was good today. Played 7 a side at St Wilfrid and only conceded once in about 10 games - the perfect farewell present to make up for the lack of soccer for the next couple months.
Made two good assists to alex as well. good stuff!
Europe beckons on 9th Sept.
there's something called the Standard Obstacle Course in army which is dreaded by all SAF soldiers, or at least those who experienced the old version where you have to run your lungs out after the final jump from the ramp; many seasoned infantry soldiers from my camp failed to meet the 10 minutes passing mark.
my point is, I once cleared mine in 8 min 49 sec - still proud of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91xC-JiiudM
looks fun and easy in the video till you try it
800m run up, 10 obstacles, 700m run down while carrying the phased-out SBO, SAR 21 rifle and a brick of a helmet which totals to about 11kg.
i also consistently ran sub 9min 40sec for my 2.4km with a PB of around 9min 20sec(??) - nothing ground-breaking but it possibly meant that i was one of the fastest non-smoking runner in my company.
army was painful back then.
edited:
ha! i found this from my old blog
ATEC Combat Load (1st LAW Gunner):
LAW tube - 7kg
SAR 21 Rifle - 4kg
SBO webbing - 7kg
Helmet - 2kg
Total : 20kg
I wanted to put up on fb photos of my little niece's baptism, then i read that kuyt has left Liverpool.
that made me sad.
so i put up my old photos of him instead, because he felt like family to me - the little niece can wait.
if i can't reach it, i won't use it.
To all the things lying around in my room, if i haven't seen you for a year, i'm gonna throw you away.
Seriously.
In the proverbial blink of an eye, i've slept through a week and done nothing of significance. I hereby declare my honeymoon period over. Period to the period. Period.
The way to prevent a year of decadence, it dawns (yet to catch one, incidentally) on me, is to consistently write on each tiny triumph as they occur - a broken tap fixed, new muscles found, one of the many books read... and so on.
Is it time for a new writing space? hmmm....
I took it easy today.
6pm is better than 5:20pm for a swim though it's best under the mid-day sun.
The things that i want to do appeared in my mind like a hasty slideshow with timings in overdrive, but hey, we'll get there.
the whole world has stopped blogging. i am officially a dinosaur. a 13 year old dinosaur.
reading through the biographies and browsing through the photos of a few local photographers, i feel as if i've just started out in primany 1.
each annual attempt to validate my own work leaves me searching, and wondering.. what work?
i am not yet a photographer. i am just a dude with a camera.
