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Saturday, June 30, 2007

finally got the time to do a proper post!

though now the problem is recalling what i wanted to blog about....

argh. me and my faulty memory.

ok.... let's try and go in chronological order. super long post coming up! just skip the whole till if you aren't interested.

the last few trainings went alright, apart from the fact that i fell sick and was like super scared cos mr hee said only those who were at 100% will be rowing.

imagine if i didn't get to row at all due to some stupid cough!!!

i think i will go and jump into the reservoir or something out of depression

the thing was my sickness didn't recover, not even till now.

luckily though, it wasn't that serious so i still managed to row on the race day.

race day!

actually the main thing is all the emotions we felt but i think it's impossible for me to say it in words so i shall just be mainly describing the events.

god, i feel like i am writing a report to myself or something. ah well, as long as it will help me remember what happened!

no emo post for now first. i shall save it for another time!

went to school to watch some videos of us rowing first.

somehow, the mood didn't feel too right though, cos everyone was still like not serious and stuff compared to last year.

went off to bedok after that! i think i started to panic alittle after we got onto the bus. all those what if just couldn't get out of my mind but luckily, i managed to calm down before we got off the bus.

the first race was the 10 men heats and my boat got into the crazy heats with all the team As from other sch and i guess that unnerved me and the rest a little. we didn't really rowed well and do what we usually do. the feeling when we were rowing were simply not right. in the end, i thought we got third but turns out we got 4th by 0.21 seconds and were out of the finals( first 3 from each heat into the finals)

the other senior boat managed to get into the finals for the 10 men and i become their drummer.

first time in my life that i actually became a drummer lol...

anyway, from the drummer seat, i could tell that everyone was still afraid, afraid that all our efforts of the past 1 and a half years would go to waste if we didn't perform well enough
during that 2 odd minutes. they tried their best but it still wasn't the best they could do judging from the mood on the boat but they lost to the better teams in the end.

no medals from the 10-men category.

by this point, the mood was really not right.

luckily, before the next race, we managed to set everything right again. yiyang managed to calm us down and made us get back the correct feel again. though in the process, half of us ended up tearing like idiots as all the emotions of the past 1 and a half years flooded us, myself included.

i think i have only shed tears openly twice in the god knows know many years in i started school and both were during the A div, both last year and this year, though for very different reason.

the mood was good again and we went down for the final race of our career. the last time we will ever row together as a team. god, the feeling was incredible. but i have no idea how to describe it so it shall remain the guys team own memories.

to be honest, after the talk, the results didn't matter much to us anymore but i guess that's the only thing that outsiders will care about so...

we got 3rd.

not exactly the best result but it was a close fight for second but we lost it due to some complication.

the first was nj and i really have to admit, they are really on a totally different level.

heck, in our last race, they even beat ntu and nus, getting first place overall in the masters. and that is an open category event.

sick ppl. but you really gotta hand it to them, we lost to a better team.

still, it was the best set we ever row and the feeling was good as you see all smiles after the race.

we were contented.

after the race though, everyone rust off to their respective showering places before meeting again for the post race dinner at paris international buffet.

the guys decided to wear formal so it was pretty funny to see everyone dress up.

we were dying from the food ban that we have endured for a month so we were all more then prepare to raid the place and raid the place we did.

food ban: no fried food of any type, no cold drinks and nothing that looks unhealthy.

so we were basically surviving on the type of food that i usually wouldn't even touch in the past for 1 month and it was hot tea for every meal.

after eating everything that we were not supposed to before the race, we ended up spending the rest of the night just taking pictures instead of eating like we planned to.

just as well, seeing that the food wasn't really all that great. i would only say it's average...

tons and tons of photos we took!

there was plenty of memory to be gathered and we took our time.

after the dinner, some of us went to a pub in serangoon. i think it was liquid kitchen or something if i am not wrong...

take note that it was sunday by the timing and mid years was on monday.

crazy ppl.

it was my first time to a pub though so it wasn't too bad.

the names of the drinks were pretty interesting though.

sex on the beach? blowjob?

i felt like ordering them to see what they are like but i dun really feel like saying " I want a blowjob" to the waiter so i had something that sounded more reasonable.

after much talking, i think we left at about 4am

i think that's basically all the stuff i can recall cos the rest of the time after that was just mugging and taking the exams.

rinse and repeat.

gah. who the hell have the mood to have exams!! i think most ppl from the team only had db on their mind...

for some stupid reason, i went into emo mode on monday morning and ended up sending a 7 sms long disgusting-till-too-gross-to-be-repeated-here message to the whole guys team and got cursed by them for spoiling their exam mood lol...

then it was exams exams exams... i would be thankful if i can just pass everything, judging by the level of preparedness i was in. first time in my life that i went for an exam without even finish simply reading through half the stuff i am supposed to.

oh well, mid years doesn't really matter at this point.

photos!

many more but they are taking too long to upload so i shall upload them another time time. (hopefully)

Last Barking On|12:18 AM|

Sunday, June 24, 2007

oh man!!!! so much to say and so little time!!!

no time to update now else i fall asleep again in the exams so i will try to update on everything asap

for now, i just wanna say that db rocks my world and studying sucks to hell!

Last Barking On|11:58 PM|

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

busy busy busy!

training on sat, which improved after the two race sets with SIM in the cold rain!

then 10 of the guys went to work at some event for the dairy farm group's family day and that lasted from 2pm to 12pm.

basically, we were paid to do whatever they tell us to do which was setting up some stuff and doing nothing much most of the time.

it was actually supposed to end at like 8 but due to some problem with the client, most of the work we done during the day had to be redone and we left at midnight while some other ppl continued work into the night.

super expensive cab home. good thing it was claimable.

oh yeah, i forgot to mention that the work was at the singapore discovery centre in boon lay -_-''...

weird place to have a family day don't you think?

the next day was the event itself and it was more or less doing nothing but stand around for me.

super inefficient manpower management if you ask me.

oh well, as long as i get paid.

today's the last day of training at kallang! borrowed hj's camera to take pics and oh boy did i take alot of pics.

kinda late and too lazy to put them up here so i will put them up another day.

training's good!

only two more left till the big one!

oh. man.

Last Barking On|12:33 AM|

Friday, June 15, 2007

i actually went to queue for the donuts from donut factory today!

queue with a couple of the db guys to buy for the whole team.

we went there at 10.30 when it opens at 12.30 and there were already quite a long queue!

horrifying how much people are willing to queue.

finally got it after queuing for 2.5 hrs and my conclusion after eating them was that it's nice but i wouldn't queue for it if i want it, only if i am queuing to buy it for others.

well, i guess i am weird in this way. i am much more willing to spend time and money on others rather then myself.

is this supposed to be good?

training today was kinda horrible though, i got pinpointed by mr hee quite a few times today and despite my best efforts to change, it doesn't seem to work

=(

damn, i can't afford to screw up at this kinda time!!!

must do better tmr!

oh yeah, i realised that i got a horrible memory.

actually, i knew that i have a bad memory ages ago but only realised the extent of it recently when i repeatedly forgot to bring stuff home or forgot stuff...

just to give an example, when i was packing my bag a couple of days ago, i realised that i have forgotten to take the water bottle and walked towards the kitchen to get it but by the time i reached the kitchen, i have already forgotten what i wanted to get and spent 10 seconds trying to remember what it was that i walked to the kitchen for.

and mind you, my house is not exactly big so the walk from my bag to the kitchen is like 5 seconds?

good grief, what kind of memory is that???

time is passing at a crazy rate though. the holiday is almost over and i haven even done much yet!!!

have yet to even take a proper day off to relax and do what i want to.

instead, it was either training or studying.

actually what i really wanna do now is to take a day off and do nothing at all, enjoying the sun and the breeze at either sentosa or east coast park but i dun really wanna go there alone though...

anyone free enough to go with me?

Last Barking On|10:54 PM|

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

hmm... something unpleasant happened on sunday during training that i shall not elaborate too much on but luckily, it has been resolved on the tuesday's training.

though i also noticed how often people commit the yi zhu gan da fan quan chuan ren thing or stereotyping.

ah well, just gotta accept it i guess.

like they say, it is much easier to try and change yourself rather then attempt to change others.

on another note, it was games day today!

in other words, we just played different sports from morning till night.

so right now, i am exhausted and in need of sleep.

good night then!

Last Barking On|11:18 PM|

Saturday, June 09, 2007

hmm... to be honest, i really can't see much point in blogging for this period of time since the only stuff i am doing everyday is either training, playing com or studying( way too little of this then i am supposed to)

omg, after counting, there is only 7 more trainings till the race and the end of my db career.

SEVEN!

that's like so freaking little la! i dun want it to end!!!! and i have absolutely no idea what i am gonna do after i step down.

gonna feel so freaking empty.

to be honest, i am at least 10 times more worried about the race then the mid-years, of which i still feel zero stress about, seeing that i have pretty much given up on it with the amount of time i got.

i am gonna become like freaking white a couple of months after i step down, like what the seniors look like after they step down.

oh man.

what am i gonna do everyday after school without training sia...

on another note though, a few of us went to jiabing's house to play mahjong today after training, which is in...woodlands...

not exactly the most convenient place.

haha...lost abit of money in the end but doesn't really matter cos it was a pretty enjoyable session with alot of suaning going on.

oh yeah, he got a damn cute dog that's super friendly!

damn, i want a dog.

training again tomorrow! after that there will only be 6 more.... nooOOoOOooOoo!!!

oh yeah, i am sick again at this kinda stupid timing.

not gonna stop me from going for training though!

gotta rest early so cya all!

Last Barking On|10:34 PM|

Monday, June 04, 2007

things are progressing smoothly so far, training's going well and there hasn't been much problem in life so far

well, with the exception that i haven't started my revision for the mid-years :X

oh well, guess i gotta start soon then!

hopefully it will continue to be smooth sailing for the rest of the holidays then it will be back to mundane old school life.

for now though, db and studies are gonna be the only things that matter!

yep, in that order.

dun really care all that much about the mid years to say the truth.

enjoy your holidays ppl!

Last Barking On|12:43 AM|