Friday, December 17, 2004

Another Week....

Well well, it's been a week since my last entry.. and I shall update my close frens abt my dull and uninteresting life.. (Dun say I din tell you guys things liao hor.. Sok and Alvin..)

Looks like I've thought too highly of the efficiency of the SAF... till now, no news of my posting order.. Still a 'wandering ghost' of the White House, but the only difference is I'm getting rather used to this le.. ha.. Not dat bad after all. I get to go anywhere and do anything as I please, follow my friends of various bands around in their routines and get first hand experience of how it feels like in the various Bands.. and listening to juicy first-hand news/gossips/happenings of the SAF Bands from the heart of the White House, the Bands HQ Office... Also, my loads of free time encouraged more casual conversations with the fellow musicians from all the different Bands, and thus I've made quite a number of new frens.. ha.. Wenchao from Band B, Joel from Band A (I think), Sgt Shannon from Central Band, Maja from Band A etc.. Really hope I can stay in Bands now.. cos Bands is really full of fun-loving and whacky people..

Basically, I'm not dat stressed up over the whole posting saga le.. just taking one step at a time.. after many a conversations with the different superiors in Bands (RSM, Training WSM, BSMs ABSMs etc), all encouraged me to pursue my wish to stay in Bands.. and the only thing that I can do now is wait for the return of Band's SDM, Major Teng. And so, knowing what I'm going to do next just make things seem simpler... though there's no guarantee as to what the eventual outcome will be. So guys, pray hard for me...

Just last Sat, Alvin, Sugui, Yanxin and I went cycling at ECP followed by a dinner at the hawker centre there.. den had Rochor Beancurd at Selegie.. And as we were cycling along the chalets of ECP, I was lamenting abt my sudden urge to stay in a chalet... haa.. talking abt how cosy the chalets looked with the warm yellowish glow from the tungsten light bulbs... and smoke rising from bbq pits and families and friends gathering in groups.. chatting, singing, cycling, having loads of fun.. and the next thing I know, hcco is having their chalet! But the sad thing is.. it's on a weekday and I decided against going.. being bogged down by many a practical reason.. the chalet being too darn inaccessible; the time being too late; me having to report to camp the next day etc.. And so I missed a chalet dat I so wanted badly... haiz.. really damn disappointed...

Thursday... went to watch a chinese percussion concert dat I never wanted to watch... Some crappy CO dat is like 90% Ngee Ann people.. WYM called me saying he has lots of tickets and asked me to ask people along.. and I ended up having to beg people to go with me as I din know how to turn him down.. darn it man.. Really hate having to ask favor from others... when it's all for doing another person a favor. Ended up watching it with Weixiang, Qingyu, Zhanxin and Kelvin... of which most are unwilling audiences no doubt.

The performance sux totally, except for the saving grace of this ONE performer.. some guy with a William Hung looking hairdo.. His skills are good and he proved damn proficient in delivering the pieces beside a guest musician from China.. Kudos to him, whoever he is.. But however, din enjoy the overall performance at all.. half the time I was frowning and grimacing in silent suffering.. as the discomforting noises went blasting on and on... The Ngee Ann conductor just ain't interested in balancing the orchestra at all... half the time the deafening noises from the tongqi covered everyone... Or maybe it's just me, and I'm beginning to change my taste in music.. having immersed myself in Bands for the past 2.5 mths.. totally cannot stand the coarse, raw sound of chinese percussion le..

Recently met up with a fren of mine dat I haven't seen for ages.. and got to know things that has happened to this fren through my observations.. really wondered why things had come to this... and was really curious.. but I held back my curiosity and refrained myself from asking. My rationale: If he/she really wants to tell me something, he/she would have told me without me having to ask. If he/she dun wish to tell me, he/she won’t tell me even if I asked. And ultimately, if he/she don't find the need to tell me, den there is no point in me knowing it, since it goes to show dat he/she feels dat it is his/her business and I'm not a friend worthy enough to share this with.

Dat's all for this week. Stay tuned for the next.. if you're still not deterred by the extreme boredom of reading my blog.