well, a month in dive school, 24th batch, life as a trainee diver

still no diving yet as many of you may ask

right now i m still at the starting scratch, physical training phase (PTP), which is basically doing runs, static and swim PT thruout the entire week

quite alot of time to sit around and do nothing, or rather "area-cleaning"

many of my seniors from 23rd batch told me to enjoy the days of PTP because when BMT starts, it will be more busy as the different phases draw near

well.. not thinking too far down yet

shall be taking a step at a time and stick to the power curve



met vince since day 1 in NDU, and have been seeing him very often as the 23rd batch's cabins are just a level above us

seniors have been pretty helpful, coming down pretty often to talk to us and teach us new stuffs

my batch's course warrant, msg Jimmy Choo, is known as "one of the best course warrants" in dive school.. and he's a Navy SEAL.. been thru the US SEAL course... an impressive golden eagle badge on his uniform's right pocket..

he's very motivating... even towards our batch's instructors...

the way msg jimmy works is that he want's a good working relationship as well as mutual respect with us and of cos, he expects results when he dishes out good deals for us...

so far, we've been preforming ok so that explains the long weekends i have been getting so far...

really thank God for the blessings so far



gee... so many things to write but cant put together all the thots in one go...

basically life in dive school is still good...

not as bad as many perceived it to be...

my prayers have become distinctly longer... even before meals...

there's so much that i have to depend on God...

to commit everything, every exercise, or what we know as evolution, into His hands... i would silently pray before each run asking Him to grant me the endurance to complete the run..

and no matter what the results are, just give thanks

one thing i learned from purpose driven life for the past week is "you are as close to God as you choose to be"

this is a lesson which i want to learn even in dive school



well.. that's all for now...

as i mentioned, things are still going fine..looking good

bmt starts next week

will be much more busy but i will try to update whenever i can.. :)