Tuesday, January 08, 2008
1:00:00 pm
A walk down memory lane left me in some emotional turmoil.
The excitement mounted when i alighted outside the swimming pool. walking back up the familiar slope of toa payoh competition pool main entrance. cant help but remember 7 years ago, how we always waited there everyday for parents to fetch.
Found my way to nus ppl where sis n friends were gathered. I already suspected first event should be 1500m guys. true enough, 2 ppl were like 'warming up' inside hahhhaa! i was tickled. one was leonard. the other idunnowho. that was, heat1.
heat 2 was waiting there. sis excitedly told me, mok, danny yeo n clement are there. i couldnt stop um-chio-ing n i almost died. before she even told me clement's second from right, i already could tell altho they were rather far away. nothing changes uh. i couldnt even tell which is mok till she pointed out.
clement was wearing specs haha. he looks, pretty much the same to me. just an older version haha. the funniest was danny yeo! he's like still equally lanky. but now more muscle i shld guess. exactly the same still!! 1500m was interesting. danny's strokes r super nice. he seemed like he was doing 30 laps of warm ups. clement seemed like he was uh using more strength haha. kinda cool, the way the both of them pulled away n led the whole race. altho danny was like vrooom... after sometime. everyone was joking how mok took 8 laps to warm up.. before he started pulling away too n not lagging. i was hoping he wont catch up with clement hahhahaa! sorry split loyalties here.
anw, the results were 1st danny yeo 2nd clement 3rd mok.
i thought it was utterly cool... the first 2 both PAYSC ppl... n the 3rd someone who trained with PA at some point in time.
so after tt they went to water polo pool to cool down. i guess he'll forever be the same. i guess it's good to stay in the pool till all finish. but i guess maybe it slipped his mind or something for he left before the last one reached.
i went toilet to pee. all the soup n water for dinner. so i was just loitering around, looking thru the high fence at the familiar places. den dunno wad boring-looking event. so i stood at the side of the pool. just standing. suddenly, clement walked right by. he was, right in front of me! just like inches away! i almost died. why dint i say hello. why. why. why.
he was so super tall. like one head taller luh. (ideal height hahhaa!) ahhhhhh........ danny yeo den walked by. i always knew clement'll grow up to be tall. just a matter of hoW tall. cuz i remember his parents BOTH were very tall haha.
i remembered danny as some small uber flexible little boy last time. he wasnt tt fast. i guess he has improved loads. danny yeo kai quan. he's nice. but i dont remember talking to him much? i was much closer to the girls :) i miss them. sighhh. all i remember of danny yeo was when i first started way back in pri3 dec hols, chuan hao was being very irritating someday when we were doing breadth. so it was like me, chuan hao, n danny yeo there. den danny was like 'eh dont bully her larh'..... i was feeling very dots cuz a small little boy tells another small little boy not to bully me......... but i was quite thankful cuz he stopped wadever he was doing. (i cant rem wad tt was) but i guess when someone's nice to u u'll remember forever.
clement's sister, carina. she's 3 years younger. always same group as me! one of the first friends i made back then. she said something very insulting to me on one of my first few trainings. it was another breadth day. maybe the same day? i cant rem wad she said. but all i know i was very insulted. buden when i thot abt it a few years later, at tt time she was only end of k2, going on to pri1! strange, how as time went by we became very good frens. she's rather small n blur. i really wonder if she remembers me. even a teeny little bit.
he had quite a long break then. sis went to warm up/report alr. so i was rather alone then. i was just standing right on top having a bird's eye view. clement went to talk to coach. went to talk to a few ppl. den he started heading right. right over to the nus side!!!! n sat down, 3 ppl away from where i was sitting. he was talking to this indian guy, whose name i always see. from nus. before tt i said hi to him, courtesy of intro by sis. he's some damn cool bi person also. who's like a few seconds faster than clement. when the 1500m was abt to start everyone was like woah woah mok is there, n then they were talking abt clement! ahhhhhh. sighhh.
funny thing is his hair always stands up. haha! n his hair's not very short. whenever he just gets out from the water, n runs his hand thru his hair, everything will stand, wet or not. hahha! n he always has tt towel with him.
so yeah i went back to sit down n he was like, so near yet so far. he stayed for rather long, talking to tt guy. den he went back n talked to a few ppl from his place. den report for 200IM which he was idunnodoingwad. his fly was nice tho. his back was like taking his own sweet time!! his breas was like uhhhh... i thot he used to be a breastroker in pri sch..... free was like 'i give up' alr...... TERRIBLE...... hahaha..... den up n down for a while.... den 4x100m relay. AP know.. leaning against the fence, arms lidat. i guess he knew he had a not-so-good team n was like very sian. but he tried to catch up.
sadly, immediately after relay, he took his bag n left. he went toilet to change i guess. he was always msg-ing/on the phone. when he came out, i almost died cuz he was abt to leave n i dunno when's the nxt time i'll see him. this was the first time i see him since uh pri6. tt's like eons ago. but thank goodness he stood outside the toilet for very long on the phone. i was suppose to leave with ntu alr for the bus back to ntu. (bytheway ntu camp was sitting behind ngee ann's!) i was hoping they'll hurry up! but they were so slow! :( clement left like 1minute before ntu left. n when i went out there, he was no where in sight. danny yeo walked by tho. i wonder if he remembers me. i wouldnt've recognised him either if sis dint point out tho.
sighhhhhhhh.
mok was very funny tho. saying 'GO-p' n the stupid stuffs abt 'go sheares!' n abt his hi-tech hp which can send emails. come to think of it, both of them came from RI together. but he seems so much closer to danny yeo. both of them dint even speak a word! i guess it's just him.
sis's fren zhi yun reminds me alot of bernice heng. another swimming fren. she really looks verY alike.... i miss them loads. there's bernice, peishan, carina, n julia! but i guess we've nothing much to talk abt now. even my closest friend julia. ayeeee.
looks like some things never change.
how, can i reach tt level again?
