Who Dares Wins

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warefare brought my attention the above motto from the British Special Air Service regiment (SAS). Playing as a British SAS operative in this excellent game that I rate above Crysis, I became somewhat enamoured by the team's efficiency and organisation that I began reading up on them. Apparently the SAS was formed during the WW2 under the directive of then then Prime Minister Churchill for special operations behind enemy lines. They were so succesful that Hitler once commented that the SAS must be destroyed in order to tip the balance.

The motto came from a Latin origin, [i]qui audet adipiscitur[/i] and was first used by the SAS. I suppose what it meant is that being special operations in nature, the SAS are required to do unconventional work in enemy territory which I'd imagine would be important enough. I'd imagine if they don't [i]dare[/i], then nobody wins.

A good motto to live in life with but it has to be applied at the right times of course. Hardly proper if you're up against odds that you know is impossible to beat - I'm pretty sure the SAS would fallback and try to formulate something else if they get overwhelmed in numbers. Getting killed in the line of duty due to stupidity and foolish bravura is not an option.

In life I'd imagine it'll also mean fighting for your rights. As is going in the country now, if nobody dares to speak up on the petrol hike, we all lose. Perhaps it resulted in the weird punctuality of the KTM trains in the past five days. Took the train three days this week (more on that later) and in five times so far, they arrived right on the dot or just a minute or two later.

Amazing stuff considering that the KTM is notorious for being overcrowded and rarely on schedule. We'll just see what happens in the next few weeks. Occurences of more than 6/10 will be a remarkable improvement.

As for the other two days, took the LRT thanks to another stupid puncture on my left back tyre.

Now I'm quite sure some pothole or somewhere are nails to catch the unsuspecting. It was fine when I took the car on Wednesday but was flat on Thursday morning, so it's probably the KTM station parking area. But that doesn't seem to explain how I got two front flats the first time though.

Anyway, gotta get it fixed on Saturday morning.

Still, sometimes you dare, but lose. It's a part of life really as nobody wins forever. Going into a fight expecting to win doesn't justify the motto though, just that only those who dare, will have a chance to win. Those who don't dare will lose for sure. Sometimes you gotta stop dreaming and start trying to make it real, otherwise you won't know if it's a dream or a reality.

Who Dares Wins.

My favourite new motto after '