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The past two days have been absolutely crazy haha... Though not as bad as Sec. 1 SJ camp when I couldn't laugh without getting a stomachache, as so suffered greatly whenever Jarrod cracked a lame joke haha...

Thursday was the mini-tournament at FM, through which somehow I got overall second out of 24 fencers, after being thrashed like siao by Benison... But somehow that night everyone was aiming for the section of my body which was uncovered by my plastron e.g. my collarbone, the top of my chest, my neck etc... AND hitting VERY hard... Not to mention some exceedingly gigantic people (even gigantic-er than Maurice) who kept going corps-en-corps ouch ouch... Should mention though, that if Maurice had been fencing that night, things may have turned out differently...

Still, as Coach said, it was a nice way to wrap up two years of fencing for VJ... Next wednesday should be my last day at FM for some time (cos on Thursday my aunt is coming down from Malaysia and I'll be sleeping my last long sleep anyway)... Whether I fence for VJ, FM, or at all in the future remains to be seen.

So anyway I collected five massive bruises on the right side of my chest, vaguely reminiscent of how everyone's chest looked like after taking ECG during the CMPB medical checkup...

Yesterday was even more fun... Went on a hike with ChuaH from Sengkang all the way to Bugis Junction, and past the houses of four classmates (including his own)... Haha actually with his good eyesight and my map-reading, it was a pretty good combination...

Anyway it was really enjoyable and we were talking all sorts of funny stuff.... Not to mention ChuaH was in a.. err... lemming mood... and I, as usual, was well capable of falling down steps while looking for landmarks haha...

Notable portions of the route include Christl's hill (which nearly stopped our hearts), Toa Payoh Rise (another hill which also nearly stopped our hearts) and the intersection of the PIE and CTE which forced us to take a long long detour... Oh, and all the overhead bridges haha...

So ta-da our route... Which is probably longer than 26.25 km cos it doesn't include slopes, cos crucial parts of the route are covered in cloud, and cos places like Compassvale aren't clearly defined on Google Earth... Thing is, army route march is nearly as long and with full batlle order to boot... So this should be relatively easy!

Anyway reactions to our trip varied from "Got nothing better to do arh" to "Crazy people!" and now that I think about it, I agree with the latter response also... My right calf feels absolutely paralysed haha...

So less than a week to go now... time to go pack...