Off to Redang

Off to Redang frm 21/4 to 25/4. Will be going diving/snorkelling with lisa, annie and rachael :]

(Not) focused

Wednesday 14 April 2010: Trg was at kallang track. It was a gd turnout..the highest so far for the yr.

8 of us went: doreen, laminto, annie, rachael, lynn, eugene, kenneth and i. hak loon forgot to bring his shoes so he didnt run with us, but made us run instead. hrmf.

we ran a few rds together, and then for the next 5 rds it was OTOT (own time own target). anw i chose to run at the back cz i had the farting sensation..haha. (*raine..stop it! i can see u luffing frm here! Roarz)

doreen ltr asked me to run in front with annie cz she was runnin alone. So off i went. As we were running, eugene kept singin his commando cheers to keep pace. It's damn funny..i was tryin hard nt to luff but i juz cldnt wipe tt silly smile off my face.

The hillarious part is how he sings with so much pride, gusto and patriotism. I dun exactly noe the lyrics of the song but since no one echo-ed him when he sang, i tried to at least echo the last 2-3 words of the cheer when he sang each verse.

Right aft we finished the few rds, we OTOT e nxt 5 rds. It really feels damn gd to finally be able to run aft i've fully recovered! woohoo. I can almost feel the rapid exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide with every breath that I take. The air tt gets transmitted frm nose to windpipe to lungs. wow..it was a gd feelin!

It was aft trg and when I reflecting on what we had done for e day, tt i realised i took h2o to drink only aft everyone had finished the run. haha it muz have been hw we used to get zhua-ed by snrs in uni days for nt waitin for the rest to complete and only satisfyin our own selfish desire to quench thirst.

I used to wonder the rationale of waiting, esp when I was in yr 1. I mean..damn it I'm thirsty, why can't I drink? Or worse, why did we have to do jumpin jacks while waitin for the rest to return?

It was only ltr tt i slowly appreciated the rationale behind it. Thankfully i did :]

Subsequently we did circuits which involved rotating btwn 4 stns. We did abt 10-15 reps for each stn.

As we were executing our circuit exercises, we heard music coming from the national stadium. Mind u, the flood lights at national stadium were brightly turned on. Immediate thought tt filled my head:

五月天!?

All 8 pairs (including hak loon's) of eyes were transfixed on me as they took turns to playfully ask if i wanna go chk it out. Yes, they all knew abt my crazy obsession for 五月天. haha "for all u noe..it cld really be them!?"

As much as national stadium was a gd say, 200m away frm where I was, I decided to remain where I was. It's nt very nice to juz leave trg abruptly. Anw i was kinda 心不在焉 for the last circuit set.

totally (not)focused! ha

Long overdue..DNA 五月天 创造 演唱会

我能给的最好借口就是。。好的东西是值得等的！haha well since it's less than a wk before the 五月天 变形DNA。无限放大版 concert..i've decided to re-live the highness to pysch myself for the concert. Rmb last yr I said we had the best seats in town? We were in the 2nd row..watchin DNA 五月天 创造 演唱会. I told bingz I’d try to upload videos but nv got to it..too lazy :p

新加坡的朋友，你们准备好了吗！？

This is my all time favorite song! i totally love the lyrics. *chk out e montage at e background. I think its really cool cz it juz shows how 五月天 have journeyed over e past 10yrs..从刚出道到现在

最重要的小事

我　就算壯烈前世　征服滾滾亂世　
萬人為我寫詩而　幸福卻是此時　
靜靜幫你提著　哈囉凱蒂袋子
這一刻　最重要的事是屬於你　最小的事

*世界紛紛擾擾喧喧鬧鬧　
什麼是真實為你跌跌撞撞傻傻笑笑　買一杯果汁
就算庸庸碌碌匆匆忙忙　活過一輩子也要分分秒秒年年日日　
全心守護你最小的事（最重要的事）

你笑得像個孩子　每個平凡小事　變成永恆故事 *

放肆

就放肆愛放肆追 放肆去闖 放肆的大鬧一場不能原諒
如果很多年後 我還是這樣
就放肆愛放肆追 放肆去闖 放肆是我的信仰
再不去闖 夢想永遠只會 是一個夢想

冠佑..damn talented! 超赞!


我准备好了!

噢買尬　噢買尬　真的太久不見啦　
我隨時OK 就等你電話

-噢買尬

Chapter 13: Unexplained

land trg resumed (finally..) on 24 March. I wasn't able to make it cz I was down with throat infection and fever aft going for the Sammi Cheng concert in Genting (will blog abt tt another time, ha)

I dunno why my throat infection persisted for at least 2 wks even though I have finished the entire course of medication. It was only a few days ago tt i find myself nt coughing anymore.

anw..land trg is held at the kallang track, which is behind the kallang netball centre. the turnout for land trg usually doesn't exceed say..8 pple? Well the no. of pple turning up for land trg is quite pathetic cz unlike in uni days where the last lecture ends at 6pm (so all can definitely make it for trg at 615pm sharp at Sports and Recreation Centre (SRC)), we often have to stay back to clear our work.

31 March 2010 Wednesday: I turned up for trg even though i haven't fully recovered from my cough. The nite b4, i was made to drink tiz really awful and bitter tasting 罗汉果 drink which doreen called as 毒药. She bought it for me coz she knew I was coughing non stop for more than a wk.

Despite its bitter taste, i had to drink up the entire bottle of 罗汉果 tt she bot frm ZTP. it took an hr before i finally finished the 500ml of 毒药.

Miraculously, it kinda cured me from the v bad cough and i felt gd enuf to attend trg. some of em were actually surprised to see my car parked at the side of the road cz they weren't expecting me to turn up for trg. I shd be nursing myself to health actually?

For trg, we ran an extended route frm the kallang track all the way to national stadium. there, we did 3 sets of static exercises which included sit ups (using the flag poles outside national stadium to wedge our feet), push ups, and twisting.

all these while when we were doing the exercises, i was thinkin of 2 random stuff(sometimes i let my mind wander a lil so tt it takes the tiredness off trg ha)

No. 1: 变形DNA。无限放大版 五月天concert tts gonna tk place on 17 April! "新加坡的朋友，你们准备好了吗？"

was so high juz thinkin abt it. haha

No. 2: was facing e empty plot where we used to do our dreaded sprints before trg. those were the days man..seriously.

we ran back to the track and den did our cool down. showered and then went to old airport rd for dinner.

7 April 2010 Wednesday: I was still coughin a lil but nonetheless i didnt wanna let a slight cough stop me frm attending trg. besides tt, i had to go work aft trg so u noe..might as well.

we ran 5 rds ard the track and did 3 sets of static exercises. hak loon had actually planned for us to do some sprints before the static exercises but he forgot all abt it! muahaha :p lynn and i were secretly (ok, maybe openly) happy tt he forgot hee.

As usual, we went to shower and then proceeded to old airport rd for dinner.

你有感觉过一种说不出的快乐吗？每当我去受训时，就算再苦再累，我还是要去！

There are many things in life tt we can find an explanation to justify a certain occurence or trend.

Yet there are also many things in life remains unexplained. This..is one of them.

Easter Sunday

O Lord Jesus Christ, who upon this day conquered death n rose frm e dead, and who are alive forevermore, help us never to forget Your risen presence forever with us

Help us to remember

That You are with us in every time of perplexity to guide n to direct

That You are with us in every time of sorrow to comfort n to console

That You are with us in every time of temptation to strengthen and to inspire

That You are with us even in death to bring us thru the waters to the glory on the other side.

Make us to be certain that there is ntg in time Or in eternity which can separate us from You, so that in Your presence we may meet life with gallantry and death without fear.

This we ask for Your love's sake. Amen.

Chapter 12: MR500 2010

27 March 2010: Day 1 of MR500

As some of you may know, I was representing Safra to row for the MR500 Corporate Mixed as they needed left-overs. I mean..left rowers muahaha :p

So anw Annie and I are the "foreign talent" tt Doreen managed to ask. The guys team were involved in the Corporate Club challenge today.

foreign talents aka left-overs :p

doreen and her 2 'foreign talents'-annie and i (we are playin tiz game called 'chin attack')

We didn't have any event for the day. However, we still went down nonetheless to render our support for the guys.

Since I wasn't involved in any races, and I had a 约定 with cookie (rachael's dog) to let her meet sunny..I decided to bring sunny down too!

cookie! hw can anyone have forgotten hw she looks like

when sunny saw cookie..he got so 热情 tt he stood on his hind legs and was tryin so hard to reach for her backside to sniff her out(rachael was carryin cookie then). Poor rachael had his scratch marks on her thighs cz of sunny! omg..sunny can be so erm..over friendly? Not shy? hahaha

Although the ladies didnt have any race for the day, we had to report at 9am. I reached at 910am..opps! *point finger at sunny* haha

Today, I saw Rang and Raine. Needless to say, we as batch mates had to take a pic (the pix is in my camera and i'm extremely slow to upload..)

Most, if nt all of those whom I know said this when they saw me, "Cindy! I saw Sunny first before I saw u.."

So anw this is sunny boy..the attention-grabber and all-time charmer :]

sunny saw some pretty gals walk past..
lynn said sunny pulled so hard when he saw a male dog. Oh no! my silly boy seems to have an identity crisis.
Diz boy really have eyes tt melt ur heart. he always gets his way when it comes to food :p
lynn and sunny

race day is a gd opportunity to catch up with team mates and juz chit chat. well, even if there's ntg much to talk, there's always sunny ard and he's a gd ice breaker. It normally starts with, "omg..so cute! wad's his name again? how old is sunny alr?"

saw many familiar faces, including rang, raine, zee, sharon, qianyi, joanna, sarah ching, angeline, karine and gwen. Which actually adds to a neat number of 10. juz the right number to form a women's crew and omg..believe it or not..its 5 left and 5 right!

now all we nd is just a drummer and a coxwain..well tts easy! lijun baby and boon chin :p just imagine how cool will that be. we stand gd chance actually. 3 from national team (angeline, i still count u in..), 6 frm mountbatten, 1 frm SPC. I can be the reserve (or drummer?)! woohoo~

Wah i'm thinkin too much man. "胡思乱想又过了一夜，思念的疑问并没有解决，我又胡思乱想过了一夜" :p

Ok anw back to MR500 Day 1. it was an eventful day and our guys managed to advance to the grand finals and came in 3rd. Well done guys!

clockwise from left:annie, me, kenneth, agnes, doreen, lynn and sunny
clockwise: lynn, agnes, doreen and annie
tts xiao pei ( 小瓜. now our youngest in the team hee), me, sunny, annie and doreen

28 March 2010: Day 2 of MR500

Mixed crew..it's the "foreign talent's" turn for some action! Didnt bring sunny today cz I thought it's gonna be impossible to look aft him and remain focused. We came down at 730am and brought food cz the coffee shop was quite far away.

for the heats, we came in 3rd and managed to advance to the semi finals cz our timing was gd enuf. The set was really kinda crappy cz nearing the end which was where we were supposed to execute the charge, we cldn't. the pace was too fast (nt the pacer's fault..everyone is to be blamed) and it wasn't effective enough for all of us to synergise.

In short, the set sucked. It was really terrible. The debrief was exceptionally long as we chipped in to evaluate on what have been done and what can be done.

We break for lunch and had a gd spread of food. Oh I muz say smtg! zee finally returned my all-time favourite NUS Dragonboat Ladies black jersey to me..aft 'kidnapping' it for 2 yrs. hahaha. so happy to finally reunite with my jersey :p

i dunno why but my team mates always seem to snap pix of me in my most unglam moment!

e.g no. 1: 见牙不见眼
e.g no. 2: when i'm sleeping
i was obviously nt aware of wad's going on..even my shades were missing! nonetheless, i still like diz pix cz I look tone and lean somehow muahaha

e.g. no. 3: being stoned Roarz!

There was a tak-glam moment when zee sat beside me and we were talkin and thinkin back abt the gd ol days. Then zee said, "yah cindy, u are always on time, never late!" and annie (who was beside me) heard. She laughed in disbelief cz i'm usually 10-15min late for trgs in ocbc. hee cannot help it la, have to rush frm work :p At best i usually reach on the dot.

Then zee started tellin annie and hw it was detrimental to be late for trg in the past, and hw cruel i was and asked her to go home cz she turned up late for trg. hahaha opps. well u see..aft u graduate, things r different. u assimilate to a new team, new culture :p muahaha

Ok I digress-ed again. Back to MR500 day 2. We executed some gd sets of shadow rowing prior to launching for our semi finals. There was no room for making mistakes and aft the emotional debrief earlier, we knew we had to focus on what we can do better. We had to make this right.

The set in the semi finals was awesome~ from start to end, everyone felt damn gd. the pace was challenging and it gave us sufficient adrenaline rush, yet at the same time everyone was rowing as "1 boat, 1 stroke, 1 heart"

Well, although it wasn't gd enuf for us to progress to the finals, the feeling was so memorable tt we just have to anchor it down and seize every opportunity to remember this feeling which doesn't come by easily.

We packed up at abt 345pm. No doubt we were disappointed that it ended juz like that. somehow that feeling is so familiar. its the bitter taste of defeat that nobody likes to swallow and this bitterness somehow lingers.

But of course it's nt the end. It never is. I always believe it takes losing to know winning. Today's defeat is tmr's victory, if but we use defeat as a lesson and a motivation. It can only get better!

Wad fails to kill u makes u stronger

Good Friday

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Help us this day to remember, and never again to forget, the love of Him who laid down His life for us.

O wondrous love! To bleed and die
To bear the cross and shame
That guilty sinners, such as I
Might plead Thy gracious Name!

O Lord Jesus Christ, who said, "If I be lifted up from the earth I will draw all men to me". Fix our eyes this day upon Your cross.

Help us in Your cross to see the lengths to which man's sin will go. Help us in the cross to see that sin is enmity to You, that sin is the destroyer of beauty, and the enemy of all loveliness.

Help us in the Cross to see the lengths to which You love will go, that You loved us so much that You kept nothing back.

Help us in the cross to see the horror of sin, and to depart forever from it.

Help us in the Cross to see the wonder of love, and to surrender forever to it.

Amen