Today was...

...Great.

MUAHAHA I finished typing the commentary before dinner. Usually I procrastinate and the essays take forever but I started this thing from scratch and it's just finished. Yay...:D

Chem revision next. Must keep up the tempo of advance...

The road thus far.

Heh, Norwegian is easier to learn than German, except you get to use it less often. But it's such a beautiful language! I think watching all the videos of guards on parade in different countries has introduced me to their ways, and fascinating cultures that never cease to amaze.

Revision. Oh darn, there's still some coursework left and I have to revise. Physics and Chem are more or less done, just one or two topics left to cover. CMT and AMT are almost done as well, just one or two more topics. Everything else needs a bit more work. 2 more weeks. This should end soon. Hopefully. I want to enjoy my holidays and not live in the memory of a really bad series of examinations.

Somehow, I think I'm becoming too open for my own good. Something about this new-found social aptitude seems surreal and alien. But the days where shutting up and fading into the background were the order of the day are all gone. Oh no I'm thinking too much again...

Eg er ein fattig ferdamann,
må mine vegar fara
herfrå og til mitt fedreland,
Gud, meg på vegen vara!

Back to normality

School's in again, a few more weeks and it will be the last exam of secondary school life before tertiary education at a certain school (ahem)

It's so invigorating to feel the drive of working my arse off everyday again, it makes you feel like you're actually doing something instead of sitting on your bum all day thinking about nothing in particular.

Today's work included a lot of paperwork. Hopefully this won't last very long, I have better and much more important things to do and settle.

It'll all be over very soon...

All Systems Go for Cadet Lieutenant's Course (and free doses of screaming, shouting etc. etc. to boot)

And that's it, I have to wait 2-3 years before I can have the chance to participate in flying training, and the next chance will be in the harsher and more demanding environment of RAAF Pearce. Ah well, I guess I'll be a Cadet Subedar/Lieutenant, or whatever I'll call it from now on. Actually, I'm quite warming up to the idea already. One of the quirks of life in this modern day and age. At least I said yes to it of my own accord. I would be quite pissed if I was signed on by other parties, and not me. There's something fundamentally wrong with that, I guess. Back to mugging...

Sovereignty

What is sovereignty? Sometimes we use the term too often without stopping to think what it actually means. It refers to (quoting Ernest F. Row's How States Are Governed), supremacy. Such that the Sovereign is defined as "whatever authority is absolutely supreme in the State, so that from it there can be no appeal to any higher authority and no power anywhere to override its decisions."

So, God being our Sovereign, he cannot be questioned. He is above all things. Sometimes we think we can try and wriggle out of things but we cannot. But admittedly, it takes time to recognise this sovereignty, especially when circumstances of nature most foul assail us from all directions.

Currently I have problems which threaten personal freedoms and liberties. These basic, fundamental human rights seem to have departed me. I have no choice in the matter whatsoever. I cannot do anything to change anything. I cannot use diplomacy, lobby points, or any other tool of scaled-down foreign policy to get me in a favourable situation which gets me flying next year without other distractions. But perhaps being too good and reliable in UGs in Sec 1 to Sec 4 has proven to be my Achilles' heel, that I appear to be indispensible to the unit. It is not so. I have to go through all that and do nothing else and become a Cadet Subedar (I shall use this term Subedar instead of Lieutenant, its more secure and somehow appropriate. Go check yourself.) on paper, all for award points. It seems a rather unworthy cause, but I have no choice and this is my fate as for now.

Perhaps this is the fated trial for me to surrender all, and depend solely on God, who works for the good of those who love Him.

Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
the darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide.
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me!

-Henry F. Lyte

Clearing Everything

Well, today was quite interesting...now that the 2000-word History essay and CL presentation is done (all in 4h 10min), I'll have to clear the assignments and the stuff for D-Pillar retreat.

1 mile run tomorrow, 1.25 mile run on Thursday, then 1.5 mile run on Saturday, then 1.75 mile run on Sunday. Yeah, I'm crazy. What's new?

Preparation for Handover

I have yet to get out of one my CCAs, but today has been my worst day yet. Not because I did anything wrong, but because I realise they will have a very rough road ahead of them.

Well, I'm leaving in a few weeks so my main priority will be to instruct the new commitee on how to survive the next year.


Haizzz...