Actually i'm now bloggin from one of the weirdiest places, some hidden corner in hongkong international airport. I'm actually pluggin in my power socket into one of their power lines so i have to be discreet abt it hahaha. Ok i know its kinda late to be bloggin abt my pass events back bear wit me as i continue rantin abt my meaningless crap

Wednesday

Had lunch wit my cousin at my grandma's place since well its his off day, poor commando chap has to hve odd offf days in the middle of the week and late books outs along wit burnt weekends since their training program was pretty packed. My aunt made us some western meal, actually i was kinda like looking forward to some chinese teochew meal my grandma used to whip up when i'm there after sch's done. But oo well, its all gd as we sat down and just chatted abt some army advise. Basically it was PC counsel all over again as i try to psycho my cousin abt the perks of serving the national. Along wit some survival tips abt enduring the harsh brunei terrain and some "pi xie" stuff to take note. Brunei forest isnt all pleasently safe if you know what i mean. That took abt 2 plus hrs b4 i hit the gym again for a back work out.

Went back to camp after a quick workout at the gym, meet kevin on that same day too, as usual wit hima round he usually just crap around wit me and stuff. I tried to get my hair done by today but i realised my workout took longer than usual, must be the constant chats wit kevin. A last min notion hit me that todays actually battalion's nights out, so i gotta rush back to camp b4 my guys booked out. So i sped all the way in my lil presage[lil is an understatement since it was nicknamed goldzilla by my dear tubsy]

I got into the camp compound in the nick of time to catch my guys changing into their civilian attire waitin to book out. Sigh but well thats the nature of life, you dont get the whole pie to nimble on all the time. Spoke to a few of them, gave them my emails and take a few grp pics on the parade square b4 seeing them march off for the last time. It was kinda sad seeing them go but well they r grown boys now and i know they are in goods hands, yuhang my understudy and the ever reliable chen the PS.

After they left i went up to the office to look for my boss, captain james, the SAFOR scholar, i managed to catch him just b4 he left the office, all in the nick of time pheeeewwww~! We adjourned our lil conversation at the mess while he as usual had to grab cup of coffee frm the coffee maker at the bears cove. He kinda told me picked up the habit when he was studyin in Cornell, he said its either coffee or cigs to keep warm, you choose. I kinda told him i prefer tea to coffee and i got the word pussy thrown at my face again, sigh what hve i done! Basically we just chatted abt what the coy did and is gonna do for the up coming months. And its basically a gd catchin uo session. B4 he left for his lil appointment wit his friends, i took a photo wit him outside the mess. Actually his been a awesome boss, mentor, teacher and most importantly a friend to me throughout my stay in 30 SCE. Its a shame i wont be able to find him back in 30 when i get back since high flyers like him gets posted out real soon. Ooooo shit i;m gonna start boarding soon. I'll carry on wit my blog 17 hrs late, for now ciao!

Ahh finally i got the time to sit down and do some uninterrupted bloggin. Well in response to lilian's blog entry, no my blog isnt an exaggeration of immense proprtions. I'm just merely being more descriptive. So go suck balls benben!

Day started off wit me attending some investment seminar in SGX, pretty informative and i've learnt a couple of stuff that  might be able to apply when i start sinkin my money into US blue chips. I rushed off to meet the jabronis at harbour front right after my seminar and guess whose late again, our dear lilian as usual. I swear she can never make it on time to any function or event, bet she is even late for church all the time. God pls hve mercy on her and not punish her k.

She was kind enoough to treat us to a hearty meal of macdonalds, only to have us rushing for time since well the ferry was just abt to ermbark pretty soon. I got to try the new immigration self check in gantry system, its pretty cool and well though it isnt much faster but it sure beats having just a few human manned counters. Once one the ferry we just kept talking n yaking n talkin, basically just do whatever it takes so prevent lilian frm sleepin, awesome isnt it! Upon arrival we were pretty well, you could say surprised at the condition of the ferry terminal. It had undergone a major renovation and the immigration counters even had aircon!amazing stuff, good on u batam!

Bang bang bang, and we ended up at Sijori resort after a short bus ride and we checked in to round of refreshin fruit punch, the only reasons its refreshin is cause we are short of drinking water so anythings goes for now. The swimmin pool was surprisingly clean this time, not the green mosh pit pools that caleb likes to call it. And something idiotic did happeneded. The key that was attached to one of the key holders apparently fell out on the trip up to our rooms. So kenneth and caleb was kind enough to help me make the trip down the hill under the hot blazing sun to help me retrive it. Gods will, or well Gods grace, we found it laying somewhere, actually its kenneth who found it but what the hell. After placing our bags down we had a short debate on whether we sould leave the aircons turned on or off and the evil side of us got the better of us, screw the electric bill and screw saving the earth. I'm feeling so guilty now sigh. As usual lilian tried convincing us abt leaving it off but her whiny complains got nowhere haha.

We went down to purchase 100 golf balls and started being an idiot attempting to play some putts or drives or whatever you call it on the driving range. I think lilian kinda made the first decent ball, maybe she isn't so dumb after all hmmmm. Mr alex our bus captain soon came and we chucked the remaining balls to some dude who manes the place. We head on to the only go-kart track near batam waterfront city. Damn was it fun! though the helmets smell alil but it was well worth the 15 SGD we paid. Dont think for 1 second the karts are slow going pieces of crap, on the contuary its pretty fast. Neo was placed well in the middle of the starting pack wit yong nme behind. Guess what, his engine needs refilling right before we start, has to be NEO or OEN!so me and yong were far behind the pack as the rest went on racing wit out us. Through some gd driving hahah or sheer luck/patience. I managed to overtake ah yong on the instep of the hair pin turn, and i kinda gave him the hell yeah hand signal. I think he didnt took it quite well so he was hot my heels all the way. Along came our dear lilian, driving like a mad lunatic , swinging back and forth like a mad drunkard on wheels. I had to slow down to see my chance of overtaking this mad ass driver, of cause not before shouting my fair share of get the hell away!Yong took the opportunity to overtake me on the overlanes of the S turn and that idiot drifted right into my lane when i was abt to use the inner lane to overtake. And bam there was the collison and i ended up wit a broken front left wheel thanks to him. My fun kinda ended there while the rest carried on racing.

We then went to had a full body massage done, dont get mistaken it isnt the sleazy type!its realli cheap though at 13 bucks for 1.5 hrs. The lady kinda use her full fuckin body strength to rain hell on me man, boy was i in agony the entire time, and i ended up wit brusies, can you believe that!Well its seafood up next and we order a fair share of food. Since it was my idea of having a 'farewell' trip, i paid for dinner. We headed back to the hotel and every1 was feelin real tired. After everyone had their showers i intro the evil game Consume to them. This time there wasnt much alchohol so i subsituted the booze wit the water i used to cook the meegoreng, boy was it gross!it was a ball of fun and we ended up doing stupid things the vaguely resents a cult doing some prayers. Would hve been better wit booze though hmmmm

Thanks to neo's snoring, it kept me up the whole night and that idiot woke me up wit the air con leakin water excuse and start raining water on me, what an asshole. They didnt waited too long before going down tot the driving range to play some golf, this time we had some1 to teach us the proper way of playing and damn was it fun. Everyone had decent shorts wit neo and kenneth showing the most prospect. But the almighty great one me had the record of the day wit the longest hit hahah, abt 80m onli la. We headed down to the archery range to play alil and got bitten by an army of mosquitoes, we couldnt stand it any longer so we went up to get some ammo to fight them and at the same time bring down all our bags to wait for Mr alex's arrival.

Then came another round of go karting, this time i was more conservative and not as aggressive, as they say once bitten twice shy. We were suppose to wait n line up for every1 to get their engines fired up b4fore startin to race but caleb sped off like some possessed monkey the moment his engine lit up. I played alil drifin here and there just for the kicks and guess what, yes i broke the damn kart again. This time the accelerator malfunction and i couldnt stop wit ease, i had to like brake for miles away before comin to a complete stop, i think i'm cursed man.

We made our way to yet another round of seafood and this time we eat like kinds! 1.1 mil worth of seafood haha. 3 fishes, 2 veg, 1 sotong, 3.3kg of mussels and shit loads of prawns. We ate so much we had to pack up the prawns for neo to bring home. We ended the journey at the mega mall beside batam centre ferry terminal. Neo got himself a cool lanyard for sch and kenneth bought some shuttlecocks. Then came the part were we queued for some nice doughuts, it was amazingly popular wit all the sg folks who r goin back, since we didnt had much time me n yong gave our orders to ken for a dozen of assorted doughnuts each and we sped off to buy some kerpok for our in-laws. After the rush we hurried to get our A&W rootbeer floats hmmm, it was a bad move as it cost us precious time. We had like 20 mins to get our ass to the ferry only to discover the security counter was jammed packed and the immigration counters were worse! man was it a made scrumble and prayers to get our ass to the ferry. We were literally mins away frm missing our ferry i tell ya. But it was immencely exciting to feel the adrenaline rush of being screwed big time. And gods grace we made it. So there we are on the ferry snoozing our way back to singapore.

I was greeted by tubsy and i presented her wit her doughnuts which she greedily ate up 2 on the spot. So cute. Thats so much for my batam trip. It wasnt so much the things we did but just spendin time wit the people i care alot abt, people whom i know are gonna be there for the rest of my life. People whom i;m gonna leave behind for 4 yrs as i embark on my next phase of journey. Its a very saddening thought but i guess i just wanna take this chance to thank all of them.  Ah yong, Neo, Caleb, Kenneth and of cause Lilian thank you for being there for me all this time. Without you guys i wont know how my life would have been.

The trip there.