Change

Something came to my mind today during lunch while I was thinking about JC life. I was applying the book I read on NLP to it.


Focus on the solution, not problem.
Most of the time, when I encouter problems/ obstacles, I tend to manifest the problem. Basically what I did was I analysed what is wrong in great detail. This orientation is also known as the 'Blame Frame' was a contributing factor that made my life seemed harder then it was in school. Example of questions I used to ask myself were... Why do I have this problem?, How does this limit me?, Whose fault is it? and all this questions do not usually lead to anywhere useful. This will only make matters worse and more complicated than when I started. More importantly, it does not help me to solve my problem. What I should orientate myself on how and what I am gg to do to overcome this barrier. Focus all my energy to the solution and not the problem.

-BACKTRACK-

BMT Experience

Being in PES C, it was obvious that our BMT wouldn't be a intensive and demanding as the pes a and b. On the day itself, I didn't know why they had to make the environment very emo. I mean its just national service- 2 yrs get done n over with. Nevertheless, I met a few familiar faces. In my platoon there were 2 sajc guys- kanesh and dennis . This was going to be a new and different experience altogether.

Personally, I felt the 2 weeks confinment period went pretty quick. And the remaining weeks flew even faster. The next thing u know, BMT has ended. During BMT, one of the most important lessons I learnt was getting along with people with all kind of personalities. There were people of both extremes. Needless to say, the it was very easy to work and get along with the cooperative ones. While it was gg to be tough to get along with the people with the opposite personality. However, it was not an impossible job. I was the first to take the role of platoon IC. An easy task, it was not. The platoon was still at its norming stage. There were alot of conflicts and unhappiness. Some guys couldn't take the poor attitude of their mates. And those with poor attitude thought they could take advantage of situations. I still remembered the night where PC told me to say a few words. Said my 5- cents of worth. The job of the IC wasn't as easy as what people thought. After 1 week or so, somebody else took over me. BMT went smoothly for me until I got injured.

Made alot of new friends- some of them were super funny la. The gossips we had during coy admin. The talk cock sessions. The area cleaning sessions. The stand bys. haha. all were fun. To top it up, we had good sergeants and officer.

Got posted to combat medic. However, Im already out of course.