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Back from fencing camp! This is the first time I've gone for really 24 hours without sleep haha... Even during SJ camps I managed to squeeze in an hour or two, be it in a bunk or just one of AHS' much-vandalised tables...

Hope I can get pictures and stuff from Shaun-Paul in the near future

Anyway it was different from last year's in that it had a lot more components, and a mini-trip out of FM heh... The tournament was also held from 10 pm to 5 am =Pp

As it happened, through hmmm both of us losing matches that we should actually could have won, Maurice and i had to fence in the first direct elimination round, and it was kinda fun since we know each other's favourite moves so well (his disengages and accuracy versus my parries and speed), so we really went at it hammer and tongs, and the match, as Shaun-Paul later told me, "looked like a lightsabre duel out of star wars" whoo! rather than the usual slow and careful epee bout

But anyway it culminated with Maurice chasing me off the piste in priority time (darn!) cos I was too busy having fun and because the reel which I was using as reference had been pushed back.... the final score was 5-6, which just shows how hard it is for us to score points off each other (especially when we're sleep deprived).. But we had fun, and I'm sure our audience did too =)

Anyway did refereeing for the rest of the session (and refereed the guys' final too).... If I can't be a national fencer, maybe I can be a national fencing referee... But nah, no skill in refereeing epee anyway..

Got to know the junior batches from CJC and ITE Balestier better during the course of the camp too I suppose... Although when one talks to them, one realizes that VJ's fencing situation is really quite pathetic... Especially to hear other schools describe their "fencing rooms", their "pistes" and their "school blades"...

So am online now trying to keep awake till 7 pm, or after dinner when I can probably sleep without being afraid of waking up in the middle of the night... St. John stuff on very early in the morning tomorrow...

Well I take it back, to all those people to whom I said I am relatively bored... There seem to be quite a lot of things to do suddenly =Pp

Hmmm I've come to this realization... I have two active CCAs now... and my career options either tend to

a) being a doctor and using the skills I know to (besides saving people), teach first aid and medical stuff or

b) be a teacher, come back to VJ (a long shot) and be the teacher IC of the fencing team

Wonder which one it will be... or maybe there's a third option which I haven't considered yet, but that's into the hands of God...

Oh yea... I know I shouldn't be counting down, but dec is drawing to a close and suddenly there seem to be precious few things between now n NS....