feeling pretty tired after an exhaustive land training session for canoe practice. circuit training, really, which consisted of like fifteen or so stations specially designed to "work every major muscle group". hyper extensions for the back, oblique crunches(!) for the abs... you get the idea. Three reps, even. water training yesterday wasn't that tiring, or so i felt. in my opinion the most tiring part was the sprint from the bus-stop to the seasports centre. oops. hahaha. well we the j1s in njcanoeing are supposed to be concentrating on mileage right now so i guess that's pretty okay. but our canoe kept veering to the left in a most pronounced, deeply exaggerated way yesterday. think it's something to do with having a weaker left arm than the right.

school was pretty fun today- despite the fact that it was a thursday, the day we officially end at five. arrived in school at seven am and rushed my math homework. when practically the entire class was at the grandstand we made our way along the side of the college and up the slope to the parade square. to our utmost dismay, we realised that assembly was to be held in the hall instead. Which was quite a distance from the parade square. And so we ran to the hall and made it to the stairs just in time to hear the band merrily strike up the national anthem. even nick foo was late! ha.

we had e.lit with mr. dio first thing in the morning, and on my way to the LT i spotted the vice-cap of the Yellow -go figure- house scrutinizing his house board. which kinda made my day. :] anyway yeah we went through more literary devices during e.lit lecture- and i was pleasantly surprised to see the passage from Romeo and Juliet in which the sod Romeo is whining about Rosaline's apparent lack of interest in him. So there. you know the one that goes o brawling love blah blah? and still-waking sleep and cold fire and all that stuff. well mr. dio used it to illustrate the idea of oxymorons. and he had the LT in hysterics when he explained choice of words which were acceptable and those that were unacceptable, while loudly considering the possibility of whether to use fuck or copulate in a sentence, and the possible undertones. hmmm.

and then we had math. ms. chan was most displeased with dear old douglas and bemoaned the fact that she'd be seeing him for the remainder of the three months in nj. she even voiced her opinion that he'd be better off back in tchs. no kallang wave today, though. the class was pretty engrossed in the tutorial for partial fractions, if not we'd have to take a quiz on indices surds logarithms and what-have-yous. no doubt about it, we preferred the tutorial. :þ

break- liwei and ailin swapped uniforms. liwei has absolutely no RV look at all! but ailin could pass as an andersonian. haha. i never want to wear th RV uni after hearing what some j1 guys at canoeing one-star course said the other day- about it being, y'know, sorta kinky and all. nurses' uniforms indeed. most suited for guys' kinky fantasies.

econs. tutor's got a haircut. nothing new, excepting that. well during lecture mr. bryan ang screamed at us all again, for "strolling into lecture." any surprise? nope, not at all. a new female lecturer for econs, but i don't know what her name is. she's okay, though. and doug slept through lecture. again.

i almost fell asleep during GP. was pretty bored. i don't know why- but i thought GP'd be a subject i'd enjoy, and i don't seem to be getting that sort of feeling. ha. there didn't seem to be anything better i could add to the discussion, though. and we ended up discussing gangs of new york in relation to the school mission of loyalty with integrity, and i didn't even watch the darned movie, so i felt pretty stoned. pooh.

common lunch, and i came up with a wonderful perceptive theory on why a certain student councillor (hmm he's been mentioned earlier- go figure) spikes his hair up straight. so as to add an inch or so to his vertically-challenged frame! haha! it kinda works, actually.

human geog- mr. barber's a great teacher. serious- i really enjoy his lessons, even more so in comparison with lessons by his phy geog counterpart. and when he went through the name list today he mispronounced siqi's name as see-kee which was pretty hilarious. he's euro-centric, as self-described. haha. and he gave me 20 out of 20 for my very first human geog assignment! cool huh? never get that sorta thing in mrs yak's class. any guesses for what topic it was? yeah- it was TOURISM! the only topic i ever did in exams for geog elect papers in sec3/4. hah.