firstly, CONGRATS MG SWIM TEAM !

B div 4th
C div 2nd

great job! continue striving for greater heights team! sorry i couldn't go down to support, i had english prelims oral.

i am doing some spring cleaning in my e-mail inbox now. (YA AND I WENT FOR MASSAGE JUST NOW. OH MY GOODNESS I WAS SQUIRMING ALL OVER MY CHAIR EACH TIME HE RUBBED OVER THE SWOLLEN PART OF MY ANKLE. HIS RESPONSE? A SMILE(I CHOOSE TO SEE IT AS A SMIRK). SO SADISTIC:( AND MASSAGING THE CALF IS THE WORSTTTTTT I'VE TO SEE HIM AGAIN TMR..) yes i have that many e-mails. and i realise
1)how sentimental i am...i actually don't delete e-mails that have not much content but just because of one encouraging phrase from the sender(eg. thanks , my dear. shall we remember this together and keep reminding ourselves?), they earned a place in my inbox.
2)i've 'spring cleaned' my inbox abt a million times and i know the contents of the e-mails just by looking at the sender's name and the subject (except for mrq's lah. his e-mails are overwhelming in no.)

(too bad if i'm boring you =p i'm feeling very reflective now)

a particular email:
I'm training now at race pace with rest; wouldn't it be worse when we run w/o rest?
In a race, you will be performing at a different "state" - both physically and psychologically. It happened to many others before. They were able to perform what they were not able to do in training. Even your cross country nationals, you were performning above your training standard.
1)i was feeling so damn good during nationals. i can show you my prove-->ya, sarah, it's the pic of me smiling. but i look constipated. well, that's cos in reality, i was RACING. but when they were preparing their cameras, i grinned; i thought they were taking the picture alr.. haiyah nvr say ' 1 2 3 smile' so i dont know when to smile.
2)i dont know what the hell happened. everything just fell into place. including my mentality(!!) before mrng left, he told me the analogy abt thoughts of a champion. charissa shared it with e team abt it too. i was just feeling that man. no sweat. (ok lah maybe it was kinda too ego a thought =p)
3)TURF CITY IS BEAUTIFUL (it's just like how you always want to impress someone you like. same situation now, just that turfcity is someone)

and then yeah it's the same old line again, i miss mr ng. i was reading an email he sent to me just before cross nationals. rather nostalgic; it brought me back to my lower sec days when mr ng focused a lot on RUNNING FOR CHRIST. now, the running for christ phrase seems rather...superficial. at least for me. it's more like i run for mrq,or run to prove to him. haha come to think about it, theres nth much to prove actually...

"do the race with god in your mind....heart....remembering that you can do absolutely nothing....except thru Christ who strengthens you

although I have not been around...i sense that this year you guys are more prepared than any years before...and I am excited to know the outcome....HMMMM....words of whatever....i guess i ran out of them....no...just want to tell eveyone that those who have the will to train and prepare....and have toiled thru the months of training...you have been picked to represent the school...and your friends...so if you have trained hard for this race....go out there and run to the capacity that you ahve trained yourself to run...nothing less...but something more....for yourself ..for the team....for God....and especially the Sec 4... for MGS....

if i only could...i will fly back to watch the race...i miss all of you very much...how are the sec 1s... good bunch??...please update me on the results...I have been praying for all of you... not everyday...but whenever I miss you guys... and that is quite often....(how sweet is that? :) )

God bless and keep all of you....RUN FOR GOD.....HE IS WITH YOU ALWAYS.
Mr Ng