emo post

yupp i've finally decided to blog bout non-race-ish nats and post-nats.

firstly, i have to say that i lovelovelove teammates and sleeping/zen-ing in the tent prior to races is really quite fun.. i rmb getting scolded by deb/ge for talking too much before our k4 races cos we're sposed to focus.

okay woops maybe i should've blogged earlier cos my memory's getting quite fuzzy already.. =/

oh but i do rmb clearly, before my semis, when gaby and i were the last to race on thursday(my race was at 3.20) and so it was just the two of us in the tent. and we'd try to sleep but im pretty sure gaby was rather nervous bout her race too. then we'd sit up near the opening and watch the races, and i told gaby that i didnt know if i can get t1 gold, and she said "dont worry, you can do it". or something like that. and she let me read her notebook of inspirational quotes, which she compiled herself. i liked most of em, but i especially liked this one:

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It is an option. Impossible is not a declaration. It is a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."
– Adidas advertisement

yup, and yeah i must must say tt im extremely proud of gaby, eventhough she didnt make it to semis cos her fighting spirit is really imba. and she lent me her notebook that night for my finals, and it really did help me alot. (:

the last day of nats was pretty emo. my race was last and i was quite bummed by the outcome. i went a little nuts, convincing myself that it really was all good, and i had the konyaku jelly drink thing that jiaqi bought for me, which i suspect had been spiked. half of the girls were calculating the possible scores of all the girls' teams outside of the tent, while the rest of us were having some mass orgy in the tent. =/

anw it was a veryy emo tent. everyone was kinda lost in their own worlds, and i cried again bout missing 3rd by abit. sore loser hoho.. then i left the tent cos the atmosphere was too disturbingly emo and convinced jiaqi to visit the toilet with me. we got stalled by jp who told us to cheer for sji. so we did, and it was very odd haha!

award presentation. training right after nationals is crazy. and training when the award ceremony is ongoing is rude. and i think i'd happily settle for 4th if it means being able to celebrate it with teammates.. *random.

rafflesrow is a total camwhore team. nats debrief by the capts of 2007 & 2008 was good.. i should stop laughing at eugene's inspirational moments.. jarius's speech was so sincere and we all think he's very sweet aww..

then we did that 'ceremonial hand-over' thing where the entire j2 team stands in one line and the j1s form a line too and they go down the row to shake hands/hug/convey well-wishes to the j2s. we did it last year too, and i rmb the j2 guys mostly telling me how huge my arms were.. ): this year, alot of the j1 guys and girls were telling me how my race was inspiring.. lol i never thought of myself as inspiring, so it was pretty shocking haha..

zomg then michelle tried to piggyback selene up monkey hill and it was quite failure.. michelle fell flat on her front, (ouchouchouch) and selene rolled over and skinned her knee. so i piggybacked her all the way to the toilet to get it cleaned. (im an ambulance just like mary yay!)

Macritchie's Next Top Model(MacNTM) was LOL! smouldering looks and sexy poses and canoeing do not equate nopenope.. but meera and prav think their poses are da bomb so hahah okeh. =D

then ge and i went to py's hse to shower before team dinner. ge says it's the best way to end nats and i agree.. pltnmates forever! love!

then we were late for dinner at bugis. seoul garden was spammed with crescent canoeists so we ate at Happy Pay Steamboat lol.. it wasnt halal, non-vegetarian plus py was having rashes so she had to stay away from seafood, so py, meera and i had our own food spree! (2 sausages, 1 prata sausage and rootbeer float for me) and guilt-free rootbeer float is loveee! omg and we were so super sleepy and high and we were mad. then we had to fetch jiaqi, who was late cos she was having soup at home, (O.o) and we went for our food adventure. py and i kept making fun of the way meera ran and likened her to a rhino. and they didnt have clam chowder at lj so i bought thai coconut, which meera agrees is heavenly!

we were still mad as we walked back to Happy Pay steamboat and my shirt said "TEAM AFFLES" cos py thoughtfully covered the R and meera was showing off her flathead cos she could balance the bottle on her head. then py was still calling her a rhino so she got depressed and sat by the side of the road and looked like a drunkard with a 1.5l ice lemon tea bottle. and she tried to convince us that it was very comfortable there but we didnt believe her.

we were still mad when we reached the steamboat place as we recounted to the totally happening table,(which got even more happening after we left) our exciting food adventure.. yup then i felt drained and sat limply at the table and kennedy asked if i was okay, which i was somewhat. then daddy fetched me at 10.30.

exciting.

hmm im not too good with words, so i shant bother summing up the entire nats experience.. i think deb captured it pretty well in her lj yupp.. ahwell basically, i think we've trained hard and fought hard.. we rowed with no regrets and we should be proud of ourselves and what we've become, and i love my teammates very much. though im glad to not have to suffer anymore 2k timings or monkey hills etc, i'd still miss macritchie and training together with the 13 other girls. canoeing gave my jc life a purpose, and the experience and priviledge of being in the team is something i would treasure for a long time to come..

RafflesRow ftw

nazzer sweetheart darling got me a red remote-controlled car yay! he was sposed to get me a big bigg box of chocolates for missing All my races but he got me something better instead.. (: REMOTECONTROLLED CARS PWNZ CHOCOLATES wooh! the guys want a boyfriend too cos they want rc cars haha! they think im lucky.. haha~!

oh the car's very durable. it's got only two cracks on the hood so far, after all it's been through.. lol and i've decided to name it Mary! =))

aight enough time-wasting, im off to the library now to do summore maths..

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