The Chevrons is a club specially for all the Warrant Officers and Specialists (also known as Advanced Saikang Warriors) of SAF (including NSFs). Well, it was nice that they decided to give us a free membership card (which I received by mail today) but I’ll probably never go to the club mostly because the club is so far away.

And gosh, they had to make the card expire on the day I ORD; Singapore at its finest.

Tags: national service

I sooo want this phone. The specifications are great! It runs on Symbian, has a touch screen and a great camera to go with it.

But the sad reality is that I am in NS, and it costs $400+ with a two year plan.

Tags: phones

Square Enix is famous for brining us games from the Final Fantasy Franchise and others like Kingdom Hearts. But this time, they have decided to break out from their usuals and provide us with a new game that is innovative and at the same time awesome.

The World Ends With You is an RPG that is set in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. I have been spending quite some time on this game for a while. I haven’t been addicted to a game so much since Warcraft a long long time ago. I’m not going to write a review for the game. There are a lot of reviews out there already.

The best part of the game is the battle system. You control two characters who are fighting simultaneously against monsters known as “noise”. One character is controlled via the touchscreen using the stylus and the other character is at the upper screen and is controlled by key presses. Two videos of the battle system.

And lastly, I LOVE the soundtrack. It’s a mix of hip hop and trance.

There are of course many other nice features of this game. You can find out more by reading reviews like this. Otherwise, go grab a DS and play it. =)

Tags: the world ends with you

According to Eric, this is the last year where I’ll be a teenager because this is the last year where my age has the suffix “-teen” in it. And it so happens that my lunar birthday is today as well. What a coincidence which, again, according to Eric occurs once every nineteen years.

Had a drink just now and even though I am far from being drunk, I can feel the drowsiness seeping in. I need to hit the sack soon.

Mr Wong, Miss Lim and gang gave me a wallet for my birthday and the design turned out to be an imitation/parody of the Intel logo. Real nerdy. Thanks a lot guys!

And it just so happens that the soundtrack for a game I ordered arrived today. Another coincidence. I will probably write more about the game next time.

On a totally unrelated note, a good read about National Service of which we are all compelled to serve.

Tags: birthday, national service, the world ends with you

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything and it’s time for me to give an update from the last post.

I finished BSLC on the 17th May 2008 and got posted to 1 SIR to be an Infantry Reconnaissance (recce) Specialist. I was torn between feeling excited and apprehensive when I got this posting because it is a very interesting vocation and at the same time, very physically demanding.

I stayed at Mandai Hill Camp (with some tales and misgivings which I will not post online because I am hum ji; please ask me in person for more details) for a month or so and began my military class 3 driving course on the 12th June until now. For the better or worse, the course is stay out and it costs $1.19 per trip to get home. The course ends on 14 July.

Sad to say, my recce course only starts AFTER those from ASLC finish their course. They finish theirs on 16 August and I begin mine on 18 August (most likely). It will last for eight weeks.

I went driving on the public road for the first time today and the experience was really different from driving in the circuit. You really HAVE to check your mirrors when vehicles take advantage of you just because you carry a “L” plate.

Oh, to all those who got posted to SISPEC today, welcome to Suffer In Silence Please Enjoy, Carry on. (New variation)

Tags: driving, national service, recce, sispec

I hardly watch TV and I must have missed the “Instant ORD for MAS SELAMAT CAPTURE” report on TV.

It’s really lucky that we are currently still trainees or we stand a chance to be activated to catch this guy who literally threw our face away. Hearing tales of people being activated and not being able to book out for one month isn’t exactly pleasant. Let’s hope he is captured or found dead or whatever when we graduate.

Resumption of being a trainee tomorrow. I’m somewhat worried because, frankly, many considered BMT to be a chalet and I wonder how SISPEC will turn out. Let’s hope that being in Ninja had helped a little. :S Maybe I can post a little next saturday. For now I am keeping my fingers crossed on the many applications I’ve made.

I have dumped Winamp a long time ago for foobar2000 as my main music player. If you are on Windows, I highly recommend you give this software a try. iTunes cannot even hold a candle to it.

Why?

foobar2000 is very extensible and customisable. It uses very little system resources. It can even play a multitude of audio formats that players like Windows Media Player and iTunes cannot support natively (FLAC, for example). It’s very like Winamp though I think winamp is overloaded with a little too much crap these days.

I hear legions of people complaining that it is difficult to move over and that their playlists cannot load etc., especially the iTunes fans who seem to love the player on Windows. It’s very simple to do so and I can help out if you need help.

I have been playing around with Ubuntu today and gosh, I’m falling in love with it already. It’s currently my “experimental” OS and it will probably not replace Windows Vista soon though I am missing some of the very awesome eye candies in Ubuntu.

For those who think Vista have great eye candies, check out Ubuntu with Compiz Fusion installed first

(I tried to make a video on my own but I failed )

Like he says:

dear women, there’s no point in getting your boobs enhanced with sillycone (typo intended), because men of science like us like them natural.

And of this comment:

They must float! When I was about 12, I got into a situation while swimming in a lake where I knew I was not going to make it back to shore. I was just minutes from drowning, when a rather heavy-set woman bobbed past me, grabbed my arms and took me to the point that I could touch bottom. I, of course, thanked her profusely for saving my ass! She said, “Oh, don’t worry about it at all!” She then looked down at her rather large bosom and stated, “With these floatation devices, there’s no way I could sink If I wanted to!”

So, I say, with a resounding “YES!!!”…boobs DO float!

… priceless!

Note: I am not in any particular “horny” mood or anything.