Friday, February 29, 2008

When guilt settles in

Just had a cross country run to malaysia[and to think that was what I always thought Cross country runs were about). It was a run spanning 4.2Km. It was not a simple, run at your own pace thing, it was infact, a race. A competitive race where people battle out for the top 100 positions to secure a chance to place their "rank number ticket" into their house boxes inorder to earn points for their houses. I'm not sure how the point ranking system goes, but overall, Polo house came in first. (my house).

The run itself was a disappointing one for me. I came in 46th for J2 cohort, which actually qualified me to earn the top 50 collar pin (which I doubt has much use unless you can actually wear it in replacement of the school's normal collar pin). Joshua came in 37th, and then Halim at 20th and Ming Jun at 14th. All the people whom I could beat last year and now I'm totally being overwhelmed, pwned by them, completely. I asked around, people from Bp's 4p3, yong yao asked me what happened to me. I didn't know how to respond. I'm not sure about what others are expecting from me, neither do I know what I expect from myself. And as I have blogged about before, the declining stamina from someone who has quit sport is inevitable. Then sometimes it makes me wonder if I could attain a top 20 if I this run was held last year, or infact, the year before last year. I wanted to know, because I know I have been nerfed after this long hiatus from any intensive sports. All I know is that it's going to go downhill from here. I'm not going to spend any time and effort buffing myself up again, (stamina-wise), and I'm not going back into badminton just for this.

Of course, some people are really good, really imbal. I wonder what they eat. (as the usual typical saying goes). Being involved in a sports cca really makes a big difference I guess.

Anyway. There's two weeks to common test. I'm a complete nubbie at complex numbers, I have last year's work to catch up and this year work to learn. And just if you're wondering, I don't intend to let myself die. So it's time to bankai.

That means I'll have to cut down on piano, and the lately-becoming-very-frequent-dota.

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