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Had a really satisfying foil training yesterday. My sparring-partner-for-the-day was a Leonard from SJI. Lower sec, but almost as tall as me -_-"' Also a met a girl who was only 12 years old, but couldn't have been shorter than ChuaH.. I'd daresay, in fact, her height was nearer Liling than ChuaH =Pp But then, she was half not-asian, so...

Anyway, Coach said I "move more like a foilist" now, except must work more on absense of blade to keep the opponent guessing.. We trained new stuff like fast attacks (sort of like fast-break in Handball). Not as flashy as backflicks, but nonetheless deadly effective as we found out in the later matches.. There is no feeling so satisfying as hitting someone at the end of a full extension fleche heh...

Was wondering why my fingers hurt so much after 1 1/2 hours of training, took off my glove and discovered I had worn a hole right through the layer and now a thick flap of my epidermis was hanging loose -_-"'. Like wow heheh... The last time I had this "oops I didn't know I had an injury" thing, it was at the base of my little finger and needed a roller bandage since it was in such an awkward position. Jiamin commented "I thought you punched a wall" (I'm accident prone but not THAT accident prone).

Anyway, was watching the foil finals from the World Championships this year. The two top fencers, in fact, do NOT crouch down until their foreleg is almost 90 degrees flexed at the knee, but somehow they are still the finalists. I wonder if someone would call their technique "all wrong".

Anyway ANAT CA TOMORROW and my histology is still disgusting. The lymphoid tissue and the mammary gland combined are such hard-to-remember things... Right, shall stop for now...

Jiayi and I were wondering if reading "thorax and abdomen" in Moore on the MRT will get you sued for indecent exposure from a book... heh hmmm..