Ran 20km today! haha didn't do that well as I had no time to train intensively thanks to the many camps and HQ activities but hey, I made it through in 2hours 14 mins. Really nice to push myself and see how far I can go. Maybe next time I'll be running more, especially after joining the NCC running club, heard they got plans for AHM and standard chart.
Anyway, was in HQ few days back for rappelling, real cool stuff, then staying over for the next day's training. We had time to slack and everything so at night we watched pearl harbour. Yes it was a movie, but it was based on something that actually happened. Sailors who were trapped alive in the arizona and other ships, reaching out though small gaps in the hulls created by the men trying to save them and holding the hands of the men above, but eventually drowning and dying. It got me thinking about how cruel humans can be, that because of a simple difference of believes and idealogies a nations can go to war, that children would become orphans, that women get raped and men slaughtered mercilessly by revenge killings of all horrible forms, drowning, burning, bayonet, bullets, bombs you name it.
God must have left the earth during world war 2, I thought. Is it wrong to think that way? Honestly I do not know. What I do know is that it strengthen my resolve to be what I want to be. Yes I do agree that majority of people in this day and age are probably more civilised, that world opinion matters and that does indeed stop some wars, that the chance of Singapore going to war is extremely slim, but I'm not gonna leave this to chance. I don't ever want to see the people I know suffer the way our ancestors did. I want to be able to protect the people I love.
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