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Monday, March 27, 2006

27 March

woah... three straight days of dragonboat training!

the training on sat and sun was still ok but today's one was really tough...especially since i was still sick... the sore throat got better le but then become cough and flu -_-''...

today's the initiation, where we offically become dragonboaters!

the schedule for today was a stations format. first up was doing 1000 pull-ups as a team. ya, 1000 pull-ups! we only had like around 20 odd people so everyone had to do like 50 pull-ups. time limit was 15 minutes. lots of shouting went around, mainly of " no count, start again!" not sure if we reached 1000 pull-ups become when time is up they just told us to move to the next station.

next was push-ups. with our arms already strained from the pull-ups, push-ups was cham sia... actually didn't do that many push-ups, is the holding there in push-up positions that were killing us. no idea how long we were there but it felt like an eternality...

next was the wheelbarrow thingy, where your legs are lifted up and you are supposed to walk with your hands, across the length of the basketball court. this one was still quite alright...

then was the iguana crawl, where we climbed up a slope on all fours... body is supposed to be kept low and if your body is too high, you restart. kena once... if you are doing the stations one by one it's still ok but try to do this one after another and your arms will be like gone le la...

oh yeah, inbetween every station, we had to do push-ups if we don't get into our lines in 5 sec, with each sec after that being 10 push-ups. like every station also cannot get into the lines in 5 sec so every stations have to do push-ups -_-''...

then finally a station that doesn't use the hands le... now use legs. you lie down on your back and cycle in the air while everyone takes a turn doing 10 leg lifts. notice that you don't stop cycling while others are doing. you just keep on cycling... wah... tell you by the end of it my legs were like dead liao liddat...

then run around abit then we went to the final station, the stairways to heaven. sounds very nice but actually we just go out of the sch and run up 8 floors then run down again. this is like the easiest station in the whole thing lor...

finally it's over! but still jogged a couple of rounds before we finally ended...

then it was celebration! drinks were being passed around. i tell you, first time i see so many ppl waiting so eagarly for drinks lor.

then we were presented with the old t-shirts of the seniors in a sorta ceremony. is just presented to us for shuang nia la, have to give back to them right after that. it was something like they are acknowledging that we passed the initiation.

but still, when we finally completed the initiation, everyone was like crazily happy. we are finally part of the nyjc dragonboat team! and we endured through that initiation! lets celebrate!

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