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>>This is a whole new friend who is cheerful, and full of crap here.. I simply love to meet new friends of many different interests and characters.! Friends are just so cool.! They form the basis of life, and serve as like-minded spirits who fill our empty hearts within.! Imagine living a life with no friends at all! That's gonna be so damn miserable.. So, if you're out there thinking the same way how i'm thinking right now, do come forth and be my friend!! Great friendship guarranteed. Nice to meet u!=)

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Thursday, April 20, 2006
12km...

Never Never Never Give Up!!
That's what i learnt in VJC kayaking and which is also the spirit which guided me through my 2.4km, 4.8km, and even 8km!

However, it's a record-breaking attempt in RJC canoeing training today! We were supposed to run 10km for the first time, which eventually evloved into 12km.! Thanks to an expected landslide which makes us "tour" round the whole reservoir...

Ok..before today, the furthest i ever ran was 8km on the 28th of February this year, if i never remember wrongly..Since then, after finding out that i was posted to RJC, i became demoralised and lose interest in running and basically exercising..SO today was actually a tremendously difficult and challenging task to complete the monster 10km..To top it all, i just took my 2.4km run for NAPFA yesterday! Today's definitely not the day to run a 10km!

However, it would reflect badly of you to the team if you dropped out even before the record-breaking running starts. So politically correct little JAmes just started the run with the rest of the canoeing team...As expected, i got tired very fast, after not even a kilometre..However, i applied what they usually teach in NCC---ENDURE!!!

Well, the scenery was super nice along the way, the forest with its fresh and clean rain after the brief rain, the clear and huge reservoir, and the trees with birds chirping all aound...However, you could really imagine how much i appreciate that, given continuously panting and suffering muscle aches in my legs all the time... The wet and dirty mud, occasionally accompanied by the sharp, slippery rocks, and sometimes a small "river" formed by the leftover rain water certainly didn't cheer us up...;(

Of course, all of us endured..With peer pressure and constant encouraging, seeing none of us stopping, there was really no reason and courage for one to just stop running..Especially me! I was the slowest runner and towards the second half, the team got me to lead the group in running and the senior instructed that none of them could overtake me..SO when i got slightly slower, there were shoutings of encouragement for me to speed up and widen my pace..You could really imagine how stressed that was, given that i was already on the verge of reaching my physical limit, and suffering from a stitch..HAHA..

But to conclude, i'm extremely happy that i can finish this run today, though i am too tired now to study for my econs test and mock Science Practical Assessment tomorrow..(However strangely i've got the strength to blog!) ANd oh yeah, canoeists are great liars too!

"COme on James! This is the last bus-stop! Just Go for it!"
i sped up.
"Yeah that's the way! No more bus-stops after this!"
and within the next 500m, one bus-stop appeared.
"COme on James! This is the last bus-stop! Just Go for it!"
The encouragement sounded again..and i gathered my strength to run again..
and the same thing occurred..not for 2 bus-stops, but at least 4!
the same goes for the slopes...Haiz..i feel so cheated...On the verge of dying already they are still so humorous to me..

It's good being gullible sometimes...

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20/4/2006
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