going into NS has humbled me a great deal.

i used to think i'm that fit, so even when i didn't even bother to do any form of basic conditioning before enlistment, i'd thought that my physical fitness level is still up there, i mean my mentality was 'i scored full marks for NAPFA leh, i believe i can harness my potential whenever there's a need to :)'.

In the first week, we had IPPT categorization test. it was an initial test to gauge whether you're that up to standard. My ego well, was deflated, smashed. haha.. i failed 2/5 of the stations. It was hard to accept at first, i was baffled, but conceded that God is trying to tell me something. that something is not to think so highly of myself, that He can give something and take away that something. So in the subsequent days and the days ahead i have to train very hard, to work on it, together with all the people who failed the Chin-up station. I was the only guy who failed the sit-up station, so i was given personal training on that also. I tell you, i was really humbled lor please. when people who look at me and say 'whoa, you don't look like you failed chin-ups 1'. i grinned and said, 'i'm no better than any of you all'.

Gone are the days when i can do Chin-Ups like the bar was at my knees.

God is my strength. He always have lessons for me, a mere man, to learn.

Vin
wants to be humble.