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Recently I bought this pair of sandals for a loved one, which I must say, has to be the most expensive gift I have EVER bought anyone. But it did feel quite worth the sacrifice on my part - though the sight of seeing more than a tenth of last month’s salary changing hands was quite numbing. Anyhow the designs on it were really pretty and would have liked to have worn it much myself, but its ladies’.

Recently a lot of little sacrifices that I’ve been making seem rather worth the price.

Recently I went on this course that simply took the life out of me. It was the most tiring series of class discussions I have EVER been through. Tiring is not the word. Tedious. That’s it. It is so tedious that mind-draining yesterday night after dinner, thinking ok I’ll take a nap and in half an hour’s time I’ll drag myself to the gym, I changed into my shorts and fell asleep on the bed half-naked. That was at 7.30pm.

Then I woke up feeling very cold, so I put on my shirt, realized someone had msged me, read the msg, closed the msg screen and saw that it was 1.25am in the morning. I thought to myself, ohmigod I was supposed to go to the gym, as groaned in despair (really), rolling backwards onto the bed spreadeagled. That was the last thought I had before I fell asleep again. Luckily I was setting my phone alarm during dinner or I don’t think I would have woken up to continue getting tortured today.

It was very strange, that brief period of wakefulness. Everything was very clear in my head and vision was very sharp unlike the sleepy-groggy kind of vision that you have when you wake up in the mornings. The sky was dark outside but looked only a bit darker than at 7.30pm. It must have been, like, 20 seconds of consciousness, and once I lay back in bed everything disappeared.

The course is so tedious because we are learning this process called Problem-Based Learning. I don’t particularly see anything useful, or new, about it, because it just seems to me: 1) a complication of normal mental problem-solving since you have to write everything down, 2) we spend more effort thinking of things to write down than we do on the actual solution, 3) we already know the final solution when we read the passage, and 4) the most probable reason why we’re learning this f***ing hell of a problematic approach is so that we can find a freakin cure for it and save future logistics officers from having to suffer like we’re suffering now.

I mandate using the quick, painless and surefire method called Shoot the Arrow. First you find someone who you think knows the answer. Then you arrow him to do the job. If he’s the right guy and he knows the solution, it’s a five-second answer. If he really doesn’t know, and neither do you, well… arrow someone else.

Tomorrow is a full day of Problem-Based Learning, 8 til 6.

Recently I went out on a very enjoyable outing with audrey, who has an endless supply of stories and knowledge and wit, and if not for her I don’t think any conversation would have existed. Oh, we went out on a Saturday. It was a day after two days of heavy Problem-Based Learning.

I cant remember the context but
Quote Audrey

‘Back in my day there was only one position! Married or Not Married!
Nowadays dunno what doggy la, dunno what this and that la…’

And I notice that guys always turn to check her out but I don’t know if she notices that.

Apparently her gay friend whom I met said he was picking vibes from me. That is seriously disturbing.

Recently I also met brandon at 40 sar when I went there for a stock-taking exercise. It was very funny. Suddenly he gets this officer looking over his shoulder for God knows what, in the cookhouse. But it was just me la.

I’m sleepy.
Problem Based Learning

09 Feb 2006