Friday, December 31, 2010

Can You Believe It? Another Year Has Passed

It's the year 2011 in less than 24 hours! How fast time flies... Realize that I always use this sentence. I'll be turning 30 in less than 6 months! Holy shit!

It's been a great year for all of us. Economy is picking up, got almost everything I wanted, but of course things could be much better.

Let's look forward to a better and prosperous new year!

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Post Christmas Updates

Hohoho 'tis the season to be jolly! Mummy decided to hold a Christmas party at our house again and therefore we prepared loads of goodies as usual. Will upload pix soon.







24th December 2010, Friday

It's Christmas Eve! Went to meet up with Liyang and Selina, Zhangjing and Bobo at a place called Brussels Sprouts located at Robertson Quay. They serve some interesting Western dishes, but are quite expensive. Some of the mains come with free-flow of chips, cool! And it's been ages since I met up with Bobo. He's changed job too. We enjoyed the food and the choir caroling Christmas songs just right behind our table. Pretty awesome experience, but too bad the other FDS guys couldn't join us. Let's pray for a bigger group to attend in our next gathering.

Pictures to be up pretty soon =P

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Some Outdated Updates

Haha I actually forgot to post about my ascent to the highest building in Singapore during the Swissotel Vertical Marathon on the 21st of November 2010! So here it is again.

21st November 2010, Sunday

So I finally entered this challenge. Always wanted to participate in a vertical marathon but couldn't find the kakis to do it. The previous years Hongming went but bojio! Finally this year he remembered to jio me and therefore we went together. This year there's only the two of us. Previously he participated with one or two friends. Chian San also participated in it, as I realized after I already registered for the event.

HM and I met then went to Swissotel The Stamford to get ready for our climb. CS was at an earlier category and he started first. He was wearing something unusual for such an event and caught the eyes of the organizers. They invited him on stage to interview him as to why he wore such an outfit. He said he decided to wear something different since this is a fun event, or something along that line. There was a another man in the 50+ category dressed in full Venom costume.

I clocked 15:50 for my climb. HM clicked 14:50, exactly 1 min faster than me lol. Eh but I was interrupted by CS while on the 6th and 60th floors cos he called me! Slowed down my pace hahah. Shall attempt to break my personal record next year, if I'm participating again hehe. Well the registration fee of $40 is quite steep actually. HM says the fee is increasing every year. The goodie bag and the shirt aren't really worth $40. So probably will reconsider participating next year hahaha.

9th December 2010, Thursday

Ok not quite an event but it's something interesting. It's cardinal day at SAFRA! Looked forward to it since the starting of ICT. We get to enjoy good food and play some games of bowling or pool or LAN-gaming this time (choose one only). Of course I opted for bowling. Managed to play up to 5 games hahaha! That's because most of the guys left after playing one game. I live so near so what's the hurry of going home when there're free bowling games to play? In the end Sam and I were the only survivors playing up to 5 games each haha. Then Kenneth and I went to Blic to have some ice-cream before we went back and enjoyed the rest of the afternoon off.
Hehe my scores were 123, 147, 147, 129, 153.

Reservist shiok right? But nobody sees the kinda siong things we do inside T_T... This year we did a 2D1N FIBUA at Neo Tiew Village. After reaching the place then I realized that it's the very same place that I went during my year two FOC in Hall 4. It was a place for nightwalk. It's actually open to the public! Quite a fun overnight stay actually. We did FIBUA and watched some of our guys play with trip flare and handheld rockets (it's handheld flares actually). We saw all the 10+ flares being shot into the sky on a rainy night, all lighting up the sky and floating down like being on parachutes (I think they really are on parachutes). Too bad I couldn't take pix or videos lol. Then the next morning we had a company level FIBUA movement. That was damn siong but rather fun.
The next 2D1N exercise was in base. Shall not disclose too much info lol. This not as siong as FIBUA physically but we hardly got any sleep throughout the night. Zombified the next morning...

Friday 10th December we outpro-ed. Kinda sianz cos had to go back to work in three days' time already. Kinda glad that the siong part was over. Indeed reservist was a good break from work and a good catching with all the good old buddies of FDS-PLAB.