There is something really wrong with my phone. Today I received sms-es from people who sent them to me days ago. Not very sure if it is the service provider or my phone. Maybe it's time for a new phone?

Don't go rushing off to check your eyes now. Yes, the time showing when I'm posting this is correct. Today is a halfday! Hooray! And how did I spend the first hour of it? Shoot-o of course. Shoot-o meaning Winning 11. P/S 2 is a God-sent. I managed to squeeze in an hour plus a day for shoot-o during a week where we had a test everyday, and I still managed to pass all of them! Damn, I'm good...

Two cadets were kicked out of the junior course just this week. Another 2 bite the dust... And we heard that there is another 40-cadets course coming in around March. Given the number of people they are taking in, we are just mere numbers. For every seat we are plonking our lucky asses on in class, there are another 100 just waiting to take our place.

My housemate was complaining that his new laptop was crawling like a slug. So, he brought in on Thursday for another guy to take a look at it. Sure enough, it was running at 100% right from startup. Using adaware gave me a shock of my life. Normally, there will be about 5 cookies on my computer. Harmless ones. But his scan returned more than 500 spywares! Damn! That was the most I have ever seen. And the best part was that the spyware was so entrenched into the system that removing it by adaware won't help. It just reinstalls itself when the computer reboots. My friend refuses to format the computer because it is a sign of defeat. So, good luck to him in cleaning up the computer.

Meanwhile, I am going to laze around for today.

Apparently, the instructors really like our class! That was the news for the week. Thanks mainly to the comic behaviour of Desmond right under the instructors' noses. His funny antics are very amusing. So, thanks to that, the instructors are always in a good mood. Unlike in the previous course, where the instructors apparently are not very happy with them. Well, too bad for them.

Went for the medical checkup for the Australian visa application on Thursday at Jurong East. Five of us went in Howie's car, and then we decided to go to Jurong Point to kua bu. It's been ages since I have been there. I think the last time I went there was in my third year for hockey training at NTU. After that, I don't think I have stepped into that building. And like before, the place was very crowded. Chilled out at the McCafe, which served quite ok stuff. The apple pie (a real pie, not the small slice) was delicious. Later on, we went to check out laptops because one of the guys is interested in buying one for Jandekot. Then Howie came up with the bright idea of watching a movie, and we settled with Ocean's Twelve. Great movie. Very snazzy, with witty dialogues. And I also bumped into one of the guys from ACS(I) Boarding School. Did not see him since entering JC. Was surprised that he could remember my name, when I forgot. Haha. Luckily I remembered his name later.

Batch 106's initiation was earlier this evening. The difference between this batch and the ones before (ahem, shall not name them here) was very obvious. This group of guys are really close, and they worked well together. I tell you, it is OBS. And as the facilitating batch, only about 10 of the 40 guys showed up. Speaks a lot about them. They are already not in the seniors' good books. But, that's their problem.

Today, I took 1 1/2 hours to get from camp back to Yew Tee. And no, it was not because I walked too slowly to reach the bus stop. In fact, I walked rather fast. I waited about 30 minutes for 168 to arrive, only to find it packed like sardines. So packed that the bus driver didn't even open the doors. Feeling damn fed up, I took the next 86 bus and went over to YCK mrt station instead. Took 15 minutes to reach there, about the same amount of time that I would have taken if I took 168 to Woodlands.

What a waste of time...

Quite a boring week just passed by. Nothing very spectacular. Am now sitting at the table of the guy who got terminated because my new neighbour needs help. He's a bit lost by himself now. With regards to classes I mean. Other than that, classes non-stop, without much time to relax. Getting quite used to it anyway.

The new batch will be in next week. And we are officially going to be "seniors". Nice, I like the sound of that. The initiating batch decided to be nice to them, doing away with the mudpit, the flour face, and the waterbombs. But they are still sticking to the concoction, which I think is a stupid idea. Not the concoction, but rather, the way they are conducting the initiation. If they want to go all the way and rag, then they should include the mudpit and the lot. If they want to be nice, then they shouldn't even include the concoction. Now, it's neither here nor there. Imagine this "Okay, that was a nice barbeque, now freshies, go drink the crap and we'll be out of here". My batch was also thinking of being nice, but then, now I think we're going to go all the way! Well, depends on the batch. If they act like "management pilots" like the one that just came in, God help them, as our initiation IC will have a field day.

Went to have dinner at Paragon last night. Was supposed to be at a Chinese restaurant because Ah Joo had a voucher. But for some reason, when he saw the voucher, he immediately thought it was the restaurant at Paragon, when it was supposed to be at Centrepoint. He only realized it when I pointed it out the "location: Centrepoint" written in bold, to him. So anyway, had dinner at Spagedies. I think that's how it's spelt anyway. And Jinsheng looked funky with a... white shirt. Yes, the same white shirt that RH has seen for the past four years. Time for a change man!

And the new U2 album rocks!