When your goodnights have been said
And you are lying in bed
With the covers pulled up tight
And though you count every sheep
You get the feeling that sleep
Is gonna stay away tonight

-Starlight Express, Andrew Lloyd Weber

Its funny... but in the last few days, before I sleep or before I wake up, my mind plays the events of the Novices over and over again in my head. All the "what ifs" flow through again and again... Thinking back, I got eliminated from the individual events too easily... against opponents which I should have beat, even thrashed... The solutions now seem so obvious. Don't go "Ah, finally he realised that". Anytime later than the 1 minute intervals during the bout is too late... Again, it was not physical ability that denied a better placing... it was mental strength...

Could I have done better in the Individuals? In the Team? Yes. Could I have helped a certain VJ Ladies' team better? Maybe. Could I have helped a certain RJ team better? Maybe.

Ah whatever... There's FSC and the U-20s... N the lure of an individual medal will always be there... And given the self assessment and a slight change in attitude (for the better I hope.. the side effects have yet to show)... I think mentally, this time I WILL be more prepared...

Looking forward to it! But hope I don't break any blades this time! =D

Don't worry... I'm not in a slump or in a rut again... Its called "self reflection".
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People spend CNY playing a certain game where you have a green board, n you toss out certain chips, and collect back the same amount... n occasionally you can take advantage of another person's chips... heheh...

Today for the first time in a long while, I played that game... n I won!! Hahaha


Tada! SCRABBLE! Hahaha what were you thinking?

Well, its the first time I think, that I won a scrabble game at my pastors' house... While my sister is around usually I cannot make any headway... What do you know! Today I could... haha

I made a very auspicious start... haha... by putting the word "foil"... After that I could still go make all sorts of weird combinations... Like forming 3 words at one go with "Minds" in the rightmost column... "Bet" and "Chip" on the triple word boxes were also formed by me... haha.... super "tyco" (lucky, flukey) as they say in hokkien..

CNY so far has been very unhealthy =Pp Cos its like I've been eating a lot (I bet my target area has increased). Also cos my klutz gene has been highly dominant... Lets go through the day's events of the past few days...

New Year's Eve (Saturday):

1. Met a certain teacher in charge at FM, when I least expected her and got the "where's the rest of the money" line in front of other fencers.... Eveidently someone hasn't heard the phrase "washing dirty linen in public".

2. Got HIT by Jeri with her epee point

3. Got HIT by Jeri with her epee guard

4. Got hit by Jeri inside my shoe with her epee point

(Jeri, if you're reading this, don't feel guilty... its just a memory =D)

5. Got HIT by Jon Tay with his foil blade

(I hope to goodness I still possess the ability to reproduce)

6. Structural failure on my foil

7. Dropped my uncooked chicken on the floor during reunion dinner

8. Did it again

9. Did it again after it got cooked

you get the idea

It would be too long to go through the other days.... but they include

10. Closing the door on my foot

11. Closing the gate on my foot

12. Dropping a cup coaster

13. Dropping a cup coaster

14. Dropping a cup coaster

(The last 3 in different houses)

Anyway... random pics..


Coming home from church, in a wide variety of red - orange colours... My father is holding the camera... haha...


My cat... Cats are intelligent... Can YOU pull off this kind of gyration? He seems sick these few days though.... n all the vets are not open.... =/

Oh one last thing... the beeping Bio S assignment is getting on my nerves.... N Trina is giving me pressure... haha... she researched so much stuff that I can find little else to put in already!

Alright thats it for now then... regards!

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