State pensions for retirees not feasible: Manpower Ministry -15 September 2004 0138 hrs http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/106644/1/.html And honestly, nobody owes us a living, as an individual. U don't prepare well enough for retirement, due to unemployment or other reasons, tough shit. Suffer thru ur twilight years. U can't get employed? probably you're too lousy as a worker. I'm glad our government is able to stand ground on what is best for the country, even how unpopular certain decisions are.
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Had preflight with Ng T, didn't understand him, he didn't understand me. And so it ended.
"So Sir, wat time do i walk out? do i walk out with u?"
"*mumble mumble*" and he walked out.
Lost, i went to ask around, decided to kit up first. Waited damn long. take off was planned for 1530, it was already 1500. Had to consider all the checks, taxying and stuff before taking off.
And so i decided to walk out myself. Checked the aircraft, about to climb in, this marshaller, lady, came to me.
"You got to go back. You didn't sign something."
wat did i forget? SHIT MY RAMS!!!!!! (its ok if no one understands wat RAMS are. Its obviously something i need to fill up)
And so i left my helmet there and went back to fill up the RAMS. Time now was 1520h. Obviously i'll be late.
Went into the kit room, my instructor's helmet and kits were still on the stand untouched. 1525h.
Fucking hell. Gone. Gonna fail the sortie i think. SO damn late already.
And went out to the smoking point, that cowboy was smoking.
"Sir, do we take off still?"
"U walk first"
End of hell.
"Climb now" Indian accent. or rather wat i thought it was. Must be someother aircraft talking. OK fine i'll ignore that. continue flying.
"CLIMB NOW LA!!!" Obviously not indian, its my instructor. *CLIMB* "wah damn slow leh" kaoz... not slow lor.. jus don't click.
Anyway, so after some fighter moves, to avoide clouds we found ourselves going home and at 390 kts (Close to the a/c limit). errr.. about more than 600 km/h? not sure.. pls correct me.Landed, and looked at watch. 1650H.
"Sir i've got a Simulator in 15 mins time. Do u wanna debrief after that?"
"I'll call u"
and so i went on to the simulator with a nicer instructor, at least an instructor who i could communicate with.
the vehicle i fly with. Nope, i'm not in the picture, and i didn't take the picture. Its jus a photo.
"So Sir, wat time do i walk out? do i walk out with u?"
"*mumble mumble*" and he walked out.
Lost, i went to ask around, decided to kit up first. Waited damn long. take off was planned for 1530, it was already 1500. Had to consider all the checks, taxying and stuff before taking off.
And so i decided to walk out myself. Checked the aircraft, about to climb in, this marshaller, lady, came to me.
"You got to go back. You didn't sign something."
wat did i forget? SHIT MY RAMS!!!!!! (its ok if no one understands wat RAMS are. Its obviously something i need to fill up)
And so i left my helmet there and went back to fill up the RAMS. Time now was 1520h. Obviously i'll be late.
Went into the kit room, my instructor's helmet and kits were still on the stand untouched. 1525h.
Fucking hell. Gone. Gonna fail the sortie i think. SO damn late already.
And went out to the smoking point, that cowboy was smoking.
"Sir, do we take off still?"
"U walk first"
End of hell.
"Climb now" Indian accent. or rather wat i thought it was. Must be someother aircraft talking. OK fine i'll ignore that. continue flying.
"CLIMB NOW LA!!!" Obviously not indian, its my instructor. *CLIMB* "wah damn slow leh" kaoz... not slow lor.. jus don't click.
Anyway, so after some fighter moves, to avoide clouds we found ourselves going home and at 390 kts (Close to the a/c limit). errr.. about more than 600 km/h? not sure.. pls correct me.Landed, and looked at watch. 1650H.
"Sir i've got a Simulator in 15 mins time. Do u wanna debrief after that?"
"I'll call u"
and so i went on to the simulator with a nicer instructor, at least an instructor who i could communicate with.
the vehicle i fly with. Nope, i'm not in the picture, and i didn't take the picture. Its jus a photo.
Monday, October 11, 2004
Sunday, October 10, 2004
there are alot of the bird that goes "mine mine mine" in Finding Nemo. Keep wanting to laugh when i see the birds
anyway, browsed thru my friendster list, and i clicked on "CDO 5th COY" and saw all my previous platoon mates in their red berets and their pictures of marching in the National Day parade. I'm actually very very happy to see them pass out as commandos and representing them in the national day parade.
honestly, after all the army coursemates i've met, both in commandos and ocs, i've come to realise army counterparts are the real ones who are selfless. in the airforce, there are so so so many people who i don't know for wat signed along the dotted line, and are here in australia complaining. No time to do this, do that. Who e hell told them life will be easy. Who e hell forced them to sign the paper? Get the hell out of here or stop complaining.
anyway, browsed thru my friendster list, and i clicked on "CDO 5th COY" and saw all my previous platoon mates in their red berets and their pictures of marching in the National Day parade. I'm actually very very happy to see them pass out as commandos and representing them in the national day parade.
honestly, after all the army coursemates i've met, both in commandos and ocs, i've come to realise army counterparts are the real ones who are selfless. in the airforce, there are so so so many people who i don't know for wat signed along the dotted line, and are here in australia complaining. No time to do this, do that. Who e hell told them life will be easy. Who e hell forced them to sign the paper? Get the hell out of here or stop complaining.
went shopping today at Garden City today, with my war torn palm. felt so rich, and finally i walked into a building that strikes me as a "shopping centre" and i started what i was supposed to do.
went to this shop "live" and bought a damn nice polo tee that no one in singapore will have and bought a 80$ dull green wallet that is dman nice. haha finally can throw away the pirated gucci wallet. walked to this "beach" shop, and the cashier girls wore short beach shorts and bikinis, and the girls working there other than the cashier girls were wearing short shorts and they all loooked so sweet and cute and pretty! haha at first i was like "eh, what is with the angel wings huH?" cos i saw so many pretty girls in it, until i realised they were all slaves of the shop.
and so we walk and walk, than my wound started bleeding, from dunno wat, and i bought antiseptic, that made the bleeding worse (wasn't the drying kinda antiseptic)
anyway, so at 1630, they called me and daryl, asking if we wanted to watch movie. we wanted to shop around so said no. so they watched 1645 movie and me and daryl walked around. At 1655 we went into the beach shop again and than at 1705, we asked the shop guy "what time do u close" cos we realised the place was getting empty. he said 1700h.. ok.. fine.. so we bought our stuff (a sock) and we went out and saw the ENTIRE place empty. we were like wat the fuck, cos everyone else was smart enough to watch a movie, while we were both stranded in dead mall.
so we drove down to a near by cafe and sat there. and so the story ends now.
went to this shop "live" and bought a damn nice polo tee that no one in singapore will have and bought a 80$ dull green wallet that is dman nice. haha finally can throw away the pirated gucci wallet. walked to this "beach" shop, and the cashier girls wore short beach shorts and bikinis, and the girls working there other than the cashier girls were wearing short shorts and they all loooked so sweet and cute and pretty! haha at first i was like "eh, what is with the angel wings huH?" cos i saw so many pretty girls in it, until i realised they were all slaves of the shop.
and so we walk and walk, than my wound started bleeding, from dunno wat, and i bought antiseptic, that made the bleeding worse (wasn't the drying kinda antiseptic)
anyway, so at 1630, they called me and daryl, asking if we wanted to watch movie. we wanted to shop around so said no. so they watched 1645 movie and me and daryl walked around. At 1655 we went into the beach shop again and than at 1705, we asked the shop guy "what time do u close" cos we realised the place was getting empty. he said 1700h.. ok.. fine.. so we bought our stuff (a sock) and we went out and saw the ENTIRE place empty. we were like wat the fuck, cos everyone else was smart enough to watch a movie, while we were both stranded in dead mall.
so we drove down to a near by cafe and sat there. and so the story ends now.
Saturday, October 09, 2004
Just removed 3 grains of road from the wound in my left palm. OUCH. Stupid buddy too weak to support my weight, causing me or errr us to fall on the road. The split seconds before i contacted the ground, i swear i saw everything in slow motion. I was able to roll myself and see myself flying towards the road curb and me tellin myself to embrace myself for landing, and tellin myself to put only one hand to land. maybe the moments before dying, this is what people will experience.
the story is so summarised and doesn't totally xplain the entire shit.
anyawy, I'm sitting here checking my bank account cos i'm xpecting money in today, and i'm finally living my life here, watching money grow in my Singapore account, and even my Australian bank account. haha a good feeling, really. think this is the largest ammount of money i've saved on my own abilities (without parental help).
haven't flown for a week already. Well, had OFT 5 that day, but i don't consider simulators "flights" so.. yeah.. quite disappointed. Was pretty current in flying, and now, i'll have to adapt to whatever flight conditions all over again. hmmmm.. see how it goes.
Book out tmrw, and happy birthday KAHSIAN!
the story is so summarised and doesn't totally xplain the entire shit.
anyawy, I'm sitting here checking my bank account cos i'm xpecting money in today, and i'm finally living my life here, watching money grow in my Singapore account, and even my Australian bank account. haha a good feeling, really. think this is the largest ammount of money i've saved on my own abilities (without parental help).
haven't flown for a week already. Well, had OFT 5 that day, but i don't consider simulators "flights" so.. yeah.. quite disappointed. Was pretty current in flying, and now, i'll have to adapt to whatever flight conditions all over again. hmmmm.. see how it goes.
Book out tmrw, and happy birthday KAHSIAN!
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Monday, October 04, 2004
Night flying tmrw! I'm not doing it, so it means i go work late, and go back to bunk early!!! haha anyway, been thinking of wat car to buy.
1. Mazda RX-8 - $130k++ if i took a 120k loan, i'll have to pay $1200 a month. Half my future pay, can afford it, but it will oso mean i can't go anywhere cos i'll have no more money to spend. But things will be different if i could get my dad to sponsor (i have never wanted my dad to fork in for my car, so this is jus a passing thought). He did tell me before that he'll only help me if i get a normal car like corolla and sunny. I told him its ok, i'll save my own money. But if i really want this car, i'll probably tell him this car is not a sports car, cos there are 4 doors, its only a 1.3 so how fast can it be right? ahha maybe it'll trick him to paying maybe.. $60k for me? but it'll mean i'm going against what i REALLY in the first place, which is not to live off my parents anymore.
2. Hyundai Tuscani 2.7fx- $88k If i buy this car, i don't have to take any money from my dad, and i'll be able to afford the $80k loan i intend to take.. $1000/m and i'll have enough money to pay for my personal espenses. But i'll bleed to death paying for the road tax, insurance and petrol since its a 2.7 l car..
3. Hyundai Tuscani 2.0 - $84k 4000 difference between the 2.0 and 2.7. At first glance, it seems like its more worth gettin the 2.7, but truth is i don't have to worry about insurance, road tax and petrol cos its more affordable paying for a 2.0.
4. Mercedes C200 (coursemate's) - <$50k 2nd hand. Looks like a good deal. affordable, installments only come up to $700 month, the fuel consumption though high will be offloaded by the low monthly installments. But it had some problems when i was in Singapore, but its been fixed.. 5 year old car, alot of problems coming up soon i guess, and its an Auto. I wan a manual....
5. 2nd hand of mazda or hyundai- minus $10k at least from the original price. Good choice. But i still want a manual no matter wat.
6. Get posted to France, get a peugeot there, and come back Singapore with more money to get the RX-8 MYSELF!
1. Mazda RX-8 - $130k++ if i took a 120k loan, i'll have to pay $1200 a month. Half my future pay, can afford it, but it will oso mean i can't go anywhere cos i'll have no more money to spend. But things will be different if i could get my dad to sponsor (i have never wanted my dad to fork in for my car, so this is jus a passing thought). He did tell me before that he'll only help me if i get a normal car like corolla and sunny. I told him its ok, i'll save my own money. But if i really want this car, i'll probably tell him this car is not a sports car, cos there are 4 doors, its only a 1.3 so how fast can it be right? ahha maybe it'll trick him to paying maybe.. $60k for me? but it'll mean i'm going against what i REALLY in the first place, which is not to live off my parents anymore.
2. Hyundai Tuscani 2.7fx- $88k If i buy this car, i don't have to take any money from my dad, and i'll be able to afford the $80k loan i intend to take.. $1000/m and i'll have enough money to pay for my personal espenses. But i'll bleed to death paying for the road tax, insurance and petrol since its a 2.7 l car..
3. Hyundai Tuscani 2.0 - $84k 4000 difference between the 2.0 and 2.7. At first glance, it seems like its more worth gettin the 2.7, but truth is i don't have to worry about insurance, road tax and petrol cos its more affordable paying for a 2.0.
4. Mercedes C200 (coursemate's) - <$50k 2nd hand. Looks like a good deal. affordable, installments only come up to $700 month, the fuel consumption though high will be offloaded by the low monthly installments. But it had some problems when i was in Singapore, but its been fixed.. 5 year old car, alot of problems coming up soon i guess, and its an Auto. I wan a manual....
5. 2nd hand of mazda or hyundai- minus $10k at least from the original price. Good choice. But i still want a manual no matter wat.
6. Get posted to France, get a peugeot there, and come back Singapore with more money to get the RX-8 MYSELF!
Its e queen's birthday!
on the way to the Perth Royal Show, we lost our way, and we found ourselves nxt to the indian ocean, and i saw the US Navy Carrier!! It was a great sight. seeing it along the horizon.. could see the shapes of the folded wings of fighters on the deck and stuff!!!
anyway, the perth royal show was wonderful. Had alot of rides, had alot of games, but i didn't wanna spend much after spending 18dollars in entrance fees.. there were dog shows, bird shows, chicken shows, many many fun fair rides, exhibitions, agricultural displays, ancient machinery, blacksmith demo, and amongest all the happening stuff, there was this dog that will definitely make everyone of u melt at e sight of it. .its soooo cute!
and by the way, jes, u sure u knew what i was talking about in the previous few entries not? okies then.. i'lll use more terms nxt time.. =)
on the way to the Perth Royal Show, we lost our way, and we found ourselves nxt to the indian ocean, and i saw the US Navy Carrier!! It was a great sight. seeing it along the horizon.. could see the shapes of the folded wings of fighters on the deck and stuff!!!
anyway, the perth royal show was wonderful. Had alot of rides, had alot of games, but i didn't wanna spend much after spending 18dollars in entrance fees.. there were dog shows, bird shows, chicken shows, many many fun fair rides, exhibitions, agricultural displays, ancient machinery, blacksmith demo, and amongest all the happening stuff, there was this dog that will definitely make everyone of u melt at e sight of it. .its soooo cute!
and by the way, jes, u sure u knew what i was talking about in the previous few entries not? okies then.. i'lll use more terms nxt time.. =)
Saturday, October 02, 2004
123bwc getting drbriefed in half time in an all impt match btw 122 and 123. (nope i'm not in the picture, and there wasn't a real match)
group photo taken during national day
Everybody booked out. I'm confined, and i'm on duty today. FUcked up man. Everyone's going for dinner outside already while i'm here gettin ready go go lower the flag. lolz.. anyway, happy queen's birthday! i'm going for e perth royal show tmrw!!!
Today i was doing OPs basically i jus stay in the OPs room where all the day's flying, aircraft number, Go/NOGO basically everything that a pilot needs is found there. The weather is bad and the CO started making changes early in the morning. He looked at Lee G's name (an instructor, my instructor) and had to cancel his Medium Level Navigation sortie for the senior due weather.
And so Lee G started talking to the CO, Lee T and Lee T asked Lee G who was his "basic" student and he said ONG P (me) and i began to pick up my name tag and than i heard Lee T say "ok u fly with ONG P and i put my name on the flying plan.
"So ONG P, panic already not?" Lee G asked me.
"No Sir, I'm ready"
And so i flew the sortie totally without the b4 night prep.
But magic! My sortie went so well that even the debrief he said he was happy with my progress!! haha having good grades and praises from Lee G is said to be rare and i'm so damn happy that i could not help but smile after the debrief. haha and the grade sheet look so damn good anyway.
And i know that all that read this blog won't understand 90% of wat this entry is saying, probably only gabriel understands, but what eva la. haha sorry if u all didn't understand. Cos i already tried my best to type this entry in lay mens' terms. soooo... i could have typed every thing more aviation like if i wanted.
i don't think anyone will understand wats below this line.
To add, the pearce tacan was out today and so i had to use the perth dme and ndb for orientation. I had to keep to a new set of radials and range boundaries and e weather was so bad i could not see the landmarks.
And so Lee G started talking to the CO, Lee T and Lee T asked Lee G who was his "basic" student and he said ONG P (me) and i began to pick up my name tag and than i heard Lee T say "ok u fly with ONG P and i put my name on the flying plan.
"So ONG P, panic already not?" Lee G asked me.
"No Sir, I'm ready"
And so i flew the sortie totally without the b4 night prep.
But magic! My sortie went so well that even the debrief he said he was happy with my progress!! haha having good grades and praises from Lee G is said to be rare and i'm so damn happy that i could not help but smile after the debrief. haha and the grade sheet look so damn good anyway.
And i know that all that read this blog won't understand 90% of wat this entry is saying, probably only gabriel understands, but what eva la. haha sorry if u all didn't understand. Cos i already tried my best to type this entry in lay mens' terms. soooo... i could have typed every thing more aviation like if i wanted.
i don't think anyone will understand wats below this line.
To add, the pearce tacan was out today and so i had to use the perth dme and ndb for orientation. I had to keep to a new set of radials and range boundaries and e weather was so bad i could not see the landmarks.
Thursday, September 30, 2004
Today is my book out day! Book out.. Book Out!!
Its e end of e month, and the squadron met e flying qouta for e month, and the day ended early with only one wave of aircraft taking off. The CO decided to allow us to go to e gym first, and than allowed to bookout at 1500h.
Went to Perth City and watched Alien V Predator. E show was ok.. not extremely good, but i really loked the scene where.. Peace was made..
Its been 8 days since i had a training sortie. the wait is killing me!!! fly me!!
Its e end of e month, and the squadron met e flying qouta for e month, and the day ended early with only one wave of aircraft taking off. The CO decided to allow us to go to e gym first, and than allowed to bookout at 1500h.
Went to Perth City and watched Alien V Predator. E show was ok.. not extremely good, but i really loked the scene where.. Peace was made..
Its been 8 days since i had a training sortie. the wait is killing me!!! fly me!!
Monday, September 27, 2004
i had a joy ride today, and it wasn't a normal sortie. it was a "close form" sortie. I"m basically a passenger in e plane flying with the CO while my senior is in formation with me behind. and we changed over after tat. although no flying on my part, it was damn fun cos it opened my eyes to the nxt phase of flying. the precision.. can't wait to get there!
Sunday, September 26, 2004
Keegan and Heng trying to be an australian originated bear.
I'm amazed by e work of nature. Millions of millions of years ago, a piece of land broke off from the rest of e world, which was back then, one continent. And so this piece of land that broke off is called Australia millions of years later.
I'm amazed at how the hell did the rest of e world not evolve animals with pouches, and why only australia had native creatures with pouches? The kangaroo itself is a very strange creature. I saw two kangaroos punching each other the other day with their tiny arms! Why did nature create hopping creatures here in australia? why did nature made animals that are native here to have pouches? what is e reason that e rest of the animals in other parts of e world not see e need to have pouches, but only here? i can't be bothered to read up on all the bone museum thingy, so if anyone out there has any explanation, pls tell me.
Looks like not only nature has evolved funny things here. Humans here has developed huge vehicles that take up 2 lanes.
I've gotten my own personal internet!!! yahoooooooo....! so damn excited tonight don't think i'll be zzzing! haha.. its 0219 over here and it freezing out there... just started raining outside
we went to e beach for a bbq today, and for e first time, i was right nxt to the indian ocean! the waves were large enough to make our waves in singapore look lame. The bbq went on fine, and it was towards the end when all instructors left and all seniors left leaving our course to clean up our pit, (*pause* i just heard a mouse outside e window as i'm typing this) a group of australian teens started to talk to us. first came this blonde girl who was 17 and was high with her 2 other friends who i didn't really care about cos e blonde girl was cute.
She was blonde in everysense of e word. she asked us how long were we in australia already and we said 2 mths and she said how do u all speak such good english if u were only 2mths old?
and than this other guy (a seriously cool and friendly teen who was in e group of high girls) came to talk to us. We were talking and talking about life in singapore and his life in australia and his mini cooper which i almost asked him to let me drive and that blonde girl came over to us again with another guy with her this time and asked the guy where was her bag. The guy looked towards the bench that all his friends were at and pointed at her black bag.
After she left, we started laughing at her blindness and her blonde-ness. It was quite fun talkin to these people and cpt lau had to interrupt us to ask us to get abck to camp for god knows what reason. so we said goodbye and stuff. but anyway, dont think anyone will understand wat i jus type cos wat i jus did was type "words" and not sentences.
anyway, here are some photos that i can finally upload!
on our way to Perth!
one of e seniors came back with e car looking like this. Apparantly it was a Kangaroo..
this is e view out of my window
city
my room!
we went to e beach for a bbq today, and for e first time, i was right nxt to the indian ocean! the waves were large enough to make our waves in singapore look lame. The bbq went on fine, and it was towards the end when all instructors left and all seniors left leaving our course to clean up our pit, (*pause* i just heard a mouse outside e window as i'm typing this) a group of australian teens started to talk to us. first came this blonde girl who was 17 and was high with her 2 other friends who i didn't really care about cos e blonde girl was cute.
She was blonde in everysense of e word. she asked us how long were we in australia already and we said 2 mths and she said how do u all speak such good english if u were only 2mths old?
and than this other guy (a seriously cool and friendly teen who was in e group of high girls) came to talk to us. We were talking and talking about life in singapore and his life in australia and his mini cooper which i almost asked him to let me drive and that blonde girl came over to us again with another guy with her this time and asked the guy where was her bag. The guy looked towards the bench that all his friends were at and pointed at her black bag.
After she left, we started laughing at her blindness and her blonde-ness. It was quite fun talkin to these people and cpt lau had to interrupt us to ask us to get abck to camp for god knows what reason. so we said goodbye and stuff. but anyway, dont think anyone will understand wat i jus type cos wat i jus did was type "words" and not sentences.
anyway, here are some photos that i can finally upload!
on our way to Perth!
one of e seniors came back with e car looking like this. Apparantly it was a Kangaroo..
this is e view out of my window
city
my room!
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
My 4th flight today (8 sorties including my sims). Was almost planned for sortie 5 tmrw. Saw my name on e planning board, but was taken out very soon. Anyway, been real busy. Juggling orientation this friday, all e duties that have been assigned, all e work as e duties planner.
Every single of us are xpected to get pissed drunk this friday cos of our orientation. luckily i've been getting drunk for e last 2 fridays in our drinking training. I don't care wat happens tat night. I don't care if i collapsed this friday in the middle of e mess and zzz thru the night there. I just can't wait for orientation to be over. Get over and done with it, and all our minds will be clear.
Being here for 1 mth plus and so much stuff being bombarded to us, i can really see selfisth characters appearing. People with virtually NO capacity to do anything.
But anyway, being so busy, i really enjoy e excitment the day brings to me. To keep myself alert and my gym sessions more effective, i've been taking hydroxi-cut (don't know how to spell). its really really damn bloody good! been feeling so awake thruout e day. haha anyway, time to zzz. got to wake upearly tmrw.
Nite world!
Every single of us are xpected to get pissed drunk this friday cos of our orientation. luckily i've been getting drunk for e last 2 fridays in our drinking training. I don't care wat happens tat night. I don't care if i collapsed this friday in the middle of e mess and zzz thru the night there. I just can't wait for orientation to be over. Get over and done with it, and all our minds will be clear.
Being here for 1 mth plus and so much stuff being bombarded to us, i can really see selfisth characters appearing. People with virtually NO capacity to do anything.
But anyway, being so busy, i really enjoy e excitment the day brings to me. To keep myself alert and my gym sessions more effective, i've been taking hydroxi-cut (don't know how to spell). its really really damn bloody good! been feeling so awake thruout e day. haha anyway, time to zzz. got to wake upearly tmrw.
Nite world!
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Finally planned for flight tmrw. god pls don't play any tricks on me with e weather again. haha taking off from another airfield 15 miles away and landing back home tmrw. I'm real lucky to get this chance.. haha thank u so much to whoever planned me to do such a thing!!
anyway, gabriel, if u're reading this, hope u take good care of urself! will meet up with u when i go back for a holiday in december!
anyway, gabriel, if u're reading this, hope u take good care of urself! will meet up with u when i go back for a holiday in december!