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Another Week

A packed but exciting week passed.

My assignment was rushed and submitted on Monday, but still since then I don’t remember spending some time using the computer or online.

Tuesday physical training wet weather programme turned to be an paper airplane competition which i won.

Wednesday was some computer hardware fixing.

Thursday and Friday were visits learn about weapons. Was a nice learning experience. Met many bmt platoon-mates there too.

Friday night was SAFAC 36th anniversary dinner at crown palace restaurant in Yishun. Didn’t expect to meet two 1 year and another 2 years my senior I knew in the same course in poly.

In the afternoon, I played badminton with fellow church members. Quite rusty but still fun to be playing. On Saturday morning, was tennis and squash. Tennis was usual but it was my 2nd attempt at squash. Quite fun to play, and addictive such that I think I will be hook.

Squash is something like pinball, instead of flippers are 2 human controlled racket. Instead of letting the ball go down the drain, you dont let it bounce twice on the floor. You try not tilt the pinball machine, and you try not to hit too hard such that the balls goes beyond the red line. It enjoyable seeing the ball bounce around in so many different ways as long it goes up, towards the front wall.

I bought a samsung DVD-writer at 85bucks, 16X with DL(dual layer). These days, it almost does everything with cds/dvds at quite low reasonable prices. I havent tested them, but I tried plugging it into my external 3.5″ harddisk casing and windows could detect it. Quite an idea to convert it to be an external storage device huh?

On the news, Nokia seems to be dropping n-gage for a while. I have been thinking and discussing of getting an n-gage for some time already, yet still considering and just waiting for the right time. PSP features are much better and prices are lowering. n-gage is smaller, but so is it screen, colours and really many points its not as ideal. However, n-gage storage - an MMC is real cheap now, <$50 for 512MB, compared to sony dual memory stick. As one slashdotter pointed up, the advantage of n-gage really, is the cheapest symbian(series6) phone, which I could hopfully program. ngage QD is still on the market, maybe about $260, but I hoping I can get a still working in good condition n-gage classic for about $200. Anybody interested to sell? contact me.

Ouch

As much as I injure others, I inflict considerable amount of injuries and pain on myself.

While mishandling a drill 81mm mortar bomb, the metal tail fins hit the tip of my lips, causing a small depression and blood to follow.

Anyway here’s some updates on stuff at SOA over these past weeks.

2 months completed, 1 month left.
10+ tests done, <10 tests, projects to finish up.
More free time, but more sleepiness among us.
More craziness, but more laughter.
More test experiences, but more near failure results.
More rainy seasons, but more time for games.
Our boss went overseas, and our Sargent was posted out.
Att-08 came for MATT course, and they passed out.
We had more scape paper(from reports and projects), but soon I was using them for airplanes, shuriken, and other crazy stuffs.
Another ‘A’ (armament) came for a visit, and interesting to know us “Double A”s (like batteries)
In an attempt to have a more economical tea break, we have a clash with the vendor.

I’m sure incidents like these will bring us memories when we think of them next time.

Where am I

Dear visitors,

Thanks always for coming back to my blog even though there issnt much here.

Esp. this seems to be a period of time where activities seemed to at low tides.

Or lately simply just lacking dont care for alot of things that I usually do or have to do.

So this blog hasnt been update some time. Admin login and I see over 100 comments in moderation in the dashboard. Most of it are spam anyway.

17 comments approved
95 comments deleted
6 comments unchanged

Should be solved with a anti-spam plugin. Plus I really want to try the new K2 theme for the blog. And write more ajax stuff. Not for the time being, since my firefox was corrupted after installions of different development firefox builds, I havnt visit my own blog.

Pictures dont appear now because modblog seems to be having problems with their servers.

My physical activities is really to a minimum, while mental activities like studying is peaking.

New gadgets I have bought recently include a small usb multi-card reader, dku-5 cable for my nokia 3120 handphone (which made me spend much more time with my phone, esp playing games), a mic, 3.5mm dual head audio cable.

So much here for now.

1st Day of Posting

For all those still wondering where I’m posted to.

I will be at SOA for the next 12 weeks or 3 months. SOA is School of Ammunition for now and previously known as Ammo Base.

Since this 1st day is more of having an induction it wouldnt be good to conclude anything. However, it seems I’ve to be mentally prepared to go for many lectures and study, in order to to pass 20 tests for me to “graduate” and become an ammo tech or specialist.

Enlistment See Off at Pulau Tekong

July 29 2005, Friday
~ 1300 hours

On the fastcraft towards the island Pulau Tekong. I must be the one with the most number of people accompaning me! I almost made the worst start by forgetting to bring my documents.

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