Hello, I'm back for an update. I've noticed that my hits went up since posting the videos "How to dance at a rave" and "Girly man". I guess the same people come back to watch it over again and again and that may be the only explanation.
So what's new, my brother was promoted to a third sergeant last Saturday during his graduation parade. The entrance of the parade was quite big-assed, since they are from the artillery section. The soldiers marched into the parade ground and suddenly scattered over to their combat units after some command was given. The engines of the artillery guns and tanks roared into life and soon they were all set up (the artillery gun was initally packed up with the gun faced back.) It was quite interesting, because they had to swing the gun heads to face us manually and I saw that my brother almost flew while doing that because he was quite skinny and accordingly to him, the gun head weighs holy thirteen tons. After that was some pledge taking and singing of the unit's song. The artillery's unit song was hilarious because it sounded just like some twenty-cent-ride song. But I guess the reason behind that was because those songs can be easily sang by everyone (without having to squeeze their balls) and they want every army men to sing it, be it young servicemen or Ah Cek warrant officers. There was this part where the family members were invited forward to help their loved ones put on the new rank. I headed forward without hestitation and stripped my bro's 400-dollar Corporal rank, followed by sticking on the 700+ -dollar sergeant rank. I felt really glad for him, for he had learnt much, richen his experience, grown fitter, healthier and most importantly, being the essence of all, the last but not the least, HE CAN NOW TREAT ME MORE ON THE WEEKENDS! Muahaha! Oh and yes, a rank higher also equate to decreased probability of getting fucked upside down.
That's my brother's detachment going through a march pass. Bad pic though, handphone camera, what do you expect?
This is the thing he sat on to wait for a vacant cab after he booked out everytime. It had been there since he entered the school and now that he had graduated, it is still there! I think the entrance of Khatib Camp is so well guarded that no one dared to even move a worthless rock from its entrance. I mean who dares to? Being hit by an artillery shell is one of the last things you want to imagine in your life. It does an area damage of thrity metres radius. If one finds its way around you, smithereens are what you'll be left of, or perhaps not even a gas of you remaining.
Anyway, I happen to notice some camp opposite Khatib Camp called the Dieppe Barracks (on background of picture.) It sounds like some camp for the more advanced to me till my brother told I was very right. They're far more advanced because their training are more hardcore. As you've probably guessed Dieppe Barracks is non other than the legendary detention barracks that everyone talked about. My bro was telling me that it was very conventient for artillery servicemen to move over there for a few days because it is just across the road. AWOL FTW!Out.
The moment it was served, I though it was a mistake they made. It took me awhile to go through the denial stage and finally accepted that I was the one who made a wrong order. I scanned through the menu again and saw something like "roast suckling pig" which costs $18 bucks. Must be that one! There in the beginning I was wondering how come "roasted pork", which I thought was the roasted suckling pig costs only $7 plus. Anyway, I just swallowed my silly mistake as you know, everyone who knows me knows, THAT I HATE CHEWING ON GOOEY ANIMAL FATS.
Tadah! Portugese beef brisket noodles! This was another blow to me. You guys should know how does the regular chinese beef brisket noodles look like and what the hell is this curry thingy doing in a chinese resturant?! I confirmed with the waitress that she got the correct dish and I went through another denial stage again. surprisingly, the beef was really tender and succulent, the curry-tasting 'Portugese' sauce wasn't too bad but...
#!^%&*&!87%#^!*#%!*#% The noodles look like mamee monster noodles, and after serving, the waitress was like "Put sauce yourself." Quite bad service, but for a busy chinese restuarant, standard lah. I gave up eating after finishing half of it because I ran out of sauce and chewing on it raw really sucks. It just feels like you're munching on staples, nails and needles.
Here's something besides the point, just what I saw and thought about while stucked in the long queue before getting a seat in Crystal Jade. This an outlet of 'Couple Lab', opposite to Crystal Jade and from the name, you know they deal with couple accessories, like necklaces, rings, blah and blah. I thought deeper and sort of understood the concept behind this business. The man behind this is quite a genius because he was able to come up with a non-technology related product, which has a high profit margin and which has highly recyclable customers. Now, why do I say that? The reason is because people go...
Firstly, you can't miss out something. Check out these two cool guys who were stoning at the event while the rest were grooving. I think they're too cool for school, aren't they? HAHA, if you think so too, thanks for your compliment or else just take it as a bad joke if you don't. It's a shot of Evigan, my pretty new rocker friend and me. He doesn't club and could only do the Mr Bean dance. And for me, I don't really dance too though it really depends. Most of the time when I dance in clubs, I wasn't sober. Anyway, Evigan's not from my school. He was smuggled to the event, errrrr I mean he just bloody walked into the school, into the event area and finally stones there with me like he rightfully belongs to NYP. Let me just promote him a little here, he's from a local rock band called Bad Obsession. Do support them because I personally think that they do make good sounds for a pretty new band. Click on the poster below to know more about them.
Oh my god, they were so bad that the photographer told me that his camera jerked off focus the moment he attempted to click pictures of the rock band. So sorry, that's the best picture he got. You can't see much but let me narrate what happend. This three-piece wannabe band attempted to play songs by muse. They played 'Hysteria' which really put me into hysteria. The guitarist-vocalist sang like he was shitting stones while someone was squeezing his balls. There, I saw Evigan stoned. Though he had shades covering his eyes which doesn't allow me to read his emotions from, but I seem to just got everything through telepathy: We may at any time, pluck out shoes from our feets and put it into the vocalist's mouth. I refrained from doing so due to this security guard lingering around, so I just started shouting at the band to get them get off the stage. Mervyn initiated the 'Boo' party which was good. I rather listen to them boo a hundred times than to listen to Ah Pie once. This was when some crowd starting throwing light sticks on the stage and then taking their leave. However, I couldn't believe that there's a group moshing near the stage. Muse will shoot Ah Pie followed by them if they ever see that.
Next up was this dancing competition thingy which provided me with some sort of entertainment. The emcees called for volunteers and some came forward, while others were sabotaged by their friends. Everyone else was okay except this guy in black jacket + rider gloves who danced like he was practicing martial arts. He did actions like the dragon punch which you see Ryu and Ken doing in Street Fighter and he randomly stripped his jacket, helicoptering it above his head. That was really retarded, for a sober man. If you noticed, there are many light sticks on the dancing ground because everyone was grenading theirs at him. After the first round, there's some elimination to be done and this 'Ryu' was eliminated. Before that he was crossing his fingers and praying that he actually could advance to the next level. That was wishful thinking and during then, people were still throwing light sticks at him. So after he was announced eliminated, he flashed his middle finger before making his way to the exit. Needless to say, light sticks were all still flying around him until he finally went out of sight. I was quite puzzled by that, I mean he wasn't sabotage by friends and volunteered to go up where he couldn't dance at all. I shall not kill my brain cells thinking about that but, I kind of pity him actually.
This is some random shot of the event, just look at the damaged decorations behind which supposed to be the initials JNH. I guess it all fell off when Ah Pie performed their rubbish or maybe, audiences ran out of light sticks and started to pluck them off the wall and throw them at 'Ryu'. To close the event, the emcees mercilessly invited Ah Pei up on stage to perform once again. They played the classical 'Time is running out' also by muse. However it sounded nothing much like the original song and I heard almost pure noise. The band wasn't very bright indeed by choosing songs which the vocalist couldn't handle at all. The bassist who was also the accomplice in crime thought that he was really brilliant to play his bass so loudly to drown the lousy vocalist's voice when he reaches parts which was too high for him to reach (most of the parts anyway.) About that, I could only say one thing which my dad once told me: Your friend stupid, doesn't mean you've to be stupid along with him.