Motorcyclists...

Argh. Why do these people always think they own the roads to themselves? Had two unpleasant encounters with motorcyclists when I was learning driving today. The first incident was when I needed to cross the centre line of the road (legal one, that is) to avoid a stationary vehicle. Then this motorcyclist turns out from the carpark exit and steers into the opposite lane. He nearly veers into my path. He was like so distracted and was looking elsewhere while turning his motorbike. Thank God, nothing happened.

Incident two was when I was driving at 50 on the centre lane and this motorcyclist cut right into my lane at a very dangerous distance. Again, Thank God I wasn't accelerating or we would have seen the motorcyclist mince on the road. gross.

Just this morning, Dad was driving on the TPE when there was this malaysian registered motorbike hogging the extreme right lane. I thought motorcycles were only allowed to stay on the left most lane of the road?! And the most irritating thing was, he didn't even bother to check if he was hogging the road. A line of 3 cars were actually forming up behind him and he didn't even know.

Read the forum page of ST just the other day and this person had a similar observation. And the case is especially so with Malaysian registered motorbikes. Perhaps they're not well-versed with the traffic rules in Singapore. But please?! Sometimes, I even see those scrawny looking 150cc bikes taking up the right lane?! If they were involved in a high speed traffic accident, they wouldn't even stand a chance.

Any avid motorcyclists out there? Beware. Or maybe don't even bother learning how to ride a motorcycle. With Singapore's roads penetrated with so many cars, I'd advise you not to bother.

had a really not-so-ideal chat with C yesterday. Well... my comments about it? I really didn't know what made C so worked up over a small thing. Seriously, I felt I didn't need to meet up anyway since most of us just couldn't meet up to do up the "thing" "together".

Well. If you're reading this, sorry. But then again, please do not force me to do things that i do not wish to do. I become even more apprehensive when someone asks me to do something against my will. Thank you. Period. We all learn something new about each other, so now you know something new about me.

But anyway, I'll be on off next sat so we can still meet up. =) with mel(if possible!!!) and hw. =)

I hope you don't take this message as one of animosity but rather a subjective argument. Don't take this the wrong way, I'm not angry. Please refer to my previous post to see what I mean when I say I'm angry. hee... =)

argh. f^k.

stupid asswo pg chided me for using the phone for 15 minutes *sniggers*

She went like "do you know you're only supposed to use the phone for 3 minutes only? is your call official or unofficial?"

"unofficial ma'am. sorry ma'am"

i was almost to go "maaaaaaaaam"...

-_-

I was talking to claire on the phone you see... and she's was moving in and out of her cubicle... When she first made the comment, I was like *shocked*. What the heck, you had the NERVE to eavesdrop on my conversation!?!?!? bl**dy idiot.

I mean there are always more tactful ways to approach a point. She could have gone like "hey, don't use the phone so long in future. you're only allowed unofficial calls for up to 3 minutes" or something nicer. Thank God, no one else was in the office. Or I would have blushed like crazy.

Anyway, if there are any employers out there who want to employ her. PLEASE make sure she doesn't get the PR positions or I'm sure your business would go BANKRUPT. Not that she would need a new job anyway... of course, unless she antagonised CMC, which is very unlikely when she does the giggling act in front of him everytime.

-_- *rolls eyes*

Just some thoughts before I start my day...

Had a look at dreamcatcher's blog yesterday and she kinda commented on our "freedom".

Well, I would say that freedom is always relative. Or that is only to the extent that us humans can really understand. And no, Christianity never preached that you would have complete freedom, instead it preached that it would free you from the clutches of sin and death.

As usual, "free" is always followed by "from". So no matter how we say it, freedom will always be relative. Let's say for once you have really attained this so-called "freedom". What are we to compare it to? Will "freedom" be a state when you are really free? Or would it just be an illusion?

Even in dreams, I feel that we can still, never be free. We are still bounded by the realm of dreams. Are we still considered free this way? Yes, No?

Argh. For me, I would rather choose freedom from the clutches of immoral things. But then again, there's the question of "what is immoral?".

As Jewel's Intuition goes, "Follow your heart, your intuition, it will lead you in the right direction"

I believe this "Intuition" would come from the Holy Spirit if you're Christian,that is.

Okay. enough of this mind-boggling discussion.

Just yesterday, I watched a little news on TV. Was pretty shocked when this family was being interviewed about how poor they are and how they have to starve to feed their newborn child.

But the impression I got from the video was that this family still had many unnecessary things in their house!

The most important observation I made was that they had a FISH TANK, with many fish. The first thing that came to me and my Mom's mind was: If you can afford to feed the fish, how can you say you can't afford to feed yourselves or the baby?!

I seriously felt there was no need for them to even bother keeping pets if let alone they can't even afford to maintain themselves! What a sick joke.

They did have a TV in their home but I felt that was still necessary in this age of technology.

HMPH...

once again. Ten "stepped on my toes".

Doc Vince asked me to get the NDP document done quickly for him to show Col J and I did my part of it as quickly as possible... but everything was slowed down because the pictures needed in the appendices and one of the annexes were missing.

I reminded Ten this morning to do it since I had already emailed him the latest copy of the document. And you know what?! he could actually tell me he would do it later. wow. Now i know of one very bad point about him, that is, procrastination.

And what do you know? He had to go to the Ops room in the afternoon to cover duty. So I had to take the initiative to finish the work for him. I'm not complaining because it hindered my other work but rather, I'm fed up with his fat-ass attitude of not being responsible for the things he does. Anyway, I was rather free so I wasn't really pissed off... but if he had really done this to me when I was busy, I would have given him an earful. I don't care what rank he is... after all, he's just one rank ahead of me. so what?!

Eventually, I had to claim credit for the work I was doing. No way am I going to say that he finished the job. Told Doc Vince I would take over Ten's part of the job and finished it beautifully... yay.

What made things worse was that in the first place, he really did up the maps. I'm grateful for that. But it wasn't too much to ask for when I just asked him to cut and paste some pictures, and he preferred to leave it to later. How much later?! To think he actually could "tuang" (ie laze) around in the morning.

HMPH again.

hmm... i managed to reach the test centre half an hour early for my test and realised... I HAD NO PEN!!! argh.

thank God that one of the instructors told me to buy a pen from the canteen... which I did. cost me 50 cents. sigh. (I'm such a miser huh?!)

the test went by really well... felt that it was more of a logical reasoning test than some memory test like the Basic Theory Test. hee... here's one question that was really funny. If I can remember correctly, it went like this.

If your car goes through a large pool of water, how do you dry your brakes?
a) Brake hard.
b) Brake intermittently.
c) Use a hairdryer.

I nearly laughed out loud in the examination classroom!!! *imagines a person with one hand on the steering wheel and the other with a hairdryer, stretched outside the car, trying to dry the brakes.*

ha....

After the test, Dad brought the family to Koufu, the new foodcourt at Rivervale Plaza. Had some really good food and the light pastel colours chosen by the designer really made the place look clean and spacious. This was unlike the previous holder of the same area, Kopitiam... the dark granite and lime green colours really made the place look small and dirty...

Oh well... that ends my backdated entry.

Onto the new day!

hmph. f^k. the stupid site went down yesterday just as I had finished typing yesterday's entry. I SPENT 45 MINUTES typing!!! and the whole message just went down the drain.

anyway, continuing from Ops duty... was quite fine. but i'd make it a point to never do it on the same day as office duty. had to bug Col J to sign the office duty form so that i could release the keys to him. was at 5.45 which i did this... he didn't seem very happy... oh well...

Was quite fun doing Ops duty in the Ops room with Tpin cos Dr K wasn't around... Jer and Zach told me he stank of some curry smell... but he didn't sleep in the same room... he went back to his branch to sleep...

Everything was fine that evening till Ma'am AK called me on my hp to tell me Ten was going on MC the next day and she asked me about my half day off the next day. I was totally shocked!!! I thought i had specifically stated in the calendar placed on the partition that i was on half day off... obviously Ten didn't take the initiative to check the calendar before even considering taking an MC! Moreover, when told by Ma'am AK that I was on half day's off the next day, he had the nerve to say that my upper study, Daniel could cover us. Of course, you could guess the reaction from Ma'am AK, "But Daniel is now not considered part of our branch!!!" and when i checked my phone, he didn't even bother to call me at all, instead, he smsed me! what a lack of sincerity. hmph.

Was kinda my fault too... cos when we (AK, Ten and I) were discussing about which day Ten could take MC, I said any day was fine as long as it didn't clash with his own ops duty on wednesday. but really cannot put all the blame on me cos we were talking in the context of Ops duties and our obligation to fulfil it. And wow, (sarcastically) was he quick!

I tried calling him so many times on his handphone and at his home back he never bothered to pick up his hp. Messaged and left voice messages but to no avail. His home no was engaged so i just waited to call again.

Heng ah!!! He finally answered... pathetically. wow... what GREAT acting...

okay. so i decided to act really distraught and that I was at the point of breaking down. Wow. he still didn't buy it. I was really kinda frustrated cos I took the off NOT due to my own whims and fancies but because I needed to prepare for my Advanced Driving Theory test in the evening the next day. I asked him whether he even bothered to check the calendar (at the partition) before deciding to go on MC but he feigned ignorance. after much pushing and begging and nagging, he gave in. The arrangement was for him to cover me in the office for the later half of the day. "But i might be a little late ah... around 1.30 to 2pm...cos i need to rest..." he said OH SO PATHETICALLY... *beethoven's Pathetique sonata starts playing*

Boy was he as stubborn as a MULE!!! I had to tell him that I didn't bring my test receipt at all and that he couldn't expect me to leave the office at 5.30 and be at Ubi at 6.30pm with everything ready. it was simply ridiculous!

But anyway, called Ma'am AK to tell her the arrangement. She agreed rather reluctantly. "But if anything happens to Ten, it's your own responsibility (referring to both of us)!"

Oh... okay... so now it's ALL my fault. *shrugs with head tilted to one side*

Well... the next day came and when I went to the office, Ma'am AK said she couldn't accept the responsibility for agreeing to the arrangement so she told me that she won't be recalling Ten but rather, preferred me to take half day's leave if really needed and postpone my half day off. After much consideration the night before, I asked Ma'am AK whether I could use my off but leave only at 4pm since the office needed someone to help out. She agreed willingly.

Well... the day went by smoothly with Ma'am AK in a rather good mood... that was good.

and what do you know? The Good Lord allowed me to finish all my work by 3.30pm... so I contemplated leaving early till 3.45 before i popped the question to Ma'am AK... in HOKKIEN... haha...

"Go lah if you got nothing left to do!" she answered ludicruously in hokkien.

and so I left for home!!! what a beautiful ending. Ha. but i would make it a point to never trust Ten again until he can earn it again.

hmph.

hmm... just changed my blog name to "K Shanez... the new creation..." cos of my earlier post... hee...

Anyway, i separated the two posts cos i felt the earlier one was really something special which i preferred as an individual entry...

Today is the day that I do my first Ops Duty... wonder what it will be like... and... Shit!!! I forgot to bring my pillow!!! argh!!! *screams*

Never mind... i hope the Piriton I brought would help me with the sleep...

Office duty is also mine today so i get to kill two birds with one stone... hmm...

then there's like this big "exercise" that's going to happen today and I have to guard the area with TPin... sigh...

Well... will add more details about how my day went by...

I am a rather happy man today... though i'm still quite sleepy... *yawn*

Experienced liberation yesterday when I gave up something I had in my life since Sec 1. Thank God for Doc John who preached at yesterday's sermon.

He said,"We often do not realise how big our God can be and we often fail to acknowledge his presence."

That really struck a chord in my heart. I realised the need for me to recognise the existence of God in my life. I had been going through this dark tumultuous time in which the material side of me was battling the spiritual side of me. Most of the time, I didn't give my spiritual side much importance. Instead, i gave in to worldly desires and that really put my spirituality in the doldrums.

However, I'm glad today cos I rededicated myself to the Lord yesterday. As what Doc John had discussed with our CG last week, it is so easy to acknowledge Jesus as our saviour, but what really makes a Christian? The fact that the person makes Him the Lord of his life! That was something I felt I really didn't commit to, well, till yesterday. Moreover, if we make Him the Lord of our lives, he will bring us new desires, new yearnings and new things to do cos when we accept him, we become a new creation!!! (as quoted in a certain verse in 1 Corinthians) I believe that my old ways would fall apart gradually and I would no longer yearn for the worldly things that I had wanted before.

I've now emplaced my trust in him to guide me wherever he deems fit for me to go. The old has past and the new has come!

Thank God for lifting me through from depths of the sea cos there is no place where he cannot be. (haha... it rhymes doesn't it?)

Praise The LORD!

How interesting... did a "which singapore school are you from?" quiz on quizilla... got the link from bourne's blog...

guess wad i got?!

ACS!!!

argh... *screams and runs around the room naked*

That is so NOT me!!!

argh!!! *screams and runs around the room without any skin... (ew... gross)*

yawn... i'm really very sleepy after eating so much today!!! was out with bourne and fuman skeeto this afternoon... kwaire (or as she is known) was with her Arts gang... giggling away... haha... and she got poked plenty of times by the mischievious trio! me, bourne and fuman skeeto!!! hehe... *laughs out really loud* Had a nice tiramisu to end it all off... yum yum...

this morning was sheer hell... it was really stupid that B, one of my new colleagues, went on MC... and my boss/doc went on call... so i had to join the hc office "treasure hunt" group to make 7 people... irritating. now my knees and my ankles are hurting like mad... it was okay when we started cos we walked on the flat ground... but the trail got really horrible when we made the u-turn... the ground was so uneven at macritchie!!! T and me had to take our sweet time to walk cos i was "bai ka" (i.e. disabled in the leg) and he was down with tonsilitis...

But we pressed on anyway to complete the thing. i mean, we had no choice right!? it's really stupid... i should be getting PES E9 for osteoarthritis and not C2L2 temporary because of chondromalacia patella. How the heck do the guys up there (not heaven) expect me to return to the "sunny" island of TK for the BMT recourse if I can't even run? let alone walk for long distances... really stupid i tell you...

*groans in pain* my two legs are really aching... especially at the joints... had to take my painkillers for relief...

sigh... i can only pray for a miracle. I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO TK!!! *pouts*

As usual... it's bickering galore between m & d...

over a small topic like the amount of rice!!! *faints in agony*

apparently, m thinks that d isn't very consistent in his eating habits... every dinner at home, d would complain about the amount of rice he's getting as "too much!!!" *rolls eyes* but obviously, being the 3rd party involved, i can see d is really not consistent! when eating out, d would always eat rice as per normal and not have a single word of complaint about the rice being too much... even at gramp's place, he would eat without a word. But things are quite different at home... sigh...

then obviously, m had to make things worse by treating everything like a worst case scenario... then comes the drama and the weeping and so on... sigh... *shakes head in dismay* then m takes her time to pick at the rice, trying to look pathetic and so on...

I mean, obviously, who wouldn't be irritated?! argh. then d bends over and forcefully scoops rice out of m's bowl... just to make m happy-ier....

then d just finishes the rice quickly and proceeds on with the oranges... leaving so much veg and soup behind for m and i to finish...

that does it, i felt. "who are you expecting to finish so much food when you eat so little?" i said... or something like that... only after grabbing the plate of oranges and keeping it in the fridge for the time being.

"But M hasn't finished her rice what?!" d replies...

"you obviously noe you've been really inconsistent in your eating habits!" i retorted firmly.

and the room goes into silence...................

i went back to the fridge to get back the plate of oranges and D eats on...

M continues the drama... sigh.

after this, M continues eating and D says something mildly nasty to her... couldn't remember what D said...

D changes and leaves to go downstairs for a "walk".

I really don't understand all this childish bickering... now i'm at home with M and M tries to tell me stuff related to what had happened earlier... I felt M obviously contradicted what M was trying to say of D thinking that I'm always siding M. I mean, you don't tell me about your views if you don't want me to appear to side you, right? *puzzled*

So i just told M to have a quiet time eating while i type out this blog... ha.

Hmm... for those people who noe me... mebbe you could give me your views on how to mediate in similar situations like this? I'm really sick and tired of having to keep going thru all these bickering cum drama sessions...

*yawns*

ahh... the day has almost come to an end... almost because i have OFFICE DUTY!!! argh.

But never mind... cos Ma'am Pat's leaving soon... dunno if CMC has gone yet... hmm... *ponders*

quite fun having daniel around today... haha... "tuang"-ing around... poor guy... hc branch was so crowded today!!! 6 guys in total as opposed to our normal 4... felt so much freer to move around (contradictory isn't it?)

Ma'am AK was on half day's off so the office felt a little quieter... Maj R had to go for clinic... RSM wasn't around and Col J also went for his off... hee...

argh... still waiting for Ma'am pat...

and dad didn't fetch me today... sigh... how i wished i had my own car!!! i really hate public transport...
really irritating to keep waiting and waiting and waiting... just for the bus!!! and a car journey that takes 10 minutes can take me 50 minutes by bus!!! imagine the amount of life time i waste just waiting!!! *fumes*

anyway... sigh... the rest have all gone in zacky's car... so i'm just alone here... typing away at this blog...

*stomach growls* argh... hungry already... still waiting...

Morning entry...

yawn!!! haha... just entered the office not too long ago... as usual, i'm the first to arrive... quite cool too cos i can blog in peace!! *grins widely*

was feeling my teeth in the car... seriously felt i didn't brush them well this morning cos of the pain i've been having at the gum area of my upper right premolar... used ma'am ak's mirror to check the upper teeth and to my horror!!! tartar stuck at the 2nd right upper incisor!!! eek... i pray nothing gets worse, at least until my dental appt... nsdc takes so long to fulfil your needs!!! no wonder smohc says the place sucks... oh, and the upper left premolar also has something strangely white on it...dunno if it was a filling i didn't noe about... very scared of getting cavities esp after what happened to my right upper premolar... *griefs over the death of the tooth* let's all observe a minute's silence in remembrance of my tooth...

*1 minute passes*

okay... back to the real world... *wonders why i have so much to say in the morning... at the start of the day!!!???*

Daniel, my upper study (at least the real one... not teng), is back!!! hee... but it's kinda weird cos it's like i noe he's my upper study... but it's like the job no longer belongs to him anymore... *shudders*

and anyway, today's papers didn't have anything on Mom's stuff yesterday!!! *pouts*

I hope something appears tomolo... the photo i took with mom should have been quite nice... hee... *runs to mom (as though she's in the office!?) and hugs her*

okie... end of my morning blog... needed to get things off my chest...

*smiles*

Sigh. first entry...

well... my day went quite fine today... hee... took a day's leave!!! but it has come to an end... sigh again.

Mom had some fun at her event today... interviewed by the press and stuff... I'm so proud of her...

Who would have guessed that one day, she would receive recognition for her determination to live with her condition? Wow... *looks in awe*

And she kept going "He (ie me.) is my inspiration!" to all the journalists... haha... made me so embarassed...
at least we needn't bother about her lancet supplies for a year cos she became a OneTouch Hero!!! hehe... though she kept denying it anyway...

And we had fun shopping at Marketplace in Paragon today... quite fun... nice place and we bought some mushroom ravioli! haha... she cooked Dad and I a very good dinner today... yum... Mushroom Ravioli Bolognese! yum *licks lips* Nice and Cheesy... *salivates*

hmm... i guess that's the end of my first entry... haha... finally jumped into the bandwagon of blogging after so long!!!