thoughtless ramblings

yay. i've survived yet another series of torture attempts of the most gruelling and sadistic in nature possible to the typical NSF: lectures.

oog.

time for practical lessons.

whoopee.

woah. i'm must be bored out of my skull to actually write my blog down.

POI TTT (Train-The-Trainers) course = LCC (Lecture Confidence Course). oog.

lectures totally suck. most especially SAF lectures. if you're going to give a lecture, then at least have the damned courtesy *NOT* to read from the slides directly. a more ideal option would be to read from a prepared set or notes or something. anything but the slides.

and no, a printed hardcopy of the slides does not count.

jeez. the hypnotism of powerpoint slides.

i'm not even sure i want to be here in the first place. the impossibly stale lecturers are all repeating what we've heard at various points in time at Maju Camp, just that it's more formal in nature, but it still gives me the 'been there, done that' feeling. maybe i'm just ranting, but i'm sure the frustration stems from the helplessness i'm feeling while listening to them mumble on.

droning, more like it.

i initially thought that as long as we are able to escape from the dreaded COC parade, i would be more than willing to come for this TTT course. but i'm beginning to wonder if the parade would have been the lesser of the evils.

very much the devil or the deep blue sea, don't you think?

the spectrum of ranks here though is really broad, ranging from a minimum rank of 3SG all the way up to CPT. more interestingly, our next RSM is in this course as well. given what i've seen of him so far, life *MAY* be slightly better with him around. but i could be hugely and drastically wrong.

*shudder*

moving on: cookhouse food.

though the cookhouse here at clementi camp has an odd smell about it, but the quality of the food is markedly better than Maju's, though the default quantity leaves much to be desired. but the canteen... well. let's just say that it needs a little bit of improvement, somewhere, somehow.

yeh.

even as i write this, i've got this CPT up on the rostrum trying hard, but failing miserably, to capture his audience (that's us!) in some light banter as he so charmingly tries, with huge success, to hypnotise the whole lot of us into visiting La-La Land. he's absolutely amazing. wow.

off the topic of lectures for the time being. it's been quite a while since i last took a bus early in the morning. and i mean really early. probably around three years, in fact. i've totally forgotten how relaxing it is to leisure saunter to the bus stop and actually being able to carry out the physical act of boarding the bus instead of being forced to translate that act into an activity resembling a riot. some of our fellow human beings apparently seem to think that the bus would help them get reincarnated faster.

oh my. dear CPT Rosnan is encouraging us to get physically violent.

Mentos is very quickly becoming my best friend.

someone, please save me.

whoa. i slept through the entire saturday. entirely enjoyable and guilt-inducing. but i guess that's what you get for watching dvds from 10pm to 7am. but i'm not complaining. *grin* the latest remake of The Return Of The Condor Heroes is very much watch-worthy, although not many fans of the classic novel will appreciate the rendition of Yang Guo in this remake, as his portrayal comes across to many as childish and immature in many scenes. but still, i find him refreshing as it shows Yang Guo in a new light. very pretty Xiao Long Nu too. *swoon*

moving on. our problems with the 'dog' may or may not be over, depending on how things turn out in the days to come. after a few discussions with our PC finally culminated in a showdown with the 'dog' and frankly, nothing really came out if it. being the cynical bastard that i am, i don't really think that things will change for the better. well. i'll just take things as they come.

next up, our long-awaited promotion to 3SG. i'm rather dis-illusioned right now and i don't know if i really want this rank at all. after all that has happened, i really wonder if i'm just better off with being one of the men instead of assuming the role of a commander.

sigh. maybe i'll just get out of the house and get some fresh air to clear up my thoughts.

*pfft*