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Sunday, April 23, 2006

23 April

my post now are like highly inregular liao sia... nothing like last year where i pratically updated every single day regardless of how boring the day is sia... reflects a little on how much activites there are in jc.

they say were are supposed to complete as much in j1 as we did and sec 3 and 4 and as much in one module in uni as we did in j1 and j2. kinda crazy when you think about it...

anyway, thursday and friday passed without too much incident, apart from the fact that i forgot i got training on thursday as well so i didn't get to go home early too.

kinda crazy... i seem to be excerising every single day... no wonder i can't get fat no matter how much i eat. and i am freaking most ppl out when they see how much i eat outside...

had training on sat that didn't go too well because we seem to have lost our sense of urgency after our initiation and that we didn't give it our all that day. i admit to the urgency part but i know i did give my all during the rowing, especially during the last part so i didn't feel too guilty.

then fun race today! first day wear bai long and everyone was so happy because we worked so hard for it. however, it turned out pretty badly as you will see.

woke up late as i tio blurred yesterday night and set the alarm to 7.45 when i was supposed to set it to 6.45. knew i couldn't take mrt there in time and if i took a taxi, there will be plenty of time so i wasn't in any hurry and got there way early.

wish they would hurry up and complete the circle line...

walked quite a long distance to the oasis bridge before they started today's fun race! it's a race where everyone from the school is invited to form teams of 10 and have fun rowing in today's dragonboat race.

anyway, i was originally supposed to row for a dragonboat team de but as someone from my ct couldn't make it, i took her place and rowed twice in the heats.

here's where the trouble began. apparantly, someone from one of the db team pissed another of the dragonboat team(there is 4) off and the offended team paid $3 to have a prearranged race with them( yes, you can do that). so the first heats consist of 2 dragonboat teams and one j2 kayaking team and another team.

guess who is the another team.

yep, my ct.

so my ct rowed with those strong teams. with only 3 guys and 7 girls. out of which only i rowed before, with all the other teams having rowed dragonboats before. the kayakers rented dragonboat to pratice before liao. considering all that, we didn't do too badly when we looked at our timing, which was still faster then that of the winner of the second heats lor. just blame it on the luck of the draw la.

that wasn't the bad part. the bad part is that the j2 kayakers is way stronger then us and they thrashed our j1 dragonboaters. so one of the dragonboat team is out in the heats, which didn't go too well with the j2 dragonboaters.

luckily, the other two db teams, including my one got 1st in the heats so 3 db teams made it to the semi-finals. (first two of each heats advance) however, the luck of the draw sucked again and put two of the dragonboat teams with the j2 kayakers in one of the three semi finals and only one can advance so as expected, the j2 kayakers advanced. my team luck was better and didn't have much trouble in the semi final so in the end only one db team made it to the finals, even though by timing, the case would have been totally different.

yep, my team made it to the finals! something that was a supposed-to-be since we are dragonboaters and that was a dragonboat race la but then things didn't turn out to be as expected la...

not very sure how to explain the race in details so i will just cut it short. our starts was very good and we were leading but the middle part was ok and the j2 kayakers caught up to us and our end abit dieded and the j2 kayakers won us by alittle more then a boat while we won the j1 kayakers by about 3/4 of a boat and ended up as second.

which wasn't too bad in itself la so everyone in my boat was quite happy. then when we got back to shore we were told that there was gonna be a novelty race where one boat of j2 dragonboaters will be rowing as well, with the winner, the teachers and the other j1 db teams.

just as we got into the boat again, it started pelting rain. ya, like last week. quite ok for me as i was the pacer and didn't have to look at anyone rowing but i think the ppl at the back were having trouble even seeing those all the way at the front la. and so we race. not too sure what my boat got cos we were more concerned about who got first.

the result?

the j2 kayakers.

also dunno why they put a weird weird combi of j2 db ppl in that boat la. like nvr see that grp row together before de lor.

but still, they were not supposed to have lost no matter what de la. so when we got back to shore and went for the prize presentation, mr lee( teacher in charge) face was super black.

oh yeah, the rain stopped as soon as we got off the boat. -_-''....

so the prize cememory went on and we proceeded to eat the food(from the prize) happily and took some photos before...

BOOM!

"everyone pumping position down!"

started getting scolded liao. this is supposed to be a fun race but still our results were very poor considering that this was supposed to be our sport. someone also stupidly go and throw their paddle after they lost and that was an absolute no no. then they say we were yayaing(their term for haolianing or anything like that) even when we were told very seriously yesterday not to do that. this was the only point i think that we shouldn't be scolded for. i dunno how is cheering when they were going up to take the prize considered as yayaing.

we didn't pump that much actually but i think we holded pumping position for like half an hour or something. the worst part was where we were told we don't deserve the shirt and we gotta return it tmr, which will only be given back to us when they think we are good enough

shit.

and we own them 300 pumping which i am not sure we have to do tmr or tues.

double shit.

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