Adidas Originals Top Ten Hi Sleek Women's.

Been searching around. And finally... Found! A pretty pair of Hi-tops.

The adidas Originals Top Ten Hi Sleek shoes offer a feminine take on the iconic ’70s basketball shoe. This leather version has a more streamlined, elegant shape than the original, with a quilted jersey collar accented by glossy patent 3-Stripes.

Musical movie.

Les Miserables.

I dreamed a dream. Made really famous, or maybe made known to me by the music sensation Susan Boyle. The stage musical is showing at the Queen's theatre located near Chinatown in London. There are always posters featuring the stage musical. With it's iconic little girl with letterings (les miserables) on it's poster. Yes, I've walked passed the theatre, but yet to catch it.

Musicals brings intense energy and emotions to the stage. Les Miserable storyline is pretty to understand. It's quite direct and feelings are always expressed clearly through it's lyrics and songs.

This movie is dramatic. And I think one can't miss the three main emotions this movie portrayed. Sacrifice, grace and love. It's a sad, challenging movie throughout no doubt, but I prefer to see it in an ever positive light.

Five days before departure to Tamworth.

Today is the second last day that we will be in AFTC before AGC starts. Which means, tomorrow will be the last day. We left at 2pm and proceed on to the Air Force Museum to take our course photo and individual headshots. Canon baby did it's job today. We're five more days to Tuesday, and that's when we'll takeoff to Tamworth, New South Wales for our course.

I was packing my luggage just now. It's approximately 70% done. I'm still waiting for the Macbook pro to charge completely before I slot it into Crumply and into my new Army green bag.

Lightning fast.

A day before Christmas eve.

*listening to Buble's White Christmas as I'm typing this.

Got my American Tourister luggage bag from Suntec City yesterday. It's cabin-sized, fiery red in color. I've packed my stuffed inside already, and awaiting to fill it up by next week. Hunted for AcuStrap at the planet traveller which I'll be collecting only on the day of departure.

Excited.

TMS to AVN.

Last Friday, we officially moved from TMS to AVN. I was initially so excited to be finally stop Lobo-ing. But today, I found myself peeping through the opened doors of 02-24. It's basically our cave for one and a half months.

In AVN now. Activities are now structured and planned. I'm happy as I know something is going to happen soon. And in these precious two weeks, we'll be just like a sponge. Soaking in any precious information we can get. And today, we had a glimpse of how to do the Operations brief. It seems so cool. The Cuminolimbus, cumulus, stratocumulus, (basically types of clouds) seems like tongue twisters to me. We were not taught about them in our secondary school geography lessons. Sobs.

Managed to try reading the Ops brief out. :)

It's a good short day today.
Productive.
And I'm happy!

It's a Wednesday.

We had braised duck rice at the cookhouse today. Before that, went to the gym for a workout. Initially it was not planned as I'm involved in the life run later doing the aerobics (Oh gosh. Aerobics with no classes and rehearsals before that. Hahaha. It's so cheesy that it makes one want to eat cheesy cheese nachos.), but I decided to as I want to do something after a short nap and some reading.

For today, I did 20 minutes of running on the treadmill, biceps, triceps and abs exercise. I want to maintain the stamina and also maintain the tone of my arms and abs. Had a long bath after that. Ahhh, the secret luxury in the current lobo life. Will be moving to Aviation on this Friday.

January will be a crazy month. As much as I want something to happen, I guess I'll try to 'appreciate the art of doing nothing and doing something if you want to' before the crazy month. Also, to recharge and refresh the mind and body.

Waiting for the aerobics at 1500.

:)

Just a Thursday.

Rather than letting thoughts fray. I guess it'll be better to channel it perspectively.

There are some paragraphs that I've extracted from this book, The Art of Being while reading it today.

How to be perfectly imperfect.
Perfectionism is something that consumes an incredible amout of energy. Many perfectionists are not really aware of how much this obsession runs (and perhaps ruins) their life. We are so busy trying to make everything and everyone perfect (but mostly ourselves) that we lose touch with the moment at hand. Perfectionism stems from a need to control.

This sorta springs up as a reminder to me today. Let me give a simple illustration of an event which happenned yesterday. My new shoes, the shoes you've saw on the previous post, were misplaced and I only got to discovered it before I went to gym. And this thing's been bugging me. From yesterday till this morning. Partly blaming myself that I hadn't been more careful. When when I become too obsessed and crtical of myself, I tend to be less aware of my surroundings and 'lose touch with the moment in hand'. I may overlook more important stuffs and even people around me. It happens to me, and I'm trying to be more forgiving of my ownself. The book says. God is perfect, right now, just the way it is, in you and as you. So it's not that we have something we need to cover up, but rather that we have something to reveal to the world.

Henry David Thoreau wrote that most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. The song of which Thoreau is speaking is the unexpressed self, God's creative essence looking out for an outlet. It requires courage to sing our song. In my opinion, the courage to express. I can be pretty true to myself. But sometimes my thoughts can consume and confuse me. That courage will indeed take us to the very edge of our comfort zone, that dark place called fear. Fear of rejection, fear of failure and perhaps even fear of success.

Beyong a certain point, there can be no more growth on the comfort of your nest, and if you want to be a hawk and soar with the wind, you have to take the risk, come to the edge and push off.

And on the 96th way to practice purpose in your life, there presents a quote, in small print by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It says 'I hate quotations'. Lol. I had a good laugh.Laughing cause I thought this may be in line with what I thought. I once shared with a friend that I thought quotes weren't for me because it's cliched. One point. Another, one own's life is self-discovery. It will be so ever confusing to you if you decided to take other people's quote and live it as your own.

And here from the book. 'Imitation is suicide' Now it makes it pretty clear, doesn't it? The message he was asking us to embrace is, be your own person; think for yourself; be an original, an authentic thinker not a duplicate.

That's probably why, I like things original, creative, no fine print, minimal with no pretence. Sophistication? Yes, but I can't seem to produce it.