Yesterday's training lasted 4 hours.

Cap said it counted as two sessions hahaha.

Suprise 2.4km test... Didn't come in last this time. Beat ck, but didn't manage to catch up to Alan. Soon I suppose....

Weights... think I overtrained shoulders over the past few days liao... couldn't do cling and jerk properly... and front delts were damn pain.

The weather was NICE! No hot sun. Nice cooling cloud cover. We did 30 mins nonstop rowing... walau. Think that was about 6km. Then sprints.

Huai Li came all the way down to kallang for the XPhy walkthrough... 830am... but turns out it was cancelled... and neither yixue nor junwen told him. Was quite annoyed when I found out. Geez.

Took a cab down to shaw to meet dennis, junwen, anthony, monk, melvin and pc. Played wc3, then cs, then went to bugis arcade for awhile then back to shaw to watch million dollar baby.

Its a... gross... boring... depressing... show. Geez....



Anyway, Yimei asked me to play for the piano ensem's evening concert this friday. Just decided on the piece... Kaze... which was composed somewhere last year... but was never finished.

Interesting thing about finishing up a piece one year later is that your perspective changes so much... that it gives the piece such contrast its truly enjoyable to play.

Thursday:

Went for training at nyp. No running.... wtf? Think bugger wanted them to go home early. Finished weights early with huai li then went to do situps and pullups. Then after that Louis wanted to do situp and pullups again haha, but huai li didn't make a fuss.

Went to get my water bottle on the table after training, and suddenly recalled that day when I was looking for my water bottle. I usually left it on the shelf, but that day was the last day that thought that I was going to train with them. I had packed all my backup pt attire and everything in my bag.

Glad to be able to come back and train with them every now and then. You never know how much you take something forgranted until you lose it.

I have a new white cap now. Just when I was about going to lose hope on my current white cap which has this godamned brown rust stain which I've tried everything to get rid off. This new cap's nicer. Gray cap's... a little smelly haha I better wash it.


Friday:

Gym with Dennis, then went to cox at kallang. This time cox and instructed some division of the air force. Quite a playful bunch.... even went to splash water on their luitenant kernel... wtf?

They caught on very quickly, also with the help of my senior who turned out to be their platoon commander. I just gave them two pointers on their stroke and they won the first race, and tied the second race... out of 7 boats. Strong bunch. Towards the end when I yelled out the ending encouragements, I could feel the boat surge and power suddenly increase.

Saturday:

Church... aircon died... Diane came.... Her dark eyeliner makes her look abit like chucky's bride *chuckles*.

Went for training after that.

Pullups, then...
Running.

Yeesh. But I got put with quite a slow group! So it was quite enjoyable! We ran all the way to shear's bridge... then oooooooooooooverr........ then along tanjong rhu and back to sdba. Super hot... lucky the weather was awesome and cool.

Rowing after that. Stupid low tide.... boat can't lift up at all. Did standing stroke... coach made us go for 1 minute.... wtf that's frickin long.... last few sets my right leg ended up collapsing and kneeling down on the side slope of the boat while I continued to row hahaha.


Haiz... don't even think about tomorrow's training.

Ugh. Been in kallang from 9am to 9pm today.... coxing in morning, afternoon, then training.

But who's complaining, I made 80 bucks out of 4 hours of coxing ahuahuahua. Actually it was... 1 hour coxing.... 1 hour instructing.

Had Patrick and Bryan to accompany me this time, which was more fun than coxing with strangers la... even though made some new friends last time.

Bryan's crazy... I thought he was so crazy... but he's damn funny.

Had a haircut by patrick. Yay, damn cool haha.

Rowing k1 before training, met algene. Best set, lost by about one boat length only this time. lol. Yeah, but at least it wasn't like I can't see him last time at all loh. So his boat had alot of water, I was dehydrated :p

Haiz.... must try to remember to relax next time and not jack up the stroke rate because I lose my cool. Thankfully the new seating position helps alot and utilizes much more of my back and lats, so arms don't tire out so easily. But.... because of the stupid tilt and hunch I wonder if I'll get back problems in the future.

So I have... 2 weeks to become godly in the k1 and come back with a medal in the march race.

Fight hard.

So the worse is over, I guess.

Went for training this morning.

Weights was ok... except during squats on the way up during the 3rd set there was a pain in my left thigh. Dunno wth happened also.... Dunno how heavy we were doing also... the stupid weights tonnages are so spastic.... 4.25kg... 2.somethingkg.... blindly follow johnson only. Luckily we have new weights now... sponsored by planet fitness haha.

After break we did rowing, speed drills, standing drills... during one standing exercise we hit a wave or something and boat tilted right and Alan and me almost fell out of the boat hahaha.

Then during water break I had the wise idea to cannonball into the water from the boat... and impacted on my recovering ankle which made it hurt like hell.

Haiz... working on this stupid piece now... drained for the day. Hopefully things will pick up tomorrow.

http://www.reubenkee.com/music/remixes/I%20Am%20Ultimecia.mp3

Yah, so alot of people have gotten the sorethroat/fever combo.

And I'm sway enough to be one of them.

This morning the phlegm was brown loh... with weird lumps inside! hahaha so sick! I think if I ever saw someone else spit that out I'll feel like puking instantly.

If singapore ever had a serious virus going around, it would affect maybe just a couple of people.

However if that virus was in infectious stages during chinese new year, perhaps 70% of the chinese in singapore can drop dead liao lah....


Now I dunno if I should wait like an idiot to see if things get worse, or just go for a run today and hope the fever comes immediately and get it over with.

I really can't afford to slack around because of this damned thing..... the race is in mid march, and everyone else is training like siao.

Shit.

And my ankle feels abit funny.

I need to read up on how to become invulnerable of something.

Bwahahaha!

By tomorrow night I should be able to do my mid-night 5km patrol around bishan again!

Ankle recovery is on schedule, lots of stuff on the net about how to take care of a sprained ankle.

Rest for the first 48 hours, Ice for 15-20 minutes every 4 hours for the first 24 hours, Compression.... errr shit I forgot the stuff about compression, and elevate above the heart whenever possible and when you go to bed.

Wanted to run with teamnyp today before rowing but... one of the sources also said that if you work the ankle before it fully recovers... chances your ligament or muscle will cock up the healing process and cause worse injury or increase the chances of injury in future due to weak support.... so... fark that! hahaa

Rowing was fun. Rowed right, rowed left, coxed. Was quite relaxing. Actually now I think that any rowing not involving the standing stroke drills are relaxing :p

Did pullups...

Tried a silly stunt... pullup and at the top, jump slightly left... jumped all the way to the other bar but found out I busted two calluses open later also hahaha.

Oh well.

Watched Racing Stripes today.

Quite a ... geez... no fighting scenes... pretty boring. But the plot was prety decent la.

Worrying again.

Seeing the state that the team is falling into.

A part of me regrets leaving them and joining the Nteam...

But I need to remember that the point was always to teach them to handle this by themselves... it would defeat the purpose if I'm there to fix things all the time and things fall apart once I leave.

At least now I can act as a slight influence.

fark. twisted my ankle.

typing with one hand now cuz otyher hsnd needs to hold ice pack.

was almost finishing my 5km run when i saw this lady runner, and ahead of her a secondary school buy runner.

saw them signalling around to each other and decided to follow their route....

overtook the lady furst, then the boy later, and ran up the spiralling slope flyover towards toa payoh.

hit a dead end, and uturned... then saw the boy runner coming up.

the path damn narrow.... i went to the side to siam him but didn't see a branch on the path.

then shit.

die liao... this better recover by friday. -_-

Went to watch fighter in the wind with teamnyp on monday night. Quite an inspiring show. Some of the moves were very cool, and Baedal's energy is amazing.


Last night went to the river hongbao with the nteam. So frickin crowded ah.... unbelievable... all the way from the esplanade all the way to shears bridge there were people sitting at the side of the river, people walking around, people buying stuff at the river hongbao.

Then the countdown.... in chinese... at first started at the back where the river hongbao mc was, then slowly it spread, and for the last 3 counts everyone was shouting... quite a fun atmosphere.

The fireworks rocked. There were normal ones, ones that trailed downwards, ones that accelerated halfway, ones that changed direction halfway, and I especially liked the screaming ones. Zili liked the spermy ones :p. It lasted for 8 minutes. Quite a good choreography, I can't believe they shot some up so high.... 1km+ into the night sky... was trying to estimate how far they ranged.... every second lag between the visual and audio feed you sense = 340 metres.

Miageta yozorono hoshi tachi no hikari.

Then we walked all the way to chinatown.... -_-;

Frickin crowderer.... and the marketplace was crowdedest...

Left 'early' for home with Boonsan and Kelward.











And today's visitation was hella boring.

Haiz...

At least it pays off hhahahahahha... chaching!

Went to watch fighter in the wind with teamnyp on monday night. Quite an inspiring show. Some of the moves were very cool, and Baedal's energy is amazing.


Last night went to the river hongbao with the nteam. So frickin crowded ah.... unbelievable... all the way from the esplanade all the way to shears bridge there were people sitting at the side of the river, people walking around, people buying stuff at the river hongbao.

Then the countdown.... in chinese... at first started at the back where the river hongbao mc was, then slowly it spread, and for the last 3 counts everyone was shouting... quite a fun atmosphere.

The fireworks rocked. There were normal ones, ones that trailed downwards, ones that accelerated halfway, ones that changed direction halfway, and I especially liked the screaming ones. Zili liked the spermy ones :p. It lasted for 8 minutes. Quite a good choreography, I can't believe they shot some up so high.... 1km+ into the night sky... was trying to estimate how far they ranged.... every second lag between the visual and audio feed you sense = 340 metres.

Miageta yozorono hoshi tachi no hikari.

Then we walked all the way to chinatown.... -_-;

Frickin crowderer.... and the marketplace was crowdedest...

Left 'early' for home with Boonsan and Kelward.











And today's visitation was hella boring.

Haiz...

At least it pays off hhahahahahha... chaching!

Funnist gif I saw this year:

Dead.

Canoeing this morning...

Firstly in the hated red k1 which sinks so far in when I sit in it...

Damn bloody heavy... could only long pull during the 1k sets.


Then sensei let me use jaguar.

Was damn fun then. Tho I think my rowing stamina drop like hell since I haven't been doing long d rowing training since like... a month or two plus....

Did dunno how many sets.... then everyone like was rotating and resting but sensei never let me rest. Pengz.

Then after that.... Nteam had fitness test loh...

Pullups was utter shit la... could only manage 32... situps also quite jialat... 58.

But oh boy... the running was the epitomy of travestic disasters.

26:++

Good job, reu.

Even the first time I ran the bloody 4.8k was at least 2 minutes faster than that timing loh.

Dunno why I let the morning's running affect me so much.

After just 100 meters I felt my legs feel sore already.

Then cap was pacing me....

Then on the way back he asked me to use his SUPER SPRINGY running technique.

I think my springy potential not high enough level.... his one level 99 liao... very shacked.


Walau eh... damn paiseh... when hee announced my timing everyone was like

:o

Arghhhhh!!!!!1

Overtrain liao ah..... jialat ah.................

Didn't join them for reunion dinner at bugis.... even tho part of me wanted to :(

Joined teamNYP instead.

That bugger Boonsan lah... always tok so much cock.... asked me "why go with the weaker link?"



I dunno how he measures strength... but he's wrong in both ways.





My dear Jo's been crying again.

Sometimes it can be so painful.... but she'll emerge so much stronger at the end.

Time for another lame survey to pass the time!

1.Current mood: Sleepy -_-

2.Current music: Soothing sound of my awesome cpu that sounds like the batmobile but much softer.

3.Current taste: Not eating anything...

4.Current hair: Cooling crew cut

5.Current clothes: Berms

6.Current annoyance: Abrasion on my butt

7.Current smell: Mom's food outside.

8.Current thing I ought to be doing: Fixing Dennis' hard disk.

9.Current desktop picture: An arty mix and mesh of blue.

10.Current crush: -_-

11.Current love: My bed.

12.Current hate: Not being superman.

-:-Do I-:-

1.Smoke: If you're smart enough to know what it does to you, you won't be stupid enough to do it. Hell no.

2.Have a dream that keeps coming back: No.

3.Remember your first love: Yeah.

4.Believe in miracles: Yes.

5.Believe it's possible to remain faithful forever: Damn straight its possible.

6.Consider love a mistake: Not unless you make a mistake because of it.

7.Like the taste of alcohol: No.

8.Believe in god: Yes.

9.Hate yourself: Except the bad and work on it. No.

10.Have a best friend: Yeah.

-:- L-O-V-E L-I-F-E -:-

1.First crush: __ haha

2.First kiss: Can't remember!

3.Single or attached: Single... interested har????

4.Do you believe in love at first sight: Interest at first sight yes, love no.

5.Describe your ideal significant other: I'll know when I see her.

6.Have you ever played a game that required removal of clothing: Yes....

-:-Last thing you-:-

1.Bought: Food food and more food.

2.Ate & Drank: Chicken rice! shit! 5km later!

3.Read: ocremix or vgmix.

4.Watched on tv: tvmobile count? Don't watch tv much....

5. Did: Went to Dennis house to try to fix his computer. In the suspect hard disk kena scratch.

-:-Who do you want to-:-

1.Kill: Anyone who wants to kill.

2.Have by ur side: Where's that dumb dog....

3.Look like: me!

4.Avoid: No one....

-:-Have you ever-:-

1.Dated one of your best friends? Guess you could say that....

2.Loved somebody so much it makes you cry? What the heck? no.

3.Broken the law? Yes.... ahuahuahua.

4.Played Truth Or Dare? Duh.

5.Been in a fight? In the past... but only for training or tournaments, never in anger.

-:- Random Questions -:-

1.what's on your bedside table?: My red boxing gloves... water bottles, remote control for computer.

2.What is your biggest fear?: Dunno.

3.What feature are you most insecure about?: None, except the bad, work on it.

4.Describe your bed: Blue... flowery... stripy.... traingulary.... I hate it when mom buys gu niang bed sheets.

5.What do you carry with you at all times?: Wallet, handphone, extra change of clothes, katana. Rite :p

6.What do you miss most about being little? Being carefree.

7.Are you happy with your given name?: Yeah, although I like Reu better.

8.What color is your bedroom?: Sky blue and blue, I painted it!

9.Do you talk a lot?: Haha. No.

10.Do you like yourself and believe in yourself?: Hell yeah.

11.Do you think you're cute?: I think cute is subjective :p

12.Do you consider yourself to be a nice person?: Yes I'm fricking nice.

13.Do you took this post from?: Friendster.

Was good to see them today.

Uhh... the girls team like... completely change sia... so many new girls... but only one senior hahaha.

Run was good, Indian drills are fun. The new technique is very relaxing and enjoyable haha... and I realized that at dashing speed there's no landing or kick-off sound whatsoever.

Intended to do 6 sets of 17 pullups today.... ended up doing 17 17 17 15 15 15 hahaha Shit!

Pool rowing was fun. I hate to say it but my stroke has changed alot... shit la... but for the better, so yay.

Managed to do some calf raises and inclined diamond pushups in-between sets, then ran to the gym to do front raise and side raises after pool rowing.

Very glad to see Louis doing very well leading the team now. Haha, still remember Bugger's concerns about him.

But I was right la :p

"When he talks, even if briefly, they will listen."


That one, on the other hand, is feeling the blow to his stamina, due to the strength training weights regime. Hence, his morale is low.

But in time, he'll realize this and see how far he's come, then things should be better.

About 65 days left.

Still unsure about the march canoeing race.

Stroke is so much better now, but my drive is quite jialat.

Meeting sensei this sat morning. Hopefully things will sort out then.

Just finished my midnight 5k run haha.

Thought I'd be insane and try the 4-4 breathing rythm instead of my usual 3-3.

Didn't expect much, but suprisingly ir worked, and at that speed too.

At first felt a little short of breath, but once my heart caught the rythm of the oxygen flow, it got a little better.

Of course I would never have been able to maintain it if not for Keith and Andy's advice and Josh's coaching. Hahaha. Kelward's flutter step + my zero splash step + Josh's low lift stride + diaphragm breathing = 4 steps in, then 4 steps out with ease!

Hahaha it was really damn fun loh. Shit, I'm really starting to enjoy running now.

Today was the last day of the dragonboating instructor job. Was really fun teaching those ITE students how to row a dragonboat.

Its really interesting to see how different groups function so differently as a team. Really solidifies my thoughts that one formula that works very well for one team, may not work for another team.


And..... will be going to nyp for training tomorrow!

*smirk*

Feel damn bad for not going to Terrance ah ma's funeral wake with the rest of the Nteam. I just... really dun like funerals... and I know the rest of the guys will shower him with enough support.

Thinking back about the S&S... I really didn't expect everyone else to like... not wear socks lah. And the reason why I still wore it is because, through the past few races, one thing I've learnt is never do something in a race that you've never practiced before - as far as humanly possible. And I've never run without socks loh. Too many things cocked up in the past because I didn't stick to plan or failed to plan.

Did a 500m set in Jaguar just now...

The timing was just depressing loh. wtf.

Then training. Learnt how to dance and row at the same time.... XD

Forgot to bring extra shirt.... didn't have anything to change into after training. Thankfully Josh was so kind as to lend me his extra singlet.... (which reaks of his cologne haha) really a life saver, or else I'd have to wear that smelly wet singlet I used to row in.

Then met some of teamnyp at amk s11 for dinner.

Still scheming for thursday... hehe