It seems that I only update this blog when something major happens in my life. Oh wells.
Well, I’m flying off this evening to Australia. As some of you may know, I’m serving National Service (NS) right now. It’s an obligatory thing for all guys in Singapore to serve NS once he has come to age. I’ve decided to list down the things which I would miss here in Singapore while I’ll be gone for the next 2 and a half months. The list is not in any particular order.
1. Church worship
- Well, I’ll miss the fellowship and the singing of hymns in church. I love singing hymns, and not being able to sing hymns with the congregation is really quite saddening. Not being able to listen to sound preaching is also not exactly the best thing that can happen. I can only pray that God will look after me and guide me during this time.
2. The comfort of family and home
- Certainly I’ll miss my family and home. There’s no mum or dad to watch my back now. There’s no comfortable and familiar bed to sleep on. There’s no personal laptop to fiddle around with.
3. Friends
- My friends have always been supporting me in and out of army. Now that I’ll be in Australia for 2 and a half months, and cellphone reception may not always be present, I really don’t know how I’ll survive without that sms exchange. Well, hopefully I’ll be able to send occasional emails out or post on my Facebook.
4. Food
- I will miss the hawker food here in Singapore. Already, I can’t imagine what it’ll be like without the U-Mee that I regularly eat from a coffee shop near my home. There’s also the roti-prata that I regularly eat on Sunday mornings at Singpost. Man, 10 weeks without those food, I know I’ll surely miss them.
5. Gunpla
- The smell of paint and thinner. Man, 2 and a half months without building gunpla, I think I’ll suffer from withdrawal symptoms! There goes my plan of joining this year’s BAKUC. Well, there’s always next year to look forward to I guess.
6. My other figures
- Besides building my gunpla, I’ll miss playing around with my other figures. It’s fun just to take my figure out and play around with it for a while. It gives an unexplainable sense of satisfaction. I feel like a 3 year old kid when I say that, but hey, I like it. What else can I say?
7. My weekly dosage of tokusatsu, anime and drama
- Well, I’ll be missing a whole lot of toku, anime and drama when I’m gone. There’s Kamen Rider OOO, Tensou Sentai Goseiger, DaiMajin Kanon, Digimon Xros Wars, and a whole lot of non-weekly/regularly released shows at that. Man, loads of catching up to do when I return in 2 and a half months time ^^
Well, I think that about sums up my main thoughts. There’ll be more things for sure, just probably hasn’t struck my mind yet. I’ll be doing a mini journal log when I’m there, so I’ll post more when I return.
- Matt.
