又犯了二次感冒
had vehicle navi and flotation this week. vehicle navi was quite fun, cos now u dun hav to walk the distance anymore (: so its no longer tiring. and there r no obscurely small checkpoints for u to hunt for. u just hav to get to the general location (: and it wld be even more fun if ur instructor decides to take over the driver position and do a bit of speeding over the bumpy training grounds :P
aft that was prep for flotation. we dint hav to do the actual flotation, but had to do emergency exit drill which was quite gross cos we had to simulate that our BX was sinking, and jump out of the vehicle, into the oily mucky water, then paddle back to shore. :S aft that we had to practise discarding evrything we had into the icky waterr in 3 secs. and tt was abt it. unfortunately, things dint go smoothly that dayy. it rained very badly in the morning so we werent allowed to continue with our flotation exercise. so there was veri little time left to complete evrything, and then the instructors got impatient with our sluggish movements and we were punished quite a bit. first ever "major" punishment we had since we entered camp.
on wed was the usual SOC training. this time round, the weather wasnt on my side and it dint rain after the first rundown ended, so the failures had to go for extra training, which involved endless running. bleahh. and then our instructor gave us a motivational talk abt how it is all in the mind. ): which was true, cos he conducted this mini experiment. he told us to run from point A to point C, but he stopped us at point B, which was significantly alot closer to point A than point C is. As we were all disheartened at the thought of having to run to point C, we clocked a miserable timing at point B. He then asked us to run again, this time telling us that the actual end point was point B, and we managed to improve our timing by a whole minute. apparently we werent weak physically, but mentally. ): bleahh chorkiang whyy r u so weak.
anw the highlights of this week were an early bookout to look forward to, ocean's album, and the deathly hallows. i collected hp7 at 7.20 am in the morning from times. they r so thoughtful loh. they realised the customers wld be queueing early, so they gave them free brekkie (: ocean's album was quite mediocre, with onli a small number of nice songs.
HP SPOILERS BELOW
as for hp7, but it was a really great book, save the last 5 pages, which made the story so fairy-taleish. (it IS meant to be a children's story after all right?) HAHA. the story was very fast paced, as rowling prolly had to tie up the loose ends and jiao1 dai4 many of the chars. many of the chars were sacrificed along the way. and i was particularly sad over a few, especially moody (his poor eye!), dobby and snape (whom i had hated right up till this book). the best part of this book, imo, is how they showed the other sides of snape and dumbledore. which made the characters, esp dumbledore, more realistic. the quarrels along the way amongst the trio also gave the whole story a more realistic feel. after all, the personalities of the trio were really quite different. all in all, i am very satisfied with the way rowling ended this last book (: cheers!
consilio et animis
7/22/2007 03:44:00 PM
