Got new carbon limbs on Tuesday. Pity, coz their poundage is 34 pounds, and the current poundage of my bow is only 28. Quite a big jump, so I've decided not to upgrade to a Hoyt riser and the carbon limbs just yet.


My metal bow, with its lovely blue Samick riser. 

The problem with this is that Samick risers can only take Samick limbs, and Samick doesn't manufacture carbon limbs-- only wooden ones. Carbon limbs are really made of fibreglass, by the way, not carbon, and because they're made of fibreglass, they give a much smoother draw than wooden limbs.

I'm somewhat reluctant to upgrade to carbon limbs because that means I'll have to change the riser to one which fits carbon limbs; something like a Hoyt Gold Medallist riser. And the GM risers are nowhere as pretty as my Samick one. They're all solid colours, and there're only three colours...

But on the other hand, there are the carbon limbs, which are just beautiful:


Winact carbon limbs, by Win&Win archery 

Now, the picture doesn't really do them justice; they're lacquered and shiny and the silver parts actually gleam under the light.

Sigh. Lovely riser, or lovely limbs? I could just have a black Hoyt riser. That would go quite nicely with the carbon limbs.

Decisions, decisions.

To quote Steven, I'm "now officially an ordinary Arts student."

I've finally officially stepped down; it's going to be weird, not having the clubroom key, watching the 26th go about their MC activities, and basically watching from the sidelines instead of being at the heart of all the action. But I suppose I'll have to get used to it.

"Goodbye to MC..." :P

Mondays. Ironically enough, when I planned my timetable and packed the very first day of the work week with 5 hours of lectures first thing in the morning, I thought that Mondays would be a terrible drag. But it turns out they're not.

American Law is actually quite stimulating; I might walk into class still a little fuzzy-minded, but the discussion's always interesting. And immediately after the three hours of seminar, I have two hours of Methods of Social Research lecture, but Pam always there to brighten the day. So, really, I could probably safely say that I enjoy Mondays the most this sem.

Ah, wait. Will be back in a bit. Clement has offered to go to Law library with me. Haha.


Woot! Back from Law Library. Cool. VERY quiet. VERY good studying environment. Maybe I'll study there during the term break. Or when exams draw near. Although nearing exams, it might just get really crowded and all the people around would probably be quite distracting on their own.

Also saw the long couches that Mario told me about last year; really quite an ideal environment for sleeping. Haha.

And outside, it looks to be getting ready to pour. Reminds me of rare desert showers and short-lived gardens; flowers blooming and wilting in the blink of an eye of the universe-- they last about a month, I think. What then of seven and a half months? How much does that mean?

Today is a bad day...

Was teaching my group of juniors today during archery, and halfway through their third end, suddenly it was as if someone had smothered my brain in cotton: my vision started to get more and more obscured by a grey "cloud", and my hearing started to get very fuzzy-- like someone had stuffed cotton in my ears.

My first reaction was "Oh, shit."

So went to sit down before I could actually fall over, and asked Zhan Tao to take over for me. Crappy. This has never happened to me before.

Think it was the sun that was especially strong today or something. Nicholas agreed with me on that, and Angel spent the better half of training sitting in the shade with me as well.

And then, after the juniors were done with their shooting, some of the seniors decided to shoot at 30m, so I thought, well.. okay.. Was a bit hesitant coz I've never shot at 30m with my metal bow before, but I thought that as long as I shifted my sight down, it should be all right.

So I moved the sight down. And apparently it wasn't enough.

My first arrow went low, hit the ground and bounced off the zinc fencing at the back of the range. And when we went to retrieve our arrows, I found that it was BENT.

FUCKING hell.

If fletches get nicked or torn, they can be easily replaced, but if the shaft of an arrow gets bent, then it's pretty much useless. Even if you try to bend it back, it'll never be as good as it was.

The most I could do was remove the point so that I could reuse it, but the fletches and nock pretty much had to be condemned along with the shaft. That's worth about $9 in total that I had to throw away. Bloody hell. This is the first major accident that my arrows have had.

And it's terribly upsetting. Sob. :'(

Internal elections ended at 3.30 am this morning. They started at 6.30 pm. Isn't the thought of it just horrifying?

And to top it off, it was disappointing and a complete waste of time. That's my opinion, although I'm quite sure that many of the 25th MC members will concur with me on that.

But anyway, I've sorta realised that I will miss the 25th comm.

I'm not a very social person, and I admit that I don't even spend nearly enough time with the people that I'm supposed to be working with, but after working with and losing sleep and getting stressed out with all these people during FOP, I'd say that I've got to know a few of them a little better than I have in the past year.

I wonder if I'll even hang around clubroom as often now that I'm stepping down. I wonder if I'll still see Xuzi and Hock everyday; Xuzi with his "Gerri, where's my rice and curry" question, simply because it rhymes and Hock with his laughing greeting and wanting to pat my head (most traumatising, I assure you :P). Beng Chong and our jokes about him being 60% gay, Yuimin and her "totally" bitchy way of talking (which I've learnt to appreciate :D), Alex and his himbo-ness, Xinyan and her random acts of kindness...

Yeah. I'll miss these people.

And now more than ever, I'm convinced that we're one of the best comms that Arts Club has seen.

25th, we rock.

Have you ever, as a child perhaps, tried a sip of your parents' cup of coffee and pulled a face at its bitter taste?

I have, and the first time I tried it, I solemnly said with as much conviction as my 6-year-old self could muster, that I would never drink coffee.

And so, nowadays, the only source of caffeine which I consume other than Coke and lemon tea is mocha.

And mocha, being coffee mixed with chocolate to make it less bitter, is what I call "sissy coffee".

Today, during my SC2101 lecture break, I came out of the LT wanting to buy a cup of mocha, but found that, to my dismay, the vending machine that sold mocha didn't sell it anymore. So I went to the other vending machine which sells canned drinks, and bought this:



Ladies and gentlemen, I have finally "graduated" to drinking.. um, "normal coffee". :P

I have new music; like? Kevin Kern's "We All Fall In Love Sometimes"; I especially like the beginning-- the first short 15 seconds or so has a lingering feel of autumn tinged with sadness and children running in a meadow, mere dots against the expanse of grass, carefree and full of hope.

ROP (Rite of Passage) Camp for the incoming 26th MC is starting in about 2 and a half hours' time, and I'm part of the comm; one of the station I/Cs, with Ivan. Should be fun (probably more for us, the comm, than for them, the incoming MC).

Still looks somewhat overcast outside; have plans to train for a while with Nicholas later, at 4 pm, actually, so I hope it doesn't rain. Well, actually, the lazy part of me does. :P Especially after yesterday's training... 41 push-ups, coz everyone accompanied James to do the 21 that he accumulated as penalties during training... -_-

My back muscles ache. The juniors' probably hurt more though, seeing as they did those push-ups *after* all their training.

Hm hm hm. Hectic next three days. We'll see how everything goes.