back to school!

so i realize that despite me hardly ever updating my blog, my blog counter still appears to register a small but steady rise in readership. i wonder why.... but nevertheless i would like to apologize to all my faithful readers out there for not having anything to add to my blog for God knows how long! of course, now that i'm back in school and free from all those distractions like Cable TV and sleeping and Cable TV, i should be reverting to more regular updates. hopefully :)

i went snowboarding yesterday on yuan jun's beseeching, and on a very thin layer of fresh snow. this being my first time boarding in almost a whole year, there was of course much falling over and tumbling and sliding, but the fact that i'm still typing is testimony of my amazing ability to stay alive against all odds. kelvin yap was there too, my fellow boarder, and it's always nice to see someone tumbling and rolling with you, especially when 10 year old kids were zipping past us with much finesse, not to mention belittling looks...

which brings me to the subject of falling. in JC, when Miss Poon (or Mr Poon depending on his/her mood) would spend one whole volleyball session teaching us how to fall and roll over (haha this is beginning to sound like dog training), it seemed to all of us that falling could actually be an art, to be mastered and conquered by only the most skillful exponents. of course, that did not deter us energetic 18 yr olds, and we diligently took to the task of tripping ourselves over and rolling across the gym, much to the delight (and bewilderment most likely) of passing schoolmates. we also did a lot of other laugh inducing exercises over the course of our training, but i will not go into details. basically, after the end of my career in high school volleyball, i considered myself to be pretty good at cushioning my body if at any time my legs were to lose contact with the ground, sending me into the uncompromising arms of gravity.

however, nobody told me about snow. when you are flying down a mountain at 30km/h (already not very fast) and suddenly your board catches a chunk of snow placed just so that it causes your board to suddenly alter its intended trajectory, you don't often realize the fact until your butt has made contact with the snow below you. and when that happens, the rolling instinct indeed starts to kick in, but is hampered by a few factors:

1. your feet are strapped to a flat board, shoulder length apart.
2. 30km/h
3. snow and ice are not exactly the perfect medium for rolling. skidding and sliding tend to be much more prevalent.
4. by the time your brain reacts, it's usually too late for it to have any say in the subsequent dynamics of your body.

meaning to say my butt hurts a lot now, and i won't be snowboarding till probably next week.

mosquito dare to bite me!

last 2 days in yunnan i suddenly got headache. so i say nevermind, lie in hotel bed also good, everyday watch tv and sleep, watch tv and sleep. but the headache turn into giddiness, then turn into fever, then turn into wake up also want to die. i tell myself that i'm going to go home liao, maybe it's the weather in yunnan... then on the way to the airport, i thought how come the driver drive the car like f1 like that, left and right, up and down, like he not happy we never puke all over his car.

so i puke all over his car.

and i also puke all over the plane. puke and puke and puke and puke.... i think about 3 times from yunnan to kl, then 2 times from kl to singapore. i puke until when the plane was landing i was still in the toilet. then i was back in singapore, and went straight to my bed to live for the next 2 days. on 1st jan, i woke up at 6am feeling like i was living in an ant nest. so i went to the toilet and on the light, and wah! rashes all over! i see already feel like puking again. but i didn't puke. instead i laosai everywhere. after laosai-ing, i went to my parents room and told my mum that i got rashes everywhere.

then suddenly i was at ttsh, and the doctor asked me so you got fever for how many days? i say 5. then i say i just came back from china.

his eyes open very wide. CHINA AH? yah. i think he scared i turn into a chicken and bite him. but i didn't, so he say nevermind i take your blood. then fast forward 2 hours, and the doctor came back and asked me, what class you want?

then i know that the mosquito bite me already.