Many times I fired up my browser, typed the URL of my blog on the address bar and login, ready to write something but then the urge wears off quickly and then the blog is left not updated. I wonder it is this same thing that happens to every other blog that is more or less dead or updated infrequently. Mine has survived well with occasional torrents of writing followed by periods of tranquility that mirrors the end of the inevitable course life takes.
I decided just to update my latest movements; I’ve become busier in camp thanks to my newfound boundless energy. At times, my life very much mirrors the activity of the blog here, bursting with stuff at times and then with nothing much – I hope it is more filled up with stuff than that. This is a period of time when I feel I need to accomplish things and that’s what I’ve been doing. I finished my Suburban Run of 10km with Yi Da last Sunday with a timing of 55:50.5 and decided that I shall be running 15km for the PAssion Run that’s upcoming in May. In camp I’ve been working harder than ever: I am thinking about improving the way things are done (no matter how screwed up current practices are or will remain to be) and challenging people’s thinking about the world and themselves.
I’ve been learning new stuff too, working on my French at home and in camp, thanks to so many God-fearing people around me, I got to know a lot more about Christianity, the Bible and the relationship between religion and morals which I previously explored but thought little of. I have kept up with my The Economist reading in camp despite all that work I initiated; books wise, things have been a little slower. I still have my Wikinomics and Thousand Splendid Sun in camp relatively untouch; I discovered that I prefer to read the library non-fiction books by John C. Maxwell and Jack Welch or other leadership gurus in camp more. First reason probably relates to the applicability of the things these books taught; I often think about what I learn about leadership in the context of military hierarchy and my organization, realizing why some things fails to work and how fundamental some problems were. Second, doing personal development stuff in camp make camp life more productive for an individual relative to trying to spend camp life slacking, thinking that it’s a time to store energy for the ‘outside world’.
March is ending soon and it has passed rather quickly for me just as February did. It’s amazing how these initiatives to enhance busyness actually makes time pass so quickly for me. I think all NSFs should try this for fun if not to make ORD sooner.
