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I think I really love late night swimming. Went yesterday at about 9pm, and I managed to break my own record! =) It is a self-achievement. All this while I've been really trying to break it, & everytime I couldn't. Miserable really. Then, it happened last night! Yay!

The funny thing is that while I was swimming, there was this function going on right next to the pool. There were adults all dressed in evening wear, & there was some bbq-ed stuff. Somehow the smoke managed to blow around the pool, & it really is a funny feeling when you're swimming & suddenly you smell food. And I mean good food, like crayfish or lobster or something.

Besides smelling food, I don't know how, but I was so busy thinking about physics & 'chanting' stuff in my head that I didn't realised I swam non-stop. To the gold-* swimmers, they are most probably going "Who can't swim non-stop?!" Well, I couldn't. At first anyway. But that's besides the point.

What I really mean to say is it seems that taking your mind off something can actually help you work at it better. For example, my swim. I have been swimming almost fortnightly, & am embarrassed to say I couldn't swim non-stop for 1 hour, but I just did it last night. & I wasn't even concentrating! Honest. To be really truthful, I was thinking about the prefixes & scientific notation in physics. (I had a quiz that day you see.) It all has to do with pacing.

Last few times, I just swam really fast in the beginning, then by the 4th lap I was about to die. But if you go slow at first, 'sprinting' toward the end comes naturally. I realised that. Wow, another life lesson learnt! =)

About my class.. I think I couldn't ask for any better! Made lots of new friends, & some of them are so funny! And the cutest thing is that it comes so naturally! They can tell a joke, then their friend would counter that comment with another even funnier one! It's like a really funny comedy show! It's so coincidental the way they know so much about the people back in Nanyang. They would frequently go, "hey do you know ____ from __?" Then I'll be like, "oh yea! You know her too??!". It's a small world.

We've already got our class chairperson, vice-chair, secretary & treasurer, and some other reps. Amazingly, I'm the class treasurer. =o I couldn't have looked more shocked at the results. Seriously speaking, almost half the class doesn't even know me & my background blah blah blah,(me being so new..) so I am really amazed at the results! Well, God never moves without purpose or plan, so I'll try my hand at it, & cross my fingers!

My form teacher is most probably the coolest form teacher in the world. She's totally an outdoor person, & she's good at so many things! And her passions made us all go "WOW..". Amazing! Class 310 may be the best class in the world! Hehe.

There have been so many RP talks so far. I am constantly amazed at the detailed work of the Raffles Programme, & the fact that it is fantastic work done by the staff of the Raffles family. It is so clear & precise, & the teachers know exactly what to do and from which approach to come from! The worksheets are not the least slip-shot, & everyone is pretty confident this will work out fine. So far I've been having pretty much work to do. I have this Lit project, and I'm doing on The Age of Realism. Is that cool or what?

Anyway, ending with a birthday song, not telling who! "Happy Birthday to _ _ !!" Hehe.

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