ACANOEINGIRLS :D

Saturday, December 1st rough schedule

8a.m. sharp at mac ritchie : don't be late and make everyone try to reach you desperately in the morning cause the schedule is tight and there's plenty of things to check unless you want to meet even earlier. If there's going to be a jam, leave earlier. If you know you might oversleep, do something. Whatever it is, no excuses. For once, please. Make this a start.

attire blue tank

8.00:

Bring out all boats to outside k shed, take charge of the boat you're using
The boats are as follows:
BERSERKER- gabrina and suzanne
TRINITY- ming en & chun ling
POSEIDON- peiyi & huitong
AXN- crystal & rachel
BABY- jean & chris
ANGEL/ PHANTOM- jing han & fareed

8.10:
Check your boats for the following:
(try to minimise adjustments when we reach)
footrest
seat
footpump is secured; ensure that won't move for the entire 22k. make sure boat is dry (BRING RAG) and do final taping

8.25
take out and account for the following:
paddles- 12 [B09, B10, B11, B12, B13, B16, B20,B22, B23 chris, fareed and jh paddle]
lifejackets- 12
spray decks- 13
waterbags & washers- bring your own
wavebreaks- at least 6, bring along any extras
also bring along the following:
cloth tape
extra wingnuts

8.45
bring all boats to carpark as well as other equipment all by 9.00

9.00
load boats onto lorry and movement of boats to pasir ris
we're sharing a lorry with nus i think

we'll be paddling for awhile at pasir ris
please note that you'll have to bring back seats, paddles and lifejackets

tomorrow's a long day, so rest well!

RACHEL. (:

after that dboat incident, paranoia runs high. tell me, will singapore allow rowers to paddle without life jackets or will there be huge currents that will swallow us whole?

what if your life jacket gets washed away?
what if your boat sinks?
what if you get hit by the motorboat instead?
what if your boat gets washed away?
what if you lose your paddle on the water?
what if your life jacket strangles you?

i could go on and on with these ludicrous questions. -__-
pardon the insensitivity

the water wheel by the way, is attached at the end of the pipe..
its supposed to spin round and round when the water spurts out!

maybe someone would row by and try to overtake then.. when they see the WONDERFUL water wheel they'd be so amused! (or irritated) and perhaps.. they'll cap! Haha. just maybe..

don't be jealous suzie!
when we get one..

suzanne seah can no longer identify the days
here i was happily thinking that we still had a whole bloody month to round ubin when it's like in don't know how many days
anyway, i wanted to tell the world
that yesterday, at least i think it was yesterday
me and rachel wang had fun chasing small green guppies together
while peiyi and huitong spent all their time chasing big blue sharks
guppies are cuter [:
and oh yes, never ever row with rachel wang and crystal bay when they have the bloody foot pump thing
they refused to get out of the damned boat until all the water had been pumped out
which would've been pretty quick
IF THEY DIDN'T KEEP POURING WATER IN
and they were talking about attaching some stupid water wheel thing so that the sound'll amuse rachel bay when she rows
it's like watching two little kids and an aquarium pump
the simple joys in life

i'm so tired i dream of sleeping,
seah suzanne

elephants did actually swim across from malaysia btw (:
haha however weird you may find it...

http://infopedia.nlb.gov.sg/articles/SIP_443_2004-12-28.html

http://moduleblog.nus.edu.sg/blogs/lsm1303/default.aspx

Hey people!
22km is going to be damn bloody tough and we cannot afford to pass out in the middle of the sea. plus, i dont think ur partner wants to finish 22km by herself so... remember to CARBO-LOAD!!btw, pasta is good carbo (:

Well, i've been doing some reading and the more important things you need to do are...

Eat carbo 2 or 3 days before the race. DONT EAT FATS.
Eat a heavy lunch the day before the race. Preferably carbo again.
EAT YOUR VEGETABLES RACHEL WANG...EVEN IF U DONT LIKE IT.
DO NOT NOT EAT...that means u jean
Drink more water.
Do not kill yourself and train like crazy a few days before the race.
Eat a light breakfast on the race day.

you know what else we can do???

we can put gatorade in our water bags!! (:

that should be good for us during the race (:

and also...we should do some visualisation man! complete with the waves!! dont worry i'll help u guys create the atmosphere...AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE!! hahaha

anw, eat well people!! dont fall sick before the race. dont faint during the race. dont die.

http://www.multidays.com/html/training/body/carbo-loading.htm

CARBS HERE I COME!! huitong :D:D:D:D:D

GUESS WHAT HUMANS.
GABRINA IS NOW OFFICIALLY A BLOGGER OF THIS BLOG AND IS NOW GONNA BE BLOGGING ON THIS BLOG AND WILL CONTINUE TO BLOG ON THIS BLOG AND CREATE MANY MANY BLOGS ON THIS BLOG.

YOU CAN START CALLING ME:
the BLOGGER.
coolness.haha.
unfortunately for you humans,the BLOGGER is now tired and will begin blogging on this blog another day when she feels like blogging on this blog.sorry for the suspense and excitement that you will have after reading this blog blogged by the BLOGGER about the BLOGGER blogging in future.but till the next time the BLOGGER blogs,happy blogging!

love:
the BLOGGER
gabrina goh wu shuangli(double beauty)
loves!

DISGUSTING...

contents of whatever shit golorina is drinking...

Iced lemon tea
PARSLEY
TABASCO
SWEETENER
PEPPER
CHEESE
RED PEPPER

looks disgusting but she is still drinking that because she is curious and wants to know what that tastes like... and btw, she ate eden's spit for $10. (:

thats our golorina! (:

thats just gross. YUCKS. huitong

hello people! i'm making my debut here ((:

okay as rachel wang said, i'm gonna blog something apart from canoeing BUT still essential to canoeing AHEM which is (what else but) FOOOOOOD

fantastic, the one who is complaining the entire day about her weight is here to talk about food but that means it'll be gooood right?

take a look at this webbie http://beefitswhatsfordinner.com/

i swear, it's so freaking good.

i absolutely love the last one omg

peiyi

oh my god... that rachel wang!!

thanks for making me sound as dirty as GOLORINA GOH! when , of course, im NOT as dirty as her! im like how clean la!!!

anw, guess what!

after lunch at vivo, i went home to sleep right...
i only woke up this morning at 10!!!! which means...I SLEPT A TOTAL OF 18 HOURS!!!
i didnt even wake up to eat dinner la! which means...I ONLY ATE ONE MEAL YESTERDAY!!! wow, im so surprised im even capable of that!haha

anw, i feel so bloody bored at home when im not training!! so i think im going back to training! (: and... u know what we can all do after training????

WE CAN MUG!!! and we can do our holiday homework together!! :D:D:D

so what do y'all think? bright idea huh? haha

and btw, im looking forward to camping at macritchie during the christmas hols! haha rachel can sprinkle cheese all over and ling ling can lick it all up! haha but no sprinkling in the shed! haaha dont want the ants to come!

OCIP anyone??? monday is an off day (: huitong

"Noooo... Haha. I'm in bed trying to sleep! I won't go bathe! Its too tiring and anw, its not like I got sweat today! haha"

- Huitong @ 11.35 p.m. ; when asked to bathe after coming back from camp at sentosa then lunch and vivo and sleeping the rest of the day..

"What?! I'm relatively clean ok!"

-Huitong @ 11.39 p.m. ; in defence of her sense of hygiene...

RACHEL

i am not a strange malaysian man! thinking malaysian motorcycle riders are nice and pretty ISN'T THE SAME AS BEING A STRANGE MALAYSIAN MAN!
there're so many things that 're wrong with that statement lah!
see, i'm not strange
i'm not malaysian
I AM NOT A MAN! (manly, maybe. BUT NOT A MAN!)
and not i'm not so manly anymore WITH THAT GAYASS BAG
that's really quite nice and black [:
and rachel wang was comfortable with me t'day [:
that silly little indian girl's damn funny
damn black and damn funny [:
they dropped me off at little india on deepavali
:/
and suzanne seah has no time! suzanne seah laughed at ling ling's post
and suzanne seah thinks yunkuan's a retard, a very rich retard, but nonetheless a retard [:
I AM VERY VERY TIRED ):
EVEN MY BLOODY BACKSIDE HURTS FROM ALL THAT idontknowwhatformis stretching! ):

i love microwaved pancakes,
- seah suzanne [:

On one of the days at macritchie, a hungry mosquito decided to look for food. and food was....

RACHEL WANG'S FOREHEAD!!!!!

On closer look,

The gallant crystal bay was going to save rachel wang and raised her hand to slap rachel' forehead

but the mosquito was too fast and flew away,

leaving a red bump on rachel wang's forehead.

Now, imagine the dark skin and add in the plaits, and you get a

CUTE LITTLE INDIAN GIRL!

HAHAHHAHAHA

i know im not as good a story teller as tong2, but i shall try my best, so here goes, ahhhemmmmm

OUR SHOPPING EXPEDITION ( this should make our dear strange malaysian man very happy )

so we finally got our team bag today after months and months of discussion, delay, dragging and whatnot. YAYNESS!!! it did not come easy ok. we shed blood, sweat and tears just to get our hands on those 11 black addidas bags. serious. im serious. really, im serious.

just kidding.

so after training, we hopped into tong2's car and headed to ikea, where we thought we would have lunch. i was so looking forward to the meatballs! but turns out the queue was very long and the place so crowded so we just grabbed some hot dogs and went over to queensway to have laksa. as usual, crystal bay's hot dog was swimming in chilli sauce andddd, she was also the last to finish her hot dog even though she claims that she wasnt going to lick her hot dog but was going to use the bread to wipe off the chilli sauce and rachel said she copied her. hahah. i had my first bowl of laksa =) was ok, but a little too coconuty for me. bleah. suzy's strawberry red tea tasted funny. what a combination.

then we went to one of the shops to get our bags. thank goodness tong2, rachel, crystal and peiyi reserved 9 pieces from the trip yesterday. we thought we just had to get two more pieces from any one of the many shops in queensway, but we realised that there were only 9 pieces of the team bag in the whole shopping complex!!! oh my goodness, the horror. the bags were that saleable. we walked into every shop and asked and its either " oh sorry, out of stock", " oh sorry, no more", " cannot order". we just needed TWO more pieces. so we decided, aiya, lets just get the other two from other outlets at the original price. but fret not, we'll split the extra cos, so each person pays an extra $4. pay tong2 $84 dollars ok! and put the money in an envelope so you dont spend it!

we wanted to go vivo but somehow we ended up nearer to the addidas branch at suntec so we went there instead. and now, we realise the importance of getting to the shops as quick as possible. imagine another person walking in and getting the last piece! so we were practically brisk walking, the pace even faster than our delightful slow jog on tuesday. at royal sporting house, tong2 just walked past the bag on the shelf, thank goodness crystal bay saw it. it was the last piece on display so we got that one at the original price. great, one down, one more to go. and the other shops around there didnt carry the piece we wanted so we next headed to city link mall.

haha crystal bay was trying to be funny and she started the trend of walking on only the dark tiles and suzy, rachel and lingers retardedly played along. but it was a good way to get us moving faster because we were hopping crazily along, trying to the fastest. and clever lingers decided to walk on the sides where all the dark tiles were, so she was happily zapping away, ahead of the rest while they were hopping clumsily like bunnies! HAHA =) tong2 thought she was being unchildish by not playing with us, but she wanted very badly you see, but was restraining the little kid in her, just so she can point at us and laugh " little kids!!" not working, huihui!

then suzy and crystal started running down the suntec place, competing to be the first. lingers was closely behind while tong2, rachel and gabby was nowhere to be seen. haha gabbers, hope the walk didnt kill you =) so we were running down citylink mall, down the escalators and into the addidas shop! we went into the shop, looked wildly around for the bag, and being the sharp eyed crystal bag, she went up and hugged the piece on display! the shop assistant was looking at us funnily. hahaha. suzy, you were close, but still slower than crystal bay! and we managed to get the final piece on the addidas shop after a few hours of crazy shopping at a few places =D it was quite fun actually. like an adventure. like the amazing race. but still not as exciting as my subaru challenge. =)

ah, so that concludes our exciting shopping expedition for our team bag. what an adventure. =) remember to pay tong2 $84 for the bag!

signing offfff =)

so we FINALLY bought the team bag :D hurray!

It was so bloody tiring man but i shall not steal ling ers chance to tell u the story...instead let me tell u what happened yesterday when me, rachel, crystal bay, peiyi and YUN KUN went to queensway to look for a team bag...

so we were there right, feeling thirsty and all and we wanted to get a drink.

i got a lychee drink and crystal bay got a sea coconut drink.

peiyi tried the sea coconut and LOVED IT and so she tried her hardest to make yun kun drink it.

as we all know, for someone who only ate chicken rice for lunch for every single day in the 4 secondary school years, we kinda can guess that this person DOES NOT try new stuff.

this person is none other than YUN KUN.

peiyi was so forceful la! she tried and tried so hard to make yun kun try that drink but yun kun just refused.

-_____-''

Whats wrong with the drink right?!?!??!

ok, so peiyi gave up and went inside the shop while yun kun and i were waiting outside...

Then i asked him, 'so, what do u have for dinner later? Chicken rice?'

it was a very stupid question because i knew that there was only one answer...'Ya.'

-___________-''

YUN KUN SERIOUSLY HAS SOMETHING AGAINST THE CHICKENS LA!

then after that he tried to make it sound as if he ate different stuff everyday...one day he would eat chicken cutlet, another day his mom would cook some sort of porridge which probably had chicken in it, then he would have chicken teriyaki, and then another day he would have chicken chop. -___________-''

and the thing is...It is actually a cycle!!! he follows this order every week. O M G

and i thought that so many things in my life were damn boring.

ok so after that, yun kun, rachel, me, and crystal bay went to ikea to eat hotdogs, which of course, yun kun REFUSED to try again, even though it was chicken meat...

this time round, crystal bay didnt use her fingers to eat the chilli sauce because she claimed that she was in 'public' when in actual fact the only people that could see her was me, rachel, yun kun and the guy withdrawing money at the atm.

at least this time, the hotdog in her hands didnt have to suffer for too long. it only got burnt in the mountain of chilli sauce.

getting damn bored and uncomfortable and ravenous, i proposed to go to the avocado milkshake shop. and all of a sudden, there was SOOOOOOOOO much life in YUN KUN that i have never seen before!

he literally jumped off the seat and was like 'OKOKOK lets go lets go lets go!'

and the 3 of us were like WHOA, whats up with u man!?

and guess what he said...' I want to TRY the milkshake' WOW never knew that after all that peiyi did before this had THIS effect on him la...he seriously has a damn slow reaction. HAHA

so we all got off our lazy asses to go to the shop and guess who we saw on the way there??!?!??!?!?

JO KHOO and JEREMY!!!

HOLDING HANDS!! haha

they were so cute but when they saw us, they immediately STOPPED holding hands and kept turning around to look at us. Cause u know why?

Rachel wang, crystal bay and yun kun were all STARING AT THEM AND LAUGHING.

so nice (: haha

ok moving on...

i think we should all congratulate YUN KUN for his courage...he tried a total of 3 0r 4 drinks at one go!!!

seriously!! he bought 4 drinks but he only drank around 1 cup...the rest...CRYSTAL BAY AND RACHEL WANG finished them!haha

At first, he bought the mango drink...he thought it was ok, but he wasnt satisfied, so rachel and crystal told him to buy something else, whatever that he doesnt want, they'll buy from him.

so when he went to the police ( the seller was wearing a shirt that said police) to order something else, rachel wang and crystal bay happily TRIED the mango drink.

the 2nd drink he bought was the lime juice with aloe vera. it was ok, but still...he wasnt satisfied. so, he pass to rachel wang and crystal bay to try the lime juice. so by this time, the two of them were pushing the cups around to drink the lime juice, mango and avocado milkshake (mine) and the drinks were going in a circle la!

-________-''

he finally ran out of ideas, so we suggested to him the durian milkshake that peiyi absolutely ADORES. guess what...NOT GOOD ENOUGH!! the 3 of us were like WHAAAAAAATTT!!!! like OH MY GOD!! thats like so much money spent on drinks already la!!!! being the nice people that rachel wang and crystal bay are, they helped yunkun lighten his burden and finished 3 quarters of ALL his drinks, when they only paid him for 1. yun kun was like ' u all are going to get diarrhoea la!!' haha...but so far, we havent heard the 2 whiny queens whine about a diarrhoea so maybe, its ok to drink so many different things together! haha

this is a funny photo of yun kun..haha

im damn tired...again. Huitong

hey people

nice job everyone! i think that we did great considering the no. of dragonboat trainings we had together and all our competitors were older than us! so, GOOD JOB PEOPLE :D

dont be discouraged that we didnt make it any further, but be happy cos we made it so far! whens the last time we made it to semis man!?!? this race is just a stepping stone. our main focus should be national schools next year, and i think we are improving fast!

but we cannot be complacent.
we shouldnt compare ourselves to other schools, whether they are faster or slower, we should concentrate on our own trainings. its important that we continue to work hard and become stronger. as long as we follow amanda's training programme closely, im sure we'll do better at our next competition. (:

This regatta was a great experience for me, and i learnt something....

DONT PUT YOUR FRICKIN FINGERS IN BETWEEN THE FRICKIN BOATS!

haha... im stoooopid. oh well, gotta learn to live with this stooopidity.

im damn tired and sleepy, huitong