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  • Sunday, November 09, 2003

    I'm Back!!!
    yeah i'm finally back from aus!!! woohoo!! you know I never did expect that I would actually be wanting to come back to SG.. hahaha... well I'll explain myself later on in the post.. well the trip was a good break for me.. perhaps too good.. hahahah! well i enjoyed the break.. but I know from here on its busy busy bee!! Well i'll just give a short breakdown of what went on through out the 2 weeks I was there...

    1st week
    spent the week mostly sleeping, if I didn't have to go out for recce... the whole training area is super super dusty and sandy man!! its like just driving a while and you'll have a layer of dust all over your clothes and in your hair and in your face! Other than that, was staying in camp and resting, moving between the canteen, cookhouse and tent.. hehehe...
    temperature conditions were like super hot in the day.. reaching about 33-34C and cold at night about 16-18C... we had to ration water and stuff... and the water tastes pretty bad too.. hehehe... we had nightly movies at the canteen... but the food is expensive!!! fries for A$2.50!!!
    and there was a freak thunderstorm during one of the nights... some tentages actually got blown down and collapsed..

    2nd week
    exercise time... out in the field.. I was doing safety so it wasn't that bad... but the sleeping.. there was 2 nights where temperatures actually went down to about 12-14C.. and we were without sleeping bags.. i was only in my hammock and i took out my shoes.. woke up at 12am with frozen feet.. frantically tried to keep myself warm but very difficult.. brrr...
    the live firing went on pretty smoothly... no mishaps or anything like that... though there was a bush fire that started just after we finished the first phase of live firing... and so the 2nd phase was cut!! woohoo!! hehehe.. but really saw the devastating power of a bush fire.. spreads really fast in such a dry place...

    R & R
    Initial starting of R & R was pretty good.. headed off to Rosalind Bay to board the catamaran to Great Keppel Island... SOLID BEACH MAN!! clear waters, white sands... woohoo!! but it was boring too cos we really didn't have much time cos there was lunch in between and everything else... and other than the swimming and water stuff, there wasn't much else to do... after that headed off to our accomodation.. some low-budget Motel... really the american motel kind of thing... hehehe...
    2nd day was more pathetic... we had shopping day literally.. but with the town shops all closing by about 2pm.. we were left rotting in the area for a good 4 over hrs man!!! talk about being bored to death...

    Updates
    Well I have added my trip pictures into my photo album, so pls feel free to click the link over on the right to get to them yeah?! Until tom or sometime soon.. gdnite!!!

    ~~derek~~ at 11/09/2003 11:30:00 pm   

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    ~derek~

    Software developer, music, movies, anime, manga, drumming, guitars, sleeping, rice-bin, eating, quiet, God!


    ~min~

    loves to day dream, humorous, c.r.a.z.y., bingeing, precious moments, guitar/bass and talking to big daddy!

    Acknowledgements and thanks to...


    God, the creator of creativity
    Min, for supporting and giving me half the idea in the first place

    Milton, the unnamed and uncredited spokesman/ambassador/salesman for Apple
    Andrew Yu, another Apple spokesman

    Deviant Art artists for graphics and ideas
    Joshua Olsen, wae Technologies for OS X bar
    Mark Newhouse,
    Apple,

    and the many many others who have inspired this creation...

    his Wishlist

    1. Toyota RAV4
    2. Oakley sunglasses
    3. Adventure PC Games
    4. A whole set of drumsticks
    5. An XBOX or PS3
    6. Skydiving
    7. Bungee
    8. MacBook Pro
    9. 8 Megapixel Digicam
    10. Home Recording Studio
    11. Analog Guitar Effects
    12. iPhone
    13. Europe/Japan/NZ Trip

    her Wishlist

    1. New Laptop
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    3. Holiday to Europe again!
    4. Wii Nintendo
    5. PASSION Conference
    6. Melbourne Koko Black Chocolates
    7. our own hse :)