Direct Enlistments!

Yet another round of Direct Enlistment exercises in Tekong...As the Sea Ferry I/C, my job is to move around from Pasir Ris Bus Interchange (PRBI) , SAF Ferry Terminal (SFT) and my office to ensure everything runs smoothly and react to any cock-ups on the ground.

But of course, cock-ups are rare. So I usually send my friends into Tekong :D HAHA!

This round of enlistment, I sent 3 of my friends in...

1) REC Donovan Loh.

He's my church friend. I'm his fish4men leader :D Met up like twice before he enlisted. Haha. He's a really, super-duper nice guy. Well-mannered, polite, respectful and putting others before himself, it's hard not to love him :D Haha.

He's also a really smart guy...didn't take As...went straight to NUS High and emerged as the cohort's valedictorian...So my guess is a genius like him will most likely go to OCS? Haha. We'll see... :D

He shaved before he enlisted -__-" So my picture with him at the ferry terminal is already botak -.-" HAHA!

Anyway, my pictures with him are still stuck in Aretha's camera -.-"

2) REC Ken Lok

Another smarty pants church friend of mine. Went to Raffles Junior College and was headhunted by SMU...They offered him a place! Ok, still subject to final approval but..yeah, he's getting offers while I'm getting rejected. HAHA!

He's also a really nice guy, witty, smart and sharp. Sure survive one...LOLS!

My pictures with him? Stuck in his father's I-phone -.-"And, I don't know his dad. Haha. No email, nothing...so I guess the pictures'll die in the phone or maybe Ken will transfer it out...Hopefully. HAHA!

And yes, like most of us, Ken loves his hair too much to cut it before entering...HAHA!

3) REC Jethro Ang

My cousin! Basically another smarty pants as well...He's a really hardworking person and likable by nature...not the super extrovert kind but you'll enjoy talking with kind...He doesn't make friends, people will make friends with him...haha. He's a tad too friendly...scared he kena bullied by the more dominant ones...Haha.

Since he's my cousin, I know his parents...Duh. So whatever pictures we took is obtainable. Haha! So here are the few (quite a lot actually) pictures we took :D

At TFT :D

Still @ TFT + Aunty Lucy

REC Jethro & 3SG Jonavan :D HAHA!

 

@ The cookhouse...Cookhouse 3...the last lunch before confinement :'(

Last photo with him :D

Me & Aunty Lucy :D

Over the week, I saw Ken twice and Percy once! Haha! Today I saw both of them at the cookhouse...

I saw Ken, waved and continued walking to my seat. As I put my plate down and was about to sit down to eat, I heard someone shout my name "JONAVAN!"

I turned around and saw PERCY!! Haha! Guess what was my response?

"Is this how you address a sergeant? Want to carry on 20 in the cookhouse?" HAHA! I then slapped his back and asked how was he...Haha.

Both Ken & Percy gave around the same reply "Boring la...just do a lot of physical exercise, marching and do CPT (Combat Physical Training) and road marches..."

Yup, have yet to see Donovan & Jethro yet...Hopefully will soon. Jethro's been SMSing me though. Donovan totally taos SMSes...HAHA! He probably saving battery for the 2 weeks confinement. HAHA!

OH YA! Now it's no more a 2 weekend confinement. It's only a 1 weekend confinement! The COs all confine them only for 2 weeks! Whoa. Getting slacker & slacker man...Soon there won't even be confinement period man. Haha.

Anyway, all the best to you 4 as you join the force. May God's force be with you! :D

Awesome post...About our primary school days!!

http://jeremysng.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/some-things-i-remember-from-the-90s/

You Are

You are....RIGHT! This is a re-post from my previous post...updated with VISUAL AIDS :D Haha...Here goes the re-post...

It's been awfully long since I did a recording man. I love doing recordings. Allows me to express myself through one of the best mediums - MUSIC! :D

So yup, Lebbillie wrote a song not too long ago...like 4 months ago. She did a lil' recording using skype I think...when she was still in Oz. Yang Cheng played the guitar, she sang & they recorded it. That's a really sweet way to do a recording man. LOLS!

Anyway, we went over to Aaron Leong's place to record!

 Aaron in his "recording studio"

Why his place? He has a cool mike. The $200 mike that you always see those artists in recording studios use...Yeah. Good stuff. The recording quality's good.

But of course the programme you use to edit is as important. Haha. He uses some freeware...Forgot the name. LOLS.

Anyway, had a lotsa fun doing the recording. Like laughing at each other's mistakes...and laughing at Lebbillie's sing-alone-syndrome. HAHAHA!

Picture taken from outside the cordoned off area...HAHA!

Clearance to take photo granted. HAHA!

When she's singing, everyone else has to vacate the room. LOLS. Haha! Firstly, she's shy. Secondly, she'll burst out laughing if others are around. Haha.

Oh, and she has a really, ear-strainingly soft voice. Haha. Soft but sweet voice. Haha. We tried separately. She sing. Then I sing, layered on top. We then tried singing together, with my loud, audible voice doing the parts in the background. The moment my part came & when I sang the first note, she burst out laughing. LOLS!! HAHAHA!

All in all, after all the retakes and laughter, we came up with something not bad. :)

The intro is a lead guitar intro of the verse notes and I included a lil' guitar solo in the song! Whee heww! Haha. Should do this more often man. Hearing my own sleek solos and all...HAHAHA!

 Me in action! :D

 Still in action...haha.

Anyway, here's the lyrics of her song...

You Are
Father in Heaven
Hallowed be Your name
Let Your presence
Dwell among us today because

Today we're gonna lift Your name
Today we're gonna lift You higher
Today we're gonna lift Your name
Today we're gonna lift You higher
Higher than ever

Jesus, You're all I ever want
You're the only one I want
To sing a love song to
Jesus, I lift my hands and sing
You're wonderful, so beautiful
You're worthy of all praise

You're all I seek
Here I am, kneeling at Your feet
Jesus, my life belongs to You
I wanna live for You
You're the ruler of all the nations

Yup, it's a pretty simple worship song. Put a full band in and we could make it a good one :D haha.

Had fun man. Thanks Lebbillie for giving me the privilege to be your guitarist & co-arranger and thanks Aaron Leong for your place! :D

After that we went for dinner :D Lebbillie treated my meal! haha! Thanks man! LOLS. But it was because of this recording that I missed dinner at home and got a lil' rebuke from my mum. Haha. But, yeah, still thanks for the treat! :D Haha.

Over the dinner table, we chatted juicy topics and took beautiful photos...Haha!

The utmost expression of beauty...HAHA! Beat that. LOLS!

We were chatting randomly and didn't know how we got to the topic of the original beauty of a person w/o wearing specs...HAHA!

Upon request, I removed my specs and they said I look SCARY! I was like...WTH?? Scary?! The only comment I get when I remove my specs is "WHOA, HANDSOME!" HAHA!

They totally shattered that. HAHA! Aaron Leong even went to the extent to say he couldn't look me in the eye without me wearing my specs...Whenever I look at him he'll go "OWWW!" -__-" Lebbillie said I looked like Angry Birds. HAHAHA! Whatever.

Anyway, here's the last 2 pictures...

 Take I

Take II

Yup, had a great day! :D And Lebbillie wants to do another recording...She's not satisfied. Haha! Me too actually.

My 2 fav games! Stuffed toy version!

This is super random but I came across this website selling stuff toys of Plants VS Zombies & Angry Birds!!

My two favourite single player, nothing-to-do games now comes in cutesy, hug-able forms! HAHA! Cool right? LOLS!

Before Ken gets his rank...

As always, I'll always prepare a lil' gift for all my pre-enlistee friends :) haha. You can ask them what I give them :D LOLS!

Once again, I prepared my pre-NS gift for Jethro (my cousin), Donovan & Ken Lok.

I passed the present to Jethro during service...Yes, he's also attending Heart of God church now! Praise God!

I can pass the present to Donovan at service in Bethel.

Ken...wait... He doesn't attend service. Haha. So how am I going to pass it to him? I'm going to Bethel this Sunday. So I have to orchestrate things in such a way that he'll be in service so I can pass my gift to him. LOLS! Haha.

Ok, passing the gift to him wasn't the main motive. The fact that I bothered to even make a gift shows my love for my fellow brothers-in-Christ. HAHA! The BHB-justification syndrome kicking in...haha! But the passing of the gift to them was kinda like a vehicle...a medium, the thing that made meeting him up possible. LOLS.

So in order to ensure his attendance in service, we have to ask him to come for service and after that, go out! Simple.

So I called Johan and told him to ask him out after service. I then called Sherry to ask our cell group to go out with him too :D

So after all the planning (ok not much planning I know...haha! But no one else bothered to plan...heh...the syndrome @ work again...LOLS!)...we met up at service! :D

After service we headed to POMO...the old Paradiz Centre at Dhoby Ghaut...to play pool :D We = Ken Lok, Johan Teo, Aaron Tan, Kevin Ho, Sherry Teo, Elhannah Ho, Qiulin Cheng, Kai Lin. Elhannah came after we pool-ed and Aaron & Johan left after we pool-ed. -.-" :(

Upon reaching POMO, we were all feeling kinda hungry...at 5pm! Haha. So we had an early dinner at the fast food area @ B1. There was a Subway, Korean fast food and some Mee Pok stall there.

We patronized all 3 stalls. Haha!

The Korean food stall was really rabak. DON'T GO THERE TO EAT! Firstly, the quantity of the food is WHOA PIANG OEI! Don't be fooled by the menu! The size of the bowls and the variety and amount of ingredients all look so appetizing. But when the real thing comes. HU LEE YA!

Secondly, the quality of the food also CMI. Haha.

O well, after that not-so-hearty meal we went to play pool :)

Shall let the pictures narrate the story...

Johan & Myself :) This is the shop's entrance :D

Take 2 with his eyeballs closed. Haha!

Ken & Myself :D

Sherry & Qiulin

Ken & Me :) both in white loafers! :D Haha

Me, Qiulin, Johan & Kai Lin :D

Taking aim...

Taking aim...

Taking aim...

Taking aim...WAIT, who is this AH LIAN?! HAHAHA! Omgosh! It's Sherry Teo!! HAHAHA!

Aunty Alice & Kai Lin's mum also joined us in playing pool :D And, IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE I PLAYED POOL MAN!! So really had fun :D Haha.

After that, we headed to Popeye's @ Cathay for another round of dinner. Haha! Since we had such an early dinner & since Elhannah just arrived with an empty stomach, we went to makan. LOLS.

After makaning, we played...PICTUREKA!! My awesome investment has really facilitated our interaction in outings really well. :D

Sherry, Kevin & Elhannah :D

Elhannah, Ken & Myself :)

Once again, we played our own special mod of this game :) Lay out the picture cards in 7 x 5 or 6 x 5 or whatever and play "I-spy"...so on a turn based gameplay, every one will take turns to say something like "plugs" and then the rest will fight to find the "plug" that the person is referring to. Get it? haha.

Anyway, the most no-link, downright lame topic given was by our dear Ken Lok. He simply said "Kinky"

After checking the dictionary and discovering the meaning of "kinky" which refers to, for his context, anything sex-related or has a sexual innuendo. Haha.

We scrutinized every picture card and couldn't find what he was looking for. HAHA! Finally, I got it...a random guess. LOLS! It was a picture of a bull - 2 horns, 1 body, 4 legs and it had a cloud of smoke coming out of its ass. It's a fart probably.

So what does the picture of a bull got to do with "KINKY"?!

Ken's laconic reply "Oh, the bull has horns. So it's horny."

Our flabbergasted reaction "!$#%^$&#^@*(%)#()$" Words can't describe our reaction...so I used punctuation to describe it. HAHA! LOLS!

Ken's one was one of the most hu-lee-ya! guesses. Still got Sherry's & Elhannah's also super no link, downright lame description...HAHA!

But due to time constraints (I gotta book in tomorrow) I shall leave the story for another day...or I shall let it be told verbally by us :D Haha.

Take care Ken, or rather REC Lok J W and see you this coming Thursday! :)