December 2015
I didn't write a December 2015 post because I was in camp before the year ended and when I did book out and free up, it was already the night of New Year's Eve, when it's time for me to head to Guang Yi's house to celebrate the end of the year and the start of another.

In general, the first week of December was spent in camp preparing and executing support company's open house. To be honest, at that point, I kind of hated being there, but I'm actually quite proud of the kind of things we do. We didn't have to, but we did a demonstration skit of the prowess of our company, complete with vehicles, music and all that. Even I was rather impressed.

The following weekend, my Alpha recruits and the rest of the battalion's recruits POP-ed. A number of us did marshalling duty on that day. That's where I took the picture at the top of this post.

Following POP, it was a week's break, and then we kick off the new phase two weeks before 2016. New troopers came into 4SIR and most of them entered support company. It's a really boring phase so let's not talk about it. But 4SIR did a Christmas celebration together, and each company was challenged to do up decorations and a Christmas tree. My company did a 2D, 4-storey tree using camo net. It was beautiful.

The rest of Christmas was nice as well. My poly friends and I sort of celebrated it at my house with a logcake and some card games and boardgames at my house one week prior. Then, the following week, Jt, Zi Xing, Joshua, and I celebrated it at Jt's house with Popeyes, Texas, KFC, Michael Buble's songs, and the Steam game Brawlhalla.

We did a gift exchange during New Year's Eve.

Amended resolutions
After living in 2016 for eight days, I'm so glad to say that my resolutions mostly seem natural. It's not a "I shall force myself to do this thing that I really don't want to do", but more of a "this will take some effort but it's becoming a habit and it feels good" kind of thing. But there are exceptions, so I told myself that perhaps I'll cut down on the unnatural ones, namely the unconditional positive regard and the context thing, which is so random.

Feng Shui and Ba Zi
Jt's dad helped some of us read our ba zi, but mostly Ru Wen, because she started the first day of the year on a really bad note and she felt that she'd been unlucky for so long. Also, I've been reading Feng Shui for Dummies. After reading a few chapters, so many things clicked together. Let's not elaborate on that here.

University
My parents have convinced me that I should give university a go after all, even if what I do next time isn't related, because we all know studying is my thing and it's a good investment to spend those years and money studying rather than taking leaps of faith leading possibly nowhere. I came up with the last part.

For One More Day
I also read Mitch Albom's 'For One More Day' and I cried and cried while reading it in bunk, because I can relate to it so much. It's also perspective-changing. This book is one of the factors convincing me to get into university.

Anyway, the book is a simple story revolving around how a man's life is ruined because he had daddy issues and couldn't handle the death of his mother, someone he took for granted because of his daddy issues. At the start of the story, he tried to commit suicide because his grief destroyed him and his family, so much that his wife left him and his daughter did not invite him to her own wedding. His suicide attempt failed. In place of death, his mother visited him and they spent time together for one more day.

An abrupt ending
That's all I have to share so far in this year. Looking forward to Chinese New Year!

Labels: future, mehmeh, NS, things that happened