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[Sunday 6th Dec @ 11:50am] |
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In 2 days time, i'll be leaving Tekong for good. Thank god for that. And the stoned feeling when i book out is now gone, I thoroughly enjoyed myself at Zhewei's 21st, and for the first time in a long time, I laughed a lot. Real, sincere laughter. Everything's back to normal.
=)
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[Sunday 29th Nov @ 11:34am] |
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Sometimes when I go out and I see all these kids enjoying their lives, it's hard to imagine that I had that kind of life not too long ago. I know people tire of hearing guys complain about serving, but sometimes it really feels that bad. You long for your life before that, you long for time to pass quickly, you cherish all the little breaks you get, the sense of normality for a short while. Will it get better? I don't know, and I kinda doubt so.
These four days have been heavenly, and like always there's never ever enough time and there's always too much to do. Gah I hate all this negativity. The parents are right, something's changed since I entered, my mind, my heart is no longer as open as it once was. Maybe once i'm back in civilization it'll change back.
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[Saturday 21st Nov @ 9:52pm] |
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I'm back for a short while, leaving early in the morning tmr to go to the jungle again. Fingers crossed that the weather is good, at least for the next 3 days.
A meme:
• Leave me a comment with the name of your favorite song.
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
01 What kind of music do you listen to? If there's no specific genre, what are your favourite artists/bands?
Hmm, I listen to a wide variety of music. My mum loves classical, I listen to anything from Pop, Rock, Jazz, Bossanova, even a bit of metal that isn't too harsh on my ears. And sometimes stuff I don't understand, like J-Pop, just because I like the tune. I don't do techno and trance though. And I don't really listen to a lot of mandarin songs either? My favourite bands, off the top of my head now would be Maroon 5, All American Rejects, Bowling for Soup, We the Kings. As for artists, I like the female singers like Sara Bareilles and Marie Digby. Fairly mainstream. Actually come to think of it I don't really have any favourites, there are songs that I like because every song I enjoy is associated with a memory or memories, that's why I like those songs.
02 Favourite subject in school?
When I was in secondary school I loved history lessons. Reading about stuff that happened before which resulted in consequences that affects us even now... I think it's pretty interesting. In Polytechnic I enjoyed Criminal Procedure because the projects were fun, you learn a lot about the process of criminal trials.
03 If you could travel anywhere, where would you go, and why?
Wow, tough. Ummm... probably Split in Croatia. I've only seen pictures of it, but the place looks beautiful. It's near the sea and the city is quite old, it has a rich history. Plus it sounds quite exotic, I've always wanted to go to an eastern european country. Croatia seems like a good place to start.
04 If you could pick up a language, what would it be, and why?
Catalan. I think it's great that the Catalonians take pride in their language and culture, constantly creating new works and restoring old ones, it'll probably be around for quite some time so why not? It's close to Castilian Spanish and it's used in Barcelona (which i'd very much like to visit one day).
05 How was Tao Nan like for you?
It was a great 6 years for me, I got to know a lot of friends, I got introduced to football and Arsenal and life was generally very carefree. Though looking back now I wish I knew the importance of studying back then. And I don't think you got to see the old Tao Nan? The field was much, much bigger, we had two basketball courts (one where the canteen is right now and another right at the very end of the field near the gate), the canteen was much bigger and although the old building was slightly run down, it was big and airy. The days were really fun and graduation was quite sad. Oh, and back then I played soccer A LOT. We used to run to the field straight after the bell rang for recess, and we continued to play after school. Hahaha.
Just have to endure everything till Wednesday, and then everything will be over.
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[Sunday 15th Nov @ 10:04am] |
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It's strange, but after 6 weeks of feeling stoned and out of sync with my surroundings when I book out, i'm finally feeling better. I mean, this is like the first time since i enlisted that i felt normal when i'm back out in Singapore. It feels good. Just 3 more weeks and i'll be through. With being marooned on an offshore island, 3 more weeks and i'll be back on the mainland, back in civilization.
And on a side note, I was looking through my facebook pictures of the times before I enlisted. It all seems so surreal, like everything that happened then was a long, long time ago. Those days were really good, I truly enjoyed myself in those months. Every day I could just do whatever I wished, I went to NTU to meet Mingsong, I went to eat Ramen with the usual gang, I went to parkway to take pictures of the nice cars, cycled from east coast to changi and back. Those were great, great days. I hope there'll be at least a month, maybe nearing my ORD where I can experience something like that again.
Can't wait for the Hari Raya weekend. So much to do!
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