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I haven’t been home for two weeks due to all those training and I just returned to office from a 7 days outfield training exercise, which turned out tougher than I thought.
I remember sitting down with the section and one of the soldiers tried asking me an IQ question on the final night of exercise hoping that I would get it wrong to maybe fulfill their sense of achievement because to them, commanders always have a perfect answer to all their questions.
His question was that kind of question that you lay some twigs on the floor and the person being tested will have to move 2 twigs so it will form another shape and sadly for them, it turn out that I’ve been asked before and they had to be disappointed.
Seeing their disappointment, I decided to post them questions instead. I copied the idea from my KI friend who asked me that question back in JC and I was so certain that no one in the whole bloody world will get it wrong but turn out I realized that no matter how sure you are about your answer, you’ll Never get it right.
He asked me: what is one plus one?
So I asked them the same thing too.
None of them gave me an immediate answer, probably sensing that the answer will not be as easy as 2
Something that I always feel proud about this batch of 13th mono is that they know themselves that they might be slow, but they’ll never give up trying. Answers such as 3, 11, Chinese characters and all sorts of answers came raining now but just none of them said two.
I should have given them a good scolding for making things so complicated when the lawfully right answer should be 2 and that I just needed them to say ‘2’ to prove that 1 plus one might not equate to 2. So I singled out this noisy guy from my section whom upon called on turned speechless on the instant.
Jasper, what is one plus one?
‘Two.. two lor’
I asked the rest of the section if they agreed to the answer and the good thing was no one disagreed. So I asked them the next part of the question. ‘If I pour a pail of water into another pail of water, how many pails of water will I get?’
All of them went dumb just like I did 3 years ago. So I ask them another one to further prove that one plus one you still might not get 2. I asked if they knew what made up 1h2o, all of them could tell me its 2 oxygen and 1 hydrogen. And right after that I knew they knew what I wanted to say.
I remember I tried arguing with my friend about this being a chemistry phenomenon and it cannot be compared as its atoms becoming molecules that we are talking about, not atoms becoming more atoms. But fundamentally, we cannot deny that we got 1 when we added 1 to 1 to 1.
Well it’s all about perspective I guess. Nothing is quite certain in this world and its how you see life and the things life brings you.
