firstly: responses to tags..

eugene:
haha. cant help it la. i also dunno why i felt like studying, i shall just do a little a day. just to keep in touch... i PLAYED LIKE HELL today... thank raymond for that. haha.

Eleanor/Lyon:
haha. mmm. different tastes i guess. i like all the crappy crappy stuff in "Get Smart" more. not so much the cartoon time i guess. nvm, both are nice!

Gabriel:
hey dude, after 4years in ncc with me, id expect you to be used to my lame comments already. and HAHA. YOU. NJC CANOEIST SMARTIEPANTS. RETAIN. whats the world coming to... nonsense.


fun day! haha. its currently 1130 and im just feeling rather high and bored cos there isnt much to do at night... so im here!

busy busy saturday. morning gym with louis and leon. raymond came over to my place in the afternoon, and we stopped en-route to be wonderfully helpful people. haha. there was this maid who was trying to get the lid of a certain section of storm drain and people were just walking past her and not evening looking at her. so.. being the busybodies that we are (ithink), stopped to help. i believe we caused quite a commotion and alot of noise cos suddenly these two indian men came by to help us too. apparently, the maid dropped her employer's silver bracelet into the drain earlier in the day, and was super flustered and scared. mm. we spent an estimated 1hour at the drain cover prying and prying before that imba strong indian man decided to use brute force. haha. he just lifted the lid single-handedly... and there i was half marveling at his strength, and half irritated cos he didnt just do it earlier. lol. just in case you were wondering how heavy the drain cover is, raymond and i both tried to lift it at the same time and it didnt even budge an inch... ohwell, WEAK. hahaha.

oh matthias joined us for a extremely extremely short exercise session. haha. 2.4? ohwell, anyway, came to my house for dinner, where i was messing around with raymond's phone. haha. he still doesnt know what i did to it. (i set an alarm for 5am tmr morning... SHHHHHH. heh.)

oh... was reading through my email and i came across this one that dionis sent to me a few weeks back (i think).. yeah its pretty true:

***Guy's point of view

This is very cute! And even written by a guy!
You might agree with it, but when it actually happens 99% of girls don't realize it 'til it is too late

and that guy who did it is so frustrated that he has moved on to someone who will take notice.

From a guys point of view:

We don't care if you talk to other guys.
We don't care if you're friends with other guys.
But when you're sitting next to us, and some random guy walks into the room

and you jump up and tackle him without even introducing us, yeah, it pisses us off.
It doesn't help if you sit there and talk to him for ten minutes without even acknowledging the fact that we're still there.

We don't care if a guy calls you, but at 2 in the morning we do get a little concerned.

Nothing is that important at 2 a.m. that it can't wait till he morning.

Also, when we tell you you're pretty/beautiful/gorgeous/cute/ stunning, we freaking mean it.
Don't tell us we're wrong.We'll stop trying to convince you.

The sexiest thing about a girl is confidence.

Yeah, you can quote me.

Don't be mad when we hold the door open.

Take Advantage of the mood im in.

LET US PAY FOR YOU! DON'T 'FEEL BAD'
We enjoy doing it.
It's expected.
Smile and say 'thank you.'

Kiss us when no one's watching.
If you kiss us when you know somebody's looking, we'll be more impressed.

You don't have to get dressed up for us.
If we're going out with you in the first place, you don't have to feel the

need to wear the shortest skirt you have or put on every kind of makeup you own.
We like you for WHO you are and not WHAT you are.
Honestly, i think a girl looks more beautiful when she's just in her pj's.
Or my t-shirt and boxers, not all dolled up.

Don't take everything we say seriously.
Sarcasm is a beautiful thing.
See the beauty in it.
Don't get angry easily.

Stop using magazines/media as your bible.
Don't talk about how hott Morris Chesnutt, Brad Pitt, or Jesse McCartney is in front of us.
It's boring, and we don't care.
You have girlfriends for that.

Whatever happened to the word 'handsome'/'beautiful'.
I'd be utterly stunned by a girl who greeted me with 'Hey handsome!' instead of 'Hey baby/ stud/ cutie/ sexy' or whatever else you can think of.
On the other hand im not sayin i wouldn't like it either.

i dont know... pretty true huh guys? the last part is a little odd but ahhh, whatever.

Fitness Regime ( again....)

hello world - i just screwed up my common tests. yay? aye, i dont know how i should feel about it. i guess im just feeling freaking guilty that i havent been studying my hardest... or anywhere near my hardest.

i think theres really really really something wrong with me. when its time to be serious and concentrate on studying for tests or whatnot, i cant be force myself to focus at all... and now that the common tests (freaking hard!!) are over, im suddenly feeling like studying. yeah i know, its crazy. but i think its gotta be something to do with guilty feelings that i didnt work that hard for the tests... errr. right, id better not be like that for the rest of the year.. dont wanna retain!

alrightttt... my ankle's finally better! for the first time in weeks, i dont feel any sort of strange aches or pains from any part of my body. haha. it really takes a period like this where you have some irritating and mysterious injury and you get so freaking damn f*cking pissed off asdgdjjgfhghtr...... oops. got carried away. HEH. anyway, my point is, its times like this that makes you appreciate the times where youre perfectly healthy and your body is is working order.

wellwell.. went out to catch a movie with a couple of the guys last night. hmm. raymond aaron and gideon are probably the crappiest people to go out with. and its my honest opinion that we're a nuisance to society cos we made a hell lot noise in the cinema. lol. watched "Get Smart", which is a very very very very very funny show. lots and lots and lots of nonsense in a show, just the kind show that i like. i think its even better than the more highly rated "Kungfu Panda" purely because the jokes didnt just focus on one aspect of the movie. i mean, KP was good but all the laughs basically came from the fact that the panda was fat. yep. mmmmmmmm.. yeah going out with the guys was cool, not just cos of the movie, but the fact that theres never a dull moment.. all the teasings, rubbish and arguing. haha. entertaining as hell.

training todayy.. mm. not bad, its the first time in ages that ive come in first for the set. haha. yay? ahh, i bet the others were taking their own sweet time thats why. haha. nvm! went for a run with raymond around bedok reservoir after... 4.5km? im hoping to make this a personal habit. hmmm... ohyeah missed out on some action while we were running. from what i heard, i couple of crude dragonboaters who were in the shower were making loud and nasty comments about the girls in our team. im just wondering why these sort of people dont have the self respect and respect for others. lets hope we dont meet them again, im pretty sure that would be a less-than-friendly encounter...

hmms.. realise ive been going on with these ramblings for way too long. mm. gym tomorrow morning! i think i wanna try getting some more studying done tonight.. mmm. my chem and physics are so screwed up i think i'll need a screw driver just to get them back in order... HA.

a couple of songs ive been addicted to these two days:


Jesse Mccartney - Leaving




Linkin Park - Leave out all the rest

study study..

last week of the hols... one week to common tests... no Adivs for us j1 guys to look forward to... ohwell.. what else to do but STUDY. damn. that sucks... its just so boring ... doing the past year's common test papers. urgh. and i get distracted so dang easily while studying... theres like a hundred-and-one things that suddenly become so interesting when i begin studying. haha. ive even stoned and stared out the window at the sky. LOL.

anyway, finally went to the sinseh to get my ankle checked out. apparently theres some wrong with my ball... AHEM... ball at the ankle. haha. yepp. and while she was doing some weird rotating-twisting-pulling action on my foot, i was thinking 'hmmm wonder why people say its painful..' then she gave this almight pull and twist which HURT LIKE HELL. yepp. felt like she was trying to dislocate it or something. whats worst, she took out some evil wooden device and started rubbing it all over my foot, on the bones and all. ouch. so that was that, and now my left ankle is wrapped up like some mummy's foot and i can barely walk around properly. yepp, lucky theres no training this week.

mmm... study session with koon, ivan, yuesheng, joel later... ought to be productive... and full of crap. haha. love those times back in cathigh with them... STUDYYY.

pfft. im getting rather bored about blogging about trainings. its been more or less the same things daily, with maybe different boats or such... anyway- today marks the last day of training for this hols.. whew, time to get my focus back on studies and the upcoming common tests. im gonna plunge into my notes and hope i dont die horribly...

ohwell, i guess this blog is gonna be pretty dead until the next time i experience something interesting and worth blogging about... which could be a really really really really really really long time. hah.

COMPETITION... boats

ohwell. whats there to say, another week of trainings. its been okay, at least that recent horrible streak where i could keep my balance for nuts is over... must be that ive gotten used to the wing paddle. ohwell, new paddle, new paddle entry, new paddling techniques... gotta start everything again. haha. at least its something to work towards.

most importantly, coach gave us the opportunity to use the competition boats this week. hah. on monday there was louis and i gleefully paddling around on the two 'liangjin's. whoa, though there wasnt much difference in terms of balancing and paddling, the feeling was great - haha each stroke felt wonderful, the boat just sliced the water like nobody's business. although, turning in BK2 was horrible like hell. the usual user, jon gan, is so tall that he adjusted the footrest so bloody far into the boat, then the tiller stuck out so much that it was halfway up my leg, and i had to turn it with my shins... ummm. yeah. ahwell, it was a good experience overall.

today, thursday, was another cool experience. i think that coach was feeling extra generous today cos he let almost all the j1 guys use competition boats. well lets see, there was Johnathan in BK2 liangjin, Weiyang in FEN liangjin, Darryl in SHANGHAI, Benjamin in BK1 nelo, Gideon in the marathon, and me in the regata. woots. haha. unbelievable. well, i think i prefer the liangjin more though. overall paddling in the regata was okayy, but i didnt really dare to shift my ass too much cos i was too scared of capping. lol. and the worst was when the waves came. haha. shaking like a leaf. ohwell, coach says that the boat is shaky, and that the balance comes with more water time on it... hmmm.. hope so. i suspect its got something to do with my crappy balance too. anyway, more water time on the regata sounds good. doesnt it?


on another note, the family's just left this morning for melacca. now its kinda me and the big empty house. empty. silent. quiet. creepy at night. NAH. kidding, its just freaking empty. haha. and thats the way it shall remain till saturday night when the family returns to add the noise... and loud talking. well well..


Bo Bice - The Real Thing





Every word I say, I mean it
Every single day, I feel it

But sometimes when you talk
It's obvious you want to show it
So don't blow it

[Chorus:]
Tell me what we got, tell me it's a lot tell me it's the real thing
Tell me not to change and always be the same, tell me that's a good thing
It's a good thing
Tell me not to lie, tell me not to wait
Tell me that you want the same things as me
Tell me that it's fate driving me insane
Tell me it's the real thing
That keeps me hangin on

I can read the signs between us
I feel it inside when you come nearer
There's a stillness in the air like no one else is there
And every moment stays in the moment
Yeah

[Chorus:]
Tell me what we got, tell me it's a lot tell me it's the real thing
Tell me not to change and always be the same, tell me that's a good thing
It's a good thing
Tell me not to lie, tell me not to wait
Tell me that you want the same things as me
Tell me that it's fate, driving me insane
Tell me it's the real thing
That keeps me hangin on

Sometimes it hurts to watch you leave
It feels like you're taking a part of me with you
I never know how it'll be
I guess it's just a mystery
But is it the real thing (that keeps me hangin on)

[Chorus:]
Tell me what we got, tell me it's a lot, tell me it's the real thing
Tell me not to change and always be the same, tell me that's a good thing
It's a good thing
Tell me not to lie, tell me not to wait
Tell me that you want the same things as me
Tell me that it's fate, driving me insane
Tell me it's the real thing
That keeps me hangin on

Tell me what we got, tell me it's a lot, tell me it's the real thing
Tell me not to change and always be the same, tell me that's a good thing
It's a good thing
Tell me not to lie, tell me not to wait
Tell me that you want the same things as me
Tell me that it's fate, driving me insane
Tell me it's the real thing
The real thing


love this song, just found it after whoknowshowlong deep deep deep in some random file in my computer. haha. yesss.

two down - two to go

week2 of the hols are over.. same old same old. been spending most of my time at trainings, and wayyy too little time on studying. horrible. im really really worried about the upcoming common tests... seriously i need to do well.

just received this email with a couple of humorous quotes, enjoy:

BOY : May I hold your hand?
GIRL : No thanks, it isn't heavy.

GIRL : Say you love me! Say you love me!
BOY : You love me...

GIRL : If we become engaged will you give me a ring??
BOY : Sure, what's your phone number??

and my personal favorite:


BOY : I would go to the end of the world for you!
GIRL : Yes, but would you stay there??


haha. okayy.. quite lame but nvm. aye, theres the 10km passion run tmr and im getting a little apprehensive, haven't really ran in quite a while. the longest distance ive done is like the 2.4km for that recent fitness test. ohwell.. and louis is staying over tonight.. wish us luck for tmr - haha.

mmm. the upcoming week's gonna be boring for sure... training as per usual, being left alone at home while the family goes to melacca, and well... yeah you know... aye.