Birthday "Ang Pau" From Our Kind Government

Guess the only thing I feel good about the whole damn national service thingy is after NS. Though we have to do reservist every year, we have a chance to get “bonus” from the people who tax us over our lives!

Finally I realized the trick of taking advantage of the New IPPT “Birthday” windows. I did my last IPPT on the last 2 days of my birthday. Good news is I passed and got $100 for Bronze. Bad news is I blew away $100 by 6 seconds. Yes, 6 bloody seconds.

The timing for silver is 11 min 20 sec, I managed 11 min 26 sec… 6 secs for $100, I didn’t know my time could be so expensive! Haha… whoever wants to ask me for coffee next time think twice… can u afford my time? =p

I was thinking of doing the re-test the next day on the 28th of April, last day before my birthday on 29th, but realized my full body is aching… so there goes my $100. Just as I was feeling shit… I realized that I can get back additional $200 from the Government again! I was told to go back the following week after my birthday to clear the IPPT test for the “new” window. Great! It means if I am able to get silver this time, I am able to get $100 + $200 within this 2 weeks!

That means I will be $300 richer! My birthday “Ang Pau” from our kind Government! Come think about it, the money is just enough to earn back the fees I have paid to attend the church camp in June! Thank God. Now it just seems like the church calendars really evolve around my life yet again! Haha.

Ok, this week will start training my muscles and jogging to get back my shape! Anyone is keen to do jogging with me? ;p