My Journey

Thursday, December 31, 2009 @ 11:38 AM

hospitals are scary.

Woke up in the middle of the night two days ago because of a searing pain felt at my left shoulder area and im totally immobilised. Can't move at all, woke dad up and he called the ambulance to fetch me to CGH. Wa the feeling sucks man, damn freaking painful, especially the part when i got to get up to the stretcher. Then went to A & E and got my arm X rayed, showed a dislodged shoulder, they gave me Ethanox gas a drug that will get me numb for a while, okay got me high. Haha and they twisted it back, damn pain still. Mc till 1st jan and light duties till 12jan. Gonna see the specialist soon, maybe i will have to down pes cause i can't carry heavy things or exert any force to my left arm anymore or risk having it dislocated constantly. At the hospital, a lady passed away due to a cardiac arrest and the medical team couldnt do anything to resuscitate her, haiz fragility of life. Got discharged at 7plus in the morning and resting at home.

New year's eve today and 2009 will soon be a history. Maybe i will be clubbing at St james tonight, gotta see if my arm still hurts. I dun wanna countdown at home, but i should be glad for that cause if not i will be in camp doing guard duty today. Anyways i moved to ang mo kio already like officially, bye bye hougang!

Zach
new year!

Monday, December 28, 2009 @ 11:55 PM

bye bye Buangkok.

2 more days before i move to a new neighbourhood, Ang Mo Kio. Can't bear to leave Hougang afterall i grew up here and I'm more attached to this place. But there ain't much choice is there? Spent my time scouting around for a good and cheap TV these two days. Found a 32inch LCD tv from Samsung series 4 for 599 at compasspoint, bought it today and brought it to my new house. And i went to the furniture warehouse near my new house to get a tv rack for 426bucks. Haha so today i spent more than 1k, all sponsored by my mum. Thanks mum!

Afterwhich i went to Somerset to meet up with Shiyun and Joshua. She's trying to be funny, went to try on clothes at Zara and asked me for opinions, i said it looked nice on her, she said Why don't u SYMU jokingly la. Lamee -.- 313 is pretty awesome! Went to cineleisure to buy tickets for Sherlock Holmes and its freaking crowded, i think is cause the guys are gonna enlist soon so today is sorta like their last outing? Haha. Then we went to Grand Cathay instead, bought the one at 7pm and the spare time was spent queue-ing for Astons. Had a good time catching up with them. And Sherlock Holmes is damn nice, mind intriguing. Yup and i went home after that, surprisingly huh? Go back so early. Haha yeah, tmr gonna be at new hse to clean up. Oh and i decided to cancel my driving test this Wed, totally not prepared for it so no point wasting the money.

Zach
tmr will be a better day.

Friday, December 25, 2009 @ 2:06 PM

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!

Merry Christmas people! Its yet another year that just passed by us and what awaits is another fresh year ahead. What's installed for us in 2010 remains a mystery but what i can say is cherish your present time, take the effort to go to your loved ones and tell them what had been stored in your heart for this past one year. Anything will do even a simple thank you is sufficient. Then take some time to sit down and ask yourself what is your 2010 new year's resolution. Here's mine..

I wanna say a big thank you to my family who's always been there for me this past year. 2009 marked the year when i truly take up the responsibility as a man to protect my nation and also the year which i transformed from a boy to man. It may sound hogwash here but deep down in my heart i learnt to cherish my parents more because in the process of learning to be independent, i fell and no one was there to help me up though since young the pairs of helping hands always belonged to them. Thank you dad, mum and brother for tolerating my nonsense this past year, when at times i will go back late at night and smell of alcohol cause of partying. I will try my best to cut down on that and spend more time with you. Oh and hope that dad's cough will recover soon. Thank you bro for bringing me out occassionally to have meals or movies, i really appreciate it alot! New year resolution: To be a better son and a better brother. (= The process of transformation:

From a crazy guy who dares to wear a pinafore to..

A soldier and then to a ...

A specialist!

Next is a major thank you to all my beloved friends out there, without you i can never be who i am today. Woodrow Wilson said this: 'Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together'. My friends, you guys totally cemented my world together and made it a better and a more fun place to be in. Times in NS may be difficult but with you guys around, it is always so motivating and fun to endure through and move on, and there we are Gryphon Batch of enlistees 080109, we have endured through almost 1year and that we are left with 10more months to go. Lets go people! To my late friend Augustine, it's definitely our loss to lose you to a better world, the times when we had our BSLC training in Delta will always be missed by Section 5 Platoon 2, may you rest in peace. To my friends from 10/07, we haven broken our promise of not losing contact with one another and thats something commendable eh? Although we have gone to different directions, trying to carve a niche for ourselves in various areas, we still made time for one another to just sit down and have a good meal. Lets carry this on and im sure time will never be a challenge to our friendship.

Pierce, Aaron, Grayson and james who's not inside.You guys are the best!

Class of 10/07 TJC! Being bad on the outside(as in academics) but good inside(fun loving) is our forte ryt guys?

My bro Joshua! Congrats on being commissioned!

Spastic 5, Zhiyuan, Jiayi, Siewyuen and ryan! It's always fun, laughter and craziness with you people around.

Signals Spec IC 2 coursemates! Woo! Sleep through skills as always guys. hahaha

And to my other friends whom i did not mention here, not that you guys arent significant to me just that it's my fault for not taking more effort to meet you guys more and take pics haha. Im sure 2010 will be a better year yeah?

Oh to pamper myself this Christmas i got myself a French Connection watch worth 142bucks after discount, damn nice.

All right, all good things must come to an end, Christmas will soon be over and the new year will arrive soon, and nicely said i will be counting down in camp because of guard duty. But it's okay it's once in a lifetime eh? Haha. Oh and rebel was rather fun ytd though the crowd sucks but the music made up for it. Going to a house party later with shiyun, joshua, martin and amanda.

Zach Lee Swee Liang
Signing off for 2009. (=

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 @ 3:56 PM

hmm and it goes on...

life has been rather slow this few days, particularly in camp. Well im still counting down to my ORD day, im only left with 10months more to go! Awesome. Haha. Christmas is just round the corner, by next christmas i should be a free man! Today i got myself a mc cause my flu just came back again and it sucks, and next week im on leave til wed! Woo! Traffic police test is on next wed wonder how i would fare, maybe i should be more confident of myself that i can pass. And next wed is the day which im moving to my new house. Gonna decorate my room to make it cosier, dad's gonna buy me a 32 inch LCD tv and bro buying PS3 and they go straight to my rm. Swee la! haha i just lack some home theatre system in the rm thats all. Mambo night later!

Zach

Friday, December 18, 2009 @ 5:05 PM

happy birthday leonard

yesterday i went roller blading with weisheng and the other MOFOs , damn fun but damn tiring. All of us became blood donation centres to the mosquitoes, got bitten like 10times? Haha and i kept falling down cause of the blades but it was a good experience. Bladed at Pasir Ris park, tried a few stunts and i just landed up kissing the floor. Nice. And after that we headed to Changi Village to have dinner. Zi cha totally rock my socks! La-la, stingray, kangkong... woo is ur saliva overflowing now? Just say yes i know it it haha. Then we bought a few bottles of beer and a sarah lee's cake to changi beach to celebrate leo's birthday. Wanted to give him a surprise, i went to a provision shop to buy candles and guess what the aunty was like shouting "Birthday candles one packet" to her assisstants. Nice, totally ruined the surprise. Then drank and somebody got damn drunk cause of relationship probs. Hmm totally can understand, girls always think that they are hurt the most, but guys are the ones that always feel the most impact. oKayy i gotta go see my new flat now, ang mo kio! going leow's bdae party at pasir ris downtown. chillax!

Zach

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 @ 6:47 PM

stop fucking yours and other ppl's life up sweeliang!

i think im still not ready to give up my bachelorhood yet. FML.

Zach.

Sunday, December 6, 2009 @ 6:34 PM

Woo its been a while since i blogged cause internet connection was terminated at home, and finally its back today! Yeah. Yesterday was the best day ever, okay actually not morning wasnt too good, driving skills still suck. Needa buck up man TP test is on the 30th! After which i went to meet Yuan, Yuen, Ryan and Jiayi. Haha been so long since we met up, shu yuan le(kidding..) Yup chilled at dhoby's starbucks till dinnertime arrives and we headed to Heeren to have our dinner at Fish n Co. Well as usual along the way we camwhored, not we, actually the girls took more pictures than the guys. Haha yup fish n co's meal was sumptuous and good, and we started talking in codes, i asked them to go zouk with me and it goes like that, GJTGZMTL(Guys, Ji Tao Go Zouk Mai Tu Liao) hahaha and we got rather hysterical bout it. In the end Ryan went with me and im sure he didnt regret a single bit. haha

Reached winebar at round 10plus? And i met up with Nic and Shar, nic introed Joanna and Raelin(okay i dunno if the spelling is correct) haha and we went to nic's house to drink. Apparently sharmaine tekaned me, i drank quite a bit through playing Circle Of Death, and made a rule like whenever she drink 1 sip, i gotts take 5sips. haha got damn high and reached zouk at 12plus. I totally didnt remember that i went into velvet and memories of last night was in bits and pieces. Sorry to those that i shouted at, i wasnt in the right state of mind. Zouk rocks!

Had driving lesson again today, not too bad i think im quite expert in parallel parking alr! Woo! Yeah and here i am slacking away till book in timing approaches. Outfield this week, boring~~ But im looking forward to this fri cause its my best friend's pageant contest! Jiayou shiyun! gogogo! Must have the confidence to convince if not confuse ppl that you won! HAHAHA. Seriously MTL.

Zach
i miss the feeling of having someone by my side.