The Chronicles Of Zander

2008-07-26T09:28:00.000+08:00

Finally out!
First week! So FUN! ! ! !! ! !

haha...

2008-05-01T09:37:00.003+08:00

Finally can blog... this is due to my fantastic memory of my PASSWORD! hahha!

Hmm.... It's been long, really LOONNNGGGGG sionce the last time I had updated...

And I've already finished my poly.... So many things have happend... in a blink of an eye? well, maybe a few thousand blinks. Anyway, life's been catching up with me... Finally can do things that I've always wanted to do... Now, there's no restriction of time or money to stop me! hahaha....

The other day went to collect graduation gown and Ng took nice pictures of us in the Gown!

Ah... What else.... Water confidence course? haha. Hope it's gonna be fun?!

Training for the 15km has begun for me... Sad thing is, I always run myself, or should I say, end up running myself... WHO WILL RUN WITH ME? Now, I'm not saying that I'm that good and have long stamina to run long D. Just that those that run with me aren't so good at running... Oh and yesterday night when I was running back home as I was waiting for the traffic light to turn green, this girl in the car kept looking at me... I must say the girl is not bad looking, but I only had her for a glance... haha... Then I paiseh to keep looking at her... Think she wanna make me paiseh also... haha..

Toda'y Labour day, Wish all of you HAPPY LABOUR DAY!

2007-11-15T17:16:00.000+08:00

It's been a REALLLLLLYYYYY Long time since I update post...

Many factors contribute to it.

Well, let's not say too much.

It's exam period now and I'm kinda busy now.

Look forward to more runs coming up soon....... Who wanna come and join me?

Maybe a trekking trip after the exams, It's been awhile since I went into mother nature! The smell of green grass and tree trunk gives me shoikness! haha!

2007-10-20T14:05:00.000+08:00

Long time no Blog....

Much have happened since I came back from Cambodia...

Now missing the place...

Dunno why? Maybe it's less stressful over there...

School's been busy so far, and I think I'm beginning to feel some of the school stress, especially from the FYP.

2007-09-01T23:40:00.001+08:00

YEa! Going overseas tomorrow!

Seeya guys!

:)

2007-08-30T17:21:00.000+08:00

Ah! Long time never blog!

Finished my exams and now in holiday mood, which is quite boring!

Going overseas soon! YEa!

Finally can go and do some real relaxation! hehe

2007-08-25T18:41:00.000+08:00

FINALLY !!!

EXAMS ARE OVER!!!!!

NOW FOR ENJOYMENT! hahehehsheaheah

2007-08-21T23:57:00.001+08:00

Ah, two more exam papers before the end of all this! AH!

Quick! EXAM QUICK COME!

2007-08-09T08:22:00.001+08:00

HAPPY NATIONAL DAY!

2007-07-29T10:18:00.001+08:00

Wah,

EXAMS ARE COMING!

MUST STUDY!

If not how to go U! haha!

Must study!

2007-07-22T22:13:00.000+08:00

Today was a rather diffrent day.

Woke up at about 5am to know that afternoon study session is canceled due to some stupid reason. ZZzz. Anyway, I washed up and walked to the bus stop to take a bus to TP. It was raining and it was quite cold. oh well. Took bus 23 to TP and it took about 30mins. Quite a fast trip I must say, but then again, it's in the wee hours of a Sunday morning. After I alight, spotted that there are alot of cars queueing up at the TP entrance to enter. Well, after crossing the road, saw a large number of US Navy personnel taking part in the run too.

I followed them over to the stadium and from there, registered using my lucky draw coupon.
Met up with Cheong and his army friend. They are running the 10km while I was only running the 5km "fun" run. Well, we deposited our bag in a chaotic environment. Atlas, we put our bag in the VGO truck. I sat on the bench at the side and waited for the 10km competition.

I was flagged off at about 0745. We ran and it started to bottle neck till a walking speed at the cross over from the TP side to the Bedok Reservoir side. After that, we ran on gravel which has alot of pot holes in it. Due to the rain earlier on, the condition was made worst. Everyone was like trying to avoid the paddles of water and running continuously was quite difficult. In the end, I ran along the side of the gravel road where it's most of the time dryer then the main gravel road. I continued to run and there were quite alot of people along the way who started to walk, causing a blockage at certain parts of the gravel road. After awhile of running, I catched up with the 10km runners! YEA! MAybe my stamina has increased? hha!

Anyway, as I was approaching the end point, I can see alot of people started to sprint. After I crossed the big arch Mizuno ballon, my timing was 27mins35sec. Well, this is the best part, the marshals there keep shouting wrong way and directed some people to run the other way. And I stupidly followed their instruction!

This is going to be interesting, I continued my timing and ran, thinking that it was about to end for the 5km. I ran, and ran, and ran and the end doesn't seem to get into my sight! As I looked around as I ran, I reliase that there aren't many blue tag people left! Only at this moment that I reliase that I was running the 10km route! hah! No wonder it seem so long, my timing was about 45mins when I reliase that I ran the 10km route! haha! HEck it, I continued to run, too lazy to walk back to the ending point at the back. Want to challenge myself. As I ran, I spotted Ruth, my PF sub-theme friend. WE ran pace each other all the way to the end, and chatted awhile too. As we got close to the finishing line, AGAIN, I reliased that she was runing faster. And so I followed suit! haha! Finally compeleted the freaking "fun" run!

hah! MY timing for 10km is 1hr and 3mins! YEA! Not bad considering that I've never trained for a 10km run before and it was my first time. Well, it was a damn tiring race I must say. I could feel my legs weaking at the end of the run. I met up with Cheong and his friend and took our bags from the collection point. I must say, that there was no order at all at the bag collection point and anyone could just take the bag they want to take! THERE WAS NO SECURITY OF THE POSSESSION! Luckily I found my bag. I didn't look expensive and guess no one took mine by mistake! hah!

We then proceded to queue for the "goodie bag"! haha. IT was a freaking long queue! All the way to the Canal. And we queued for like 1hr just to get the goodie bag. When it was my turn, the lady told me that they ran out of M and L size for the singlet and gave me a size S. HAHA! They think I look nice in it? haha! At least I can fit in it though. haha. Went home on the BUs and slept all the way home.

Bottom line, don't join any Mizuno run the next time cause it is really badly organised.

After I bathed, tried to comtact my studying friends and reliase that she has just woke up! Where got someone sleep till noon one? haha!

Anyway, end up studying at home.

Went Billy bombers with my family to eat later that evening.

Hope tomorrow I can wake up in time for my check up.

God Speed.

2007-07-20T22:35:00.000+08:00

Whoa, today must be a tough day. Lessons ended like 11.30am when we complete our CSW.

Went eating and collected my MRP rabbit skull after lunch. The lab tech said that due to the FDM machine, the base broke off from the skull. But that's a easy problem to solve and we quickly used a industrial glue to glue it together. After that, we wrote down our group member's name and submitted it to our lecturer.

AFter that, went off to Pioneer SEc for my weekly dose of UG activity. Today had basic fire fighting course for my cadets and station 14 was called down to assist us. I had gone through the theory part of the fire extinguisher and hose reel drill with them just the previous week. Today, they learnt how to use the extinguisher and how to operate the fire hose. Although it had rained abit, they managed to do the practical part in the end as the rain stopped shortly after. From their feedback, them all seem to be very interested with fire extinguisher and it seem very cool to all of them.

Well, it seemed all well for them as they are rather practical people.

After the test, dismissed them at about 6pm and went home. It seemed good over all, except the last part where they had to march back to the room to get their bag, they were practically "shit" as they had described for themselves. Well, besides some moaning and groaning from them, they were all ok. Well, tomorrow they'll be having a combined training with the rest of the UGs in school for their NDP parade in school, this year the parade is planned and executed by NCC. Hope they can live up to uphold their good image and prove others wrong.

2007-07-19T07:54:00.000+08:00

It's time of the sem again for exams, this time thou, I MUST GET HIGH GPA! If not, my chances of going to the U seems slim. But then again, I can go to overseas U, but my chances of signing on and taking the scholarship is slim then. Well, I must study and stop all my other interferences.

This coming SAt is the Mizuno Wave run and I hope I can do it in record time.

God Speed.

2007-07-11T00:02:00.000+08:00

Just some reminders for this coming Friday.

1) Dari kanan/kiri/tengah cepat jalan
2) Berhenti
3) Kablakang pusing
4) Kakiri/kakanan pusing
5) Dari kiri/kanan kiri/kanan belok
6) Menbri hormat semasan berjalan hormat kahadapan hormat
7) Menbri hormat semasan berjalan hormat kakanan/kakiri hormat
8) Pandan kakanan/kakiri/kahadapan Pandan
9) Hentak Kaki Cepat Hentak
10) Maju
11) Tukar langkah semasan berjalan tukar

Caution: The above may be incorrect due to the difference between UGs.

2007-07-10T21:47:00.000+08:00

Tomorrow's Poly50 and I think I'm feeling abit down. Seems like my team does not have any one from SPARC and then all the people I dun know. Wah, dunno if can run well tomorrow or not, short distances of 200m, sure, my long distance is good, but my short distances sucks big time.

Well, let's hope tomorrow is blessed with a good day and I have enough rest today.

God Speed.

2007-07-09T00:08:00.000+08:00

WAh, today woke up at about 8.15am and prepared to go to Ubin with the year 1s. Packed my bag and quickly went out of the house to meet Li Ying at Kallang. Meet her like 0947, 2 mins late. Anyway, we took a MRT down to Tanah Merah and waited there for 15mins for any others who want to come along with us to Ubin. We waited for 15 mins and no one came. So disappointing. Spent my many nights to type an email and send to year 1 and 2s to invite them to come and cycle together in Ubin, yet, no one came. real disappointing, heszzz.

In the end, Li Ying and I took the bus to Changi Village where we had our early lunch before setting off to Ubin. Over at Ubin, we went over to the shop that I often frequent to rent bike when I'm in Ubin. We rented two Raleigh m2o bikes at the price of $10. Really reasonable, considerding we are going to trash the bike in Ubin. We then proceeded firstly to the German Girl's Shrine. We cycled there without looking at the map although we had the maps in our hand. haha! The route there was road followed by gravel road. At the Gravel road we really paddled hard as there was a step slope and I can see that Li Ying can't cycle on not tarred road, even the slopes in Ubin on tarred road may be too tough for her! hahaha!

Well, we went to many others places on the Island. Think we really explored the whole island. Very fun, think this is the only time that I really went to the whole island, the rest of the time, went cycling with my other friends who all can't cycle as well. Must give credit to Li Ying to be as crazy as me to chiong all the off road, steep slopes and other dunno wad terrain! haha!

At last, we went home after waiting for the rain to stop at about 5pm. Really nice trip.

Maybe next time, I go ubin, cannot call SPARC people go. Must call ym classmates along, ther're more pro outdoor activites. haha.
I don't even know if I organise another Kayaking trip, if any one will even turn up! haha!

Here's some pics of the Boar we took pic.

2007-07-02T23:07:00.001+08:00

Yea! Sunday completed the 4km route in 29.30 mins! IT was very enjoyable and it felt very fast! The timing was so slow due to the walking start as the people there were all walking instead of running! IT was only until riverwalk where we really started to run! haha! Did it with Yong Hong, Izzat, Derek, his GF, his friend, Li Ying, Ferlicia and Kai Tian.

We met at Clarke Quay MRT station which is the wrong station and walked the whole entire strech of Singapore River to find Zouk! I had mistaken MOS for Zouk !AH! Then we went over to zouk and Li ying was not there yet. I SMSed her not to go to Clarke Quay but she still did! In the end she had to take a bus to Outram Park before taking a bus to Grand Copthorne Hotel. haha! Must really say sorry to those whom I've misled!

Was running at the first with Izzat, as he was running infront of me, I was thinking that he had good stamina. As I carried on running, I lost him. Maybe I was slower then him? haha! Anyway, YH seem to have caught up with me, or is it the other way round? haha! We ran until about after turning the corner of the bridge and past riverwalk before loosing him. From then on, I was on myself. Running all the way to the finishing line without walking. Well, this was a good timing considering that I even had walked! haha! Anyway, the rest came out after me as I reliase. ahaha! MAybe they were slower then me. Saw Tiffany came in which was followed by the year 1s. Sad to say, the year 1s did not really run. They walked. Well, maybe they did not have the stamina yet. At the end while queuing to get back our bags, saw my cadets. Think that the whole Pioneer Sec came to run. I even saw Mr Nathan! haha! The fat joker! hehe.

Went to Vivo after that hoping to use the Adidas voucher but to no avail. In the end, I registered for the Mizuno Wave run. YEa! NExt run! I'll be in the fun run, it's 5km and may prove to be a challenge to me as the run is on uneven ground, so maybe for this race I'll need to use my trail running shoes instead of my usual runners.

2007-06-27T20:27:00.000+08:00

Whoa!

Yesterday's test I think I made a wrong calculation for the Q = V x A . haha!

Well, anyway, my cousin in Australia saw that they are having sale on Oakley! It's like selling at SGD$166 over at Perth! haha! Maybe I should get one from Australia! It's better! hehe

2007-06-26T09:35:00.000+08:00

Whoa!

Today's the Fluid Mechanics test on Chapter 1! Lucky! Its easy to just study for chapter 1! haha!

Morning woke up and read the email about NAPFA! Yea! Finally! It's here! HOpe and wish I can get Gold!

Best of all, It is compulsory for all graduating students to attend the NAPFA test! hahha!

For ALL Pre-Enlistees (to be enlisted in 2008)

2 runs of NAPFA test will be conducted. The 1st run before exams (results will be submitted to MINDEF & reflected on transcripts) and the 2nd run after exams (results will be submitted to MINDEF but WILL NOT be reflected on transcripts).

A) 1st run: 6th Nov 07 to 14th Dec 07at 5.30pm, sports complex. Booking is available from 1st Nov 07.
B) 2nd run: 4th to 14th Mar ’08 at 9am sports complex. No booking is required.

Well, lets hope I can start to work on myself ASAP! haha

2007-06-25T00:28:00.000+08:00

Wah, so fast and the holidays are gone.

Now for the coming week, there'll be two test. The first is Thermofluids. It'll be tested on 2 chapters! I feel quite ok with this subject. It's only the Fluid Mechanics that I;m scared. Why? Cause my dear lecturer never tell the class when is the test and never tell us what chapters are tested! haha

Let's hope for the worst!

This coming weekend will be a busy one for me. Starting with NDP training on Sat and also maybe going to look at the deportment calss of the juniors in the afternoon. Then on Sunday it's the Milk run! ahaha

Hope I have alot of stamina in me.

The next race I'm looking at is the Mizuno Wave run!

Yea! Any one who wants to join can come join me!

2007-06-23T22:01:00.001+08:00

Recent Advances in EMG Monitoring

Electromyographic (EMG) instruments have been used for many years to detect muscle action potentials through the application of surface or needle electrodes. Monitored activity can range from less than 0.1 microvolts to as high as several thousand microvolts. For example, relaxed muscles - such as those in the forehead region - generally exhibit voltages in the range of .75 to 3 microvolts, whereas tensed large muscles - such as the quadriceps - can exhibit activity as high as 2000 microvolts.

Even though most people are aware of the effects of gross muscle activity, lower chronic levels of activity often produce no visible movement or perceptible sensation and as a result go unnoticed, often resulting in muscle fatigue and pain.

Up until recently, input characteristics of EMG amplifiers and electrodes required considerable preparation of the skin surface and electrodes to obtain an accurate signal, especially in electrically noisy environments. This effort may still be worthwhile if research is being performed, but for day to day use of EMG, the preparation is cumbersome, generally inconvenient and often painful. I will discuss the recent breakthrough in EMG instrumentation later, but first I would like to review several of the newer applications for which EMG monitoring is being applied.

One of these fields is biofeedback. Biofeedback is simply the process of monitoring any physiological signal, and amplifying, conditioning, and displaying it to the monitored subject so that he or she can observe small changes in the signal, and gradually through trial and error, learn to control it voluntarily.

The goal of EMG biofeedback is to train subjects to increase, decrease, or stabilize muscle tension. Feedback is provided through proportional changes in a moving meter, bargraph, polygraph display, or an auditory tone. Training patients to decrease EMG activity below a predetermined criterion, is used clinically for tension headaches and other muscle pain. A similiar process in reverse is employed during muscle rehabilitation, where patients are trained to increase muscle activity of weak or flaccid limbs, such as may result from a stroke or accident.

For over 40 years, the electromyograph has been used to diagnose and treat neuromuscular disorders and to demonstrate improvements in muscle functioning following conventional treatment or neuromuscular stimulation. However, it is only since the mid 1960's, and much more so in the last twenty years, that biofeedback has become an active component in the rehabilitation process.

Voluntary control of paralyzed or damaged muscles with residual functioning - such as results from stroke and nerve damage - can often be achieved through EMG biofeedback using either subdermal needle electrodes or surface electrodes for monitoring individual muscle groups. The process of surface monitoring is straight-forward. The body of the disabled muscle is identified, electrodes are placed over the length of the muscle and the subject is provided with visual and auditory feedback of increases in muscle activity while instructed to try to raise the tone or meter reading. Occasionally, a neuromuscular stimulator is combined with the EMG, such that when muscle activity exceeds a pre-set threshold, the stimulator is triggered, modelling a contraction. The threshold level is then increased slightly, and the process is repeated.

The greatest use of neuromuscular biofeedback has been in patients with hemiplegia and paraplegia. Paraplegia is usually due to spinal cord injuries resulting in paralysis below the waist, whereas hemiplegia is generally caused by a stroke resulting in muscular flaccidity or paralysis on one side of the body. Yet, most therapists working with these patients can attest that frequently there is some residual muscle activity in the single motor units, or even in totally paralyzed residual muscle tissue. Sensitive EMG devices can detect this low activity, and provide awareness and often a greater degree of control over the afflicted muscles.

In many reports with hemiplegic patients, following a combination of manual range of motion activity initiated by the therapist, with visual and auditory feedback of muscle activity, patients were able to produce strong voluntary contractions within one hour of training. Even in patients who had failed to respond to long term conventional treatment, clinically significant improvements were achieved over 8 to 12 months of auditory EMG training.

Reports of successful applications of EMG biofeedback in patients with injury or impairment of peripheral nerves rather than some central nervous system dysfunction include Bell's Palsy (a facial paralysis of unknown origin), and crushing injuries. In several patients with Bell's palsy, residual muscle activity was detected from muscles surrounding the mouth. Patients were successfully trained to increase the electrical activity, as well as to try to match the activity from the contralateral muscles displayed on a second EMG display.

EMG biofeedback has also been used successfully to retrain muscular control following accidental lacerations and subsequent surgical repair of hand tendons. Combined with conventional physiotherapy, the patients provided with biofeedback made the greatest improvements in voluntary range of motion activity.

Spasmodic torticollis, also known as wryneck, is indicated by the pulling of the neck to one side due to neck muscle contractions of unknown etiology. Treatment included EMG biofeedback affected sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle activity alone, or combined with contralateral flexion. Approximately 40% of the patients receiving this feedback were markedly improved at a 6 months follow-up.

Several other neuromuscular disorders have responded well to EMG biofeedback. Some of these include: training facial expressions to blind persons by providing auditory feedback of appropriate increases and decreases in muscle patterning; decreasing blepharospasm (involuntary eye blinking) activity; and training to enhance retention in fecal and urinary incontinence, both with vaginal and rectal electrode sensors, as well as with peri-anal electrodes.

In summary, the use of EMG biofeedback in neuromuscular rehabilitation, has demonstrated considerable effectiveness in a wide variety of neuromuscular disorders, and should certainly be considered as an inexpensive and positive adjunct to conventional therapy.

EMG biofeedback has also been used very successfully to produce voluntary reductions in muscles exhibiting excessive muscle activity for general relaxation, and specifically for conditions including tension and migraine headaches, insomnia, hypertension, and pain.

In disorders involving musculature in the region above the shoulders, generally the goal is to keep muscle activity at a 'normal' resting level, and to help patients learn to both perceive increases in muscle activity during the day, and to develop a strategy to reduce tension before it leads to ischemic muscles and pain. Similarly, chronic pain sites often respond well to decreased EMG activity, providing - in many cases - some relief from pain.

Dental applications include TMJ (temporomandibular joint pain and dysfunctions) and bruxism, which are dysfunctional clenching and grinding of the teeth which often leads to TMJ pain as well as tooth damage. EMG treatment for TMJ pain and bruxism uses EMG monitoring of the TMJ region, both to provide feedback for diurnal use to keep activity below a threshold level as well as to correlate the occurrence of excess activity with stress, and for nocturnal use, to set a threshold, above which an alarm will sound, awakening the patient and aborting the bruxing episode.

Recently, another application of EMG monitoring has become popular with chiropractors, orthopaedic specialists, and physiotherapists - muscle imbalances. The most frequent use of this new technology is to document these imbalances in a dynamic fashion, to register changes due to therapeutic interventions, and to exhibit them to patients and insurance carriers. This is done by using two EMG sensors placed on either side of the spine, while the instrumentation compares readings as the two sensors are moved from site to site down the spine.

Until the mid 80's, the process of muscle scanning was difficult and slow, due to the requirements for skin preparation, attachment of the electrodes, and interpretation of the instruments. There are now several excellent instruments available which eliminate these shortcomings, in several ways. For example, MyoTrac and MyoTrac 22 use a miniature scanning sensor - MyoScan - with internal electronics which are so sensitive and advanced that generally no skin preparation is required, thereby allowing a site to be scanned within seconds. For those of you interested in specifications, the system has a d.c input impedance of greater than 1 million megohm (that's a million, million ohms), the ability to detect signals of less than .08uV, and a CMRR of greater than 180 decibels, thereby allowing signal detection even in extremely electrically noisy environments.

The MyoTrac 2 can also be connected to interfaces which simply plugs into the serial port on IBM-PC compatibles providing immediate access to powerful ProComp software.

Other more sophisticated computerized biofeedback systems are available such as ProComp+TM and FlexCompTM which monitors up to 16 channels of EMG or other signals. Powerful and flexible DOS and Windows® software is available to provide clinicians and patients with meaningful and compelling displays, animations and statistics.

2007-06-23T21:58:00.000+08:00

Electromyogram (EMG) and Nerve Conduction Studies

An electromyogram (EMG) measures the electrical impulses of muscles at rest and during contraction. Nerve conduction studies, which measure nerve conduction velocity, determine how well individual nerves can transmit electrical signals. Nerves control the muscles in the body using electrical impulses, and these impulses make the muscles react in specific ways. Nerve and muscle disorders cause the muscles to react in abnormal ways.

Measuring the electrical activity in muscles and nerves can help detect the presence, location, and extent of diseases that can damage muscle tissue (such as muscular dystrophy) or nerves (such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). In the case of nerve injury, the actual site of nerve damage can often be located. EMG and nerve conduction studies are usually done together to provide more complete information.

Why It Is Done

An electromyogram (EMG) is done to:

Diagnose diseases that damage muscle tissue, nerves, or the junctions between nerve and muscle (neuromuscular junctions). These disorders include a herniated disc, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or myasthenia gravis (MG).
Evaluate the cause of weakness, paralysis, involuntary muscle twitching, or other symptoms. Problems in a muscle, the nerves supplying a muscle, the spinal cord, or the area of the brain that controls a muscle can all cause these kinds of symptoms.

Nerve conduction studies are done to:

Detect and evaluate damage to the peripheral nervous system, which includes all the nerves that lead away from the brain and spinal cord and the smaller nerves that branch out from those nerves. Nerve conduction studies are often used to help diagnose nerve disorders, such as carpal tunnel syndrome or Guillain-Barré syndrome.
Identify the location of abnormal sensations, such as numbness, tingling, or pain.

Both EMG and nerve conduction studies can help diagnose a condition called post-polio syndrome that may develop months to years after a person has had polio.

How To Prepare

Tell your doctor if you:

Are taking any medications. Certain medications that act on the nervous system (such as muscle relaxants and anticholinergics) can interfere with an electromyogram (EMG) results. You may need to stop taking these medications 3 to 6 days prior to having the test.
Have had bleeding problems or are taking medications that thin the blood, such as warfarin (Coumadin) or heparin.
Have a pacemaker.

You do not need to restrict your food or fluids. Do not smoke for at least 3 hours before the test.

Wear loose-fitting clothing that permits access to the muscles and nerves to be tested. You may be given a hospital gown to wear.

For an EMG, you may be asked to sign a consent form. Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will indicate. To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the medical test information form

How It Is Done

An electromyogram (EMG) is done in a hospital, clinic, or doctor's office. A special room that screens out electrical interference may sometimes be used. The test may be performed by an EMG technologist or a doctor specializing in diseases of the nervous system (neurologist) or in physical rehabilitation (physiatrist).

You will be asked to lie on a table or bed or sit in a reclining chair so that the muscles being tested are relaxed and easy to reach.

Electromyogram

The skin over the areas to be tested is cleaned with an antiseptic solution. An electrode that combines the reference point and a needle for recording is inserted into the specific muscle to be tested and attached by wires to a recording machine.

Once the electrodes are in place, the electrical activity in that muscle is recorded while the muscle is at rest. Then the technologist or doctor asks you to tense (contract) the muscle with gradually increasing force while the electrical activity in the muscle is being recorded.

The needle may be repositioned a number of times to record the electrical activity in different areas of the muscle or in different muscles.

The electrical activity in the muscle is displayed as wavy and spiky lines on a special video monitor (oscilloscope) and may also be heard on a loudspeaker as machine gun-like popping sounds when you contract the muscle. The activity may also be recorded on magnetic tape.

An EMG may take 30 to 60 minutes. When the testing is completed, the needle and skin electrodes are removed and those areas of the skin where a needle was inserted are cleaned. You may be given a pain reliever if any of the areas where a needle was inserted are sore.

Nerve conduction studies

In this test, several flat metal disc electrodes are attached to your skin with tape or a special paste. A shock-emitting electrode is placed directly over the nerve to be studied, and a recording electrode is placed over the muscles supplied by that nerve. Repeated, brief electrical pulses are administered to the nerve, and the time it takes for the muscle to contract in response to the electrical pulse is recorded. The speed of the response is called the conduction velocity.

The corresponding nerves on the other side of the body may be studied for comparison. When the testing is completed, the electrodes are removed.

Nerve conduction studies are usually done before an EMG if both tests are being done. Nerve conduction testing may take from 15 minutes to 1 hour or more, depending upon how many areas of the body are studied.

How It Feels

With an electromyogram (EMG) test, you will feel a brief, sharp pain each time a needle electrode is inserted into the muscle. Some people find this part of the test very uncomfortable. After EMG testing, some soreness and a tingling sensation may persist for 1 to 2 days. If you notice increasing pain, swelling, tenderness, or pus at any of the needle insertion sites, call your doctor.

With the nerve conduction studies, you will feel a brief, burning pain, a tingling sensation, and a twitching of the muscle each time the electrical pulse is applied. It feels similar to the kind of tingling you feel when you rub your feet on the carpet and then touch a metal object. The testing can be quite uncomfortable and makes some people nervous. Keep in mind that only a very low-voltage electrical current is used, and each electrical pulse is very brief (less than a millisecond).

Risks

An electromyogram (EMG) is very safe. You may develop small bruises or swelling at some of the needle insertion sites. The needles are sterilized, so there is very little chance of developing an infection.

There are no risks associated with nerve conduction studies. Nothing is inserted into the skin, so there is no risk of infection. The voltage of electrical pulses is not high enough to cause an injury or permanent damage.

Results

An electromyogram (EMG) measures the electrical impulses of muscles at rest and during contraction. Nerve conduction studies, which measure nerve conduction velocity, determine how well individual nerves can transmit electrical signals. Your doctor may be able to discuss some findings with you immediately after the tests. A full analysis of the results may take a few days.

**Electromyogram (EMG) and nerve conduction studies**
Normal:	The EMG recording should show no electrical activity when the muscle is at rest. There should be smooth, wavelike forms with each muscle contraction.
Normal:	The nerve conduction studies should show that the nerves transmit electrical impulses to the muscles or up the sensory nerves at normal speeds (conduction velocities). Sensory nerves allow the brain to respond to sensations such as pain, touch, temperature, and vibration. Different nerves have different normal conduction velocities. Nerve conduction velocities also tend to decrease as a person gets older.
Abnormal:	In an EMG, spontaneous electrical activity detected in a muscle at rest suggests that there is a problem with the nerve supply to the muscle. This kind of activity can also be caused by inflammation or disease in the muscle tissue. Abnormal levels and duration of electrical discharges when a muscle contracts also suggest the presence of a muscle or nerve disorder, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), post-polio syndrome, or a herniated disc.
Abnormal:	In nerve conduction studies, the speed of nerve impulse transmission (conduction velocity) may be slower or faster than what is normal for that nerve. Slower conduction velocities may be caused by injury or may damage a nerve (such as carpal tunnel syndrome) or group of nerves (such as Guillain-Barré syndrome or post-polio syndrome).

The results from EMG and nerve conduction studies are usually not enough on their own to diagnose a condition. They can be used along with a person's history, symptoms, physical and neurological examinations, and the results of other tests to help establish a diagnosis and evaluate how a disease is progressing.

What Affects the Test

Factors that can interfere with your test and the accuracy of the results include:

Medications such as muscle relaxants and anticholinergics.
Bleeding, swelling, excess fat beneath the skin, or pain at the site of the nerves or muscles being tested.
The inability to cooperate and follow directions during the test.
Your age. Nerve conduction can vary depending on age and normally decreases as a person grows older.

What To Think About

The levels of some enzymes in the blood, such as aspartate aminotransferase (AST), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and creatine phosphokinase (CPK), may rise when muscle tissue is damaged. An electromyogram can sometimes elevate these enzymes for up to 10 days after the EMG, so blood tests for these enzymes should be delayed at least 10 days after an EMG.
Special types of electromyograms (EMG) may also be done:
- Single-fiber EMG is a special type of EMG testing usually done only in universities or in specialized EMG laboratories, but it is becoming more commonly used. For this test, very small needles are inserted into a muscle to evaluate a single muscle fiber's ability to contract. It is a useful test in establishing a diagnosis of myasthenia gravis, a disease that affects the nerve-muscle (neuromuscular) junctions.
- Repetitive nerve stimulation is useful in diagnosing diseases of the nerve-muscle (neuromuscular) junctions such as myasthenia gravis and Lambert-Eaton syndrome. In this test, small, repeated shocks are given to measure the ability of the muscle to react to fast nerve stimulation.
- External sphincter electromyogram measures the electrical activity of the external urinary sphincter to help evaluate urination problems. The urinary sphincter is a ringlike band of muscles around the urethra that helps control urination. The electrical activity can be measured by skin electrodes, by needle electrodes inserted through the skin, or by electrodes in an anal plug. External sphincter electromyogram is a useful test in helping evaluate people with Parkinson-like disorders.

2007-06-23T17:01:00.000+08:00

Kinesiology

Kinesiology is the scientific study of human movement. While an understanding of kinesiology is fundamental for the analysis and treatment of problems in the musculoskeletal system, it is not - unlike "applied kinesiology" (AK) - a stated method for the treatment or diagnosis of illness.

Academic and professional aspects

Kinesiology encompasses human anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, exercise physiology, exercise psychology and sociology, history, and philosophy of sport. The relationship between the quality of movement and overall human health is also studied.

Kinesiological information is applied in such fields as physical therapy, occupational therapy, chiropractic, osteopathy, kinesiotherapy, massage therapy, ergonomics, physical education and athletic coaching. The approach of these applications can be therapeutic, preventive, or high-performance. The application of kinesiology can also incorporate knowledge from other academic disciplines such as psychology, physiology, sociology, cultural studies, ecology, evolutionary biology, and anthropology. Related interdisciplinary fields in motor skills, skills research are graphonomics, i.e. the study of handwriting movement control and the study of motor control in speech.

The study of kinesiology is often part of the curriculum for some of the areas in which kinesiological information is used (akin to a medical study – see sports medicine). Despite being a scientifically valid discipline, there is a perception that Kinesiology is an academically anemic major designed for athletes.

There are some professional physical therapists who are also fully credentialed as "Registered Kinesiologists." The general difference between the job of a kinesiologist and a physical therapist is that a kinesiologist will assess movement, or problems in movement with regard to physiology, anatomy and biomechanics, while a physical therapist will actually assess and apply therapeutic techniques to correct the identified problems.

Motions

Below is a (slightly simplified) table of the motions available at the different joints of the body:

region	flexion/extension	abduction/adduction	internal/external rotation	circumduction	other
Shoulder	yes	Serratus anterior/Rhomboid major, Rhomboid minor,Kerbe	Serratus anterior, Pectoralis minor,Levator scapulae,Trapezius	yes	elevation/depression Trapezius,Sternocleidomastoid,Levator scapulae/Subclavius,Trapezius
Elbow	Biceps brachii, Brachialis/Triceps brachii	no	no	no	pronation/supination Pronator quadratus and Pronator teres/Supinator
Wrist	Flexor carpi radialis/Extensor carpi radialis brevis, Extensor carpi radialis longus	yes	no	yes	no
Hip	Psoas, Iliacus, Quadriceps/Gluteus maximus, Hamstring	adductor longus, adductor brevis, adductor magnus, gracilis	Lateral rotator group/Gluteus minimus, Gluteus medius	no	no
Knee	Hamstring/Quadriceps	no	no	no	no
Ankle	(dorsiflexion/plantarflexion) Tibialis anterior/Fibularis longus, Fibularis brevis	no	no	no	inversion/eversion Tibialis anterior/Fibularis brevis
Torso	Rectus abdominis/Erector spinae	no	no	no	no

2007-06-23T16:45:00.000+08:00

More about:

Electromyography

Definition

Electromyography is a test that measures muscle response to nervous stimulation (electrical activity within muscle fibers).

Why is the Test Performed?

EMG is most often used when people have symptoms of weakness and examination shows impaired muscle strength. It can help to differentiate primary muscle conditions from muscle weakness caused by neurologic disorders.

EMG can be used to differentiate between true weakness and reduced use due to pain or lack of motivation.

How is the Test Performed?

For an EMG, a needle electrode is inserted through the skin into the muscle. The electrical activity detected by this electrode is displayed on an oscilloscope (and may be displayed audibly through a speaker).

Because skeletal muscles are isolated and often large units, each electrode gives only an average picture of the activity of the selected muscle. Several electrodes may need to be placed at various locations to obtain an accurate study.

After placement of the electrode(s), you may be asked to contract the muscle (for example, by bending your arm). The presence, size, and shape of the wave form -- the action potential -- produced on the oscilloscope provide information about the ability of the muscle to respond when the nerves are stimulated.

Each muscle fiber that contracts will produce an action potential, and the size of the muscle fiber affects the rate (frequency) and size (amplitude) of the action potentials.

A nerve conduction velocity test is often done at the same time as an EMG.

How to Prepare for the Test?

Adults:

No special preparation is usually necessary.

Infants and children:

The physical and psychological preparation you can provide for this or any test or procedure depends on your child's age, interests, previous experience, and level of trust. For specific information regarding how you can prepare your child, see the following topics as they correspond to your child's age:

Infant test/procedure preparation (birth to 1 year)
Toddler test/procedure preparation (1 to 3 years)
Preschooler test/procedure preparation (3 to 6 years)
Schoolage test/procedure preparation (6 to 12 years)
Adolescent test/procedure preparation (12 to 18 years)

How will the Test Feel?

There may be some discomfort with insertion of the electrodes (similar to an intramuscular injection). Afterward, the muscle may feel tender or bruised for a few days.

Normal Values

Muscle tissue is normally electrically silent at rest. Once the insertion activity (caused by the trauma of needle insertion) quiets down, there should be no action potential on the oscilloscope. When the muscle is voluntarily contracted, action potentials begin to appear. As contraction is increased, more and more muscle fibers produce action potentials until a disorderly group of action potentials of varying rates and amplitudes (complete recruitment and interference pattern) appears with full contraction.

What do Abnormal Results Mean?

Disorders or conditions that cause abnormal results include the following:

Polymyositis
Denervation (reduced nervous stimulation)
Carpal tunnel syndrome
ALS
Myopathy (muscle degeneration, may be caused by a number of disorders, including muscular dystrophy)
Myasthenia gravis
Alcoholic neuropathy
Axillary nerve dysfunction
Becker's muscular dystrophy
Brachial plexopathy
Cervical spondylosis
Common peroneal nerve dysfunction
Dermatomyositis
Distal median nerve dysfunction
Duchenne's muscular dystrophy
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (Landouzy-Dejerine)
Familial periodic paralysis
Femoral nerve dysfunction
Friedreich's ataxia
Guillain-Barre
Lambert-Eaton Syndrome
Mononeuritis multiplex
Mononeuropathy
Peripheral neuropathy
Radial nerve dysfunction
Sciatic nerve dysfunction
Sensorimotor polyneuropathy
Shy-Drager syndrome
Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis
Tibial nerve dysfunction
Ulnar nerve dysfunction

Special Considerations

Trauma to the muscle from EMG may cause false results on blood tests (such as creatine kinase), a muscle biopsy, or other tests.

Risks

Bleeding (minimal)
Infection at the electrode sites (minimal risk)

2007-06-23T01:10:00.000+08:00

Some other links to my FYP research:

Journal of Applied Oral Science

HEre's another article:

Applied kinesiology

Applied Kinesiology (AK) is a controversial method of medical diagnosis. It purportedly gives feedback on the functional status of the body. Proponents say that when properly applied, the outcome of an AK test, such as a muscle strength test, will provide for a low risk diagnostic method to help determine the efficacy of therapy for patients.

Applied Kinesiology is classified with alternative medicine, and is therefore different from academic kinesiology, which is the scientific study of human movement and its application. Applied kinesiology has been called a pseudoscience. ^[1]

AK draws together many similar therapies. It attempts an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to health care. George J. Goodheart, D.C., a chiropractor, originated AK in 1964. ^[2] Subsequently, its use spread to other chiropractors, naturopaths, and a few medical doctors. In 1976, the International College of Applied Kinesiology ^[3] was founded.

Basic Applied Kinesiology

AK practitioners monitor muscles to determine if stress is 'on line'. It is not about 'testing' the muscle in a proper sense, the important thing is the ability of the muscle (more precise: the ability of the autonomous nervous system) to respond in an appropriate way to the gentle pressure. AK patients have their muscles tested in many different functional positions, although the arm-pull-down test is the most common. Typically during the arm-pull-down test, AK patients lie down and raise their dominant arm. Next, the AK practitioner instructs the patient to resist as the tester exerts downward force on the subject's arm. The tester subjectively evaluates not the force exerted by the subject to determine the strength of the muscle, but the smoothness of the response. A smooth response is sometimes called 'a strong muscle' and a response that was not appropriate is sometimes called 'a weak response'. Please note: this is a figure of speech and not about muscle strength.

Because nearly all AK tests are subjective, many regard the practice with skepticism. The AK practitioner applies the pressure, but this practitioner is also the one who decides if one push is stronger than another. This is considered by some a conflict of interest: the AK practitioner will benefit if AK is perceived by the client as effective, but the AK practitioner is the one who actually determines how effective the practice has been, because he or she subjectively applies pressure to the patient's muscle or muscles. This weakness in the AK system allows for the possibility of fraudulent practice.

The arm-pull-down test is considered by the International College of Applied Kinesiology (I.C.A.K.) to be a very poor form of muscle testing. The arm-pull-down test involves so many different muscles that no specificity as to the muscle with the problem can be ascertained upon testing. Those who wish to become applied kinesiologists, are strongly advised and encouraged to take the 'touch for health' courses, in which the specific muscles and the precise positions for each muscle are explicitely taught.

Applied kinesiologists theorize that physical, chemical, and mental imbalances are associated with a lack of smoothness in the muscle response. So after a mucle that shows a 'weak' response (i.e. a non-appropriate response) many ways are open to find a way to restore the balance - for an imbalance is theorized to be responsible for a 'weak' response. After some form of treatment/ restoring balance has been applied, the muscle is again monitored, to evaluate the efficiacy of treatment.

AK nutrient testing appears to reflect the nervous system's efferent response to the stimulation of gustatory and olfactory nerve receptors by various tested substances. There is considerable evidence in the scientific literature of extensive efferent function throughout the body from stimulation of the gustatory and olfactory receptors.

For example, the tester might repeat the test with a particular substance under the subject's tongue; if the muscle tests weaker than the first test, that substance is determined to be harmful. The tester may also have the subject touch a particular body part with the opposite hand. For example, to "localize" testing to the heart, the subject would place a hand over the heart. A strong arm muscle test suggests a healthy heart, while a weak test suggests a problem. Instead of sublingual testing, some practitioners have the subject simply hold a substance or place the substance near a particular organ. Some AK practitioners go as far as to hold a sealed container of the substance to be tested on the forehead, chest, etc. and then perform the test.

Another commonly used technique in AK is to have the subject wear colored glasses (blue, green, red, etc.) and perform the muscle monitoring while wearing each color of glasses. The color that causes the greatest perceived smoothness of reaction gains might be a color that is in some way beneficiens to the client. There are many tests believed to reveal information about the subject's condition.

Science and AK

There are now several websites ^[4] that display much of the Index Medicus Peer-Reviewed research papers regarding applied kinesiology, but they blend articles on AK with articles on academic kinesiology, so they must be examined with caution to avoid confusion. These papers go from 1915 (Journal of the American Medical Association, with a paper called "A method of testing muscular strength in infantile paralysis" by Martin EG, Lovett RW, (which has nothing to do with AK) to papers from 2006 from Journals like Physical Therapy, The Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, and the Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, many of which likewise have nothing to do with AK.

Proponents of AK provide what they believe to be evidence about the methods, clinical efficacy, and neurologic rationales of applied kinesiology examination and treatment. ^[5].

However, there is scientific research (below) of Applied Kinesiology that has shown it has no clinical validity. For example, muscle testing cannot distinguish a test substance from a placebo under double-blind conditions, and the use of applied kinesiology to evaluate nutrient status is no more useful than random guessing.

The studies, research and reviews of applied kinesiology mentioned above are listed at the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health.^[6]^[7]^[8] ^[9] ^[10] ^[11] ^[12]

Scientific studies showed that applied kinesiology tests were not reproducible. ^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]

Robert Todd Carroll has noted that AK is an example of magical thinking.^[18]

American Chiropractic Association statement

According to the American Chiropractic Association, Applied Kinesiology is one of the 15 most frequently used chiropractic techniques in the United States, with 43.2% of chiropractors employing this method.

"This is an approach to chiropractic treatment in which several specific procedures may be combined. Diversified/manipulative adjusting techniques may be used with nutritional interventions, together with light massage of various points referred to as neurolymphatic and neurovascular points. Clinical decision-making is often based on testing and evaluation muscle strength." ^[19]

Danish Chiropractic Association position

According to a March 26, 1998 letter from the DKF (Dansk Kiropractor-Forening - Danish Chiropractic Association), following public complaints from patients receiving homeopathic care and/or AK instead of standard (DKF defined) chiropractic care, the DKF has determined that applied kinesiology is not a form of chiropractic care and must not be presented to the public as such. AK and homeopathy can continue to be practiced by chiropractors as long as it is noted to be alternative and adjunctive to chiropractic care and is not performed in a chiropractic clinic. Chiropractors may not infer or imply that the chiropractic profession endorses AK to be legitimate or effective, nor may the word/title chiropractic/chiropractor be used or associated with the practice of AK. ^[20]

2007-06-23T01:04:00.000+08:00

Electromyography

Electromyography (EMG) is a medical technique for evaluating and recording physiologic properties of muscles at rest and while contracting. EMG is performed using an instrument called an electromyograph, to produce a record called an electromyogram. An electromyograph detects the electrical potential generated by muscle cells when these cells contract, and also when the cells are at rest.

Electrical characteristics

The electrical source is the muscle membrane potential of about −70mV. Due to the applied method, the resulting measured potentials range between less than 50 μV and 20 to 30 mV.

Typical repetition rate of muscle unit firing is about 7–20 Hz, depending on the size of the muscle (eye muscles versus seat (gluteal) muscles), previous axonal damage and other factors. Damage to motor units can be expected at ranges between 450 and 780 mV.

Procedure

To perform EMG, a needle electrode is inserted through the skin into the muscle tissue. A trained medical professional (most often a physiatrist, neurologist, or physical therapist) observes the electrical activity while inserting the electrode. The insertional activity provides valuable information about the state of the muscle and its innervating nerve. Normal muscles at rest make certain, normal electrical sounds when the needle is inserted into them. Then the electrical activity when the muscle is at rest is studied. Abnormal spontaneous activity might indicate some nerve and/or muscle damage. Then the patient is asked to contract the muscle smoothly. The shape, size and frequency of the resulting motor unit potentials is judged. Then the electrode is retracted a few millimeters, and again the activity is analyzed until at least 10-20 units have been collected. Each electrode track gives only a very local picture of the activity of the whole muscle. Because skeletal muscles differ in the inner structure, the electrode has to be placed at various locations to obtain an accurate study.

A motor unit is defined as one motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers it innervates. When a motor unit fires, the impulse (called an action potential) is carried down the motor neuron to the muscle. The area where the nerve contacts the muscle is called the neuromuscular junction, or the motor end plate. After the action potential is transmitted across the neuromuscular junction, an action potential is elicited in all of the innervated muscle fibres of that particular motor unit. The sum of all this electrical activity is recorded as a motor unit potential. This electrophysiologic activity is evaluated during an EMG. The composition of the motor unit, the number of muscle fibres per motor unit, the metabolic type of muscle fibres and many other factors affect the shape of the motor unit potentials in the myogram.

Nerve conduction testing is also often done at the same time as an EMG.

Because of the needle electrodes, EMG may be somewhat painful or extremely painful to the patient, and the muscle may feel tender for a few days. There also exists "needleless EMG"—an EMG performed using surface electrodes—though it gives much less accurate results with a higher level of disturbance from the surrounding environment.

Normal results

Muscle tissue at rest is normally electrically inactive. After the electrical activity caused by the irritation of needle insertion subsides, the electromyograph should detect no abnormal spontaneous activity (i.e. a muscle at rest should be electrically silent, with the exception of the area of the neuromuscular junction, which is normally electrically very spontaneously active). When the muscle is voluntarily contracted, action potentials begin to appear. As the strength of the muscle contraction is increased, more and more muscle fibers produce action potentials. When the muscle is fully contracted, there should appear a disorderly group of action potentials of varying rates and amplitudes (a complete recruitment and interference pattern).

Abnormal results

Abnormal results may be caused by the following medical conditions (please note this is nowhere near an exhaustive list of conditions that can result in abnormal EMG studies) :

Alcoholic neuropathy
Axillary nerve dysfunction
Becker's muscular dystrophy
Brachial plexopathy
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Centronuclear myopathy
Cervical spondylosis
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Common peroneal nerve dysfunction
Denervation (reduced nervous stimulation)
Dermatomyositis
Distal median nerve dysfunction
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (Landouzy-Dejerine)
Familial periodic paralysis
Femoral nerve dysfunction
Fields condition [1]
Friedreich's ataxia
Guillain-Barre
Lambert-Eaton Syndrome
Mononeuritis multiplex
Mononeuropathy
Motor neurone disease
Myasthenia gravis
Myopathy (muscle degeneration, which may be caused by a number of disorders, including muscular dystrophy)
Myotubular myopathy
Neuromyotonia
Peripheral neuropathy
Poliomyelitis
Polymyositis
Radial nerve dysfunction
Sciatic nerve dysfunction
Sensorimotor polyneuropathy
Shy-Drager syndrome
Sleep bruxism
Spinal Stenosis
Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis
Tibial nerve dysfunction
Ulnar nerve dysfunction

2007-06-22T12:06:00.001+08:00

Ah,

Think it's time of the year to buy! Cause it's the GSS! haha! Am currently thinking of getting a Northface bag. Since I have a 30% voucher, maybe I can get it.

The Skareb 40 is my choice. The retail price is $296, but since I have a discount, it'll be reduced to something like $207! hhah! YEa! The only bad thing about the bag is that it is top opened. It does not have a conventional zip that zips at the side thus, I could only stuff things from the top and not from the sides.Well, the next thing on my mind is a pair of Sunglasses for myself! haha! Well, that means getting contacts too cause I can't possibly wear sunglasses on top of my glasses can I? haha! Am thinking of getting a pair of Oakleys! YEa, the Oakley Polarised Half Jacket, why? Cause as I;m doing lots of outdoor activites now, think I'll also have to protect my own eyes! Therefore, getting the best sunglasses out there means giveing my eyes the best protection! haha! The official retial price is about $368! But since I do not need the 1 year warranty, I was thinking of getting through a 3rd party and the price would be alot less, about $270! haha! That's about $100 off! Whoa! ah!
Yea, so for this two products to add up together, i'll be somthing like $400+++! Whoa! That means I'll have to save lots of money now! hahaa!

But If I really need to buy, I'll surely get it before the 7% GST raise!

2007-06-19T22:00:00.000+08:00

Whoa, it's like one week since SPARC camp. But it feel's like it's just yesterday. AH,! Lots to type, but I've decided to let SPARC blog do the talking.

Anyway, The camp was interesting and had lots of fun moments. Meeting lots of new friends from year 1. hah!
Life is so great!

Soon meeting up with my friend from the Army. Wish him all the best so he can go OCS and become a Officer in the Air Force! haha.

Ah, Exams coming up soon. Engineering Thermodynamics is one killer subject. Then there is the uncomfirmed test of the Fluid Mechanics. Hmm. Better sTudy. GOING TO U!

2007-06-15T21:36:00.000+08:00

Ah, finally camp have all been completed.

It was only like last week that I had looked forward to all the camps! It all started last Saturday with NCDCC combine camp of Pioneer Secondary School and Westspring Secondary School. I met up with Raymond at 0735 at Boon lay in no.4 and promptly made our way towards my school. Was there at about 0745 and saw all my cadets there slacking in no.4. I made them to fall in and did uniform inspection for them. As this is their first time wearing No.4, I did not punish them like there is no tomorrow. Well, made them do some punishment before boarding the bus with all the tentage. Arrived over at westspring Secondary school at about 0910. Put down our stuff and went over to change to PT kit. The toliets there were very HUGE! Really! Very well cleaned too.

For the first day, we did drills, rope work, introductino to filed cooking and other activites like team bonding. Very interesting. Then at night, we broke them off for sleeping. For us officers, we slept in the teacher's staff lounge. It was another enormous place. We had aircon to sleep in, TV to watch, Pool to play, lots of food to eat (Courtesy of my OC) and most of all, an enjoyable night.

The next day, I went off in the early morning for NTU's Adventure Trail Challenge. Met up with Yong Hong, Terrence and Evangeline at Pasir Ris MRT and registered ourselves at the booth. To my surprise, Northface was one of the sponsors too! hha! We flaged off at 1200 and really had a good run. MY team took like 4h13mins to complete about 30KM of run, kayak, biking, abseiling, tunneling and other activites and came in 7th out of 16 teams. IT was very tiring after we ended. IT was nearly 6pm and we had our dinner at Macdonalds. IT was a very wonderful experience. Maybe next time I should join again. WEnt pass lots of very scenic places where I can see the sky line of Ponggol and other places. real nice trip, but tiring.

I then quickly went home to change for campfire. Went back down to Westspring at about 7+pm and the campfire had just started. The GOH for that night was Westspring's VP and we really had sang much songs. CLTs present were Caromes, Natasha, Vanga, Leo. They really helped me alot when I'm not present at the camp with the morning Campcraft test and later in the evening campfire preparation. Officers present were LTA Teo, LTA Qing Fei, A/CPT Chan and A/CPT Chua. They also helped me to look after the cadets when they are taking the theory campcraft test. Really big thanks to them.
Although the campfire only lasted like 1h30mins, it was not bad considering that they have just learned how to sing the campfire songs yesterday and manage to bond together so fast!
At night was tekan session as all of the cadets were restless and LTA Teo made them pitch tent in the middle of the night.Well, after some time, they were ushered back to sleep. That night, I was totally shag due to the ATC earlier in the day.

The next day, we cleaned up all the tents and stuff and packed up with a debriefing. All the cadets exchanged numbers and really kept with each other. Really nice to see them bonding so well with each other after the camp, made me feel like I did them some good. haha.

After that, I rushed straight down to SP to meet YH, SH and Jeremyto make our way down to TP. IT was for PF.

Wehn we got down to PF, it was like still early and I saw SCLT Affan there. Think he is a ambassador over at TP. haha! I changed from No.4 to half u later and put my uniform in Matthew's car.

After lunch, it was time for us 4 to take over the show and play games. My Sub-theme incharge was 3 and Tiffany was in it! hha! damn funny. The rest of the guys made me go with sub-theme 3. They also anyhow only. haha. Anyway, I played the holding hand game where the sub-theme ran and interacted with each other. The game was with forfeet and I volunteered myself for the first one where two indian girls dance around me! haha! LAter as they ran, we played along and cheered them on. As I see the group getting tired of the game, I changed it over to the fruity game where they need to remember all the previous names of the people! haha! IT was rather fun too as they had to say an animal with their own name. ALthough the time went up pretty fast, they did had quite a fun time! haha! After the games, my sub-theme proceeded over to LT40 for their discussion. I also distributed lollipops to them as a form of reward. We waited until about until 5 pm before we could go home as we needed to act the whole show out.

Matthew gave me a lift to Tampines MRT and I went home from there. I then quickly changed my equipments in my bag and headed over to School for SPARC CAMP!

NOw, SPARC camp I'll talk more about it on the post! So do remember to read! hahaa

2007-06-04T07:55:00.000+08:00

Whoa, finally completed my NYAA Gold, actually, most of it. hah! Expedition is "hard" haha! WE started off from SP and walked all the way to Pasir Ris in one day. After that, met up with Derek.

The second day, we walked from PAsir Ris all the way to Changi and took a bumpboat to Ubin. haha! That's where the adventure started! hehe. We got into a nice "tent" with Aircon, TV and even a nice toliet! hah! From there, we stay over for the night. Lots of werid things happened when we stayed over there. Lots of unnatural things happended too, no wonder other people say dun stay there ......

Anyway, the next day we took a boat out of Ubin to Punggol Jetty. From there, we walked to Sentosa for our last pit stop!

Yea! After that, we finsihed our expedition!

2007-05-31T09:46:00.000+08:00

Today will be the NYAA expedition. Guess, this is one of the least interesting camping trip. haha! Maybe because I miss the regimental camping style? hah! hah! Oh well, there will be hell lots of things to bring along, but some people want to bring even more things! haha. Just 4d3n only, somemore local trip, nothing to bring one. haha!

Well, we'll just see who has the least things.

Anyway, Yesterday was AGM and it was quite interesting. Before that, it was induction. Met one of my groups, of which it was incharged by Joshua. Interesting group, seems like they all know how to Kayak! haha, maybe some day we could go kayak together! hha!

2007-05-28T21:41:00.000+08:00

Today was indeed an exciting day. Morning went for Thermo lab and the Singtel called me near the end of lab. Now I'm happily signed onto another 24 months plan of 1500Kbps of unlimited internet! haha! Better yet, it will cost me only $39.90 for every month, better then my previous price of $58 per month.

Well, After that, went over to FC6 to eat before going over to T14 com lab to complete my MRP project due to hadn in at 1300. Well, it really was a rush. Completed all the parts and printed it. Went to class only to know that we could pass up on wednesday latest! haha! Anyway, classed was "delayed" by 1 hour due to techincal errors! haha! Waited till like 2pm before the technician came over to check the system. Thru out the time, the lecturer talked cock with us! haha! Damn funny.

After the MRP was Thermo and Mech before meeting my Buiness mates to print out our project. Well, forgot to save the updated copy and die there. Luckily my sis sent me the copy via email later and the teacher made the submission date till next week.

All in all, was quite lucky that was not caught unprepared today. The only worrying thing is next week's mechanics test.

2007-05-26T00:13:00.000+08:00

Whoa, so many events have passed since my last update.

The graduation duty was superfun! Got to know lots of people better. First day was with Lynette, she was like wearing the 6-inch shoes the whole day and complained after wearing for one session that her legs start to ache! hha! Six-inch! I wear like 1 inch shoe already leg pain! haha! YH was also doing duty with me and we love to gossip! hha!

SEcond day was under YH, was damn fun also. Ate lots of food. Never got to eat the VIP though. ! haha. Today saw that Lynette had changed to a lower inch shoe! haha

Thrid day was with Jeanna, Nuraini and Cynthalia. Mr Low was trying to flirt with Cynthalia all the way! haha! Then Jeanna jokes was damn cold.... Gave me frost bites. Damn, next time I must know more jokes to give her frost bites.

2007-05-19T15:29:00.000+08:00

Whoa! Today was a great day. Woke up in the morning, all prepared to go for Deutsch Test! Nice, Was in the same group as Loiusa at Oral. Very interesting. Fogot what is Key auf Deutsch. hah! Then Leherin told me. Think I got deducted marks for that. Well, When I came out, she came out and told me I did great. Well, who knows. haha! WAs thinking on my way out weather should continue this sem with Deutsch, but I still have school work. Really have to wait for next sem for my passion to carry on! Germany, I'm still awating to go!~

Any way, after that, went over to City hall to look at hiking gear. SAw that there is one shop at peninsular selling the Sunto A-30 for Zone 3! ha! Finally found something for my zone. Anyway, went down to Campers Corner and view their goods. The Ther-a-Rest there was selling like $270++ and the MSR 3L waterbag with 200D Condura was at $80++. As I was walking out of the shop, my eyes caught a jacket which I like and the proce was $270+! Whoa! They really know how to charge premium prices! haha! WEll, Now must save up money for Jacket!

Ah, Anyway, yesterday I had acclaimed the title of NYAA coordinator! Yea! So now must plan and coordinate for All NYAA activities.

2007-05-17T22:58:00.000+08:00

Der Deutsch Eins Aufgabe ist im zweiten tag. Mist.

Must go learn and brush up all my german language. Hmm.

Können Sie mir bitte ein Glas bringen? Oder können wir bitte etwas mehr Wasser haben? Und hat's geschmeckt? Nein, Ich weis es nicht.

2007-05-17T09:40:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was Wednesday and it was the first day of the year 1 interview for SPARC. Saw some of them that have quality and skills to join but some of them are just plain talkative. Well, people are diffrent. For example the two girls from SB, they just socialise too well with the people. They came and started to exchange numbers like just after five minutes after they have strike a conversation with the people around them. Well, just plain interesting to see that there are such people in our school.

Well, after the interview, went to Ning's office and talked lots oc rubbish there, about the future of our students and also about our CCA's future. haha! Ate dinner at Toa Payoh after that. And we all went home. hah.

2007-05-13T21:23:00.000+08:00

Whoa, today was a great day. Went to King Albert Park in the morning to meet up with the guys from SAC for the Choo Choo Trek at about 8am. Met Dun xin at the Mac and we chatted abit. He was talking of getting a Deiner boots online from US but the price is a bit High. haha! Any way, we started off with a briefing from Ho Ee Kid, the trek leader. After the briefing, we started to walk to the trek entrance where we would bash our way through the trek and walk. It was nice to bash the way in, very interesting. Once I was off the beaten trek, my Becker came out. haha! Saw DX's blade, it's more of a combat knife then a survival knife. Rather intereting I would say. Lighter then mine too. As we walked on, we got onto the trek proper at the railway. The funny thing was that there was also a owner who had brought along his dog to walk with us. Well, little did he know how difficult it was a walk. hha.

We bashed through the forestation which was lined with pepper plants, Topioca plants and many others. There were also lots of bamboo like plants with spikes on them. Rather sharp their spikes. Well, we moved on and we encounted our first mud walk. It was very muddy as it had rained the previous day. Was about ankle deep. As the rest came upon the mud, we slowed down. There's a small child who was infront got stuck in the mud as he was wearing sandals for this hike. As he lift his feet up with much strength, and the help of another adult, I could see that his leg is clog full of mud. What a sceen. Think they did not expect this to happen to them. haha! We carried on walking for about 1 hour before we came to the first tunnel. This tunnel was quite wet and with lots of mud as the water and mud were all stuck in it and could not be drained out naturally due to the plants that grew around it. All of us managed to walk through it. Very intereting. But the only part I regretted for the tunnel is that I did not bring along a torch light for this trip. hmm, luckily DX had his Surefire to count on.

We walked on for another 30mins before reaching our first short stop, bridge over a inner road along Clementi. It was quite rusted with visible building cracks on the walls of the pillar. We walked further on and came upon the famous bridge that Kelly Poon filmed in her MV. Interstingly, the group took lots of pics at this bridge, so Did I. We rested for about 15mins before carrying on walking. By now, it was about 11am. We carried on walking further and came upon a chinese temple. To my amasement, all the building and the small farm are all on Malaysian land. I also reliased that they burned the paper-back egg tray to ward off mosquitos. It was rather interesting to see that there were still people living in "kumpongs". There was even a pond, a well and small plantations here and there, growing some plants that they would harvest to eat or sell. Underneath the land that they plant, there was a power line running made by the Singapore Government. Guess the people would'nt want to dig there to get electricuted. haha!

We carried on walking on and walked out onto a tarmack/walkway along a river that runs under the MRT tracks that are from Clementi to Juriong East interchange. We walked on to the end and Ee Kid informed us that this is the last place where we could exit the track. If not, it's about a 30 to 40 minute hike further down the trek to go into the second tunnel. Most carried on, only some went home. At this point, the old man with the dog had gone. I think that he might have gone home thinking that it was just not the type of trail he had imagined it had be.

We walked along a small stream up to the second tunnel. This time, the tunnel is even more muddy and wet. The depth of the mud was about knee height. As I did not want to get my boot's interior wet, I climbed on the top and walked on the main road. My mum and another two guys followed us . We crossed a main road and met up with them at the back. As we were walking, the heavens began to cry., Well, at this point of time, we quickly moved to a HDB flat near by and sat down. This was the end of today's hike!~ haha~

WE ate lunch there and bid farewell to our hiking mates. Over all, this trek is very interesing with lots of sight and sounds to enjoy. If you've been to this trek, any other trek in Singapore would be viewed as not as tough as this.

Hope I can have another opportunity to hike this trek again.

2007-05-12T20:12:00.000+08:00

Today was the last lessons before Start Deutsch 1. We practiced the oral part and I had some mistakes corrected by my lehrerin.

We are suppose to say next week," Ich bin Cheng Kai, Ich bin neunzehn jahre alt. Ich komme aus Singapur und ich wohne im Bugis. Ich bin student/ Ich bin student von beruf. Meinen hobbys sind computerspielen und lesen."

IF I could just remember all this, next week I'll get 100 percent for my test.

2007-05-10T21:23:00.000+08:00

Whoa! Today just recieved an email from SAC telling me that there is a trek happening this Sun and am very excited about it! Finally can make use of my boots again! Yea! DAmn excited now, can't stop thinking of it! Ah, then jsut asked around for people to join POly 50! haha! I think now I exercise freak! haha

2007-05-09T22:31:00.000+08:00

Today was training on running again. Think I am going into a compeition frenzy state now. Just joined N95 Challenge happening this month, had signed up for NTU ATC coming this june, MILKRun coming this July and already started planning for Poly50 now. hah! Think I'll be running alot soon. But my stamina still not there.

For the moment, I will be looking forward to my NCDCC Camp and SPARC camp coming up concurrently. After that, I'll go to Poly Forum this year if I'm selected and GYL camp again for the third continous year.

Hmm, but then again, there are test coming up. Mechanics III test on June 6, Start Deutsch 1 test on May and more of other test coming up soon.

2007-05-06T22:31:00.000+08:00

Whoa, past few days have been great! Starting with running on friday. And Saturday with the Deutschkurs. And today, I ran with Huat today. Been a great journey.

2007-05-03T16:23:00.000+08:00

Hmm, today seems to be a short day. Lessons started at 10am with Thermofluids lab and ended like 1145. Went to FC6 to eat, and once again, the topic of dicussion was on Duane. hehe! We were telling about how Duane is the outcast in our lecture hall and where no one like him. We also talked about how he leeched on people! (Yes!) Even though he is filthy rich himself! haha! That really made us talk alot! hehe

After that was OM for 1 hour before we finally went home. REally a short day at school. aha.
Tomorrow will be going exercise! Hmm, will be meeting up with friends to run. Dunnon they want to run in school or at Toa Payoh.

2007-04-30T09:10:00.000+08:00

Life's in a straight line now.

On sat, went for my DeutschKurs. Now I know that Louisa is from a JC and she's from the IP stream! Whoa! Wad a clever girl. So she not only looks very nice but with a clever head! Who says she's a bimbo must be very wrong!

On sunday, went walking in the afternoon. Walked to Funan to look at The North Face shoes which are now on sale at Running lab. The one I saw was the Ultra 103 and guess wad, they cost like $176 per pair! Whoa! And I was looking for the Ultra Goretex XCR which is more expensive then this pair! haha! Well, after that, went down to Civil Defence Gallery to see wad I could get for the awards as best cadet for the up coming camp. Instead went there to listen how the uncle there do buisness. Well, while we were talking, was thinking if we could make a camp t-shirt for the event. But then again, most of my cadets have financial problem and won't be able to cope with the high price of the shirts. Well, guess it puts me in a tight spot now. Abiwae, went runnig with huat after that and we ran 7 rounds. Interestingly, while we were doing our last 3 rounds, more people started to flood in. And that means more girls too! Well, we were feasting our eyes on the girls and that gave us more strength and energy to run faster! Dunnoe where that came from! hehe.

Ah, allswells. Now, have to wait till next week to get the ZeroshockIII from Challenger at Funan and still have to put the screen protector at Vivo. Think it'll cost me a sum.

2007-04-26T20:53:00.000+08:00

Today's really a good day. Why? Cause I have finally got my FYP group into order! haha! Yea! And now, it seems that I will be doing a good project to pioneer the Bioengineering sector in my school.

Hmm. Well, was elected the Assistant Class rep, again. haha. This time, it's a funny afair cause the Class rep was Ng and the assistant is me! hehe! And during the OM lessons, lauged all the way when team 1 was presenting, dunnoe y I laughed but think it's funny! hehe!

Morning lesson of Engineering Thermodynacis was also quite easy with me having the correct answers all the way. haha! Guess I'm ready this sem. hehe.

Tomorrow's the SPARC year 1 breifing and I WILL BE THERE! hehe. Guess I'll be alittle late as I will be having Strecther training with my cadets in school.

2007-04-23T23:15:00.000+08:00

Today was totally a SPARC event day! haha! Went for SPARc event in the afternoon at 1pm. Met up with ZK, Joshua, Kent, Crystal, Angela, Jeanna and Ely. After waiting for all the girls to change and makeup, we then went to Morberly to find Vicky for our food, which we found out that there is only 3 packets left for 8 of us. She then suggested that we go to the Morberly foodcourt for the rest of us to eat as she will treat us. Waited for like 30mins before the food finally came. Had a hearty meal and saw Jeanna giving the food away to Joshua who really ate alot! haha! Anyway, once we finished th food, we moved to the Admin block. Before that, the waiter was asking for the money which I just told him that Vicky will settle it later! hehe! Saw the motorxade of the princess came and boy was it a large motorcade. I was just incharge of the lift for the princess and saw one of the ladies in the procession was very pretty. She was Thai! haha! Very nice, really, but no pic of her. hehe. Aneway, while they talked with the principal in the meeting room, I was talking to crystal about the upcoming NYAA exepedition in Singapore. As usual, she was saying that the event in Singapore is quite boring and suggested that it would be a better adventure if we were to have it in Maalaysia. Well, I share the same sentiments as her. Really wished to travel out into the wild and get dirty! Hehe! Anyway, once the princess came out, it was back to duty of pressing the lift. As she went to watch the presentation of the SP projects, we quickly ran from the Admin block to the Optemetry to prepare ourself for the procession. The princess came just before the rain and toured the optemtry centre. It was quite fast and after taht, we took some pics of the princess and the whole group procided out. As they walked out, we gave out the momentos to the people. It was interesting. haha!
After that, it was FOOD! hhaha, we went all out for the Sushi! hehe! Jeanna and Ely were like damn on, keep going for the Sushi! haha! The rest of us stayed at one table and talked about everything! And luaghing away as ususal! hhaa.

After that, we made our way back to SPARC room where we chatted for awhile before going to change. I quickly changed back and rushed off for my buiness lesson. Hmmn, I didn't missed much of the lesson though. It was quite fast the lesson, did a presentation and went off. Went to Mustafa with Huat and looked at their range of sporting goods. There was quite some range. Anyway, we looked and then walked back. Huat took the MRT while I went home. Bery interetsing day. But the only thing now is to quickly learn wad I missed out today in class.

2007-04-22T12:45:00.000+08:00

Hmm, did a search on the internet and came out with some results. I am surprised that even local TV celebrities have blogs like Felicia Chin's, Even Le Yao have a blog to herself! Whoa, and I thought they like their lifes to be in secret. hehe.

2007-04-21T22:57:00.000+08:00

Today woke up early to go down to West spring Sec for camp meeting. Went there like 9.40 and there was LTA Robert Teo and A/CPT Chan Si Ping. Whoa, must tell u, the OC there is hot. REally!~ As in VERY PRETTY! haha! Damn, feel having camp in their school is a blessing! hah! Well, can't say too early as my cadets are having problems now. Well, at least we planned for quite some things. Soon, SCLT Suraida came, she was like late for an hour. But never the less, we kept on discussing. It was more like a LTA Teo talking session and the rest just listen. Must say that he had quite a big mouth. Anyway, most of the things I proposed didn't get through but some of them evantually did do. haha. Well, After like 3 hours of talking, we finally went home. Now, I really can't wait to go to camp! hehe! Finally can whakc the cadets in drills and punishment in the camp. hehe! haha

After that went to Goethe for lesson. Was quite interesting as the Lehrerin was Sentosa. At the end of the lesson, took the test that I did last week. Got a grade of 64%. Hmm, still ok, have more to improve on as the passing marks is 55% to get the Start Deutsch 1. haha! Now, will start to study cause if not,m no chance to go U already.

Aniway, will go Sheares tomorrow, hopefully. Then again, I'll have to polish my new boots and Iron my No.4 ASAP as I have to use it next week! haha! Fire fighting course for my Sec 1s! hehe

2007-04-19T00:15:00.000+08:00

Whoa!

School starts again and it's nice to be back in school after a long time of working. Much have been happening. Got a B+ grade for ITP. Well, all thanks to my Supervisor.

Anyway, school started with a bang, my lecture class was a union of old friends from year 1! Well, let's hope we all will study in peace without making weird noises in class! haha! Now the problem that worrys me is the FYP, cause I dun have a group yet! AH! Was hoping that Raj could get me into their group. Well, quite difficult. The worst thing is that ITP is on a Saturday.

Anyway, went to the CCA booth for all 3 days and saw that the QC there was quite good. Saw quite alot of good quality people. I think this year is going to be an exciting year! haha! With all the newbies and stuff! hehe.

Got interviewed for mian committee today. Well, as expected, they asked the "million dollar" question, who's going to be the next President and VP of SPARC. hah! I didn't have a thick skin to say I am the one. Well, only say Joel. Well, guess it's quite obvious. Aneway, Think I'll land myself on one of those top post of being incharge of a group of people.
BTW, I also bet with Tiffany that if she became the Treasurer, she is going to treat me ICE CREAM! haha! Bet this time, I'm going to win!

ha, so now hoping that I'll top my class, which never really did happen before, haha! Aim high, maybe I can get it.

2007-04-06T00:54:00.000+08:00

Hi hi!

Long time no post! Been quite busy in the day with my ITP at Mercs and tired once I came home. Well, recently, started to go jogging with Huat at Bedok Stadium. Was quite productive, and we even see chio bu! REally! They are really my type, the sporty ones! hehe!

Anyway, so far so good in my ITP, did a bit of driving in the centre, just a bit. hah! Took lots of pics too.

Today went out with Ken, Na Ying, Mel and Khay. Had Sushi at this sushi shop in Esplanede. Must say the food there is quite good, but the price is quite ex. Well, never the less, we had much fun while eating. hehe! We talk about many things and even joked quite loudly! hehe. ME and my stupid face made all of them laugh unitl they could have 6 pegs! hehe! After Sushi, we had few rounds of card games before making our way home. Was taking the same bus as Ken. We talked and I was able to know where he was staying from his description of his route of movement. hah! He even said I could be a Taxi driver. Well, If I want to become one, I still had much to learn.

Looking forward to my holiday! Finally can sleep late and wake up late. Yea! ha

2007-03-18T15:14:00.000+08:00

Hmm, Lots of things happened in this few weeks. Let's see, I got a new Laptop, Got a new LCD TV, going to buy a new bike next week and wad more? haha

Below are a few quizzes that I "borrowed" from Izzat's blog, seems nice to do.... Try them yourself!

You Should Drive a Ferrari

Sleek and sexy, style has a lot of importance in your life. And you'll pay a lot to look good!

What Sports Car Should You Drive?

Your Brain is Blue

Of all the brain types, yours is the most mellow.
You tend to be in a meditative state most of the time. You don't try to think away your troubles.
Your thoughts are realistic, fresh, and honest. You truly see things as how they are.

You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about your friends, your surroundings, and your life.

What Color Is Your Brain?

Your Love Type: INFJ

The Protector

In love, you strive to have the perfect relationship.
For you, sex is nearly a spiritual experience, a bonding of souls.

Overall, you have high expectations for any relationship you're in.
However, you tend to hold back a part of yourself.

Best matches: ENTP and ENFP

What's Your Love Type?

You Are Very Happy

Your life is totally together, and you enjoy every day.
And you don't need a quiz to tell you that!
You know how to find pleasure in the little things...
And even when life isn't so great, you have a good sense of perspective.

How Happy Are You, Really?

2007-03-06T20:47:00.000+08:00

After a long time, it is time for me to blog. Just completed my 2 STAR kayaking course with NCDCC, it was very tiring after the 3 days under the sun! But it was well worth it! At the 3 days, I saw Kelvinder and Viona there too, they were training to become camp instructors there. And so, on the 3rd day, me too joined in their company, I had signed myself up as a free-lance camp instructor at Camelot! haha! Yea! The pay is good for 3d2n camp! haha~

Well, here's some pic of my office during Chinese new year and the visit to Istana for the Chinese new year tea party!

2007-02-24T14:50:00.000+08:00

HELo, Long time no blog.

WEll, it was quite an exciting time for ITP! No worryes! haha! Was calling people and updating their addresses at company and had fun playing MSN at the same time. Even can listen to next songs at office. Best part, lots of Philippine friends, man I am going to learn Tagalog soon! hehe

Yesterday celebrated the "departure" of Derek at Joel house. Those who came were me, Joel, Nick, Ginli, Shao Hong, Derek and his GF Shirely. haha, had a fun time eating and after that, walk around Toa Payoh late in the night.

hehe.

2007-02-19T17:23:00.000+08:00

Whoa, today went to aunts house in the morning, after that went to watch a movie called" Twins Mission" Fantastic show! There's my favourite Twins in the show! I tell yea, you guys must go watch it! The best part, there is a sequel to it!

Later tonight watching another movie by Jack Neo, "Just Follow Law", another nice show.

Today really one heck of a movie day! hha!

2007-02-17T22:44:00.000+08:00

Wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year!

2007-02-15T20:33:00.000+08:00

Whoa! Working at Mercs is really a great experience! The pics added here are just some of the vehicles that I work with! The first two pics are the Vehicles from the SOC! Vehicle A1 is the one with the Auto tranmission and Vehicle A2 is the one with the manual transmission, which they had scrape as Auto would be easier to drive.

NOw, here in the pic below is a Maybach, costing around $1.2 Million! It is a super luxury car with superb interior fittings!~ Note the curtains behind the driver seat!

2007-02-12T22:24:00.000+08:00

WEll, it's time to blog again!

Today was the first day of my ITP at Mercedes! It was very cool! In the morning went there to report and was early by say 15mins! ha! The place is really heck of a Ulu place! haha. Aiway, reported and started "work". Did the tour of the facility again. Saw much more things this time round, the store, workroom, meeting room, service center and canteen. Went around the building to do stuff. The best place is the Store, like it so much! Get to see so many parts of a car. The thing is they did have to order and they would take out of this huge store. Then there is this internet database to check the part number and if they have stock, if not we have to order from Daimler and Chrysler. hahe. Very interesting. Have seen so many diffrent type of Mercs there! There were the latest S class and of course the SLK coupe.

Besides that, there is the Military vans, Amoured Cisco vans, K-9 vans, RSAF Ambulance and this new container truck from the fleet that PSA has signed a deal for $10Million! Well, there are also vans that private customers own like a Vito van that cost $200000! ha! I think those people really got too much money to spend! ha!

In the afternoon, did oil level testing. It was a very greasey and oily job but never the less interesting. Get to see how much the oil is left, and most importantly not to waste the oil! It cost like $5 per Litre! Whoa! hah!~ So now you know that the oil in the braking system is not cheap! ha

Many more things. There is this one particular Mercs that got into an accident. It really strengthened my mindset of how European cars are the best! It was involved in an accident, and the whole engine was crushed very badly! But the thing is, it only end at the engine, the driver and passenger main area was not even crushed at all! Whoa!, and the best part, the glass is still intact! IF it was a Japanese car, all the glass would be broken and the whole car would look like a scrap metal! Whoa, so friends, you will know wad cars to buy next time! ha!

I would say the whole day is very interesting.

Well, now awaiting tomorrow! After work meet up with friends to celebrate Ken's and Mel's birthday! Yeah!

2007-02-07T19:40:00.000+08:00

Whoa! Exams are finally over!!

Now to my shoe replacement of my off road Trail shoe, It's time for my Adidas to retire, it's been quite long. The shoe that has came into my all come from one company - North Face!

Well, it's quite hard to come across this shoes in Singapore. Must find them!

Here are the pics of my chosen shoe.

2007-02-02T18:10:00.000+08:00

WEl well,

Got my 1 star kayaking cert! Took the course like 2 weeks ago and got it! yeha!

So the 2 star is coming up next month and am very keen to go, but not sure if can cause need to take one day leave on friday so taht can complete the 3 day kayaing course. haha!

Hmm, exams coming up on Monday thru Wednesday starting with marketing, Maths and ending with industrial Engineering.

2007-01-31T22:48:00.000+08:00

HELo, Been a long time since I updated...

Lots of progress though.

Got my ITP placing but the reporting address wrong....
I'm suppose to report to Commercial vehicles but they but me at HQ. haha! Luckily told my LO. haha.

Exams coming very soon. On monday next week and I will soon be able to take them.... haha!

After exams lies a whole entire fun filled weekend for me! haha! There's many things for me to do for NCDCC and also ITP! ha

2007-01-21T22:39:00.000+08:00

Whoa, today and yesterday was so powerpacked! IT was very the adventurous of me to take the 1 star Kayaking course! And the best part was it was free! Lots of aches now, starting with sun burn! haha.

2007-01-05T23:37:00.000+08:00

Today was a very fun day! Started off with doing duty at School for CCF. It was quite boring but I made it interesting. Chatted with the students on the bus and talked much to them. Well, saw quite alot of pretty girls amongst them adn they are from Pryspertarian High School, wad ever the name is.....

Ate alot of KFC for the day, the most! haha Played around and toured around school and Morberly blokc like 6 times? haha! Damn boring duty, but happening in the bus! haha

Well, all went well. After I am reliase, I boarded the SB bus and went to SB, on the bus, I even helped the SB people to talk about their school. WEll, quite interesting.

Went home and had a quite change of clothes before meeting Jimmy at Kallang. We had a great day today! We first played PS at his house before going to cycle at East Coast. We had cycled all the way to Changi Airport's runway! haha! Then we rested for awhile before returning. It was going to rain, but it did not! aha~ ON our way back, we met a group of Commandos doing the 72KM Route March. When I asked them, they had only their last 12km to complete. Well, Al the best to them! haha
Went to Jimmy's house to swim after that and had dinner at the famous Ponggol Laksi Lemak store, and boy was it great food! hah!~ We had been talking about how to woo girls and all, damn horny we two. He was teaching me all the tricks of plirting with girls, kissing girls and making them horny! haha! DAmn, and he learned it all from the net! haha! WEll, very intereting meet with him. WEll, his enlistment date is April 11, well, so when's mine? CAn't wait to get into NS!

2006-12-31T22:38:00.000+08:00

HELo,

Today was an amazing day. Woke up in the morning to go shopping! Here goes, the whole day was spent at Orchard road. First, I went to Tangs and bought some clothes, it took me like about 15 mins. Following which I walked down to Paragon. Looked through detaily most of the shops. In the end bought one Mizuno shirt. I nearly bought a Hi-Tec shoe but there was no size for me. Now on my wish list is a Crumpler bag which I shall use it during my ITP... Well, moving on, I walked to Centrepoint where Robinsons is having the year end sale. Went walking around and tried some beds. The saleperson really thought that I wanted to buy the bed! haha! It was priced at $1772 for aSuper Single with Delivery! haha, where got so much money. Anyway, Went down to the Timberland shop and reliase that they are having a sale! Well, bought a pants from them. It was quite a pair of rugged pants, suiting my type of lifestyle! Yeah! When down to MAcdonalds and saw Japser there, he was busy so didn't border him working there. When I went home, it was nearly 5pm! haha! WAd a shopping day! haha

Today will be the last night of 2006. So Lets hope for a better year in 2007 and well, I want to get 3.6 for GPA!!! haha!

Happy New YEar everyone!

2006-12-30T23:45:00.000+08:00

Alright, today seems to be another day of weird things that I did. Polished my boots till it was super shine today morning, you could see yourselve in it at about 20cm away, thats far! haha! WEll, it was a tiring 3 day polishinhg procedure that I had to do every morning, "mending" the holes on my boots and polishing them over and over again. Well, at least it all worked out.

In the evening, went to do preparation for the night's RC event. Again, it was Steven, me and Shui who are doing the tough job. Well, at least we completed it all in 1 hour with the help of our Indian friends.

Came back at 1800, this time, at least there were some other members there to help out. Did all the set up and then atslightly after 1900, people started streaming in. Well, it was quite boring as we hade to wait till 2030 before the MP came. She came, talked walked about and soon, she gave out the prizes, consisting of multiple tins of buscuits that I had wrap 2 nights before! haha! Guess those poor souls that got the lucky draw think it is some kind of larger object! haha!

Well, before I knew it, it was all over, had the help of our Indian friends to clear up and also the help of my young neighbours! haha! Things were done in no time and it was home sweet home! hah!

WEll, tomorrow will be another exciting day in my life........

2006-12-23T23:55:00.000+08:00

HOHO!

Finally! I have graduated from the CLT course and now am proud to say that I'm a CLT!!
Yeah! Posted to Kent Ridge Sec School. Well, heard from the others that the school is quite good and the condition there is very good. Ok, well, now I can be at ease.

2006-12-17T22:28:00.000+08:00

Whoa, Tomorrow is my second phase of my NCDCCCLT course and already I have heard of like 4 people OOC. Well, lets hope I go back tomorrow to juoin the guys and be the best cadet amoungst them! hehe!

2006-12-12T23:22:00.000+08:00

well, today was another great school day. Started off with quite a dull lesson of Engineering Design. Well, lunch was a relief as it was all the way till 3pm as the ADMI lesson was for those who failed the test only! haha. Went to SPGG to sleep while my friends played pool and arcade. After awhile, woke up and played pool with Surech which I end up loosing with two balls left. As we walked back to LT18A, we went to buy drinks and I showed how with $1.20, you could get two bottle of drinks from the vending machine. hah! DAmn funny! Calvin, Suresh and Daniel were laughing very loudly, like they going to die like that! hha! Dunno wad's so funny. hehe. Any way, got my self a drink on Calvin's good will. Went to Nah's lesson and ending of with Mr Leo's Math class. Went to lab and surfed some com and reliased that Singapore will be getting 66 Leopard 2A4 with 30 extra tanks as spare parts! Whoa! this is indeed a good news. They are finally finding a replace for the SM1, which they are not yet phasing out. haha! Well, good news. Finally, Singapore has some Official Main Battle Tanks to show the world. Went to Marketing class after that. Well, only seven person came and it was quite a lousy turn out. hehe

Ok, oggle at pics of the Leopard 2A4!

2006-12-11T17:07:00.000+08:00

Whoa, today's a great day. Went to school and I think I caught up rather fast. Think I am really learning to apprecatiate those small test that my lecturers are giving to me, if not for them, I dun even think I'll be studying! Nevertheless, had my Engineering Materials test today and I think it's a failure. Never really prepare for it. So from now on, I MUST STUDY! Well, currently I have some spare cash to use, I think I'm going to get a smaller pack for myself. Have identified two packs from Deuter. Not sure which one is better, must go down to Beach Road during the coming weekend to take a look. Well, here are the two packs.

Well, I should also consider a survival knife, well, the Fallkniven F1 has proven to be a worthy knive. any way, here's a pic!

2006-12-07T17:42:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, came back from NCDCC CLT ATC at Pulau Ubin. I must say that the pass three days at the camp was very tiring. It started in the morning on monday. On monday, we pitched our tents, did jetty jump, raft building and kayaking. IT was quite a tiring day, well, a very tiring one actually. in between the sessions, we had tekan sessions and many other funny things too. On the second day, we did low elements first, followed by abseiling and rock climbing. We had our much needed lunch before proceding to our high elements. I must say, I am the very few people who did all the challenges that are there. The most memorable will be the flying fox. It is infact the highest flying fox in Singapore, going at about 7 stories high. It was very fun. But tiring nevertheless. At the end of it all, we had to do up a campfire for our last night and our GOH was LTC Lim Kah Seng. ha! It was quite a failure for the campfire as there were only about 20+ people when all the instructors were added in. Well, it ended early cause the commandant wanted to go off earlier due to the impending rain. After that, at night, ME and my other tent mates slept in the canteen due to the invasion of ants in our tent. Well, it was very comfortable to sleep in the canteen, dun know y but I felt shoik in the morning. haha. Finally, the last day, we unpegged our tents and cleaned them up. After that, we had a group photo before we were on our way home to Singapore! We marched our way out of camp singing songs that I had just learned and were dismissed at Changi Jetty. Finally, I'm on my way home. IT was very tiring. well. Went to school today dispite my sun burnt hands and face. But school was fun today. ha

2006-12-04T00:03:00.000+08:00

Helo, went over to my aunt's house for BBQ yesterday and only return home today afternoon. At night, spent my time packing my stuff only to reliase that I was missing a trackpants and so, walked all the way to Mustafa to get one Nike track pants for $50+. Well, worth the money. Ok, got to go now. Wish tomorrow can get up and reach Changi Terminal in time!

2006-12-01T21:04:00.000+08:00

Whoa, this is a post after a long break. Felt quite lazy to update already. Well, to summrise it all, I had quite a roller coaster ride until now. There was the Tear Gas experience at CDA(It was "Great"! ) haha! Then there was also test and all. Well, very interesting to sum it all up. Well, today's friday and had German class just now. As usual, on the way to the MRT, sang Chinese Communist songs. When I'm in the station, sang the chinese National Anthem. haha! When I was at the platform did I reliase that there were a group of chinese nationals at the platform! haha! WEll, very interesting to see thier facial expression. haha! Oh, I had also collected my IMF check today! Yeah! Finally, can buy things!~ haha

WEll, now am looking forward to ATC camp on Monday to Wednesday. Well, it will sure be a hell camp. Hope I do make lots of friends and my relationship with SSTG David and Encik Haramain can remain, if not, MAJ John and LTA Rahman will sure torture us. well, have to pack my things liao.

2006-11-17T22:46:00.000+08:00

Went for ITP Job Interview today. Went with Andrew to Cycle And Carriage office and the HR there interviewed us. We got thru! She then told us to choose one post, and I choose the Commercial Vehicle for Mercedes. After choosing that, she informed me that I will have to go over to the office at Pandan Loop to meet the in-charge over there. And so, we went over. It was a long bus ride over to that area. Finally, reached the office. The walk to the office is a killer! Well, finally, reached there. The manager was a friendly man and he briefed me about wad is the job scope that I will be going through. Well, after that I thanked him. Here's a pic of the building.
Any way, Andrew and I were ferried out to Clementi by a kind hearted Mercedes Taxi Driver. I then rushed down to Lavendar MRT to meet my NCDCC coursemates to go to Civil Defence HQ. Well, reached there and it was an amazing experience. We went into the nerve room where the 995 calls were picked up. It was an amazing experience. After that, we went to Central Fire Station to view the Heritage centre. IT was great, the encik there taught us much about the history about Civil Defence. We then went on to learn the History of the Central Fire station. After that, it was Songs session. It was quite amusing as you see all the OCTs loosen up and sing happily! hehe! We then went down to tried on Fire hoses which was very fun. At the last part, we watched the Encik slide down the fire pole from 3 stories in about 1 sec. It was very amazing!
An interesting day I must say.

2006-11-16T00:20:00.000+08:00

Today was a great day! Had RWP individual presentation today and had to come up with one impromtu topic, so I chose German. I taught the whole class some basic German like Guten Tag and Auf Wiedersehen. I even taught them how to count from 1 to 10! haha! Das ist Gut, Ja? hha!

LAter in the afternoon, met up with Siang Choon and another malay guy and we went to HTA together for our first day of CLT course. It was pretty fun and enjoyable! We really had much fun learning. Actually, we did not learn much as much of those that we are suppose to learn had already been learnt before when I was in NPCC. haha. Nevertheless, I refreshed my memory and made some new friends. The class that I was in were all TO OCT. So next time when they graduate, we need to address them as Sirs and Mam's. Well, at least the class has one pretty face amongst them. Not sure wad school she is from but will definitely find out in tomorrow's class.haha! So happy now.

Hope tomorrow will get alot of interaction with the rest of the coursemates. !

2006-11-10T23:14:00.000+08:00

YEah, Just got a Sony Ericsson K610i 3G phone today! It's is great, so far, better then my previous K700i! It even has a removable memory stick! Bought it at a price of $15 which comes with screen protector and a hard plastic external case after trading in my old Nokia 6610. Mine is a white colour and it is one of the limited edition phones! YEah! So happy! Can't wait to do 3G calls!

2006-11-10T12:50:00.000+08:00

Here are some pics which I took on last week's trip to Fort Serapong

You can see the peacocks are crossing the road, with caution!

An 18th century gun port hole for firing of musket.

In the above pic, are the students from Bendemeer Secondary School which I lead them to the fort!

A nice view from the top of the Underground reservior

Here lies the remains of the once powerful Fort Serapong. This structure here was abandone due to the upgrading of teh guns and the fort.

2006-11-09T09:35:00.000+08:00

Hihi!

Went to HTA yesterday after my ED revision class. Went there and was lost, again. The place is damn huge! And the worst thing, there is no signs to tell people where are they. Well, I finally ask a Senior Station Inspector for derectiong which he is not too sure of himself too. In the end , we asked another person and finally got the directions. At the door, there was a note that says "HTCC Store". Once I walked in, the guy in it called me SIR! haha! I'm just a Cadet at that moment, or should I say Recruit, with no official rank! haha! Well, later he clarified with me that he was suppose to greet all the TO's SIr or Mam. haha! Protocol, Welcome to the world of Uniform Group! aha! As I go into the Store, the first thing I notice is that the store is like 10x as huge as the NPCC Store which I used to go! Whoa! Huge! You can see all sorts of equpiment there! MOstly uniform! haha! I then went straight to fit my uniform. Got 2x Shirt, 2x Pants, 1x Beret, 1x Jockey Cap, 1x Belt, 1x NCDCC CLT Shirt, 2X Socks, 2x Garters, 1x Crest, 1 pair epuallette, 1 pair boots. The boots were like made from Kings safety boots! Whoa! And they were super comfortable! I tried them on and there was cushion in the boot all around your leg! It's like 10x more comfy then SAF combat boots! Whoa! I think it's 20x more comfy then NPCC parade boots! haha! Siang Choon was there too, and we talked quite abit, long time no see! haha! HE told me taht the man and women there choosing uniform took a very long time, from the time he came in till we were there and still have not finish choosing the uniform! hahah! WE just got our No. 4 on that day and our No.3 will be specially made for us during the course. Yea! After we finish collecting the uniform, we were brief of the requirements of the turnout of the uniform, on how is should be ironed and starched. WEll, it's all too easy on me. haa! Guess I know to much? ahaha! Anyway, after collecting my uniform, went to Joel house to look at them swim. The journey there on MRT was painstaking! It took a whoping 38mins to go from CCK to Toa Payoh!

Once I reached his house, waited for them to swim finish and bath finsh and we met Shao Hong at the gate before proceeding for dinner. IT was fun, but we really talked quite alot, again. haha~

2006-11-07T23:05:00.000+08:00

Whoa! CAmp is finally over, SPARC CAmp.

It was held over Saturday and Sunday. And guess wad, WE were there like on Friday to prepare for the camp. Wad we did not know is that there was practically nothing for us to prepare as this camp is near to our club room and therefore we did not need any special help to move all the equipments to another place. On Fiday night, we went ot watch the Covenent. It was seriously a dumb show. Why, because it is practically a combination of Harry Potter, Matrix, Charm, Dragon-Ball and other action show. I must say it is not worth the money, ok, maybe worth it for the action that is in it. Luckily I only had to pay $7 as Charles knew the guy who sold the tickets. After that, we went to Bendemeer area to eat Prata till like 4am. hah! We ate quite alot but only paid like $20++ which is very much less then wad we had eaten. After that, we returned to school to plan for the night walk. It was quite a fun walk actually. The planning took like 1 hour which we then bath and slept for awhile.

I woke up like 7.15am and made my way to my sec school for the Serapong Hike. This time it was with those secondary school kids which we must lead them. We went in with about 14 sec school kids and 5 ex students which includes me! In Sentosa, we met up with Mr Ho from Jurong Secondary School. We then proceeded to climb and trek towards Fort Serapong. When we were around Fort Serapong doing our hiking, some guy from the NUS archaeology team met up with us telling us that it was not safe to go in. But we did not care, hehe! That was a real Adventure spirit. We even end up going into the tunnel. We found the end of the tunnle after Mr Tan and Sherwin bash their way up from the side. We went there to take a look and found out that it was not where we thought the entrance was, it was actually at the back entrance of the fort. ! hah!

After the hike, went home to change before going back to School. That night, we had our Big Night with Movie as the theme. It was quite a funny night. After that, the year 1's were sent to sleep and we year 2's later banged on their doors to conduct a night walk. It was quite funny. From wad I can observe, one guy seems to be not very happy with the things that we are doing. WEll, who cares! hehe! we then walk and let the rest of the guys walk.

At the end of the walk, I believe that all the guys have bonded better as I can see that during the walk, some of them are holding each other's hand! hah~

Well, After the way, Marlene and Ying Wen both had Gastric pain. Maybe it was the night walk, but I dunno wad to do, cause I was never trained in a Gastric pain attack! haha! Al I could do was watch them. well, may I tried to comfort them, but I dun think it worked either. After some time, their pains subsuided and all things returned to normal.

The next day, we had a test for them, well, not really a test, but it was fun and finally, it was break camp. Prizes were awared to various individuals and I beleif most of them are actually quite rediculious. haha! But wad the heck, at least it made the year 1's happy! haha!

Yesterday had fun too, at night went out with Marlene, Hui Xin, Nick, Joel, Shao Hong, Alvin and Joseph went for Kbox at Cinileisure. We had much fun! haha! WEnt home very late at night at about 1+ am. haha Luckily Joseph's brother could lompang me back home! Thanks Joseph!

Today had my Marketing test and not sure if I can do well, maybe I can do very well in the MCQ section. haha WEll, went to find a job for ITP after that. Andrew, Duane, Huat and me went over to Alexandra area to llok for a job in BMW. As we walk in, we felt quite weird as we looked like out of place. haha! We ask for the HR department and they told us that they currently do not have any position for us and so, we left our particulars to them. We then went over to many other places like Peugeut, Chevorle, Porsche and many others. We even went over to Jaguar to enquire. At Jaguar, the sales person is very kind to let us leave our personnal details with their company. HE even told us that he used to be from Poly and thus I believe he understands our feeling. hehe! AS we are about to walk out, we over heard a rich guy who just walk in and say he wants that car! Whoa! From this, I can concur that he really has too much money to spare! AMyeb he can give me some! haha! Finally, we went over to Mercedes to ask for a job. WE were then refer to the main Cylce and Carriage office which is one street away. By then only Andrew an I were left and the other two friends of mine went home! haha! We had managed to convienvce and got a job interview session with their HR manager there in Cycle and Carriage! YEah! So happy! haha! They told us that we would have to come back on Thursday to have an interview with their HR member. YEAh!

Today over all is an very interesting day! WAiting for tomorrow! Having ED remedial class and NCDCC uniform collection.
After that will be going over to Joel's House. !YEAH!

God Speed!

2006-11-02T07:59:00.000+08:00

HElo, WAd aday, had just dropped my phone into the water and it's not working now, wad do I do? haha! Anyway, I will be changing my phone number to a new number it will be 91196290.

Hope you guys can remember! Thanks!

2006-11-01T19:18:00.000+08:00

HElo!

Today was a great day, rather a exam day. Started with MAths in the morning and all my friends were like shocked that I wore formal to school. Ok, after that, it was my presentation on RWP. I talked quite ok, that's according to my teacher. She even said I could be a very prominent speaker. haha! I don't think so. hahehe. WEll, after taht, went to GEMS class skipping lunch and studied a bit of the GEMs but to no avail! hah! Went into the exam hall with a blank mind and lets hope I did not do so badly for the thing. After that, went to SPARC room, saw Izzat in there and I joined him. He talked about his love problems to me and all, well I advise him but I can't be much of a help since I haven been in a relationship before. hah! After awhile, Shao Hong, Joel and Hui Xin came into the room. They were in the place doing their work. We had some fun in the room.

LAter I joined Duane at 3pm for lunch at FC3. Was joined by 2 girls whom, I believe to be from his GEM's class. They do not look good, but ok. WEll, went off to the library to study maths and end up meeting Freddy and gang. We talked quite alot , I even talked to Charmaine on Duane's phone. haha! Interesting! haha! WEnt for maths test after that and I must say, it was a bit tricky on the MCQ part. haha! I dun even know! hah! WEll, went home after that With Shao Hong.

Reached home and was informed by my mum that she just bought a new SIM card with a plan of free 5oo SMS, Free incoming call, free 100mins outgoing call , Autoroaming and Free IDD. It only cost like $14.70 per month! CAn you believe it! haha! Now, I must think of changing my number to 91196290 hah! This may be my new number, but not sure when to change it. Shoik! Thinking of upgrading to a new phone already! haha

Was thinking of Sony Ericsson's W850i
Cool phone right? haha, but with a "cool" price tag too. Let's hope after trading in my current phone, I can get a better deal.

2006-10-30T08:34:00.000+08:00

Whoa! CAme back from SPARC camp and I must say it was very exciting! haha! Too tired yesterday so slept after I came back, I think I must be really tired from all the non-sleeping and planning! haha!

Well, the first day of camp was a bit late for me, cause Alec only came to fetch me like 3+am in the morning! WEll, had a fun time that night, went around Singapore. That includes shopping in the wee hours of the morning at Mustafa. haha! Very fun! Then later, went back to camp and was already like 5pm. Slept like 2 hours before waking up to the camp day itself! hah! In the camp, we really had lots of fun.

The first day was spent in Sentosa. The main event at Sentosa was postpone for like 3 hours and Yong Hong and me had to wait. We slept and bought drinks from 7-Eleven and yet, they were not here. Only after like lots of waiting hours did the come.

Ok, got to go now, Need to pack stuff at School.

2006-10-25T22:48:00.000+08:00

Here is the second part to the previous post! Happy viewing~!

Here's a pic of a structure which seems to look like a Guard's Quater use by those on duty.

Heres a pic from the side of the barracks. Notice that there is a sign put up by the NUS excavators.

You can see that the toliets back then were quite modern, they are equipped with modern flushing system instead of the bucket system which is in use that time.

Here's a pic of the cleared site of Fort Serapong. Notice the metals stumps of nails at the gun emplacement. They used to hold one of the most powerful guns in the world!

Here's a pic of the flooded ecavation site done by the NUS team. They did not have a drainage system in place when excavation was in process, thereby making it flood. Much flooding like this can be seen around the excavated fort and some of them have even bred mosquitos!

Here's my friend Geng Li from the 30SCE! hah! He's carrying with him the ropes that Mr Tan had brought from school for us to descend into the tunnel later. Notice that the corner painting of the floor is well preserved by the soil. Thanks Mother Nature!

In this pic is Sherwin, currently in Navy's SISPEC, scratching his leg from all the mosquito bites. you can see the battery commmand post from the pic. Notice that the structure is built with a flat roof and rather low and flat towards the ground. This is because they would want to get minimal sight from enemy warships. They also have an all round view from the battery command post so as make the correct and accurate decision for the guns to fire upon.

I'm in this pic! Yeah! I am wearing my SAF combat boots, BK1 Brute, Camera and 2C Maglite around my waist belt. Behind me is a closer pic of the battery command post.

Here's another view of the Command Post. Note that the Windows go slightly more then 180 degrees in area of sight. In the pic, Yong Xian can be seen taking pics of another part of the fort.

Here's a pic from inside the Command Post. Note the break off at the left bottom corner of the pic, it is going to the Range finder which is situated at the bottom part of the Command Post.

Here's a pic of the steps leading to the Range finder.
Here's the stairs that leads all the way down to the Casemates where the Shells are loaded onto the guns! Notice that the stairs from the Command post is cleared which is previousl totally covered by the undergrowth.

The entrance to the 4 stories high tunnel! The red tapes are most probably put up by the NUS excavation team.

Geng Li has descended into the Tunnel. All safety checks are inplace and safety is paramount. The condition of the ladder is uncertain there fore we are using nylon rope to descend down into the tunnel. Before this, a lamp was lowered down to check how deep the tunnle is and also to check the condition of the ladder. According to Geng li, the ladder feels rather solid.

Notice that while Geng Li is in the tunnel exploring, the rest of the members are outside supporting by talking to him constantly and also belaying the safety rope.

After a long day, we got out and finally saw daylight again.

We'll be going again, soon, but this time, with the secondary school kids! YEah! Make them excited!

2006-10-25T20:46:00.000+08:00

WEnt out on Saturday with Mr Malcom Tan, Sherwin, Yong Xian and 3 other friends to Fort Serapong! YEah, it was a very fun adventure! Shall post pics for you guys to see!

Here's a pic of a snake which I have yet to learn to identify one! haha! Think it's a tree snake.

Here's a pic of some guys who went. Notice that they are downstairs and are waiting one by one to climb up via the side of the stairs. ( The stairs is broken)

Here's a pic of the gun position. It is in quite a bad shape as the British did blow this position up to prevent it to be landed in Japanese hands. It is the upper level of the previous pic.

A pic of the gun emplacement.

View from inside one of the firing position.
Notice the white dots in the pic, it is known as orbs. From wad I read in SPI website, they are actually spirits of people who still linger around that are, very scary.

A view of the same firing post from outside.

2006-10-22T23:08:00.000+08:00

Woah! Today is another Amazing day! haha

WEnt Sentosa with my PF friends! Fun I must say. We met at HArbour Front MRT before going over to Sentosa. We had split decisoin to go over to Sentosa, so in the end, only Allen and I took the Rasa Sentosa Hotel bus over to Sentosa. I had constipatoin through out the bus ride and had to rush for the toliet in the hotel. I must say, the toliet was excellent! And actually I had a fun time defecating! haha!

After when over to join the other team and ended up playing poker. hah! Had much fun before we ended up covering Allen in a pile of sand! hah! After that, IT was throwing people into the sea! haha! DAmn fun! haahaha! Luckily I said I never bring extra clothes, then after that, I walk myself down to the water and play. We played monkey with a ball and inthe end, I was the mokey for 3 times and ended up having to do 4feet. hah! It was quite fun, just go up to 4 girls and take a pic with them! haha! And one of them is actually quite pretty! haha! hgah!

When I went back in, they ended the game. WTH.

We boys then went up to shore to rest and look at the BEAUTIFUL surrounding. haha! Spotted some girls playing volley ball and I find them all quite cute! oh! I must say nice! WE boys were down there all discusiing how's their body and their cup size and all, all boys stuff! haha!

We ended off playing Volleyball after soccer, Frisbie and basketball. WE met this Ang moh whose name is EJ and played with him. It was quite fun! haha! Soon, one indian join us too. And not before long, 4 Afghans joined us! haha! Funny mix of people. We ended the game with 11-21 and we were happy, dunno why also. Haa!

Oh, and I must say, there is this girl who wore blue bikini suntanning near our hut, she was very nice!!! She was like sqeezing her breast all the time and it was quite enjoyable watching her do so. hah! She was like very perfect, nice face, perfect body and perfect breast! AHAH! I think I going wild thinking about her! haha!

WE went off later and ate at Harbourfront. We ended up playing Guess the no.. The 4 feet is taht those who got the number, must do push up and Soon Kueh hah! Very fun, iun the end we finish all the food up! haha~

ok, now it a new week later and hope that I will be a fun one. SPARC Camp is coming up and it is very interesting to see all the juniors! haha!

2006-10-21T06:50:00.000+08:00

Whoa, Yeserday night was a very fun night. Why, beacuse I went Kbox! ahha! Even though it's the first time I go there, it is very fun!!!! haha! We were all like very high!

Those that went were Nick, Izzat, Derek(Went home early), Shao Hong, Hui Xin and Marlene. We really had lots of fun. I only went there after my Deutsch Klass. After I was there for awhile, Derek went off as he needed to meet his date. We then continued to party! Initially, I was abit shy, well, just a bit, but after a few songs, I was charged up and ready to go, And had sung lots of oldies. haha! We ended off with PCK's musical song, Kenna Con! haha!

In general, it was a very fun night! haha

2006-10-18T22:34:00.000+08:00

Oh, yesterday was a fine day. Actually, Best day!

Had duty in the morning and met up with the RSAF recruitment officer whom I met also at Air force open house. Had a good chat though. Did duty with Derek, Izzat, Sarah, Crystal, Fiona, Bryan, Olivia and Cynthia. We had fun and lots of laughter at Convention hall. After that it was back to lessons at LT18A where Maths was fun, as usual, we leran much from maths! haha! Dunno why I like maths suddenly.

Well, rushed back home after that. Had a quick bath and changed. Went to Vivo City after that for the IMF appreciation dinner. Met up with the rest of the guys and gal and we had lots of fun. We had to queue to go up to meet Lee Hsein Loong. At last, we made it to the top, Jamie Yeo and some other guy was the MC for the day. After sometime of waiting, Mr Lee arrived! hah! , He talked about the IMF experience that other delegates had told him about and after that he walk to the reception. We too went away to had our dinner. We had a hard time finding a place to sit down, and when we finally sat down, and bought our food. As Alec went around to ask those CYA people for their unused coupons, we ended up with lots of food on our table! ha! We actually had a hard time to eat up all the food. After eating, we strolled around the open air building top and then went home. The year 3 had a gathering at Coffe bean after that while Izzat, Joel and me had a nice long chat at Macdonalds. Finally, we went home. hah@! Over all it was a great day.

Today was a great day too, but not as good. When I'm on my way home, saw Izzat at Bugis MRT, he was on his way back to school to do some work. Well, really hope tomorrow will be a better day.

God Bless.

2006-10-15T00:09:00.000+08:00

HELo all, today's been quite a boring day.

Woke up late and all, then in the afternoon, went to Sheares to look if the shirt I wanted is here but nevertheless, it's not here yet. Stayed around to look at the knife polishing process and reliase that sand paper is used instead of of the sharpening stone. well, a very interesting precess I must say. I also overheard the conversation of the Commandos and the store owner. haha, it seems that the store has quite alot of military backing.
Left after that to Bencoolean to lok at Seiko watches. Felt that it's time to get myself a formal watch.
This watch seems to be quite good and it fits my critirea. Would scout more on the price of this watch. One of this days, I will go down to Mustafa to take a look at their products there. Heard that they are selling Fox 40 whistles at a good price! haha, have to take a look for myself.

haha, tomorrow's Sunday, hope it's an exciting day for me! yeah!!!!

2006-10-12T08:25:00.000+08:00

Early in the morning today, woke up to choose my 3rd year option. Choose Biomedical as 1st choice and Energy Option as second. Now, all I need is to do well and I can go into 3rd year! yea! Oh, I think Yong Hong had told me that he is also choosing Biomedical in his EEE 3rd year option! hah! Maybe we can be in the same class!! hehe!

WEll, yesterday I received a good news. At about noon time, NCDCC called me to arrange for uniform fitting! YEah! HAve booked a time to go for uniform fiiting on 1st December afternoon. The other thing is, after fitting, need to rush back to school for German and most importantly, Mr and Miss SP! haha! Melissa is in there! haha! WEll, Also would like to see wad's the quality of this year's girls! hehe! IF Melissa is reading this, I wish you all the best, will go down to support you! Yeah! haha! But I still need to find out the destination of the place and wad time is the event!

Oh wells, school will begin later at 1000 and now, I continue to search for my micarta handle replacement.

2006-10-09T16:46:00.000+08:00

HElo! Long time no blog, actually, no time to.

Saturday was the Musical and it was fantastic. Saw many of my SPARC friends there, and some COMPEREs too. The musical was funny, but the most funny part is that Vicky Quek is also in it! Making it even more funny! HAHA! The worst part, she's acting as a Policewomen! And Please, she has no rank and yet she is wearing the bush jacket, they just don't do enough research! haha!
Anyway, had lots of fun there and the PSI hit 150 that night, it looked like Genting, except maybe it's hot outside? haha. Went home on the second last train and chatted with Yong Hon and Joscelyn on MSN till late night, or rather morning.

WEll, School as usually today and we went home earlier today, as usual. Went shopping for a pair of slippers with Nasik at Suntec and he finally found one at Carrefour. haha! Walked so long just to buy a pair of slipper, can't he just buy at the shoe shop in the market, as if one can see the design on the slipper once you wear it, unless you are invisible, which is not the case. haha! Oh well, some people are sure diffrent from the others.

Later going to my Cousin's wedding dinner and can't wait as I will also be meeting my other cousins as well.

God Speed.

2006-09-30T22:11:00.000+08:00

Finally, the first week of school is over. Seems to be quite difficult this semester but notheless, I must strive hard to get more Distinction besides my GEMS. TAlking back to my GEMS class, there seems to be quite a number of girls and some of them are not bad, but again, maybe I did not see them so clearly, so I must again look out for them during my next GEMS class. Well, nothing much more to add.

Maybe alittle more, tomorrow is the official opening of the SPARC Blog. I can finally look forward to seeing things being posted up there. YEAH!

Today I went with Steven to the Central CDC Meeting at New Supreme Court. The building is BIG! Lots of stories and many floors! Just amazing. Anyway, we went down to the basement to hear the talk. There was the Mayor for the Central CDC and he was talking. Well, most of the thing was quite boring as I did not knew much about anything. The best part was the refreshments, and boy is it refreshing! haha! The food was great and the fruit punch was superb! After that, went home and went out dinner with my cousins. We then went to Singtel shop to view handphone. My cousin really like handphone and she really changes them very so often! haha! Even my cousin-in-law say she likes to spend on handphone! haha! Well, in the end she went home to think about it and ended up going home empty handed.

Well, another day is coming and I must complete my homework on Sunday. Can't drag all my homework till the last day. Must revise my homework too.

God Bless

2006-09-24T23:05:00.000+08:00

Whoa! Finally, I'm back from Poly Forum!

Love it! It's been a great 4 days of "Adventure". Met lots of new people who I didn't know were in my sub-theme. But Alas, it was over with a bang. On Friday, went to the IMF reception at airport and ate quite alot. Shao Hong, Derek and me later went to town to eat Sizzle for lunch where we talk quite alot of shit. haha.

The next day, I'm down with sickness and until, am still sick. Oh, hope this sickness will styop soon, cause school is going to start!

BTW, I am selected for the CLT course for NCDCC! Whoa! Just my luck! haha!

All the best for my future endeavours!

God Bless!

2006-09-18T00:00:00.000+08:00

HELo again!

Tomorrow is the Poly Forum! Yeah! I have finally come this far into the holidays to have been through so many camps! Yeah! Will be offline this few days.

Here are some pics of the GYL Sarawak camp.

2006-09-15T22:07:00.000+08:00

Amazing day, although I was late for the to come at the Airport, I did meet a nice girl. We also took some pictures together using Tess's camera. It was quite an enjoyable day.

After the IMF, I went to Aljunied with some friends to get our Poly Forum Jackets. Well, nothig interesting but I did find out who made those IVP Jackets for my school. Went home, had a bath and went to Suntec to collect the Poly Forum Goodie bag from Nick.

2006-09-14T23:46:00.000+08:00

Amazing day!

Went to school in the late morning for the SP Peer Support meeting and it was quite a "noisy" meeting. All the things were not done and many things have yet to be done. Well, didn't know much people there except for King Leong, Yong Siang, Jimmy, Faeez and Boston. Well, went away to take my blazer for Poly forum!

Ah! It's so near! Poly Forum! Really hope I can have a hell of a fun time there! hha! All the polys together! in one! haha!

Well, went to Home Team Academy with Nick after that for my interview for CLT. It was quite fun. Was abit late though. changed pass and ran there. Gave the supporting documents and went in for interview. Saw the Commandant of NCDCC and Eugine Wong and one other guy. Talked about me and about wad I did back in my NP days. Was frankly quite nervous talking to them.
Was quite happy and I think I have high chances of going in. Will have to wait two weeks for the results though. After the interview, went taking pics of the place with Nic and we also went to shop at the Police shop. Saw a Dri-fit shirt with embrodery costing $10! So cheap! Next time then buy, currently low on caah! hahaa

Went to Suntec to meet Yong Hong and Izzat for Dinner after that and saw quite a lot of police there. There were SOC and Riot Police everywhere. Even Police Coast Guard also have! haa
We then went to Funan where Nic bought a computer bag.

We ate our dinner at Long Johns. Had a very fun day!

Oops! LAte now, tomorrow will ahve to wake up early for IMF duty. It's with a pretty STB girl tomorrow! haha!

God Speed!

2006-09-13T22:41:00.000+08:00

Whoa!

Today posted to Budget Terminal and it was quite a boring but interesting day. First, I was late, like 15 mins late for reporting, but the guy at HQ quite ok, so never mark late. After that , I made my way to BT.

I was quite a walk to the bus, I walked past the SIA crew reporting center, and also saw the SIA pilots do their checking of flight details on computer. Boarded the bus and went to BT.
The Bus stopped at Departure hall and I alighted. I walked the whyole departure hall and no IMF desk is in sight.

I then proceeded to the Arrival hall where I finally see the counter. The whole day was spent like drinking Milo from the dispenser till the water and Milo powder ran out. I also used the laptop till the power nearly finish, so we recharge.

I reliase that the Budget Terminal has a Sports Connection in the Departure hall.

Well, got my results today and it was a mere 2.86 cumulative GPA. Even worst then last semester as I got 2.9 the last time round. Must start to wake up and buck up too, if not cannot Sign on RSAF!

All The Best!

2006-09-12T09:10:00.000+08:00

HElo !

Fianlly, I'm back from Sarawak GYL Camp. Its been an enjoyable camp over at Sarawak.
Went very early to Changi Airport on 7th September to Check in for the early morning SilkAir Flight to Kuching. On board the airplane, we got to know the very pretty air hostess. The most pretty of them are Elaine. At the end of the flight, we took pictures with all the air hostess. It was a very enjoyable flight.

Once over at Kuching, we claim our bags and all, Mr Teng mistaken call me to take a bag which looks like mine back to the hotel! ha! That was quite funny cause I thought it was his and he taught it was mine. Well, we send the Black golf bag back to the airport for the person to collet back.

The rest of the days were quite enjoyable and got to know the girls from BE. There was three girls who were quite good looking at the camp. They were namely Meisy, Xiang Ying and Xin Hui. Well, am still waiting for my new found friends to add me in the MSN so that I could talk to them online. Would also urge them to join the SP Peer Support so that we can all continue to be friends which one another!

In the Kuching Airport back to Singapore, all of the GYL camper's took many pictures with their cameras! In the plane, we also took our chances to take pictures with all the Air hostess. I even had one photo taken in the cockpit!

Well, The next day, I had to rush down back to the airport fot thr IMF duty. IT was quite a boring day as our counter had no one to approach us for information. Now, I am at the counter typing this entry into the blog cause I have not much thing to do either! hah!

Hope to update more often!

God Speed!

2006-09-06T21:24:00.000+08:00

Yeah!

Finally, am going to Sarawak to trek! Will depart tomorrow morning at 0730, returning on Sunday. Well, I must first clear one problem, how to get to the airport at 0600?

God Bless!

2006-09-04T23:25:00.000+08:00

HElo everyone! Been a great week! Went for camp briefing and all that stuff today. And I also went for the RSAF open house.

What is most important that I want to say is this, you guys may know that I am a military freak, and so this information is very important to me. Just a few minutes ago, my secondary school history teacher called me to tell me that Fort Serapong in Sentosa has just been clear of the forest and are been excavated. This is most alarming to me as this may mean that the fort will be either destroyed for Sentosa Cove or been in the process of redevelopment into a new tourist attraction. I feel strongly for this forts aa they are the ones that made Singapore famous during the times of the British for a very well developed and protected Fortress of Singapore. As such, I have told my teacher that tomorrow, we will be heading our way down to Sentosa to see who is behind this excavatin and question their motive behind it. If it is purely on ecavation works and preseravation, then I will volunteer and help to discover that which is lost. If not, I will definitely fight to preserve this very precious history monument of Singapore from the brinks of destruction. I have also discussed with my teacher to possibly raise this issue to the West Coast GRC, who are incharge of that particular place, to preserve and if possible restore that area up. If not, then the Fort must be covered back up with soil and preserve it from the nature's fury.

Well, many of you guys may think that this is a small matter which is best left to the Government but I feel that this is a matter of Singapore's history. If we lose this part of the history, it's just like cutting an arm away from our body! So people, do help me out on this matter and if possible, give me links to people whom may help me in this issue.

Thank you.

2006-08-31T01:03:00.000+08:00

Nice day,

Went out with the year 1s yesterday and I tell you, It was so very exciting! I met up with Joel, Derek, Nick, Joseph and some others in the morning to recce the Pasir Ris park and also to do our games. Joel and Izzat when to fetch the year 1 at about 1200.

We then played games and all. It was quite fun. At night, we even had dinner together! yeah! Talk quite alot! haa! Well, that's about it. But really a fun day, and the most important, saw quite a lot of juniors not bad one! This year Quality really good! ha! Not saying my bathc the quality no good, also got good one, but less.

Today when collecting the IMF uniform. Met with the rest at the club house at 1040. Was abi late but there's always people later then me. ha! When I went to the club room, didn't expect too much people to be there, but to my surprise, many CYA people are already there at level three waiting to take their uniforms! Whoa, And then there was the briefing about the IMF event and all that. Well, Vicky again told us that the duty was blah blah blah. I would consider her to be quite naggy! Anyway, the uniform looks cheap, cause when it is compared with the SPARC uniform, it does not even have he shape of the Lounge coat! Disappointed me abit. But oh wells, cant do much can I? Went to eat lunch with the gang and met "Sky". Well, we then waited together to collect those unifroms that are late to arrive, like 3 hours late! ha! But it was fun spending quality times with friends in my CCA, I really am closer to the guys in SPARC then my classmates! well, maybe we just bonded naturerly! ha!

Anyway, went home after we had taken our uniforms that were there, So reached my house MRT and reliase that it was raining. Well, ran with the IMF uniform above my head and back ato my block. haha! Quite funny.

Well, Tomorrow will be Malaysia's National Day. And also the Teachers's day celebration. Think this year not going back school again. Don't feel like going back! haha!

Going to COMEX with Nick tomorrow, will see wad we can see.

2006-08-28T23:15:00.000+08:00

Helo again! Been a very interesting past week.

On Saturday, It was the IMF Amazing race. Met in the morning at 0745 at the Oriental Hotel and was briefed for the race. The race took us to the CBD area and alos to Little india. There was one part of the race where we need to run with a bag of 10kg rice around the oldest bridge of the Singapore river. That was fun, also saw a car with a plate of S2. Think that was some bug shot! haha

Anyway after that race, was the NEA amazing race on Sunday. This one another amazing race! haha! Met the team mates in the morning and got ready for the race. We ran many places all over Singapore like PUB in Newton and Pasir Ris and also Puggol Park. haha! In the end, we end up 17th Position out of 40 teams. This is better when compared with the SMRT Challenge where my team came in 50 out of 100 teams! haha! Well, we could get a better placing if not for Dun xin who always can't run continously! haha! But alwells!

Today spent the whole morning and afternoon at a Poly Forum meeting where we went to the NYC and asked much questions in the afternoon! After that we went to Isetan to buy a present for elizabeth of our sub-theme. We also went to walk around in orchard and sat down at Starbucks to drink and talk. After that we went our sepeprate ways home.

Well well, tomorrow going to meet the year 1 and all to have a interaction session.

O! I almost forget, I was informed today that I will be going to the NCDCC interview on the 14th of Sepbtember at 1600 to 1615. Yeah! Finally, they have called me and I am on my way to becoming a CLT! haha!

2006-08-25T16:57:00.000+08:00

Finally, the exams are over and done with! The last paper was Thermofluids. I would say alittle tough, especially on how to find mass flowrate! And of course finding the magnitude and force was abit difficult, but none the less, I completed the pare within 1hr 50 mins!

Quitely made my way to SPARC room where I realise I am the first one there. Then went down to wait for the rest. Met Joshua, who was waiting for tennis. Well, a joker as I would say, kept whining as usual. Went up to club room and met Shao Hong opening the club room door. Soon, the people poured in. The people who came were Marlene, Joel, Joseph, Melissa, Alvin, Hui Xin, Timothy, Ying Wen, Shao Hong and one more person whom I forgot the name. And so we discussed about the camp delay and all. Reliased that the camp is delayed till October where it will be held in two weekends. Well, was planing for another gathering this coming Tuesday at Pasir Ris.
We finally decided that Joel should inform all the year 1 about the meeting coming up. Yeah, and so we left for lunch, me Shao Hong and Hui Xin. After that, we went to the pirated shop before going home.

Well, it's time for me to unstress! So should you guys!

God Speed!

2006-08-23T14:02:00.000+08:00

Found this nice song on the internet! The words are nice, it totally discribes the feeling of me, we must work together to get over the past and strive on! Well, maybe the song is a bit militaristic, but it's nice!

WE ARE ONE

We work in harmony,
with our fellowmen,
we are the soldiers of this land,
we have to move ahead,
to do our best we can,
we are the ones to defend our land,

We live in unity,
working hand in hand
within this land that we defend.
we have to leave the past,
to strive for higher planes,
we have to train to achieve our aim.

We push ourselves ahead, to our destiny
to make this country strong and free.
we go marching on, we sing this melody
so let us strive on to victory.

CHORUS
We are one, marching on;
we are the young defenders of this country.
moving on, we believe that we can achieve
so let us serve our home Singapore.