Monday, January 11, 2010

post 360

360 posts. The very fact that I have been slowly but surely reaching this milestone on this blog whose URL was inspired by a dragonball character never ceases to amaze me. How I still come to this place to pen down my thoughts and reflections although i must admit i am pretty lazy to write everything down at times. Why is 360 a milestone you might ask. I personally do not have an answer but i have always been fascinated with the number 360. I have been in a reflective mode of late probably inspired from msn convos i have had with a couple of my friends over the week due to the privilege of staying out. I would rather stay in cause i get to save money and spend less on the outside meals and all but thats the problem with chinese, we are never happy with what we have no matter how good it might seem to be. But i digress.

I started this blog in the last decade after 2 very good friends of mine javier and wangguan began blogging. Perhaps I was just following the trend then. Or maybe i was going through the teenage phase where I felt compelled to pen down my thoughts about school, stress and all that crap a teenager goes through. Whatever the case, i started this with the help of the 2 of them and an interesting fact is that all the different templates of my blog have been created by either of those 2 sluts. What began with the daily rants of an ah lian teengae boy "OMG! I saw not 1 not 2 but 3 trans at plaza today...omg lar..its like at foodcourt rite, got this grp of 6 women(seemingly). but then look twice rite can see got half is fake de. wa lau. got boobs and long hair also " soon became an avenue for me to pen down significant moments in my life thus far.SJI, Band investiture 05/06, the last day of SJI, Perth, Renaissance Gold, O level results, A level results, VJC, Army. Unlike most of my friends(actually mostly girls), I have never really had the habit of having secret posts or a locked blog where i choose not to publish certain things for all to view. In that same aspect I have been pretty open in what i write after reading through some of the more significant posts. Reading this open book about my life(in a very literal sense) really brings back many wonderful memories on how i matured as a person over the years(i would like to think i grew up), how i got over the ah lian style writing. I am still amazed that i used to talk/type like this. Okay maybe I still do so but of course thats not the point. Most importantly though it reminded me how I have had and still have the luxury of being friends with truely great mates that i can always count on.

Being in KTSC for the past weeks has been an eye opening experience. I might think my life sucks after being rejected by 3 scholarship boards, i might think it sucks because I have had no luck with my love life, i might think it sucks because I am doing practically nothing at camp now. But a short 2 weeks of interacting with the men really opened my eyes to how wrong I was, perhaps even utterly foolish to think this way. Financial problems, domestic problems, criminal charges, these are just some of the day to day problems some of them face and talk to me about. How being able to moonlight to earn an extra 60 dollars a week is the only thing they hope for and how some of them only hope to learn as much as possible from being a clerk in the SAF and nothing else and also how some of them tell me how lucky i am to get the opportunity to go to OCS while they do not even have the chance. I am rather fortunate compared to many of them. Being able to grow up in a sheltered environment with very loving and supportive family members behind me in everything i do, with friends whom i can hang out with week after week and still not be sick of them, with the ability to buy a pair of shoes costing almost $100 without so much as a blink of an eye. Sure there are those who are doing way better than me but life aint too shabby for me after all. 3 weeks into officership and i have already felt that i have seen and learned so much. I am that much closer to signing on that dotted line.

1 year on, 2 years on, 10 years on, i wont not know if i will continue to blog at a frequency as i do now(which is actually not very often) but one thing for sure is that this blog will always be the custodian of the memories of just about the most memorable years in my life.

happy 360 post www.buuhx.blogspot.com and may we share more memorable posts together in the coming years

Twistin' at 3:54 AM