IN TWO MORE YEARS MY SWEETHEART WE WILL SEE ANOTHER VIEW [January 02, 2010 @ 4:20pm] thelikelylads [kismetsays] HAPPY NEW YEAR PULL YOUR EAR!!! Today I am glad to announce that this community is as back from the dead as Lord Blackwood, pls to be posting when you are free. (This means you, Olivia Ho the unemployed.) So in a couple of days my brudder Jethro Chua will be taken up by that multi-legged man-eating machine known as the SAF. Okay maybe it isn't exactly man-eating, it eats boys & excretes them as men... or so they like to promote themselves. Jethro has been counting down the days (lately, the hours) nervously & so as parting gifts I am giving him not a comb (GEDDIT, PARTING GIFT) because he wouldn't have anything to comb anyway but one box of salonpas & a mix CD, because we hate each other's taste in music. (I believe I have better reason to complain about this, because thanks to what he sends me, I was occasionally jolted from A-level studying by refrains of "Oh Lord, won't you save me from being confused~" emanating from my headphones.) In less than 48 hours he will be tramping off to Tekong, painting his face green & black like a watermelon, trying not to drop the soap & being addressed by a macho new nickname like Black Mamba or Scorpion King or Diamond Head or whatever. (Okay maybe not necessarily, when I inadvertently learned Chew Chin Seng's alias I was like "Everyone here is called Mr. Muscles or Rambo or something & your nickname is 'Hichew'?!?!") So I considered making him a mix CD of soothing music that would help him escape into an alternative dimension of anything but the army. However as I have learned, when guys get out of NS, whether for the weekend or forever, they like to talk about NS. My dad still does it. & he was in the very first batch of NS men, that had to like crawl through the under-oxygenated atmosphere of the Pre-Cambrian. Men are clearly from Mars aside, I decided to burn him an NS mix anyway & here it is. Discipline – Nine Inch Nails I was going to put in 'Every Day Is Exactly The Same' but that would really be cruel. Boys Don’t Cry – The Cure Soldier’s Poem - Muse You And Whose Army? – Radiohead Happiness Is A Warm Gun – The Beatles Actually I believe happiness is a clean rifle. Or one that hasn't been brought to Cineleisure. All Along The Watchtower - Bob Dylan Benjamin Chow recently explained the horrendousness that is guard duty to me. If you had to stay on Tekong over Christmas/New Year/something important, <333 okay it must've been awful. The Man Don’t Give A Fuck – Super Furry Animals Because Hoh Jian Yang once told me the army was so full of swearing that he didn’t feel like doing it any more & I found that truly miraculous. & btw this song has the 2nd most frequent use of the word 'fuck' in the world (beaten only by Insane Clown Posse's 'Fuck The World'). Isn't that marvellous? Don’t Give Me No Lip, Child (Dave Berry Cover) - Sex Pistols Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ...this is really just me being a bitch. I thought it was an army myth but according to Li Kuang Li (who then again is a master bullshitter), you guys do actually dig trenches & then fill them up again. Veni Vidi Vici (Diplo Remix) - Black Lips Decided to put in the remix so he can turn the volume up & practise for those weekends when he hits The Butter Factory or wherever to awkwardly pick up girls in the dark. Half Cocked Boy - The Libertines Er I don’t know if this is supposed to be a pun. Pete Doherty keeps you guessing, I guess. Living For The Weekend - Hard-Fi I hear Geylang is the destination of choice. Obstacle 2 – Interpol ...Eh I know what is SOC okay. Two More Years – Bloc Party Title of this entry says it all. I left out one track I'd included (hint: girl's name) because Kuang Li says NS teaches you to kill a man with your bare hands & while I'm not exactly a man I'm sure they teach you to improvise, too. But on a serious note, I am glad to be a girl. At this point in time, 18 going on 19, while I'm still annoyed with the monthly bleeding & mortally afraid of pregnancy & childbearing, I am still thankful that I was not born a male. Guys, I respect you. For what you have to go through these two lost years & will have to continue to endure occasionally when those years are finally gone. & on a final note: Hi seniors, I miss you. The girls in their hallowed halls of learning & the boys in their bashas. If you are in university, I hope you are explosively happy & have an impossibly hot boyfriend/girlfriend/professor & have been so successful in the last exams you took that Mr. Ang called you to say CONGRAZULATIONZ. & if the army stole a year from you, I hope you get to seize this new one back. Read (21) Comment

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