A coach who doesn't laugh isn't a coach at all...

'Cause he'd just be a robot.

Basically, for the School part of the day, my class was being confussed again on when the postponed OEP trip would be held; first they said it was Monday, then tommorow, then another unknown time. What's next? Oh, well. We'd just have to wait...

Then we had a tough PE lesson today. Somehow, another class beat us to the assembly grounds for PE today; the first record of it's kind for the past 6-8 months. Better start catching up with the others. Then we did some training with a mixture of push-ups, sit-ups and leg stands. Just a fraction of what Canoeing life is about, and yet many found it hard to endure. Well, of corse I also found it chalendging, but just that many people around me were already breaking down quite fast. I guess some activities just separate the Slack from the Tough. After that came a 5 Min pace run of 1.8K on a new route the PE teachers haeve come up with. It simply circles around the IB half of the school to complete 800 meters. I guess the set-up is somewhat better now since walking through the school seems a lot shorter when you're not really familliar with your terrain (the IB campus is a very new extention of the school).

What a 'splendid' way to start off the day, don't you think? The tougher sessions are yet to come, I assume.

Then we had Life Science Practical, which ended up to be a Life Science Theory due to the fact that no one booked the Lab for us since, by right, we wern't suppose to be in the school in the first place. After greeting Mr. Soo, he instructed us to close our laptops and keep them away. But apparently, Tim had a problem with his laptop and needed a little more time to make an Emergency Shut Down. But Mr. Soo didn't have a little more time to spare Tim. So, there was a little 'silent' quarrel between the two parties on this issue till Tim finally completed the shut down, ending off with a tone I'd never thought any student would use towards a teacher ever since Wei Yang did the same to Mr. Tan last year. Mr. Soo appeared to had ignored the change of tone, but for the next hour or so, I became moderately quiet. I, being shocked at the tone, was somewhat afraid to comfront Tim for any reason or purpose besides laughing at any funny comment he gave. But I guess after a few minutes he cooled, leaving me spine-tinggled.

Oh, and it's comfirmed! I'm goin'ta Billards for Enrichment Programme! Something I can do to relax after playing a working man of the family (*tsk tsk*). But it's really a pity that there wasn't a way for Ben to join along to, just as he wanted.

Then for the Training part of the day...

Same ol' same ol'. Stretch. Run. Gym. Medicine Balls. Technique Training. Debrief. Warmdown.

But just that there were Juniors below me for once, and that now that many of the members are still at OEP, the gym was all to ourselves! Very fast and very convenient! So I pity those who missed trainning today, for that was a once-a-year moment to get the gym for yourself in the afternoon.

After training, I changed up and headed for the bus stop. For those who never watch, this is one of the only moments you'd actually see me walking around the school in uniform without a tie and with the collar button unbuttoned. But while walking on the tracks, I was watching some of the senior Ruggers training in the field. They were training with some balls, and apparently had to toss them to each other. But then one of the balls were tossed, I assume, in the wrong direction and ended up hitting someone in the face. Then a schocking thing happened. Probably not much of a big deal to some people, but was a rare sight for me to see.

The coach laughed.

I've seen this coach many times in his violent mode and knew he was a hard person to entertain comically. But... he laughed. At a silly mistake. By his student. Facinating.

As a Canoeist, I knew very well how precious laughter from a coach was. Although Mr. See IS an extremely fierce teacher in the school, so fierce he almost made me cry after I accidentally dropped a boat just by staring into my eyes, his sarcasm's quite entertaining and somehow becomes one of the things that make training painfully worthwhile. Watching him make a sarcastic remark with slapstick dialog has already got value. Watching him do it and smile is a greater story. Watching him doing it with a smile AND laughing after he or you commented about is just... priceless.

So I told myself, 'Yah. Hearing a coach laugh is truely satisfying.'

Then I realised that there is an even more powerful Coach that would definitely be worth hearing laughter from. The Coach of Life. God.

His laughter is absolutely abundant, and He'd be willing to laugh along with anyone, for afterall, Joy is the second fruit of the Spirit, and it does go, "Joy to the world!", not "Misery to the world!". The fact that He'd be laughing along side with you, wheteher to comfort you along your dark hours, or to celebrate with you any good thing that happened in your life, rwally touches me and touches me deep. So now, I'm gonna dedicate all that I do to the Lord. I wouldn't want to miss out on God's laughter. I don't know 'bout you guys, but I'll remember this moral for a very, very long time.