砂漠のJeffire

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Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Yo!

Let me announce that I will finish my NS earlier! However due to the proximity of my ROD, I would have only earned 6 days bonus. Refer to the MINDEF FAQ Oh well, those who enlisted 3 months later than me enjoy the full 2 months, like JH, Justin, etc. I hope they will be happier than me...haha. Okie. However I will still be going back to camp to settle the remaining stuff. It's better that I conclude my chapter in NS properly, so I hope to really conclude it entirely by this Fri(going back to camp on Thu and Fri). I wonder how will they be compensating for my leave. Gotta call Chief Clerk to enquire about it...

The weekend was a great one with the commencement of Euro 2004. Portugal lost the opening match unexpectedly to Greece. On Monday morning, we saw how England lost dramtically to France in a 2 goal blitz during the dying minutes of the game, all thanks to 3 idiots aka, David Beckham who missed the penalty, Emile Heskey for conceding a free kick outside the penalty area that led to Zidane's superb goal(As JK said, Bend it like Zidane!), Steven Gerrard for making the most horrendous back pass to Thiery Henry. Man, to think England was going to win! Anyway, these days we are burning the midnight oil to watch the games. To get accustomed to it, I decided to play WE7 International again so as to stay awake to watch the match. It worked! I was bright awake throughout this morning's match, where Italy drew with Denmark. I love Denmark's style of play, much more efficient than Italy.

The weekend was full of activities that burn holes in the pocket.

On Saturday I watched Harry Potter with QY, Charles, Jorim(a new guy I've got to know) and Andrew. As SR commented, it wasn't really as nice as before. I guess it was not as exciting, though I seriously thought the plot was much much better with the twists and hidden leads. I won't reveal the differences for the benefit for those who have yet to watch. Perhaps it's got something to do with the 'final boss' idea in games. Like you know when you beat the 'final boss' too easily you would think the game is kinda not as exciting? haha. I have got to say sorry to Andrew. Your photo was great but I've accidentally deleted it.....sorrieeeeeeeeeeeeeee. After settling the payment to Andrew, we had a late dinner at KFC (not before walking around for 40min to find a non-fast food restaurant for Charles, argh). It was a sinful meal..(i added a few photos, see my photo collection, on the sidebar)

Sunday, I rose from bed by dragging my feet up. I was late to meet Jinki for the farewell lunch! Unfortunately, the rest was even later than me, so we could only start to eat from 12pm. Hahaha. I was waiting at the restaurant to ensure my reservation was still valid...thankfully the crowd came later than us and we managed to get 10 seats. Kuishinbo is a nice place to eat Japanese food. For $30.20, you get to eat all sorts of japanese food from sushi to sashimi, ramen to donburi, nabemono to yakimono.. i would give it 10 fingers all up! Moreover the gathering was of a great mix, the girls were great, the guys were fun to be talk to. One of the best lunch I've had. All thanks to the organisers and participants! After lunch we had difficulty finding an activity to do together but eventually we decided to go to a cafe for another chat...haha. Eventually the chat lasted till 7plus (from 4pm) and we finally dispersed for the day. I regret that I didn't take as much photos as I wished, and this applied to the videos too. Oh ya, you have gotta get the video from me cos no server would accept my upload of a video...I only have 2, it's 14mb and 5mb respectively...won't take too long if you are on broadband as well.

On Monday, Jinki, JunKai, Lixia, Eileen and me gathered at 11am at Kranji MRT. This time the outing's to JB! Woah! My last trip to JB was perhaps 10yrs ago, so to me it was very exciting...haha, and that was why I rarely spoke during the whole trip. I was trying to observe and listen more...Everything has changed so much..the customs, the roads, the buildings etc. Unfortunately I didn't get to see the Larkin bus terminal as we will need to get there for the Malacca trip. However the shopping trip was great. Now I know one of the best buys in JB is contact lenses. Hahaa. I didn't get any vcd/dvd/pirated stuff, dun worry.

I really want to write more about each of the 3 days but I am very tired out. I swam 50 lengths today (for the first time) and practised ball juggling for 1 hr....need to spare my eyes for some rest so that I can catch the matches later....haha

Will write again soon, so stay tuned!

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