my epilogue

2008-12-26T11:36:00.001-08:00

its time to think about myself

2008-12-25T08:17:00.000-08:00

my wonderwall

2008-12-20T06:28:00.000-08:00

i'm feeling lazy
i have to book in tmr by 20:30
but i keep thinking that i'm on block leave and so dun have to book in
haha.
i'm becoming dillusional

the new cadets are coming in on monday
YAY!
which means that after they come in,
my service term will end in approximately 48 hours
and i'll get my 3 bars

will be in charge of some of the new cadets on mon
so if anyone going to ocs,
if you are told you're going to Charlie Wing Platoon 1
dun worry, cos you'll be under my care and concern

i've realised that having a psp can be quite useful
and therefore may comtemplate purchasing one
ok, peace out

2008-12-17T09:21:00.000-08:00

social night is over

enjoyed it cos of the company of tessa i guess

quite a formal affair

so the guys weren't able to act like we usually do

enjoyed it nonetheless

thx for the gift

really like it

2008-12-16T23:59:00.000-08:00

off in due ytd and social night tonight
went to east coast today for an endurance run
running there is so much better than running the bloody roller coaster route

i'm damn tired but social night is later on
tessa's gonna be my date for it
got a gift for you
hopefully you'll like it
never been to such a formal event before
but i guess it'll be fun

i gotta book in at 7.30am tmr :(
i'll be able to book out on fri :)
1 more week to the end of service term

2008-12-06T08:40:00.001-08:00

a disastrous attempt to club

2008-11-30T00:19:00.000-08:00

went out with tessa and walked ard marina abit

christmas decorations everywhere

the christmas trees hanging from the ceiling of suntec is nice

shld go check it out

watched quarantine

not bad

some parts were scary
but overall it was ok

thx for the day out aight

Ex Scorpion King commences tmr

its like the key event of service term

4 days and it'll be through

it wont be easy

digging trenches and all

but we'll just do it

we'll march on

2008-11-20T04:38:00.000-08:00

i desperately need a break

2008-11-08T20:49:00.001-08:00

hello tekong

Josh Matthew Devadas

2008-11-08T02:15:00.000-08:00

the baptism ceremony

i don't look good in this picture

but i like it cos my mum's arm is around mine :)

the happy family

2008-11-01T22:37:00.000-07:00

my whole body is aching

2008-10-28T07:51:00.000-07:00

5 weeks into ocs
and i feel my mental endurance being tested
we rush to wait
and we wait to rush
everyday you become more tired
and you just have to endure till the day you book out
i rather spend time out of my house when i book out
which i think is wrong
cos i feel like i'm neglecting my parents who have really been my pillars through army so far
always looking out for my safety and health
while telling me that i shouldn't over exert myself and all

yes my friends, i have not forgotten you all.
yiling, con, weiling, bernard, tessa
you guys may not know this but i pinned some pics of us on my noticeboard
so whenever i'm in my bunk i just look at the pics so i'll make myself happy
i plan to pin the whole notice board with pictures
so when we meet,
TAKE MORE NICE PICS K!

tough times lie ahead
a ten day field camp
which will be shiong la
that will be like a 2 weeks confinement
i'll only get to book out on the 22nd i think
then 2 weeks later we'll have "scorpion king"
which will be a 4 days? field camp
BUT look on the bright side
after that, would mean that i'll be about 3 weeks away from completiing my service term
that shall be my motivation

2008-10-28T03:07:00.000-07:00

thx to con and her citi clear card

i now own my nano.

BUT

i now have new target

oh shit..

2008-10-18T20:55:00.000-07:00

2008-10-11T20:11:00.000-07:00

2008-10-11T14:10:00.000-07:00

booked out
came home and waited for my mama's smile
went out with ling and con
shopping...
allan came along
then its drinking with the gang again
weiling bernard nessa kevin jon shawn kenneth joey
good times
good games
next week again again

ps: you're thinking too much
and worrying too much about other ppl's affairs
your priority shld be your happiness n peace

2008-09-30T11:30:00.000-07:00

i am lucky to have this break right smack in the middle of my confinement.
ocs has been ok.
training hasn't really started so i can't really judge if its tough anot.
so far its been alot of lectures and lessons.
but one thing is that it is very rush.
as in time given to you to do things is unbelievable.
sometimes i need to think twice about going to the toilet cos i wont be able to be ready in time.
but anyway, so far so good.
so shall see how it goes.

2008-09-20T09:15:00.000-07:00

i have always hated how crappy windows mobile has been
and even with all the supposed improvements for windows mobile 6.1
i still dun see any difference
and now after some research
i may have found the solution

introducing the HTC Dream

apparently thats how the phone looks like
most importantly
this should be the first phone taht will run on Google's Android OS
the OS kinda looks like that of the iPhone

2008-09-20T07:17:00.000-07:00

MOS was fun!
for about 3 hrs
cos the music died down at like 4
but still it was fun
chat with weiling while they made us wait for 2 hrs!!
always nice when we talk

got into ocs
kinda unexpected myself
i'll just take it day by day and survive i guess
tough times don't last,
but tough men do
i shall always rem this

got another shopping list
i'm gonna get this black trilby from top
and this belt from signature
so yiling, pls make yourself free in 3 weeks time k
PLEASE...

2008-09-16T06:05:00.000-07:00

had a disastorous POP
blacked out
chipped my 2 front teeth and got like 6 stitches on my chin
block leave now
have been training ABIT
gotta train more
stronger, better, faster!

2008-09-05T18:52:00.000-07:00

2008-08-30T19:40:00.000-07:00

its book in day again
last week's book in day was sian
and there's no difference for this one
BUT
next week's will be different
because i POP next week
*and the crowd goes wild*

so this week i've got my:
24 km route march
Re-IPPT ( i failed cos of sbj. i jumped pass but my hands kept falling back thus i failed.DAMN)
Drills Comp
SOC

after this week then i can officially say we're in POP-mood
so its about 1 more week to go
i can do this

2008-08-24T01:43:00.001-07:00

this week is going to be tough and tiring
tough training don't last
tough men do

went to catch the fireworks with ling and con on sat
the fireworks were quite nice
i missed the first part
but it was still nice
now for some photos

2008-08-22T18:41:00.000-07:00

we're almost there

2008-08-16T23:42:00.000-07:00

2008-08-15T10:15:00.000-07:00

its wasn't that shiong
but it was damn shag

half way thru

2008-08-08T18:17:00.000-07:00

my field camp is up next
5 1/2 days of hell to look forward to
those who've gone thru it may not think so
but you haven't met my platoon sergeant
the light at the end of the tunnel is
booking out fri night and maybe booking in mon morn
so bring it on!

something i want to achieve: GOLD FOR IPPT

2008-08-02T10:36:00.000-07:00

i feel that i'm getting stronger
its getting tougher
but tough training form tough people
1/3 over
just taking it day by day

2008-07-26T23:18:00.000-07:00

my confinement period is over
not really gonna complain about stuff la
all i have to say is that its the army
so its kinda expected

the subsequent weeks should pass fast
as i usually book out every week
lets hope that all is well

2008-07-09T11:03:00.000-07:00

in about 6 hours it'll be my new beginning
reporting for my enlistment
like i said not scared about it
kinda looking forward to it

thanks to all my friends who made time for me
see you guys soon in 2 weeks
take care

2008-07-07T22:19:00.001-07:00

my days are numbered
haha

2008-07-04T06:51:00.001-07:00

i have an elephant's foot

2008-07-03T07:51:00.000-07:00

one week to go till i enlist
i'm not scared or worried
kinda excited
it's almost like a new beginning
i've got no strings attached now
so i'll take thing as they come
and lead my life as only i can

2008-07-02T12:26:00.000-07:00

if the flutter of butterfly wings can cause a hurricane somewhere
what about our actions of today?

2008-06-30T08:57:00.000-07:00

2008-06-30T08:51:00.001-07:00

does strawberry milk come from pink cows?

2008-06-26T01:50:00.000-07:00

$2,000,000,000 Bread?

2008-06-07T11:28:00.000-07:00

3 guys
3 jugs of beers
1 n 1/2 bottles of chivas
1 girl
and a whole lot of fun

2008-06-05T10:13:00.000-07:00

sometimes all you need is some chocolate cake
to complete your day

7 years strong

2008-05-29T09:49:00.000-07:00

We have officially graduated!!

2008-05-25T08:45:00.000-07:00

i matured at the ripe age of 16
before that selfless and selfcentred
shun myself from you for pride and fear of riducule
locked myself in this home you provided for me without giving thanks
still you continued to love me, like only a mother can

17 onwards, a new beginning
promised myself that i'd come up in life and be somebody
just like you always wanted me to be
you never once asked me to be a doctor, lawyer, businessman or politician
respected all my decisions, though with a shed of concern

i did all this to make you proud
to see that smile on your face when i tell you my results
to hear that you are proud of me and to continue doing well
on the 28th of may i want to see that smile again when i receive my diploma
so if you wont be able to be there, i see no point of me being there either

2008-05-15T11:08:00.000-07:00

i'm kinda through reading the 'freakonomics' book
done with the main part, reading the bonus material part
if you're like me, not into the storybook type
dig smth that keeps your mind thinking (not talking about sodoku books here)
and gives you a different perspective of situations going on in the world
then this is the book man
go to the book shop and look for book
flip thru it and check it out
and if you realise that you dun really like it
then guess what
you're not really like me after all

been thinking of my future lately
(i'm sure that ppl are going "oh man, not again")
more like thinking of ways to be successful in the future
so here is my latest idea
(warning: it gets a little boring after this, so venture at your own risk)

imagine doing business with virtually no physical contact with your clients
lets say i set up a programming company
my main mean of sales would be my own website, which offers packages for companies to choose from
examples would be:

Package A = Website
Package B = Website + Server
Package C = Website + Server + Firewall
Package D = Website + Server + Firewall + UPS
Package E = Website + Server + Firewall + UPS + Lease Lines

obviously the prices would go up according to how many peripherals there are in a package

lets say a company has choosen a package, we will then have to get into contact with them to discuss how things are to be done according to how they like it right

first of all think of how over telecommunication industry has evoled in the last 5 years

we didnt have video calls, video streaming, VOIP (not really under telco but whatever)

now think of how its going to evolve in the next 5 years

imagine contacting your clients through VOIP, conference calling, video conferencing (http://www.ojophone.com/products/ojophone) and of cos the ever trustable (most of the time) Email

we can use Email, VOIP and conference calling for basic communications, and video conferencing for presentations and such

physical meetings can be replaced and thus time may be saved for better results in the project (think travel time, as vendors usually go down to the clients' office for meetings)

clients may preview the websites thru online portals that allow you to run sets of codes and preview them

of cos there are many many details to be sort out, and taking away the physical interaction between the vendor and the client does post some serious setbacks

but wouldn't it be great taking advantage of the technology that is right in front of us

think about it, business 5 years from now..

2008-05-06T08:06:00.000-07:00

people always say that you will feel like studying once you start working
for me, that is true to a certain extent
i do feel like studying instead of working
but i wana study what i feel like studying instead of a set of modules that a school sets for me
just a thought

works been normal
went shopping last saturday
felt good
pics of that day should be up soon (ling..er-hem er-hem)
cant wait for my next pay check
going to splash the cash again

2008-05-03T10:38:00.000-07:00

shopping
so super wonderfully fantastically shiok
its just nice to own smth new
its may already
a third of the year is over already
sch's done with
all working
so many things have happened man

the good old days

2008-04-22T08:55:00.000-07:00

been too lazy to blog

highlights:
saw LYY on sunday, nice to see you
eye getting better (much better)
returned to work on monday
got my pay today

thats all for now

i wanna be that somebody

2008-04-17T23:55:00.001-07:00

some stuff happened this week.

firstly...
i got into SMU!!
so happy when i saw the letter
parents and friends congratulated me
then i was just hoping my enlistment would be ard june/july

wed night i took out my lenses
and my left eye was itching like crazy
decided to just sleep it off
woke up on thurs and my whole eye was swollen and red
told my parents i wasn't going to work and needed to go to the doc
went to the doc and he told me that it was a very serious eye infection
he also said that i had ulcers in my eye (i didn't know i could have ulcers there)
he said it was very serious and i could go BLIND!!
gave me some med and told me to see him the next day

this morning went to see him again
felt better
not fully recovered though
he said my eye did get better
and told me to continue my medication and see him on sunday

then my dad told me to go check the mailbox
cos he hadn't checked it for 2 or 3 days
i went down and low and behold
it arrived
MY ENLISTMENT LETTER
Date: July 10th 2008
Time: 08.30 am

a life changing week?

2008-04-13T10:28:00.000-07:00

i'm having a pimple outbreak
and i cant do much anything to fix it
3rd week of my work
i can pass up my time sheet on tuesday
haha
i'm gonna splash the cash again
of cos i'll save some la
first day of school for some tmr
namely lav and ling
lav: PRCP baby (correct acronym right?)
ling: advanced diploma sia!

2008-04-06T10:00:00.000-07:00

went to t3 with lav today
not bad
walked around
saw stuff
i think samsung phones are looking more cool and stylish
from certain views it really looks like a shopping centre
there are lots of eateries there
saw nice swatch watches
are swatch watches called swatches or just swatch watches?

we had toast box before we went there
but i didnt really feel like eating it although i was a tad hungry
but around 2 i felt hungry again
so we decided on popeyes
i ate and she didnt
now i prefer kfc to popeyes
but today the chicken was more juicy?
the fries are always delicious and the biscuit was nicer than the ones we tried before
however i got full real fast and only ate 1 and a half chickens

it'll be great to go on a holiday with you
anywhere would do
as long as i have you

2008-04-05T11:16:00.000-07:00

went to cut my hair in the morning
not bad
lunched with allan, guo hao, zhen hao and ling
the econimical rice guy has an attitude prob
ok nvm

bused home and then got ready for the interview
by the time i got ready was like 2.10
as i was going to be late
i cabbed down

reached there and sat ard for awhile
then at 3 we were led to the preparation room
there were student volunteers (i'm assuming they were this)
who checked our results, and then gave us some stuff to fill up
these stuff would be used during the interview
we each got a reading to read thru
then had to fill up 4 questions in bullet points
1. what makes you curious?
2. examples of your hardwork?
3. examples of your leadership?
4. passion for IT?
then we had to look at a poster
the poster was an example of a problem solving technique
where you used assumptions to estimate the numerical answer to the question
further elaboration below
after these, we got to watch a short video about some of the SMU students
stuff like their experiences here and all
this whole preparation thing lasted for like an hour
so at 4pm we headed for the interview

so the interview is a group interview
my group had 4 other ppl
so after a brief wait outside the room
we were led into the room
we each had those name labels in front of us on the table
so the professors (the students like to call them profs) had some small talk with us
then started the interview

the first part was to briefly explain the passage we read in 1 - 2 mins
so the prof asked who wanted to start first (we sat in a sort of J shape)
so i looked to the left and saw everyone else just look in every direction except the profs
seizing the opportunity i volunteered and probably explained my passage in abit more than a min
then the rest did theirs
the second guy was damn funny
firstly he kept repeating the words "actually" and "basically"
then he talked like for 4-5 mins
the prof was about to stop him when he finally stopped

the second part was the question we had to solve using the assumption method we read in the preparation room
so basically we had a piece of paper to do our working
and it was like this
we had 3 min to solve this question
" how many people travel on the North East (NEL) Line on a working day?"
i'm proud to say i got my answer within this time
this is what i did
Assumptions
4,000,000 ppl in s'pore
3,200,000 ppl travel on a working day
1,000,000 ppl take the train on a working day
30% of the passangers use the NEL
therefore my estimate would be 300,000
we had to explain my answers and i felt that the profs kinda made sense of my solution la

third part was were the profs questions us about the answer we wrote to the 4 questions la
that part was ok
my question was "what makes me curious" and "example of my leadership"
it was during the "what makes me curious" question that i got shot at by the prof
other than that it was ok

the last part, we had to answer these questions
"why SMU?" and "why SIS (School of Information Systems)?"
this part went well la
so that was it then we had a discussion with the 2 profs
where we could ask them anything we wanted
and that concluded the interview

i felt good and confident during and after the interview
ling asked me if i was confident and i said 70% (cant be over confident)
lav says i surely go in
i hope so
if i don't
you die ah
i'll eat all the ice cream in the world and become fat and force you to carry me everywhere we go
can ah?
:p

2008-04-04T08:35:00.000-07:00

TGIF
kinda
working there is alright
the other temps are fun
but lack of sleep means an unlimited consumption of coffee

lunched with the temps
bought back subway!
ate a foot long sub for the first time
cold cut trio as usual

i actually dun mind working there
unfortunately
some of the temps will be leaving soon
so that will be bleah

hope and pray
my interview is tmr

2008-04-03T10:43:00.000-07:00

oh yes

i just saw this

today was great

i saw that hours after i received a phone call
that call was about..

so excited

really hope i get in

it'll be great

hope and pray

2008-04-02T10:11:00.000-07:00

2nd day of work
knowing the other temps makes the working environment much better

heard this on the radio
dan: so how long have you been in singapore?
mig: erm..about 10 min
dan: so how did you find singapore?
mig: oh it was easy, i took a left at hong kong

get it?
haha
i found it damn funny
and mig's damn hilarious

lunched tgt with the temps
pei yong's last day
they are all nice and easy to talk to
makes the office so much better

work again tmr
meeting ling con allan and yq tmr
hope to get a polo tee
see ya

2008-04-01T08:47:00.000-07:00

so this is my new blog

first day of work today

went there super early

i think i reached there like 8.20 cos i thot work starts at 8.30

only to realise that it starts at 9

nevertheless there were ppl already there

and luckily the hr lady was already there

so i started my day by filling up the documents

then waited for everyone to pour in

then i met my colleagues and all

they already had some work planeed for me becos of smth that came up

so i had to fold letters and put them in envelopes

there were so many that i did it for like 1 and a half hour

after i had done that they passed me another set of letters to do the same with

there were so many to do that i only could go for lunch at like 1 plus

and i still hadn't finished

continued after lunch

and almost dozed off at around 3.20

i was literally staring straight forward, my eyes were closing and i was trying to force the letter into the wrong envelope

you see i have to put the letter and a smaller envelope into the envelope

so ya i was kinda unknowingly jamming it in

the remedy?

mocha from the vending machine

not a fan of instant coffee but this one actually tastes nice

fast forward to 6pm

there was this short hair girl at the table beside me

and i swear the whole day she never took a seat

she just stood at the photocopier

so anyway

she must have overheard my conversation with my superior about my timesheet

so she and louis (the other temp) came over to chat

and then they introduced me to the other 3 temps

so there are 6 of us

so i think we're all going for lunch tgt tmr

one good news

in total i spent $4.90 today

$1.10 for an egg tart for breakfast

$3.80 for chicken rice with extra rice for lunch

woohoo

i'm so proud of myself

but of course its only 1st April

oh, previously i was going on about getting the ipod classic 80gb

well i've had a change of heart

it is...

this is the Microsoft Zune 80gb

so sexy

i shall be comtemplating

ok off to work tmr

chop chop chop