Anything Considered

This year's celebrations for me were a little too much, too soon. Having a big dinner with the specs (which was really really good), steamboat buffet in camp, overnight lan, a Battery ORD function in Sentosa, and steamboat reunion dinner back home almost back-to-back is really exhausting. Now I've got a fever to start the holidays. And the prospect of guard duty on Sunday isn't very welcoming.

But good and bad are often mixed up together. Dinner with the specs, seen in the light of our last few days as NSFs together, was a wonderful get-together that really highlights the year we've been through. It isn't easy to make friends. And I daresay I'll be very much upset if I can't come back to press on with this bunch for ICT in the future.

Dota with the usual bunch last night was really enjoyable too. Even though we lost it was a match I enjoyed much more than others because we were trying to play as a team and have a go at it together. We need vent. Haha. And some daring enough to lead.

The Battery ORD function was a great time of reliving an army life soon to end. All the good times in India, the laughs, the people - you aren't wrong when you say these 2 years aren't about the chionging and the labour, but about friends found and the memories made with them. I am not a very good commander, but I have excellent men. And I owe a lot to them.

It's strange, isn't it? Army is (still is!) the bane of my existence, but somehow I'm starting to look back at a lot in a good light. Somehow as time passes and the hurts of circumstances fade, the one thing that endures is a friendship found and proven. And of these I have plenty to be thankful for.