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Wen - 10/28/98 12:54:20

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Sigh, it's one of those days, where you're really spaced out, life feels lonely even at home and empty somehow. Dinner at Ghim Moh, strolled to school, read ( paper ) Conversations almost cover to cover. Life feels meaningless, black- and-white, experienced second-hand and pretty much devoid of vivid feeling. Yeah, kinda melancholic now. That's what happens when you have too much time on your hands. ( I'm 8 to 5 this week, again, but getting sick of doing absolutely nothing with no-one. ) Sigh.

siwei - 10/25/98 20:10:05

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I watched it at Cornel Cinema (the one within the campus and i supposed they show older movies or something it's half the price of what i have to pay outside.
and as for snow........ no...... we ot'n be getting snow until at least about 3 weeks form nowe 00 may get snow showers, which is kinda slushy but proper snow not so fast...... was supposed ot et snow showers last week but didnt' materialize......

howie - 10/25/98 12:36:50

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nice to hear from those overseas, and now's probably near the winter time? any snow? frosty mornings? besides freezing ur butts off over there, do u all have like winter events, activities? --- yup, sliding doors was shown here few mths ago, one of those i dun regret watching....u mean they're that slow over there siwei? anywa ...just something to note, the spate of D and Ds over here are a good sign actually for us NS guys...coz they mean that we're gonna finish our courses, i mean how long do u expect us to be trainees...??? the fat lady's gotta sing someday....so there....a oast to all prospective D&D NSF...enjoy urselves, the nite's gonna be significant...esp for those officers... 9 mths is a lot of labour to bear...hee hee.. i'd be really relieved when i clear my jumps and get my red beret safely too.... ----anyway, seems that all the uni pple are really stressed out...guess we NS guys can't do much except offer u pple the proverbial "moral support"... anyway, if u'all wanna just chill out in the weekends for a while, like go for a meal or coffee, we'd be glad to go, otherwise we'd just be bumming ard at home, or just sleeping ard. Occasionally a terry fox run..or spending sat nites at bookshops..reading and bumming... all the best for all ur exams okay, just hang in there lar.. love and take care..

yuhua - 10/25/98 10:51:34
My Email:yuihua@sas.upenn.edu

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hi u guys!!!! how is life? sorry i havent written in a while...my stupid comp is partly screwed up (weikai i can totally relate to the frustration u had with ur progs not working etc) and i lost the conversations url. weikai, thanks so much for sending it to me! u damn reliable lar heehee well hope everyone is fine....i am too...except it is getting friggin freezing here and yes like siwei i have a crapload of work to do!!! arrgh!!! but it's all gd:) miss u all and take care!

Alvin - 10/25/98 04:18:59
My Email:woof34@hotmail.com

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Hey hey HQ & Lor Mee, only 3 months left ya? =) Give it all you've got for duty, honour, country.......

HQ - 10/24/98 19:09:32

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"Sliding Doors" was shown a LONG time ago... in fact her[GPaltrow] next movie "A Perfect Murder" is oredi showing here... I used to check this everyday too... sad to say, when Uni exams r over, i'll be in the midst of one Exercise after another... am leav ng for Thailand on 281198 [155mm Howitzer Live-Firing], heard tt the last course killed some cows[us cadets do the Firing data and the instructors check them] and SAF was made to pay some extravagant sum in compensation... =)

siwei - 10/24/98 17:35:23

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yah.. what happened at Borders?
tell me, tell me....... Just cause i'm halfwaya round the world doesn't mean that i can't know......
and why is it that everyone seems to be having their army dinner and dances now?
and how's everyone else? pple, write in the conversations more !!! i check it almsot everyday, you know....
just watched "sliding doors" last night.... did it show back home? can't remember already.... quite interesting ...

Weikai - 10/24/98 14:59:34
My Email:weikai@pacific.net.sg

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I'm quite baffled by this particular phrase: "...need a date... weikai? ". Shouldn't it be " need a date...first to borders, then to DnD"? I dun have any cashiers in my house....u noe!

Shiyin - 10/24/98 11:57:35
My Email:jklinsyk@pacific.net.sg

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huh??? what happened at borders?

howie - 10/24/98 11:45:48

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yeah yeah weikai...go and tell all abt my lil secret, as if it still is...arrgh...!! T'was no sweet romance my dear, but perhaps needless anxiety..but certainly spices up yer sat nites...dun it? yeah..i agree with Wen abt the drivel, and now that we all noe that Borders' isn't just a place for books....shan't dwell on that further....oh y h...Cdo red beret's D & D coming up....gonna splurge again...need a date... weikai? see ya all...

Chunda - 10/24/98 08:56:53

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Yeah...I suspected you would be there too. Anyway, were you one of those "garang" officers/OCTs doing the singapore workout routine in front of the stage???

Alvin - 10/24/98 04:48:29
My Email:Woof34@hotmail.com

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Yaaaaaay! I'm out for the weekend! =) Just had an inter-unit cross country at seletar camp today.... That's where Chunda's stationed ya? Aiayh... I'm getting fat and lazy... Only managed a team 2nd this time, but at least got a nice trophy to add to my co lection... heehee =)

Weikai - 10/23/98 14:42:27
My Email:weikai@pacific.net.sg

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Starting to add more things into this page already....Just some things to share with all of u, some stress-relievers. The jokes are courtesy of Jokemaster, if you all remember who he is. I'll only put up the really funny ones..and as usual knowing the person I am, you all probably can guess which category the jokes will fall into. =)
Oh yar except for the few guys no one else knows abt Haoyang's Borders secret right? It was quite an extraordinary romance...=Þ

Wen - 10/22/98 14:15:47

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As usual, read and yet little to write. Mebbe that's 'cos it's kinda weird for me to write about myself, the way we're supposed to? And also to respond to something written days ago to no-one in particular. Yet if it's so nice to read about other people lifes I guess we all gotta jot stuff for others to read and keep this great thing alive. Man, I sa little to write, yet I manage to produce this whole lump of drivel. Me, I'm on leave now, free for a whole 9 days, but I really don't know what to do with my time now. Just spent my afternoon at Borders ( a habit picked up from Haoyang ), finished reading "I am Jackie Chan", surprisingly good read.

Penny - 10/21/98 15:35:58
My Email:yapppe@cheerful.com

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HARRO!!!!! I finally got my uni email account, so this is the first time in a really long time that I've seen conversations!! School has barely started, so thankfully there are no exams yet, hee... But well, I do have tonnes of longish essays due, so... Anway, how are all of you?? Do you all still go out on weekends, or is eveyone busy stardeeing/ recovering from ns?? I really miss you guys here, especially in the first few days when I was here, and there were so few familiar faces around.. oh well... Anyway, I've got to go update my address book now, as well download icq =) ... bye!

Siwei - 10/20/98 17:10:59

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In response to Ruthie's question, I won' tbe coming back (going back, actually...) this winter.... I think I'll go to California -- definitely not goin to stay in Cornell al thie time and freeze my butt off.... go and kachiao my brother.. hehehe..... So I guess I wo'nt see you people until next June. Sorry.....
Things are slightly better for now cause prelims are over (although I still have 2 papers to do -- I keep putting them off cause I don't like to do research papers -- so much reading.....). br> Just went to watch X-files ;st night (yes.. i'm slow..) and I was so scared -- covered my eyes everytime the alien came out... yes, i'm a coward.. don't need to tell me.... then there's the Truman show and Sliding doors showing this week too -- arrrrg ghhh!!!! Temptation !!!! Likie that don't need to do work already.....
wah... HQ -- your unit so extravagant ah? the hole in your pocket is goign to be colossal..... make sure they serve good food....
and weikai.. don't worry about this page if you have exams lah.. this thigny can always wait a while what.......
actually, i tot the Berkelah trip was over already? Or did i read wrong the last time? oh well....
anyway.. good luck for whoever has exams and SMILE....... (won't die one lah....)

theresa - 10/20/98 01:25:25

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Ritz! Bitz! I didn't know we had one of those in Singapore. I thought it's something one reads about. Uni exams start early Nov, and last till 16th Nov. Medicine pp just have tests all the way. The Berkelah thing is right after, Sorta confirmed, except, n t very sure if it's safe? I went for an overnight cycling recce yesterday. Here you meet strange people who have Pavement mentalities. So tired, that for a few km I actually walked the bike. And I discovered that the sky changes colour at about 5am. And t at Kallang river connects town and east coast rather nicely. Anyway, we can catch teenage textbook after the exams, so, ruth you gotta wait for us, unless u wanna go out with the army guys (nahhhhhhh). And methinks i gotta start giving plenty of tuition.. ......

Ruth - 10/19/98 18:23:03

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It certainly feels good reading all these entries. Ever since moving into the hostel, I seem to be missing out in a lot. Siwei, I even think you keep in touch with the rest more than I do. Sheesh.... it's time to tell you all that I canceled my e-mail acc unt long ago. I use my NTU account now. S7902048F@ntu.edu.sg Even then I seldom check it 'cos I don't have a computer in my hostel so I usually use those in Comm Studies Bldg and that is not so convenient. Btw, my exams end on 4/11/98. Let's organise an o ting! As for the overseas people, will you be back in the near future?

Weikai - 10/19/98 14:39:48
My Email:weikai@pacific.net.sg

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It's Monday night, and the photos link is still nowhere to be seen. My apologies here, admit that it was out of sheer laziness. But anyway exams coming so soon, too soon, shall try to spend quality time on studying instead. It's quite diff, to pick up the pace after keeping academic stuff out of my brain for such a long time. But no matter what, still gotta face the exams. Like we were saying that day, one good thing (among the load of negative ones) about army is during weekends, you can really let yourself free, no need to worry about anything. That's really shiok. Guys in NS, hang in there man, sometimes I really admire and respect NS guys for going through all these. Perhaps only someone who has gone through part of it, but is loboing now, will think this way. Disrupting for studies bring along loneliness and that lousy useless feeling.

Jason - 10/19/98 14:36:21

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Methinks that Ritz Carlton is a 6 stars hotel !!! HQ, seems like the hotel in your pocket is getting bigger.

howe - 10/19/98 13:16:04

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hullo! yeah, hq, u din go for the run...but u're forgiven, field camp're not really a stroll in the park...anyway, i tink it's the Ritz Carlton,not Reeds...hee hee.... heck, when the ball comes, finances wun be the only source of ur problems......u'd gotta tink of someone to invite to the ball??!!! arrgh... anyway, figure'd the recent silence by most of the uni pple's coz they got the big E's coming up, hey , study hard okay, but do take care of urselves too, dun crash and burn, only NS guys do that...gotta study smart i guess...wish u guys all the best i suppose... ....will be going to Brunei for my op training from nov 2 for 3weeks...so wun be seeing nor hearing from me for quite a while...anyone for leeches and giant ants for souvenirs..? so full of envy for those going to Berkelah or wherever....that's it..see ya..

Vivien - 10/19/98 13:08:15

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hee... i think it's spelt as Ritz Carlton ....but definitly not Reeds Carlton! wow, it's a five star hotel noe... Exams for me end after a long miserable three weeks on the 16th of Nov...Argh!! All the best for those pple taking exams...Hang in there....

HQ - 10/19/98 12:29:58

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am having problems loading up this page every now and then... any ideas why?... get sent to some farnee singnet intranet roaming link mixed up with geocities links...??? am so sorry i didnt make it for the run... had just returned from a 4 day 3 nite infantry Ex. in tekong... complete with a seaside barbecue... think the T-shirt isnt all tt great but i dont mind since it's for charity. am having a bad streak with finances these days... cant believe they want my commissioning ball to be at Reeds Carlton [did i spell tt correctly?]when does the Uni exams end anyway?

Weikai - 10/19/98 07:32:48
My URL:http://www.weikai.hates.viruses.com
My Email:weikai@pacific.net.sg

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My laptop got infected by virus.
This bloody W32.CIH.SPACEFILLER virus infected 300+ of my exe files, and there is no cure for this virus yet, other than to delete the infected files. All my programs are like without heads now, can't work. Even Windows is down. The damn thing is even the McAfee VirusScan itself is infected while itself is scanning for viruses.
I usually heck care about virus, but this time I got my lesson. Aside from the lamenting, I'd like to urge all of you out there to scan your system once in a while for viruses. You never know what damage they may do to you. Sigh......

Alvin - 10/18/98 02:45:46
My Email:woof34@hotmail.com

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Humph... My friends always complain they can't get me at home... Anyway, my handphone number is 96891869 so can call me if there's anything on okie? I'm not allowed to bring it to camp so it's obscenely underutilised... =(

Chunda - 10/17/98 15:13:05

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This is the final time I'm typing this.... Yours truly has a new email account, address as follows: ablution@cyberway.com.sg Pls use this acc. That's all

Alvin - 10/17/98 09:13:59
My Email:woof34@hotmail.com

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Oh yes! It's Firday =) Which means I'm ONLY 40+ hours from my home!! Wowee..... Aiyah, civilian life is really very fun rite? Too bad I won't experience it for quite some time... =( I tell you, if I ever do get commissioned, I'll probably be half insane b then! hahahahaha... (demented laughter)

Siwei - 10/16/98 19:31:35
My Email:sl150@cornell.edu

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Yes !!! It's friday again.... it's such a relief.. you know.. i never felt like that in JC cause school was fun and it meant that I could meet my friedns and that made up f roa having to attend lessons and do homework. Nowadays, I can't wait for weekends o come cause that is when I CAN meet my friends, and have some leisure time. Sigh.. fall break so fast over already (a miserable 4 days) and it's back to work. How is everyone back home? To Marvin, I think you messaged me last weekend, right? sorry i didn t reaply cause I wasn't at my comp -- by the time,I realised, it was very late and you had gone offline. sorry....
oh well... hope you people are fine back home... wish you guys were here..

Jason - 10/16/98 10:21:34
My Email:jasonpng@singnet.com.sg

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Stretccccccch!  It's Friday! Time to unwind a little.
Those whose exams are coming, hang in there.  I know how you all feel.

Alan - 10/13/98 13:27:04

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Once again... Weikai, you're the man with the plan.

Weikai - 10/13/98 10:23:47
My URL:http://weikai.gov.sg
My Email:weikai@pacific.net.sg

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Alan asked me some time ago to turn this Conversations into a homepage instead of just a guestbook. But I thought, the main point of everyone checking this page every time is to see if anyone has posted any entry, and not to click through links to then finally find out whether there are new entries. But since geocities is so nice to increase allocated disk space to 11meg, we might as well use it, and not let it lobo there. So, soon lar I hope, I'll be putting up those digital photos we took quite a long time ago. Though most of us may have all of them already, but I think some have never seen them at all. Anyway I'll try to put them up, sometime during the weekends. But when you load this page what you will see first is still Conversations. You will only see an extra link to load the photos.

Ruth - 10/11/98 17:48:58
My Email:S7902048F@ntu.edu.sg

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Hey, nice revamp! Haven't been here for so looong... Duh, don't even know where to start. Guess I'll leave that all till the next time we meet up. My exams are coming too. Good luck for those taking exams. Miss you guys!

yuihua - 10/11/98 15:13:24
My Email:yuihua@sas.upenn.edu

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hi again guys! i'm surviving here..heheh...its getting cold though....hey siwei dont complain about your asian studies paper....i have so many papers due too! arrrgh..and exams. the thing with the US is so so many short-term deadlines; really keeps u on u toes. NS guys, looks like u're having pretty "eventful" lives urselves!take care!

Alvin - 10/11/98 02:59:33
My Email:woof34@hotmail.com

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Huh... I need a break too! On Friday nite we got tekan for about 90 minutes with change parade, smart4 standby bed, FBO pushups etc.... & the following morning we did 1 full SOC + ^ times round the obstacles in SBO (plus 4 dummy mags, 1 dummy smoke, 1 dum y frag, dummy rifle, etc...) =( Thankfully for most of you out there, you'll probably never experience this kinda thing ya? *sigh* poor boy boy...

Weikai - 10/10/98 06:17:37
My URL:http://www.weikai.com
My Email:weikai@pacific.net.sg

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After hearing Chunda's traumatic experience, I think I better take driving seriously. And anyway I just passed my Basic Theory Test! Of course it's not a big deal to most of you, but to me, heh it's a step to being able to drive.
Do ex-ODACians get Wildlook? They do rite...at least they do when we were in office. So, erm, we should be getting Wildlook too now rite? Dunno why I just thought of that.
Oh yar for those who are concerned, the magazine is FINally FInally Finally sent to the publisher. Another step, another milestone in our magazine career. Hopefully in no time we will see the final product. And I suppose we will have to send copies over to pple overseas.

chunda - 10/10/98 05:48:12

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Yvonne: yes...that is a highly probable prospect, although I am trying to mitigate my case.My unit does not show any sympathy for these type of accidents. Shiyin: I am as puzzled as you. You see, in the SAF, tho the driver drives, you are supposed to "c mmand" the vehicle's every movement, eg observe the speed limit, tell it to brake, or move, wait, etc.(Can you imagine this for every vehicle trip at every road junction for the next 2 years???) Therefore a totally non-driver like me gets into trouble for doing nothing but sit next to the driver and watch him crash. I am so, so, so tired of NS already. I need a break so badly.

siwei - 10/09/98 10:20:14

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I just saw the OpNos thingy !!!!!!!! Eh Weikai.. it's realy nice !!!! Hey.. thanks for doing something like that -- it really feel vrey nice to remember all those time, esp when you're faraway from everyone else. Kudos to our ODAC hunk !! (well... one of our few ODAC hunks)

Weikai - 10/09/98 09:38:07
My Email:weikai@pacific.net.sg

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