Project Joy

I just remembered that I took part in a haiku contest some time back, and went to google for it just now, and found out that I was the winner! I thought they were supposed to notify me by email, somehow I never got it.

Anyway,

The winning haiku will be printed on a postcard promoting Project Joy. The winner will also get the chance to present his/her haiku at a Project Joy concert.

In addition, the winner gets one pair of tickets to a Crossroads 2006 evening performance.

For posterity:

The winning entry is:

quiet spaces fill
the coat and shirtsleeves hanging
on the bamboo poles

- Darren Tan

Got a look at some of the reports from my OCS days. Quite interesting, reading about the times I didn't try hard enough to bash through the bush when charging the enemy, when I took my time and tread carefully over a drain.

And who could forget (though I did, until now) my "drinking water at FUP" incident. I remember we were at Tekong, and I suppose the section was getting ready to do fire-movement, and no one told me you're not supposed to drink water! Haha... it was a Hibbert moment (Hibbert the scared-to-die soldier in Journey's End, a play we read for GCE O-levels), you know, dry mouth, self-care.

Anyway, the one word I remember from OCS was pride. You had to have pride. Pride was the reason that was supposed to motivate you. And everything else becomes a privilege.

a change will do you good

Anyway, I have moved to our new flat already, and it's coming to about 4 weeks since. It's nice, need to do laundry and vacuum the floor now and then, but it's all good. If you're in the Boon Lay area and want to come see, let me know! The new bus interchange at Boon Lay is now in use.

The GIGABYTE motherboard I got seems to have a non-functional ethernet port. Linux cannot detect it, and I think the giveaway is that the light doesn't come on when the RJ45 cable is plugged in. I brought the computer back and they called and tried to tell me that the light only comes on after the OS and drivers are installed, but that cannot be because the light is supposed to come on even when the computer is in shutdown! It'll probably have to be replaced.

Have one more month to ORD. Then NIE starts immediately. NIE should be great. Will find some tennis enthusiasts and play there. Have about 6 days of leave to clear still. Took leave today to bring my computer in.

Say Yang has been updating his blog. I'm poking at mine to see if it can feel anything.

Pentium Dual-Core 3.0GHz

Dear All, I have bought a new desktop computer. In the process of setting it up now. Typing this from my laptop.

Hope everyone has been doing fine.

I got a new cell phone too, for "free", after renewing the contract with M1 (and getting a discount off the monthly subscription for a year!). It's a Samsung X650.

Need to rush for wedding dinner now!