gah. i give up. my previous post is so.. ugh. messy. i can't fix it! ):< stupid uploading of pics.

world cup was not bad. yesterday, i did a 1.12.57 for the heats. wore a LZR kneeskin in five minutes after a reporting scare. i was putting my xglide on at first and it was all gathered at my hips, when huiyu came in and told me i had to report. NOW. so i was panicking and shaking and all sweaty and i told tingting to hurry help me pull it off. i got to the call room just before they closed the heat and i was like trembling before the blocks. phew. but i made it to the finals in seventh place.


came back in the afternoon and put my xglide on in half an hour or so. did a 1.10.68. split a 33.44. it's the suit i tell you. wonder what i would've done without it. probably a 1.12 again.


this morning, did a 34.00 and got in seventh. then came back and did a 33.55. hahah. see, without the xglide, my 50's slower than my 100 split. i hope that even next year i'll be able to do the times i did this year. oh, and i just found out that eamon sullivan's in the country but he didn't take part! gah, i was looking forward to it.


anyway, i saw roger a coupla times to figure out if he could fix my wrist. but he said i should get a CT scan or some other scan to see if there was any bad damage inside cause he thought my ligaments were damaged and bone compression and in-feel and all that other stuff. he said there was a crunching sound in my wrist. hahah. so tomorrow will be a busy day. i have to go for my scan at 10, then the leisel jones workshop at 12 to 4.30? then training. pshh.


i just remembered that i only have..8 days left. fast huh. i'm waiting for what happens AFTER sea games. when i can go to perth for a holiday. FINALLY, a holiday. though it still makes me uncomfortable to be out of the water for so long, so i'll probably go there for a swim while they're having their sunsmart meet. i remember that meet. improved 6 seconds in my 200. hahah.


i'm not sure whether i'm looking forward to the meet, or whether i'm ready for it. i still don't feel.. right. sigh. my events are on day 2 and 4 though. the 100's first. but i really do hope my 200 will go well.

all my injuries are starting to come back. i can't even do lat pulldowns anymore because of my wrist, even if i'm doing 9kg lighter. my ankle's starting to hurt, though i think that's cause i kept pulling the suit off my ankle. there was something wrong with the muscle above my knee these past few days. and my neck's starting to ache again. UGH. WHAT'S WITH ALL THE INJURIES! AT THIS TIME! WTF.

my swimming has entered free fall. my targets have never looked further than they are now.

took about 20 minutes to get into the suit this time. tried it in the water, did 2 34.1s. new pbs. hahah. the first one was a 34.17. i don't know what the second one was, but i raced against kevin. he cheated! anyway, loads of water kept going in and the zip was all wrinkled, so i was wondering if i shouldn't have gotten the 28 and tried harder to squeeze into the 26 when i took off the suit and realised it was a 34. -.- that explains why i could put it on so fast. thought i'd developed super suit wearing skills. pfft. that got me wondering though, if i wore a 34 and did a 34.1, if i wear a 28, would i do a 33? hahah. but i'm kinda worried about the time it'll take to wear the suit.hope it won't take more than 45 minutes.

booyeah, took 38 minutes to get into the xglide i switched. that's so much faster than the other time i did it. it didn't pop a hole when i experimented with bending and all, which is good. but either way, i hope it wouldn't snap the next few times i wear it, PLEASE. i don't wanna pay 600 bucks for it.

i've got more information about SEAG. we'll most likely be staying in dormitories in Laos, WITH NO AIR CON. yeah, shall i repeat that? NO AIRCON. how the heck am i supposed to live now? we can't wear anything besides yonex in the games village and in the competition areas, which basically means everywhere. and they only gave us three shirts, plus the two ayg shirts i'm gonna bring. so somehow, i have to make those five shirts last for the nine days i'm gonna be in Laos, not including the last day when they're gonna initiate us. our tracksuit's quite nice though. and we got the same backpack and luggage they gave for AYG.

we'll be coming back on the night of the 16th and leaving on the 30th. 17 days. i'll miss my bed and my aircon. and my tv shows. /: but at least i can watch new moon when i come back. hopefully it'll still be in theatres. i managed to get sakeenah to come out with me on that day to watch it with me. (: we'll be in phuket for a training camp until the 7th before we leave for Laos. hope they have good beds. i still don't know if i should do what they say and bring my own pillow. i'd actually rather bring my bolster instead. i'll figure it when the date gets closer.

i've broken my record. the time taken to wear a bodysuit was actually 45 minutes. which was the first time i wore my aquaforce lite. the xglide? took me 1 hour 45 minutes. my gloves are spoilt and i can't press on my fingernails. there're yellow strips underneath my fingernails where the white part meets the red part.they hurt real bad.

isn't it a basic rule in swimming, one of the very firsts you learn, in fact, that you swim on the right and come back on the right [unless you're in australia] when there are more than two people in the lane? so i was totally freaking justified in using that lane rope which was on my right, and you were supposed to get off it and go to the other one which was one your right. and YOU. what kind of person are you? i don't even know why i'm related to you. AND why do people even bother coming for training if all they're gonna do is slack and not swim hard and cheat? either you swim properly or get out of the pool. i don't care if you think you're that good just because you broke national records. because, newsflash: there are people who are better than you.

moving on from annoying things like that, i did a 2.47 for a dive after doing a redonkulous set before that. 7x200 main plus that dive, which makes it 8, on 3.15. and i didn't even go close to 3 minutes. i'm so bloody tired of doing crappy times in training. plus, 3 circuits of gym really wore me out today. this double session thing is really hard. but that 2.47 wasn't that bad, although i don't feel good doing it because i didn't do good times in the other 7. so it felt like i didn't go hard enough, which would make that 2.47 that much better if i did it when i was all worn out. i did a 1.17.1 on friday though. a new pb by..1 second, if i'm right.

and on sunday, after gym, we continued on that insane set that was planned for us on saturday afternoon which was interrupted by lightning. but we did 2 sets instead of 3. the saturday afternoon programme was about 7k. maybe more. i never counted. but what we did on sunday was 2(4x200 main + 50 easy + 4x50 dives + 100 easy). for the breaststrokers, we did the first set on 3.15 and the second on 3.30. the 200s were horrendous. i can't do these kinda sets anymore after i got sick. i think today was the second time i did a 200 set since i got sick. i really do hate getting sick. because these are the consequences. sucky times. but i digress. because surprisingly, i did 2 35.9s for the 50 dives, which kinda amazed me, because i haven't done a 35 in training in about a year. i couldn't even do it in the short course pool the morning before.

other than that, my week consisted of sleep. lots and lots of sleep. but somehow, i'm still not getting enough. it's getting harder and harder to wake me up, even though i'm sleeping about 3 hours in the afternoon. i'm starting to get withdrawn and cranky.