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Friday, November 30

{ freed on 11:59 PM

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!

{ freed on 2:11 PM

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!

Thursday, November 29

{ freed on 11:22 PM

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!

Wednesday, November 28

{ freed on 10:34 PM

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!

Monday, November 26

{ freed on 6:46 PM

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!

{ freed on 12:24 PM

before.

after.

Sunday, November 25

{ freed on 12:33 PM

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!

Thursday, November 22

{ freed on 11:08 AM

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!

Tuesday, November 20

{ freed on 8:42 PM

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!