Too much sleep, too little rest.

Sitting in Starbucks with the cold rain falling down, outside in the chilly evening, sipping a warm cappucino which has been exhausted but I don't want more. I feel like everyone around me has a story to tell, even the buildings and the streets, and my breath comes out in small puffs and even the toddlers are tolerable with their wide-eyed blue and ( Read more... )

So, what has happened all this while? The school term is dawning once again, and a lot has changed, looking back at my post a year ago. Some things, don't, though - I'm still not going for orientation, short of one particular activity I'm helping a friend with. I'll probably not go for Rag Day, because frankly it's gaudy and overblown, and I don't ( Read more... )

Orientation week is nigh ( Read more... )

So I went to Vietnam recently, bringing along an old film camera because my brother was gonna take the digital to Europe. Had a bit of trouble getting the shots into a computer, but on hindsight it's a good thing I didn't develop them right off the bat anyway, as a fair number of them had colour balancing issues and lens obstructions because of a ( Read more... )

I came home on Tuesday night, and I'm on leave/off until next Monday night. Meaning the next time I step into camp, is Tuesday. Amazing, isn't it? Feels like I'm going to ORD out of the military, soon, which is true really - I am going to ORD soon. But you know, after more or less spending the entire day at home on Thursday (actually, not more or ( Read more... )

Have you ever thought, what are you good for, and arrived at something substantial? Something you were sure of doing, all the time, anytime, anywhere. Something you know you could carry through with you, all the years of life left in you, something you could just spend your days perfecting, making better, practicing. Something that you felt blessed ( Read more... )

Am in SAFTI. Little less than three weeks before training ends and a whole new experience begins. We'll see what that has in store for me. Seems like a long time since I last posted; looking back, it has been a long time. A lot has happened since then - some good, some bad - but I'll just pick up the pieces and carry on.

Really starting to tire of this army lifestyle. There's hardly any time off, and when we finally do get out on the weekends, there's still stuff to be done at home. Me and many of my friends have asked countless times, is this whole course really worth it? The way they treat us in camp is really terrible. We choose to be willing to do more for our ( Read more... )

Well, I got back from Brunei on Thursday morning, after SOCJOT (Support... Officer something Jungle Orientation Training or something. Basically, jungle orientation). Exercise LANCER, it was called. Wasn't anything particularly interesting at the start, mostly revision of what we already knew; out of the whole eight days' of army rubbish, only ( Read more... )