Clouds and sun

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Short talk:

The higher your hopes are, the more painful it will be when they are dashed...
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The weather has been very funny lately...

One minute can be sunny and hot, the next minute will be raining and is hotter, and the next, it's sunny and raining and it's even hotter than ever...

I know lots of you out there will be cursing at swearing at this weather, but does you all look at the nice side of such funny weather?? I mean, nice scenery of such things?? If no, let me show you!!!









The top few pictures are taken from my house. The clouds cover the sun, but rays of light can be seen, macham (just) like when you are sinking into darkness, those are the rays of lights that can rescue you, to show you the correct path to walk.

The bottom few photos are taken at Lim Chu Kang, where i was attending a Funeral. It did rain heavily for about 3 minutes before it stopped. And it stopped in time for the coffin to be lowered into the ground, and that's when the sun came out.

It did have a big effect on me... reminding me of a comic that i had read.










Ain't nature nice?

But i definity be cursing and swearing if that kind of weather happens when i am having In Camp Training next week and the week after...

Hey... stop laughing.. I am a human after all!!!

Advertisement shooting in office

We went through a filming session yesterday, for our A&P (advertising and promotion) grimmick.

All the staff was caught on tape, with the exception of me. I made it a point not to get captured (on tape). Let my boss and my colleagues have all the gory...

And while the cameramen are busy shooting the things, i am busy shooting them shooting the equipments.

The difference is that their equipment is this...



While in great contrast, my equipment is only a small puny camera...

My boss being caught on camera... 2 cameras, in fact.


Last minute script writing...


Sorry, you all must understand that we are not mediacorp. Therefore, we have to use low budgets papers and markers for the script.

And the filming proved once again, not all is fun. There's lots NGs.

Thank god that i am not inside... I had a tasted of filming liao... Not really my cup of tea...

Happenings in 15 years time????

Well, with regards to my last post, since we are talking how's the future will be like, i might as well try to forsee what might be happening in 15 year's time in the papers, if the global warming and the pollutions did not kill us first...

1) Singapore announces her intention to bid for 2028 Summer Olympic Games.

2) Crude oil hits all record high of US$1000 per barrel.

3) Singapore to build 8th terminal at Changi Airport.

4) Singapore Airlines to ground aging A380 aircraft, citing high fuel comsumption.

5) Singapore and Malaysia goes to ICJ over Pedra Branca for the 6th time.

6) Singapore Soccer Team out of world cup qualifiers after losing 10-0 to Thailand

7) F1 drivers are getting sick of Singapore track, reports

8) Marina Bay Floating platform in danger of sinking, PSA Enginneer.

9) CPF minimum ceiling raised to 2 million, withdrawal age raises 100.

10) LTA to set up 15 more ERP gantries on top of the 75 gantries over singapore for 24 hour operations.

11) Goverment announces plans to build Asia longest tunnel to link Singapore with Batam and Bintan.

12) Goverments announces Tekong island to be redeveloped as Singapore fifth Intergrated Resort.

13) PTC approves revision of bus and train fares. Minimum fares per trip will cost 10 dollars for students.

14) Top 100 richest people all from China.

15) Osama bin laden sent latest video, comdemming latest terrorist attack.

Primary school essay writings

This incident happened over that night when the asshole is totally demoralised, and started drawing things on a piece of paper, primary school style...

And while drawings, the topic turned to life in primary schools.

And i asked a question to ZX.

"Do you still recall the compositions topics you had written in primary school?"

ZX: "like what?"

Asshole: "what would be like in the year 2000?"

ZX: "Of course..."

When i was in primary school, it was in the year from 1985 - 1990... And that time, year 2000 is like so far away.

So when the teachers wanted us to write how is the year 2000 like, i can still recall that it fired up all our imagination, creativity brain cells, and each one painted a truly colourful picture of the year 2000 in their essay.

I still remember what we wrote.. This essay was so interesting that all the students read what each other wrote.

And i can see a few super duper creative one. Flying cars travelling at the speed of sound.. Robots that can replace maids... TV shows that are so real that you find yourself acting in it...

So, now is the year 2008... What have we got. I see no flying cars. I see no robots. All i see and hear is global warming, and terrorist, and the never ending raising of fuel prices.

And where was i in the year 2000?

Serving NS... Damm... if i could have known, i would simply write a simple one sentence in that essay.

"In the year 2000, I will be serving the nation, wearing a uniform that every male hates, holding a weapon that no one wants to hold, and freezing my sorry ass out in the middle of Lim Chu Kang in the middle of the night, feeding mosquitos."

Drawings and red wine

Wanna know what happens when a totally demoralised asshole and his good buddy does when they are really doing nothing at a void deck?

They draw...

Their drawings?? Wanna see??

Promise me not to laugh.. okie?? promise??

Here goes...




Hey!!! you promised not to laugh one!!!

Humpf!!!

In another unrelated news, 7-11 is selling red wine in paper wrapping!!! yes!!! paper!!! no more glass bottles!!



I wonder when will they start selling red wine flavoured ice cream??

Dunno what i am typing

These few days have been a busy time for me.. New year, new work, audits, new colleague, phase 2 RT....

And beside all those, i have been drifting away... but suddenly, a recent message recieved jolt me back to reality. Dragged me all the way back to where i really am...

And i realised that i have been drifting away too much.

I cannot be like that... i must face reality. Would not like to be too engrossed into it. Must slap myself awake every now and then, to bring me back to this cruel and real world.

Was pretty depressed yesterday... So much stuffs to do... So much things to settle... and so little time...

ARGHHH!!!!!

Leave me alone to vent it out...

Movie "Platoon" Part II

Okie... i know i am lame... posting so many post about the same thing...

But it's interesting... and i am talking about the 1986 (more than 21 years ago) movie "platoon".

Found some more interesting pictures and "quotes" from websites...

Above: Quite a nice scene of a machine gunner watching a huey chopper coming in with ammo supplies on a knoll.

Above: Another nice scene, whereby they are going out on a patrol to an ambush site, with the lighting striking in the back ground. In the SAF exercies, it's Cat 1 and all troops will be under some shelter...

Above: Awesome view of the sun setting, while Chris Taylor having a smoke break from latrine duties. Taking out the shit buckets and setting fires to them... A super nice scene...

Above: One of the saddest part of the movie. Sarge Elias was shot by his own people (SGT Barnes), and left to be hunted by the NVA (North Vietnamese Soldiers), while the rest are watching helpless from the choppers.

Above: Sgt Barnes, with full fury in his eyes as he was about to club Taylor.

Above: And Taylor, at the mercy of Sgt Barnes as he was about to be clubbed.

And the "quotes"

Junior: "Hey, white boy. What you waiting for? That hole ain't going to dig itself."
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Barnes: "Yo. Saddle up. Lock and load."
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Taylor: "I figured why should just the poor kids go off to war and the rich kids always get away with it."

King: "Oh, I see. What we got here is a crusader."
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Captain: "And I can promise you something. If I find out there was an illegal killing, there will be a Court Martial. Right now I need every man in the field."
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Wolfe: "Hey, don't worry about it, Sergeant. Elias won't be able to prove a thing. He's a troublemaker. Elias is..."

Barnes: "Elias is a water walker, like them politicians in Washington trying to fight this war with one hand tied around their balls."
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Taylor: "Well, Elias is still out there, Sarge."

Barnes: "Taylor, I'll get him. You get Crawford in now before you Article Fifteen both your asses."
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Rhah: "Barnes been shot seven time and he ain't dead. Does that mean anything to you, huh? Barnes ain't meant to die." (87K)
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Taylor: "They sent us back into the valley the next day, about two thousand meters from Cambodia, into a battalion perimeter. It felt like we were returning to the scene of a crime."
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Taylor: "Somewhere out there was the entire a Hundred and Forty First NVA Regiment"
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Captain: "Where are you going to pull back to? They're all over the perimeter. Now you be advised, you will hold in place and you will fight. That means you, Lieutenant. Bravo Six out."
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Taylor: "I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves and the enemy was in us."

Movie: "Platoon"

I finally got something that i had been looking for a long long time...

A super long time!!!

I got the movie, "Platoon", starring Charlie Sheen!!!

Oh yeah!!!

First time i watched this movie is at Ngee Ann Polytechnic library, when i was a student there, where i used my breaks in between to watch movies.




And i watched it last night. And as per normal, the thoughts of the lead, Chris Taylor came floating back in my mind... It's so applicable to all of us nowadays.



A review of that show can be found here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon_(film)
The pictures are all from wikipedia website.

I still remember what Taylor had thought of when leaving the final battlefield...

"I think now, looking back...

We did not fight the enemy. We fought ourselves...

And the enemy was in us.

The war is over for me now, but it will always be there for the rest of my days..."

To those readers whose are having internal conflicts, anywhere, bear in mind that you all are supposed to work towards a common goal, and not to have internal conflicts. You can only progress if you all work together, and scare your enemy off for good.

Last few things i did before 2007 ended

So, 2007 had passed... And 2008 is here to stay... For a year.

Got a company gathering lunch on the last day. Went over to Bukit Merah office. And having so much BBQ food, especially satay and Chicken wings, i was dismayed to see that there's satay and BBQ chicken wings on the tables in our Bukit Merah Office.

But then, there's a delicious spread of food. I avoided the chicken wings, and whack the rest off the tables, including the satays into my stomache.

Here's the spread. Don't you envy me??

I had 2 helpings.

And there's wine and beer!!! I had 2 cans of beer!!! Root beer!!

And after which, i went back home to sleep, but somehow, my room is like an oven, (coz of the afternoon sun), i cannot sleep and end up going to the airport with YJ, to meet SL and ET to welcome CO back.

This is the first time i went into the multi storey carpark at T2, having went into the airport building, something was amiss.

It was too quiet.

The corridors were devoided of people. This is not possible in one of the world's busiest airports!!!

And we realised that we had strayed into the offices area of the T2 building.

Ended up walking one big round to the T2 hall accordingly. And played hide and seek with SL and ET.


And we had dinner at Fish and Co.

I learnt an important lesson that day. Don't assume that small sized ppl cannot eat much.

SL finished her whole meal, plus extra fried fishes from the others. In total, as calculated later, she ate a total of 2 and half fried fishes and countless fries, plus her dessert!!
SL with the "weapons", a fork. She's going to tear the fishes apart!!

SL eating so fast that her hands were blurred.

And i slowly ate. THe best part of the meal is actually the dessert!! Just look at it!!

Don't you wish you can sink your teeth right into it right now??

Yummy!!

And i spend the countdown playing chess with Grandfather Chow, snoring away.

Overnight BBQ

And straight after the chalet, was the zone BBQ.

Another sleepless night...

And it rained right after i had started the fire... Grrr...

So, we had "indoor" BBQ, under the shelter...


Yummy food!!!


And the hungry ppl!!!


Having a good time!!


Our entertainer for the night...


2 pretty ladies...

Actually, there's one more photo of a pretty lady, but she insisted that i delete her photo from my camera, after i took a suprise snapshot at her. And we came to a compromise. I promised that i do not publish her photo. So... too bad for you, readers...


Cooking!! Who says guys cannot cook?

After the rain, the skies cleared, and here are some ppl, looking at the stars in the middle of the road...


And HS, my shifu (master) came, while i was struggling with my camera to take some good photos... Taught me a few tricks, and i was practising away, snapping photos at a chosen model...

Before HS came, the photos are like this...


And after he came and gave me some tips, the photos became like this...

See the difference?


And happily snapping away...



And vkp, prove to me that he has multi faces...
Cute...

Threatening...

Hardworking...

Hmmm... Spend the whole night dunno doing what... just slacking and rotting away...

And soon, dawn came. Daybreak. The sights are beautiful!!






What a night!!!