corporal!

ok so now i'm officially corporal yusri. finally, there's a rank on my army uniform! haha actually, corporal isn't any big deal. wait till i become a sergeant, thn that's the big deal. well actually, not really. but never mind. oh i had to march 32km on friday night through the wee hours of the morning till around 6.30am. 32km! is no joke, i can tell you that! that's at least 6 km longer than the width of singapore at its longest. such an arduos and impossible task, but i did it! haha...oops i'll stop this bragging now.

so yeah, i'm going to the advanced section leader course, still in pulau tekong, in sispec. damn. but i suppose i've no choice. in maybe around 11 weeks time then i'll pass out as a 3rd sergeant! hopefully i will make it then. ah, it's been such a tiring week. i'm glad i have a break of around 4 days to recover and recuperate. time for me to enjoy myself and spend with myself. and to also sort things out about myself, and catch up on things that i've missed out. like football.

i totally have no idea what's going on in the epl now. actually i do, but it's so skimpy. well, now i do know quite a bit. that's why oon saturday evening (despite the exertions caused by the 32km route march), i decided to follow fabian and jj go chjimes and catch the chelsea-spurs match. my first tme catching a live game outside of my home! haha, i sound pathetic. well, the match was kinda dull after mido's sending-off. but i guess it was an interesting experience for me. chjimes is an interesting place, and quite peaceful at that. just sitting down peacefully and drinking my root beer float(which tasted abit weird) in an open air cafe. what a nice moment to savour. i shall try and make time for such occassions in the future. it's really well worth it.

the biggest news to rock newreaders this month? i say it's e israeli pullout from its occupied territories in gaza. it's really something big, i tell you. haha maybe alot of you guys dunno hell what i'm talking about. well, get a life you all, and go read up! this is your beloved earth anyway, and its really worth your time at least finding out what the hell's happening around you. and there's so many other things happening. the debacle over iraq, north korea, iran, EU and many others. sometimes i wonder why such things happen.

i realised this - that whatever happens today is directly caused by what happened in the days gone by. seriously, history is one of the most, if not the most, important and enriching subject there is around. and from this i realised, that to me, the 2 most important subjects that are around that everyone should have deep passion from it are history, and science.

for history, i have explained why it is important. but why science? to me history and science are bourne out of the same essence - why things happen? why does this and not that happen? science explains why things happen, like history, although their scopes are different. why can we walk? why do we eat? why can i see each other, while some people can't see? science explains it all. science is the answer to the simplest of things. like history, science works the same way - it's all about asking questions, and finding the evidence and the resources to find the answer to all.

don't you agree? i mean who cares about romeo and juliet? (pardon my biasedness against literature, it's because i really hate literature). many answers can easily be provided by science or history. people like to accuse me of being 'some history freak', but hey - at least i know the reason for things. at least i know the israeli pullout from gaza is a very significant event in 2005. and many don't even know where gaza is, or even what it is. it's sad. many rather live in denial, in their own absurd world of skateboards, of mesh caps, of tapered pants, of stupid-looking hair, of male pink clothes etc

i suppose you all realise just how biased yusri can be.