Being intelligent, being appreciative and lastly good music. Trust me, it will make your day.

I was talking to my dad over dinner about the monotony of army life and at the same time, explaining what am I really doing in camp everyday. I have difficulty explaining to him what is Intelligence in mandarin. Imagine me having to say I am a chong ming soldier.

Well, I guess my dad probably took it literally. You see, I am the luckiest bastard in the army. I am drawing a 3sg's pay with combat allowance. I do not have to do SOC, i stay out and I rarely have a chance to wear my helmet anymore and I am PES A. My dad probably thinks that I am really so chong ming to manage to slack till this state and so he just nod his head with approval everytime I try to say i am an Intelligence spec.

He would probably boast to his khakis about his eldest son having a bright future ahead, afterall his son managed to siam the bane of the army and enjoy the fruits of it.

Shit, I hope my chief clerk doesnt read this.

Anyway, today is a super boring day. I came to camp and sat on my laurels for a whole damn day. I did a few camp passes, reduced a few red-tapes and built up relationship with my boss. It took damn long to reach 5pm. While waiting for time to pass, I started to ponder introspectively through thoughts about myself. I was thinking how often I contradict myself. But after awhile, I came to a conclusion that Man will always think that the grass is greener on the other side.

Its funny how I dislike Infantry life, digging trenches, living in the jungles for a mere 4 days and yet regretted not going to Infantry when I'm in Artillery. As a matter of fact, I LOVE war movies. I can watch numerous reruns of Band of Brothers or Black Hawk Down and I will never get bored. I love military history, inspired by the valour and heroism of individual soldiers that fought the great wars. Perhaps the monotony fuels the resentment but even till today, I would still think that Infantry life has the fun thing to it.

I have never like Science since primary school, neither do I like the languages. I loathe over Literature back in Secondary school and prefers studying for my Science subjects because I think its the most important subject of all. All my life, i picked Science as my route of advancement without hesitation. But later into my JC years, I always have that feeling that the Arts stream is always better than the Science stream. I would also think that I should have taken Economics instead of Physics or I should have went Poly instead of JC. It goes on forever.

Well, I guess I dont really appreciate the things on my side. I hope it doesnt happen when it comes to marriage.

Im surprised you are still reading on. Anyway, I bought an album by a local singer, Bevlyn Khoo weeks ago. Its only available at Gramaphone and she puts up only 1000 cds for sale. Reminds me of another Olivia Ong. She has excellent diction for her mandarin songs even though some of her songs reminds me of National Day theme songs. She did a pretty good interpretation of La Vie En Rose, which is one of my favourite. Unless you hate Bossa Nova and Folk, you guys should listen to her and support local music!!