Busy busy busy. It's been a busy week, and things are gonna get even busier in the next two weeks.

Haven't had the time to blog the whole of last week, despite the fact that there's been lots of stuff going on. So this gonna be an all-in-one post.


26th July, Wednesday:

Moved into hall.

Thanks Weiquan for driving me to school and helping me move all my stuff into my room, and thanks kor for helping me clean the room later. :)

Found out later in the afternoon that Theresa was staying on my floor, just four doors down from me. :) This is good; at least I'll know someone on my floor. :P


28th July, Friday:

Busy day.

Up in the morning to shoot for a while, confirm sighting, do a bit of bow and arrow maintenance; rag in the late afternoon and evening, then home at about midnight with all my equipment, ready for competition at NJC tomorrow morning.


29th July, Saturday:

NJC shoot.

First shock of the day was when we found out that the target face for 50m was 80 cm and not 122 cm. This is what happens when you don't bother to read the invitation and details carefully. Nic and I were very thankful though, that Weiquan suggested "playing" with the 80 cm target a few times.

We were lazy to get a new 122 cm target from the lounge one day when we came down to train, so we shot using the 80 cm target that happened to be on the board that we were using, and did so for another two trainings, just for fun. So at least we'd had some "experience". :P

Surprisingly though, my score was pretty good; 244 out of 360.

In the end, the combined score of my team (myself, Weiquan and Zhicong) was even enough to get us into the top 8 teams for the team event. Was so happy considering that I hadn't shot in team event for two years. The first and only time I shot in team event was during my first competition in my first year. After that, my team never managed to qualify for team event, and after I upgraded to C-class, we never had enough girls in C-class to form a team. Damn.

At least this time, mixed teams were allowed for Recurve Open class, so I could have a team. :)

I managed 4th placing in Ladies' Recurve Open... getting so tired of getting 4th place. 4th place is the worst place to be; it's so close yet so far. The top three places went to these three girls from the Malaysian sports school that participated; obviously they have more time to train than the rest of us do...

Zhicong and Kenneth were saying stuff like, "Never mind, that means you're the best in Singapore lah." -_-...

Same went for Zhicong though; he was placed 5th, and if the Malaysian sports school archers hadn't been there, he would've got 2nd place.

But the best thing of all had to be that James, Henry and Connor won GOLD for Standard Men's Team.

So proud of them; James in particular since he's one of the juniors I mentored and he's really come a long, long way. I cried while hugging and congratulating him. It's silly, but yeah. I was just that happy for them. :)