~JcZw

Many many things transpired since the last time I wrote here. Shall just touch on everything briefly. The last week was hellishly busy, n I was playing sports every day since Friday. Am very grateful that I'm still alive and in one piece =)

1. The 2008 Asian Varsity Fencing Championships was pretty good, arguably my best foil tournament. Unfortunately, fell just short of a medal after a close 15-13 bout with Shaun-Paul. Also first time I ever fenced with emotion. I've never wanted to beat a team in team event more than that day.

2. Handball final against GH. The freshmen impressed and stunned me beyond words. We (F-block) started out with only two seniors (McVin and I) against GH with four. McVin was fantastic, holding the freshies in the outfield together. And of course, the likes of CunZhi et al played really well, even managing to smother the gigantic H, forcing him to shoot wide or from the wing. When Keefe slammed the ball past their keeper I nearly died of excitement heh.

The girls played very well too, and Geraldine's shot was straight out of the textbook. I seriously feared for the life of Jenny who bravely stood up to Brenda's terribly brutal shots (I don't know, but the whole game for both guys and girls was played with small F goalkeepers keeping proportionally and anatomically larger GH players at bay), but yea she played well also and kept us in the game!

That we lost on a technicality was rather painful (That the referees made an issue of me coming out of the keepers area when the Olympic handballers do it all the time showed that they didn't know the rules very well in the first place), but oh well, at least it was not IHG.... I really really enjoyed playing for my block =)

3. CCA recruitment. This year's batch of freshmen seem unusually idealistic heh and signed up for a lot of stuff. But oh well, no doubt they will slowly shakedown and drop out of whatever they can't handle...

4. And lastly, the first time which I made an announcement to the class. Wasn't sure how they would react, but the thought of the other KE medics doing it for their own classes was a great incentive for not backing out. And thank God, they reacted so well. It was really heartening hearing people asking about it. The sheer speed of the response was amazing. And I felt really touched yesterday when people showed me the plasters over their median cubital veins. I must have more faith in human nature next time

Yup, shall leave it at that for now. Just woke up after night cycling, which is an epic tale unto itself, but will keep that for another time.