Chapter 9: Bottoms Up

Post race celebration @Zouk on 25 Nov 2009

We went to Zouk. I reached at 11pm coz i knocked off at 1030pm

SMS-ed annie when i reached so she cld bring me in. wow i muz say it was amazing how i managed to breeze past all e queue and deposit my bag. (royal treatment coz my team are regular customers? ha)

well as u all already noe, i cant dance for nuts. so i juz stood ard the table and drank. there were many many jugs of mixers on the table. Annie kept doing this 'half-half' stunt with me.

Basically, she'd pour the drink into the glass cup to the brim, and further divide into another cup. so tts why the term 'half-half'. I recalled she asked me to drink many many 'half-half'..

Lisa, Xiang Ci and I reminised abt the days back in Crescent. Den we took quite a few pix.

the cresentians

the very happy crescentians

I rmb drinking many 'half half'. Then there was Eugene and Ethan who'd occasionally ask, 'yooou ookkkkkkk?' and i'd nod and say 'yea i'm gd'.

We ordered ALOT of drinks, varying from shots to a concoction of mixers. I think the worst hit was the soon-to-be bdae gal, Xiang Ci. As it was 1-for-1 till midnight, we ordered 3 rds of flaming lamborghini for her.

tts 6 lamborghinis, many shots, beer, and goodness-knows-how much other stuff she drank. She spent a gd load of time in the toilet. or shd i say, toiletbowl hugging.

on her 3rd and 4th flaming lambo

aft 6 flaming lambo, came beer


I seriously knew what was going ard me. I was juz very sleepy and cldnt react. The world ard me seemed to be swaying.

Lisa, Ethan and me. (as u can see, i was tryin to play cheat and 'pretend' to drink ha)

Lisa, Xiang Ci and Ethan


Feeling the nd to pee, i made my way up a flight of steps to the toilet. Aft peeing, my stomach felt a lil weird. Next moment, i was facing the toilet bowl..and puking.

It was gross! stomach really cant tahan all tt alcohol. As i made my way back and stood ard the table, i juz felt queasy. Cldnt stand upright. And damn, did i feel v sleepy.

I lay my head down on the table n decided to rest. Ethan was asking me nt to sleep coz it will make me wanna puke.

Next moment, i found an empty glass cup to puke again!

I decided i really cant tahan anymore. Doreen asked if i wanted to go out have some fresh air and i said ok. She supported me as she led me out and we sat at the kerb. I fell asleep again.

hahaha and when i awoke, it was coz i wanted to puke. Which i did..on the pavement outside Zouk.

Aft feeling slightly better, Doreen said she'd send me back in a cab. She's really sweet man. Sent me all the way back to my doorstep.

The taxi uncle was afraid tt i'd puke in his cab, but i didnt. Why? Coz i was asleep! hee and besides i got ntg left as well.

I Zouk-ed, I drank, I puked.

And this is not the end. My team mates are eager to bring me out again to 'train' me..omg.

all of us who went . Top Row: Xiang Ci, Lisa, Ethan, Lawrence, Rachael, Annie, Bryan (cut off). Bottom Row: Me, Doreen, Eugene

Chapter 8: Regatta

Day 1:
I brought sunny boy down to race site! I muz thank the dog-sitter, Ms Chung Wee Li, for looking aft nt 1, but 3 dogs. Sunny, Casey and Milo!
Sunny and Michelle

Sunny was the hardest to take care of coz he's so huge and..deprived! hahaha. he was also kinda confused and kept going for Milo when Milo is a boy. We actually concluded that Sunny is actually juz..extremely desperate coz he kept climbing onto both Casey and Milo at every opportunity.

It was like switching on to Discovery Channel. Very R21~ haha

Was actually juz involved in 1 heats today- Inter Corporate Women's Heats. However, Jun Hong reqrd rowers to row for SP so yea..a few of us frm ocbc went to chip in.

Annie, Lisa and I went to row for SP as they were short of left rowers

*manda..i finally got to experience ur 'hell yea' and 'woo sah'?

We were rowing with the SP junior boat and if i dun recall wrongly, the set was ok, the fighting spirit was there. However, it juz wasnt gd enuf to qualify into the semi finals. Considering it was their 2nd race experience aft Sava Sprints, i'd say their composure was indeed commendable.

Then it was our Inter Corporate Womens' Heat. For those of you who don't know, our strong contender for this event is HP. OCBC vs HP is like NUS vs NTU (in the past).

For the past yrs Regatta, HP had always won. However, for the heats, we miraculously beat them. In fact, we beat them by 2sec. Our timing: 2:05.56, their timing: 2:07.07. Needless to say, we were estatic! the set was great. pace was gd, and we pushed ourselves. bc was coxing for HP btw. ha, so we are kinda competitors in a way.

my partner, Lynn and I.

Annie (pacer) and I

The mens and womens' team came in 1st in our heats. Our mixed team came in 2nd for the heats, behind HP.

It was an eventful day..tiring as well coz many events were postponed due to the weather.

Oh, we had a batch dinner (steamboat) somewhere near China Sq. It was hilarious as we talked abt dragonboat, coaches..and basically reminise on the gd ol days.

Day 2

was too tired to bring sunny to race site. actually i kinda regretted my decision of nt bringing him coz there were many other dogs tt he cld meet and interact with. Eg Cookie (Rachael's dog) and Miko (Karine's dog)

Cookie! Damn adorable can?

Was asked to row for Raine's team today. I feel like a convenient left rower for sale. hahaha previous day row for SP, and today for Raine. The semi's set was kinda rushed, there wasnt sufficient time to pull a gd effective stroke. However, the team managed to make it to the plate finals.

As for the Corporate Women's Finals, we were in Lane 3. We had all definitely wanted to get our hands on the golden cookie, but it wasnt meant to be. HP clearly had a powerful starts and led by a gd 1 boat's length even from the beginning. It was too late to play catch up.

bc coxed and they came in within a time of 2:03.22, a gd 4 sec ahead of us. We came in within a time of 2:07.47.

Ladies Team


We badly wanted the Gold medal. Nt juz for ourselves, but it wld indeed make a nice farewell gift for Shiang Chi, who wld be rowing her last race with us as she was leaving the organisation.

The Men's race was also kinda heart renching. We were clearly in the lead..however, in order to avoid Lane 5 (we were in lane 4)'s boat who went close to our lane, coach had to steer away and tt caused precious seconds. We came in 4th for Mens.

Mens Team

Well, as for the mixed team, we emerged Champion! It was a close fight with HP, but with grit and determination, we retained our title and domination in the mixed event.

Mixed Team


Aft the prize giving ceremony, we proceed to the OCBC recreation club to shower and chill. Had post race celebration which included relaxing on the massage chair, playing table soccer, eating zi char (da bao) and watching the race video clip, and finally..karaoke!

I truly feel blessed to have joined a team which shares the same ideals as my previous team. Personally, i feel that the 2 yrs of break was a gd opportunity to reconcile my feelings for team nus, and it was only when i was prepared to embrace a new team tt i made the decision to join ocbc dragons.

A decision i do not regret. More races and medals to come.

NUS..whoosh!

OCBC..Sha!


Looks like we nd more space for more medals to come :]