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In one word, Chinese was hard

In more than one word, Chinese was i-have-never-seen-these-words-before, i-didn't-know-such-words-existed, i-think-i-am-going-to-get-another-C5-or-worst hard. Bold Italic Underline.

Sigh. So the rumours are right. The June paper is harder than the November one. 2 months of preparation and now I'll be spending another two months praying I didn't do it for nothing. Ah whatever. Don't even feel in the mood to take my oral or Listening Compre now.

Moreover, I got a paper cut on my right hand, 31 196 197 and 608 chose to come at the same time when I was still walking along Marine Vista, so I had to wait 15 min in the boiling weather for another bus, there were no good books at the library, AND TO CAP IT ALL OFF I walked into a bouganvilla bush walking back from Kembangan MRT and cut my left hand also. Well done. Complain complain. Sounds like I just emerged from FM. heh.

Right. So now the hols stretch before us, and from now to November its like endless mugging, then 1 month of life before 2 years of brain-numbing activity in the army (or hopefully, the navy or airforce). Though, come to think of it, if you discount the fact that your drill sergeants can be nice or nasty, it's rather like a St. John camp. This time next year, I will probably be thanking God I joined a uniform group in sec. school.

Its funny... its hard to visualize life outside school y'know? Maybe they're right... JC students do lead lives which are too shelthered... I was reading my sister's JC class (02S18) blog a few days back.... Its been like 3 years since they graduated yet they still manage to meet up sometimes.... Although I don't have many memories of my sister being in VJ (other than her description of it being the trigger that made me aim for VJ, no higher or lower. Especially no higher. heh. Wait. It's NOT higher), I guess her class was fun (and really smart)... I wonder if our class will still manage to do the same... meet up as a WHOLE class, like JAE plus minus 1 month that kinda unity... That would be fun ;)

Well, if I've never had a class like 15, I've also never felt more in my element than in St. John.... Not that fencing is bad, but I feel much more comfortable in the environment where authorities etc are all set out clearly... unlike fencing where there is no true leader (As a captain among contemporaries of the same age, you can sorta request them to do stuff, but not force them. Especially since your teacher doesn't help you much)... Come to think of it, while there were some times when I regretted ever laying hands on an epee or foil, I've never regretted being a first aider.... Although sometimes (yes, I'm being frank) I've regretted joining SJ, but I've never felt that what I learnt was pointless.

Sometimes I suddenly miss all the laming around after CCA, the shoe polishing and the times my team has invaded my house preparing for comps etc... Even the hellish tekan sessions which seem to last forever. Heh... I guess St. John to us was where we could find the kind of bond which is more usually found among the members of a single-sex school.

Hmmm... just a random comment... but it would be really fun if in NS I wound up in the same section as a squadmate (whom I can get along with). Lets say I wind up with Wei Lun... We'd telepathy our sergeant to death... =D

Camp is coming up next week... Kinda looking forward to that too, but its going to be 3 days of intensive physical activity, with campfire sandwiched between the individual and team events of the FSI.

The main thing about SJ, which I take great comfort in, is that so long as your friends are suffering something with you, you either have the courage to go on.... or you're shamed into going on (incentive for having girls in St. John. Which guy would dare to say he cannot do something which a girl can? I know some of my squad nursings are perfectly capable of TOC-ing a casualty to boot =D). Its when you endure something on your own without anyone to empathize with you that it gets awfully awful... But there, I'm rambling again.

Alright. I should stop here.... and I should start learning how to sing all the chinese campfire songs again and memorise their lyrics in case there are not enough booklets... heh.