Was on duty on Thursday, a rather unfortunate one at that, as our network was down, hence the need to fill in over sixty blood request forms manually. The tedious process, including outside help, was in excess of one hour. Thanks to Guo Chuan, Jeremy and everyone else who'd helped!

Friday was supposed to be reserved for Medical Skills training, but CO insisted that we tag along for our Coy cohesion activities at Mount Faber SAFRA. We tagged along with CSM and S4's cars for several games of bowling at SAFRA. We performed rather well, with our team, the adeptly named 'Saviours', managed a strong showing of 600 odd pinfalls in our first game, which though was way short of the 680+ required for entry into the grand finals, was a remarkable achievement for a team of amateurs. We fumbled in the next game, conceding gutter balls and failing to save several spares. I did participate in the grand finals, though, taking the place of another bowler. We managed 600 plus points in that game as well, placing us perhaps around 6th to 9th out of the ten teams.

Maple Story was down:; Apparently my manual patcher was corrupted... hmm... Luckily Zi Rong plays the game as well... :) Just burn from his computer.

Found a Mokbi Shooting star this morning... a lucky star, I'd say, perhaps an omen of things to come? haha...

Well, anyway, CO has promised 4 weeks off for REDCON 1 status during ATEC the following week, 3 for a 2A and 2 for a 2B. Hope we perform well, then I'll be able to clear from early to mid April onwards... Mwa ha ha... Keeping my fingers crossed...

Do keep yours as well...

There was a LEGO offering on Yahoo acutions. Perhaps I'll be getting some figurines on the cheap, to add to my collection.

Wow... this is the second time in the army that I'm enjoying a ten-day rest. The first was when I was down with intestinal worms in August 2003, though I wouldn't say I enjoyed it much then...

Let's see... Went to Sim Lim Square with Zi Rong, Jian Ming, Loren and Darryl on Sunday (6th Feb), then wrapped up with a game of pool at Selegie.

Then on Monday, my unit organised a cohesion programme at East Coast Park. There were games to be played, and in all the games HQ Coy faced a massive shortage of manpower. I got to try out a round of volleyball, where we lost marginally, something like 24-20... Sgt Melvin was the best performer for the match easily, with his dives and serves... All was fine until we found out that we had to clear half day off in the morning and another the following day for Chinese New Year. This is in hind sight of a burnt half day off prior to Christmas and New Year's Day.

The Lunar New Year was spent visiting all my relatives. This year, we managed to cover all the places in good time, even though we had set off at noon.

Spent Sunday at Terence's place. Steamboat was in the order, as was mahjong. Side note: Yanni's music is really very lifely and vibrant! Dinner at Europa. The buffet dinner that was screaming 'Chinese New Year' only had several kueh to its name. A shame, there, as I was expecting barbecued pork slices and raw fish salad. Even the kuehs were not up to standard; Their consistency was wrong and they were baked for too long.