Looking for a light

Don't let it get away....

Indeed wat damu said was true. I was 15 minutes away from not going to Maju. I woke up at 345, bleary-eyed and rather lethargic, and as I looked outside, I saw that it had started drizzling...the sky was kinda cluody, and it threatened to pour...

"Maybe I shouldn't go..."

And I was halfway through msgin Jeremy dat I was prob gonna give training a miss when I suddenly thought bou the other guys who might come down....How would they feel? I knew the feeling of coming down and not having many ppl around, and I ddint want other ppl to experience it...

So I met Jeremy at 4 and we headed down to Maju. We were the first ones there, even though it was 430. Jerrard came soon after, and then came mini and fong...we started kicking and crossing at one end of the field as coach was giving the RP boys some training...

"Here we go again, same story..."

But the RP boys soon packed up and coach came our way...

And the rest as they say is history.

Yest was the toughest but definitely most fulfilling training I had had in Maju. Though there were only six of us, we ran our asses off, doing some basic drills which were reali tiring. Its hard to describe here, but after ending off the day at 655, the exhaustion I felt, and the aching in my thighs....they all felt painfully good. I was really satisfied, having known that I had pushed myself during training.

Perhaps this was a sign of better things to come, perhaps this was just a one-off thing. The answer will come in six days...but in the mean time, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Prayers

Yesterday's prayer session was realli good, as I told Jerrard, I went away feeling realli good, and more imptly feelin that I had spent myself well in devotion to God. Most of the time, I sit bout a row or two from the front.It feels kinda weird, cos I'm the youngest in the lot, the ppl around me are mostly above 40, and prob ppl who spend half the day praying, which I unfortunately dont. But somehow being in the midts of ppl who are so passionate about god does in someway catch on to me, and looking/listening at how intense their devotion is is really touching. Yesterdae, the imam, was so "into" his supplications dat he couldnt finish it towards the end, cos he was rather emotional and all, so had trouble reading it clearly.

I realli admire ppl like him, who feel so much, and whose heart and religion are one. I can only hope to achieve at state someday.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not into all this type of extremist/possesed stuff, i just admire those who realli feel for the religion and reach a state where their devotion to God is second to none.

Ladder 49




The day ended with me and Jerrard heading to our favourite haunt princess to catch ladder 49. 7 bucks on a sat night for a sneak preview....delicious.

The movie was excellent. Really no regrets watchin it. And it really made me reflect about life as a fireman, and wat it meant to spend your life helping others.

As I said to Jerrard, there are ppl in this world who risk their lives so others might live.

Respect.

Nuff said, yesterdae was a brilliant day. I gotta leave for tuition in half hour, and its been looking like wet London outside my window since the morning.

Out.

posted by Me @ 1:40 PM