end of 3rd batch...

i think i click well with this batch of recruits. possibly because they're similarly from jc? haha.

some of them are really rich! like, a fellow sect comm got the following as a farewell/thank-you gift: a football and... that GLOSSY RECTANGULAR NIKE SLING BAG! something that i will never be willing to spend on myself.

nonetheless, i thank platoon three, in addition, sect 1 as well, for their well-thought gifts of andes and yamyam chocolate (sect 1 and ke jun), and a copy of fhm (plt 3) ^_^ haha! they say it's supposed be for the 'beast in me', and some alternative reason O_o

thank you platoon three!

for my niceness, i kena-ed 'physical tormets' countless times after they pop-ed!!! @.@ namely the what-have-you infamous activity which created a small wave in the 'prestigious institution in the bishan-braddell area" 3 years ago. and, many-counts-of-4 of ramming against a tree trunk the wrong way round. an initiation into plt 4, by the newly 'christened' (promoted, rather) privates.

PAIN LA BODOH! >:(

thanks, platoon four. haha...

to you privates this may sound sad; i'm posting this from within camp. i'm really used to living here, however, so it's alright for me. only thing is that i'm afraid gss is ending soon with me still confined in tekong.

eh, send me pics taken today leh... you guys know my e-mail addy, right?

nvm... anyways, cliffUNDERSCOREauUNDERSCOREyongATh0tm41lDOTc0m

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i realise it's no point to think too much or too deep. truth is usually ugly! and ugliness makes you sad. true, right?

but how do you attain a state of enlightment, or anything close to that, like the dalai lama? it's nearly impossible due to the seemingly conflicting conditions of nirvana. you got to empathise others without feeling the others' pain. you try your best to help but do not feel depressed because your efforts are not enough.

seems that nirvana-level beings subsist on two levels of the human/living realm: the societal and the individual. and the individual realm is quite often the dominating realm, though it doesn't come across as selfishness. see, a nirvana-level person helps people not because they want to collect more merit to better themselves. in addition to that, a lot of their time is probably spent on praying and chanting as well. they could have spent all their time devoted to just helping people, sacrificing their prayer time. ok la, depending on what they pray and the effects of the prayer. i suppose they do pray for a better world (in addition to hoping their own hearts and minds would be cleansed).

dunno la, this is coming from one who has limited knowledge about religion, actually. sorry if anyone takes offence at the above. i'm just curious to know how such a balance can be reached, and am in awe of beings who are at that level.

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ok, till next time, see you people!