Okay I'm now officially the Quartermaster of UMC! time to experience being a Darren. ERR! think I'm gonna have a lot of sai gang coming my way. time to pick up new skills. lol. our cupboard is really pretty small, quite sad. but I think that's not too bad either.. easier to keep tidy. haha..

and I managed to persuade (I shall not use the word psycho) bing bing and zi jie to join competitive climbing... yay.. hopefully more and more ppl will join us and soon we will be back to what we used to be. but better. :)

the days are passing really quickly.. I feel like I'm on the Corkscrew..! okay Flying Coaster would be a better description. now I know what recess week is for. it's for you to CATCH UP. But it seems pretty far away still. allez allez..!

Hall 16 is really like a condo. the room is slightly bigger than mine too! but I am thankful. :D

what a random chunk of ramblings. luckily we don't have to take GP anymore.

sometimes people make awful comments when they don't really know you well. You think to yourself, its okay. but then again, is it?

today when I arrived at the lab, I sat down at the same square table as my friend. Beside my was this ah tiong who already had his notes out. There was a lot of scribblings on it. I was reminded of the Hwa Chong student in my group last week whose notes already had all the supposed answers from his seniors. I signalled to my friend and gestured at the ah tiong, "eh. this one power."

I sat down and took out my stuff. Then I turned to the ah tiong and said, "hi." He said "hello" back, then after that my friend said to him to chinese, "may I have a look at that?" After looking at the notes, he said to the ah tiong and me, "wa power sia." I was about to ask him whether he got his answers from his senior or something. Luckily I didn't!

5 minutes later this ah tiong beside me walked up to the front and said, " Good morning class. I am your tutor for today."

LOL!! what a move. haha. lucky I didn't say anything funny to him. Some of the tutors are really young. I wonder if they are even proper teachers or just hired to teach tutorial/take lab sessions. Some of them just seem to be rushing through the tutorials. Don't know for what. That day the ah tiong chem teacher best, flash the answers then just read out the solutions without really explaining. Then he finished going through the questions within half an hour when the lesson is supposed to take an hour. Then he told the class, "sorry, I cannot let you go yet, need you all to stay with me." lame, might as well spend the time explaining properly right, rush so fast then don't let people leave early. lol.

anyway, ran 5km for climbing pt yesterday! was almost dying. but good la, forces me to run. because I actually pretty much dislike running. this morning no muscle ache though.. guess the muscles are more conditioned now. haha. Uyanga is real crazy. in a good way, I mean. she's really strong! With her taking our PT sessions I think we'll improve in no time. :)

AGM tomorrow, SIM this weekend... busy week!

first climbing training! I feel refreshed after the light run. haha. it's been a while! :) I thought the distance we ran was pretty long but I google-mapped it and it turned out to be only 2.8 km. lol. almost had chest pains! hope I get muscle ache tomorrow. ache=good. haha.

managed to test out my Jet-7 shoes on the wall.. glad they didn't hurt anymore.. past week I kept trying to fit into them and it was pretty painful. haha. still remember what the Allsports Equipment uncle said to us when he was selling us the shoe -- "cannot stand the pain then don't climb!" I was thinking of getting half a size bigger actually. lol.

in a dilemma whether to go for the pre-AGM meeting for UMC or attend the freshmen welcome dinner for my hall. after all it's a one-time event right? but don't attend AGM means cannot run for main comm. or so I heard. now now, should I run for main comm??

oh ya. I also tried out two new canteens today! Canteen 4 and canteen 2. wa canteen 4 really cannot make it in terms of waiting time. I think there's only like one zi char stall and one cai fan stall or something. then when we reached there the cai fan finish so only left zi char. like monopoly sia! okay the food was not bad. but we waited almost 45 mins for it. when we placed our order she was just starting to serve number 78 or something. then the numbers we got were like 106! but canteen 2 was really good. cheap and good cai fan. with air con too! :) shall try again next week. haha.

UNION DAY. what in the world is that. only know lessons start at 230. yayy. :D

In the past, I used to quietly cheer in my heart whenever I saw people who had their exams fall on their birthdays, like the October/ November period. And I was always thankful that mine was in December. Finally, it is time for others to laugh and quietly cheer in their hearts.. because this year, my birthday week will be the exam week.. how fascinating. :) thanks to? YOG! lol. but its okay, there's always a first time.

by the way, I bought new climbing shoes! Jet 7 by 5.10 since there was no size for the Project and Team 5.10. but anyway, the Team 5.10 has a really wicked arch.. the downturn is pretty extreme and can be pretty painful if not used to it, so I might or might not have gotten it anyway. I tried to break-in the shoes today by wearing it in the house for a while. lol. when I tried it in the shop my left foot felt pain. Now I put it on at home and my right foot feels the pain. strange feet. long time no climb!

get well soon bro, we're all here for you.