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Saturday, April 21, 2007
cassMANdra :) 11:27 AM 」


ARRR! I am so sad. I cant clear my school's high jump record. Whats worse is that I suddenly cant do flosbury flop anymore. The one where you arch your back and jump. This is the only method that allows you to jump above your own height. The other methods like the scissors kick, in which I resorted to using, can only reach a certain limit. SIGH! Considering that I have not been jumping since pri. 6 ever since that mad coach scared the wits out of me, I think I've gotta start practising. The thing is, is it worth it?

Have not done long jump in a long long time. I should start practising soon. Hoho. Yesterday, I attempted to run "cross-legged", some crazy method of running I picked up from primary school, without my spikes...and I fell! Sian. The method eats up a lot of energy but you run much faster. I have no idea where they got it from or what it is called. Hmm. Maybe I should go and find out. My 100m timings aren't superb either.

One of the teachers was telling me about his school's sports day. He was arrowed to be the cross country captain for his house although he cant run for nuts. Still, he managed to get runners almost EFFORTLESSLY and ran the race. Here in Innova, if I just leave the list on my noticeboard and let runners volunteer, I think my house will lose effortlessly. Some say that they dont want to compete, knowing that they will lose. I'm asking for participation. I love doing House matters but definitely not going around classes, persuading people to run, time and time again. Wha. Then I realise I am very patient for those who know me. EVEN in sec sch. when I did this, I never had much difficulty. The previous runners that ran, would just run again. SO easy. Not to mention at that time I had an excellent house master, Mr Ong. Man, I miss him a lot. He can persuade any tom, dick and harry to run. Those that I cant get to run, He can. When he left, I was sec 4. 2 other newbie teachers came in. Those that I couldn't persuade only a handful unlike my jc, they couldn't too. It struck me then that Mr Ong, is really really good. In the end, my house got 2nd, losing my 2 points to another house. I told Mr Ong and his reaction was..we've always got first for the last 10 years. I told him, "then, you come back!!!" He laughed. Now, Mitchell house is last, information from my brother. Another teacher took over the house. Apparently, someone worse. The teacher makes a difference. I prefer the previous house master than the current one.

I am just frustrated that I have to spend so much time getting runners. Shouldn't this time be channelled into practising? Some of the potential runners, when they see me, they run. Its not like I like to chase them to run. Then for JC 2's, I don't have many boys. It is like 3 girls is to 1 boy for the J2 in Sagi. ARRR!! !#(@$^*$&@)@#)!_#&^$(@$


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