Did I mention I am out of course again? This time, it's because I can't handle all the oil and stuff. I've got some skin allergy on my hands. Long story. Anyway, it was a humorous encounter with the MO in Ayer Rajah camp. No, I'm not elaborating. Top secret. Now I'm back to square one, being the odd-job labourer again. The fella who got posted to ARC with me is out of course too. I wonder just when I will get a stable vocation. Until then, I can't settle down and seriously plan ahead. I still don't know when I will post out and where. Not that I'm not enjoying the fortune of booking out every day. It's just that life there is even more boring than when I was in PRC. There are a ton of things I can't do now in the office. So all I do is to talk crap with my friend and stare at the clock, waiting for 1730. I feel like I am condemned to a detention barrack. The crime? For having medical problems at the wrong time and place. Perhaps I was not meant for such vocations after all. Perhaps God has something better in mind. Well, it's all included in my 2 years of service anyway. As the MO said, we are all passing time here.

My mother suggested I disrupt in July next year in order to make it for the new university term. I thought it was a good idea. This way, I could save many months. Assuming I don't disrupt, it will be about 7 months of waiting for the university term to start in 2007. That's 7 months of my life! 2 years wasted is more than enough. However, I heard that university might start in Jan 2007 instead. Can someone enlighten me?

I just applied for NUS earlier. I saw this double degree course of Econs/Law. It certainly looks interesting. Econs alone puts me off, but not when it's with Law. I have a premonition that it will be a very hot course. But for now, I have no interest in Econs yet. I am taking one step at a time now. Application, interview, aptitude test.

I finished a novel on a lawyer today. It is interesting, but I don't like the ending. It seems that there is this common belief that all lawyers will not have a happy ending. This guy here took a major plunge in his career. Although he saved his love life, he ended up penniless anyway. Greed is the devil here. There is a whole lot of money out there in the corporate world. But people tend to take the shortest cut to wealth, rather than earning it at a slightly faster pace than their spending speed. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Actually, I put myself into his shoes. Between ethics and lots of cash. It's hard to make a choice when you are really at that point in life. I don't know what I will choose and that is bad enough. The process of applying for scholarships forced me to think about my future. I came to a conclusion that if I really wanted to advance my career, I have to go overseas where the opportunities look for me. And to work overseas is not something easy. Lots of factors to consider. I'm not risking a headache thinking of them. But that is another option for me.

I have been thinking of what Master told me right before I entered ARC. He told us that we already have commando blood in us. And I began to think back on my past 3 months in the commando formation. Indeed I have learnt alot and experienced many hardships. The word 'commando' will serve as an inspiration whenever I meet with any obstacle in future. I've gone through the worst after all. Not all of it but enough of it to make me grow.

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