm really desperate to get into phase 2, and i don't think i'll take it too well if i get phased out. sounds really pussy but, it's someone's else's dreams being shattered you know.

hope you like the new music i added recently. it's augustana, the killers, razorlight, and coldplay. any comments on the music please put it on tag

Friday, February 29, 2008

all in a week's work

last week,

sunday:

i woke up early, packed some water, packed my camera, packed my hat into my crumpler, and left the house at 7.00am. singapore airshow. was hot.

literally, the sun baked down on everyone at the site. when i got there at 10.40am, it was blistering. it was cooking hot. my nose and arms and neck were burnt red. even with the hat on, my nose still didn't escape.


but the best part of the show, was watching the air aerobatics display. so @#$% cool.
the black knights, the australian roulettes, the F-18 hornet, the F-16 fighting falcon, the A380 and some ulu ulu aircraft which was so uncool. if you were there on sunday, you would have seen the F-18 crack the sound barrier. so sexy....


and then we met this hot female doctor/pilot from the US pacific demonstration team. she actually flies the F-16.

monday.........

we, unfortunately had to say goodbye to our AT friend, william. he left us on to study farther abroad in scotland aerospace. we went to some sushi bar in orachard cineleisure (i forgot the name of the restaurant) to have the lunch buffet, and yea, i nearly puked from eating too much. then we headed down to lucky plaza to have a few rounds of expensive pool... shit it's $8.50 an hour. finally, cam whoring for the 1st time in my life, and of all places, in paragon's 3rd floor gents bathroom.


tuesday -_-

i got news on sunday during the airshow that my flight was scheduled on tuesday afternoon. well, for the 1st time in my entire phase 1, i never made so little mistakes before, except that, my taxying is still pretty much like fast and furious. and for the 1st time in my entire phase 1, siva gave me a 4.0. ok? no it's not, he usually gives a 5.0 even though the performance is poor. but hey, maybe he's being realistic. he tells me i got to prove my worth in my sortie 5 before he lets me move on to phase 2.... just great eh?

thursday

hoooo kay,thursday was probably one of the most shocking, most exciting, most hilarious, and most painful day in SYFC. shocking? well, i expected to be flying with siva in the morning on thursday, but, when i got there.....

"who's HO CK?" i look around the ops room to find instructor HO CK... and good lord. it was the Chief Flying Instructor. shit! i wasn't ready for this.... but i haven't got much of a choice.

exciting? maybe because it's chief, i got jittery nerves by the time i touched the aircraft for initial checks. i was praying like mad he woundn't walk out so soon. i only had 10 mins. i scrambled round the aircraft like a mad man to do my external checks and my pre start checks. and took out my FRC and Pre-Flight brief to recheck all my lessons and my operating procedures. my nerves were all helter skelter by the time he got into the aircraft with me. i went totally numb. my starting and after start was wobbly, and by the time i taxyed out to yankee, i was going in zig zags. my legs just went stiff. by the time i run up the engine, i was totally malu-ed. but i somehow managed and pull through without any help from the chief. *thank god*

hilarious? hohoho..... i think the chief was a pretty decent dude, he's got these glassy blue eyes that make you wonder if he's actually human. well, i can assure you he is, because he farts. yea. if it wasn't me, who else would it be? i was doing my climbing and descending while he was prompting me, and all of a sudden, i got a whiff of this nasty smell. i was like... what's that smell? is it the engine? it smells like someone took a shit!

still delirious from the smell, i nearly opened my mouth to ask the cheif what was that smell, and if the smell was from the engine failing.... but i thought better than to ask this innocent question. i coundn't risk getting a low 3.0 for my flight.

one you see your friends you spent your saturdays wtih leave you one by one, it really stings alot. yesterday, we bid farewell to another friend. fareez was the 4th to leave the SYFC BFC 157 course, following aslam in suit....it was a painful day.

i won't be sharing any music videos in the mean time, since it really hasn't got much views. but i enjoy watching them. i hope you did too, but it's ok if you don't really like it, just tell me.

and as for homecoming day? sorry, its the final ground school of my BFC. so, i can't miss it, for it may be my last.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

last but not least; we have.....

tomorrow is my last paper of the year.

and what better way to celebrate, than to go back home, and have a good rest? mm.. and a hot bath.... and the nice cozy bed.....

but now, it really isn't the time to think about that. the last paper i'm having is AMP. which is, well..... like geography, literature, social studies and history, in the form of chemistry.

the same long winded stuff, boring, not happening, and really dry. and i'm down to my last bit of energy. today's thermofluids wiped me clean. oh god... i lost 1/5 of the paper due to careless mistakes.

the bad news is, i just realised i've been memorising mistakes instead of the correct answers.... and all my new year effort gone down to waste....

pitiful? sorrowful? nah.... it's just plain bad luck...

Sunday, February 17, 2008

horror in the eyes

today was a tragic day. someone passed away at block 623.

it wasn't a funeral. it was an accident.

4.00 pm in the afternoon. like any other NP student, i was revising feverishly for my papers next week. then came a loud clang and bang..... i figured it was nothing, as such noises was pretty common.

then my mum came back from shopping and said loudly:" someone fell off the building." i ran to the kitchen window and leaned out. the scene was like some C.S.I drama. the cops were there, the body was covered in a police tent, the scene was roped off, residents were peeking out of their homes, and the karaoke people at the void decks were just staring. everyone was just watching.

what i saw troubled me. a slipper, a metal tin, some blood. the feeling of breaking every bone in my body shook my nerves. if you had splintered yourself before, you would know how it feels like. and i watched on. for the next 3 hours, the police collected every piece of evidence, a pair of slippers, the metal tin, the body. from what i heard, the deceased was a middle-aged man. he must have fallen off the building..... if not, it could have been intentional suicide.

while that aside, my study progress has been so-so, not to troubling except for the fact that i'm running out of time. it feels really stressful, and i'm having my seasonal outbreak now. in just 3 days time, it'll all be over, and then, the real thing starts from there.

can you read my mind after all?

Saturday, February 16, 2008

when life goes round and round like a clock

look out! here it comes!
if you didn't see it coming your way from behind, it's going to hurt.

when people say life is meaningless, it's true, we were dying the day we were born.
when people say life is meaningful, it's true, i have my own dreams too.

sometimes the latter seems harder to accept. when you're so young, everything ahead of you, is just another option. but as you grow older, the choices are harder to make, the risks are greater, and the less happier you'll be.

valentines day was quiet with the books and pencils. 4 hours in the library wasn't enough. and today was another day of dry lectures. and then i remembered. the singapore airshow 2008. 19th-24th of february. something i wanted to do this year. more details over here----> http://www.singaporeairshow.com.sg/

hopefully, i can afford the time to go this year, because maybe, i won't ever get the chance to ever fly a plane again.

Friday, February 15, 2008

when i'm under constant pressure process

constant pressure process: P.v = m.R.T when you're under so much of it, and can't think straight from it.

it's day one of exams. yes, i'm done with my EM3B, i lost 11 marks, and i should be getting an A for that. whereas, tuesday is big day thermofluids, and wednesday is high time with AMP.

my table is like a over-weeding garden. it's full of dropped hair. god, it's so hairy. and i can't study anymore, it's pretty much due to stress overload. my pimples are coming out again, and the sleepless nights are pretty much common nowadays.

while i was studying with my mates, i got some nice photos in the library. some are really explicit, but some are just plain good. here are some.






like i said, explicit. i have to admit, some of them took me aback when i first saw them, but, the models where pretty okay looking...... and they had nice figures, and they naturally caught my attention. P.S, they're not pornographic images for your information.

anyways, i cancelled all my flying activities, until next saturday. which means, i can fully concentrate on my exams. but, unfortunately, tomorrow, i have my ground school briefings, and i'm going to get a surprise on how far my course is ahead of me.

new year was pretty okay this year, at least i wasn't working, but i had to study. damn, it was so extreme. i'm an uncle on my malaysian side of the family, and all my nephews and neices are like toddlers....unfortunately for me, i had to study and din't go. and, when i wasn't home on saturday, my house was practically in chaos. the kids were all over our new sofa and the new cushions were... totalled.

like any other NP student, i can feel the freedom coming in from next week. and with 2 more papers to go, i can hardly catch my breath, and keep up with the study pace. and after that, its all back to flying.....

see you down the road at the next exit....

=3

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

when you can't comprehend the words around

i feel so sick..... is it the weather? is it the food? or is it my classmates?

which of the following is the main cause of a bout of bad flu? write a program blah blah blah.....

when i came in for compro test this morning, more than half the class was sick. and yesterday, i went with leon to crown plaza to have "mad jack", when he told me he wasn't feeling to good.

so when you have lunch with an ill friend, be careful so as not to get infected. unfortunately for me.... i woke up with sore throat and hot nostrils, typical signs for me that a time of flooded noses and gagging coughs are about to come in days.

when lunar new year is coming, it just sucks to fall ill. things to do tomorrow.
hand in compro final assignments. either play lan with freddy and jon/or go fuhua for CNY. and finally, the night i have waited for 2 years, to spend time with my family.

so would you do this new year?

P.S.: i think my new blog skin looks pretty gay

Sunday, February 3, 2008

alittle something extra, just for today.

Top Gun, by tom cruise, in this 1986 film.

when "mistakes", just doesn't make it sound right

it's been a long day.

today started at 7.00am with me rushing out to SYFC for my sortie 4, excercise 6ii. it looked extremely cloudy, with tendancies to rain. at 7.45am, i was still at woodlands, and i had to rush down, i took a cab. on seletar highway, it started raining lightly. when i got to the club at 8.05am, the weather was IMF, which was instrument flight. had my "lecture" by mr GOH CL. i left for the apron at 8.45am to do my checks, and departed at 9.00am with a few hiccupus at the end of my engine run up checks.

today was the worst excercise i ever had. i mean, flying was easy for me, it was the domestics that was alittle tough. today, i managed somehow with my cehcks and R/T with the least amount of scolding. but the flying training was a complete ZERO. zero visibility. filthy strong winds. and absolutely bad temper. i couldn't see shit outside my window, and i was completely irritated by GOH.

it's so retarded. i tried to maintain wings level, and he was trying to maintain constant heading, at the same time. it was impossible. the wind kept tipping my wings side ways, when i was flying north, the wind tipped me to the right, and i kept sliding east, vice versa. another big problem, was i couldn't regain altitude without the aircraft close stalling. the nose wouldn't pitch up the way i wanted it to, until.... i found out, it was my mistake. i didn't pull hard enough and i didn't power up the throttle. and because i couldn't see anything, i can't maintain constant nose attitude. GOH kept saying, "maintain attitude to the clouds", and i kept thinking, "what? are you born dumb?". i wanted it to end.... but i couldn't, so... kept on trying. not one of my better efforts to be honest. i lost complete motivation.

at the end of m debrief, he said, i was so close to failing, but as the weather played a part in today's events, i got a....DNCO. duty not carried out. thank god, that spared me from my worst fears. but, the next time, i won't be as lucky......

Thursday, January 31, 2008

when you fly and trip nuts at the same time

i just forget how much i like to blog. i haven't done this properly since last year. so busy and all that. common excuse is that i have nothing interesting on.

seriously, it's no longer an excuse, unless i get phased out in phase 2 of my BFC.

all right, i'm halfway through phase 1 of BFC. i seriously wish i can go near the aircraft whenever i want to, and mess with it however i want. but, there are always rules, regulations, aunties and policewoman standing by. so, it's quite bad when you don't know the vehicle you're riding that well...

let's see... today i flew with GOH CL, skylark 98. he was a nice guy. but really rough up in the skies. i messed up his call sign....... called him 93 instead of 98. and i got whoop so hard, i messed up the rest of my radio calls.

okay, checks, airmanship, and excercise not too bad, just when things got better, it turned sour again. i don't know how my aircraft sped up so fast when i turned in whiskey 2, it just did... i stoned for the entire 20 seconds, and jammed the rudder all the way to the left, oversteer the basket aircraft... talk about the fast and the furious, whiskey drift. after that, i got whalloped all over again, becos i taxi like some drunk driver. fast, slow, drift, jerk, slanted and yelled over intercom.

seriously, a man can only take "-------" this amout of screaming in his ears before he cracks and commits unreasonable mistakes. like me, for instance, after all that yelling, i forgot what is "turn off" all switches. instead, i stoned there, and turned them all back on without realising it.

i was so stoned, i wasn't even sure i did anything.

debreif and all was okay, got some praise, got some smack in the head for bad taxiing and radio calls. and then i had to report my sortie to the master... 86, SIVA. he was nagging at me, saying, " you arh, don't learn from your mistakes arh." and i was like, "yes sir, sorry sir, won't happen again sir."

well, better luck next time i suppose...

Sunday, January 27, 2008

M18 is REAL

it's the 27th january guys, thanks for all the birthday greetings i got.

wonderful, wonderful. today is a day unlike any other. i get to fly, i get good grades for flying, i get birthday greetings. and on friday, i get to have dinner with jonni and freddi.

a brief history on me,

19 years ago, when my mum first found out she was carrying me, my parents wanted to abort me. until they found out i was a boy.

the doctor estimated my date of birth to be on the 27th of january the following year. so my mum was like, okay and yeah sure. but as the date drew closer, she realized that there was no lunar new year for her to celebrate.

on the 26th of january 1990, 2300 hours, my grandma was praying that her grandson was to be born on the second day of the new year, just because it was auspicious. turns out i was born just after midnight.

so in the end, my mother had to spend her lunar new year in the hospial with my dad and 2 older sisters.

and today's birthday sortie, excercise 4ii:

turned out better than i expected, though sometimes i don't know how to answer my instructor, because the right words for answers to me, doesn't seem right to him. and i flew for 1.2 hours today, a long long flight, circling seletar airbase for 20 mins, just to get clearance for landing. there were 2 other guys down there doing touch and gos, so i can't butt in until their done.

after touch down, i met sherry, and russell. russell was doing his first sortie, while sherry like me, was doing sortie 2.

after that, went to jurong point to find qijun. was summoned by him out of the blue to waste time with him.

and that ends the birthday of today. yay.
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Sortie 1: excercise 3,4i

today... is the day.. big day. and a big mistake to start it off.

24/01/08 date of comencement. i started my flying programme to day. it wasn't exactly a good start too. technically, 19/01/08 was suppose to be my first sortie, but due to bad weather, it was cancelled.

everyone has bad days right... today was just another one of them. it started off ok. i met my instructor an hour before my flight for briefing. and he said: go ready yourself, i'll meet you back here in ops room at 1410 and then we'll leave.

1410 hours

the thing about my instructor, is.... he's a nice guy. just that once up in the air, it gets really really mono and dull. and not really, i didn't really like how my first sortie turned out, but it was an exhilerating experience. my external checks performance was a fiasco, because, under pressure, i completely forgot the parts of the aircraft.....my instructor just corrected me and explained to me. nice guy, so full of patience.

well, everything was going ok, until he asked me what was the airmanship for this excercise... my fault again, wasn't ready for anything as usual. then he nagged at me.....

then he asked me for the principles of EOCS... and again, i couldn't answer him...

for one reason, i couldn't hear him at all. everytime he chooses to talk, he talks along with the people on the radio. and he talks softly. so again, i messed up quite abit in the air... will do better next time.

all it all, flying is nothing like anything on this earth. i just hope i get used to it ASAP. an jon.... please stop putting :deadddd on my tag board.... put up something nice. it's my birthday this weekend, say something nice.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

just another year?

maybe not.... its official. by next end of january, i'll be watching M18 movies, drinking, driving, clubbing and hopefully, dating.

it's a new start. but however bad it can get, it never had to be like this. i mean. i spent the past 6 hours rushing through my AMP1 written project, and yes, i'm done. the bad news is, the IAC/COMT work isn't done.

i'm lazy. everyone knows that. thankfully i'm not the only one. i asked kelvin and jian hui for advice and..... well, i got some pretty unhelpful bits from jian hui, and a guide from kelvin.

quite pathetic in fact. i feel quite useless when jordan and melvin kept pestering me over IAC/COMT work. surprisingly, it wasn't me that pestered them like last time. well, as long as i finish the work by next monday, and everyone else is happy, i'm good with anything.

what did you do on new year's eve? i had fun, though it was just movies and movies. i heard everyone went to town and vivo for count down last night. sounds like fun. meanwhile, i was still near to home. westmall parade square had this open air theatre and i spent the evening watching transformers with freddy. and after that, freddy and i headed to the cinema to watch AVP2.....

the wasn't so bad, but quite dull. not enough AcTiOn. and in the end, me and freddy count down to new year in the cinema. it was kind of funny, but i think i was bothering quite alot of people.

o yea, while i was leaving the parade square with freddy, i ran into someone i didn't quite know. a very gorgeous babe from JJC. even freddy stopped to look at her while i greeted her.

i still don't know her name.... but i prefer not to disclose it though. and anyways, good bye 2007. hellow 2008. doesn't sound very promising, this year.

anyways, see you in school and soon. bye bye.