Good evening!
Booked out on Friday at 7pm, was great man!
As I have finish BMT, I and my company are allowed to book out on Fridays.
Man now I have time to catch up on the game industry and also to continue my C++ studies!
The time was well spent, as I’ve read up on what has happened the past 1 week and also learn another new item in C++ and solved a major problem that does not allows my program to run.
However, seriously….I still misses the times that I had before I enlisted.
My friend Li Jie encouraged me yesterday night by saying that God is teaching me how to maximize a few little pockets of time here and there.
Well, quite true, I guess this is to train me not to waste time and also to learn things quickly within the time given.
Man, I must make a few mini games to serve as my port folio before I finish NS and apply for that course that I want in poly!
God oh God…please teach me how to use the time given to me!
Shifting the topic to army, many things happened after my 1 week block leave.
People came and go, new things to learn and new events happening within this past 1 week!
Seriously, I do not know what is going to happen next each day and how I am going to spend my 20 months remaining, but I commit it all to God and let Him lead me as what has happened back when I was in ITE.
Another major thing happened in my church life today.
My cell group was split and the members went into different groups!
I was so shocked at the sudden change man!
So many changes in a week!
Oh WOW!
Gabriel’s girlfriend, Wan Rong, said she messages me on MSN about it, but I think I missed that part.
I have to sort of restart again back in a new cell group but thankfully Gabriel and Wan Rong is together with me in the new group.
Gabriel my closest friend since primary school, as been through thick and thin with me over the years and I seriously thank God that I have such a friend to weather through daily life and also sticking with me all these years when we were switch around in different cell groups in church.
So far…the new cell group seems to have more people and they look friendly to me, so I guess I’ll be alright.
Truly God is good, Amen.
Please pray for me not to despair and that I am able to adapt to all these new changes quickly and painlessly.
Hey who knows, all this changes might be good! Just that…I’m finding it a little hard to accept it now.
Please, I seriously need your prayers.
Thanks for reading…God bless.
Hello guys!
Sigh, a few more hours and I’ll have to book in soon.
This week has gone by pretty fast.
I’ve also sustained some injuries man.
Firstly I was bitten by a wasp on the neck on Monday when I swing my towel onto my shoulder before heading to the showers. Unknowingly a wasp was there and I felt a sharp pain before using my hands to brush off 1 big freaking black wasp off my neck!
For that I had to rush down quickly to a clinic near my mom’s working place to receive a jab.
Another injury was inside my ears. My left ear has been very stuff up with ear wax for a very long time and I couldn’t hear very well. So I told my mom to dig out as much as possible from both ears. Upon reaching the right ear, she accidentally scrapes off the side walls of my ears while digging out an extraordinary big and black piece of ear wax. It hurts like hell and infection settled in quickly. So my right ear can’t hear much and finally I can’t hear anything much using both ears. Went to the doctor again this morning and she gave me 2 bottles of medication and told me to apply 1 drop 3 times a day to get rid of the wax.
Oh man…I hope I have time to do that inside camp. Otherwise I’m like running around half deaf!
Really dreaded going back after experiencing 1 week of pure freedom, can you understand the feeling?!?
God oh God…please continue to be with me as I go through this period of NS man.
I was going to put a countdown timer to ORD on my blog but for some reason it didn’t showed up and even if it did, it was very small to be seen clearly. So I save it till my next book out to do it.
While I was studying how to place the countdown timer, I input my ORD date, 15th May 2009 and guess what, it is about 599 days to my ORD!
I was like….what the hell…!
20 months is equivalent to 599 days?!?!
I think I better start counting down in months rather than days otherwise I’ll go crazy!
So for those Christian readers that are reading this post, please pray that I have the energy, courage and strength to face each challenges everyday in camp.
I don’t really want to go back….but what choice do I have?
It’s either I go back or AWOL and go DB.
I rather not choose the latter cause I still have many more things I wanted to do for God and for myself!
So PLEASE!!!!
Pray for me yeah?
Thanks for reading this final post before I book in, till my next book out, God bless!
Hello there!
Yeah it’s another post from me!
I’ve POP from Basic Military Training on the 15th of this month and had a week of leave from camp.
Marched 24km before I went for my Passing out Parade and man, it was real mental torture. Your feet are almost half rotten from the march and you still have to do a fantastic drill in front of your loved ones before you passed out from BMT.
Thank God I’ve overcome it.
THANK YOU GOD!
Yeah by the way sorry I took this long to type a post because I was busy playing games, watching shows, reading, going out and studying the game industry the entire week.
On the 16th my platoon had an outing to Sentosa, dinner at
Here are the photos that I’ve taken:
http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/squall2006/16-09-07%20Platoon%203%20Sentosa%20Trip/
Been playing the Half Life 2 game that I’ve bought a month ago and so far I’m impressed with the storyline and graphics. It is freaking realistic and emotional engaging man!
Man I hope I can make a game like that in the future. Just heard news that there is a new expansion coming out this week, sigh, I do not have enough cash to purchase it.
There’s also another game that I wanted to purchase called Bioshock.
It received rave reviews once it came out, been cited by many gaming website as the game of the month!
Man…I’m just a lowly soldier…where do I find the money to buy all this?!
I’ve bought Jay Chou’s Secret DVD and I find it to be a great show. This Jay is really talented man.
He is the king of pop and now he’s entering the movie industry. What’s next for him I wonder?
Maybe if I have the money next time, I pray that I can hire him to write songs for my games LOL.
I’ve been reading this book entitled Uncovering The Bible by David Pawson for the entire week.
Really a great book as I’ve read the entire Bible for about 3-4 times and yet there are still many questions in my head that are still unanswered. Well basically this book helps in understanding what the Bible is saying and it manages to answer some of the questions lingering in my mind. This book also gave me quite a few ideas that I think can be made into a few games!
Truly God is a creative God. His book contains so much ideas that I can use!
Oh yes another thing to thank God for. I’ve missed the recent Games Convention held at Suntec as I was in field camp.
By God’s grace, there is another game show, but held in
I was able to witness the news streaming in from the various game websites and I saw many interesting announcements from the various game companies and also many new games!
Thank God!
Truly this has been a fruitful week for me, as I’ve manage to catch up with what I’ve missed and had rested well.
Thank you so much for your prayers for the past 2 months while I was still in BMT. Please continue to pray for me yeah? Your prayers are very much appreciated and welcome.
Alright guys, back to my studies now.
Thanks for reading this little update in my life and God bless!
Good afternoon guys!
Just book out from camp this morning at 7+am.
Sorry for the lack of updates for the past 2 weeks, I’m really very worn out each time I come back from camp and I have too much things to catch up to really type much.
You might be wondering what the reason is that I book out this morning.
Well…been having field camp in Pulau Tekong for the last 1 week, my first ever man.
It was real tiring during the field camp, lack of sleep and lots of things to do. Take for instance the digging of shell script and fire trench man. I have to dig like crazy for my own shell script so that in wartime I can use that to prone and shoot at the enemy.
The fire trench was the craziest digging I ever did. Well not me exactly, but my whole section in my platoon.
We had to dig to the depth that allows the tallest man in our section to be able to stand up and lean against it till it reaches his chest level, so that he can be able to shoot properly.
Guess what, I was the tallest guy.
We had to dig like crazy man! I think we dig almost close to 1.8 meters to be able to accommodate me man!
Sorry guys…didn’t mean to be that tall.
Had quite interesting firing drills during the field camp, where we practice different methods of engaging the enemy.
Oh yes we had a free and easy night on Friday.
The whole battalion went for BBQ on Tekong.
Can you believe it?!? There was even a movie screening using paper as the screen against a 3 toner while the projector displays the movie on it!
I was really amazed for this was the first time I ever saw such a sight. I didn’t really eat much BBQ stuff because it was really jam pack with people.
Watch the movie 300 that was screening at that time. Fell asleep at the ending man lol.
Went back to my camp in
Oh yeah one more thing, I got CONFINED again!
DAMN!
The reason? My signature did not much my sample one in the record book when I signed out my weapon.
I was like…WTF!!!!!!!!!!
A few of my platoon mates was also confined because of this.
Damn it’s really easy to get screwed in the army man.
Please pray for me man!!!! I really need your prayers! Please pray that I am always on high alert and that wisdom be upon me whenever I am in the army!
Next week will be my final week of BMT man!
Thank God that this 2 months past quickly.
The only tough thing left before I pass out of BMT is the 24km road march.
For this event, I, Eric, sincerely and humbly request for your prayers for me to overcome this 24km road march.
Road marches are seriously mentally torturing and I need your prayers to overcome this obstacle.
God, please be with me when I do the final road march.
Alright guys, I got to run along and catch up on more stuff in the tech world.
Please remember to pray for me man.
Thanks for reading and God bless!