hello.
the photo is a picture of jiahao and i at one of our deployments while in the navy. we were chilling together with a bunch of loud officers at a bar in kota kinabalu. well, the story ends with me having beer forced down my throat and i puked my guts out. somewhere in the middle, i was singing and dancing wildly while the other officers cheered me on. ha~

tonight i met up with the old RNS bunch. if you are wondering what is RNS, it stands for Radar Navigation Specialist. yes, i was a navigator for the singapore navy during my two years of national service. i know many of you find it hard to believe, especially after hearing my adventures about driving and getting lost in other countries.

my two years in the navy was really good. God really blessed me with a good bunch. of course the initial stage onboard ship was really crap. during the dinner, my sergeant remembered me telling him that i cried. hahah i didn't cry. i teared in the toilet cubicle in my quarters. telling you why i cried would probably make you laugh though: it was the stupidity of my superior (not rns. this guy was in charge of all the quartermaster duties on board RSS Endurance) that made me so frustrated, angry and helpless that i teared. we had to take tests to prove that we were quick thinking sailors and i must say that the questions in these tests were just dumb. before that test, i have failed like 273527 times already and it has been 3 months since all my friends have passed (if you fail, your punishment is to do duty EVERYDAY.) anyway, i failed because of this question: what is officer richard lim's car license plate number? WHAT KIND OF NORMAL NON-STALKER HUMAN WILL REMEMBER CAR PLATE NUMBERS?! *smacks head*

anyway, the gathering was fantastic. we laughed about old stories as my officer and superiors marveled at my stories about how jiahao and i worked together to shield off this another member of our department's gossips about us. he was a professional actor and slacker! argh can't stand him. haha talking about those things made me remember how jiahao was real nice and big-hearted. he would often take blows for me and help me do operations that i am often clueless about - one of them was helping a helicopter land on our ship deck.

so we had fishhead steamboat and chinese dessert after that. very very nice night. our RNS happy family is reunited! hahah it was relaxing, warm and toasty la. :)