First of all, do you remember when I said I had 12 buddies and 7 big brothers? well they still are my buddies and big brothers but over the past few months, lotsa things happened and left me only 2 buddies and 3 big brothers. I feel remorse, above all things. It's just so sad. circumstances caused them to quit the institution and nobody could help it.

     well, everything happens for a reason. I don't know what but in time, we'll understand. right now, I just feel sad.

     due to this huge loss, I became the battalion S4 (aka supply officer, one of the unit staff) and earned a table in the office. quite a promotion but still not reason enough to jubilate. next year, they have predicted that I'm gonna be the batallion executive officer (S3) that is next to the batallion commander. that's pretty scary and just by the sound of that, I can imagine a mountain of burden.

      all that plus my second year in civil engineering. what's even scarier is my mom & dad's reaction when they plot the slope on the cartesian plane of my report card. then the equation of my life would get even more complicated. just like analytic & solid geometry and differential calculus. multiply by the total number of homework i get every week and you get the final answer. make sure you reduce to simplest form and box it so the professor would spot it immediately.

good luck! (to me)