joie de viv-re

Friday, December 29, 2006

Long weekend!

4 days away from Pulau Tekong, the feeling is just great.

Hoo-HAH!

Reminiscence the past, cherish the present, look forward to the future with hope.
3:50 pm

Monday, December 25, 2006

Book out day!

After 9 days in Pulau Tekong, Christmas could not have arrived at a better time. The feeling of finally setting foot back onto mainland Singapore. It was amazing. I never heard my platoon sing as loudly as when we marched to the jetty. Complete with field pack and civillian bag. And seeing my family and baby again.

It was special because I missed all of them so much.

Blessed Christmas! =)

Reminiscence the past, cherish the present, look forward to the future with hope.
1:01 am

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Friday, December 15, 2006

Enlistment LOH!

Today, 15 December 2006, I begin a new chapter of my life! I'm really touched by everything the people around me have done. For going out with me over the past few days. The SMSes, online messages and calls. Thanks alot! I will be back soon. Haha.

Take care everyone.

Let go, Let God.

Reminiscence the past, cherish the present, look forward to the future with hope.
9:02 am

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Thursday, December 14, 2006

For my dearie baby.

I'm going to miss your smile.
I'm going to miss your jokes.
I'm going to miss your laughter.
I'm going to miss your staring into objects which provide reflection.
I'm going to miss holding your hand.
I'm going to miss looking at you.
I'm going to miss you making me smile.

I'm going to miss you.

Reminiscence the past, cherish the present, look forward to the future with hope.
9:12 pm

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Moodless.

Felt kind of moodless for the entire day. Especially when the time reached evening, and Baby had to leave. It would suck having to see my family and Baby leave at the jetty tomorrow. I hope I'll be confined for only 9 days, and book out on Christmas Eve. I really don't know. I sort of relished this challenge for a long time, but now I'm not so sure. Its a completely new chapter of my life, and I hope I can make full use of the next 2 years. I don't want to be another person to drag my feet through the time, but now is far, way too early to say that.

I did have a great day with Baby though. She was trying on spectacles and didn't decide on one when we left close to half an hour later. I finally collected my black plastic frame spectacles, and I certainly look every bit the chao recruit I will be come tomorrow. The persistent rain spoilt our plans though, and it seemed to complement how I was feeling about enlisting tomorrow. On the way to my place, there was this real cute baby sitting in front of us. And when I put my hand on the handle bar, she did likewise. And she said bye and waved to us when we alighted. So cute! Ever since the examinations ended, there has been something about me and cute kids. I keep seeing them! Anyway, I definitely hope I'll lose all these negativity real soon and get on to trying my best and acheiving my goals, fulfilling my dreams.

If you haven't noticed yet, the blogskin looks amazing! Okay, only the picture was added. But many thanks to Michelle (Chin) who did it up for me. I didn't expect to see it till my first bookout, so it was abit of a pleasant surprise.

Off to finish packing my stuff and spend the last night in my cosy bed!

P/S: Sorry for sounding so emo over something that's really not that big. But yeah, I'm feeling emo tonight and that's how this post sounds like.

Reminiscence the past, cherish the present, look forward to the future with hope.
8:49 pm

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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

One.

One day left. Sounds as though I'm dying. But yeah, when it gets so close, the realisation of what you're about to lose suddenly hits you. The freedom granted will be reduced to the bare minimum. But it doesn't matter, cause I'll still have to face it.

Anyway, had an activity-filled week. Was waking up at 7 plus and sleeping at past midnight everyday. And by today, the both of us were just so exhausted from all the travelling and walking. And promptly fell sound asleep on the buses we took. And I'm just back from another day out. You could say it ended with a bang and really got the adrenaline pumping.

Baby was sleeping on the bus, and I was too. Sort of woke her up just before we arrived at the busstop. And she dropped her phone and only found out after we alighted, and the bus left. And if you were in our shoes, you will just be overwhelmed by how everything fell in place to enable Baby to get her phone back. I think as we travelled back, we were still both trying to fathom how everything could have happened so nicely, so perfectly.

Both the taxi driver and the bus driver were Godsend. They assisted us to the best of their ability. And as I'm typing this, I really wished we could better acknowledge their assistance. Speeding after the bus, and coming over to try to check the bag of the girl who had taken the phone. It was exciting, and pretty amazing at the same time. How everything just fell in place. Anyway, its over. The most important thing was to find the handphone, and that we did.

Went to eat at New York New York with the guys, sort of a farewell dinner? Haha. The food was average at best, it didn't help that we had fishball noodle only 4 hours before dinner. Went over to Ben and Jerry's afterward. I still think the prices are exorbitant. But yeah. Had barbeque and stayover at Jay's place last night. Fishing yesterday and today. Shopping on Monday, movie yesterday. I'm tired, definitely, yet so satisfied.

Brought Baby to fish over at Bedok jetty. And the first day was amazing. I caught a couple of different species of fishes. Almost got a decent-sized barracuda until it fell off the hook as I lifted it over the railings of the jetty. What a waste. On her first time fishing, Baby caught a stone fish! And a large one. We got a picture of it, which I will post up when I received. And you just need to compare its size to that of the sinker beside it. It was huge. After fishing for years, I have never caught a fish that huge. Not when I was on a yacht, nor when I was on a kelong. And when she was reeling it in, I thought she had caught a pretty massive groupa. That was fun, although Baby seemed more digusted than happy with her unexpected catch.

I'm so tired, I guess I'll be turning in soon. Its my last day of freedom for 2 years to come, and I'' cherish it.

Reminiscence the past, cherish the present, look forward to the future with hope.
11:35 pm

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Saturday, December 09, 2006

My computer's been down, and I find it pretty amazing that I actually went so long without surfing the net when for the past 4 to 5 years it has been an indispensable part of my life. Usually the first thing i do when I reach home is to sign into MSN before actually bathing and all. So to go 9 to 10 days without actually bothering to go somewhere to use the net, to me its something of a tiny feat.

Anyway, enlistment is less than 6 days away, and I really wished I could spend so much more time with you.

Reminiscence the past, cherish the present, look forward to the future with hope.
8:25 pm

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