My japanese name is 吉国 Yoshikuni (good fortune country) 拓海 Takumi (open sea).
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my eyes are bloody mistreated and i can feel them protesting.
i shld really be staying away frm stuff like the tv, the com, just everything thats bad for the eyes cuz i really want to maintain my eyesight- im already myopic beyond my liking.

but i figured if i dont blog abt mindef then i will never be able to do my reflections properly. this will help me open up my mind and unleash all that i wanna say w/o much inhibition, i hope.
alritey, so there goes the attachment- over! i really cant believe it! where did all that time go? i rmbr the night before i was filled with this sense of trepidation and maybe even reluctance. but mindef you really surprised me and everything was just so worthwhile. i must say it was probably one of the most well spent 8 days of this entire holiday thus far.

we finished all our visits on thursday, with it being the military experimentation centre and scenario discussion at gombak hq. really intellectual engagement i must say, gave us lots of cool insights. friday came and it was back to level 22! as i was exchanging pass and walking in i realized how one week ago i was doing the exact same thing but a hundred times more ignorant. anw we started off with a leadership workshop, pretty engaging, maybe even inspiring too, before having our three meals very close together and finally the debrief. you know at this moment i cant even bring myself to narrate the happenings, just that the last part when everyone had to say smthing was really nice.

we split up into two grps after that- one LAN and the other Pool. i belonged to neither, haha. returned to school for a little bit of the dry run. ended up interrupting the debrief but at least i got to learn a little bit of dance before heading down to city hall to meet the mindef peeps again. serena joined us too! hanisah and eileen led us to this indian restaurant at excelsior tower where we could eat buffet style and pay however much we wanted. the money was for charity- sounded too good to be true but yes it happened! the food was good and the company was even better. as we were eating i just stared at everyone and wondered if this was gonna be the last time. i shld think not. i believe we're all quite enthu abt having a gathering of some sort another day. only problem being clashing schedules and all. oh well. for what it's worth, a million thanks to everyone i have met at mindef: serena, the officers and staff, benjamin, hanisah, eileen, jennhaur, cheehoe, chengliang, lester, dave, azhar, liuyun, meecheng, raimi, weijie, xunyu, calvin, dawei, kaisiong, lenny, reuben, zhunrui, jessica, & victor...you guys are really one fun bunch to be around with and the whole experience was made so special i couldnt imagine it without any of you! lots of loving and cant wait to meet up soon!

i realize now that i have been bumming around the whole day, havent done packing, havent done anything in fact. and my article for RA is due today. ahhhhhhh. so many things to do and so little time. i guess that's just my life summed up in a few words. but as ive always said, i need my life to be busy sometimes to feel accomplished at the end of the day.

one thing i have learnt from mindef is that every new experience is not something i shld shy away from. instead i shld embrace it with an open mind and a friendly attitude, and frankly, nothing can or will go wrong. it's all how you look at it.

whee! i want to learn spanish one of these days.

things i needa complete before flying off:
1) pack, duh
2) ra article
3) learn dance- impossible?
4) press corps summary thingy
5) mindef reflections
6) sort out RAP