Small Talks

Procrastinate - To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.

Been stumbling upon this word lately as i went around blog-hopping and it seems like everyone into this bad habit. Inevitably, i'm guilty of it as well. Haven't done anything constructive for the past 2 days, even though i do have quite of stuff to be completed.

First and foremost, army stuff. Need to complete a weekend assignment given by one of our instructors. Homework by the army, who can ever imagine one has to complete an assignment while serving National Service? And not to mention it's not a choice of whether get it done or not, especially with extra duties and confinements as threats.

Secondly, to get my boots polished. My name was taken down during a uniform inspection for the OCS Commandant's Parade on the 24th, just before i book out on Thursday. Managed to pass the standard for my uniform but was held back by my boots. I still remembered during one of our many lectures 2 weeks ago, one of the external lecturer was telling us how PM Lee as a cadet in OCS during his National Service, changed the system after he brought home his boots to polish and his mother called and complained about it.

So why do we still have to polish our boots now? I find it fake and meaningless to make a pair of boots so shiny, simply for the fact that it defeats the purpose of having black boots for tactical reasons in jungles. Might as well issue soldiers white boots if you want it to be shiny. Nevertheless, i'm not Prime Minister or anything of that sort to get my opinions across, thus my boots still have to be polish-shine and i can only whine about it.

Let me digress a bit about Prime Minister Lee's cadet story during his OCS days. I believe most of you guys ain't aware that his son happened to be a cadet right now in OCS. Same batch as me, the 63/06 Delta, Foxtrot, Sierra, Tango intake. Delta being the famous scholar Wing, you can expect them to have a slightly better time, with the presence of the "whitehorse".

So as the external lecturer start sharing with us about PM Lee's boots story, everyone made a ho-ha, especially those in Delta wing. They all started turning and looking at him and was sorta telling him to complain about this and that, hoping that he would help change the system. And at the end of the lecture, the lecturer was curious about the commotion and asked why was everyone so excited when he mentioned about PM Lee.

That's when everyone unanimously pointed out to him PM Lee's son but of course prior to it, he have no clue about PM Lee's son was in the cohort, sitting right in the auditorium. I bet he must be quite relieved that he didn't mention anything bad about PM Lee. So much about not bad-mouthing anyone, cause you never know where Murphy is lurking around.

Sidetracking again, speaking about Murphy's Law, i was reading up some of Murphy's Laws and i came upon some interesting ones. So might as well, i'll share some over here.

Murphy's Law
1. If anything can go wrong, it will.
2. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
3. Every solution breeds new problems.

Murphy's Love Law
1. All the good ones are taken.
2. If the person isn't taken, there's a reason.
3. The amount of love someone feels for you is inversely proportional to how much you love them.
4. Money can't buy love, but it sure gets you a great bargaining position.
5. Nice guys (girls) finish last.
6. The good ones die first.
7. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
8. Availability is a function of time. The minute you get interested is the minute they find someone else.
9. Before you find your handsome prince, you've got to kiss a lot of frogs.

Murphy's War Law
1. Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
2. The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions:
when they're ready.
when you're not.
3. Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy other people to shoot at.
4. If the enemy is within range, so are you.
5. Tracers work both ways.

All sounds true ain't it? In fact most philosophers find Murphy's Law as fundamentals. Maybe i should come out with Law's Law some time to come.

Alright back to my main subject of discussion; things to be done.

Thirdly, I should have made full use of this rare long weekend to continue with my motorbike lesson. I'm simply too lazy and my bike khaki isn't too keen on it too. But i'm yearning for a bike every time i came across my dream bike Yamaha R1-2005. It's pretty hard for me to be taking lesson every week i book out too, simply for the fact that i might not be able to book out due to some unforeseen confinements or weekend outfield and such. Just hope that i'll be able to get my license and bike some time before the end of this year.

Lastly, shopping spree for myself. Been aiming for some stuff but have yet to go and hunt them down. I need to give myself some good treats before i start becoming emo and whiny yet again. So people reading out there, don't be surprise i start playing Santa yet again.

I'm still having slight cough, sore throat and flu, and i'm not really doing favour to myself by eating chocolates and not drinking enough water.

After lazing for the whole of yesterday's afternoon, i dragged myself out of house around evening time. I did something i never done before, and that's to shop around NTUC for an hour. Thus that's where i saw the new appealing Oreo Wafer Sticks, bought and finished them up way before i had my dinner.

Being a newbie to shop around supermarket alone, i walked around 4-5 rounds before i finally managed to get all the stuff i wanted. The fabric starch and shoe kiwi gave me a hard time hunting for them. Other than that, sweets and cup-noodles are pretty much no-brainer for me to get them.

Perhaps for the last 10 weeks, having stayed in Australia for 3 weeks, confined in OCS SAFTI MI for 3 weeks, and a couple of weeks of running around camps, civilian world seems to have changed quite abit. Not to mention some places have changed quite abit. AMK Central has never been so new to me until yesterday. I bet some of you might be thinking i'm crazy to say AMK Central is something appealing. I think so too.

Nevertheless, as i was taking my own sweet time strolling to a confectionary to get some bread and cakes home for my parents after my NTUC trip, i happened to come across few couples. I don't know why or how, somehow all the 3 couples i saw were in the midst of some arguments. And in most cases, i'll see the male being the fiercer, dominant one, leaving the female tearing away. I'll leave this for individuals to reflect upon it.

Time for dinner now. Been at this for the past 1 hour and so. And also after getting comments and remarks about always having long posts, with the help of Microsoft word count, i realised my posts do reached up to 1,400 words at time and easily over 500 words. This post itself is already almost close to 1,300 words. Alright, i shall stop here and procrastinate further until i deemed fit.

Till then.