and so u may ask..y am i not sleeping yet?

i think maybe its the teh-o-ping.

i shd STOP drinking kopi-ping, or teh-o-ping frm tt vari-nice coffeeshop.

OR MAYBE..it's because i'm forced to stay up to write my WTF speech! Like seriously argh!!

i hate doing unnecessary things, i really do.

it really amazed me to see 4 pple joining us for trg today. 3 freshies, 1 who's in her yr2. 1 of the freshie pulled 2 of her friends along, aft sms-ing me last wk and expressing interest in db. kinda convinced her to come try out, and also coz she was ald eager to experience wad trg's like. y did she msg me? coz they havent updated the website n e contact no. hmm but i last checked n they finally updated. heh very gdz.

i dunnoe y but this 俗语 '前人种树， 后人乘凉' juz popped into my head today. perhaps its coz i feel tt many things didnt come so easy during the same time last yr, where we faced quite a fair bit of uncertainty. We were worried tt no freshies will join, but today, i see a different scenario altogether. It's like they 自动送上门? ok its not very nice to put it this way. but more like, they r very willing to open up to new challenges, n r willing to give it a try despite the many misconceptions that girls generally have on dragonboat gals. That's y i say i'm amazed. Amazed that they do not let all these negative image of muscular, rugged, big-arms, sun-tanned gals intimidate them. Besides, its a wrong idea! In the past there was a nd to post on ivle 'student events' to ask for pple to join db. It was almost like a plea or some form of distress signal to beg pple to join, juz so to make the numbers. Now, they juz come on their own. Kudos to these brave souls. That's really smth to praise God for.

If we can 'fall in' all the gals who r previously from uniformed grp, i think there'll be like a platoon of say..12 or more pple? Of which 8 are from ncc.

Rushed down for trg today, despite ald informing zw tt i may only reach at 630 coz its rush hr n traffic is bad. tuition ended at 530, leaving me with abt 45min to get my butt down to src ON time. my heart couldnt take it, hence i decided to hop onto a cab at clementi, so i reached src at 613pm [according to my watch] it costs a bloody $6 ok? $2 for peak hr charge. wth

my tuition kid, nicole is damn funny. she was extremely embarassed when i flipped her p5 science txtbk n she asked me to skip the whole topic on sexual reproduction in humans. u shd have seen the 'shy'/embarassed look she had, accompanied with the giggle. its classic, so primary sch. she was telling me how today she tried hard not to laugh when her science teacher drew a breast n explained to the class. she juz kept giggling non stop, n i juz looked @ her and say, 'very funny meh!? all girls also have ah' i think i scared her with my stern look n harsh tone. it put her back into her place. She kept quiet aft tt.

tsk wads with smart pple who r juz lazy? She's one of them, smart but plain lazy. Just like my brother. I'm not so fortunate like benjamin. If there's 1 thing i'll always rmb, it's tt aft PSLE my bro scored 240+ n i scored 230+, i vowed to myself tt if its natural smartness i lack, i'll compensate with hard work. Den for O levels n A levels i consistently fared better than him. Some pple enter uni bcoz they r born smart, others enter uni only coz they work damn freaking hard. I belong to the latter. Life's unfair, but wad to do?

i wont go into like, trg details n wad we did for trg, etc. we did the usual: run followed by gym. ran with this freshie called [urghh i cant rmb! damn bad with names] and talked to her along the way. i didnt wanna talk to her so much coz i'm reminded of the time when i talked to wenting during her 1st few trgs when she joined us in yr1 sem2, n she said in a polite way, panting, 'can..we...talk later?' I dun wanna give the impression like its easy peasy for me, coz it isn't. I do perspire, i do pant, i do feel tired. The reason y i talk to someone during runs is to make them shift their focus on torturous run n juz have smth else to think abt, it is NOT to brag abt how much 气 i have. Just said to her this, 'if training is not shiong, it wont be challenging. if it's not challenging, u wont come back for more, rite?' and she responded, 'yah..tt's true'

hope i unleashed the sadistic nature in her. muahahaha. if she dun come back, ok i admit its my fault tt i scared her away. but given her grounding in ncc, i have a sure feeling she'd come back for more. how do i noe? Let's just put it this way, i'm lek. hahaha

did gym with angela n theresa. it was quite an enjoyable session coz we'd encourage each other on, and up our weights for the last set. wad goes up must stay up :] did our own otot during gym, coz our grp took lesser time than the rest as we had ald taken max weight.

twin asked me to request smth, but i did it half heartedly coz i'm torn apart. also noe it wont materialise n a part of me inside knows its not the right thing to do. bleh..i go ktv with u another time la huh? i did ask, but i also taught her the art of Omega.

btw i dunnoe y we dun have friends? As in, nus dragonboat. apparently rumour has it tt we r v dao. if only u get to know us better. perhaps all the 'seriousness' during trg scares everyone away. but being serious during trg doesnt equate to we being hostile. it's 2 things altogether. ah well..nvm. maybe we r destined to have no friends. i told yr's fren, who's an ex-NP rower, tt maybe the reason y we r so dao is tt we use 刀标油. u noe? 'knife brand' oil? -_-^ heh

Fact of the day: We drink vitasoy because it aids in muscle repair. it serves as a form of protein drink [though VERY low % only]

Like seriously..