I woke up late today. Funny thing is that either I subconsciously deactivated the "snooze function" on my handphone alarm or the handphone actually failed to ring. Lena's super soft knocking on the door jolted me awake. At first I thought that I was going to be late for work again. When I opened my room door, she was there holding a neatly ironed pair of my working dress long pants. How thoughtful indeed. I was thinking last night of asking her to iron my pants first thing in the morning. She really has the initiative.
I was so sleepy in class today. SSSgt Ishak was telling me that our performance during training matters on our COS (Certificate of Service). He told me that lots of the police guys eventually end up working as despatch riders and other lowly paid jobs. All this because of their poor COS, which employers view as very important in handing out that job.
I'm not so sure about jobs, because the job market is getting tougher and tougher everytime. I flip through the classifieds to find very few, if no job offers for fresh graduates. Its like almost every employer desires "relevant experience" amounting from 1 to 5 years. I think not only are employers very fussy in their choice. I really feel sorry for the fresh graduates, its like almost a huge chunk of them cannot find a job.
Truly, our economy is evolving into a more globalised, competitive one. I'm not so concerned about getting a job, I can always start a company with my other ACS friends. With hard work, prudent planning and thinking ahead, and with God's help, I'm sure I won't have to go hungry. Although I do now, since everything's so expensive and they pay us near to nothing.
I had a go witht he GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun) today. A heavy, strong and mighty weapon. I can almost imagine myself as an army commando running through the jungles with one hand holding the carrying handle. The weapon's heavy, almost 11.4 kg. It'll be fun. SSSgt Ishak thought us the procedures for loading, the mechanisms, the movements of the rifle, safety, stripping and corrective action should a fault happen during firing.
I'm very fortunate. In Coast Guard, I get to handle weapons that specialists use that normal army guys only dream of holding. MP5, GPMG, ARWEN? Wow man. I can fire both the army's standard gun along with the special forces gun, fire the machine gunner's gun and use the SOC's anti riot weapon.
The whole day was rather slow, just a series of lessons, trying to stay awake, sleeping in class, breaks, practising on the weapon, learning more about the weapon and stuff. No physical training today, so I was rather happy. In addition, we were allowed to go home at 5.30 on the dot.
Lunch today was an absolute disaster. It was so bad, virtually no one in the squad ate it. The food was leftover lontong from Tracom's breakfast, eggplant from tuesday's PDP dinner, chicken from yesterday's lunch and absolutely gross "noodles" - a mixture of palm oil, tapioca and black coloring. Tasted absolutely disgusting. It smelt of heated rubbish, seriously. I don't know how they can serve such "food". If I'm ever a superintendent of police, I'd strongly recommend that the cooks all be sacked. They can't cook!
I watched Chemistry today. Its so stupid that the show borders on being highly amusing. Ok, so I only watch the show to see Rui En in action. I couldn't care less about the other actors and actresses. Rui En Rocks! Her acting's not great, but I love her dressing style, so casual and refined and the way she carries herself in the show. Haha.
I just finished working on my powerpoint presentation about last saturday's sortie. SSI John reviewed my presentation and said that whilst the content was good, it is too bland to have it presented to the commander of training (He's a DSP), so ok, I spent more than an hour editing it from a 600K file to a 10 meg file. Heh, wonder if the file will hang SSI John's computer tomorrow.
I want a new computer! But I'm going to have to wait till next year for the 2nd Gen 64 bit AMD technologies, 250GB SATA 10 000 RPM hard drives, and even more advanced Hercules/ATI graphics cards running on 16/32X AGP along with 512 MB of 800 MHZ DDR II video ram. I've been into all this technical stuff lately, no thanks to Atek and Nico, who talk about it all day. I'll go visit comdex on saturday I think, after I've collected my A level cert (yucks!) and check out the new technologies on the market. Can't wait to play Half Life 2 and Doom 3. I heard that the Doom 3 engine is so close to life, that it is almost real. By the screenshots, i agree that it is. The Doom 3 engine will totally beat half life, quake, unreal engines for at least 2 or 3 years I think.
I need a new handphone! But nokia hasn't been releasing good models lately and the phone I want is a flip model with a stupid antenna! ARGH! I can't stand waiting, but then again, my 3310 serves me fine, after all, if it drops into the sea, I won't lose much, if nothing at all. I just want a phone with a camera, the nokia 7250 has ONLY 4096 colors, the samsung one has 65 000 colors but has an antenna! I'm going to just wait for 3rd Gen at the rate I'm going.
Tried to install Medal of Honor: Allied Assault on my PC again. It cannot install! Games cannot be installed on my stupid computer! I don't know why! I bought this system to play games and a single game can't install! I hate it, which is why I want to thrash the system soon in favor for one that plays games.
Oh my brother's exams are over, he's playing MOHAA, that's why I tried to install it again on my computer. The graphics look so terrible on his computer, I've asked him to ask dad for a new computer.
I was so sleepy in class today. SSSgt Ishak was telling me that our performance during training matters on our COS (Certificate of Service). He told me that lots of the police guys eventually end up working as despatch riders and other lowly paid jobs. All this because of their poor COS, which employers view as very important in handing out that job.
I'm not so sure about jobs, because the job market is getting tougher and tougher everytime. I flip through the classifieds to find very few, if no job offers for fresh graduates. Its like almost every employer desires "relevant experience" amounting from 1 to 5 years. I think not only are employers very fussy in their choice. I really feel sorry for the fresh graduates, its like almost a huge chunk of them cannot find a job.
Truly, our economy is evolving into a more globalised, competitive one. I'm not so concerned about getting a job, I can always start a company with my other ACS friends. With hard work, prudent planning and thinking ahead, and with God's help, I'm sure I won't have to go hungry. Although I do now, since everything's so expensive and they pay us near to nothing.
I had a go witht he GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun) today. A heavy, strong and mighty weapon. I can almost imagine myself as an army commando running through the jungles with one hand holding the carrying handle. The weapon's heavy, almost 11.4 kg. It'll be fun. SSSgt Ishak thought us the procedures for loading, the mechanisms, the movements of the rifle, safety, stripping and corrective action should a fault happen during firing.
I'm very fortunate. In Coast Guard, I get to handle weapons that specialists use that normal army guys only dream of holding. MP5, GPMG, ARWEN? Wow man. I can fire both the army's standard gun along with the special forces gun, fire the machine gunner's gun and use the SOC's anti riot weapon.
The whole day was rather slow, just a series of lessons, trying to stay awake, sleeping in class, breaks, practising on the weapon, learning more about the weapon and stuff. No physical training today, so I was rather happy. In addition, we were allowed to go home at 5.30 on the dot.
Lunch today was an absolute disaster. It was so bad, virtually no one in the squad ate it. The food was leftover lontong from Tracom's breakfast, eggplant from tuesday's PDP dinner, chicken from yesterday's lunch and absolutely gross "noodles" - a mixture of palm oil, tapioca and black coloring. Tasted absolutely disgusting. It smelt of heated rubbish, seriously. I don't know how they can serve such "food". If I'm ever a superintendent of police, I'd strongly recommend that the cooks all be sacked. They can't cook!
I watched Chemistry today. Its so stupid that the show borders on being highly amusing. Ok, so I only watch the show to see Rui En in action. I couldn't care less about the other actors and actresses. Rui En Rocks! Her acting's not great, but I love her dressing style, so casual and refined and the way she carries herself in the show. Haha.
I just finished working on my powerpoint presentation about last saturday's sortie. SSI John reviewed my presentation and said that whilst the content was good, it is too bland to have it presented to the commander of training (He's a DSP), so ok, I spent more than an hour editing it from a 600K file to a 10 meg file. Heh, wonder if the file will hang SSI John's computer tomorrow.
I want a new computer! But I'm going to have to wait till next year for the 2nd Gen 64 bit AMD technologies, 250GB SATA 10 000 RPM hard drives, and even more advanced Hercules/ATI graphics cards running on 16/32X AGP along with 512 MB of 800 MHZ DDR II video ram. I've been into all this technical stuff lately, no thanks to Atek and Nico, who talk about it all day. I'll go visit comdex on saturday I think, after I've collected my A level cert (yucks!) and check out the new technologies on the market. Can't wait to play Half Life 2 and Doom 3. I heard that the Doom 3 engine is so close to life, that it is almost real. By the screenshots, i agree that it is. The Doom 3 engine will totally beat half life, quake, unreal engines for at least 2 or 3 years I think.
I need a new handphone! But nokia hasn't been releasing good models lately and the phone I want is a flip model with a stupid antenna! ARGH! I can't stand waiting, but then again, my 3310 serves me fine, after all, if it drops into the sea, I won't lose much, if nothing at all. I just want a phone with a camera, the nokia 7250 has ONLY 4096 colors, the samsung one has 65 000 colors but has an antenna! I'm going to just wait for 3rd Gen at the rate I'm going.
Tried to install Medal of Honor: Allied Assault on my PC again. It cannot install! Games cannot be installed on my stupid computer! I don't know why! I bought this system to play games and a single game can't install! I hate it, which is why I want to thrash the system soon in favor for one that plays games.
Oh my brother's exams are over, he's playing MOHAA, that's why I tried to install it again on my computer. The graphics look so terrible on his computer, I've asked him to ask dad for a new computer.
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