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Exams are finally over. Woohoo!

I really pity my friends who have exams today. Almost all of us have finished but they still have to study.

Anyway, today is the last day of exams so they can play tomorrow too. Haha.

I went out with Kaijun today. We went bowling!

I always loved bowling, but didn't have anyone to play with. How to play alone? It'll be so boring!

Anyway, since the Horti farewell when we went bowling, I've been bowling more often. Twice with Kaijun (including today) and once with my family.

I had swimming training in the morning.

But I was very dissapointed with my performance today. VERY dissappointed!

My timing for 1 lap of normal swimming is abt 1min 5s. Timing for 1 lap sprint is 1min! Shouldn't my sprint timing be significantly better than the normal swim timing?!

What the hell... How can my sprint timing get so bad? My best was 54s.

I think it's mainly because I didn't train during the mid-year exam week. But now, I regretted not training.

I should've just studied less and swim more. But I think I'll regret that too if my results aren't good. Haiz.

And, to add to the bad news, I forgot how to plunge!! Now I see what one week of not training can do to you.

This happened to Li Ling too.

We practiced plunging after training and were complaining to each other how dissapointed we were with ourselves. I felt as if I was going to cry.

In the end, we trained till 11.45. The sun was scorching hot and at the end of the day, my face turned red.

We went back not because we were tired, but because I had to meet Kaijun and also because it was very hot.

I'm terribly dissapointed with myself. I swear to train harder. I promise!!

Anyway, I was late in meeting Kaijun because we were training.

We went to Katong to bowl. But before bowling, we went to eat. I was so hungry.

After the meal, I felt a lot better.

At the bowling alley, the guy told us that we had to leave at 1.50pm. So sad!

I was looking forward to bowling. So we had a little less than an hour and managed to play 2 games each.

I scored 114 for my first game. That was my personal best! I knocked down at least 8 pins for every set.

But, 9 points were "contributed" by Kaijun. Because he made a mistake and bowled when it was my turn! Haha.

For the second game, I got 96. There was one particular part where something totally unexpected happened.

There were 2 extra pins in the left gutter because they flew out when we hit them in the previous set. My ball was moving towards the left and it was definitely going into the gutter.

Under normal circumstances, I would surely not hit a pin down.

BUT, the ball went into the gutter, hit the 2 pins lying there and bounced back.

AND, I GOT A STRIKE!!

It was totally unexpected!

Then, we started laughing. Absolute madness.

During the bowling game, I totally forgot about my lousy swimming. I felt a lot better after that.

Soon, it was 1.50pm and we had to leave. It was so sad that we couldn't continue.

Anyway, I was also very tired so we went home.

Luckily we had a good game today. That totally made me feel better.

I should just train harder and stop whining about my poor performance. Competition is this coming thursday.

Wish me luck with my training!