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Yestrerday morning, I completed reading KO Island. It is local written and yeah its damn good. It is one of the best that I have ever read. I read it from cover to cover in one sitting and so I actually slept only at 2:30 a.m just to complete the book. Too bad it is a library book. I would really like to have a copy of it. I don’t know if I woud want to search for it. Anyways, I strongly encourage the guys to read this book.
The story is about this bunch of people at a resort in one of the Indonesian islands. It was an isolated island and then they were attacked by a group of hard core pirates. Their rationale was to take the people in the resort as hostages ( which most are Singaporeans ) and demand ransom from thei families or governments. Then the captives someway or another managed to escape and they had to get help from the SAF. Before they arrived, the captives were to defend themselves against the pirates. The SAF then came and annihilated the entire clan of pirates. It seems that the storyline is simple but I can bet that it is actually much more interesting. It was very realistic and it some sort place me in the thick of the action as well. The story mainly highlights the importance of National Service and how helpful it is in times of trouble. Many personalities were explored throughout the book even though they were brief.
There is this one particular character in this story that captured my attention. He is one of the main characters by the name of Ling. He was at the resort for a meeting with his company and his boss is this guy by the name of Jek. Jek is also one of the main characters. Ling is a good man and he started off early in his career with the Army when he signed up for the joint-polytechnic scholarship. Then he proceed on with his NS and met Jek. Jek was also serving his NS and they were both close friends even though Jek was Ling’s superior. After Jek finished his NS, he left and futhered his studies while Ling stayed on as a regular. A few years later they met again when Jek was back for reservist and by then Ling was already a Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2). But Ling was a different person. He did not seem cheerful as before and told Jek about his desire to work for him in his newly established company. Jek was taken aback of course as it was always Ling’s dream to be in the Army.
Ling was coerced to leave his career as there were things that reminded him of his past bad memories. One of them was his promising relationship with his loved one that turned into a nightmare. He was in love with Valerie his love since childhood and then they were about to get married when Val started to change. She seemed to try to break away with Ling and Ling thought that she was just stress from work. But things turned out to be ugly. Ling then knew that Val had fallen for another guy and was nor interested in him anymore. It must have really hurt him to belft like that but he understood that there is no way in which you can force love. So they broke up. It is tragic and I hope that my..ok I shan’t mention it...mine..different..So yar..then there were other bad experiences which led him to leave the Army.
Yeah..so its really a well written book. Nothing much had happened these days. I'm dying of boredom.
::: I'm born to understand :::
The story is about this bunch of people at a resort in one of the Indonesian islands. It was an isolated island and then they were attacked by a group of hard core pirates. Their rationale was to take the people in the resort as hostages ( which most are Singaporeans ) and demand ransom from thei families or governments. Then the captives someway or another managed to escape and they had to get help from the SAF. Before they arrived, the captives were to defend themselves against the pirates. The SAF then came and annihilated the entire clan of pirates. It seems that the storyline is simple but I can bet that it is actually much more interesting. It was very realistic and it some sort place me in the thick of the action as well. The story mainly highlights the importance of National Service and how helpful it is in times of trouble. Many personalities were explored throughout the book even though they were brief.
There is this one particular character in this story that captured my attention. He is one of the main characters by the name of Ling. He was at the resort for a meeting with his company and his boss is this guy by the name of Jek. Jek is also one of the main characters. Ling is a good man and he started off early in his career with the Army when he signed up for the joint-polytechnic scholarship. Then he proceed on with his NS and met Jek. Jek was also serving his NS and they were both close friends even though Jek was Ling’s superior. After Jek finished his NS, he left and futhered his studies while Ling stayed on as a regular. A few years later they met again when Jek was back for reservist and by then Ling was already a Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2). But Ling was a different person. He did not seem cheerful as before and told Jek about his desire to work for him in his newly established company. Jek was taken aback of course as it was always Ling’s dream to be in the Army.
Ling was coerced to leave his career as there were things that reminded him of his past bad memories. One of them was his promising relationship with his loved one that turned into a nightmare. He was in love with Valerie his love since childhood and then they were about to get married when Val started to change. She seemed to try to break away with Ling and Ling thought that she was just stress from work. But things turned out to be ugly. Ling then knew that Val had fallen for another guy and was nor interested in him anymore. It must have really hurt him to belft like that but he understood that there is no way in which you can force love. So they broke up. It is tragic and I hope that my..ok I shan’t mention it...mine..different..So yar..then there were other bad experiences which led him to leave the Army.
Yeah..so its really a well written book. Nothing much had happened these days. I'm dying of boredom.
::: I'm born to understand :::