Tuesday, January 01, 2008.

Its been a long time since i updated my blog, almost 2 months. Sorry dear for having to make you remind me to do it.



Well my exams ended on the last day of november and i am glad it ended. 8 papers altogether, while i heard ppl say that is the amount they have in 3 sems. Taking 8 papers was not as scary as i had imagined earlier. Just taking 1 paper at a time and believeing in yourself. Others may say u sure die, but hey if u want u can do it man. It was stressful but thanks dear for being so understanding and caring. Thanks for giving me the space to study and thanks for supporting me. I love you and thanks for standing beside me and giving me the encouragement...



Had just 1 week of break b4 my ICT came up. Hey it was a real eye opener for me....



1) I pushed myself to the limits for this ICT,maybe at times physically but more importantly mentally. During the Mission, we had to walk a long distance with many obstacles. The lack of sleep, water and proper meals for the 2 days and 1night before; the heck care attitude of the people around you; the constant grumbling and complaining of others; and the famous "s" hook through the forest. (Imagine a s shape route that is continuous for 3 hours in shin deep mud; straight distance of 1 km). Through the negative feelings around, i would say that if you dont keep a positive attitude,u will just sink. What i learnt was to be optimistic in the face of obstacles. Difficult,but you got to force it.



2) Finally got to shoot my rifle after so long.....yeh.......got to kill some people to. Phrase to remember:

Pioneer Section:" Sir, we got no more ammo"

CO: " What is you bayonet for. Take it and kill the enemy!"

That really took place in the field and the opposing force got quite a scare when our guys actually did that.



3) I am surrounded by a bunch of lazy bastards. Look to the guys formerly from S1 branch, you all are damn lazy. CK and jeremy can volunteer to join us in the field and also to do the morning run, i dun see why the rst of u all cannot.They are having a worse PES status than most of u but they still cheong. You all are just pushing shit to the two of them. Jeremy is already CAT Y1 but he is not complaning, so why should you try to siam. In office,all the shit u all try to push to Kumu to do. I know that he is new to the branch stuff so at least help him. When we went outfield,you alll could at least do the nominal roll for him.



4) There are many people out there who are real chao keng. Want to siam the whole ICT and keep taking MC. I am damn disappointed with jian zhong. Try to siam still involved in incident to escape BME.....youare damn chao keng. Hats off to Paul Tan. Injured still cheong, got attachment still push it away.2 people,same education and background but 2 polar attitudes.



5) There are really some sad cases out there. What happened to people and the world. People losing 1 hand. Guys who are 21 and left to take care of the kid with the parents and gf abandoning them. Glad that i am lucky to have the ppl around me.



6) Darling sorry that i could not take care of u when i should. Sorry to have make u buy the presents for the rest.



Straight after the ICT came our BBQ. The annual BBQ with daniel and friends.it was especailly fun to be friends again and to finally hold my dear after 2 long weeks. It was really fun despite the slight drizzle but importantly was the company with all u friens together.



Christamas eve was really great. Finally went for IVP swim training and got to learn new stuff about training and will be using it for the hall swimming. Went for dinner with my darling at my aunt's place. Had chilli crab. Wierd for a christmas dinner but i really enjoyed it. 2 maybe 3 crabs. Went for Midnight Mass after that and dear you really looked very pretty. Mass was the same,but wierdly it was special.It is the only time of the year where everyone dresses up and somehow there are surprises. This year, all my darling's "sisters" attended mass together...but sadly colin passed away.......will make a post specailly for him.



Christmas was spent at my darling's place. Woke up late and ate leftovers(Christmas eve dinner) for breakfast......pork ribs. Went to Erica's place at about lunchtime, waited for the rest ofthe kids to come. we spent the day playing monopoly.If there is one game to train patience it got to be monopoly. Watch the kids play for 4 hours. Had great fun that day.Thanks for inviting me over dear.



28 Dec. 1year onfrom our DnD. YM organized a BBQ, we got more ppl from the youth groups coming but lesser confirmands.Saw the ABS kids, damn cute, all crowd round the fire. After the BBQ was the YM leaders retreat.Experiencednew things and got many insights asto what i need to do and what we all got to do to get TOL up and running. Very encouraged by the fact that many ppl are supporting us.

NEW YEAR"S DAY........finally 2008. New year and new sem,got to work hard.

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