mom called me at work on friday and asked where'd i want to go for a holiday. assuming it was unconditional, i was thinking of madrid, london and paris! sadly i don't think a trip to europe is in the making. the thing is, my mom's going to france this sept! argh. so that leaves her with only 5 days of leave. add two weekends [in what's probably the best combination] and you'll get 9 days. europe in 9 days is like grossly insufficient! 2 days eaten up by long flights and you'll be left with 7 days. sigh. and i'm never gonna get to tour the universities in wales. double sigh.

my mom suggested sydney and gold coast. so we went to chinatown to like ask around for the prices and stuff. the conclusion? an estimated 2000 bucks per person! wtf. and worst thing is we cant earn mileage! 2000 bucks can fly you to europe, free and easy, for 2 weeks! sad. the free and easy packages arent that significantly cheaper either. i'd rather we go on a f&e tour. i'm more of the shopping kind than the sightseer. haha. so prolly we'll book our own tix and accomodation and join local tours. thing is, my bro's following so it'll have to be in nov. sigh. never mind. an october holiday would probably mean i get to save money on food. ha.

breakfast at the old woodlands checkpoint this morning. the pratas there are like fantastic. and the sardine gravy to go with the prata, equally wonderful! and i ended up 58 bucks poorer. nope, didnt spend that much on breakfast. told my mom i'll go get the newspapers so while looking for me she went into this electrical shop and asked for the price of the dvd player. and i got it. it's some kenwood wannabe, but it's damn cheap! oh well. what's the desperate housewives dvd series without a player right? [oh yes. she went into the shop empty and 5 mins into her presence, people started streaming in. it's not the first time! boutiques, shops, whatever, more people just start to stream into shops she's in. i've always noticed that. haha]

think the cost of my dvd player just dipped into my 400 bucks savings. plus i haven't got enough cash to survive till the next payday! damn. come next payday, i'll only be left with 300 bucks of savings. nvm. i'll have till november to save up.

closeted clubbers [like yours truly] looking for good remixes need to look no more. windows media player is actually capable of upping the tempo of the song [as taught by dear mel], so even a slow song can become a let's-hit-the-dancefloor song! haha. go and check it out!. meanwhile, it's just me and my housewives and my uber cheap dvd player! me, outttttt.

bonsoir! comment allez-vous? je m'appelle hafizan. je ne parle pas tres bien le francais, je desole. haha. yeah man. finally started my french class last week. fun fun. i'm possibly the youngest there. but what the heck! i shall go against all odds to up my employability. haha. second lesson tmr... ;)

my weekends are getting very boring. i.e. they're planless. sigh. we all agreed to send diana off yesterday but somehow most couldnt make it so it was left to the 3 of us. met angel at cck, and thot of meeting honey. but honey happily happily "i got meeting! sorry!" me. right. so angel and i were stranded at je platform, all dressed up, trying to decide whether to go ahead to the airport or just go home. concurrently we were making alternative plans. but good friends we shall be and always are, we still proceeded to the airport. and again i got the urge to fly. damn. and yeah. i think the airport's a place to people watch. especially those good looking ones, cabin crew and all.

my attempt at cooking fried maggi failed miserably yesterday. gosh. everything was going on fine until i decided to pour in pepper. i didnt realise the cover {the one with the holes) wasnt there so i happily sprinkled some pepper but pepper poured out instead! that was it. wasted! my second attempt at cooking just now proved not too bad. heh.

i have like less than 100 bucks to survive till the next payday. i dunno why this month's pay just feels inadequate, sigh. havent shopped in eons. itchy itchy. season 1 of dhw's over. but i worry not, mery got the dvd series for me! cheap cheap! owe you one man. me, out!

going for range was definitely the highlight of last week. never stayed in for 2 consecutive nights before. haha. anyways, scored pretty badly for imt, this simulated indoor shooting. so went for range worried and stuff. 100m shots at a 300m range. right. and everytime we gotta walk down 200m to the 100m mark to shoot, happily. that's okay. the worst thing was that we had to manually zero the weapon ourselves cuz there wasnt any monitor to show where our shots lie. so u shoot, then u walk 100m down to see where your targets landed, and walk back again to the 100m mark. champion...

my day shoot was okay. my night shots, for the first night, i got like 0/9? haha. super bobo! total score for my night shoot = 1/12. happily. and i wondered how i managed to get a perfect 12 for my night shoot last year. i passed the actual test anyway. whew. no more range!

went with the engineer officer cadets. there was this thai cadet, so we talked to him and stuff. he's like 28 and married. and his wife just gave birth to the 2nd child! and he's yet to see the child cuz he's not allowed to go back! so so so sad. and he's only paid a meagre 7000 bahts, that's like 300sgd or so. and our singaporean cadets get paid 730sgd as a trainee? it's damn sad. i really feel for him. he even has to work part time to support his family. hai. sad.
went to diana's place for bbq on saturday evening with s8 and some other jjcians. it was nice. played a card game which jo painstakingly created [she freaking printed the cards and laminated them! whoa!], kinda noisy sia. like some stock market. haha. but nothing beats playing murderer seriously. fun fun fun. enjoyed myself. heh. and diana's baby cousin is so so so so so cute! whenever we say "ni wa wa, ni wa wa" and do the twinkling of stars action she'll just smile! gosh. so cute!

sunday evening was spent with an old classmate, just bummed around and had dinner. went to jp and checked out gmask. saw this really really nice elvis mask. thot of wrapping up my t1 with that. and that night i msn-ed with the owner of gmask! wtf! he's like 20 lah? and after like 5 mins of talking to me he said he'd gimme a discount of 10 bucks! haha. cool shit!

payday last weekend. and i've only got 250 bucks to spend after saving up 200. argh. hp bill yet to pay, my transport. and i still gotta pay the remaining 50 bucks for my french class [which is finally starting tomorrow]. tt leaves me with like 100 bucks. right. i so can shop with that meagre amount.

season finale for dhw later! i wonder how i'm gonna spend my monday nights next week onwards. hmm. let me leave you with a joke made by our chief of army. heh. =)

"There was this guy who loved his wife, Wendy v much.
So one day he decided to tattoo her name W-E-N-D-Y onto his wiener..
The full name could only be seen whenever he felt a lil amorous..
On other lesser occasions, only W-Y could be seen.
So there was once he was at this urinal, when he absently glanced over to this other guy pee-ing next to him
And he saw tt this other guy also had W-Y on his wiener!!
Intrigued & suddenly suspicious of his wife, he enquired what W-Y was
the guy then said, Oh it stands for:
Welcome-To-3G-Army-Thank-You-Have-A-Nice-Day"

one of the boring weekends ever. sigh. wasted both days at home. went out for a while for a gathering at my friend's place. didn't wanna go lah, but was just being nice. and since there wasnt any lunch, so yeah. haha. left after like what, 30 mins? not my fault man. i've never really been close to the malay community in sch? what do you call someone who speaks english, even during malay lessons? hafizan. haha. duh. lame-o.

sia's currently looking for cadet pilots, as advertised in classifieds. then again, their website always says they're looking for cadet pilots. downloaded the form, filled in already. haha. i wonder whether they'll allow cadet pilots to take part time degrees that sorta thing? if they ever accept me, i'll be like the youngest pilot ever! cool shit. oh yes. took a passport sized photo today since the form required one. darn. its like i'm not facing the camera directly! holy shits. and my specs made it more obvious. die. sia wont like this! lol. and guess what the lady did? took a photo using her digicam, transferred it to her pc, edited and cropped using adobe photoshop and printed it out. i'd be able to do that too if i've got my own photo printer lor! duh. six bucks for that.

range this week! so so enthu. at least i can escape from the drudgery of the admin stuff and sabotage my understudy. haha. he has to learn soon anyway. but what admin stuff is there to talk about when my csm will go for range with me? cuz its like he's the one who assigns me jobs? right. nvm. it'll be good if my whole team gets marksan! 200 bucks! oh yeah. for year2 shoots, it'll be like a teamwork sorta thing. no more individual shots.

ironing my uniform makes me a step closer to monday. argh. but guess what, it's already july! 8 more months!