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Nothing remarkable that I can remember happened yesterday.. I think it was because I was in a state of semi-conscious stupor. As I write this, I've had 23 hours sleep over 5 days. Not good.

But well... yesterday the ward registra and another Medical Officer talked to me a lot during the ward round.. telling me about admission to medicine n all that... they bought me a cup of water chestnut drink for breakfast too =D Yesterday's the last time I saw Doctor Ho, the female houseman who's been bringing me around (together with Dr Aaron Chia), so I thanked her before I left... She said all the best for my A-levels...heh... oh yeah... I need to start studying =/

My nerves were shot by the time I came to fencing. Its true (and I knew it) that lack of sleep does not detract from physical strength (thats how people survive in NS probably), but fencing requires thinking as well bleha.... When I came they were settling farewell / jts, and doing the attack / defend training, which basically consists of two people fencing each other, with the score at 9-12. The one with 9 has to attack like mad and the one with 12 must hold his / her lead. The bout concludes in 2 minutes.

I managed to win 15-12 after coming from 9 on Victoria. She's not a bad fencer and her movement has improved... but she's still predictable. Next was Charlene... although her standard is probably just marginally worst than vic, I started the bout by running into her point twice to make the score 14-9... lack of conc man... But I won 15-14 in the end... Went for the hand "like free" as Maurice or other VS guys would say.

Free fencing that night was crazy... fenced 7 bouts. I've never fenced more than 5 matches in one day. If I hadn't gone for dinner at 8 I probably would have done more... haha... I lost 15-14 to ZiXian!! Aiyo! But improvement lar... he eliminated me 15-3 from the Under-17... talk about massacre...

Did an epic match with Maurice. We've trained since about March or saw, seen him develop from a total-defender to a mobile, extremely long and deadly fencer, seen me develop from a flech-er to knowing how to lock blade and go in. We know each other's styles intimately well.

If you can follow, that means something like, when he attacks, I know he'll fake up, when I parry up he'll move down and he knows I know that he'll move down so when I sweep my blade down he'll go back up but I know that he'll go back up so I bring my blade in a up-down-up motion.... that kinda thing... heh. Did a lot of fleches, close quarter.... and I won by a very narrow margin.... heh...

Oh well... Last day of attachment today... Gonna visit the rehab centre... See y'all yar =)