Saturday, May 24, 2008
buddies.
haven't written on the class blog for such a long time, so here's one from me! for those who are no longer in bmt, i hope that you guys still check in here once in a while!
i just did peer appraisal a couple of days ago. to say the least, it was something that i didn't relish. for one, i hate ranking people. each person we know has his own character, abilities and fondness for ourselves. to put all that into a score that does not truly reflect the true-friendness/ability to command and work under stress seems to defeat the real purpose of the assessment. determining a person's inherent worth and ordering him relative to the others in terms of competence is a difficult task in many ways.
and to make things worse, my best buddy in the platoon isn't even my official buddy. big-sh*t irony. frankly speaking, i think that i've gotten the worst person in the entire section/platoon. perhaps that is why my bmt life isn't as enjoyable as it should be. yes, he does help out on certain occasions. but my impression of him is more of a chaokheng person. and i'm not alone in holding that opinion. and he is nowhere near endearing with all the kaobei faces and tone he adopts constitutively, the slew of vulgarities that prefixes his every statement and the slamming of furniture when he gets extras. dammit, it almost feels like i have a chao ah beng for my buddy... (sorry had to get that off my chest)
in a sense, that made my job as an appraiser easier. no ambiguities, no regrets. might be seen as backstabbing, but wth, he doesn't even give people due respect and act responsibly. why should anyone be obliged to give him a good assessment?
on the other hand, i have some really nice section mates whom we can talk crap the whole day and not get bored. even though some of them sleep on a different side of the bunk (as we all know, rocky hill has plenty of space for recruits :P), we still spend a great deal of time talking about relationships, training and our future ahead. people who have earned a spot among the best. and the best thing of it all is that they aren't even my allocated buddies, just people who think that not being too negative can be a better way to pass the time and that section mates share more than mere working relationships...
(ok, i have to quit the emo-ness!)
anyway, is anyone organising anything at all? joey was saying something about a get-together, right? sigh i think that i might be getting confinement for the next two weekends. which means saturday bookouts. wonder if i can join in any gathering... in any case, after pop, we can catch up! so please, get something together! thanks to all :D
i just did peer appraisal a couple of days ago. to say the least, it was something that i didn't relish. for one, i hate ranking people. each person we know has his own character, abilities and fondness for ourselves. to put all that into a score that does not truly reflect the true-friendness/ability to command and work under stress seems to defeat the real purpose of the assessment. determining a person's inherent worth and ordering him relative to the others in terms of competence is a difficult task in many ways.
and to make things worse, my best buddy in the platoon isn't even my official buddy. big-sh*t irony. frankly speaking, i think that i've gotten the worst person in the entire section/platoon. perhaps that is why my bmt life isn't as enjoyable as it should be. yes, he does help out on certain occasions. but my impression of him is more of a chaokheng person. and i'm not alone in holding that opinion. and he is nowhere near endearing with all the kaobei faces and tone he adopts constitutively, the slew of vulgarities that prefixes his every statement and the slamming of furniture when he gets extras. dammit, it almost feels like i have a chao ah beng for my buddy... (sorry had to get that off my chest)
in a sense, that made my job as an appraiser easier. no ambiguities, no regrets. might be seen as backstabbing, but wth, he doesn't even give people due respect and act responsibly. why should anyone be obliged to give him a good assessment?
on the other hand, i have some really nice section mates whom we can talk crap the whole day and not get bored. even though some of them sleep on a different side of the bunk (as we all know, rocky hill has plenty of space for recruits :P), we still spend a great deal of time talking about relationships, training and our future ahead. people who have earned a spot among the best. and the best thing of it all is that they aren't even my allocated buddies, just people who think that not being too negative can be a better way to pass the time and that section mates share more than mere working relationships...
(ok, i have to quit the emo-ness!)
anyway, is anyone organising anything at all? joey was saying something about a get-together, right? sigh i think that i might be getting confinement for the next two weekends. which means saturday bookouts. wonder if i can join in any gathering... in any case, after pop, we can catch up! so please, get something together! thanks to all :D
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