What felt like a bad day was half true, but at least it was only half. Leaving 1 hour and 5 minutes early this time round, I expected to enter the hall 15 minutes early. But what happened at MacRitchie made that 5 minutes late. I took my bus to MacRitchie Reservoir and saw Denise on the bus but did not recognize her until she told me later on. She took a different route anyway. At MacRitchie, I was just waiting for my next bus when an old man came up to me and asked me to tell him when I saw a Bus 130 coming because his eyes disabled his ability to see from long distances. I had never seen it before, and apparently, neither had he, for he told me to check the board to see if 130 was on there. It was, but the problem was, which stop does Bus 130 go to? So I told him to wait next to the Pedestrian Crossing in case there was a need to cross over to the other stop quickly.

My bus came by, but I felt that I should skip it as it wasn't very nice to leave him to find someone else for help. So I stayed to look out for that seemingly rare 130. When I saw a pole next to the stop that I was at, I looked up and saw a list of numbers. 130 wasn't on there. I looked over at the other stop and found that none of the numbers on that pole matched the ones next to mine, and 130 was displayed there. At that point, I was sure that the old man should cross the road to the other stop, but when I tried to explain that to him, he didn't seem to understand. Well of course he couldn't see the figures on the pole. When 130 finally came, it moved off towards the stop at the back, so I told the old man that he should cross the road then, which he did. After the bus left, I got a shock. Another Bus 130 was passing by, so I wondered if I had pointed out the wrong bus to him. But after some thinking, I am sure that I had led him to the right bus. Firstly, he was looking at the bus which was a mere 2 metres away, when he crossed the road, so he could not have missed the number. Anyway, even if his eyesight was that bad, the bus had an electronic 130. The 2nd bus, was a plate 130. Also, it seemed to be empty of passengers. Therefore, I conclude that they were 2 different buses.

When I finally reached the school at 9.05am, we started off with 发球. After about 5 minutes of serving alone in which I missed like 80% of them, Denise was put to 接我的发球. I managed to find new ways to make her 吃发球. After about half an hour, I think, we all had to do the intensive mass training. I can only last 30 seconds, I think, maybe less. At least there were 5 people in the queue (Zhan Heng, Julian, Me, An Qi and Kai Ling), so there is sufficient rest time. I think we did about 5 rounds each before we were allowed a nice break, in which we just talked. The twins and Benedict were going on about the World Cup at first, then the conversation turned to schoolwork. After that chat, 比赛. Something I looked forward to. But I quickly realized that today was not my day. I just didn't have the mood to react quickly today. First match was against Denise, which wasn't easy. We deuced until about 14-all in the first set, and the overall result was 3 - 2.

Next, Darrel and I against Hanzhi and Ying Wen. 长胶.... yikes! I had developed a partial phobia for 长胶 ever since the previous match with Jerilyn. 猜球后，铭轩就请我出去把他的功课本子交给他. Taught by Denise, Ying Wen was able to use the Touch method to 接我的发球, which put me at a disadvantage. Nevertheless, we were able to win thanks to Darrel's on and off mood. Sometimes he can put bad situations right, miraculously. I went back to the bench and then Timothy was telling me how he hated 长胶, to which I asked who he had lost to. His response - "Who else has 长胶？“ I was baffled by that question. I told him that the 3 girls over there (wherever I was looking at, that was), ALL had 长胶. Yeah, very funny question. He went "Oh" and then muttered "Kai Ling". I was about to find out that I couldn't deal with 长胶 too. Jerilyn and Ying Wen. Double the threat. Ying Wen told Jerilyn the "Touch", but it wasn't needed, really. She was that good. I tried every trick serve I could pull off, but she was able to take almost, if not all of them with ease and even countered them, which put Darrel in a difficult position to take the next hit. We lost the first set, won the next set, lost the 3rd set, won the 4th set, thanks to Darrel and Jerilyn making a lot of the finishing moves. Of course, Ying Wen was able to continue the rallies if either of them failed, and it mostly resulted in 短球, which I am unable to predict. In the final set, at 10 - 9, Jerilyn 发丢, which gave us the win.

Last opponent, Dawn. 又是长胶!!! Couldn't defend myself against her, and I didn't dare to 拉球 much today. All I could do was return and hope for the best, literally. The scores were close, and luck happened to be on my side again. Intense end to the morning, anyway. Everyone started to leave. I was the only one who stayed back for the afternoon session. Lunch was French Toast, thanks to the canteen being open.

The afternoon part was the bad part. I lost to Zhan Heng 3 - 2 first, which wasn't too bad. I expected a loss but I still hoped to win. He evened out today's tycos with this match. He was doing really crazy moves that I had NEVER seen before and the balls still went in at amazing spots like the edge of the table just next to the net. The AT girls didn't seem happy after a Doubles Match due to what they thought was miscalculations, so we had to play again. This match lasted 1 hour, because they kept taking breaks and some other stuff that delayed it considerably. Also, An Qi's rubber wasn't in a good condition. 教练奖我一杯水, which he insisted on, again. And finally, I was able to play Singles again. The problem was that An Qi's power mode was back. I lost to her, but the worst part is that she had a "broken" bat. Then to end the day, I had to play with Julian. I don't know what we were doing, but it definitely wasn't a proper match. We still tried to keep the points on our side, but we didn't try our best to earn them. When he asked for a rematch, I had to go. Today is the day where I really cannot stand another match because my legs still ache from Wednesday's 蛙跳.