The routine I spoke about a few posts ago has now been replaced by a different, and hopefully more pleasant one. By pleasant I mean being able to have more of my life lived as I would want it, rather than putting it on hold for as long. All that I would have wanted to say about NS has been summed up in my previous post, though it hardly even begins to express the thoughts I've had. That will come another time, perhaps when I'm not as caught up with using every minute of time I have not in the army to do my own thing. A bonus is being able to follow AMI regularly now. The first 3 members of the top 12, Danny, Michael and Alexis, are pretty deserving. 

This evening I joined Josh, Sophie, Charmaine, Daniel, Shi Ping and Nat at Fusion 2009, featuring the Planetshakers. There was a lot to take away from it, though it isn't something that can be articulated in a blog to the same effect. What was interesting though was the fact that I realized I have now joined the ranks of the older folk, which make up a minority, as compared to the many secondary school members of the BMC party there. 

To finish, here's a little excerpt from the book (apart from the highway code which doens't really count) I have yet to finish, George Orwell's Why I Write, which I find rather illuminating: 

"Looking back through the last page or two, I see that I have made it appear as though my motives in writing are wholly public-spirited. I don't want to leave that as the final impression. All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."