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2008-03-01T17:20:00.002+08:00

there, there.

i've moved to http://embracingingray.livejournal.com

but this blog will be kept. cos it consist of my very first super duper KORK! entry. you know? those times when you wld just include in every single detail e.g.

i woke up in the morning, kicked my bedsheets aside, stepped out of my bed, walked to the toilet, held my toothbrush, squeezed my toothpaste but nothing came out cos the cap wasn't remove, etc. HHAHA! stuffs like that luh. i'm like stating the oblivious. entries which includes even the slightess things that happened in school,with friends, etc. hence, it shall be kept. and i think blogger looks more colourful leh. plus, having to comment in LJ seems much troublesome than blogger. kays.

au voirs!

i'll still check back at here. geez!

2008-02-26T02:04:00.005+08:00

adeline, i didn't give flight! i had migrane again this morning. was too afraid to fall sick so i stayed at home. i can't afford to. so does everyone in the team.

the 6km route went through my mind. someone once told me this- "if you can't acheive a big goal at once, break it down into small goals and by the end of it, you wld have acheive something big.". the route may seem long, but think of all the road junctions, traffic lights whereby you have to stop, and then continue. by finishing each part of the route, you've eventually finish the entire 6km. this applies to life. but do many out there actually consider this as an aid to help them to acheive success?

hadn't we been training like this to eventually acheive the aim we have in this sport? many races coming up in these few months. we can all name a few out.

-MR500

-PA championships

-National Junior Canoeing Championships

-National Women Canoeing Championships

-National Canoeing Championships

-POL-ITE

practically a race per month, or so they say. lets all train hard to fail all other factors, but not ourselves. don't we all wish to win and get medals? do we wish for it to happen because we don't train enough for it? make it happen. let's do it!

team dinner (FINALLY!!) on this coming saturday, shift has been cancelled.

morning shift till 6pm tml.

au voirs!

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catch our breathe hard, we may. be stubborn and pressed on. for it's all for one purpose that we've been doing for one AY- rowing.

2008-02-24T23:34:00.002+08:00

purposely lazed in bed and took my own time this morning, but ended up taking cab down. cos of joanne luh.

(yesterday)
jo: fishy, so are you going for training tml?
me: uh. yah.
jo: confirm ah! hanting, you all heard that ah! don't you u give air tickets tml horh!"

and no matter what, i wouldn't want to end up with them saying that i gave flight. hence, i went. training was over in like 1.5hrs, 10.30am. damn shiok luh. by the time we lock up our shed, nyp dragonboaters just started rowing. somewhat, the feeling that your training had alrdy ended when others just started, feels just shiok.

was on k2 tiger with yuxin and i admit, that the coordination sucks. it feels wierd luh. most probably due to her inconsistency in strokes and the strength used, plus her punching. but the last 3 sets were much better, especially the last set, cos i've found the "right way" to remind her. she needs alot of pushing though. the back paddler did do her job kay! (hong! k2 stingray again! :D)

walked arnd; fareast; adidas jacket at far east; deeper; heeren.

perhaps i can request for john to put me back at 4skn. the tiney weeny bit of commission doesn't attract me at all, despite whatever purpose he has in mind. i did rather be in 4skn where i enjoy getting busy and all. shall talk to him real soon.

had a migrane during work but it went away arnd an hour later. tsk.

kaye. land training tml- 6km marsiling route. MMMM.

au voirs!

2008-02-24T01:00:00.002+08:00

and so, i was cheated on friday. thought i was scheduled for morning shift till 9 and i was damn happy. i even left home early to get mac breakie luh.

got to the shop and was suprised to see it open so early, since 10.30 or so.
jon ma: eh fishy, you're opening the shop today meh?
me: uh, yeah.
jon giving the puzzled look and checked the schedule.
jon: but no leh, the schedule states 2 to closing.
me: HUH?! really meh? woah lao.
stared hard at the schedule and realised that it had been changed into a new format. takes out the old schedule and points to it.
me: neh! it states opening till 9. woahh laoo.. cheat my feelings.
and off i walked, to the end of the shop to finish my breakfast.

well, you could have said that its the staff's responsibility to check the schedule and i agree with it but how the hell am i suppose to know that my shift has been changed? the last time i checked it was before we left for the company dinner, on tuesday. so i guess i can only say that i don't check it frequent-frequently enough. i don't mind working till closing, but at least inform me can. tsk. i was left wondering between heeren and cine for 3 god damn hours. i offered to get food though. :D

i'll be permanently be working at adorn- some kind of john ong's plan luh. but i don't care much. just that it does get kind of cold there.

training today was like "URGhhh..". the fart-leg with 4 on, 2 off. then it was 6 X 500m. at our 6th set, we're all saying "come on, last set! last set!". i gave my all at my last set and was feeling so relieved but coach said,"Go for one last set..". kind of chui. PT was worst- did our usual circuit on sats. on my 8set onwards, i practically had tears in my eyes when i was doing it. its very unbearable, especially when you're pushing urself yet it just felt so hard, till an extend when you can't control your breathing and it ends up going too heavy and inconsistent that heavy breathing noises start to be heard from yourself. some what similar to your windpipe being narrowed.

lunch was subway at j8 and i brought a 6inch to work. it been quite some time since we last lunched at j8, esp the usual desserts after lunch. geez. tempting.

training, lunch, walk, work, home, wash wet gear, sleep.

au voirs!

2008-02-21T18:01:00.002+08:00

4 X 800m sprint sets; gym; pull ups; abs, tiger torso plus "yoga"

had lunch and for no reason why, i ordered 5 side dish for my rice, when i wasn't even that hungry. the steamed egg tasted weird. talked alot about the unglam stuff that some of us did during training, like bob farting when doing pull-ups, ben farted when doing abs, etc. hilarious. but oh wells, farting is only a natural thing, only that it comes out at the wrong time. HHAHA! and i reminded adeline of the time when i squeaked a tiny-weeny fart into her ear when i was doing pull-ups. no one else heard it except us cos she was assisting me. so she was down on her luck huh? but that set us laughing for nuts. see?! told you it was only a natural thing to fart. i can't force it up my oesophagus and out from my mouth when its at my asshole right? damn unglam. but who looks glamourous during training? :D

was at the library to fix hong's outlook and we mentioned abit of the canoe camp and of course, our SLA fiesta for the newbies. home.

morning shift till 9pm tml. :D i hardly have shifts that allows me to leave before the shop does settlement. so, that excites me a little.

au voirs!

2008-02-20T22:18:00.003+08:00

omg omg! i just checked my this sem's gpa.

G106, enterprise : B+
A112, computing and mathematics : B+
A102, science : B+
G104, Contemporary Issues in Culture and Aesthetics : B+
G102, cognitive : A

okay! :D damn high. 3.5 for each of the B+ plus a 4 for the A, and that gives me 3.6 for this sem! man, i'm so proud of myself! but i got 3.3 for last semester. that left me with a 3.45 for my year one. tsk. i guess scoring well in UTs really helped alot. and it was my UT4 that pulled up my grades.

alrighty! enough of all those. shall mention alittle about ytd's company dinner. was supposed to close off at 6.30 but there were customers so it dragged on till 7? walked to the restaurant at royal plaza with colleagues and boss where we met up the others later. john ong gave alittle of his big-boss-speech and his expectations before we started our buffet.

john: so fishy, you're quite well connected here. who do you think is the employee of the year?
me: aiyer. must be heri liao lah..

and damn it! he was he employee of the year and he walked off with a iTouch. should have said my name instead. hahahha. neh mind. next year, i can wait. geez.

the food there was great! had 4 servings before calling it a deal. oh oh oh. the desserts were superb man! fondue, cakes, everything! yummy! i took a serving of sheperd's pie without knowing it was mutton. to think that i even ask the person,"is it beef?". LOL. what to expect? its called sheperd's pie. so shouldn't i link it to sheeps? oh nvm. cos i got my colleague to settle it for me. i can't take mutton. [= called for beer and fruit juices which requires extra charges but its all going under our boss's name. :D:D:D

then comes the lucky draw that we're all looking forward to. no prizes, but all cash! :D the draw was spilt into 2 grps - A & B. grp A for those who have worked above 6 months (ME ME ME!!) and grp B, for those below. i got the 3rd prize from grp A and i got an extra 100bucks to spend. wahahaha. headed off to Kpool at cine with heeren staff. but duncan, val and i didn't play cos we're damn noob. adrian's red boxers with white skulls on it is hilarious. daph went off early. left at arnd 12. cab home and as it was midnight, the extra charges were 50%. kind of complained to the driver abit. and he sent me home like real fast. $24 in all, cos i paid by nets.

dragged my ass up from bed at 12 plus after my mum's nagging and cabbed with her to SIM for my brother's registration. SIM is a pretty school. i didn't know that SIM provides part time courses locally and full time ones, overseas, cos i made a mistake when pressing for the queue number. headed to bugis temple with my mum after that. i couldn't exactly rmb when was the last time i was there but it was good to have the familiar feeling back again when u enter the temple. lunch was on me! first time kay! guess i can treat my mum more often if she brings me out again. or the other way round. :D

alrights! land training tml- sprint sets. shall be bringing extra coins for the 100plus after the running. teehees.

i guess i won't be able to make it for the 2904's bday celeb again this time, which falls on this friday, cheyenne and phebe's! but i'll sure pop by if u girls are still tgt after my shift. (:

end of feb is coming = pay again!
5 march- class chalet
8,9 march- mr 500
11 march- kukup trip with team mates
XX march- KL overseas team training.

kaye. i'm still kind of high over my results and ytd's dinner.

au voirs!

2008-02-17T23:26:00.002+08:00

as the old committee stepped down, the new names are up.

guys captain: hairul
guys v.captain: benjamin
girls captain: joanne
girls v.captain: beverly
quarter masters: fishy, yongann
secretary: sihong
treasurer: adeline
social events: melvin

the very first task of being the logistics is to get the boats mended. billy took quite some time to get to seletar and as hanting has mentioned, he told us grandfather stories. oh well. its alright. mock race results with my k1 coming in 3rd and my k2 with hong, 2nd. alot more to work on though. tsk.

training today wasn't as easy as being on k2, but still managed to pull through it. being on singles can be both a joyous and a demoralising thing. capsized twice and the first time was b'cos i was trying to balance myself with one blade on the water and the other hand reaching for my bottle in my boat. tsk tsk.

had dinner and caught "jumper" with derrick. [= and got a pair of converse.
the new narnias movie will be up soon and it seems quite appealing.
trip to kukup with team mates after mr500, plus overseas training. heard that it will be in KL. somewhere further up luh. thailand will be a good place. HAHAH.

shall finish "panic" soon and get "sandra's keys".

land training tml. run those fats off!
shhhooo!

au voirs!

2008-02-14T21:02:00.002+08:00

tsk. like what's wrong with me. seriously, i don't like to run. but ever since i'm in this sport, i've got to run to improve myself. and perhaps it's this idea that encouraged me to oversleep this morning. and as expected, land training strength wasn't as much as usual cos those lovey dovey team mates would go park-tor-ing.

i've got to run, to built my stamina, to burn fats, to paddle better. tsk.

training always make me feel good. so just don't think abt the running cos all in all, i'd be one happy person after training. (:

compulsory water training this saturday cos the current KAHs will be stepping down with the new names to be announced.

i was reading "panic" the whole afternoon, till i doze off and went into a nap.
shift from 2 to closing tml. hopefully i'll be released earlier, like what john had promised.

au voirs!

2008-02-13T22:14:00.003+08:00

had water training today. somehow, i kind of lost the feel in liangjin with hong. the momentum i was looking for since the last time we did k2 lj. tsk. well, when it comes to doubles, i do feel like a burden to her, at times. but no worries, kay. we'll try again and master it. pt was changed to just pull ups. :D

had lunch at cine's pastamania with ade, jo & neh. a pasta & a combo for each of us, plus a 12 inch chicken mananas pizza. we felt super hungry and ended up with the last piece untouched. maybe we can try again with the 10 inch one instead. headed to kino and while jo was looking for her manga, i bought this -->

haha. my cover was so much nicer than this and i realised that there were so many versions of them. the next book would be "sandra's keys" by XXX. apparently,i was too happy remembering the title of the book that i didn't even bother to look at the author's name. tsk. internet doesn't seem to have it. probably it's new.

met up with bev and hong and headed to pacific plaza for my kuku head "saviour", then to far east area. bused home. dozed off while reading "panic" and decided not to read it anymore and continue sleeping.

land training tml. now that i've got something to keep me occupied, i guess i can abstain from laptop for a period of time. :D HAHA!

i need to get a couple of tubes of hydrocortison as backup at home.

au voirs!

p.s. mahjiong again tml, pleeeeaaaassseee?

2008-02-12T00:34:00.000+08:00

none of us except bob, expected that the strength test we all thought it to be, would turned out to be a usual training programme. sheesh. running the marsiling route seems tougher than the last time we did it. must be all those cny junk food.

gym, pull ups, 2sets of abs.

washed up, lunch, off to jo's hse. none of us brought oranges along. so we plucked 2 from the miniature orange plants, on our way out of food heaven. of course, that wasn't our actual intention. tortured bobbi & some started mahjiong while the rest watched the latest season of "bring it on". neh taught me on how to play it. addictive eh. guess we wouldn't mind playing mahjiong again.

runny nose before run; stopped during the run; started again after it. tsk.

fats content : 16% TSK!

shift tml. 12 to 8. the end of the month is coming. that means another pay. i'm quite optimistic, aint i? geez. that implies that class chalet and mr500 is nearing.

au voirs!

2008-02-11T01:19:00.000+08:00

okay. i forsee that after a month, my hair will grow out of this kuku shape. right now, as i always say,"hair will grow.". so, just heck it. its not the first time i tried sth different. moreover, its still raw.

ade, bev & neh looked me up at work. teeheees. adeline, ur havaianas size is just right for me. leave it by your corridor k? i'll pick them up at night. how unfated is she with this kind of footwear. 2 pairs were stolen cos she left them at the corridor and one of it was badly worn out. then her 2nd pair of praia snapped after a few weeks.

i treated mine with lovvvee and its still as good as new. :D

strength test tml. shall catch some sleep.

au voirs!

2008-02-10T00:32:00.000+08:00

TEEEEEHHHEEESS!

i'm getting so excited alrdy, over the first 50dollar angbao that i got from my company today. it's the 3rd day of new year and i worked. not that it's a bad thing, at least it keeps me occupied. and thank god that the crowd wasn't much, and an on and off thing. heard that company dinner will be arnd 19feb. (:

missed training cos i went back to sleep after i woke up, till the time jo called me. so, i'm going tml. but sunday's the best time to train cos its the minimal strength. oh well, anyday is the best day to train luh. weather's been quite hot and cranky now adays. can you people use lesser plastic bags??? how considerate. but 4skn is using plastic carriers eh. sheesh. don't bother.

i need a haircut soon. maybe if i really bth, i'll snip it tml, after training. roars!! let's just hope it ends early tml. say 11? er.. 12? ): LOL.

alright. let's settle a date for the ton night by the highway bridge at suntec, that sees the flyover and the marina waters. 3 years back, when we're all so young (though we're still young now, but we'reyounger then), let's see how we've changed.

these kids look really innocent. does anyone know their names?

WAHAHAHAHA!

au voirs!

2008-02-08T22:12:00.000+08:00

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the queensway trip. if u're ever wondering why there's only the 3 of us, thats bcos cy, chunfu, feifei didn't come. kailing left early and jack alighted.

meet up soon, again!

i've been having runny nose since morning. and my neighbour's kid messed with my laptop when they came over this afternoon. heng it was not much of a big problem. (:

au voirs!

2008-02-08T12:53:00.000+08:00

new year seems to be quieter without my brother. started the day with the usual porridge breakfast and headed to my paternal side, as usual, the first family to got there except for those aunts cooking over there. ate. ate. ate. caught up and while my uncle was telling me how fun pattaya is, he teased, saying that motor operated boats are way better than having to paddle it. so what he meant was to have a motor attached to the boat. sheesh. and as expected, the common comment was "so tall alrdy huh.." & "why are you so tanned?". and i did point to my dad and say,"just like him loh!".

went over to my maternal side. ate. ate. then started tiger beer. got knocked out for awhile after the first can but woke up arnd 2 hours later for the 2nd, plus dinner. stayed there from noon till arnd 10. cabbed home.

didn't plan to go visiting to other relatives hses cos we met up ytd alrdy. plus the shops weren't opened yet so i'm left with nth to do.

training resumes tml- track shoes again. hong won't be coming, so that makes me go on k1 again. shall see.

i think i can get some magazines or papers to keep me occupied.

au voirs!

2008-02-05T22:20:00.000+08:00

:D

i'm moving on to year 2 already. though not officially, but soon. 32 weeks of school just went like that. and that makes it 160 problems, excluding those days that i skipped school luh. geez.

met up with jack, reagen, pinwen and kailing on saturday after training. though we went to crowded areas, it was good to have time spent with them. and chunfu just refuses to come out no matter what cos he's having his exams and so does feifei. but he isn't having exams. PANG-SEH!
HAHA!

work on sunday was good, with the 11 staff working together, plus the very-very-rare pizza treats and drinks, it was the best luh. on usual weekends, there were only arnd 6 staffs in total. so i guess festive season is good huh. company dinner coming soon!

had rambo4 with derrick yesterday and i should say it's quite a nice movie. if only there were more bloody scenes.. :D walked the entire orchard for a place to chill and eventually, settled on tiger draught at a bar with a few others. chilled beer are like water, gulp them down! haha.

alright. dozed off last night on the couch and my usual body clock woke me up at 6.30, without fail, especially during the holidays. had water training and we did pyramid sets plus pull-ups. dips was changed to push ups. but better still, cos quite a number of us couldn't do standard dips. (:
sihong and i were assigned to the new foreign boat- liangjin k2. and yes, the one that lala& qifang used during their marathon race. it felt so good. the boat was surging forward. but i guess the seating arrangement has to be really just nice. else, your butt will be moving arnd during bursting sets. with quite a handful of competitions coming up, holidays are never like holidays. we're improving and feeling better in the boat. let's do it even better!

i just texted my boss about my schedule. hopefully, he'll assign them to me.

-trainings
-work
-team dinner
-company dinner
-malaysia trip after cny with team mates
-help my bro register at SMU/ SIM

they did better don't fall on the same day.

au voirs!

2008-01-30T21:54:00.000+08:00

see not what it was,
not what it is,
but what it will be.

implying that do not look back at the past because it has already taken place and it won't make any difference to determining what you do and who you are now. do not look at the present but at the future because the future is what determines what you will be doing now.

whether a person acheives victory in what he/ she does depends greatly on the state of mind upon entering the competition area or when receiving a particular task. how is one suppose to succeed with the mindset that "i will lose for sure"?

au voirs!

2008-01-30T11:52:00.000+08:00

today's the last enterprise lesson. and guess what we did? we watched movie for the whole day, and it was our faci's idea. of course, he did went through the problem with us.

shall see if i can hit town area later on. mmm.

alright. i can't wait for saturday's water training- sprint sets. and apparently, its only going to be a few girls cos hong and all volunteered for the republic adventure race. woots! no work this saturday! lots of outings coming up. :D

au voirs!

(and yes, i will!)

2008-01-28T22:21:00.000+08:00

it has just begun.

right.

2008-01-28T10:03:00.000+08:00

the marathon was a good experience though the rudder's cable screwed up our race, and right at the start, when the horn sounded. no choice, we've got to return back to the beach and adjusted the cable. overtook quite a number of boats but at our first portage, when we're about to launch, the boat slipped and the cable came out again. the 3rd time was at cosy bay when the rescuer didn't even know how to fix it back despite i've given him instructions. then he asked me to sit onto his banana boat and fixed it myself. it's alright that my position on the banana boat looks super wrong, but it is also that it screwed up our race alot. nevertheless, we didn't give up. that damn acsi/ cgs boat.

the cable has failed us, but we did not.

quite a number of competitions are coming, with mr500 is coming in march. training will resume this saturday.

last week of school alrdy. and i'm hungry.
gtg.

au voirs!

2008-01-25T15:05:00.000+08:00

marathon will be due in less than 2 days. i am prepared. but no idea what triggered the butterflies in my tummy. i'm just going to give all i have got, and motivate my partner along the way. let's just make it a good start for all of us. all out, not to fail ourselves and to bring glory to our school. SA!

the thought of all the fun events that we will be having after the marathon just set me feeling so high. yet, let's get done with the marathon first. else, i wouldn't dare to settle my mind on it. i'm so going to sleep early the night before the race. infact, way early. then wake up somewhere in the middle of the wee hours to take breakfast and nap before going kallang. got to be there at 7am. alright. my butterflies are somewhat triggered again. no matter what, i shall aid my front paddler with co-ordination and balancing the boat well. utilise each stroke. it will all be worth it.

shall head for home straight and rot and prepare for tml's race preparation.

CHEERIOS!

au voirs!

2008-01-23T10:55:00.000+08:00

6 days of continuous training is finally over. not that it was super "fierce" or what. but just the mental and physical exhaustion. my right wrist is starting to hurt a little and i'm taking alot of care of it. which is why i skipped the pull-ups on monday.
yesterday evening was super cold at kallang. shivering mad, showered in darkness, with the guys screaming and shouting like kena raped. tsk tsk. decided to head for home straight as there's dinner at home. couldn't resist the temptation of breads at sembawang station so i bought 2. i guess hunger triggers the food temptation huh. got home and had dinner. i intended to finish the breads and the pack of atap seeds i bought the day before but i guess i just knocked out, without even submitting my rj. tsk.

wenkok is jio-ing classmates for blood donation now, saying that 10 CE points will be given. like AS IF! HAHA! if that's the case, the blood donation station will be overwhelmed by now. it feels good be be wearing better to school, at least not in sports shorts and t-shirts. teehees! :D

corporate social responsibility was what enterprise module is covering today. its good to know that established companies are participating in CSR but on the other hand, it is being less off from their annual taxable income, which benefits them as well. so there's always this give and receive balance going on. but who is willing to just give and don't receive?

gtg back to my lessons. laptop screens are giving me headaches alrdy.

au voirs!

ps.4 more days to NCM

2008-01-21T10:08:00.001+08:00

its been 4 days of continuous training already. and i'm mentally more exhausted than physically. but i'll press on. including today's gym and tml's water, that makes it 6 days of continuous training.

saturday
did k1 with partner because we didn't have enough k2s. it was alright initially, with partner beside me. after the 3 round or so, i saw partner rowing back to the pontoon. and as the k2s were all ahead of me, it felt so helpless and hopeless to be paddling alone. though so, i can't give up. portage seems endless. capsized by the first bejamin shear's bridge due to the wave of the turning dragonboat. though so, they helped me up. on my following round there, i was caught in the waves of 2-3 dragonboats. it was super wavy. and the dragonboaters looked at me as though i was potential to capsize again, as though ready to help me up. LOL. but i slapped the waters damn hard, numerously, and went off.

work. shagged.

sunday
adeline and i went. the only girls. capsized by the benjamin shear's again. saw the nationals and they help us up. but the boat was super heavy, with the water in it. but we decided to empty it at our portage round- the following round. :D

work. home with derrick. (:
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the marathon is this coming sunday. let's just take very good care of ourselves as we can't afford to get injured of fall ill. my back feels paralysed whenever i get up or turn on my bed. these mornings, when i wake up, my right ankle seems to be sprained. but it's alright after that. i need to take care of my right wrist as well. jo, lend me the guard please!
we're getting more and more used to the distance of the marathon already. lets just do it well with no regrets!
afraid and nervous are redundant emotions as one is afraid to lose. hence, paddle hard and win. only then will you not be afraid and nervous. [sounds familiar huh? u should know where this is being adapted from.]

shall take a real good chiller after the marathon!

REPUBLIC CANOE! SA-SA-SA! OH YEAH?! HOO-RAH!

:D:D

au voirs!

2008-01-18T19:39:00.001+08:00

i dragged my ass up this morning and dialed ben's number when i intended to call jo that i'll be late. should have kept the reporting time for the training to 8.30, as intended. for by the time we got there (10am), it was scorching badly. got down into the water and started our marathon distance. waves from the speed boats, duck tours, rocky waves, etc. fortunately, hong and i handled them well. but we still need to improve alot cos i admit that there were times whereby the boat seems stuck onto the water surface and it's not gliding at all. partner, let's pull our hearts out! not as in literally luh.

portage wasn't easy. boat was heavy, feet sinks in with every step, shells all over the place. my hip was cramping and paddling with both of my feets numb, aint easy at all. my butt doesn't hurt at all, but my feet and back does.

i'm feeling so warm all over. due to the sun, most prolly. shawn came over for his sweets when we're waiting for the bus. had BK and the few of us were gobbling the burgers down while some had subway. was looking for gatorate's powder at ntucs and its not even available. ): oh oh oh. nutrisoy's soya bean contains the highest amount of protein among other brands. i did a comparison.

if there's ever a pill that replenishes energy derived from exhaustion or sleep, i did be the first one to take it.
sleepy.

kallang is nice. but not during low tides. how the hell did the fishes die in kallang? is the water that unsuitable for survival? these dead fishes were like thrown sparingly all over the water luh.

oh.. i feel wavy still.

au voirs!

2008-01-18T01:14:00.000+08:00

17jan : water training
18jan: skipping school to attend training (training was never held during lesson hours. -wink wink-). chilling session, hopefully.
19jan: water training plus work
20jan: water training plus work
21 jan: land training

heh heh. organised eh? or rather, packed schdule.

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that would make up to 5 days of continuous training. friday and sunday are both optional. but why not train extra? there's not much time left.

weather at kallang was good today. teehees. but, the water seems choppy. well, that's kallang. and as expected, i was on singles, so was ah hong. i started to feel easy on the choppy water but OH! the sunset was glaring. tsk. things were going fine, till i reaches this area opposite the beach. and god damn it. this mother mofo was fishing at that area and the line was right infront of me. before i realised it, my boat was moving into it, like running towards the finishing line of a race. of course, i capsized luh. was so pissed that i stared at the fisher. freaked out, was i, as well. fortunately, the water condition was much better. with oil spillages over at shear's bridge only. and on my second round, i paddled a further distance away from that area to avoid remaking of history. but then i saw the fishing line right beside me, i still got freaked out. away.. away i paddle from that mofo!

dead fishes. dead cats has yet to come. i did like to see one. going back on doubles tml. (: no more air flight tickets from anyone of us.

i feel like chilling.. pleeeeaasssssseeeeeeeeee. ):

its 1.25am.

shall be turning in.

au voirs!

2008-01-16T23:15:00.001+08:00

once in a while or oftenly, it's good to be reminded that i have to control my spendings. because it's like you know that you have to, you know that its a must. yet at times, i will just go ahead with it. no one knows when will those rainy days come and it's always better to have extra cash with you. forgo those material needs when you already have the basics, isn't it good enough already?

be contented. be contented with what you already have and not ask for more unnessecary ones.

i know saving up is important. and i shall see that my bank balance increase to a minimal amount of $XXX.

desires, wants, NEEDS! i don't need alot of things right now.. come to think of it, i have very good self-control when i was in sec sch. i did always restrict myself when it comes to buying stuff and food. and i can do the same now. humans are not judged in terms of possessions. it's what you make out of what you have. i feel ashame of myself at times. ashame that i still could act and think maturely at this age. i'm turning 18. yet, i still have to be reminded of this.
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science UT4 tml. saw a dress at details and it looked so pretty. but i'll give it some thought cos i don't need it. might as well save up till quite a sum first then make one or 2 purchases. but of course, only when i have the extra extra extra cash for it.

the overseas trip is triggering my excitement. but of course, let's get done with the canoeing marathon which falls on the 27 jan. the journey ain't going to be easy at all. yet, being able to go down in doubles is a bliss. the front paddler knows that no matter what, she can't give up as she has to lead on the back paddler and set down what she wants the back paddler to do. the back paddler has got the front paddler and no matter what she can't stop as the back paddler has to follow and aid the front paddler to acheive speed and motivate the front paddler and constantly remind her. being there for one another, supporting each other throughout the whole distance and having the mindset "for you,i will..", is good enough.

i have neglected much, with my busy schedule.
acheiving balance? i'll try.

au voirs!

2008-01-16T13:22:00.000+08:00

I DARE YOU TO..

2008-01-16T11:56:00.000+08:00

my arms were aching- biceps and triceps. in addition, my lets as well. skipped school yesterday and i had the best sleep ever. mom was asking me why am i not going to school yet and i said my grades for the module permits me to skip one more time. teehees.

first weekday water training at kallang yesterday. had CAT1 yesterday and we're thinking that training would prolly be cancelled. by the time we got to kallang, it was already 5 plus. when things were ready, we went down at 6. water was calm after the rain but the water condition FREAKED me out. and i mean, by alot. its alright if there're alot of fallen leaves and branches on the water. but there were hell lots of them, in big patches some more. and i cut through on big patch of it. there were oil spillages and the water underneath the bridge by the cosy bay was stinky, plus muddy. i was so afraid. afraid of capsizing. but also because my left leg was already numb when i went down for the first round. i swear i was trembling in the boat.

almost died in my kayak and went to heaven.

if seletar is not as clean as macritchie, kallang is much worst off. low tide waters are really freaky. trash points all over the place.. nvm. i'll have to overcome my fear. just consider it as just my luck if i were to capsize at the wrong spots. ):

water training tml. shall see if i can skip friday's lessons for training. this is the first time that such a request has been brought up. weekends training, then monday's gym. that makes it 4 days of training continuously. okay. i wanna chill.

met up with HPT clique yesterday to celebrate jack's birthday. had kenny roger's. :D

it feels great to have them around. at least i know that i'd always have a group of buddies to fall back onto.

wednesdays lessons are just so great. right. i'm making a trip to town later on.

au voirs!

2008-01-14T10:08:00.000+08:00

shifted boats to kallang last friday.
the first thing we did when we got down at the water venture at kallang, is to check out the water condition and all of us were bending over the rock walls, over looking at the waters there.

adeline: EH!! got fish!!
me: *sniff sniff* eh. got smell sia..

saturday
met up with some of the girls at dobby and took bus to kallang. got there before 0745, which is freaking early cos i woke up at 5 plus? took quite a long time before we get down onto the water as we need to fix in the footrests and seats. no doubt, we're making a fuss when we're on the water cos definitely, seeing the water condition there, you won't want to capsize, even if you have to. was on k2 with hong. coach brought us arnd the training route. then after a round or 2, i took raptor k1. capsized once, fortunately. i was helping hong up when she capsized and this dragonboat actually asked if we need help. was kind of suprised cos it has never happened to us before. oh. and the ntu db-ters are hot! AHAHAHAHA.

kallang will be good- going out of our comfort zones, unlike paddling in reservoirs where the "sky is much smaller". paddling at different places is a brand new learning experiences and it allows us to adapt to different water conditions. the weather there was quite humid that you'd feel like having a dip in the water. and of course, when we capsize, its not because we want to dip in the water but it's because we lost our balance. 50cents per capsize eh. but thinking of how dirty the water is, you won't want to capsize.

work after that.

sunday
didn't go training. heard from jo that they saw dead cats and fish. and derek told me that he named the dead cats that he saw when he paddled pass them last time. so i guess there should be quite a number of dead cats there. but how the hell did they get in? jump in?

headed for work. bought another top. :D
town area was kind of pack, but not as much as on saturday.
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coach mentioned that he found a corpse there.

adeline: later you see huang na floating on the water ah..

-_-"

rmb? she's the china girl who's body got dismembered. internal joke. LOL.

kallang-a-lang~

:D

au voirs!

2008-01-10T22:05:00.001+08:00

photos up for NYE!! cheerios!

waiting for bev, and keeping a good lookout for her family as well cos we need to hide shawn. and i ended up being called "weird" by her bro. -_-"'

okay. shawn's over elated about bev's return. hahah.

GOTCHA! you saw that! it kept us entertained the entire night. :D

awwh. those 2 in black and their wide smiles..

waiting for the skytrain.

after the fireworks.

notice the resemblence?

TADA!! our grp picture!

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right. had UT today, the shortest UT i've taken and the entire test is only 15 marks. network was still quite slow today but better. we had a court case for cognitive today and my team was the defense. argued and rebutted alot but we had fun. :D training got cancelled today and i don't know the exact reason. walked arnd cwp and was in RSH for close to an hour deciding on whether to purchase the reebok shorts which was on sale and which design to pick. urgh. finally decided on the flat cutting, earth brown. :D

shifting boats to kallang tml. shall be drinking from the water bag that hong had bought for me. :D
let's whack harder during training. we want more than just to paddle well.

au voirs!

*3 more weeks before end of AY's break. 17 days to NCM!

we're refering to the water bag. LOL.

2008-01-09T18:19:00.001+08:00

thinking back at swimming part on monday's training, we had all finished our 10 laps and as a handful of us are gathered at the side, i realised that benjamin looks so much and especially like a lizard in his goggles, with the tip of the eye being stretched and him stressing his eyes to focus on his eyesight.

let's all take a look at how he looks.

HHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!
HOW'S THAT MAN?!

it was purely out of entertainment. he knows about it too. ^^
credits to adeline.

resources

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shall i get a cake or alcohol for my dad?

au voirs!

2008-01-08T22:49:00.000+08:00

today's lesson was on visual basic codes- the only part of all modules that i suck at. the best part is, i heard that the remaining few lessons are all going to be covering vb codes. ROARS!! couldn't really focus in class bcos i can't contribute much. managed to catch a wink during second breakout, in my jacket with the hoodie tightened and shoebag as pillow, curling up at a corner. how unglam. but it feels kind of good too. and i was woken up by yuexin, with the fries she had got for me in her hands. :D:D:D

water training after school. balance was much better and i did "leave better than how we started out". but still, a long way to go. ah neo made me capsized when he hit my paddle. how nice. and he said i hit his elbow. debreif after training and i've brought home 8 mosquitoe bites.

jo: are we going overseas?
kengwi: yes, we're going to spend the school's money.

and everyone was going "WOOHOO!!". but it did probably be in march. our season is coming, with alot of competitions coming up. my entire bag is aching. i feel it with every twist. ):
but i like the feeling though- satisfied. yet it leaves me feeling uncomfy when i wake up- i'll feel like going back to sleep and not moving.

UT on thursday. dad's birthday tml! i think i did be the only one singing the birthday song loh. its been always like that. hahhaa!

gtg.
au voirs!

2008-01-08T09:46:00.000+08:00

swimming 10 laps yesterday was good.

but i woke up in a shock. my shoulder area hurts and i thought i had injured my shoulder blades. how am i going to paddle?

well, its just muscle aches, fortunately. :D

au voirs!

2008-01-07T23:05:00.000+08:00

usually on my way home, i'd just cut through the HDB flats as its a much shorter route, unless its kind of late at night. yet today, i decided to take the longer way home- the pedestrain pathway along the main roads. no particular reason why, i just feel like walking abit longer before reaching home. maybe it was the songs in my phone that i'm quite addicted to these few days. maybe it just that i dread reaching home earlier? but i guess its the initial reason. walking at slower paces, listening to favourite songs and paying more attention to my surroundings doesn't seem like a bad idea at all.

and indeed, it did allow me to observe better and think more. i saw a cab making a turn out of the parking lot. the image felt so real. not that the cab i saw was fake or what but it just felt so real, so close. its like i've never paid close attention to it before. looking up at the blocks of flats around me, along the road sides, those lighted-up apartments made me wonder "what are the people in these units doing at this moment?". looking at kids crossing the zebra-crossing struck the thought of "what's their aim in life? what do they dream of becoming?".

then it suddenly dawned on me that last night, as i was walking along the same road after work, listening to the same songs with the environment around me being exactly the same, i was feeling tired and i wasn't actually thinking of which way i'm walking. it was my subconciousness that "brought" me home. since when did this subconciousness existed?

i began to think of my 17 years so far. how was it well spent? what are the acheivements that i've acheived, till this stage of my life? what are the mistakes that i've truly regretted? when are the times that i've enjoyed myself alot? were there consequences involved? have i treated my loved ones good enough or were they taken for granted at times? was i always thinking of being treated well, and not doing onto others what they deserve as well? when were the times that i was really selfish? what are my priorities in life? did i neglect others in the process as well?

now, i give thanks for being able to grow up in this family that i'm living in now, though not perfect, but it ain't bad. entering PHS for my secondary school life wasn't my wish but for that decision made by my mum, i got to know great people in there and at least my upper sec years were not wasted because of HPT. i give thanks. being able to work in heeren, though work is slack and boring at times, my colleagues and friends made my day, always. i give thanks. studying in RP definitely isn't my first choice but it wasn't the last as well and because of RP, i'm now in canoeing, doing something that i never thought i'd be interested in and training with great team mates. i give thanks for that.

so tell me, life can be carved out by yourself but isn't it about the people around you that makes the greatest difference of all? hence, they ought to be treated well also. you know, people like melissa are the neutrals when it comes to cliquing up. but it is because of people like them that we sort of derive joy from suaning them. i swear the suanning is purely to disturb her only. haha. and most of the time, she ends up laughing as well.

awwwh. people people people.

my dad just came to me and told me not to get a cake on the day after tml. he patted my head. & i realised that it was his birthday. how could i have forgotten?

despite the reminders, i'll still get a small one for you. :D though its only the 3 of us left, with my brother still away in brunei for his ns. ):

right. there goes my reflection. (:
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school's kind of messed up today, with the network being super duper slow and cracking our brains over the science problem. it was our sec4 physics- electromagnetic induction. haha! but all seems to be returned to the teacher alrdy. had training after school. ran, pull-ups and swam. gosh. it feels great to have swimed!

training again tml.

au voirs!

2008-01-06T12:30:00.001+08:00

2007 World Canoe Kayak Championships K1 500m

check this out!

2008-01-06T12:10:00.000+08:00

i miss macritche..

i miss the 1km lanes, i miss the world class pontoon, i miss the eyecandies there, i miss the clean water that we'll use to drink, i miss our old shed, i miss the usual washing up routines at the taps at the toilets (they have no showers at macritche), i miss the squeesy feeling on saturdays when there're alot of people waiting to launch or get up from their boats, i miss the times when u're not afraid to capsize bcos there're so many paddlers arnd you, i miss the small lagoon...

i miss macritche..

yet, i'm alrdy getting use to seletar alrdy. what to do?
seaweeds and muddy waters are the highlights of lower seletar. water snails are like the decos, the pink slimy eggs are like ^%&#$uy2@! (eeky!) and those people fishing are like the threats there, plus the big machine that clears the seaweeds.

that's lower seletar. but lower seletar is good. so is macritche.

au voirs!

2008-01-06T11:53:00.000+08:00

as usual, has been busy with training and work for the past few days, else i wld be at home watching videos. http://mysoju.com allows you to watch korean dramas or movies for free luh. CHEERIOS!!

had training ytd and adeline will say that i pangseh-ed her but i'd say she pangseh-ed me. different pairings this time round. and i was on single. took tiger initially but coach asked me to change into raptor with choung meng. i was thinking "chui liao lah.. think i'll capsized at the pontoon luh..". but it turned out better than the tiger. prolly bcos the comain for raptor is smaller and it limits my butt movements and all u can do is to sit there, and just sit there loh. didn't really use the anti-slips but i guess its perfectly fine. just a little bit of after-effects.

PT after training and coach was saying, "my grandmother can do more pull-ups than you.. my grandmother can run faster than you..". like LOL! and i said,"next time bring your grandmother along okay?". HAHA. coach has become more humorous after his marriage and i guess we all know why. haha! he was exceptionally happy yesterday. and of course, it wasn't the first time he has mentioned that but it was a long time ago.

headed to work after lunch and my nose started to drool. and its so uncomfortable. so bad that i left for home early. if only i can stuff ear-plugs into my nostrils to absorb the moisture, how nice..

didn't attend training today bcos of my runny nose. work later on. shall dry my wet gear now.

damn. it's starting to drool again. i need a pill for it.

au voirs!

2008-01-02T21:58:00.001+08:00

cut hair was done just right! :D and we did love to go back there for our next haircut. walked arnd bugis, lunched at parco's pasta and headed to centerpoint's POSB to cash out my cheque, spend my remaining $5 voucher at marks and spencer and redeemed my bengawan solo's voucher as well. it's nice to pay for something using a piece of paper, eh? LOLS.

i bought 2 chewy junior at parco and now i understand why it's called Chewy Junior- bcos it is chewy, and that why it is chewy- bcos it's "lao hung"! or we say, oxidised. haha. but okay lah. it has the donut concept though.

thanks joanne for the day! and i apologise for being late, again. :X

fishy's rule no. XXX - will be late, but within 15mins time frame.

heh.

but i guess i exceeded it slightly.

school has reopened and i see many uniformed students arnd me. come to think of it, i do look smart in uniforms. :D i was a councilor okay! at least for a year..

training tml. :D

right.
au voirs!

2008-01-02T11:13:00.000+08:00

oh oh OH!!!

HEH.

right. finally, i spent part of my robinsons voucher. was at the robinsons at raffles on new year's eve and took the only pair of small sized running shorts there, which happened to be mens. but it's alright. but the cashier told me that i wasn't allowed to use the voucher to pay for items below the value of the voucher, which wasn't the case. thanks to hong, the voucher was being brokened down into smaller values and i took a bottle in addition. 5 bucks left.

had steamboat across the road, opposite to the swensens at bugis junction with adeline, joanne, lala, shawn, hanting & alan. the food there is really good. and the milk soup tasted very sweet. :D $21.30/pax but it was worth cos the environment is clean, with free flow of drinks and ice cream- the RUM AND RAISIN!!! :D:D:D:D

walked arnd, and took train to changi airport to fetch beverly. everyone were so engaged in the "OK sign game". LOLs. we kept a lookout for bev's family and for bev's arrival, making sure that shawn is well hiddened. but he got found out in the end. HAHA! melvin, hong and ah neh joined us. went to marina for the fireworks, we didn't count down actually. everywhere was damn packed and one gets irritated easily. the senior left and the rest went over to melvin's place to drink. ah neh brought along her absolute raspberry, which smells good but didn't taste like how it smelled. i was tipsy and my vision start to change abit, with adeline looking extra feminine, ah neh looking extra fair and round, joanne looking kind of big, etc etc. HAHA! and i start to giggle to myself. that's when i know to pause for a while. walked home at 4 plus with ahneh and jo walking me to the junction. thanks!

woke up at 1 plus in the noon and prepared for work. haircut at chapter2 later on, with joanne.

au voirs!

2007-12-29T14:55:00.000+08:00

had training earlier on. k2 stingray with adeline. and it's getting better, at least we only capsized 4 times. changed into tiger with joanne and shimin but stingray is still better, though tiger feels more stable. right. soi finally had a taste of the PT they did last saturday and it was really very shag. but it felt good to have completed them. :D perhaps i'll get some anti-slip sheets, fold them or sew them in layers and have it on my seat or even footrest. stttttttt! its aching mad.

come to think of it, when capsizing at areas highly populated by seaweeds, which is along the 500m lanes, it did be safer/ better to not kick in the water, just float ur legs up. the kicking will cause currents and swirling to occur in the waters, leading to the seaweeds curling arnd you and that's where it seemed like the seaweeds has "eyes". got cuts from seaweeds again. and i guess it will accumulate.

suprisingly, training ended early. cos we started earlier than usual? LOL.

lunch and i saw the bball clique from my sec class. it was really nice to see them though.
trained home. shall visit robinsons tml in an attempt to get nike or adidas shorts with my $50 voucher. my pay is making its way to me and i can't wait for the end of the month, which means the start of 2008.

its been a hot day and a cold shower made my day.

shall get back to my videos.

au voirs!

2007-12-28T21:32:00.000+08:00

awww. saw those saw those???!!!! it was a stage performance when i was in sec 3, PHS's 40th anniversary. it was a assignment that every class has to do and our's got selected. it narrates the growth and establishment of PHS over the years, the lack of funds, the proposal kena rejected by MOE, SMB (school management board) cracking their brains, etc.. the practices for the play was tough, with every of our action being criticised by the principal and VP. but our teacher i/c guided us well. :D and all those performing were females cos the guys chickened out. aigoo!!

too bad i only managed to get hold of these few pictures from my school's website..

the costumes were really "vintage" or should i say obiang. hehe. but it's a job well done. we even brought the kids' scooter to school because of that.

so in conclusion? PHS suck. but the people and events that i've got to know and did, made me feel that my 4 years aint a waste. hehe.

au voirs!

2007-12-28T20:28:00.000+08:00

had training yesterday- doubles with ah hong. my feets and ass aches the most luh. ): it wasn't a good one though. but i'll continue to try and train. lost your balance? find it back and work on it.

sometimes, its we ourselves that gives the other person who's on the same boat with you, the confidence to balance well and go for every stroke. and sometimes, its the other way round- us relying on them? but either way, both parties play a part when it comes to double boats, definitely. but it is indeed true that we are able to balance better in different pairings. perhaps the mentality wise, or perhaps its just purely that we are able to balance. no one starts out knowing how to do a particular task. and it is definitely satisfactory, knowing how to do and to do it well.

who knows? it may turn out to be a rewarding one.

no work till this sunday, for i don't know why, as i've told my boss abt my schedule alrdy. but it's alright. feel liek hitting town tml, after training. guess i'd most probably be getting a pair of adidias or nike shorts with the $50 voucher from robinsons. i saw puma tights at the RSH at j8 and it's black!

i've been watching videos the whole day and it kind of felt good. :X

come to think of it, the new year resolution i made on 31dec06 was to grow my hair cos my hair was really short and i just felt the need to change my image.

but i don't think my image has changed much just that if i were to compare myself to back then of how i was, it did seem like a big difference.

right. so tell me who was that sitting on the toilet bowl? alot of difference meh? can't really see the difference also..

ooooh. how about this? my spiky hair.. i have shorter hair than that luh. but i think i look weird. guess it was the uniform part at my tummy.

tsk. can't seem to find the picture that portrays a better difference. so, see if u can tell which is me. i guess its quite easy to tell that i'm the 4th from the right, huh?! LOL.

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BEVERLY!! you can continue to be away in china for so long... guess we're all missing you alrdy, esp your bf. hehe.

au voirs!

2007-12-25T10:03:00.000+08:00

its been a hectic week. though things have been over and done with, i'm quite satisfied with it. shall start off with the team event last tuesday.

those that were presented were spilt into 2 team of 8. first task- 1 tiger k2 using DB paddles and 1 k1 using carbon paddles, take turns among the team and one person to participate an additional time. 2nd task- doubles with front paddler blind-folded, a pair from each team to be down at each point of time. 3rd task- relay sprinting. winner from each task to earn 10 points for their team and 8 points for the runner-up.

the prize was a total worth of $230 RSH vouchers to be spilted. and the 4 i/cs, though we didn't play, managed to get a share of $10 each. HEHE.

bob: tell me a good reason why i should give you one. (smiling along the way)

me: becos you all had fun. :D

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bought a sportsbra and headed home for some sleep. packed my stuff and my barang's really light as i only brought along a pair of trackpants, 1 red shirt and some undies. no choice. smelly then smelly loh. its our tradition since my first training camp. took cab to PHS at arnd 5.40am? realised that the gates were locked so i called jack to open it for me. according to the matrix, it states that we're to fall in by 6am. but i didn't check for the updates and was quite suprise to see jack went back to sleep. so i napped a while. alright. carried out activites from PHS to lower pierce, to bishan then to amk park and back to PHS again.

nalgenes- the ultimate bottle survivor.

standardization.

the circle circle and square square at command post. sihong and joanne! see, i did think of you all..

during games planning, my troop's game. see what i'm implying? the rest were giving me the "gosh!" look. LOL.

alot of fun times happened during the camp. the strands of hair found in the lunchboxes provided by the new canteen vendor, planning for nyctophobia with jinshi (with pinwen mentoring us), the suppers (stingrays, kueh tiao, chicken wings, rojaks, etc), debreifs, etc.

on the last night, our supper was steamboat, at 2 in the morning. LOL. i was dozing off and thought i could go into WOW room for a nap before coming for a 2nd session but that 2nd session never come.. on the last day, decided to stay for burdens instead. one of the trainees actually had a leg cramp for 2.5 hrs ++, which i think was pretty exaggerating. well, i shall not assume the intention. burdens was fun, with the breaking of 2 bamboo poles. yet, the trainees seemed not to understand what it meant. headed for pizza hut after camp break and this was the complimentary dish that i came up with- cheese + tabasco + a few drops of ice lemon tea + a slice of lemon from the drink + some sprinkles of chilli + garnishing. to think that pinwen and weiquan actually think that it's a complimentary dsh and tasted it la. hilarious.

cabbed home with reagen and winnie tan.

skipped training the next day because i was feeling damn shag and i suppose i won't be able to last the whole day. went for sunday's instead- feeling good. had lunch at mac (reasonable serving so at least, we didn't replenish what we had burnt). work, then home. and overslept. work up to find myself at yew tee station instead of sembawang, which was 15mins beyond. heng! there's still a last train to toa payoh.

shagged.

land training yesterday. ran from RP to marsiling and back to RP- 6.4km. on the last part of the run, i sort of shouted at ah neh to stop nagging though i know that she's encouraging. but i'm already feeling so frustrated with myself, though its only 6.4. i'm already on the verge and when people tell you to keep on going, it felt so hard. well, my bad. sorry. ):

went hunting arnd for a exchange gift and mine was sure unique enough. :D got a couple of x'mas gifts as well. chilled a while with colleagues at gloria jean's coffee before leaving for home. went off to yck to meet up the others for the knockout session. got to shannon's place at arnd 2. i was alrdy knocked out before we started drinking, due to training. yet i did drink, just not to the extend of getting drunk. mixed vodka with coke and ribena? tasted funny. then we mixed it with red wine as well. i was sleeping during the part where they gulped down bottles of heniken. woke up and continue drinking, abit. maybe i should try getting drunk. next time then.

unbearable.

AHAHAHA! LOOK AT REAGEN LAH!! he and his shagged face. drink some more vodka lah!

after drinking.

those drunkards playig stacko, ended up toppling the tower till they ended the game due to frustration. see that woman nearest to the sofas, with her head hidden in her arms, totally knocked out? she's smelling her armpits.. HEHE.

jinshi and i.

my popular xmas gift- bad lover voodoo. it comes with 5 needles. :D

did our gift exchange at 7am? LOL. thanks to reagen, i got a pair of thai-boxers. abit no link, but i still like it. :D breakfast at i don't know where but it's along the road to macritche. (:

au voirs!

2007-12-17T23:37:00.000+08:00

ex & present colleagues. of which only 4, including me, are still working. LOLs.

2007-12-17T21:07:00.000+08:00

wooooo.

have been really occuppied these few days. went for training on saturday. coach's finally back from aussie afte his 23 days of honeymoon and which he pangseh-ed us during our polite. i have so much to say. hence, i'll just include them all in.

i was paired up with adeline on k2 stingray. once i told adeline,"you just need to have boat confidence to go up on K boats. no matter what, even if u don't kick, press hard against the footrest..". and when we went off on the stingray, i managed to make adeline feel easy paddling with me but i, on the other hand, was feeling rather paranoid. what's up with me?! perhaps it's my mentality that i can't balance on k2 stingray with adeline but i have to admit that we're actually doing quite fine, except for me being too paranoid. where did my boat confidence go? yet, i'm so determined to find it back. capsizing 7 times is no big deal, with a new partner. like what coach says,"just go and paddle. capsize then so be it.."
adeline, i promise you, i'll cut down on the rate of capsizing.

training ended at 11.15 due to rp's open house. washed up, and headed for my sec sch- phs. managed to hear a little of the camp briefing and walked our way to the dry run. it was a far walk man. okay. try imaginating it. from yio chu kang, walk your walk to macritche to complete a station. it was another side of macritche, somewhere near the golf course, and where the waters seem much clearer. it's kind of secluded, so i guess you can do anything there and no one knows, except for the monkeys. hehe. walked out and went to the bus stop at the casuarina curry/prata house there. come to think of it, it seems to be quite near to run there. maybe someday,i can give it a try. or just to run to lower seletar did be good. :D i'll find time for it. took a cab to bishan where i changed out of my sweaty red shirt and bought breadtalk before going to town. weather's been really bad recently and it can start to pour like nobody's business. guess plan's did be really buang-ed out.

i was quite sleepy during work and as usual, it all showed in my eyes- redness. i can't helped it though. plus, shop closed a little later. hence, i skipped sunday's training and slept for all i wanted before heading to forever21 to get a long sleeve top, then to work.

home with derrick and aaron.

last day of RP's open house today. it seems kind of quiet during the morning shift at teamlink. hence, we're "exploring" other booths and getting lanyards, etc. prolly because of the rain, there doesn't seem to be much of a crowd. no idea. but we really enjoyed oursleves there. :D
if there only the crowd is bigger, it did be more interesting and fun for everyone. lunch, followed by shift at abseiling. once again, i'm doing something that i'm familiar with, and i kind of enjoyed it. abseiling station closed at arnd 2-3plus. hence, adeline and i went back to teamlink.

[during the morning shift, trying to disturb only.]

[fine. i was bored.]

[my new-found bf- handsome and build. :D]

[one of the helpers at abseiling. the one whom i made her hang in the air to take a picture first. it was her first time abseiling. so pardon her position. LOL.]

[star-wars, RP's version]

cabbed home.

shall be getting my tracks from brenda later on, like at 1am?! that's cos she was working. but how is she able to rest enough when she still has to report early for the camp tml? LOL. i have a team event tml and it's going to get interesting. hehe.

hehe = evil/ funny thoughts.
:D
hehe. HAHA!

guess i'll be returning home early to knock out and rest enough cos i'll have to report early for camp on the following day, like before 6am? they are gonna fall in at 6am. swee.

should be going for a dental check on friday, after i left the camp early, in the morning. hopefully.

things to get tml.
-poncho
-moisturiser
-lucido hair wax
-hydrocortisone
-tampons?

LOL.
guess i'll be updating on friday or anyday later than that le.
just wish that this hectic week will pass by soon.

anw, i just checked my emails and saw one that bob sent, regarding out pol-ite race's timing.
bev and i got the 4th placing for our k2 race - o2:48:72
and now, the timing for the 3rd placing - 02:48:54
bad timing, i know. but we were so close. it was like a mili-second.
nvm. we'll train harder, be it in new pairs or not.

au voirs!

P.S.

the eiffel towers that jensen got for us.

the guy's favourite routine - tao pok!

3 years of friendship- friends^ex-colleagues- chunfu, fishy, pinwen.

the wax that joanne got for me from japan. super cute cos it tiny, like my spongebob and bears a "g" instead of the "G" you see on bottles sold in singapore.

au voirs!

2007-12-14T15:44:00.000+08:00

last day at macritchie, on a thursday. most of the team.

the juniors.

the females. :D

2007-12-14T14:03:00.000+08:00

had water training ytd- 6 big rounds. not good enough. have to go faster and better. i'll have to co-ordinate better with hong. lala fainted, like OMG.

joanne is finally back from japan. she got me a mini bottle of gatsby rubber wax- so cute. and she bought us honeydew kit-kat from japan. hear that? its honeydew kit-kat. you can't find it in singapore, yet.

:D:D:D

i'll train harder. its my one and only interest.
for it, i will.

today's the last day of term3. quite slack today though.

RP open house from 15-17th dec. i'll be helping out for the whole day on 17th. i'll be at teamlink in the morning and at abseiling in the noon. cool shit man!

:D

work tml. leaving early with those who are helping out at open house, but i'm going for hpt camp briefin instead, gonna get sth first, before going for work.

au voirs!

2007-12-13T16:07:00.000+08:00

went to chongpang in search for the screw. i practically combed the whole area and asked arnd. but none of the shops seem to sell, including bikes and smith's shop. not even home fixed. went to meet up with classmates feeling depressed and tried, but they're just such sweet human beings. :D

so we squeesed up the bus and caiwei bargained our steam boat cost from 12/pax to 11/pax. she wanted to bargain it till 10/pax? but 11 is better than nothing. :D
had so much fun. ate alot. nice food they've got at chen huat live seafood. had some mens and womens talk.

i contacted billy to mend the damaged boat and to bring along the cable for the rudder. and the damage fees cost between $120 to $180. O.O"

headed for home.

alright. training later on. seoul garden with last sem's classmates was cancelled, meeting my troupe mates instead for dinner.

tired and busy.

i see that my interests is no longer there. but it's alright. for my past interests, i will. for something that i love so dear in sec sch, i will.

viola tan (cognitive faci) is reminding us not to play american pie or movies with pornography content, in class. LOL. "See no evil" has such high climax. i've watched the latest american pie alrdy. damn funny- horse semen. gross, but u ought to watch it.

gtg.

au voirs!

~~screw for rudder~~ = cable connector.

2007-12-12T11:58:00.000+08:00

had a little PT yesterday due to the thundering at seletar. the black cat at the shed is like so cute luh. but it nibbled my hand and feet. ):

i couldn't find the screw for the rudder at katib central and the boss told me to go to the smith's shop in chong pang. guess i'll be heading there after school. going for steamboat at marina bay with my classmates and guess what's the attire for girls? tee-shirt, fbt shorts and havaianas. hehe.

hopefully i'll have enough time to head for Wisma with the girls before steamboat, since we have to wait for melvin to end his driving lesson at 8. mmm.

right.

gtg.

au voirs!

2007-12-10T23:13:00.000+08:00

rights.

& so, had water training at seletar, the first weekend water training. at least the seaweeds aint that much as compared to how it was on thursday. and so, i got pangseh-ed by my newly assigned partner cos she overslept. got paired up with bev again. the rudder was really loose, i swear! and my direction was so hay-wired. so we got up the pontoon to adjust it. things didn't go well and the washer dropped into the waters. that led us back to paddling in a t2, and once again, i promise you, that the feeling sucks. i can't even feel it gliding. doing a bursting set in it is hell. but at least we felt very shag after that, so it meant sth. ;D took the paddle to work and i felt like being labeled as a weirdo. but i can't be bothered. just take it as i'm holding a bamboo pole will do. :D

john ong: WOAH! you moved your house today ah?!
i'm thinking "nb. so sarcastic for what?"
me: no lah! we just shifted our training ground but tml we've to go back to our original training ground. so have to bring home lo.
-----

eddy: you brought weapons to work?
me: -_-" HAHA. no la. i brought 1 weapon along only.
-----

tried out k4 on sunday with lala, qifang, me and bev. co-ordination wasn't good enough. partly it was my responsibility, i guess. but the next time will be a better one- my sit was too tight but didn't adjust it because we were alrdy in the midst of paddling. but it was exciting, really. guys k4 were kenneth, bob, hairul and hanting. they capsized 3 times and lagged behind us for 4-6 km. the real reason? their's were all high seats while ours were low seats. HAHA.

in addition, the passengers nearly mistook our paddles for support and held onto them, on our way in bus to macritchie. kind of embarrassed. but hello. it's a different color leh! like yellow and black? LOL.

reported for work at 3 instead of 4 because we're short of manpower. but tell me, with kork-ups within the management, a mood swing and a sarcastic boss, how can the staff last? except for a handful, including me. hehe. which is why, i normally don't pay attention to their comments.

it's really quite troublesome, having to bring the paddles around and worrying that the blade wouldn't get hurt. but it's alright. just get used to it.

had land today. shagged but feeling high. the trainings are getting more and more "interesting".

UT tml.

au voirs!

2007-12-08T00:36:00.000+08:00

supposed to be posted last friday.

the hardwork of today's lesson was the birth of our presentation, not through power point, but through blogger. and i swear that it did be much faster and easier using powerpoint.

check it out.
team5's presentation

:D

right. so we're suppose to try out the high elements at the adventure learning centre but it was pouring. probably the next half of the ALC training, i guess. we ended up playing 3 programmes- 1st, to stand in a circle, throw a ball, and to all catch it at the same time; 2nd, we were spilt into 2 groups, together with the wak boarding people. in the group, we work in pairs whereby one is being blindfolded and all to walk along the planks, to transfer the obstacle and the box over to the "ship"; 3rd, using a given number of blocks and planks, transfer the group from one side to another, whereby the planks has to be on the blocks at all times.

so judging from the games, it is quite obvious that what they're trying to bring across to us is basically teamwork, coordination, communication, the journey, being a team, etc.

its a pity to not be able to try our the high elements.

oh well.

its going to be a real busy period for me from now on. training plus work on both weekends, and training --> hpt briefing --> work, for next saturday followed by usual schedule next sunday. 1 more week till term break. i did better score well in my UTs. else, they're really pulling down my grades.

these are the photos we took on wednesday:

au voirs!

2007-12-07T10:04:00.000+08:00

yesterday's weather was bad- raining. but we went for water training despite the fact that it was raining. paddled k2 with hong, did 9km. been turning arnd the lanes till we HIGH ah! we didn't capsize at all! we're improving. but we're still wet, like totally. the seaweed keep getting stuck on the tip of the boat. they claim to clear all the seaweeds everyday but it doesn't seem to be that case. cos apparently, there's still alot of them!!!

we've all so fascinated over the photoshooting thing from the net, till the faci from another classroom came to told us off. like as though we care!~

i know that it has been going on for a period of time already. but pardon us. AHAHA. aint the last picture classic???!!!!

so cute seh.

alright alright. presentation later on shall be presented on blog. cool eh? i'll paste the link here.

high elements after school. :D:D:D

au voirs!

2007-12-06T11:29:00.000+08:00

had land training on monday. did gym, followed by swimming for 10laps. it was so shiok, for training finally ended early for us.

the officially last water training at macritchie was on tuesday. capsized for 3 times on k2 raptor with ah hong. we're getting better on the boat. like what chung meng says,"we didn't capsize, we were looking for something that we've lost on the water - balance.". hah. that sounds interesting.
so we took lots of pictures. but till i get hold of the pictures first.

when to shift the boats to seletar yesterday- our new home ground. so, sihong, melvin(S), bev, kenneth, hanting, ade and i were sqeezed onto the back of the open spaced truck. we got so high when we're leaving macritchie, for the wind was strong, and kenneth hooked his singlet on his neck and acted as a superman. it was all caught on video. ;D

then suddenly, it started to rain. and as the vehicle was moving, it felt like the raindrops were hard, hitting on our skin. kenneth and his stupid idea, shouted,"rain heavier if u've got the guts!!!". and true enough, it got heavier. there was once instance that it was so heavy we could hardly see what's infront of us. arnd 20 mins or so on the truck ride and it was agonising. felt like we're being punished. plus, kenneth sqeezed his wet singlet on me, leading me to feel so high. we're all shivering.

unloaded all our equipments and had them in the shed. left for home, wet all over.

i haven been able to sleep well these few days. come to think of it, its been 11 weeks of school alrdy. term break coming soon, then end of year break.

water training later on. rp open house coming up.
plus trainings, and HPT training camp, work. i'm going to be kept real busy.

au voirs!

2007-12-03T10:03:00.000+08:00

had training yesterday. only 2 handful of us were there because it was optional. bev and i took rp k1 raptor, adeline- rp k1 tiger, benjamin and yongann- cgs k1 tiger, chung meng and najib- rp k2 tiger, while the 3 seniors took K1s. so bev had already passed 250 when i just launched my boat. i could hear benjamin, yongann and adeline's voice at the pontoon while i paddle my way out. raptor is damn exciting can. and i do think that raptor is better than tiger. tap tap abit, soft paddle my way out and start taking full strokes and applying force on the footrest along the way. as i approach the 1km mark, i turn to look behind and i capsized. damn! but i cap at the 1km mark leh.. hehehe. so i shouted out to bev and she saved me. i only managed to finish 7km due to capsizing 4times. najib's k2 was damn shaky lah. i rescued them and just as i was about to paddle away from them, chung meng held onto my boat cos he was shaky, and it made me shaky. and i cap. HAHA. nvm about that. we're enjoying alot. and it was among the few times whereby it was so fun.

washup and headed to yoshinoya at j8 for lunch. bought bandages from guardian for my knee. bev left for work, ben went home while the rest of us headed to orchard early. bought donuts from donut house at taka and went to skate park(1). collected the tanks, met up with the others. checked out cineleisure first and bought drinks. went back to skate park and started the walk(2). collected goodie bag and went back to heeren to pass derrick his tank(3). from heeren, we went to taka (4). after grabbing a bite, some left for home while kenneth and melvin(big) met us up. went back to heeren again cos kenneth wants to look for some IT stuff and apparently, there isn't any IT shop in heeren.(5). and i've been walking to and fro from orchard to somerset 5 times. urgh. home.

UT test tml. training plus swimming later on. :D

our canoe girls, except ruth. (: HAHA.

2007-12-01T19:31:00.000+08:00

alright. so we had water training today. the guys took T1 first while the girls took k2 tiger- sihong and i, front and back. and as expected, the pairings experienced changes.

first 8km was good. we did "rock" abit but we didn't capsize. perhaps because sihong isn't that used to k2 bah. or that i wasn't used to pairing with her. LOL. so we came up of the waters, went over to the lagoon and did some practising in "getting in and out of the boats" with a little technique. then hong and i were assigned to k2 raptor. and god knows, i expected that we did capsize alot of times, and we did. 8km, we were told to complete. but we only did less than 4km due to all the capsizing, then we paddled over to the pontoon where rescuing was easier, in case we capsize somewhere along the 1km mark and no one is there to help, as everybody paddles towards the lagoon.

training ended at arnd 1.30pm and the seniors were doing their "stunts" on the boats, like standing up and sitting down, etc. LOL. it was the first water training that was so fun. no pull ups today, so we were all feeling rather elated. :D

went to j8 for mac lunch. filling tummy --> home.

maybe our pairings will continue to change. i guess we all just have to feel easy in the boat, like no other boats, be it tiger or raptor, fat boat ass or slim. feeling easy in the boat, applying pressure on the foot rest as you take the stroke and dare to go out to paddle will then be the most efficient way to master the boat. then we'll soon be lovers with the boats. HAHA. its a learning journey. it won't be easy, but it isn't going to be tough either. (: if jo and i can, so can we, and all of us.

right. we'll see how the pairing goes.

*water and boat confidence.

dinner's ready.
training tml.
aids walk.
chill.
home.
i guess.

:D

au voirs!

2007-11-30T23:59:00.000+08:00

contender challenge was fun. and we're glad that we completed all the wet ones first, consisting of dragonboat, leisure kayak, wakeboarding, scuba diving, life saving, followed by the camping ig, biking, high elements, bowling, running over the hurddles which i trip and fell on my knees, badminton, volleyball and lastly, the photo shoot for the whackiest pose. the wet activities took place all at the swimming pool. and i didn't expect them to really place leisure kayak boats on the olympic pool, though i did thought of it. no doubt, i suggested the whackiest pose with the "team player, team republic" bandana to be folded into a bra, with it across your chest and some kind of retarded face. HEY! WE WON THE WHACKIEST POSE AWARD!! :D:D:D HAHAH. HIGH HIGH. the prize was $100 swensens voucher, 10 but we only received 9 chapter2 $10vouchers, 4 notebooks, and 4 ankle stretch.

at the last 10mins of the challenge, we intended to go for tennis but it was such a long wait that we decided to just grab more bananas and fruits and just sit at a corner to eat. then we collected the goodie bag. it was such a cute gesture bcos the items included in it were so interesting - a jumping rope, adidas wrist pouch, mini republic soccer ball, stress ball, lanyard, towel. i guess that's it.

i definitely had enjoyed it. and i can say that i "sacrificed" alot for that photo shoot. well, at least it looks abit decent though. :D:D

decided to skip rj bcos home's connection to LEO is really giving me a problem. forsake abt ytd and today's grade then. sure get B. scarly i'll receive my first C. nahbeh. i should just do it in school.

anw, i was watching reuben kee's videos on youtube. just search for "reubenkee". the user is the exact name. his arrangement on the piano and the arrangement for the Dragon warrior theme is really classic. you ought to watch it if you have yet to. he's one of the 5 deceased dragonboat paddlers.
it's a waste, seriously.

life and dead happens, just a matter of time.

right. water training tml. with the right precautions and assurrance, nothing will go wrong. at least they're being prevented.

aids walk on sunday.
au voirs!

2007-11-30T14:11:00.000+08:00

yesterday, after being able to balance on K2 raptor. joanne and i, front and back paddler respectively.

feeling so high for we were able to balance. :D

going out.

our boat is abit weighty from our first capsize. but we still can spare a little while for photos.

SIA LAH!! capsize while doing J-draws. shocked.

nahbeh. it was because of chengxun, that guy holding onto the comain, whom tiled our boat and cause it to capsize.

awww. but we're still happy paddlers after all. HAHA!

AU VOIRS!

2007-11-29T23:22:00.000+08:00

relief faci was here for cognitive. she looks like a kid despite her being 24 and we didn't even realise her presence when she entered the classroom. guess viola's still better.

water training today. it was a "swimming lesson" for most of us because all of them got onto K boats alrdy. joanne and i got onto K2 raptor while bev was doing her K1 raptor. it was considered alright cos we didn't capsized after paddling for a while and had our laugh at the guys. they were hilarious can. and their capsizes were expected after countless tappings on the water. things were going fine till we approach the 500m mark and making a turn. guess i was quite noisy, for i was feeling high that we were able to balance on the raptor and that we cap cos we were thinking that we prolly won't get wet. haha. no one was arnd us, so we swam 2 buoys plus? which is around 50m. we got to shimin's boat, which capsized as well. holding on to their boats, we got them up and they got us up- self rescue. :D

dinner after that. melvin(big) was giving me a helicopter ride and it made my tummy felt so warm from the curry. and he disturbed me like nobody's business on the train home. i was nowhere between laughter and tears.

LEO's giving problem with the signing in and i can't access to my rj in that case.

contender challenge tml. be it fun or not, we have to be there. so we're just going to enjoy.

au voirs!

2007-11-28T22:34:00.000+08:00

school has been alright. couldn't do much about the calculations for science cos apparently, all my team mates weren't in school for the previous lesson. plus lingwhee has disappeared from earth and caiwei wasn't in school so we're left with the 3-man team. maths was alright, i guess. jensen's back from paris, for our enterprise. he bought us a eiffel tower, each. i chose the gold one. :D

as usual, been slacking in school for the past 3 days, after school, with oreo ice blended, french fries and chicken chunks. fattening seh. optional training tml, and somewhat, i can't wait to get back to training. the waters gave me a sense of belonging. contender challenge on friday. gonna have a fulfilling weekend this week.

runny nose since morning. and it seems like its going to accompany me to my dreams.
my dad seems to be pyschoing me to quit water sports. but it aint working a single bit. back to macritche tml. perhaps its the last day already. guess we'll be moving over to seletar real soon. i wanna use the world class pontoon first!!

"check out the classy pontoon~!"

woohoo!

modules selection up next.
cognitive tml, viola tan.
metaphors again.
wth.

oh. plus cognitive UT3. the UTs are coming to an end already. 2 more for each module.

au voirs!

2007-11-26T18:46:00.000+08:00

yesterday, at starbucks marina square.

look at this sexy babe! she's got arms below her!! :D HAHAHA!

as though the exit sign wasn't obvious enough. LOL.

now we've got company!!

at yuki & yaki. buffet eh!

cork face!

mortified, as usual. hehe.

making ice cream! :D

and that was the result after meals. this time, buffet- worst.

awww. she loves my tummy!

alright. im in cypher room now, with 4 guys playing dota, 2 girls and 1 guy hooked to heroes, another 2 woman knocked out on the floor. adeline's sleeping on my lap and its getting ticklish. HAHAH. ok, she just re-adjusted her head. ver hot sia, macham like warmed-up laptop. HHAHA.

bro's leaving for brunei again tml, back in may. woots! my birthday! HAHA.

au voirs!

2007-11-26T12:24:00.000+08:00

before.

after.

2007-11-25T12:33:00.000+08:00

yesterday was the day of the virgin race for many of us.

got to seletar by 7am. but my race was at 2.45pm. panicked, saw teammates completing their races and cheered. visualized. finally, it was our turn. the race was over in a snap of the fingers. and we came in 4th. it was so close, so close to the "cookie". but its alright.

this is just the very beginning.
and this sport is getting more and more interesting.

congrats on the seniors winning, plus shimin and jo's T2's bronze.

5 gold, 1 sliver, 2 bronze.

up coming event, canoeing marathon 2008.

we've made a deal and we'll be training hard for it.

we will fight for our first cookie.

training will resume next thursday.

double pairings have a possibility of experiencing a change.

"team republic" windbreaker coming on the way for us.

no work till 2dec.

going out later.

thoughts of the race still runs through my mind.

many "what ifs".

but it doesn't matter because dwelling on the past won't help.

its only our virgin race. and no one starts out perfect.

under the guidiance of coach and kengwi, we'll be brought to greater heights. all the trainings will be worth it. who cares abt thick arms then, when u can bring home medals?!

HAHA.

*this is just the beginning.

auvoirs!

2007-11-22T11:08:00.000+08:00

stressed.

we moved the boats down to LSR yesterday. the truck stopped at yishun stadium and we had to cross the road with the boats. did some weighing and we were assigned paddles. we'll be moving back to macritche though. at least after a period of time till shifting again.

we saw the bouys. quite far apart though. hope more buoys will be placed. training after school today.

we were told that the girls T2 and K2 only has one race, one final race. no heats, no semi, only finals.

stressed.

partner and i want to win. i want it badly.

lets see how things go later on.

i will give it all out. i promise.

urgh.
stressed.

au voirs!

2007-11-20T20:42:00.000+08:00

last friday. at causeway mac.

joanne.

beverly, partner!
spongebob-eater.

adeline.

we saw a big group of team singapore sportsmen at rp last friday due to the team singapore flag day, or sth similar to that. left eventually and slacked at cwp mac. we got bored so we started writing out names with both our hands.

well. its kind of blurred up. -shruggs-

something decent.

that was for my big head.

that's adeline's new identification card. i drew it. :D

home after dinner.

the next day, training day.

coach was at his own wedding dinner. kengwi couldn't come cos he's being the groom's maid. hence, marcus was here, coach's student, who got tekaned by him since 13 and now, in ns. so we did warm up, a couple of 500m sprint sets, plus a number of rolling starts. did visalisation, followed by part 2 of the training, then cool down, then to the pull up bars.

after our wash up, while we're waiting for the bus to bishan, we borrowed bob's okley.

WOAH!! SO SHUAI seh!! :D:D:D

had training on sunday as well, had work following that.

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so for the past 2 days, adeline sihong and i were at suntec for the standard chartered volunteer, packing crew.

for the event bags.

okay. and so as you can see, we weren't packing at the convention halls. or rather, behind the convention halls where loading and unloading was easier and also, where it got rather hot initially. but as we got less kan jiong with the work, it felt rather cool. that was by today. more are expected to be done by tml. but we are alrdy done with our 2 days of volunteery. so BYE BYE!

backview of the blue lumps. that was the gym bags, for the runners. and in each gym bag, was a event bag with brochers, pasta, berroca, deep heat, etc. we wanted at least a event bag. but to no avail. TSK!

this was after separating into smaller lumps for the coporates.

TA-DA!! she was the lady whom none of us in our team of 7 bothered to bother with. haha. cos she talks as though she knows everything. nvm about that, cos the main point wasn't that. at dinner, which was provided yesterday, she said that the bottle of chilli provided wasn't hot enough, in the end, she took the bottle of chilli home. then she intend to ka-pok the pen that we had to share arnd when filling up the volunteers' forms. no offence, but she really is the typical ones. haha.

the big big big convention hall 603

there were still alot alot of photos. but i have no idea where did the others in my phone go. nvm about them. shall just get them up soon. so we left after collecting our allowance and shirt. considering our workload, it was quite easy and worth it la. further more, we were provided with meals. went back to super heroes at suntec and bought a flash-tee. ade bought 2. they were having a 70% sales. so we went to bugis after that for hong's dorothy perkins top and went to army market for the china bag, which was selling at only $4.50.

home.

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that world class pontoon.. ):

the lanes and sunset that we've been using and seeing for the past 6 months. ):

oh. anw, i saw new bouys being set up at seletar alrdy. at least more bouys, like 4 to 5bouys for the whole of 500m course, better than the initial 2 buoys or so per lanes? this coming weekend will be the combined of 3 events- dragonboat PA race, kayaks, then to our polites. sighs. i'm getting butterflies alrdy.

i will give all out.

seaweed-y waters, here we come!

au voirs!

2007-11-16T12:56:00.000+08:00

had 'excursion' yesterday. didn't make full use of the training because we didn't give all that we have. i have to be more aggressive since im the front paddler and i'm the one breaking the water and setting the frequency. long, hard strokes along the way. kengwi was saying that i'm not agressive enough. we are putting in our efforts during sets but others see it as easy paddling. like wth. perhaps, its just not enough that we're giving in. perhaps. 1 week may be short, but its definitely enough for aggressiveness and harder strokes. stressed.

last day of the week, and there goes another week. UT's will be coming up continuously, i think. stressed. there's a possibility that we might be shifted to LSR for pol-ites and not shifting back to macritche. there goes the world class pontoon. there's even a short bridge connected to it. luxury eh. i mean to the paddlers.

double stress.

partner and i both knows that we want more than just to :
-enter pol-ites
-balance well
-be steady and go fast
-paddle hard
-have 1 or 2 good sets each training
-beat other schools and win,

but a thrashing win, and win our own medals.

not much time left. lets give in all we have. i'll try out aggressiveness this saturday and aim to burst my partner's bicep cos her's bigger than mine. :D:D:D:D:D

paddle it like ur first and last.
we won't want to have regrets.

au voirs.

2007-11-15T10:01:00.000+08:00

the academic calender card that was given to us in the beginning of the year wasn't accurate lah. it states 8dec to 2 jan which is abt 4 weeks. yet, the updated academic calender has been amended to 15 dec to 6 jan, like 3 weeks only. mmm. heng i texted john abt my schedule and amended it alrdy.

nature excursion to macritche in fbt singlet and shorts, not in team jersey or with any rp logo.

cognitive today. it's going to be real fun today. we're all like snatching the lots from the faci lah. and i got what my team wanted. :D:D:D

au voirs!

2007-11-15T01:31:00.001+08:00

sighs. pms period this few days. its either i'm too sensitive to my surround or the strangers, or i should just stood in one corner and reflect. little things can piss me off.

pol-ites next weekend, 24 & 25 nov. its a confirmed issue that we'll be shifting to lower seletar. but what about the WORLD CLASS NUMBER ONE PONTOON that they've just built at macritche??! i wanna use that pontoon first. lower seletar VS macritche, LSR = tiny + puny! really loh. shall get a pic of that. plus all the seaweeds in LSR.. )): world class pontoon.. )):

macritche
-has top/ national paddlers training in the same area.
-able to see their standard or "pattern".
-water though not very clean but fit for drinking, at least somewhere near 1km mark.
-1 buoy every 25metres, clearly stating the distance.
-world class pontoon
-public taps, though no showers for washing up/ bathing.
-plus, get to see monitor lizards swimming once in a while, and we were talking abt cooking tonic soup with it. HAHA!

lower seletar res (LSR)
-only nyp kayacks and rp db training ground.
-can see only our ppl training.
-water with lots of seaweed and unfit for drinking, though clear looking. seaweeds are lut sup can!! i can still rmb seaweeds flying arnd when we went to try out db the other time.
-only 4 or 5 buoys for the whole of 500m course or so. WOAH LAO! see what sia. have to rely on counting the strokes for maintenence and bursting, etc liao.
-no showers, have to walk all the way to yishun sports complex.
-freaking tiny pontoon!! with pink slimmies along the rocks. they call it fungi.

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OSG's idea again. cool. then u better get us more boats, with the 10 new paddles to come, cos obviously, rp doesn't have enough boats and we're now borrowing's CGS boats.

))):

au voirs!

2007-11-14T22:38:00.000+08:00

rainy day since morning. but i get to wear nicer abit to school cos there was no training. not that i can't wear nice to school when there's training but it's quite troublesome in a way. hence, i always wear t-shirt and shorts on training days. and ytd, we just got banned from the gym for a week, because of wearing SLIPPERS! like what the hell. the Office of Student & Graduate affairs, or what we call OSG in short, seems to be targetting sportsmen in slippers cos apparently, although the school rule states that no slippers is to be allowed, other "ordinary" students doesn't seem to tio this kind of trouble. i ain't one of those who wear slippers. i wear trekking havaianas, meaning brazil sandals. ok fine. nvm abt that. but db ppl got banned as well, the same goes for floorball boys and whic sports ig? nvm. each sports ig will sooner or later tio bann de. and the interesting part is, the floorball coach banned floorball boys. cool huh. but the main point is, our god damn it pol-ites is coming next weekend. and the OSG can like that bann us de. but, given the smart brains of ours, there are always ways of twisting the rule. just watch out. haha. flio shall be super free this week cos the gym is going to be super empty.

alright. we had enterprise today and our faci will not be faciliatating us for 2 lessons cos he's away in paris. hence came the female faci to relief our class. nvm abt her name. jensen, will you come back from paris with nice stuff for our class soon? the relief faci can't make it. she tries to make lesson interesting for us but she simply talks too much. sighs. jensen won't be back till the lesson after next. sian half.

hit town with jo benjamin and ade. the birds were flying all over the trees and it felt like bombs were falling down soon. checked out the brazilianos praias and decided on yellow, eventually. went to 4skins to look up on my colleagues and eddy (boss) was being sarcastic, asking abt my race next weekend. nvm. but i reacted politely can. how nice of me. now i sound sarcastic. i was informed to text john ong abt my dec schedule and i realise that my 1 month term break is coming soon. from 8 dec to 2 jan. thats really really soon. after that, another 4 more weeks and thats ours end of year break alrdy. woots! standard chartered next monday and tuesday. it did better be enjoyable. have to skip a UT for it though. tsk tsk.

alright. science UT tml.

au voirs!

2007-11-13T09:39:00.000+08:00

WOAH!! swee horh?! straight As for week 7 leh.. WOOHOO!

had land training yesterday. ran sprint sets yesterday. had alot of "patterns" yesterday. gym was flooded with alot alot alot alot of db ppl. so we went for the pull up bar instead. it was the combined of pull-ups, abs and squats in each set. we're released by 7.30pm. it was the first time, that we're released that early. alright. i just did my second UT for computting and mathematics. and i only did the mathe part, which held more marks as compared to the vb part. i can't do vb though. water training later on.

i think i'll be getting brazilliano prano over the weekends. the worn out sole of my havaianas can make me slip. i guess i can give it a try for brazilliano though. (:

au voirs!

2007-11-09T01:05:00.000+08:00

this, is my class guy's favourite action. i've caught them in videos though. :D:D look at their expressions. aren't they enjoying it alot? i mean ALOT!

partner and i :D

had water training this morning. raining, again. was told to bring running shoes along. but heng in the end, we didn't get to use it. sprint sets, again. tiring, aching. yet, partner and i were so close to a good set. jiayou! nevertheless, they were good sets. not much water trainings left. we had our laugh at those who went "balestier" during the sprint sets, meaning = out of the lanes. those who laughed at them got laughed in the end. heng!! partner and i didn't, for there was the rudder. direction wasn't really steady. nearly capped when doing our final bursting. quite a waste actually. had lunch, then went for work. left at 9. headed for mooks and bought a top. :D then for home. john ma was saying that i knocked off at 9 but went shopping when i can stay till 10. oops. hey, i thought my term break was after deepavali mah.. plus, it was the first time i got off from work at 9, can!! :D

min's birthday tml. meeting adeline they all in the morning.

urgh, rashes. ~~CCB.~~

au voirs!

2007-11-08T00:12:00.000+08:00

happy. HAPPY?

after our usual thursday water training, at evening.

sick camwhoring guys.and more.

:D

i believe in drinking from joanne's brain. partner, choke her!!

something we've been into recently, anywhere, anytime. except on the waters. HAHA!

2007-11-07T23:52:00.000+08:00

had water training on tuesday. till arnd 1 in the noon? was quite shag after all the sprint and bursting sets. thanks to partner who wasn't picky on me, despite me not being good in maintenance and the last bursting part. back was aching and my ass hurts like nobody's business. went for lunch at j8 and nevertheless, watched "the game plan" with the canoeist. there were like 12/3 ppl. it was the first time so many of us went for a movie can!! the row infront of us was empty, so we rested our feets on them. it was quite a nice movie. melvin threw my havaianas to the front rows of the cinema and tooked it away, making me have to walk one feet bare out of the cinema. damn. then they placed it on the payphone and told me to call my havaianas to ask where it is. like -_-'''!! nvm. toyed with the stitched that melvin caught and attempted to threw it into the bin. then big melvin and choon meng were playing scissors paper stone and the loser has to go for a haircut. melvin won, but he only plucked off a patch of choon meng's eyebrows cos cm plucked his. LOL!!!

caught a runny nose, followed by it being blocked.
slept halfway while watching youtube and woke up at 1 plus this noon. it felt so good to be having this amount of rest but my back was aching. real aching. then continued with youtube till i finished goong s. and i just realised that i've got work after training tml. sian half. but its alright, cos its till 9 only.

trackshoes to be brought along tml. a.coach says it will be sth interesting we'll be doing tml. must be running into macritche again lah.. its been like months since we last did so. and the waters super lut sup!! cos i'm the one having minor rashes now.

celebrating min's birthday on friday at the glasshouse!! :D:D

its been so long since i've gone out with the girls. it has always been school, training, school and training. but i have never resented both of these at all.

pol-ites coming in approximately 2 weeks time. starting burst, transition of strokes, maintenance, burst all the way till the finish point. partner and i knows what we both want. ;D

au voirs!

2007-11-06T00:03:00.000+08:00

our 1 week term break has finally started.

had our mini race on saturday. first was T1 events, 1000m and 500m. it was tough man. and i didn't had enough stamina to do maintenance all the way. pissed and dissappointed. came in 3rd for both though. then switched to k2 with beverly. this time, only 500m. shimin and joanne were strong as well. whacked like bull can. 2:24 for 500ms. still has got lots to improve on.

and we got selected for the K2 event. anxious and nervous. fear. but determined to improve.

went for sunday's water training as well. did 1X2km, 4X1km & 4X500m. woow. it sure wasn't easy. and i can't seem to maintain my stamina during the middle part of each set. its been hard on bev. but we're determined to improve it though. left slightly earlier becos of the standard chartered briefing that we had. met up with fel's friends. the briefing was sort of redundant cos only 1% of it concerns us. hehe. nvm. hit town with them. hong went home. then we headed for taka from heeren and got parted from them. ade went home while i met up with derrick to slack. woohoos. walked arnd orchard and headed for home.

went for land training today. did running sprints. nearly breathe my lungs out of me. bad. did gym, increased my weights, did pull-ups and abs. then went for a swim in our usual "smoked" in attire again. hehe. but the life guard allowed us though. ot was so nice to have a swim after training. and we all got burnt. had lunch at foodhaven, and met up with the others. headed off to velocity in search for tights and puma cap. only managed to spot one adidas tights which was really nice. but its cost like $40- black tights with red stripes on the side. sexy sia. but only left with XL. the adidas at velocity is like a factory outlet and they're having sales there. can check it out when u're free though.

spent quite some time at the donut factory in velocity and took pictures there! :D

then headed off to j8's RSH with bev, joanne and adeline. decided on a navy blue dry-fit nike cap instead. and i saw the adidas tights there, XS and M. XS was alright. looks great though. same price and still pondering.

then headed for home. tired sia. shall turn in alrdy. water training tml. maybe i'll join my classmates for sentosa on wednesday. or i'll just slack arnd at home. i need a good rest. can't afford to fall ill at this moment.

gtg.
au voirs!

2007-11-01T23:06:00.000+08:00

alright. had water training on tuesday. bev's neck was still hurting. so she didn't go for training though she went with us. so i had to take up k1 instead. it felt bad, really. i couldn't even balance myself when trying to go fast, i didn't even dare to pull my first stroke hard. felt disappointed with myself.

went for gym session with joanne. did mainly lats plus a little bit of tricep pull. kenneth was having fun with the tiny basketball and the stick in the gym. the guys ran their 6km but was said to be lack of 1 lap. tricep is aching now.

had water training again today. bev was there, but not down for paddling because of her neck. you know why. so i had to take k1 again. used rp boats cos it'd be too late to wait for the CGS k1 boats. rudder insensitive and i capsized 3 times. fucking pissed and disappointed with myself. felt so useless. teared alittle because i was hoping for myself to do better. i didn't even dare to pull my first stroke hard, as well. bob told me to have faith in myself and keep trying for thats how they got onto their k1. thanks for the encouragement though. but i'm still feeling disappointed with myself. guess i need more than a chill pill. if i ever teared while paddling, that did be the first one who cry while paddling man.. LOL. what made me pissed was that i wasn't even shagged out bcos i dare not go all out. even if i do try to go fast, my balance and the insensitive rudder is stopping me. okay. no point blaming it on others.

i want to get selected for pol-ites like everyone else. there are things that i want to prove for. there are things.. there are first times that i want to have as well..

BEV BEV BEV, please take good care of your neck and recover please.. i want to go back on k2 with you. i can be the one turning my head arnd and kicking, u can just look ahead and paddle. (:

sighs. so that marks the end of the 4 days of continuous training. and thanks to the guys, bev and i got selected as the new in-charge. so were benjamin and chengxun.

went for dinner at kfc. had alot of fun and talked cocks till bev, adeline, joanne and shimin couldn't continue their meals. :D:D:D thanks for cheering me up. the faith is not lost. i need time to find faith in different boats.

thats all bah.

au voirs!

2007-10-30T02:08:00.000+08:00

bob was asking us about how we feel towards pol-ite, after our training.

and lala was saying that she once told coach that she is feeling nervous. and coach's reply was,"you're nervous because you're afraid that you can't win."

it was so true.

frankly, tell me. now that we're only left with less than 10 junior girls in the team than the initial 20 or so, who doesn't want to represent the school for pol-ite? who doesn't? even i myself wants to be selected for pol-ite. be it a kind of acknowledgement or what, but i want to bring home medals as well. i want to prove to my parents what i've been doing so far in my training and my commitment was worth it. yet, i am so nervous, so afraid. bob told us that we'll be having the selection for pol-ite this week. today's 6km run was taken into consideration and our timing was taken. 35:45. yes, i know that's considered slow. and running has been something that i always dread since young. i have never run long distances in my secondary school life, except for napfa tests and i'm sure not among the fastest. it was till i got into canoeing that i get myself running, because i have to, i have to train my stamina. 7.5 laps. each lap, i was pyschoing myself so much, so much. "come on, 4 more laps, 4 more laps! 3 more! just hang in there. it will soon be over! okay okay! just the last 1.5 laps. sprint your way off at the last o.5lap!! go go go! you can do it!". it was so hard on me. running is not hard at all. but being judged with running as one of the criterias, does seem challenging. its the mental that's hard.

time trial this saturday. give it all out le. this may or may not be my first competition in RP. if i wanted to earn that medal, i have got to make it happen. at least it gives me a chance. water training on tuesday. shall be hitting gym this thursday and going for optional sunday training till 24nov, canoeing pol-ites.

only 4 polys will be participating. and the standard for females isn't high in singapore, than to say in polys. but there will always be competition.

mental + strength + endurance + commitment.

gtg. auvoirs!

2007-10-29T09:33:00.000+08:00

Fishy,
Being human beings, there are always times we do not perform up to our own standards (e.g. talk only, no action).
That's where emotional intelligence comes useful.When we do not feel like taking action and moving forward to do what we need to do, this is when winners stand out. They are able to control their emotions, and push themselves forward to do things they need to do even when they don't feel like doing.

Having said that, we may not have to strive to be perfect, just be better than who we were yesterday. Philosophical huh? :o) I am sure you know what I mean.

-by jensen siaw, my dumb enterprise faci. :D

sounds so true. it was written in my comment for individual.

and wen kok, is famous for this phrase:
"the greatest mistake in life is not learning from your mistake."

:D

we got our jerseys last friday. though it wasn't the best, but it sure gave me a sense of acknowledgement in the team. but seriously, the fonts are effing small. LOL. we wore the team polo after training, which was the red jersey. and saturday felt like such a bloody saturday. tml as well. water training. :D

gtg. back to second meeting. :D

au voirs!

2007-10-25T18:02:00.000+08:00

WEEHOO!

oh yeah. its been a week plus alrdy. not considered really busy. but just as usual. water training last thursday was cancelled cos apparently, the bus company was full. so we sat down at the sports complex, watch mel get scared by scary movie clip, fiddled with wax trying to create something out of my hair, watch mel make a cartwheel while we fall due to the big impact of her turning, laughed alot, dinner after that. training on last saturday- k2 with joanne followed by k1. my partner got exchanged away. she's alone on k1.. she doesn't want me anymore. coach doesn't us together.. okay, fine. enough of all those. lunch after that and headed for home early. got knocked out immediately.

skipped sunday's training and went for work after that. saw lots of people- kelvin, eve, shimin, victor, xiuanpin, benedict, etc. how nice of them to look me up. then i saw faizal. that really made my day. waited for derrick to knock off from his work before heading for the train station. they took their puffs while i stood aside and watch. home after that.

land training on monday. 5.6km was increased to 6km. be it that slight increase of just 0.4km is enough for us to complain about it. usual gym sets, then headed for the pull-up bar. pull-ups were halt due to the rain. continued with our abs in the sports complex. bob said 2 power set but we ended up only doing one. new member just joined us on last saturday - kristin. i spelled her name wrongly, if im not wrong. but it sounds like that. its going to be hard for her to start doing sets that we are doing now as ours increased over the time. it will just take her some time before she gets used to it. (:

this week's thursday's water training was changed to tuesday. meaning combined water training. and EEYER! its alright that the water was choppy due to the winds. but the water was so foamy can!!! TG that we didn't cap around the foamy areas.

went ms yesterday to get the medic bag from 4skns. window shopped arnd, dinner, then home.
checked out the adidas windbreakers and royal sporting house's puma dry-fit caps. super nice! especially the black one with gold prints. but i'm deciding on whether to get the puma cap or adidas.

in the school library now. the first UTs of each module just ended today. UT2 coming up next thursday. sian sian.

i'm starting to enjoy being in W34P now. :D

gtg.
auvoirs!

2007-10-16T15:28:00.000+08:00

just wondering, why didn't i make a sacrifice to commit back into something that had been a great part of me, just months ago, or when i was in secondary school? i wouldn't want to say much about it because it just felt like an excuse. seeing the others commiting so much for it just to make it possible and a good one, again, i felt guilty. all i've mentioned before during the 2 years among my secondary school days felt so much like rubbish. to put it in other words, it just a matter of whether you want or not, or are you willing or not. well, DPDS- different people in different situations. perhaps i'm no longer in the position to comment anything on it alrdy.

the camp will be a successful one, definitely.

2007-10-16T10:14:00.000+08:00

had water training last saturday, no work :D then we headed off to amk central for lunch. in the end, we're left with bev and benjamin. walked arnd amk hub and went to grab food, sat down at the giordano area there and munched on. we found the legendary cotton FBTs in NTUC. LOLs. shagged.

went to try out dragonboat last sunday. we ended up running from the stadium there to seletar cos we're running late. went down and paddled. it was super fun. LOL. then we did alot of "patterns", like 10 hard strokes, J-cut strokes and compete with each sides to see who wins, paddled the boat in just 2 pairs, then in pairs, and then solo. it was very enjoyable though. but the after-effects weren't very nice - bum pain and right back pain.
went for work after that.

had land training yesterday- raining. hence we did 10 mins of numerous jogging around the staircase on the 3rd level of the sports complex, 3 sets of power sets, gym, pull-ups (increased to 55pull ups), and abs. now not only my butt hurts, my abs and my back hurts as well.

got home last night. super shag. revised my UT this morning. i could have done better in today's UT luh. damn it. wasted. spent too much time on the first few questions though.

the others went for HPT camp yesterday. i hope everything will go well and i know that everything will go well, for they won't allow any mistakes within thier means. jiayou bah!

gtg.
auvoirs!

2007-10-08T00:04:00.000+08:00

whees!!

okay. went for water training on saturday. training was spilted into 3 sessions. did 2km warmup with bev on k2, followed by 4km; switched to t1 and did 4 times 1km; 6km on k1. the bad feeling on k1 was back, and i felt super shag. bev and sihong tried k2 with qifang and lala, respectively. so good. mmm. nvm, back to what i was saying, the stressful feeling on k1 is back. felt super much like capsizing but nevertheless, i completed 6km and coach said OTOT. didn't capsize at all. -clap please-* hehe. the sun was super big and there was once when i felt like my ears were going to get cooked soon, so i quickly patted it with water. no idea why, but there is always this feeling that something is stuck in my chest, causing chest contraction or discomfort. i managed to twist and exit the paddle sideways, which was what coach told me last week. did refreshments- pull ups 1 to 7 and 7 to 1 in the pyramid style, plus one power set of tiger torso. my back is aching again. went for washup and ran for the bus to j8, super hilarious! chengxun and melvin didn't make it for training bcos they were late and they waited for us at bishan for 5hrs.

prawning at katib with adeline, benjamin, benedict, chengxun and big melvin. rented only 2 rods cos only melvin, chengxun and i were prawning. managed to caught 23 prawns within 2.5 hrs, which was a great acheivement! woots! but my nose wasn't friendly cos it was runny ytd. went to chongpang for dinner then to home.

didn't go for training on sunday cos my back was aching and i seriously felt so deprived of sleep. went to meet the guys up at j8 after their training. wahyudi left for church while yongann, big melvin and chengxun take train along the marina bay line with me. i dropped off at somerset and went to heeren earlier. was window shopping and i went to check out crumpler. fucking sexy can!! the complete seed is so fucking nice!! i tried on the blue and the green one. mmm. addicted. wait for me. i'm coming to get you next month! WOOTS! john ong(oneof the boss) came during my break and i told him abt working only on sundays during this period of time cos saturdays training has been ending rather later recently. then he asked me till what time. i thought of telling him a later time but he told me its alright and let me take a break during this period of time. then i told him that my saturdays training very shiong and i'll be very tired if i were to come for work, which is very true lah. then he told me to take a break and that if its genuine, its alright, cos those who aren't, are already not in his list alrdy. well, i'm definitely not lying. one thing i can promise you is that as long as you are able to compromise with my schedule, i'll work with you although u pay me peanuts. i rather do a swee swee one once a week than to come for work on both weekends feeling super bored and shag from training.

hey goreous came last friday. took pictures with milubing then went to library to chill with joanne, adeline and benjamin. drew explicit pictures(for more details, check out adeline's blog), left for cwp in seek for shorts but ended up looking at sports equipment and trying out dry-fit caps. shall get one if i'm going for pol-ites. or i'll be getting one soon, either way bah. derrick passed me the top today. BIG THANKS TO DERRICK!!

anw, i saw mel's miss call after my work and i called her back. yongann, peisi and her were at orchard to collect her pay. so i got down at orchard to meet them up. regretted man. sighs. LOL. nvm.

aight. land training tml. whack it man!

gtg.
auvoirs!

2007-10-04T18:42:00.000+08:00

went for a talk instead of water training earlier on because from the period of november to april, there will be no SAS talks which means that we wouldn't be able to chalk up our DA+DP points during that period of time. plus, i can still turn up for sunday's training and i did turn up for last sunday's training. so no matter what, my attendence will still be within the required 75%. whees! no work on saturday! going to go for prawning. and i'm wondering when will the dates for pol-ites be settled cos i need to settle dates for my work as well. plus, if it happens to be in november, then i'll have to see to it that it doesn't clashes with my work and also the voluntary work at the standard chartered marathon, for free goodies bags!

now, i'm waiting for the guys' training to end and they are having their swimming as their remaining training- 10 laps i think. if my laptop is ever going to die on me, i'll have to survive on my phone's songs.

another week is coming to an end. saturday's refreshments freaks me a little when i think of it. but nvm. shall be enjoying on saturday! hopefully can get the num tee from derrick this sunday. i've been waiting for it for a week le. but he's doing me a favour mah. so, i'll just have to wait, till he does all his other staff purchases this sunday.

shall end off here le. i'm going to keep track of all my swee swee grades man- 3Bs and 9As. woots!

2007-10-02T15:12:00.000+08:00

so much to talk about what happened over the weekends. the guys got to go on K2 on saturday's water training and benedict was so happy that he actually teared!! not abit, but alot lah! HAHA. and they've actually progressed quite fast cos quite a few of them are able to balance on the K2 and go to and fro to 1 km mark. did 8km of K2 with beverly, i think. then we switched over to K1 for the girls. almost all of us got onto K boats alrdy! congrats!

yet, it felt very stressful on K1. probably i didn't take enough food in the morning to absorb my gastric juice or probably whatsoever. but it felt so hard to breathe on the boat. so uncomfy. but the feeling to be able to go far does feel good. went for sunday's training. joanne and i went on K1 and coach told us to go for 12 km. joanne and i were like "woah!". like damn super stressful lah. then the guys were to complete 12km in T1, but the first 4 who completed 8km, can go on K2. then benjamin, hairu, chengxun and yongann were chionging their way. the stressful feeling on K1 is back, and this time, even stronger. its either my butt is too big or the seat is too small and i can feel my "soft bones" gua-ing arnd the seat whenever i twist. plus, it felt as though there is a "burp" choke somewhere in my chest and i'm unable to get it out. at times, i felt so much like capsizing i just refuse to allow that to happen. capsized twice in the middle of the lanes and once when i was going back to the pontoon after my 12km. so wasted. but its alright. joanne and i were laggin behind the guys cos we're trying to balance. but when we finished our 12km, benjamin and chengxun still haven started their 4km cos they keep capsizing. and i saw them capsize right after they've been rescued, while yongann and hairul finished their 4km after we've finished our debrief with coach.

work was super boring and boring on saturday and sunday respectively. but i'm skipping work on saturday cos i'm going prawning. like finally lah! i've always been missing out on the fun that they've had after training while i go for work. so sad. plus, i've got derrick to help me get a num tee. think he'll pass it to me this sunday though. excited!

i just got my pay. shall see if i can cash the cheque by today. else, i'll drop it into the cheque bin.
i think science is a gonner for me ytd. sure chui de. and i nearly missed out my rj. but i did it this morning. so i hope can still get a B, don't spoil my swee swee grades.
land training yesterday was alright. we did only 1.6km sprint set, followed by bball and captain's ball. and i got a head shot from kenneth. good job ah! then followed by gym, pull-ups and abs. bev's blister was hurting her and it kind of affects her. may her blister recover soon. in addition, we managed to zham bev's face with cake ytd! at least it creates a memory for her though. :D:D:D

out with the girls later on.

gtg. auvoirs!

2007-09-26T22:39:00.001+08:00

watch! or search for "miss swan" on youtube. super funny! but its been quite a long period of time ago alrdy.

2007-09-26T14:35:00.000+08:00

had land training on monday. ran 5.6 clique. was tough but at least it was better than the first time i did 5.6km. abs was increased from 50,100 to 60,100. went home after training. shagged. but i took dinner first, before turning in. else, i'll kena tekan by my parants.

went for lab talk yesterday with nathan and friends. then i met up with joanne, shimin and chengxun after the talk. they took my phone and intend to hide it from me loh. and they think that i'm so easy to bluff. how can they be so heartless to leave my phone alone? HAHA!

went to send bev's hard drive for repair, seeked for sparkles and candles at the pasar malam, then shimin and i head off for dinner and home while joanne went with chengxun to retrive the hard drive and grab a bite. met up with shimin at 8.25pm, bought HL milk- 2 choco for jojo and i, 2 original for shimin and chengxun, 1L each. gam milk till so shuang lah. then now cx has got like so many milk cartons in his fridge cos we left it there. we made 2 rockets initially and tried it out at his roof. it didn't worked. and it caught on fire. so we wet the grass with the tap spray. ended up that we began playing water and wetting each other. WAHAHAH! then his laundry was done and he dried it. sighs. conclusion, guys wont touch what is left there in the corner of the house unless he have to or left with no choice. LOL.

continue to make more rockets in an attempt to shoot them. the rest started coming in. yuxin, ruth, sihong, melvin(big and small), adeline, benedict. went to xiao gui lin to try out the rockets and the first 2 were super successful! good job. HAHHA! benedict's didn't work out. the super duper thick rocket that we made didnt work out. but it gave a super big effect. sailed "sampans" and threw sparkles into xiao gui lin, which gave a "chuit!" sound. LOL. cool. took cab home with joanne at arnd 1? the night surcharge was expensive. like $7 bucks?! god damn it.

ruth's love for billy. LOL.

my first "sampan".

my 2nd attempt "sampan", with science being taken into consideration. HAHA.

"sampan" tio stuck due to trash in xiao gui lin.

us. :D

although i didn't get to stay over, but the few hours of fun was more than enough. totally enjoyed myself.

school today. met up with joanne, bev and cheryl? couldn't rmb. STM. those who stayed over didn't meet us up cos they were still at cx's hse. was abit snooked during lessons. but it wasn't as bad. met up for 1st breakout. didn't go for 2nd breakout and i think too much indoor is causing me headache. but anw, i was so addicted to the crumpler pictures that i kept browsing them online.

The Soupansalad , $153

The Complete Seed, $183
The Western Lawn, $98

HAHA. nice eh?! there were times when i felt like quitting 4skns and gettting a better pay job or go and work at events where quick cash and good money is being paid. shall see how. it kind of felt like wasting my time there. although i've known really nice people over there. to stay or to leave? if i leave, i'll be having more free time on weekends. and $4.50/hr is effing low.

gtg.

auvoirs!

cognitive plus water training tml.

2007-09-21T23:18:00.000+08:00

last friday

BENJI!! you'd better read my blog more often, though i may not update it as often okay. hadn't talked to you for quite a while already. how's everything coming along? how's FYP? things ain't so tough as they seem. for all is in control. or maybe not. (: i miss benji, for he's a super duper nice guy during orientation. :D

i guess that's how hy could feel towards me. oh yeah? well. it didn't matter anymore. but probably i'm still alittle bit not yet convinced by myself.

so anyway, managed to pulled through communications today. faci was a bore. i've got a A and a B so far. considered alright i guess. after all, its only the first week. went out to carrefour at suntec with joanne, adeline and sihong, in an attempt to get a clothed FBT. but all that was there were dry-fit materials, which wasn't as absorbent. then we discovered a oranged-based with black, FBT. it will sure work well as a jersey cos firstly, the reebok's white jersey is too expensive for some. plus, those who are not going for competition may not get refunded for it, and in turn, have to pay for extras. 2nd- it works within the budget and we could get a team shorts or towel with the remaining. 3rd- the color is less prone to dirt as well. so thats suppose to be a workable proposal i guess. shall upload the pics tonight.

showed bob the pictures on saturday when we're on the bus for training and i realised that he has the same on at home. but he doesn't mind getting one new piece. did k2 with bev for 10km minus away 1250m. then i tried k1. and i only capsized once. woohoo! but of course got water in the boat la. but abit only. hilarious things happened when i'm back at the pontoon. i couldn't get up the pontoon, my boat floated away while i was trying to help yuxin up, hence i have to jump back in to get the boat. embarassing. when for lunch then to work while the others went to fish for prawns and headed to chengxun's house for stayover plus dota. work was a bore. no idea why. prolly of my mood when i got to 4skns. but the crowd was damn big, to me la. sian. saw him, but i didn't feel anything unusual. just like ordinary friends. met up derrick for home after work.

skipped training again on sunday and went to chengxun's hse. was having a bad flu there. didn't go for work either, but i did account for it. not like melissa. wahahaha. played piano, watched movie. slacked and snooked arnd at cheng xun's hse. kenneth played jay zhou's "an jing". super talented! ask to watch it from cheng xun. classic seh! went for dinner then to fish for prawns. caught 11 prawns- melvin(B), kenneth, yongann, chengxun, benedict, shimin & i. the dog at the farm there looks quite big, though. and this particular prawn just refuses to be BBQ-ed. it jumped off the fire, and fell onto the floor.

got home at arnd 11 plus. had a fun day ytd. no bad no bad. at least i didn't regret not going for work.

kind of snooked. shall rest earlier today.

gtg.
training ltr.
au voirs!

moved on alrdy.

2007-09-21T09:11:00.000+08:00

he replied in regard to the previous IM that i sent him when he was offline.
main point
him: den when can i meet u for movie again?
me: wed or friday loh.
him: wa
him: wed or fri loh.
him: u not willingly
him: lol
me: pardon my question
me: but whats ur mentality when ur asking me for a movie?
him: erm
him: miss u
him: haha
me: mmm. so do u always ask ur friend out for a movie when u miss them?
me: u r dammn tricky
him: haha
him: it all depends
me: tricky meh?
me: haha. what do u mean by "it all depends"?
him: depend on who
me: i see. have you misleaded anybody in any case?
him: as in?
me: as in giving the other party the wrong idea.
him: donoe le
him: did i mislead u?
me: i have no idea.
him: haha
him: don tink so la
him: tot u said u r turning in?
me: cool.
me: yeah
me: soon

then he ended the conversation saying that he needs to return to his room because its hot at his com there. well, guessed i've scared him off already and thats the furthermost my courage can bring me to asking for an answer. but whatever the case, i'm moving on. i wouldn't want it to be seen as otherwise though.

moving on.

au voirs!

2007-09-21T01:17:00.001+08:00

watch it! f-ing k4 and c4!

2007-09-20T22:48:00.001+08:00

):

its not as though it has never happened before. but it didn't occur to me that this particular occurence today will have such a big impact on me. no matter what happen, it will always be my fault. its not as if i'm not old enough to gain your trust and to avoid such mistakes but somehow, i just heck care about it at times and make you worry. you're worried, yet at times, you have no idea how to express it in the right way. maybe some communication modules will help you in that. but you will never have the time for that. i have always wanted to talk to you nicely and treat you alot better than how i am doing now but somehow, there are just somethings that you have misconception for and just didn't understand. perhaps that's called age gap. but why of all people, you would rather trust those bitches at ur workplaces, rather than me? that hurted alot and it felt even more difficult to get the idea across to you for i know u're as stubborn as me. on the other hand, thinking of how hard you've worked for the family and whenever i'm hungry, you cook for me; whenever i say that i'll wash the dishes after my meal and failing to, you always do it for me; you always give me extra allowance despite it being tight for you; you always make it an effort to make milo and snacks for me in the morning when leaving for school or for training. damn it! i feel so indebted to you. and it ain't the first time that i'm tearing when blogging this down. i yearn to be more mature in my thinking and not to let you worry. i shall fulfill the promise i made to my brother.
-thanks mum!

school has been alright so far. new class's gonna be very fun. 10 more days and i'll be getting my pay. 1 more day to the usual weekends. arnd 3 more weeks to pol-ite. wonder if i'll get into the competition. shall be pulling with more effort. shall be returning home before 10. anw, i just received the navy recruitment letter. should i change my course? random? i thought so too. mmm. nvm. had water training just now. went on k2 with bev. easy paddle to 1k mark, went for 4km continuously(back to 1km mark), did 100m of hard strokes, followed by 50m easy, for 2km. then easy to 250m and back. so i guess that makes up to 7km.

i'm yearning for someone. but who? i guess i shall move on and look for better choices at the same time. no matter what, i shall find a time to ask him what he thinks. at least it gives me a answer.

gtg.

au voirs!

<3! mummy!

2007-09-19T00:24:00.000+08:00

i just asked someone whom i thought is able to give me the answer. i mentioned if i should move on and his reply was "i think you should move on..". so i guess thats all i need for my answer. probably i've been the one who's been thinking a little too much about this but what's the matter with the words being used in the text messages? perhaps i just yearn too much of the feeling of being in a relationship which explains why i've been reading too much into it. yet, why bother giving me the wrong idea then? perhaps he treats other girls the same as well. perhaps, perhaps. and i am sure to say that i'm not sad or whatever to hear about this. perhaps i don't even have much feel for him. infact, i actually feel relieved. okay. see, no one's at fault. not him, not me. and i'm glad nothing much happen between us. just a movie is nothing, perhaps he just consider it as just watching a movie and nothing else. fortunately, i have yet to put in much feelings for him. things shall remain as how it is and so is our friendship. (:

went out to meet up with kailing and chunfu. i so miss them! went to ms to walk a little and had dinner after that. then we met up with pinwen and went over to suntec for donuts. bought apple cinnamon and glazed. went to carrefour for drinks and the sushi that pinwen was craving for. we wanted a place to sit down and eat. someone suggested that we go over to the rocher high way bridge where we first tonned over. so yeah, we walked over there and sat right in the middle spot where we used to, a few years back. but it was wierd as all we wanted was a spot to sit down and eat but we chose a spot where all the dust is flying arnd. HAHA! but its alright. we had fun though. talked about alot of stuff, including HPT. walked over to ms and played with this "water fountain" thingy. took pictures and left for home.

suddenly, i began to miss all the chapel services that i've been attending in phs for my 2 senior years. i miss all the songs. especially "still, by hillsongs"

Still
Words and Music by Reuben Morgan
Hide me now
Under your wings
Cover me
within your mighty hand
When the oceans rise and thunders roar
I will soar with you above the storm
Father you are king over the flood
I will be still and know you are God
Find rest my soul
In Christ alone
Know his power
In quietness and trust

it reminds me of events like thanksgiving, etc. alright. school tml.

au voirs!

2007-09-18T10:50:00.000+08:00

yesterday was a brand new day for the entire semester 2. although we started school much much more earlier than other polytechnics, well, i guess its worth it. at least i'm enjoying school. after searching tru yandao.com for the new faces of my classmates, i thought that my class is going to be abit "chui". cos they all look so hilarious. and my photo seems hilarious as well. but the first day of school was quite alright. infact, i think that our class is going to be fun.

i did science module yesterday, about biological cells. cool huh? everyone in my team did their part although 2 of them didn't have any biology backgrounds. thats what i enjoy. and i'm glad i have yet to loose any concentration during lessons. just that my science faci is a ah neh. no biaseness against them but her pronounciation is preety bad. "cells management" become "sales management". nahbeh. we thought we're having enterprise module luh.

had land training ytd and 4.8km was increased to 5.6km. after not having running for 3 weeks, my stamina dropped. it was already killing me during my 4th round, out of 7. bought beard papa and sushi. looked them up during their dinner and went home tgt.

computting and mathematics today. it wasn't tough. it was fun lah. its the first time i paid so much attention during a computting lesson. i'm gonna score well man!

alright. shall be meeting kailing and chunfu after school. but i think she's still asleep. i miss them alot! guess no matter what, i won't forget my roots, despite failing to commite like how i used to do.

awwwh! i feel like watching a movie with someone now. but he's still in hongkong. he'd better get something for me. WAHAHAHA!.

gtg.
au voirs!

2007-09-16T01:07:00.000+08:00

guess i should ask someone to help me ask you a question that gives me a answer to whether i should continue to put in feelings or am i just wasting my time on you. (: it was nice to hear those sweet words from you but i wonder if u really mean it. -till ur back from hongkong.

had water training today. did 2 x 4km on k2 with bev. on our 2nd set of 4km's 3rd km, it started to rain heavily and it felt like the rain was hitting on us. i could hardly see what's infront of me and the rain is irritating. so anw, went back to the pontoon wobbily, with the choppy waves. it was raining heavily. so we were gathered under the shelter at the pullup bars and benedict was asked to sing songs. woooh! so high. then ben pulled melissa out, melissa pulled kenneth out, and thanks to chengxun, kenneth pulled out. nah beh. we were standing on the slope and i was suggesting that we yo-and-yo when singing. and just as i did my first yo, i slipped and fell. nahbeh. they must be enjoying the joke lah. and kenneth didnt bother helping me up loh. benedict was the one who helped me up and it hurted alot! then melvin and bob had to join us. woah lao. macham entertain them until the rain subsided. it just wasn't my day. first, didn't kena polar bear during chalet. then now fel while yo-ing. so unglam lah. but im alrdy very unglam le. so its alright man. then we did 6km, follwed by pull-ups and we called it a day.

went to have mixed vegetables rice after training and it was quite cheap. 4 dishes for only $3. then chengxun and peisi, these 2 crazy feller were competing against each other in eating chilli. they bought a pack of chilli padi and a bottle of chilli sauce. chilli padi dipped in chilli sauce then eat it! woah. hiong sia! the 2 of them were tearing alrdy. left before they finished their chilli padis. but they both choked on the chilli and cannot take it. sure sore throat or fever de.

no idea why but i was feeling very high when i got to my workplace. eve and shimin came to drop by, then hong and cheryl, then saw zhiheng and rauf. so the day passed by very quickly. heeren was kind of crowded because of the event NUM was having. successful it was.

school's reopening on monday. super early can. i want my pay and i want life the way it is during these 3 weeks of breaks- training, work, training, work... fun and tiring. i guess i like it better this way. :D

gtg. training tml morning, i guess. unless i felt like sleeping again.. okay. maybe i'll skip. urgh!

au voirs!

science module on first day of school. goner!

2007-09-14T15:35:00.000+08:00

aight!

and so, i went for the chalet. met up with adeline and munhow after my work and went to changi tgt. bought ice cream and drinks, for ourselves! wahahah. and it was only after we've reached the chalet, that i come to realise that the chalet K was not the one that i've stayed in when i was in sec2. yes, the OCH is there, but its not infront of the chalet. OCH is practically side by side to our chalet!! it was easy to find our way there because they were making alot of noise while playing catching in the dark. HAHA! then they played blindmice. then the guys resorted to hiding up in the ceiling, along the corridor.

aint it classic?!

everyone was perspiring after the games. bathed while some watched movie on their laptops. benedict and i went to cook some instant noodles after that while benjamin offered us assistance, though there should not be any difficulty in cooking them ourselves. LOL. nvm. then we played poker with chengxun, adeline, cheryl and bev. bob and some guys went to get prata and we had it before we slept at arnd 4, cos we were watching movies again and games. woke up at arnd 8. went for breakfast with joanne, peili, adeline, munhow. we bought 40 chui kuehs, a box of pancakes, boxes of beancurd and carrot cakes while adeline and i bought our alcohol for the night. intended to spilt the cost among those who are eating but peili says it shall be her treat. :D

we then went out to rent bikes together and it was very cheap as we each paid $8 and we were allowed to keep the bike with us overnight. cycled all the way to changi airport there to watch the planes, along with everybody. hanting and lala went back halfway. it was so cool. riding along the roads, speeding and racing against each other, and perspiring. HAHA! we stopped by the water cooler and playground at the jetty there. then it was dinner. bought food again and we went back to bake our marshmellows and cooked instant again! went out to changi village via cycling with adeline and benjamin to get more backups and drinks and bought stingray. it was cool to cycle out at night. :D

teevee, bathed, drank our alcohols, felt abit heavy in our heads. cheryl's face was super red by just drinking breezer la! HAHA! bev was super super red as she drank alot of barcadi. LOL.

was feeling sleepy but didnt want to turn in that early. so a grp of us played polar bear in the dota room. and pathetic and depressed i was, after 2 hours plus of polar bear, i didn't even get to be the polar bear for even once. ))):

slept at arnd 3plus to 4. woke up at 915, after my alarm has been snoozing for an hour plus. packed and left. cycled back to changi village and oh man! we start to feel the pain of the bumps from yesterday's long distance cycling. no wonder kenneth's reaction was so big when he got onto the bike. HAHA. lunch and then to home. so tired that i slept tru-out the whole train journey.

training and work for tml.

shall be off soon. need more sleep.

au voirs!

and canoe chalet was super fun!

2007-09-11T22:57:00.000+08:00

In this farewell
There’s no blood
There’s no Alibi
‘Cause I’ve Drawn Regret
For the Truth Of a Thousand Lies

[Pre-Chorus]
So let Mercy Come
And Wash Away
What I’ve Done

[Chorus]
I’ve Faced myself
To Cross out what I’ve Become
Erase Myself
And let Go of What I’ve done
Put to rest
What you Thought of Me
Well I Cleaned this Slate
With the Hands of Uncertainty

[Pre-Chorus]

[Chorus]
For What I’ve Done
I’ll start again
And whatever pain may come
Today this ends
I’m Forgiving What I’ve Done!!!

[Chorus]

What I’ve Done Forgiving What I’ve Done

2007-09-11T22:06:00.000+08:00

i guess i'll hardly trust online shopping again. the first time i did my purchase, the person didn't even send me the item. to add on to that, i deleted the email that she sent to me. dumb, isn't it? the second time, i bought a top. when i got the item, the colour turned out totally wrong. so the best way is still to purchase clothings from shops, themselves. i just bought a long cardigan today and i'm glad i asked for her contacts, be it real or not, i'm keeping all forms of conversation between me and her, till i get the item.

went to school with adeline and her classmates. played abit of basketball under the big sun which did not have much of a cloud/s arnd it. dehydrated. but fortunately, adeline used 2.10 and managed to get 4 bottles of 100plus and a bottle of green tea from the vending machine. :D

so many machines from the gym has been shifted outside and the gym has brought in some new machines that we were very amazed with and adeline&i even thought that those machines could even be more efficient then using bars. there's this machine that allows you to train ur biceps and ur whole stretch or back muscles. isn't that what we wanted? its so cool. it would be good to have one at home. then i can train my back muscles. adeline was so attracted to this particular machine cos it allows her muscles lines to show till so defined when doing the reps. LOL.

i stopped running after 1km. probably because i've taken too much fluids, it felt terrible to run. did biceps, triceps and abs. went for a swim, got a lighter shade of tan arnd the white areas that were being covered by the fbt top during training and played catching. took pictures and called it a day. felicia, ade, kelly and i took cab to cwp and we paid 80cents each. HAHA! queued for donuts, bought yogurt and sushi and home after that.

now that i'm able to connect to my modem alrdy, i can use internet till i puke. HAHA! chalet tml. shall be packing my barang and wash my training gear from today. my shift from 2pm has been changed to full shift bcos of the shortage of man power. september's pay~~

gtg.
au voirs!

2007-09-10T19:16:00.000+08:00

so many things have happened. expected, unexpected. its really not easy to predict what will happen to you, isn't it? mmm. im at home right now, thanks to that nice feller using wireless again. till i get the userid and password from my brother abt the modem, i'll have to depend on "external help" on wireless.

water training today, instead of land, probably because we're having our chalet on thursday. and i just realised that the chalet is from wednesday to friday. and they will only be able to get the keys by 2pm on wednesday, which means that i'll have to bring my barang barang to work. then it will look like im running away from home.. anw, if i'm not wrong, the chalet that my friend booked was changi aloha chalet K, which is directly behind OCH. which also implies that its the chalet that we stayed during our 1st 2904 chalet. cool. :D

went on k2 with joanne today and did 8km. we tried bursting for 250meters every 2km. the feeling was good, cos the boat was moving fast! :D but we still need to practise alot more on it. then we changed to k1 and i capsized at the pontoon. and somewhere like 150 or 200ms away from the pontoon. benedict came to "save" me though. and i asked him to accompany me along the way, incase i capsized. he was like a mobile radio, singing songs while i paddled and tapped my way along. capped once more near 250m on my way back and that marks the end of the training. kw allowed the guys to try on k1 for awhile and they were so happy lah. HAHA! but some of them can actually balance quite well, but just probably they have to learn how to use the raddle instead of edging. LOL.

my entire back, along my spine area is really aching, plus my lower calve. i feel like lying down and forget abt everything. and the back aching part is due to using the correct position and technique to paddle. oh, plus, my lower leg is having blueblacks from empting the Ks.

hey gorgeous! on later. and i forgot about my dinner. sighs.

anw, i met up with jerome they all after lunch. i stood aside while they smoked. felt dumb though. HAHA! left for home.

gtg.
auvoirs!

2007-09-07T20:03:00.000+08:00

went for a haircut today because i couldn't stand the thickness and the weather. but i cant tie it up anymore. its not that it isnt long enough. its that its not thick enough. wth. but its alright, cos it will always grow. another term more while the thickness is there.

i guess i can't be bothered with what's on his mind alrdy. just as im set on heck caring about him, he texted me to say he miss me. whatever. he's like pulling the kite back whenever its flying too far off. dont care.

im in the library now. and my ass is aching from sitting down. i've installed the modem alrdy. but what i need now is the userid and the password which my brother will email me on. cool. dont have to stay out for wireless anymore. canoeing chalet next week- tuesday to thursday. guess i'll stay over on tuesday, go for work on wed and back to the chalet at night, then home on thursday. :D

im feeling hungry now. food!

au voirs!

2007-09-06T22:44:00.002+08:00

thanks to this super nice dude who's been using wireless router in his/her apartment that entitles me to use it as well. :D

so anyway, i got my pay for august but as the cut-off date for the pay is on 24th, my pay is kind of pathetic. but september's pay is going to make me grin from ear to ear because of all the extra shifts i've requested. :D reported to heeren earlier to cash my cheque. started work at 2 and finished it till closing.

had water training today. tried k2 with sihong in the back sit. we spent arnd an hour doing 2km while bev and shimin finished 6km, due to our countless capsizes- woah, shakes head*. it felt totally hopeless at that time. haha. perhaps we're just not used to pairing tgt. we continued in K boats in the 2nd part of the training with joanne in front of me and sihong in k1. did stunts with joanne in the boat, as usual, and did 6km, capsized twice. wahahaha.

lunch with the guys and went to fish for prawns at katib farm, with kenneth, chengxun, shimin & mel. we shared 2 rods among us. the first hour was $14.5 and every additional hour, we'll be entitled to extra 30mins. so in total, we paid arnd 10 bucks each and caught 13 or so prawns. haha. at least better than nothing. the uncles there "coach" us on how to fish and treated us to prawns which he caught. ate quite a few and it started to reach the climax towards the end. shall visit there again.

dined with them at yishun with kevin and benedict in the the later part and then to home. wahahaha! shiok!

au voirs!

2007-09-03T17:52:00.000+08:00

okay okay. like FINALLY i get to get in touch with the internet again. it really gets boring to be stuck at home with only the tv and no computer. damn it! attempts to use the laptops at sports complex have failed because it always take time to load and i always do not have enough time to finish doing my stuff.

-land training last monday, went for a swim with the other canoe mates and went vivo. i brought my lappy along with me to school but i realised that it was not charged at all. damn.
-full shift on last wednesday. time flew and a day is over. extra pay for august to come!
-water training on thursday was cancelled as PUB wants to "release" water in the reservoir for the bad weather. hence, hit gym with sihong, ade, bev, lala & hanting. ran 2.5km for 20 mins on the threadmile becase it was raining outside. hell. it sure was a painful 20mins man. i usually do 33 mins for 4.8km, though its considered slow alrdy. nvm. bought a new wallet at ms and went over to comex. busy and squeezy it was.
-water training on saturday. did 4 X 2km on t1 and tried k2 with bev. went out to 1km mark and back without capsizing. haha. thanks to the "tapper" behind me! off to work.
-skipped sunday's training and left house early for work. had the spicy chicken sausage at village before work and during my break. and GDI(god damn it)! the last bite of the sausage dropped and stained my pretty top + jeans. moroon. haha. i aint refering to myself.

now for today. had land training in the morning. met lala and hanting at the train station. then we saw kenneth and gang. but we continued to walk to school. fortunately we didn't wait. else, we would be late. we were still strolling to school. HEH HEH. ate at food haven and went for 2 munchy donuts + cream puff. home after that.

I'M GETTING MY PAY~~~~~~!!

WAHAHAHAH. while students in other polys like tp just started their GDI's holiday which is arnd 1.5 months long, mine still have 2 more weeks to go. sheesh!

i'm pondering if i should go for the training camp. school's restarting in 2 weeks time and i'm really committing all that i have for canoeing, as much as 4-5 days per week. and i don't wish to change this situation. probably my passion for hpt is fading and i don't wish to commit myself into sth that i once loved alot in sec sch anymore. no idea and i've yet to confirm it either.

but i've signed up for the volunteer crew for the standard chartered marathon in december- packing crew. got free adidas goodie bag man! who doesn't want? wahahaha.

have got to link those people alrdy. else, i get "mao" when i see them again.

au voirs!

2007-08-21T12:46:00.000+08:00

WHEE! my weight isn't increasing anymore. its stuck at 52! haha. now, i'll have to work towards shedding them. :D
had land training yesterday. backache. and it always feel so good to sleep after training.
i was looking for the modem installation from singtel to install onto my laptop. but i cant seem to find it in any corner. shall ask my brother for about its location instead.

germin is such a nice faci. he bought us pizzas! :D:D:D people are skipping school more and more often now. and apparently, the class next to mine only have abt 10 students. so does mine.

i texted john ong last night regarding my working schedule but he has yet to give me a reply. oh wells. think i'll see him on saturday or sunday. till then, bet he'll ask me again. save up! save up! save up!

gtg.
au voirs!

p.s. i love weekends!

2007-08-20T10:46:00.000+08:00

things have been much better when you take it easier. :D and u'll enjoy it better.

WHEE WHEE WHEE whee WHEE!!!

HAHA. the week's has been as usual. i was super duper late on friday. met chupz on the train. decided to take bus to school since it was pouring. the queue for the bus was super long can! then banana joined in the queue. relief faci was here because our cognitive faci has got a appointment- she's going to give birth anytime. managed to psycho our relief to mark us as present instead of late. HAHA. went to bugis with sihong and i bought a pair of grey jeans. then she accompanied me to take 197 to east coast. thanks, love.
went for sheila's BBQ. :D:D

training on sat was cancelled due to "crocodile". but coach said it was because macritche was closed. oh well. so much for the crocodile. we've seen a monitor lizard swimming in macritche but not a croc. went for work. met up with him. walk to the station after work.

went for sunday's training. 10km again. this time it was better than the previous' week. shall request for extra shift on wednesday during my sem break. work extra, earn extra! :D

rp canoe will be moving over to selater reservoir somewhere in october. the leisure kayack and db are currently using selatar. so i guess weekends will get damn crowded when we'll be using the same area to train. other polys will be there as well. seletar's water can't be drunk like macritche's lah! lup sup. i guess we're enjoying more at macritche instead as we can see canoeist from jcs, ntu and nus train. mmm. macritche is going to turn into a jcs and Us area while selatar's turning into a polys arena. haha. but what will happen when we do not have enough boats? i don't want to run selatar. it reminds me of the sports camp incident of having to walk all the way in. woah. agonizing sia.

HAHAH.
gtg.
au voirs!

p.s. be my valentine!

2007-08-16T09:36:00.000+08:00

perhaps pinwen was right- you have quite a handful of female friends arnd you and probably, you treat me as one of them as well. but i have to admit that it was a good feeling talking to him. oh well. it feels much more comfortable talking to him after i've "straightened" my thoughts.
:D
yup. nature shall take its course.

finally, the last UT was done with it. mmm. i feel like getting some tops but i wanted to save. shall see how far my desire and the temptation can bring me to. hongyi and derrick are working on saturday. yes! can talk cork with them liao.

i'll be going for a BBQ on friday for sheila! she's celebrating her birthday! HHAHA. feels kinda bad as i've not been joining them often for class outings. shall go and enjoy ourselves on friday! i wanna wear skirt! the skin behind my knee is recovering well but still got the abit of dark patch present. hope it will dissappear soon. now i regret scratching them in the first place. ):

just got done with my ppt. heard that today we'll end early. :D

i wanna go ms's edc espirit before saturday. if i were to go after training today, abit siao ah. probably tml, after school bah. then go for sheila's BBQ. :DDDD

gtg.
au voirs!

p.s. be my valentine!