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Went to the sports doctor today for attachment, as well as checking out my right knee which has been giving very incapacitating pain during my runs... So where previously I could have done say 7 km, let alone 2.4 km without problem, my endurance is noe about... 300 meters? Apparently its cos

1. My left foot is flatter than my right, so my body places more weight on the right foot to compensate

2. My right foot rotates slightly outward when I walk i.e. it points right while my left foot points straight. So my muscles in effect are not moving in the same line as the joint.

Which means my knee cap and femur (thighbone) have been banging against each other when I run which is what was causing the severe pain... So now taking some medicine which is supposed to reduce inflammation...

Thank God it was not a meniscus or ACL problem though...

Still this explains why I'm fine when I'm fencing (cos during fencing my right foot always points perfectly forward), walking (cos the muscle is not being stretched so much) or even mass dancing (cos during like up-down-kick-down I have to land with my foot pointed forward in order to maintain my balance) BUT NOT RUNNING!!!

Hope it clears up by Friday...

Anyway today bore a very strong resembelance (or was it resemblance?) to 24th January 2005.... Started out with doing first aid duty at East Coast with my juniors... treated a number of nasty lacerations... Honestly... people who play tug-of-war should bring their own plasters man haha...

Oh this year there was really good weather at sea regatta =)

Ended with mass dance around the fountain at suntec, although this time I had an additional strained knee, was wearing shorts instead of pants, and we were standing about 30 meters to the right of where we stood that night. Like that night I was standing between a classmate and a very noisy OGL...

For the record, that night we were standing just inside the wet zone of the fountain n so were skidding about during whineywhiney... But it appears that mass dance is carved into muscle memory... its the same thing that makes my arms want to do the tribal dance thing when we play "Chng Chng Chng" in church ahaha

Met Christian, probably the only person outside my CCAs / junior class whom I can possibly call my "junior"... Used to be a Scout in AHS to whom I taught first aid, and probably the most hardworking one too.. the only one from his batch who wouldn't smirk at our lessons and who asked intelligent questions... Good for him (and his friend from AHS GB) getting into VJ!

On a more anti-climatic note... This is possibly the last time I would take part in a VJ event, and probably the last time my class meets before we go our proverbial separate ways.

The people

The fountain.. Does the picture look a wee bit funny? =) Anyway with my brother now in VJ (at least under PAE), its nice to rave about VJ to someone else haha...

Don't know how to say this but I can't imagine such a change as going into the army, even though the number of days to enlistment could be counted by a three-year-old kid... 12 years oriented towards going somewhere to study... and suddenly you're going somewhere for 22 months learning to... errr... kill people?

Guess I'm just worried bout the mental part.... About meeting new people, and about hmmm fighting negative influences... Any idealistic JC guy who's just graduated can be determined to not be influenced to, drink, curse, swear etc, but somehow these influences seem uneeringly strong in NS... Hope God will protect us from stuff like that...

Maybe just scared of change?

Well on the MRT I was doing some thinking especially after I finished reading my book... We're not considered VJ students anymore, though we may wear the uniform, may come back from time to time and all.... Yes, we're alumni but that's not the same thing... We're never going to have to worry bout stuff like whether Marine Vista is jammed in the morning, or if we owe money to the class fund, or if the concourse has been occupied by another class, if the western stall auntie is out of chicken chop or if we're going to have to run extra rounds during PE (ok the latter never really worried me last time)

Maybe as an ORD celebration in 2009, I shall go to suntec with anyone else crazy enough to go with me and see if I can remember my mass dances =)

But alumni or student, I thank God for sending the people He did in my JC life, especially my classmates and CCA friends as iterated a few posts back... For better or worst, think interacting (or abrading) with various people have made JC life an experience to die for...

Anyway its 4 days to go... Will change the main picture before I leave... Until then, guess I'll take it a little at a time... Heyho for January 27th!