Today..... A year ago!

September 11 is a day famous throughout the world. It’s a day which, more or less, marked the end of conventional warfare and overt territorial conflict. It was the day when terrorism came to age.

But I don’t want to give a speech on world issues and current affairs. As usual, I will like to touch on a personal issue. As the title of my blog entry suggests, today marked a memorable day for me as well. Today, a year ago, I can remember being in Taiwan on a cold rainy night. At a bund facing the sea. It was drizzling lightly and I was standing with the rest of my platoon at our recce jeeps, all parked in a row. We were standing, excited and filled with hope. It was the start of AtEC. Conc Mission was over and we were eagerly waiting for orders for the next mission, which was a Deliberate attack.

There was also news that a typhoon was 1000km off our position and the threat of ATEC being cancelled was high. Frankly I had hoped that ATEC would continue. We had come too far and suffered too much to go back home empty handed and restart our evaluation again. The rain drizzled on and I can remember clearly that I had my Goretex raincoat on and my S.B.O worn outside of the raincoat and my SAW shoulder slung, the muzzle pointing up. I had wrapped the muzzle with some plastic and rubber band and removed the sensor device. There was too much weight on the weapon. The l.A.D and Blank attachment were still on.

We (Harpreet, Alan, Lim Jia Wei, Logan and myself) were gathered around the jeep, which was in the middle of the column, and sang songs we had liked. Songs like, “Laura” , “Nothing’s Gonna change My Love for you” , “how deep is your Love” and many other sad love songs. It reflected the mood in us I guess. A bunch of grunts waiting for things to happen on a rainy night in a foreign land.

Today, the same lot of us were gathered in a condo near sixth avenue for Douglas’ birthday party. I had come down with Preet and met up with the other three there and reminisced that little memory that somehow will not be eroded in time to come. A time when we grew as Men together.


My week had been a rather topsy turvy one. Wednesday had been comedy of errors. Came late for History tutorial, forgot to bring my homework which I had diligently done the night before and to top things up in my first hour in school, my handphone went off, Will Smith’s “Nod ya head” serenading the whole class. The day grew more comical as the day went on and it topped it off when I miscalculated my seating position during Sociology lecture and got a seat in which I could not get a good view of the Indian babe. Bummer!

Thursday had been a day when I got pissed off for reasons I do not wish to discuss. But it ended rather well with the touch rugby session I had with Mark Koh, Narissa, Zhong Yi and David “You bastard” Liang. Even met up with Chiobu Chan in between end of school and start of rugby. Got to know another one of david’s bevy of babes and ended up sending her home as well…her name is weixuan.

Friday was a blast! 4 hours of soccer and I was not even tired. Harpreet and his MIB gang were (they still are) brilliant to say the least. It was fantastic playing soccer with em and time really flew though I feel kinda bad for abandoning Jonathan. We were supposed to meet up for dinner but I had warned him that I might be late. But soccer ended at 2100hrs and there was no time to react. Furthermore, jonny had tonnes of schoolwork to do so I guess it was best that we did not meet up. Nevertheless, Friday is definitely a day I will reserve for soccer with the guys. It’s the one thing I will not miss out on each week. Not only was the soccer brilliant but the company was fine. Jokes were being cracked as much as the passes that were made and totally friendly football.

Anyway, its back to the weekend and I had to endure another united draw. They were one goal up thanks to a Heinze debut goal. Then they went 2-1 down! Totally disgusting turn of events!! Luckily, a scrappy goal by alan smith saved the day! But it was still a performance not worth watching. I hope united seriously pull up their socks in the coming games….

Well, that’s about it for this week. I hope I can make my blog entries more of a daily affair. Till next time, a tribute to the blokes I know in camp! Ho’Ah!!!

Recovery...

Been quite a few days since i wrote an entry. And I guess i won't kid around by saying I was busy. Please for pete's sake, I have a 3 days-schoolweek. Guess I was just plain lazy. Nevertheless, it had been rather eventful these past few days and all....

Well there was my bro's bday on Aug 29. Did not have too much of a fanfare, a simple celebration.

Went down for ICS welcome tea. Ran into two of my ex classmates back in cjc. Kavitha and Kalpana. There was some guys I knew whom were there as well. Puni and Vijay. Met Viknesh there as well (actually hez the one who called me over) . Met his 3 female friends as well. Took the same bus with them back home as well. Finally found out their names. There's Vijayenthi, the tallest of them all. And there's Kailing, the only chinese member in ICS. And the short fair one whoz Vineetha (hope i got the spelling correct) Found out that they are really nice peeps and Vik told me that they will always hang out in the library after skool to study... Maybe i would join them one day after on one of my skool days.

Yesterday, more like on last friday, I came back to school to play soccer with harpreet and his MIB gang. Great stuff! Actually scored 2 though my team got thrashed. I had fallen ill with fever a week ago and was recovering when i played soccer. Thus my fitness had dropped and i was huffing and puffing the whole time. it was good to be on the road to recovery and I am glad i played soccer.

met up with evelyn for lunch at THE DECK. LoLz! Had a nice chat with her and caught up with old times. Then went down to the library to meet up with vik and vj (short for vijayenthi) Vik left early at ard 5.30pm cuz he was going out. So i stayed back for vj and we left the library at 6.30pm. She was a talkative gal though tt did not irritate me even the slightest because she potrayed herself as person with no secrets. No dark underlying past kinda gal. It was easy to communicate with her and i kinda enjoyed the bus ride back home with her.

basically spent the weekend so far resting and organizing my school notes and readings. Was planning to study tomorrow. There is a museum visit coming up and i have to hand in a report next sat. Blah!

Actually there is nothing I wanna talk about now. Nothing to debate about and ponder over. Life is good.....Period