New Comp and New Year

Hi! Have been leaving this blog alone for quite some time already haha. Anyway, just want to continue on from my previous post. Remember I was talking about getting a new comp? Yea I got one during Sitex 2009 for $1169. It's pretty good. Acer aspire AX5810: Windows 7 64-bit, Q8400 Quad processor, 4GB DDR3 memory, 750 GB HDD, 1024MB Nvidia Geforce Graphics, Wireless Network. I combined the desktop with the current LG monitor I got. And now my flight simulator has cool graphics! Haha so happy... The best part is that I get to set it up in my room on my table lol.


Hmm about the pilot thing, nothing to continue about lol. So let's move on. My unit is going into standby mode, meaning I can't go overseas from now till around March. Not really affected by it, but the initial checks and inspection were quite intense. Everything had to be in tip top condition, so had to spend quite a lot at beach road recently. Closer towards Christmas, the training became more SOC oriented cos of the change of OC, who is more of the fitness kind of guy. Wasn't affected by it though, cos I already passed the first year timing =)


The Christmas weekend was the best cos it was the longest break from army I got, about one week and a half day lol. On Christmas, my brothers and I bought a Rock Band set for dad and mum, so that we can all have some fun singing and playing the instruments together. It's a very good deal from Challenger Funan. The entire instrument set (mic, guitar, drum set) plus Rock Band and The Beatles Rock Band for just $199! Haha it wasn't a deal we wanted to miss, so we quickly decided to purchase it. However, I would prefer Band Hero to Rock band, cos the songs are more well known pop compared to the never heard before repetoire of rock/punk/heavy metal music. The Beatles is still not so bad, and it's quite suitable for my dad too anyway haha.


After the celebration of Christmas in church in the evening, I went home to prepare the place for the overnight party and bbq. My friends came and almost immediately got latched onto the Rock band game. Someone also brought PS3 with Time Crisis gun set along with it haha. We had good food and fun games through the night at my place. Towards the dawn, most of us would have already slumped on the sofa to sleep lol. It was a great gathering!


I was extremely tired on 26th. After catching like 6 hours of sleep, I went out to meet my little SACO group of friends at Kallang Leisure Park for lunch and movie viewing of treasure hunter. Didn't really like the show much. I felt the story very disjointed, and didn't know exactly what was going on. Walked around a bit, took some pictures with the Christmas decorations, then went home.


27th was my bro Amos's birthday, so we celebrated by having New York New York for lunch. Nothing much happened on monday or Tuesday, but I got sick with vomitting and other gastric problems. Hence, I took attend C on Wed, another extra day to spend out of camp haha. Unfortunately, I had to do guard duty on New year's eve. The moment it was 12 midnight, sua yu and I spent our first 2 hours of the new year prowling and safeguarding the camp lol. Well, I suppose it was worth it, cos we earned 3.5 pts from it. But I wonder if it's enough to escape guard duty on chinese new year. Almost every one wants to try their very best not to fall prey to that.


During the new year weekend, I spent saturday out with my jc classmates to celebrate someone's turning 20 year old day. Had lunch at some thai restaurant in marina sq, then went kite flying and tidbit picnic on top of the marina barrage. It was my first time there, found it quite a nice place to be. Lots of people having fun on the grass patch, enjoying the sea breeze and scenery of the CBD area. That time also got to enjoy the sunset =)


Returning to camp on Monday night, I got myself prepared for longer weeks of training to come. ICCT was on for almost the entire week. I really hate break falling. The continuous slapping on the ground gave me elbow abrasions throughout the whole 4 days. It never got a chance to heal cos the training was on every single day. I'll just have to tahan and endure till Tuesday this coming week for grading, then it'll be the end of it.


After booking out, my bunk went to golden mile complex to eat at one of their uncle's steamboat restaurant. It was Hainanese chicken rice served with chinese steamboat. Really great meal. The rice, the satay, the seafood, the chicken were all delicious. At the end of the meal, we counted about 21 bowls of rice eaten by just 8 army guys lol. That's more than 2 bowls average a person! I suppose I could count it as a celebration of being a one year soldier =D haha. It's just down to 10 months of NS in 5 SIR man.... Bring it on! haha I just wanna quickly get out of that irritating place...