an insanely mad day

it's about 2am now. i've been awake since 6am. ok i cheated. only woke up at 6.20am, but i'm just quite amazed that i survived today... really tired but i guess i'll just type this while waiting for mr math freak to be done showering...

had to go to sengkang (read: some forsaken, faraway land that requires a passport.. to that effect) for frisbee IVPs. and i had to be there by 8, which explains the early rise-and-shine. of course i didn't make it. after a tumultous journey, i arrived at 8.20am i think. met yinglu at jurong east and she was going to chinatown for the TCM internship so i was talking to her till then. never knew NEL took so long. and sengkang happens to be the 2nd last stop.

the field was terrible. i really cannot comprehend the rationale for choosing to play at sengkang. plus there are no proper toilet/bath facilities, which greatly impaired my attempts to leave early.

*warning: do not read further if you dun understand ultimate, you'll find it wayyy boring...*

started off with a game against NUS. it started well, but still went down 4-7. was quite happy with myself cos i actually got my name on the stats sheet for once, with a few Ds. but thats cos it was easy to D la, obviously.

the draw was bad, we had 4 back-to-back games. NTU/NIE was up next. those PE teachers.. see how they run! they are insanely fit and fast and i was seriously dying. didn't do a good job and let slip only about a million Ds. tried to handle on O as well. was really glad for the opportunity, but i messed up more than i did well. i believe i have the look, and nowadays i'm not even afraid of the defender (unless it's ryan). but i'm just too lousy.

we went into the NYP game just hoping to hold them off for a while. i think all the girls played well by eliminating their girls from the game, but they were flexible enough to adapt. those pple who commented that our girls cant D for nuts ought to be shot. i think i took that girl out. no more wonderful stats tho. the disc didn't even go her way. heh. but because i'm too lazy and tired to cut, i was bad bad bad on O as well.

playing againt our other SMU team was just crazy. the sun was merciless, and i think i'm now a lobster as a result of that. as a team we didn't play well, but personally i feel that i did my job adequately. peiying's play was rather hampered i think. normally she'll be very active in the game receiving and throwing and all that. but i was so so so tired. got a stitch in tat game (i dunno from what! it was after lunch but i didnt even eat!). sat out for a while but decided to play on since it was ending already anyway. oh i had my first 'accident' in a frisbee game when i actually tried to save a disc but crashed into marc. my back really hurt and i couldnt move for a while, (which really reminded me of the jurong bird park incident eons ago) but it was ok after that i think. hope i dun get back aches when i grow old haha.

sometimes i really just want to give up. and in the middle of feeling so tired, i really really wonder what on earth i was thinking when i decided to join a competitive sport again... and i really just want to quit.

* ok you may resume here...*

anyway i stayed on till the last game before leaving for church. went to compass mall (or whatever it's called) to clean up and then walked out, only to realise that it was pouring. i was quite gleeful and proud of myself for escaping before i really had to be a pig and roll in the mud. but i discovered that they cancelled the game. only because i had to call peiying to find out where on earth the bus stop was. tuns out that she gave me the wrong bus number... grrr.... i think i walked around the perimeter of sengkang central looking for the busstop! and in the rain!
so i managed to be on my way, and did get to church, not before having to run all the way in under the heavy rain becasue the storm cloud decided to split open on me. when i arrived there i was totally soaked. there was no way i could stand up there to make the announcements and do the closing prayer. but we did have song pract for easter till like 7, which made me very late for denise's 21st.

rushed home (tho the bus took forever) to shower and change. i was so incredibly dirty the water was brown. yucks. by the time i got down to mandarin it was like 9+... sigh. socialised and caught up with some pple for a while until like 10plus. and at the same time got the eat my first proper meal of the day. the food was super super good, but i didn't have much appetite. sad.

next destination: marc's house, for the post-IVPs gathering... and it will be appropriate at this juncture to bring in the birthday cake incident. the whole thing wouldnt have happened if i hadnt tried to gei kiang and tried to celebrate someone's birthday at the gathering. suggested it to marc and he said he'll settle cos i wasnt gonna go for the gathering. at 5 plus before i reached church i called him to check if anyone was getting it, and he said no, so i said i'll go get it and bring it really late. so i went to lot 1 to try and get some strawberry cake, was quite happy when the label read 'strawberry short cake' so i happily just bought it. then the aunty had to dash my hopes and tell me that i must refrigerate it immediately. asked the pple at mandarin to refregerate it for me cos i was so scared that the cream would melt or something. anyway, when i was on the way to marc's place, he told me that amy alr got the cake and they just sang the birthday song. diao.... owellz. everyone just had a 2nd cake i guess. and what shortcake, isnt it just sponge cake with strawberries? heh..................

played all kinds of nonsense games and the piano till like 12plus. was so super exhausted i couldnt even think for taboo. but foozball is different. peiy and i beat isaac and gavin 10-1! haha how pro is that! oh the highlight was also having a record number of pple offering to send me home. but i better not elaborate too much, except that i got home safe, sound, and alive.

what a day.