13/4/08

This weekend has been a crazy one. Spent all of 6 hours at home in the 32 hours out of HTA. Went to cell group for the first time since I enlisted. The message was on covetousness and the idolizing of our possessions. Recently I've been reflecting and found that indeed there's many objects that I've been desiring and realising later that I did not really need it. God has called us to be good stewards of our money and one of the ways shared at cell group to precent this aforementioned idolatry is to bless others which is something I'll try to do more.

After cel went out with Brian and Vincent, who is enlisting pretty soon. Had dinner at Bugis and later went to Brian's place to chill. Brian flew this morning to Australia and his uncle gave us a lift to church. After church met Fuyong at Bugis for lunch and walked around and caught up abit.

Seem to be dragging my feet more when it comes to preparing to return for camp. Somehow, I think that the energy I had at the beginning has been slowly sapping out.

11/4/08

I'm supposed to be really sad right now because those who passed the IPPT could go home today, leaving us who are going home tomorrow at noon. However, even as the day draws to a close, there's still many good things that happened. Managed to get most of my laundry done, did PT that I wouldn't have done if I went home, had a nice dinner and got to know my bunk I/C better. I thought that he was just a cool guy who had abit of a short fuse but tonight found out that he actually has many layers and hopefully as life here progresses I will get to know the rest of my squadmates better too :)

9/4/08

Today was Thaipusam festival here. To show our intense devotion we went on all fours instead of just two onto the burning coals. It was the most dreaded lesson for the whole week but fortunately I've survived it.

The rest of the day could be described as great as some semblance of free time has seemed to appear again, albeit off-schedule.

I don't know how I'd last to the weekend though, because I finished all my biscuits already :(

6/4/08

I'm determined not to let my spirits go down as I carelessly did last week. This week is going to be a great week and I'll make sure it is. Of course I'll be aided with all the biscuits I brought in for the week :)

Today was pretty cool. Brought in my Psalmist chordbook as my memory isn't so good with chords and songs. I borrowed my bunkmate's guitar and played a while and he came over to see the book. Later he played a christian song that I sang along to so he'd know how it goes. Didn't think about evangelism so mcuh when I came in as I was pretty focused on just myself. Hope that as time passes I'll be able to reach out to the people here.

Following today's sermon, hopefully in my life and how I handle things here I can be a light for Christ :)

R.I.P. My Beloved

Today along with you a little piece of my heart died also

I didn't even know when you breathed your last, but with your passing, you've taken along with you many things that have been and will continue to be dear to me.

Rest in peace my Seagate 500GB harddisk.

And damn you Seagate for making such a lousy harddisk. I'm officially pissed off at you guys now.

4/4/08

I'm at home right now because they decided there wouldn't be confinement for the first IPPT!! WOOOOT!

Kinda hit a low yesterday, just feeling miserable and the same went for almost everyone. Today was great though, with the news broken that there wouldn't be confinement and we could all go home today.

Going home though, was bittersweet, as one of the closer friends I have in the squad was confined because he surrendered his phone charger which he brought. Also, the guy in charge of our squad would be changed. He was a real great guy and we were all sad when the news broke out though he promised he would still be there for us and all. So far the instructors we got were rather great and hope the new in charge would be even better!!

1/4/08

Today we had our first IPPT which began at 6 and ended by breakfast. By breakfast too, my hopes of booking out on friday were dashed. Once again I failed to push myself sufficiently for the 2.4km run.

Oh yah, these are some of the PT they put us through and we do on a regular basis. This is a clip of our swimming lesson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-0nZuyEqrE