i'm guessing at this time right now back home in singapore, those stay-in army personnel would be heading home, less those on guard duty (those poor things). i, on the other hand, am at my regular net-surfing domain: 7-11. considering that there is no work for the next four days, all thanks to the national day holiday declared here as well as a whole-camp-forced-to-take-off on friday, so basically we have a really really long weekend to enjoy. and if not for my guard duty on saturday, i'd have already left for taipei and stayed out.

now, that's what i mean by stay out

you simplistic people back home.

we're actually bracing ourselves for yet another typhoon. i'm wondering whether the media back home actually mentioned the last one in the local news considering the fact that there were no deaths, thankfully; but the last one missed us, us referring to my camp here. we're all rather sure it hit at least one camp down south after all the extensive news coverage on this recent typhoon. without saying, the next one is also generating a lot of attention in the media. to 'update' you about the latest news, the typhoon is heading towards us right now at this instant and was formed just east of the philippines. current projections indicate a direct hit here, but we'd have to wait and see for that. you know how these natural things can have a sudden twist to its path, literally.

nevertheless, i'm anticipating hard winds in my face soon.

you know about this typhoon thing, a part of me want it to hit here and no, i'm not being sadistic and neither am i some nonsensical clown who derives joy from seeing people fly away in the wind. gone with the wind, they call it. and yet another part of me don't want it to come. the former because i want to experience this typhoon phenomenon which doesn't as you'd have realised occur very frequently or for that matter, not even once, in singapore. exhilirating ride- yippeee. and the latter feeling simply due to the unknown circumstances, the wrath that mother nature can bring forth to this land.

alas, i have chosen.

exhilirating ride that is.