christopher's

http://ChrisTheOCT.livejournal.com

Sorry Blog, for the next 9 months i'll be using LJ to blog about my OCS life.

brb :)

*OCT = Officer Cadet Trainee

To make myself feel bad, There's a chance I'll start to wonder if this was the thing to do

HOHO this means 3 weeks confinement and a whole lot of crap to go through. haha

This also means that currently i'm a Cadet, also known as the lowest form of life on earth. But that also means that once i'm done being a cadet, it'll be sweet. :)

I get to be a lieutenant.

Yesterday i watched Predators. It wasn't a very good show i must admit but i realised that if we had only painstakingly took the extra effort to watch the director's "talk" on the show then I believe that we'll be able to appreciate the show even more, now that we can somehow enjoy it from the director's perspective.

Well i did that yesterday and surprisingly i felt that i could appreciate the show better than the christopher that did not watch the director's whatever.

There's no comfort in the waiting room.

I need a new blog skin.

I need to blog properly.

Dear Blog,

How has the days of advertisement spamming on windows of tag boards on blogs with empty hasty posts been? You seem black but I'm sure you don't mind.

And if you haven't noticed, I'm no longer a recruit but a private now. This doesn't make much of a difference in my life except that I have a one week break from regimentation and that I'll be in more shit in the days to come. The two months of army or rather, basic military training (BMT) really did change me quite a bit.

Its obvious that I did learnt to polish my boots and how to shoot a SAR-21 however thats not the main take away. Army helps one recognise his limitations and his character. Being it in times of stress or slack, army tests one's stalwartness in maintaining his integrity. Though i haven't actually found mine yet, I guess the more "shit" in days to come would assist me in doing so.

On a whole, I've became more "garang". Sometimes its hard to shift your mindset from Army to Civilian. Take for example, a few days back i was walking out to parkway after a rain and i blatantly stepped into a puddle despite knowing that it was there! When in soldier mode, we don't avoid puddles and mud because we're wearing boots.... i guess i forgot that i was wearing sneakers. haha

Army's an awesome place to find friends. I highly cherish the friendships I've built over there. Two months might be short, but in hours sense, 24x5 or 24x6 hours a week is actually quite a lot of time spent together. Quality and quantity, both can be fulfilled. We're all put through stress and difficult situations together only to find ourselves encouraging and helping one another. These situations somehow magically help form strong bonds. Bonds formed from in army feels kinda different from the ones formed in school. I'm not comparing which is better, but just stating my thoughts.

I hope i never lose contact with my BMT friends. :) awesome buddies.

In fact we just had a platoon BBQ last night and some of them came over to my place to stay, haha feel the camaraderie man.

And in army, everyone shows their true colours somehow. These days i find myself judging more and more people... and consciously condemning them. This is bad; hypocritical of me, I'm no better.

oh well.

Goodnight :)