Just The Wei I Am

I'm sorry I haven't been blogging.

Why do I have to apologise? Haha, it must be KC's incessant hounding on my tagboard that has made me feel guilty (?) about not having blogged. Anyway, why are you all so interested in reading my blog? In fact, why the interest in reading blogs in general? Have you ever pondered about how voyeuristic blog-surfing is? I do it too - going to the blogs of my friends almost every single day, just to see if he/she has blogged. But to actually demand that someone blog really takes the cake! Gosh... haha

Anyhow, I've had quite a number of thoughts recently but did not blog. Some I don't mind blogging, and I might blog them. Others I will reserve for my poor neglected journal. Yes, a pen-and-paper journal. I'm thinking I should blog less and journal more. So if I blog little, you should ask whether I have been journaling ...

Okay, Garry did a pretty good job describing the feast we had, together with Felicia, last Tuesday. I've been telling everyone how good the experience was, but I have not blogged about it yet. Blog-worthy it is, but since Garry has done it, I'm saved the trouble...

Read all about it here.

I was meeting Peter today to discuss some stuff and Fengqi was there. Found out from them that it's Ding Ting's convocation today. Ah, now how can I not go? =) Glad I found out...

Got there, congratulated him, took a photo with him and then I found Peter and Fengqi rushing the food counters ... I had an early dinner so I decided to join the quest (it was already 9 plus). We went from one end of UCC to the other, finding the counters bare except for one tucked in some ulu corner. We were helping ourselves to the food when we spotted a green man in the sea of blue. Ding had changed out of his gown into Long 4 (Army camouflage uniform, girls, with the sleeves down, long). He's booking in later, because he's got in-camp training (ICT) this week.

Anyway, the photo op was obvious. We got him to put on his mortar board, and hold his parchment. Two poses: highport and standing shoulder. Wahaha... Well, he gamely posed for the camera, albeit with a slight tinge of embarassment. Really interesting sight. Thinking Army, anyone? lol

Anyway, here's my complaint: Why am I not in camp?! Found out from Ding that it's not just his company that got called back, but the whole battalion! So why did they miss me? Argh, they're doing the SAR21 conversion this time, so now that I missed it (they didn't even ask me!), I will most probably have to make it up with another unit! Reservist nightmare... Oh, I wish I was in camp with the rest of them now ... They're going for range with the SAR21 tomorrow, and I miss range. It's quite a thrill firing a weapon, the way they do it on TV or some B-grade movie does not do the experience justice at all. Rambo might be a cult classic, but is still plain lame. Oh, the conversion will also mean I'll never get to fire the M16 again. Hmmm, I might miss the M16, man ... bang bang bang

Called Hansiong and found out that all the medics are back too, with the exception of me, Glenn and Frank. Okay, at least if we go for the make-up, I will have some company. Oh, apparently Dr Dana left the unit and Dr Jason Low is our MO now ... Oh well, that's a surprise, and I don't even know if it's accurate but it's not too bad 'cos we worked with Jason Low before and he's quite a decent fellow.

It's a long story, but my site experienced some technical problems. With the recent monthly backup done by the company, I found that I lost a few entries. Hopefully the daily backups can be restored, but if not, then I guess it's fine, just a few entries lost. Anyway, lesson learnt: do my own backups!

The goggle ads are gone too, as are some links ... yeah, stuff like that. So I figured, I should do that long awaited revamp of the site .... new look and all ...