BenLow's blog

Hello from camp again. Now doing my final weekend duty, and boy does it feel good. As of today... 74 days to ORD, with 21.5 work days left. Isn't that great? By the end of this stint in camp I'll be left with 68 days to ORD and 15.5 work days left. Nothing much has been happening on this side, so not much for me to update. Have already done my off and leave planning in preparation for ORD. As of now feeling a bit sad that I'm leaving cos of all the good memories of weekends spent in camp, but just thinking about how I could've better used those weekends makes me want to get it over and done with. Thinking of continuing my story, which I've stopped writing since the manning room got very very crowded, but I guess it'll be in my free time. Have already thought of a good ending... Perhaps a MH fanfic is in order as well?

One thing I'm starting to really dislike about myself is my utter lack of foresight. After a long long long stay of 18 days in camp I'm finally out... And very busy. Should've seen that tiredness would set in very quickly in situations like this. In my 18 days have been through NDP deployment, AHM deployment, Duty and COC parade rehearsals. Its honestly taken a lot out of me. And one more thing. 18 days is more than what I had to go through in BMT gah. Tomorrow's gonna be very busy. With BB and a YE meeting and SYC. Just hope I'll survive. But theres one thing good about having busy weekends after busy camp schedules: All I can depend on is God. Simple.

Hiya there... Blogging from camp today, with 95 days to ORD, and 11 days to book out. Played soccer for the first time in a long time. Haven't lost my scoring touch though lol, but my stamina is now insanely bad. The knee pain didn't act up, cos I was mostly only walking, except only for short bursts of running. Got my first ever bee sting on my shoulder during the session. Felt numbness in the right arm, but healed up pretty fast after I plucked the stinger out. A movie I watched in camp for Christian fellowship got me thinking about commitment. The movie was about a christian missionary who at first foresook his missions to do what he was good at: athletics. This brought up an interesting question... Which of these things should he have done instead? All of us go through this dilemma: serve, or hone your talents? So, this guy called Eric Liddell made it to the Olympics in France eventually. Another dilemma faced him. The event he was good at, the 100m race, was held on Sunday

Just came back from my first driving lesson... And I was already on the road for quite a bit. Made a couple of clutch control related mistakes, but oh wells too much time not touching a manual vehicle does that to you. Things I noticed about CV cars vs Military vehicles: 1. CV cars have a accelerator which is much more sensitive (making me over-rev a couple of times) 2. CV cars have seats that are a lot more comfortable (I nearly took a good nap whilst driving) 3. CV cars have great gear changing mechanisms (absolutely loved changing gears) 4. CV cars are a lot more smaller (whee that means a lot more easier for me to gauge turning distances) 5. CV cars don't have a "cheat" mechanism for gears/clutch (boo cos army vehicles can release clutch faster and start on gear 2 hehehe) So I guess military and CV manual cars have their own good and bad points. Oh this week I refused to meet people unless really needed. Its all cos of the need for rest. 16 days in camp is no joke. To