Crunchy-Bites

 

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Cos me helped to write it.. ;D

Btw I received an early Xmas present:

 

Fractures at my metacarpal bone while playing futsal, so my right hand is casted in plaster of paris now. Hohoho!

AWESOME! ;D

Life is boring like a fishball lately, round and round and round again with all the same old daily routine, and our King just underwent knee surgery overseas recently so he delayed the motion to bail us out of jail and commission us as officers, which means more balls.

With so many fishballs overfilling over plates, it’s only logical that we dump it all into a cooking pot and make steamboat out of it. So last sunday i organized this steamboat feast for my 12 housemates. I got my juniors to help me with buying the raw material to feed 12 hungry mouths, so from Giant sg wang we got everything that we needed to make this a good feast, from all kind of balls to dory fish fillet to prawns to herbal soup stock to all kinds of vegies etc etc etc, we even booze up with a bottle of red wine and a smaller bottle of whisky lol.

There there out of focus pics taken with a good camera (Sony DSLR-A330) but a noob owner photographer showing us in ‘action’:

All the hungry wolves.                                     This looks orderly, but when the pot was ready it’s not!   

A pot full of balls.                                              We feed our juniors too!

Tomyam soup stock.                                         Sharing jokes while waiting the pot to be cooked.

Yum yum yum….                                               Yum yum yum yum….

Yum yum yum yum yum….                                 Fully satiated.

Happie!                                                             Lagi-lagi happie!

I commited a crime on alcohol that night, accidently broke this:

Forgive me dear Lord for i have sinned……..it was still 3 quarter full damn sayang!

My moment on the ring had finally came: 3 rounds, 2 minutes long each and 1 minute of time-out in between rounds….jab. 1-2. hook, uppercut, hook, punch! My opponent was a guy named Najib, nicknamed po-po, i had an obvious height advantage over him, but i didn’t want to take it lightly because in earlier matches I’ve seen tall guys getting beaten up by opponents shorter than them.

We exchanged lots of punches on Round 1, i was aiming for his head trying to knock him of balance while most of his punches landed on my stomach, where layers of fat around it absorbed most of the impact haha. My opponent started to show signs of fatigue on Round 2 and i started to feel like i was controlling the match, so i went in more often with simple jabs to try to score more points, at the same time deflecting my opponents’ punches to deny him points. On Round 3 my opponent was struggling just to stand steady, i could have deliver some quick knock-out punches to end the game, but being symphatetic i just let the game stretch till the sounding of the final bell. And i won by virtue of most points collected.

It’s really true when you hear people say that 2 mins on the ring is like 20 mins outside of it, and the experience is definitely not pleasant to bear if you are the one getting beaten up. Height can be a huge advantage but it all boils down to personal stamina and fitness. I had not train much for my match therefore i’m lucky to get an opponent who’s shorter and less fit than me. But being on the ring and staying on it takes as much mental strength as physical fitness, it’s not for the faint-hearted.

                     

Waiting to be called up onto the ring.              Round 1: A jab met with a block.

 

As i’m taller my arm length is taller too.                 BAMMM!

Going after my opponent.                            Falling back to avoid a punch while sending one of my own.

       

Seconders helping me out during time-out.                And i won! ;D

My convocation was held at UTM Skudai, Johor last saturday. Finally after 5 years of blood, sweat and tears i have graduated with a second class upper bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. I wish to thank my family and friends for all their support and encouragement given to me throughout this period, thank you terima kasih 谢谢 aligato! Although for most people a convocation is the climax of their uni life, it’s the second most important event for me, because the momentus event of my student life is on 9 January 2010, the Officer commissioning parade set to be graced by the King. That is happening later though, this is now!

Pictures………….!!

           

Cute little sis and i                                                  With mom and dad.

 

           

Fellow airforce mates on the left, parents on the right.                                 =)

                

Family photo, minus Grace and Edwin.                      With mom and amanda.

                          

Singapore! In front of Great World City.                      Chinatown.

           

Little cute poser sis.

Dad was so happy that he gave me a wad of cash after the convocation ceremony and said:”son, take this and go buy an iphone that you have always wanted and that’ll be ur belated birthday present and graduation gift.” Woohoo! Got no teddies or flowers but i got an iphone haha! ;D Thanks dad, i’ll pass u my htc google G1 when i get my iphone heehee!

After the convo my family and i went on a short trip accross the causeway to SIngapore! I got to drive on singapore roads for the first time hehe, man the people there really follow the speed limit to the dot, 90 means 90 lol and everyone moves at the same speed. –.- The greatest pleasure i on that trip was flooring the car accelerator after i left singapore and enter malaysia via the second link at the end of the trip haha! The trip was good though, had alot of good hawker food, besides coffee at tcc and subway sandwiches, and i got an awesome nike pair of sneakers at 50% off for $49.50 only. It’s a steal! Wanted to get perfumes but gonna hold it off first till i finish my current CK One and Boss.

Yeah yeah it was fun! :D

I shall stop missing you now, since i'm only such an insignificant fellow in ur life, i shall unload my feelings for you at the dumpsite and break free.

Moving on, i have just completed my six-months military training for final year officer cadets after the completion of the final exercise called Escape and Evasion this morning. Hurrah, sighs of relief haha! Lots of bittersweet memories from it. :D

What left for me now is the convocation which is next weekend and the preparations for the passing out parade which will happen on January 10. In the mean time, i have weekend leave this week and next, gonna use it to the fullest to party real hard. XD

My birthday celebration this year was quite interesting though, the actual day of my bday i was training at some ulu place in Pahang, so my mates managed to negotiate four raw chickens for rm60 from the Indon estate workers and we marinated it and barbequed it whole over woodfire, it was really awesome! And when i got back to camp, i subsidized a feast of 5 barrels of kfc fried chicken to treat them back. And hopefully this weekend i'll be able to drink and chill with my tani gang lol.

That's the short update i got for now, will write more when i got the free time, i'm already a few episodes behind on a couple of tv series that i follow lol.

Some things i shouldn't have harp on. You have not spoken to me for 4 days and counting...

I'm sorry. This one's for you. >.<

I haven't practice my culinary skills in quite a while, so decided to make myself something good today, Fried Rice Army Style, cos i didn't have the proper utensils to be cooking something, so i just used the mess tin and the mini-stove with solid fuel....

Getting the raw materials ready....

Frying the garlic, onion and dried shrimps....

 

Mixing it all together...

And voila!

YUMMY! xD

Stomach feels warm and full, and i cooked more than enough to share it with my housemates too...happee!!

Sighhhhh, it's always easier to consume than to produce, i can spend hours watching movies/series, browsing thru blogs/forums/facebook, but when it comes to organizing my thoughts to write a good blog post, minutes seems like hours. -_-

I feel sorry for my fellow squad because supposedly there is day leave for all of us from 0800h-1800h but then it got canceled the whole camp got locked down because one of my junior got caught being out of camp without permission and being in close proximity (khalwat) with his girlfriend by JAIS. It was stupid for that junior to commit such a mistake and make us all suffer the consequences and it was also stupid for the instructors to punish everyone for the mistakes of one.

Although i wasn't affected by the lockdown because us non-muslims has got this priviledge to go out every Sunday for prayers, my plans with my squad for movie and lunch had to be canceled because of it.  Angryyyyyyy!

 

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God bless Diwali, it was freaking hot the whole day today. nevertheless it did not stop me from braving the scorching heat to attend my friend mr. arvin's open house, my family tagged along too since we got movie plans after that.

That's my plateful of food, all of them spicy, the mutton was especially nice though, soft and tasty, just the way i like it! Now the highlight here is the glass of drink that my friend served me, it's the Johnnie Walker Green Label with ice and water lol. Prior to this i have never drank liquor mixed only with water before, them Indians really know how to make a stiff drinks man, i was poured half a glass of liquor and half mixer, it's really not for the faint-hearted.. I had 3 glasses of Green Label and a glass of chivas, got real tipsy in the middle of the afternoon, with my mom's nagging not far behind.

That's my friend and i, his parents and my mom. When you are tipsy, conversation flows real smoothly haha. His father is a real gracious host, always going around challenging people to bottoms up! Don't let his simple demeanour and down to earth personality fool you, he's actually Dr. Venugopal, the deputy dental director in the Health Ministry with the salary wage equivalent to a two-star general, so how can i decline his bottom ups challenges haha.

Today is actually my get out of jail pass, cos i applied for leave specifically to spend some time with my dad who came back from India for his quarterly week long holiday. And tomorrow morning i shall go back to camp and prepare for a week long military training in Mempaga, Pahang. How do i feel now? Slight hungover with a hint of sadness, first cos i can't spend more time with my family, second cos i'm getting the cold shoulder from one that i care lots about. May things get better soon!

A fortnight ago I was away from civilisation and its luxury for a week, I took part in Ex Pacat Lenggeng, a Counter Insurgency Warfare (CIW) aka Jungle Warfare training exercise.

Ex. Pacat Lenggeng is actually a training exercise designed for the army cadets, with the objective to equip them with knowledge as a platoon commander to command their troops for combat in the jungle, which includes ambush, anti-ambush, insurgents' camp attack, defence position, reccee etc. For airforce cadets like me, since we don't really use these knowledge when we enter service as an airforce engineer, our role in this exercise was to become the enemy, aka insurgents, aka PENGKOM (Pengganas Komunis). Our second role in the exercise, though unwritten, is to become balachis, because we work tirelessly day and night to the whims and fancy of our instructors to make this exercise a successful one.

Our role as the enemy is quite an easy one, because basically our job is to harrass and make life out of the army cadets. And since we are not evaluated for this exercise unlike the army cadets, our life in this exercise is more relaxed and we are not under pressure to perform. Besides that, an extra priviledge as the enemy is that we are allowed to bring extra ration such as maggi, campbell's soup, instant porridge etc, besides the standard-issue combat rations. Uhm-mmm, sipping a cup of instant Nescafe Gold in the morning in the jungle taste extra good!

Why the name Pacat Lenggeng? Because the exercise is held at the Lenggeng Forest Reserve, Negeri Sembilan and supposedly there are many leeches (pacat) there. However. we are lucky because the our camp site that we were designated has got no leeches as it is situated by a hillslope and near a water stream. The water stream is a real bonus because the water is cool and crystal clear, so using it for cooking, bathing and poo-poo is no problem at all.

At the campsite, each of us set up our own individual hammock, and a common area for cooking, eating and chit-chatting. All in all, this exercise was a great experience for us and the esprit de corp among the airforce cadets has improved greatly.

Morning cuppa.

Resuscitating and foot stomping at the same time.

  

By the waterfalls

 

Eating bullets for breakfast.

Night guard duties.

Green is in!

  

End of exercise.