26/10/09

I finally got the reflective triangle of noobness! The wait in between the practice and test was terrible; being in the same room with testees who just finished and were being incinerated by their fire breathing testers for the debrief. The tester that I got was affable enough and thankfully my nerves did not get in the way. *jumps around*

21/10/09

Today I was conned by NEA weather forecast again :( At 2pm it put little thunderclouds all over Singapore so I didn't to go ECP/Changi Coast and set out for Kranji-LCK when it showed cloudy at 5pm. Still remember the ride when I first got my bike and Justin brought me to the same route. I happily hit the big gears and kept up with him until muscle fatigue set in and then I would probably have been faster walking. Was totally winded when I reached home and I thought my respiratory system was collapsing when it hurt just to breathe. 6 months later I relive the joust with big trucks on the one lane stretches for space and get inundated by the smell of the farms at LCK.

18/10/09

What does it mean when you tell someone you're a Christian? I hope that for me, the reaction is nothing like when I tell people I'm an Indian.

God, please take the plank out of my eyes and give me a mirror instead.

I thank God for giving me 2 lovely parents who continually keep me in prayer even when I seldom do much praying myself. Also for our weekly meetings that I take for granted where we do bible study, share our week, upcoming week and uphold each other in prayer. Something I've taken for granted and am sorry to have.

Registrations for 2010 OCBC cycle is up! Initially I thought I was definitely signing up for it since it would be on my weekend off. Now I'm not so sure because after listening to Justin's experience last year it sounds like to get my paws on that national team looking jersey I'm almost definitely going to have to crash at least once. Told my parents about joining and I know they hate it everytime I get on the bicycle from the start but they said they're okay with it if I wanted to go for it. Yay =)

16/10/09

The last time I went to that place I nearly sweared off sushi for the rest of my life after relentlessly eating sushi for the better part of 3 hours. Thank goodness I didn't because sushi is really such a delicious food, even more than rice wrapped in egg okonomiyaki! And now, I take a peek out of my cave to be one step closer to watching Transformers (whoops now even more people know I haven't). Thanks for the company tonight and cookies! =)

14/10/09

Today my belly was filled with pride, amongst a lot of other things, being part of such an amazing bunch of people which belong to team Delta. It took a mustering of courage, teamwork and intestinal fortitude (not to mention a dose of insanity) for the 20 of us there to chalk up a $800 bill at Swensens. When we reached our neck level and the bill was just a paltry $570, it seemed the goal was too far away. But that we did and spectacularly. For such a feat, sacrifices had to be made. Staff were frazzled, belts were loosened and IPPT goals thrown out of the window for us to accomplish such a fantastic feat. We all deserve a vomit-inducing pat on the stomach.

Special thanks to Farhan Räikkönen who raced along at speeds exceeding 100km/h in heavy rain to get me to my driving lesson on time despite not having any wipers on the interior side of the windscreen. I owe you many many Maggi Gorengs (double packet, without vege, add hotdog).

10/10/09

Today's sermon on Daniel struck a chord with me. As my time in NS has reached a sweet lull that would most probably perpetuate till I reach my ORD, it came as a reminder as to how I comport myself during my service. It is then easy to believe, now that I am now able to perform my duties perfunctorily, that all is well when I am where God has positioned me. When we reach the end of the narrative bit of Daniel, it is so that things did go well as Daniel walked with God. However, his time in Babylon was anything but a walk. I used to think of Daniel as a sort of holy rebel, someone with the tenacity to give the finger to any policy which would displease God. If I had taken a closer read then I would have realised that Daniel would have had to be either (a) suicidal or (b) masochistic. He had to make tough decisions and asserted his allegiance to God when it would have been easier to just lie low and hope to weather things through.

What this means for me in the remaining months and even beyond is that I have a choice to continue to let inertia run its course or stand my ground and set a standard for God.

6/10/09

Yesterday's colour must have been green! Glad to see so many people turn up for the class dinner at Modesto's. Halfway, Pam took out something from her bag to give me that left me pammified.

Dictionary: pammified (ˈpăm.mə.faɪd)
adj
1. To stun or paralyze with terror; daze.
2. The resulting feeling from having a cyber pinkie-promise unexpectedly fulfilled by Pamela.
3. To be infatuated with watches from the brand Panerai whose model numbers start with PAM.

Since I far exceed the recommended age, altogether my own assumption, since the suffix '+' indicates no upper limit to the age, I got another unwitting model to pose with it like how they were designed to be from the beginning.

Following dinner naturally came supper - Brian's last as a free man at Chomps. Food was great as always and then he tried to reverse ingestion by going at 120km/h on normal roads.

We set off on what was my only trip to Pulau Tekong today. It did not look bad as I had always imagined it to be but now I know why the acronym POP means so much to those recruits. Brian got into one of the supposedly worst companies to be in so I hope all the best for him. After our Shangri-la buffet served in the cook house, it was time to say goodbye.