Saturday, September 26, 2009

back!

Yay i'm blogging again before a year passes since my last post. So many things have happened since that post, and evidently i have grown up. I won't bother recounting every major event in the past many months because its 12.34am and there still are things to be done before I rest my weary head upon my warm and waiting bed :p and it feels very strange trying to type in proper sentences so I'm going to revert to my normal way.

Now to jump straight into what I feel like blogging about at this unearthly hour. Life in logs has been fantastic. not so much because of the programme, but because of the people. from the start of pro term when we found out our postings and I was extremely sian about starting LOCC (because of like you know the stereotypical sentiments etc etc), the wonderful friends who accompanied me from Tango made the transition so much more manageable, and after *counts in head* 14 weeks with this bunch of to-be logisticians, I am once again immensely grateful for all of the them, especially my ever supportive and fun-loving syndicate. Each week, its no longer so hard to book in to camp, knowing that I'll get to see my friends again (and play BANG! and fool around and laugh a lot); the almost weekly route marches and occasional longer route marches aren't so hard to bear with the chats, random shouts and quirky songs led by over-zealous cadets; outfield exercises seem significantly less dreadful with good friends around you who pull their weight and support one another in all the crappy things we do (though there's still camou sigh). Maybe its a little difficult to understand. Its simply in our daily interactions. How almost everything we do is sincere and honest. Most of us anyway. How we give one another a boost whenever we need one. Or complain about things and scold as one. Or have a blast and face wrath together.

Maybe I'm not being very coherent. But it is 1.04am. And Kai Jun and I chatted quite a bit last night after lights out (haha throwing caution to the wind). And we ran 9.6km this afternoon. And actually I was only motivated to blog again after talking to Fabz. Anyway.

So, since joining logs, much of the change in culture has allowed me to reflect on how much I am truly blessed with, even during NS. Or rather, especially during NS. When one of our PCs asked me sometime this week who my good friends in LOCC were, I seriously thought it through (maybe that's why he assumed I didn't have any when I didn't answer him for quite a while), and while I'm not going to mention names here, I realised I am indeed blessed with a number of friends who can really be considered close. Thank God for these amazing dudes who mean so much more to me than simply course mates or acquaintances from OCS; for my exceptionally caring and fun syndicate, each member of which has brought something special to my pro term experience; for other friendships forged throughout the duration of the course so far, even the strange ones (heh), but which I know I can count on nonetheless. I never thought that I would find such joy in logs when I initially committed the upcoming pro term to God when we first got our postings. For that, I can't help but thank Him everyday for putting me where I am and for the wonderful friendships which I'm not sure I deserve.

Syndicate 4. Wayne. Jin Chao. Fabriz. Kenny. Seth. Val. Kenneth. Jem Tay. Matthew. To name a few. Yay I like friends :)

I think I'll review this post sometime tomorrow. Not sure if this is still me typing.

whizzer; 12:27:00 am