CONFESSIONS OF A POP COUTURE ADDICT TRAPPED IN ARMY

Thursday, June 30, 2005

dreaming of utopia?

tommorow's an off day! yay!

was pleasantly surprised when my boss told me to take a day off to rest.. gee.. that's really quite nice (though my sis said it was cos he was guilty for dumping so much work on me)

though i honestly like working, and seriously, I'm glad i have this NDP thing dumped on me when I can finally flex my brain muscles and do some planning and coordination.

it's something along the way that you get to experience and benefit from, and it certainly helps fill time and lets time pass more easily...

reading some of my ocs pals' blogs made me realise really how much time has seeped into the friendships forged, and how each of us really have moved on with our lives, perhaps only crossing once in a long time, where we reminsice about the past and talk about the related people around us...

my life is now about NDP stuff, meeting tuesday deadlines, ensuring spreadsheets get done properly, chasing down my men to go for medical interviews, listening to more and more absurd reasons for taking urgent leave, mixing around with hell alot of regulars and listen to one side psycho me to sign on whilst the other side tells me its a dark dark world out there...

then there's the presenting to majors, liaising with different people all around SAF for the rations, eating lunch with equally busy and hassled 2LTs, and so on so forth...

i dunno. kinda wish there could be a super duper reunion with everyone in my life and I could spend long agos with them reminiscing the past and talking about future plans and so on...

but hey.. isn't that heaven?

but then there's a long way to go...

fraNK

Tuesday, June 28, 2005

techies rule!

i suddenly realised how changed our lives have become within the past few years, thanks to technology...

had it been a few years ago, i wouldn't be booking out of camp carrying nothing except a tiny thumbdrive tucked in my pocket. I would probably be lugging some heavy laptop and the wires required...

had it been a few years ago, i would have had to call my parents at my office to meet up at a certain location, then leave camp and head for the place. If I couldn't find them, then I would have to scour the area for some vibrantly hued payphone, dig my wallet for some coins to clunk into the machine.

yet now, the payphone is as rare as people carrying pagers. and more often than not, they are hoarded by zealous banglas.. -_-

had it been a few years ago, listening to music meant listening solely to the radio, memorsing 93.3 songs and so on... now it's all zen and pods, with the device getting smaller and smaller until it can too fit into one's pockets

hmmm... i dunno abt you, but it sets me thinking.. how would we really live within the next ten years? could we astral project? would we be carrying portable-entertainment systems so we wouldn't miss out on any shows?

oh well.. i'm starting to sound like some newsweek article. better stop.

frank

Sunday, June 26, 2005

batteries being recharged...

what a weekend.

felt really dreadful in the morning cos i was really really wiped out after the ndp rehearsal.

but hey.. feel slightly recharged now after a fruitful mission convention @ my church, then a doTa free-frag killing session and finally a gruelling badminton match that last almost 1hr 30mins.

hmmm.. think it's really wierd, but somehow playing some sports really helps to relax and recharge one person's mental facility. wierd eh?

but oh well, im ready for the next week. more prepared for the daunting tasks ahead, with more focused schedule to follow.

it goes something like:

monday: get spreadsheet and draft PO up
tuesday: confirm spreadsheet and PO, and send out, call vendor to give preliminary brief and ask for a detailed distribution plan on Thurs
wednesday: do up other relevant tie-downs, like Air participation side and so other stuff, whilst firming up the plan and doing a recce of the area
thursday: call vendor to inquire on their distribution plan as well as routes to be taken
friday: call individual POCs to confirm with them thier affiliation and timings.

and on saturday, hit the event outta the ballpark!

speaking abt hitting... hmm

think i'm channeling my interest for tennis into my badminton-play and it's really kewl.. somehow when you steel yourself to gun for the win, you become more aware of stuff and you play much better.

i imagine myself going on to Roland Garros and facing off with the likes of Andy Roddick and so on.. haha... then i blast the shuttlecocks outta the ballpark..

yippee~!

must train on my arm strenght thou.. cos as the match wore on, my hands got progressively more and more tired and my shots got more and more tame, hence the opponent was able to return more aggresively...

heehee.. how fun, like match analysis like dat...

oh well. i'm rambling

frank

my ears hurt

i think i received like 100 calls today... and called like 100 times today

was so busy that even when dexter called to bugger me about not going to the batch reunion I shushed him off the phone. pathetic guy man. why he refuses to go for such things simply escapes me. wadeva

aniwez i'm really tired. but i still have work to do.

it would have been nice if everything went smoothly.

but honestly, I feel kinda disappointed that despite working so hard, things screwed up so badly.. and well received so many complaints and irritated calls.

=(... kinda really sucks. cos u can't pat yourself on your shoulders and say "good work"

instead, it more like "let's head back to the drawing board"

oh well. see how lor.

frank

Saturday, June 25, 2005

skeletons in my closet

ACF was pretty enjoyable mainly due to 2 reasons.. one being that I finally could take a break from the taxing NDP work that is honestly taking me waaaay close to the edge, and secondly, I got to meet old frens, and chat to them like in the olden days..

thing was, past skeletons came to haunt me again... this time with CC.

i din understand my abhorance and dislike for someone whom I felt was eloquent, intelligent, and passionate about his job.. but I guess I finally rationalized it during the long hours of "discussion" during ACF.

BRUNEI
. the single word that brings back bad memories, bitter emotions that had been buried quickly by the momentary joy of getting to comission soon at that time..

the most painful, miserable night in my life.

i wasn't miserable because it was raining for the whole night and I was shivering beyond any rational thought already, and just huddling, trying to shy away from the leaks in the crude roof Luke and I had built...

i wasn't miserable because my feet were so raw to the point I couldn't let it touch anything, and kept them in Luke's fieldpack...

the pure misery came when I shone the torchlight on my feet, saw the severity of the foot rot, and suddenly came to realise that I might honestly not make it through the 5 days...

the painful decision of whether to continue or not. whether I could honestly make it out of there without any lasting damages to my legs. whether it was honestly worth it anymore.

sometimes it take courage to fight on and continue. but i think it took more courage to give up something that you know is SO within your grasp and let it go on the account that you don't want to harm yourself lastingly.

yet. it was so painful. it was such a struggle. all the thoughts about proving my worth, showing people I could survive the jungle, the notion that JCC was unfailable and the whole pride concept... the thoughts that if I din make through this all the preconceived notions of others that I was weak and not determined would be realised.

and all the training to this day. all the navigation, especially those I led. so all my pals get it whilst I don't!?! Not fair!

yet finally. i realised it was not worth it.

and so the journey back to the camp was as painful as being stuck there. wondering how to face your instructors, PC. especially CC.

after the doctor judged my feet as being one of the worst, and despite me wanting to get back there after one day of rest, the camp commandant refused, and I was officially out of course. my dreams dashed. 20 points I needed became a never-fulfilled gap.

but the horrors didn't stop there.

from now on, it would be a mental torture, inflicted by my very own PC and INSTRUCTORS.

instead of a kind word or two, we were judged as being "mentally-weak" and "unable to take suffering". CC took every attempt to sling a dig at us being weak, be it in his AAR or just his glances at us, the "failures"

then came the ban from eating canteen food, and being forced to eat field rations. they told us "your friends are out there starving and you already can come back! you better suffer a bit with them as well."

... i was boiling inside at the unfairness of the statement. they are SUFFERING for a goal, we were SUFFERING with them... for WHAT!? solidarity!? do we get the badge as well?! NO. so what suffering!?

do u honestly think we fell out cos we wanted to come back camp and slack around and eat food!? if you actually thought so then why not just kick us out of OCS in the first place!?

then came the constant reminders of

"your friends are suffering outside like mad, they're all crying"

"JCC really tests a person's mental strength"

I fumed. I raged. I kept quiet. It was a test of mental strength.

I was disappointed at being so close yet getting cut lose at that point. I was furious with myself for making spastic mistakes at the first part of the journey that allowed myself to develop foot rot. I was disappointed that I had no chance to really push myself and suffer 5 whole days and come out at least saying I had the experience. But I had no chance liao.

but did anyone understand?!

did anyone even bother to try!?

NO. all they cared of was the result, and how we contributed to the glaringly large "failure" group. of how pathetic we are, are we honestly suited to be officers?

this rage could not be let out cos no one around me really understood as well. and when our pals from the jungle came back, it made no sense to complain and act like a complete sore loser. so I swallowed it in, buried it, and helped around with a cheerful face. helping those who got their badge, cos they were too weak. helping my buddy pack his bag and clean up everything of his because he conveniently fell ill completely once he got back.

how ironic isn't it? one person does almost NOTHING for all the navigations, fools around most of the times, takes things easily and yet GETS THE BADGE, then conveniently falls ill and his mess is cleared up by his buddy.

the other person tried his DARN BEST in everything, knowing there was something to prove and something to work for, constantly navigation and trying to lead everyone to the finishing line, yet disastrously gets kicked out and cleans up all the mess and spoils of the victorios people, including his buddy.

skeletons. I still haven't managed to clear them.

dunno whether I'll ever be able to do so.

frank

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

you think scolding people is easy?

scolding people is an art.. and i haven't learnt it yet...

honestly, it IS tough to scold people... the energy you expend, the fierce face you have to upkeep, the potential relationships you might be jeopardising and so on...

hmm.. another reason why a career in army ain't suited for me.. =)

it's frustrating.. you are struggling with your work and people do stupid stupid things, and you honestly have no more mental energy to pursue it liao...

why can't people just wake up their idea and stop the ridiculous stuff!?

smoking in bunk!? sleeping whilst on duty?! coming late for work!? losing keys whilst on duty!?

how many more times must I scold and punish before some sense gets drilled in!?

i dunno. i'm too tired to pursue... i've too many people to please, too many arrow-wounds to heal from...

who can sympathize and talk to me?!

I dunno.

franK

Sunday, June 19, 2005

food glorious food!

celebrated my mom's bday and father's day at summer palace @ Regent Hotel today... and wow.. the food IS good, and so was the immaculate service.. yummy yummy! it's been a long time since I have ventured into a posh posh chinese restaurant and ate such a sumptuous meal liao, so I'm grateful for it. =)

remember a time when our family of 5 complete went gallivanting around new and posh chinese restaurants, especially those opened by Tung Lok group, and just trying all the fantastic food and have a superb gastronomical experience everytime... but look what a few years has done liao.. hmmm

oh well, since we're on the topic of food.. there's this silly article about army rations in the newspapers today, that honestly prompts me something.

- hardtack tastes absolutely delicious when you're starving in brunei. i think even better than the sealed packets.

- it's really crap all the things they have said about the packet food. for one, i have NEVER seen Japanese Curry Pasta before, and for another, no one actually has the time to go and take out mess tin and go and cook those meals till it's like hot hot and so on then eat it. most of the time you're either too tired, or you're eating in the rain... so there is a VERY big difference.

- but honestly, when faced with such issues of food when you're out there on your own... you JUST have to console yourself by saying the food is so darn good and rejoice when you get some better menus like "Mutton Curry Pasta" or "Spaghetti Bolognaise" and so on, or else moan and attempt to do swaps with others if u land yourself with "Chicken Rice With Mushroom". i positively HATED that.. never never ever ate it... aniwez, back to the topic, you JUST have to humour yourself intro liking the food so as to uplift your morale and ensure you survive. it's like that.

frank

army encourages creativity

why the army half marathon donation card thingy is a joke.

- when almost everyone in army has that card, who the hell do we approach?!

- people offer one day off for $100 collected. HONESTLY!?

- i thought donations was supposed to be "voluntary"? yet we have the mandatory "minimum" amount, which ranges from $12 for the PTEs and up to $40 for regulars

- majority of the people don't give two hoots about the donation card and when the deadline draws near, they draw out money themselves to give and get done with it.

- thinking of names and accompanying signatures for the various fictitious "kind souls" who donated. Margereta Lee? Maisie Koh? Leonard Chan? u get the idea.

Saturday, June 18, 2005

the reason i watched Mr and Mrs Smith



i think why so many people left the show going "huh?" was because... the writers of the script tried too hard to be artsy-fartsy and yet having to maintain crowd-pleasers... and hence the show warbles in between an intelligent commentary of marital woes and an all-out sleek, action blockbuster.

u see, it failed as a spy movie because all the tricks were so used and tired. there wasn't any ingenious moves, nifty witty escapes and so on, there wasn't any elaborate car-chases and believable fighting scenes ( i mean!?! especially at the last part!?)

so obviously, the show's main intent wasn't about the action. the action was just to draw the masses to watch the show (which i don't see the point since there's already brad and angelina)

so maybe the show was a blow-up fantasy of some couple's marital woes... but then, not enough effort was spent to make this aspect smart enough, or even impressionable enough.

so honestly.. the movie ended up stuck between two genres, with done-to-death, yawn-inducing action scenes, with the occasional witty banter, yet weak allusion to the marital woes.

aiyah. wadeva.

point is, i came to the show to watch Angelina.

and watch i did.

done.

frank

Thursday, June 16, 2005

jacko and denise

wah liao so darn sian.. had to OT at home, finishing up powerpoints and stuff... realised I have quite a problem at tomorrow's meeting.

if i use my laptop to show the powerpoint, then how to i use the laptop to type the minutes? hmmm.. borrow another laptop? hopefully....

aniwez, random musings about events in the world...

1. michael jackson is cleared of his charges. and then 42% of American polled says they disagreed with the 12 dipshits who formed the dumbest jury since Jenna Morasca won Survivor.

honestly.

how dumb can America get!? and maybe it's really time to have the whole jury system overhauled. I dunno about you, but it's pretty obvious that in an attempt to be democratic and so on about such stuff, the completely opposite is occuring in the court room, where those with money and power can lord over those who don't -- simply by hiring the slickest lawyers to fight their case.

throw the whole juror system out lah.

Jacko should be jailed instead of set free to his Neverland. pity those kids.

2. kudos to Channel 5 for choosing such a delightful and smart female to anchor Eye for a Guy 2.. yeah, I mean Denise Keller. and thanks the her, the show sparkled and oozed with real emotions and heartfelt scenes.

why do i say so?
a) denise was real. honest. she wasn't like those vapid idiots like Trista Rehn, whom you just loathed as the show progressed, realising she was just using the show to mediawhore. denise however, didn't need to mediawhore, considering the legions of men waiting to throw themselves at her feet. she took the show/contest cooly and ended up finding true love. and this true love isn't like the "true love" those crappy americans fling about, this really sounds.. real.

i dunno about you.

b) denise was smart. and so were the contestants. denise was darn articulate and really managed to carry off the show. i mean, compare her to the dundleheads of Bachelor and Bachelorette who just knew to flirt all day round with the various assortment of lapdogs waiting to be the chosen one. hmm... and kudos to Ch 5 for showing us that a show need not have sex and raunchy, steamy scenes to attract and make the show more watchable.

in fact, i think what did Bachelor and Bachelorette in was the steamy and racy scenes. the way love was given so freely and french-kisses and hugs were like free.

It completely demeaned the whole process of finding true love.

I mean, I just lost interest, when I saw how the Bachelor would flirt with this girl and like go to the sauna with her, and then next moment french kiss another girl and so on... wah liao.. so intimate liao then what's the point of the whole show!?

I dunno. I just detested each and every Bachelor/Bachelorette as the show progressed because they were just darn downright easy with their love-giving, treating the show as a form of mediawhoring as well as a "floodgates of raunchiness and debauchery is open" thing.

so well... good show u got Ch 5.

fraNK

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

through the lenses

ok.. my camera screwed up... the photos of my KL trip turned up grainy for some wierd reason...

aniwez, some photos...


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that's me and my mom at an idyllic resort @ melaka.. which we were not staying in. ours was that kids-trodden mess of a mega-resort right next to it.



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that's me, my sis and my cousin posing in front of petronas tower (hehe.. betcha' din realise it!) at around midnite.. (yeah.. they such the lights pretty soon after we took the shot)

i liked this shot cos the building looks pretty awesome.. like it's emanating some light or smth... and it was kewl cos it was actually taken SO late at nite.. (yah.. blame it on the neverending dinners with relatives)

AND if u realise, i'm not actually that tall.. was standing on some ledge for ego-sake.. haha...

frank

i can smell something...

i was really breaking out in cold sweat today when i finally clicked the "end test" button for my final theory and awaiting my results in a few seconds..

luckily.. i PASSED! yippee!

it's really really nerve-wracking, cos u see the front row people getting varied results and hence the varied reactions.. some were jubilantly leaving after the "passed" screen flashed on their screens, whilst the dejected few siam quickly after seeing the "failed" sceen

very very stressed. somehow, the thought of knowing your result the second you end your test isn't a nice feeling.

then when i was going back home on bus 162, i met this supremely spastic person who attempted to secretly eat hokkien mee on the bus.

i mean, what's the point of acting scretive, looking furtively around to see if people are looking at you when the unmistakeable stench of hokkien mee is like overpowering the whole bus?

and then why go and torture yourself by having to bend down low into the seat and gobble so mouthfuls everytime you think no one is watching, then reappear flustered and chomping at the food? no neck pain meh?

and HONESTLY, the whole act of looking furtively around and then bending down and disappearing in the sit with a gobbling action, then reappearing with the flustered and guilty look really... is.. GROSS. (if you have an imagination, that is)

oh well.. i shan't elab.

frank

Monday, June 13, 2005

lost in lillies

lost is pretty frightening and gross...

i think it's the first time I was so enraptured whilst watching it on tape tonite. din even finish watching, but guess its enough adrenaline for the day.

went swimming, then went driving today. i like cramming things all together and doing alot of stuff =)

decided to go to work with a new attitude, be nicer and well, watch what I do as well.

and chrys, i'm a lil' tired to upload photos now. will do soon.

ps. to guang yi, i just heard carrie's radio-versh of "inside your heaven", and it sucks as bad as her stage version. there is ZERO feelings in the song and i half expected her to go off tune most of the time. no wonder it blows chunks and is losing terribly to Bo's versh.

frank

Sunday, June 12, 2005

serving no one else but Lord my God

recently alot of screw-ups i've committed has given me a sufficiently resounding wake-up call.

what the heck am i doing with my life? spiritual-wise? attitude-wise? effort-wise?

why have i gone into this perpertual slack mode?

honestly.. really I've just been adopting this "haiz, since everyone is just wa-yang-ing, then I just join in as well lah" attitude... not paying attention to the work i do...

it's terrible.. it's robs me of the satisfaction in the job as well..

1st prayer request: to put in my fullest energy in my work and not wa-yang with the stuff I do. go the extra mile.

then it's also the slackness of myself that's making me miserable... 3 months of bliss has really made me soft.

now i find staying-in a chore, i find being the conducting officer a chore... and i don't like this "slack" me..

2nd prayer request: let me not be so slack and re-adapt back, and continue to stay fit.

and what's really going one with my and my spiritual life? why do I feel like my spritiual-scape is like some barren landscape?

why have I become so in-sync with the wordly society out there!?

what has happened to me!?

and today's sermon and fellowship gave me a stern reminder as well...

sigh... issit cos some old old sin is still wrangling with me!?

i just hope this will all end. and things will get better.

please.

3rd prayer request: serve no one else but God. not money. not what every stupid vapid trend. and really, stay close to God.

frank

Friday, June 10, 2005

kuala lumpur - the cynic's perception

things i learnt from the trip to Malaysia

1. not using the computer is a very effective way and saving ALOT of time. I'm really gonna restrict the time I spend in front of the computer screen and get some real work done.

like studying for my FTT. like cleaning up my dilapidated room. like re-inventorising my CDS. (ok.. the last one's bullshit)

2. eating can become a chore. especially when you spend 3 hours in the restaurant and after that it's so fricking late you can't do anything else. dang!

what kind of vacation is that!?

3. malaysians don't know the routes around their homeland well. in fact, they are the reason we get lost. and getting lost is not like singapore's get-lost-make-one-small-turn-and-get-back type of lost. it's a get-lost-wah-sian-take-another-route-kena-traffic-jam-waste-half-an-hour type of lost. so irritating especially when you have so little time liao.

4. ritz carlton KL is KEWL!!

why?

- they do your laundry for FREE.
- there's complimentary drinks 24/7 at the 19th floor executive lounge
- there's a nice piece of chocolate-ish dessert every night. yummy!
- it's a boutique hotel. ie? NO IRRITATING KIDS. NO OVERCROWDING OF SWIMMING POOLS.
- the jacuzzi was kewl...

you wonder why i comment about the irritating kids thing?

well, it's cos the situation was an exact opposite at the hotel in Malacca.

- the pool water was tepid, murky and festering with multitudes of unruly kids in various stages of undress, bobbing around and making the pool completely uninviting.
- irritating kids came to bother us when we were playing pool and table soccer. them with their spastic antics of trying to steal the pool balls, commenting about our table soccer skills and so on. BUGGER OFF

so yeah, imagine my relief. =)

5. malaysians have no clue about planning. be it city planning, area planning or so on.

- there's this spastic Times Square place which is touted as the biggest, most splendid mall in KL.

ptui! Times Square is filled with terrible pasar-malam-ish shops that sell ridiculous-ly fake items like ripcurl. (revive. reinvent. restore -- what!?!) the main reason for that?! they have 10 FRICKING FLOORS of shops. and each floor is obscured by the one below such that you can't see the shops upstairs or downstairs. the escalators are complicated and you just end up pissed off and tired whilst walking. and yeah, the building lacked personality and style, and just resembled a tired office building. bleah

- what's the POINT of the public transport system with monorails and trains and so on when

a) they don't connect
b) the trains come as infrequently as I brush my teeth
c) the stations are situation in the midle of NOWHERE. like one which stopped outside a disused prison. ?!?

oh well... but i did nejoy myself. i went with a motive of getting closer to my family. hopefully i achieved that. it's back to work now... (yeah i'm in camp doing duty)

frank

things i liked about Madagascar



1. "Hibbiggie-wiggies".... or whatever that lemming tried to say.



2. the penguins reach Antartica and their "THIS SUCKS!" scene

that's it.

other than that. bleah.

frank

Sunday, June 05, 2005

i'm rambling

i'm tired out. phew.

will be going m'sia tmr to visit relatives and to have a hiatus =)

did quite a lot of things today...

wanna buy so many things but really feeling the pinch.

oh well..not in the mood to blog. just random text.

roller blading. east coast. mcdonalds. bitching. the Ling. aslurpingape=$29.90! converse=$19.90!! newurbanmale(ewww). fourskin->old skool tee. heeren annex. kym ng. matchmaking. paragon. guess. gas. a/x. diesel. mos burger. dexter's car. madagascar left me feeling bleah. getting pissed off. yoshinoya's terrible at night. borders opens till 12.00md. kahlua mudpie.

tired.

frank

Friday, June 03, 2005

saying hi to my sinuses

yuck.

went to a ENT specialist today to check on my perennial sinus, nose sniffing problem, or so my parents claim... -_-

and one thing i HATE about going to doctors is that they always manage to make you feel like you have a terminal disease, and need lots and lots of medicine and treatment or you'll be having a terribly impaired life...

and you probably felt perfectly fine before entering the room. -_-

for THIS round, the doctor said I had a severe allergy (see the use of the words? never use bad, use SEVERE, EXTREME) as well as some blockage in the left passageway of my nose because the structure of my nose is slightly shifted to the left.

and it left me feeling pretty down. =(

plus it left me sneezing and wheezing and with the bad headache due to all the irritation with all the sprays the doctor puffed up my nose, as well as the monitoring tube that he stuck through my nose to my mouth.

ewww.. gosh.. it feels so fricking awkward and for my left passageway, it hurt lah! and all i see on the monitor is wads and wads of reddish looking lumps and holes..

gee... NOT FUN

i dunno what i have got to say about this whole seeing-the-doctor-for-no-good-reason thing that my parents claim is "preventive"

what preventive?! I've been living a perfectly fine life with like no difference from other people and have MUCH better concentration than most.. so why waste wads of money just for some "prevention"? I dun geddit.

and some of the advise the doc gives.. haha.. anyone can also give it lah..

"sleep at least 8 hours or your allergy will get worse"...

DUH

any idiot KNOWS that sleeping more helps the body and makes one more healthy... but too bad it only takes one WITH a ENT degree to earn a kewl hundred bucks for saying that...

oh well..

fraNK

Thursday, June 02, 2005

10 most obnoxious things you can do in NS

1. perpetually shoot arrows at a particular person, just because he is nice, or is more committed to his work

2. drag another person's surbodinates to slack with them in the mess

3. backstab one another

4. send a hapless person on a wild goose chase by directing and redirecting him on and on down a list of departments and personnels when all he wants is a simple thing

5. ASSUME a person is free and shoot more arrows at him

6. view EVERYTHING done as a chance to get "off", and say "ah sir, you sure a "thank you" is good enough?" vile

7. snatching other people's manpower to do ridiculous things that only benefit yourself. and HELLO? I think you are supposed to do something else!?

8. shoot arrows back at the super-busy person who shot it, by LYING

9. whining on and on about how something is not in your job-scope and it's unfair that you are doing it

10. perpetually hankering after early release

I'm so pissed off today. yeah, as you can guess, all of the above happened to me either today or yesterday. and in a short span of 3hrs when I rushed back to camp due to a barrage of calls and problems.

oh well. dun wanna disclose too much. not nice.

fraNk

charmed again


ok... i might actually watch charmed again after previewing selected clips of the season finale...

it's grippingly sad, depressing and puts you at the edge of the seat, because it's the first time you see the girls on full alert mode, ready to battle it out with YET another big-bad.

they are stressed, paranoid, and starkly aware of the pallid situation they have landed into...

and they fight the evil bravely, with new tactics.. =)

no more fluffy silly tales like that of elves and what have you.

so yeah, don't give up on charmed yet, even though the first part of season 7 IS pretty fluffy with stuff like blue beasts and Lady Godiva.. and the latter part lives up to its heyday formula and scores.

so.. WATCH CHARMED. CHANNEL 5, 8.30 PM, WEDNESDAY