New Year's DAY! and csm has to sms me for book in timing. AND PS jackson had to call janmeet for him toget a DRV back in camp. and i still haven packed my standby field pack and not updated the red booklets and not planned (SECRET). and so many ppl are still changing duties like it is free. Why is my world so much of taking and so little of giving. but still, i enjoyed New Year stayover at wm's even though i fell asleep. and breakfast at amk and checking out fairprice extra. and steamboat dinner at home! :D and there's a meeting tmr with brent bob rich and di. haha i jus hope i dun get swarmed with (SECRET) shit when i go back to camp tmr. hopefully the cos has alr done up the keypress and stuff. all tt's left should be the maps and lesson plans. sigh and that IS quite a bit alr...

lessee...xmas eve's eve at jk's house was rather enjoyable even though i haven seen them for ages. nostalgia perhaps but still it was good to see that everyone was still alive and very much kicking. xmas day itself went to the rice table with bern and Heng BUT darned water convulvulus that only i had cos the former found it too spicy and the latter simply didnt indulge in it gave me quite a terrible case of food poisoning. (i think) and 26 27 were horrible days trying to prep for ntm with that debilitating illness. last few days before NY was one of the most irritating days, cos there was just so much to do. but when was there ever nothing to do. haiz and im getting bad vibes from ALL the PSs. irritating regulars. wad will i see when the new PCs come? hehe.

2006 was a rather interesting year, in many ways thanks to NS. threshold for ALOT of things went up, to the extent that I can tolerate some of the things that my saintjohn cadets do in camp. hmm and im not too particular abt dirt anymore, as long as it's not too dirty. all in all it was very much a year of revelations and self-discovery. surprise surprise, but i guess the journey has yet to come to an end. hmm and i lost both grandmas, one after the other. i always knew these times would come but never like that. one was sudden, engulfed in raging flames. the other, i knew it was coming all along. it has become very hard indeed for me to feel. perhaps that's why christu and ruthu said im rude / cynical / apathetic (whatever) on saturday. but im guessing work (4million singaporeans' worth of shit load) has a more than significant part to play in it. and once i panicked so much that i almost cried and broke down - seldom did it happened in school, like twice in 18 years!... when will i ever get to ORD!??!?

Resolutions - more like a xmas wish list (in chronological order):

Breeze thru audits (for the offs )
Pass SOC, IPPT - silver at least. (so no RT)
Do well for ATEC (for the offs too! DUH wad were u thinking?)
Know my platoon better, including those non-effective ones (and get them to work)
ORD safely! (no DBs, no charges, no extras)
Get a driving license.
Travel (Spain greece athens europe Japan korea taiwan? definitely not msia and thailand)
pick up an instrument?
refresh my 3rd language
be nicer to my fanily and frends. this includes being less cynical and whatnot but im guessing this is pretty difficult. soc ippt can train but changing from the inside out - that requires more than a catalyst - fat hope! ha!