260115-270115; Days of contrast
Currently on the bed now typing this after a pretty chaotic and unfortunate day. I shall share about yesterday before talking about today.
Yesterday was way more awesome than expected. Started the morning with a 3KM run and that made me realised how bad my stamina was once again. Glad that I completed it well though. I then had rifle cleaning in the afternoon when my CI suddenly called my platoon up to do an impromptu pyramid exercise with the pull up. We started from 1 together and did 2 for another set and onwards in sequence until 10 before counting down. It ended with 50 push ups. While he tried to convince us that it's a tekan session, it's quite high in intensity. Still, I had fun laughing while supporting each other. He was trying to imbibe the value of adaptability and interchangeability in us. Before he left, he gave us a surprise which was a nights out for that night. I was elated but wasn't really in the mood to go out. Everything thereafter just cropped up and I ordered McDonald's in instead. Have not felt so unhealthy until that night as I even had a pack of instant noodle before the delivery.
It's a crazy night spent in bunk with the platoon. Haven't had so much fun and sincere laughter for quite awhile here lol. Oh ya. The highlight of the day is the fact that some guys of the same batch from another platoon actually joined me in my bunk catching up with our clarinet skills through some random sight reading of the scores I have with me. How often can you actually play such musical instrument in an active unit in camp?! Love the vibes.
Today was an exact opposite of what happened yesterday in terms of mood. The morning was a little messed up in schedule. Went to the gym in the morning and then chillax in the eatery down there with the platoon. Had Hokkien Mee which was surprisingly good but the tehbeng there was the worst I ever had. In the afternoon, everyone in my unit gathered in a room for our monthly movie session - something new to my platoon at least. We were supposed to watch American Sniper but something cropped up and another American film was shown instead. Things didn't turn out well after the 90 minutes of showing. I shan't describe in detail what happened but there was a draggy inspection of our mobile phones in parade form under the blazing sun for an hour. A joyous occasion went absurdly wrong. Nobody expected things to turn out this way though. Yet it can be prevented if the spirit was stronger than the body then. I will certainly not let similar situations of the same kind happen to me again. It's now a severe situation that dampens the unit's morale. I hope things will improve.
Something that really bothers me recently was really how some just blatantly crossed the borders with deliberation, causing certain unhappiness and discomfort among us. It's inevitable that we live in the same environment but the ecosystem is somewhat disrupted now and its equilibrium shaken. If no further action is made to solve this imbalance, things are going to be taken for granted into a greater extent and it's going to be more chaotic than now. By then, it may be a little too late. I'm so glad I don't have to embrace that that directly although there are downsides to it too.
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