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..sorry, it’s the 11th day after the New Year. I haven’t slept yet, and I don’t exactly feel sleepy.

I have just 46 more days before I’m enlisted into the island of Tekong, which technically speaking, is just referred to as Pulau Tekong – the place where people as (fortunate) as me get enlisted by some mandate written roughly 40 years ago to scour the jungles.

Actually, sometimes I wonder why we’re even put into jungles/the wild in the first place, considering the biggest jungle we can even find in Singapore is probably crawling along some expressway near MacRitchie. [This is Kelvin speaking out of gut feeling at 7.38AM in the morning after holding his peace for very, very long..] Why don’t we get stashed in some abandoned block of flats along Boon Lay (or… or.. what’s that place with practically no street lamps which all the foreign Bangladeshi works gather at? – oh yes, Joo Koon).

Imagine having courses named stuff like: “How to Survive 72Hours without 7-11 Nearby” and “When Shop&Save Feels 36Kilometers Away”, and maybe operations named, “Operation: Sheng Siong Out”. Hwah, it must really be damn exciting.

(I will miss da-pao’ing cheap shellfish from Sheng Siong – did you know that place has damn good mussels for $1.90 per KG? Maybe Tekong has See Hums which we can catch for free, lah..)

No no, let’s get back to the present.

Hi,

I’m Kelvin, and as usual, I’m half-filled/three-quarters-filled with stuff to do. What makes it better is that now I’m even given some ticking 46-day deadline to do everything.

Since this is rightfully still my blog, I should really make it a point to keep a daily log for these 46 days.

(Maybe, maybe, next time grow old already can write novel and call it “46 Days to Free See Hum“)

Still, here’re the (almost impossible) things I’ve to carry out, actually, it’ll sound more like New Year’s Resolutions:

(I mean, if you don’t have NY Resolutions, your friends will look at you with the “ORH HORRRRRR” look as if you don’t plan for your life. So even if you don’t have some, just make something up!)

1. Buy a Blackberry Tour 9630 Non-Camera
2. Buy a whole truckload of accessories for the abovementioned Berry which doesn’t happen to be edible (so far, that includes 2 x Batteries, 1 x Charger, 2 x Travel Sockets, and of course, the berry itself)
3. Win over some [specific] extremely big contract (with one of my self-proclaimed killer powerpoint presentations *coughs*) before drifting away from the General Population as we know it
4. Build up a new Product / Target Market Segment for Zension (my company which is founded with really awesome partners whom allow me to blow things up with tired fingers entering wrong commands into the keyboard by accident on the pretext of tireness)
5. Refurbish an old Nokia N95 into a brand new set and sell it away or hide it under my bedsheets
6. Design, code, and integrate 2 CMS’es with MySource Mini (it’s a really good CMS if you can get over the fact that this content management system requires 2 cows and your firstborn as sacrifice to get it running)
7. Put Kelvin’s magical finishing touches on the flagship retail site for Some-Famous-French-Brand-Which-I-Cannot-Mention-Yet.
8. Glue together bits of wood to complete an [online] Local Furniture Store for a friend who got my quotation rubber-stamped faster than I could login to my iPhone
9. Again, put Kelvin’s magical finishing touch on some survey-related site
10. Figure out (and actually implement) the moving/redirecting of a website with ~30,000 HTML pages (Yes, Faruq, you know what I mean!)
11. Launch my wacky Facebook App which has been sitting around 3 corners for 3 months, making it a very dusty piece of work which had countless man-hours poured in
12. Train my amazing colleague and friend, Paul, to get up-to-speed with everything evil which I’m messing with in my hideout so that he can block bullets for me during my absence from the mainland……. Singapore.
13. Oh, and yes – buy army stuff. (Whatever that means… I wonder if we can smuggle bring Kinder Surprise eggs…..)

Well, not exactly a resolution – more like 13 things to be done in 46 days, and… well, I’ll start getting to it!

And yes, I need sleep now, just a little.