Inspirations for poems, rap, whatever you call it

Was not myself today. Time passes super duper slow, and i am real sian (bored).

Was chatting online with SL again, and i was mentioning to her that i was pretty sian, and was not myself today. In a way, i was moodless. The conversation went something like this...

Me: last time, you like that (moody), and i was not... now, i am like that and you are not(moody). what happens when both of us become like that?

SL: haha!! the whole world crashes??

Good one!!! managed to get me laughing... Hahaha... the whole world crashes. Not that serious bah!!

Then an inspiration hit me (ouch!!!). And i came up with this poem... or rap... whatever you call it...

It's ain't tough
to make ppl laugh
when you talk trash
like the world crash

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Was chatting with AP also. She's having the first day of school at poly.

She was complaining to me that she has forgotten her SP password. and when she finally remembered it, she was saying some thing like this...

AP: I so happy, never see properly.

Another inspiration hit me (Ouch!!!! Pain leh!!!). So, i replied back...

I so happy,
Never see properly
It's stated d,
but i see b.

The end.

Another monday.

Monday. Another monday. Another blue monday. Another stupid blue monday. Another stupid, sleepy, tired, blanking-blankety-blanker monday.

Am aching all over, especially my hand and leg. Right hand, left leg. Become a "pai car", "pai chu" liao.

Yesterday, Sunday. Spend the Dawn and the morning sleeping at my second home. Second home is the SJAB HQ. EC came later, and we ended up eating "C" rations after i woke up, and ordering Mac delivery.

Orientation driving on that day. Pretty cock-up. No proper lesson plans, no notes. But we did our best to convey about ambulance driving to the would-be new drivers. Hell, i was not even notified to go down. I knew about the course, and i called up SQ and volunteered my time.

Together with DC, TS, SQ and HH, we convey the finer points of driving the ambulance, siern and the beacon lamp systems to them, the proper way of using the siern system.

And we took them for a orientation drive.

I felt like a driving instructor, sitting in the VC seat. They are driving licence holders, and they know their stuff. So, in a way, its miller time for me. I just sit there, telling them about the lenght of the vehicle, give more allowance when turning, turning radius and turning speed.

And i demostrate about parking the 313 model vehicles in the garage. The parking used to be the most headache for me, coz it is so cramped. The allowance you need to park is less then 30cm combined at the front and back of the ambulance.

It is that tight.

After the orientation, went back to RU office to Nua. Surfing net, senting E mails, doing duty plannings, till its evening, and i went back.

A day at HQ. Its been some time since i did that. And looking at the duty forecast, it will not be a long wait till i do that again. My second home.

Sporting

My arms are tired. Started aching. Needs to raise up my right wrist with difficulty.

Ouch!!! Typing is also a difficult for me...

What had happened?

Its a combination of a few factors. Borrowed rackets from a couple of strangers and play badminton with Viper. Had not been play badminton fir a long time liao.Supposed to be a friendly match, but i smack when the time is perfect. Never warm up, stretching and cooling down also plays an important part in contributing to the ache.

Serves me right. I should have known better.

All those lessons, talks during RT did not really migrate and become a PR of a lesson of my stupid mind.

Warm-ups, cooling down and progressive training is always preached (but not necessary practised) during my NS days. But then, that badminton session is not a competition, its just a normal "workout" game for me. And my right hand is starting to ache.

Have i progressed too low in my muscle workout and stamina?

In my case, its the usual excuse of not free and too lazy. I don't like running and jogging for a fact. Jio me out for a jogging session, i would prob look away, hestitating, or even give you a straight no for an answer.

That explains my size.

But i dun really consider myself a failure in working out. Foremost, i chiong. Duties. Or you can try asking me out for a swim... I love swimming. Throw me into the pool, ask me to relax in the water, and i will feel uneasy. I need to swim, and resting when i need it.

Jio me out to shoot basketball into the net. I will prob agree. I don't play matches, even if its a friendly game. Badminton wise, i will prob agree too. Anything that does not involve much running or jogging, i don't mind. And, no golf please. I would prob end up throwing your club into the water obstacle when i take a swing, or i will shout "fore" multiple times, till, it's better to pre-record it and play it over the PA system everytime i take a swing.

The only sports i had taken part in as a competitor is swimming, bowling and shooting (air-pistol and revolver). That's all. Nothing else. See the similar side of it? All does not involve running or jogging.

Sports, especially competitions are nice. When i am a watching it. And the most popular sports in Singapore? Soccer, i presume. You can see youngster playing soccer everywhere. Soccer fields, Street soccer court, basketball court, Badminton court, void decks and even multi storey carparks!!!

And everytime when the FIFA world cups comes, the lights in most household are on, the noise pollution is terrible when someone scores, the amount of betting dollars goes way up off the scale and the doctors got better business. As someone had mentioned that the FIFA world cup is something like this...

"Its 20 idiots running after a ball, 2 idiots catching the ball, 3 idiots running around, but cannot touch the ball, and billions of ppl over the world watching 20 idiots running after a ball, 2 idiots catching the ball and 3 idiots running around, but cannot touch the ball."

Dilemma

Should i or should i not?

That is the question..... Need to consider carefully... Lots of factors to weight in...

But if i should, the time is now...

So, should i or should i not??

Headache siah..... ARGHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Duties season

Duties, duties and more duties.

Nah. I am not complaining. It just that duties, like rain, does have seasons. But unlike rain, it does have several seasons in a year, and each seasons can stretch all the way up to 5 months, and its definitely have up to 3 - 5 seasons per year, depending on the organisers.

Confused? Well, let me explain.

1st peak duty season is the beginning of the year, which involves the Chinese New Year Period, the light-up, the Countdown and the Yuan Xiao.

And that season will stretch over to March / April, whereby the Tertiary Institution (NUS and Temasek Poly in particular) will start organising all the various sporting event, from Rock Climbing, to Tri / Bi-athlon, to Bordering to Dragonboating.

In April / May, we usually have a brief respite, despite one or 2 sneakers (who managed to sneak past the peak season) and 2 major duties annually (New Paper Big Walk in May) and the NS Home Team Real Run.

Thank god there's no New Paper Big Walk this year (2007).

2nd Peak duty season will start from June and will last till Augest. Major events for this season is the National Day Parade (NDP) medical cover over National Education (NE) Shows, NDP Family day, NDP preview and the NDP actual day.

And in June, usually, during the school holidays period, its where the organisers of activities will be the most busy. In fact for this year, all my weekends in june are booked for duties. (NUS Silat Competition and TP Rockamania). There's even a tarkwando tourament coming our way.

After NDP, we will all take a breather. No question. NDP drains you. Especially the co-ordinator, which usually is held by JH.

3rd Peak duty season will be the end of the year. There will be a super major duty, the most siong, (terrible, horrible and vegetable) duties of all time. The marathon. It will drain all the drivers and the ambulance crews, as well as the hospital staff.

After the super tiring marathon duty, next is all the festive holidays coming in. Countdowns for Christmas (recent years does not have anymore), New year countdown. That period is the most relaxed for us, as we were, afterall in the festive holiday mood also.

And then, its back to the 1st peak duty season, and so on, so forth etc....

Duty?? Chiong ahhhH!!!!

More updates on Civil Service pay hike

Hmmm.... Seems that a paragraph of my blog got someone's attention.

He or she is the editor of the Asia Observer. I felt honoured. First time i got to know that my blog got the attention of someone which is not in my circle of friends.

You can read what is quoted on here. http://www.asiaobserver.com/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,435/p,39/#more-39

On the updates of the goverment pay hike. Last night, i got to know that PM Lee decided to freeze his pay for 5 years and donate pay hikes

Well, some might speculate that he did that for PR, to squell the cries of "not fair" of the public voices. To the others, he did that to boost his publicity.

To me, be it the first or the latter, i got nothing against it. In fact, its a good thing. He's killing 2 birds with one stone.

Lets give him the benefit of the doubt, and he really wants to help out the charities in terms of donation, to help the poor and the unfortunate, and by doing so, he would in a way, cool off the rising debate of the pay hike.

If you are encountering the same situation as him, and you can kill 2 birds with a stone, hell, why not? As what Nike has said, "JUST DO IT!"

Interestingly, so far only him and another MP, Miss Lily Neo also donated her increase in MP allowances to the Public Assistance recipients in her constituency, and no more. I do not have the right to ask the others MP or Ministers to follow the leader's example (if they do, there be a hell lots of donations, and the charities will be very happy!)

But i cannot exclude the possibility that the other people in the goverment did help the charities, by donation or other way, and don't want any publicity, and wishes that i remains a private affair. Its up to individual, and its not for me to comment.

In an unrelated post....

3 more days to file your income tax returns. Have you done it? If you have not, better do it fast or face the wrath of the IRAS.

A Tribute to SK.

A friend of mine recently passed away. He is Tan Swee Kiang.

I got to know him through SJAB, thought i never did work with him on SJ projects before. And to be frank, it is not easy working with SK on SJ projects.

My first impression on him is that he is a prefectionist. From what i heard of him, he demands that work is to be done, to his satisfaction, and if you think you cannot do it, he will push you to do it, and you will realised that there you can go something more then a 100% effort.

He does not spoon-feed you. He gives you a job and leaves you alone. If you encountered a problem, he will not solve it for you, instead, he will offer you advice and let you solve the problem yourself.

He is also a helpful guy. There's one i mentioned to him about my finanical woes, and he recommand me a part-job as a First Aid Lecturer, and giving me infomation about where to teach at night etc... I never took up the First Aid Lecturer post, as i feel that i do not yet qualify to become one.

He does listen to your problems, and he will help in whatever way he can. He's a mentor to me, in terms of First Aid knowledge.

Indeed, he has made a big impact on lots of others. So much so that a close friend of his had setup a blog as a tribute for him. Tribute to Tan Swee Kiang .

May you rest in peace, SK. We will never forget you.

Pay raises

Hot topic in Singapore now, i can hear a podcast about it, i can hear the aunties gossip about it in the market, the uncles chatting about it in the coffeeshop, as they sat, slurping their beer and sipping their coffee, and even youngsters, teenagers discussing about it on the net....

Its all about pay raise. Yes, pay raise for the civil servents in Singapore.

PM, ministers to get pay rise of between 14% and 33% Tuesday April 10, 6:17 PM, CNA.

Starting salaries in civil service to increase by 16% Tuesday April 10, 10:17 PM, CNA.

Woah!!! That's hell a lot of increase!!! First, the goverment increase the GST by 2% and gave themselve a raise of 14% - 33%!!!

That means to say, Prime Minister will draw $3.1 million this year.

President of the Republic of Singapore will get $3.2 million dollars, this is up from the current $2.5 million while both Senior Minister and Minister Mentor who earned $2.7 million each last year, will now get paid $3.04 million each.

No wonder Mrs Senior Minister mentioned the S$1.8 million that TT Durai got was peanuts. What is 1.8 million bucks over 3 years compared to 3.04 million annually that her husband got?

Reason given is that the pay must be attractive to retain top talent in the civil service, and to form a stable goverment. The goverment says that they are losing top talent of the civil service personnal to the private sector, but to the others like me, can we go into the civil service instead? The pay is more, the work is more relaxed, the benefits are better.

I remember my parents telling me to study hard when i was very young, and grow up to become a lawyer, or a doctor or an engineer and earn big bucks and live comfortably in a big house, a big car and a big swimming pool outside the house.

At the rate i am going, i think i will be living in a big house, surrounded by cars and with some swimming pools outside the house. You will find me living at a void deck of a HDB flat, which has a public swimming complex just across the road.

Times had changed. I think i shall tell my future sons and daughters to study hard to become a Minister when they grow up. They can earn more bucks than lawyer, doctor and engineer easily.

But one thing is that, minister future is uncertain also!

They face general election every five years!!! They worried losing their job once every five years! That's lots of stress for them!

But as i recall, General Elections are meant to elect the Members of Parliament, not the Ministers. Ministers are appointed by the Prime Minister. So, what worries does the Ministers have?

MRT services disrupted, once again

Another man fell on to the MRT track.

Train services disrupted after injured man found on MRT track, reported by CNA.

Has anyone keep track of all the numbers of incidents where ppl fell into the track, be it by accident or suicide?

Has anyone keep track of the numbers of commuters that has been affected by the disruption of train services? The economic loss suffered by those disrupted?

Its been sometime since i kept quiet about all those incidents. Since the incident at Clementi MRT station, the public has been asking the goverment, or SMRT / SBS Transit to put up barriers (like the underground stations) to prevent those incidents from happening again.

That time, if i never recall wrongly, the reply was that it is not justified to put up the barriers. But since that reply, i have seen more ppl falling into the MRT track, causing loss of lives, disruption of train services, inconviences etc, and what does SMRT / SBS Transit do?

They just apologise for the inconviences caused. But did they make an effort to prevent the same incidents from happening in the future, besides more vocal warning over the PA system, which i suspect, to commuters, is more irriational than informative.

Something must be done, otherwise, you will keep seeing ppl falling into the tracks, dying and disruption.

Ben & Jerry's free cone day!!

Good news to all Ben and Jerry's ice cream lovers!!!

NExt Tuesday, is free cone day!!! Limited time!!! If you are able, go and enjoy a free cone of ice-cream!!!

See poster below for details!


Yummy!!! Too bad, most prob I do not have the chance to have a cone of ice-cream on that day... (sob, sob)

A walk to remember

Last Saturday night, before we went down to riverside point, i was at AF's house.

ZX and AF was modifying our transmitter box, Jolin was playing PS 2 games. I was pretty bored, the room was pretty cramped, so i went out to the living room and turned on the telly.

CS came later. And both of us sat down in front of the telly. I was surfing the channels, and when i came to channel 5, there's a movie showing. It looked like a nice movie, and so, i stopped surfing.

Absent-mindly, i asked CS what's the movie.

"A walk to remember", was her reply. "Its a romantic, touching movie, and the soundtrack is very nice."

I was not really one for a romantic movie. But since the other channels are showing crap, that movie seems like the best choice.

And so, i watched.

Indeed. Its a nice movie. Its about this gal, who is suffering from cancer, fell in love with a guy, who loves her also. In a way, she is prepared to die from her disease, and is able to let go of everything, until that guy comes along. And that guy did lots of things for her.

They got married and the gal died.

. It's a touching movie, all right.

As i said, its a movie. But in real life, does it happen this way? Imagine a gal dying of cancer, can her bf spend the last few months or years to make her happy? Or will he dump her faster than you can say "hello" and go after some other pretty young skirts?

What will you do, when someone you loves is dying of an uncurable disease?

The song in my blog is the OST of the movie, "A walk to remember", only hope, by Mandy Moore.

Enjoy.

Long weekend

A long long weekend had passed... And its now, back to Monday, suffering from Monday blues.

You may be thinking... Where got long long weekend?? Its only Friday, Sat and Sun!!!

To me, this weekend seems long. And fast in a certain way. Why is that? Its a weekend where there's nothing on at all!! Its a weekend of no duties, the 3 days were spend relaxing, catching up on sleep, outings.

And in a way, i feel funny. Funny when the whole weekend is so free, without any duties. Funny that i did not go to HQ on weekends, be it duties, slacking or sleeping... wahahah... In a way, I miss HQ, and the "bo liao" ppl who like to gather there on weekends just for the sake of nothing.

Friday.

Went back to work. Surprising is that, my boss came back to office to work also. So, its macham like a normal office day, with all the staff returing to office and factory to work. But the hours are darn short. Once i finish my stuffs, (1400 hours) i left.

Afternoon. Went to suntec. Tried jioing ppl eariler, but no one is free. In the end, saw MS online and jio her out. Primary Target of going suntec. "Buy darts". Secondary Target "go walk walk".

Missed primary target. No one is selling darts at suntec! Can you believe it? Finally, can find something that is not sold at Suntec!! Secondary target successful, though.

Friday night. We went for a movie. "Shooter".

Interesting plot. Collateral Damage. Politicians playing dirty politics. But as the saying goes, "Don't mess around with the wrong man." And as what Richard Marcinko had describle his niece (i think). This is something what he had describled. (Cannot remember the exact words).

"She will swallow all the shit that is being thrown at her, and she will gather all the shit and spit it back... WITH AIM..."

But the most interesting thing in the movie is that the lead guy can hit a flying chopper (defender series, i think) with a 0.5 inch barrett M95 sniper rifle . WOW!!! Fantestic. Can it be done really?

Satuarday.

Woke up in the afternoon. Met up with AF, ZX and Jolin for dinner. (Its a breakfast, lunch and dinner for me in one go). Finally bought my darts at Greenridge Shopping Center. A small shopping center in the heartlands of Bukit Panjang got something which a very large shopping mall in the city does not have. Shame on you, Suntec. What a disgrace.

Night. We went to Riverside point to fly kite, and ended up playing darts instead. (I got a dart board in my van).

Sunday.

Went to Tiong Bahru for breakfast. The infamous loh mee stall at Tiong Bahru. It was very yummy!!! Who wants to go the next time??

Ended up walking around in Tiong Bahru Plaza, buying some CDs. After which its home (sleeping) time, and met up again at night for dinner and much laugher. Everyone got into the mood of folding dollar notes into 2 cranes and a star.

What a relaxing, revitalising weekend!!!

But in a way, i missed SJ HQ.

Pictures!!

Sorry for the long long delay folks, but the photos are finally uploaded.

Remember i mentioned in a post about the outrageous carpark at Bukit Timah Market on Weekend mornings? Here are the pictures...

Chaotic huh? Vehicles are trying to go in and out, and you get to see lots of funny assholes character who are that inconsiderate to park in such a manner that blocks the traffic, go against the flow of traffic, etc...

Talking about stopping their vehicles that block the flow of traffic... The black merc (2 door) is a very good example.

Still as choatic as ever... We are sitting upstairs, Viper, CS and me... Enjoying every minute of it... hahahaha...

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Look at the photo below and tell me what is wrong with it.... Take a good look.

Figured it out?

What's your answer?? Is your answer that there's an vehicle which is an odd one out? There's 3 ambulances and a van?

Wrong answer!!!

All 4 vehicles are ambulances... The only difference is, one of them is an undercover ambulance!!!

Gotcha!!!

"he real team" Richard Marcinko

Talking about Richard Marcinko once again, i had bought another one of his books a few years ago.

Title is "The Real Team".

This book talks totally about how you manage a team. And it does apply to everywhere, be it business world, management world, Uniformed groups, Armed forces....

Here's the summery.

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The Rogue Warrior’s Ten Commandments of SpecWar

10 FOR THE MEN

- I am the Warlord and the wrathful God of Combat and I will always lead you from the front, not the rear.

- I will treat you all alike – just like shit.

- Thou shall do nothing I will not do first, and thus will you be created Warriors in my deadly image.

- I shall punish thy bodies because the more thou sweatest in training, the less thou bleedest in combat.

- Indeed, if thou hurteth in thy efforts and thou suffer painful dings, the thou art Doing It Right.

- You hast not to like it – thou just to do it.

- Thou shalt Keep It Simple, Stupid.

- Thou shalt never assume.

- Verily, thou art not paid for thy methods, but for thy results, which meaneth thou shalt kill thine enemy by any means available before he killeth you.

- Thou shalt, in thy Warrior’s Mind and Soul, always remember My ultimate and final Commandment: There Are No Rules – Thou Shalt Win at All Costs.

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SEVEN FOR THE LEADER

- I will test my theories on myself first. I will be my own guinea pig.

- I will be totally committed to what I believe, and I will risk all that I have for these beliefs

- I will back my subordinates all the way when they take reasonable risks to help me achieve my goals.

- I will not punish my people for making mistakes. I’ll only punish them for not learning from their mistakes.

- I will not be afraid to take action, because I know that almost any action is better than inaction. And I know that sometimes not acting is the boldest action of all.

- I will always make it crystal clear where I stand and what I believe.

- I will always be easy to find: I will be at the center of the battle.

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Rogue’s Warrior’s Rules of Engagement

- Aim before you shoot, because the “Fire, aim, ready” method is bull shit.

- Breaks the rules before they break you.

- Have character, but don’t be a character.

- Lead from the front, where your troops can always see you.

- Don’t confused planning with training, or talking with kicking ass.

- Honor your boundary breakers as much your boundary makers, because they’re your point men.

- Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, because the path to glory is littered with fuck-ups.

- Serve a greater cause than your own good, or you’ll be a one-man army.

- Take risks – and more risks.

- Never be satisfied.

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Dwell on it, dwell on the blankety-blanking-blanker messages.

A little poem

Was chatting with SL thr MSN just now...

And i got a little inspiration pver a couple of message that we had type.

Its a poem, and it goes something like this...

If you are bored,
can go read my blog.
And be entertained,
Coz it's really lame!!!

SL mentioned that if i post this up, she will laugh till she cry...

I cannot wait to see her do that... Laugh till cry.

Book titled "Rogue Warrior".

This is going to be a long long long long post... Bear with it... Lolx...

Last week, I finally purchase a book. It took me years to search (inactively) for it. Finally found it at West mall sometime last year, and finally bought it a year later.

My first contact with the book was during my poly days. I was at the National Library, looking for some books to borrow to spend my time. (I was always at the same asle, looking at the books that i am interested in).

Then i came across it. Over the years, i had borrow it lots and lots times. I dunno if the National Library keeps records of the books that a borrower had borrowed, but i am interested to find out how many times had i borrowed that book.

In case you are wondering what is that book, its "Rogue Warrior" by Richard Marcinko. That book is his autobiography, his life.

Richard Marcinko was a US Navy Man. From an enlisted man, he graduated from UDT (Underwater Demolition Team), went on to OCS (Officer Candidate School), commissioned as an officer, and he pass his quals and became a SEAL (SEa, Air, Land, the most elites of the US Navy), became a platoon commander, besides other appointments, he became the CO (Commanding Officer) of SEAL Team 2. He created SEAL Team 6 (doing counter-terrorism work), and become the first CO of SEAL 6. He also created the Ultra-Secret, (now declassified), Red Cell (doing terrorist work on US Navy bases). Finally, the US Navy threw him into jail.

From that book, i learnt lots of things. Good and bad, but nevertheless, its all interesting.

Lets talk about the good things first.

I learn about his style of leadership. How he stress about UNIT INTEGRITY. He expects his men to back him up, and he BACKS HIS MEN UP. Or how he gets things done, his way, overriding his immediate superior.

Or how he enforce his rules, and stick to it. Friends and foes alike. He treats them all the same. Just like shit.

How he passes his knowledge around, when he learned new things. He dares to do things differently, especially when fighting a battle.

Okie... i admit, the most interesting part is the "bad" things that i had learned.

His experience with lauguage was fantestic. let me quote you some examples. If you feel uncomfortable reading it half-way, please do stop. Kids, do not copy this at home. I had "directly-quoted" the passage from the book.

You had been warned.

1) Barrett to Marcinko: "Marcinko, you bleeping motherblanker, get your blankety-blanking scrawny ass over here.",

2) Try reading this aloud.

Barrett to Marcinko: "You will blankety-blank have that blankety-blank blanking radio blankety-blankety-blank bleeping blanking fixed by the time we bleeping climb into the blanking boat tomorrow, or i will bleeping kick your blankety-blank-blank-bleeping blankety ass into blanking next blanking week.

3) Barrett:" Just bleeping do it and shut the bleep up!"

4) The best of all This contains some vagularies. If you think you cannot take it, stop here now... If not, please continue.

Barrett to himself, when during HALO (High Attitude, Low Opening) parachute jump, and Marcinko decided to pull very very low (super high risk stuff): "You asshole, you fucking asshole, you fucking dipshit asshole. Pull the fucking goddamm cord. Marcinko, you motherfucking cocksucking cuntbreath shit-eating turd-faced dipshit pencil-dicked pus-nuts shit-for-brains asshole geek. PULL THE FUCKING CORD!!!"

Interesting right? This is the blankety first blankety-blanking time that i see some blankety-scrawny-blanker asshole use those blanking-blankety words.

Cool.

Clinic fees guidlines withdrawn by SMA

Recently, the SMA (Singapore Medical Assocation) withdraw its guildlines on the doctor's consultation fees, giving the doctors to charge their own fees. Reason for SMA to withdraw the guildline is coz of the "competition act" which was enacted last year.

Hmmm... Interesting... It has certainly caught a lot of us by surprise.

So, is it good news or bad news to us? What about the GPs?

So, i can imagine what when i am sick, i go to the doctor. First question you are going to ask to person is not "how long must i wait?" it is "How much is the fee?" If the fees are too high, i just go over to the other clinic, being sick and all that.

And if a certain clinic charges a very low fee, which needs some traveling time, will the general population go there to see?

Personally, i do not know, i seldom see doctors, unless i am really sick. My defination of really sick is when i need an transport to go to get medical attention, usually the hospital. I only go and see a doctor when i need a MC, which is seldom also.

Doctors will learn to hate ppl like me.

What about the GPs point of view? Will they start over charging? Will they get into the competition mood and start slashing their prices? Will we see another price war happening in Singapore, just like the petrol companies?

A lot of things can happen. So, lets just sit back, and watch the show, laughing at comical sights, munching on an apple. Makes no sense to eat popcorn now, as now may not be the ideal period to fall sick. As the saying goes, " An apple a day keeps the doctor away", and " Laugher is the best medicine."

So, when you are sick, and you do not know which clinic charges the lowest rate, just laugh your head off.

No life

Was chatting aimlessly with the usual ppl yesterday night, when suddenly someone spoke about the term "no life", and i just added on that people like us are "no life".

Upon saying that, i suddenly got a jolt. Its like an electric current running through me suddenly. I got a shock.

I have been using the words "no life", saying it out, screaming it out, just like when i use profanities when i was a NSF. For ladies, you will be amazed by the amount of vagularies that we used when we wear green. We use them as a verb, adverb, noun, adjective, etc etc. We started our sentences with one, add a few more when carrying our message across, and finish our talking with yet another one.

But yesterday, the word "no life" set me thinking, pondering...

What is "no life"?

Take me for example. I always chiong duties. To my neighbourhood friends, i got "no life".

But chionging duties is what i like. Especially when i am with the Duty Siaos ppl. Its certainly not a "no life" to me, when we are either laughing over a joke, bitching over someone's actions, complaining about the things done by the organiser, chionging when a case is reported.

To the others, my hanging out nightly with the usual group of ppl is "no life". But that's how i spend my time. If i go home and do nothing else, to me, that is "no life".

Chionging discos, night spots to me is considered "no life", but to the chiongsters, is it a life?

So, to me, no life is a term you say to someone when they always go for some activities which you have no interest in.

Someone had mentioned to me before that writing blogs is also considered "no life".

So, how do you get a life??

List of RTAs

I had complied a list of RTAs that i had helped out with and that i can recall. So far, the tally is 16.

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1) Sungei Tenah Road (2002), outside Tenah Airbase. A collision between taxi and a bike. 2 Casualties, both from motorbike. Amputated leg and deep cuts/lacarations injuries. Medical Officer, SAF medic and me assisting. No first aid kit avaliable.

2) Clementi Road (????), towards Woodlands besides Ngee Ann Poly. 2 predestians was knocked down by a car while they are crossing the road. A male and a female. Suspect fractures, spinal injuries on the female casualties while the male was in a state of shock. One doctor and me assisting.

3) Beach Road (2002), Traffic junction outside SJAB HQ. A collision between car and bike. One casualty, the motorcyclist. No major injuries. Derek, Taufiq and me assisting.

4) Bukit Batok (????), Outside Esso petrol station. A side collision between a car and a bike. One casualty, the motorcyclist. Multiple cuts and lacerations on hands and legs. Kailing and me assisting.

5) PIE (????) towards jurong, after Stevens Road exit. Hit and Run (as claimed by the driver) Car overturned. One driver and 3 passengers. No injuries. Only me assisting.

6) PIE (????) towards jurong, before Eng Neo Exit. Car and bike. One casualty (motorcyclist). Multiple cuts and lacerations on the hands, legs and face. Suspect fractures. Taufiq and me assisting.

7) PIE (2006) towards Changi, at Adam Road exit. Collision between Taxi and bike. One casualty, biker. Suspect fractures at his legs and multiple cuts and lacerations on his hands and legs. While treating the casualty, a bus skidded and crashed into the stationary taxi. No casualties. Me assisting with Joshua and Zhi Xiang helping.

8) Bukit Panjang Ring Road (2006) outside BP NPC. Car overturned. 4 passenger, 1 casualty. Cuts on her finger and a foreign body embedded on her back. Driver was charged with speeding, drink driving, destroying goverment property and driving without a licence. Me assisting with some BP WLNY Supper CLub members helping.

9) PIE (2005) towards jurong, after clementi road exit. Car and bike. One casualty, biker. Fractures on legs and suspect spinal injuries. Multiple cuts on head, face, hands and legs. Raining. Me assisting.

10) PIE (????) towards jurong. Before Eng Neo exit. Bike (hit and run). Cannot recall much about this RTA.

11) Orchard Road (????) Predestian and van. Predestian was jaywalking when hit by a van. Windscreen cracked. Predestian suffer deep cuts on her head. Some members of public and me assiting. No First aid kit avaliable.

12) Bukit Panjang Road (2006) entry into BKE (PIE). Motorcycle skidded. Pillion okie, rider suffered cuts on his face. Drifting in and out of consicous. Me assisting.

13) Yishun (2006) Taxi and Bike. Was senting Shu Yan back when i saw the RTA. No casualties seen. However as i go back HQ, saw the casualty. Stopped and assist. Biker was very near the kerb. Left leg fracture. SCDF paramedic does not know how to TOC the casualty. I settled the problem for them.

14) Yishun (2006) Traffic light junction outside Khadit Camp. Bike and car. 1 casualty. No major damage. SCDF paramedic, Enrolled nurse (SGH) off-duty police officer and me assisting.

15) AYE (2006) towards Jurong, outside NUH. Van crashed into road border. Casualty trapped in van. Stopped 2 passerbys from pushing the van out, as it is causing more pain to the casualty. Access and monitor the casualty's condition by climbing up the front of the van. Need SCDF to extract the casualty. Me assisting.

16) PIE (2007) towards changi, before Eunos exit. Car, van and bike. Biker suspected left ankle fracture. Car VC got air-bag impact injuries. Could not open her eyes.
Enoch Chan, Jun Jie, Jackie and me assisting.

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How's that?? I seen lots RTA, and most of them are involving motorbikes. So riders out there, please be extra alert and extra careful when you are riding bikes.

Monday after ICT

Finally it's monday, back to work day...

After a week (3 1/2 days, more like it) in ITI for my ICT, i relish this time round, when i no need to wake up at 0600 hours, walk to cookhouse to scan your IC for breakfast, after which return to bunk and wait in queue in the toilet to shit.

It's back to my old routine of waking up late (for work), not consuming breakfast, and the avaliability of the toilet to me when i want to shit.

It's back to the office, only to be faced with a huge headache...

After a week's absence from work, the amount of work to be done was huge. Lots and lots of things have to be done. And i will be very busy, especially during this period when my company changed name from APN P/L to APN P/L.

Thinking back. ICT is fun. It's a break from work, a chance to gather the platoon of ppl who had once stayed under the same roof, doing the same shit, cursed and sweared together for over 2 years. And judging from this ICT, no one has changed. Only that most ppl had grown... Horizontally...

Uniforms had changed also. Now, when i put on the uniform and wherever i go, the whole world knows that i am in the infantry under 2 PDF Command, and that i am from Singapore. The uniform seems heavier with all those patches sewed in. It looks kinda "funny". You even have to sew the rest of the stuff on yourself, at your own cost! @*#&@#^$%!&

I still prefer the old uniforms where no one knows where you from and what you do. And you can start smoking everyone around and having a whale of a time to yourself.