..Rêve Sans Frayeur..

Friday, May 06, 2005

    
OCS has been really hectic this past week. Rush here, rush there, and there's hardly any time at all for a breather. If u thought that if previous batches have made it, so can u, well guess what, we're the first 38-week syllabus OCS batch, with all the activities crammed together of what originally took 42 weeks.

Sometimes you just get so awfully pissed off with the continual state of jumpiness that comes with the life of a cadet. Whenever u reach your room (if at all) anytime from reveille to lights out, you can hardly relax as your strain your ears to listen out for the slightest sound of the PA system calling u back down to fall in - in double quick time in some really difficult-to-put-on-attire. Everything's so uptight. Everywhere you turn you are reminded that BECAUSE you are an officer to be, everything about you has to be right.

And it doesnt help that you somehow get the feeling that all the niceties around you, (ie good food, nice accomodations, and better equipment) is some sort of compensation for all the crap that you get.

defining himself: Shawn

Sunday, May 01, 2005

    
Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,but that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.
And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,our presence automatically liberates others.

defining himself: Shawn