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For 2007, I hope to...

:Enrich myself as much as possible before Uni:
:Do well in Uni:
:Visit Hong Kong or Taiwan:
:Learn hip-hop dancing:
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Sunday, February 19, 2006

Are we really happy?

My first guard duty on a weekday other than friday happened this wednesday. Gosh. Not a really good feeling... Having to continue work on thursday is really taxing... Ok so I just briefly explain for those who dun really noe how guard duty works in my camp. Guard duty is split into 4 shifts: 5.30 pm to 9.30 pm, then 9.30 pm to 1.30 am, then 1.30 am to 5.30 am and finally 5.30 am to 9.30 am. So there are 2 details (of 2 ppl each). And we have to do either shifts 1 and 3 or 2 and 4, other times in which we could rest. But of course with handing/taking over and stuffs, the supposed 8 hours we can get usually turns out to be 6 hrs max. Couple this with the fact that we usually tok kok with the other ppl in camp, or for the detail doing shifts 2 and 4 (we can't possbly sleep from 5.30pm to 9.30pm) and u get only ard 3 hours sleep at best.

Then we get duty rest from about 9 plus to 12.30. But it never really turns out this way la basically. So we just get very little sleep. Period. And we have to continue work as usual after that. And u noe wad's the worse part? I heard that in the past, the duty personnel are allowed to go home after their duties. SO UNFAIR!!!

So anyway that over liao. But i still got duty tmr!! Grr. Yup. Thankfully I had the whole of saturday to rest myself and play my dear heroes 4 and watch my accumulated recordings of shows from as far back as the week before. Yes. I'm a realty-tv freak. Then on to roday which was the exact inverse of today. If yesterday was X, today it's 1 / X. Day started in the morning. Tuition from 11 to ard 3 plus 4. Then rush rush home (having a quick lunch on the way). Dump my stuff. Head to gym with lao da (after a good one month can u believe it??!!) where I worked myself out. Yes it was a real workout cuz my muscles were slacking after one month of no-work. The dinner at BPP after that. Then back home. So there. One day gone again.

I guess this is the reality of my sundays from now on. Kind of self-inflicted I think. I like to use the phrase "self-inflicted pain/torture" because I really believe many a times we feel terrible because we let ourselves get that way. We (or I) choose to load ourselves with so many things and responsibilities that we could have done away with otherwise. Is it greed? Or the need to prove our worth? Or our "oh-pls-dun-shatter" pride? I dunno... I read my horoscope once and it referred to me the "classic over-achiever". As good as it may sound it definitely isn't easy getting there...

Or sometimes we allow others to get under our skins. To make us feel frustrated when all we could have done is to have simply taken it easy. Haha. easier siad than done right. Ok enuff with this philosophical talk. My point is - just try lor. Try to make urself feel good and at ease. Money and status def cannot buy u that... so dun try to work so hard or try so hard to get those. Internal happiness is what we (or I) should be craving for.

And I am trying hard...

I think.

Terence pens his legacy at 10:58 PM


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