Wednesday, June 25, 2003

Harry Potter and the Oder of the Phoenix?

Well,in my opinion the book is of 4 star quality. The first 300 pages or so were relatively boring and quite out of style. The uptake was really slow due to her being real long-winded. ( Perphaps she was pressed into writing her new book quickly so that we could all read the sequel? ) But after that slow first gear, the story managed to pick itself up and around page 600 had a snowballing effect, anything and everything seemed to be happening at the same time. Seems that she described the now heavy responsibilities that a teenager had, juggling studies with problems with friends and matters at home. Potter now appears to be a more mature character yet succumbing to the stress a typical teenager has. Thus explaining his outbursts of uncontrollable anger. The book also tries to explore the theme of "Why me?" and a little on relationships ( Cho Chang ) which i felt was written with skill. The subtlety in which a point was being driven across has always made me like her style of writing ( remember that its only worth reading after page 300 - before that is a no go, no show )

Monday, June 23, 2003

Okay... found this in one of my emails.... just thought it might be food for thought

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.

How true how true. God bless
heyozzz!!!
i'm back home.. i bet you guys are surprised huh???
supposed to be confined for 3 weeks but here i am blabbering away already.... good to be home... type on my com and lookie what i found on my desk.... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ( amazing the things i can find around in my room when my bro is back, or vice-versa what i cant find since my room is in a mess. He is temporarily using my room since the air con over his side broke down heh )

Aiya... still cant guess why i'm back??? tell you la... cos... cos.... i pulled out my wisdom tooth...
yea i know kinda dumb like that... but i had trouble eating the whole week .... and that is terrible.... i almost couldnt get out of bed this morning... whole jaw felt numb.... oh well... i knew i had to do sth about it.... so0 ta-da
my PC wasnt really happy though... sigh so i think. Anyways.... will book in 2 days time. Maybe i will stay home, read some potter and do my journal plus the autobiography i'm suppose to hand up.... can you imagine?

And oh, for those who wanna know... training is tough but bearable. One week in OCS = 3 weeks BMt
every morning is 5BX with 3 km run and that is the minimal. I did other stuff too.... but i dunno how sensitive the information is to the public.... so i wont go into too much details... however i wanna say i did alot in just 8 days... trust me man.... even went to Tuas to board a Naval ship...( wow awesome ) and to the paya lebar air base. Not too bad. At least i can say that i've sat in a real fighter jet cockpit in my life! =)

Talking to Man er online now.... lol she just reminded me that i'm going to commission next yr april 4th. Think about it.... 04/04/04 like what the..... LOL sheesh