Safety.

Getting the licence certainly shifted my curiousity's focus more towards automobiles.
Things like style, speed and ruggedness of the machine appeal very much to me, naturally I'll be a SUV supporter.
I'm not sure what many of you look out for in a car, but I sense that Safety isn't much of a top priority among the list.
I've learnt a couple of things about SUVs, things like they have a higher centre of gravity so basically they are kinda like trucks, negotiate a bend at high speed and you escape the road and rollover. And the most important thing, in a vehicular accident, SUVs are like rocks, rocks that smash the poor eggs on the road. Being rugged by design, the other parties involved in the accident will greatly suffer unless the victim is a Man Truck, but then again the latter will be the aggressor. So yea, think about the safety features and designs your future car has or should have.
Do you think all cars should have a speed warning device in which punishment would be meted out to those who speed and cause a jump in the meter reading ?
I think SAF's doing a damn good job making us scared of the meter jump. Haha.

Negative demonstrations, Negative impacts.

Bad habits are instilled in us very swiftly, a well-known and verifiable fact.
Today I tried all sorts of 'stunts' with my new driving license.
Free-hand, racy engine, sharp turns, fast acceleration and......... actually nearly falling asleep on the car.
I kinda regret the latter because it was done on the expressway, I woke up after 5 secs and reminded myself that I'M ON THE EXPRESSWAY, WAKE UP !
I always lack sufficient rest, it's always been like that, a condition that I'm accustomed to and found little cure to it.
Anyway, soon I'll be back at Tengah Air Base !
The home to FDS, pilots, technicians, snakes, wild boars and the mysterious monkey.
Better be a super safe driver and know when to control that speed rush. Hehe.
Heard Warrant Jeff's a lil' fuming about us, the trios who have been delayed in the 'return' flight.
Hope Oakley passes this round, then we can all get back. Not to mention Johan too, the new MT Line dude.
In a blink of an eye, as cliche as it is again, I'm close to officially serving the nation for.... 7 months !
1 year and....... 7 months more to ORD !

Changes.

A pretty silent day in the real world as well as in my PC screen.
I feel pretty odd to see the usual friends being offline when they are usually supposed to be the opposite.
Felt surprisingly down on the mood meter today, I believed I'd be one happy dude today after last night's insightful pre-sleep thoughts. I was just a solemn guy while buying groceries with my mum in the early afternoon.
Around 3 p.m., slipped into my shoes and decided to flush away the melancholy with a long jog.
Half-way through the run, it felt slightly better, could start to feel free, free from the weird gloominess that engulfed me.
What brightened up the day was an old man who was swimming half-naked in Marina Promenade with a contagious smile albeit with few teeth.
Exchanged a few courteous greetings and peered into his catch for the day : a pair of crabs.
Sitting by the sea helped in reforming back my composure and a fresher mind.
People always say that one shouldn't swim in such places because of underlying currents and you know what..... but maybe I'll join that elderly if I see him next sunday. Heh.

Vision worries.

The optician gasped and covered his mouth, uncupped his mouth and said something like, " You're spoiling your eyes! ".
Pointing an anatomy diagram of the human eye, a pleasing sight to biology enthusiast in me, he commented on how my extreme reading habits could give 'spasms' and worse still, retinal detachment.
But true true, I'm feeling really worn out.
As I was directed to read out the alphabets reflected on the large mirror, I couldn't pronounce them properly, 'H' would just be pronounced as 'L' and basically there is a serious lag in the symbol recognition system of mine. I needed to pause for a second or two to pronounce what's on the mirror.
I wish to log off straight but I am waiting.
But there's still tomorrow to expect.
Balance!
The theme for the year 2004.
It could really sum up my efforts to improve my personal life this year albeit results not glorifying. Now I have to balance between insatiable knowledge thirst and reading hours.
To find a way to stop the myopia invasion further into my life.
A good sleep should be the right spot to start on.

Novels, Linux and Tired eyes.

I couldn't believe I managed devouring a 300 odd page novel within 1.25 days. But James Patterson's novels albeit perverse and sickening at times is utterly engaging and packed with suspense that really makes you flip and flip till the end. 'Cradle and All' would make a stunning movie. Just waiting.......

Next, I think, really think I'll switch to Linux for a while instead of Windows XP. Debian looks way cooler and promises much much more than WinXP. Sadly, I'm only left with 766 MB of space to fiddle around with. Maybe I'll delete some of those mp3s in the storeroom.

My eyes kinda broke its reading limit, now giving that sore sensation absent for 10 months. A long good rest it biologically demanded, till then.

*vertigo*

The Harvest. 

A more or less confirmed problem.

What is it ?
It's Athlete's Foot.
Heard about it, found it funny at times, now it has got the last laugh at me. Haha.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?objectid=7469E5E7-F7D5-424F-A2552E60CC67C2FF&dsection=1

Dear friends and readers, if you happen to have gone camping or found soaking your feet way too long in dirty places, do powder your feet often or you'll get AF. And it spreads easily, so perhaps it'd be good to be watchful of personal feet hygiene.
As you run down the medical stuff on that webpage, you'll notice blisters..... everywhere.
I glance at my hand and see bumps. Average of 20 per finger with 1mm diameter, itchy and unsqueezable (too deep inside...), about 15 on my right palm between the thumb and wrist.

Feet's plight : Green bean sized blister on the right big toe's left, cracked dry skin with fluid oozing out. Red dots on the bottom side of toes. And just pain when doing simple moves.
Oh Help. Haha.

Predication, Environment and Me.

Mild mood swings, distress, loneliness, yearning for attention and companionship.
Maybe it's the environment or was it my own practice of my lifestyle and beliefs.
Bunkmates that generally don't offer a sense of comfort and ease, some seem to delight in having mini-victories over me through comparison and have a trickling flow of blunt criticism.
I always like to hold my HP hoping that it'll vibrate for it means attention by someone. Have been calling my mum more frequently these days just to share tiny weeny bits of driving woes and occasionally happy moments.
I sat on a crate with a bag of trash on it and began ruminating about my current plight.
Have I always been a lonely person ?
Honestly, everyone has lonely moments but what about me ?
Perhaps I tend to ignore unpleasant emotions like loneliness most of the time but this time the emotion intensifies.
Possible reasons I can think of leading to my depressed state would be my driving incompetency which started because I believed that I'm not suited for driving because I think 24/7, which is quite true - I dream while driving. Then came the expected shelling from the instructor which made me feel incompetent intellectually as well as in the psychomotor aspect. I personally do not find anything majorly wrong with my behaviourial habits but yet people criticise endlessly and force upon me their lifestyle doctrine. I get irritating stares and hear frustrated voices which makes me utterly uncomfortable. I used to be able to tolerate such nonsense through my 'third party observing' mindset but as the days goes by and the need to force my mind to gear up to learn unappealing things, I had another mindset shift which I had to gradually persuade myself to begin with. I juggled between my mind learning about the physical world of driving and the internal world of self-discovery. Both have their pros and cons but they both have fundamental character and personality impact on myself of which some are good and bad.
Focusing on the physical world required me to do a wee bit of maths to crank start my senses and mind to synergize with each other. Focusing on the internal world perhaps made me a bit too reluctant to focus on the physical world but despite this, I've learned some higher emotions which I lost quite some time back. You think I'm undergoing phase 1 of psychosis, but I guess you're right. Maybe I'm making a risk to understand myself or in another way I'm just self-destructing through wrong methods of self-discovery. I feel much better now.

Brown Toes, Brown Fingers.

All thanks to the KMnO4 Dr. Ong (elder) prescribed.
But I like the idea of oxidising Fungi. I can vividly imagine the KMnO4 cooking and rupturing the Fungi cells. But, alas, can it be something less staining ? Haha.
Brown toes and fingers, anyone who fiddled with that nasty purple stuff would know it straight.
Along with the oxidant came Kenacomb and some other antibiotics (makes my condition appear serious in a way).
The visit to the Doc today was quite surprising, didn't really expect the elder Dr. Ong to still be in action and I would prefer having a chat with his son who can share his NS sentiments with me during my usual visits, but apparently it isn't his shift today.
I give my feet 2 weeks to be rid of the notorious pig foot rot. Haha.
Meanwhile I'll go sun tan my feet during bookouts and change boots.

Feet woes.

Never have I been so worried about my feet.
But today there seems to be this persistent stench emanating from my feet and the bumps are really getting crowded and fatter. The rotten parts seems better and drier but still when overstretched the 'salt-rubbing' pain comes in.
I really hope it ain't Athlete's Foot.

Slideshow blogs.

Say..... saw 2 such new blogs today. One's Dan's and the other his friend's. It's really a nice way to brighten up the blog since it's kinda nostalgic and brings back the sweetness of the long past events. Kudos guys. =)