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Topic: POP Date: 04/01'08 Time: 20:43:55 AM

Happy New Year 2009!! I'm gonig to book-in in half an hour and i'm just letting time pass...... The Oh Brothers™ Leonard

Topic: POP Date: 20/12'08 Time: 00:07:48 AM

I just POPed last tuesday! It's a long time ago and I only blogged once throughout the whole of BMT. I just got my posting today. I'm setting off for SISPEC in 2 days! Kind of expected it because my friends were all saying I had a high chance of entering because I was physically fit! That's only one criteria, there are so many other criterias that I was so poor in.. like I think my sergeants or PC wouldnt recommend me for leadership training because I did not have a chance to be a platoon IC nor did I wayang. I just did the best I could in BMT! Okay so here I go from here.. Ok I was on leave all they way from last tuesday till now. Last week bro and I was trying to get him a new phone, and sell his existing one. Seems like sis wants to take bro's phone, so we'll sell hers which is like only 7 months old. Then we'll get joel an E51 because there are absolutely none that are better deals with no camera. I also got an E61 non cam for $160 from a second hand shop it's still in very good condition I would say 8/10. And decent price for it's functions, although it was released 3 years ago its speed is comparable to present phones. And I like the screen too! And the keypad! :D. So soon we should be selling sis's phone and getting joel an E51. On monday Bryan Tan from BMT came over to my house because he seems to like Arrow a lot! Spent like few hours at my place just chasing Arrow everywhere and taking photos of him! Amusing! This wed I was out shopping with Bryan and Jerrold! I just accompanied and I did not spend a cent because I need to have discipline to control my spending.. A pouch for E61 was too hard to come by.. Sis is going for a 50km walk organised by charity so we got her a pair of Asics shoes I hope her tendon doesnt split again.. Today I was just jammin away on the bass.. Love to play it and practice! :D Love to record more with bro! But it's a time consuming task.. but so fun! Think bro has much better guitar skills than I because I cannot handle learning two new instruments(guitars). Either I learn the bass, or the guitar. A mix confuses the muscles.. But I would say I can play pretty well for a start.. that's about 4 months since I began to play the acoustic guitars.. My bro said I learn so quickly especially the barred chords! Guess the bass strengthened my hand so much because I started in mid April.. Okay enough said haha.. :D Here's a Mighty to Save recording recently improved from the previous! Not sure if joel posted it anywhere but previously there was only guitar and the drums. This time with added bass and EQ. Recording Okay pretty late. Bro is out for the whole day and is still playing pool probably. Waiting for him.. while waiting I'll just play some Project Reality BB ^^ The Oh Brothers™ Leonard

Topic: ATTEND C Date: 10/11'08 Time: 13:51:56 PM

This is my second bookout! Today's monday and I'm still at home because I wasn't well yesterday and I got 2 days MC. Currently waiting for sergeant to contact me for the book in timing. I've completed range and field camp in the last two weeks. Sit test this week, I'm gonna fall out from it I think. Following weeks nothing already. Grenade throwing completed last friday. Ok I know it's short I wanna do other things right now :D P.S. 1 more year exactly to ORD! :D The Oh Brothers™ Leonard

Topic: BMT RECOURSE Date: 08/10'08 Time: 19:25:13 PM

My BMT recorse is tmr! Why wasn't it on the 6th? Because I received wrong information.. but all that confusion is over and now all I can think about is going for recourse! I was given a half day off today after asking my superior as best as I could so I left at 11am. I didn't have all the stuff for BMT so I went to Chevrons' E-mart and reached at 11.30 sharp but it wasn't open! Waited for an hour before it opened! Lots of people were waiting and someone was saying that the shopkeeper claimed to have lost her wallet or something. Whether it's true or not, that I won't know, I just went in to buy whatever that I needed and went home. Went out for lunch with my parents and got back and packed my stuff there's so much to bring! More than ORDing AFAIK! Then I went to cut my own hair so that they won't find fault with me tmr. It was quite long but now it's so short! Tmr I go in with a clean sheet so the people wont have a bad first impression of me! It was also great to practice cutting my own hair :D Actually I had two weeks 'off' before this week but I was just so relaxed I couldn't care less about blogging! I just wanted to knock the stress I was feeling out of my own head! I did everything possible! Watching TV, playing computer games, sleeping, reading, researching, playing the guitar/bass/drum, listening to music, just sitting back and having a great break from work! It felt so great because I had never experienced such wonderful moments from day one of NS! 13 more months to ORD is that soon? Very!! NS life is so routine, so boring and so we learn escapism and without having to watch tv or game or -whatever that's enjoyable- as though we were really doing it! If that happens on the subconscious level then it would definitely make us less stressed but that take some of our concentration away which means we can't focus hard on tasks.. and that might lead us to making accidental mistakes and being screwed. I have never really talk much about my work in my unit now because I don't find a point unless SAF really needs info genuinely for surveys and such what's the point of complaining here. I might end up in trouble if I write the wrong things which I don't want to happen. Secondly I don't have a choice, it's just me to put that event at the very back behind the last door in my memory. Shut the door and just leave it cause it's over and now that I'm out at least there is going to be a change in workplace and environment which might be worse or better that's for the future to tell! Right now all I feel is relief! This is my last meal with my parents and so I'm going to eat now and I think they will spend some time with me before I go for recourse. I'm wishing the best for my bro who's going to take his A level in 3 weeks time. I'll be back a week before his first exam and I hope he prepares well.. I'll be away for 9 weeks counting from tomorrow, throughout his exam period. He'll be finished with his exam 2 weeks or so before I POP I hope he will not be so stressed and just relax and chill like me last year, he should do fine! I was gaming a lot during the A level period because all that was on my mind was 'Prepare for exam! Prepare for exam! Prepare for exam!' O please I could not entertain my own thoughts and I resorted to escapism haha but it works! So all the best to my bro! And some of my friends are also taking A level I wish you all the best too! I am going to do fine in the recourse I know I have the capacity to finish from first day to last! I won't OOT as much as possible! GTG! I need to sleep early tonight too :D 7am at SFT! Pics Before I cut my hair.. After I cut my hair!! Huge bags! Cocker spaniel used to show scale The Oh Brothers™ Leonard

Topic: About my trauma Date: 02/09'08 Time: 18:08:08 PM

OK yes yes only 5 + 5 + 3 more days to go!! That's 13 working days to my release from my current unit! :D Coz I have 9 days off and I'm taking off all the way from 20th onwards till 6th Oct! YAY Finally I'm out and I'm going for recourse! Now I'm just hearing my grumbling mates complain I'm just gonna enjoy my remaining days and I'm gone YAY! Oh yes I'm supposed to give more info about my sleep problems. K. At least more frequent visits give me more insights of what's going on in my subconscious head. This is it: When I was about 6 or younger I nearly died from drowning in a pool. I was playing in a swimming pool during a church camp (previous church's) and two girls who were bigger than me were pulling my legs. At first it seemed quite fun so I tried to swim and break free from their hold. But soon I realised 30 seconds have passed and I'm losing air, I have to get more air, so I struggled to the surface of the water. As soon as this happened the two girls (still know both of them) pulled harder at my ankles, to them it was becoming more fun cause I was trying to get away, but apparently not to me! I was struggling to break free and it took me quite a while just to hang on to the edge of the pool (luckily we were that close). But I kept losing grip cause I wasn't a strong child then, their weight just kept pulling me down. And apparently I panicked cause I was so close to death. Mom came to the rescue, but not that desperately, not knowing I was so near death, but when she grabbed my arm and pulled me out I was seconds away from death. As far as I know my mom saw me all blue thinking I was cold from the water, so she gave me a towel. But it wasn't just that, I was gasping for breath, and finally she came to her senses knowing I was that close to dying. I received no counselling, probably because my dad, sis and bro were not there to witness the severity of the incident, though my mom might have known but if I ask her right now (literally) about how bad it was she would tell me "you were drowning, that's all i can remember i think". Experiencing such traumatic incidents can cause serious problems to a person and the person should seek professional counselling following a trauma, but seems like my parents did not know what to do during that time. As my pastor tells me, to cope with the trauma, the mind splits itself to separate the trauma memory from the main memory. Process is known as dissociation. The trauma memory might come as a package(the factual and emotional memory together) or it might be split into two separate memories, as for me the latter happened. Trauma usually causes Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) making it hard for the sufferer to cope with stressful situations especially when the memories are 'split'. This is what he thinks happens in my sleep. Any kind of stressful situation that happened in the day, or was going to happen, would make me feel stressed (duh). When I sleep the split memories talk to one another trying to cope with the memories of the stressful events. If my officer scolded me in the day, or I had a quarrel at home, or a test coming up in camp, they would all surface in my sleep. A normal person without PTSD should be able to relax and remain calm throughout the stressful time. But a sufferer with PTSD panics without being rational about even panicking in the first place. Anything threatening to the sufferer's well-being would be an almost likely panic trigger(my mind retrieves panicky feelings from the trauma emotional memory), and the exact feeling plays out, known as a flashback(as for me it's panicking about dying). This is how he describes what goes on in my subconscious mind during sleep. My pastor says the only means to solve this is to undo the splitting of the mind. I have forgotten much about the trauma (always happens to trauma sufferers), and he will try to help me remember the things that have been forgotten. It's not going to be an 'oh! now I Remember!', it's a slow process, my pastor will attempt to talk to the different memories or 'parts' of me to try to help me retrieve information and the feelings that were associated with the feelings, accept the factual and emotional memory as one and then accept the situation so that the trauma memory combines with the main memory. Only then will my panics at night stop.br> Sounds pretty complicated right! It really is! There's more to come as time passes, and yes I'm going to recourse soon so I'd try to get most info ASAP before my recourse! The Oh Brothers™ Leonard

Topic: ->.<- Date: 25/08'08 Time: 18:19:58 PM

K I was too tired last weekend to update anything so sorry...here it is :D Okay, since I haven't wrote a long enough entry for some time I will spend at least 20 mins to write..First off I've finished my operations about more than a month ago, think it was 4th July. From then on till the 11th of August I was back in my unit doing work, understudying another guy from my branch. I have never had a permanent job in this unit so far, because it's a temporary unit for me (3rd Signals btw), and I'm here because I was pulled out of BMT training (OOT - out of training) for my sleep problems, that's how they run the system, they're play safe. Any problem must be raised or one risk being charged for malingering haha. I was OOTed for 5 weeks in BMT then pulled out, that's how I got into this unit. So counting I have been in this unit for about 7 months, that's including the 3 months of ops I was doing.. so it's 4 months. I've got one more month to go before I re-BMT! :D I'm actually happy to go back because I don't like my work now.. I won't discuss it here. And I got at least 10 'offs' eliminating it from the remaining days - that's about 20 days left in my unit :D YAYYYYYYYYYY :D While I'm gonna leave happily some of the newer ppl who just joined are just too unhappy with the system I hear them groaning everyday, so do I man.. I understand, but I can't help you hahaha :D I just wanna go somewhere else that would be more appropriate for a combat fit person, I'm not garang, but I'm not a laid back person, I prefer having something in between and NO I'm not going for OCS of course!! I dont like to have time on my hands because it slips off and time passes too quickly. Right now in my branch the rule is NO PSP, NO SLEEPING, NO READING. So what do we do then? I mean there's no point having the 'chopchop get it done' attitude because we will leave time for stoning. I just have to learn to do things slowly sometimes, though it's just not me, for everyone's sake hahaha :D Let me update about my sleep problem now, I'll give it 5 mins because I wanna play my bass haha. K. Basically lots of stuff, I've read books, I've researched online, I've asked and found help, all of which gave me better understanding of my sleep problems. Having this for nearly two years, still scares the hell out of me whenever it happens. I'm seeing a church psychologist right now, it has been 9 months already with him, but we haven't gone far, because of my ops, and unpredictable army schedules.. we have barely narrowed down to the more possible causes, and it feels like it's getting nowhere but I will keep going because I know it's possible to find the source of the problem. Think I should explain more next month because what can I explain now when I still haven't got a proper understanding, too many question marks, and I've used too much of my brain power and I'm draining.. I just pray everyday that God gives me better understanding as days go by. Maybe it wont be a month lah, it could be next week! I'll just log everything, and me and my pastor will work it out, with the help of others :D K i'm tired of typing byebye! p.s. forgot, from 11th Aug till now I'm in a signal storeman course, don't know why, I only have 1 month left in this unit! The Oh Brothers™ Leonard

Topic: url change Date: 21/08'08 Time: 23:57:33 PM

Changed urls! relink plz friends! or you get a dead page! Update more tmr, I'm not free now, haven't been free these few weeks The Oh Brothers™ Leonard

Topic: Moving Date: 22/07'08 Time: 00:13:32 AM

We're moving to our new place this weekend! It's only a hundred plus metres away from my old place so moving things won't be so difficult. We got a transport company to do that for us :D Okay it's late byebye! The Oh Brothers™ Leonard

Topic: New links Date: 17/07'08 Time: 20:16:45 PM

theohbrothers.com no longer links directly with our 2006 homepage! main.theohbrothers.com does now. theohbrothers.com is now the index page that brings you to other links so link us as Leonard & Joel to theohbrothers.com that way there's less confusion! Thanks! The Oh Brothers™ Leonard

Topic: :DD Date: 15/07'08 Time: 19:49:36 PM

Army has been great as usual..I have gone through a lot in the army..and trying to learn a lot of stuff..this and that..for my own good..but i think my ambitions won't ever leave me..no matter how long it would take to achieve them.. As of this morning I woke up adding more and more to my list of ambitions..and it is personal :D Long long long time..Bass guitar is doing well although I dont practise much. So far got a new strap and a new pick. Amps have not been ordered. My 1/4" wire is also mojo, all from planet waves. Amp should be a samson or hartke. Bought a Creative EP-240 earphone for $29. Within the first use the gauze thing(dont know what's called) fell off. Dont ever get them. Coz my sis wanted me to get one cheap one. Okay i was thinking my-EP 480 that came with my zen lasted a year. But it's $36 and so i should get a cheaper one. And no, dont ever get cheap earphones! Pay 25% more for one that lasts 365 times longer! And i had a brush with a creative warranty thing. They refused to replace a new zen for me. I have replaced it twice in a year, one in Feb this year. In feb when i got the replacement the warranty tag was broken and i ignored it since "it's a new one they gave, i'm glad!" And i thought it was broken because it came out of their repair workshop (opened and fixed the zens, so he needed to break the tag). But after only 5 months i decided i deserve a replacement because of that. And dust and paint was falling off and the battery cover was not tight. I demanded for nearly 2 hours and finally they decided I was one hard customer. But they came out from the store door with another color zen. "We only have blue left. Sorry we dont have any more grey ones." "We discontinued the sales of zenMicrophotos in march this year." Boom that's the exact reason why it took so much energy for me to get a replacement..lol What else have I done over the past months..hmmm.....O yes i replaced my burning card. Think the new nvidia driver is incompatible with my *XpertVision 6600GT (yes, expervision cheap). The fan on the 6600gt was replaced when i got it repaired at XpertVision. Started failing in 5 months..lol..graphics ram was damaged (the look on the screen). This happenned because the fan is sometimes on, and off. I still played my games at lowest resolution and underclocked. But i think i forgot to alt tab and the card thermal throttled but apparently at a higher temp than the safe temp and although throttling should keep the card safe but it was damaged. Now it's replaced by an 8800GT. :D $120 i think What else..My computer was becoming more and more messy i think after years the damage viruses have done was so severe. Start up problems. IE problems. Connection problems. So i had to clean install :D. Got 10 days more to activate, activated more than 3 times already? What else..Oh yes just two days ago i renewed my domain. And i changed my hosting provider to LimeBox. It's good:D I hope if anyone would like to sign up for a website hosting package please sign up through me that would give me some money from Limebox. Something like 10% of what you would pay. So if SGD$50 a year, i get $5 dollars in my limebox account from limebox to pay my bill that would be cheaper! Just sign up from my referrer link, and you can get people to sign up from yours too! http://www.limebox.com.sg/thebox/whmcs/aff.php?aff=017 :D thanks:D I think that's all :D I wanna rest..O yes I want to create Website 2009. Seems like website 2008 needs to be skipped. Let me release website 2009 next new year! :D The Oh Brothers™ Leonard

Topic: :D Date: 10/05'08 Time: 23:36:37 PM

Okay I got NUS and NTU slots but not SMU because I allegedly 'discussed too hard' during the interview that the professors might have felt offended.. Nvm I dont intend to go for SMU even if they give me a slot i paid $15 bucks to have fun at the interview :D Missed service because of ops but dad picked me and went to church to pick ma bro so we went back together :D Rotting ~~ At least I went for prophet kobus' healing service with ma cell and wow he anointed all of us with oil and I was so excited because when do I get to see him ever again! :) Get the anointing! Right now in Florida something great's happening, Did Anyone Know About It? ITS A REVIVAL, supposed to be a few days service thing but ended up to be held for more than a month! There's a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit and lots of healing is taking place even when people watch the broadcasts on the internet or the TV believe this! People from all over the world are flying into Florida just to receive the healing and anointing! WATCH THIS: Fresh Fire Ministries, The Florida Outpouring or subscribe to the feed because not every video(esp the newer ones) is on the website, but can be found in the feed: The Florida Outpouring RSS Feed ENJOY! I THINK MA PARENTS WANNA GO TO RECEIVE THE ANOINTING, MEE TOO! ANYONE WANNA JOIN US???? :P The Oh Brothers™ Leonard

Topic: :D Date: 04/05'08 Time: 22:44:41 PM

O yeah i'm back..... it feels great to be writing a new entry :D after a month of doing operations right now that keeps me too busy to blog @@. Right, so how do i start.. I can't blog about the operations here because it's not allowed, i will get into trouble for doing so :X anyway, because of this ops I missed 4 weeks of youth service and cell. And yesterday, finally after waiting for a month I could attend a youth service :))) and it felt great to meet everyone, especially ma cellmates :D I did not tell them about ma ops so yesterday they were suprised to hear how busy I was and why I missed so many cell meetings and youth services, so now they understand :) I'm literally dead for the past month with no life because of this ops, I can't update more hehe. I hope this ops could end soon. :D okay I'm so lazy to type already so BYEBYE *wave* The Oh Brothers™ Leonard

Topic: (^_^) Date: 13/04'08 Time: 23:02:33 PM

Wah very long haven't update leh. Anyway the Ibanez bass has arrived and I'm practicing scales right now. LOL. But learning very slowly, blame the old days when I used to hate piano lessons. One problem with the order is the noob cable that came with the guitar. Kinda used it for only 2 days and it's gone. Pulling out of the jack port spoilt the cable. So had to ask bro's pal to get a mojo cable for me costed 30 bucks? around there. Finally my comps mic is working. Can jam ma bass on the computer and blast off the speakers. :D This guitar is really mojo. + the amp that is coming soon, again it's bro's pal that will get it for me :D might be very ex but worth it because amps can last for a decade? GOOD ONES OF COURSE! :D MOJO!!! LOL :D Going to sleep soon, wanna wake up early tmr. Although I love to stay up and have supper at 2am at 24hr stores by myself or with ma pals I realised that I haven't enjoyed life in the early morning, around 8am-12pm! Long time. School does not allow, army does not. Now I'm on operation so I can relax on my offs but I can't say more than this or I am revealing too much and will get extra or DB. LOL. So I'm getting up early tmr to learn my MOJO Bass in the early morning YEAH. :D The Oh Brothers™ Leonard

Topic: Date: 30/03'08 Time: 21:31:54 PM

Tired. The Oh Brothers™ Leonard

Topic: BOUGHT IT, IBANEZ SR506BM Date: 25/03'08 Time: 23:55:05 PM

Just bought my IBA SR506BM!!!! SO HAPPY!! Now dont have to worry about it no more! Should be coming by end of next week or the week after next :D Bro's still looking for the best dealer to get his 10" tom. It's getting late I wanna eat vanilla ice-cream :D And then I'm calling it a night! The Oh Brothers™ Leonard