i did under drab, now i am back for 1 week. I do about 10 sets of 1 (I can only do 1 chin up anyway) in morning, afternoon and night. I only have 1 week to train per 3 months, i call my unit OC and he advise me to just go for RT.  

I have a problem regarding IPPT so i need some advice. (However i am not here to talk bad about the army system).

I am an engineer with a firm that have a manufacturing plant situated at an rural area in indonesia. My job scope requires me to stay in indonesia for 3 months after that i will be back in singapore for a week and then i am back there to indonesia again. I need to take IPPT annually so far i have pass 3 ippt sessions. Recently i take my ippt and pass all stations except chin ups (all my other stations i get silver timing). 

I was never good in chin up, in my peak days the most i did was only 10 chin ups my recent ippt i can only do 1 chin up. So i am allowed to retake chin up station in 8 weeks. However my main reason for doing 1 chin up is because i have no place to do chin up, when i am in indonesia, i only do running in a rural park and just push ups. Most people knew to improve chin up you have to keep doing it. I stay at a cheap inn in indonesia thus i cannot bring my chin up bar there and there is no gym near my work place.

I try to talk to my boss but he said the only purpose he hire me is due to station me in indonesia but if i fail i have to go rt for 2 months. My boss said its impossible to let me back for RT.

I understand its my duty to pass my chin up but i only have 1 week of training after every 3 months everytime i came back i saw my chin ups never improve. Is there any means i can escape my RT? Thank you     

1. What is the present value of a stream of 2 annual cash flows of $100 beginning in one year time where the interest rate is 5% pa for the first year and 8 %pa for the second year.

2. Assuming an interest rate of 10%, what is the amount of money a person must be given now so that he is indifferent to receiving a stream of 5 annual payments of $50 each

I was having lunch with a few of my female superiors and we start to talk about army. One of the superiors says Guy are very lucky to be in army, below are the points they give.

1. One of the girls says guys can get extra $400 per year by getting gold for IPPT, she says IPPT is so easy to pass and get increments. Seriously no matter how hard i train i can only get silver so i guess i am really lousy which is true.

2. A female superior says doing guard duty is easy as it is just walking around and somemore can lose weight by walking. (Well they dun know turn outs, stand to positions and riot drills and not to mention bad D.O.)

3. This one is hilarious, i was getting a deferment for one of my exam as one of my exam clash with my ICT ( i am a part time student). One superior said " so nice, you can bring your text book with you to outfield to revise and you can study inside the tent."

No offense, i am in rmit-sim, i mean honestly those who enrol in private school because most have no choice. In Sim both UOL and rmit have no TUTURIALS class just a lecture of 3 hours per week for each module. If u think tutorial class is important please think first before going to SIM.

Regarding my lecturers in RMIT, its real 70% lousy, 30% passable. I am in my 3rd year and only 3 lecturers give me their email address to ask questions through emailing them the rest of lecturers said its not convenient to anyhow give.

Now rmit have a bloody new policy, they will not be giving photocopied lecture materials, they expect YOU to photocopy 400 pages of notes per module. The bloody excuse they give is saying due copyright reasons which is really hilarious.

I cannot complain as i cannot get in local uni, and regarding your NS deferment SAF only recognise the 3 local unis. I done my ICT EVEN during schooling periods as my OC says no bargain for SIM. Forget about getting help from your school office as at the most they just give you a mere letter to explain (Thats all, they will not help any further)

Take care and under SAF policy u need to clock at least 20 schooling hours per week from local uni in order to get a deferment

I am 24 this year in my final year of studies, Today while i am having dinner with my gf of 6 years. She mention that she is scare of staying in the house alone with her dad as she mention that her dad watch porno in the living room and will sometime look at her in a lewd manner.

When i heard this, i was stunned as i heard that her dad is quite sexual active but i never realised its up to this extent and after that my gf just keep questioning me when am i going to register a flat together with her. I mean i have consider marrying her and of coz buying a flat but right now i am in my final year and seriously i dun have a career except some part time job. I try to explain to her that she can move in to my house's guest room but she is not on good terms with my mom. I even assure that i will accompany her outside whenever she is alone with her dad but i knew that will not be enough.

Sorry if i ask a stupid question. I was recently given a mod psp, and when i went to purchase games from a pirated game shop. The person there burn the games in a dvd, and when i reached home to open the dvd, it said the file was either corrupted or not formatted. My question is do i need to install any software to open the dvd disc and how do i convert games in the dvd to my psp? Thanks so much

Open Book Exam or Close Book Exams?

Thanks for the advice. I must first said i do not want and does not want anything to do with him. I mean i have the authority to strike him off as i am the group leader and my tutor learned about his behaviour through the remaining 2 girls and the tutor said i had the power to strike him off.

I am a normal guy i do not have a big heart just a normal heart, the things he did is simply childish, things like he will talk and talk about ideas while never even do any research. We were each assigned individual tasks to perform. Example he will do half of the task and i do the other half and when the deadline is nearing, i will call and sms him whether had he completed his part. He will never reply and finally when i get to meet him, he will act ignorant and pretend that he cannot do it and seriously i curse him so nights when i have to cover his backside by doing his part.

The last straw comes when i combine the whole project and i email him a copy of the whole thing, and during the final stage of discussion where the whole group gathers. He will rave stupid questions like "How come it does not have this part or that theory etc". Then i will say its in page this and page that, apparently he does not even care to read the whole thing and yet still have the cheek to critize our hard work. Anyway the other 2 girls just call me and we decided to strike him off.

I mean the 3 of us agree if that joker even had a single ounce of proof that he did put in hard work to do any research we will let him be our group but seriously that guy is a joke

Our marks are to be grade together as a group and the marks is 70% out of the whole module which makes it a vital point to pass. He plead with me saying each module cost him $800 plus.

The thing is our project are finished, and he never done anything except talk rubbish. Now he is pleading with me saying that i can save him from failing his last module. So i dun know whether to save him or kick him when he is down. And he is a joke, he is thinking of an appeal when his other grades are 29 marks, 44 and 45 marks out of 100 marks

I am currently a uni student doing an accounting project. My group consist of 2 guys (including me) and 2 girls. The guy is a repeated student of the module and we thought AT First it will be easier to work with someone who previously had experience with the module.

The thing is this guy is beoming weird, one day when the four of us are in msn discussing the project, his msn quote for that day was " If you cannot avoid rape, you should enjoy the process." After that day, the 2 girls are reluctant to work with him and so it is up to me to pair up with him. He is always late for the discussions up to 2 hours late and this guy only know how to talk but never does a single shit. Frankly i am sick of him as he never give retarded excuses like he does not know how to do, but seriously the rest of the group all started from knowing nothing, what gives him the advantage for us to wipe his backside.

Anyway the semester grades are out and he flunked 3 modules except this module and if i propose to strike him out, he will seriously flunk the last module. So should i strike him out?

I just fail my ippt and my birthday close at 29 April this year, so i have to go Remedial Training. I am now a student in a private school doing fulltime however next semester i will switch to part time and will be studying at night, now is my so called holiday i wish to do my RT withini this few months so as not to clash with my night classes timetable and i also want to get a job after clearing my RT as i know bosses will not be happy seeing their newly employed staff go RT straight away. However i cannot book my RT through the nsman website so i call my unit and they reply all RT session is fully booked till and there is only available slots in mid august at all FCC. Mid August is when i be having tests, is there any solutions for me doing RT as early as possible? Thanks

I was attending my baby nephew's full month celebration yesterday. My baby nephew is sweet just like all babies. Then this scenario happens, most of the visitors that attend the celebration will pat his head and says he looks so smart and when he grows up he will be either a doctor or lawyer.

I heard this comments at least 10 times. I wonder why must be doctor or lawyer? Why cannot be architect, banker? When we are young our parents will say study hard and you can be a doctor and lawyer otherwise you be a road sweeper.

I really need help. For the past 2 weeks , i been sleeping only 2 hours a day. Whenever i lie down on my bed, i will think of her. I really been making myself numb during the day by keeping myself busy.

Right now i sleep in the living sofa at night. How do i forget her completely?

I just call and ask to meet my gf but she said she is still busy. We hardly had time to see each other lately since she got promoted. Anyway i think i should really had a good talk with her, nowadays our conversation is all about her work.

i call myself cheap beacause i am attracted to another girl while still in relationship, i should not allow myself to get pass the first barrier.

I admit it may appear like a crush but chatting with her on msn is what i been doing for the past month. I am now doing all the things i could to forget this foolish act but please understand i need time to get over it.

Right now i am just lucky that i had a gf who loves a whole lot more than i love her and i hope i will do watever i can to fill up that gap.

Its hard to get over just like that, apparently my whole life had changed for the past 2 weeks. I dare not to sleep at night, i find myself attracted to crowded places as i dun want to think about both her and my gf.

I refrain myself from using the computer as i dun want to see "her" name in msn and the fear of knowing that she "block" my name just to avoid me.

The worst thing is my gf is busy rushing a work project that she had no time for me even though i insist i can wait for her to knock off from work. I try fetching her from work but after a few times she just said she prefer to meet me once a week till her project is finished.

Thanks alot for all your advice, i feel glad that i do not have to coop it all up inside my heart. I will get it out of my system and will prevent any first warning signs. I am just relieve that i settle this in the early stage as i knew my gf is always there for me.

I doubt i will tell her the truth but deep inside i knew a scar (black mark) is always there. Thank you all so much

Just because its seven years that make me do this thing. I knew i should not plunged into this mess at the first signal of warning. I admit this mistake but now i just dun know how to face my gf.

I really feel so miserable as my heart was swayed

I am a terrible guy, i meet my gf when i was in poly (she is older than me). At that time i was kinda of naive and childish (i still is right now), i never woo my gf and at that time i think it will be nice to enter a relationship.

So for 7 years i never had the feelings of any heartbeat thumping or breathless, it was just smooth flowing. We never had any breakup in the middle of our relationship but whenever we quarrel, my gf will said i never love her truly before as she was the one who take the first approach.

I knew time will heal everything but i really wish to tell my gf the truth

I mean it is just a feeling that cannot be explained. She is not pretty but whenever i saw her, i feel breathless and my heart keeps on thumping. Now i don't even dare to sleep on my bed as whenever i lie down i will remember the nights i had phone chat with her.

I knew i should be faithful to my gf but now i just feel scare of having dinner with her or dating. I can sense that she also sense something is amiss

I made up my decision when i told that girl i was just trying to toy with her
(but thats not true, Sleeping terrfifies me now. Whenever i close my eyes, i will think of her)

I have a gf who been with me for 7 years, She is very nice to me. One month ago i meet another girl. I guess i was attracted by her, we had lunch and phone chats and i could tell that she like me also, i just feel comfortable with her ( We never hold hands or do other things).

However i realised i cannot carry on this anymore, so i told that girl i was just toying with her feelings. I feel so sad when i said that but i could not be bad to my gf who give 7 years of her best life to me.

Now i am still trying to get over that girl but at times i find myself at the mrt station waiting to just catch a glimpse of her.

I really wanted to tell my gf that i did something wrong, i just cannot bear to meet with her eyes when we go out. I even stop holding her hands but i feel so terrible as i had been faithful for the past 7 years, i really feel that i am cheap.

Hello i am a NS medic going for medic vocation training in nee soon camp.
Is this a stay in or stay out?