OH MY GOD! FUCKING SINGAPORE! I've been having the TIME of my life. Going out and drinking at the bars with my buddies (I have an ass load of pictures). Enjoying their food! Which is AWESOME! Some of it's really spicy, like calamari skin...it kind of reminds me of bacon, it's really good. I had a fish dish, too, wonderfully amazing! The culture is awesome too.

The weather is nice too. Warm, it rained on us, but it felt nice. They're VERY strict about certain things. We were told that they were very offended by language...well...pah, we all swore up a storm and no one cared! Cute girls, too and they're very nice to talk to. The cab drivers are CRAZY, but so are we, so it's all good.

Whoo! They have a beer here...it's a lager....it's called Tiger Beer. AWESOME! It's slightly sweet, and it's 9% alcohol, so after about ten of em and a few triple shot jack and cokes I was GONE! Oh yeah...and a shot of Four Wisemen, five Jager Bombs....about three Irish Car Bombs....Double Shot Coke and Triple Sec...er....Sex on the Beach...two shots of that....FIFTEEN shots of Tequila...whew! That was all in a night...(the first night, well, the Sex on the Beach and the Irish Car Bombs took place the second night), but good times good times.

I must be an alcoholic...

That ain't good.

O_O

Alright, so I thought I was going to have more time than I actually do to continue my writings while on deployment. Unfortunately, I don't have very much time at all. Between the drills and actual casualties (I'll go into detail on those in a bit), the constant, non-stop working hours, and the severe lack of sleep, I haven't been able to so much as think about anything other than work and my girlfriend (There's always time for her). I started out as night personnel, which means my working hours were from 1830 (6:30pm for all you non-military types) to 0730 (7:30am). Well...that fell through. I'm working days now 0730 to as late as 2300 (11pm), but the majority of the time it's more like 1930 (7:30pm) or 2000 (8pm). Still, they're long working hours, and it's starting to get to me. That and somehow I managed to finish the books I had here so I'm out of reading materiel (I'm counting on all you lovely writers up on the site for that one...you know who you are).

Now, as for the drills and actual casualties. There was a flood last Wednesday...and I'm part of the Pipe Patching team. The Pipe Patching team gets sent down to whatever space the flood is in when the flood is due to a ruptured pipe. We cut the lagging away, and use some type of pipe patching (Mainly something called an EWARP) to stop the flooding. Well, in the kit is a saw, a hack saw at that. I was entrusted to carry the bag (kit) down to the space, and when we got there I set it up on another horizontal pipe in my usual position. I didn't even notice the saw had fallen out until it sliced my leg open from hip to knee. I've never seen such red flooding water in my life...

That

Fucking

Sucked.

If that's not enough, we had to get our third Anthrax shots and this one STILL hurts. Not as much as my leg, which is currently loaded with about eighty stitches and feels like it's about to fall off. God...and when I saw the blood I panicked. They hauled me out on a stretcher and took me to medical where they stitched me up and sent me to my rack for the day. I woke up and it was BURNING. I don't know what they put in it but it burnt like hellfire.

Enough about that...so now we're sitting in beautiful Hawaii. I enjoyed an awesome night last night, full of Hawaii Night Life, hot women in bikinis, strippers, and whisky. I didn't want to drink last night, but somehow Doug managed to get me to down a fifth of kentucky whisky. I wasn't drunk after that, but I had a pretty heavy buzz. I didn't want to be drunk...and thankfully, I gave myself a limit and took it slow, but my alcohol tolerance still isn't all that high, and whisky is some strong stuff.

Unfortunately, today I'm sitting here on duty and then tomorrow is a work day and we leave tomorrow as well. I'll be sure to put some pictures up somewhere and link them up so you guys can see some of the cool places I'm going to end up in.


But another thing is, no matter how far along into deployment we get, I keep thinking about when I was on leave this last time, while in Pismo. When I sat on Avilla Beach with my best bud Kevin and his fiance....Kevin's on the ship with me...we made a promise to his fiance, Ashley, and a promise to each other. The promise we made to Ashley was that we'd bring each other back safely, neither one of us would get too hurt to discontinue our service, and that neither of us would die.

The promise that we made to each other, was that even if we did die...that we'd die slowly...spend as much time fighting as possible until we can't fight anymore. We made our promises and took our vows...he and I started singing. We sang two songs.

Song 1

Here in this town
Safe and guarded
We call it home
The feeling that we shared now
Leave this place
Clinging to hope
In this midnight prayer
If we hold our breath
Go beyond this
We'll be reborn
I will carry us home

Are you still alive?
Are you scared inside?
Providence is blind when you're terrified.
Are you still alive?
Are you scared inside?
When we've reached the end of the road
I will carry us home

Oh no.
If all I've said
Is only a hope
Meaningless and true now
If I expire
Holding the wound
It's safety for you
If we make it through
Then I can save you
In this heart I know
I will carry us home

Are you still alive?
Are you scared inside?
Providence is blind when you're terrified
Are you still alive?
Are you scared inside?
When we've reached the end of the road
I will carry us home

And though I'm so far away from you
Will I be making any difference
After leaving you all alone?
And though I'm so far away from home
Can I justify my actions
After leaving you here in this town?
Safe and guarded
We call it home
The feeling that we shared.

Are you still alive?
Are you scared inside?
Providence is blind when you're terrified.
Are you still alive?
If you're scared inside.
I will carry you home
I will carry us home.
When we've reached the end of the road
When we've reached the end of the road
I will carry us home.

Carry us home.

Song 2

Another world collides
Will we open the door?
A message to the world it seems like
Everyone has a god
Standing up for what we think we know
Do we know?
We've got so far to go from here
And we've got so much to lose

With American eyes yeah
And curious hearts
We've got so much to learn
So we find! We find!

When you kill me
Do it slowly
When we've come undone
When you kill me
Please do it slowly
Send a message to the world

Another war will rise
Will we open floor?
Listen to the words it seems like
Everyone was cause
Fighting for a world we think we own
But do we know?
We've got so far to go from here
And we've got so much to lose

With American eyes yeah
And curious hearts
We got so much to learn so we find

When you kill me
Do it slowly
When we've come undone
When you kill me
Please do it slowly
Send a message to the world

There's so much more to learn
So much more to live for
More than we will ever know
It's a message to the world!

YEAH!

When you kill me
Do it slowly
When we've come undone
When you kill me
Please do it slowly
Send this message to the world
When you kill me
Do it slowly
Fucking come undone
When you kill me
Please do it slowly
Send a message to the world
Send a message to this world

Another world collides
Will we open the door?



That's about it for now

Til next time.

So right now, I'm home on leave and I have been since last...Thursday. I don't go back until Friday, but two days after I get back we go on deployment for six months. Well, this leave really didn't last long enough, but hopefully I'll take a longer one when we get back. I just hope nothing really wrong happens while I'm gone. I already know I have buddies that will keep me out of trouble, but just hopefully nothing goes wrong.

This is bound to be a very short journal...and how do I know this? Because it's already over. xD

Til next time.

Haha, I'm addicted to this thing for some reason! I'm as addicted to this as I am addicted to getting tattoos! ^^


If your life were a movie, what would the soundtrack be?
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that plays
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...

Format is as such:
Artist (Album name, if available) - Song Name (Comments)

[OPENING CREDITS]: Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest (DAMN IT!)

[WAKING UP]: Mudvayne - A Key to Nothing (Now that makes no sense at all...this song makes it sound like this would be a horror movie.)

[FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL]: Powerman 5000 - Nobody's Real (I love this song).

[FALLING IN LOVE]: Cold - Whatever You Became (Now that don't fit at all.)

[FIGHT SONG]: Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows (XD)

[BREAKING UP]: Evanescence - Whisper (o.O)

[PROM]: Cold - Suffocate (XD Oh my god...they played this at my junior prom and at my senior ball).

[LIFE]: Demon Hunter - My Throat is an Open Grave (....wow....that's some life there...)

[MENTAL BREAKDOWN]: Dethklok - Murmaider (XD OH MY GOD! DETHKLOK! I LOVE METALOCALYPSE!)

[DRIVING]: Seether and Amy Lee - Broken (That's a nice change there...)

[FLASHBACK]: Bury Your Dead - Angel with a Dirty Face (Good song)

[WEDDING]: Afroman - Because I Got High (YES!!!!!! HOLY HELL IT'S SO PERFECT!)

[BIRTH OF CHILD]: Soil - Unreal

[FINAL BATTLE]: Otep - Crooked Spoons

[DEATH SCENE]: Staind - Please

[FUNERAL SONG]: Within Temptation - What Have You Done Now

[END CREDITS]: Stone Sour - Inside The Cynic






Now for the journal entry.

So anyway, things seem to have gone downhill for me in the last month or so. I haven't had enough money to pay my cell phone bill, my last pay check was only $167 as opposed to the $700 it normally is, and I was completely broke because of other bills after the last pay check. Well, a couple days ago my wallet was stolen, so I had to cancel my credit card. But, my military ID, state ID, Social Security Card, and other things were in that wallet...I have an appointment on Monday for a new Military ID. So now I can't leave the ship or get back on the ship without an escort and same for getting back on base. I'm also broke because I had to cancel my card (Well now no one can use it). But...I am taking leave on the 24th so thank god I'll have that ID before I go. Deployment is also right around the corner. We'll be gone for 7 months in the middle east, so...*shrug* We leave for that at the beginning of May. I won't disclose the exact date because that would be a bad thing and I could get in trouble for it. Anyway, I'm sure things will get better. This is my first deployment so I'm somewhat excited to see new countries and have some fun. I plan to get at least one tattoo per port we hit, AND WE'LL BE GOING TO AUSTRALIA! YES! I can't WAIT for that. The first port we hit is supposed to be Singapore...or something like that, I don't know they haven't said anything yet, that's just a shipboard rumor.

Well, that's it for now.

Til next time.

Now that I have a wider selection of music.

If your life were a movie, what would the soundtrack be?
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that plays
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...

Format is as such:
Artist (Album name, if available) - Song Name (Comments)

[OPENING CREDITS]: Rodney Adkins - Cleaning this Gun (ha!)

[WAKING UP]: Linkin Park - Given Up (yeah...I really do give up every time I wake up haha!)

[FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL]: Linkin Park - In Pieces

[FALLING IN LOVE]: Tim McGraw - She's My Kind of Rain (Wow...coincidental there)

[FIGHT SONG]: Ill Niño - Rip Out Your Eyes

[BREAKING UP]: Metallica - The Frayed Ends of Insanity

[PROM]: Story of the Year - Take Me Back

[LIFE]: Weird Al Yankovich - The Saga Begins (Holy HELL that's funny!)

[MENTAL BREAKDOWN]: Spineshank - The Beginning of the End

[DRIVING]: Josh Turner - Just to be Your Man

[FLASHBACK]: Soul Embraced - Abandoned

[WEDDING]: Korn - Trash

[BIRTH OF CHILD]: Ill Niño - Unreal

[FINAL BATTLE]: Trivium - Drowned and Torn Asunder

[DEATH SCENE]: Cradle of Filth - English Fire

[FUNERAL SONG]: Linkin Park - Numb

[END CREDITS]: t.A.T.u - All About Us (Yeah, shut up, so what I listen to t.A.T.u)