Thursday, September 27, 2007

The real 'dumb-dumb's...

Ah... Back from a (forsaken) sailing... again...
Granted a day off...

Was getting bored half way through the day when i just realise that my precious (hehe...) Wii is begining to collect some dust...

HOW COULD THIS BE!!??
MY PRECIOUS!!! (hehe...)

While dusting off my precious (hehe...), i begin to wonder why haven't i play it recently...
Busy? Sailing? Dating? Tired?
All sort of things came to mind...

Ah what the hack...
The best way to find out what went wrong is to play it again =P

...
...

(4hours and one angry girlfriend later...)

Yup, i got my answer...
I tends to get so absorbed while playing with my precious (hehe...) that i lost track of time easily...

And my girlfriend claims that i wasn't listening to her while we're chatting on the phone...
But i swear i am!!
I maybe shouting and cursing at the boss i'm trying to kill but i swear i am!!

(i know its not very convincing but i swear i really am...)

...

(REALLY!!)


Bout those 'dumb-dumb's who can't play a decent NDS game, bout the aunt whose getting a depression due to her stroke, and her son who flunk out poly cause of game addiction...
I really did listen dear...
Sigh...


Maybe i'm the real 'dumb-dumb' here...

My precious...
Hehe...
(ok i know its creepy, i'll cut it out...)



And so today's update:


Spend: 39+ for another lesson i fail... sigh...
Save: abit i guess... you just can't buying anything in the middle of the sea...
Wallet: ???
Coins: ???
Current Bank: 300+
Saving Bank: 10000
Saving (2): 420o+
Saving (3): 9105.96 units
Saving (?): XXX

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Boys to Men...

Ah... Sunday...
The one day in the whole week when even waking up feeling like a chore...
(yet if you don't wake up if feel likes you wasted such a wonderful day of rest...
which you are suppose to rest...? -_-;)

In a blink of an eye (ok maybe a few million blinks), 2yrs have pass since i 1st step onto Tekong... Now everytime when i see a NSF friend, the 1st thing i ask would be: when you ORD?
(Kindda sad though cause if i didn't sign the paper i should be outta here already....)

Back to the point, after asking that i'll usually follow up with: What's your plans next?
This is where i start to see how NS really turn boys to men...

I once had a friend whom i knew from the net. She despise the guys around her. She was only 14 back then, standing at 170+cm, doesn't exactly stand out as a pretty face, got rejected by a guy or 2 and always wonder why... She had quite an attitude but that another story for another day...
She once mention she may not date another guy again... unless he completed his NS...
She claims that NS transfrom boys to men by implanting fear into their naive, boyish little heart, letting them face to face with the death himself, having encounters with the beings of the Netherworld... Only by this means do they really wise up and 'reborn' to be a true man...

(As you can tell, she's a pure psycho and went all boys to die....)

I like to beg a different to her comment as i 1st-handedly been through the ordeal and see how the transformation works...
What we guys went through isn't as cruel as what she claims (maybe worse =P) There will be sweat and tears along the way but the whole process is not meant to kill you but to let you think...

During BTM, we'll be put through some hellish training to prepare our body. Then the next 19months, we'll be posted to different unit/vocation where we'll go through mind numbing daily routine which bore us outta our mind or/and sanity.
While all this may sound simple to ladies or NSmen-to-be out there, only those who really been through these 2 years of what some call 'hell' will they understand how much it have change our mindset. Change us so we (as boys) will finally think bout our future, like men...

People whom i have asked so far who would ORD soon, all are able to gimme a very detail plan of their career path, road to study and for some even savings for marrage... One told me how his worried over his collage funds, another wonder if he should go overseas to study with his girlfriend, yet another wish he will get married soon (long story...)...


Anyway, here's my best wish for all ORD(ing) friends out there...
May god speed be with you...


And so today's update:

Spend: err... bills, food, transport... sigh...
Save: ...
Wallet: ???
Coins: ???
Current Bank: 300+
Saving Bank: 10000
Saving (2): 420o+ (i think?)
Saving (3): 9105.96 units
Saving (?): XXX

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Slice of my mind...

It's been awhile...
Too many things happen...
Too much to do...
... Too lazy too =P

Nearly went insane last month...
The load of my work increase by 3 fold, test and inspection comes one after another, morons at work keep pushing my buttons, money running so low till i can't even afford my own birthday present without touching my savings...

And just went i finally got my pay to hold the bills back, the big 3-letter word hit me harder than i can ever imagine...
T-A-X...

Ah... My first step into reality of the working world...
Almost forgot why the hell i've put aside the whole chuck of ALL my bonus for...


Anyway, just went out for dinner with the few people onboard my ship who i'm good with for dinner. While its nice to eat out with good friends and such once in awhile, 2 things hit me... Hard...

1st of all, the guys were all discussing bout finance, money, investing, property, current rising market vs our slow pay-rise which i'm totally clueless about... While the contents is simplistic and somewhat navie to some extend, it goes to show how much they have already plan out ahead what they wanna do and what they have in mind for their future...
Regrettably, despite the lump of saving i've start as soon as i got into this forsaken place, the furthest i've ever planned is just to the end of my stay in this stump and towards university or wedding and such (which is the very reason why this blog is here is the 1st place). Meaning to say i'm not as mature as what might think...

2nd, we came to talk bout how guys usually manage their finance (especially in newly-wed days) and how it may seems to girls. A guy's usual management revolve around fulfilling his responsiblities 1st like paying bills or such and struggle to survive or save with whatever he have left. While what we guys see as being independent and responsible, girls may see as he is not able to support himself well enough for a proper meal, let long support me and my own lifestyle which i don see why i should give up just for his incompetency.

I don't know what lifestyle others lead but for me, my lifestyle is fairly simple, able to stuff myself with proper food and drink, simple leisure and entertainment of playing games and watching shows, occassional movies and buying of new games, and outing once in awhile...
All excluding bills adds up to not more than 500 per month.
I know i don't have a life to some but with this simple lifestyle i'm able to support my bills, give my parent monthly allowance, pay for my dates expences and my girlfriends bill, even saves up some money for future.


I'm not rich, but i hope i'm not incompetent...
I just wanna be 'poor-fect'...



And so today's update:

Spend: err... borrow 1500 from my saving (2) for my (pathetic) birthday and to pay my tax (a whopping 750 -_-)... The rest... never mind...
Save: my sanity...
Wallet: ???
Coins: ???
Current Bank: 700+
Saving Bank: 10000
Saving (2): 420o+
Saving (3): 9105.96 units
Saving (?): XXX (just how many do i actually have? -_-)

Sunday, July 15, 2007

My job... NOT my career...

... Where should i start...

I read a book recently call: Rich Dad Poor Dad and it gave me a quite abit of... Inspiration...

Ever since I've start having doubt bout joining the Navy, I've been looking for an answer as to whether its the right choice to leave... The only excuse I've manage to come up with till then was that I wanna go out to study... Sounds simple, ambitious yet not too depressing nor insulting to those who still wanna stay... Kindda sad actually that the fact I'm still trying to find ways to convince myself to stay cause its a relatively good career with promising salary... For my education level and diploma that is...

Through out the months I've been closely observing the people around, finding out the reason they wanna stay or leave and comparing both while keep on searching for my answer...
Thought the conlusion is still blur but one thing is for sure is that:
The reason for me to leave wins over reason to stay by a light year, the fact that I've been unconciously saving up the sum I have now is quite enough evidence to show that I'm preparing to leave... And now that the fog in my mind have been cleared up, I'm now trying even harder to save up as much as I possibly can...
Though its really killing my softly... Nevermind that...

One thing I've notice bout the people that wanna stay is that they are heavily burden with what I like to call the 'Death Contract'... It's liablity of some sort which singaporeans commonly get themselves into, sometime without even realising it... Typical example would be cars, loan/debt (credit card, gambling, etc...), apartment, and family (mainly kids)...
I'll say I'm lucky enough that my girlfriend is still quite young thus removing the necessity for marrage anytime soon, which also neutralise the liablity of apartment and family... I don't have the habit of gambling nor do I have any loan/debt... While I'm heavily in need of a transport, I choose to get a bike which cost only 10% of what car would, while it doesn't totally remove the liablity part, it still cost a damn lot cheaper than the installment of a car...


So, I'm fully prepared to leave and made necessary arrangement for it, just waiting for my bond to be complete...
Now the only thing left is how I'm gonna deal with the people in camp...


Wish me luck...


And so today's update:

Spend: lost count for last month (over shot quite abit actually), 600 to house, 200 for my girlfriend's birthday presents (Nokia 5700, etc), 500 to saving, 70 for farecard, 20 for cab and 60 for 2 Bike lesson... And some for food of course...
Save: 1ooo from my bonus...
Wallet: ???
Coins: ???
Current Bank: 400+
Saving Bank: 9000
Saving (2): 600o+
Saving (3): 9105.96 units

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Outta control...

Sigh... late update again...

Recently got an increasing number of stuff which I'm losing control of...
Time, cash, work, relationship... You name it...

Cause of my work place and the shortage of man-power, I've been doing duty like there's no tomorrow and with the help of my 'UN-lucky star', I got myself into some stupid case which involve missing parts of a rifle... Damn serious it is...

Bills on the rise, GST hike, no more home cook food thus gotta spend on dinner (again), more last minute recall and have to rush to work during wee hours and spent more than 200+ just on cab fare last month... I'm really eating myself alive...

Oh, and my house is offically a zoo now... Koi, Arowana, Lou-Han (total 20+ non-edible fishes) and half a dozen of God-knows-what birds they are that won't shut up... Couple with the insane number of mosqitues in the house, you WON'T wanna be here... EVER...


Relationship... I've made a point not to disclose too much bout what is happening between my girlfriend and I... Not really that I'm losing control over her or the relationship... More like I've never able to control neither anyway...
Just came to realize that I'm still not mature enough yet...


Sigh...
Really like to daze into the clouds this days...
Brings the peace which I long desire...


Oh BTW, I'm taking Bike lesson now...
And don't start giving crap bout how dangerous it is...
I know it all and no matter what you all say it still won't stop me Xb


And so today's update:


Spend: lost count again, only thing I remember is the 200+ spent on cab fare...
Save: Oh get real...
Wallet: ???
Coins: ???
Current Bank: 150+
Saving Bank: 8500
Saving (2): 500o+
Saving (3): 9105.96 units (Don't ask what it is, think of it as a fix deposit)

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Money = Happy?

For certain security reason, i rather not desclose the sum in my bank now...
Got quite a FEW bonus... Again...

Like i said on the title, my goal for saving so much is nothing more than to gave my girlfriend her dream wedding which estimated near 100k...
Currently i'm roughly 20% to my goal now...

But as time goes by, the more i withness the rise of my saving, the more lonely i felt...


You see, my girlfriend now just started her new term in polytechnic and as i predicted, our time together was ripped off by quite a chunk...
New friends, new enviroment, new schedule...

Seriously, i don't blame her for the decrease of our time together...
But...
Can anyone really don't feel the pain?


There's once a friend of mine said i'm being a chauvinistic pig as this whole blog is nothing but stuff which i do to show how great a boyfriend i am due to all the stuff i did for my girlfriend...

I've kept her comment in mind all this time and make sure that the things i wrote here brings the minimal shame to her... Which explains the missing months of article which things are rocky between my girlfriend and I...



If a Leo's curse is its temper, what happen to mine?



And so today's update:


Spend: totally lost count... Gave bout 5k to my mom, 1k+ for my Wii (yeah!), few hundreds for stuff here and there, and a 200+ on games for my girlfriend...
Save: Quite a freaking lot... (You get the idea how big this bonus is...)
Wallet: ???
Coins: ???
Current Bank: XXXX
Saving Bank: 8000
Saving (2): 5006

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Kryptonite of parents...

It seems like just bout all of us happen to have a period of time where we yearn for freedom so much we would even kill for it...
And it all mostly happen in our teens years where we were most disturbed...

If you guys ever watch the play by Russel Peters, at one point he mention bout gaining power over parent is like finding Kryptonite...

For most of us, just bout the whole of our childhood were very much sheltered by our parents whose intention is nothing else but to protect us, in which however the method they may use...

Us the younglings, while may or may not understand their intention, will always dream of having this 'Kryptonite', so we can just stop them for just once, so as to make room for us to spread our wings...
Some of us may even go as far as to hunt for this 'Kryptonite' without even trying to understand what is the moral behind all the suffering they may be going through...

Yet, like what the uncle of Peter Parker A.K.A. Spiderman says, 'With great power comes great responsiblity'...
While getting it is one thing, controling it is another...
Many turn to the dark side upon gaining such power and fail accept any form of reasoning anymore... Thus losing one's self to the devil himself...
Only when one is burned by the flame of hell will they come to understand that this freedom they yearn for is nothing more than just mere illusion...


In the end, one must realize...
This 'Superman' who we are using this Kryptonite on, at the end of the day, is still the Good guy who is just trying to protect us from 'Lex Luthor'...



Today's entry is dedicated to my little cousin who have ran away from home...
Wishing that she may come to see the light soon...


And so today's update:


Spend: 66.50 on food, 4 on batteries, 17 on comic, 4.90 on a toy (yes, toy... sue me...)
Save: 1000 (got a bonus... again... =P)
Wallet: ???
Coins: ???
Current Bank: 97.99
Saving Bank: 7000
Saving (2): 5004

Thursday, March 29, 2007

When you wish upon a star...

Was rather tired last night so didn't go the chance to write up bout my latest trip...

In fact, i just came back from a 4 days sailing, not really that long for others who did more but still the longest i've gone yet...

While the sailing is relatively peaceful, there is this one door i refuse to allow myself to even look through it... What door you ask?
The main entrance...
Maybe i'm just thinking too much but i get a feeling of great agony shall pour onto me should i bring myself to realize how i'm really so far away from home...

But not all was bad during the trip...

On the last night before we make our way back, i came across to withness a moonless night...
Everything around me was so dark that i can't even see the horizon...
And up above me, the stars shine brighter than anything else, as if they know their the very last of the light we need...
Our very last hope...


And for that very brief moment,
When you can't tell how far you are away from the sea of stars almost all around you,
When stars were shooting like you never seen before...


It felt like the whole gallaxy is upon you...


At that moment...
i was thinking...
If there really is such a place call heaven...
Where i should spend the rest of my departured life eternally...


I wish heaven would be a place like this...


And so today's update:

Spend: 11 on food, 320 on bills, 18 on cab...
Save: ...
Wallet: ???
Coins: ???
Current Bank: 180
Saving Bank: 7000
Saving (2): 4000

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Gone...

Sorry for keeping you guys so long...
Been quite awhile since i last update here...

Well, despite my usual chatty-self, i can jolly well describe the last 2months with just 2 words:
Duty and Sailling...

Feb,
one hell of a month jammed pack with all the duty they can dump onto me...
Reason?
Excuse sailing...
All stupid jobs are dump onto me too...
Why?
(see previous answer)...
All rubbish (literally...) are yet dump onto me as well...
...
You get the point...
...
All the way till the end of the month where the doc shall decide whether i should live or not...

So the verdict is set, i do NOT have Narcolepsy... Just plain old hypersomnia...
The difference between this 2 is that one can't be wake while the later can...
And the later isn't... err... Serious enough to keep my ass off the sea, so...


March,
Sail...
Was drag onto all sailing they can get me in this month...
Reason?
(No, not excuse sailing... though close enough...)
Cause they want me to clock up more sailing time/experience due to...
... Nevermind...


And so today's update:


Spend: You gotta be crazy if you think i still remember where i spent for the last 2 month... (It'll be one hell of a long list anyway...)
Save: Dunno...
Wallet: ???
Coins: ???
Current Bank: ???
Saving Bank: 7000
Saving (2): 4200

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Near death experience 2...

For those who know me better, i had quite an experience bout 5 years ago...

Just yesterday, or should i say the day before, feeling bit weird and woke up with a cramp in my stomach... Didn't thought it anything serious especially when the last time i told my superior, he smack me back with a comment say: stomach cramp are only for girls...

Anyway, off to work i go, knowing that i have a medical appointment that night, i try not to make too much off a big deal bout it though i can't help but to feel a chill even under the hot sun... Try all ways to warm up but none work... Finally an officer took notice on how pale i look and ask me to report sick... it 10.40am then...

Took me a good 5min to walk what usually just a 2min walk from my ship to the gate's guard house... Its at there where i drop dead and have the guards call my ship people to send me to the medic... So happen that 1 of those who arrive to fetch me happen to be one of my sergeant who very proud of his job, his past battle scars, his soldier father... The moment he saw me in my pitiful condition he gave a very blunt comment of: Useless bastard...
Well he may think that way bout not the other 2 who were with him, one including a chief, both who glared him that instant... Feeling the immense pressure around him, he ate back his words and claimed its just a joke... My fever worsen, feeling sleepy, 11am...

A very blunt check up at the medic where they put me on drip (i hate drips, its not really the needle i hate, its the fact that those trainee medics that can never find my veins that irritates me the most). Very soon i was transported to Changi General Hospital. By now i'm already freezing my butt off and the hospital couldn't even bother to gimme a blanket...

Not too sure how long it is i was over there, only thing i know is that another of my proud superior's face literally turn white when the medic told him my temperature peak at 42 degree...
You know those static which you saw on TV whenever it lost it's reception? That what i literally saw in my eyes quite a few times while i'm dazing off in the hospital... The only thing is that its purplish with flashes of green instead of black and white...
Every single bone in my body aches like shit as if they're trying to break me inside out...

Gastric flu, thats what the doc says, and send me home straight after...

For the next 2 days, i literally felt llike i'm controlling my body from a third person point of view, only to zoom in when needed... Not to mention that the only thing that's coming outta me are either fluid or gas... From both end...


Guess i'm lucky to still be sane and alive...

The only question is...
Why am i still alone when i need her the most?


And so today's update:


Spend: bout 50+ just on food, 10 for ship's fund, 12 for girlfriend's gift...
Save: 30 bucks, long story...
Wallet: ???
Coins: ???
Current Bank: 200+
Saving Bank: 6000
Saving (2): 3508.23

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

A sad qoute...

A month since i last update...

There will be only 3 reason why i haven't update:
1, too busy...
2, spent too much to remember what i spent on...
3, some personal problem which i'm relactant to share...

I leave it for you guys to figure out which it is...


At the mean time, here's one of my fav qoute by Freya Crescent of FF:IX,

"To be forgotten is worse than death..."


And so today's update:


Spend: 500 into saving, 550 household allowance, 70 farecard, 85 on games, 100 to help my chef buy his memory stick, 87.05 on my girlfriend's bill, 31.60 for 2nd year aniversary gift, 170.26 on last month bill, 200+ on others...
Save: ...
Wallet: ???
Coins: ???
Current Bank: 300+
Saving Bank: 6000
Saving (2): 3508.23