sian.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
other than my confinement week and field camp in tekong, this is the first time i stayed in camp on a saturday. i consider myself lucky that i'm rewarded a one-day off next friday, but still, staying in camp on a beautiful saturday sucks to the core.
it has been a long and tiring week. started off with preparing for an outfield exercise, followed by a 2 day outfield (when i am excused boots). Spent the fourth day on some shit paperwork, and the last rounding up everything after the exercise came to a close. tensions are high in camp as things are peaking up, with each commander having vastly different goals and aims. in other words, it's just politics in the play.
on my way home, i thought about the approach that i am going to take when dealing with in-camp affairs. it certainly is best not to care about those affairs so much and just make an effort to do my job well, but it is also necessary to play along with them at times for self-protection. i guess i'm pretty clear on what my direction is. and most importantly, i don't want to drag anyone with me.
i finally found someone whom i can talk with in camp, i hope things won't screw up this time...
and finally, i get to play with my itouch.
当我静下心来凝望,
在混乱中,
其实有熟悉的秩序。
在陌生中,
其实有熟悉的记忆。
在复杂中,
其实有单纯的美好。
而下一站的路,
就这样清楚浮现出来了。
it has been a long and tiring week. started off with preparing for an outfield exercise, followed by a 2 day outfield (when i am excused boots). Spent the fourth day on some shit paperwork, and the last rounding up everything after the exercise came to a close. tensions are high in camp as things are peaking up, with each commander having vastly different goals and aims. in other words, it's just politics in the play.
on my way home, i thought about the approach that i am going to take when dealing with in-camp affairs. it certainly is best not to care about those affairs so much and just make an effort to do my job well, but it is also necessary to play along with them at times for self-protection. i guess i'm pretty clear on what my direction is. and most importantly, i don't want to drag anyone with me.
i finally found someone whom i can talk with in camp, i hope things won't screw up this time...
and finally, i get to play with my itouch.
当我静下心来凝望,
在混乱中,
其实有熟悉的秩序。
在陌生中,
其实有熟悉的记忆。
在复杂中,
其实有单纯的美好。
而下一站的路,
就这样清楚浮现出来了。
busy busy
Monday, September 21, 2009
this has been an ultra busy weekend. new tuition assignment, resting at home, clubbing and soccer (yeah baby man utd won), wedding...and finally received my itouch. haven't got time to play with it, so i will leave that to next week.
wells...i guess i do realise that towards many things, i feel utterly helpless. alot of matters tend to be loop-sided, and yet we can't do anything to it.
it's going to be another long week. =(
wells...i guess i do realise that towards many things, i feel utterly helpless. alot of matters tend to be loop-sided, and yet we can't do anything to it.
it's going to be another long week. =(
handwriting analysis
Sunday, September 13, 2009
did this handwriting analysis test...it's really quite accurate.Yun Hao is moderately outgoing. His emotions are stirred by sympathy and heart rendering stories. In fact, he can be kind, friendly, affectionate and considerate of others. He has the ability to put himself into the other person's shoes.
Yun Hao will be somewhat moody, with highs and lows. Sometimes he will be happy, the next day he might be sad. He has the unique ability to get along equally well with what psychology calls introverts and extroverts. This is because he is in between. Psychology calls Yun Hao an ambivert. He understands the needs of both types. Although they get along, he will not tolerate anyone that is too "far out." He doesn't sway too far one way or the other.
When convincing him to buy a product or an idea, a heart rendering story could mean a great deal to him. He puts himself in the same situation as the person in the story, yet he will not buy anything that seems overly impractical or illogical. Yun Hao is an expressive person. He outwardly shows his emotions. He may even show traces of tears when hearing a sad story.
Yun Hao is a "middle-of-the-roader," politically as well as logically. He weighs both sides of an issue, sits on the fence, and then will decide when he finally has to. He basically doesn't relate to any far out ideas and usually won't go to the extreme on any issue.
People that write their letters in an average height and average size are moderate in their ability to interact socially. According to the data input, Yun Hao doesn't write too large or too small, indicating a balanced ability to be social and interact with others.
Yun Hao will be candid and direct when expressing his opinion. He will tell them what he thinks if they ask for it, whether they like it or not. So, if they don't really want his opinion, don't ask for it!
In reference to Yun Hao's mental abilities, he has a very investigating and creating mind. He investigates projects rapidly because he is curious about many things. He gets involved in many projects that seem good at the beginning, but he soon must slow down and look at all the angles. He probably gets too many things going at once. When Yun Hao slows down, then he becomes more creative than before. Since it takes time to be creative, he must slow down to do it. He then decides what projects he has time to finish. Thus he finishes at a slower pace than when he started the project.
He has the best of two kinds of minds. One is the quick investigating mind. The other is the creative mind. His mind thinks quick and rapidly in the investigative mode. He can learn quicker, investigate more, and think faster. Yun Hao can then switch into his low gear. When he is in the slower mode, he can be creative, remember longer and stack facts in a logical manner. He is more logical this way and can climb mental mountains with a much better grip.
Yun Hao's true self-image is unreasonably low. Someone once told Yun Hao that he wasn't a great and beautiful person, and he believed them. Yun Hao also has a fear that he might fail if he takes large risks. Therefore he resists setting his goals too high, risking failure. He doesn't have the internal confidence that frees him to take risks and chance failure. Yun Hao is capable of accomplishing much more than he is presently achieving. All this relates to his self-esteem. Yun Hao's self-concept is artificially low. Yun Hao will stay in a bad situation much too long... why? Because he is afraid that if he makes a change, it might get worse. It is hard for Yun Hao to plan too far into the future. He kind of takes things on a day to day basis. He may tell you his dreams but he is living in today, with a fear of making a change. No matter how loud he speaks, look at his actions. This is perhaps the biggest single barrier to happiness people not believing in and loving themselves. Yun Hao is an example of someone living with a low self-image, because their innate self-confidence was broken.
Yun Hao is sarcastic. This is a defense mechanism designed to protect his ego when he feels hurt. He pokes people harder than he gets poked. These sarcastic remarks can be very funny. They can also be harsh, bitter, and caustic at the same time.
Yun Hao has a healthy imagination and displays a fair amount of trust. He lets new people into his circle of friends. He uses his imagination to understand new ideas, things, and people.
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another long week.
it's yet another week in camp. things are picking up, and i think the camp is going to get real busy soon. people will start pushing work around, and the unluckiest will have the most arrows on him. i wish things were much simpler. it's possible, but people just don't see how simple things could be. that's office politics...went out with bmt platoon mates yesterday. supposed to have lunch together, but one of them overslept and the other don't know went to turn up, so only 3 of us ate pizza hut. movie didn't work out as a result, so we had tau huay at selegie road. then it was orchard central and ion orchard. it was great having good accompaniment. such events are getting rarer for me nowadays.
i also bought myself the 3rd gen itouch. i'm not one who will spend so much money on electronics, but i decided to be nicer to myself. life has been hard...
next week is live range. i'm not sure if i'm shooting, even if i am, i won't be getting money for marksmanship. whatever...hopefully things will be better next week. with an early bookin to mount radios on vehicles.
cheers.
nostalgia.
Saturday, September 05, 2009
it's the first bookout after a month long of mc. alot of politics going on in camp, especially with the arrival of the new sergeant who happened to be my primary school mate. although life in camp is generally boring, alot of things i've learned in secondary school is re-enforced, and i learn more things about the world. while others see the better side of life, as in the case of the many success stories available, i see the not-so-good side of life...i guess i would deal with things differetly if i was the new sergeant. i hope things will improve for him soon. it really sucks to have a bad relationship with your superiors.i had an early bookout yesterday because of the Army Open House. I shan't comment much on it...if you're interested you can go visit it tomorrow. haha.
now for today. i really had a great day. after more than a year, i met up with marcus. it was weird at the beginning, for he had acquired a slang after his first year in college. it was as if i didn't know him anymore. but things got better a while, and soon it was like the past. we chilled at lot 1 before heading to bugis. had pastamania at bugis junction and walked around the mall. it was cool to be able to chill with someone after so long. and i'm both envious and happy for him for being able to lead a new and carefree life there, away from whatever things that are going on back at home. he did say that when he's there, he completely forgets about things here. i guess it really isn't a bad thing after all...
he's not sure when he's going to come back to the region, which means that i may not meet him in a few years. it's kind of sad to think of this, but...it can't be helped. i don't want to be like a burden or something, so i've decided not to disturb him when he's there. but i will bug him to meet when he's in the region. HAHA. on a serious note though, it's cool to catch up with people once in a blue moon, and reminicise the old days.
after he went back to jb, i decided to watch the proposal. it's a hilarious film...and pretty meaningful too. i liked the ending, allowed the audience to decide for themselves how the actual ending would be like.
this meeting with him (and the movie also) made me reconsider alot of my priorities. although his overseas experience made me want to go also, i guess i'm different from him, and probably not cope with it that well. afterall, i'm an introvert. this is truly not an excuse, and all other reasons i had for not going overseas are still valid in some sense. i've also realised that regardless of what problems i'm having now, i need to move on with my life, and live in the present. he's living his new life in waterloo, with a new group of friends and comapny...no reason why i shouldn't.
and the movie...i'm not sure if i know exactly what having a family or being loved by a family is like...but i guess no matter what happens, no matter what differences you have with your family members, they are still your family.
it's time to move on with life (for the last time), and not spend so much time thinking about things that can't be helped. live in the present, and life's gonna be great.
i need someone special in my life now...that's what i'm short of. haha.