It’s all in a day’s work

Day 20, Oct 5
All I did was sleep during this holiday. Got back to camp around 8:30pm.

October 31st, 2008 | Tags: military | Category: Diary | Leave a comment

Day 19, Oct 4
I was rather surprised that they still took us for a morning run today even though we had already completed the 3000m test yesterday.
We went for a rehearsal of the graduation ceremony after breakfast. The sun was shinning brightly by the time we arrived at 介壽台. After all 16 squadrons had arrived, [...]

October 30th, 2008 | Tags: military | Category: Diary | Comments (1)

Day 18, October 3
Finishing 3000 meters in under 20 minutes gets you full marks on the exam. I’ve never timed how fast I run but 3000 meters over flat land in under 20 minutes wasn’t difficult. So I got full marks for my first exam. It helped that we did it in the morning around [...]

October 30th, 2008 | Tags: military | Category: Diary | Leave a comment

I had completely forgot that Halloween was coming up tomorrow. That was, until just before lunch a large crowd of kids from the kindergarten downstairs came rushing into our office. Our secretary had prepared a large bowl of candies for them, which was great of her to do so or else we would have had [...]

October 30th, 2008 | Tags: work | Category: Ramble | Leave a comment

Photo from last Saturday. One of their best turn-outs for a while! They’re doing a 50km ride this Sunday.

October 30th, 2008 | Tags: photo, travel | Category: Ramble | Leave a comment

Day 17, October 2
Uneventful, that’s how I would summarize this day. We learned some more injury treatment techniques. How to use a couple of triangular shaped cloths bandage by making slings, headbands and the like.
A young lady came to teach us during the lesson before dinner. The lecture was on drugs classification, their misuse and [...]

October 26th, 2008 | Tags: military | Category: Diary | Comments (1)

After six hours of riding around on bicycle, it’s rather refreshing to sit down and enjoy some 剉冰 (shaved ice)! We went to this place on 金山街 called 古早味黑砂糖剉冰 and maybe it was because of the situation, I really felt that 黑砂糖 (I have no idea what it’s called in English) tasted better than normal [...]

October 26th, 2008 | Tags: food | Category: Ramble | Comments (2)

I got this email from the guy who recruited me into TSMC, I think it was either on the Monday or Tuesday of this week saying that their “Piece of Cake 車隊” were going on their weekly bike ride this Saturday. It must have been not long after he sent the email, that he personally [...]

October 26th, 2008 | Tags: travel | Category: Diary | Leave a comment

Day 16, Oct 1
They lectured us on some of the rights and responsibilities we have as alternative service personnel. The responsibilities are pretty simple. They can be more or less summarized by just acting like a good citizen and remembering that you are serving your country. On the lighter side, we do actually get discounts [...]

October 17th, 2008 | Tags: military, video | Category: Diary | Leave a comment