One of my favourite ice-cream sundaes in Swensen’s is the Coit Tower. Finally got to see the actual tower. Must say I wasn’t too impressed…
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VCD Spree
There was this VCD rental shop across the road from my faculty where I signed up as a member and borrowed quite a lot of VCDs while I was still schooling. (DVDs and DVD players were still quite expensive at that time and the DVD rental market was virtually non-existent)
Think I watched the most number of VCDs while I was in my final year as I had quite a bit of time to spare, but sad to say, once I started work, I have never visited the place again and I’m not even sure if it still exists now…
Sick in camp
One fine Saturday, I was supposed to book out of OCS after we were dismissed, but I didn’t feel quite right. It was the afternoon then, and I decided I could do with an afternoon nap.
I fell into a deep slumber and when I woke up, it was already nighttime! I was running a fever and feeling very weak in general. However, I found the strength to gather my things and go down to the public phone to call my dad to pick me up.
Wonder what would have happened if I was too weak to get out of bed? There was no one else around in camp and I would probably have lay there bedridden until Sunday night when people start booking in again…
Studying at Ian’s
When the exams came close, a bunch of us would gather at Ian’s place to study. There was a function room where we would all immerse ourselves in our books, interspersed with the odd prank.
At around 2am, we’ll all get hungry then drive down to the nearby prata shop to get supper before heading back to sleep.
Are you ready to fly?
One of the nice things that my bunch of classmates used to do was that we would gather at the College of Physical Education (CPE to those in the know) and play basketball for the whole morning. After that intensive session, we would then adjourn to a nearby A&W’s, Macs or even the Ponderosa buffet to pig out.
BTW, the title of this blog entry is in reference to the title of the song I was listening to whenever I was on my way to the CPE.
Scooby is DEAD! Here’s Proof!
Found this grave in a dog cemetry while I was in Perth. (Don’t ask what I was doing in a dog cemetry…)
10 ?”Hello world!”
I was 9 when I was introduced by Henry Teo to the world of computers. We went over to his place to play games on his monochrome Apple II PC, and from there, we proceeded to spend whole afternoons programming basic text games just for kicks.
I didn’t have a computer, so I had to write my code down on A4 papers and then type it all in when I was at his place…
Spidey Web Shooter
Back in the days before Holland V became commercialised, there was an immunization centre of sorts near where St James Church is now. I remember my mum brought me there for a jab one day, and as a reward for being a good boy, she bought me this toy which shot out soft plastic darts and was modelled like the web shooter that Spiderman uses.
Lunch-time exercise
One of the great flexibilities that my first job offered was that lunch-time was “flexible” to a certain extent, and a group of us in the same department decided to go for some exercise during lunch time at the company club to keep ourselves fit.
Most of the time, we could not fit our exercise routine within the one hour lunch time, but I suppose no one really minded since the bosses knew about it but never really brought up a case with us…
I SAW, I conquered
Probably one of the best times I had in the armed forces was during section live firing when I was the SAW (Section Assault Weapon) gunner. It was really cool when I got to unload a whole magazine with the recoil of the SAW going crazy and I really had to grip it just to get my rounds to go in the general direction I was aiming at.