Jericholic

Time to pen some thoughts again.

Last week was quite a long one it felt. Having exercises for most of the days and was arrowed to be the conducting officer. There isn't anything much or good to mention about, just felt that its kinda waste time conducting them. The men felt super redundant to do the exercises, and i just felt tired watching and supervising it. Overall, i just wish to sum it up by saying, it's important in life who you work with and why you do so. Everything's a bullshit when people working around you are crappy and things are done for the sake of doing.

The only few fun things i like about army now are the evening to late night soccer games and my own talk crap sessions with my men. My relationship with my men in the company, has been good far so good. At least i'm deemed as a welfare officer in their eyes. Which is why when i get slightly loud, they will get shocked and behave themselves. Good or bad, you tell me.

After showcasing our company capabilities to CO in our exercise, he's more than happy with our performance. Credit goes to our guys and for my detachment, i'm going to fight for 2 days off for them. This despite the very fact that my immediate superior, OC, is only willing to give 1/2 day. Why? Cause he's worried that he might spoil the market and create red eyes among the OCs in other companies.

But for me? I don't care. The politics are so strong and crazy over there, i just can't be bothered with it. So this coming Monday, i'm going to propose the 2 days off for my detachment, and i'm going to argue my way there. Even though i won't get to enjoy any off days cause of the stupid "rule" that officers have no off days, i think my men deserve 2 days.

And my soccer craze has been revived since my secondary days. Played 3 nights of soccer despite the fact that 2 of those evenings, we had 5km run the following morning. And my right hip injury seems to be getting worse. Ever since OCS, the pain just lingers around every now and then. Army either makes or breaks you.

Finally after some real long procrastination, i submitted my IDA scholarship application today. Seriously i think i'm just like buying a ticket, hoping to strike the 10 million lottery. I doubt i'll get it, but there's no harm trying. Fingers crossed, i hope it will eventually leads me to my ideal career in IBM or Microsoft.

Last but not least, to my friends who are reading this, please don't try to make it hard for me to reach to you. Sometimes i just wonder why i need to be always the proactive one. Nonetheless, i guess everyone works differently, and to each his own. Till then.