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I WANNA BE A SPARTAN

Ok yes i am alive! I have decided to reblog again and i shall discuss the reason about that later but recount my experiences for today.

Today I attended the youth leader's summit at ACSI, their campus is really quite nice now compared to RJ...the latter can be a bit too practical at times without enough life injected into the veins of those walls, but oh well. Anyway it was pretty ok larh people like jonny and david would love it, but i have to admit i was a little bit bored at some parts. But Miss. Nott is always fun to be around and i got to know her friend Christianne and in turn, her friend Christine. And i got arrowed by the Minister of Education from NJC during the moot parliament and she keep bombing me for stuff(I was ExxonMobil chairman with Chloe btw). All in all it was a pretty nice time, but i had to leave early cos' of some stuff at school :\ oh well it's ok, Chloe will fill me in on the rest of the stuff :D

But to the reason i am blogging, yes you people don't gape like that, it's only been...3 months... Anyway after what i had to do, i went to watch 300 with Paul and Zhangrui. IT KICKED SO MUCH BUTT! I am a huge huge medieval/greek/roman(basically anything to do with fighting with swords and shields) fan and while boys are dreaming about shooting guns and being power rangers, i dreamt about being a knight and having a lance and charging into battle for king and country, honour and glory. And the Spartans...they were just the epitome of that, the lack of fear in them, the ruthless determination to fight and win or fight and die, no retreat, no surrender. For honour and glory, for Sparta. I want to be a Spartan...

I knew about the battle of Thermopylae, King Leonidas, Spartan hoplites, the phalanx formation, Xerxes and even about Spartan training and armour before the movie(yes i'm that big an ancient civs geek...) so it was kind of amusing to see the way the directors exaggerated the bad guys like the immortals etc. but it was altogether a perfect show of the strength and power of the Spartan army. I love these movies, but Troy was too indulgent for Brad Pitt and Eric Bana, Alexander was such a letdown, the phalanx, the core of the greek fighting army, was so underdeveloped that it totally destroyed the fight scenes, not to mention the gay parts... but this... this was something else altogether, it was a perfect blend of modern technology and ancient glory and power. Sigh...sometimes i wish i could live in those times, fighting for my king and country, living a code of honour, things would be so much simpler than having to study for common test and train twice a day during the hols :\ . But then on my way back i thought, if i were a Spartan, i'd be doing both equally as well. Therefore, i have my inspiration to train hard and win that National Schools Individuals that comes 3 days after common test. And do at least decently well for my common test, meaning not failing anything. The Spartan shall be my role model. Aside from the lack of celibacy, worshipping of pagan Gods and oracles and indiscriminate killing that is.

I'm going to sleep in brown underwear, a red cape and sharpen my broom to resemble a spear. By the way, Paul is blogging a similar entry, click here to see it.