I wish I could do more to help you. This feeling that no matter how much I try to encourage you, nothing will work, is really quite frustrating. The feeling that I can do nothing is scary. I don't want to just sit back and utter words that you and I both find meaningless. I want to find a way to help you, but always remember, that before anyone can help you, please, please try and help yourself first.

Went for flag day today. Went to Toa Payoh at first, but there were simply too many NY people there already, and the central area was pretty small. So Emmalyn, Zying and myself headed down to Somerset to get our donations. It was pretty alright, although I felt like an idiot asking throngs of people for donations when all of them either ignore me or just smile at me.

The past week has been rather hectic. One of the main highlights would be running almost 10km in four days. Since we're training up for our NAPFA test during PE, we have to run 2.4km for each PE lesson. My timing only improved by 4 or 5 seconds since last year. I hope to hit 12.30 minutes by the third week of January. On top of PE, we run about 3km for basketball trainings. Not too sure, it should be around there. And I dropped Maths too! I'm feeling so relieved now. You don't know what its like to not have to struggle during tutorials and lectures to pay attention and understand the concepts. But it also means that I now have to work very hard on my three subjects to secure good grades for them.

Been very tired of late. I think it'll be almost impossible to sleep early (i.e. 9.30pm) on weekdays, so I'll have to catch up on sleep on the weekends. Its good to be back in school again though, and enjoy the company of my classmates and basketball mates.

Okay... going to try and complete as much of my short story as I can. The deadline's drawing nearer...