"...hope is a constant companion in this life. It is the one thing that neither cruel nature, God, nor other men can wrench from us. Health, wealth, parents, beloved brothers and sisters, children, friends, the past, the future-all can be stolen from us as eaily as an unguarded purse. But our greatest treasure, hope, remains. It is a sturdy little motor within, purring, ticking driving us on when reason would suggest surrender. It is both the most pathetic and noblest thing about us, the most absurd and the most admirable quality we possess, for as long as we have hope, we also have the capacity for love, for caring, for decency."

-Twilight Eyes, Dean Koontz

More later.

[UPDATE]
Back. Thursday. Did reccee in the morning till afternoon, came back to an earth-moving announcement. Thanks to H1N1, we're to be separated into two buildings. Half the company in each. Well that was interesting. What with all the newspapers calling it only the beginning of the Infection (ok I made the last part up) I expect we'll be staying there for a while. Because I'm in the half that's moved. =(

So I had to go to my bunk, pack up my stuff and bring it al the way over. Got there and realised I borught over some non-essential stuff. =.= So I lugged it back. Oh well, at least I now have a sense of what to bring home first when I ORD. LOL.

After upacking though, something happened. One of my guys accidentally hurt himself. During area cleaning. Apparently while adjusting the glass panels the thing broke and cut him quite deep. Got a medic, the whole shebang.

Got him to the med center, then I rode back in the land rover to grab someessential stuff before going back. Went to CGH. Seems a little risky to me, going to CGH at the start of the Infection. Haha. Oh well, I volunteered to bring him over. Not that I regreet anything of course.

Came back around 9 plus, close to 10. Watied quite a while. I just went straight to bed because of the run the next morning.

Friday. 12 km run. It's a miracle I didn't die. The farthest I've ever run was 5km. Now, it's a whopping 12km. Ack. Took 1 hour 52 mins. T_T Was a killer. 25 mins after, I had to bring my guys to help do stores. Then had to attend a meeting so I handed over command. Then another meeting. Then, some area cleaning. By the end of the day I was pretty beat. I also messed up some commands. But so darn tired. At the end of it all I had a headache, my legs hurt, and so did my arms. Overall fatigued. So was everyone else.

Was glad to book out. Stayed at home, waiting for time to pass. =\ Then went down to Cine to watch Transformers. It was epic. Damn cool. Enjoyed it. Cabbed home. Going out tmr. Think my aunt bringing my sis and I for dinner.