i went to the detention barracks to pick up a guy from my company who's been there for over a year and who's creepily enough, named ho chee wei. he lives near me and he just seemed damn happy to be out. can you imagine being locked up in one place for so long? among the things he heard in DB? that the passing mark for SOC is now 20 mins.
it must feel like the feeling you get when you overslept and thought that you had to catch up with the rest of the world amplified infinitely.
i just think freedom is often taken for granted. when he came out he had a bunch of letters which didn't get through to him because they were rejected. does stripping a person of his basic rights truly reform him? there was another guy who went in for a few weeks and came out totally different. he slept in bed all day and his attitude towards work changed for the worse. i now find deeper meaning in the yellow ribbon project.

schopenhauer: the pleasure in this world, it has been said, outweighs the pain; or, at any rate, there is an even balance between the two. if the reader wishes to see shortly whether this statement is true, let him compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is engaged in eating the other.

i was just starting my older computer and it was taking a record breaking 20 mins to start up windows when the screen started to twitch violently and i tried to adjust the settings but too late there were sparks inside the monitor and a burning smell and i was mildly afraid that it might catch fire then i unplugged it and changed the monitor and i restarted the computer and it tells me that it's busted cuz one of the windows file is corrupted and i have to find the setup disc to repair it but i don't have it so that's why

i. am. fucked.

(perhaps it's just comeuppance for having season 1 of arrested development, room on fire, bloody extended soundtracks for the oc and gilmore girls on the hard disk.)

..my friends and i have decided that saf has invented lingo and stock phrases that are highly unique and deserve to be applauded. in fact they stick to the mind so much that if i should ever see a pavilion or any structure which looks remotely like a shelter i would call it a 'training shed'. other examples include sme (person)- subject matter expert. indent (verb)- meaning to order something, like food. 'consume your rations', 'mount up the tonner', 'whole lot fall in'. and of course 'telt your maps'.