The many chapters of 4eVeRRiVeR
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Went for T K Tan's wedding at Civil Service Club at Farrer Park this evening. Almost the entire platoon turned up lo..
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Drunken chicken speciality- Specially concocted for the groom. The drink is supposed to be red wine but hey.. red wine is expensive. The groom and his dad drank a gulp from this concoction. Bravo!.jpg)
Me and my best buddy!.jpg)
Bunk 2 friends who are also my pts during dental school. Thank you guys!
Bunk 2 personnel!
Bunk 2 personnel!
Monday, June 30, 2008
It was only until I was packing up my workplace in my mobile this afternoon when it finally dawned to me, I will miss this place so much. It was really comfortable working at my little mobile, calling the shots and working at my own pace. My nurse ain't much of a talker and neither am I, but we work well together. She's fast and can preempt wat I need well. The proximity of the mobile is one of e best deal ah.. Prob becoz none of my primary, sec school or jc are no where close to the a mere 10 min walk.
I've treated numerous pts, almost all of the sec 1s and 3s in each school unless they are too scared to turn up. And since most of em are from my neighbourhood, some of em nue me to be their neighbour liaoz. I have this one pt, sec 1, and lo and behold, her address is juz 3 units away from my flat. And I bump into her 2 days later at our floor lobby again while chaining my bike haha..
In all, I'm discarding all that I've come to love and familiar with for somewhere that is ridiculously, ridiculously far. Y dun they give me tekong? It will prob be fun to see me puking blood heh..
To master the art of cutting up pple, I have sacrificed numerous things. I have to let go of my earthly possession of my nokia express music, for it had e ability to capture military secrets. I have to let go of my school mobile service which I've grown to luv, for which I could either walk for 10 min or cycle for 5 to reach. And also recounting the times when I trot home to take a nap during lunch break is making me salivate already. But I have to hardened myself for what I had to do. I chose SAF posting.
I was delighted when I got my SAF posting. I was elated when I found out my original posting was Kranji camp. But then a DO wanted to continue to stay at Kranji, so my short term elation was pulverised. But for some reason I cannot fathom, I was posted to selarang camp. Now for those who didn't nue, bukit batok is in e west. And selarang, is in an ulu part of changi. And therfore I proudly announce that Selarang is yi yin (camp) zi xia, wan yin zi shang, juz short of pulau tekong nia. How exciting is tat? Every morning I have to wake up prob 2 hours earlier, and fight for a standing place on the bus and mrt all e way from clementi to changi. So freaking exciting..
But I'm here to train. For that I will endure watever crap the crappy management throw at me. This is afterall the 2nd national service I have to go thru, and wat one can do is to make the best outta the situation. Selarang dental is a single chair clinic which mean I'll have more freedom. And also La op expert Jingli is juz across the sea in pulau tekong. Under my guidance, Selarang dental clinic shall rise to new heights! Eh boss if you are reading this, pls.. Grade 1 or at least grade 2 liaoz ah.. =)
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Been wanting to do this for quite some time liaoz and finally got to do it. Butta how long it can stay before my boss complain is another thing.. Then again e shade is a tad too light for my liking..
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Another frivolous entry: I finally cut my hair becoz of an award ceremony which is gg to be held 2morrow and my supervisor will be there.
So long, hair.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
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Hey! I'm back after sooooo long! And I've returned with longer, prettier and shinier hair! Haha.. More frivolous stuff than xia xue?
Anywae this pict is taken outside of e camp where photography is not NOT ALLOWED.. Stilll u neva nue wat e gahmen will do these days. Btw, my surname is Lee.
This pict is taken during my mobilisation last sat! Dear old bengwee sent me to e camp and back!We were mobilised at 10.30am, reach back camp at 12noon, get ourselves in-processed, our fieldpacks checked, en out-processed plus lunch at cook house. Anywae wat I want to say is: do I look lyk a freaking reservist lao jiao or wat? Muhahaha!
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Went for our 3rd class pulau ubin cycling trip today and ubin has changed quite a bit! There are alot more ang mohs now and beside e much hyped chek jawa, there's a new mountain bike park presenting with more adrenaline pumping obstacles; a new viewing tower tat is abt 5 storeys high towering over surrounding canopy; and a floating platform to get close and personal with e swampy flora. Almost wanted to spent e night under e stars but as you can see, we are all back in our cozy home sweet home. Guess age is really catching on.. haha=)
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Its been lyk ages since I've posted an entry.. Guess e usage of e now-defunct blog ain't too inappropriate haha.. Its been 3 mths of working as a dental officer and treating patients aged 18 and below and life is basically.. good! But can't spell out e details least my supervisors r reading this haha..
Been having lots of fun eating and playing after work. Here's one of e the things tat we did on one of e wkend:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns3OFZrST6s&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fzephuros%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F
brought to you by dennis
also e producer of the soon-to-be international IDEM 2008 advertisement =)
Oh & I just did lasik too last last monday.. Now its slightly over-corrected but all in all my eyes are recovering well! It will take ard 2 mths for e vision to perfect further and stabilise completely thou.. Thanx to all e well wishers! Its really great to be able to see e world so clearly when you wake up.. Although up till now sometimes I still habitually stretch out to my desk and search for my spex haha.. Need abit of getting used to there.. =)
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Finally here's e itinery of our Nepal graduation trip! Took me hours to select and upload e nicest pictures from all our cameras into this pictorial entry ah.. so enjoy the pictures!
Day 1 (3/6/2007): Flight to kathmandu, capital of Nepal
'And so begins our exciting journey!' Plenty of rest is required.
We arrived at Kathmandu past noon and stayed at e Kathmandu Guest House for the first night. It's expensive and yet e high fees don't explain y e electricity keep failing. The streets are busy, nosy and dirty; and proverty is apparent. Afterall, Nepal is e world's 3rd poorest country.
And our first order of business is changing our USD and S$ into Nepalese rupees. Exchange rate is $42 rupee = S$1.
In one of the Kashmina/Pashmina shops in Kathmandu where tientien gave em lots of business.
Day 2: Bus ride to Pokhara
So this is Nepal- uneven terrain ensure an exciting bus ride along e slopes of e mountains.. yup.. the road u see in e background is eventually connected to ours.
In the bus.
And we bought lychees from e locals who were selling em through e bus windows.. But mine were damn sour ah.. And so I gave them away to other locals at the end of our bus ride at Pokhara.
Met up with Shermin and Winston at Pokhara and had a nice steak dinner before our trek.
Sacred animal roaming the streets.
Day 3: Trekking day 1! From Birethanti to Ulleri.
Day 3: Trekking day 1! From Birethanti to Ulleri.
Our entire Annapurna trek will begin at Birethanti and end at Jomsom, covering abt 80 km. Its a trek tat has its ups and downs literally and the altitude gained was only 2.7km, so for the most part of the trek it was pretty warm, esp during the day. We took a bus ride to Birethanti and will take an internal flight from Jomsom back to Pokhara. Along the bus ride we saw lots of women and students walking along the road to destinations or schools tat seem to be no where near e vinicity. Bet they all haff thunder thighs.
Alighting from the bus, we met our porters and got ready for our trek, i.e. emptying our bladders, applying sunblock, putting on caps/hats/shades etc.
One little Nepalese gal.
One little ladybird.
Waterfall along e way.
Group photo at the waterfall.
It started to rain damn heavily in the late afternoon ah.. Sad to say the spirits were more than a little dampened. In fact all of us agreed e most difficult part of e trek was the very first day- sucky weather and a continuous upward climb throughout. But I guess e main reason is coz we are not mentally prepared enuff heh.
The rain comes and goes, and e gals making steaming faces.
Our accomodation for the night. And e fact tat its e sulkiest tea lodge (it's small, dark and crampy) of all the tea lodges tat we stayed didn't help e dready feeling. I shared a room with Winston for the night.
The common shower room. With no light bulb or hot water. Hence explain y some of us forgo e showering.. Shan't mention names here haha..
Day 4: Trek to Ghorepani 
The whole gang of us.. We've got 2 guides and 6 porters. Ma chiam like gg to war.. 3 sections size liaoz lor haha..
On e morning of trekking day 2, we met up our beloved canine companion! He was walking in e opposite direction and on seeing such a beautiful brown mongrel, who can resist not petting him? And he happened to like us too coz he started to follow us instead, even thou we haff not started feeding him at this stage yet.
Group shot.
Dual shot.
Triple shot.
Ghorepani- our destination for the day.
Our room is so much bigger, cleaner and even smells nice ah.. haha.. Compared to e previous lodgings, this is 10 stars liaoz. There's a nice big, clean shower room (where u bath) and another clean toilet (where u do ur business) on every floor. E perfect place to do ur laundry also heh..
Day 5: Trek to Sikha and annual volleyball meet!
The next morning, we were all drying our clothes/towels against the furnace before setting off.. Nepalese weather is pretty regular with light showers in the evening and early morning so its pretty humid.
Group shot.
Our canine companion is an inquisitive adolescent male mongrel and he loves to explore everywhere and teasing the cows/ponies/donkeys.
Our canine companion.
Group shot.
The stick with a stump which Dennis is holding contain tobacco and is used to terminate leechs.
Lulin torturing a leech and slicing into pieces and see if they can regrow by mitosis..
Lunch at our destination, a tea lodge at Sikha. But Siva G, our guide, ask us if we prefer to rest or go watch an annual Nepalese sports meet after lunch. We chose the latter since he mentioned it was very close by, taking only 10min to reach there.
But Siva G forgot to mention tat it is Nepalese 10min. Conversion rate is at 1:3 so it took us some Singapore 30min ah. Hence explained e berms and slippers/sandals which are lucky to survive e trip.
On reaching there, e village is really bustling with activity ah.. And the locals were so friendly they actually invited us to sit beside e court as guests of honour haha.. Notice how our dog stick to us throughout regardless of how many other pple there are.
These Nepalese players are damn pro ah.. And e gals only haff a common topic after the tournament.
On our way back to our tea lodge, we noticed a grp of children have gathered to play volleyball, after inspired by their seniors. And our dog is running around teasing e horses.
Day 6: Trek to Tatopani and HOT spring.
One big buffalo.
Many big buffalos.
A gathering of a huge crowd beside the river bank which our guide later explained to us its a funeral procession.
The guys.
Day 4 of our trek see us making the steepest climb yet and its damn tiring and difficult for some of e gals ah.. So e guys lent a hand to e gals. Scary also coz we were climbing along a narrow pathway along a cliff.
Our canine friend also shag from e climb.
But eventually we all made it alive and we were all looking forward to spend a long, relaxing time at the hot spring. And WS amused us with his shorts and gortex boots.
This is merely a thin shell of metal without any walls at e back for pple to change their clothes.
And looking at WS' expression, the hot spring is really damn damn damn HOT. Literally will cook any balls..
And so we preferred to stay out of e hot spring and soak our feet only.
Day 7: Trek to Ghasa and our canine friend went missing!
We only realised our faithful canine companion went missing at a rest point when our guide asked us where he was. As mentioned earlier he like to run off and explore other side tracks or trepass into other pple's houses/backyards scavenging for food but he never fail to return back to the company. We were all pretty sad but maintained hopes he may find our scent. From this vantage pt u can see that he is pretty much missing.
WS with his constipated face.
Getting pretty windy..
Bah bah white sheep..
Our accomodation at Ghasa.
Day 8: Trek to Tukuche with our dog rejoining heh. And the highlight of the trip- River Crossing!
And we continued our trek..
The guys were trekking infront when there was a commotion behind and looking back, our canine friend came running towards us ah.. He's so damn happy to see us ah.. Leaping up to each of us with delight ah.. Well ofcoz we were all very happy to see him too.. So adorable heh..
Lunch! And extra serving for our dog heh.
Green plains.
Same nice green plains.
And here's e sedimental plains which we WANT to cut across- our guide at first wanted to go around it coz we will need to cross 2 freezing cold rivers with strong currents and abt 10 feet wide each. But on seeing our galang porters chionging ahead, we decided to go for e short cut and have e experience of a life time..
More sedimental plains due to e season. After e monsoon season, this entire valley will be flooded.
Mountains!
Mountains!
The majestic mountains!
Day 9: Trek to Marpha and Jomsom and jeep ride to Kagbeni.
Green plains.
Dog's turn.
Harvesting season for the barley fields.
More barley fields.
Majestic dog.
Our dog not only offer us companionship but when ws' jungle hat was blown off by the wind down into a lower plateau, he went all e way down and retrieve it leh.. Kaoz.. Already nueing how to fetch without teaching! Smart dog ah.. Damn smart! In return, we feed him and fend him off numerous big black territorial dogs along e way. But at any pt of time even e most monstrous gigantic dog will never bark or bare its teeth towards human ah.. So they usually keep a distance away when we separate the beasts with our sticks. But there's no way our dog can make his way back alone liaoz haha..
Terrace fields.
After reaching Jomsom, we decided to take a 2 way trip to Kagbeni via jeep and so we can catch the flight back to Pokhara the next morning. This picture does not show the other 2 Nepalese women who were also cramped up in the jeep with us like refugees.
Kagbeni is one of the poorest villages with mud houses and lots of livestock roaming ard.
Lady milking a cow.
2 bulls locking horns over a cow?
Bah bah black goats.. Spot the billy goat!
Finally.. on our very last day of our trek.. at 2.8km attitude, the weather is more like air con liaoz..
Altogether now.
Group shot.
Wonder how they manage to get the words up there.. Some condor hero?
Mountains.
More mountains.
Day 10: Internal flight back to Pokhara
The Gorkha airlines heh.. First time taking a small jet like this.. A 20 seater plane ah..
Terrace plains taken from the plane.
Later that day, we went boating at Phewa lake.
Day 11, 12: Pokhara
100% cotton woman-made apparels which I bought some for souvenirs.
Spices in Pokhara town centre.
Day 13, 14: Kathmandu and flight back home.
On our return flight from Kathmandu to bangkok, we realised the security is especially tight. And en we realised the reason why- behold Jimmy Carter, 39th president of USA, once the most powerful person on Earth heh.. Previleged to shake hands with him heh..
And so end this pictorial itinery! And I must declare that I passed my ippt! Muhaha.. Tatz without much training ah.. But perhaps I really did build up thunder thighs from e Nepal trip ahha..
