We were supposed to pack goodie bags for the Army Open House during the weekend, but the shipment of goodies was delayed such that on Saturday, all we did was to go to SAFTI MI for a nice western lunch.

On Thursday night though, we transported a thousand cartons of drinks for the Officials to the squash courts. I believe many a back was sprained on that very night.

Was at Nee Soon Camp on Friday for the PACES2 briefing. The new system looks promising, but I hope it delivers as well as Head MedLog's briefing was interesting. All appointments will be made via the new system, records can be tabulated for individual units and we're going almost paperless. Now all the MOs will have to do their own keying in of cases.

COMEX was not as fantastic as last year, especially the creative booth. Thumbdrives, MP3 portables and M/XDAs are the rage this year. Got a 4MP digital camera from Fujifilm, but the software's not installing properly on the system... Need to call technical assistance on this.

World Stamp Championships was more interesting, partly because of the lucky draw... They were offering more electronic freebies than COMEX, in fact... However, even the lucky draw drew much criticism from the public, with supposed 'matchmaking' and 'cheating' involved in the drawing of forms from the box. The problem arose from the fact that all the entries drawn from the box were not 'cut along the dotted line', resulting in the later, larger and bulkier entries being drawn over those who had followed the rules and cut along the dotted line. Some contestants even triumphantly claimed to have spent half an hour filling up over 50 entries! Singaporeans are pretty opportunistic, I'd say, but not where it would be most helpful: Entrepreneurship.