a rather[pronounced as 'rudder'] bad experience

"Erm, why not u row and i take over the coaxwing? Anyway, i tink its a gd try. let's up 10 for cindy!" -vic

"We are REALLY heading back to sdba diz time!" -mona

"This is the first time i felt motion sickness on e boat" -meiping

"It was very 'challenging' when we rowed n u were coaxwain" -yirang

"actually it's not tt bad lah..considering tt i was really focusing on rowing and didnt noe we were going ard in circles" -wenya

Hmm..after my very first experience getting my hands on e rudder n coaxwing..i'm kinda contented to be a rower. Period. I know diz happens to all first timers but i seriously think i have no sense of direction. Or maybe some hand-eye coordination problem. The rudder is rather interesting indeed. hahaha. Ok i must really apologise to everybody on e boat who were basically rowing n rowing n rowing n..rowing while i tried to pick up some new skills in coaxwing. N i sucked at it lah. N if there's any gd tt came outta it, it's tt e team went thru quite a bit of shit tgt coz they were rowing ard in BIG, GIGANTIC circles to nowhere. It is thru all these shit tt brings pple closer tgt rite? k but I'm really sorry. If i get to try again[if there's another chance] i'd work on it. But right now, i'm kinda contented juz rowing.

Today we also tried some fast strokes n we talked bout it as we were heading for dinner. We[yirang, jul, wenya n i] walked along e noisy longkangs towards golden mile complex for dinner.juz thought tt fast strokes makes it extremely difficult to breathe properly. ur breathing is cut short n b4 u can complete a deep breath, u gotta take in another. So it's like interrupted breathing. but i guess it takes time to get accustomed to it. Run was quite ok lah.

What's with the number 4 ah? For the past 3 consecutive weeks, it's always only 4 pple who goes for dinner! bleh. Sugarcane with lemon drink was refreshing and very affordable, definitely. We concluded tt today is a day to huai3 jiu4..a day of recollections. It started with e 3 of us taking photos n asking meiping to help us take[coz last yr on 24/10/04 it was her who helped us take tt same pic too.] We positioned ourselves in e same way but i reminded jul not to have food in her mouth when taking e pic. Just wanna have a before-and-after photo to see how we've grown physically, or maybe matured. hahaha. yah den aft while having dinner there was diz stall tt played some oldies CD wif all the really gd songs. There was 'tears in heaven', 'candle in e wind', 'the power of love', n e disney song frm e lion king movie. Many others, but we were amazed coz we thought we'd probably hear reports of the 4-digit no. or some chinese songs. We deliberately sat at table 80, e table where we used to share bowls of ah-balling last sem. It was a day of recollections lah. Yah n today, like last week, we walked to tt stall to buy e 10c sweet again. And *enters yirang* wif THAT song.

3 pple decided to go shop ard at e army market juz above e place we ate. Supposed to leave at 8 but we left at 840 in e end. Shopping..an activity which i find hard to appreciate till this day. They managed to get e shirts they wanted n i juz stood ard to wait for them. tiring man..but wad to do..hah.

Here's something to add colour to tiz post. Enjoy! 

This is us 5 months ago. Yes, jul has food in her mouth. =] [Before]

Yirang took diz pic. e advantage of strong deltoids n long hands. Can take gd pics.

Tiz one's taken by Wenya. Her photography skills r improving. woohoo.

Another shot taken by wenya. It looks like someone took e pic for us rite? got skill man some pple.

huai2 jiu4. meiping jiejije took tiz photo upon our request. Jul does not have food in her mouth diz time. [After]


This is Jade n Amy..eating bread aft trg. Hungry.

b4 trg..no one wants to take a photo! *sobs*. Anyway diz is a spontaneous photo.

3 very willing pple in e team who loves to take pictures. thanks wendy, iso n yirang!