harsh

just saw the report banning the two top triathletes from competitions. i really think they're quite poor thing, having their photos published like that. i dunno the reasons behind banning one from going into the room of another of the opposite gender during the competition season, perhaps it is the fear that something will happen. but isn't it too harsh to impose such a ban on the two triathletes? it's not as if they were doing anything wrong when they were caught.

perhaps this is supposed to act as a warning to the rest not to do the same thing. but by fussing over this matter, do they realise how much harm they have done to the two of them? and being the only two triathletes in the competition from s'pore, isn't it natural for them to want to confide in each other?

i guess there may be many more reasons for imposing the ban, but i just think it's only a very small matter and there's no need for a ban and for the media to publish it. these athletes spend their whole lives training and training. have seen him running around nus a couple of times, and even though he is just an acquaintance, one can easily see the effort put in. as an athlete, you may not even have that many friends cos of the amount of time you put into your training, it's totally not helping by imposing such a ridiculous ban on them.

ah well. probably it's cos i know one of them that i'm getting slightly worked up over the issue. i just thought it's really unreasonable.

anw, decided to apply for the summer program at copenhagen from end june to early aug, possibly to make up for not applying for sep. was talking to jocelin about it and we decided to apply for it together since our modules are around the same and mapping might be easier. i suppose it's really gonna be expensive and we're possibly gonna spend thousands of dollars there, but i really think it'd be a really good experience. maybe we can even go earlier so that we're able to tour the region first.=) really hope both of us get to go.

i'm just slightly worried that should i be able to get a shanghai internship which i applied eons ago, which one should i choose? international exposure is important, but i dun have a single internship so far. and summer program is about spending, internship is about earning. ah well. if that really happens, at least it's a good problem. i haven been this enthusiastic about all these stuff.

mayday concert again! oh my i HAVE TO go for this one man. missed so many of their concerts already. but it's sooo far away (29th august!) and it's already the presale already. gosh.

am really happy that the foc gm is being pushed to another date. must really thank luther and dennis for doing so, cos i can't imagine what will my party be like without so many of the black roses! esp like what luther said, 'you only turn 21 once but your gm can be on so many other dates' or something to that effect. awww.....

i still have no idea what i can do for my party. it's like my family dun want to plan the programs all that, but i really can't think of anything special. and somehow, without planning to invite so many people (my target was about 30 people), now the number of positive replies amounts to 53. and somehow, with my mum constantly nagging about the amount of money that she has to spend, i really dunno what other excess programs we can have.

and if you dunno yet, the theme is hats/caps! but well, i really have no idea how many people will follow that theme. it's less than three weeks to my party! and i really hope my braces could be removed by then, but judging by the progress, i really think it's highly unlikely. sigh...

you know i haven't even done ANY SINGLE PIECE OF WORK for this sem! goodness. how lazy can i get. and it's already the 4th week of school...