wmp: the script, before the worst

the past couple of weeks have been pretty hard on us with report deadlines and marketing presentations to prepare for. haven't seen the last of those but friday night finally came along and i decided to disconnect myself from schoolwork at least until the day at the beach on saturday was over.

so i got my usual friday evening fix - a concoction of online manga and tv. of late, i've been pretty much hooked to the heroes vs villains series from survivor. the reality tv stars really do look like they're having a good time on that paradise island despite the intricacies of the game itself. i was thinking of a vacation of my own, to bangkok then krabi and the other islands perhaps, if contingencies permit. i believe it would do the soul some good just before the semester restarts.

i stayed up on friday night toying with the new 'knock out' deck by magic makers. not a fan of the usual gimmick decks but this... this, i think, is pure genius. so with less than five hours of sleep, i made my way down to tanjong beach on the saturday morning. the weather was scorching and though i usually prefer the cooler of the two extremes of the weather these days, the scorching weather couldn't have been more timely this time round.



it appears time away from the sport did some good. i remember how i struggled to pull off a game the last couple of times at zhenhong's farewell game at NIE and the homecoming at JJC. the games at the fiesta went pretty well. we even managed to pull through the preliminaries with reasonable ease. not until i met the 'wall', almost literally, at the quarter finals.

i gotta say it was like kick starting a cold engine during the first couple of matches. i'm not sure how this would really work out because of the hectic demands of school, but for the weeks that lead up to the exam papers i'm intending to revise my routines, get my seven hours of sleep daily and carve half an hour of time out from a week for a run or a trip to the gym.

between the games i took the chance to take a dip at the beach. just lying there, semi submerged with the water blocking out the commotion from my ears, i watched the clouds fleet, and felt the day was absolutely worth the while. it was truly a moment to myself.

Labels: beach, cards