flying without wings... okay maybe with wing paddle

mm. this past week has been .. tiring? well tiring but eventful... in a good sort of way. besides training, ive kinda been replacing the stuff that ive lost. after the bad luck on the weekend, the rest of the week has been relatively more ... positive?


monday- tuesday
had some really pointless lessons in school.. like most of the people just ponn-ed the lessons without reason and attendances werent even taken? ohwell, lessons are lessons, gotta admit i was kinda in the holiday mood, dont think i even absorbed much from those lessons.

naturally, the highlights of those days were the optional trainings after lessons. haha. darn cool, mrlee pushed up physics lessons on monday so i ended like 1.5hours earlier, headed down to bedok with leon where we kinda were the only 2 people in the whole reservoir. i gotta admit its a really cool feeling, kinda like you own the whole place. well basically did 250m laps for the whole training. guess it was more of getting as much water time as possible since we havent had that much time for water training over the past weeks. heh not enough raptors to use. ohwell, i kinda feel that this extra time in the water has been helpful, capsizing is becoming more and more rare. haha, and i can feel myself getting faster! yes! at last the snail is improving. ahaha.

tuesday's water training was quite cool too. i mean, though the rain was bloody heavy and restricted our water time, listening to coach's talk was good. what with all his talk about being crazy and all. now i wanna be crazy! i'll do just that. lets say .... 50pushups after water for everytime my paddle knocks the boat + 100pushups for every capsize? well lets do something like that for a start. haha. okayy, we also did 250m rundowns for the first time on tuesday... well not exactly bad. i actually kinda like the feeling of competitions down the lanes. tunnel vision!

wednesday was seriously a waste of time. louis and i didnt go down for optional on the pretext that we were gonna replace our ICs at ICA. to put a long story short, the officer there encouraged us not to replace so soon, and just sorta left us with $60+ in our respective ezlink cards. darn. haha. ohwell, at least something good happened later on. when i went to get a replacement SIMcard, the counter guy said that my phone plan had expired last june, and that i could renew and get a new phone. oh the joy. haha. well, happily got a nokia 6500. lol. honestly, i havent been keeping up with the recent phone trends but well, it was the first phone i saw on the brochure the guy gave me and it wasnt that expensive... doesnt look half bad i think.

thursday... not bad not bad. fitness test in the morning and water again in the afternoon. mmm. improvements in everything except chinups... yeah. ohwell, not too disppointed, training everyday to improve it. well at the very least, my 2.4timing has finally scraped below the 10min mark. literally - 0959. lol. not to mention i was running with some mysterious hamstring strain. water training was stressful ... coach made improvements to the stroke we were doing, then chose a couple of us to do 250m and then 500m rundowns. as if doing 500m rundowns for the first time was not scary enough, he added the extra stress: "i might kick the last person out of the team". dang. actually, i think 500m rundowns are quite cool, however not so much when the wind is blowing really really hard and the waves are crashing against the boat like nobody's business. then - its just plain irritating. i still feel sorta guilty that we hogged the raptors and the the j1 girls were stuck with the t1s and jks for the entire training... SORRY!!! oh but the highlight of the training was that coach finally decided to hand out wing paddles! ohyeahh... its been so long that we've been stuck with those huge bright red MOE paddles. at long last we can "fly" (according to louis). lol.

friday
mm. im kinda bored of repeating all the same stuff about training so im just gonna keep it short. training in the morning.
tried out our new paddles.
coach let me use the marathon boat - hmm its surprisingly stable.
k2 with tzetian.
OH i can sorta paddle in the C1! well if racing is running and leisure paddling is walking, then i can crawl.. but still... yay.
topless pushup session (haha. wth)
crapping at subway. (ahem SHHHH)
steamboat dinner at whampoa.


oh crap theres canoeing test tmr. i hope i dont screw it up. ahem ahem. wonder what coach is gonna put us through.

7th Heaven to the 8th level of hell - 5mins

damn damn damn damn damn. today sucked. yeah like big time.

have you ever experienced elation, then in the next moment it turned to despair? have you lost like $1000 at one shot? ever tried explaining that to your parents?

damn it all happened at one shot today.



lost:

• phone
  
• ipod nano
• wallet
• IC
  
• EZlink
• brandnew tights
• protein shaker
• havanas slippers

Simple Plan - Your Love Is A Lie

fun times ahead

time really flies. doesnt it just feel like yesterday that i was crazily studying for my Os with the gang? or anxiously awaiting the Olevel results and JAEposting? now its like 1/4 of my jc life is over already. june "holidays" are coming up. how "enjoyable". lets see me die.

looking at the june hols training schedule, im really gonna have to work hard to change my slacky attitude already. aye, people who think i do alot of work should see how slack i am at home. i really dont want to but i suppose im gonna have to hit that pre-olevel study mood again. now thats not going to be fun.

common tests - project work - nationals - promos.
i really want to go for competition, hope i make it.


McFly - That Girl






dude, you're being silly cos you're never gonna get that girl...

heartache... literally..

i dont know whats wrong with me. started last night after training whilst i was on the mrt. had some random short sharp pains in my chest. damn. i thought it got better after sleeping it off but that doesnt seem to be the case, its back again tonight. that sucks man.

ouch? (must be someone talking bad about me behind my back.. ohwell)

lessons were quite torturous today. probably cos ive been feeling super tired recently. aye - i wonder why, my body seems to be shutting down already. i think i just dropped straight onto the table and fainted when mrliang gave us a 5min break during econs. that tired. not to mention the huge piles of homework that xielaoshi is throwing at us. i wonder how im gonna even make a dent in that chinese homework when my CL is so lousy and i have absolutely no interest whatsoever for the language.

after school was slightly better, although someone ps-ed me. tsk. agreed to go and buy the SAS peshirts with me then backed out at the last moment. hah. well, went back to preside over the juniors passing out parade. though it sounds kinda cool, kinda went back to catch up with ncc friends more than anything else. its really pressurizing with people like gabriel, eugene and edwin there who are all from NJC canoeing la. like wth. just makes me feel damn inferior and weak. nvm, time to up the intensity for self-trainings. thats beside the point, derek and liyuan joined dragonboating and canoe-polo in SP respectively! thats insanely cool i think, the year before us saw many seniors joining hockey in many schools, and we're sorta like the canoeing/dragonboating year. so many of us can. as ive said, insane.

loitered about j8 with the gang for the first time in ages. kinda split with them after i met iggy and yuesheng. oh man, iggy is incredibly flare la, creating scandals all over in cj. haha, even with j2 girls. ahem. horrible. what kind of cheeky things is he getting up to over there la. damn i miss the times when i could just hang out with him and the rest like joel, joshuagoh, hanxun,yuesheng everyday. its times like this that i kinda get this empty feeling inside.


ahh. training at 12 tmr. its gonna be so freaking hot. then then then, i think im heading over to daryl's house after for his birthday celebration? im gonna be out on my feet before tmr is over.

once again... ouch.


Norwegian Recycling - How six songs collide

dum dee dum

water training plus light pt.
there has seriously got to be something wrong with my strokes, speed's still wayy to slow. at least i dont cap anymore in the K1. progress i suppose. ehhh theres so much homework this weekend i cant even afford the time to go for optional water tmr. tskk. tell me please, how to speed up? its kinda irritating.

anywayy. had learning journey at the Parliament House yesterday. im really thankful we (4-5) didnt go there for the sec4 learning journey. haha. i mean, it was a kinda interesting and enlightening experience, but i think to have to go through it twice in 2years would be quite torturous.
(ps: i still think the story about how someone threw a condom filled with blue powder at Tony Blair a couple of years back is really funny.. like wth?)

rushed home then to gideon's place after. dinner provided by gid (spaghetti - yum), thanks again dude. fiona, dayna,tiffany, gideon, louis, daryl, leon, matthias and i all crammed into one car and headed down to support rachel for her church play. met up with cheehao there, where he was all grumbling and cursing at the taxi driver for showing attitude. haha. tiffany was really high ok, she just kept taking pictures, like - LOTS. im proud to say that my eyes were closed for most of them. HAHA. okay, not proud... kinda embarrassing actually, since they're all super ugly.

back on topic - the play was really good. i wasnt quite sure what to expect initally but it was really entertaining! actors were really professional, even when they had to sing, their voices were so clear and precise la. on another note - rachel was really pretty... wait... isnt she always? ahem - just stating a point. haha. but well, taking into account the number of rehearsals they had, id say that they made a really complicated play look so casual and simple.

cabbed back with matthias and tiffany. literally were the last customers to be served at the serangoon tauhui shop. realise its been a long time since ive had tauhui, missing it. ahah.



alright - im so gonna catch up on my schoolwork and lost sleep this weekend. wish me luck.

tell me what to believe

hey hey. ive moved on people! haha. yeah, moved on ... from capping like crazy in the k1 to capping like crazy with louis in the k2. heh. on wed's training we actually capped an unbelievable 13 times in a single training. people tell me its normal but ... ohwell, lets just say that wed's training felt more like a swimming lesson than canoeing training.

anywayyy - the feel of using a k1 is getting better and better, no small part down to the seniors and teammates who have been constantly giving me tips and encouragement. eugene and cheehao have been particularly helpful in giving tips in stroking. thanks man.

there was really this period where i felt really really demoralised after every water training cos the i seemed to making to improvement at all in the k1, and my t1 was really -_-" too, could say that i didnt really look forward to water trainings, afraid coach wouldnt like it and kick me or something. well, now its like something has changed and im feeling much better about everything. guess it has something to do with the feeling that comes from knowing that ive gained something new from every training.

oh and take note, raymond isnt a nice guy! hahaha. played that ridiculous pushup game with him after training. whoa killed me la. what nonsence: "im gonna just do 1 more than you". he gave me chance and let me win la, i bet he wasnt even tired. haha. i'll challenge you again next time, you better not be ren2 bu4 hao3 and let me win.

btw : 2+4+6+8+10+.....+48 = 600
ahahaha. crazy

heading to the coffeeshop with raymond johnathan aaron after training was a really good way to destress. we laughed so much i bet we'll all have 6/8packs. super lot of rubbish and inside jokes, and AARON knows ALL of them. haha. he's like some secret keeper.


*i guess i must have hit my head on something cos theres this bump on my head which hurts like hell. who knows when/where.

Standfast - Carcrashes