when im missing you

day before nats.


imba stability woahh!
(wordplay HAH)


meera's hand looks a tad bit too close to my boobs


god i miss doing water sets with them


posing in the pond yay!

i miss canoeing very much.. it's been only two weeks and im going mad from school school and more school..

watched dark knight with nazzer today.. amazing lah, what else can i say? (:

pms+angst+headaches+whatever else = eventful date..

olivejuice// happy 40th, love..

the art of conversation

is something i am yet to master i think.

i feel inadequate and stupid and pointless. -sad.

so napfa today was pretty interesting.. napfa with priya's very entertaining.. (: kay got all As cept for sit-and-reach, which i got B for, which is an improvement from last year's C la i guess.. 46 ipulls, 40 situps(i stopped at 40 cos i got bored haha! plus i couldnt stand the sensation of having my tummy fats squishing), 10.5 shuttlerun, 203 sbj.. degen-ed muchly for some of em, no more 50ish ipulls and HAHA 2.4 was da bomb. i couldnt get out of the run despite complaining bout my back, which REALLY was hurting after 5 items but the woman wouldnt excuse me! ): py didnt the run with me cos her rashes were acting up again..

oh i made a folder in my mp3 player called 'NAPFA 13minutes' and added the following songs:
1) About you now
2) Can you hear me?
3) How far we've come
4) Lemon tree (techno remix) HAHA!
fast songs yeah, and the last song is definitely the bestest song to listen to when you're sprinting.. TECHNO FTW! lol..

ohyeah 13.10 for 2.4, which was roughly the timing i did in sec1, ie degen! running to music is pretty fun.. (=

went for nazri's council handover thingey yst after convincing taufiq to go.. though he claims that i used my feminine wiles on him.. but i didnt. =/

so anw, we were late for the ceremony, and entered the lt when the goh was giving his speech.. nazzer darling looks super super cute in the blazer, but his camwhore pictures in the video montage thing were cringe-worthy yup.. the reception was awesomeee! then we were couldnt go for the college tour cos we were still eating, so nazzer took us on a personal tour, which was rather entertaining.. i was feeling very sociable so i pretended to be the socialite girlfriend and engaged in friendly banter.. (: what was most amusing was when a girl in nazzer's committee came over to say hello.
she said: "Hi, im Nazri's head", to which i replied, "Oh so nazri has two heads?" taufiq thought it was hilarious. ahwell but her reaction was priceless though, too bad nazzer didnt catch that.. oh and she gave me a hug. O.o haha!

omggz and nazri's such a man-slut. there were like a million girls going up to him, when i was just next to him. luckily i refrained myself from beating them up.. jealous gar gar! -cracks knuckles..

we did chinese calligraphy for assembly yst tho as part of racial harmony week.. the china woman was pretty nervous and we tried to be encouraging.. however, after drawing the mandatory word a few times, everyone started painting random words in various languages (racial harmony ftw!) and i specialized in jawi/arabic text.. i wrote "siti hasyimah sayang nazri" in arabic on one sheet but i didnt get to show it to him yst.. ): then the class lovebirds were being mush-freaks (haha what's new..) so they gave me a chinese word for 'love' to draw.. exciting!

lol otherwise uneventful week la.. unless you count the two slices of yummy oishi pizza i had for lunch today, which i bought for 1buck each from their booth for racial harmony week.. yup exciting..

omg wait i almost forgot. my youngest sister fell down the stairs in school on tuesday.. that skinny bugger somehow got a huge baluku at her ankle and got her foot bandaged and is walking about with crutches zomg! JEALOUS! i always wanted crutches of my own.. D:

hmm post-nats team dinner was sposed to be tmr, but got postponed to next friday.. in order to force deb to wear a dress, all the girls have to wear dresses too.. -.- i thought compulsory skirt-wearing last year was bad enough.. =/ anyone my size with a dress to lend?

origins of cold war full essay to finish by tues, gp essay to finish by monday.. i hate writing..

gonna do maths now. (ohh yes, LIMBAY THINKS IM DISCIPLINED HAHA!)

olivejuice//

comfortable

i've been a very emo-angsty child lately..
terrible!

new specs look the same as my previous one apparently cos noone seems to notice it.. =/

i've decided to settle for sony ericsson w760i despite having been adamant bout getting a motorolla razr 2v9. function over looks, yes. ): ahwell hopefully the offer's still on..

i dont think i mug very well with ppl.. but i can only meet nazzer once a week, and our time should be best spent mugging. then howww? D:

3yrs plus together and i think we've grown very comfortable with each other..
that's not a bad thing ryt?

lol i still do love you very much though.. MUST TAKE MORE PICTURES KAY!

i fear dying, and the death of loved ones and the ppl around me.

i think i'd be devastated even if certain unmentionable 'quirky' people committed suicide.. wouldnt everyone be?? O.o

i've been eating much too much ack

olivejuice// yesh you.

peekchers

NATS

College flag on a paddle.
my reason to row: Raffles Row, yo!


k4 last burst. my stroke's completely off ugh


mary's heart-thumping gut-wrenching last burst,
that wasnt enough.


but finishing a race still felt good.. (unglam hoho)


but this felt better.. (:

(there's a picture of me cyring at the pontoon, but that's a tad bit embarrassing to put up, no? ack..)


our second bronze

POST-NATS parteh-ing


all 14 of us.. =D


JR buddy!


bim being retarded (=


MacNTM! (i look spaz, but check out prav manz! scary lol!)


i look teh retarded gar.. michelle's perfected her dao look but
meera was still smiling!


sluts~! (meera's practically straddling the tree!)
prav is da bomb wooh..



team '08!


cant find any pictures of the j1-j2 handover procession thing!

and of course,
Pretty pretty Macs





cant believe it's over.

i can feel myself growin fat fat fat!

olivejuice//

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..

olivejuice//

row with no regrets

watching the video of my races makes me wanna vomit,seriously.. it's like, you can hear all the ppl screaming on shore in the video and you're willing the tiny you in the screen to go faster too. but omg the tiny me was still moving so sloww!

then i feel myself back in mary. back in lane1, rowing that 500m that initially felt too long, but suddenly so very short. suddenly nothing else matters, other than to row to the last buoy, to/for the people who were on shore, screaming and cheering for me. i could hear them, i could feel them. i got a surge of energy somewhere after 200m but i guess it didnt help all that much. fourth still. god i really really wanted t1 gold..

and then there's k4. watching our video, i have to admit that it wasnt one of our better 1000s.. totally out of sync. directioning was kinda whacked. and personally, i was freaking tired from 500m already. and i guess that made every stroke abit less effective. no more hard pulls. slower recovery. argh but whyy! why did our most important (not to mention final) 1000m have to be one of our shittiest? it's so awful to think that all our hard work only amounted to a 3rd placing.

and as always, jiaolian's right. we got overall 4th.

so yeah, i honestly cant say that i rowed with no regrets..

but then again, i cant say just how much more effort i could've put in tho. cos i really did give it my all, at that point of time. which is even more depressing cos my best still isnt good enough garrr! -faints and dies from disappointment. D:

i must say tho, that my row for t1 finals was the row that i was waiting for. i was very lucky to get through from heats, to semis and to finals. my heats was awful cos my first few strokes hardly caught any water, and i got so excited for the first 300m that my pace was totally off and i died for last 200m. came in first, but still.

and semis, HAHAHA. to explain the predicament i was in, i shall quote greg's note to me yst, "haha i heard you were crying while rowing cos of the wind yesterday! that's funny hahaha" yes, i got effing owned by the wind omgg.. and it's super not funny! the wind made my directioning damn screwed up, and having to tilt so much just to stay in my lane was physically draining, and i was barely moving and i got so scared.. but wth, it's not like i've never rowed with wind before seh. &%*@^#(!!!

ah right enough bout the races, it's not like the past can be undone..

i shall instead now thank everyone who supported me yayy! uh i shall dedicate one whole entry to teammates later cos there's really just too much to say.. so for now, i must thank Liyana, Farina, Melz, Fungs, Taufiq and Nigel! haha fine so nigel came for chinks & kennedy and fungs came for brian but yeah. my "legions of supporters", as jiaqi calls em. you guys have nooo idea how much you being there meant to me, seriously.. lovelove! ah but the silly cheap thrill idiots very randomly carried me off the ground, to a height that i was not accustomed to. and afterwards had no idea where they intended to carry me. -.-

ohyeah teammates also decided that carrying me around must be very fun so i got carried again, after finals, from the pontoon to shore. gahh not like im very light like that rightt! =(

omg and daddy dearest! i cant believe he came for both my races, and very excitedly took videos of me and my "legions of supporters" and he sent me a super cute/sweet sms after my race, which was really very awww.. :) lol eventhough i had to row in a shirt and not my jersey cos i didnt want him to see me in one. (he must've been so proud to see his conservative malay daughter row among a bunch of skanks in skimpy jerseys and fbts.. haha!)

and i realized that my dad has turned up for pretty much all of the important events in my life. okay i can only rmb from sec3 onwards, cos i think that's also when all the excitement began, but yeah. sec3 malay drama, though mom said that she didnt see a need to go, dad actually came over to rg on drama night but YAR I DIDNT KNOW HE WANTED TO COME! so he didnt have a ticket, plus he came late so he didnt know where the heck everyone was. (i really really feel damn bad bout this) but ahwell im touched by the simple fact that he came manz.. sec3 OM skit day at acsi, he came! oh wait, dad also came for either sec2 or sec3 passing out parade for ncc annual camp, with the family yup. and they also came for last year's rj malay drama haha! and yst gosh, that really was da bomb. he wore running shoes with his tailored pants cos he figured it'd be muddy hahahaha.. =D yeah but basically, he's really been there for me, and i love him veryvery much.. (awwwww)

hmm okay, remind me to blog bout teammates(LOVE!!) and post-nats parteh-ing next time kays. okay it just started to sink in that there wont be anymore canoeing for us, ever. ah and it's a saturday morning, but im not at macritchie rowing in bloody mary. i'd usually still be asleep at this time on free days but GACK my internal canoe trg clock! SO DEPRESSING! D:

i shall proceed to mope around now. ):

olivejuice//

pressure

tommorow i will row the most important races of my 1.5 years in Raffles Row..

scared, nervous, excited, scared, worried, scared.

god im so jittery inside.

but i've gotten this far. i've worked so hard. i've pushed so much.

just two more races. i have to be brave. i will be brave. i will fight till the end. i will fight for the team. i will fight for Raffles Row.

oh god.

love

okay i cant blog very long cos bern said to sleep nao. so since a picture paints a thousand words, here are a few thousand words that will last the next few days till im free to blog in detail.

ah but firstly, THANKYOU everyone for the presents and wishes and stuff.. LOVEYOOS! =)

double birthday outing!
(melz is gonna kill me for these, but Hey she looks good in em anw!)



amusing photo


liyana doesnt like having her photo taken


i look like big mafia boss :D

Boat cleaning & waxing in the morning!

teammates are lovee~!






i love mary.. (:

aight so tmr the battle begins.
RafflesRow ftw!
godspeed.

olivejuice//

Mary & i

Dear Mary,
eventhough we only got together after nats last year, when i asked joohui if i could have you, and eventhough i initially chose you simply cos you're red, i must say that i have grown very much attached to you.

i still rmb pre-nats 07, when the j3s would complain of how imba your backwash was, and i thought: hell it'd be pretty cool to have a boat that could cause so much destruction..

im sorry i ever tried to rename you, cos now i realize that it's not quite the same calling you Nash, especially with all the history that came along with you. i will always remember the Bloody Mary at your floor, which i'd stare at when i get tired and my vision would get blurry and the words "Oody ary" would keep ringing in my head. (best not question the shagged mind). i will always remember the names of my predecessors scrawled inside you, and all the medals that You have helped them win.

Dear Mary, sitting next to you after trg today truly was wonderful. visualizing my race with you by my side made me feel strong. it made me believe that we do stand a chance in winning that gold for the team. as i stroked the multitude of scratches on your exterior, and the small chips, it was clear that you've contributed so much to the team in your lifetime, and i am so proud to be part of this amazing heritage. and i believe that we can set one more milestone, before they take us out of the game. t1 gold, mary. that's all i want. that's all i need. let's do this together, okay? heck the bloody competition. we'll pwnz them right, mary? I LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH YAY!

-end of lovenote to mary-

trg today was pretty good.. macs was super spammed with the usual bunch, plus the visiting schools.. cut pb on mary by 20secs. damn good time to peak yes. k4 today was better too yup.. weighed mary and she's really quite fat.. =/ Mary france bodyline hahaha~!

bern sent out lane draws earlier tonight.. pretty scary competition sigh.. oh btw, my k4 heats is at 12.30 on tues and my t1 heats is at 3.20 on wed! COME COME SUPPPORT! =D

team tried to embarrass me after trg today but i made it out of macs pretty much unscathed phew..

today was our very last training.. -sad.

climbed over busstop gate, showered, prayed then met nazzer at ps. swensens, hancock, long bus ride where i knocked out for 30mins and twitched periodically.. nazzer darling sweetheart gave me a Parker pen engraved with my name aww.. i initially thought it was a pretty random choice for a birthday gift but lol like most of his presents, it grew on me yup.. he was pretty indignant that i failed to see the value of a Parker pen and that was amusing and cute lol.. in any case, thankyou for a wonderful day & i love you haha!

i shall now proceed to spaz over nats for abit then try to zen.. -nods.. ah yes and a quote from nazzer: "oh _______! Yeah she's rather monster... But you are more monster than her, my little spunchkins!"

i cant decide whether i should be flattered or not.. =/

olivejuice//

final week

it's been a very emo week oh dear..

monday: nazzer sent me to sch yay! and i was almost late to sch and had to run to assembly.. ): oh and i got out of Fitness, which i was sposed to go for cos i havent taken my napfa, by telling the teacher that i didnt take napfa cos i was injured but would've otherwise gotten a gold.. and she believed me haha! yup so i got to join the class for inter-class capt ball. where we beat both 30, i think, and 7A.. ah yeah and apparently when a teacher asked "what's the strength of 5A?" bern replied:"Siti" lol! and eugene told me that his class (or was it just the girls?) is afraid of me nao boos..

water trg. jiaolian wasnt ard so we just did mileage.. okay la not bad.. took our indiv vids for the team video tt bern was compiling.. everyone was feeling emo and stuff.. it was pretty late and scf ppl were gone so we went to sit at the edge of the pontoon and talked and admired macritchie and reminisced and watched the sky get darker, until we saw an scf-looking person watching us so we ran-walked and tried to look unsuspicious. then we finally left cos it started to rain pretty heavily..

tuesday: team capt ball. we did dry row at the gym before that, which was pretty lol.. cos we were hard ten-ing excitedly with other members of the rafflesian community looking on so.. =/ yar and the radio was playing some songs and ge kept saying, "dont follow the music!" hoho.. capt ball was VERY exciting. bern lost at scissors-paper-stone and deb said "EH who said the winner must win!" deb is very amusing.. anw we proudly named ourselves the Losers, but we won in the end owells! =D

yup then we went to one of the pe rooms to discuss the upcoming week and pen down some stuffs.. we also got our new jerseys and shirts yay! then we went to the track to camwhore abit.. jiaqi and i did chinese dance woo! haha!

wednesday: water trg. was aching badd. 6k on t1 and 2k on k4. k4 was hell. pain was crazy. and i had a 'moment of weekness' when i got out of the water nyeh.. extended boardwalk run afterwards was boos.. oh i love gatorade powder! =D

thursday: school was lol. i was being very bitchy in the morning.. =/
random entertaining things that happened:
1. slept during break with the boys and laksh and na on the tables, which was surprisingly quite comfortable.. then then na was still sleeping and she was plugged in, (i found out afterwards tt she heard her name being called a few times but thought nothing of it) yar annen pris-the-bored told taufiq to go hide her shoes. so one shoe ended up on top of the projector. the other was moved from on top of the projector-screen thing, to the top of the fan, before finally ending up on top of the front door (which was jeanchow's suggestion). so then jeffrey saw the shoe on top of the projector and was pointing to it in shock and i was telling him to put his finger down when na woke up and silly silly jeffrey had this SUPERshocked expression and promptly scratched his temple. HAHA! then na went vulgar and taufiq ran out to save his ass and na went after him, walking under her shoe (which was on top of the door) and it all looked really funny.. YAY CHEAP THRILL!

yup then the girls decided to make a pact and pon pe together. so we told the pe teacher that we assumed that there wouldnt be anymore aftn pe so we didnt bring our pe stuff, then he said "assume assume. the world is still square.." O.o omg he is so strange.. yar then we were slacking ard and priya and meera sat with us too cos we're excused from aftn pe cos of nats and py was complaining bout having to go for fitness and that they were having an introduction to the gym and was gonna teach them how to do lats pull-down and jump against the wall lol.. nyeh and the 'assume' pe teacher was making fun of canoeists!

water trg: walking out of school to macritchie was quite emotional.. took a picture at the gate lol.. everyone still rmbed this time last year, when the j3s were being emo bout their last after-sch trg.. we took a leisurely stroll to macs, talking and reminiscing again..

was hurting quite abit. back, arms etc. was planning to do lighter sets or not row at all, but im quite glad i did.. rowing despite the pain made me feel quite strong and oddly more confident of rowing next week.. last time rowing under the evening sky made me emo again.. and the atmosphere at macs is getting rather exciting.. =) i wanted to cap so after we finished our sets, i jumped out of Mary, next to the pontoon, but the water was shallow owells..

i gave Mary a kiss and a longg hug at the rj shed. im gonna miss her so much bother..

bern's short speech afterwards called upon some waterworks and it was pretty touching.. then we did some lol-ing visualizations, where all of us won first place cos we're pro like that.. haha!

friday: i finally brought my birthday goody bags to school! yayy! i almost chickened out but lol it was really fun.. gave em to teammates and classmates and farin and melz and yar.. very fun heh..

spent my break helping na sell stuff at the litweek merchandise booth.. i helped sell alot of stuff kay! my hawking totally rocks yes.. special thanks to chinks who bought stickers and gave it to me haha! omgz anw afterwards when na's shift was over, (we beat the guy who was in the shift before us cos we sold more stuff whee!) the j1 girl who took over was being so rude and AP and i got super pissed off.. omg and they reduced the prices by ALOT in just a few hours, which was quite sneaky and ugh.. whatever la at least proceeds go towards a good cause.. =/

the rest of the time before team movie screening was quite a blur.. i had lunch then went up to class myself to sleep for 1.5 hours.. =/ yar then woke up at 3.10 to go pray then head to specs gall to meet the girls.. we watched We are Marshall n one of the pe rooms with the guys' team as well.. pretty good show.. selene and i brought pillows yay! we were all lying around quite comfortably and we realized just how comfy we are with the whole team.. duno la, i guess everything just felt right..

we watched the team video that bern compiled.. made us all quite emo again.. a splotch of water fell on my knee, which was apparently jiaqi's tear lol.. yup then we went to the top of the specs gall, which had lots of memories for us.. first team talk, cranberries, commando pushups etc.. so bern gave another emo speech.. then she gave each one of us super cool personalized badges.. omgz love! more more more tears.. deb kept asking whether there were ants running about her face.. =/

then the girls went for dinner and i had to go home..

okay i've summed up the weekday week. the next few days might be quite exciting.. celebrating 060708 with nazzer tmr. with family on sunday (youth day ftw!) and monday with the FariNa and melz.. and then finally nats '08 begins on tuesday..

Be strong, be brave. Have faith. i will fight to the last buoy no matter what, i promise.

olivejuice//

can you hear me?

IM SLEEPY!

but im waiting for mom to be done frying chicken so that i can have a bite before i sleep.. i dont eat that much really.. =/

4k on t1 and 6k on k4. back's better but upper arms hurt. whatever la some pain's gonna be present at any time somewhere.. -shrugs and rubs arms. hoho team camwhore session was the longest ever- more than one hour zomg! so retarded and fun and extremely exhausting..

uh decided to take creatine till nats cos i felt left out.. >.> nah not really that, but i guess i just figured that i dont wanna have any regrets when all this is done..

gonna miss the girls hell alot. i miss some of em already.. ): ah yeah and our solo shots for the tv thingey in sch was embarrassing lol.. spending every aftn/day for the next two weeks with the girls and i expect it should be pretty fun lol..

cheryl on k1.
prav on t1.
bim & priya on k2.
if you dont get what im driving at, good.
it's a mean thought but yeah sometimes you cant help wishing things were abit different..

-sigh.

loner-ed at woodlands lib for 2.5 hrs gosh.. i like the children's section cos the shelves are shorter than me.. haha! and i fell asleep cos i was so shagged and woke up to find a little boy smiling at me hoho! and he came back a few times later on.. :) had lunch with mom and sis afterwards and bought candy (i love the candy mix thingey from minitoons, which are super super overpriced at 711, and mom thinks im childish!) and bought a new top and super comfy pants for $7.50 and $10 respectively wow! yay sale!! =)

im such a girl. -happy!

olivejuice//woops happy belated 39th! i love you.. (:

food

i need food. we're waiting for the h2 physics ppl to end to see if anyone else wants to join na and i for lunch. teammates are going out for lunch too but i should go with na, yes. =/

ct2 just ended. LOL.

found out that there's training later and i dont have trg attire. plus back still hurts damn bad. it's been horribly painful and terribly distracting when i mug. GAR!

nats in 2weeks. back better get better by then. till then, i gotta control my training. watch my back. HAHA. have faith in the effort i've put in so far and dont overkill for the next two weeks? yar kay sounds like a plan.. ):

prelims in 10weeks. i'd have only 8weeks left after nats. haha scary.

okay still doesnt feel like post-exams yet. i wonder why.. D:

coughBIRTHDAYcough6JULYcough.

olivejuice//

hide-and-seek!

today, i swear the squirrels were playing hide-and-seek at the sheds! seriously!!

4k on t1 and 4k on k4. quite shitty la, left arm/shoulder's getting worse. hope the ct break (hahaha) will help lessen the pain for abit and then bring on nats before my arms fall off yes.

okay little sisters are being excited over the Hannah montana 3-d concert thing on disney. very very lol. AND OMG HAHA DAD JUST DETOURED TO CHEERS TO GET OLDER SIS AND I 3D GOGGLES AS WELL! -AMUSED!!!

disney's taking advantage of little kids! terrible.

teammates think my face looks like a squirrel. i disagree humph.

okay la hannah montana concert looks pretty interesting. =/

mugged with nw yst and okay la quite productive. Dont mess with the Zohan is quite disgusting. dont really like bah. i wanna watch Incredible hulk.

i mug nao.

olivejuice// munchkin smunchkin

unwell

i think jiaolian's finally cutting down on trg intensity. 6k on t1 and 2.8k on k4.. i missed my pb by 3secs and jl gave this disappointed look when he told me my timing. argh im already pushing myself as hard as i can pls! bah but failure la, i turned around after 500m buoy going out for my 3rd k for the 4k row thing. biceps/deltoids/shoulder area hurts pretty bad when i row now.. suck suckk. i was crying-ish during 2k timing boos. oh i realise why nash i good substitute name for bloody mary cos it's much easier to say when im yelling at her to help me move faster.. =/ well talking to my boat helps yes.

nationals is drawing near. hmm and at the rate gaby's improving, im quite sure she can make it to finals. she's wayy better than i was at this time last year. imba manz.. ah right and the number of injuries in the team has increased.. scary. hmm and i miss having the rest of the girls around.. loves all of yoos!

holiday to mersing was fun. very awful timing but lol i guess being with the family can be quite fun.. my family is lame lame and we laugh at the silliest things gosh. omg yar and we didnt book a hotel before that and we saw this hotel tt looked quite nice tt was perched on a hill. then when we drove up and parents went to the lobby, we waited in the car and scanned the hotel exterior and the best description for it is definitely dilapidated. like half the hotel was missing la pls. and windows were bare and the walls were rotting. but i guess it must've seen better days..

then parents came back to the car and we were like lol kay phew let's find another hotel. and they were doing tt "oh-noes-no room" thing and we were telling our parents bout the sad state of the hotel when dad suddenly turned the engine off and told us that he indeed got us a room and there was sudden silence in the car.

eh but mom mentioned earlier that she wanted a hotel tt had buffet breakfast but this hotel didnt. after we checked out the next day, mom told us that she felt hypnotized and got us checked in, despite them not having breakfast and not having checked the state of the rooms or anything like that. in fact, we were the only guests in the whole hotel wtg!

lol but we actually stayed in this other building that was a little further away from the main hotel and was 3 storeys high and our room had a GORGEOUS view of the sea, which made up for the relatively shabby state of the hotel and freaky vibe.. =/

spent most of our timing eating i think. dad thinks i eat alot boos! cos yst when we were driving home, instead of asking everyone whether we'd like to eat summore, he asked me whether i needed anymore food cos he says im the chief. nyeh. oh but i did eat alot ah. and it was very very very nice.. =D though meera and nw reminded me not to eat so much just because it's malaysia. but lol it would've been a waste if i hadnt. malaysia's food paradise yay!

bah i've been getting headaches alot lately. and i feel my body heating up nao gar!

im definitely definitely gonna screw econs and seahist for ct2. gotta try salvage the rest now. kay off to mug!

olivejuice//

the time is now

stupid title hahaha! pretty good row today.. 11.6k on t1 and 2.4k on k4. when i went up for break during halftime, jiaolian said "today t1 very good! -pats back" O.o boat's gliding now apparently, no more jerky movements. just in time woo..

anw not every one of us had to do time trials cos some of us were confirmed rowing.. watching them row was kinda heartbreaking.. as in our teammates are in the lanes, fighting among themselves to row for nats, which is The competition we've worked so hard for, yet not everyone will get to compete in the end. i know tt nazzer says that competitive sports are all like that but still, it wasn't sposed to be this way.. ):

if prav manages to beat gaby on monday, there's a chance that she'll be competing.. 3 other j2 girls might not be competing as it is. and to think that im rowing two races. i feel awful, bother..

no 2k timing today but i pushed myself quite some yup.. i guess i basically tried to keep pace with meera and kept in my mind what i wanted to achieve for nats. gold for t1. i spose i've always had this goal from the start, but sometimes i'd think "how on earth am i sposed to beat certain unmentionable schools eh?" god and worse still i dont even know how the other t1s are faring at this point in time. the whole team is expecting no less than gold from me. yes there's relatively less competition for t1 cos there arent any nat team rowers but meh? no pressure whatsoever manz..

fyi every boat that gets thru to finals will contribute points to the school and if i manage to get gold, that's 6 points to rj. and that is why i simply must get gold. WAH stress. D:

didnt go for trg on thurs tho cos of fever (i bet it's cos we ran in the rain on wed!) and basically mugged at home.. met nazzer on fri to mug.. yar and we popped by the pc show awhile and i've decided tt i feel quite claustraphobic in huge crowds. dont like gar.. i love nazri yay! (random fact hoho)

fathers' day tmr. mom's going out with dad for wedding so then sisters and i are gonna prepare fried chicken, garlic bread and mashed potato. and ordering pizza YES! -happy!

oh haha more pictures from women's open!

Short-term k4! <3! (ge's back in our boat now uhuh)


Single Boat Babes! =D


us being dao minus michelle! jr's dao face is cmi lol


our j3s look so white! and pretty and feminine~! =)


me and a sinking k1. and deb trying to save me.. bah.

okeh i try to mug nao.

olivejuice// overwhelmed with love for yoo whee~

rain ohnoes!

it started raining pretty heavily otw to macs today and we couldnt run gorilla hill route.. ): -secretly relieved. but rain got lighter and we ran terrible trio route anws.. lol but after 12 rounds of monkey hill last week, terrible trio doesnt feel too terrible anymore yay!

good row today. 6k on t1 and 5.2k on k4. t1 2k timing improved by 15-17secs yayy! k4 was quite good too but we were rather unstable at times.. i lost my paddle a few times during tilts and whacked my arm against the combing and now i have a bruise near my elbow boos..

omg and i chipped my right paddle blade wtg! was in k4 and we were moving past the pontoon and my paddle got stuck underneath and i yelled at them to stop and tried to pull the boat back but it was too late and there was a Crack sound and now there's like a big-enough chip gar. it shouldnt affect my row much but meh i felt so sad! and like the paddle's been my trusty companion for so long (even longer than bloody mary!) and i didnt even give her a name! and i felt so awful. so thanks to the girls' contribution, my paddle has a name: *drumrolls.. FLASH! cos my frequency will be so fast and it'll be like a flash. or someth. =/

Flash and Nash speeding down the lane~
WHEE!

oh sports doc appt this aftn finally. back's okay-ish now but my deltoids'(sp?) been hurting lately.. so yar apparently i strained my shoulder rotator muscle thingies.. lol! just gotta try to relax abit or someth ah..

t1 and k1 showdown on sat & mon. time trials.. may the best man win ehs? everyone's improved tremendously, it ought to be a close fight.. I STILL THINK EVERYONE'S DAMN PRO NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS KAY! (dont think all of em would read this but,) jiayou all the way!

LESS THAN A MONTH LEFT TO NATIONALS 2008!

rafflesrow ftw.

olivejuice// silly bugger love you muacks.

nwkc '08 photos

these made me laugh haha~!

JUMPSHOTS!
1. getting ready

2. failures lol

3. no. 178264

4. success! finally! (look at jiaqi hahaha)

5. tired.


showing deb some love~


okeh i duno where the other photos are but lol more soon!

anws, mugged with nazzer at jp lib today. hate mugging! but rather productive ah.. nw needs more colour in his life cos he uses only black/blue/red for notes! syimah to the rescue!! =D i ate alotttttttt today. and older sis is a good sport. loves!

i hear that tmr's run is gonna be shit. i fear.

olivejuice// love of my life worxx! -ack.

finally

yst morning, otw to macs, i was praying for goodluck and basically to keep calm.. then i looked at the sky and there was a bunch of pretty clouds and the sun was peeking out from behind it, and i thought, "today's gonna be a good day" =)

and indeed it was. 3rd for u19 k4 1000m, yo. improved from our pb by 9secs! i was quite disappointed right after the race though cos we lost 2nd to nj by a split second and michelle said tt i wasn't catching water towards the end.. i guess there's no point dwelling on what-ifs but haha it really was a good race la. cos 1. there's improvement! and 2. we really really fought till the last buoy and the feeling is great..

lol and omg finally getting something for my efforts is so sweet! before my race, i was thinking of the previous times when i was So close to getting a medal and i realized tt i desperately wanted to win this race cos i didnt know how much longer i could stay strong and deal with such disappointments.. but haha yay. =D..

nazzer sweetheart darling came for my race yst whee~! it started raining after the 7th or 8th race tho so my race was pushed back about 3.5hrs.. spent that time with nw yup.. there was a hold up during the race before ours and we waited at the start line for about 30mins. it was still drizzling and we were freezing so i allowed myself to be angry so tt my blood would be warmer hoho! nw had to leave at 12 but he actually stayed till my race ended, which was ard 2.30 or so.. ahh lovelove! lol.

kinda overslept today and missed meemee's race.. 3 caps occurred today and it was really very awful.. ugh well they'll definitely be back with a vengeance for nats manz.. go go! oh and our j1s are zomg pro!

um yeah and i did someth very embarrassing today.. deb wanted to go row a k1 at the pond and i was like Yay okay i wanna row k1 too! and bern made me pinkypromise that i wont do anything stupid. cos everyone assumes i'd do someth stupid. humph!

so yeah the first time i pushed away from the pontoon, i capped. =/ then i tried again. this time i managed to row out to somewhere in the pond. and i realized that the bunch of em who were at our rj area were watching me row cos i rowed funny apparently. i think the boat was trembling like crazy and i braced like 10 times just to stabilize myself. eh at least i manage to recover from practically vertical tilts okay! (t1 ftw!) so anw yeah after 2 near caps, i finally capped. and i spose i turned my boat over a little too late cos it started filling up with water super fast and was sinking and it finally ended up vertical in the water! omg and i was panicking like crazy and deb was giving me her wtf expression.

then in the distance, i saw the most wonderful most amazing chiobu row towards me in a k1 with a no plate. i told her tt it's okay cos she has a race to row but she insisted on helping me and omg she's so amazing! but it didnt really work ah, then some guy came in a red k1 and saved me wooh! he said he's done this a million times, "okay no, maybe a few hundred times" and i told him this is my first. then he asked me the funniest qn ever. "are you competing later?" lol! me:"thankfully no." so anw when he finally got my boat back in the right position, his friends on the pontoon cheered damn loud. -faints and dies. so right i guess next time i wanna embarrass myself, i should do it when the whole of macritchie isn't watching. jr said that the scf ppl actually stopped midway through an announcement on the mic to see what the commotion was about.

and of course the team showed great camaraderie by laughing at me.. their first instinct after seeing me cap was to take pictures.. -.- yar and bern figured tt next time she ought to be more specific when she tells me "dont do stupid things"

oh dear but afterwards, the pretty girl who saved me, capped during her race. selene says she's a super pro natl k1 rower so capping shouldnt be something she's used to, yes? she was crying when she reached the pontoon in the speedboat. ugh im not gonna touch a k1 again anytime soon.. D:

hmm so women's open this year was alright i guess. could've been better but owells we'll just show em during nats eh? i had an msn convo with na on friday night bout the inspirational blog posts by the team and she said,

lol so eventhough we didnt own all the other boats, i think we did show em what raffles canoeing is all about. eugene said this on the guys' blog: "we will fight till the end together". it's not the end yet and yes we will fight.
RAFFLES ROW FTW!

pictures soon. =)

olivejuice//

stupid monkeys

monkey hill before row is ggxxyyzz. WAH pain.. D: plus i didnt have dinner nor breakfast so i puked out basically just stomach acids (priya says it's bile but it has a sharp and sour taste, which is the defn for acid, cos i cant find stomach acid on dictionary.com. hoho!).. yar so i puked a few times in between and after run. gross.. 12 rounds on monkeyhill. -dieded.

then pretty soon after, we took out boats and had water trg. all of us were aching everywhere. run before row is definitely teh shit. 8k on k4 and 3k on t1. some j1 guy took nash for c1 and i stood at the pontoon in the rain till he came, and by then the single boaters finished 1 500 redi.. ): owells and selene and jiaqi are owning my ass for 200m sets redi.. but lol i beat them for last one cos jiaqi told me to stop slacking.. ><

the girls scammed deb after trg. first they were trying to scam me by saying that it was my fault tt we're having more land sets cos i said i wanted more. or something. then i became public enemy no1. then deb came along and after they told her tt we're running another 12rounds on monkey hill, she went crazy. her reaction was extreme, to say the least. im quite sure she was gonna kill me there and then.

but of course, thank god and merciful bern, no more pt.

lil sis came back from beijing yst. and yar i guess i missed her.. we had swensens and YES MEGA BURGER!!! and parents think im very smart cos i knew how to make full use of the students' offer thingy. O.o we got 6 meals and 2 sundaes for $90 or something.. =/ ohyar and sis bought lotsa little gifts and she made us choose what we want.. lol cute..

sunday, mon and tues were filled with uh mugging and nothing else much basically..

sad life!

i hate caring too much about you.
olivejuice// i miss you

entertainment from tanjianrong

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