Observations and advice as an alumni (in training)

"Alumni" is a good word. Haha. Makes you feel more "senior-ish", even though it may or may not be true. Moreover, "alumni" kinda means you wouldn't have to trouble yourself with all the voting and form-filling and decision making business. And you are excused for posting point-less posts because you can sleep till 9am, and bum around while the rest try to stay awake in class.

So here are some advice for the newbies, and I have no doubt your "seniors" would agree with me. (Seniors, if you don't, start agreeing.)

1. Always put sunblock, for the girls at least. No girl would want to walk around like a banana split (chocolate and vanilla skin-tone), even though banana was our fruit the last time I checked (please inform us if there's a change). Putting sunscreen on your face is extremely important as well, you don't want your skin to pigment pre-maturely (that is, uncontrolled pigmenting before you turn 60). And for the guys, sunblock is said to help prevent skin cancer.

2. Take good care of the equipment. Treat them like how you want to be treated. You wouldn't want to be thrown around too much and break your back right?

3. Prepare a fist aid kit if you are exceptionally injury prone. Some necessities include ointment for bruises (<-- important!), medicated plasters for open wounds and cuts, non-medicated plasters for blisters, water-proof tape for split fingers (a specialty for a particular person), tape for fibre glass splinters removal, sunblock, and aloe vera gel for burnt skin. Depending on your need, Subway and the ice-cream shop across the street provide good first aid services too, when you need healing for your heart.

4. Make hand-to-hand passes. First, we shall define. Hand is defined as a part of our body that is attached to our arm. It measures about 5.5" x 6.5" (dependent on individuals). It usually comes with 5 pertrusions known as fingers and a thumb. Although it may look extremely similar to the head, do not confuse the two, or the consequences can be fatal (concussion follow by capsizing follow by drowning). Note that the head usually has (visible) hair, while the hand does not. With these two confusing parts of the body define, hand-to-head passes would hopefully be minimized.

5. Do your stretches seriously for cool-down. Need I say more? It's for your own good.

That's it for now. More "wisdom" next time. ^^