I remember people asking me about why I put the colour grey as my nickname. There are several reasons to this. Before I officially announce it as my nick, I came across a phrase that is similar to the one below,
" What I see from my eyes are usually grey in colour. Not totally tainted but neither are they totally pure too."
This sentence left a very deep impression in me. Sometimes, we tend to look at things from single angles, making things worse than what they actually are. It's easy for one to claim that he/she wants to be objective, to be fair at handling issues. Very often though, when our loved ones are involved, our judgement tends to be bias. I, myself has been teaching people on different subject matters, be it guiding them on social issues, military knowledge or purely academics. I've seen many instructors, including me getting too emotional at times when we are involved or our loved ones suffered in the hands of injustice. That proves how hard it is to stay objective, to ensure that our judgement is always fair.
Back to the reason why I decided to add in Grey as one of my nicks, this nick was actually given by one of my Instructors to me back in my trainee days. My instructor couldn't pronounce my name "Gareth" properly, and hence always ended up calling me "Grey". As time pass by, this became my not-so-official name and was used by my instructor whenever he was looking for me.
Btw, in case you people are wondering, Gareth IS my official english name. I've explained it countless time to many different people. I'm too lazy to actually type out the entire story here so if you want to know why I adopted this name, you can give me a call or just messaged me on MSN. I would most likely be back only on Saturday as I have Guard Duty on Friday, meaning my friday night is once again, burnt.
I will end this entry with one particular quote that I love,
"The only easy day was yesterday."
Good night, people. I love you guys "deep deep" !
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