Saturday Celebrations Part 2

Yup.... The LAN Party...

Got poked a bit before by Peter for mass-organising meetups...

Normally, people ask out people within their own circle of friends to go out...

Me? haha.... I practically SMS everyone I know in my address book, and that's how I fufill my underused SMSes for that very month.

Ranging from old neighbours, to poly school mates, poly classmates, to camp mates, to frisbee kakis, and to bmt recourse mates and bmt course mates, I'm sure you can imagine the number of people I sent invitations to....

And the length of the SMS? 260 characters... almost like an open letter to everyone.

"hello clarence Zeng Ziting here. thinking of lan party next sat to celebrate birthday. most likely CS and DOTA. Going or not, pls reply and suggest other possible games we can play. details to come."

Something like that lah...

Among which are the answers...

From a BMT section mate:
"Sorry I overseas"

From a BMT recourse section mate:
"Sorry I cannot make it"

From a BMT buddy: No reply.

From a BMT recourse buddy: No reply.

From my poly school mate:
"Ok, I can go. CS is good for me."

From a lot of poly mates currently serving NS:

"sorry la I got NDP rehearsal"

From one of my poly classmates:

"I got ndp you ass"

I narrowed down the numbers to 14 from there... and got a bit of change at the last minute... one person say cannot go also never say.... liewz.

1) Me
2) Mr .W Friend of Weichang
3) Mr. B Friend of Weichang
4) Weichang
My Primary School Mate, eventually becoming my neighbourhood friend when I moved house. Really long time never see him... 7 years? The vivid memories I have are:
i) losing to him in WWF Wrestlemania Arcade on Sega Megadrive all the time,
ii) the yearly birthday bashes he holds at his house,
iii) or the times why I often challenge his brother to Starcraft over the modem one to one, overwhelming him in the beginning, only to lose to his carriers in the end?
iv) swimming at B. Batok Pool showing off his aero propeller?

Haha... Good Old times....

5) Hwei Yong the great sniper
6) Peter

It's been a while since I've saw Hwei Yong... They say he's looking great, which is true! ... What, whoever says otherwise wants to get hoot ah? And he's a top fragger in CS.

Same Old Same Old CS El33t .

7) Jason
8) Marcus


9) Alvin
Yup, one of the few friends that engage in Gundam talk with me besides Marcus.

Zaft no Tameni!

10) Qiyou "CS is good for me" Ng
11) Wee Hiong
12) Yeo "I kick ass in CS" TH
13) Tan Ah Kow
14) CH Lim

We started off a game of CS, which was great fun. It's a long time since I've played such a classic game in a while...

Starting with the classic de_dust, good old natured chiong sua fun....

Then on to cs_assault, another popular, but unliked for cowardly hiding of terrorists...

Then to de_dust2... and to de_prodigy, another unliked...

Then to as_oilrig, the assasination map I thought would be nice, but not by the others, and de_aztec and cs_italy.

Oh yeah, Qiyou "CS is good for me" Ng took off midway to play Winning Eleven because it got too dizzy...

Still, CS is good old fun before playing a tired game of DOTA.

Tiring.

I do play this game, but I don't get it.... Where's the fun in taking the control of only one hero, and along with the flow of periodically spawned underlings to enemy territory, taken down enemy buildings and heroes?

Ugh... Please give me a good game of Warcraft III or Starcraft plz.....

And a long game of Battlefield 2... I think that was what killed me off....


I was quite surprised that after the LAN Party, Daniel Nicholas actually took the time down to find me, to catch up with old times. All the way from Singapore Expo loh!

Wah lau... how can I say no to a game of pool to him?


And on the way... we met.. Lo Min Ming. Gah..... forgot to ask him where the hell is he now? Residing as a white horse now perhaps? *cough cough...*

Oh yeah, Wee Hiong decided to tag along, and regretted not bringing his wrist support along...

Ai yoh.... it's just a game of fun.... no need to be so serious bah?

It sure was a great Saturday...

Oh yeah.... Daniel finally sent me the photo from that first visit to The Cathay on Hong Wei's birthday celebration...


Hello Gen... upload your photo leh....

Saturday Celebrations Part 1

Well, for thursday and friday.... The photos and video were mostly taken by Gen, and my camp mate, so I'm not sure if I could post it up....

But!

I brought in my camera for Saturday's Lan Parteee......

Heh heh...

Actually I thought I cannot retrieve the photos anymore... the memory card was a bit corrupted.... but with the help of Open-Source Software like PhotoRec, it really saved my day... or two, three days.

LOL.

Oh well...

On Saturday, I woke up quite lazily at 8am, and got to the tim sum restaurant at 12pm. 4 hours of spare time sia.... wasted.

In the end, left two hours to eat before the LAN party, but in this span, we had a lot of fun poking at the duty specialist for that day... hmm...

The steamed spare ribs...

And it almost finished.


Or how about the juicy xiao long baos?

Or the tasty prawns in the siew mai?

Hahah.... the above is really nothing one.... What we really sent via MMS to him was:

A picture of my echo company mate, kenny making a meal out of a siew mai..


And my fellow campmate taking a dig at it at the same time...


And the best of it all...

Ultimate Joy...


And Ultimate Satisfaction


We were laughing our asses off while thinking about the possible expressions that were forming on the duty specialist right then....

Here are some other pictures we took there:

Our batch of storeman #1 Ah Kow

A candid pic of him gesturing something real wrong


The Echo Trio.... Kenny, the one in the background, actually had a whopping 1 1/2 years of accumulated medical leave, due to an ankle fracture/ligament tear by slipping off the staircase at Echo Company.... poor guy...

Then there is William on the right, who is stricken with slipped disc, and couldn't get a opportunity to drive. He later became the clerk, and was one of the few people that went through thick and thin all this while. the record of 3 months MC is really little for an injury of such calibre...

And of course, me. Hit with a ACL tear in my right knee, total MC 9 months....
All from echo one, pai ka pai chu one, here there got excuse one, only no excuse grass. haha!
And we took another boliao photo...
And another...
And another....

All in all, the food here is great, considering it's a buffet at $10++... But they really take their time in serving it... scared we finish the food too fast?

FYI, it's located at Exclusior Hotel, 4th four, on the right... the restaurant name.... forgot la... river bank something something restaurant...

And we took taxis to Selegie for the LAN Party...

To be Continued~!

Meanie Tweenie Zeng Ziting

I was blogging about the LAN party only just now, and thoughts started flowing back to the Friday at GV, before watching Nacho Libre.

Cheryl was wishing me a happy belated birthday.

I thought of saying something else other than "Thanks". It kind of gets to me when things get too repetitive.

I said then, "Thanks, although it's a bit late."

*tries to smack head against wall*

Where got late??!! Wah lau only 1 day late say until like that??!! You're lucky someone remembers your birthday!!

I got kind of weird after that. I just got... too uncomfortable.

I just hope she does not take it too seriously... My atmosphere was pretty dead after that, I pretty much tried to avoid human contact after that.

Things to do #2 / click me for more

Lol....

Now I'm on leave and off for a month and a half... it seems that I have tons of things to do, including things I want to do from day to day....

1) Create a driver detailing system that is better than the current one, in order to clear away the 3 extras and any extra tripovers I incurred during that one NDP rehearsal and the days after that (Yeah, I did a lot of stunts after that fateful day)... (Fuck you LAB.) Some Logistics Asshole Branch...

2) Write up the blog on my birthday bash from Thursday to Saturday.

3) Improve upon the sgfrisbeesports website


4) Get my moolah from some Sgt. S. and Sgt. K., and Sgt. C, and Sgt. J, msg them my accounting details.

5) Get my moolah from the person behind the proposition of sgfrisbeesports.

6) Get my Class 2B license.

7) Update my resume.

8) Volunteer for the SingaporeUltimate Site, and improve upon my portfolio that looks really bare now.


9) Get off the computer and get running out. Oh hell tidy it up too.

10) Polish my muddy boots.

11) Tidy up my duffel bag for ROC.


12) Combine my two old salvaged PCs together and give it to my cousin

13) Buy new clothes.

14) Find a software that can convert OGM, MKV files to AVI container format.

15) Clear my SAF cupboard of everything. including that.... commando dri fit shirt...

16) Play all the games I can play, like Godfather and Kingdom Hearts 2

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's a mountain of things to do, considering the first task to be the toughest... it has a deadline (!), and the fact that the scripts will work on the severely restricted PCs there... (!!!), and it's involved in a tangle of webs with the SAF.

Day to day stuffs are a lot too: I have frisbee pickups on tuesdays and thursdays, and league on sundays.... not to forget I'm going back camp tomorrow to settle some stuff.

There's also problems at home.... Remember the sad sad story I'm talking about the last time?

... It's still ongoing now.

Finally! 7083KM!

Yes! After a hectic detail to send invitations to senior commanders, I got 183km of mileage. And that, completes my 7000km of mileage required to get my civilian license.

Things to ponder about:

1) Thinking of a LAN party, but seems like I'm not free to do it.... then again maybe procastination?

2) Because I'm gonna clear my leave and off next week! Yup, 17 July onwards, CPL Zeng Ziting will be very non-existant. Then again, I might be attached to a reservist battalion to go outfield for 6 days.... no....

3) next thursday is my birthday... which is really bad or good depending whether I got kanna outfield detail or not...

4) I'm very scared that my application will get rejected... People are saying I should have a bit of surplus in front, like 7400km just in case some of the mileage are invalid... but... i'll just wait and see....

459 then, and minus 330km now. Oh yeah, and Uberburger sucks.

That makes.... 129km left before I get my bloody license!

I'm almost there!

Alright alright, but I really sacrificed a lot of stuff just to get this far....

Imagine changing back into your smart 4 at millenia walk after a short dinner with your friends lasting two hours?

Imagine the stares you get when you literally walk through the halls of Suntec wearing those clothes?

Wanted to change at Kallang, but after thinking of the sheer amount of people there (NDP Full Dress Rehearsal 2, + Family Day invitations) using the toilets, I guess it can't be helped.

Oh well...

Basically I was free on Saturday, after coaxing my detailing spec not to put me on detail. But things took a turn for the worse...

The ambulance driver on detail, was supposedly to be accessed on that same day, but the Senior Transport Supervisor could not pass him to certify that he can drive the ambulance. In the end, my MTL was one ambulance driver short.

15 ambulance drivers. Almost all say cannot make it. Do you know how frustrating that can get? Calling 15 numbers and only to get two to come down?

In the end, one of the Minibus drivers at the stadium, took over the ambulance, and I, took over the bloody minibus.

Lan Lan Suck Thumb.

And all because of the detail, I'm late for the dinner, and has to change to my military uniform in the city.

Anyways, my friends and I celebrated dinner at Uberburger.

Err.... not that Uber.

When I talk about uber, I'm talking about how many crazy frags one can make using his carbine when playing CS... it kind of gives a good vibe, but Uberburger?

NO FREAKING WAY MAN.

I think they provide good service to those rich people who pays 101 buckeroos to eat a tiny burger.

First off, there was no air ventilation. The weather outside was already so bloody hot, and they still didn't turn down the thermostat?

Then the service got to me. Or rather I got to them. The restaurant wasn't that busy, but the people working there are really slow in attending to me. I think they assumed that once the table has taken their orders, everybody's orders are already made. Or maybe they ignored my presence when I entered the restaurant.

Because I'm wearing a NYP T-shirt and thought I could not afford to have a meal at Uberburger?

In the end, I went up to them and took the pork-beef burger. Sorry for being crude, but I can't remember the name of the dish that I don't take a liking to.

THe patty was medium rare, but still hard... probably the outside was overcooked.

The salad was okay, as well as the separate special sauce that had a tinge of lemon, mustard, and a wasabi aftertaste.

But service at Uberburger was really really bad. Even for me who is service tolerant.

Hell, Billy Bombers at the Heeren is even better.

1049km more. and a month to go.

My head is going in circles after driving so much.

Many suay things have happened over the last weekend...

Sorry. decline to comment here. You might want to ask me personally...

Oh well...




So much has changed, and time passes by so fast.

A blink ago, Andre was talking about going overseas to study.

Blink.

He's going off on 17 July.

A blink ago, Peter and I were talking about how to celebrate our birthdays.

Blink.

His birthday just passed by, and I'm still half-heartedly thinking about how to organise a LAN-party for my birthday bash.

All the while chasing after a Class 3 Civilian License.

I need an organiser in my life...

I really wanna have a LAN Party.... I don't think there are plenty of opportunities to do it in the future... as everyone walks on in their own paths.