haven't blogged in a week.

yesterday was the deadline for chinese ca marks, meaning that if i had any outstanding hwk that i didn't hand in b4 dat, i might as well not hand in. my marks stood at 47, with 3 zeroes for zuowen and 1 zero for shuping. being the habitual slacker, i rushed the 3 zws on thursday, even earning good marks for it, and finished the shu ping at night, then sent it to kieran for printing.

the catch? kieran forgot to print. he said he would help me hand in on saturday but not that it helps if what zhanghs says is true. not that i blame you kieran, just tough luck

friday was also cross-country day. at bedok reservior park this year, ran there only once b4, civil serivce run last year. pereparation was screwed, warmed up for only 6 minutes, no striding, squeezed into the corner of the starting line, though it was in front. with mchia beside me, off we went at the count of 3.

when we started, first thing i realised was that mchia tripped and nearly fell. got off to a good start, 3rd behind jed and ornan. i was forwarned that jed wld do some kamikaze at the start and sure he did. later he died out and the rest caught up. after the first part this was the situation: ornan araunah zhi ming and shi kai in one leading pack. followed by myself and only myself. then yap kim wee varun and mchia i think.

later in the sweltering heat ornan and araunah cldn't keep up with the pace and dropped, so it was just cheese and zm in front. twins dropped so much i caught up with them and was within 5m even though i slowed down. behind me i cld see yap kim wee some 10-20m behind. i shld hv kicked in here and tried to gap the twins but somehow i wasn't motivated enough. meanwhile mchia still no show.

last part. cheese got a stitch and had to drop his pace drastically. twins sped up and caught up with him. i only sped up at the last part and was 1 sec off cheese. eventual result: zm 1st araunah 2nd ornan 3rd cheese 4th myself 5th kim wee 6th varun 7th mchia 8th. satisfactory result, but cld hv pushed harder. oh well, only got myself to blame. n my trophy broke on the way home.

before this i had to go for a briefing on overseas immersion programme. but i would save that thrilling self-debate for another time.