Okay, dead blog. I know.

I'm sick again for the second time in a month. It must've been the CNY junk+crazy weather+not drinking enough water after runs. Oh yes, speaking of running, I really am out of shape. Which is why I'm into the new running-every-sunset craze thing. Haha and running is great! (See recent posts) It's really fun and even running slow is fun sometimes.

Sec ones, especially Zeng Yu, this is for you:

Life in rhythmic gym
Training 3 times a week at the very least. Mon, Wed at Potong Pasir. Sat at RI. CCAB on occasion. 3 hours per training. Can be up to 6 trainings at the right-before-comp month :O

Most trainings begin with mat unrolling. This is the part where everybody unrolls mats. And not those teeny blue ones, I mean like CARPETS.

If laoshi allows us to buy bubble tea, we send people to buy bubble tea. Yay! However, laoshi doesn't always allow us to buy bubble tea.

If laoshi lets us play ball games, we play. Yay! However, this only happens like, 5 times a year?

If there's a track where we're training, we'll run. Mostly about 4-5 rounds.

Sometimes, laoshi makes us skip continuosly for a few minutes. We'll do a few sets at a time. Or we'll do conditioning. Abs and back. We do more physical training after comp, I think. It's random luh. Some days you get it, some days you don't.

But a pretty normal training would go like this:
Changing, then unrolling mats (10 minutes)
Run around the mats 10 rounds. (5 minutes?)
Do splits and oversplits, backbends. (20 minutes)
Do kicks and jumps. (10 minutes)
Laoshi leaves you do practice on your own for the rest of the training. Nearer to comp, we take turns doing routine in front of laoshi, with the music.
Then we stop and do cool down splits and maybe light conditioning. (last 10 minutes)
Then we roll the heavy mats up, drink up, change, blah blah and then go home.

Most people compete, though I'm not sure how many new sec ones get to. There are group and indiv events, depending on your prowess and height. I was in group for 2 years cause Ting, Zhimin, Sarah, Claudia and I were about the same height in sec 1. (Now look at how tall Claw has become!) Yeah so I just continued that way in sec 2. Groups only have one (longer) routine to practise. Indivs have 3 (ball, rope, clubs) in C Div and the same routines in B Div + an extra ribbon routine. If you win anything in indiv, too bad, you can't do indiv anymore.

Overall verdict: Gym can get very frustrating sometimes, so be prepared to work really hard.
Laoshis will tell you you're fat sometimes! But gym is still a cool sport (more sport than dance) and it's a small CCA so your seniors aren't really very detached or anything. Plus, the feeling of relief and accomplishment after comp is like PRICELESS. Oh and it's a very happy CCA at gym camp and chalet, and even sometimes after trainings when everyone has post-training highs!

Oh and to clarify, rhythmic gym is NOT a performing art. It's a sport. Even though you may think it looks like dance from the Olympics and stuff, to me it's more of a sport than a form of dance. But a very pretty sport!

I feel like going for CCA trials just for fun, so I know what it's like being a no-CCA sec one again. HAHAHAHA:)

I LOVE 105 TO THE MAX LIKE TOTALLAYEEEE

AND I LOVE CLARISSE, JO-ANN, MIN(ce) CHIH(ken), NAN, NISHA AND ZERZER TO THE MAX-ER

AND AND I LOVE SEC ONE RICHARDSONIANS 2009!

AND AND AND I LOVE PSB/PB 2009!

Proper specific updates and photos up some other day!

My life's a complete mess, and my head's a complete mess. My sanity was already long gone, it had a 5-year headstart.

Orientation camp tomorrow! Night surprise tomorrow! House orientation saturday! Orientation concert saturday! OBS shopping sunday! OBS monday-friday!

See? I didn't even bother capitalising the days of the week.

Oh well, on a more optimistic note, GO PreSteLs! We shall pwn night surprise and well, surprise everyone! Grace Lim is going to be SO proud of me living up to my duties as Vice-president of the Bymnastics Association!

Oh yeah and I totallaye hate Leko. Excerpts from lekoburrito.blogspot.com:
"i finish at twelve am and woke up at 6am. i nearly sleep on every lessons."
"Lots of homework....i told dong my school is the school of no homework...ok la...it's not a lot..and 2 to 3..."
Oh, YES Lek, I know your school is the School Of No Homework. And YES, Lek, I know 6 hours of sleep is still not enough for some people!
Argh, I'm gonna kill you the next time you come over!