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Its been - horrors of horrors - a month since I last blogged!
ok, i've thought a lot over the past month. and i think (or at least one of my thoughts is) that blogging does involve a certain amount of narcissistic exhibitionism.
So I take back my words from a post long long ago.

WELL. just to update ppl, i'm *cough!* quite happy in sispec. YAY! suffice to say that life is definitely not as bad as what my sergeants in bmt told me. in fact life is arguably better, with greater freedom despite tougher training. yup. so life's not too bad :P

so far during the labour day break, i committed myself to reading. YUCK. what a boring enterprise you may think. but seriously i cant think of anything better to do with a flu and a sore throat.

I'm trying to kickstart a reading habit. and I think a good starting point would be to list out the books I've read already, just to familiarise myself with the stuff i'm interested in but forgot to follow up on. I borrowed a book called "the little guide to your well-read life" (which, I emphasise, is more interesting than it actually sounds). it dispenses advice on stuff like choosing books to read and how to make the most of books after you actually get them. And the idea of creating a bookography (the list of books you like) arose from here.

here's my list so far:
Jia Yi’s Bookography + List of Candidates (stuff i might want to read)

Fiction
Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code
Candidates: Angels and Demons

David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green
Candidates: Ghostwritten, Number9dream

Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

George Orwell
Animal Farm, 1984, Shooting an Elephant and other collected Essays

JK Rowling
Harry Potter!

JRR Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit
Candidates: The Children of Hurin

Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog at Nighttime
Candidates: A Spot of Bother

Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Boy, Matilda, The Twits, Going Solo, The Great Automatic Grammatizator, Skin and Other Stories

Young at Heart 
A Wrinkle in Time, Charlotte’s Web, The Chronicles of Narnia

 
Non-Fiction

Brian Greene/Physics
The Fabric of the Cosmos
The Elegant Universe

Enrichment
If life is a Game, these are the Rules
Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Popular Science
The Horrible Science Series
The Murderous Maths Series

Reading Help
The Little Guide to your Well-Read Life, Steve Leveen
Book Lust

Psychology
Lateral Thinking
How the Mind works

Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene
 
Magazines/Periodicals

The Straits Times
Time
Newsweek
The Economist
The New Yorker
New Scientist
Scientific American
Discover
IEEE Spectrum
PC Magazine
National Geographic

Hopefully i will be able to garner enough committment from myself to expand this list!

And yup, I have medicine interviews next week! how do u say busybusybusy
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Lots of things have happened since i last updated. (DUH) but i feel an urge to blog coz i feel like blogging. hahaz.

currently i'm just wondering what will happen at sispec. (HORRORs - no OCS)

will i be able to cope, or will i just stumble and fumble like i did in bmt.
soc is a nightmare hahaz
but i hope i will be able to overcome my difficulties and do reasonably well. i dun want my army life to be time wasted away..
(wonders what ppl will think at this childish ponderings, then shuts off)

ok gotta go to bed. long day tmr... hope i wont get tekkaned too badly lols

byebye! =)

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woah. 5 weeks in ns have come and gone soo quickly. in a blink of an eye i have passed the halfway mark of my bmt. questions bobbing in my head right now: to be or not to be? a commander that is. i really don't know what to make of my life in ns. there are some moments - like building and tearing down freaking basha tents, and digging the perfect shell-scrape against the resistance of monstrous tree roots and unbreakable rocks - that i would rather not have gone through. but theres always the saying that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. i am still pondering the validity of that statement but i guess for now i must agree in a sense. at least [after going through all of this] i can be said to be more than a nerdy mugger.

bah! looking at the calender - i see things that i fear and anticipate. sit test-soc-more bcct-a level results!-the 24k route march-and then another cycle of (perhaps even more) gruelling training depending on my posting. i cant imagine how much of my life actually depends on this posting. i need to decide. and maybe pray. that whatever i get, i can deal with it and do well in it.

bah.

anyway, have a happy holiday to whoever's reading this. gongxifacai! wanshiruyi! shentijiankang! gongzhuoshunli! haiyou xueyejinbu for those getting back their a level results! Whatever happens, life still goes on. so don't worry, be happy!

what a corny post.

=)