Along the way

Looks like they didn't forget about me after all.

For the next two weeks I will be gone, serving my first ever ICT. The thing is, I have been posted as a Platoon Commander of a Transport Company... which I am completely unfamiliar with. I was mainly responsible for logistics during my NS time, having served as a DyS4, and now they are putting me in charge of the operations side.

And I am likely to be doing this for the remainder of my reservist years.

Looks like I have a lot to learn during this coming in camp.

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Saw an article in the papers talking about how most weddings nowadays hold little meaning, due to how commercialised and generic they have become. It's really true, at least for the most recent wedding which I had attending.

I mean it was really nice, it had all the bells and whistles of a grand wedding. The couple obviously spent a lot of money in booking a ballroom at a nice hotel, the food was fantastic etc, etc. But it was all something which we have seen before. The obligatory cold dish, the sharks fin soup, the fish, the abalone, the duck, the pig, the friend rice and the dessert. The beautiful multi tier cake made out of styrofoam with a slit for the couple to cut. The champagne pouring over the pyramid of wine glasses. you get the idea.

In the end it seems that the couple was more concerned about doing things right, rather than having something which could have been much more meaningful for themselves and for their friends and loved ones.

It brings to mind the weddings you often see at sentosa, those small affairs held at those beachside pubs. They may not be very grand, and they may not be something that most singaporeans would be proud to invite their parents and relatives to, but sometimes they turn out to be the most sincere and joyous weddings of them all.