Hello everyone! Sorry if this post was a day late, but what happened was that today happened to be a public holiday (Vesak Day) here in Singapore, and so I get to book in on Tuesday morning (since it's a new unit as well =P).

Yes! BSLC is over, I got my promotion to Corporal (not something I'm particularly proud of anyway... Military ranks, hell military anything never held anything for me in my mind or ego). But what I'm most relieved about at the moment is that I didn't get into ASLC, the continuation of my course, which streches another 13 weeks. The terribly sad thing is that in my section, 5 out of 8 of us were selected to go for ASLC, and only 3 of us were posted out. Just fyi, I've been posted to Artillery, and so I begin my training/conversion course at the Artillery Institute as a trainee (AGAIN -.-") from tomorrow. No feelings really... I'll reserve my judgement until I taste a week in there. With any luck I'll probably be on my way out by then~.

Word on the street is that artillery is as good as it gets in terms of being one of the easiest jobs to do. Apparently there wasn't even an artillery intake for our batch, so goodness knows how I even got in. Only one in my platoon, and 1 of 3 from my whole company. Odd huh. Well, no point speculating... For me there is only to carry on as I have been for the past 5 months. And cling to the lifeline that is my Medicine application.

Regarding that! My friend, a section mate in fact (one of the 3 who got posted out: to Medics >.>) who also applied for Medicine just received his place, I just got word yesterday. He was literally beside himself. While I'm really glad for him (hell, for the two of us, most of the motivation to get through BSLC came from encouraging each other that our Med positions await... It was a complex relationship), I can't help but wonder: WHERE IS MINE! However, after a bit of knowledge-gathering, I realised that no one else I know of who also applied got their reply yet... And taking a closer look at the facts: My friend was one of the first to have his interview, on the first day of interviews himself, while mine was on the last day... About 2 weeks after his. I suppose using that logic, it makes sense that my application hasn't been processed yet... Or does it? A lot hangs on the assessment method they use to decide those who are selected... Is it a collaborative comparison of all applicants? Is there some sort of unknown cut-off in their secret selection criteria?

Honestly, I'm getting quite fed up of not knowing or having any control where my life's going.

In a sense it's also building my faith to trust in God I guess... But it's just downright uncomfortable and disturbing, sadly I don't think many people would understand.

Umm... Some stuff I missed out last week... In terms of interview questions, they asked a lot of standard interview questions, like "why do you want to be a doctor", etc. The most retarded one was "Ok lets say you're the interviewer now, and interviewing us. What would be a good question to ask and why? Ask us." Think think, come up with a scenario/dilemma type question and ask it to them. Next thing I know "Ok, so we're asking you that question =)" I was like ?!?!? GG. Fumbled, but survived I guess... I mean come on, the question was designed not to be answerable lol... Other questions included "What are your strengths, what are your weaknesses" then there was "Tell us about a time you failed." I LOL'd inside. Inside joke lol, to those who WoW'd with me... Yeah >.>.

The 28km march killed my ankle, and I didn't complete the whole thing. Ok fine, my ankle wasn't dead, but it definitely would have died before the march was done. At the 16km point decided to save it, and fell out. Still participated in the graduation parade at the end though, and got the official rank up~.

Dad's been around this weekend again, last week he flew off to Sri Lanka after I booked in, then flew back before I booked out. Cool right? But yeah, he'll probably be off before I book out again, back home to Melbourne. So tonight I'm going out for dinner with him, last night after all. Waiting for him to arrive as I type this actually. Going to Marché, Swiss place with quite a unique restaurant style, should be good.

Bye all, if my new company is any less strict than my previous one, chances are I should be getting out of camp this weekend =P. Wish me all the best, as well as for my application, which I'm expecting. With bated breath.

Chao.