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Friday, July 30, 2004
Tuesday, 27th July 2004
Off day today for last sunday's OCS...
slept till 12+pm...
took a bus to tampines to meet elsie...
decided to watch I,robot at century square...
watched the 4.15pm show...
after the show, took tibs969 with her to yishun..
then she went back home.
while i took mrt to YCK station...
going to nyp for band pract..
been a while since i went back...
new yr1s are in... got 6 of the yr1 trombonists joined the band...
rehearsing for oct's concert...
got 6sr, 6yr1s n 1 alumni(me)...
hee~!
aft pract went to amk kfc for dinner with the them....
aft makan, took bus back to camp....
Wednesday, 28th 2004
morning full band for the band convention...
pm - sport n games..
been a long time since central band have time to b in camp for sports n games...
went to play basketball n soccer with the guys at the basketball court besides the cookhouse...
after work,
stoned in the bunk for awhile...
then went out to buy dinner for sin n myself...
played ps2 with sin n zhongqing...
normally sin plays kof..
last nite he tried the ea sports basketball n soul excalibur 2
keep luffing when we play...
then they go sleep..
i couldnt sleep so watch heaven n earth dvd on my ps2..
slept aft the show... abt 4am...
Thursday, 29th July 2004
took off in the morning...
slept till 1pm...
took a shower then went up to work...
full band for band convention...
after work..
went to tpy central with yihao...
had our dinner at mos burger...
then go to the cc for trb choir reh...
aft pract, took some photos of the group...
then went to a coffeeshop for a drink..
left them at 1150pm to go home...
writing this blog now lor..
ok lah... got to go~!
bye~! ^_^
Keith Koe~! ^_^
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Monday, July 26, 2004
Monday, 26th July 2004
Off day today for sat's ndp reh...
morning woke up ard 8am..
got to go Alexandra hospital for some routine check-up....
going with stanley..
took a cab from my place n picked him up at amk mrt......
everything ended at abt 12+pm...
went to queensway shopping centre's food court for lunch...
i tried the japanese curry rice from the western food store..
not bad....
curry tasted like local curry...
not so much like the real japanese sweet curry~!
^_^
then took tibs855 and transfered to sbs165 to amk...
stanley meeting his gf there...
so i stoned amk central with him till his gf came....
i walked over to the amk npc..
filed a report for my missing camp pass...
lost my camp pass on wed nite...
sianz..
now must pay $50 to replace the card and have to sign dunno how many extra duties..
idiotic lor...
not as if i wanted to lose it...
it must have dropped out of my wallet...
cos wed nite i went out to yishun central with my wallet only...
didnt bring my bag as usual cos going back camp after tt anyway...
n going back camp always must check bag... so ma fanz~!
^_^
then i went home aft filing the report...
was doing something installation of a game on my sis's pc for my bro...
then walked over to meet elsie at hougang festival market, after her lessons...
had our dinner at food court...
walked at ntuc...
bought toiletries for my home n camp use...
go home...
nap for a while...
then elsie took a cab home...
read huifen's blog....
then she took a angel or devil quiz...
she's an angel of peace...
so i tried lor..
results...?
hahahah same as her...
angel of peace~! ^_^
ok lah...
writing off now.....
take care folks.... ^_^
Keith Koe~! ^_^
Peace
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Came home aft OCS just now...
Friday, 23rd July 2004
Reporting at 12pm again for ocs parade reh..
same thing, 1 full run, 1 transgated, dinner then actual timing..
actual timing is been vetted by the OCS commander today..
he sort of came over n tok to the band after the actual timing reh..
saying thank you n stuffs...
say, with the band... makes a difference to the parade...
giving the cadets a boost in their morale....
say the the parade with the band is a must...
then load up the bus to go back to camp...
shower, then took a cab to toa payoh with weiji n ronnie..
i went to TPY to cut my hair...
manage to found a salon still open at 915pm...
cut hair...
go to TPY mrt.... waiting for elsie..
she just finish work...
then i told her to take the train from orchard n i meet her in the carriage from tpy lor..
send her to yishun interchange... then i walk out to take TIBS169 to camp...
Saturday, 24th July 2004
NDP reh today..
just normal reh, so we went in our band t-shirt n no.3 pants...
cloudy since wed till now... heng....
but when the sun comes out is damn freaking humid~!
Gen. Chin the chairman of the NDP EX-co, apologies to all the participants for last weeks cock-up in the transport...
go back camp....
went home...
send the email to soonsoon n lynette confirming the design of the choir concert tickets.....
Sunday, 25th July 2004
OCS parade today~
reporting to camp at 2.45pm...
told the packet of nasi lemak my dad bought for mi to camp n eat...
cos i kind of almost late for work...
ate the rice aft falling out...
then load up the bus...
reach there put down out inst. then told us to proceed to the cookhouse for our dinner..
then stone awhile, dress up n tuning liaoz...
530pm form up..
walk up to the starting point n waited for the time to march in...
was cloudy at first before our dinner..
then when we reach the start point... the sun was scorching down....
so hot....
like they said... SAFTI-MI's parade square must be blessed~ cos always parade during actual timing seldom rain one~
the parade went thru fine... except tt the was a small commotion when the VIP was giving the speech..
i tink is one of the cadets fainted...
poor guy.... ~
then the medics rushed out to tend to him....
but other then tt... the parade went on smoothly~
load the bus, go back camp...
stoned for a while...
watch tv.... Zhang San Feng on CH8...
then showered and went back home...
...
at home now...
irc-ing and typing this blog...
yippee~
off for the next 2 days... monday n tuesday~!
cheers~!
Keith Koe~! ^_^
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Friday, July 23, 2004
Finally an improvement to my blog entry frequency...
aft 4 days since the last entry...
but tonite i'm home also out of the blue one...
read on.....
Monday, 19th July 2004
normally is off day on mondays aft ndp rehs on the weekend...
but reported for work today at 5.45am.... cos of parade...
kuwait's prime minister is in for a visit....
so there's the usual welcoming parade at the istana...
then it's back to camp... rested from 11am-130pm...
then is full band for a up-coming performance..
it's a introduction full band to the pieces we might be playing for tt event...
aft work, went home....
had my dinner...
then used my com, toking to shannon on the ticket designs...
slept at 1am i tink...
Tuesday, 20th July 2004
woke up at abt 11am.... stoned at my pc for awhile...
then went out, took bus 159 then change to 72 to tampines...
meeting elsie after her lessons.. she ends at 330pm...
walk walk at tampines mall, had my lunch at the food court tt they built along the walkway from the interchange to the mrt station...
then took 72 back to my place...
alight at the hougang festival market...
went to the ntuc to get some drinks...
walk home...
try to watch the animes i d/l-ed....
but the recent episodes got errors...
can't seems to be playable...
gave up...
had dinner... had nap...
then took cab back camp...
played ps2 thruout the nite....
oops..
fen is going to kill mi~
hahahahah~! ^_^
Wednesday, 21st July 2004
report work at 6.45am for ocs parade reh....
OCS parade is the officer cadet passing out parade...
something like the bmt'c recruits passing out...
but for officers n more grander...
band A is the main band for this parade...
and Central Band is the supporting band...
so they needed 3 trbs from central...
suppose to be the 3 nsfs go one...
but i felt i long time nv go, so i requested to go..
then ronnie new regular, nv go ocs b4...
so he also requested to go....
today got 2 rds of reh...
then go back camp..
didnt realize there's a regulars retreat in the afternoon..
the regulars is splitted up to 3 groups...
each lead by 1 of the D.O.M.s each group have a theme to discuss abt to improve the working condition/standards/environment for the band...
i'm under CPT Yusri's group..
our's is to improve the morale of the bands...
discuss till 4pm then can go home...
suppose to fall out at 3pm for those involve in the ocs in the morning...
went to yishun northpoint with sin, stanley, hafiz and jaz for dinner...
aft dinner, went to sell the nokia 3650 tt elsie found in HK....
sold for $210....
then on the way back camp...
realize i lost my camp pass...
shit...~
now i hoping someone found it n return it...
cos to replace it would cost mi $50.....
haiz...
slept really early tonite...
slept at 9+-10pm....
woke up to elsie's phone call..
sang my usual goodnite song to her then i went back to sleep...
Thursday, 22nd July 2004
got woken up by some of my frens asking if i wanna go to the canteen with them for lunch..
tt's abt 10+am i tink...
but i told them it's ok..
wanted to sleep in somemore...
finally i woke up at 11am...
report work at 12pm today for ocs rehs...
today is 1 full rd, 1 transgated rd...
dinner then actual timing....
reached back camp abt 8pm...
took a shower and rush to trb choir with yihao, weiji n alex...
aft choir, went for dinner with the 8 tt are present for pract...
had a drink with david, wilson n yihao...
wanted to go back camp...
but i had to go home to send the ticket design to the esplanade pple for approval...
so took a cab home..
checked my email..
sent the email..
then now writing this blog..
ok...
tt's all for now~
see ya on sunday i guess with my new entry...
bye~!
Keith Koe ~! ^_^
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Sunday, July 18, 2004
one more week have passed since my last blog....
Monday, 12th July 2004
Today off day....
11.20am - ah-joo(my cousin) fetch yongxiang(his brother) to my place and pick mi up to amk mrt...
11.30am - meeting ronnie(my colleague) there....
took mrt to kranji mrt...
took sbs bus 170 to woodlands check-point...
going to jb today for shopping~!
waited at the woodlands checkpoint for kay lim(my SL)
12.45pm - my sl finally arrives...
he got to work in the morning cos got a reh for tml's event...
went thru woodlands check point took sbs170 across the causeway.... jb check point....
change ringgit...
i changed abt s$200 = 446.4ringgits
have our lunch at a coffeeshop....
normal chix rice, wanton noodles, wu xiang, zhu chang fen....
took a cab to the shopping centre... Holiday Plaza....
went to the game shop then video shop then printed a t-shirt...
then to the comics shop...
ronnie rushing home to his dad's birthday...
i got to meet elsie...
so we reached back at woodlands check point at abt 5.45pm...
meet elsie at northpoint...
she wanted to eat kfc for dinner...
luckily i nv eat kfc today for lunch at jb...
cos normally i'll go to the kfc at holiday plaza for lunch b4 coming back to SG...
hee~! after dinner... took a bus home..
cos going back later to camp...
i need to wear my jeans... cos i wore berms to jb...
had a shower... stoned a while...
then took a cab back to camp...
Tuesday, 13th July 2004
today got SAF Day dinner for warrant officers at Chevron....
reported in camp at 8am...
took the bus to chevron...
setup and soundcheck....
lunch...
then once-thru rehearsal....
i only playing for the opening fanfare...
there's quite a few different ensembles playing for tonite's event...
cos the organizing committee wanted the performance to b different...
they dun wan just normal band performance...
so opening is fanfare for the VVIP by the trombones n trumpets...
then the performing groups are...
jordan's jazz trio, jonathan's sax quartet, ramu's percussion ensemble, terry's combo band and closing with 2wo goh's 17 piece band playing the 4 saf's marches....
so after my fanfare run-thru...
i waited for my other frens to finish their reh...
then 3 of us went for a dip at the swimming pool....
took a shower then we went over to IMM...
walked ard the Daiso store...
then go back to Chevron for our dinner...
lunch n dinner was at the foodcourt...
they gave us 2 meal coupons for lunch/dinner...
then get change, dress up for the show...
after my fanfare....
took pictures for the combo singer n dancers...
then played with the lightings at our holding area...
the 4th flr - auditorium...
took pictures of mi holding diff instruments...
hahaha~ poser... hee~! ^_^
aft the show was over.... packed up n go back camp.... then go back camp...
Wednesday, 14th July 2004
reporting late today for us...
dining in full band in the afternoon...
after work.... hmm... didnt do anything much or went anywhere...
pretty much stoned in camp....
Thursday, 15th July 2004
reporting late for us involve in tonite's ACPC dining-in...
it's the dining-in for the graduating batch of Officer cadets in OCS now...
normally it's held 1 week before their passing out parade...
i not involve in tonite's dining-in as performance but as 1 of the fatigue party...
hahahahah~!
aft the dining-in there was some cock-ups with the transport for the band to go back camp...
so mi n the tonner left first... but somehow they managed to get the buses worked out...
then band reached back to camp aft the fatigue unload n cleared the equipments...
stayed in camp...
tried the cup rice i bought just now...
Friday, 16th July 2004
off day today...
left camp with sin...
took mrt to kranji mrt...
meeting violet n shannon there...
yes kranji mrt... i'm going jb again today...
bringing the 3 of them there today...
took the citilink to woodlands check point - and continue the ride to jb check point reach jb....
went to get our movies first....
then ate kfc today... hee~!
then we splitted up to do out own walking in holiday plaza...
i bought a few more comics, 3 posters...
printed a polo-t for myself n helped ronnie to print one too~
then the 4 of us took a cab to Pelangi Plaza... walked abt there...
then took cab to Taman Sri Tebrau... Da-Ma Ba Sa(market).... had our dinner there...
ordered mai-pian crayfish
butter prawns...
emperor's chicken
sambal kang kong
sambal ray fish...
and sugar cane drinks n thai young coconuts...
then took a cab to the jb check point...
took the citilink link bus back to kranji mrt...
shannon drove mi n sin back to camp...
while he n violet went to catch a movie...
read my comics then sleep...
Saturday, 17th Sunday 2004
NDP - National Education Show 1 (for all the pri5 kids)
everything ran rather as per normal...
same as previous rehs...
but cos today the first with audiences...
then the kids all got bus going back their schs..
1 class 1 bus... the last class tt got the up the bus was abt 1am...
then the band bus got screwed up... was suppose 930pm.... or right after our item..
become we have to wait for all the kids to load up then we can go back...
so we stoned from 8pm-1am for our bus....~
sickening rite?
got back camp...
went to the outside coffeeshop for supper with violet, shannon, ronnie, winston n deric...
shannon sent mi home...
reach home aft 3am....
Sunday, 18th July 2004
violet called my hp... woke mi up abt ... opps... 530pm hahahaha..
slept for more then 12hrs...
she's coming over to borrow my discs....
wanted to cut hair.... but my usual shop closed at 6pm...
bought 2 pet bottles of drinks...
go home..
use com...
dinner..
going back camp later..
ok lah...
that's all..
see yah all soon i hope...
next week having ocs parade rehs...~!
Keith Koe~! ^_^
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Monday, July 12, 2004
ok... i'm really sorry... didnt update my blog for so long
really busy till no time to go home...
even got go home also to dump for dirty laundry to the machine n get fresh clothings to bring back to camp...
... sorry~!
Saturday, 3rd July 2004.
rest day~
tt's y updated the last blog...
forgot wad i did this day...
Sunday, 4th July 2004
NDP reh....
Monday, 5th July 2004
off day....
meet elsie at northpoint...
meeting her to go watch spiderman 2 today~
after the show, she went back home
cos we watched the 7pm show
then went back to camp
Tuesday, 6th July 2004
had GOH at mindef in the morning..
after lunch... we had concert full band by Maj tng...
Wednesday, 7th July 2004
today Dr. Frank Ticheli came to camp n had the first session with us...
from 10am-430pm
all the way reh... stopping only for lunch~
stressed and tired...
Thursday, 8th July 2004
morning, did those pieces tt he didnt work on yesterday....
afternoon, do symphony, blue shades, elegy n vesuvius...
Friday, 9th July 2004
concert day today~!
In Harmony 19 - Frank Ticheli
reporting time to camp is 1230pm...
reached sch ard 145pm...
set up stage..
reh started at 3pm....
run thru concert order...
530pm dinner break..
630pm dressed up..
group photos in the hall
7pm tuning..
runned out to pass tickets to my frens aft tuning~
stressed~
so packed the schedule~!
had a little time to pass tix to my meow n huifen...
the nyp pple came b4 the photo taking...
peiling, eileen, n karen each got a soft toy for mi(+elsie)... =)
they came back from aussie... then didnt had a chance to see mi till concert day~!
well... concert was rather a great one tonite...
felt tt we did really well for 'an american elergy'
stanley's solo for blue shades was wonderful~!
n frank says tt he didnt really had time during rehs to tell us tt we're a wonderful band~
went back camp aft concert...
went to prata point for supper with benny, shannon, violet, sin, kaiyi...
order quite a spread~!
6 kosong, 2 chix muturbak, 2 kambing soup, 2 mee goreng, indian rojak~
so tired.... stress for last week days...
finally felt the tireness overcome mi...
fell asleep almost aft reaching camp...
Saturday, 10th July 2004
NDP reh....
sound check,
1st run,
lunch - went to kallang leisuredome to place soccer bets...
2nd run...
dinner...sleep~!!!!
actual timing run~
pack up n go back camp~!
went to chong pang with sin n violet for orh-luau(fried oyster w/ egg)~!
Sunday, 11th July 2004
Report to work at 1pm..
today going to istana...
Presidential Garden Party...
it's annual... normally aft SAF day parade....
play fanfare for the president...
we're the "President's own" Fanfare trumpet team~!
then full band to provide some music during the makan-chit chat session at the istana lawn...
tot they not playing 'unforgettable'
then my sl last min say i play the solo...
didnt want to... but then... i'm going to play for the pres.... hehehe~
play lor..
hahahah~! ^_^
then the prez came over... tok to the band a bit... shaked cpt chua's hand...
cpt chua was so happy... he didnt scold the band for playing rubbish... instead he said it was one of our better dining-in...
^_^~?
aft performance... we get to eat the left-overs...
there's tents erected... buffet spread... chiken wings, kuehs, otak fish cake, bee hoon, mini pizza, then got laksa n roti prata stalls set up ard the lawn...
the laksa was fantastic~!
pack up... go back camp...
didnt go with them to prata point tonite..
so full liaoz..
went home...
cos tml going to JB~!
seeya all~!
Keith Koe~! ^_^
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Saturday, July 03, 2004
busy period for mi now...
and no i dun nid a pad for it...
kok ur head lah fEn... ^_^
let's recap..
Monday, 28th June 2004
off day today....
off for working ast weekend for ndp reh..
oops.... forgot wad i did today...
most probs is did nothing much n stoned at home...
waking up late...
n i tink elsie came over to my place after her work...
Tuesday, 29th June 2004
had 2 medical appts at SGH today...
1 @ 11am to see my specialist...
wait for a while...
then see him for abt 5-10mins only n i'm out of the rm...
he say i still need to b permanently downgraded..
so i'll see him 6mths later to do a mri.... then get a perm d/grade...
then i ask him abt the xray tt he mentioned something in it tt got mi puzzled for this last 2.5mth...
cos i saw him on 10th april...
he mentioned tt from the xray he noticed tt i got a extra bone tt's sticking out of the inner sides of both my feet... just slightly lower n in front of the ankle joint...
n tt the tip of the right side one has broken off...
the left side one has crack lines n going to break off soon too~
he said if were to surgically remove them would put on mc for 3mths...
hmm... sounds tempting~! heheheh~! ^_^
not sure wat he's going to recommend tt i do abt it..
cos it's not affecting mi much yet...
he says tt's one of the reasons y my feet gets tired easily~...
so i'll be seeing him next time is someway in dec'04...
my 2nd appt is at 2pm...
from 1145am->2pm..
i just bumped ard n stoned in the hosp.
this one is to see a dietician for helping mi in the weight management...
finish my appt abt 230pm..
so no need to go back camp...
meet elsie at somerset mrt...
cos she finish work at 2pm...
we went to genki sushi at le meridien hotel...
then walked abt at centrepoint..
went to find the smurf figurines...
each playing instruments... in marching band uniform..
my fren bought a the last clarinet one n gave her bf...
during the combine alumni concert...
so i went to the look for the shop...
wanted to get a trombone one...
finally founf the shop..
then saw the whole collection of the smurfs
so cute
got flute, clarinet, sax, trumpet, horn, trombone, tenor horn(euph with a curve bell), tuba, snare drum, bass drum n cymbals...
and papa smurf is the conductor...
i ended up buying the whole set.. with an extra tenor horn to give clare... cos he going to leave saf for 3yrs to study...
but the flute n clarinet out of stock... so i placed a reservations of the missing ones...
the conductor was the last piece there....
hee~! so cute... ^_^
then walked back to centrepoint m1 to see the nokia 7200
cos elsie wants to buy it...
i tink we'll be getting it sometime in july..
went to my house aft tt..
did a few stuff on my pc...
then the BLACK-OUT.... yes the one tt knocked out several parts of singapore at the same time~!
after the power came back on...
tok a cab back to camp...
Wednesday, 30th June 2004
Concert full band in the morning...
After lunch is full band for 3 deployments coming up...
after work, went to the betting booth at the ntuc outside camp...
tonite is portugal holland match...
had dinner at the coffeeshop..
went back camp...
sin went home to get his ps1 to camp..
shifted the tv to just besides my bed...
watch the match with winston n ronny~!
sianz, why cant holland score to make it 4goals? or score to make it a 2-3 holland win?
haiz... expected holland to win...
big upset for mi...
Thursday, 1st July 2004
SAF Day Parade..
today, got a few pple got promoted...
cpt tng is now maj tng...
terry n roomaizan are now Ssg...
radin got his Msg...
and today is Cpt Johnson's birthday... as usual the whole saf celebrate with him... hahahaha~! ^_^"
Anyway,....
going to safti-mi for the parade today...
only the parade bands A + B is going on parade... central band is doing the wet weather program in case it rains..
started work at 630am...
stoned thru-out the day at the holding rm... which is the air-conned gym...
slept thru most of the day...
cos wet weather no nid reh today...
so i slept thru lor...
then woke up 30mins b4 the parade starts...
put on my no.1 uniform..
waited for them to go up...
hear the band start playing then we change out of the no.1
went over to the mess to relax while waiting for the parade to end..
ended abt 630pm..
got back to camp...
rush thru to go to trb choir pract...
aft pract, had a drink with david, yihao, jon n weiji...
took bus back to camp..
Friday, 2nd July 2004
those involved in the concert have to work normal today while those not involve one gets morning off...
but i went to collect back the no.2 uniform from the laundry factory...
reached back camp at 1130am...
went in for the full band..
lunch... 2hrs... cos friday...
afternoon, dining-in full band conducted by cpt chua...
after work... went to newton with sin, violet, deric n shannon for dinner..
aft dinner, went with shan, sin to funan...
mi n shan then joined winston, lun n benny at odyssey for lan gaming~
got home almost 2am...
bath... tok to fen n writing this entry now~
ok.... write til here~ seeya~!
Keith~! ^_^
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