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Yesterday was kinda terrible, but again, it had its good points.

Woke up at 6.20 to prep for the competition. I voluntarily started rolling out of bed and gravity accomplished the rest... Dragged my fencing bag to Buona Vista, to Bishan, then across RJC's expansive campus to their sports hall. Everything there is like VJ magnified x3 and painted green -_-"'

And the sports hall was cold. Like ultra super cold. Warm up was more like, "slightly less cold"-up, since I got nowhere warm.

Round Robin was ok. The first bout was the hardest and I had to come from 2-4 down to win 5-4. The judges that day were quite strict and it was quite hard to pull off hidden blade attacks. Somewhere my serratus anterior wouldn't allow me to extend my arm properly sigh. But after 5 bouts and 1 yellow card I got seeded 4th. Thanks for the various NUS people and my VJ juniors for cheering me on =)

The first DE (Round of 16 since I got a bye), was the PERFECT foild bout for me! Not the best one maybe, but I made very few mistakes and everything went exactly to plan. First encounter ended 6-0, second 9-3 and the finally finished 14-6 as per Coach's lessons =) Did one very good stop hit which I shall remember for the rest of my life.

Then just before the Bronze I got owned by WeiAnn and my spectacles together -_-"' So irritated. Long story so won't write it here.

Still, if my specs were working, I think I may not have won since WeiAnn was really flying yesterday (and fencing much better than I saw in trainings at MPSH6) and I was very tired as well as adapting quite slowly to fencing a tall fast lefty. But at least I would have lost by a much smaller margin. He said I gave him quite a few scares cos I actually got past his defence quite a lot but didn't hit.

Well, its hard to hit when your specs are at the ends of your nose and you're looking through 9.5 diopters of myopia...

So that's two comps in three weeks I just missed a medal.

Anyway was feeling terrible throughout the comp... Dunno why I was stressed since I had nothing to prove and I"m not even going for Novices next year. Maybe I WAS burntout by the handball camp and stressed cos of FTT, but I really was in no mental condition to compete properly. I felt like I was being crushed/strangled or what have you. Sianz.

Well, anyway, thanks to the people who supported me throughout the comp =) Maybe I'll do better in the next one whenever it is... And happy that I made a few new friends from RJ, St. Pat's, ACSI etc also!