Limited time and unlimited desires for its use results in opportunity cost.

Twas our first in-school coach training. even before coach arrived, his presence was already being felt as his commands travelled across vast distances through this amazing device called a handphone: "keep running for 25min while holding your hockey stick or until i get there, whichever is sooner." well, his voice could travel instantaneously but his body couldnt, so we ran the full 25min. i absolutely hate running based on time rather than by distance, because it's so difficult to judge how far you are from finishing. if he said something like "run 2.4km", at least i can count down the laps left while running. however, when i run by time, im afraid to look at my watch because i will get severely demoralised if it turns out i've only been running a fraction of the time i feel like i've been running, so i end up following the people in front of me until they stop running like some sadistic game of catch which i will never win, because the people in front of me are always people like the nigels or kian boon, and seriously i could never hope to even pace with any of them for more than a few laps. afterwards, coach arrived and we did drills the rest of the way, pretty standard stuff. some of the seniors were there, but they didnt really help much cos everything they said to us can be summarised by "it's just gonna get worse". on the plus side, i finally managed to do pull-ups! :) well, by "pull-ups" i mean 2 pull-ups, which i know is pretty pathetic, but it's still an infinity-percent increase from 0 to 2, so dont burst my bubble. after training, talked cock with the guys for quite a while, and here's my favourite quote from the entire conversation:

"Wei Shian doesn't talk cock; he talks sense. But his sense is so sense that it becomes like cock." - Marcus

if any of that made sense to you, you should seriously consider getting psychiatric help. so anyway, ivy told us that coach lost his notebook during monday's pitch training, so if you happen to be reading this and be from hockey and know what happened to it, then go talk to her.

met bryan in school too, cos the floorball people are designing a t-shirt to give their seniors as a parting gift. talked a bit about the 4A gathering. turns out the response so far is pretty pathetic, with only 9 confirmed guests. even melvin wont be there (even though he lives literally THERE) cos he'll be going overseas. sian, i really hoped to see more people, but i guess this is good too.

ogl dates have been shifting around again, and suddenly i find that i can't make it for any of the walk-in practice or banner-painting sessions due to a combination of hockey training and me going overseas. i havent done anything ogl-ish since the whole thing began, and the only thing reminding me that im even an ogl is the sms that lionel sent me. i just hope that i will be able to come to some sort of resolution at the end of all this.

and speaking of clashing schedules, im starting to get worried that H3 will intefere with hockey. turns out that there's a H3 test on 24th april, which is right at the beginning of the hockey A div season of late april-early may. even before H3 actually begins, it's already clashing with my other commitments, and that's discounting the very probable situation of lesson times clashing with other things. have i bitten off more than i can chew? have i overloaded myself beyond capacity? i guess only time will tell.

i found out from songko that applications for leaders in boarding for term 1 are still open. i was under the impression that term 1 applications have closed and the earliest one could apply again was in term 2, but it turns out you can just go to the general office and grab a form. should i board again? on the one hand, it totally rocks to be able to wake up an hour later than from home and still have time for a shower and breakfast, and seeing friends after school everyday is also a plus, but on the other hand it can sometimes be quite inconvenient staying in boarding, and whether i meet friends there or not completely depends on who else is boarding. i'll think more in depth about it another day, right now im just tired and hungry and brain-dead.

i think i've talked a bit before about why i dont like twitter, and this comic totally illustrates my point:

when you are encouraged to keep things short, you dont feel the need to think about what you write, thus you have dumb posts appearing all over the place. so to all you twitter-lovers, if you are going to use twitter, at least make sure your posts dont end up like "riboflavin" (which i believe is the proper name for vitamin B... *checks bread packaging* vitamin B2).