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March 31 The Letter(No! I'm not in love! >.< I just got this in an email and i thought it was quite cool)
Story behind it (NovaSword's edition)
"Yes, who is it?" Emily's father answered the door, but no one could be seen along the pathway. Just as he was about to close the door, he spied an envelope lying on the welcome mat with the words "To Emily" on it. Curious, Emily's father picked the envelope up and realised that it wasn't even sealed. Must be from Jason... Emily's father thought with dread. That boy has been nothing but trouble for him. It was bad enough that Emily and Jason were going out without him even knowing about it, but the main reason he disapproved of Jason was the fact that he was asian! "From this day forward, I want you to stop seeing him!" Emily's father demanded when he had caught Emily trying to sneak back into the house at 2am in the morning. Without a second thought, he opened the unsealed envelope and read the letter.
"Daddy? What are you doing?" A voice from behind him said quietly. Emily's father flinched but settled down quickly when he realised that it was Emily. "Jason wrote you a letter." He explained. "And when i get my hands on him, he'll be sorry for writing this letter to you." But in truth, Emily's father was glad that Jason wrote this letter. It'll be over soon. He thought to himself as he handed the letter to his daughter.
Emily wanted to protest about her father reading her private letters, but she was too angry with him and what happened the other time. Instead, she swallowed the insult that she was about to say, snatched the letter from her father's hand and ran into her room.
As she locked her door, her handphone beeped, informing her that she'd received a message from Jason. After she'd read the message, she read the letter and smiled. Emily then took out a pen and started writing something.
The Letter... (From Jason to Emily)
1----"The great love that I have for you March 26 How To Save A LifeSorry sorry sorry! Sorry i didn't post a blog entry yesterday! I know, i've disappointed you! I've let you down! I've failed to contribute to the weekly issue of the blog post that is my blog!
i thought that i could post whilst in my camp today, but due to some unforseen circumstances, which i would not go into because i'm frustrated at the admin cock-up but let's just say i couldn't use my computer anymore, i didn't have enough time to use the internet there.
Anyway, i realised that i never even told you guys what i do now after i commissioned!
Well, to put it simply: I'm a staff officer. Meaning i'm working in the office. (lol, an officer in the office)
Now if you wanna be technical, then read on...
I'm what is known as an AS3 (2).
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Ok, now you're probably wondering what has this guy been smoking?
*ahem* i don't smoke...
Well, lemme try to explain. I'm in the Operations department, and my main role is to prepare and submit RedCon (readiness condition) reports to my superiors. But other than that, i do other small stuff here and there which i still do not know how to do but will explain when i know what it is.
As for the (2) in my tag, easy! I'm the assistant of the assistant....
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Ok! Top guy is S3, his assistant is the AS3 and since i'm his assistant, that makes me AS3 (2). Get it?!
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I'm still a big not used to being called 'sir' around my office. like, i'd be walking down the corridor and this clerk would see me and say "Hello, sir." i would look at him for about 1 second, to which i would mentally whack myself and remind that he's talking to me. March 23 We Live In SingapuraA funny link to a flash music video about the history of singapore.
It is sang by Hossan Leong and the music was remade by Edmund Tan to the tune "we didn't start the fire". March 18 Uptown GirlHad a holiday this week, so i had a nice week of relaxing and getting slowly used to the fact that i'm now a 2nd Lieutenant (2LT) instead of a cadet. Not that i'm complaining! I mean, besides the pay raise, there are many other benefits that i can enjoy now like not having to march from point to point, being greeted instead of greeting all the time and.... and... um... er... .... did i mention not marching?
Well, i'm considering moving my blog to some other website instead of spaces.. (I have seen the light!) Since there are so many thing that i want to do but can't because of the limitation of spaces... (Anybody got any suggestions?)
That thought aside for the moment, last thursday, mom, boaz and i went to batam. It was ok, if not moderately a waste of time. But i did enjoy sitting by the beach watching the sun set whilst listening to the gentle lapping of the waves. I felt like i could have sat there for a long time, just enjoying the serenity, away from the rat-race that is so evident in singapore, until the mosquitoes came...
Yosh! Last friday i had my commissioning ball... Had to wear a bowtie.... how embarassing... =_=" But anyway, the ball was an extreme bore, honestly speaking. I won't spend much time writing about it. Suffice it to say, i had a fun time chatting with melissa and some of my friends and got a few cool gifts, including a letter from my friend saying that i owed him $1... (i know...)
Anyway, one thing that i remembered was a conversation between melissa and me.
Apparently, one of her friend (who happened to be my course mate in ocs) asked her to find a gf for him (or something along those lines), and she asked me that, since she's on a "potential girlfriend hunt", she might as well find one for me! I couldn't help but laugh to myself when i heard this.
*sighs*...
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*smiles* Thanks! Really... But i'll be fine.
*winks and exits slowly* March 11 Keep Holding On"Ladies and Gentlemen, may i present to you: the trained officers!"
I shouted with joy along with the rest of my friends as we threw our peakcaps into the air in celebration. Finally! After 9 months of training, it's finally over. I'm now commissioned as an officer in Singapore.
Actually, the commissioning parade didn't go as well as i'd hoped. I mean, there were a few mistakes here and there. Even though i wasn't in the audience to see it, i could hear a lot of murmurs and laughs halfway during the parade (i was told that one guy almost lost his balance when he turned). Anyway, another thing was that the day before the parade, i got a bit of a sunstroke, so i had a mild fever. I felt very weak and it took a bit more effort for me to stand. So you can already guess that during the parade, i was praying like crazy that i won't faint. How embarrassing would it be?! But yeah, i was busy trying to focus on something to keep me alert and not zone out. Like mentally going through the sequence of the parade and checking out the cute girls in the audience. (hehehe)
But all in all, i'm happy to finally but a 2nd lieutenant now instead of a cadet. But... what does a 2LT do? Hahaha, well, i guess i'll just have to find out later... (some officer i am...)
Anyways, i was a bit nervous before the parade started. Probably because i'd been waiting for this day for a long time (even when i was 8-9 years old). I had wanted to be an officer ever since i was young, so to actually stand there and listen as the Reviewing Officer announced that i am now commissioned as a officer was a dream come true.
(will write more later, in the mean time, check out my comms parade pics! ^-^) March 04 Harder to BreatheOne more week...
So near yet so far... During this week, i've been practicing for the upcoming commissiong parade this saturday. So basically i've been marching around in the hot sun until my face is 5 shades tanner than the rest of my body. Oh well, i just pray (really really really hard) that it doesn't rain during the parade. I mean, in the whole history of comms parades, there was only one batch which rained on their parade (pun unintended), and they had to cancel the parade. All that hard training gone to waste...
(Wish all you guys can come see me this saturday!! >.<)
Anyway, i finally got my sword!!! yay! We had a formal ceremony last friday where a general presented the sword to each of us individually. A lot went through my mind before i went up on stage. Like how when i was a kid (about ten years old), i'd touched my father's sword and asked him: "where did you get this?". And as i received the sword, i looked at it and remembered him saying to me: "only officers in the army can get this. no one else." When i went back to my room later, i smiled contently and thanked God for allowing me the honour of being an officer. ..
I felt like giggling like a schoolgirl after that. i blame the 3 glasses of red wine, 2 shots of port wine and a drink known as the ocs spirit. i was a wittle bit tipsy.......
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