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Saturday, December 29

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had training earlier on. k2 stingray with adeline. and it's getting better, at least we only capsized 4 times. changed into tiger with joanne and shimin but stingray is still better, though tiger feels more stable. right. soi finally had a taste of the PT they did last saturday and it was really very shag. but it felt good to have completed them. :D perhaps i'll get some anti-slip sheets, fold them or sew them in layers and have it on my seat or even footrest. stttttttt! its aching mad.

come to think of it, when capsizing at areas highly populated by seaweeds, which is along the 500m lanes, it did be safer/ better to not kick in the water, just float ur legs up. the kicking will cause currents and swirling to occur in the waters, leading to the seaweeds curling arnd you and that's where it seemed like the seaweeds has "eyes". got cuts from seaweeds again. and i guess it will accumulate.

suprisingly, training ended early. cos we started earlier than usual? LOL.

lunch and i saw the bball clique from my sec class. it was really nice to see them though.
trained home. shall visit robinsons tml in an attempt to get nike or adidas shorts with my $50 voucher. my pay is making its way to me and i can't wait for the end of the month, which means the start of 2008.

its been a hot day and a cold shower made my day.

shall get back to my videos.

au voirs!

Friday, December 28

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awww. saw those saw those???!!!! it was a stage performance when i was in sec 3, PHS's 40th anniversary. it was a assignment that every class has to do and our's got selected. it narrates the growth and establishment of PHS over the years, the lack of funds, the proposal kena rejected by MOE, SMB (school management board) cracking their brains, etc.. the practices for the play was tough, with every of our action being criticised by the principal and VP. but our teacher i/c guided us well. :D and all those performing were females cos the guys chickened out. aigoo!!

too bad i only managed to get hold of these few pictures from my school's website..

the costumes were really "vintage" or should i say obiang. hehe. but it's a job well done. we even brought the kids' scooter to school because of that.

so in conclusion? PHS suck. but the people and events that i've got to know and did, made me feel that my 4 years aint a waste. hehe.

au voirs!

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had training yesterday- doubles with ah hong. my feets and ass aches the most luh. ): it wasn't a good one though. but i'll continue to try and train. lost your balance? find it back and work on it.

sometimes, its we ourselves that gives the other person who's on the same boat with you, the confidence to balance well and go for every stroke. and sometimes, its the other way round- us relying on them? but either way, both parties play a part when it comes to double boats, definitely. but it is indeed true that we are able to balance better in different pairings. perhaps the mentality wise, or perhaps its just purely that we are able to balance. no one starts out knowing how to do a particular task. and it is definitely satisfactory, knowing how to do and to do it well.

who knows? it may turn out to be a rewarding one.

no work till this sunday, for i don't know why, as i've told my boss abt my schedule alrdy. but it's alright. feel liek hitting town tml, after training. guess i'd most probably be getting a pair of adidias or nike shorts with the $50 voucher from robinsons. i saw puma tights at the RSH at j8 and it's black!

i've been watching videos the whole day and it kind of felt good. :X

come to think of it, the new year resolution i made on 31dec06 was to grow my hair cos my hair was really short and i just felt the need to change my image.

but i don't think my image has changed much just that if i were to compare myself to back then of how i was, it did seem like a big difference.

right. so tell me who was that sitting on the toilet bowl? alot of difference meh? can't really see the difference also..

ooooh. how about this? my spiky hair.. i have shorter hair than that luh. but i think i look weird. guess it was the uniform part at my tummy.

tsk. can't seem to find the picture that portrays a better difference. so, see if u can tell which is me. i guess its quite easy to tell that i'm the 4th from the right, huh?! LOL.

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BEVERLY!! you can continue to be away in china for so long... guess we're all missing you alrdy, esp your bf. hehe.

au voirs!

Tuesday, December 25

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its been a hectic week. though things have been over and done with, i'm quite satisfied with it. shall start off with the team event last tuesday.

those that were presented were spilt into 2 team of 8. first task- 1 tiger k2 using DB paddles and 1 k1 using carbon paddles, take turns among the team and one person to participate an additional time. 2nd task- doubles with front paddler blind-folded, a pair from each team to be down at each point of time. 3rd task- relay sprinting. winner from each task to earn 10 points for their team and 8 points for the runner-up.

the prize was a total worth of $230 RSH vouchers to be spilted. and the 4 i/cs, though we didn't play, managed to get a share of $10 each. HEHE.

bob: tell me a good reason why i should give you one. (smiling along the way)

me: becos you all had fun. :D

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bought a sportsbra and headed home for some sleep. packed my stuff and my barang's really light as i only brought along a pair of trackpants, 1 red shirt and some undies. no choice. smelly then smelly loh. its our tradition since my first training camp. took cab to PHS at arnd 5.40am? realised that the gates were locked so i called jack to open it for me. according to the matrix, it states that we're to fall in by 6am. but i didn't check for the updates and was quite suprise to see jack went back to sleep. so i napped a while. alright. carried out activites from PHS to lower pierce, to bishan then to amk park and back to PHS again.

nalgenes- the ultimate bottle survivor.

standardization.

the circle circle and square square at command post. sihong and joanne! see, i did think of you all..

during games planning, my troop's game. see what i'm implying? the rest were giving me the "gosh!" look. LOL.

alot of fun times happened during the camp. the strands of hair found in the lunchboxes provided by the new canteen vendor, planning for nyctophobia with jinshi (with pinwen mentoring us), the suppers (stingrays, kueh tiao, chicken wings, rojaks, etc), debreifs, etc.

on the last night, our supper was steamboat, at 2 in the morning. LOL. i was dozing off and thought i could go into WOW room for a nap before coming for a 2nd session but that 2nd session never come.. on the last day, decided to stay for burdens instead. one of the trainees actually had a leg cramp for 2.5 hrs ++, which i think was pretty exaggerating. well, i shall not assume the intention. burdens was fun, with the breaking of 2 bamboo poles. yet, the trainees seemed not to understand what it meant. headed for pizza hut after camp break and this was the complimentary dish that i came up with- cheese + tabasco + a few drops of ice lemon tea + a slice of lemon from the drink + some sprinkles of chilli + garnishing. to think that pinwen and weiquan actually think that it's a complimentary dsh and tasted it la. hilarious.

cabbed home with reagen and winnie tan.

skipped training the next day because i was feeling damn shag and i suppose i won't be able to last the whole day. went for sunday's instead- feeling good. had lunch at mac (reasonable serving so at least, we didn't replenish what we had burnt). work, then home. and overslept. work up to find myself at yew tee station instead of sembawang, which was 15mins beyond. heng! there's still a last train to toa payoh.

shagged.

land training yesterday. ran from RP to marsiling and back to RP- 6.4km. on the last part of the run, i sort of shouted at ah neh to stop nagging though i know that she's encouraging. but i'm already feeling so frustrated with myself, though its only 6.4. i'm already on the verge and when people tell you to keep on going, it felt so hard. well, my bad. sorry. ):

went hunting arnd for a exchange gift and mine was sure unique enough. :D got a couple of x'mas gifts as well. chilled a while with colleagues at gloria jean's coffee before leaving for home. went off to yck to meet up the others for the knockout session. got to shannon's place at arnd 2. i was alrdy knocked out before we started drinking, due to training. yet i did drink, just not to the extend of getting drunk. mixed vodka with coke and ribena? tasted funny. then we mixed it with red wine as well. i was sleeping during the part where they gulped down bottles of heniken. woke up and continue drinking, abit. maybe i should try getting drunk. next time then.

unbearable.

AHAHAHA! LOOK AT REAGEN LAH!! he and his shagged face. drink some more vodka lah!

after drinking.

those drunkards playig stacko, ended up toppling the tower till they ended the game due to frustration. see that woman nearest to the sofas, with her head hidden in her arms, totally knocked out? she's smelling her armpits.. HEHE.

jinshi and i.

my popular xmas gift- bad lover voodoo. it comes with 5 needles. :D

did our gift exchange at 7am? LOL. thanks to reagen, i got a pair of thai-boxers. abit no link, but i still like it. :D breakfast at i don't know where but it's along the road to macritche. (:

au voirs!

Monday, December 17

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ex & present colleagues. of which only 4, including me, are still working. LOLs.

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wooooo.

have been really occuppied these few days. went for training on saturday. coach's finally back from aussie afte his 23 days of honeymoon and which he pangseh-ed us during our polite. i have so much to say. hence, i'll just include them all in.

i was paired up with adeline on k2 stingray. once i told adeline,"you just need to have boat confidence to go up on K boats. no matter what, even if u don't kick, press hard against the footrest..". and when we went off on the stingray, i managed to make adeline feel easy paddling with me but i, on the other hand, was feeling rather paranoid. what's up with me?! perhaps it's my mentality that i can't balance on k2 stingray with adeline but i have to admit that we're actually doing quite fine, except for me being too paranoid. where did my boat confidence go? yet, i'm so determined to find it back. capsizing 7 times is no big deal, with a new partner. like what coach says,"just go and paddle. capsize then so be it.."
adeline, i promise you, i'll cut down on the rate of capsizing.

training ended at 11.15 due to rp's open house. washed up, and headed for my sec sch- phs. managed to hear a little of the camp briefing and walked our way to the dry run. it was a far walk man. okay. try imaginating it. from yio chu kang, walk your walk to macritche to complete a station. it was another side of macritche, somewhere near the golf course, and where the waters seem much clearer. it's kind of secluded, so i guess you can do anything there and no one knows, except for the monkeys. hehe. walked out and went to the bus stop at the casuarina curry/prata house there. come to think of it, it seems to be quite near to run there. maybe someday,i can give it a try. or just to run to lower seletar did be good. :D i'll find time for it. took a cab to bishan where i changed out of my sweaty red shirt and bought breadtalk before going to town. weather's been really bad recently and it can start to pour like nobody's business. guess plan's did be really buang-ed out.

i was quite sleepy during work and as usual, it all showed in my eyes- redness. i can't helped it though. plus, shop closed a little later. hence, i skipped sunday's training and slept for all i wanted before heading to forever21 to get a long sleeve top, then to work.

home with derrick and aaron.

last day of RP's open house today. it seems kind of quiet during the morning shift at teamlink. hence, we're "exploring" other booths and getting lanyards, etc. prolly because of the rain, there doesn't seem to be much of a crowd. no idea. but we really enjoyed oursleves there. :D
if there only the crowd is bigger, it did be more interesting and fun for everyone. lunch, followed by shift at abseiling. once again, i'm doing something that i'm familiar with, and i kind of enjoyed it. abseiling station closed at arnd 2-3plus. hence, adeline and i went back to teamlink.

[during the morning shift, trying to disturb only.]

[fine. i was bored.]

[my new-found bf- handsome and build. :D]

[one of the helpers at abseiling. the one whom i made her hang in the air to take a picture first. it was her first time abseiling. so pardon her position. LOL.]

[star-wars, RP's version]

cabbed home.

shall be getting my tracks from brenda later on, like at 1am?! that's cos she was working. but how is she able to rest enough when she still has to report early for the camp tml? LOL. i have a team event tml and it's going to get interesting. hehe.

hehe = evil/ funny thoughts.
:D
hehe. HAHA!

guess i'll be returning home early to knock out and rest enough cos i'll have to report early for camp on the following day, like before 6am? they are gonna fall in at 6am. swee.

should be going for a dental check on friday, after i left the camp early, in the morning. hopefully.

things to get tml.
-poncho
-moisturiser
-lucido hair wax
-hydrocortisone
-tampons?

LOL.
guess i'll be updating on friday or anyday later than that le.
just wish that this hectic week will pass by soon.

anw, i just checked my emails and saw one that bob sent, regarding out pol-ite race's timing.
bev and i got the 4th placing for our k2 race - o2:48:72
and now, the timing for the 3rd placing - 02:48:54
bad timing, i know. but we were so close. it was like a mili-second.
nvm. we'll train harder, be it in new pairs or not.

au voirs!

P.S.

the eiffel towers that jensen got for us.

the guy's favourite routine - tao pok!

3 years of friendship- friends^ex-colleagues- chunfu, fishy, pinwen.

the wax that joanne got for me from japan. super cute cos it tiny, like my spongebob and bears a "g" instead of the "G" you see on bottles sold in singapore.

au voirs!

Friday, December 14

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last day at macritchie, on a thursday. most of the team.

the juniors.

the females. :D

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had water training ytd- 6 big rounds. not good enough. have to go faster and better. i'll have to co-ordinate better with hong. lala fainted, like OMG.

joanne is finally back from japan. she got me a mini bottle of gatsby rubber wax- so cute. and she bought us honeydew kit-kat from japan. hear that? its honeydew kit-kat. you can't find it in singapore, yet.

:D:D:D

i'll train harder. its my one and only interest.
for it, i will.

today's the last day of term3. quite slack today though.

RP open house from 15-17th dec. i'll be helping out for the whole day on 17th. i'll be at teamlink in the morning and at abseiling in the noon. cool shit man!

:D

work tml. leaving early with those who are helping out at open house, but i'm going for hpt camp briefin instead, gonna get sth first, before going for work.

au voirs!

Thursday, December 13

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went to chongpang in search for the screw. i practically combed the whole area and asked arnd. but none of the shops seem to sell, including bikes and smith's shop. not even home fixed. went to meet up with classmates feeling depressed and tried, but they're just such sweet human beings. :D

so we squeesed up the bus and caiwei bargained our steam boat cost from 12/pax to 11/pax. she wanted to bargain it till 10/pax? but 11 is better than nothing. :D
had so much fun. ate alot. nice food they've got at chen huat live seafood. had some mens and womens talk.

i contacted billy to mend the damaged boat and to bring along the cable for the rudder. and the damage fees cost between $120 to $180. O.O"

headed for home.

alright. training later on. seoul garden with last sem's classmates was cancelled, meeting my troupe mates instead for dinner.

tired and busy.

i see that my interests is no longer there. but it's alright. for my past interests, i will. for something that i love so dear in sec sch, i will.

viola tan (cognitive faci) is reminding us not to play american pie or movies with pornography content, in class. LOL. "See no evil" has such high climax. i've watched the latest american pie alrdy. damn funny- horse semen. gross, but u ought to watch it.

gtg.

au voirs!

~~screw for rudder~~ = cable connector.

Wednesday, December 12

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had a little PT yesterday due to the thundering at seletar. the black cat at the shed is like so cute luh. but it nibbled my hand and feet. ):

i couldn't find the screw for the rudder at katib central and the boss told me to go to the smith's shop in chong pang. guess i'll be heading there after school. going for steamboat at marina bay with my classmates and guess what's the attire for girls? tee-shirt, fbt shorts and havaianas. hehe.

hopefully i'll have enough time to head for Wisma with the girls before steamboat, since we have to wait for melvin to end his driving lesson at 8. mmm.

right.

gtg.

au voirs!

Monday, December 10

{ freed on 11:13 PM

rights.

& so, had water training at seletar, the first weekend water training. at least the seaweeds aint that much as compared to how it was on thursday. and so, i got pangseh-ed by my newly assigned partner cos she overslept. got paired up with bev again. the rudder was really loose, i swear! and my direction was so hay-wired. so we got up the pontoon to adjust it. things didn't go well and the washer dropped into the waters. that led us back to paddling in a t2, and once again, i promise you, that the feeling sucks. i can't even feel it gliding. doing a bursting set in it is hell. but at least we felt very shag after that, so it meant sth. ;D took the paddle to work and i felt like being labeled as a weirdo. but i can't be bothered. just take it as i'm holding a bamboo pole will do. :D

john ong: WOAH! you moved your house today ah?!
i'm thinking "nb. so sarcastic for what?"
me: no lah! we just shifted our training ground but tml we've to go back to our original training ground. so have to bring home lo.
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eddy: you brought weapons to work?
me: -_-" HAHA. no la. i brought 1 weapon along only.
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tried out k4 on sunday with lala, qifang, me and bev. co-ordination wasn't good enough. partly it was my responsibility, i guess. but the next time will be a better one- my sit was too tight but didn't adjust it because we were alrdy in the midst of paddling. but it was exciting, really. guys k4 were kenneth, bob, hairul and hanting. they capsized 3 times and lagged behind us for 4-6 km. the real reason? their's were all high seats while ours were low seats. HAHA.

in addition, the passengers nearly mistook our paddles for support and held onto them, on our way in bus to macritchie. kind of embarrassed. but hello. it's a different color leh! like yellow and black? LOL.

reported for work at 3 instead of 4 because we're short of manpower. but tell me, with kork-ups within the management, a mood swing and a sarcastic boss, how can the staff last? except for a handful, including me. hehe. which is why, i normally don't pay attention to their comments.

it's really quite troublesome, having to bring the paddles around and worrying that the blade wouldn't get hurt. but it's alright. just get used to it.

had land today. shagged but feeling high. the trainings are getting more and more "interesting".

UT tml.

au voirs!

Saturday, December 8

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supposed to be posted last friday.

the hardwork of today's lesson was the birth of our presentation, not through power point, but through blogger. and i swear that it did be much faster and easier using powerpoint.

check it out.
team5's presentation

:D

right. so we're suppose to try out the high elements at the adventure learning centre but it was pouring. probably the next half of the ALC training, i guess. we ended up playing 3 programmes- 1st, to stand in a circle, throw a ball, and to all catch it at the same time; 2nd, we were spilt into 2 groups, together with the wak boarding people. in the group, we work in pairs whereby one is being blindfolded and all to walk along the planks, to transfer the obstacle and the box over to the "ship"; 3rd, using a given number of blocks and planks, transfer the group from one side to another, whereby the planks has to be on the blocks at all times.

so judging from the games, it is quite obvious that what they're trying to bring across to us is basically teamwork, coordination, communication, the journey, being a team, etc.

its a pity to not be able to try our the high elements.

oh well.

its going to be a real busy period for me from now on. training plus work on both weekends, and training --> hpt briefing --> work, for next saturday followed by usual schedule next sunday. 1 more week till term break. i did better score well in my UTs. else, they're really pulling down my grades.

these are the photos we took on wednesday:

au voirs!

Friday, December 7

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yesterday's weather was bad- raining. but we went for water training despite the fact that it was raining. paddled k2 with hong, did 9km. been turning arnd the lanes till we HIGH ah! we didn't capsize at all! we're improving. but we're still wet, like totally. the seaweed keep getting stuck on the tip of the boat. they claim to clear all the seaweeds everyday but it doesn't seem to be that case. cos apparently, there's still alot of them!!!

we've all so fascinated over the photoshooting thing from the net, till the faci from another classroom came to told us off. like as though we care!~

i know that it has been going on for a period of time already. but pardon us. AHAHA. aint the last picture classic???!!!!

so cute seh.

alright alright. presentation later on shall be presented on blog. cool eh? i'll paste the link here.

high elements after school. :D:D:D

au voirs!