Secret War Journal[23 September 2012]
Change
I would be lying if I were to deny this. Things around us are always in flux.I am no different.
The first (official) week in my new camp has just ended. I cannot say I enjoyed my time there.
It is quite a culture shock there. The change is immense. The privileges that we took for granted come crashing on us as it is suddenly taken away from us.
On the bright side, the food there is much nicer. In terms of variety, at least. I hope it lasts. (So this is an example of how funding matters, huh?)
I hope I can adapt to the changes there.
(Did you know the Burger King that we all used to mug at in Raffles City Shopping Mall is no more? It is now replaced by KFC. Guess, it will be always in our memory, how we crazily studied there, having lots of laughter and fun discussing the questions and just chilling, sometimes. Hahas!)
Hope
What is living without hope?
Despite the harsh awakening to the changes in the environment of where I mostly sleep in now, there are still things to be happy about.
It is often through tough times that we can relate to it after the whole ideal. Perhaps we could even smile on how far we achieved from persevering.
Not to mention, my best friend, Johnston who helped me to stabilise my mentality. I think I would had gone insane (like dangerously insane, not insane in a hilarious manner) from all negative thoughts in my head.
Meeting Qi Xiang and Meldon just to chill and unwind also helped a lot.
Shereen seems to be her normal cheerful self. Not bad! Hahas! I guess it is important to live your life to the fullest, no matter how bad the situation is. After all, we each have only just one life. Live life to our fullest and have no regrets. =)
Disappointment
Neither am I a stranger to this.
Seriously, who is not expecting conscription to be anything but disappointment anyway?
With hope, comes disappointment.
I had since decided I am not going to care. After all, I am inherently selfish (as do all humans). If they don't care, I would not too.
Have fun, and adieu.
Irony
Yet we still hope, despite the obvious flaws it has.
Sometimes I wonder we are idiots or not.
An author once said that Friends are meant to be hurt. If you do not know this, you do not know friendship.
Most of us would be appalled by this sentence initially. But think carefully on the sentence, who can really say this is absurd? How many times had you hurt your friends? Whether intentionally or by accident?
Humans are selfish people. No matter how much people may try to deny, the fact that they have friends reveals much. Do they make friends for other's sake or their own?
My friend, I believe the answer is plain enough, I need not elaborate.
We are just hurting each other. Does that make us horrible creatures? Perhaps.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
Change
The first (official) week in my new camp has just ended. I cannot say I enjoyed my time there.
It is quite a culture shock there. The change is immense. The privileges that we took for granted come crashing on us as it is suddenly taken away from us.
On the bright side, the food there is much nicer. In terms of variety, at least. I hope it lasts. (So this is an example of how funding matters, huh?)
I hope I can adapt to the changes there.
(Did you know the Burger King that we all used to mug at in Raffles City Shopping Mall is no more? It is now replaced by KFC. Guess, it will be always in our memory, how we crazily studied there, having lots of laughter and fun discussing the questions and just chilling, sometimes. Hahas!)
Hope
Despite the harsh awakening to the changes in the environment of where I mostly sleep in now, there are still things to be happy about.
It is often through tough times that we can relate to it after the whole ideal. Perhaps we could even smile on how far we achieved from persevering.
Not to mention, my best friend, Johnston who helped me to stabilise my mentality. I think I would had gone insane (like dangerously insane, not insane in a hilarious manner) from all negative thoughts in my head.
Meeting Qi Xiang and Meldon just to chill and unwind also helped a lot.
Shereen seems to be her normal cheerful self. Not bad! Hahas! I guess it is important to live your life to the fullest, no matter how bad the situation is. After all, we each have only just one life. Live life to our fullest and have no regrets. =)
Disappointment
Neither am I a stranger to this.
Seriously, who is not expecting conscription to be anything but disappointment anyway?
I had since decided I am not going to care. After all, I am inherently selfish (as do all humans). If they don't care, I would not too.
Have fun, and adieu.
Irony
Sometimes I wonder we are idiots or not.
An author once said that Friends are meant to be hurt. If you do not know this, you do not know friendship.
Most of us would be appalled by this sentence initially. But think carefully on the sentence, who can really say this is absurd? How many times had you hurt your friends? Whether intentionally or by accident?
Humans are selfish people. No matter how much people may try to deny, the fact that they have friends reveals much. Do they make friends for other's sake or their own?
My friend, I believe the answer is plain enough, I need not elaborate.
We are just hurting each other. Does that make us horrible creatures? Perhaps.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
