The Post which is Awesome

Whaddup!



How I Met Your Mother, great comedy, good sitcom, not as good as FRIENDS (then again, what is?) and a new source of inspiration, jokes and funny soundbites.

I first caught it during a weekend duty a long time ago, when a medic sneaked in around 10 episodes in his iPod. He introduced me to it, but I didn't really follow up.

Just a week ago, Yongliang came to visit at my place. Yup, my dear friend Yongliang whom I haven't seen in ages, busy with his army life in the 2PDF, brave defender of our beloved Singapore. Haha.

Anyway he came over a regular chilled out meeting, with the best present ever. 4 full seasons of HIMYM in a hard disk, which is as Barney Stinson says, is LEGENDARY.





I find myself a bit like the main protagonist Ted Mosby, when it comes to making decisions, in life and in love.

I'm not exactly meticulous, but I do tend to think quite a lot more when it comes to doing stuff. I'll approach stuff like the way I approach one of my Rubix cubes; look at it from all sides, twist it a little to see how things will look like, and inevitably, twisting it back, in fear of totally messing up the cube again.

While this method has served me well in staying away from trouble, sometimes I wonder if that's the way I really want to be at times.

There are moments where spontaneity is called for, but there's always this intrinistic, logical part of me that speaks out in a tiny voice at the back of my head, "Woah dude, look again."

It usually ends up with me doing what's supposed to be done, and not what I wanted.




As Lily, one of the characters in HIMYM says in one of the episodes:

"There are certain things in life where you know it's a mistake but you don't really know it's a mistake because the only way to really know it is a mistake is to make that mistake and look back and say, "Yup, that was a mistake".

So really, the bigger mistake would be to not make the mistake because then you'll go your whole life not really know if something is a mistake or not. And dawn I made no mistakes. I've done all of this : my life, my relationship, my career mistakes free. Does any of this make sense to you?"





Time for me to make some mistakes?

The Post which Caught Your Wave

Accomplished quite a few things over this week (and it's only Tuesday) to herald in my ORD mood.





First up, I applied leave for the last two weeks of October. I haven't been using a single day of leave due to my working schedule for the past five months. So if there are any events on those days, please update me, let me know and I'm surely gonna be there!

I still got a whole bunch of off-in-lieu's which I haven't cleared. There's like 13 of them. I don't think I'm able to use every of them, but it's a healthy number of supplementary off days huh. Haha.




And then, I'm settling the paperwork for the application for my civilian driving license!

I can't really describe the feeling when I printed out the pages of my monthly mileage for the past one year odd. For most people, their driving license is probably $2000 plus, and from a few months of training. For us, it's many months of sweat and labour and I really hope to get the license soon.





Today afternoon was my ORD FFI.

A year ago, this term would have seem like a distant, foreign dream to me. Being the youngest driver then, I felt that only the senior drivers, those who have seen it and done it all, would receive that ORD clearance forms with pride and confidence.

Fast forward to present day, yours truly have finally held the clearance on my own hands, written my own name and parade it in front of others.

How things change. Haha.




My last piece of good news was the announcement of ambulance course for my juniors, which is set to take place at the end of this month. So I will spend one more week in October duty, then it's goodbye to the medical centre and my beloved MID 45993.

As any NSF will tell you, when your understudy comes, it marks the end of your career. Not a bad thing in SAF.





ORD, I can see it in the horizon!

The Post which Met the Pink Lady

I've got issues about dentists, dentistry and the whole shebang.




I know it's recommend that we go once every 6 months to check our teeth, blah blah but face it, how many people actually do that?

Dentistry must be no mean feat, and I really respect people who take up a career of looking at molars and incisors of other many other people who obviously don't brush up. Gross.

That also probably also explains the attitude of most dentists though. It gives off the vibe of "I'm always right, don't argue with me, do as you're told", rather like a stern parent ticking off a particularly notorious kid.




You might also notice something funny about people who are going for dental appointments, that they ALMOST ALWAYS brush their teeth just before their appointments. I do it too. It makes me laugh, and I don't know why.

To me, it's a bit like trying to study for a test in the last minute. There's no way you can pass it, and a chiding is certainly on its way.

And the dentists do give rather obvious comments too. They go, "So dirty!". Well if it was already clean, why do I need to come in the first place?





Anyway, I went for my dental ORD FFI earlier this week, and I must say it was the most unlikely one.

The dentist said there were no problems with my teeth (!), that they seem to be clean enough(!!) and there will be no need to pluck my wisdom tooth (!!!).

The first two comments were pleasantly surprising, the last one felt like punch to my gut. Let me explain how the typical NSFs feel about wisdom teeth.

It's free (doing it outside costs a few hundred per tooth), it gives you many days of MC, and it gives you many days of MC. Did I mention it gives you many days of MC? Haha.

So yeah, quite dui. No medical appointment. At least I have good teeth. :D




One last thing, congrats to Jerry the medic for his ORD, will miss the stay-in duties and learning guitar from ya.

And to lesser extent, congrats to Fangyi on your enlistment. As the song goes, "Once in our life, such a waste of time!"

The Post which is Damn Small

Well we're into September. 2 more months to ORD!





I went back to TJ to play volleyball last Friday.

One thing I love about being in the team is that, whenever there is training, all you have to do is to spam the message around that there is one, and you can get at least get 2-3 seniors to come down.

Last Friday was a girls junior training. I worked on the phone, and I managed to get a good five to six seniors to play along. Pretty cool!

I realised I haven't ran, jumped or did any cardio exercise since the badminton trip. This time, my lack of exercise was all too apparent. My legs and shoulders ached like hell, and I was pouring sweat.

Can't believe I used to play volleyball everyday. Haha. Old already la.





I realised sometime ago, that I haven't been hanging out with the 07 folks for quite a while. The last time I met the whole big bunch of them was during my birthday (2 and a half months ago) and then a badminton outing with a few of them (more than a month ago).

Now that I'm free after NDP, I tried planning some stuff, but it fell short because of the girls starting school.

Hm... maybe can try some other time eh? Wonder if the idea of the year end chalet is still going through.