last monday was 15th of September 2008, exactly a year since i surrendered my freedom in its entirety to the sole discretion and disposal of our nation. happy 2nd year soldier to me blah blah blah. *should* be getting my promo on the 1st of next month, if nothing gets delayed again.

i was going through the disruption directive and apparently disruption for uni requires: [a] a minimum service period of 22 months, [b] the disruption date is always on the 1st of the month, and [c] the first available date is [a+b] or 7 days prior to the start of the term, whichever is LATER. kinda pissed off because my [a+b] is 1st Aug 09, which is sort of late, and my term is probably going to start later than the 8th (1+7), which means that i'm going to be stuck in this sh!t hole for longer than i thought. bloody $#%@&!

oh well.

with first year windows closing all around, every week is ippt/soc week. but for some weird reason i broke my long standing milestone and did a 5 5 4 4 3 for friday's ippt, which is worth like $100. just repeat the same results in three months time and i should be excused training till ord/disruption

went out with jc, van, and cy last night. more people supposed to turn up but.. oh well. had frog porridge at chinatown before hitting marina south. cy's sunny was missing from our mini photoshoot to complete the equality as well..

this weekend feels like 省钱大计划 in execution.

this is one point three. for some reason, i decided to stop procrastinating and overhauled this place. (technically: i did a clean install of b2evo, hooked up the old db, sorted out the incompatibilities, threw in a new base skin, designed a decent header image, and restored the old sidebar sections.) all that was like two days worth of work. looks about the same as before from the front, but the new version makes life much easier for me behind the scenes

went back to camp this morning for battalion family day, so now my folks know my living conditions in-camp are awful(-ly pleasant) and my inefficient daily maintenance routine (if not on waiting for things to happen mode). oh well.

tue. ippt. barely passed. points: 5 5 5 4 2.
wed. mass urine screening. disgusting. revolting. seriously.
thu. battery outing. bowling @ CDANS bukit batok. scored a 101 and 55. who the heck plays 3 straight games -.-
fri. caught death race with ivan and wz. show was not bad..
sat. lunch and coffee with wanjia. dropped by shijin's bday bbq turned into aunt's home hangout thing.
sun. AHM. rather screwed up organisation. then again, any event that involves the A in AHM just has to go wrong somewhere doesn't it? quite a fun run nevertheless. more time spent on dodging people though..

running yourself is way easier than conducting a run for 600 others. 'nuff said. doing guard right after conducting, and burning half a weekend in the process is added torture. oh well. clearing off on mon, ippt on tue, doping test (!?) on wed, battery outing on thu, battalion outing on fri, rest on sat, 10km AHM on sunday. (hopefully off-in-lieu on mon). blah.

happy national day folks!

been a while since i updated this place.. and i'm having one of those its not like the sky fell and i have to blog moments.. so yeah.. since the past few weeks have been routine and blah.

caught up with fuei and mei two fridays back for dinner, a gathering that was delayed for 2 months plus. but yeah, its always like finally when we manage to sit down together. thanks for the cake and chocolate

last saturday, for some really random reason, i went back to microsoft to attend mix for students. it was like msp alumni with a couple of ex-msps back to relive the old days hah. nice to see new faces and a refresher of the folks and topics.

upcoming is still.. blah

this week was brutal.

monday was ATP range, which seemed like it was deliberately pissing me off. i scored 26 of 33 shots with 3 shots left, the easiest 3 (foxhole supported), and the target just had to malfunction. 29 shots would have made me $200 richer but yeah, guess its fated or something. i wasn't granted a reshoot because the higher-ups decided "oh, its quite late already, so the 'reshoot if failure in targeting or scoring system' criteria doesn't apply". freaking unfair. well, at least ATP is cleared. just IPPT1+2, SOC2, and CS1+2 left

the rest of the week was system overhaul. mass system maintenance, carrying lots of stores everywhere etc. its like the week i spent minimal time resting. even the other batteries are asking why we're *suddenly* so hardworking. yeah right. as if we wanted to. blah. dead beat.

its the 12th. happy 21st vanessa!

with duties catching up and AHM approaching, i'm doing an average of 21km running and 12km prowling per week coming up is once again, the never ending quest for michael scofield kicksa$$, which is becoming as easy as finding the holy grail.

spent the last two weeks adapting back to routine battalion life. had a four-day-long weekend last weekend cause my unit scored best arty unit (again) and best combat support unit. hard to swallow since that probably adds more pressure from above. this week was spent, throwing people and getting thrown, literally. the resulting aches caused much immobility the worst part is that i didn't get to clear training; cause the day right before grading, tragedy struck and the 3-day training suspension ensued. which means i'll have to take more lessons at a later date before the rescheduled grading. oh well july and august are going to be uber busy months