What a day today has been! Did not quite do ANY work at all :(
Rode with the sis in the morn through Neo Tiew till Kranji Reservoir. Pretty fun! Minus the dead dog (which leewei said has been there since MONDAY!) and the headwinds on the way back. My cateye worked for a few random occassions! :) There were military police everywhere! And so exciting to see the trucks trucking the 3 big tankers! What a happening place on a hot cloudy windy afternoon!
Had yummy porridge for lunch!
Drove the van to Whampoa to run some errands and then sat dad's motorbike to Toh Tuck Rd to practise clarinet. It's like I'm entering into another world when I'm there. Didn't quite practise much today cuz was like stuffy nosed and tired and just plain lazy. The way music connects ppl, can't quite explain it but I certainly don't mind it becoming a way of life, except that it'll be over in 3 weeks ayeee. Inspiration. Can't quite explain it. I need the chemistry! Haha.
Came back to nap for 15mins before heading over to the pool just for a warm up cuz it poured plus lightning and thunder. The time trial did not materialise. AND I got scolded by the captain AGAIN. (!!!!!) terrribleeeeeeee.
It was happening cuz there were the lifeguards, biathlon and swimmers all unable to swim. Ate dinner and walked back with the hall 3 peeps.
Alright I shall sleep. Don't wanna think about anything else.
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Yesterday was really fun!
Finished the jap mini-test. Learnt 16 characters in 1hr the morning before. This time round I sat beside this other guy who was much more friendlier and fun and we talked quite abit! :) Kinda boring during lessons these days cuz I'm always "alone". Altho jap class has a few NBS ppl I know (my tj friend also) And 301 is all group B ppl altho I recognise/know about 1/4 of them. No wonder I was so happy in 306 class on Friday cuz you know like 7/8 of the ppl in there! :) Presentation for 301 is over yay!
Headed to the track with the sis and sue. Howe Li is rather scarily weird and he ran with me hAHA. Phew didn't need to do whatever time trial so I just did a nice long run! I like :)
Oh I gotta mention. Half way through I saw this guy running with numbers on his arm (ie warming up for the mini bi) So I decided to be friendly and went "hello...." So the funniest part was I asked him why biathlon? Since he didnt seem to be a swimmer/runner background. And his reply was "Oh you know Mok Ying Ren?" (and then I tried not to like LOL on the spot and gave a nonchalent reply) "yeahhh" "yarh, quite inspired by how he can do so well in all 3 disciplines!" "yarh! medicine student somemore right! wahhhhhhh he's so zai............" (LOL-ing inside) and then end of story cuz his warm up finished.
I think it's so cool though. To be such an inspiration to so many ppl you don't even know!
The mini bi was an exciting place! So many random new faces I met/made friends with! :) Like there's Haosiang's tennis friend! The PotongPasir guy. The hall 2 guy. Lyanna! Marches (from tj dunno how to spell!) And so on! It wasn't till Audrey and Sui Hui were like "WHY are you so high?" That got me thinking.
1) It's so fun to see everyone coming for the mini bi!
2) It's reallllyyy nice to make so many new friends :) Get to know more new faces
3) Mostly cuz they're ppl who run and swim! That means more potential friends to run and swim with me. That means more potential friends I'll meet while running and swimming in ntu to make life more fun. That means MORE FUN.
Hence, the excitement.
So I had something to contribute to the team after all! I helped to count laps for lanes 5 and 6! :) There were 3 waves, the third being the most exciting cuz it consisted of the 3 ang mohs (Alex Thomas John), Bud Yiming Alex Marcus CherKun(?). All swimmers, so exciting!
I didn't know Thomas was so zai! He's like faster than Mr-49s-for-100-yards! ANd he's like some triathlete! To think I talked to him the day before during the Bbq! Respect mann! (*salutes) He's like so much friendlier and smiles more than Mr-USA. Oh Thomas is from Switzerland. He reminds me of some friendly giant from my childhood days when you read about big friendly giants. Haaa.
And then Captain Loo had to scold me HMMPH
"You luh keep on standing there watching them"
(I was lap counting! Short of man-power! Also they all just suddenly disappeared dun even know where everyone went to.......)
"Never do exercises just now still swim so slow"
(Alright, I'm slow okay? I was trying to catch lorh...........)
"Go and hurry up bathe first, everytime u all take so long"
CRAP
I'LL DO THE FREAKING EXERCISES AFTER MY INTERVALS TODAY LUH.
hmmmmmmph.
Although I badly wanted to sleep, I still decided to drive the van out just so the captain can get his vegetarian food. (I had intentions of poisoning the food) And just so his roomie will be happier too. (hehehehe) But I had fun driving and all :)
Met the sis' crappy rugby friend at extension and the ensuing random conversation.
"You look very different when you're not running"
"hmmmmmmmm....?"
"Are you going SEA games also?"
"ha-ha"
Then we talked about running and swimming and cycling
"Actually those are my 2 most hated sports. I don't see the point" (referring to running and swimming)
"Actually you know I think throwing and running around after a ball is very pointless too"
"Thanks arhhh"
(hmm u started it? haa)
But seriously I never see the point of soccer and rugby etc. But I guess in a way all sports are kinda "pointless?" But more so running so hard after a what? ball?
But thanks to Sue's suggestion of Popiah! (I didn't even see the stall!) And Rod for parking the van haa!
It was really nice to see everyone you know ard hall :)
Great day! Minus the lack of sleep
One does the strangest of things.
Don't like that.
Brain-frying 306 lecture today! Classical guitar crap AGAIN. All talk and no sense. Really, how do they get by.
Nice ride! Rode to the end of LCK, and reached the sea which the sis mentioned about! It was fun. Minus the stray dogs which were abit worrying. Haosiang asked if I was running so I decided to try out transition for the second time. After my 1hr ride, ran the normal one round BUT at a madly crazy pace. (I bet that hit 28!) Wasted I didn't time. Haosiang's crazy. I wanna run with him more often! Haha. But I was reaLLyyy tired after that.
Block supper for once on a Tuesday so I can attend! Yummy pizza. I ate 4 slices. (They were small ones!)
I'm stuck here doing a ton of readings cuz we have a presentation this Thursday. What crap.
Had my first Jap class! COOOLLLLL :) And during 301 I found out my project mate (it was pre-assigned thank goodness) took the entire course before (meaning do project before!) but just didn't sit for the paper! Woohoooo :)
It was fun to be at the booth! Tried to recruit ppl and the strangest things happen. Like zhijie targeted this guy who wore tri-factor shirt. Turns out he's '88 batch AND he did a few tris before. And, HE STAYS IN POTONG PASIR BLK 111. COOL. And a random passing girl, with me pointing her out and thanks to Marcus' "Hi! Would u like to join" got another girl's name on the list!
It's really nice to walk around school and meet so many ppl! Headed to NIE to buy texts and back where I didn't have much time before having to go down for swim training.
I was feeling quite tired cuz didn't rest properly the day before and had no nap during the day. And then I almost died. But the company to train with was really good :) And without them I might've just given up.
All in all, it's great to be back in school, not the class part, but the ppl part :)
WEDNESDAY
For the rest of the afternoon after I got back (from buying 2 pairs of nice slippers using up the World of Sports voucher), I holed myself up in my room and played my clarinet.
First training! It was really good to be back at SRC pool! :) Turnout for swim training was rather alot! :) Good training though. Tried really hard although dunno why I was pretty much drowning.
Sue came to stay over! Rather fun! Okay, self-entertaining haa. I miss school and everybody hanging around! Enjoying every minute of it :) Slept REALLY late though I was totally tired out.
THURSDAY
Woke up at 8+ and left at 9+ to head to prac with my accompanist. Hmmm. A rather different experience from the norm. Somehow. I miss those days of MEP where we accompany each other. It's different when u're a pianist who plays solo instru too. Easier to understand the soloist and to coordinate. Altho it's also my fault mostly cuz I'm not too familiar with the piano part and song and hence unable to lead.
Met Luther and Lols at Vivo. We ate Earle Swensen's! Salad bar! Yummm! I think I can survive on salad bar for breakfast lunch dinner. So filling! We had our 50% Bakerzin dessert! :) And the divided-into-three macarons! Luggage shopped too! :)
When I came back to the swimming pool couldnt find my water bottle though :( Depressing.
FRIDAY
Had a really really nice morning swim with Sue and Rod! Junyang and his jnr too. Nice company, yummmmmyyyyyy yu pian tang lunch! Went to chill at the track to watch mad ppl (like weishing, si kwan and zhibin) run the track at 12pm! Came back to pack the room for the first time (at long last) and then train-ed home to do the last short run for AHM. A really happily SLACK day :)
SATURDAY
In the morn I prac clar, then met MJ to do the scrapbook! It was pretty nice looking at all the old pics and all the nice memories of tjband times :) Went to cut hair. Never had such short hair for so long alr! Went MOF with the band peeps!
The roomie was so touching. She bought me a bottle :) It wasn't till we all said bye at Suntec area tt I realise how much I'm gonna be missing her :( No more 'byes' at random outings/places till at least one year later? :(
Went home for dinner and to do race prep :)
SUNDAY
Pure madness. Army half marathon! Woke up at 4.15am, reached padang by 5.10am. When Leewei first called I was like in the toilet washing up. At 4.50am his SMS threw me off guard: are u there yet? I was like only AT HOME. Was caught a little behind, 2mins off gun time.
I ran. Like really RAN. There was NO JOGGING. Except for perhaps the start. Only drank from 3 water points. Don't quite like stopping to drink water. Stomach feels weird after. At the heading towards ECP part, Jon ma and Serene ran by. They were going rather steadily so I decided to up pace a littleeee just to see how long I can keep up. So, shut off everything else, just follow after the green person. But after sometime I decided to just get dropped. But they were within sight for a good deal of the way!
There was this guy who ran with me almost the entire way! I saw him running somewhere at the start, and was surprised to see him again very near the end, and occassionally too haha. After ECP, it was 10km. Another guy started pacing with me. We went at quite a brisk pace for rather a long part, till he got dropped :( Pacers, can't do without the random ones.
After ECP, didn't quite wanna push at that pace that I was going at. Kept thinking what happens if I walk. Like, please, I CANNOT walk. So I prayed instead, like mentally I've kinda "given up". From here on, God, it's all Your strength. And He carried me through such that I did a 1hr 45min in the end :)
15mins off the previous PB, 5mins off the I-really-thought-impossible goal :)
Loitered around and met many ppl! I think the massaging killed my legs! Met Sumiko and almost the entire NUS team (Angela, Zhiyun, Jonma, QiuRong, Josh, and some other girls I dunno etc etc) Met random ppl like Feroz! Mark (from hall 2) Corinne! Wasn't till much later, that I met the NTU team. Like AT LAST. Was wondering WHERE IS EVERYONE.
I got the "You might be a potential prize winner" tag thingy :) I got 15th going by gun time! Great improvement from 26 last year :) If you compare timings though, it would've gotten me top 10 last year hahhaaaa. But dunno why last year's timings were all rather slow.
Taught 10 kids, 1045-615pm.
Ate bedok ban mian. YUMMMM. Went to the airport to see the roomie off. REALLY good to see Victorrr!!! And all his crap :) It was nice of Rod to go too. Both of them are crap! So I had a pretty nice time just hanging out with them while the roomie settled the stuffs. Mann the manager was damn cool!
Sorry to the band peeps for not hanging out with them for obvious reasons. But the entire thing made me think of alot of things. Hmmm food for thought.
However, it's really too much. I mean, you can't even LOOK at me and talk? It's like I'm forever talking to this person who doesn't reply but just sms-es constantly into the iphone. And okay, what's so funny? It's not very nice to keep laughing at others like that. Truth is, I was quite hurt. Like whatever okay.
Bye hM :( I'll miss her aLOT. ANd she refused to give me a hug! Terribleeeee haha. Ayeeeee.
One year. It made me think. We'll really be very different when we get back. Not in a bad way. SO many experiences she'll be going through, so many I'll be embarking on too. Aye we're all growing up. It's like to final. We won't be schooling together anymore. Sighh
Anw, thanks Victor for ride back! It's fun to sit his car again! :) Bro only came at 1230am and reached hall like 1am+ where early in the morn surviving on the 21st hr I was cursing the dad wholeheartedly.
Somehow can't really sleep properly.
Raining now and there's so much sun! Where's the rainbow?
Let me blog in 10mins and then I'll go take a nap.
Saturday we bid acjc pool a farewell, and what followed was a totally busy day.
Sunday I started lessons late! :) Fireworks were crowded, a little disappointing, but still nice :) Never have I been so glad I'm 1) tall 2) skinny. Fresh air, and I reached home before 9pm! Skilled huh :)
Monday I shifted back to hall! :) Nice nice. But not very settled in yet. Walked around J.P. and only slept after I got around to spreading the sheets at like 10pm when we moved in in the morning! I went for a joyride! Suppose to meet sis at the place I always turn. How accurate our timing was MANN.
And for the first time I went beyond the traffic light at LCK. To the rolling hills! Terribly fun. Would like to do it again! Next week! :) Weather was absolutely perfectly LOVELY that I was quite sad to stop! Took some pics.
The road behind,
beside,
and ahead.
Was stopped at the traffic light!
Tuesday my alarm rang at 6am but I only decided to kick (my own) ass and get out 30mins later and only started running at 7am! And so I finished at 8 and left my room half hr later only to realise there's NO 301 lecture on reaching the venue and meeting another girl. So I went back to hall to do the laundry and pack the place and met Marilyn for lunch at can B!
All I can say is, it's really good to be back in school! As different as I am from the hall ppl, (like I hardly socialise with the girls) it's still nice to see familiar faces around eVERywhere :) And going for 306 lecture, it's nice where almost everyone around you are ppl u know :) I'll miss it for sure. Last sem................ Elective audition was crap, and NIE pool was so disgusting I couldnt take it and got out after 15mins. Waste of time and effort to get chlorinated.
Had a yuMMYYYY dinner at Ikea with sis and mok! YUMM. Slept at 10+ again.
Woke up at 5+am to get to the airport to send the sis off! Sadly dad didnt let me stay for long :( So I reached home and left by 7am and drove the van ALONE for the first time to NTU. I thought I was going to die haha! Thank God the cars were pretty friendly! So by 8am, I had already gone to the airport, been home, and drove to NTU, aND parked, nicely, after quite some time hhahhaha. I think I'm such a retarded driver haha!
The sister with her COOL helmet!
Alright 10mins up! Shall nap for an hr (REALLY tired) then it's add/drop time! Hopefully I can get my 301! Give me my 301!
Left the house this morning at 7.20am for TPY stadium where I did my 37.5 rounds.
Thank God for the weather really! For the old ladies and their interesting exercises which kept me sane for the first 5km. For the middle aged man who kept looking over his shoulder but with me steadily hitting my timings, refusing to go faster, and thinking "nevermind I still have 7.5 more rounds, see if you can maintain the pace!" which got me through the second set. And the more-than-30-rounds thing and hence the last set.
Hard to imagine, this is actually not the end, and the actual race, is gonna be worse, much much worse :( Imagine, add FIFTEEN more to what I just did. *faints
My shirt was so drenched in sweat it was like so cold even when I start to jog that I got the I-just-simply-reFUSE-to-run-ANYmore-Roderick-syndrome. (I'll forever remember the time he just plain refused to run for the bus) And so I ended the day with 18km and walked the remainder 3km home. Okay, I did jog a little. So coincidentally, leewei only reached the track when I JUST finished my run.
SO I brought my fat ass down to the pool to swim. I ended up doing tuesday's programme. Like everything! Including the drills and the 'sprints'. (Not a very successful attempt there) Except the mainstroke I alternated cuz I wanted to save the legs for tmr at least.
Came home and out again immediately to meet Lols Marc n Lw for lunch. We went Sizzlers! Now I know how come the name sounds so familiar. Cuz TPY has one too! So I always see it. We ate the salad bar. Very good and yummyyyyy! I recommend! SO full, till now, I'm still so full. That was my dinner! It was really nice to be out, the four of us :)
Taught Hannah and reached back only at 8pm. When the bus went by passione I looked in as usual and guess who I saw! The sister! So I alighted and went to say hi for the fun of it. And then, when I reached the bus stop, the same bus number came at the moment. So I boarded it and the journey continued as if I never stopped haha.
Shall go sleep. Really tired.
Turns out today was pretty fine after all :) Went to fly kites at Sengkang field with Lols Rod and Sue! Halfway through the hot and hazy afternoon I saw a rainbow :)
Some pretty nice kites around the place! Don't like the noisy kites. It's like kite flying's such a peaceful activity, and then come the noisy monsters.
Took my bike out for a short spin and a loop-ing ride along the track. Turns out I had 3 days at the track in the evening after all! Today I only had one mission, which was unaccomplished. So, I'm feeling quite sad.
I feel like I'm a pendulum, swinging back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Trying to find my focus badly.
And since I'm gonna be going out with ppl who can't decide and have been thrown the situation, I shall save my sms-es of letting them know the situation. After all, the only response I'll get back from a 4-msg-long msg will probably be "anything, u decide". Like, oKayy.
Truth is I'm rather annoyed. So mood-spoiler.
I feel like I've lost a friend. Reminds me a lot of that time back in tkgs when out of the blue, (really really blue), she just stopped talking to me. No one knew why. (Either that or they didn't tell me). Whatever it is, till this day, sometimes I still think about it and wonder why. It wasn't till like a long while later, during meetups with the rest that a tentative conversation could be carried out. With her initiating of course.
It feels so like it.
And like the previous time, I do wonder why.
But don't quite give a damn.
Like, to h***.
And for once, I really feel like saying what our captain says most often (haha) f***.
It's been a bad week. It's so hazy. Last week and I wanna train but I can't. And then all the plans so screwy. And filled with un-enthu ppl. Whatever.
Be careful for what you wish for.
Sometimes it all comes true and then, you wish it didn't.
Why does the grass always seems greener on the other side?
Hmmmmmmmm.
I wished for extra evenings so maybe .............
In the end I got my 'extra' evening cuz I got my thing and I can't swim.
Totally depressed over the fact that I can't swimmmmmm :(
I wished there would be Rod's training again.
But I was quite dreading it yesterday cuz it's kinda tiring.
But in the end I can't swim anyway. Urghh
I hate the way I'm always so dependent.
I hate the way how my training motivation all relies on the mood.
And how the mood relies on something else.
And how something else relies on blahblahblah.
I wishhhhhhhh..............
Last week of free training with no worries about school work! And more meet ups and lots lots lots of things to do!
A little bit excited about moving back to hall. Would like the peace and quiet and privacy which I simply don't get at home for obvious reasons.
I am happier cuz I've realised a few things!
That I can still train alone.
That I still have things to talk about during the hours.
That it's possible to undo some things actually!
Thanks to the ppl I've talked to in the past week :)
Motivation! Just where will that bring me :)
I am in a terrible dilemma over next week's runs.
I am very tired.
I ate Aston's twice in 3 days! (There's one at JE! cheaper somemore!)
I would probably just get scowled at for disrupting a training session.
I doubt I'll even say a word anyway for that matter.
I am feeling a little down in the dumps.
Did I mention, I'm very tired?
Oh, check out next week's schedule.
I wish there're more than 7 days a week.
FRIDAY
Did my morning run and clocked my third 1hr20++ min run this week! :) Ate a whole lot. Swam in the afternoon. (Turned another shade darker from ubin) Met xiuyu for dinner at Suntec! :)
SATURDAY
Lazily gave up the ride in the morning due to excuses that I didn't wanna get lost somewhere in the west. Regretted a little cuz swim was pretty slack. Turned another shade cuz I was swimming in the sunny lane. Thanks to marcus for the ride to NUS and sue for the company! I pretty much slept throughout the talk and left early haa. Crashed at room in Sheares. The bed is uber comfortable! So shoik. Church, and then fireworks which were nicer this week :)
SUNDAY (today)
Moved a little okay. Not that unbearable. I'm learning alot from my kids about PATIENCE. And that little kids' brains are like a LOT slower than mine. I've grown up. My K1 cute kid today out of the blue said "I have a boyfriend" and she told me his name. And that she knows which days he goes to the gym. (Hmmm?) And that she always plays with him. They're in the same school. I sure was tickled! Adel kept laughing non-stop today........
My K1 kid which I made her write her chinese name last week!