O roses roses, the roses that i scorn,
of perilous love and bloody thorns.
Yet every metaphor, before their beauty, speechless became,
Embrace embrace, fondle i will, these deadly roses;
Every mimosa, in her radiance, cries in shame,
To death, To death, bleed i will, for her divine kisses.

Saturday, October 08, 2005

long absence.

wow i can not imagine how many days i have put off this entry for. for one month, i was denied all my proper weekends. In return they give us measly half days or nights out as compensation and somehow with their math they managed to equate them as equivalents to all my bloody weekends GROWL. a note to all readers of this entry: i will emphasize and reemphasize my discontent in this post, free to leave if you do not wish to hear them though. *snicker.


it was all in good check and a 5 days block leave was intended for us after the two hell weeks from the army half marathon and 4ntm (basically activation period in which we must be constantly be ready to be recalled into camp upon command and failure to reach camp within 45mins of activation will yield, of course, undesirable punishment, but i digress-.-). THEN came the preparation for exercise wallaby. it was horrendously irrelevant and redundant and EVERY dang time, these things would refresh my desire to stress once again, to everywhere in every possible way, the irrelevance of the army. basically for three whole days, from mornin to night, we were made to clean the stores we were bringing over to wallaby to the extent that they are entirely dirt free, and i really mean dirt free. we had to paint everything meant to be black, black, and everything silver, silver and return it to its factory sttaus so that it may pass a god damn inspection, the ordeal an uncomfortable 5 hours long. Worst of all because we could not seal the containers meant for the stores, we had to seal it before completion, open it up the next mornnig, recheck all the stores, and so further spent a day in camp. The reason we couldn't complete in time? A bloody sergeant, in all his imcompetence ( and in every sense negligence as well ) failed to print out some essential paperwork for the stores. sometimes i really admire them for their stupidity, how is it possible for anyone to reach such a consummate level of retardness. enough of my comments about army actually, realise i shouldn't be at all dedicating my precious time to writing these.

i think, since i got enlisted, i've started reading even more extensively than ever, perhaps because of the lack of spiritual bonding with the people in camp. Started on the new wheel of time series, finished the second book then realised i can't find the freaking third book. So i turned to finishing return of the king i've left half read a long time ago. digressed to read other books like 'blink', 'curious incident with the dog...' ,one other philosophy title and 'brave new world'. oh man brave new world is indeed so very worthy of being a jc literature text. its rich content and bizaare futuristic school of thoughts makes it elegant and presented in a class of its own when compared to many books of tomorrow. It is absolutely marvellous for a book first printed in 1946 to contain such advanced theories of a global caste system and a pseudo utopia made wholly through hynopaedian means? kudos to alduous huxley.

ah well im done here actually. snicker. too bored to continue. my interests in blogging seem to be waning. will try to pick these up where i left off after army i hope. till then i'll most probably blog every fortnight or so. no longer weekly or whenever i have the time to. Do check once in a while though ;P
 posted by Homan on Saturday, October 08, 2005