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Didn't have time to blog the past few days. So here's a short (maybe quite long) update on the stuff I've been up to.

Friday: Our second horti tea party. This time, a few more people came because they couldn't make it the last week. Altogether, we have 5 new members. And I guy came! Woo hoo! Happy... lalala... He says his friend (another GUY!) coming next week. I'm not crazy about younger guys or anything, in case you're wondering. It's just that I don't want horti to become a girls-only cca. Haha...

There were loads of snails! And the garden was in terrible shape cos we havn't done gardening since the December holidays. Even the hose was spoilt! Ahh... But we had fun. It was nice having more members. We each didn't have so much work to do with more hands to help out. And for the first time in a long time, I felt happy and relaxed during horti.

Saturday: The second SMU lesson. I finally spoke up in class. Teacher was asking a question in class and I thought I knew the answer so I said something. Turns out, I didn't exactly answer the question. What I said wasn't wrong, it was just not what he wanted. And I really felt nervous when everyone looked at me! Ahh... How am I going to earn my participation points like that?

Spent the rest of the day sleeping at home. Was so tired after a whole week of school that Saturday is the first chance I actually get to sleep as much as I want. My Dad came back from his Taiwan business trip today.

Monday: Swimming after school. I made and repeated some stupid mistake that Mrs Leong kinda scolded me out loud. I swam in the wrong lane (again) then she shouted "Charlynn!" to tell me that I was in the wrong lane. But her tone was hmm... just not-nice. So I was a little offended and while I was swimming that lap, I was like cursing at the top of my voice, just that I couldn't speak while swimming. Maybe that made me swim a little faster? Haha... But I was still recovering from flu so I was a little breathless.

And from now onwards, a teacher will come along for all our trainings. Means we don't have time to slack anymore. Mrs Leong made Ding Yong make us do more for each set. I swam 2.8km in total and I was totally worn out. Because I was a little sick and also because we didn't use to do so much of each set (like kicking, pulling etc.). Usually we only did 3 x 100m pulling but yesterday, she made us do 5 x 200m! Want us to die ar?!

And I feel that Ding Yong (swimming captain) and I are getting friendlier. In the past, we didn't talk much. Sometimes walk past one another in school also never say hi (or pretend never see). What to do, I got attitude problem mah. Maybe it's just because we just don't have much chances to talk. I don't hate him. And I'm the type that wait for people to talk to me first then I talk to them that type so since he never talk to me first, I also seldom got the chance to talk to him.

I think he's taking the first move to become friendly to me. Maybe it's because of the new year 1s. Cos he's the "leader" of the guys, being the captain and all. And I'm the girls' "leader" since I'm the most experienced girl there. So it'll be better that 2 of us are friends then it won't become such that swimming is distinctively split into the girls and guys group. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into it. Oh well...

Anyway, on the way back, we took MRT, together with SIwei (new member). I know he stays very near me and he knows that too. But we never take the same train together before, except once when Fabian was with us. Fabian did most of the talking that day while Ding Yong and I weren't really talking to one another. Didn't know what to say la. But yesterday, we talked more than we ever did. I think we talked more than all our past conversations added together.

Still felt a little awkward. It's not the type of conversation that you have with your really good friends, the type where you say anything you want and laugh so loudly that people in the train can hear. It was more of plain talking. Maybe it's because my close friends are mostly girls so I don't really know what stuff guys like to talk about. Haha...

Yup, so after I reached home, I was totally exhausted. Physically exhausted. It suddenly felt so good to just sit on the sofa and do nothing else. I was so tired to move my body that I decided I wouldn't do any homework. After eating dinner and bathing, I watched tv as I waited for my hair to dry. I watched the Victoria Secrets fashion show. Great "clothes" and of course, great models!

Then I went to sleep. I slept really really early (compared to the previous days). 11.30pm!

Tuesday (today): I went to XX florist today. The florist that we're buying our Valentines' day flowers from. I got a shock when I found out that it was actually a shop in some market. I thought it was quite a big company with office and stuff. In the end, it's just a small shop. (can't tell you the actual name and place)