Chinese new year has been pretty...ok, i suppose. Not that much $$ collected, but then again i've grown not to care too much about it anymore. It's money within the family anyway, more or less.
After bookout things were kinda rushed 'cos i had to get back, bathe, change, and then go for outing with classmates an hour later. More like lunch, actually...all the shops were closing soon so not much to do. It's nice to see the class again..but not many came lah. Like celine, maryann, diana, angele, ming joo, chinhow, ben, chinleng, ian and kuangting. Spent a bomb there..like FIFTY BUCKS at fish&co :| my my haha really anyhow spend money. Conversation at the table was pretty predictable..guys & angele (she's applying to be female regular i think) talking about NS on one side and the other girls talking about their jobs on the other. Then there was me...trying to be conscientous but in the end just keeping quiet and focusing on the food...
After that celine, maryann, ian, chinhow and i walked around town...ended up at Coffee Bean talking..with me watching them eat ice cream etc...:\ Argh lung infection sucks. Then i left to go dinner with extended family at Tung Lok! Haha my first time having reunion dinner w/o steamboat. But it was ok lah.
Next 2 days was non-stop extended family stuff. Which's pretty fun 'cos i have a total of like, 11 maternal cousins. Played mahjong, Halo, Soul Calibre, Sega, taitee, bluff, bridge...you name it we played it! Even made a bit at poker too...Very fun (Note: Greg does NOT endorse gambling! You should never gamble for money...it's just to play small odds for fun within the family...chances are you won't win when you gamble anyway. So don't go playing poker and say "Greg told me to do it" 'cos i'll find your handphone number and..and...spam you or smthn like tt)
Next time was lunch with classmates & goat & chingtze/jing ze -.- followed by bbq at goat's place! It was a tuesday btw. Said goodbye to School 1 folks like kenneth and chinhow...they were booking in on tuesday evening (aaawwww..poor dudes :D) Goat's got 1 big family too...a lot of er available female cousins as well...not that i'm interested!! Lol but goat's aunt was trying to sell CT off the the family's girls or smthn...either that or i was drunk that day..Haha you know last year i'd be proud to say i went a week or so without thinking about girls and without having a crush...but how long has it been THIS time? 6 weeks? No offence to his cousins and to any girl i've seen over the past few weeks but i really haven't even put them in my mind at all. LOL! Greg is despo no more what a miracle. Tze Yang's got a huge house with lots of fun stuff and a whole floor to himself..sadly couldn't stay there very long..Later on di&celine&jac went home while the rest went to watch midnight movie at Lido...sadly couldn't go myself...Just kenna a cold so deemed myself unfit for the late night journey..sigh.
Damn and i couldn't go watch cross country the next day! Had to go see doctor for x-ray and for my cold (and my mum's one for that matter..so many bugs spreading around this year) Sigh Goat went though. Haha like so enthu right. Apparently he's still v close to his junior class..or at least certain members of it..Why i hardly talk to my juniors anymore sia. I don't mind catching up leh..but like no outings recently (Maryann take note..) Don't have much to talk about compared to last time as well..Yesterday was just cutting hair then just stoning at the comp whole day.
Sigh...4 more hours and i'll have to leave home, eat dinner then it's time to go back to camp. If i'm really honest, i'd say i'm pretty frightened of what's to come. This saturday is field camp. Seven days outfield inclusive of 8km route march. And i'm in Ninja Company..which's pretty famous (or perhaps notorious) for their fieldcamp program. 7 days of hell, our commanders call it. And i'm not at all prepared to go through it all. Other companies complain of the mosquitoes, the dirt, the sweat, the abrasions, the blisters..how much worse would ours be? Our commanders told us to watch our diet during CNY and to exercise regularly, but with my illnesses, i haven't done any physical activity for the past 2 weeks.
Physically and mentally, i'm not prepared.
At one point i was considering whether i had to redo my BMT if i was still sick by field camp, or whether i should just tahan and get it over with. My doctor seemed to favour the latter (she highly approves NS for some reason). I was cleared of lung infection yesterday, but i'm still coughing non-stop and i've now got a cold to contend with. (My cold medication's notably absent..)
I wish i wasn't in such a dilemma now. But i've got no choice it seems. Regardless of my current condition, i probably have to go through it all. People say 7days is a short time...but from experience, 7 days of NS is VERY long. But i want to go through it...i'd prefer becoming an officer or sergeant and completing BMT now then completing BMT next time and only be eligible as a private or corporal. If i was feeling better i know i can handle whatever they throw at me.
Faced with an inevitable trip into the pit of doom, what should you do to make the last few hours of your life as meaningful as you can? Should you do something fun to take your mind of what's ahead? Do you make preparations? Do you spend more time with your family? More time with yourself? Anyhow i've got to lift my spirits up...i feel pretty empty typing all this without my usual jokes and pranks...
Time is running short...i'll have to go soon. See you people in seven days.
