range

finally came back from range. it was just so freaking tiring. had only abt 10 hrs of sleep in the 3 days. came home on fri nite and slept all the way till sat afternoon. and the crap food they give there gave me diarrhoea. how pathetic it can be. next week still have 12km route march followed by field camp!!

at the IMT, my results are not bad. when it comes to the actual range i am actually a bobo shooter. my day range is still ok, just that i cannot shoot well when it is prone unsupported. dunno why also. then when it comes to night range, it become worse. for the first day, during nite practice. i miss almost all my shots!!! then on the 2nd day test, i somehow managed to just pass the range. then the 3rd day day range test, results are also just ok. the good thing is that my rifle did not have much IA, only got once, where there is no feeding. suspect it is due to the faulty magazine. some ppl have IA almost every time. then it is super suay! talking abt suay, i also have my suay moment. got once i was sitting under a table, then i stood up and crashed my head onto the eduge of the table. now the bump is still on my head. the worse thing is that whenever i put on my helmet, it was press on tat area and it is fucking painful!! i am so glad that range is over and i need not go back to that pathetic place to sit down there and wait for my turn to shoot.

and now that the govt has decided to built the casino, not one but 2! i was wondering, can singapore support 2 casino?? and there seems to be too much restrictions regarding entrance to the casino. one of which is the $100 entrance fee. many people feel it is ridiculous. spend 100 just to get in?? if for me, i rather take the 100 bucks to go to genting and i can alreadly bet like siao! i am not a siao on gambler, so i think i just go for the jackpot machine. i admit i have no luck. i only won one lucky draw for some cd that i didn't even go collect. another lucky draw is during sec 2, where is 'won' the lot to go ATC in ubin. then when i went to korea, i went into the casino in the hotel, actually i am illegal to go in then, i lost like 10 sin dollar in jackpot machine. but that is spending money to entertain myself. never try jackpot before what, so go and try loh. whereas my father had luck. he still managed to win some money through jackpot. that why he is a gambler. the good thing is that he didn't gamble as much as he used to once i was born into the family. so is gambling addictive? i think yes. when one win some money, he wld think he wld win more, so he gamble more, with larger stakes. and another rule the govt imposed that i heard on tv is that one can ban his or her family member from entering the casino. seriously, when one wants to gamble, there are lots of other revenue to gamble. and sporeans are alreadly gambling through 4d, toto, soccer and all these shit, so with a casino, does it makes a great differece? with a $100 entrance fee, if one do not pay for it, he can always go to genting. the bus ticket alone won't cost even 100 bucks. now that the govt has decided, no point aruging over it. and i hope the integrated resort wld offer something good, not something that wld die and collapse within 10 yrs.

finally i am in the mood to make a decent entry. just had a very very nice sleep. i still love the bed at home. indeed, i miss home a lot after going to ns. now it has become like a hotel to me, where i just come home to sleep for one nite, and the next day, before i knew it, i have to go. i just watched a show on how ppl sent keiko, the whale in the movie Free Willy, back to his home, the seas off iceland. it made me feel so much abt home. i had always look forward to leading a life overseas all by myself, being independent and so on. but now i am thinking, am i gonna survive? physically yes. emotionally, perhaps a no.

i just looked at my expenses this month and holy shit, i spent quite a bomb on music cds. esp now with the china import cd that are much more cheaper than the local ones. in just a week, i had bought 3. u know, when things are cheaper, u tend to buy more and end up spending lots more money. but i won't feel good if i dun buy. haiz. just have to cut down on expenses elsewhere, esp now i wun have much chance to spend money except on weekends. the FIR cd is just simply great! i just love their genre of music. it is like a mix between rock and slow songs, and i wld say rather unique. just couldn't stop listening to them. and then there is ah sang, another cd i bought. her music is those slow and dreamy type. just perfect for listening when i am alone and sort of seeking some solace. and i was rather glad that she handled sarah mclachlan's angel well, though i feel like something is still not there. truly one strongly recommended album that is kind of underrated. much better than some songs like cyndi's honey that get more and more irritating the more i listen to it. haha. and now jolin just came out with a new song, ye man you xi. it is kind of like kan wo 72 bian, where she takes on a rather special type of music. but i find the song a bit of like acting cute or rather, i dunno how to describe it. dunno why, somehow i sort of enjoy it.

and i was was surfing around and chanced upon memoirs of a geisha movie. it shld be coming up in dec this yr. would be looking forward to it. i finished the book a few ago and i was like so mesmerised by the story. at first, i had thougt it was a true story, someone narrating the story, but after reading the acknowledgement, i author said the story of nitta sayuri is actually a fiction. i feel cheated, but the author is able to make the whole story look so real. it has made me look deeper into the life of a geisha. initially, i also had the perception that geisha are prostitutes, but after reading, i realise they are not. but i still wondered, how do they draw the line between a geisha and a prostitute. like in the book, geisha sell their virginity for money. i wonder if real geisha does that. the book mentions that they are kept women, where their expenses are being paid by their danna. at some point through the story, i wonder if geisha themselves are happy with the type of life they are leading. and the book had gave me an insight into japanese culture. most people are facinated with japan modern culture, their technology, their fashion, their music and of course their porn (ok, it sounds crude, but it is quite true), but not many wld look into their rich tradition. and the movie gonna star zhang ziyi, michelle yeoh and gong li. 3 beautiful chinese actress. definitely a must watch i suppose.

ok. enough crap. got to book in in a few hrs time. ultra sianz.

Have not blogged for the past 2 week. at least now life at bmtc is much more better. got more things to do and experience. things are no longer boring. i actually quite enjoy army life now. but it is very tiring. everynite, i wld just lie down on the bed and drift off to sleep in just a few minutes.

finally got a chance to go to the IMT aka tekong arcade. it really looks like an arcade. 10 screen in front of you. 10 rifle. at first my aiming was rather cocked up. i even once aimed without looking through the rear sight. but luckily it got better. then it comes to flash target. not much time to aim. just have to aim quickly and shoot. for tat one, my score is also not tat horrible. still can make it. at least it was fun. get to enjoy the aircon. can really sleep when in prone position.

then we have IFC lesson. finally learning how to fight like a army after being in the army for so freaking long. also, the lessons are much more interesting. but the camo cream really sucks. when it is on the face, when i sweat, all the camo goes into my eyes, the worse thing is tat i can't clean it cause there is also camo on my hand. the first time we camo on, some of my platoon mates really do damm funny. titan put on too much green camo and then he look like incredible hulk! then got once when lao da wipe is face, the black is mixed with green and his whole face look freaking funny. then the wash up part is hard too. those stain around the eyes are very hard to clean off. so we all look as if we have put on eyeshadow and mascara. some even went for lunch looking like tat yest. think i clean the area around my eyes like 4 to 5 times before everything comes off. and the worse thing is tat our csm says we have to camo on during every IFC lesson!!!!

i am too lazy to update anymore. weekends are just now spent catching up on my sleep. think when i pop, i can sleep for 24 hrs straight.

1199

i'm back again. kind of feel like a super long week in camp. haven had a short weekend for sometime. thinking that labour day holiday is still long away makes me sianz.

at least this weekend is kind of refreshing. had our basic close combat training (BCCT) lesson. heard from the others that the instructors are fucked up ones, but in our case, our instructor is not tat fucked. he always praise us and say we are performing well. dunno it is to encourage us or not. but still, it made the lesson enjoyable despite having to stand in the horse riding stance for a long time while doing punches. 3 BCCT lesson continuously this week. wah piang! the thigh muscles are hurting after all the stance. at least during the last lesson, we learn the jab and punch thing, it is more fun. think BCCT is more effective than running. my long 4 was socked from top to bottom and wah lau, even got sweat dripping from my shirt. can't imagine that i wore the same shirt for one whole week.

next was route march. had to do a 6km one. in long 4. walking is not tough, then feelpack doesn't feel tat heavy these days, but wearing long 4 is freaking hot! at least we walked a slightly different route from last time, so it was kind of enjoyable. walked over to sispec, finally saw how the place look like. saw them doing soc. siong sia... then the fun thing was jinbao was leading some hokkien cheer with lots of chee bai and whatever and some of us were still singing. but too bad got one bad too vulgar liao, then hew say stop singing.

this morn had our SOC lesson. before tat was the oc muster parade, which was utter crap. it was rather fucked up. not really us fucked up, but the sgts. then the national anthem also didn't play. at least it ended in a short while. went to SOC after tat. today is just introduction. at first they claim that those having BMI of 30 and below then can do SOC, but now they change it to 35. then in my section, only 3 ppl are going, including me. but i think all of us should have gone under 35. some then go and talk with sgt, saying they want to go soc, while some chao keng ppl just stay away, giving excuse like saying wah lau, leg pain ah, cannot jump ah, later leg break ah and so on.... ( yest nite he was complaining to me.... i was like duh...... just shut up...) anyway, soc looks rather fun, though when one do it, it wld be tough. today we just looked at the FS doing. wah lau, he clear every station at ease leh. think for me, the wall, the monkey bar and the rope is gone case one lah. the rest i shld be able to do lah. but with SBO and rifle, dunno how also lah. so shall wait until the next soc lesson.

going to meet my 2nd uncle on my mum side, who come from hong kong. in fact he alreadly came for quite a few day and he is going back tmr. i dun even know how he look like. my mum said he came when i was 3 yrs old, but back then still blur blur, everything also dunno. kind of strange, not even knowing how my own relative look like. and one of my cousin also coming. gonna be a crowd at my hse tmr. cannot sleep till 12 pm alreadly. maybe tat's a good thing also, cause when i go back to camp tmr, i can just lie down on bed and knock out, provided some bastards dun keep talking till the wee hours of the nite. it has been freaking irritating. ppl sleeping on both sides of me are talking talking talking even after lights out. normally, i wld be listening to the radio before i sleep or rather the main purpose of the radio is to cover up their talking. sometimes i wld slowly drift off to sleep or wld just lie down there and cursing them under my breadth. fucking hell!!!!!

and oh, i almost forgot to menion this. today while booking out, when boarding the ferry, the ferry rocked to one side and all the water that has collected on the roof over the door just poured over me!!!! i was like freaking drenched. showers of blessing huh. thinking of buying 4D today, but too long queue, so going to buy tmr. buying the registration number of the boat. 1199.

out

being the long weekend, of course have to go out and enjoy myself. end up spending a whopping amt of money this month. dun know how i did tat too.

met up with my section mates for kbox. decided to go to the suntec one. end up i was the one earliest there. called them and they are still ages away from city hall. decided to go to hmv and mph at citylink. in the end stayed and browsed magazine at mph. read fhm. i realise something, in the army, there is no need to buy fhm. cause surely someone will have it. and anyway, sometimes, the contents are rather crappy and it is not worth the money. when they came, went to kbox. and i have absolutely nothing to say abt their service there. the waiter or rather attendants(dunno what lah) were all having this bo chup attitude. and then we ordered lunch as part of the package. we ordered at abt 11 plus and food only came at 1.30pm. and the food wasn't anything great either. it was some instant microwave food. then wtf are they taking so long with the food? even when the session end at 2pm, not all the food ordered came. the food wasn't like tat when i went for the k lunch in the past. at least tat time there is decent food. but now it was total crap! decided to go our different ways, i was feeling rather zonked out after the session alreadly. dropped by orchard to take a walk. sometimes, it feels good to be shopping or walking about alone, cause i can just dun bother abt my other frens if i am with them. where i feel like going i just go. went up to kino and check out the chinese books. gonna read some of such books. but the irritating thing is most of the books are in the traditional chinese format. means traditional chinese characters. but also, some of the books are those where the word goes vertical. i have not much problem reading trad chinese, but reading text downwords, i am definitely not very used to it. walked around the loads of chinese books, feeling rather lost there. dun really know what to get. in the end, left tat place with nothing.

met up with yz at jurong point yest. wanted to catch a movie, but we went too late. not much timings. so we just walked round and round jp. while walking around, we talked so much. abt army, esp abt life after army. there are so many things we both wanna do, but whether we are able to is another qns. money is one big problem. haiz, having loads of money wld be so good. but on the other end, i am alreadly much fortunate than many ppl in this world. i have most of what i want. so i shldn't complaint anymore. went to JE to walk around as well. i haven visited the je library after it reopened and it was freaking huge. lots of empty spaces tat cld be better utilised i think. i was amazed at the top level, some corner for teens. even have place where one can sit down and listen to music. got a mini stage for performance. got those type of seat that is being filled up by beans, like a super big bean bag like tat. even got place for graffitti. why last time the library wasn't like tat when i was in rv.

still slacking...

so fast the long weekend has come to an end. going to book in later. this time round, it is at 8.30pm. super crazy. by the time we reach company line, it wld be freaking late. plus have to touch up on my uniform (for oc muster parade), then have to tidy my cupboard (got stand by bed tmr) and then pack field pack (for route march tmr also). freaking hell. when we wanted to book in early, the timing become so damm late. then when we wanna book in late, the timing is always damm early. but if the following weeks all have this late book in, i wun mind. i wld be much more happier.

the same thing loh, the past week has been again super slack. still logistic day for 4 days. still like the ptp phase. and oh ya, we changed out mattress. it is some old mattress from dunno which camp. though it is old one, it is much harder and thus much better to sleep on. and our old mattress? heard our csm say some other company wants them??? those old mattress are so fucked up tat u can feel the spring poking against u when u sleep, and still some other ppl are gonna sleep on them??? and they didn't know what happened to the mattress before they used it? before changing the mattress, we had a mini slumber party in our bunk. we lay out the mattress on the floor and then one by one began to jump on it. haha. i didn't join in the fun. dun wanna get squashed up by someone else. looking at the scene really makes me laugh like hell, like i am watching some comedy in front of me. so those mattress are even more spoilt than they look. another thing is the 'wake up call' frm csm. thought we gonna kena very jia lat, but luckily it didn't. seriously, some kuku from the company just wldn't wake up. esp the smokers, always cause the whole company to kena something. won't be surprised if another of such event come up in the following week. seriously, sometimes i feel like strangling some ppl.

talking abt strangling ppl, there is this guy, i said to myself, i had enough him! he is freaking irritating. whenever i stand beside him, as in stand by area or drawing arms, he just yak and yak to me non stop. i once scream (literally) 'shut up pls' into his face, but tat bastard just wldn't stop. and the most irritating thing is tat he speaks to me sometimes with his face so close to mine. and the worse thing is his breadth isn't tat nice smelling. now what i do is to get as far as possible away frm him. i wld never want to sit right beside him in the fastcraft or what. and yes, he is my section mate, so i can't get far far away frm him, but still, i will stay away! not only i am pissed, but some others whom i talked to are also. our conversation went racist. and yes, i admit i am racist. tat guy i am talking of above is of tat race, and in my life, quite a few person of tat race have pissed off a lot. not tat i wanna be, but i just can't help it. those who know me well enough should know what race. i wun't say here, least it spark off a racial riot or what shit stuff. (i doubt it will anyway).

tat's life in army. heard this week gonna be busy liao. very little admin time alreadly. just survive though this and i gonna leave tat place! i can't wait for tat day!

huang cheng

just came back from huang cheng. my first time actually watching. wanted to go in previous yr but can't get tickets. are the tickets really sold out tat fast?? went with kunying, lee ching n peishan. kunying was wearing this cap and he sure looked like an artist. peishan changed a lot too. got long hair. almost can't recognise her. not only me, when other ppl saw her, they also say the same thing. haven seen these guys for a very long time liao. quite fun chatting and catching up with them.

huang cheng was like a super big production. the props were really elaborate and really, lots of work is being put into it. out of the 3 skits, i enjoyed the last one the best. one thing was because it was funny. a lot of comical features added into it. it is talking abt how new things and trade are slowly replacing the old ones, but what it can't replace is the spirit or the smell (wei dao) as they called it. but the scene is so comical, still got mother giving birth. the 2nd one was also nice, but too much quarreling. the first one was just not there. can't really get what it is trying to tell. but overall gd work i wld say.

starting to feel sian now. going back to camp tmr. back to all the training. see, time really flies. next time i really sit down and think back, think it wld be the block leave after pop. argh!! i am so so so loooking forward to tat. and hopefully i get a slack vocation. talked with kunying abt driving lesson and it sounds quite fun. probably i wld go learn if i get a 8 to 5 vocation. he said it wld cost 1k plus and i guess i got to dig into my savings, or wld be better if my mum is willing to sponser it. she once said tat. well, wait until 3 months later than see lah.

and oh ya. uploaded the song tong hua by guang liang. i really really like this song. dunno how to say why i like it, but it is like the feeling is there. thinking of buying his album liao. china import of course. and also ah sang new album. shall see how it goes. was reading abt desperate housewives on 8 days just now. i managed to catch one episode on mon and damm, it was hot!! are housewives tat beautiful?? not like the auntie or huang lian po we see in singapore?? haha. the plot is kind of interesting also. someone having scandal then, the mother in law found out and got hit down by a car, which is driven by another neighbour son. interesting.... too bad cannot watch anymore. hope a vcd version wld come out later.

hiaz. pre book in depression setting in again. gd thing is it is gonna be a short week.

ending

I woke up surprisingly early today. even i was amazed at the time i woke up. perhaps it is the fact that block leave is ending and i have to be stuck in camp most of the time again. by sleeping less, i guess i have more time to do some stuff of my own.

been downloading music again. not using p2p thingy. they got lots of virus looting around. using the dumbass baidu website. so many broken links. but the gd thing is tat some rather old song can be found on that site. just have to bear with it cause there ain't any other thing that i know of. talking abt dumbass site, another wld be the IRAS website. while helping my parent fill in their income tax, i filled up everything then click on verify, the whole site helped me log out instead and i have to fill it up again. dumb! plus the new format got lots of link and i think the server is rather clogged up and loading of some pages takes donkey yrs!! tat's the bad abt using the internet to do stuff, ie eservices. though very convenient, but when things cock up, it can make one super frustrated, or make one paranoid or whatever, esp when he or she is an computer idiot. like the recent moe thingy, ppl were complaining like xiao.

seems like recently i have been rather interested in jap stuff. watched a few animae these few days, including the hit movie spirited away. yah shld be tat title. what was gd was tat the movie was very captivating right from the start. i was like hooked onto the screen for 2 whole hrs. although at the end i might have a feeling tat the story is rather crap, but i enjoyed the whole movie. even mum was hooked onto it somehow. and the next wld be memoirs of a geisha. i feel sad at knowing how girls are being sold into the trade. the story is also captivating, i was reading on an on and on... now i am thinking after my BMT, shld i take up japanese??

i dun want to think abt the coming sunday. it's back to tekong again. but the gd thing is 10 more weeks and i am done. with BMT only. hope to get a gd posting and hopefully enjoy the remaining 1.5 yrs. most of my frens got posting liao. some gd, some bad. depends on how one see it.

block leave

I am so lazy. This entry should have come days eariler. but i just didn't bother then.

now is block leave week, which leaves me with 10 more weeks of BMT training before i can FO from that place and hopefully dun go back there ever again. Just before the block leave, the whole week was simply crap! mon and wed was so called logistic day, dunno what the instructors or rather commanders had to do on tat day. so what we did was just to sleep in bunk the whole day. go for lunch then come back sleep again, except for the occasional heads out crap. then the other days were doing sai gang day. on tue when the enhanced ppl pop, have to go do sai gang, which was a really dumb job. To keep dogs from entering the parade square. throughout the whole event, we didn't even see a single dog. i was paired up with Alnsley and i was digging a hole while he sharpening a tree branch, just in case a dog comes by and we can stab it to death! on thu and fri, it was enlistment day, again, eagle coy got sai gang to do. this time round, i didn't kena much sai gang, except moving some display board and foxtrot CSM rewarded us with 5 pack of the goodie bag the visitors got. i mean each person getting 5. bookout then followed and i was so happy. getting out of tat place for one whole week!

enough of army life. back to school!! not to study though. went to the nus open day with yz. chiobu galore. all the way from clementi bus interchange to the 2 girls who brought us around the arts n social sci fac. i guess i more or less decided on geography. as for 2nd choice, i wld be putting real estate. maybe sociology comes in 3rd. but studying sociology seems like so GP. after walking around the FASS, we went to the faculty of medicine. it was like practically dead there. no much ppl around, then the guides there were like so duh. i thought there wld be a visit around the fac and maybe i cld see the labs with some funky bloody gory things, or the lab where they practice their surgery skill, ie on dead bodies ( i heard) and so on. but there was simply nothing. not sure if we missed the timing or wat. guess i will never have the chance to see those things. decided to eat at NUH food junction before going down to suntec city for the IT fair. pia down there in a cab. the fair was freaking crowded and one wld have so much difficulty walking round the exhibition. basically, i didn't see much things lah. was looking out for a dvd writer but the prices were still too high for my budget. chanced upon a minolta digital camp at 399. quite a gd deal, but money doesn't part from me tat easily. went home and considered this, consider tat, decided tat having a cam now wld be rather useless, except during POP, then it wld be rotting in my cupboard. so a saturday was spent like this. and what a sat i enjoyed, without having to think abt sun, where normally i have to book in.

then on to monday. decided to go to the guan yin temple with mum. was thinking of going to pray during CNY, but it was too crowded then. as usual, the temple was crowded, but unlike other temple, it doesn't have tat much incense fumes there. what was worth complaining was the weather. it was so freaking hot tat i drank 2 bottles of mineral water at one go after the visit. like having water parade. walked around bugis area, went to the bugis market to buy some t shirt. now much easier to buy clothes liao. L size tee can fit me. then gd loh. and also lah, the place is like a giant oven. freaking hot!!!!! went to kino and bought memoirs of a geisha. i finished chapter 1 and it was interesting, for it was the first time i read a book about somebody. it was from the geisha called sayuri perspective, but yet it was written by another guy. interesting. so far, i thought it was a gd one. and btw, the bourne supremacy was ulter crap, esp the ending. in fact, i just scanned through the last few pages before proceeding onto my new book.

yeah. finally can have late nights and wake up late. maybe go for a swim again tmr. just went for one today and the number of kids in the pool can make u go crazy. many of them were having swimming lessons and they were swimming along the breadth of the pool. it is like crossing a road with heavy traffic. funny tat cck pool doesn't have a swimming pool of like 1 m height for children learning swimming. saw a few kids were struggling at the edge of the pool and it was like 1.2 m deep. luckily by late afternoon, the pool became more empty and was much easier to swim. seriously need to exercise, for the past few days have been eating like nobody business. what i thought it true, once i pop, i can't stop. in camp, without food, i wldn't think much of eating, but now at home, oncei got nothing to do, i wld head off to the kitchen. but i think tmr there wld be not much to munch on, as the kitchen have been cleared by me. now my weight is abt 100 and i wanna push it down to 2 digit during this week. have to work hard!

ok enough crap. it's late.

results out..

haven updated for a long time. 2 weeks only lah. the same thing lah, the same old usual stuff in camp. been feeling so damm bored. but now looking back, hey, i have survived 12 weeks in bmt. one more week and i wld get my block leave, then 12 more weeks then FO from tekong. frm what i learnt, FO got 2 meaning lah. one is to fall out. another is to F*ck off. sometimes, it doesn't matter.

at least last week we got something new. there is recruits nite. not really a night for eagle coy, but we still went down there to watch the performance. think bravo performance the best loh, but they didn't get champion. then the performance by MDC. hot babes dressed in sexy dress! just that the guys in the performance outnumber the girls lah. but wat to do? saf wat..... then got games day. it is stupid tat CO want us to go there and watch the game, but our coy only took part in 2 games. cause we are not going to POP. the tug of war is so 'lau kui' loh. we lost in just 5 seconds to gryphon. but it cld be due to the weight limit wat. they have 10 ppl, we only got 8. surely at disadvantage. and the tug of war is one where everyone is seated on the floor, so weight doesn't really matter....

then today the A LEVEL RESULTS!!!!! didn't feel tat much stress as last time when i got my o levels results. perhaps being in camp kept my mind away from the results thingy. did not bad. got A for maths and phy, C for econs and B3 for GP. econs is expected to be tat screwed lah, so i am satisfied alreadly. even passed my expectation of ABC. then get B3 for GP, dun need to take what english module in uni. heard frm Mr Goh that one has to take the module until he scores an A grade. luckily dun have to go through those shit. reminds me of taking CLAO when other ppl are slacking away somewhere in sch. now tat results are out, i am much more decisive on what to do in uni. think most likely i wld choose to do geography. geog has always been an interest to me and i think tat wld be the best lah. somemore heard tat arts fac much easier to get in, so with my grades, i am hoping that i can get in lah. as for my 2nd choice and after, haven really thought about it. what if really suay suay (touchwood) i cannot get in geog, still have to study something i do not hate wat... whatever... wait until my block leave then i settle all these shit. back to results lah, my whole class did freaking well! almost everyone got 4 As. those ppl in front of me was like AAAAA all the way, then when it come to me, then out comes a C. aiya, whatever..... now tat results are out. can finally lift a load off my chest. so now just serve for another 1 yr 9 mths and then back to study....