out of inertia

this feels like i’ve just gotten over a transitional period, and that its full throttle ahead. or rather, i’m just glad to have broken out of my inert state that had been gradually culminating over the past few weeks, the origin of it fuzzy now that i’ve moved on.

i embarked on a new hobby (: dvd buying! lol. sparked by several like minded campmates, persuaded by the movie fanatic in me. i bought schindler’s list and the terminal. never spent so much time in gramophone perusing dvd titles before. looks like i’m going to have a new favourite shop. haha.

finishing a new james rollins adventure novel. i’m quite a fan of adventure novels, but haven’t been keeping up. love matthew reilly’s stuff too. i’ve finally settled back to camp life after a month of stay out and putting on a few kilos. hopefully i’ll shed that soon with AHM on sunday and IPPT the coming thursday, both fast approaching. i welcomed response training after surviving a gruelling month learning to drive ( perhaps it was just my instructor, who wasn’t one of the nicer ones around), started appreciating 39SCE cookhouse’s food alot more after the barely ingestible rations where i was (the exception being food at mandai camp, which is superb.) i think i have finally assimilated into ns life and culture although retaining my identity, hopefully keeping a safe distance from conformity.

new specs are now with us. feels a little strange though, knowing that your peers are commanding you and relaying orders. a lesson in humility perhaps, or maybe just some elitist pride/previously inert ego screaming from my inner state of being. something i need to get used to.

looking forward to the weekend, signing up for basic theory so i can start civilian driving lessons, fireworks, running 10km and indulgence in the privileges of a civilian.

so there.

untitled

so long for now

will be back somehow

a hiatus

no status

till then it seems

silence already reigns

unless for good reason

a post for the season

tata.

a lesson in perspective

humans are such hypocrites. i can’t deny being one myself sometimes.

on the road, we curse and swear/think angry thoughts about silly pedestrians dashing out on the road with a flickering green man, causing the driver of a vehicle intending to make a turn and cross that particular crossing a sudden burst of panic as he jams his brake and steps his clutch, his instructor a few steps to eruption, hand on the handbrake. who’s to blame? the pedestrian for being in a hurry? or the driver who failed to check the edges of the crossing before making that turn?

when walking, we jaywalk as though we own the road, despite the constant whizzing of accelerated cars in rush hour traffic, just for convenience’s/laziness’ sake, often to the rage of drivers who would sound their horn incessantly as they pass, with good reason too.

we do unto others what we do not want to be done to ourselves. enough said.
i have learned my lesson.