Success

Unbelivable.

Everything went so well.

I cut my hair and went to to Sentosa Shangri-La at aroun 5.

Set up the goodie bags and changed up, it was already by then 630pm.

Everyone were at the garden lawn soaking in the atmosphere or having their galmour shots taken.

Wendy, my date, arrived on time and I picked her up from the hotel lobby.

Took loads of photos with my Arty pals and saw some old old friends.

The emcee was amazing, the 2 bands that played on stage were equally amazing and the FOOD was excellent.

Couldn't ask for more bah.

It was a splendid night and I believe everyone enjoyed themselves.

The view from above


Looking like a ambassadorial delegate


My seat


I could eat this everyday! Especially the chocolate & the tenderloin


I love the vanilla ice-cream in the chocolate bucket ! yumz !


Me n Wendy at the Garden lawn - very dreamy feel


Me n my big boss that attended (We're Hainanese)


Strutting peacocks - Me n Lou


Men not afraid to wear pink - Ben n Zen


Me n Vivian (poly mate)- who was working for the photographers


Me n Daren (Future Singapore Idol)


Towering over Wendy wahahahaha


All smiles = ) - Me, Hian Yi n Huan Min


Me n Terence - Echo Elites - Hoo Hah!


Me n Chey Sing - OCS buddy


Me n Wen Yao

Ok, gotta go.

Will post the 2nd half of photos next round.

Gonna catch a movie now. Buai buai.

- Ben

Disturbingly shocked

I had a half day off and so, I went down to NTU.

To see how campus life is like.

I met up with best fren JM and sat alongside with sec school matey Ian.

Engineering is definently not my forte .

To compare my poly life and the uni life I observe, uni life is so erm.....

Disrespectful?

I guess so bah.

Uni students are much more hardworking becoz they mug alot n do lots of projects.

But they utterly have no respect for their lecturers.

They talk loudly in lectures, they use handphones freely, they leave the lecture hall anytime they please.

Oh hell.

It's like their playground.

I NEVER EVER remember such a scenario happening in my lectures save for a few maggots.

Coming from SP, I find it utterly rude when the lecturer is trying his/her best to speak but the students are not responding receptively to his/her words.

Maybe it's their culture.

Or maybe it's just a hindsight.

Whatever it is.

I still want to join.

Join the muggers.

Hope my application to NTU will succeed or I gotta go overseas.

Sad but a sad fact of life.

I need the paper. I need the degree.

Resigned to the facts of living a life of Singapore-ness,
Benjamin

Recovery

I'm SO much better now.

Yes. Feeling like a normal human being who's only pressing matters is that I've just turned 21 and I have to pay income tax and vote for the next prezzie.

Seems like my blog has morphed into a photoblog.

Almost every entry of mine has gone to a vanity fair for me.

But first.

I've moved over to my new unit and I must say.

It's FANTASTIC as far as the eye as can see.

Maybe I haven't feel the stab of the military office politics yet and the burden of the black bar yet but it's mighty fine so far.

To get some new stuff for me new bunk, I headed to cheapo Carrefour with Yong Qiang.

Manage to get my cheapo clothes rack and cheapo rotating fan and my cheapo 6 pin extension plug.

Yes. Ben's a cheapo if you haven't noticed by now.

BUMPED into like so MANY people lor. Saw so many of the higher rank officers.

Saw LT Chan, or should I say, Hian Yi now (haha!) whom I had a one-to-one talk with.

A long time ago, back in my cadets day......

There was once, where I stood up to him, to oppose for Remedial Training on Saturday due to many various factors.

And there and there, for 3o mins, like the debator's society, each of us standing up to interrupt one another.

Both of us got frustrated becoz in the end, nobody got anywhere becoz the result ain't decided by us.

The result being: Remedial Training was definite. Coming back on a pathetic Saturday was imminent. Insufficient rest for everyone.

End of short recall of the past ......

So there I was at Carrefour, chatting with Hian Yi.

Since I hardly had any one-2-one time with him, I told him there n there if he had anything against me.

A bit blunt but I'm like that one.

I mentioned about the past and mentioned how he purposedly try to give me a WRONG POSTING, saying I went to some CLASSIFIED unit and make me KAN CHIONG that I'm going to COMMANDOS camp.

I trembled in fear while waiting for the REAL POSTING to be out.

As it turns out, what HY said was false.

I didn't trust Hian Yi one bit and had it out there on the sales floor of the electronic department at Carrefour.

But really, as drama as I put it, it wasn't lor.

We were having a really drama conversation till his parents had to give him a miss call to find him lor.

So yah, now that the air is cleared, time to shake hands.

We didn't quarrelled hor but we had a very hearty talk about what happened and we end up where we are now.

I don't hate him la and he has no negative feelings about me lol.

After I got my army stuff, went over to ....

The Chocolate Factory that Kids ARE DYING TO ENTER


Celebrated and early Halloween Fest with YQ in a Pumpkin mask


Is my dye dry yet?


Ladies & Gentlemen, Elvis has just entered Toys 'r' Us


I have a really big blob on my head


BOO


Meet Ben the Blondie


Time to enter some ass !!!


I FEEL NO PAIN !!!! HEAR ME ROAR !!!


Ouch.


Nothing comes between me and my Uzi


In my hands, I hold the ugliest creature on planet Earth


Being bestowed the Best Barney Bastard of the Year Award


Both trying to act cute.


My head is filled with this growing blob as I blog about it


I make hunky Mr. Batman look like hungry Miss CatWoman

More random photos .....

Had Bamboo rice which didn't taste like bamboo rice for dinner


The MooMoo bolster I have in my bunk (and using) now

This blog entry goes to show I still have a child trapped in me.

I might be officially an adult but this blog entry verifies me as a deliquent.

Not yet an Adult, not yet an adolescent
Ben

Cure

I'm mentally sound.

Better

The medication took effect and I'm feeling better.

Much better.

Apparently, I think I somehow cut my eye so there is like a small 'cut' in my eyes.

My cough however has gotten worse and the remedy?

I'm gonna go to the DOCTOR.

Yes, I've decided to take the advice of many to finally go to the sage of many awful medication.

Tomorrow that is.

When it is my off day.

I didn't want to skip my Operator Maintenance course so I could nurse my illnesses.

Didn't reflect well to the unit if I had not attained such a simple course even though it might seem meaningless.

Bleah.

Since my mood has kind of perked up even though I'm a lil lethargic, I shall be nice and put up some pics.

Oh, I forgot to add that I've been working with some incompetent people who so conveniently assumed stuff was already done and it had to be ME to do some HARD PRESS QUESTIONING before I knew the assumed was the mother of all fuck ups.

Apparently, it was thought that the VIPs for the Commissioning Ball was already invited and paid up.

When in reality, all it took was thru one phone call of clarification that the above mentioned task wasn't DONE at ALL.

Seriously.

If you said you will do the task, DO IT. Double check if it's done.

I snarl at incompetency.

Thank god the meet up with the emcee was great, seems like he settled down a lot of our knotted questions that were dying to be answered.

Well, as promised.

Photos & Commentary from my commissioning parade n the Monday after that.

I felt the parade when well except for an obvious flaw where the person standing in my front rank dropped his handguard.

Major hoo hah.

Other than then, comments from Mdm Helen that the Artillery contingent was very well synchronized and we all berhenti with one sound unlike the rest.

So yah. Think it went pretty smoothly. Could be better though.

May I present to ya....

Marching out in style

The joys of FINALLY throwing the peak camp - Undescribable joy

Family Pic

Me n Grandpa

Me n Best Fren

Me n Gwen

Me n MeiFen

Ivan came too but he took the photos with my Grandpa's camera and my Grandpa has yet to send me those pics.

By the way, my grandpa is reaching 90 and he's still learning. He's becoming an IT whiz and very into photography

He was holding to a Digital SLR camera for my parade.

I have a very trendy Grandad.

Damn scary. I heard he got like 400 over photos of the parade. Can't wait for him to burn those photos to me.

After the parade ....

We had dining-in where it was a formal setting Chinese style.

Food standard was like 1/5.

Me n Mdm Helen, Dy Course Commander n was the table Host

Chatted loads with her.

She blabbered something like Benjamin was so quiet until I open my big mouth and I shocked her. Something along that line.

Oh she also shocked me at the start of the dinner.

Mdm Helen: Oh yah, Benjamin, I forgot to tell you something.
Me: What is it, Mdm?
Mdm: Your posting has changed.
Mdm: You're .... (everything seem incoherent after that)
Me: What?
Me: What?
Me: What?

It finally went thru that I was posted as a unit FO and that I was the only change in posting.

Then this week, there were even more shocking postings.

At least I wasn't the only one who got these free handouts of heart attacks.

I wanted to be an instructor so bad that I already prepped myself mentally on what to teach, how to teach and planned what I wanted to do.

Oh well, plans changed and I couldn't eat much during the meal.

Too shocked and bewildered but nevertheless, accepting of whatever was thrown to me.

Just a lil upset I wasn't gonna be an instructor alongside Louis n Terence.

Mommy dearest

Daddy the pillar

Alex, BMT buddy in ADA. Ironically, we're in "Artillery" lol

All the 2LTs instructors with Louis. Very blur.

With 2LT "I'm so gonna select you to 20SA but didn't end up going" Jason

With FO instructors

And a parting shot of that day .....

ARGHHHHHHHHHH !!!! We're OFFICERS lah !!!!

Monday morning, had post admin of de-kitting.

Felt damn weird donning something else than the 3 black bars.

Here I am with some pals at MacDonalds:

Me n Alvin Pek

Me n Zwee (Mr Starve-a-lot)

Going bonkers with John

Terence poking fun at my tooth

Admiring our ranks in very different ways

And if one wonders how we got dengue ......

I "siam" far far away from this monstrous insect

Now, it's time to look ahead.

Monday is a brand new pathway for me to travel. I need to recover by then.

Get yourself soon u arse,
Benjamin

Grouchy

Yes.

I've commissioned.

Boo Yay.

But what's taking me so long to blog about it beats me.

I'm too lazy to upload the photos.

Don't know why but I think it boils down to my illness.

Make that illnesses.

~ Blocked nose since commissioning parade
~ Bad cough with hard to come out phlegm since today
~ Diarrhea since last week
~ Sore red left eye

I'm contemplating to report sick but I know I can't.

Tomorrow have to return to Khatib for OM course.

1 hour of missing the lesson means I'm out of course. Yikes.

Have to meet up with Emcee tomorrow to discuss contract details about Comissioning Ball.

Liaise with printers on cost and deadline for printing 44th FAOCC commerative booklet.

I seriously need to get well and perform miracles for what I have to do.

I spend today, my off day, just lying flat on my mom's bed.

Recovering, sweating off and just recuperating.

I feel a tad better than yesterday but still no vast improvement.

I've been taking tonnes of medicine to no avail.

My loss of tooth also has made me lost the ability to appreciate the crunchiness of food anymore.

To top it off, I've yet to post my pics online.

Now.

I'm suppose to be over the moon at the fact that I'm a SIR.

In fact, I am.

But I'm just not in the state of mind to rejoice.

Just feeling grouchy and incoherent. I'm just negative karma right now.

If anybody dare aggravates me, I'll just stare at them with my red eye, spit him with my phlgem, sneeze onto his face and shit all over him like Niagara falls.

Grrr....
Benjamin