another week goes by and the time to commission goes by... thats good but the time to my assessment sortie is coming near... that sort of scares me.. its like a practical test where the instructors will see how good your skills as midshipmen of the watch and midshipmen navigational officer are.. Sometimes, rather lot of the time, i crumble under the pressure of the instructors. I just hate it.. o well. tests.. hai... life is so full of them. Lets just hope that this one will just ease by.

Just finished serving a confinement this week on the saturday because of failing to meet the standard for the rule of the road test... its something like super advance theory for the sea. Time is so precious... especially weekend time. Argh.. din have much time to spend with cheryl at all. Had to go to idp openhouse where i just zonked out. Too many things to do.. found it hard to concentrate and got very frustrated on looking at the universities.. ARGH...

Lord grant me the strength to go by, the strength to carry on with another week.


why?

I wonder y i had to fail that test. now this week i have a confinement which i have to finish... sigh... that seriously sucks... hai.. am so bored and all... Beginning to run out of anime.... need more titles to dl.... sigh... please whoever has msg me so i can go and get it... also i have to go and get another harddisk which i have been longing to get for a really long time so that i can store all my anime... that be really cool.. yawn.. i wonder what i am going to do now..



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Singapore's Martial Tradition

Had a talk about whether singapore has a lartial tradition. It was in Safti library with so many knowledgable pple. !@#$. I seriously cannot believe that my course officer send my batch there without any history or background knowledge. Though there was a portion on where it was so so damn hard to stay awake, the rest of it was really interesting. The talk was given by a Dr kevin somehting... not very good with names. It suggested links with the SVC. Singapore Volunteer Corps. If everyone knows, i cannot stand history at all. But this was weird. I was listening. Intently to the arguments... After that, COL CHIANG suggested that those 'heros' that singapore has not known could be becuase Singapore only came about after Malaya and during those times, we, as a society tend to adapt our heros to where they are applicable to us at the current point of time. This made me rather sad and made me wonder... i have never questioned the facts and the background of what i did learn in pri or sec school. I only assumed that it was correct. Could this be some kinda propergander? One cant be all that sure right? I will not attempt to cover in extent what the lecturer covered becuase, one, i am not able to, and two, the extent of details provided cannot be portrayed by me. I cant rem. Lastly, it laid evidence on somethings about how our singapore society works and how we could related to your grandparents or whomever was in tthe war. By personal choices that they made, In those times, everyone could have been a hero.!

--Just some food for thought--


A personal choice

How do i put this? I have no idea whether i am right or wrong. Its always good just to be yourself and be what you wanna be but on the other hand, are you supposed to adapt yourself and your character to the surrounding? I myself am not sure whether i am able to answer that question. I am one whom believes in speaking your mind and heart whenever you feel like it. At times it causes spite and aggrevation. Especially in the army but well, i'm a rebel against politics... i seriously cant fucking stand politics of any kind. But reality proves again that we all have to blend in dun we. Have i been sticking out as a sore thumb that much? I think that as time has gotten by, everyone should have gotten used to me... Maybe i just haven tried to just be 'one of them'. I also have to say that my attitude from my sec days has not fully dissipated just yet.. and maybe that another vice thats been stuck with me. But army changes people. We all learn, have i not grown in the army. I have. I have alot and i dearly embrace that. I wish that i could please everyone but i know thats not possible. O lord, what do you want me to do. I dun care whatsoever about what others say and i feel thats me but if you want me to open up and listen and maybe just change or something, i guess that i will change. That choice, i leave with you.


70 more days

I just failed a test that i was studying really hard for this week and got a confinement. I really did study hard and it seriously pisses me off that i failed. but life goes on. The format that i studied for did not come out. Sigh. Mids wing had water sports day yesterday as well, and my division has never lost a water captains ball match till yesterday. I hate the feeling man. I missed like 5 shots. Damn the utter disappointing feeling. Hasn't really been my week. Think i fell sick on one of the days but continued to push on and the fever went away after cramming myself with vit c and a tinge of sleep. Thank god else i'd probably be screwed now.


Aaron Ng& Michael Luo

Michael first k.. Aaron's probably will be rather long. I have to say that i myself am not sure when you will be flying off and all. I am not sure not because i dun care. Its just that maybe my situation awareness has not been that good as i have been trying to concentrate on other things. Dude, I just wanna wish you good luck for this trip. I know that you will excel. You've set your mind on being the best and trying your upmost hardest to excel in the navy and i respect that. To choose a path with such determination is not something many can do. When i first got to know you, I have to say that you were not really on my ok people list. But neither did i hate you. You must understand that i am not one whom respects one easily. Even up to now, there are few whom have really earned my respect. Not that they really care but yeah. Hope you get my message. As time went by, i learnt how you tick and saw the motivation within you. To have you go to Dartmouth is both good and bad. Good in the way that i noe that is the path which you have wanted, whether you regret taking it or not i dun think is the point. Its your goal, part of your vision and you are slowly and steadily chipping away at it. Good for you brother. 53rd Tiger will be at a loss without you as you have always been part of our structure. A pillar standing tall portraying our glory. The fittest guy in our division. I have to say its sad to have you go and not be able to commission together. I'm sure you have gained the respect from all of us through all this time. We will continue to stand tall. If you dun mind, i'd just like to pray for you. Lord, I just wanna place michael in your hands, that you may protect him as he goes forth to achieve his goal and take yet another step closer to his vision. Lord, may you guard his health, his mind and his determination. May he fit in well with the rest that will be there. And maybe too let him meet you and personally get to know you. Amen. So my friend, go forth, conquer and show the rest of the people there how we Singaporeans can stand out, never failing to update the rest of the division i hope. This is my webbie, i dun think that i will change it. Last thing. Please take care of aaron. thanks. Feel free to e-mail me too ya. Thanks.

Aaron. Aaron. What can i say? i dun even know whether you will bother to read this. There were so many things which we once shared that are so sad to see have just dissintigrated into oblivion. I cant explain what happened because truthfully i dunno. I would just like to explain myself and all that has been happening all this while so that you may understand. Hopefully. How did we ever drift apart? The Tango days of you, me, vic, sampan, zhiwei, nick, pius. I guess that those were the times har. The defining moments. I have to say that i have not been the best i could have been to be there for you in times of need. Also its coz i felt that i could not reach you. Could not quite figure you out. I did try though whether you believe it or not. Those times when you were in depression, you din wanna tell me the problems that you were facing. I understand that its a personal choice to but i wish that you did. I've always been a good listener. I started drifting after i kept being put down by you and sampan at the mids underway. I kinda felt that you thought of me as inferior and thats was it i think. I ain't sure. Well, i think that i should stop here. I still wear the watch you gave me when i'm in the cv world. Dun wear it to camp coz i'm afraid that it may get damaged or scratched and stuff. Do i just wear it for wearing sake, fashion purposes, etc? I thought it might be better to let you know in case you think otherwise. I wear it because to me, it has really deep sentimental value. Of friendship, of hope, of encouragement, the times we used to share and the little things that guys and most people tend to look through. Yes i am a very sentimental person. I will always rem you. Wish that we could have all commissioned together like we once said. But then again, are we supposed to not respect others personal choices in treading the part that they have decided on? Its still a whirl within my head. But if you ahve to go, step up and shine because you have it in you. Hope that you have not thrown away the zippo that i gave you. Its meaningful to me and kinda like the first christmas pressie i have ever bought for anyone excluding my ex-girlfriends. I decided to stay away from vic and the rest after we really drifted coz i felt that they were the only support that you had and i did not want to interfere since it was like i was always getting in your way and seemed to always piss you off. But over all this time, i've seen you smile and i wonder whether it is real and true deep within. I hope so. I hope that your problems that were there for you once have gone. Take care my friend. Tread carefully and stay strong. If ever you are down and out, just close your eyes, take a deep breath and move on. I dun like to see you get depressed. Know that always and have always been praying for you. For your safety, your happiness and other stuff. If i had the chance to go back in time, I wish our friendship could have remained strong.Please take good care of yourself. There is so much i wish i could say but i cant seem to gather all my thoughts all at once. Maybe coz i'm just so tired. Dunno if Michael will really take good care of you of not coz he cant be looking out for you all the while. If possible please remain in contact always. You know my e-mail, hp no and all. My add is Blk 48a Dorset Road #24-117 S(211048) if you ever wanna write instead. Lemme know how i can contact you k. To end, i'd just like to say again what i've said once before. Rem it k. At least i hope that you will.

We Care,
We Share,
We Laugh,
We Cry,
The threads of love with which to tie,
A knot of friendship,
Till we die.


*to all those whom think that i'm gay, GO SCREW YOURSELF. I am not and neither is aaron. If you fail to understand, its your loss coz you are to shallow to comprehend the god given gift of friendship.

--out--


just a little more

Lord, there is so much that i wanna thank you for. Your eternal comfort, your everlasting presense, you transcending serenity, the joy you give me through my friends and of course my gf. Through all this time especially since i enlisted, i especially feel that you have placed me under your soverign wings protecting me each step of the way. I cant explain why i do not go to church though. Could it be that i have just made it a habit, could it be i am just lazy? i apologise prefusely for that. I close my eyes and pray that i will once again go soon. Not just to please you but as an offering to you. Lord, i pray just for that little more. Just that little more determination not only in the things which i wanna go but also to serve you, a living sacrifice and an example of a christian. So as i end this pray, I thank you again for the strength you have given me. In your precious and holy name. Amen.