There have been times in within the last 7 months that I've had the urge to come here and rant about my life, but everytime I come here, I realised how long I have forsaken this blog that I shy away from it.
My station overlooks mainly residential areas. Therefore fires such as this is very common. Don't leave your cooking unattended. Even if you are able to extinguish the fire yourself after calling us, I still have to write a 8 page report. -_-"
I miss you...
It has been half a year since I wrote anything on my blog.
Yesterday I was on duty at Choa Chu Kang Fire Post. We had 2 calls. The first one was a case of children playing with sparklers which was pretty lame. The second one was my first fire involving contents of CRC (Community Rubbish Chute)... in other words, rubbish fire.
CRCs are those chutes behind the big shutters you can typically see on the ground floor of HDB flats. When we arrived at the scene, my firefighters did all of the work... since I dunno anything about these chutes. The shutter was raised by pressing the button outside. Behind the shutter revealed this huge contraption, a machinery with a huge hole filled with rubbish. In the middle of the hole was a drill like mechanism. When one of my firefighters fiddled with the buttons next to the chute, the machine whirred and the drill turned and vomited the putrid contents of the chute. Some of the contents were black, burnt. But there was no fire. I guess the fire extinguished by itself before we arrived and the smoke coming out from the chute alarmed someone to call 995...
Well, now I know how dull rubbish fires are like. But for once, I really felt like a section commander on the ground during yesterday's duty. I did everything right! ...well almost. Ah well, there's always room for improvement.
Thankfully although technically 8 hours of my duty is spent on my birthday, people at work didn't rag too much. I guess I was lucky not to be thrown into the legendary pump well...
And now part of malam raya coincides with my birthday... *shrug* I am not sure how to feel... Happy Raya everyone!
Time flies so quickly that I am at the one year mark of my National Service.
Wow. I still feel like I have not done any great service yet!
Ah well, who cares, cos the next phase would be ORD-oh!!
It has been more than a year since I posted the song 'Sakura' by Takano Kenichi on my blog (click to see post). And apparently, the Japanese R&B group RSP (you might recognise them as the group that sings 'Kansha', one of Bleach's ED theme songs) has made a sort of a reply song to the melancholic song!
The title of RSP's reply song is Sakura - Anata ni deaete yokatta; loosely translated means "I am thankful to be able to meet you". While the original Takano song is sang in the perspective of the grieving father, the new RSP song is sang in the perspective of Sakura herself!
Here's the vid
sakura sakura aitai yo iyada kimi ni ima sugu aitai yo
daijoubu mou nakanaide watashi wa kaze anata wo tsutsundeiru yo
sakura sakura aitai yo iyada kimi ni ima sugu aitai yo
arigatou zutto daisuki watashi wa hoshi anata wo mimamori tsuzukeru
anata ni deaete yokatta hontou ni hontou ni yokatta
koko ni mou irenakunachatta mou ikanakucha honto gomen ne
watashi wa mou hitori de tooi tokoro ni ikanakucha
doko e ? tte kikanaide nande ? tte kikanaide honto gomen ne
watashi wa mou anata no soba ni irarenakunatta no
itsumo no sampo michi sakura namiki wo nukete yuki
yoku asonda kawa mo no ue no sora no hikaru hou e to
mou aenakunaru kedo sabishii kedo heiki dayo
umarete yokatta honto yokatta anata ni deaette yokatta . . .
sakura sakura aitai yo iyada kimi ni ima sugu aitai yo
daijoubu mou nakanaide watashi wa kaze anata wo tsutsundeiru yo
sakura sakura aitai yo iyada kimi ni ima sugu aitai yo
arigatou zutto daisuki watashi wa hoshi anata wo mimamori tsuzukeru
anata ni deaete yokatta hontou ni hontou ni yokatta
anata no kaeri wo matsu gogo anata no ashioto na nigenai koto
watashi wa sou ichiban no yorokobi wo shirimashita
anata ga hanashite kureta koto ichinichi no koto iroiro na koto
watashi wa sou ichiban no kanashimi mo shirimashita
sore wa anata no egao anata no namida sono yasashisa
watashi no na wo yobu koe dakishimeru ude sono nukumori
mou furerarenai kedo wasurenai yo shiawase dayo
umarete yokatta hontou yokatta anata ni deatte yokatta
sakura sakura aitai yo iyada kimi ni ima sugu aitai yo
daijoubu dayo koko ni iru watashi wa haru anata wo idaku sora
sakura sakura aitai yo iyada kimi ni ima sugu aitai yo
arigatou zutto daisuki watashi wa tori anata ni utai tsuzukeru
sakura no mau sora no kanata me wo tojireba kokoro no naka
sakura sakura aitai yo iyada kimi ni ima sugu aitai yo
iindayo hohoende goran watashi wa hana anata no yubisaki no hana
sakura sakura aitai yo iyada kimi ni ima sugu aitai yo
arigatou zutto daisuki watashi wa ai anata no mune ni
sakura sakura aitai yo iyada kimi ni ima sugu aitai yo
daijoubu mou nakanaide watashi wa kaze anata wo tsutsundeiru yo
sakura sakura aitai yo iyada kimi ni ima sugu aitai yo
arigatou zutto daisuki watashi wa hoshi anata wo mimamori tsuzukeru
anata ni deaete yokatta hontou ni hontou ni yokatta ,
hontou ni hontou ni ... yokatta
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