of acute backaches, muscle sores and crappy train service, esp 'arriva' trains!.....money seems to be deserting me this week!

><)));> Pic opp shows the house we shall be living nx term^^

Just managed to finish one whole load of laundry.....all because of sports. That's the thing with games; you get all sweaty and sticky, and your shirt gets all crummy and stinky and you then got no choice but to wash everything after any game, even if it's just being worn for an hour! Speaking of which, for the 1st time in a long time, i actually managed 2 days of decent physical workout...and that's what is causing my aches and soreness. Had 6 grueling games of squash at the club and jogging with Tom on Friday, then went for basketball (which didnt really turn out to be waht i expectd.. no offence; cos i'm also tangan bangku *re: kaki bangku*) and badminton too (which i have'nt played for months, literally). The thing with me is tat im used to workouts of the lower extremeties, and not the upeer extremeties, and the over-enthusiasm in me over racket and hand games have caused the unavoidable sore shoulders, upper lumbar back pain ( i think it's more so of the erectus spinaes) and chronic fatigue syndrome. And am still thinking of going for a jog tomolo morning before classses, squash again in the evening, wednesday and friday if i'm still up and about! Hahahahah!! Tallk about pushing oneself to the limits!

And have to seriously get myself into shape for the BUSA cross-countries next term; this year too late adi; i'm just too unfit to even consider myself in the team! We (cardiff uni athletics team) actually have a really competitve team, and i don't want to memalukan them in the case i participate. Here is an excerpt by the president , Jonny on one of the recent runs:

"This weekend saw 7 club members travel to Sheffield for the BUSA Indoors (thanks very much to the captains Beth and Mike for dealing with organisation and transport). We had several outstanding performances including a silver and a bronze medal, a 4th place and a 6th place. A full report should follow soon and also be in Gairr Rhydd next week. Congratulations to Cara Roberts, James Nasrat, Sally Peake and Mike Johnson for those particularly strong performances and to the others competing very well at an extremely high standard event."

At the moment, still considering whether to attempt Cardiff's Half (21km) or the Full Marathon (42km) event (October 2006) ... really don't know what i'm capable of yet, and the entry fees itself is crazily high (28 pounds), but it's something which i always wanted to do! Only then would i dare to attempt the London Marathon nx easter! That's the ulitmate!!
So well, that's why must really buck up or not, damn paiseh lah!! ^^

This week also, i was scheduled to make at least 80pounds, but in the end, i didnt manage to earn even a penny! Well, i went for the flu survey previously and made a handsome $40 (eventhough tidak sakit) & i thought of stretching my luck again last wednesday, but the survey was finally over! If only i went over the week before.... Also, had a job today at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, just to introduce local year 11 students to what's installed for them in the medicine. 1st, the hospital NOT wiling to provide transportation to all poor students like us. 2nd, they are only paying us a meagre $40 for a days work (8am-4pm). Lastly, they assume we all know how to get there on our own...but the upside is there's a buffet lunch :P
well anyway, i only realised that the hospital we were going was not Royal Gwent (which is in Newport) , but Glamorgan (in Llantrisant)! A bit tension la (alan oso) cos when we checked the train travel schedule (the company is 'arriva'), and alas, there's no train on Sundays to Llantrisant! And that was at 12.30 am sunday morning! Damn the hospital and 'arriva'! never tell us anything oso, somore pay peanuts!! because of that, i didnt manage to kill as many as i would have liked to for CS. *another big "sIGh"!! ^^..so there goes the projected income of 80 pounds...

One last thing; i'm actually quite dissapointed by the way our MalSoc is organised here...well..for once, there's the poor leadership which always seem to be doing thing to her/his best interest, 2ndly, organisation for the individual games is quite crappy too; for squash (though im not a good player), apparently, the pres just randomly picked someone at the meeting to be the SUL, though one of the commitee member had another in mind already, and that guy (the special someone) has so far not send out any invitations to us, home students to participate. Well, although squash is an internal event (MalSoc apparently could'nt get any outside participants), he should at least make an effort to publicise the event internally...no offence, i'm not doubting his ability, but he should be more proactive in this situation. well, from what i understand, the commitee for the games in general is great, really; it's only certain segment(s) which is giving trouble. You know who, and i know who as well.......
If only....... *sigh*
& for all our hard-earned profit during the Msian night, it's gonna be used to cover the cost (or in fact projected losses) of the games! Might as well scrape it in the 1st place if there's losses!
~HOw ironic!~

*disclaimer: all the views here are solely the views of the author and only the author himself; if there would be any parties who may be sighted by what is being posted here, i do hope that you may have to realise that these may be also what others feel about the situation in general.^^

* zijian, p/s work on our travel plans ok>>>pweeease!!