Stress & Flu

Ytd was 24SA Family day... pretty bored.. nothing 1... kinda paiseh to ask my parents go la... because there is nth!

RSAF openhse is quite bored as well... yr in yr out de same... went with 24SA on friday... guess i'm only looking forward to the 2010 RSAF openhse... hopefully by then the F-15 Strike Eagle would be on show. (and i note F15 are on print and tv commerial alr! might be soon!)

strike down with a heavy bout of flu.. must be the combination of workplace stress from the previous weeks ... and the weeks to come.. inspection and stock take! looks like i gonna pay for my mistakes and laziness .. damn it! army sucks... being a bqms sucks even more! 10.45am.. enjoy another 11hrs or so and i will be booking in!

Olympic Finally End Le

Damn! Olympic finally end... time to resume normal show! it's sick to keep watching sports tv and nothing else! though seriously i quite like the woman volleyball and artistic gymnastic events.

Got 2 inspections next week... certainly spell doom...

I really have no idea how i'm going to survive... but like what i kept telling myself, past October and into November, after all the inspections are done.. I will be free! Rejoice!

It's only this bit more to 2009!

Play Bioshock demo on my 360... damn.. it's kinda creepy and scary... i seriously feel faint now! FPS is ok... but not horror FPS!

Tension On Board!

Tension! Tension! This week is a siong yet enjoyable week! because of de ration crap, everybody is kana some kind of extra things to do... me too! but de worse case being some of my guys kana caught for underscanning and end up 1206... partially my fault.. actually is everyone's... haix... a couple of guys broke fire safety regulation and end up being confine this weekend... the big culprit will kana next week too if i'm not wrong.. too bad.. no time to indent outration for them.. so had to get them combat ration... RQ gave me de vegetarian 1... so juz take.. not for me also... and i dun really like de guys being confined... so ya.. serve you guys right! lock your bunk!

BSM's wife gave birth to a boy last wednesday night! Congrat!

Been playing Gears of War & Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium War these few days... always felt playing RTS on console is akin suicide ... due to a bad experience on the 1st generation xbox's game... can't rmb de title.. is some aliens vs predator or smth like that... the navigation is like freaking difficult!

but for C&C 3.. it's amazingly nice to look at, and relatively easy to play... the only issue being is that is still difficulty in grouping the units... beside that... it's relatively easy! there's this unique side tab that allows you to keep your eyes on the battlefield, yet able to build structures/units through that tab feature! i kinda like it.. but it will still require some getting use to... anticipating red alert 3!!!

End

The end of my super long leave... (which btw, last from last thursday night to tonight)

really dun feel like going back to camp sia... afterall... almost 1 good solid week at home!! but what to do... still have to go... going back to kio the sai kang, the meaningless cleaning, the retarded duty sgt duty and the we-could-use-a-simpler-system ration indent...

looking on the bright side of life ... 41 bookout to go! and this coming sunday is my 300th days countdown! and ironically, i am doing duty! this sat make a trip down to waterloo street pray abit..

28 days to salary day!

and yea.. it was great to meet up old frenz @ meiru bd over the weekend... good old days!

Of Oil & Prices

you guys realize something...

When the price of crude oil hits US$147/barrel in July, or around that region a few months before... the transport providers and energy providers announce they couldn't put up with the rising oil prices... and raise/propose to raise the prices of stuffs... taxi too!

apparently, by now, the price is already US$119/barrel... and i guess this is standard singapore SOP... prices of everything goes up, and stay up.. with exception to our salary

My Hoot For The Day!!

Today i fell into the dark side!! I bought a XBOX 360 Premium!!! Damn!! Again!! Haha! Just like 6 years ago! When i was thinking of getting a PS2 or XBOX, i planned sui sui to get the PS2, but last minute change my mind to get a XBOX!! Just like now!! but it was through some consideration that i purchase it la...!





Guess the guys are clearing stock for the 60GB XBOX 360 that is launching sometime next week!

For the cost of S$499, I got the following:

• XBOX 360
• 20 GB HDD
• 2 X Wireless Controller
• Headset with Microphone
  
• Gear of War Game
• X-BOX Live Silver Edition (1 Month Gold Trial)
  

Which i think is quite a steal! The console itself consist of a few casual arcade games like Uno and stuff, as well as 2 game demos... Cars & NFS: Carbon...

PS3 is at a whopping S$549, with only the console with a capacity of 40GB and a controller (without the vibration)

Bought the XBOX 360 because all i'm after is the games.. apparently all the games i wanna play are on the XBOX 360 platform... and those exclusive like GTA IV, DMC 4 and FFXIII are being port over to XBOX 360... so.. ya.. for games.. of course choose the cheaper platform, biggest game library... and it has more freebies as well! nonetheless, i don't need the blu-ray as well... afterall, i feel heart pain when i buy a DVD, let alone a blu ray!!

pity? can't play as much as i want.. thanks to N.S!

play 4hrs per week, 42 more weeks to go... 168hrs ...

mmm...

hope this console can keep me occupy through out the remaining 10mths of my NS life... and the 3yrs of uni life!

Beautiful Sunday?

kinda boring! i think i really can't sit still ... today virtually live in a vegetative state...

what did i do?

- Driving Lesson in the morning
- Watch a few episodes of CSI: LV
- Watch D-War
- Watch CNN Special & CNN video reports on the Conflict in Ossetia
- Watch a few episodes of Extreme Engineering
- Watch a few episodes of Top Gear
- Surf EDMW

this is what i do when i'm free and at home... :)

War ? Georgia VS Russia

Due to god knows what reasons, i heard over the news that Georgia is going into a state of war! over russia?? i was like huh? war again? pardon me... didn't really follow world news these few days.. SAF is sapping away my time to even read newspaper!

Apparently is over the restoration of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to Georgian control, apparantly a focus after the Rose Revolution in 2003.

Beginning late on 1 August, intense fighting began between Georgian troops and paramilitary soldiers of South Ossetia causing the deaths of six people and the injuries of twenty-one others. Each side accused the other of commencing the fighting. On 3 August, the Russian government allowed South Ossetians to begin evacuation into Russia. Russian Prime Minister Valdimir Putin condemned the "aggressive actions" by Georgia and said that Russia would be compelled to retaliate. (wiki)

and now... the russian are whacking them back.. apparantly, if i'm Georgia, i won't be even pulling this stunt!

Just look at the order of battle comparison below!!! (BBC)

Russia (R)
Georgia (G)

Total Personnel 641,000 (R) / 26,900 (G)
Main Battle Tanks 6,717 (R) / 82 (G)
APC 6,388 (R) / 139 (G)
Combat Aircraft 1,206 (R) / 7 (G)
Heavy Artillery 7,550 (R) / 95 (G)

have not factor in the ossetia soldiers... who are pro-russian...

good luck guys

Long Break!!

SIAO BOH!! I WILL BE ON LEAVE FROM TODAY TILL NEXT WEDNESDAY!!!

SHIOK!!

Money No Enough 2

Just watched it a few hrs back @ amk hub... wah!! quite emo le!! funny.. of course.. though not as funny as the 1st 1... but emo.. definitely! Terrific acting from Mark, Vivian & Lai Meng (the ah ma)... the ah ma really super zai.. no wonder she is a legend in malaysia and singapore!

give a 8/10... gd show to unwind, can't be compare with hollywood blockbusters or even HK movies... but this movie personally strike a cord close to the heart, closer to home.

What The!!

My blog has been classify as !!!!



What de hell... i think my blog must mention more words like quantum physics, cloud computing, actuarial science, mergers & acquisitions and stuffs like that!

BTW! i'm going to NDP preview later!! but i won't be bringing my cameras along.. because i just want to go there relax the show and all... and by bringing a camera, i know i will be busy snapping pictures from start till end and never really enjoy the show... and thus! no camera! just enjoy the show, uninterrupted!

Hiong Week! And University!

Damn! Just completed duty this morning as a Guard 2 I/C at my camp... originally i was allocated as a guard 3 I/C .... but the camp sgt major say i have no experience.. so i should do guard 2 IC... which is like.. duh!

so keep opening and closing the main gate from 6pm to 7am... almost died! no wonder my sgt major also say " wah.. guard 2 I/C... siong! " nonetheless.. hopefully this is de 1st and last time i do guard at my camp.. afterall, i'm PES C le!

shall upload picture of my battery outing tomorrow or sunday!!

been thinking about the uni course i'm gg to apply for... finally short - listed to 2 courses @ SIM... been limiting myself to SIM.. cause mainly... there's student life!

Short - listed to these 2 courses...

1) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University
Bachelor of Business (Management)

2) University of London (UOL)
Bachelor of Science in Business

Namely, i feel the pro and cons of both courses are....

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University
Bachelor of Business (Management)

Pros

• Broad-based management curriculum and option to specialize in a major and minor
• Student exchange program in USA
• Workplace integrated learning
• Mixture of projects, research papers and examinations
• Degree awarded identical to on-campus students, able to transfer to Melbourne campus
  

Cons

• No honor classification
• Not as prestigious as UOL program

University of London (UOL)
Bachelor of Science in Business

Pros

• Honor classification
• Prestigious qualification
• Relatively cheaper

Cons

• 100% Examination based

Seriously... my heart is leaning towards the RMIT program... because it's learning style is what I have been doing in poly... comfortable and not so much of a gamble... not to mention.. the practical learning approach is probably better to prepare me for the working world (not that i have not experience enough crap in army)

but logically, an honor and more prestigious degree is probably worth de difficulty in a pure examination syllabus...

but then again... i dun really know any friends personally who made it via de UOL program... though i know of 2 superiors who had SIM-RMIT certs and are earning a cushy living...

maybe afterall.... it's the man that makes what he is, not education?