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Argh! Can you believe it? 1 month with a pulled right thigh muscle, and now yesterday I twisted my left ankle. My mother has ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN me to fence for the next 3 weeks (which is probably good, since promos are looming around the corner). Anyway, don't answer the question. Just believe it =)

Waha, this week looks not too bad... a few high notes so far... well, more than the average week...

Monday I had a terrible cold. My nose was leaking all my cerebral spinal fluid. I expended all my tissue in the first two periods, and had to scavenge from the toilet subsequently. Come chem lecture, I had to use about 2 full packs of tissue complemented by a 2 m long length of toilet paper. ChuaH kept trying to give me tips on saving paper, but it was no use since I had sneezed until I was incoherent and I felt as though I had killed my un-mitosisable brain cells, ruptured my appendix and split a rib. Add to the fact that the force of my sneeze virtually.... never mind, it shouldn't be talked about here... My sister would be very disgusted if she found sneeze-details here.... Thank you ChuaH, Charmaine, Phoon's Dawn, and the various toilet cleaners who kept the toilets well stocked. Also my apologies to S15 and S12, with whom I was sitting during Chem lecture.

Aha! During PE, against the wishes of the majority (or maybe half lar) of the class, we played soccer. I hadn't touched a soccer ball since.... June Camp I think.... totally forgotten how to play... somemore nowadays also no time to go n kick the ball around and practise saves with my brother cos of fencing, plus the fact that our balls are becoming holey (I mean, our soccer balls).

Compared with the match versus 05S43, this one was pretty uneventful.... the ball hardly came to my side =) hehe... for the first 20 min I could lean against the board and talk to Pei En and Trina... the "sit down picnic, ball come panic" thing from Kong Hwa... I only had to run out once to catch an incoming ball. Compare to the above mentioned match when the ball never left our half despite the VS guy's best efforts. Happily S43's shooting was so bad that they missed the goal on every occasion, and I only had to save once... hehe

Oh I paid for my complacency... Keefe caught me very off position and happily exploited my holey defending. After that I woke up and stopped talking... hehe... made 3 saves after that from the VS people... but Phoon, Jiamin and ChuaH were a very solid defence =) they saved me a lot of trouble waha. But as the squire said in "A knights tale":

"[his] technique rudimentary, style, non-existent"

I need xuan ming and his team man.... Oh curiously, in the one-on-one situation, fencing skills come in useful. Firstly, in advancing quickly, secondly, cos we're trained to observe our opponent's body language, so you watch both the blade (in this case, the ball), and the other feller's eyes, n that gives pretty good timing when to lunge (or dive), especially since in soccer your vision is not obstructed by a mask.

Its nice to play on a nice soft field though... instead of a cement street soccer court..

Right, so much for soccer...

During fencing, since we're already off season, Coach wired the two pistes together and we played 2-on-2 matches.... Quite interesting, cos new tactics have to be developed n all... This time we really had to use our peripheral vision, but most of us forgot all the compound attacks, fakes etc and just parry parry parry.... Kind of sad for the small IPs when they are alone and have to fence a bloodthirsty Anglicaner and VS person at the same time...

But my last bout I had to fence alone against Maurice and Elgin, the two long-armed VS guys, partially my fault, cos my teammates had died already.... For about 10 sec I retreated rotating my blade in front of me to cover my body with a whirling circle of steel. But the human wrist isn't designed to behave like that, so soon it was back to an abnormally and insanely quick cut and thrust against 2 people.... luckily their attacks weren't thaaat synchronized... The end was still quite quick though... I lunged at Maurice with my injured foot, missed his leg, brought my blade up to parry his counter, saw him raise his arm, my blade sweeping through empty space, before the two of them one after another slammed their blades into my right shoulder about 1 sec apart (Elgin's reaction was quite lag... Hit once should be enough liao lor).

Quite fun though... heheh.... Maurice gave me his ice cream... I appreciate tha, thanks!

Erm today... very tired lar... n very sian also.... kept falling asleep everywhere.... Came home and slacked around a lot... still slacking now in fact, although manged to clear some fencing and FAC stuff.... right...thats about it...

G'night to you, reader, whoever you are, be you OSSIS or SJer, tall or short, thick or thin, XX or XY or in between, or ex-XX or ex-XY. Bye! =)