Self reflection

In this entry, I shall reflect on myself since I have pondering over the characteristics of me during my nights out today. Anyway, I am not narcissistic. Thus, I will not mention my looks, etc. In fact, I will reflect upon my characteristics. This is so as I feel that people keep lamenting on others’ Achilles’ heels and never reflect if his characteristics are really marvellous. Well, dissidents may comment that there is no right or wrong characteristics as long as he does not harm people. Yet, I feel that it is critical to reflect on oneself at times before he commit such sin without him realising it.

Firstly, I feel that I am workaholic. In fact, I have never really rest (i.e. going for holiday, etc) except for my 7 hours of sleep daily. I even resorted to forecasting my leave and off to do constructive stuff (i.e. learn driving lessons, etc). Worst of all, I even plan events for my sacrosanct nights off every week. That is why it is no surprising to hear me saying that I like my current NS appointment where I will have routine work to do. I simply could not slack for more than 1 hour as I feel that I should not squander every precious minutes of my time. Thus, I would definitely dig for work if I slack for 1 hour. On the flipside, I heard that it is easier to get aged when one is always busy with stuff. Well, I guess that this should be best explanation on why people say that I am 25 yrs old even though I am not even 20 yrs old. WTH!!!

Secondly, I have realised that my poor memories are attributed to my workaholic nature. This is so as I will strive to complete all tasks that are assigned to me promptly even though my brain cell could no longer capture so much data at one go. That is why I may look addled when my superiors give me tonnes of info at one time. WTH!!! I used to be able to memorise things well in the retrospect. Why can’t I sustain such a good characteristics (in my opinion)?

Thirdly, I feel that I am demanding person when I strive for perfection if I feel that it could be done. As a result, it is inevitable to hear sarcastic comments from people who tries to dissuade me. Well, I feel that I am not being unreasonable for wanting to achieve this since everyone is paid with wages that aims to motivate them to produce high quality of work.

Am I unreasonable person or I am still living in the utopian world? SIGH!!!

2S20 ’06 Class Gathering

Finally, I could proudly blog about my JC class gathering. Well, it is not easy to organise class gathering since all of us have different committments. For the guys, most of us are serving National Service. For the girls, some of them are trying to balance between work and studies. Thus, I am indeed pleased that Hwee Sien could organise 19 07 08 2S20 class gathering @ Punggol Park barbeque pit. Anyway, I have never knew that there are barbeque pits at Punggol Park even though I lived in Hougang for the past 19 years. SIGH!!! I am indeed a frog in a well. Worst of all, this gathering has ‘forced’ me to navigate the secluded barbeque pits at Punggol Park using the map sent by Hwee Sien (see below). HAIZ!!!!

Anyway, I agree with Marcus that we kept asking our classmates the same question to start a conversation. For the guys, we will ask questions like- which camp are you in? What is your current appointment? How is your unit? For the girls, we will pop questions like – which university are you in? What course are you currently pursuing? Well, I guess guys serving national service have lost to the civilian world. Thus, we have to use such template to start our conversation. Yet, such situation will come to the end when we ORD. On the flipside, I have seen significant changes in my JC classmates. For the guys, I generally feel that National Service have transformed us positively. In the case of Marcus, I was indeed astounded by his conversation with me. His thought is indeed mature and almost inspired me. In view of this, I feel that he deserved to be commissioned to be an officer. In the case of James, he has become fitter NOT fatter. He attained gold award in IPPT even though he struggled in his chin up for NAPFA test during JC days. However, there are still outliers for my assertion. For the case of Chris, he is still havoc as usual, giving an juvenile image (Oops!). For the others, I have not noticed much distinctive changes. For the case of Derek, he is still full of rubbish. (Haha!) However, I have mixed feelings when I left the gathering since I understand that we are heading on  different track of life. For instance, we are split into different universities pursuing different courses when all the guys have ORD. Worst of all, my closest classmate is pursuing his studies in Australia for 6 years. I really miss those moments when all of us unite as one. In view of this, I feel that JC days are flying fast though I admit I lament that it was too long during JC days. I guess I have better not view through the JC photos that we have taken. If not, I will be emo (as usual).

Anyway, I really hope that all the 2S20’06 counterparts could come back as one to partake the SRJC run on 2 Aug 08 even though some may be involved in NDP.