it's been a long long long time since i've posted. a very brief update on the past few weeks in my life.

1. tormenting first two weeks of dec: visit to singapore by some swedish navy delegates. i was in charge of entertaining them, ie bringing them around and facilitating their stay. wasnt really that tough, but i had to sacrifice some weekends to bring them around. brought them to eat roti prata and dim sum on separate occasions. realised that describing local food is a rather difficult task (according to a food guide released by the tourism board, roti prata is flat bread).

but the real difficult part is the unpredictability of my routine and the need for last minute changes. for example, on the first day, i had to return after midnight because one of the flights was delayed by four hours. another time. another irritating thing is that pple keep hounding you on the movt of the delegates. once when i was bringing some apparently swedish big shots to our base. within three minutes i received three calls from three different ppl asking me for the time of arrival of the delegates.

kinda like my new ship. although there's a lot a lot of miscellaneous work to do, it kinda makes it easier to ask for incentives / rewards. now i ask my superiors to cover duties for me when i'm not available and find it easier to reason with them.

2. went to langkawi with mika. this time a bit further than tioman. had q a lot of fun. main highlight was trekking in langkawi. on the second day, we went up to one of the peaks on a cable car, and walked across this super high suspension bridge. the view was wonderful and mika was so so so nervous. then we trekked to this waterfall plus seven wells, and we had fun playing in the waters. think mika will post on the trip. so pls look up her blog. haha.

3. had a fun GR xmas gathering at mika's place. sorry. getting lazy to blog. so pls refer to any of the GR's blog for more info.

4. now i'm actually at pacific coffee company, waiting to get my essay draft so that i can edit tonight. as said earlier, this time round my job entails many miscellaneous obligations, which includes writing a submission for an saf-wide essay competition. maybe will post this essay if it doesn't win anything.