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Its been a tough week... sorting out work, obsessive compulsions to slack, as well as analysing my own actions and making sure I don't annoy people accidentally (sometimes I annoy people deliberately), which, in certain cases, I can hardly be called successful.

The school did it again. Mrs Chan told me that if our money problem continued to be bad, she would shut down the club next year and leave me, daniel and maurice to carry on privately. Which again proves that although she's nice enough, she's, at the end of the day, still a teacher-teacher, not a cca-teacher. The good thing is that we've been threatened with closure so many times its becoming normal already.

We've been struggling to get our armband and shirt out by open house... Thanks Gerry for all the details on the procedure =) The school is great man... at this point of time when we're undertaking this project they conveniently REMEMBERED that we were a sport so we have to go to the PE Dept for approval of our shirt. If in January next year they "forget" that the Novices is a sports competition.... ah well, whats the point worrying anyway.

OGL application came out on tuesday. After a lot of deliberation, I decided not to apply cos Novices is in January and what with Zone-Comp training for St. John and the training camp for fencing I'll be swamped. Not to mention being an OGL and planning CCA walkabout at the start of the year. No, I'd rather train and attempt to give VJ a fighting chance in foil next year (and epee also I guess). After all, who knows, unless we get some guy from SJI next year, I'll be the only foilist for dunno how long. I'll content with being a first aider during orientation..
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Anyway, with all the unhappy stuff out of the way, I need to find a few things to be happy about... here they are:

1. My leg is healing well. I can now do a balestra-lunge without much pain. Been practising disengages with my epee in front of my mirror too, trying to get the point to describe the full circle. That day went down to FM to discuss open house things with coach. He was training Maurice, who is now going to be a terror to fence, he's so fast since I've last seen him. The thing about this guy is that not only is he fast and his arm wayy long, but he's also very calm during bouts and is generally emotionless, an invaluable asset. I'll soon be able to continue, maybe next week (if I really find myself in a sore need for a break) or after promos =)

2. My PW group. I admit I had doubts with how well I could work with my PW group when the groupings were announced. But PW has built up better relationships with them. I'm blessed to have a relatively peaceful and happy group who's members are generally quite sacrificial (xunai and her pie charts... waha XD ) Yup. As work has progressed I find that I can be more and more confident for the project, and not to worry so much. Although its quite annoying that almost all of us take chinese, which comes just before OP, but oh well, I guess we can slog through also =)

3. Teachers. In this case it should be Mr Chong, who has, on three occasions, stayed back after classes to help me with genetics. I CANNOT UNDERSTAND how other people can get it so fast! I always have to think a lot before I can think of what test to use, or whether something is homozygous or not. Well, at least more than the average person. Yeah, happily he had the time and patience to help me out with this yeah... haha.... If there's any subject I can do well in, it has to be Bio. n it has to be partially thanks to him I guess =)

Yup, of course, thank God that he has brought such people my way. I guess sec. 1 and 2 was my learning experience huh.... haha well better I learnt it then than now.

Yup thats it... Must get to studying or I'll just die... Pray that SPA goes well tomorrow!! Nuts to Murphy