The holidays just started for the local schools thus signaling the start of a short break for my current job. The last and foremost assignment I had was to assist in doing 3D animation which I am pretty much not competent in doing. And to learn a new 3D program from scratch in a short period is not easy. But luckily, 1 semester of laggy Maya usage has taught me patience and much of the basic of modeling and animation.
Thus I went to learn from my colleague on this software called Cinema 4d which is said to have been used to create the movie Polar Express. So we went through the software and one of the objects the student had to create was a basic wine glass. I did mine at home and after a few hours of re-modeling and tweaking, I got mine out. Pretty satisfied with it but more could be done of course. But I would just say the program is very memory-efficient( i can multi-task quite a few programs without much problems ).

http://www.kukujiao.com/2006/09/24/damai-dota-assault

first i would like to say, seeing this video makes me disgust.

picking up on people just because you are older, and outnumbering them.
seriously, you bullies should get a fucking life. sometimes i am just wondering what are kids nowadays thinking.

how i think back about the time where i grew up in the early 90's. the years i was born and later studied were between the transitions year of 80's to 90's. We played things like marbles, chapteh, hopscotch etc.
computers and anything techie was a luxury then. but at least life was much simpler and we cherish the things presented to us.

anyways, my life is in my own transitions too. i just dunno where things might just go wrong anytime.. they might..

a blog is suppose to be a place where you vent your daily rants and raves
but as it is open to public, it becomes restricted.

I have been making wrong decisions lately and sometimes I wonder is it me being too easily persuaded or being too hard-hearted.

I have always a problems communicating around strangers but RP changed all that.
it forces me to engage in more conversations with people and help me widen my range of social network.
this has help me as it opened a lot of opportunities for myself. but even so, I still am a rather introvert guy and it takes a few days to crack me up. I guess this is the reason you-know-what from being happened.

I feel like isolating myself away from my life for week or so and learn to experience new things because life in Singapore is too fast paced. A few hours just slipped through you just by sitting down watching TV or doing nothing. I guess thats the reason why people aged so fast.

Everyday, I am constantly reflecting on stuffs and learning from it but so far, I can say I have only managed to change 5 % of it because some facts never change and that only when spoken do you feel enlightened.

Its not easy to say out your feelings. Neither is it easy for you to display your emotions.

A start that never started.
A hurt that hurts so bad.
Though the hurt was superficial,
I still can't seem to start forgetting.

This is gonna be a f***ing long post. *explicit content attached within*

Last month, I did some stupid experiment and did one more with another food stall. The result?
Shocking.





Conclusion? The fries I ate should be somewhere in the sewer or as ashes by now. =)

Well, it's already May and almost 3 months seems I graduated.

Most of us have received the letter for enlistment and June, July batches made up the majority.
I must say the enlistment thing gave me a big headache. It was like planning to take a trip to Malaysia via Causeway but due to some unforeseen circumstances, you got to go by the 2nd link.
After receiving my notice on enlistment with PA, I have been making several inquiries to the CMPB and SPF with regarding to signing-on(salary, min. terms of engagement etc.)

I must say SPF hot line totally sucks. I made 5 calls to them and I never had a chance to speak to their customer officer. It doesn't matter that if they were busy, but over a period of 3 days and non going through? Thats bullshit.
An extract of the conversation I had with the answering machine

*me keying in the number on my hp

ring,ring,ring,ring,ring,ring,ring

"Welcome to SPF career hotline; For english: Press 1, For Chinese : Press 2"

*and so i proceeded on with all the crappy instructions. Listened to a 3 minutes mandatory message and continued for the option of speaking to the officer.

And so I waited and the first message recived:

"Our customer officer are busy at the moment, please hold while we connect you"

It continued for the second time:

"Our customer officer are still busy at the moment, please hold while we connect you"

And finally:

"Our customer officer are still busy at the moment, thank you for calling and have a nice day"

*PHONE HUNG UP ..........................*

!@$!%$^$#@%$@!
that was my first reaction. And for the 3 days I tried calling at different interval, it all ended the same way.

Well, I shall not call them anymore.
I found out most of the stuff I wanted and after weighing the following options :

Min. Terms of Engagement: 5 years(inclusive 2 year NS)
Within the 5 years, paid as non-ns men pay.
Class 3- license.
No lump sum bonus.
I cannot jump from PA to Army Officer because skill sets differs. Which means I cannot pursue any career within the army side in my life.

Total amount earned +/- : $110 k

Sounds a lot but if I ORD and come out find a FT job, I believe the pay would be higher and I would have lots more freedom. (e.g part time study, part time work)
So conclusion? 2 years and out I come as a free man.

Ok. After whines, let me get on with my daily life updates.







I am currently playing this two game. Thanks to Weng Tat. Haha.
At least I am not playing for FM for awhile. =o

Well, thats my unproductive up and down life for the past 2 weeks.
Having fun working and enjoying life. Not forgetting, keeping myself prepared for enlistment day.

Cheers !!