Valentine's Randomness

Dear Diary,

It is Valentine’s Day evening tonight and I am here... typing a blog entry. Sad, right? Haha... The song “Wind of Change” by the Scorpions is ringing in my mind and I am kinda “entertaining” someone who claimed to see my profile on a “Singles” website and somehow could intuitively guess my MSN address.... hmm... hard to believe. So chatting with her a bit since she wanna chat. My mind is wandering... I am back into the civilian world again. I appreciate it more now after a pretty tough time in the military camp for the last 2 weeks. It was our seventh in-camp with that major military exam, ATEC stage 2. The last two weeks were jammed packed with military activities and it was very physically exhausting. There were a couple of exhaustion cases including those of my company’s Officer-commanding (OC) and the battalion’s Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM) which had to be evacuated to the hospital. It was that serious. Our ATEC started off disastrously but after a rousing speech by the Commanding Officer (CO), we rose from the ashes and captured the build-up area objective in spectacular fashion. This morning, they told us that our battalion passed the test with a REDCON 2B. We could have done better but that remarkable turnaround was all that really matter, and summed up our fighting spirit.

Anyway, I am glad everything is over now and I will be back at work on Monday. Next year’s military in-camp will be in Taiwan, so... don’t really know if I should be happy or not, haha... In just one week, my neighbour changed his car. Scolari was sacked as Chelsea’s coach and Hiddink replaced him. Imagine three weeks in Taiwan... maybe Alex Ferguson will resign? Hahaha... In camp, I managed to read about half of the book “Mother Teresa – Come Be My Light”. It was really an enlightening read because I never really knew Mother Teresa’s love for God was that great! It was hard for me to imagine and it gave me a glimpse of that love and struggle a potential saint faces in her life. Most of the time, when I think of the word “saint”, I am just going to think of some friar-looking monk with a halo over his head, humble and meek, doves perched on his shoulders, holding a rosary, maybe some stigmata... haha... yes, my perception of them are so shaped by the Renaissance art. I hope I can complete reading that book soon.

My mind is kinda blocked now... that’s about it I wanna say tonight. Hoping to catch “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “Slumdog Millionaire” in the movies... if you are dateless and wanna catch those, do call me up and we can watch it together, haha... provided I know you well enough. ;-) Take care and have a nice weekend.

God Bless,

Andrew