okay so i retook my NAPFA after consulting a few people on whether i should retake or not, and then subsequently asking around on how to train my SBJ. sorry if a bronze isnt enough for me. i dont wanna spend 2 extra months in NS. i could be doing some other important thing!! either earning money or enjoying myself. no hints for yall as to what im gonna be doing with that extra time because nothing's confirmed yet.
AAAAAAAAANYHOOS. im glad i retook my NAPFA. i got a Silver!! ^^ so YES i DO have extra time now!! ^^ sorry if i sound super happy but I REALLY AM.
so here is a screen cap of my results.
^my first try at NAPFA. bronze for this one.
and yes i can really do 55 sit ups in a minute. some people cheated but not me.
i dont know how on earth i jumped 10cm more than my first go at NAPFA for SBJ. though i did ask my older bro (i refer to him as kor, english-ised chinese for "older brother") on how to train for my jumping. he told me a few exercises but i only did the ankle lifts two times only over 1 week lol. i did 60 for each set. and i only did 1 set LOL. amazing. and weird.
sit and reach, i dont know i got 45cm. i actually only stretched 44cm or so, but i think the tester gave me one extra cm (i think) cuz he saw my trying super hard. he's SUPER NICE ohmygosh. so much better than the tester who took my class' guys for NAPFA during the first time. this guy's name is Haziq. SUPER FRIENDLY and encouraging. and he doesnt give up on us even though he doesnt know any of us at all. maaaaaaaan. i absolutely appreciate people like him. amazing guy. anyway. some people cheated by using only one hand to push the marker. by right, we should be using both hands, and not just one, because if we use one hand then we would be able to push further. i thought of doing that but decided not to within a second. so honesty pays off!! i got 45cm the honest way :)
pull ups, yeah. same as the week before. but whenever i drop down after doing it all, my head hurts >< dont know why but OH WELL. maybe cuz i wasnt breathing as much....though im quite sure i WAS breathing right. lol okay so there are 10 guys in my group taking NAPFA together. we're all under Haziq. my tag number was 56 so i was basically the 7th person to do the pull ups. the guy before me, Jasmond (idk how to spell his name), wanted to take a break first. so okay lah i go first lorh. i think the other guys were like kinda doubtful of my. i mean, LOOK AT MY SIZE and im sure they were going like "so skinny can do meh". hahahha. guess what guys, i did 12 and some of you did 7. so dont judge. hearing things like "wah siao eh" "hiong ah" really made my day. topped the group for this.
DONT JUDGE.
shuttle run, same lah. 9.83seconds. AND BASKET THE STUPID "TARMAC" WAS SOOOOO SLIPPERY LAH WALAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! I KEPT ON SLIPPING AT THE END WHERE THE BLOCKS WEREEEEEE. wasted my time haiyoh. i could have gotten close to 8seconds lorh psh. after crossing the line, i walked back to put the blocks back, and Haziq read out my timing: "9.83 seconds". i knew i could get a better timing, but the other guys, once again, "wal*n eh bloo*y fast" lol. topped the group for this also.
2.4km run, YES I CLOCKED 11:05MINUTES OHYEAHHHHHHHH.
okay lah i think they minus-ed out some time. i started my stopwatch a bit late (maybe 2-3seconds?) but oh well. if i was 5seconds faster, i'd get a B for my 2.4km. which im sure is TOTALLY possible...but let's add in the "nervous" factor again, and yeah, 5seconds isnt so bad. my best timing is 10:54, which is a B grade. not so far away eh!! but considering that i've improved from 13:30minutes back in 2010...i'd give myself a pat on the back. mostly stayed behind jesmond cuz he was a tad faster, but i sprinted past him during the last few 100meters. got position number 3 of 40-50!! so steady!! compared to 22 last time lol.
so yeah. while returning my tag, i saw haziq at the counter just standing around. i went up to him and thanked him for his work (on that day) and that i really appreciated it. hope it made him satisfied with himself :)
and yayyyyyyyy jess and van and tresis were taking their 2.4km before me since i was in a later batch and that they didnt need to take the 5stations since their 2.4km run was interrupted by lightning warning. van had to go off first so okay lah. then during my run i could hear jess shouting for me lol she was like "go sam jiayou" a few times when i passed by the starting/ending line. last lap she shouted "go sam last lap!!" then i as i crossed the line during my 5th lap, another tester said "number 56 two laps left....or how many left?" and then i told him (while still running) that i only had 1 lap left LOL. so he made the changes XD
at the last bend, i psyched myself up to get ready for the final sprint. once i felt that i had the right amount of "explosive" energy to blast through the rest of the way, VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM off i went!! i went past jesmond and i think he didnt see and hear me so he cut a bit into my lane but its okay, i continued a bit to the right and sped past him.
past the finish line i had to collect my position number from the person standing right at the line. since i was going so fast, i had to grab the girl's hand and roughly "snatch" the position number from her lol i hope she didnt mind!!
i took about 70meters to slow down to a jog, spent another 30+meters to get back to walking pace. im not a runner so i dont know how to do all these cooling/slowing down stuff so i was like "okay lah look a bit professional and just zam lah" LOL so i slowly took my time to slow down XD
showed the officials my tag number and position number, and once they recorded it down, i went to return the tag number. that's when i saw haziq. so pack up and all blablabla, i told jess and tresis to go first (since i had to pack my bag) and then when i was done, i started to walk out of the stadium. i saw the 4 guys from the other DBEN class and wished them all the best for their run. btw their run was supposed to be on the same day as my first time taking NAPFA but there was lightning warning, then they decided to take the 2.4km coincidentally on the same day that i was retaking my NAPFA. so yeah i wished them all the best and then left with jess tresis and then van (she turned up then). began talking about NS and jess said she wants to be in the navy, then i said i wanted to be in air force. HAHAHHAHA then van said "but the people in the air force da*n prideful" so i replied with a laughter that "ahahha then i'll be the different one". guess what she said? "yeah i know you'll be different from the rest, can tell one. you'll be great there".
WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. see. living righteous whenever and wherever i am pays off :) even vanessa, a person i raaaaaaaaaaaarely talk to, knows that i keep to my standards. happy happy :)
then on friday night i was talking to jaina about my napfa and how i saw her classmates the night before. and then she had news for me. her 4 classmates had to take their 2.4km on FRIDAY night. not thursday night. why? the reason is freaking ridiculous. THERE WAS AN ACCIDENT ON THE TRACK. we both reasoned together and decided that 1 guy was running his 2.4, the other guy was from rugby. they crashed head on. reason being that the rugby guy had to catch a ball that was kicked out of the field and onto the track, and the guy running his 2.4 either didnt have time to react or didnt even see the guy coming. so there we go. BAM. and we were joking about how dumb it was altogether hahahhaha dangit XD we're two opposites but always so relateable LOL.
so yeah. this whole post is about NAPFA. congratulations if you completed reading this whole essay LOL.
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