MORNING SICKNESS

i woke up today with a headache. i swear, it's even throbbing.
maybe it's because of my lack of sleep, since i (unintentionally) slept at around 1am, and woke up 5:17am, which is extremely early for singapore standards (sunrise is at 7am).
or maybe, it's because of my roommate's BLASTED alarm clock!

it's always the same thing: alarm goes off, tut-tut-tut-tut--tut-tut-tut-tut--...(now i'm thinking it's the same alarm sound all over the world), and my roommate never wakes up!
or if he does (which is about 5% of the time), he just turns it off, and sleeps again. and my ears, those good ol' ears, which are actively listening to it all the time, have to suffer such torment. ARGHHH. oh well. at least the alarm's off now.

oh yeah, i failed to tell you how busy my last few days were.
it was the crazy NUS Open House last saturday, which clashed with the KE7 Fencing Open on saturday and sunday.
i skipped the open house, but the real body-numbing stuff was the preparation and setting up during the previous days.

my PR Comm head weikai has been receiving quite some flak lately, for overloading us with tremendous stuff.
imagine, we have 2000 goodie bags to give away to the junior college (JC) students coming to visit. and, each of those must weigh about a kilogram each. we were practically hauling stuff from the room downstairs, to the foyer, into the lorry, out of the lorry, and into the multi-purpose hall. we had more goodie bags than ALL the other NUS groups COMBINED. and to think weikai wanted us to bring 500 more, for a grand total of 2500 blasted "goodie" bags.
thank God there are saner people in pr comm like vice-heads karen and mingchang. =)

anyway, it's all over now. so it's all good.

and oh, we got clobbered by these 10-year-old-looking 14-year-old little boys during the fencing open. hahaha. no fair! i played in the group competition, see, and we were tall guys (my two teammates were from china), so those little rascals had the "height advantage". it was easier to poke us with their foils because of their height.

and we were too slow to realize that we should practically SIT IN THE AIR when we were to fence with them. oh well.
but really, those little boys were adorable. extremely talented guys who even worried the SHIT out of the other bigger fencers. (the little boys ranked 4th in the end, after giving one helluva fight...if you only saw how they were fighting tears after they lost a match where they originally had a ten-point lead.)

anyway, i also had a good chat (through SMS) with my junior ren-ren in the pisay davao.
today's a big day, you see, as our beloved high school director, will announce the top 5 soon-to-be graduates today.
i'm rooting for ren-ren since i think he deserves it, but i didn't tell him THAT (at least too explicitly), and maybe because he's just one real good friend, even when i was a sophomore and he was a freshman.
the top 5 will be announced after the flag ceremony at 7am, which is probably on-going right now.

i wish them all luck. sigh. reminds me of that wonderful wonderful day last year. the sky was even distinctly more blue than usual. never mind if my eyes were swollen and my face infested with zits as i had just arrived from a grueling press conference in cebu, where, if i may add, i took my final exams. sigh. one of my happiest days. =)


p.s.
oh, i greeted my good friend thirdie this morning, too. for such a talented guy (singer/dancer/actor/leader/comedian) with a big heart, he sure deserves all the best. ;)