As long as you are happy, and that you are ok with it, then it doesn't matter to me.

Thank you, so much. I am very lucky to have you as my friend. Thank you. Counting tomorrow's NDP Preview flying, this would be the first time I am doing a 6-days work week. HaHa! Okay, technically, 5, since yesterday was a no-fly day, but still... I didn't have any off this week for tomorrow's work-day.

My friends would like to call this tio jiak, or 被吃. But, I think it's quite okay la. Well, after all, I am launching the planes out to perform in the NDP Preview. That's quite a bit of something, isn't it? Seeing all those planes (on TV) and I'll be going "oh look! My plane and my pilot are there, somewhere in the formation!" You know, last time, whenever the planes fly past, I would always cover my ears and complain that they're noisy. However, now, whenever I hear the F16s, my mind would always be on the crew back in the PDSes, doing all those Before-Flight and After-Flight inspections, launching and receiving the planes.... Being a Crew Chief does make me appreciative of all these, because I am (and will be, was) one of them. :D

Yeah. It's okay la, provided I get off this coming Monday. It's a no-fly day after all. :P

Edited to Add: YAY I GOT MY OFF ON MONDAY!!!! You know, for all these years, I don't know why some people find durians nauseating. I simply couldn't smell anything when I walk past the durian stands; I couldn't get a whiff of why it stinks. Durian rocks!!

Until yesterday night. My parents bought back some bitter-tasting durians (I don't like those though), and opened them up to eat. And as some of the ASG people knows, my house is like an oven, with almost all the windows closed at night. So, closed windows + bitter durians.... The resulting smell is so overwhelming.


I finally know why some people claimed durians stink. But not all of them. (Sweet) Durians still rock! :D OMG I FINISHED BOOK 7!!!!!!!

Okay. Let me recount from the beginning of the day.

You know, last time HBP came out, I woke up at 5.30, took 913 to Causeway Point at 6 and reached there at 6.15, and I was the second person. This time, I wasn't!!!!!! I didn't count how far behind in line I was, but trust me, I was very surprised. So, yeah, I wasn't the first to lay my hands on the book.

Okay. I don't know how to review this book without being spoiler-ish. This book is good, in the sense that it is a good finale. I thought it would seem like a rush job, given that JK wrote most of this book in under a year, but no. The pace was suitably fine. The development of the story is good, and there was constant action to keep me reading for more.

Plot-wise, it was a good plot. The book did manage to tie up the loose ends rather well. There were shocking deaths right from the start, and more shocking deaths later in the book. I admired the way Harry stood up to the challenges, although one must admit, the ending is a bit too cliche. In fact, it sucks. JK could have just done away with the epilogue. Seriously.

This book reminded me why Hermione is my favorite character. In Book 1, I admire her wit, her intelligence and logic. But that seem to completely wane over the series, and she mutated into a "Ron-pining" lovesick schoolgirl. But Book 7 bought back her brilliance. Once again, I got to read how her brilliance saved the trio in their adventure. Her wonderful logic and common sense is totally... wow. Hermione rocks!

Hmm... If you want to find out the ending, message me lor. :P First of all, I want to say thank you to my dear friends for giving me support and well wishes recently.

You guys would be happy to know that I am mostly all right now. Yesterday, I had my interview with my 140 SQN's DyEO (Deputy Engineering Officer, or DyOC Logistics. Terms of reference for the army guys reading my blog). I can say that after the interview, I am not so 烦 anymore.

Although he didn't promise that I would be posted to 143 permanently, he did say that he would try to bring my case up to the management. Well, that's a start. At least I told someone of the higher authority about my wishes, and my troubles. (I am sorry for being vague here. I have to. Or else I am going to be in deep shit.)

He also told me that he's doing all he can about my sergeant promotion. He has emailed all the relevant authority/management to process my (and my batch boys') sergeant promotion as soon as possible, and that he's fighting for us to get our back-pay (I believe Mindef owes me about $280+ of back-pay, given that I should have been promoted in end May/early June). So for my promotion, I am not so worried now. I think with his help, I can get promoted soon, possibly before August 10th. YAY! :D

My DyEO is a great person. I am glad to have him as my DyEO. Cheers to him! :D

Now. There's about 19 hours left till Deathly Hollows get released. Strangely, I am not so excited about as compared to when HBP gets released. Maybe I am jaded already ba... But still. I am gonna be the first one to arrive. And this time, I am not letting any idiots cut my queue. I am so turning nasty if someone tries to jump queue, and believe me, I will. Watch out, queue-jumpers, my claws are out and ready to attack!

After getting my book, I am going to spend the rest of the day in my room reading. I finished at 5pm+ the last time. I wonder how long I would take this time. I shall post again after finishing Deathly Hallows on Saturday. :D Sigh. I am feeling so 烦 right now. It's actually a whole lot of things all cumulated. Yesterday, I almost broke down and cried. But thankfully, I have self control. So I didn't. (CQ said that there are better things to cry for... :P) But I was a bit crabby towards the end of the Ah Siao Gang (ASG) outing, so, I am sorry if I offended anyone yesterday.

I am 烦 with the 143/140 thing. I just wish that I am posted to 143 once and for all, and I don't have to keep thinking and dreading going back to 140. Maybe I'll do a more complete post about this. Someday. Not now though.

I am 烦 with the things I mentioned two posts earlier. I wish I could just get it off my chest once and for all.

I am 烦 with having nobody to drive me to 2-7 to work later. Yesterday, I was practically calling the whole world to ask for a particular number, and now, I still don't have it. I was panicking yesterday, because I want to settle these kind of things before I go to sleep. I don't want to come in no.3 la (and be like BMH. I don't WANT to resemble ANYTHING like him).

I am 烦 with my sergeant promotion. The stupid PTI office messed up, and lost our IPPT records. I could have been promoted last month. I COULD HAVE GOTTEN MY $140 ALREADY! The stupid people. OF ALL THINGS, LOSING OUR IPPT RECORDS. WBD. Luckily, the trusty 140 clerk kept copies, so I might be promoted next month. I better. I want to sign off in the F16 1400 records as 3SG Kelvin Yip. Those incompetent fools.

Sigh......

Okay. Moving on to a happier note. ASG had a full gathering yesterday to celebrate Kim Seng's birthday in advance. His birthday is on 29th July actually, but he has to go back to KL today, so we held an advance celebration yesterday.

We went to eat a dim sum buffet at Excelsior Hotel. I remember walking in very hungry and wanting to die, and 3 hours later, walking out very full and wanting to die. :P Good lunch I had.

Then, we went to KTV Party World @ Crown Prince Hotel, where the full ASG turned out. We gave KS a not-so-surprising cake (thanks to CQ :P :P), but I think he enjoyed it, right? :P I got high (as in, literally) singing 被爱的女人 by CoCo Li Wen. Singing that song always activate my falsetto to the max, and I really can hit all those soprano notes I couldn't hit back in choir. Only for that song though. :P

After that, we went to LJS for dinner, where we discussed our December outing. Somehow, it changed from a chalet to a Genting outing. It's still being planned though, but I am rather looking forward to it. :D

Here are two photos which I absolutely loved from yesterday's outing.


This is the ASG in full force @ KTV Party World. Thanks to my brilliance, I have edited away all the red eyes. :p *is so 不要脸*


This is me and CQ, my best friend. Thanks for being there for me. :D This post is intended for a certain someone. Or maybe more.

Please, I beg of you, stop trying to think, or make me, as somebody whom I am not. I have told you years ago, and now, you are still unable to accept the truth.

Look, I'll never be that someone whom you wished I could be; whom you wanted I would turn out to be. I cannot be, I wasn't, and I never will. I would never change for anyone (I can't anyway, not even if I wanted to); not for my family, nor friends, nor anyone else. I can't give up and ignore something so important about myself just to please my loved ones. No. This is who I am, right from the beginning. I am going to go out and find the happiness that I deserve, and I ain't letting anyone stop me.

I am getting tired of you wishing for the impossible. Even if you can't fully accept this part of me (and I can understand why), at least, stop wishing/wanting for me to change. It's impossible. Please, my nerves are frayed already. Our friendship depends on that, your understanding. This post is going to be cryptic for some people. But whatevs. And it's not what some of you may think. SOMEONE might understand, hor? :P

Why do I find it so hard to tell? It's literally bursting at the seams. The cat is wanting to be let out of the bag, badly.

Come to think of it, it's not hard. People have done it, so smoothly and successfully. Okay. Maybe not so smoothly and successfully, but still. Maybe I am trying to find the right opportunity 吧. SMS is too like, I don't know, impersonal. Actually, to me, anything less than a face-to-face talk is too impersonal for such things. But yet, I have done it over the MSN.

See. I am so full of conflicts. 说一套，做一套。But I want to tell the person. I want to. So how? Wait for the right opportunity lor.... And judging current circumstances, have to 等久久。

This current post is bought to you by boredom and lousy computers. My computer is dead (needs to change its motherboard, graphics card and memory), and my brother's computer is close to dead (cannot log in MSN, cannot play Granado, cannot do this and that) and might 就死掉算了. And it's 1 hours and 30 minutes more to meeting Glor and SL and Joyce. YAY SHOPPING! :D I just came back from watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with Gloria and CQ.

Overall, I felt that it was a good movie. In my opinion, it's the best HP movie so far. It's suitably dark, and it matches the book quite well. Emotionally and tone-wise, of course.

If you want to talk about sticking to the book and its ideas, well, it isn't any different from the previous 4 movies. After watching so many HP movies, I felt that I shouldn't compare plot accuracy. It spoils the movie for me. I advise everyone who's gonna watch to go in with the mindset of someone who hasn't read the book. You'll enjoy it much better, I guarantee.

Also, after procrastinating for SO LONG, I finally pre-ordered Deathly Hallows. All of you must be going "OMG! YOU ARE HP'S BIGGEST FAN, AND YOU ORDERED IT 10 DAYS BEFORE THE LAUNCH???" Well, like I said, I was procrastinating. And that whenever I felt like ordering, I have no moolah left. So, might as well do it now, when I just got my pay. Teehee! :P Hello hello! Welcome to KY's new blog.

I decided to start a new one due to Glor's and WQ's incessant pleadings. Okay. Not really incessant, but still. Gloria made a petition here, and later on, WQ followed on with a post in Ah Siao Gang.

I must admit, after reading those messages, I felt a pang of reminisce, and some feelings of wowness. I didn't know that because of me, this whole thing started. I started blogging, then WQ, and then followed on by the whole chain of people. When I think about it, it amazes me that one simple action of mine cumulates into the formation of Ah Siao Gang blog.

So, let me ask you, how can the most important Family Cat miss out on such fun? Of course he can't! So, I am making this new blog. YAY!

I won't, however, revive my old blog. That's the past. That's gone. And dead. I want to start anew. Besides, it brings back sad memories. Let bygones be bygones, I say.

Well, what shall I post in this new blog of mine? Anything that strikes my fancy, I guess. Interesting stuff, funny stuff, sad stuff.... It very much depends on my mood, actually. Don't expect regular updates. I cannot promise those. My work schedule is irregular, and thus, it sucks. So yes.

Also, I might interweave some Chinese into my entries occasionally, because 有时后，我会把华文和English都搀在一起讲. Multi-racial much? :P

So, that's all for now, I guess. See ya later! :D