Hiya peeps!

After being in camp for 18 days, how are you guys getting on? Fine? As in sometimes good and bad? There are ups and downs in life but hey learn to cope it and i'm sure you guys will find a way out. There is always a way out. If life is simple and easy, it will be boring. Thats why there are problems for you to think and solve! Like i said in the other previous post. Live and never regret the choices you made *cheers*

Ok i'll stop nagging here but i'll serious what i had said. Read twice triple and so on to understand what i meant. If you still don't understand CALL ME! Haha. I'll explain step by step.

Yes Sir,
No Sir,
Yes Platoon Sergeant,
No Platoon Sergeant,
Yes Sergeant,
No Sergeant,

This are sentences that are used EVERYDAY and EVERYTIME without fail. Because you can't possible go and smack the Sir's shoulder and say "hey what activites we have for today?" DUH!

So.. what i had been doing in camp. Training and training thats all i can say. Sore all over the body but as time goes by i slowly began to get used to it. I can't say the training is tough. Maybe its just the beginning? I can't go into detail on whats' happening inside as we are bond to keep our mouth shut incase we blah out wrong information.

At times i wanted to give up because of the intensive training. Imagine after many rounds of push up, chin up aka pulll up, sit up and alot more. You can see the hand shivering, blister forming on the hand, cramps and sweating non-stop. You never see me sweat like this outside before. You can hide but you can't run away from this for 10 weeks. Thats what i told myself.
Inside you have to be punctual, have endurance, discipline and others but this 3 are my core value. This will help you get punish lesser.

I tried to write everyday in my diary but due to the time constrain its IMPOSSIBLE!!! Hardly anytime left. Everyone rushing to the toliet to bath after a long tired day. Its not a open toliet where you can see each other naked and pick up soap!!! So get this straight into your head first. Most of the time are use for queuing for bath and washing clothes... so tell me how to find that EXTRA TIME to write!

Everyday wakes up at 5.30am and light outs at 10.30pm. Another 8 weeks more till BMT is over BUT if you fail BMT you have to RE-COURSE means another 10 weeks of BMT. People finish NS for 2 years but you'll add another 10 weeks. Another thing is the pay. All NS guys will get the fixed amount whether you're in army or navy or air force unless you sign on thats another thing.

Everyone was pretty excitied today in camp because it was BOOK OUT DAY! Everyone was fast when told to do anything. Haha. Deep down me i wasn't that much excited about booking out. Just the normal feeling. I was thinking what i should blog instead. We were transported to Tanah Merah MRT our drop off point. When i saw the first TRAFFIC LIGHT, MRT TRAIN, BUS STOP and blah blah blah... LAME.

Tomorrow i will have to report back to Tanah Merah Mrt at 9pm to book in. Time sure pass faster then i expected.

Woooo 6 more hours to NS !!!

By the time you guys read this blog, I might be inside camp kena tekan or something. I need to thanks the guys and gals who had accompany me the past few days. Those in msn whose i pested with those gay stuff and from Utopia ToH. Hey its only 2 week i'll be inside.. then Sat and Sun i'll be OUT!!! not as i'm going to die inside even if so let it be !!! I'll sms EVERYONE when i'm out nono i should say if i come out alive. LOL

Damm i'm feeling pretty excited going in. Zann said i was like pervert so enthusiastic to go into NS. Haha. Seriously, maybe i got a strong liking to serve the nation. Wan Xiu said that MORE SHIPS WILL SINK... Baohui said there will be WORLD PEACE while i'm inside. LOL funny jokes. *shivers in cold*

So what's my plan for now...

I'll see how it goes inside. Then decide whether to sign on and continue studying or just study till i get a degree or something and then join in. Because i don't believe in staying at the same rank or position. Give your best shot in everything you do. Being the best of the best. At least i know i did tried. I know its all talk for now but mark my words. muhahaha what big dreams i have... I wanna see how NS will turn Lionel into... see how much i change during my "holiday" in NS. So if you notice any changes do tell me!!! *rofl*

Love every single one of you!!!
(Love not as in BGR aka boy girl relationship another type of Love) LOL!

Finally back blogging.. this could be the last entry before i enter or serve National Service aka NS !!!

Don't know why some guys dislike joining NS but i'm opposite. Damm excited !!! Looking forward to the new challenges ahead, new batch of friends, learn new stuff, SHAVING OF HEAD TOGETHER etc... *cheers*



There are the photos from Chalet !!!



Organiser for chalet, Zann and Weihao
A ciggie a day keeps the doctor coming for you! Smoke less guys and gals.



King of Mafia was there, Kumara



Seven little dwarfs and where is the princess? I was the prince taking photos :p



Semi-nude MEN not boys. Zann enjoying the show... *rofl*



Eh... sun tanning don't disturb leh. Fat boy using the sun to slim down. Muhahaha



Horhor gambling... kena caught by Lionel !!! Junhan don't hide your face !!! The rest calling for $$ to be send to them. All rich sons and daughter.



Xinghong counting the losses and profit for that night.



Some guys i mixed around with... From left Calvin, Kumara, Aidil, Arul, Fairul. Any gals or "guys" want the number of the guys?



Watching The Champions League Final. The downfall of Milan !@#$!@#
Will i was supporting Milan... Leading 3 goals at 1st half... never did i expect Liverpool to fight back to draw 3-3 at 2nd half!!! I thought i was having a bad nighmare but it was for REAL. Liverpool won on penalties...



Another chalet but i was not there.. sorry Nisa *2nd from right* i thought Don's chalet was nearby only i could just pop by...

Do view Junhan's blog for his version of the chalet :p

A much anticipated blog entry i'm looking forward to. Mainly regarding the end of a chapter in ITE life. i haven't planned in advanced what i'm going to type but will go with the flow as i think back.

When i was posted to ITE with the result slip on my hand. I was like alone, scared, not sure what course to take and the guys i hanged around with, went into poly... mostly into Temasek Polytechnic. Very blur at that time and was pointless to talk to my parent or aunt because they know nuts about the school system. Lucky i had this mentor from sec sch, Miss Ng. She was the one who advised me what to do. She led me out from the dark and till now we still kept in contact. I had already expected to land into ITE and had no regret to it. I had 6 subjects. I dropped art and my chinese was hopeless so with 4 subject it was impossible to go for a course i like in poly. In the end, i failed all but just passed math. Duh?

Pretty amazing how 2 years had passed. Learning new stuff, knowing new friends and others. I still remembered during the school orientation, the school council (SC) prepared some games to make each of us know our classmates name. *my first thought was that the game was so lame but hey it was NOT after overcoming the shyness* yesh yesh laugh all you want about Lionel being shy but don't let me find out... muhahaha. At first those name were like foreign language, hard time remembering it because its not like names you always come about with.

Let me see... the first stall i went to was.. Tutti Fruitti. I ordered watermelon juice.. damm lousy!! and mine you the items pricing (Tutti Fruitti) was expensive.. just like outside stall pricing!!!

The first group i hanged or sit around was with Don and Edmund. Eh.. but sadly wrong frequency... don't click. I forgot how i managed to infiltrate into Arul and gang. Is it because of the soccer? or is it me, the Lionel factor!! haha

We got Hasbi as our form teacher. *no more mr because he is out of ITE and so am i !!!* Hasbi likes to do thing as a whole. Some might argue that he was not a good teacher. SOMETIMES only. Like to make us do weird stuff. Buddy calling system... you and your buddy must not be late for class. If you're late, your buddy gets late for attendance also. The most famous "Talk cock session" (TCS) almost EVERY LESSON. Hardly any quality teaching time spent. What i felt was that he was trying to create a bond. A very strong bond that can last even after we finish ITE but it did not work that way after he left. Hasbi left us and joined the new campus and then quit teaching and further his studies during our 2nd year. LoL I'm not saying David did a bad job. His method was way much different from Hasbi. David approach was you make thing easy for him, he'll try his best to make it as simple for you.

Pretty sad how last friday ended after the final exam because that was the last meeting we'll going to see some of them. Everyone left one by one after the time was up. There was no like a little gathering with each other. I mean don't they really mind not seeing each other in further after spending almost 2 years together as a classmate? Partly my fault because i did not approach them. Maybe they are still shy? or bears a personal grudge? or we are just Hi/Bye friends? or what other reasond? For me i was not sure what to do. I was more a waiter then a starter. Waiter means having for people to start first before joining in. Is it me that i'm trying to make myself into a diffcult position thinking of such stuff? Do they bother about this or am i the only one? For me i thought things could end with a BANG. Leaving sweet memories behind but no.

After knowing Weihao, he makes me feel like to take thing easy. Don't take thing too seriously. Chill man. I did tried not to bother other stuff rather then my own but deep down i still question. Why is it like that.. bleh bleh bleh. Not to forget Arul , Aidil, Calvin, Xinghong and Junhan. They too got their own ways.

Its 5.30am now... SLEEPY!!! Wanted to have my views on the class chalet. To date only less then half is confirm coming. Reasons? TONS OF IT... Keep telling myself not to bother with how the turn out is. Let's see how it goes later. If not staying overnight.. at least come for the gathering.


So i'll be back on Friday...

Oh ya its confirm i'm be joining the NAVY on the 1st June. *cheers* i don't know how to swim. muhahaha and so nice of junhan he offered to "teach" me to swim during chalet... -.- i sense evil feeling lurking... BEWARE

Contentment

What does this above word mean to you? I got this email from my Aunt.

Have you ever, at any one time, had the feeling that life is bad real bad, and you wish you were in another situation? You find life make things difficult for you, work sucks, life sucks, everything seems to go wrong...

Read the following story... it may change your views about life:

After a conversation with one of my friends, he told me despite taking 2 jobs, he brings back barely above 1K per month, he is happy as he is. I wonder how he can be as happy as he is considering he has to skimp his life with the low pay to support a pair of old parents, in-laws, a wife, 2 daughters and the many bills of a household. He explained that it was through one incident that he saw in India...that happened a few years ago when he was really feeling low and touring India after a major setback.

He said that right in front of his very eyes he saw an Indian mother chop off her child's right hand with a chopper. The helplessness in the mother's eyes, the scream of pain from the innocent 4- year-old child haunted him until today. You may ask why did the mother do so; had the child been naughty, had the child's hand been infected?? No, it was done for two simple words- - -TO BEG!

The desperate mother deliberately caused the child to be handicapped so that the child could go out to the streets to beg. Taken aback by the scene, he dropped a piece of bread he was eating half-way. And almost instantly, a flock of 5 or 6 children swamped towards this small piece of bread which was covered with sand, robbing bits from one another. The natural reaction of hunger. Stricken by the happenings, he instructed his guide to drive him to the nearest bakery. He arrived at two bakeries and bought every single loaf of bread he found in the bakeries. The owner was dumbfounded but willingly sold everything. He spent less than $100 to obtain about 400 loaves of bread (this is less than $0.25 per loaf) and spent another $100 to get daily necessities. Off he went in the truck full of bread into the streets. As he distributed the bread and necessities to the children (mostly handicapped) and a few adults, he received cheers and bows from these unfortunate. For the first time in his life he wondered how people can give up their dignity for a loaf of bread which cost less than $0.25.

He began to tell himself how fortunate he is. How fortunate he is to be able to have a complete body, have a job, have a family, have the chance to complain what food is nice and what isn't nice, have the chance to be clothed, have the many things that these people in front of him are deprived of... Now I begin to think and feel it, too! Was my life really that bad? Perhaps... no, I should not feel bad at all... What about you? Maybe the next time you think you are, think about the child who lost one hand to beg on the streets.

"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, it is the realization of how much you already have." When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

"True love knows no fear. If you believe in something beautiful, then it is always worth the risk. For only those who are brave enough to risk getting hurt are the only ones who find their true destiny. Those who are afraid of what love brings never find it, and only those who are not afraid of getting hurt are the ones who keep it."

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We Never Told Him He Couldn't Do It

I got this email from David Lee. What it says is truth...

It's amazing what we can achieve, if only people would stop telling us we can't. The power of negativity cannot be underestimated. Seemingly harmlesscomments like "Are you sure you can do it?", "No, I don't think it willwork", "You'll never be able to do that!" can be very debilitating, especially to a child.

Today's story, by Kathy Lamancusa, illustrates the things that are possibleif only we don't stifle them with our negativity and pessimism.My son Joey was born with club feet. The doctors assured us that withtreatment he would be able to walk normally - but would never run very well.

The first three years of his life were spent in surgery, casts and braces. By the time he was eight, you wouldn't know he had a problem when you saw him walk.The children in our neighborhood ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would jump right in and run and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn't be able to run as well as the other children. So he didn't know. In seventh grade he decided to go out for the cross-country team. Everyday he trained with the team. He worked harder and ran more than any of the others - perhaps he sensed that the abilities that seemed to come naturallyto so many others did not come naturally to him.

Although the entire team runs, only the top seven runners have the potential to score points for the school. We didn't tell him he probably would never make the team, so he didn't know.He continued to run four to five miles a day, every day - even the day he had a 103-degree fever. I was worried, so I went to look for him after school. I found him running all alone. I asked him how he felt. "Okay," he said. He had two more miles to go. The sweat ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he couldn't run four miles with a 103-degree fever. So he didn't know.

Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were called. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had made the team. He was in seventh grade - the other six team members were all eighth-graders. We never told him he shouldn't expect to make the team. We never told him he couldn't do it. Wenever told him he couldn't do it...so he didn't know. He just did it.

A true story written by Kathy Lamancusa. Sometimes we can succeed purely because we didn't know we could fail.

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Saw this 2 funny and lame poem...

Haggard i look, said by some
All things can't seem to be overcome
Lord, i ask y i so cham
I should believe things go and come

No longer go to pasar malam
Cos wallet also become kang kang
Yoshinoya i had for mum mum
But gastric until i diam diam

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Bo liao my poem as it seem
I see also i gek sim
The light in my life is just a dim
life not sweet like pudding

Ulcers hurt till mouth tia
now i lose appetite sia
when can i ever eat mee siam
wait long long till i long pia

Just can't resist the temptation to blog. What shall i talk about today... yesh i know exam is tomorrow but hey i need a break because i'll feel sleepy when i look at the notes... *yar i know its a lame reason but its true*

Tried to change a new lay-out but can't find any suitable blogskin. Mostly everything at Blogskin are love theme or not to my liking.

As you older, you grow "maybe" more mature. Noticing the changes around you and within you. The word to use here is ADAPT. Having to adapt to changes. This can only be learned by yourself. Having to face the good and bad times.

I shamelessly copied this from Weihao's blog but edited some.

I need a girl to let me cuddle to sleep,I need a girl to let me spill out my troubles, I need a girl who can comfort me when I am down,I need a girl to make me feel happy,I need a girl I need a girl,I need a girl to walk with me.

Will you be the one ?

P.S.: This blog is just NOT a typing excercise. LoL

Geez why am i typing this on the eve of exam... *bangs wall*

"She Will Be Loved" - Maroon 5

Beauty queen of only eighteen
She had some trouble with herself
He was always there to help her
She always belonged to someone else

I drove for miles and miles
And wound up at your door
I've had you so many times but somehow
I want more

I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved
She will be loved

Tap on my window knock on my door
I want to make you feel beautiful
I know I tend to get so insecure
It doesn't matter anymore

It's not always rainbows and butterflies
It's compromise that moves us along
My heart is full and my door's always open
You can come anytime you want

I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved

I know where you hide
Alone in your car
Know all of the things that make you who you are
I know that goodbye means nothing at all
Comes back and begs me to catch her every time she falls

Tap on my window knock on my door
I want to make you feel beautiful

I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain
Look for the girl with the broken smile
Ask her if she wants to stay awhile
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved
And she will be loved

[in the background]
Please don't try so hard to say goodbye
Please don't try so hard to say goodbye

Yeah
[softly]
I don't mind spending everyday
Out on your corner in the pouring rain

Try so hard to say goodbye

I won't be blogging this few days till my exam is over...

Thursday - FMK - 1pm-3pm
Friday - ERP - 8.30am-10.30am

Meanwhile, recent newspaper acticles caught my attention.

May 15th Sunday Times. Under Section Gen Y "Blog No Evil"

Libel laws and angry readers make bloggers regret their online rants.

May 15th The New Paper on Sunday "Teen Virginty" and "Better Clothes Better Marriages" She also wrote a book "The truth about marriage"

Whats the Book about?

• Marry for love, by all means. But do not jump into it.
• There can't be two "bosses" in a relationship. Learn to compromise.
• Marry for the right reasons, not because you think your time is running out or all your friends are married.
• It is your intention, not luck, that determines the success of your marriage.

Geez i'm going to get my hand on that BOOK!

May 16th The Straits Times On Monday "Lawyers losing interest in crime cases"

Alright back to studies...

*there was no link for Straits Times because you need to PAY to read them online*