Learning everyday.

It's really hard not to whine in camp, that's something I realised this week.

I was just reading the Men's Health magazine that I bought the other day during the night's out and they commented about how to become a more efficient office worker.

Okay, so, I'm not exactly an office worker working in a cube farm, but still, the point applies - quit whining, because no one really wants to hear it.

It's not hard to overhear the conversation going on between two people in my bunk at any given point in time.

Person A, "Very sian (read: bored) ah!"
Person B, "Yah lor, so sian. Everday do computer computer also boring."

It varies in the exact words from time to time, but the main point remains the same. I shall resolve to whine less about my fate as an infosys operator!! Yes yes yes. It's going to get better from next week onwards 'cause my radio lessons are down, so all of the lessons now are just going to be in the computer labs. Yay.

Hearing the Music

If anything, I've found it very difficult to try to learn how to play by ear. Please do not be deceived by those talented pianists out there who can play any tune they hear on the piano almost instantly.

It is not a walk in the park. (says me in a carefully punctuated manner.)

I've been profoundly inspired by this pianist who can play a really nice rendition of one my favourite songs, Part of Your World, from the Disney movie, The Little Mermaid. I cheated a little for this song 'cause I went to search for the chords online - and even some of the chords were wrong! And I'm no where embellishing my rendition as well as his. =(

I'll be praying hard about it.

Essay test for med school's tomorrow! Just thought I'd post it here for posterity. Heh.

And in short, everything builds character.

Time sure passes very quickly! It's been a long time since I last blogged in this blog of mine, which died of a rather premature and quiet death. 6 months in fact! Gee.

Wonder how I even got this sudden impulse to blog.

Life has been really eventful so far, though admittedly, not exactly enjoyable. BMT's so "been there, done that" now and now that I'm an infosystems (IS) operator studying really hard at signal institute, life's looking good. Bookouts are as usual, much valued.

What do I do in camp? Hm. Nothing much! I study a lot in camp - routering, networking and radio stuff. Runs on tuesday and friday mornings. That's about it. Oh! I book out relatively early at 6pm on Friday! So that's a nice change from BMT.

Recently, I've been getting down seriously to learning some good ol' japanese, like I've always promised myself though I've been reneging on that "promise" for what seems like forever - ostensibly to my "busy schedule". With my schedule now free-er than ever (read: I have free time after 6.30pm to 10.30pm and a sprinkle of half an hour or two in the middle of the day. It does add up to quite a bit after awhile. ( ^ -^) ), I manage to squeeze in about an hour of japanese everyday. YEAH.

A little more and I'll be able to read something like this -

ゲーム理論（ゲームりろん）とは、複数の主体の存在する状況下での意思決定について研究する、20世紀半ばに確立された数学の一分野であり、「理論」の名を冠してはいるが単一の理論ではなく通常学問の分野や研究のアプローチだとされる。経済学、オペレーションズリサーチ、経営学、心理学、生物学、社会学、法学、政治学、論理学などと密接な関わりを持つ。フォン・ノイマンによってミニマックス定理（ミニマックス法）が証明された事、ならびに1944年のフォン・ノイマン・モルゲンシュテルンによる著書『ゲームの理論と経済行動』(Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, 1944)をもって分野の本格的な始まりとすることが多い。

Econs in japanese!

Ok, er, that might take a bit more than awhile.