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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

race is over!

hmm... not a bad race. managed to do pretty well in the first day and everyone got through to the semis. the drawing was horrible though, for the guys race we were in the same heat as the eventual 2nd and 3rd placing. during the heats, we got 2nd won the ppl who got the final 2nd placing, Singapore Instititute of Management(SIM) while Singapore Canoe Federation( SCF) , who was the favourites to sweep everything got first. quite scary to meet up with such strong teams in the heats. mixed boat got through easily cos we were in a easy group while the girls got 2nd in their heats.

thinking that we were safe and wouldn't meet scf and sim again till the finals, we got a shock the next day when we found out that we would be racing against them again in the semis. this time though, we got 3rd while sim beat us by 0.3 second. that means we were out of the running for the grand finals but since we got the best timing for 3rd place, we got into the minor finals, which is sorta a race for the next 5 teams who didn't get into the grand finals.

mix boat got into plate finals and the girls got into plate finals too, which is for the 11th-15th teams. which was not a bad result as it was, seeing that we were like the youngest ppl in the events, racing against ppl from the various universities, polys, ang moh associations who are like 1 and 1/2 head taller then us and huge. speaking of which, there were alot of them there, britishs, irishs, germans, canadians and australians. oh, there were quite a lot of japanese there too. and then there were the ppl from the singapore armed forces sports association(safsa), singapore civil defence force, safra and so on.

all in all, a huge amount of ppl =)

the guys minor finals were a fiasco though, all the boats came in at the exact same time and they decided to give the 1st,2nd,3rd,4th and 5th positions to lane 5,4,3,2,1, in that order.

guess where we are.

yep, lane 1.

stupid decision. but anyway, everyone knew that we had done the best we could possibly do and we were more then satisfied, even though we didn't win anything. the knowledge that we do race on an even footing with the best in singapore made us happy enough and the words that our opponents said to us after the race, applauding our efforts and showing us that they took us seriously was more then enough to make up for the lack of medals and trophies.

nydb guys and girls, i love you all!

anyway, on a less serious note, we went to seoul garden for our post race dinner and almost rioted in there. at the start, we just ate like pigs cos we have been banned from all unhealthy food like fried food and any cold drinks for two weeks and we were hungry for anything unhealthy.

however, once we started to get full, which was no easy task seeing that we were all starving before the dinner and the ban on so many food was lifted, we started to clown around and do stupid stuff, take gay photos and just generally had alot of fun and laughter.

can't imagine another group of people i would love to spend more time with =)

after we got out from the seoul garden, we took some group pics. halfway through them, the guys started to strip the unfortunate soul who happened to be qingyi. i think the girls took some photos while he was half naked.

mind you, this was just outside the seoul garden at marina square. good thing there wasn't many ppl around or someone might have called the police -_-''...

by the end of our playing and photo taking, about half the guys team had been stripped.

i was among the unfortunate half. luckily though, i don't think anyone took a photo. not that i could be sure when my shirt was over my face though.

and we continued into the mall to photowhore somemore before making our way back home. shall post some photos when i get my hands on them.

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