The end of my 3 day off ...

Yozzz...

Its coming to the end of my 3 day off ... Tml will be doing a PEK flight ...keke

Still dunno what to expect tmr, but i feel much better after talking to various personalities around. Anyway, as mentioned earlier, I will showcase my photo collections for Dubai and Istanbul. hehe. here you go ...

Istanbul

Dubai

Hope u enjoy the photos ...

I love Istanbul ... its really really beautiful. No amount of beautiful buildings can beat the location that it is in ... In fact, the buildings, though old, compliment the location very well. Very perfectly and aptly named Asia meets Europe, although the people look more European.

Dubai is just modern with lots of new buildings. I did not get a chance to visit the downtown, Deira, but i will have my chances. Hehe. This visit is special, cos I visited the Burj Al-Arab, the beautiful Dhow-shaped, self-proclaimed 7-star hotel. Very far from where we are putting up in fact. Its located in Jumeirah, a suburb that will include the upcoming Jumeirah Palms, islands that are plam shaped when viewed from the sky.

OK OK hear from me soon yeah?

Cheerios.

23 Sep - Back in SG

WTF!!!

I wouldnt post so much stuff this time round. Just frustrated about where everything is going towards at the moment. Maybe if i find the time to do my laundry tmr, i'll be able to post photos for Istanbul and Dubai for all of you.

Keep fingers crossed!

WTF!!!

Blogging from Dubai - 18th Sep

Depressed ... really depressed...

Dunno why, the feeling is overwhelming. Not very convenient to say the reason. But the overall mood is depressing. Its about 5am here in Dubai. Many people in Singapore are already up and about, readying themselves for work.

I have my plans to move to Melbourne, in time, but well, so many things are happening in Singapore right now. I see it opening up slowly but surely. Let me not be torn between this two lands, but be discerning in choosing the correct place for me to settle down.

Was at Zouk on Friday night and I really enjoyed myself there. Everyone is. That is the spirit I wanna see in people. It's just so depressing to think about it, maybe you dun follow my6 chain of thoughts...

If I move to Melbourne, I may miss the livelier party scene and music, as well as friends I would have to leave behind. If i do move over to Melbourne, I can start afresh, settle down to a new life in a place I wanna call home two years ago.

How is that so? I dunno. I just have to live the next one year first and see how things go. Really depressing to think about it. All the friends I will leave behind. All the new friends I will make over there & here. May God bring his guiding hand on me and help me choose the right path to take for my good.

Wish me luck too. Anyway, if I get killed tomorrow, I will not regret, cos I have seen with my own eyes the vastness of the world, that is too huge to be encompassed by my puny mind. I can feel the vastness of love showered upon me, and me unable to reciprocate, If I should be myself, I'll be a really selfish person, cos I only think of myself. What about the others? How much sacrifice they have made, and how much love they have showered on me to make me who I am? Why am I torn like this? So depressing ... really... I can only smile it away for it to return another day...

The Dubai Adventure

Haiz ...

Going to leave for Dubai in 5 hours. Its a journey away from home that is going to take 6 days. In between a stopover at Istanbul. Getting used to life in Singapore... a reluctance to leave home

Dubai... Dubai, the upcoming and much vaunted Arab city, that dominates the headlines these days. The beautiful architectural wonders and the audacity the architects have built into those buildings, as well as places. Mind you, those buildings have to survive sandstorms, 50 degree Celsius heat as well as bureacratic red tapes. Applause for a city well built. Not too sure if it can be compared to Barcelona, maybe each reigning in its own region.

Istanbul, city of a thousand years, former capital of the Ottoman Empire, and of Byzantine Empire. In it stores the cultural relics that reflects the zenith of both empires. It also marks the struggles and the loss of lives associated with the establishment of this great city. From Constantine the great to Tayyip Erdogen of the present, this city overlooks the endless passing waters, Bosphorus, that marked its location and gives rise to the formation of this metropolis. May the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sophia welcome me into their presence, as I would welcome them into my visual horizons.

My next post should be either in Istanbul or back in Singapore. Then I will post pictures of what has entered my visual horizons...

Cheerios!

After the first week of reservist training

Just got back from the first week of reservist.

Well, one thing from reservist training is we have to go through all of the training whether we like it or not. No one likes to do activities that we are forced to do, so everybody's life is miserable enough. It's just damn fucking selfish that people dally and stuff and delay everybody's time and energy. I mean come on just do it quick, and finish it, so that we can all rest. I dun wanna spend my time and energy chasing after this person and that person to gather and fall in, then discover to my horror that the earlier batch of people I asked to gather has dispersed to smoke, or to eat or just disappeared. Extremely frustrating.

Anyway, I have adopted some methods to cope with these. I will respect and privilege those that have cooperated fully, not that I have a lot of power, but I know how their minds operate in times of difficulty and they can be trusted to be there even in the civilian world. I will just ignore those that ignore or belittle what I have asked them to do. Because I, myself am in a position that I do not wish to be in, and I have to fulfill certain obligations, due in part to my rank and position.

If you have gotten the proper certifications or excuse chits for not attending certain activities, I wun pursue, but without anything, I will deem it as playing punk, and that will not even get an eye contact from me.

I want to have a relaxing time in camp too. We all want that, and the only way to lighten each others' burden is to share the load equally. We can all "row the boat" quickly to shore, so that we can all enjoy the fruits of labour (i.e. book-outs).

Some compliments for the soldiers helping out in the CQ and armskote. They are so easy to work with, really partners. All the platoons are okay so far except the attached drivers. Lemme tell you this, I have a military license too, I can drive the 5-tonner if I'm orientated. I do not need them cos waiting for them really delay finishing up the training program for the day.

Compared to flying, there is so much less cooperation that I see here. So to my flying friends, see fellow crew in more positive light okay? Cos everyone up there, no matter how fake and true, is so polite. Much better that way.

Another week of reservist to go.

Cheerios
Andrew

It isn't easy

It isn't easy flying up there.

We have time to do stuff or time to burn, but not much time left when we are back home.

We need to sleep odd hours becos our work hours are odd, that leaves us not much time to do the basic errands as most shops work within the normal work hours.

Since the 19th of August, I've been to Penang, Amsterdam, Sydney & Auckland. All of these flights have a night flight, where we are working and the passengers are sleeping. I'm not complaining, cos the remuneration is good, there are off days to speak of, I can travel around and see sights.

Here are the Amsterdam photos that I have taken. hehehe.

Amsterdam & more!

OK OK. I leave you all to enjoy the photos.

Cheerios.