Visual Treats by Liwei

Juz came back from Thailand. A trip i will remember for life. Fatter already from all e coke n ice cream. Its very cheap there. 17baht for a cornetto tts like 60cents. Worse is e snack shop is juz next to our bunk so convenient. Didnt add in much of our training. So it seems like a holidae but its not. =)
Brief outline:
Night b4 setting out- We sneaked out to Zouk for a mambo session. We wasted e night shaking but werent wasted. Ate prata at Simbang Bedok b4 heading back. Money minded tenants only waiting for ur n bugging us to pay for e pratas. They were slow in service n irritating. Woke up at 6 flew over.

Day 1- Woke up uncomfortable thirsty n tired. By e way we flew by military plane. Didnt write much dont really remember wat happened. Guess we settled down n waited for e next day.
" Goondos using mosquito nets". Tts wat i tot when we all we setting up e nets. Coz obvious e Thais dont use them.

Day 2- Parade- Fell asleep again. Dont noe why i always do. Visited e Thai army musuem n understand their history. VEry impressive. If ur museum is small u should see our heritage display its not even half e size.
Everyone's talking abt e canteen owner's daughter. We called her Rosemary. Didnt see anything special abt her. Think its her eyes. New discovery Clifford's mom is a thai so we got an interpretor. No one knew at least not me n my platoon.
Went to e gym at night n practised my tkd n muay thai i learnt there. Den power-run ard e track. Its scary running round e track with no lights. U cant see wats ahead.

Day 3- Was training e whole day. At night we were admiring e stars. Jiaming den showed us his Astronomy club knowledge. Didnt noe he was in e club n was e president.

Day 4- To draw e curtains is to close or open e curtains??.
Sunday. Tour to Lopburi Town.
Stopped at e aids hospice there. Its a budhist funded one. Went into e terminal stage wards where all e patients were dying soon. All skinny. Sculptures made of bone resin outside with scary images of pple suffering n crying out for help. A musuem filled with dried dead bodies all of e patients who willingly give their corpses to be used for educating e public abt e threats of aids. A sad reminder tt there is so much more to e world than my eyes can see.
Den we headed for Lopburi town. Walked aimlessly coz my grp left me. They didnt check back. Walked ard wif Kuek n Liow. Nothing much to see. Played with e modes on Kuek's camera. SOLARISE IS E BEST. E image focused is blurred at e edges so cool. Met p with another group with a lead..e Godpa. Clifford's grp. Took a cab down to Big C. Its like their Carreforre

Day 5- Jungle Survival Training.
Taught by this senior. Ate fried bugs. Leaves. Bamboo steamed rice. Fruits of a diff. kind. Found out abt diff water sources. Display of e diff snakes of thailand. Whoaz. There were e normal pest snakes. To cobras to even e king cobra. I have nv seen a cobra b4. It looks like a normal snake but once flared e shape comes out. Snakes cant see under left rght only in front of them. I used to love snakes when i was a kid. Had this book abt them tt i always flip thru again n again.
Lunch was to be cooked by us. We took e stuff but after a while e thais took over. They were very skilled in it. Lunch was delicious but juz too much had to try n finish everything.
On ourt way back passed a plantation full of blossoming sunflowers. Super beautiful. It was very near our dropzone. E riggers got sunflowers from one of e soldiers. So sweet. Anyway e tonners in thailand rule e road. Juz horn n e slower vehicle will get out of e way n they travel at super fast speeds. not like singapore only 50km/h. Slow.
" Love me Love me
Say that u love me
Fool me Fool me
Go on n fool me. "
Seldom hear anything english.

Imm Leow- full already.

Day 6- Jump
Blue skies beautiful scenery but i really couldnt be bothered worried abt e landing phobia from my last jump where i injured myself. Landing very far from e pick up point.
Quite cool. N sweet, past e sunflowers again. Now i noe why Karene like sunflowers so much. E thai CO quote: Welcome to e Royal Thai Airborne Family wahzz...felt so great.

Day 7- Demo
Mad scitentist did alot of special things. U can nv ever do without any officier or in charge intervening n saying its too dangerous. There anything goes. As long as no one gets injured.

Trip to Big C: got to noe this thai soldier. Pakin who resembles e guy in e gods muz be crazy. N has a high pitch voice too. His obession with going to Big C..." Big C big C"
Tot e thai soldiers were going to bring us ard but haiz only a few. Nv really get a chance to really interact with them. Nothing much watched e band outside perform. Walked ard. Sit in Black Canyon Coffee n rot. Rot..Black Canyon's alot cheaper here.
Sianz lost my shampoo n shower foam, left it in e bathroom.

Hmmm....nv write much already coz my pen was running out of ink n its mostly training. N i was as usual sleeping during e lectures.

Col 4:6 " Let ur conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so tt u may know how to answer everyone"

Was thinking wat to join in Uni. Wat cca...

"Since u died with Christ to e basic principles of this world, why ,as though u stll belong to to it, do u submit ti its rules? Do not handle, do not taste! Do not touch!"
Col 2:20-21

Went down to e flea market.:
So big n interesting. Food, shirts, clothing, hardware tools, bike spare parts, weaponry, puppies even. They even were selling a cross bow n even scopes for sniper rifles. Bought a t-shirt too small. N a checked one which i like alot. Wanted to buy Karene a red cross t-shirt. Writes a universal sign n a print red cross in e middle. Too bad only got male size. Dont tink she can fit. Hmm...Dont buy medium there. Its too small. Seriously. too too small. Waste money.

Free day spent planning for e outfield. Commander level none of my business.

Paul's longing, to see e Thessalonians:
" For what is our hope, our joy, or e crown in which we weill glory in e presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not u? Indeed u are our glory n joy."
1 Thess 2:18-20

1 Thess 4:3-8
" It is God's will tt u should be sanctified: tt u should avoid sexual immorality; tt each of u should learn to control his own body in a way tt is holy n honourable, not in passionate lust like e heathen, who do not know God; n tt is this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told u n warned u. For God did not call us to be impure but to live a holy life. Therefore, he who rejects this instruction dos not reject man but God, who gives u his Holy Spirit. "

1 Thess 5:16
" Be joyful; pray continually; give thanks inm all circumstances, for this is God's will for u in Christ Jesus. Do not put out e Spirit's fire; do not treat prophecies with contempt. Test everything. Hold on to e good. Avoid every kind of evil."

=) to be continued...quite tired...

Session 2
Nv write much, writing from memory. N also missed out on adding e training coz its not right to disclose...
I will go down with this ship
I wont put my hand up n surrender
There will be no white flag upon my door
Im in love
Always will be

Sunflower Cairnval-
Went to visit e carnival on e its last dae. Quite interesting like a pasar malaam. But nothing much all selling e same thing. Got very little things of sunflower. Mostly food n clothes, I walked abt e carnival 3 times coz i didnt wanna go for a massage n e bus will only come at 2300 wich was like 5 hours of walking.

Closing Ceremony: Parade.
Den played soccer, i went to do stores coz i dont like playing soccer. E stakes were beer. By e time i went there. Many of them had drank alot already. Had to finish up some of e bottles to save e others. Den we changed headed to e cookhouse for farewell party. It was really a party. With a live band. The thais were drinking alot n inviting us to join them. Good drinkers they all. I accepted some but left for e dance floor to escape e drinking. Danced alot n ate alot to try to keep sane. At e dancefloor one of e older soldiers was asking us to finish up bourbon coke. Drank n played our hearts out. Many things happened tt nite. E casuality rate increased from 0 to 3...haha..

Next day tour ard Lopburi town
Spent e whole afternoon exploring e town. Found many back allies with flea markets n a hidden market selling all sorts of stuff plus a big bike shop there..They were selling a singapore jersey very nice but i didnt buy no point. Walked ard. Went into May n Mild a coffee house. Chatted with e owner. A pretty ger in her early 20s. May was her name we all assumed. Of course Ivan was head over heels over her.
Dinner at a restaurant OC's treat.
Got live band. Pestered them to play hotel california n winds of change. They only played hotel california. E guitarist really impressive us with his guitar licks n solos. He even was soloing n tapping n talking to e waitress at e same time soo cool..Anyway e dinner was ok lahzz.. E place was exotic but full of mosquitoes. N outside was a murky pool we all tot was empty juz a decor but we were wrong There were fish in there. Very big onez..they resembled seacows but had flat faces n stripes on the back near their tails. Dont noe wat they were but they were creepy nv wanna be in e same waters as them wateva they are.
After e dinner we headed to The Bank e nightclub there. A live band again but this time we were bored. E performers were quite irritating.
Next day Bangkok!.
Went shpping at MBK our first stop we spent alot of time there. Vewry very big. Then Siam Discovery Centre n Siam Center. Wat can i say. Shop lorzz...nothing much.

Haizz...now i m back at home. I miss e times there. Life is so carefree there. People so real, true. N e gers quite pretty. Hehe~
I hope i will nv forget these daes. Wonder wat to send over for xmas we should
after all they were great hosts...