absolutum dominium

well, the past few posts have been pretty short and ambiguous, so i thought i would make up for it with a slightly longer post as compared to my previous ones. anyway i have been inspired by my dearest cindy. :)

anyway yesterday training wasn't tt good for me coz i was kinda sick. i know my timing and my stroke was off, but tt is no excuse. i made a conscious effort to correct both today. in any case we've had a phenomenon of sickness and injuries lately. yirang's back is acting up, which is worrying because we know tt she's in a lot of pain. plus today while trying to help rescue the lost boats she stepped on a rusty nail tt went through her slipper. later when she was rowing next to me i could tell tt she was in pain. and jane who had sprained her ankle previously, fell down and scraped her knee during the run. and angie had fallen down too and somehow the kallang water went through the plaster and was hurting her wound. and lydia had a wound too. and geok was just coughing and coughing till her side hurt. and jul and pinxiu had painful deltoids too.

and yet somehow we managed to row as a boat. and our race sets were inspiring, imho. at least we can last a charge. HEH.

and yesterday we had mixed training with the guys, and among other things nasi lomak impressed me with his comprehensive written race strategy, even though he couldn't spell acceleration. and later in the boat he asked "what is 8 x 4?", to which there was a momentary silence and the whole boat just stared back at him. i don't know which is worse: the implication tt the coach can't do arithmetic, or the implication tt the rowers can't do maths. and he was talking to us and then suddenly he just said: "jiahe there's a fish! i want you to catch it for me!" and then someone was like "left side draw" and jiahe looked really sheepish. and then he said "jiahe you che mak ah?" and then he looked even MORE sheepish.

and while david being crappy is 1 thing... nasi lomak crappy is totally mind-blowing. gotta admit it's a lot more cute though. HEH. and while we were in the mixed boat, the other boat was busy rescuing the lost boats tt had drifted away yesterday.

i guess tt was why we commissioned them to rescue the boats tt had also drifted away again today. yeesh. and tt stupid big red dead fish tt was around yesterday was happily baking in the sun today as well. how gross is tt?

anyway today the morale in the boat was high. i love it when it's high. the thign is yesterday i was so tired from 3 hours of training tt i konked out at 10pm (completely accidental) and i still managed to oversleep this morning. if not for my dad graciously sending me down i would have been LATE!!! *gasp* the unthinkable horror!

but i love my girls. we had a nice debrief, and serene gave an awe-inspiring talk. but what she said is true. i AM damn proud of my girls. i am damn proud of what we have become as a team. and i do trust my girls to take us all through this sunday. i don't think about what the results will be, and i don't promise anything, but i just KNOW tt we'll give it our 110%. and even if raine has to yell out her amazingly colourful curses during the last charge, then so be it.

wahaha.

anyway cindy has a list of "whose line is it anyway?" on her msn. damn funny. from ah ping's infamous "pause pause pause AND pause" to mona's "late late all late" and her mumbled "i wanna be a role modellll...", and pinxiu's "huh?" to...

(scenario:

someone: "pinxiu."
pinxiu: "huh?"
someone asks a question.
pinxiu: "huh?"

ok you get the picture)

seetow gives us a strange and crappy talk on post-race plans which though grand, seem kinda irrelevant now. HMM... people with bored looks make me laugh. there was a lot of laughing.

and then because of vic's singing of tt yellowcard song "only one", it kinda caught on to me. i started singing it from the moemnt we did pull-ups, till the time i was in the kallang shower cubicle and me and vic were massecring the song and i don't knwo if wendy joined in, but i know mona told me to shut up at one point, only to begin singing the damn song herself! wahahahaha!

and after tt vic had a 'hot date' with this juicy guy whose smile could crack his face, but we all agree tt juicy is cute and better than beefy who has 'beetle eyes'. and tt vic serene and mona should time trial to compete against each other for juicy. wahahaha.

and we went to city hall, where we told mona tt she's become shiny and light-reflective (like she was last year leading up to the 2004 june race!), then i detoured to orchard to meet jane! and we met at nydc and we just updated each other on each other's lives. and she told me about how mera was and how the climb was and what her team has to do now. and well, i asked for her advice coz i needed to know, and she said tt i look happier and chirpier now than i used to. i think tt's a good thing. coz i am still damn scared. although talking to her and mona have made me feel slightly better.

and we just talked and shared a new better brownie from then till almost 7pm, and then i came home. and called you whom i worry about and do think about and i really swear tt you're going to die young because you don't take care of your health at all. grr.

i love my girls. i love my girls. i love my girls. sunday, here we come.