~JcZw

Its hard to think of topics to write on nowadays, but at least some incidents still stand out.

Cycling back and forth to school always provided sometime to think about the day, or, if it was cycling to school, then thinking about what to do that day. And of course, it provides the odd bit of excitement. Such as last friday when a brake disc loosened while I was cycling downhill. Managed to brake with the rear brake only, since the front brake was already almost fouled in the spooks of the wheel, but it caused the bike to slip a lot. Later on found out that the front wheel was ALSO loose from its bearings! It would have been a pretty sight if the whole thing had detached while rushing to school.

But this friday there was little time. Because all I was thinking about was getting to Anglican as soon as possible. Music fest and SLV had me torn between going back for CCA versus staying back to carry out what I had to do in VJ. In the end I compromised and, with apologies to Gerald, went for music fest but not for SLV. Sometimes its really tiring to think about rushing back and forth. Okay, there is a direct bus 31, but its very slow and usually packed to capacity. I haven't been back for St. John for a substantial period of time for a long while, my competition team, I feel, has been abandoned by their seemingly vaunted team instructor. I'd promised the seniors I would come back last time. But apparently my schedule just does not allow for such things. So on friday I was tearing back along the Siglap Park Connector (mercifully it was empty), with the wind blowing against me. When I tell people that wind affects cycling, many of them think I exaggerate. But it is no exaggeration. Cycling into the wind is like trying to cycle through a thick liquid.

Its just a frustrating thought that I'd promised myself to commit to two vastly different sectors. Theoretically they should work out, but in reality there will be times when I have to sacrifice one for the other or vice versa. And for these "certain times" I am really very sorry to the people that I left for the other. It sometimes leaves me feeling quite low EQ as well.

So back to friday. I simply deposited my bike then ran back out to the road, caught a bus almost instantly, but only managed to reach at 5.15, just as activities were wrapping up. The only fruitful thing I did was to talk to the other seniors.

After cca.... I talked to some of the juniors also... sabrina, wong li ting... haven't talked to them for a very long time. It seems an age ago since competition training in december. It seems even longer when I still commanded the division, when I lead a contingent during the school National Day Parade. I'd promised myself that I wouldn't get detached from the various cadets who were as loyal to my squad's leadership as, we hope, we had been to them.

Also talked to some of the new sec. 1s who came in. Jun Hao, Siew (Siu? Xiu?) Min and Angela. They certainly look like they will become another high potential batch, just as their predecessors are. AHSJAB seems to be going through a rought patch, but with all the new people coming in, I'd say that in the next 5 years we will still have a fighting chance... A realistic chance to ive DHS a run for their money at the national competition. I'm not saying the present division is lousy or what... just that it took some time for it to decline, and therefore will take sometime for it to regain its previous champion status (For every action theres an equal and opposite reaction).

Back to the topic. They were doing footdrill after CCA!! So either they are mad or they are enthu. Usually its a combination of both. I recall AA2 2004 was a mad team as well. Then after that we sat down and were talking about camp, about topography blahblah. I also shared some anecdotes about JC life... hehez.

After that I went out to dinner with my squadmates, a couple of juniors and some seniors. Si Hui, Wei Lun, Wei Quan, Evelyn and Soo Yee, from my squadron. Went to Bedok Mac, ate a lot, talked a lot. And compared notes on JC life. Apparently all our JC friends consider us lame. LAME? Okayyy.... so AHSJAB is cold, which is a fact that I am in fact very proud of =)) Soo Yee has a friend who likes the way she says "yeah man". Well, I have a lot of friends who have their own unique ways of saying a lot of things.... righttt??? heheheh

Yeah then after dinner after we got up from the table wei lun discovered a wallet. Evelyn's wallet to be exact. So I ran out and asked Evelyn if she could check for her EZ-link card. And I payed a very hefty price for trying to be funny. When she asked me for her wallet, and I truthfully said that I didn't have it, she pinched me on the left arm so hard the whole limb when numb, and she sustained the pinch for a reeel long time. I only managed to escape when I weakly brought my file down onto her hand in what I thought was a light tap, but because the file was heavy (thanks to all the bio notes), I knocked her hand away quite hard, and resulted in the both of us staggering around the front of MacDonalds clutching various parts of our anatomy. Again, we see that for every action theres and equal and opposite reaction.

So ended my quite eventful day on friday. I was reminded of my days with AHSJAB when reading the line that I'd told Crystal about a few months back, about the emergency medical technicians in America, and the line "to save a life must be the best feeling in the world". Really miss all the times we had together.

Some say that through life one bunch of friends will replace another, but for others, like me, one bunch of friends will simply ADD to another. And I hope it dontinues to do so.