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Grandpa Rick is a grumpy person that is occasionally nice.. occasionally..Anyway he's been working on this blog template for the about 2 days and is pretty bothered by the fact that it took him so long to remember how to use Macromedia Dreamweaver again. His help eventually came in the form of LYC his "son" and miss poutyface his mei.. With the utmost torment by lawrence to work hard, he finally was able to create this below average template with (finally!) working layers. Go ahead and have a good time reading (or laughing at) this blog and above all remember that God loves you. Grandpa Rick is in actual fact 19 (just barely) at the point of completion of this blog template (26th October 2006) having already had his birthday on the 22nd of October. Born
into a family with a father that lacks hair and a brother that has too
much of it growing on his legs, Grandpa Rick grew up traumatised by
his older brother that occasionally liked to sit on him and has a weird
fetish thing going on with anime figurines. His parents however were
a blessing to him and aside from the odd argument from time to time,
Grandpa Rick usually listens to them. He also has a poor traumatised
younger sister that is constantly the butt of his fat jokes (though
it cannot be helped seeing as to how she walks into most if not all
of them) but he tries to take good care of her.. operative word being
TRY of course. All in all poor Grandpa Rick has been traumatised by
his siblings when he was younger and now get along with them more or
less fine.. However the trauma he suffered as a child has given him
quite the quirky attitude to life. The biggest influence to his life however is God. Grandpa Rick old (or young if you want) as he is is deeply in love with God. The person that has helped him through all his troubled times and the one that has sent many a friend his direction when he needed help. God has always been there for him and Grandpa Rick is very grateful. He often gets inspired by God to write poetry (which can be found along with other things in all "All that good stuff") or songs without the lyrics in tribute of God. Grandpa Rick believes that God died to save him from all sin and believes that God is his lord and saviour. Through many close and personal encounters with God, Grandpa Rick is certain about God's love and God's plan for his life. He hopes to live in God's way and let God guide him in all that he does. Of course, Grandpa Rick is still learning and is prone to the occasional (oh alright, frequent) mistake. But the key point here is that Grandpa Rick loves God and that there is nothing that he wouldn't do for Him. Finally
it is to be said that it isnt a good thing to get Grandpa Rick angry..
you see old people dont handle anger very well and goodness knows what
happens when Grandpa Rick goes over the edge.
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This is the All that good stuff layer.. in here will be my personal top 10 or top 20 list of songs to hear.. (be very prepared for alot of punk rock) also included will be all the poetry that i have ever written almost all of which are God inspired.. just becasue God is so good to me! other things may be added i guess.. like pictures and stuff if i have the time (and if i actually do take pictures). This is an experimental layer basically where all the stuff i think about (most of them very weird.. you have officially been warned) that dont go into my post will be posted here. alright lets get started Top
20 Praise and Worship Songs (this list may and most probably will change) 20.
For This Cause Top 20 Other Songs (again list might and most probably will change) 20.
Emotionless Top
5 bands the secret link to what i really think Amusing or meaningful statements i've made or heard (statement in front source behind) "You're
gona be a what?! .. wait wait this is big shit.." - Brian "Im
a vegetarian.. but i eat chicken and fish and pork and..." - Jason
ng Poetry (expect this to be very long) Longings
of my soul My
Praise to Him my worship to God if
all you actions were your worship to God Kester's Ego Booster kester
is a ladies man though
he keeps denying that he's hot even
the other guys in church why
does he keep denying it cos
kester ur hot why dont u see? he
sucks all girls like a strong magnet i
must say that though he's short when
the street he walks down by jealous
guys from everywhere girls
will find him quite a guy of
course he'll always be the first they
love his cute manly name but
more even better is his mass appeal you'll
see his face on every wall cos
around him they all turn ape his
muscular arms that are oh so strong the
lime was not ordinary kester
kiong you are so hot and
after that mayb go out how
to reply? was what he thought but
then he thought nah im too young i'll
wait till i am much older thus
ends our tale of kester the hot i
wonder the reaction we will get Turn to Him!
Dreams these
dreams they haunt my sleep at night All He's done for me through
my darkest lonely days Use me God take
this heart O God and work Your wonders In His Name the
world is in turmoil Hurt lock
me up and throw away the key Did you know? did
you know when you're alone Purpose i
ask the reason for my birth My life Hurt
and alone The beast in my heart as
the night falls still and shadows loom |
Saturday, December 22, 2007
aite i shall now attempt the near futile feat of trying to blog about BMT and camp at one go.. i hope this works but if it doesnt.. tell my parents i love them and tell them i tried.. something like that.. yea.. anyway.. i was called into ZULU platoon 3 on the 15th of october.. yes i know its a heck a long time ago but bear with me will you.. now shut it until i finish this long post.. well actually u can only tag half way reading this post and in anycase i wont see it until God knows when so its in that sense you shutting it until i read ur tag and i'll just presume you read the whole post anyway so i still win! (hah!) but i digress.. apologies for the long winded-ness but my brain is currently on verbal diahorrea mode so anything it thinks about gets splattered on this excuse for a blog.
anyway i love my platoon.. i believe that the spirit was there.. be it helping each other push onwards when the going got tough or anything else.. the platoon remained together.. like all people we had our fair share of fights an everything but i think that in the end everything went well.. especially when it came down to us vs he other platoons.. but u know what it didnt come down to that much either so im thankful.. aite of course i went into the whole BMT life unhappy.. i mean wouldnt you be if u had like such short notice?! but yea i guess it was all fine in the end.. im actually glad i went in when i did.. cos only then could i see God's hand and His blessing in my life.. aite.. instead of doing the usual chronological order of things and such, im going to do it by events / lessons / activities we went through.. in other words im too lazy to work my immense amount of brain cells to start remembering the whole chronological order and start blogging about it and so on.. in other words im taking the easy way out.. and in any case i thought this way would be more intresting.. as you can see im still making up excuses as to why im goin to type it this way and yes i know im long winded but ur the one reading this so i dont really care.. MUAHAHAHAHA! and also in anycase its easier for me to share my thoughts on the activities when i d it this way so here goes.. ok the first event we shall talk about is confinement.. confinement- the event in which most army recruits go through i say most cos some lucky ass recruits get public holidays in btw their confinements and as a result get to go home.. lucky people.. but i guess its a blessng and a curse la.. for ZULU (garang as ever) our confinement was like what 18 days! damn long la.. i heard that in some other platoon the people there were going crazy with frustration.. heh.. they say that field camp brings out the worst in people.. just try 18 days of confinement.. and whats the worst of all of it... spending your birthday in tekong DURING confinement! now that one was bad.. u have no idea what kind of irritation was going through my head the morning i woke up.. i was like urgh.. of all days it as to be my birthday.. and blah de blah de blah (insert whineing and grumbling as you see fit) but at least in confinement it wasnt as siong as the rest of BMT dicipline wise.. so i guess it balanced out abit.. and having platoon mates that surprised me and gerrad (who also has the same birthday as me) helped alot.. overall confinement wasnt all that bad.. siongness rating (only because zulu garang and it was 18 days) 6/10 next up 5BX 5BX - also known as 5Basix eXercises or to some.. 5 bo liao exercises is what all recruits do at the start of most days consisting of jumping jacks, alt leg raises(latr changed to high jumper), burpies (later changed to squat bender) , push ups and crunches in (normally) 5 counts of 4 each followed by a run. now its supposed to warm up your body in anticipation for the day's activities or at least keep you reasonably fit throughout your bmt life. to me i think its just to wake you up from the shock of having to wake up at 530 in the morning.. sheesh.. but that was during the first 2 days.. when we did it in PT kit.. suddenly.. one ay we were asked to report down in our vest slacks (camo pants, -->boots<--heavy! and t-shirt) and do 5bx with a run thats about 1.2km long.. all of a sudden.. 5bx no longer became bo-liao exercises it became butt busting exercising.. cos we had to bust our butts as we ran after the conducting officer.. ever tried doing 30 counts of 4 jumping jacks in vest slack?? lets just say that you've never be so happy to stand still once you're done.. but the result of all the vest slack pt?? zulu (garang as ever) became the company with the highest IPPT passing rate.. and overall i think that i benefitted from it a whole lot.. fitness wise of course.. physically i think my knee is going to kill me one day.. Siongness rating (only cos we are garang zulu and have to do it in vest slack) 8/10 at the start but 4/10 towards the end next we have CPT or Combat PT CPT is usually done as a warmup (yea right) for tougher activities like SOC and strength training and such by recruits with already acheing muscles and disgruntled looks on their faces.. ok i cant really remember whats the reasoning behind calling it combat pt but im quite sure that its something about it conditioning us to be able to assimlate better into a combat situation or sth like that.. anyway CPT involves alot of strength training.. running and stretching (once i stretched so much i hurt my back and was out of comission for about 1 week) its done in our long 4 and man is it hot.. ok im not going to bore you with the details of each exercise we do.. cos that would 1. take up a whole lot of needles (but infinite and free) space on the internet and 2. undoubtedly leave all the non-army goers with a look of absolute bewilderment on their faces.. so no im not going to but but but! let me put it this way..during the first few times we did CPT, by the time we were through with the shuttle run (the last exercise in CPT) we were already gona die.. well some of us more than others cos they were last in the shuttle run and had to do an extra 20 pushups. aite lets see overall i think CPT was quite uh.. not as useful ha! siongness rating 7/10 at the start but like all things drops to a mere 3/10 towards the end of bmt.. oook.. up next we have SOC SOC, known to all as the Standard Obsticle Course and covertly known to some of us as the Sure Out-of Course (haha!) and known to the PTIs (physical training instructors) as their "playground" is a large piece of land with surprises of all surprises obsticles in them! *gasp* as per CPT i wont go through all the obsticles that are there but there are some i have to touch on.. first one being the low wall.. now the reason why people have problems clearing this blasted thing is because of 1 simple thing.. haa they cant jump.. not with their webbing and rifle on them anyway! =) next up low rope.. now the low rope isnt built for skinny people like me.. my goodness they might as well ask me to hang myself with the rope cos climbing it with sth like 1/5 my bodyweight on me is crazy! but i survived (i cleared ALL the obsticles mind you and cleared them fairly easily..except the low rope.. had a bit of difficulty clearing it.. but still I DID CLEAR IT) ok next up the blance beam..now this one is scary.. forget the fact that the beam is like 1.2-1.5 meters off the ground.. oh no.. thats not the scary part.. the scary part is looking down and seeing your feet stepping in front of each other knowing that a small slip may result in the loss of the recruit's family jewels for all future generations (and current ones) to enjoy.. sad isnt it? tsk.. next we have the jacob's ladder.. again another high obsticle where a fall may result in huge injuries.. (thankfully there were none) and finaly the low ramp, i heard that some guy was out of course because he landed the wrong way and fractured his tailbone (ouch ouch and can i get another ouch?) with all these things its little wonder why some of us call it the Sure Out-of Course! haa.. but overall it doesnt have aot of physical exertion.. so unless ur scared of heights, this wont be that siong.. esp since we dont have a long rundown.. Siongness rating (without the fear of heights) 5/10 ok thats all for now.. i gotta go dinner and den tackle the mountian of christmas cards that i have to write this year.. update tomorrow (hopefully) |
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Links layer.. people like little miss pouty face will reside in this
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