haven't blogged for ages and i've a sudden unexplainable inspiration to blog haha. jc life is so fast-paced, we're almost halfway thru term 2 and that's more than one-eighth of 2 years of jc life gone! just like that. rushing for lectures, tutorials, slacking during chinese lessons and breaks, and that's how i passed my 13 weeks in jc so far. i kind of miss life back in nygh, those crappy, lame, but fun days of fooling around with the boo family. i hope you guys are doing great? huixiang i miss you so much!!

thinking about hx reminds me of national x-country, which is.. 2 days away! -_-" and frankly, i haven't been doing any serious training for the past 9? (or maybe even more) months, much less talk about being prepared to race. and, i haven't ran a good race in like.. 2 years? haha. hmm rewinding a bit.. it doesn't hurt to look back and reminisce about the past once in a while XD

my 4 years in track are very memorable indeed even though trainings were so tough (although we slacked a lot too) and if given a chance to choose again, i think i agree with hx that i will choose this way all over again =)

sec 1 - we were all newbies and didn't know one another well. our first race was swift, during the june hols. and i remember running 1.5k with hx, shizhen and chengshan. and i think i was last out of all of them.. so demoralizing -_-" haha. for most of that year, i was living in my own world and was quite ignorant about what was happening and the people around me haha. i think i only knew cheryl, huixiang, shizhen and chengshan? haha!

sec 2 - our first major race - nat x-country! at sentosa! it was so shiok when the four of us came in 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th in our heats, which were overall 20th, 23rd, 26th, 29th. (if i remembered correctly) great team spirit (and coordination) haha! =D later that year, cs, hx and me ran for 1.5k and 3k nats and we only qualified for 3k finals. cs quit track that same year too. and this is the year when mich the greedy pig became a part of my life =D and those card games after school with hx, mich and cheryl heh. bridge! taidee! haha XD

sec 3 - we managed to clock pretty good timings during x-country at turf city. hx and me turned into purists, specializing only in 3k. and we were running buddies (aka butties) lol. i feel quite proud to be a 3k runner, the longest event for girls, dunno about hx haha. and we (mich, cheryl, hx and me) were ms tan's most "hardworking" athletes.

sec 4 - our first inter-school medal! we created a miracle in the slackers' history! i'll never forget the x-country relay at macritchie, when hx, mich, andrea and me formed team 44. and won something!! yes. still remember mich and me screaming like mad when they announced the results =D also i "abandoned" hx that year and she had to run 3k nats herself. but i think she clocked a good timing anw =)

i never realized just how big a part track played in my sec school life until now. i've made so many close friends like huixiang, cheryl and mich, and somehow the bond that we share is just different and unique from the rest of my friends, say my classmates. maybe it's because of the years of seemingly "unsurvivable" trainings that we've endured thru together, or perhaps it's cos the cheering and encouragement we gave one another before and during comps, or maybe we can relate to each other better since we share the same goals. whatever it is, it has no doubt made a difference to all of our lives i'm sure.

nylongd trailblazers. we leave the track charred.

x-country in 2 days, my first major race without huixiang as my running buddy (butty). i will run the nylongd way! persevere and do my best! yep =D

(wonder if anyone will bother reading this entry? like i said, i just felt like rambling =))