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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
I'm talking about memories here, in line with my previous extremely selfish and non-informative post. This is shall be completely opposite.
What do you think a person would be like if people could not remember anything that happens more than a year ago?
It would take "starting afresh" to a whole new level. What if the whole world was like that? Suddenly diaries would become popular again and only writers/bloggers can really reflect on their past mistakes in depth because every new year, we would have to refresh ourselves from archives all over again. Some people can base their entire lives on a particular good or bad memory. So now forget it all, will you live differently? North Korea would forget who or what laid waste ye land if they were annihilated on New Year's Eve.
"Back to reality dude, what's your point?"
My point is, I was just reviewing through all my 97 posts since I started blogging and was contemplating what to write for my 100th post. But I realised that I had 20 unpublished posts so I'm actually still 23 short from a hundred.
How many unpublished posts do you have? How many skeletons do you want to leave in the closet? How many things have you got to say that will result in you landing in a lawsuit or a brawl? My percentage is 20.6, what's your's?
Since hardly anyone reads my blog anymore, I shall predict 2 weeks before the first person tags my board after reading this. And it will be from a person whom I've tagged first.
+ graham + 1:33 AM
Well here is a very overdue post. I've been wanting to talk about it, just didnt feel like I had the intellect in me to write. So the reason I'm am trying anyway is because I have 1 week MC and am into my 3rd day, already sick of watching 7 movies and finished gossip girl and HIMYM. More on that later.
6 May 2009
I meet Wey Zi, Willie and Kat at Eunos for a 9pm dinner. Fuckin starving, forgot why we had to meet so late. Anyway, random question popped up: "Graham how are you celebrating your birthday?" -- I really didn't know.
9 May 2009
What went on that day we all knew, but we had no photographer that afternoon to photograph the whole incident. The public shall never know what went on in the afternoon.
Credits to: Kat, Cat, Jo, Willie, Wey Zi. Thanks for making it sound possible before I found out how much work was involved, then helping me make it all happen. AWESOME.
13 May 2009
Party at Butter rocked. Once again no pictures so I have to write this sentence so I will remember how awesome it was. My blog is very much for my own poor memory. Sorry for the lack of elaboration. Feel free to ask me on MSN though, it'll make you want to party. Like how it made a number of my colleagues regret going to Zouk instead of Butter that night.
That's all I have to say about my birthday, the unmentioned parts can be found on facebook hence no need for remembralls. blog post to self complete.
+ graham + 12:27 AM
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
I took my first fall from a bike on 26 March 2009 1935hrs. This stupid learning driver had come into my lane from the opposite direction while i was turning and my reflex squeezed the front brake while turning and it resulted in disaster. I came out with a torn armsleeve and a hole in my jeans from the fall. I was shaken by the fall but I gained a valuable lesson, that I have to retrain my reflexes for the bike, because i am so used to jamming the right handle for the rear brakes in a bicycle that I forgot, at that moment, that it was the front brakes for a motorbike.
Passed BTT and RTE on Monday. guys and girls, book your theory as soon as possible to avoid delays of getting your pdl! have to wait one more month for my biking pdl because of this :(
Just went for a mentoring course today and it kind of opened my mind to some concepts of leadership and how i want myself to be. took a 6-approaches mentoring model test and saw myself high in some areas and less high in others, findings that conform to my own understanding of myself. it is proof that i truly have to improve myself in those aspects while trying to maintain leverage on my strengths. "mentoring sets the example for the future generations to follow." so i'm thinking of changing my slackness a bit so that my understudy(s) will not become as seemingly slack as me. haha.
On a side note, it was interesting to be sitting at the same discussion table as my OC from BMT. it just shows how much can change in a year. Can you feel it? time is flying while we play.
+ graham + 12:05 AM
Monday, March 16, 2009
i've never seen this in anyone else before. it's intoxicating to find a way to crack such a puzzle of a person, because it feels almost as if i'm trying to crack myself! it feels as if an exhilarating sense of enlightment awaits.
as such my desire to improve, or to just go out and experience new things, is fueled by this adrenaline. I wonder how long it will last though. on this note, i understand that whatever the outcome, this invigoration is something i've needed to kick start my outlook and propel this lazy bum off its ass.
off to rule my life i go =)
+ graham + 1:29 AM
Friday, January 16, 2009
i just had an appointment at CGH and had the chance to meet 3 interesting people that managed to make a mark in my memory.
Amusing Character 1
this guy's a quirky 50-odd-year-old rehabilitation doctor. dr lee had a very heavy slang and i had some trouble understanding him. but he had a lot of energy and enthusiasm uncommonly seen in old doctors. he would actually surf the net within his office just to show me diagrams of what he thought my condition to be and demonstrate how to do the therapy exercises there! it was good entertainment and it was fun to relate to him my lifestyle and giving him details of my injury :)
from his observations he postulated that it could be spinozackosacko =S forgot the proper name of it heh. this condition is said to be found mostly in young and active people who don't know their limits and go on chionging without stretching properly.(sounds like my ocs days) he said there may be a slight disconnection in the spine that is usually not a worry, but my constant hyperextention of my back, probably from field pack carrying and climbing, worsened it.
so i'm now scheduled for a CT scan to confirm his views as the x-ray results beared no fruit. i am told to lay off climbing for the moment, and spend more time swimming and strengthening my core.
Heartwarming Charcter 2
this lady came up to speak to me while i was waiting outside the doctor's clinic after the x-ray results came back. she wanted to give him a new year card! 6 months ago, she had a stroke. other than her walking stick, this pleasant, smiling lady had no trace of having had it. she sat there to express her adulation for the doctor who she saw after 3 months into her hospital stay in an A class ward, complaining about the life of seeing but doctors and nurses everyday.
this dr lee merely saw her for a few sessions and thereafter referred her to the TCM section of CGH. 3 months on, i see the lady before me with but a slight limp when she walks. this same lady limped all the way from home just to deliver a card to this doctor.
Sincere Character 3
after my consultation i had to go the the orthopedics to get a waist band. he didnt have what i needed at first, and said he could order it for me at 30 dollars. i asked if it could be charged to the army but he said no. then he said he could make it for me for 20 dollars so i took it.
it was really cool that half the shop was actually a workshop with tools hanging everywhere! apparently he sculpted lots of those artificial limbs manually for patients.
within 10 min he cut up a band and velcro and sewed up a waist band for me. he talked about how his daughter was 33 and youngest son was 24 and we found out we lived near to each other. lol random talk. then another man, an old customer, came in and greeted him.
in the end, he charged me 15 dollars for the band and took my number, saying he would enquire about customer satisfaction.
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if i were in their position, i wonder how much of my personal information i would share to a random stranger. it is common for people to fear how they are judged before another and i would think twice before i want to give bytes of info that may give an unintended impression. everything that is said and done seems so scripted to make things look good.
things like "i just won 20 bucks at mahjong!" may make people think i'm a mahjong junkie. "shiok ah 8 to 5 job in army" may make people think i'm a slacker. "i'm an officer" makes people have a generally good impression.
will i ever be forthcoming to a complete stranger? maybe the hospital environment made everyone more caring in this case.
i think i need to see the world more!
+ graham + 9:40 PM
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
talking about messages sent from heaven, i think i have ignored far too many messages. these messages comes in the form of injuries. first up, back strain. recover. then strain worse. soon as it becomes just a nagging pain and i can continue with my climbing and other sports, ankle sprains. so i've been unable to run for 1 month and counting. now, post-commissioning and more free time to train, i get a cough that strains my intercostal muscles round the pectorals area, so i can't do a pull up too! talk about ultimate boredom. is heaven telling me to stop chionging so much? i've been slacking! in any case i'm forced to stop alr so pls pls stop giving me those kind of suay injuries okay? :) i'll be very grateful!
my life's a drag. i've been going out, playing games, staying over, catching up but then there's still this empty feeling. i know myself to be the optimistic kind. u've never seen me down, have you? i think my time with friends is too valuable to spend being down. so stop whining so much if u do =)
for me, the new year's coming but nothing's new. so many new years have come but nothing's changed. ok things do change but obviously i'm referring to something that hasn't changed. i'll just enjoy my wishful thinking and be a naive boy for this moment on blogger, wishing everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR :DD
YAY.
+ graham + 2:03 AM
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
I'm disillusioned. a platoon mate of mine in ocs has been sentenced to 7 days in detention barracks for reasons i shall not disclose lest i go to db too for trivialising such a serious offence and incite a public outcry. but then again i know, most people who do not know him would not care about this unknown face and how his future is gonna be tainted by conviction. Some may even write him off as deserving such punishment, after all everyone knows that an officer, or rather an officer-to-be in his case, has to have utmost standards of integrity.
but thinking about it, anyone of us could have been caught in his situation and have our integrity questioned. so many have cheated in tests, few have done what he has while the rest have contemplated taking the easy(and illegal) way out on countless occasions. yet this man is suay enough to get caught and prosecuted.
the higher ups are trying to send a message to us how serious they view it, thus their sentence can be understandable. but i just cant take it lying down that the're doing it to my friend. it's like cruel victimisation of someone who isn't blessed with the gift of the gab. the instructors shall be given a chance to talk to us about it tonight if they bother i hope. their view on this matter will determine whether my respect(however little) is misplaced.
+ graham + 2:07 PM
