BEE HOON:)

Saturday, May 24, 2008 Y

yesterday was cross-country. i decided to run with my class since we decided to run together, that means i had to give up running with my fellow plt mates. no, not running with them, it should be walking. thay had decided to walk during cross-country. it might be our last opportunity 'walking' together as a platoon but it's also going to be my last chance to jog with my class, so i was in a dilemma. haiz... i was quite depressed to see my platoon walking together and i was guilty to not run with them. in the end i told them that, if i felt tired of jogging, i would join them.

at the start, when our class started jogging, we were already at different paces. then i saw some people starting to walk already at the start so i began to drag some of my classmates along. and i think i wasted too much of my energy and i dont feel like jogging as there was no motivation and encouragement, so i started to walk and jog sometimes. i could hear mr sng yelling and urging people to jog but i really had not much energy left to jog and it was not only one-third of the route so i decided to join my platoon mates. i looked back but they were really so at the back that i cant even see them. haha. then lydia, who was doing duty, said that she had to go all the way to the back so i wen and i decided to accompany her then we could meet our platoon. we jogged and walked backwards.

finally we met our platoon mates and i really felt so great upon seeing them. then all of us started walking and took pictures together. it was so fun:) i enjoyed being with all of them. however, i sort of felt guilty that i was walking because i was still dragging people to jog before and during the race and i was really determined to jog the whole route before the race but in the end i actually walked for most of the distance. haha. but i didnt regret making this decision because my platoon mates made the route easy for all of us. i felt motivated when jogging and walking with them. they are my motivation:) they allowed me to finish the route without me feeling extremely tired although the distance was 3.5km. wow.

at the last part of our journey, we ran, really ran. zakiyyah and i held hands together and we encouraged each other to chiong to the finishing line. i heard mr tay saying, "wah hold hands and run together ah. so romantic." haha. but we finished the race in the end! thanks to the people who cheered for us when we were reaching, you really gave us lots of encouragement:)woohoo! i was so happy.

then when cross-country ended, 4H took a picture with mr sng and then i ran to take pictures with my platoon mates and cadets. we took the pictures on the field. although it was hot, we enjoyed our time together:) the pictures turned out to be nice with miss poon's guidance. haha. she c0ntributed lots of ideas to us.

after that, part b specs went to tampines mall. we bought and did stuff. and it was super warm as were at the open space at tampines mall. i was in the sun all the time. so i perspired while doing my stuff. in the end, i got tanner, i even have a tanline now. but i like my skin colour to be dark as i think it looks nicer. haha.

then gin, i wen, xiao jun and i met out again. xiao jun and i waited for gin for a very long time at the bus stop near my house for a very long time before she reached, we were like quite angry with her but i was partially the reason why she reached there later. when we reached arab street there, i wen was already at the bus stop. then we went to buy cloth, then went bugis junction, ate then shop. there were so many nice stuff, we felt so tempted to buy but we were broke:'( then went city hall. during the ride on the mrt from city hall to bishan, we played hand games. gin, i wen and i were beatting one another due to the game. my hand was red after the game:( so pain.

we went bishan park to recce today. then our dearest tour guide, encik zhao ming came down from her house to help us:) she cycled which was quite unexpected as i was still telling the others that she doesnt look like one whose house will have a bicycle. then we rented bikes too to accomodate her to make transport easier. but in the end the rental shop only had one double bike left and both gin and i dont know how to cycle. but i can cycle a bit better than her, at least i knows how to cycle straight, i only dont know how to turn but gin doesnt even know anyting. so i took a single bike myself. i felt so nervous and panicked throughout the whole ride.

then there was a part when gin kept on irritating me on the double bike as she and xiao jun wanted to overtake me and in the end really overtook. then i wanted to brake but i was at the edge of the pavement. my feet was only half-touching the ground and so i couldnt stop the bike fully and the bicycle kept n moving to its right and so i fell down in a slow motion onto the grass. luckily it was not painful and i was not injured since it's a slow motion one. my white shorts became a brown one then, on one side. haiz...

my thighs were really tired after cycling and it was really scary to cycle a bike alone. i always thought i would fall. and that thng gin, she kept on smiling to me when i was cycling behind her. i was quite irritated at first but after that i thought i should smile back at her since she smiled to me purposely to distract me. so i smiled back at her. haha.

after that, we went on seperate ways. gin and i went kovan. we needed to buy lots of cotton wool. really a lot. but we just could not find any shop selling lots and cheap cotton wool. i called zhao ming and asked her where we could get it from then she said buy stuffing from ikea. but we thought it was expensice when zhao ming told us the prices. then gin had a marvellous idea. we could buy pillows and take the stuffing out. we went to search for pillows then. we were so tired out by all the walking but we persevered on. and finally, we found it! we bought pillows then. we didnt really know if it was cheaper than that of ikea's but due to the time constraint and nobody was going ikea tomorrow, we had to buy pillows. i thought it was really a waste and funny of us to use pillows but it was really a great idea. haha(:

part b specs meeting out again on mon, and maybe for the whole day. we are really getting sick of seeing one another as we really had been seeing one another for almost the whole day everyday. and this will be going to last for the next two weeks. this holidays will be really busy for all of us. it's not even holidays, it's worse than normal weekdays. haiz...

-living in simplicity-