Saturday, 11 July 2009
- there is this good jap restaurant beside the s'pore river, near river valley. its called koba man. The service is good man. so is the food. its good stuff.
well well well. This is the first time where i've been truly and well exposed as a total noob, a realli untalented singer with a LONG Looooooooooooooong way to go before i can truly say that i have some standard. amazing truly amazing.
lets hope the next few years would be a fruitful one. its gonna be a whole new experience, and im gonna enjoy it. im gonna learn and improve, and im gonna build on my noobness so that i cant be noob no more. no thnx. i need to be at least ave there.
all the best benlee
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Sunday, 5 July 2009- so michael owen signed for man u. i met with the syc exco including jennifer tham this sat. i actually didnt notice rachel at a bustop and walked pass her and daoed her (im quite pleased). pigs can fly, cows can sing.
owen, man u? just a few years ago that was UNTHINKABLE. but the unthinkable has happened. Oh well if man u do better without ronaldo than the 80 mil is a good investment. after all the got AV and owen with a fraction of the cash. Hope AV is as good as they say man. he has big shoes to fill.
tmwr is another week of work. I dun like it, but i have to do it. jia you.
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Monday, 29 June 2009- ok, after my recent love story + viva la vida craze, the next thing thats in for me is andrea bocelli's "melodramma". shiok. so sad, as the name suggests...and so beautiful. there is beauty in sadness, art in despair, for it is when men is at his lowest then the he can fully appreciate the true height of beauty.
nice song.
im somehow survived today. praise the LORD. he answered my prayer for deliverance yestd. now to survive the week.
i heard some interesting discussion between nng and jamir on sun. but i wun talk abt it. too long.
i wanna slp.
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Thursday, 25 June 2009- so...
another course has passed. im bored, and im starting to think if im letting myself down after all that has happened so far in army. like i have a list of work to do that never ends, and seems to grow perpetually.
maybe i should work harder. mmaybe i should work alot harder. dunno. but then again its hard to force me to work when i dun want to work...when there's no sense of urgency of fulfillment when the task is done.
im secular
i wonder how forgiving is the real world out there, as i get the impression that where im at now isnt realli the real world. its softer, more comfy and warm than what people always say the world is like, what cold and unforgiving.
then again i think too much. or i dun think at all. i think its both. hmm. i need to work smarter. and idle less.
idle less i think.
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009- gosh the viva la vida + love story arrangement is so cool. I would post the link but since its so famous alrdy i guess i dun need to. for those who dunno, just go youtube type in viva la vida love story and click the first link. the one with a million over views. you cant miss it. aweeesome.
im tired of waiting for the scores to come out in some form or another, so i would try the impossible, to try figure it out myself. gonna take a looong time (by which the score may have come out alrdy). so gd luck to me.
anyone noes which music program is good?
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Monday, 15 June 2009- gosh. DSTA is nooooooooooot good at all. super super super SUPER inefficient. zomg 2 months on oneeee stuppid ip filtering. I am super slack, but even I dun noe whaaat is going on at DTT. are they sleeping?
And y cant i end the day of work without some complain from saforo that im not around? Gosh firstly the PC monitor is not working, 2ndly there is a lot of arrows raining from the heavens up at lvl 4 that im trying to catch and process. a bit of slack eh?
argh, i feel like burning my leave. not good not good. and my music isnt improving much, only "i got rythmn" is making SOME progress. but not enough.
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Tuesday, 2 June 2009- sigh...the work that i get at office is not as hard as the arrangements that i have to follow. run up run down run up run down sian diao leh. wtheck lah. sian diao seri-ous-ly. most of hte work comes from upstairs anyway, not downstairs, but nooooooo i have to stay downstairs or they will try to boot me out. troublesome.
interview for scholarship for pharm? something realli unexpected. lets see how this works out.
STUPID wah liao ok lah i dun mind camping downtstairs, its colder and lonelier but the arrows are less. seriously. but i have to admit i enjoy doing the upstairs work more xia. although its aloooot more, i cant seem to drag myself to complete the 2 tasks that downstairs have given me.
wah even more brilliantly i have been tasked to learn com programming!!!! zomg studying after IB wasnt realli the situation that i forcasted myself to be in. and uni notes on VBA and MACRO??? nonononono that was totally out of any equation i had. its like trying to learn a new language (it is technically, trying to learn computer language). zomg i have to dl all these C+ stuff and macro to play around at home? lol i think if i survive this office thinggy i would come out rather changed. seriously.
i rediscovered the sleeping power of powerpoint slides. just stare at them and soon u'll go zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Saturday, 16 May 2009- yesterday was sso concert "Signature tunes"
the first half was ok lah...didnt help that i needed to go toilet. the debussy piece was pretty intriging, musical art if u would call it. but then sso seemed a bit sian...alright
oh well i came to watch the 2nd half anyway. to watch the pianist to be exact. boris bereovsky. playing rachmaninoff's piano concerto 3. i found him on youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5raMK4Z9co
playing islamey about a year ago and knew that i had to see him. my sis was rather sceptical abt this pianist that i kept saying was pro. and how wrong was she. by the end she became a fan too. haha
first mvmt wasnt that good...he was still warming up, and the SSO still exuded that sian aura. 2nd and third was just marvelous. when the piece ended the audience just couldnt stop applauding 3 encores and he had to drag the concert master off stage. amazing stuff.
ur should watch him.
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Monday, 11 May 2009- ppl, u all should watch les miserables 10th aniversary concert on youtube. its GOOD.
lets see theres the famous i dreamed a dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-IBJpEMzA
and let me say this is MUCH MUCH better than susan boyle. move aside, the original is here man.
just gives tingles down the spine man, the feeling when ur shown a great and awesome work of art. when ur breath is taken away and u realise that these people have achieved a level of accomplishment so high that u can only dream of achieving. oooo nice man.
some guy changed my pm on msn. i wonder who, but his/her actions are rather immature in my opinion. haha for someone as cranky as me to say that...
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Saturday, 9 May 2009- hmph. well lets see anything interesting so far....
work...nothing much.
at home...nothing much too.
uni apps...no response still.
kk so this makes this post a nothing much post.
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Saturday, 18 April 2009- hai hai hai
i dun think my NUS interview went well. oh damnit. and its a one shot thing only, no second tries. hai maybe God wants me to do something else in my life, or maybe he's gonna make it such that even if i get in i have NO way of saying its my own effort, but purely by his grace. see how, what does God have in store. meanwhile its just trust and faith :)
Heroes III is quite fun :) rediscovering this old classic which i used to mug abt haha. yeah thnx to william yeah.
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Monday, 13 April 2009- wah nus application is was realli just one big rush man. dunno whether i can do it well anot, trying to get testimonials done within 2 days, calling ppl, getting documents and typing stuff. whew.
thank you dr ng and uncle seng kee. acceding to my requests to get testimonials at such freaking short notice.
and to ma, pa and zair, for helping me edit, run around submitting docs, helping out with the pictures...
marco, for letting me grill him on what happened for him for the test.
AND GOD. for strength and grace.
well, lets see what happens next man.
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Wednesday, 1 April 2009- yay. anyone noes how to entertain a group of ppl that are way superior than you, looking for a good time out with minimal sweat, heat, and not cbd area? must be maxium cohesiveness so no movie. hai. and their 20 yrs older than u. some of them.
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Saturday, 28 March 2009- hmm...i miss sch life.
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Sunday, 22 March 2009- so, i'll be off to my new posting tmwr. im not supposed to reveal sensitive information, so i wun say where i am posted to. (wow, like where im going is such a high security place). anyway, its realli realli normal, so dun imagine much, i just want to avoid some red tape here.
im L9 anyway, and that means fit for sedentary work in bases only. so u can guess what that means. yay.
my office life starts early, so guess its good experience for the working world if i do land an office job. so yeah.
on a side note, i just attended another funeral. death and life are becoming more and more apparent as one gets older. i keep thinking who would be the first among my batch to die, and when will it come. i guess when the time does actually come, it would be a great reminder to us all that indeed life is fallible, and like the lily in the field it withers so fast that no one remembers that it was there at all.
guys, to life.
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009- this altrustic crap at home is kinda irritating. having a hard time trying to live your own live because it affects others is very frustrating. having a certain time to sleep set because of others is kinda stupid.
and i'll take that crap
coz im me, and what doesnt kill you makes you stronger. sooner or later all this has to end, and then i will smile again, with less falsity and plastic than i normally put in. whatever happens, happnens
homies
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009- i havent updated in a long time. relatively.
anyway...my BMT is over. OVER. POC ended on mon, but had to stay back an extra day to do some work for the POP parade. but that, was just a small part of the BMT experience.
Field camp, ippt, range (didnt do that), 5BX, ET, all were only made possible by the fanatastic platoon spirit that existed in Mohawk platoon 2. yeah. commanders were good, people were good, what more can u ask for. the field camp was really memorable and crappy tho. would nv want to go thru that again.
my dad said that he lost contact with a lot of his army frens. hopefully in this age of IT, that senario might not be as bad as last time.
Mohawk
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Sunday, 1 March 2009- poc in 7 working days time!
mdc auditions were a disaster today. oh wellz. lol my attempts at being lighthearted were a disaster, being interpretated as attitude problem. oh well clerk here i come
book in late today. after field camp actually...i dun realli mind army. its like sch, after a while its fun, and anyway the worse is over. they're just winding up the stuff and getting ready for POC. should get frens contacts fast.
and apply for uni. busy busy period. dun think block leave would be thaaaat free.
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Saturday, 14 February 2009- i just read my sis's blog. its so emo.
but then again now is the time to be emo.
i usually type alot. but im lazy now.
army kiks the energy out of u man.
realli.
if u want a detailed explanation of events over the last few days ask me and i'll direct u to her blog.
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Friday, 13 February 2009- well, im back one day early from confinement in limbo. an adventure camp on a beautiful island resort. its a very nice place, the scenery is quite stunning i must admit. its rather relaxing when ur not doing anything, which happens quite often so far. i dun mind going back for another 5 weeks, so we'll see what happens during that time.
i got one day's early leave that i would rather not get. hai hai hai dun want to talk abt here...but lets just say that its rather saddening thing that happened...
erm...everyone's offline, its hard to contact the guys coz they're all in army. so been talking alot to the girls recently, which doesnt make me tooooo comfortable. some guy conversation would be greatly appreciated.
heard frisbee expanded greatly. nicely done guys. will try to come down and visit ur one day. and choir too. and guitar when that teacher finally forgets that i owe them 150 bucks. bah waste of money.
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