"Under-Appreciation" is the new buzz word at work.

"Even a superhero is under-appreciated always..", says a colleague of mine.

That's how I feel recently. Contribution seems to be the talk of the past few days when I had a talk with him. Clearly, he does not appreciate my help or effort. He thinks I'm not suited to be a storyboard artist.. and my works are SHITTY!

OF COURSE IT IS SHITTY!!.. 'Cause, today I realised why they say all that! I saw a video of the animation's animatics. I was scolded for doing a bad job.. but I explained.. most of the ugly drawings.. wasn't mine at all! It was improvised by the editor, who can't really draw well. (And for that I got put down.)

I guess I don't need encouragement.. I just need reassurance and guidance. I have to thank my ma'am, my in-charge, who supported me and believes I can do better and great jobs. I know I can.. I just need that oppurtunity. I've been getting clean-up jobs that DO NOT SHOWCASE MY TALENT!!

So from now on.. I'm gonna go and push myself and do better. Time to level up.

Hehe.. and by the way, I got myself wonderful games.. Pro Evolution Soccer 2009, EA's Dead Space and Ubisoft's FARCRY 2. All PC..

ONE HELL OF A MONTH FOR ME...... wallet is just getting lighter and lighter.. shit!

More on the games real soon, aight?

Further disappointment.

Hey, ya know what..?

I've just been added more stuffs to my already piled up workload at my workplace. I'm handling two more projects. Wow, I really have to manage my time.

And I'm still suffering from a mild rash on both my wrists.. thanks to my Reservist. You see,.. I guess my wrist was not exposed to the irritations of the uniform for so long. Normally, I don't where Long 4.. and being in Long 4 for about the whole of my Reservist.. it began to itch.. but I went with it.

Haizz.. what bothers me most now.. is that, my bro has not improve much from his last exams. I read through the report book.. I was just sullen and silent. I just don't know what to say or do.

So,.. for now, I've devised a plan to make him see (or realise) how he has fared out this past few years.

I made a chart. A Progress Chart, to make him see how he has.. well.. progress.

I hope this will open his eyes.. as it did for me in the past too.

Time to make a change.

After 3 days..

Finally! After 3 days worth of wait.. I've got the Hari Raya Outing pictures of me and my old mates.

Here, enjoy this pics for now..

The second picture with a close lady friend of mine.. Heh,.. reminds me of a well.. better looking Norfasarie (Wife of Singapore Soccer, Defender Baihakki Khaizan.)
Funny lady ahaha... anyways.. whoever wanna make friends with her..

NOTE: Taken already arh.

And by the way,.. life is back to normal at work. Still got loads of stuff to clear. Sheesh!

Will update more real soon.

Settling back into life.

I'm finally able to sit and slow down my life as I de-Army myself after about 12 days of In-Camp Training. Heh.. It was a rather interesting 1st ICT (In-Camp Training).

BUT A SERIOUS WASTE OF TIME FOR ME AND MANY OTHERS! Haha.. well, it's over now.

Damn, I'm still drained and shagged from yesterday's Hari Raya outing with my bunch of old mates from my Primary School. Miss 'em all! Everyone just looked great, and as usual,.. I'm just a simple-looking one there. Pretty fast the day went, after we... flitted from one house to another. Hehe.. after all the hectic moments in the day.. we settled down at night with another outing..... at the new shopping centre at Pasir Ris. We went there and had a damn hilarious time watching "House Bunny"! A great date movie!!

I only wished, when I was watching the movie,... that the lady friend who sat beside me, was my gal. Haha.. miss her so much.

Oh btw.. I did not mention at all that my gal is in London to visit a relative. Yeah she's there, just got a her email yesterday night. Hehe.. my goodness,... smiling all the way reading the message. Too bad,.. I can't reply back to her since she can't get into contact again with a computer for the next few days.

With a parting piece, I love you too dear.

And everyone.. hope you guys enjoy your day and have fun!

I'm back..!

Hello again my friends..

Yeah,.. I'm back from my In-Camp Training.

Too tired to write something.. will update you guys real soon.

What a day. (Part 3)

I'm back and.. having a headache. I guess I can't be under the sun or heat for too long now. Need the conditioning and getting used to being under the sun.
(Oh, by the way.. 2 days ago I stayed over in camp.)

My headache has been brought over from yesterday's activities in camp. We had a 5km Route March, nothing to brag about.. I really felt weak as I reached the 4km mark. That's the start of the headaches. I might have been mildly dehydrated and had not drank alot before the march.

Then, we had a Technical Handling of the SAR21 rifle. Haha, why weren't we issued with this rifle in the past? It's probably the easiest rifle I've ever handled but, it's heavier than the M16, by about 500g ~ 1kg. It makes a lot of difference this weights. Not kidding. Just holding it for about 5 minutes.. your arm is hurting. Heh. About an hour later after lunch, we had range at Nee Soon Camp for our SAR21 Familiarisation Shoot. That's where the fun and hell began for me!

I don't know if I'm supposed to say this here, but FUCK IT! I was issued with 5 x 6 rounds, meaning 5 magazines with 6 bullets in each. So total 30 LIVE bullets. My detail is then called to head towards the shooting 'bay'.. and commanded to load the a magazine of 6 bullets in the SAR21, only to realise, 1 of my 5 magazines, IS MISSING 1 BULLET. I WAS TOTALLY IN A STATE OF CONFUSION. I might have forced the magazine out TOO hard from my SBO and caused the bullet to be released from the magazine, OR I had miscounted when I was issued. But oh well,.. I was re-issued with one more bullet (meaning I now had drawn 31 bullets, one missing)

Shoot was fun! But I always made a silly mistake, I HAD ALWAYS LEFT MY "SAFETY" on! I missed the last target, sadly.. 'cause I was thinking about the missing bullet. So out of 24 Targets, I hit 21 (2 'missed' because safety was on accidentally and 1 official miss).
So, I got a 87.5% accuracy, not satisfied 'cause the SAR21 is DAMN EASY TO USE... haiz... I used to get.. 93.8% in the past, hitting 30 out of 32 targets with the M16 (Company Marksmen then.. hehe). But too bad, not a marksmen comparable to a sniper's 98% ~ 99% accuracy. Hehe..

After the shoot, I was double-checked for the bullet, but never found it on me.. or rather anywhere in the range. So now, I don't know what's gonna happen.. Time will tell.

By 8.30pm, we're in the Lecture Theater back in Kranji Camp, and having our last lesson and briefing 'til 9.30pm. Then, we headed home.. with me having a terrible headache..

Heh.. What a day.

What a day, (Part 2)

Sheesh..

Being a reservist ain't as fun or as interesting as being an active personnel.

BUT.. lesser work to do! Hahaha..

Kinda like a small vacation for us man, even those 'taking care' of us told us to do "anything you think you can do.. if too hard, leave it to the NSFs". Hahaha..
Seriously,.. that's what we're told. Only real drawback about this.. is that we have to do alot of waiting.

Slept plenty of times awaiting for our 'jobs' to be issued.. Heh,.. and we're by the vehicle.. OH MY... we only did small... really small jobs, like tightening the screws, changed the tailboard 'straps' or change headlight bulbs. Haha.. damn..

Hmm.. well, for now.. this is what we've been 'actively' doing.. I'll be back soon..
Cya.