The irony of it...

Yes. As I type once again beside my favourite window overlooking the pool, I recalled that yet another month has past.

Looking back now, It's hard to believe that exactly a year ago I was still doing fire and movement in the Tekong jungle as a SISPEC cadet.

It seems just like yesterday when we were still "camoing" our faces daily, doing countless pt under the hands of sadistic SISPEC instructors, counting down the number of days till we pass out as specialists.

Pondering once again about my purpose here(in tekong), I realised that army was not that bad an experience for me. True, I did suffer(my former instructors were, I should say less humane), I did get injured(countless of times), I did had a lot of weekends burnt(unwillingly and grudgingly), I had lesser time to spend with my family and of course XinYi(even lesser than in the middle of 'A' levels).

BUT...

Yes but, I did benefitted quite a lot from the army. For one, army was an eye opening experience for me. I, got to see Taiwan, had a feel of what being away from my family for a month was, got fitter, learnt how to be positively driven as an instructor, learnt how to handle politics, learnt how to work under pressure, and most importantly, make lots of new friends!

Indeed it'll be hard for me to sum all my experiences and lessons learnt from a single page of blog alone. What really worries me now is the uncertainty that faces me when I leave this place.

I worried about life in army before I enlisted, I now worry about life after army when I ORD.

Ironic isn't it?

Don't know, don't bother, don't care.