Well, it's finally on the home stretch - only a couple more days until the
start of the HSC...
Got nominated for 2/05 JNCO, so that should be alright, just got to take
home all my stuff at the end of the year, and go straight to RAAF Wagga
Wagga from the airport...
Just in the study break, taking it easy for now, nothing too serious...
The weekend was alright, got free passes up to the Mount...lots of fun up
there actually, horrificly sunburned - no longer red, just black...still
there...did have hardly any sleep for the weekend, so I'm still recovering
now...
I might be going parachuting soon, just that there's 20 places, so I
mightn't be able to attend this course...
Anyway, I've got to get going now...
Who Is The Black Chinaman?
- Nick
- Kuala Belait, Brunei
- Saving someone's life is like falling in love. The best drug in the world. For days, sometimes weeks afterwards, you walk the streets, making infinite whatever you see. Once, for a few weeks, I couldn't feel the earth - everything I touched became lighter. Horns played in my shoes. Flowers fell from my pockets. You wonder if you've become immortal, as if you've saved your own life as well. God has passed through you. Why deny it, that for a moment there - why deny that for a moment there, God was you? I realised that my training was useful in less than ten percent of the calls, and saving lives was rarer than that. After a while, I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop. It was enough that I simply turned up. Living and working back in Brunei, after a 14 year absence... Also known as: Brunei, NASA, Bruise-Eye, Bru, Cheesecake, Nick, BruNick, BruMedNick, Two Step etc etc etc
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