i have jus failed the TP.. damn sian.. wasting my money like that man.. wth..
my main cause of failing is for being too slow, and for braking too early letting the car cruise to the junction at the red traffic light.

i started the circut quite ok la.. he gave my a few points for not checking blind spot.. but nvm still haven fail yet.. my parking slope crank course everything swee swee no points deducted at all.. i mean of course la i practise so much one try can jus go in liao lar.. but the problem comes when go out.. Say i change gear too slow.. mus drive up till 10m before a stopped car before braking.. that machiam E-braking liao lar.. i drive drive made a few left turns a few right turns.. then he started to tell me to go faster faster.. cannot like this cannot like that.. that was when i know GG liao gone case liao.. so i jus heck care jus whack go until 50+.. then he say more like it, more like an experienced driver. seriously im only a double L plate how can u use ur 30 overr years of standard to come kill a newbie jus cos of too slow ( his definition)

HAIZ.. that aside, ok it was an eye opener, first time experience, totally dont know what to expect.. i went in to the room sat down and waited.. the names got called one by one.. the room became emptier and emptier until i was the last one left inside. OOHHH did they forget me? and i also realised that what they literally shout the names of their testee lar.. the room already small liao still wana scare the testees who are all nervous enough.. i mean cnt u all be more friendly? the same happened for me. the guy came barking my name.. i din even bother to answer him la seriously.. im already the last guy in the room obviously its me u are looking for. i was totally not like those who upon calling their name yes sir yes sir.. damn do we have to stoop dat low jus to get a damn lisence?

all in all it boils down to money la seriously.. the school pple there spend on average 2.5K and passing rate is 80%.. for us private well the TP will wan to fail the testee more so as to earn more for the industry.. it all boils down to money!! the world out there is all about $$.. a very true but sad fact. a fact which i will have to start facing once im out of the army. a fact which i have to act upon and be street smart.

IM GOING TO THAILAND WITH MY CAMP BUDDIES! ok finally after months of empty talk, we have finally booked the trip today during the travel fair at suntech.. we almost did not make it to the booking decision, but nonetheless, we decided to stop procrastinate and jus do it!

first, we sat down at the table of a small tour agency, jus 5 to 6 tables there nia.. we sat there staring at the sales rep.. and they stared back at us.. just when we thought he was going to walk here and serve us, he turned around and walk to the counter to chit chat with his friends!! we were like WTH! (@*!))* he actually think we were jus kids who like was playing a fool and not serious without the buying power to go overseas?! damn him laa.. there were quite a lot of free staff at the counter chatting but none bothered to come over to answer our quries.. until a lady who was the manager came to help us.. IT took a manager to realise our presence.. HAIS.. neext encounter was at the CHAN's brothers booth too.. we took a queue number.. shocked that we were like number 200 in queue, we went to walk around to buy time.. but when it came to our turn, we were damn appalled by the girl's attitude towards us too..
" Where do you want to go. When are you leaving? Whats your budget? What kind of airline do you want to travel?"
whao.. ok we could see that she was like damn black face and wasnt interested in serving us.. so we just "played" on and jus left after 5 minutes.. fine its not like you are the only agency around..

on the brighter side, we also met more positive staff who did not disregard us as jus "kids" and wrote away our desire to get out of the country for a vacation and served us with professionalism! first was the dude at thee CTC booth at marina sq.. he was a good salesman who was the itenary planner in the company.. so he gave us good ideas of what to do and where to go.. i liked the stunned face the girls at the booth gave us when we told them " where can we go with a $500 budget" DA! the opening line in your face.. how would u respond? LOL! secondly, at the ASA booth, we met quite a friendly auntie who despite the monotony of going thru the sales process took the effort to joke with us to liven up the process of buying.. yeah we actually went back there after comparing all the prices of the agencies and at 730pm, went back there to the same auntie to seal the deal..

there at 8pm, with the travel crowd beginning to simmer, and with staff beginning to knock off to go home, we were still busy laughing and joking, making our payment! i met her on my way home at the mrt station and we began chatting too.. lol..

now with time on my hands, i must find sth useful to do.. anyone got any useful suggestions?

just finished my part of a major exercise.. wow looking back im shockeddd at what i accomplished! book in friday, book out sat, go back sunday until earlier tonight when i could come back home. all in all working on a strict shift basis for manning.. doing things over and over again can be boring and regimential at times.. getting things done seems harder, especially when u are the middle man who lacks enthusiasm.. you gota play ur stenghts and know their motivations and work on those things to get the job done.. people say the saf is this and that but in reality, when u go to work, it will very much be the same too. haha and i got this enlightment from none other than nsman! being the ns ict ic, i got the honour of talking and interacting with nsman and i dun blame them for their mentality sometimes.. having being thru all the shit, it jus makes them wana protect themselves more only. if u yourself dun protect your own interests, no one else will.. that is something valuable i learnt.. of course how you do it in the process is another thing.. ive seen nsman who do so, but end up offending all the regulars and their superiors.. conversely, i have also seen those who do so tactfully, which requires skill of course and these people are usually those who hold high position outside and are earning the "big bucks".. something very worthy to take a leaf from their books..

was talking with my sso about camp stuff online.. and a lot of things depends on the system and the people.. the system in the saf is quite dead, fixed.. the officer corps, Wospecs corp, so the only differece is the people and how they react.. looking at trends in the camp and all.. looking back we have really come a long way from the day we entered the camp to now.. taking care of every small thing and big thing.. with or without the help of the regulars.. hai.. many testing moments and many trails, but no doubt i have come nearer and nearer to ORD! now what i cnt wait is to plan and go for the overseas trips in december!! enjoy first before going to work again in 2010, where a whole new journey begin again.. CIAO!

woo! jus checked my payslip, or rather allowance, and yeah the rumours are true.. all nsf specs now all have a 110 dollars increment in rank pay! woots! but the only bad thing is that i will be getting this pay for only 4 months.. :x versus the new specs jus after me by one batch getting their sct pay since day 1! zzz there will really be no end to comparing if i go on like this! haizz jus be contented with what u have and move on in life! ord is coming!

i wunt be coming out of camp for at least 1 WEEK once i book in after lunch.. even my weekend will be burnt and i dun think i will even be able to go for my grandfather's birthday which is like tmr.. SAD-ED! :(

what day is today? i almost lost count of the day today. =.= being at home makes time fly so slowly!! aww hope that 4months can fly past faster..

There is now a mio TV in my living room!! for renewing and uupgrading myy broadband plan to 3MBPS.. and guess what? i have jus watched 3 movies back to back! non stop movie marathon! i think i dun need to sleep tonight alr laa.. there is this window period where the videos on demand channel provide uu free videos to watch! well i rather jus enjoy myself before this friday cos once i book in this friday i wun be able to book out until 21st oct.. that makes it 2 weeks straight of working.. arghh siann.. but oh well i will get my well deserved off which only allows me to go off on weekdays.. but does not replace the lost time during the weekends.. somehow in this unit i find myself burning more weekends than weekdays.. in army u work like hell for the weekdays but u get to enjoy ur weekends in peace.. in the airforce its the opposite.. above all indeed..

ok now back to my movie.. not a bad movie.. titled: ugly face kind heart, a taiwan/ hongkong production..

PS: To those studying for exams, good luck! jia you and dun give up!

OHH! it has been like ages since i have last blogged.. been a good 6 months since my last blogged.. As such there are many many things to pen down and complain about too since life never stays stagnant.. even if u are daydreaming things still happen around u.. people smile and people feel sad all the same!

well, its already october and november 6 is my TP!one more month to go! hang in there.. ok i cnt wait for it cos im so going to pass it in one shot. Then im so not going to see my instructor again.. to hell with him man.. im using him to get my lisence and he is using me just to earn more money.. such is the world when people make use of each other for their own gains.. but generally after 6 months of learning, i can safely say i can drive on the road comfortably, albiet the lack of road experience that those people driving for decades have. parking is something that i should then be paying more attention to. looking at the rear, ensuring that the poles do not fall, steering your vehicle into the space allocated..
Nonetheless, i have also seen many people who fail in the first attempt owing to overly strict examiners.. what giving 40 over points in just half an hour is absurd laa! All this just boil down to the great disparity in the standards of the instructors across the board and the expectations of the testers themselves. with that said, i really hope i get a good tester for the first time!! :DD

with the end of the year approaching, another chapter of my life is ending. The NS chapter is ending and yet another more demanding and challenging part of life is about to begin. NS has been... been bitter sweet for me.. yes it allowed me to realise a lot of things that cannot be learnt in the school context. It opens my eyes up to the different walks of life singaporeans come from by meeting new people along the way. It teaches u to deal with unreasonable orders and demanding superiors, which is a foretaste in the working world too.
However it has also been a good break from studying. I have chiong-ed thru upper primary, secondary school and then JC.. mugging thru exams and slogging for the CCA's i have joined.. surprisingly i am able to get almost twice the amount of sleep in NS than i can ever get in JC! thats an achievement no doubt! and now in approx 4 months time, im going to ORD! which means im going back to the cillivian world where not everything goes your way just because ur rank is higher or you are more senior. but where you have to fight for what u really want without of course losing yourself in the process. With a good 2 year break, here i come back better and refreshed than ever.

alas i have to get some sleep now for im booking in in 6 hours time.. till then.. sayonara! :DD

nicholas
07/12/89
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zhonghua sec sch
4E1'05!
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23rd SC!
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