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Liu He Ye Shi... 

In taiwan with my fellow medics..I look so extra in orange! 

hmm munching some muah chees i bought from taiwan as i typed along... today was my first official full working day at medical centre since roughly more than a month ago? was having super monday blues...feeling super sian and time really seem to crawl by really really slowly. think i have officially taken over dispensary.. so no more sailing for me as I have crossed over to the clinical side.. maybe if they are kind enough they will send me to one good trip b4 i ORD in june next year. Sighz hope i have not made the wrong decision by taking up the job. been comtemplating and weighing the pros and cons for awhile... think its time for me to settle down for the next half of my NSF life. enough of sailing for me. anyway, roughly only 1 out of 4 sailing trips are good, good as in there is a port of call, other times we are just floating around the seas and oceans. moreover, my parents dun really like me to sail. u know, safety reasons so as they presume. so far, i've been to Pattaya,Penang and Kaohsiung with the navy.. frankly speaking there are not many places(that the navy visits often and are nice to visit) left.. maybe except bali and phuket..but think my mum will make a big fuss if i have to sail to bali. also, not having to sail also means that i can give tuition and do do things that require me to commit my time every week. tuition lobangs anyone??

Played mahjong at ken's house on sat nite. It was really outrageous! within 4 rounds(east, south, west, north) ken won 50+ bucks. Me and weepoh lost 3 bucks each, ( we split our earnings n loses as we took turns to play) and kc n tw lost 20+ each i think. was too tired to go for another round.. nvm we shall recoup or losses this week!

hmm theres going to be a class bbq this sat at huangyi's place.. hope the turnout would be good. haven seen u peeps for a while.

trying to get some taiwan pics from my friends... i was too hum ji to bring my camera the other time.. i will go mad if the rps or provost confiscate my digi cam. haha

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Wow.. this week is really like so shuang.. tues off, weds i went back to work, but my mo gave me mc when i went to see him from my sore throat,so iwent home to sleep by noon, today off as well due to Navy Day, tmr half day off as i'm just required to report at changi med centre by 1.00pm. LOLx. think i kinda rested well enough, just that my voice still sound abit weird n eeky.

I went to sing ktv today! despite my sore throat..hahaha. i was basically entertaining them as i went off key at the high pitch part of almost every song. was with my pri sch classmates.. nice meeting them after like almost a year ago.. time really flies..was reminising abt the old times and talking abt how everyone and other ppl in our pri sch were doing.. hahah quite interesting..

looks like some ancient ruins from far..see that bird? taken from the lift lob of 1st world hotel 

Us again at genting... 

Turban!!!! 

Dracula!!!  

On our hired van to genting.. 

I had about 4 , 5 days to explore Kaohsiung after minusing duty onboard and stuff. Weather there wasn't as cool and welcoming as i thought. sighz. it was freaking hot! just that u dun sweat as much as u do in sg. Kaohsiung is filled with towering giant shopping malls, with many familiar deparmental stores, isetan,sogo blah blah. They didn't have much to offer, no cheap bargains. except for kuah... who enjoys oogling at the shiseido ladies at the comestic section..haha. heheh the only thing that was interesting was the tian ti xiao jie, who will press the lift buttons and go on rattaling and introducing abt what each floor/level have to offer, while everyone in the lift actually pay no attention to her at all. poor thing lei. =P

things in taiwan are generally expensive, except for food i guess. thats like also the highlight of the trip! really enjoyed the street snacks at liu he ye shi, the equivalent of shi lin ye shi in taipei i suppose. Yum yum! i got sick of the xiang ji pa(chicken cutlet w lots of MSG) by the 2nd or 3rd day.. Lots of interesting stuff to see at xin jue jiang, a place equivalent to taipei's ximenting.. its like heeren but open air concept..

bought quite alot of local products, like taiyang ping(sun biscuit?), nai mei(milk prunes) and also some souveniers.. i had so much things to carry that i had to travel two times when I disembark from my ship..

talking abt sailing.. sailing on LST certainly is very different from many other ships. I was rather busy thru out this trip compared to my prev trips.. basically on LST there's actually a fully equipped medical centre facility.. and basically we have to see sick parades everyday, being the only medic onboard and given the no. of shp crew theres quite alot of things to do.. i'm also suppose to help to clean parts of the ship, like sweep floor mop floor wash toilet... abit not used to it cox i normally do nothing onboard other smaller crafts hahaha. but in a way time passes alot faster this time round. i was assigned to bunk together with the divers.. haah they really know how to enjoy.. brought 2 tvs, 1 ps2, 1 xbox, 1 dvd player.. they were a group of very nice ppl.. let me play their games, eat their tibits, snacks, help me out and stuff... i lobang one of their car back home on that day we reach sg as well. haha there was one time they tried to get me drunk.. we were playing this card game. each person are given 3 cards, the total points were added up and only the last digit was to be counted. eg, u get 2 kings and a 6, the total point would be 26, and therefore u would get 6 points. so the person with te smallest points would have to drink a small cup of chivas.. mind u its 40% alc.. and we are drinkning it without diluting it.. i was super duper heng... they kept missing me... so i din drink much.. hahahaha but i stilll got an splitting headache the next day.

hmm thats abt all i have to say for my taiwan trip.

Hmm.. the genting/kl trip wasn�t exactly as ideal as how I thought a holiday should be. But its definitely an experience of a lifetime. Imagine upon reaching KL and having pissed off by the hotel manager at the reception and eventually led us to a frenzy search for another hotel to stay overnight, Sweating like a pig everywhere we got to, (even in genting), facing hordes of ppl and overwhelming long queues everywhere we go, a crappy hotel room n service at 1st world hotel in genting, 2 hour delay in our return coach and an EIGHT hour bus ride back to Singapore. Hmm sounds really bad hor.? Haha but despite all this shit.. I think we still managed to have lots of fun.

A first overseas trip with my sec sch buddies comprising of tw, tj, ken, kc, wp, ronnie n sw. hmm the main objective of the trip was to get together and have fun, and I�m sure we did. Its kinda amazing how we are still meeting up like almost every week, laughing at the stupid jokes n actions we make or even at the slightest thing, keep thinking of things to do together during weekends despite graduating like 3 yrs ago le. Really treasure this friendship=)� BUT dear pals� pls�I dun think I�ll want to go on another holiday like this ever again. =P

Bought 2 T-shirt, a pair of sneakers for myself from Chinatown in KL� were relatively cheap as we bought in bulk..we had 8 ppl so bargaining wasn�t a problem. Ha. Original intention was to get a backpack or sling bag as well.. but there weren�t many nice bags around unlike last time.

PheWz! i'm finally home sweet home.. Came back from taiwan on fri midnite(sat morning) 0300hrs.. den off to woodlands to meet my sec sch buddies for KL/genting trip early morning in the same day... mad rush...really feeling quite tired n sick now..V bad sore throat due to all the late nights + spicy/fried/heaty/junk food + screams from the rides in the themepark.. haha.. but really had lots of fun la =)

shall tell u all about my taiwan n genting kl trip in the later trip.. still feeling abit dazed and hand over after all the madness =P

hmm will be onboard the ship in roughly 2 hours time? Hopefully i will be back by 30th morning or even earlier.. *really praying hard*. Really want to go KL/genting with u guys but just that the timing is soo rush.we shall see. Nonetheless i'm going to enjoy myself in gaoshiung, taiwan. hope the weather will be nice n cooling. Taiwan Wo Lai Ye! For now i'm going to eat the spread mum wiped out for me. YUM. CYa Guys =)

ayz.. i'm on duty. my 1st weekend duty in like a month plus. wad a boring saturday! did 6 weekday n 0 weekend duty for the month of march.. mindlessly and brainlessly blogging here and trying to email nice songs from the com here to my email account.

My GODLIKE streak has been ended by KC and TW! hmm i'm refering to mahjong here...not LAN.. lost 20+ bucks last night after winning consecutively for 3 weeks... guess my luck has finally ran out.. oh maybe weepoh wasn't around!! or i wasn't wearing red!! haha. anyway TW seem to have all the luck that i was having for the past weeks..argh *EVIL*
kinda sick of LAN decided not to join ken they all after work on fri... find it pointless to rush down all the way from tuas and feeling all tired and sian. went home freshen up and have a quick dinner and watched the last episode of jie da huan xi.. that show has really been good entertainment after a stressful day of work... the brainless humour certainly made weeknite dinner sessions more interesting =) for the past few weeks.

met up with mcvin at bishan for awhile before proceeding to ken's house.. had this iced earl grey + aloe vera.. found the combi rather interesting n further more it was a chef/popular recommendation.. decided to give it a try and it was indeed kinda refreshing.. cool stuff..

sighz my taiwan trip has been extended. expected to return to sg on 30thApr... extend for abt an week... which means spend more money and wads worse i dun think i can go KL/genting with my best pals! SIANz. unless they decide to return earlier... SIghzz ArghZkjkdjl;asd,84/%^*&*

Played mahjong again yesterday.. felt like a du gui.. but the good thing is that i've won for 3 consecutive weeks.. MuAhahahaha.. No la felt kinda evil... keep winning ppl's money. win until paiseh. LOL. ok shall not so xiao zhang. had a belated birthday celebration for kenvin's birthday at kenvin's favourite restaurant - swensens( think its cheows fav too. Simply dun understd wads so gd abt there=P) anyway it's Kenvin'as birthday so he wins. Talked abt rubbish n slacked abit and out of the blue we decided to have a short getaway to KL and/or genting during the labour day long weekend. Haven really worked it out yet.. but we need to get this sorted b4 me n weepoh leave for taiwan exercise nxt month.

Was looking at my own blog past archives.. hmm there was indeed a period of time that i did conscientiously make the effort to blog every day or every other day.. and to my amazement the entries were FULL of complaints and grumbles... Hahaha... and to think I was kinda happy when i was in jc everytime when i looked back. perhaps tts becox i only started blogging only in j2, when i start to feel the heat, Perhaps its my natural ability to only choose to remember more of the happy n enjoyable moments, and the tendency to blog and forget abt it when i'm feeling down. hmm self delusion? think its more like having a way to make one's day/life a brighter n a less gloomy one. =)

Gotta go collect my router and free thumbdrive at funan later... thinkning of catching ms congeniality at night.

finally i'm back here... and this time round with a brand new com from my home. at last rite. have been using the same com since sec1.. can u imagine my pain and agony haha=P. bought it abt 2 weekends ago i think. really must thank alvin who accompany me down to sim lim and relentlessly help me install all the necessary programs at his house over the night. thanks buddy!

yay going to taiwan next month from 4th to 22nd! and i'm going to sail on a LST(landing Ship Tank). but its going to be only me and 1 MO thruout the whole trip.. really pray hard that it will be some nice guy if not it would be miserable and sian trip. wonder how many days of shore leave we wil get there.. oh we going to gaoshiong only.. so no ximenting, taipei101 and stuff... nv shall go there by myself some other time.

my superior just broke some very very dire news. according to him there's this pontentially HIGH risk job, and they will have to undergo lots of tough and specialised training such as learning how to throw grenades, operate several types of weapons, FIBUA and stuff. Its a very operational and real situation we are talking abt here, where its real no-joke and to be it crudely u might just die anytime. My superior said as they haven got enough time to train medics, as for now, they need 2 medics and expected to undergo training. THATS COMPLELELY INSANE.

How can they send us NSF to do such things and expose us to such life threatening situation...not that i'm not willing to protect my country, but not in this manner. I would not hesitate to fight if there's war, or any immediate danger, but certainly not risking my life and doing something against my own will. Hey i'm just serving my duty as a male citizen, not working or slogging for the organisation. I'm not a regular, and i'm not receiving regular pay either. most importantly of all, i dun have the mindset of a regular, i dun "mai4 ming4". My attitude towards NS is just serve and say goodbye, and along it just learn anything useful and make new friends. never has cross my mind to pia.. i simply find it pointless, that kinda explains why i'm not in OCS or sispec. for me, as for now, at least i find my job though tedious and boring at times, at least i'm still helping ppl to get well, stay healthy or might even save their lives one day. Haiz just hope my CO dun send anyone of us.

Went on this total defence trip today.. at first i thot its going to be another heritage tour like those we have had during our sch days.. but it turned out to be a really interesting trip. really impressed by the wealth of knowledge the guide possessed, was like sharing lots of stuff with us. some of the things that might be interesting to note.

1.the swastika symbol that hitler used, was actually adopted from hinduism, which represents purity, and for suggesting the aryan german race was actually the puriest form of all mankind. obviously the hindus weren't very happy abt that. the buddhists also have this swastika symbol but its in the anticlockwise direction.

2.Inside the sumpreme court, the chamber where they keep the accused, has a trapdoor beneath which leads to a cell. cool stuff hor. its to transport the accused directly to court if he's a public figure to shield him away from the media and press.

3.Suntec city tower1,2,3,4,5 are build to represnt the 5 fingers, (notice 1 of the towers is shorter), and the fountain of wealth which represents the palm, has water flowing inwards towards the centre, signifying growing or reaining wealth.

4.there's this posh thai restaurant named 1827 at the old parliament building which is refurbished and now called The Arts House, which apparently chief justice and many cabinet ministers like to dine there. . if there's of interest to u.

k think i'm quite done=)

Arghz have been sooo lazy to update this blog.. sorry folks. =P where should I begin?

Hmm just came back from hong kong on mon.. not sailing.. by plane finally. Consider it a short getaway with my family.. really enjoyed the weather there.. I really miss the desserts and dim sum there!! All the almond, walnut, wad etc etc..paste wahz..! yumm.. had to grab one bowl of them before going back to hotel every night. Really was mai dongxi, chi dongxi, mai dongxi, chi dongxi all the way. Haha. Think will be sailing to Taiwan this or next month.. yeah certainly looking forward to having shore leave there as well. Then can continue to mai dongxi, chi dongxi =P

Taiwanese drama serial dou yu 2 is really worth watching. Didn�t have a very good impression of it initially. Always had reservations for sequels and part 2s. haha. But this is quite an exception. Engaging and touching.

Haven done this kind of tests for ages..
Trying to salvage n see wadever amt of brains thats still in me.

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