Love is an attitude, love is a prayer,
For a soul in sorrow, a heart in despair;
Love is good will for the gain of another,
Love suffers long with the fault of a brother
Saturday, August 18, 2007
It's sharing time
Some personal verses that helped kept me through the past 7 weeks of my Guards course
"Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe." philippians 2:14-15
Apparently when I first came in every single one of these people I met in there were unceaseingly complaining. I just kept quiet like a good boy. ^^v
Well i think there was only one...can't really rmb the rest.
Oh well Goodnight
reflected by Juls @ 12:43 pm
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Saturday, August 11, 2007
The tag, the beret and the collar pin
indeed, they all carry with them the symbol of the elite status of a guardsman, and from hence forth I'll be wearing them, with pride embedded on each one of these accessories. Or as I was told by the Chief of Guards officer when he slapped the tag on me and presented the beret.
Weeee...hurray for company best
Before enlistment I thought nothing was impossible, that I could achieve multitudes and miles and easily plus surely pave my way towards becoming an officer just like my old man. Well, all's changed after enlistment. You encounter limitations..your own limits..limits which determines how much pressure you can take and how much energy you can expand in carrying out the activities/trainings/missions for the day.
Back in bmt I realised these fast and quickly collapse once it became harder and harder to push on, or rather the mental capacity was not there. My most detested sentence was when others start shouting "mind over body...mind over body." Jealousy?? maybe. Maybe that's the reason why I was rejected from command school *shrugs*
However, back here in guards, my performance was rather surprising..to me at least. Even at the peak of fatigue i could still achieve my personal best records; 10.20min for 2.4km run, 8.49min for soc, 17 chin-ups, completing 2km coastal swim without inflating my lifejacket, 10km endurance run in 51.45min...requirment's 1 hour, do lots of other crazy stuffs and still live to tell about it.
Your performance is govern by your limitations, courage and determination is when you exceed these limits.
Many a times during the hundreds of jumping-jacks, flutter-kicks, push-ups and many other crazy stuffs we do like SOCs...I kept telling myself that I'm reaching my limits very soon, that probably anymore of those I'd just collapse and die right there and then...but I never did. I never gave up...Thank God.
My mind grew stronger...tougher...I was impressed by the determination I had in completing the tasks ahead. Never experienced that before, or at the least in bmt.
In the words of my co, "a Guardsman never gives up, a Guardsman never leaves a fellow man behind, a Guardsman is always ready for anything that happens...come 1 min everything on and take up ur stretcher...we're going for a walk." And off we go for a never ending fast march around the vicinity of the camp, even though it was after the guards challenge, in full battle order mind you. [tweaked some things here and there to protect my blog]
Well..my only prayer now is that I'd never grow complacent and continue to strive to be even better at all the things I do. Even to be better then my PC....well that's what he wants me to do, so i'll literally be company's best..better than the commanders =P well well that's gonna take alot of work.
It really reminds me of my old school's motto, "the best is yet to be". It's not like what people like amorn or caryn would say, "oh, so that means your not the best la". Well, in a way as there are still others out there who are better then you without a doubt. But I see it as...being better even though you're the best. Looking in the context of my situation..it means though now I'm better then my fellow peers, I now strive to be better then the commanders, overtake them. It's like upgrading the league you're playing in; once you top the south zone tournament you upgrade to interschool tournament where you compete for the national title, and if you're that zai the national sports council will decide to take you under their wings and you train in the national team to compete with other countries.
All in all it's a forward movement...you continue to be better and better like a runner does, continuously working to break his limitations.
Likewise as a soldier, we activate limitbreaks and start slashing enemies into pulps....ok that was lame.
The line that ends off every victory speech or just any other speech back in acsi, "to God be the glory, the best is yet to be..."
Goodnight
reflected by Juls @ 1:57 am
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