Thursday, September 20, 2007
ok. today had napha test
which is damn chui
standind broad jump is only 178cm i think
sit-up was 45
shuttle run 11.3sec
sit and reach 47cm (just 1 more cm and i can get an A)
incline pull-up onli 39 (seriously chui cos tue had 1min of do-as-many-as-you-can of biceps, which i completed 39 times of 10kg)
and finally!
the 2.4 run
started off quite fast. 1st round was 1:90+ min den second round was 4:09
started to slow down at the 5th round, as usual
but luckily i ended up with 14:00 flat
which was superb cos i need not retake the run
this time round i felt much better
i mean i still can push more for the run
but seeing that you can overtake one or two you started to slow down
started to follow the pace of the one whom you've caught up with
nonetheless, i still did well. glee
met Ms Lim Wensi this afternoon
borrowed her popular card so that i can buy some assessment for my tutee
haha. she thought i was going to buy a lot of stuff so she brought me to the largest popular store at bras basah complex
she laughed at me though, cos i have never been to bras basah complex b4
sad.
den had lunch at food junction at bugis junction
ate omelette rice, which is actually japanese's omu rice
not the traditional one though, cos the sauce they had was very watery and not very black
watched 'Lunch Queen' and they show the original demiglace sauce was thick and black
but the presentation of the food and everything was nice
then off to mos burger to have a drink and i started studying while Ms Lim Wensi read her Naruto which she has just purchased from the popular bookstore.
nice.
then she had to leave for rehearsal for the peace day to be held tmr
and i continued to study at mos burger
it was quite nice, with music which i find a little too loud
mayb cos there were only a few pple so i find the music a little bit loud
still, i was able to study. hehe.
next time can come to town or wherever on wkdays:)
back to studying!
I love my world:D
10:29 PM
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
ok. here's an update
last sat & sun was Sava Sprints
it was damn cool can!!!
1st race as a snr. finally.
sat was 500m and sun was 200m
went down for 6 rounds on sat
6 x 500m = 3000m
haha. cos for the women's open we started from heats to semis to plate finals
den the mix team from heats to semi to grand final
so altogether 6 races.
there was once when i just completed the semis for the mix race and i have to go down for another women's plate finals
which is so oh my gosh. freaking tired can!!!
but the feeling is great, esp for the mix race
cos i really can press hard and pull long all the way til the finishing line
the experience was just awesome
and when it comes to the women's plate finals i was damn chui alrdy. but my spirit is still very high. haha.
tot i wouldn't last for another 500m. but i still made it
our boat was very consistent in our strength, which means we've improved damn a lot
but still quite not there yet cos we din get into the grand finals
ah hee says our standard is only in the middle.
all of us felt that we need to do more strength training, like biceps, to improve more on our strength and power
our snrs also very chui. haha.
went for mix grand finals and the next race is women's grand final
the result is of course not that good cos it's really very tiring to row for 2 by 500m consecutively
i totally can understand their chui-ness
then come sun. whole body is aching like hell on sun morning. couldnt wake up at first. haha
we're the first to go down among the team.
morning syndrome setting in and it just feels weird cos 200m is really too short for us to go for our long pull
had to go for moderate and swift strokes for the 200m dash
its really a dash k!
just with a blink of an eye and we're there alrdy. ahha.
just like 500 races, we got into semis and no more. it was really too fast for us le.
snrs boat got 1st for the plate finals race, which is very surprising
cos their race had ard 4 boats coming in neck-to-neck. so we're not really sure who comes in 1st
but after that, the results show that they're 1st to finish.
nice!
then comes the mix race, which is even shorter, cos got guys ma
havent even get ready yet and the coaxier was alrdy calling for charging
haha. but the feeling is simply nice.
my boat came in 3rd in the grand finals, while the other mix team went for the plate finals.
dont really know which position they come in though.
but i know my boat underperform for the grand final's race
the girls felt that we're not stable. that we're all wanting to win so badly that our strokes are not stable
you dun really have the shiok feeling after the race.
as it turn out, we're slower by 1sec compared to the set we had for our semis
but overall not too bad cos we've never trained for mix at all prior to SAVA Sprints
there is still room for improvement!
and i believe we can do better the next time!
cheers!
I love my world:D
3:39 PM
Thursday, September 06, 2007
oh. forgot to add in this entry.
it's abt a Ms Loh Sin Wee who is to leave for Ireland tmr to study and practice to become a great doctor in the future!
my impression of her is that she's very tanned, tanned until u can call her dark man!
seriously
very cheerful. yes. her smile is the sweetest smile i've ever seen
and pretty.
but most impt of all is that she's a very talented rower and she's got a big fighting spirit
she used to be from NJ rugby team, so yeah. very sporty.
din really talked much to her cos my 1st impression of her is the pretty type, den can dress to kill those kind of girls. but i can sense that she's very friendly, from the way she talks and smiles
the only time when i ever had a deeper understanding of her is when we ran the 199 plus the 179 route tgt with Da Candice.
at that time i was totally chui ok!
ran the peaceful road with xiao ting den join them to run ard the whole sch
was super slow, of course
but sin wee kept talking to me, telling me to push on
and the imptance of never letting go
she told me how she felt during penang, when she was made to move from the middle of the boat to the last seat
she described to me how sad and disappointed she was at that time
but after that decided to improve on her stokes after the setback,
abt how she really wanted to prove that she is fit to stay at her original seat
that was the time when i realized that she is not just a pretty girl with the ability to run
but she really has character and fighting spirit, which is lacking in me
then after that i learnt that she had suffered quite a lot when she was young
young as in like when she was still an infant
she had appendicitis when she was just a baby and had to go through operations
there was once when she din had the appetite to eat cos of the pain she felt from that old wound
she was even laughing when she said, "mayb the doctors' skills were not that good 19 yrs ago."
i couldnt say anything to make her feel better. was shocked that she still can laugh at the matter
den months after i learn that her intestine is growing some bacteria again
i dunno how serious it was but i really think she's got a cursed life cos of her intestines
if i were her i really dunno wad to do man
yet again, she laughed, telling us not to worry cos she'll be studying at medical sch and the whole sch will be full of doctors who can treat her.
diaoz. she's damn diaoz la. cant say anymore
though she's younger than me, she's definitely a role model for me.
an inspiration to just laugh off matters, even if they are really bad news, or if im in a difficult situation
to sin wee:
i'll just hope that you will get better, and take care of your health
study hard man! becoming a doctor is not easy task. hehex
dun charge me so ex when i need to see you for consultation k!
I love my world:D
11:47 PM
today's the second week of training with the juniors.
i seriously think training with juniors really pushes me a lot
quite surprisingly, im more willing to go the extra mile
and i find that i had more energy than before
today we ran slope
i used to hate running slope because it is simply too steep
and i always fall behind the rest
but today i managed to keep up, and i was even able to sprint when i was near the hill-top!
the feeling is incredible
although the others from my batch must have felt it that way long time ago
but i was glad that eventually i was able to feel wad they feel when they had first complete the run without lagging behind, and having the extra ounce of energy to sprint at the very end
having juniors seriously makes me better, as a teammate
i really feel proud, and i have the feeling that i am fit to wear the dragonboat singlets which represented that im their senior
although there is still this worry hanging inside my head, that when the juniors get better, they may get even better than me
but i just hope that i can hang in there and push myself further for this period.
budden, my ankle is dying on me
haha. i can feel the discomfort even when im walking
its not painful when i walk, just that it feels weird having some strain or discomfort ard my ankle while walking
the ankle strain started during the AHM run
after the run i was squatting down to rest, and that is when i felt the strain
but funnily, i din had the strength to stand up so that the strain does not worsen
had to wear ankle guard whenever i run, but still manageable
just that when i removed the ankle guard, there is this weird feeling coming from it
had to take care of my ankle man!!!
marlau came to talk to me with regards to my ankle just now
she said must take extra care, if not i'll prob suffer from knee prob, then hip prob if the strain on my ankle persists
which is quite scary because i felt pain coming from my knee joint earlier this yr
but i just disregard it, thinking that prob it's because i ran too much
haha. but come to think of it, mayb my ankle prob started out at that time, and it just became worse and noticeable after the marathon.
but anyway, i feel that i can still hang on :)
that there is still more room for improvement.
that i can realli be fit to be considered a part of the Phoenix team
that i can be finally called a teammate, without feeling a sense of guilt
it's the last yr that i can make a difference
that i can impress the others that i can really do it, that i can really make it
have to grab this last chance to prove myself.
that's the goal that i want to achieve: to graduate and leave the team proudly
I love my world:D
11:16 PM
