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What a week.

The weather was really on our side haha... It rained a lot, so a lot of training got cancelled, but it also meant that I spent a record amount of time cleaning the stupid toilet (okok shouldn't complain at least we're not doing our stuff in a hastily dug hole in the ground anymore =D), and sticking my hands into various places designed for other parts of the body in order to remove stuff that brushes couldn't.

Subsequently, I washed my hands with dettol until my skin very super smooth haha... And the toilet, for a while, smelt like FM..

But we still had IPPT, for which I missed gold by 30 seconds (I wish I could run as fast as Phoon now), but still, in the space of one week, the improvement from 10.45 to 10.17 is not too bad I think.... Though it could be simply cos this week I had no serious cough and running nose.

Then we had our 16 klick route march which was also not bad haha... Though Platoon 1 had the pleasure of being assaulted by a wild boar during the march. There was just a rustle in the bushes then it burst out of the undergrowth. I have neverseensomethingmovesofastinmylife! Not even SJ-ers during changing parade =Pp Before even our platoon and company commanders could shout anything it had already mown down Shannon and Felix and disappeared on the other side of the track, luckily with no serious injuries. Apparently, the force of collision with an adult boar is enough to snap a leg.

Oh yea... we can't sing for nuts too haha... maybe that's what panicked the boar... but thursday at least was an improvement =)

Alfred also had the brainwave of making a few heheh alterations to the book out day song

2 more days to bookout day
Bookout bookout day
2 more days to results day
Results results day

which inevitably made me want to wet my pants... errr not that our pants were dry since it was still raining...

So... results day.

Thursday night... didn't manage to sleep till 12 cos I kept running through the various things that could happen. Which I really regret cos I should have just trusted God and gone to sleep. But hindsight is always 6/6, so I should just try not to do it again.

At least strength training and more toilet cleaning took my mind off results on Saturday afternoon... By the 10 am, we were all raring to get off the island haha, results or no.

Went home, put down my stuff, talked to my mother for a while, then went to Parkway to hang out at the library... Found a few books, read, tried to distract myself, but in the end I was looking at my watch so frequently I decided to just pack up and go.

My brother and some of his friends were in the gallery when I came in to take my results. At least Mrs Chan and the new principal didn't talk as long and as agonizing as Dr Boon during O-levels.

Maurice and ChuaH had already seen my results before I even got to them. Maurice was happily going on and on about "Why your GP like that" and all. The next time I get to the fencing strip I shall CQC his backside like free again...

But at the end of the thing, I am happy with my results =) I really don't know how I did that. When I think of all the times I walked out of the hall jabbering about how hard the paper was to Prata and Liling... It seems so unreal.

Though the GP could have been better, and now I laugh when I read my testimonial that "he has consistently been in the top 5% of the cohort in General Paper" or when I think how my brother's class is using my censorship compo as one of their notes. But I'm not disappointed to know that I'm not in the top 24.9% of the cohort. I'll be content with being happy for those that are.

Went to visit my Chinese teacher, then followed some of the girls to visit more teachers and subsequently to dinner. By the end of the day, I was feeling a little light-headed from the lack of sleep, so well, last night was a good rest too =)

Responses to my results included a very cool "Woah" from my brother, a "Wah lau" followed by a stinging pistol-shot slap to the forearm by Jingyi (shades of Soo Yee!) and a "Wheeee!!" followed by a hug from Hannah heh. Thanks also to my aunts, Jon Boon, Kok keng, and everyone else who tried to contact me after my results came out

I think at the end of the day it was God's hand again. He gave me the best CCA in AHS, the best class in VJ, the best section in Bronco Company heh. No doubt the results were part of his plan too. Its the borderline grade for medicine entry, but I'll try and see what comes of it. If its not good enough then fine, teaching or physio will await.

Well that's all I shall write for now.... I have yet to find time and coherence to write a good entry on what I feel about army environment and etc, so I shall leave that to another time.

Congrats to everyone who received their results! So long as you did your best, you have nothing to regret. I still feel a little stupid at being stumped by heh liberty of all things, but if I retook the paper in the same circumstances, I would do exactly the same thing I think, so yea =)