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Its been on-form-week for fencing when the flick counter, the turning stop hit, and basically all manner of counterattacks (rather than parries, which are instinctive for me) have been essential for saving my body for numerous hard epee hits. Quite rare, considering my relatively short self (as Maurice would gleefully point out to you =D). Few things are more satisfying than flicking an attacking person's hand... heheh...

Then again, its been dream-weird-dreams-about-fencing week, where on the same night I dreamt that

a) Maurice was telling me not to take epee because I was too short (to put it frankly), and
b) whacking myself on the funny bone cos I dreamt I was doing a fleche, and woke up to discover I had jerked myself violently against my table and hit my humerus in the process

how do you make that face? ah.. -_-"' thats it.

At the same time its been BACK-TO-ST-JOHN-FOR-THE-FIRST-TIME-IN-DUNNO-HOW-LONG week. Well, if you consider that my physics got C, and the probability of my passing the Bio S selection test is not very high, I may be going back more frequently anyway.. heheh...

Well, seriously, discovered that so long as the team I'm training has a decent amount of people (i.e. able to do a case), and if I plan the training the day before instead of impromptu-ing as I've been guilty of several times, then the training actually gets quite fun, both for myself and for the juniors.

I have fencing to thank for that though... the "planning ahead" and the "visualisation" have helped in this. Well, and researching ulu injuries gives a kick too... haha...

To cap off a memorable st. john week, today we took a hop over to Pulau Ubin to cycle around... Not that Xuan Cheng and I did a lot of cycling... We mainly sat at our station and donated blood to the mosquitos. They come at their own risk.... there's a reason why the government has banned me from donating blood for life!! Oh anyway, didn't take many pictures of this... I'll upload when my pictures have accumulated and its worth taking apart my phone.

Sigh. Anyway I haven't done much work this hols (although ChuaH seems to have set his mind that I've been smoking him despite reassurances that I'm kinda busy to get much work done) and I'm bracing to get swept off my feet (and away from my sleep) when school reopens.

Moreover, if Chinese is as busy as last year, I guess I won't be seeing much of FM at all this term, and its goodbye to National Trials and FSI (both really high level for Singapore, but the experience would be nice!).

Oh yes. I just got my letter to register for NS medical checkup. Sigh. NS beckons (you can tell that I'm in a tired and moody mood)

Oh well... Anyway two more things to add...

All the best to those taking CTs (or BTs, as some call them) after March. Wishing you easier papers than we poor people in VJ got (especially GP). Yup... so to those in Meridien, or RJ, you have my best wishes

Secondly, happy birthday 50 min in advance to Wei Quan! You've been a really great and pretty much irreplaceable friend the past years (and an excellent complement to my relatively gan jiong nature)! Wishing you God bless and all the best in the coming year!!

Quote of the week (While doing FA case on friday:

Me: No.1, you see pink liquid from the casualty's mouth
James: Sir, is the pink liquid red?
*pause*
*pause*
Me: What?!