Woke up at 0700 today for my wisdom tooth operation at Jurong Medical Centre, the place was very quiet with almost no one there even when I left at around 1300. First of all, my mum had to sign a form consenting to the surgery as I was under 21 and I was going under GA. When I went in, I changed, answered a few questions about my medical health and any allergies and after a while, I went in for the operation. Both my dental surgeon and the anesthetist were females. First I had a drip and a few monitors attached to my body then after which I was told that my left hand would feel numb from the drug and before I knew it, I was asleep. It felt like only a moment had pass when I woke up and feel some discomfort in my mouth and the whole extraction is over. I woke up at around 1045 but can only leave at 12 plus when I am not too drowsy to walk. So when I woke up, I went back to sleep until I was woke up by the nurse to have a drink and change the guaze. After I was ok to walk and collected my drugs from the pharmacist, I could go back home.
For the first 3 days, I need to be on a fluid diet and all food temperature must not exceed room temperature. After every meal, I need to rinse my mouth with the gargle solution too. Now I am having a sore throat too due to a tube that they insert to aid in my breathing.
One week of milo, vitasoy and congee.
Outdoor prayer at Botanical Gardens today and its my first one. After handing over duty and bathing, I went to pasir ris to meet Jon and he drove us there to meet up with the rest of the SF for the outdoor prayer. At first we could not find the carpark so we ended up going in circles a few times. I was paired with Genevieve and Tuan Fung and well its hard to get them to talk and its my first time too so I did not really know how to lead them in it and I was falling asleep too from staying awake since 0135 am from my duty.
After the prayer, Dan, Jon and I went to
Next stop was borders where I got 2 books to read during my rest after the tooth extraction. Tomorrow is my operation and I need to be there by 0830 so I think I shall rest early today. Nitez
I am feeling real tired and sleepy right now as I try my best to type this entry, oh my week has been a busy one filled with duties, my 6th driving lesson, a talk on a business which I am considering and dealing with my upper one. First of all a good news, with effect from 010907, I shall be promoted to Corporal so that’s about it till I ORD, the only achievement left now for me is IPPT and range if I do get the chance to go.
On wed, I went to attend a seminar with Jonathan Oh to get to know about a business and how can I earn money with my spare time and how the whole model works, honestly its quite attractive to me and I am considering it but then I need some money to start this business which is what is holding me back.
My driving is quite good now and I only stalled once cause I did an E brake without realizing that my instructor has a set of brakes by his side too and that he uses it so much that I do not really have to brake but overall he commented that I am improving and I need to work on my braking.
Had a spot check at the gate today by orders from DFO. Not a bad harvest, many memory cards, one camera phone and one box of duty unpaid cigarettes.
Haiz duty tomorrow with my spec……………
On Sunday, the retreat group finally met again after the ! Concert to continue where we have left off and I must say the progress is quite ok. At least we managed to settle the prayer section and also we are meeting again next Sunday after the outdoor prayer. Now we the things we need to do are the fellowship part, the theme and finally to submit a proposal. But things are going well and we need to recee the place too and when the proposal is accepted, all we have is to plan for the BIG thing.
Carpet combing today and I thought I could rest after the morning detail but it was not to be and we had to clear the drain all the way from the ARMCEG sign to the main gate. It was too much so we stop at around 1620 and went back and the job is to be continued tomorrow. When will all this drain digging stop man, its really getting on my nerves and it seems like this is part of an RP’s job.
The RPs are going to have a BBQ together next month and well most people welcome it and I hope that it will go through and we can have a great time together.
I got 2 tickets to the fireworks festival at
The show and the fireworks were simply great and awesome and simply indescribable and you’ve got to see it for yourself to believe. Although we waited a long time for it to start but it was well worth the wait. Too bad I did not have a camera with me. After the whole show, it was a mad rush home and we went home after the whole show.
Went to
Finally after months of hard work from planning, song writing and organizing the concert, today is the launch of the cd as well as the !CONCERT, where the SFers had a chance to promote the cd and the concert is also an evangelistic event for us to invite our friends to get more people to come to know Christ and accept him as their personal Lord and savior.
I thought that the concert was at 1630 but too bad it was 1600 so I was technically late and I was surprised by the turnout. The whole auditorium was packed and I saw many of them were friends invited by the SFers and its due to God’s help that so many of our friends turn out for this event. The concert was very good and it shows the hard work put up by the SFers in their stage performance and the superb vocals. From the looks of it, I guess many people enjoyed the performance. After the concert was dinner when we had a chance to talk to our friends over meal and to share to them. I chatted a bit with Jon’s friends, a bit with Justin’s friend and also with Gracia’s classmate. Although I did not managed to share with anyone today but it was really a great night with nice music, dinner and a chance to catch up with many of my friends.
I have been chosen to replace Ramdan to be the arms party for the NDP parade on 8th August. Its been a long time since I last did any arms drill and thus I was quite rusty and even march with left hand and left leg out. It was a great joke and I looked like a duck. But after a few practices, I was ok and we went back. Pray that God will bless the parade and that nothing will go wrong.
Scalded my hand today when I was cooking my instant noodles. First of all, I add cold water to the cup which left Shah thinking about why did I do that. Then I realized my error and wanted to use hot water. Instead of getting hot water into my cup, I got it all over my hand. What a joke, cold water in my noodles and hot water on my hand.
Went to have dinner at NYDC with sam on Friday to celebrate her birthday and it was my first time eating there and the food is good. I had the 3 amigo baked pasta while sam had a Romeo and Juliet baked pasta and we shared a mud pie. We catch up a bit with each other as we hardly had time to talk. After dinner, we walked around a bit and I went home after sending her back.
Duty on Saturday with Derek and we had a quarrel at 0100. Apparently he asked me if the detail was like what I had suggested and I said yes which was like I do the first 6 hours then followed by him then I do 5 hours and he 6 and I do the final hour which is how we share the 24 hours. The idea was that due to his ‘Med Condition’ opening the gate too many times would cause his leg to be painful so I helped him by doing the busy part. At 0100 I went to wake him up and he was like huh am I supposed to take over you now I thought its at 2. I was really pissed as I had already msg him about it and I called him twice to confirm but since he did not bother to pick up the phone and neither did he bother to asked me, I thought he understood that he was to take over me at 0100. What pissed me off further was that he continue to talk and waste time which is typical of him when he realizes he is losing. Taking a deep breathe, I told him to quickly change as the guards were waiting to go mobile and all their arms are drawn and ready. However he still wants to talk and says that I am unreasonable and this really makes my blood boil and I shouted at him to hurry up and stop talking. Then he say that he actually wanted to start first and I told him that how can he do it since he can only do silent hours and he replied that he gets to choose and so I sarcastically asked if he could decide when his leg could take long standing and when it could not and he said yea. I was like oh man this is outright malingering and his status was changed after MSG called the doctor so this really speaks of his so called excuse duty. Then he began his I did all this to help you guys and I can get the excuse anytime and I tell him by all means go get it and I hope he gets charged for malingering. Crap my day spoiled by such a guy and I wasted around 25 minutes of my time too and plus mobile which makes me have lesser rest.
Today’s message was bible and science by Col Peng and we learn about what the bible says about modern science and how foolish people were when they thought they could understand all things but in actual fact, we really have only a tiny bit about our world. After worship was BS and after lunch I went back to rest cause I was way too tired.