In military planning, Zero Hour refers to the time at which a raid, assault or attack is about to begin...
That's where we are right now - a mere 6 days from the battlefront, a mere 144 hours before our preparations are going to be tested, a mere 8640 minutes before we find out whether our training can stand up to the challenges ahead. Before you can count to 518400 (that's the number of seconds in 6 days), promos will be firing rounds of ammunition through your body and your bullet proof vest will be tested. Hehe =D =D
(ok that tone was totally different from the start of the passage but please ignore it so we can be serious for a while)
This post was actually motivated by a re-run of "Zero Hour - The Last Hour of Flight 11" aired on Discovery Channel this afternoon. The documentary was not the most realistic or touching re-enactment of events before the plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, but it was the stories of individuals, of heroes, who did everything they could while they were alive that reminded me how weak we were.
Moses (not the prophet) said: "Who has the courage to give up... We take it on the chin of course, what other choices do we have..." It is amazing and wonderful that Moses is becoming positive, but yet, at the same time, we ask ourselves: "Is it enough to have the courage to give up? Is it sufficient to just take things in our stride? Do we have the courage to push on? Do we have the strength to make a difference?"
When American Airlines Flight 11 was hijacked, the passengers and flight attendents knew that death was imminent. While all of them took up the courage to accept the truth and remain calm, many of them went far beyond that, stepping up to the occassion, doing their best to treat the injured passengers and warn fellow Americans of the risk through the phone, despite the possibility of being executed by the terrorists. After the collapse of the World Trade Center, Americans did more than just to grief and forget. They learnt from this lesson and swore to prevent another tragedy from happening ever again.
As Singaporeans, we will probably never ever experience anything like this, but does it take a stare into death's face before we finally decide to pick up the courage to push on? Why would we want to learn to accept failure when we can prevent failure? After typing all this chunk of text, there are still 6 days before promos so why not give yourself a little prod. If you eventually fail, then you can learn to accept it, but more likely than not, you will never need to find guts to give up because you will succeed and achieve your goals.
Jiayous for Promos! =D
Now that I think of it, our class is so motivated to study, so I guess the post was more or less for myself and myself to read only. Anyway, if you think the post was not nice at all, it could be worse. I was watching 2 documentaries on 2 different channels at the same time - "Zero Hour - The Last Hour of Flight 11" on Discovery Channel and "UFO Files - The Gray's Agenda" on History Channel. As such, I could possibly be writing about aliens coming down to Earth and kidnapping us for scientific experiments, which will not be useful in any way.
Finally, to end off, I just want to tell everyone I played a round of winterbells for 8 minutes and I got a score of 140 million =D Do try it if you are bored and don't feel like mugging!
