my life

back from thailand!

woots.. i'm back from training from thailand.. haha.. 18 days of training had finally come to an end and marks more or less the end of my training in army.. finished with the final evaluation le.. and i cleared my ippt and soc le.. more or less counting down to ord onli le.. LOL..

it was my very trip overseas.. first time on a plane.. i was like a child getting my very first christmas present.. i was thankful i had this chance to train in thailand and to open my eyes to what i was ignorant of in the past..

this trip to thailand was a once in a lifetime experience.. the place we were training at were the northern part of thailand.. ppl there more or less grew crops to support their lives.. houses were make-shift ones.. wooden planks and zinc roofs.. thats a home for them.. back in singapore this is how fortunate we are.. hdb flats everytime.. everyone have proper housing.. a proper shelter.. yet so many ppl take wat we have for granted.. i do too..

this journey taught mi so many things.. to appreciate wat we have.. to be grateful to where we belong.. life there may be tough.. life there may not be as good.. but does it mean the ppl there are not happy? i realli dun have the answer.. what is true happiness? my frend often ask mi.. i finally got the closest answer.. to be satisfied.. to be contented.. to appreciate.. thats where true happiness comes from..

the thing in thailand is that the poor is very poor yet the rich is very rich.. there can be villagers living in such rundown conditions in the north of thailand yet there are ppl living in mansions in bangkok.. this poverty cycle seems to repeat itself.. the rich just gets richer and the poor remains poor.. life seems so unfair.. but how fair life is is how fair u want life to be for u.. its a matter of perception i guess..how u want to define ur life.. life is beautiful because we made it beautiful..

many times in thailand i asked myself wat i was working for.. wat i am working so hard for.. why am i there in the first place.. why i should put in so much effort when others dun bother.. thats the thing i have been asking myself even out of army.. i found an answer.. its for myself.. to prove to myself that i'm capable.. to push myself to the limits and to make myself believe.. i can if i believe.. there are so many beliefs that i have that is strengthened after this 18days.. i'll nv be the same again..

the most important thing i understood was the importance of my family and frends.. the position they had in mi.. i hanged on.. juz to see them again.. they are the purpose of my life.. they are the key to my happiness.. they are the motivation for mi to push on in life.. they are my life..

this thailand trip was a tough one.. but not that tough afterall.. 3 shellscrapes.. climbed a 85 degrees inclined hill twice.. haha.. but all was worthwhile.. and i'm glad everything was over.. experience the rich culture of thailand such as the floating market.. and things there are realli CHEAP.. LOL.. but didn't have much time buying and shopping cauz we spent more time on the bus than shopping.. thailand is seriously too big liao.. LOL.. nonetheless i still had fun..

stoning right now cauz of the jet lag i guess.. been sleeping non stop since i came back.. time to rejuvenate and hope to see some of my frends this week.. update again soon ba.. till thens.. (: