Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Blah, I'm sorry. Things get in the way so much, distractions here and there, that you forget you have a blog to maintain.

I'd like to continue a bit about my NS life:

Basically over time, I came to realise that recruitment jobs like these are never easy. You have lots of people wanting to apply and you have to make sure you don't leave them waiting too long. Apparently some career fair events passed by and I was too obsessed to finish up some difficult applications, that I forgot about keeping up with new applications. Learning from that mistake, I made another mistake; leaving behind the difficult applications pending. And now the system we are using is about to be upgraded. Everything learnt will have to be unlearned and relearned. Currently, I'm rushing to clear up as much rubbish as I left behind, while balancing my attention with the new applications coming in.

However, I have come to like my position. I have the opportunity to visit schools, interact with people, eat lunches that aren't the same cookhouse stuff, and more. It may not appear as a very good position to be in to other people, but I guess it's all about perspective and what you make of every situation in life.

NS, for most guys, feels like 2 years in a cryo-chamber; 2 years of your time in life, frozen. But if you think about it, it can parallel life. There are similarities. It's all about the perspective.

I don't really feel like writing further now. I don't mean to sound insightful or anything with this blog post, nor did I intend on the continuation of NS to sound like this. It's just that I stumbled upon a blog this night and it made me feel... I don't know what, but it obviously changed the tone of this particular post.

I'll see you on Sunday.

Tuesday, 8 September 2009

My Life Story 2

I was supposed to post on Sunday, but it slipped my mind. But don't worry, the next one would supposedly come on a Sunday so there's a lesser time to wait between this post and the next!

Actually, I don't plan for this post to be very long, mainly because I'm kind of tired now. And actually, I can't recall much noteworthy things after NS already... there was a musical held by church about family where I helped (because I fell into Wendell's psychological trap). Us crew members were supposed to appear at the end to deliver a final song and apparently, I couldn't find my shoe in time so I never appeared on stage. Later I learnt that it was shifted somewhere else so too bad. Haha.

Then there was church camp. I can't seem to remember much, but I do remember it was in KL, which was a much better place than Malacca. It was a good camp, but sadly I can't say I absorbed a lot from it. As in applying it in daily life. Which is a waste... I should really go about seeing my notes again. Oh and I remember there was some mind and body workshop that seemed quite zen-like. The speaker some guy who looks influenced by the overseas... no idea who is he... but I dunno if that course was kind of overboard with zen-like appearances. Either way, most of the time I wasn't quite concentrating so he was difficult to understand. And the notes he gave us were powerpoint slides so it didn't help much.

Got a bit stuck, so I tried taking a 3 minute nap but I failed. Just woken by my dad. It's only until now that I realised, I actually had a bit more to talk about NS, but I'll leave it to this Sunday's post. It's late and I don't want to stay up thinking now.