CLM,OOC and the weekend.

the last 3 weeks were somewhat emotional and fruitful. OCS has been quite a challenge, but due to my knee injury, i had recently been taken out of course on the second day of my service term. Before going into what happened, i sould touch on CLM, which is the common leadership module for the first 2 weeks of OCS. CLM was generally fun- with cool stuff like tower run and the gas chamber experience and all. My platoon, echo’s first platoon, is made up of an awesome bunch of individuals. Everyones so helpful, friendly, and full of drive and determination, it didnt take us long to get to know each other so well, and im sure that ive made some really good friends just in this 2 weeks. I also believe i did well during CLM. was one of the faster runners for interval trng and endurance runs and i also did get my ippt GOLD(: as well. physically, i dont think it was tough, but i guess the most challenging thing was to fight the “zzzzz” monster!

so how did i get OOC? the second week of CLM posted some problems. my knee started giving me problems and after every activity, i felt like my knee was going to break. the problem got worst and i started having problems wearing boots and i even had problems marching. didnt really sound off that i was in pain and all, so i just tahaned like a garang soldier and stretched alot at night before headed to bed. what finally killed me was when we had a turn out. i couldnt stand and i was about to faint. was shivering all over as well. so at that point, i finally fell out and was sent to the medical center at about 3am. the next day, i was put OOC due to my knee injuries and back injury from last year back at golf nationals. according to the doctors, its just a ligament sprain, but i think that theres more trouble than that. Going for specialists reviews and resting in bunk and helping out at HQ and the store is just how i spent my time nowadays. and most recently, ive been appointed the ic for OOCs. hah. the question of recoursing is surely still on my mind. but im going to consider it very carefully as i only want to recourse if im very sure that the injury would not come back. anyways, my wing comm and pc has been very supportive and all, so for now, im just resting and i’ll see how things go in a couple weeks or month’s time.

well, it wasnt really my first book out yesterday as i had specialists appointments and a nights out last week. this weekend was good too. met, jml, daniel, jase, bryan, alvin and kevin to catch a movie “the brothers bloom” at vivo yesterday and then we just sat and chilled over food and all. it was nice to catch’em all once again after so long too. the movie was artsy and it was pretty okay i guess. some parts of it were complex and perhaps confusing at times, but after abit of thinking and all, its easy to put the pieces together. i certaintly liked the second half of the movie. the intro was kinna boring and all. hahaha. but my rating. 7/10. a good artsy film la. had dinner with chris last evening too and i wish her all the best with her trip to port dickson tomorrow(:

today went to church. the sermon was awesome. it was by mrs samuel chan from trinity college i think. shes an awesome speaker and i was really glad to hear how God has worked wonders and how HE changed her life. would love to hear her come back for more sermons and all, so yeah. that would be nice. settled some hp stuff today too, and had lunch, shopping and just returned from dinner. i guess im prepared for another week ahead. its about 8pm now. gotta book in at 1030.

 

the struggle between love and money was really a burning question in my mind today. i believe these 2 entities shouldnt be always put together, but the more you think about them, the more you realise how inter-related they are and how you probably cant have one without the other. one thing’s for sure. buying love with money is usually superficial bullshit. at least from my point of view. i dunno. as puzzling as it is, im going to sort this out(: haha 

oh and i just got july’s copy of nat geog mag and hopefully i can finish it this week(: have an awesome week everyone. God bless you(:

~ by andrewtay7 on July 12, 2009.