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=( =( =( Its been a boring weekend... No PSP, Facebook is down, anime website is down. So all I have is the pokemon gold in the office comp, guitar, my jap book and onemanga. Too little entertainment for the 32 hours of weekend that I'll be spending in camp. Jap's going along really well. Have been learning lots of conversational stuff, as well as some characters of kanji. And it does help when you know how to read the difficult version of chinese. Still got a long way to go, cos next up comes Katakana, which I think is one step above in difficulty from Hiragana. Well without facebook and anime, the main source of entertainment has been in reading Ouran High School Host Club manga. And I'm really surprised that the manga is really much deeper than it is made out to be. I'm really envious of the way the characters are able to tell each other's deepest thoughts and emotions just by observing each other. That is something I can't do. Up till now I've always tho...

And so my first long weekend comes to a close. Shall give a couple of higlights! #1 Put $20 in BBDC account #2 Bought my LCP rank and sewed it on #3 Got my PSP memory card... Gonna put games in it soon. #4 Started on Ouran High School Host Club #5 Met Marcus for Spiritual Dicsiplines #6 Went for worship prac #7 Went to play pool with Paul, lost all games #8 Revised sign language alphabet #9 Went for AHM... (Pics coming soon) #10 Went for YE, service, then syc 2 meeting #11 Managed to book BTT on 16th Sep (Where did I leave my BTT book hm?) Things to plan over next week: #1 Meeting people #2 Spiritual disciplines with JS and Andrew #3 Stress Talk Games to put in PSP memory card: #1 Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness #2 Monster Hunter 2 Portable G #3 Yugioh GX Tagforce 2 #4 Medievil Resurrection Ok enough of listing stuff. Shall start with Ouran. Its seriously one of the funniest I've ever seen. Better than Clannad IMO. The interaction between characters is the highlight of the show, as ...

Well... Good news good news! Ben Low is now a Lance Corporal! Although its actually no biggie I'm actually glad my rank has been upped. Kinda feels like you've completed a quest or something. So I've added something to my to do list for the week. Reminders to self: Top up BBDC account Start asking people out Cooking Go learn more sign language Get lots of snacks and bring guitar into camp Get new PSP memory card Sew on IPPT and Rank on No.4 Yup so my first duty officially ended today. Its been great. Especially the weekends where we got to do anything that we wanted. Over the week quite a few exciting things happened... Such as the sergeants moving to our bunk, a new set of UIP signallers coming in, playing soccer, playing PSP, doing the laundry, AHM Briefing, watching Blood+ on the company comp, singing and playing songs to God at the balcony etc etc. Off count: 4.5 Leave count: 7 Total rest days: 11.5 Excited about this coming weekend and the next duty weekend. Lots of in...

And so... My duty has finally started. This week of all weeks. Not too bad, but had some things to do over the weekend which I had to cancel. Sorry to Sarah for at first agreeing to lead bs for faith, then backing out. Sorry also to Andrew and Marcus for postponing our spiritual disciplines thing. And SYC! Oh no... Seems like I can't go for any sessions if the week isn't switched. Aite... So list of dates I'm free for this month: Thursday 21st Aug Morning Afternoon Evening Friday 22nd Aug Morning Evening Saturday 23rd Aug Morning Afternoon Sunday 25th Aug Morning Afternoon Please feel free to book me. =) SMS or Email would be a good way to contact me since I'm too lazy to get a tagboard. Reminders to self: Top up BBDC account Start asking people out Cooking? Go learn more sign language Get lots of snacks and bring guitar into camp Get new PSP memory card Upcoming things: AHM 10 km run on 24th morning Spiritual Disciplines with Marcus & Andrew on 22nd afternoon Synth...

=( My comp caught a weird virus... Took out Daryl's old CPU to use. Woo. Well NDP this year was really an eye opener for me. Especially because I was involved behind the scenes, in a place where no one would expect me to be. It wasn't very fun, but it was interesting being part of security ops. I understood a lot more about what goes into a seemingly simple celebration. Its more than just fireworks, airplanes, and parachuters... Heading back to camp soon... A little update before I go. Not sure when my 8 SIG duty officially starts, but I know a lot of exciting things will be happening for me, including driving, meeting random acquaintances, cooking, gymming, spiritual disciplines, preparing for talks and worships, going for synthesis, more anime/facebook/manga/dota etc etc. Also, there are a couple of interesting and funny clans within my company, like the Jap and anime loving group, the MvC & KoF group, the Thai song listening group, the PSP players, the MP3 listeners, the...

Well had actually planned to blog on monday or tuesday... But got hold the comp in the office way too late to actually concentrate. So tried penning my thoughts down on a random NS issued book. Saturday and Sundays were days filled with many many many many many thoughts. Some happy, some sad. Just thought I'd share some of them here. A couple of those thoughts were from FOP. A quote from aunty KF: "The best teaching unsettle the comfortable and comfort the unsettled." Well, I think Mark Connor did exactly that for me. He got me thinking about responsibility. For way too long I've been trying to impose myself on those who are out of my zone of responsibility. It has led to uncomfortable situations, misunderstandings and conflict. And those times are those that I really regret. Well, perhaps I am responsible to help others walk the righteous path, but I'm not responsible for them, as Mark Connor said. Instead, they are responsible for themselves. So its time I st...