Slowing Down

Life nowadays seem to be quite routine for me every day. There seem to be no difference between weekdays compared to weekend. The excitement of welcoming the friday are decreasing every week too. Is it the mentality at work or is age catching up with me (Haha!!)?
The priority of life are slowly setting in and I'm in the midst of chasing the important things in my life. Seeing the environment slowly but gradually changing, you can't help but to be amazed at how things are falling into place. The old past seem to be coming back provoking the faded memories back to mind. Is destiny already set in place or is it up to the individual to create?
Forgetting all these thoughts for a while, it'd been a joy to stay at home to just simply read the books I read and to take a stroll downstairs even though it's a friday night. Been a few weeks of unwise chasing, it's time to slow down and to see whether it's worth it or not. Chasing after things that does not belong to me especially in a state of confused mind, will only make life more miserable and unhappy. Life is definitely not just about work, relationships, materialistic things etc. Sometimes, if I'm willing to take a step back and look at the surrounding, things might seem to be different and I will realize how fortunate and "lucky" I had been all this while.
Some things that are meant to be will come eventually. Being impatient and trying to rush through it may eventually bring more harm than good. Now let me just enjoy the things I have and try to R & R by myself for the time being.

Good Friday

Had my dinner (or supper?) with HC at JE yesterday where we spent some time having a good chat. She commented that my lifestyle is getting more and more boring and seem to be joining the group of "older" males in my cell. Indeed the activities is getting lesser & lesser and that my main objective of the year had yet to be achieved. Somehow or rather, the anxious we get, the worse the situation seem to become.
There is some things that is not meant to be yet the going continue. Whatever the outcome, just dun regret it and continue to move forward. Right or wrong, it's not important after all. Is it the rebellious heart at work or is reality the best way to learn after all? People can advise, the logic is there, but the heart may not always be ready to accept. That's life also!!
Life is a journey where things will change all the times- be it the people, work, environment or perhap even friends. There will be times where human have to learn to walk alone and to overcome the tides in front. Maybe people just have to learn to be more responsible for the actions that they do at last.

Bosiet Training

Home Sweet Home once again!!! After 3 days in JB, I'm finally back in the comfort of my house once more. It was a eye-opener and at the same time, a good learning experience for me as well.
Going alone and staying alone in the hotel was all my first time and it did took me quite a while to get used to it.
The training course was designed for people mostly working off-shore and having to deal with a lot of survival techniques which involves a lot of water activities. Fish!! How I hate it since I'm a non-swimer myself. Luckily, God sent me a group of people to assist me along the way and they all came from different countries, races, work.....etc.
Before I came back to S'pore today, my last exercise was to do the helicopter drill at a 3m deep swimming pool. And to make things more exciting, MSTS had just implement the new system which involves doing the escape underwater not the old 3 times but 6 times now. How lucky can I get!!!
The first try ended in failure due mainly to the stress and pressure from the water and most importantly, the MIND. Fear can make people crumble and also, unable to perform the usual thing that are supposed to be done. Thank God, I finally managed to complete the exercise successfully at the 2nd tries.
Now, I think I should go and have some rest to recuperate from the tiredness accumulated from the past 3 days.