A highlight of the place is the aquatic centre, which has a huge water slide. Great for the family.
Up on the roof there are two tennis courts. Good to know, though expensive to play.
Meanwhile, around the neighborhood... The MRT extension is taking shape...
And maybe one of these days I'll go try out the skate park near the PIE entrance...
Mentioned that to my CO, and somehow he knows (and told me) that there's an astro-turf at Delta for hockey, I probably should have followed up on how he knew that. That's where we trained most often. Apart from physical training...
Quite a good run, really, for the first time I managed to run faster than CO! His age notwithstanding, it was also because he woke up and left his house without even drinking some water, plus they had run about 4 to 5 km before running with me. And I was quite well rested also.
I could do about 2 minutes a round for 2 rounds at a go, and repeat that after resting for about 3 minutes. That's still quite off from the 12:20 for 6 rounds that i need to pass IPPT... but anyway I also need 6 chin-ups to pass, and probably can muster at most 4 now.
Going to play basketball on Monday evening, I suggested street soccer since the basketball half-court is also a street soccer arena, so I'll just bring my soccer ball to office and see how. Good that my soccer ball is still ok, just pumped it and it seems ok. My pump is not so ok, though.
Going to play tennis with gz and 2 of his friends (I know them also, they also scholar from OCS) tomorrow morning, which means will have to miss gym+swim with Aaron and Jasper. Say Yang's not going either, due to tuition commitments.
Invested in an $18 alarm clock. That will hopefully prevent $12 taxi fares in the morning. It should pay off in a week or two. The shop i bought it from was having a closing down sale. And next door, people were queuing to buy 4D and Toto. Always got queue...
Also bought an aluminum tennis racket from NTUC, for $10. So now got 2 rackets, if anyone wants to play please let me know, I bought the racket so you don't need to have one to play.
So I actually met gz today and I had just happened to buy the tennis racket, so he mentioned he was playing tomorrow and I invited myself. He returned me my CDs.
Spoke to CO about officer scholars being posted to unit. Says he'll look into it. I had mentioned that seems like all the officers got posted to unit then immediately get attached elsewhere (like 2 of my friends, who are in MINDEF now).
So the casino will create jobs. But what kind of jobs? Dealers, people changing money into chips, women wearing sexy outfits and walking around serving drinks...
Went to dentist to clean my teeth, actually slipped into sleep a few times as she was grinding away. Probably swallowed a little chalky water.
That suite of MS Excel macros I wrote is in the running for the best WITs in MINDEF under the "admin" category. Competing with one other team for the honor.
I guess I should sleep now since I've got to get up really early to NUS to play tennis...
gz asked why I don't write to the forum anymore and all that... I guess... I guess I shall blame it on the Straits Times not having their articles online for free at all. But actually it's because I think my writing sucks.
Anyway, we were kicking around this tiny beanball in office yesterday, which made me want to bring something to play in office. Thought of bringing hockey stick and ball, but the space is really quite small. Decided on chapteh.
B00n T4t just bought one for me at a place near his house. He can do this pretty cool trick of flipping a coin off from his palm. I have no friggin' idea how to do it.
This is pretty strange, but my estimation of how long the website will take me is really off. I just said in my last post it might take another week, but I actually kinda finished it today. But I should still look through the code once more and clean it up.
I guess it looks like the casino is going to be built. The announcement will be made next Monday. We should make the decision work, if we decide to go ahead! Hah. That's practically screaming that the green light is bright.
I wonder if can just bring a soccer ball or something and play at the field in the track where we sometimes run after work. There aren't goal posts or anything, but that's not a big deal, really.
How fast time flies, it's almost a year since graduation. I need to bunker down and get cracking on my poetry...
Didn't actually run today, it was drizzling. Stayed back late, well, there was work to do too, then went for dinner with CO and another officer from the other branch. Planning to run after work tomorrow.
Anyways, I really didn't have to worry about not having work to do. Showed the website to bosses and now there's more to code.
Going to play basketball next Tuesday after work, yay. My boss casually mentioned today that I can look into clearing off if I want. Will ask about that tomorrow.
Reinstalled WinXP for Jasper on his laptop. Had to manually load device drivers, and somehow the install didn't complete cleanly, I suspect something wrong with the CD that NEC provided. Because I tried it more than once, with the same results.
The laptop looks ok now, still have to install some software and stuff. Can also try out the wireless since Aaron's got a new wireless router at his house. One other thing about the NEC CD was that it provides no options at all, I tried to fdisk before install but that seemed to screw it up.
Last night's CSI was the first episode I've seen that was "To be continued...". It was really disturbing, seems this couple would lure another couple for an orgy or something, then what would happen is that the guy would kill the girl, and then the guy would get killed. Something like the guy is made to slit his wife's throat otherwise they both die, or to slit her throat to prevent her from dying horribly. But turns out the guy doesn't get to live either...
Had a weird error with Excel macros, turns out it was because I had a UserForm and added some controls that referenced some libraries. When the control is deleted, the reference to the library persists, so when the file is ported to another computer, there's an error message about a "missing project or library" when a macro is run. Solution of course is to remove the unnecessary reference.
At dinner at Adam Road, a group of perhaps JC students were there after hockey training. Used to go there last time also, after training at SPE (School of Phys Ed). Seem to see people carrying hockey sticks quite a lot. Wish I could play but it's difficult because you need several people, and it's not even like soccer where most people can play...
It's quite fun to do a little dribbling in my room, though. The space is pretty limited, but still ok.
Jiahao was mentioned in the New Paper on Monday. It was a second page feature on bond breakers, the who and why. PSC certainly screwed him over big time.
I got quite sunburnt on Sunday at the pool. I think I kinda fell asleep for a while in the water (with my head and hands resting on the edge).
April Fools' Day was pretty fun, that was last Friday. We went for breakfast in the morning, then left work early to go for high tea at Marriott. The food was good, especially dessert, as always. There was a chocolate and nut cake that was just divine.
Went shopping after that with the guys, to kill time before we went to watch Miss Congeniality 2. The movie was OK, not bad. But what made the day so great were the stories Eugene and Sam told over tea. Very funny. Laugh like crazy.
The week is whizzing by. I need to start working on my poems again. Soon I'll be flying to LA. Yay!
So I didn't go running today. Took a nap at my granny's place; was there for a potluck dinner, my sister's birthday is about now. She was with friends, came for the dinner, then went out again, and is still out as I write this.
Had some listen to Tori's new album, but haven't heard it closely and carefully yet, but her voice is as always a crazy and wonderful instrument.
