Wednesday

Went for a 2 hour computing lecture today, which I think I didn't absorb much from the session. I didn't understand what the lecturer was talking about. Looks like there are a lot of readings ahead to catch up already. It's like trying to learn hindi in a two hour session. But from experience, you can definitely learn much more for hindi because normally you will absorb and learn the vulgarities of a new language very fast. For computing, there is no interesting crude language for you to pick up and add some passion for the language.

Schoolwork is starting to pile up so I went over to yujin's hall after shool to clear my tuts, bumped into cons and later ben. Think having a room in campus is really a convenient thing. Although the hall was pretty noisy at that time, which I was quite distracted, it at least added some live to the atmosphere. After 'engrossing' in mugging for a seemingly short while (according to clock time it's 3 hours), yujin, ben and I went to the SRC swimming pool for a canoe polo tryout.

Canoe polo was fun! Doing stretching beside the pool and playing ball passing reminded me of the canoe polo competition we took part four years ago. I was still thinking when was the last time we played and surprisingly, it's been four years! How time flies! Four years ago we were still training on thursdays nights and sunday at paddle culture with simon and ah pang as our coaches. Some flashbacks included capsizing jizheng, capsizing ninghan, capsizing ben. Seems like it's all about capsizing people! There were also other memories of course, like training till very late at night and dozing off during lecture the next day, saving up every single cents to pay for coach fees, the after training small talks, and my team striking a draw with RJ (thanks to the ball bouncing off peigeok's boat)

The fun began when we got into the water with our boats. It might have been 4 years since we played the game but the feeling was still there, not the tactics though. We tried rolling, passing the ball, chasing the ball, dipping koon's boat till he capsized and also pushing ben and koonz into the water when they got the ball! Seems like I still get the thrill of capsizing people after four years. Instinctively, we played rather aggressively and it was full of adrenaline rush, which was what I like about the sport. Release of all our suppressed violent tendencies accumulated over the years!

After the session, koonz pillion me back. Thanks bro. We had supper at a neighbourhood coffeeshop and catch up a bit on each other's life.

Canoe polo days were one of the times in OAC when we were close and you could feel the camaraderie of a team.