pocketful of little hopes

it was a day where i had all these leeetle bits and pieces of hopes, with varying results

1) as i stepped up to the block for the first event of the day during IHG swimming, 50m freestyle individual, i was hoping that i wouldnt be made to look bad, hoping that i would not false start (remember RP bi), and hoping that i would not let the supporters down. turns out i didn't false start, i didn't look too bad (was glancing towards my left and right as i sprinted and was actually surprised that i didn't see anyone level with me) and i managed to get the hall's swim off to a gd start (alot more gd news was to come)

2) hoped that the TH butterfly guys relay team would hold off the specialist breaststrokers from RH. not only did we managed to hold them off, we actually won by quite a few seconds!

3) after the swim, dom, nic and i were gonna do our timetrial for x-campus. i was hoping my knee would hold up, even though when i woke up in the morning it was still aching a little. we started and less than a 100m i felt the ache again, and with my long term racing future in mind, i stopped. dejected.

4) after that, all i could do was to stand around at SRC carpark, mulling around and wait for dom and nick to return. i was hoping that they would do well, that they would not suffer too much in the afternoon heat, that they would sprint down the slope safely. they came back, in good time, and i was glad. as nic puts it, "it was just painful all the way"

5) on my way to ameal's bday party at MC's at King Albert's Park, i was hoping that i had taken the right bus.
i did not.
this mistake made me 45 mins late.
oops, sry ameal.

6) met up with the NUSSU bash people for dinner at marche's. we were playing the extreme number game (translate into mandarin for zong ji mi ma) with a mixture of disgusting sauces. i was hoping i wouldnt kenna (mainly cause i had helped create the disgusting mixtire).
i didn't. =)

now i have one more hope, hoping that my knee will recover by monday so i can do my long overdue bi sprint time trial. God help this hopeful one.