never run 2.4km with broken school shoes. i did that and it 'spoiled' both my legs. lol. both my knees hurt badly. what's more, my calf was damn tight and now my ad ductor is also tight. maybe that's what happens if i drop from thrice a week training to only once a week training. everywhere ache. owww.
i've got a sore throat for almost a week alr. wonder why is it taking so long to heal. normally it would only last for a day or two. i wont say that it caused my 2.4 to suck but my sickness did. i re-runned my 2.4 today for fun and i felt the strain. i'm nt gonna qualify for nats if this carries on. i muuusssttt qualify! nats is gonna be hard; so many pro sec3s. there are alr 3 sec3 sports sch boys who can win me zomg. but nevertheless, i shall train and win them heh heh ^^.
well, retook my broad jump today and jumped 229. lol. that's a B for me and left me shocked. sam jumped later and he was also imba. bu according to him, he is that imba so.. i am also imba muhahahah. this means...... a fourth gold!!! btw, i only learnt that gold was spelled like that and nt goal when i won my 1500m. werid aye.. deprived of golds. pe was great like it has always been.
- isaac.
7:30:00 PM
damn. today's EV sucked. i only said 1 sentence or so. lol. i wasnt really prepared to answer any questions and i wasnt planning to too. i was sick ytd and didnt go for the briefing. hence, i decided to not go until i thought that it's my responsibility to ask about the venue and all the details.
the rest of the day was very much normal except one lesson which was quite interesting =P. the highlight, however, was the heavy downpour ^^. well, deprived or what i dont care but it has been a long long time since i ran or walked in the rain. i walked i the rain for a few seconds and stepped into every puddle i could find lol. there are many opportunities to come i'm sure ^^.
- isaac.
8:31:00 PM
sick and stranded at home. slept at 9.45 last night and woke up at 10.30. watched tv and read outdated sports news on outdated newspapers. after lunch, i slept again for another 2hrs. after that, i woke up to study and slept for another 2hrs in the evening. lol. it was damn relaxing. no stress and i never had so much sleep in my entire life before.
my sickness started yesterday in school during physics lesson. my whole body felt very weak and i got a feeling of a sore throat. i decided to go and see a doctor to so that i wont stay sick for so long. i still have to train for nats in july ^^. when i went to the clinic, it was closed until 6 =(. so i went to packet some food and went home for a nap. i then went to the clinic at 6 and wan the bronze medalist. dammnit. i was in silver position when this man and his daughter walked i front of me. anyway i doesnt matter; i'll still get to see the doctor eventually.
now i feel much better and i hope i can run in a few days time! if not at least by monday or else my pe will be wasted.
- isaac.
9:39:00 PM
1 month: 5 competitive races and 1 fitness test. physical torture has ceased for a while. now its all about mental torture. out of the 6 runs, only 1 impressed. damnit. what the hell did i do?
i guess it's a gd thing. every bad run has it learning points. although every gd run also has its learning points, there are not as many as a bad run. i think now i know my event inside out.
anyway, today was my 2.4km make-up run. it didnt suck and it didnt rock. i ran 8.45, my sec 2 timing. i was damn sian at that time and mr khoo suan-ed me lol. he told me that i have not beaten his best time of 8.37. well, i could have beaten that anytime but dunno why i am unabe to do so. i played basketball last year and this year? hm. no warm up? too tired? excuses. i feel that one should not find fault with everything under the sun. i prefer to blame myself. this way i will know that i have disappointed myself once and i wont do it again. it's a gd thing for me to do badly tho. i have hit the ground alr. the time to get up will be soon enough.
i cut my hair today and i look super funny ( but its straight ^^ ). i think i need a cap.
summary of the past two mid yr papers:
english was quite easy. i thought i did my compo quite well and i put in a little more effort in situational writing than during class practices. the compre was a little tougher. i didnt understand much of the passage and just roughly roughly.
chinese was a much different story. i struggled a bit on paper 1. i sent quite sometime doing the yin yong wen. the compo was quite difficult to write about. i hope my bs is acceptable. sam was damn funny. he laughed and said tat i checked the dictionary a lot of times. well, at least he knows the real reason now ^^.
- isaac.
7:25:00 PM
today was the 1500m finals for the national junior championships. i guess it wasnt too bad although coach said that i did not run the proper way. i totally agree with him and that happened to me many times alr. that's the problem with running with a blank mind. i think next time i run i must make sure it stays in my head.
despite my timing being off my pb, i'm quite happy because i wont be over-confident or have no confidence in my next race. if i did well today, my ego might kill me during nationals and i dont want that to happen. complacency has caused me golds during the combined athletes' meet.
if i did badly, i would feel depressed and i wont be too adventurous although i will be wanting to redeem myself. at least now i know my mark and know where to aim with confidence.
mid yr is just round the corner and i have not studied anything yet. i think i'll have to change my targets to something lower. i'll try my best nt to go on the com because once the com is on, i will be at it for hours before i go off. good luck to all for mid yr.
- isaac.
8:35:00 PM
today was napfa test for half the sec4s. it was quite a fun session and our last in cch.
my class's first station was shuttle run. i ran rather slow and wasnt serious. but who cares? i still got an A, dun nid retry. hahahahaa. that was my thought then.
after that was pull ups and sit and reach. i got B and A for those repectively. i was happy with myself at doing 6 pull ups, although not impressive. in fact, i felt that i had no more stress alr and the gold is in my hands ^^.
next was the huge blow. i was over confident and aimed too high for standing board jump. i thought i could get an A and anyhow-ed both jumps. shit. now my gold's gone with the wind. noooooooo. i have to resort to backdoor means to achieve it and that sucks. what had happened was imba. my ego inflated until it was as big as a hot air balloon and it burst instantly at its peak, bringing me back to earth with a loud THUD! owww. but right now all i can do is to look back and correct my past errors. it's no point dwelling on it as it will never change.
the gold is important to me because i need to continue my streak. anyway, it's gd for me to jump less to reduce impact injury on my knees. besides, i think it is a marvellous achievement to get a B for pull-ups ^^. i still got 2.4 tho. i hope i dun get D again. if nt i think i'm better off dead.
on the bright side, mid yr's round the corner! i cant believe it. just 2-3 weeks and i'll be training again. there are just so many things i can do after mid yr. i can relax in my comfortable dunno how many yr old chair and dream about my o level cert and my cca achievements. even then i can sit on my chair all day and watch different movies, play miniclip games -.- and anything but the 5 letter S word. ' slack ' is just a few letters a away from ' success ' it wont take long to change.
back down to earth now. starting from now will be about 2 plus weeks of mental torture. the books are so damn thick and we have to study all that is thought in 1.5 yrs. how the hell am i gonna do that in 24hrs?
' when there's a will, there's a way ' the imba-ness of this inspirational words shall fill my mind and give me the extra boost needed to go all the way and achieve what i want. roooaaarrr! lol. study until cry.
- isaac.
10:00:00 PM
i went for national juniors today and got owned. in fact, it sucked so much it vaccumed. anyway, i was way off my timing and cant even overtake some peopl i have won before. disappointing again. i just dun understnd why i cant be consistent in my runs. my 1500m timing has been over a very large range of about 10secs or so and that is a lot. 10secs is all an olympic champion needs to complete 100m although 10secs isnt 100m for 16yr olds.
thankfully, i qualified. i was the second last to be called. well, i guess it's good to go into a race as the underdog ^^. i plan to own tho haha. gonna do what i did for combined; except to let someone attempt to overtake me at the last 40m. i am given a second chance and i will definitely try my best not foil it.
- isaac.
10:56:00 PM
yesterday was the 27th annual combined atheletics meet. the day didnt went that badly although it was known to be black friday. everything went smoothly until my pledge haha. i fumbled a bit, mixing up two short lines. it wasnt that embarrassing then because i had a race to concentrate on and i memorised the pledge instead of reading it from a piece of paper. but after further thought about it, it was really rather embarrassing for me to do such a thing in front of 4 schools. anyway, at least i did not stutter or say the pledge too fast like i always did. so, i guess that i ought to be happy about my performance.
now to the races. our 4x400 b boys got 2nd and i think its my fault. i didnt push hard enough and didnt overtake the ngee ann guy. if i did so, brian would have a lead and the others have to play his game. this made me feel very disturbed or maybe just sad. melvin did very well, doing his best despite being behind and zhanhong pushed despite being totally drained. brian also caught up with the first guy but lost. what did i do? lol. i think its because i havent been running 400m for too long and i seem like i have lost my determination to continue to run. for my 1500m, i didnt give up when i saw the nas runner cutting me and i charged to the end. for my 800m and 4x400m i slowed down and gave up when i saw the person in front of me. i'll just have to hope that things would change for my national junior championships tml. somehow i felt like i have let everyone down. everyone who wished me good luck and everyone who supported us. they wished me good luck and yet i didnt go at my fastest. that's just depressing for me.
on the other hand, the most memorable race ytd was the 20x100 relay. that race showed a lot of determination. every runner did not give up hope and kept chasing the first runners. the best was when the third runner fell down but got up on her feet again almost immediately and continued the race. that is the true spirit of detemination. joel was the hero for the day when he caught up with the duman runner and gave cch the vital lead which was enough for us to win. great stuff from everyone, on overcoming a large lead.
last night was the track dinner. nothing much happened; other than making a mixture of food to eat and going to play pool. it was just a regular track and field get together and to celebrate the end of a tiring three weeks.
congrats to all prize winners on winning.
- isaac.
12:11:00 AM
tml's the 27th annual combined atheletics meet. so much things to do, so much things to be afraid of. this is the first time i am worried the day before a race but not worried about the race. i have to memorize the pledge and is super short lol. however, the problem is that i will get nevous in front of so many people. hope everything will turn out fine tml.
zomg. i am so scared abt tml that i forgot about today's prelim oral lol. well, today's oral didnt seem like a prelim oral. all of us were super slack; talking to each other while waiting for our turn. my turn finially came at 5plus tho, almost 3hours since we stepped into the grand audi. anyway it went quite well, the reading aloud was easy except for a few words. i think i only said less than 10 sentences before the teacher cut me short and told me that i could go. when she told me that, i was a bit shocked. that was my fastest oral exam! i think she must have felt very tired and wanted to go home faster. i didnt rly think much of it. no matter the result, it's 'o' levels which counts. this is just a test to see how bad my chinese is and i hope it isnt bad to a large extent.
good luck to everyone tml. thanks for all the good lucks too. i'll need it ^^.
- isaac.
9:49:00 PM
today was a fun day. i woke up at 5 am and reached school at 6.30. it was damn fun; the whole estate was in darkness, except for the street lamps. i decided to scare myself my telling myself that an old lady walking towards me was a ghost. luckily she wasnt; if not i wont be in school today.
we played table tennis for pe and basketball during lunch. table tennis was fun; owned sam 4-1 4-1 haha. so fun and funny. when it was lunch, i was left with the burden of booking a court. instead of buying a meal to happily chow on, i was given a basketball to book a court. anyway i felt full because of recess and didnt mind. after playing for quite sometime, three people wearing basketball jerseys came running to the basketball court and ran a riot. although it was chaotic, it added spice to the game ^^.
when i was walking home at around 7plus, my sis called me from the clinic and told me that she will be late for dinner. when i told my grandmother that, she started to get worried and asked me to go and fetch her. since i was free and walking in the dark was fun, i went with her idea and went to find my is after dinner. it turned out that she had a muscle sprain and wanted to use it as an excuse -.- . when i reached home, my parents were back from hong kong and they bought a huge bag of different kinds of chips. gonna bring some to sch tml and eat during timed practice lol.
- isaac.
10:17:00 PM
today was 4DL's second 'class outing'. it's 'class outing' because only 11ppl turned up. probably becos midyr is near or other commitments. anyway the day went rather fast. we spent close to 2hrs at the arcade before going to ps to purchase tickets to ' meet the robinsons'. after that we went to eat and went to the arcade again. the two girls must have been super bored; hope they have enjoyed it. anyway after the movie, the group of us separated as some of us went home and some went for dinner. i had to go home becos my parents were overseas. as my parents are overseas, i needed to take dinner at home because if i stayed out late, my grandmother would tell my parents and i am dead. i am not allowed to go out anymore ever since the last suisen outing. sadded lol.
into greater detail, i think i am much better off now. i can aim properly alr and i can own like mad now hahahahahaha. sadly, i lost to a small boy in outrun2 lol. when he won he was super happy, looking at me with a ' you just got owned by a small boy, noob' look. well, i was trying manual so i have nothing to say. on the other hand, ziyan and johnathan started playing the basketball game and all of us got addicted too. we kept aiming for level 3 but to no avail and also 2 ladies beside us had scored 300plus baskets. zomg.
meet the robinsons was just an average show. it lasted only 90mins and there was 25mins of advertisement before the show started. the show was only funny at some parts but the storyline is better than mr bean's.
- isaac.
10:10:00 PM
ahhhhhhh. i lost. nooooooo. i feel sad, depressed, sian, unhappy, disatisfied but i somehow feel that the winner deserved his win, his gold. i won him by a hair in 1500m, he won me by 1-2secs in 800m. fair and square haha. i only have myself to blame tho. i did two hard workouts on monday. firstly, i pia-ed the two rounds around school despite feeling weakened. secondly, i also did a time trial on that day in the evening. apparently, the amount of time needed to recover was 7 days and monday is 2 days away from thursday. soooo, MY FAULT. nooo. nvvvmm. there is still nationals heh heh. mus pia then. oh yes. he deserved his win because he trained hard and i thought that he fought very hard for it. the way he sticked so close to me and his final burst. imba.
grats to jin kai tho. he did the 'jin kai special'. charging 400m and totally destroying the hopes of other ppl. fabulous. it was the first time we, everyone there supporting, saw him chiong to the very end.
i have decided to abandon the five grateful things because i received a complain that it was irritating. lol. fine. i'll just do it mentally.
- isaac.
9:39:00 PM
five things that i am grateful for today.
1. i am grateful that tongyi and jinkai came for training.
2. i am grateful that i didnt have to go up to the stage.
3. i am grateful that lab lessons werent too murderous.
4. i am grateful that i managed to solve a maths qn with the help of marcus.
5. i am grateful that the bus came shortly despite me missing the one before.
- isaac.
11:15:00 PM
five things i am grateful for today ^^:
1. i am grateful that physics test was easy
2. i am grateful that i spent time on chinese
3. i am grateful that i gt enough sleep
4. i am grateful that i got enough money to pay back my debts
5. i am grateful that my chem tests didnt fail like the last time.
today mr chua(gary) was damn funny. a few of us didnt take the physics test last week had waited forhm outside the physics lab today after school. after waiting for him for a long time, he finially arrived but said that he forgot to bring the test papers and needed to check the if there were any extras in the physics preparation room. after a short while, he came out and told us that there were none. he asked if we could take it tml and everyone protested, giving all sorts of excuses. he finially decided to go home and take while we waited for him. when we were about to go for lunch, he suddenly came out of the preparation room with two test papers. lol.
- isaac.
10:12:00 PM
it has been 11 days since i started the five things thingy. it is supposed to last for a month i think. seems like i am on track. just 19 more days ^^.
five things i am grateful for today:
1. i am grateful that i finially get to run during pe.
2. i am grateful that i wasnt selected for the interview.
3. i am grateful that my internet connection did not die.
4. i am grateful that i understood a bit of bio.
5. i am grateful for the light behind the curtains, giving us some entertainment duing boring assembly lol.
- isaac.
10:43:00 PM
five thing i am grateful for today:
1. i am grateful that the torturous weekend is over
2. i am grateful that april fools was fun
3. i am grateful that i managed to complete all my tuition hw on time
4. i am grateful that i gt enough slp today ^^
5. i am grateful that nothing bad happened today
i got fooled by serene today. lol. but i managed to expose sam and dj's ploys ^^. i must say, i really fell for it; it seemed too true. i think we must be thankful that april fools this yr is on a sunday. if its a school day, i think every few moments someone will get jacked pretty bad.
- isaac.
9:32:00 PM
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