nicely, i started e new year at e 3.2km mark of my 10km run, juz happened so that there's a GRC 歌台 countdown across e street of e running track. yep, party-ing is not my cup of tea. every x'mas or new year, i'll simply spend it at home either sleeping or indulging myself within e world of youtube!
looking back, time really flies. if i am to live to e age of 75, 1/3 of it had passed, & out of e list of things which i had set out to accomplish in life, seems like none has been done. nonetheless, i shall recap and reflect on e past decade of my life on e new year's nite.
2000
woohoo! i'm finally wearing long pants to sch! its a symbol of almighty in zhonghua sec! wearing shorts simply marks u as a BOY; u dun get to play soccer on e basketball court, u gotta make way for those in long pants to cut-queue during recess breaks & u cant wear ankle socks! sec 3 life is crazy, nobody gives a shit bout studies. after sch, its either play soccer at bishan/serangoon/ang mo kio or play Counter-Strike/Starcraft at LAN shops. making collection of e bus no. plates at e back of double-deck buses was a in thing back den!
2001
e year that i turned 16. unlike e rest who had extravagant celebration over their 21st birthday, which marks e start of their adulthood & freedom, guess mine had long started back den. it was e year which i first owned a mobile phone, i bought it myself, earning it by selling cansdrinks at a stall in e pasar malam, a NOKIA 8250, first blue LCD phone. 'O' levels was e big thing of e year, i did well, 6A1s, 1A2 & 1B4, proud of my sch, real sad to leave e stress-free secondary sch life, really glad that i made it to AJC.
2002
as many remember e year 2001 wif e terrorists declared war on e Americans, it also started e trend of having terrorism topics asked in General Paper for 'A' levels. osama shocked e world, luckily not mine, & i happily embarked on my ODAC career, first in NY OAC, follow by AJ ODAC. somehow i have no affinity wif my classmates & fellow ODACians were pillars of my JC life. loved u all, both from NY & AJ. & yes, LIM KOK WEE, this bastardy name, i'll remember & bitch about him for life.
2003
outbreak of SARS had kept all singaporeans off e streets, but that did not deter us from mounting Mt Kinabalu. haha, 想当年，年少气盛, went up e summit at 3 degrees celcius, only in a singlet. haha, act hero... my frozen nipples almost fell off! thru ODAC, i get to know e class of 02/02, & wif them, i started playing basketball! wahahah! its really sad to be in a class where none of e guys play any sports, i juz cant click wif them... all thanz to my ODAC mates, that i survived thru my torturous years in AJC... non mihi solum..
2004
well, every singaporean male gotta go thru this, & i shall do it wif much zeal, National Service. some think that its real suay to be posted to Naval Diving Unit, while others took pride in it. like wat it is stated on e ceiling beam of e cookhouse of NDU, 欺山莫欺水, bully moutain, but dun bully sea, its really not easy to be a naval diver, try complaining bout muscle aches, u get more. i still remember wat my trainer once said, 'what is pain? pain is a sign of weakness leaving your body.' whoever went thru it, u can stand upright when being called upon 'e special breed of man'. hellweek was real hell, went thru it once, wun try e second. i never knew wat my body can do till i join NDU. Diver's Pride, HOOYA!
2005
had a fantastic year wif 23rd batch, finally passed-out from e 11 months of trainee phase & 60 plus of us marched on to e second half of our NS career in our respective units. unit life is heaven, we lived like king, book-in at 8am, go for run, play soccer, have lunch, go for swim, book-out at 4pm, & play DOTA every nite! loved my batch boys, got to know them inside out, even e number of moles on their dick, really had a care-free life.
2006
moving on to a new phase of life, going back to e path of education, i entered NTU & once again, re-engaged back in ODAC career. as much as i bitch about how shag ODAC can get, i never once regreted about joining it. i had a hard time learning e NTU ODAC culture, i din join e orientation camp, dunno e pple, dunno its structure, not even sure of my direction in ATC 07 comm. but uni life is very high paced, so fast that we cant even stop for a minute to breathe, less think. moving into hall, attending classes, joining e club, before u know it, exams ended. e pace was crazy.
2007
much like e global economy crisis, my life was also went hay-wired in that year. learning curve was mountainous, & was made much steeper & rougher wif my strong sense of arrogance, pride & ego. completed RAT & ATC 07, did a half-fuck job as CGL for FOOT 07, hardly a VP for e Club. i was out to make a change, i want to prove myself, i want to apply wat i've got, to tell wat's right & wrong, but everything came so fast, so sudden, that even my rooting values starts to grey. i've gotta re-analyse,re-think & re-value myself & everything that was once so familiar around me. i guess, its part of growing up. & i know, i have to grow up fast, to serve e Club, to serve all those who placed trust in me.
2008
juz before i tot my ODAC career had ended wif grace, i picked it up again, taking e ATC 09 team to bring back e lost event. it was a tough decision to make that move, but i felt, if e event is to be brought back, nobody else is more suitable than myself to run it & so i did it. for e past 3 sems, results had only been so-so, its time to buck up, die die also muz get 2nd-class (lower) for my engineering degree. mug like dog for that year, wif good luck, grades had improved wif e hours that i spend hiding in library 2 wif prof yap yong han.
2009
started e year wif internship at Leica, well it sux big time working in a firm adopting e japanese work culture. 'Kanban' & 'Kaizen' are words that i never ever want to hear again! having to run ATC while doing attachment is real hell, i gotta read emails thru windows that show no more than a line, scrolling line by line to evade e sharp eyes of my bosses. phew! thank goodness, wif all e good kharma that we had stored over all e years, we got a wonderful team which led e event to a great success. finally, i put a 'fullstop' to e ODAC career, n its prime time that i start searching for my first full-time job in e working world. hope my good kharma is not fully drained.
woah, i've typed for 3 hours.. LOL. looking back at e past decade, think i am well geared up for my working world. within e next decade, there's so many things that i will want to accomplish; a family of my own, to buy my own house & car, to be rich enough to do wat i want & to have a driving license. in 20 years to come, i want my first PHUA 85 kopitiam in hougang & have my wife well seated at home losing away money in mahjong games!
haha, every new year, pple start making their new year's resolutions. i shall have mine too! every birthday, i wished to grow to be more 沉熟稳重, find a girlfriend, grow taller, become a gentlemen & bla bla... nah... shall not be greedy this time round, juz one thing will do:
I will reframe from using vulgarities unless its necessary.
whole entry, i used none. in 2010, i wish all my frens, all e best.
