Too Much On My Plate

Yeah, damn straight, I hate training, and those annoying and seemingly endless trainings (new phase) have just begun this week…Oh man, damn sien lo I tell you!! I was so reluctant to kiss goodbye to my sweet little ten-day holidays which I had prior to the commencement of this nightmarish training.

Just take a look at the nice duffel bag shown above, isn’t it looks nice outwardly? But it’s hell inside. Can you see the different folders pile up on the floor? Interestingly, it TAKES A BAG to contain them. Amazing isn’t it? It’s even more amazing when you are actually told to read those folders. I still remember I actually WENT BANANA on Sunday night.

So I met my instructor on Monday, a mat saleh guy by the name of Bruce. I thought he’s English and later I found out that he’s an American. It’s been a quite a while that I haven’t been trained by mat saleh ever since my flying school days few years back. I still remember I was criticized about my bad English those days. I thought we gonna have language barrier. But thank God I can understand most of his instructions during the training, I guess I’m just used to their accent already, though at times it takes me a while to figure out what he’s saying. For three days consecutively, I have been listening to each and every of his instructions carefully, from pre-training briefing, actual training to post-training briefing. And he really can talk a lot and at one point I felt like I was having TOO MUCH ON MY PLATE.

Overall, he’s quite happy with our performance (me and my partner), and we really had a good time of learning together and he shared lotsa his experiences and stories with us which has important lesson behind. Just today alone, he mentioned this statement twice, “TIME FLIES WHEN WE’RE HAVING FUN”. I must admit that I am truly blessed to have him as my instructor. Sadly, alas, he won’t take us all the way till the end of training and from next week onwards a new instructor will take over.

Well, this is just the beginning. The journey is getting tougher and steeper ahead for sure. But then as the saying goes “when the going gets tough, the tough gets going”. In short, when things get harder, I gotta start working even harder to make it through. For the sake of my future, for the sake of my bread and butter (money is important to me at d moment), I need to forge ahead with big strides. Yeah, I know it’s too much on my plate at d moment, and I’m really trying hard to cope with them. But then again, as my instructor said earlier, “IT’S SO MUCH WORTH IT TO WORK HARD NOW FOR YOUR FUTURE”. So point taken and I hope to SOAR TOWARDS THE SKY SOON.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME ON BOARD AA FLIGHT. PLEASE FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT, I’M GONNA TAKE YOU INTO ANOTHER LEVEL OF FLYING EXPERIENCE WITH GREAT EXCITEMENT AND LUXURY SERVICE WHICH YOU’VE NEVER HAD EXPERIENCED BEFORE.