Monday, September 21, 2009 - :

It has since been 2 months from my previous post..

Just some status update.. :D
Currently situated at TNB (Tuas Naval Base), Unit - Tuas iPH, NPD (Tuas intergrated Personnel Hub, Naval Personnel Department)

It's definitely not the most satisfying job that I find, but it isn't as half bad as I wanted. What else could I expect out of a ASA (Admin Support Assistant) job scope after all.

Anyway I recently bought the new PS3 Slim and a 32" HD-Ready LCD with money pooled together with my brother and myself.

Currently finding 2nd cheap ps3 games.. so let me know if you have anything for sale :P

Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter 9:21 AM

Thursday, July 02, 2009 - :

Many thanks to those who had wished me.

Namely,
Desmond (Dashimon)
Desmond Yew
Edmund Chen Yi Hong
Edmund Chen Rong Hou
Farhana
Gabriel
Joey
Mingjun
Nicholas
Peiyu
Riodi
Ryan
Qin Shi
Quan Hui
Waijack
Xiao Rong
Yuan Tat

And especially my ex-bunk/company mates from Viper Platoon 2 Section 1.
Alaric
Reynold
Pu Kuang
Jeremey - Your cake was delicious =D
And Yazid

Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter 11:16 PM

Saturday, June 27, 2009 - :

Finally I'm back from the Tekong island. Super loads of things happened over there that wasn't even suppose to exist in the first place.

I was suppose to book out yesterday afternoon at 3pm, but got post phoned until 8.30pm in the night. To be honest, it was really a relief to be even able to book out on that Friday night.

Before I start saying anything else, FUK YOU GERAD QUEK (V 3308; Company Viper Platoon 3 Section 3 Bed 08), or however your name is spell.

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So I was enlisted on 22nd June '09, on a Monday morning. After exchanging my IC for the 11b, said my oathe, had lunch with my family, took our duffer bag, settle in the bunk, tried the uniform, changed the uniform if they couldn't fit us.. that's all for the 1st day.

On the 2nd day, it was even more slack, went to the auditorium to listen to lecture the whole morning, in the afternoon, we receive 3 immunization for tenatus, tyfoid and polio. Went back to bunk, then waiting for snack time.. at 8.30pm if I recalled correctly..

So this is how it begins.. while we were getting brief after the snacks, we saw an ambulance rushing over to our company. Then the OC told us that our dear friend from Platoon 3 Section 3 Bed 08, GERAD QUEK is under the suspect of h1n1. So we had to do a thorough cleanup of our bunk, toilet, corridor and stairway.

Following that, on that fateful night, I was just having a slight running nose, so I had to report sick.. I only had my thermometer, 11b, a pen, wearing my admin attire with PT shoes. The moment the 16 of us who reported sick arrive at the Medical Centre, they quarantined us there in the waiting room; it was 10.30pm when we were locked in the room. The room was air conditioned, with hard-stiff chairs, and a empty cold-hard floor for us to rest thought out the night.. If you think it felt good, you should try it out yourselve.

The next day, the food were send to us at each intervals, in microwave packages. In the afternoon, we had to do a nozzle swap test, which would be send to DXO for testing. And finally in the night, roughly 6pm the warrant officer asked the medics to give us some saffari beds, they were more like temporary stretchers or some sort. But we only got to enjoy that for 1.5 hours, lol. When they wake us up for snack, they told us to pack up and clear the room after the snacks. We were then shifted to Mohawk Company, Platoon 1 Section 1 bunk. FINALLY WE GOT A BED TO OURSELVE!! OMG!! But we still have not brush our teeth or have a bath for 2 days straight! We were practically being pigs, being fed, then sleep after washing up. And after pleading with a private from Company U, who was incharged of our food, helped us to inform our Company to bring ESSENTIALS to us.. and for the record, the ESSENTIALS that the sargents refer to are, our toiletries, a undergarment, and a shirt. So yes, I was without my handphones for tho whole 3 days. Following that, some1 from Company Viper (sadly I cannot mention his name or position), brought us our ESSENTIALS and even gave us deck of UNO! He was really a life savior to us.. from that evening onwards, we were practically on ecstasy.

The next day, which is Friday. We were still waiting for the nozzle swap test result, the COS (Company Orderly Sargent) of Mohawk informed us that we needed to do a 2nd nozzle swap, and that we may not be able to book out.. Anyway, we were all taught to "suck thumb" on the 1st day already. After lunch, we had the nozzle swap test, most of us were lazing on the bed after that. Finally the news that we were all waiting for.. we can book out in the night! So we had to clean up the bunk, and fall in, in the evening, and we can finally return to our Company! I must say that it was quite a pleasant and warm welcome, rofl. Thanks guys!

Sadly, when I return to my bunk, they told me that there was a 2nd confirm case of h1n1 in the company, and that's why we had to take the nozzle swap a 2nd time. Anyway, that's about all that happened within that 5 days.. and now I'm under home quarantine orders for 7 days, and will be reporting to my new unit on the 6th July, at Changi Naval Base.

Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter 2:23 PM

Sunday, June 21, 2009 - :

Starting from tomorrow, 22nd June 2009. I'll be formally serving the Nation. Need to report at Pasir Ris interchange at 0745 latest to catch a bus to the ferry to Tekkong, BMT school 2. Going there for 5 and a 1/2 day of Residential Induction Programme..

Hopefully I am able to survive for the next coming 2 years before my ROD.. yes, ROD; Run Out Date. Will be really forward towards it.

Anyway, I'll be booking out this coming Saturday evening, so don't miss me (for those who are even bothered to read this blog of mine) >.<

Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter 10:16 PM

Tuesday, June 02, 2009 - :

78/100

Yup, that's the score I got for the retake of Japanese Elementary level 1 from Bunka. The difference in the difficulty between the level 1 and level 2 test is seriously big. lol.

Anyway, now that I've finally resigned from Empire State. Freedom has returned to me once again. Went down to Toyntoys, followed by MKZ; to collect my Nagi Nendoroid and MikkuMikku Kagami Nendoroid.

Regarding my sms pre-order on Hatsune Miku Nendoroid, their warehouse screwed up and mis-placed the goods. So they refunded me $42.

Oso regarding the pre-order I placed for Isaiah, Alter Louise Gothic version, MKZ supposedly ordered 6, but only 1 arrived. And unfortunately for Isaiah, my deposit wasn't the first, so yeah, they refunded my deposit for the Alter Louise aswell..

Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter 8:01 PM

Saturday, May 23, 2009 - :

Omg, went to take my Jap test the other day at Bunka; 45 minutes paper, marked on the spot after completing, took less than 20 minutes before I got my results after finishing the paper. The paper was so much more difficult than I had expected. Maybe because I'm taking it individually, they decide to increase the level of difficulty so I'd fail, and end up retaking the basic course again >_>

Anyway my result was 25/80 for the paper. I couldn't understand quite a lot of the questions as there was quite a few usage of katagana in the close passages. And they weren't translated into romanji or hiragana for me to read or understand. Also they tested how to join 2 sentences together using the "te" form. There was also the polite and non-polite sentence changing. Not forgetting, changing the sentence from present tense to past tense form.

The most unforgettable question is the last part, translation of sentence.

1. Mr Yamada is good at playing tennis.
2. Who is reading newspaper over there?
3. I want a dictionary.
4. I have an umbrella.
5. What kind of movie did you watch?

Not too sure where I went wrong, but yeah, I failed.
Following that I went to TNT to collect my extravaganza Nagato.

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Here comes the best part.

As my brother has already completed the basic EL1, and is proceeding with EL2, I went to read and check out the Vol.2 book. And I found that most of the stuffs that are tested in the paper was in that book. -_-
Now why the hell did they gave a EL2 paper to some1 who has not even completed the EL1 course fully?

Went to clarify with them this afternoon, booked another date for retest, and they reserved me a slot in the same class time as my bro =D
So now I just have to pass the paper and I'll be in the same stage as my bro =)

Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter 12:37 AM

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - :

Ahh.. despite having failed to get 2x pay for working on Labour day and Vesak day. I've been given 3 days off consecutively starting from today (tuesday to thursday). However since I've been given 3 days off, why not use them for my Japanese EL1 test which I had skipped for over a month; So I've booked my test day on Thursday.. I got about a day + to study for it. Shouldn't be that hard to pass it, but would be difficult to perfect it I guess. Just hoping that it'd be the same format as the 1 my brother took =D

Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter 12:33 AM

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 - :

Ahh ahh.. Another day off over. My off days are soooo precious to me.. having 12 hour shift everyday is really tiring my out badly. Especially with my late night bad habits, which you could see from the time this post is being made.

Having to catch up previous and this season anime together with a few hours each day is insufficient.. I've recently just started picking up Zettai Karen Children. So far my favourite gotta be Nogami Aoi, but I love Kaoru's DOM attitude, lol. xD

And yeah, it seems to me that every time I have my off day, I'll go to either LaTendo, MKZ, TNT, or KKnM.. I went to MKZ just now to pick up the Nendoroid Louise. When I asked about my Hatsune Miku again, they told me that they shifted it to their "warehouse", and to come back another day to pick it up. I also receive news that their shipment for Lelouch and Gothic Punk Louise will be arriving at the end of this month. So I'll probably go to MKZ to collect Lelouch and Miku together.. and for the Gothic Punk Louise, hopefully I can get back my remainder of $25 from Isaiah back asap when it arrives.

Off to sleep.. need to report at 12pm (11:45am) later.

Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter 2:01 AM

Sunday, May 03, 2009 - :

Received my pay slip a few days ago and now it's in my account ($650.50). After deducting the uniform and other accessories ($62.20), and averaging my traveling expenses of about $90, I'm left with $498.30 . Averaging that for 3 weeks of work, I got myself an average of $166 per week. With that in mind, I really have to be more thrifty.

Oh and thanks to Arnold, I got to watch X-men Wolverine, although it's not the final-edit cut, I get to watch the blood-shed history of Wolverine. There are fighting scenes here and there, but they aren't exaggerated enough, the fights usually ends in less than 2 mins, with the exception of the last fighting scene with victor. Still, there's 1 thing I learned from Striker =D He said that subject 11 has all the good and none of the bad in it, looks like he forgot to take into consideration of the subject's intelligence, or the AI. 'Coz he is really dumb for a "perfect" subject.

Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter 9:53 AM

Thursday, April 30, 2009 - :

Thanks to the boss of "Folk's Food" from the same level as Empire State, he noticed there was something amiss with the recruitment sign that Empire State has put up..

Here's the picture of the recruitment sign.



Notice the position of "Barristers"?

Now, why would a food outlet like Empire State require a Barrister? Preparing for a law suit case from NYNY? lol.

For those who still don't get it. A google search will clear things up.

Barrister

Barista

Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter 10:24 AM