IF YA SMELL WHAT THE HOCK IS COOKING??!!

Memories...

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

haha, its time to be optimistic and happy because in exactly 14 hours time, exams will be over, and a new world order will be established..i have more or less covered what i wanted for geopolitics, and gonna learn from my mistake for econs, gonna sleep early tonight......

people always complain when they r in the army, but really, sometimes to simply survive in the army u can just chuck yr brain one side...life as a civilian and a university student is much much more different. When u re in the army, u only care bout 3 things:

1) Book out day and timing
2) Pay day
3) Countdown to ORD

life can be monotonous and tuff esp when u dun have close army mates to suffer the same shit as u.. i was lucky because i had a wonderful platoon whom we all felt proud to be scouts or reconnaisance troopers, even though we may not show it overtly sometimes. We ve been thru the very worst shit together, in places as remote as Wallaby in Australia or the rainy jungles of Lim Chu Kang...We ve also experienced lotsa highs together, culminating in ATEC..we know each other's living habits so well, each other's faults and gd points haha..how we look naked individually

sometimes i miss such days of brotherhood..yeah i think i can call it that way appropriately..i used to be disillusioned after my bmt, coz i was the 3rd best recruit in my platoon of 50, but yet i wasnt selected be a spec or officer..i rem it left me very bitter, but looking back now, heck, why wud i want to exchange that for a group of trustworthy close friends,mates,buddies and brothers who trained, sweat, suffered and cried alongside u??

adversities bring out the very best of humanity, i still believe in that whole-heartedly. It is only thru the toughest and most enduring times then u can see the real person emerging from under the mask..maybe thats why the two groups of friends whom i trust personally and whom i feel personally bonded to are my JC ODAC frenz and my army mates. For 26th Is, we really have been thru so much together, the 22 of us..words alone arent enuff to describe what we ve been thru..i look foward to attending each and every one s of our weddings at the main guest table :p

maybe a fault of mine is that i inevitably always try to compare uni pple with those 2 groups of frenz, and it certainly is unfair of me to do so, esp when i only know some of these people for less than 5 months...sometimes i cant help it really, esp when i see so many pple around here with masks put up where they hide their real self..its quite sad sometimes when u think that for so many pple here, life in uni is only about studying and competing for better grades..i mean, u cant escape this reality, esp in singapore's rat race todae, but as i ve always said, life is much more than just about grades

haha, :p anyway exams havent end but i oredi got two offers of havocness liao..ktv or mahjong tom??? i wud love to have gone for both, but my throat s hurting = cant sing.. mahjong also cant coz i wud really like some good and peaceful sleep! mj can wait..my new tuition also starts tom night so yeah..lets take the new world order one step at a time haha! i m def going to jog tomorrow night!!! even if i m still not feeling completely well from fever and flu...as alex and i agree, we feel very very uneasy when we stop exercising for a period..good that my injuries from my bike accident are recovering as well..

thats it for tonight..i never use to be a fan of blogging, but recently i realize it keeps me in touch with myself.. hey, it feels good to talk to yourself sometimes haha!

The Incredible Hock