27th Aug 05

spent out field with 49 other botaks.

E other 49 botaks from C coy

27th Aug 06

spend running AHM

21sa @ 3Div run in prep for AHM

27th Aug 07

spend onboard

oil spill on my bday =(

27th Aug 08

spend with a bunch of lovelies

Dinner at Astons


so here i'm nearly 1/4 century old, another phase of life had started.
gone were e days you mess ard without any care in life.
gone were e days of camping outfields
gone were e days of physical/ mental suffering
gone were e days of green
gone were e days of sun, sea and typhoons

In place came
everything also must ponder twice
everyday camp in office
everyday only doing finger exercise(typing emails reports and stuffs)
everyday different colours to wear
everyday see a panel of windows which indicates sunny or rainy

these 4 years has been really enjoyable,
thought mostly it's had been spent in green
it has no doubt been e most memorable part of my walk(i reckon any guys' walk)
days spent outfield,
days spent clubbing till wee hrs
days spent chao keng-ing
days spent tio takan
days spent tio sabo
days spent freezing in brunei and Nz
days spent sweating in Thailand
days spent eating sand/dust from Gedong
*every guy has a different experience*
days spent rolling/puking/fishing in the South China Sea.

this year is slightly different
i've got a couple of lovely ladies and a dear friend to celebrate with me.
thanks for the trouble and effort really appreciated it =)
Dinner was at Astons specialities(The Cathay)
got a couple of presents, and a nice rich chocolaty cake.
had some royce chocolates(champange nama which is nice!)
guess what's at home. another chocolate cake
it's a bad case of chocolate overdose!
but it had been fun =)


*above is based on actual day, not pre or post celebration.
many thanks for those pre and post celebrations! =)

Date : 24th Aug 2008
Time : 0630
Venue: Esplanade Bridge
Event: Army half marathon

came back within projected timing. not a fantastic one but e reasonable one.
haha it's a timing none ard me would believe.
didn't even intent to wake up and run.. but no choice friend waiting downstairs already =\
so as usual 3 of us aloy, yankai and me met up for e run. e prolonged drizzle yesterday really did some heavy damage to the fields of padang. it had become a giant mud pool, shoes were muddy even before the run. i never like singapore runs..
99.999% is over-crowded unless you're standing in front or run darn fast, the chances of you getting stuck in mid pack is confirm guaranteed.
there's a change of route this year, we turn off earlier before the lao pa sa junction, up Benjamin shears, a loop ard ECP, then a present from our very own combat engineers.(combat engineer trail) which i shall not comment on it..after that comes the marina barrage which is quite a sweet spot =). loop around marine south(which all the steamboat is no longer there) and final stretch back to padang.
as usual saw lots of people along the way had fun catching up with their lifes cuz normally we dun meet up.

all done after e run we decide to go collect our nike race pack which was a totally wrong choice. e que start central.. snaked all e way back to liang court. this had to be the longest goodie bag collection any of us ever had.
so we decided to go back and collect tml instead in view of we're late for lunch gathering.

Had lunch at shokudo(raffles) with e ajax gang.celebrated aloy and my bday at ben's and jerry.
me and aloy with our pint of B&J

here's a few shots of yesterday fireworks.
had to sit there since 7 in e drizzle. after e drizzle lifted for a few mins during the show.. then it came back somewhere in the middle of e show! argH!!
link to fireworks

Happy bday singapore.

here a few photos taken during last sat preview. not e actual day..


Fly past,










our LSTs,




Fireworks,