sunburnt ahhhhh

Yseterday's slalom training.... sucked.

I hate slalom!!!! hahahaha. Damnit!!!!

I just wish that David will hurry up and settle the deal so I can buy my own k1 and go and row any time I damn well please.

Sigh... dreams dreams.

The rowing in the afternoon again... I can't remember what the heck we did in the afternoon... maybe I was just too sleepy. I find that I can almost fall asleep in the boat while resting inbetween sets sometimes.

Went to eat dinner with the nteam at marina square after that at carl's junior. I remember eating one of their burgers at las vegas many years back. Its damn expensive lah.... Then the guys reaction to me eating... it wasn't alot, yet it never fails to amuse me how shocked they react when they see my food.


I need to go for a run. Tomorrow night la.

Erm... individual rowing time trial today. We went to get 4 new baby boats in the morning. Actually, one person rowing a baby boat is quite fun. I don't quite understand why we always train 1km sets for individual rowing training, but only do 300 metres for time trial.

Think I came in first for the first set... was very close to titus and edward. Then came in first for the second set. But err.. I sorta played cheat. Rowed the first set on the right side, and the second set on my left side. Ahhh the quirks of being an ambidexterous rower. I wanted to see how well my left side would fare anyway.


Going to school of armor tomorrow. My new posting to a new camp. It looks pretty kewl haha. Wonder what I'll be doing bwahaha so excited! But its so blardy far.... argh.

Final goodbyes today.

It feels like I'll just book in again on monday morning. But in actual fact, I'll be reporting somewhere else.

I'll miss wrestling and fooling around with my brothers. Today, as I said my final farewell to them one by one, I just wish that they will have the strength to carry on with the course.

Wish I could stay with them, but I have to continue to pursue the path that I've chosen from the start. Otherwise, all the sacrifices that I've made so far would have been for nothing.

So its confirmed. I'm leaving the scouts of 2sir on august 1st.

Not sure how I feel. On one hand I'm damn sad to leave these guys, my brothers, and sir michael. On the other hand, I know my knee will get worse if I stay.

Plus, there's still safsa. Waiting for that damned letter... its taking forever argh.

I'l really miss them. That's for sure.

Was on par with boon san durign pull ups today. Think he sensed the pressure also and did more haha. Anyway we ended up doing 100 pullups in between the 120 pushups.

I take great pride in being in the top few percent of the team when it comes to pull ups. Sigh... still got some monsters to try to reach, though. 6 sets of 20 seems so near yet so far.

Then when Andy mentioned canoeing on sunday, you can see all the ex-canoeists eyes light up haha. What happens when you put some acjc, nyjc, hjc, nyp canoeists together? Calvin was already making grand plans with me on how we will majestically capsize in a k2 together haha. I can't wait.

Weights training today after more bangla work at marina south.

Actually it was kinda slack today, lots of time to read "the surgeon". Haha.

Doing weights with Andy can be pretty scary at times. Sometimes it feels as if his arm is twice as big as mine so that he can do those insane amounts of weights. Dunno when I'll be able to catch up.

Its sort of nice, having the pressure of him training me one on one these few days. Exciting to think of what could be if I live up to his expectations. But its not going to be easy.

Anyway... I just realized that there's like 4 more months till the sea games. That means 4 more months of these insane training regimes.

Haha. Oh boy... psyche up, Reu.

Damn pissed.

Dunno what's getting to be. Everything's the way I wanted it to be a couple of weeks back.

Get to book out every night. Although MOST of the nights are spent training like hell in kallang, whereby I get home so late that I gotta prepare for bed immediately.

Training's not that fun anymore. My closest friends are missing. Pat had to leave to solve his business problems, Kelward has foot rot.

And on saturday I had a serious case of over training.

Safsa then nteam training, 6 hours straight. Left me with sore legs and but till today.

I'm just hoping that my body will condition faster and I will get godly enough to adapt to the new training regimes.

Too tired to type anymore for today.

He never ceases to amaze me.

heero (11:25 PM) :
a person is great because of his dream.

Tired.

Today started out shitty haha.

Forgot to bring my vest, so ended up doing bangra work in my smart 4. Then kenah targetted by sergeant major... first he threaten to make me sign extra for not bringing my vest, then he did it again for not sewing my name tag on the new set which I wore today. And... he's given me a nickname... "dragon". Which he so proudly presented to the entire company. -_-;

PC and PS are trying to get me to upgade or cancel my downgrade and stay in scouts.

Its not like I've grown fond of the platoon and all. And I can imagine going through whatever with them. But I have to remember why I took the path that I took.

Back in bmt, I knew that if I wanted to, I would have got the platoon best, made it to ocs, and been the best officer cadet there was. It may sound cocky, but its the amount of shit I've been through that gives me the confidence to say that. Anything that the government can throw at us, I can do it smiling.

But in the end, I chose to follow my original dream. SAFSA, and the gold.

And now, so many steps are being put into place. I can't give up now.

I know that I could be the best scout that this company has ever seen. Its so easy for me to get lost in that idea now.

But I need to stay on track.

I keep telling myself that what sets me apart from the rest is that when I set out to do something, its all the way, and I'll end up on top.

But I need to choose that goal for myself.


Nteam training tonight was insane.

Long D sets, standing sets, static sets, then 100 of andy's squats. wtf.

Legs feel funny now, and I think I'm going to end up walking like a retard tomorrow.

Oh well.

TGIF, eh?

Tired.

Had to give up playing DOTA after booking out to go for training at kallang instead. Was so tempted to... because... its... like... DOTA and invoker is so fricking fun to use. But, gotta remember the sacrifices that must be made. Anyway, I can play dota forever, but seagames is only this year. Or 2007 - if the team can go, then.

Everyone in the platoon plays too much dota. So much so that words like "OWNAGE!" and "GODLIKE!" Have become common slang used frequently in conversations.

Got back at 10:20pm. Can't even play one game cuz need to wake up early to go to marina south early to do bangladesh workers jobs again.

Booking in again soon.


I feel more at peace now. Dunno why ahha.

Brought a whole lot of books, and a scary one.

Read up, and train in camp.

I wonder how busy we will be for ndp preperations.

Siong ah.... Training everyday of the week is taxing. I find myself wanting to fall asleep more and more often.

Went for safsa then nteam training today.

Safsa's got nyp's bad habit of ditching the weaker runners behind during group runs. heck... nteam has that habit too. Anyway, it was nice training with jeremy again. He craps alot ahaha.

Nteam had a long discussion. 2 hours plus. Lots of stuff thrown out in the open. I'm sad that Pat has to go, I'll really miss him. Especially since he was one of the few guys whom I got close to when I first got into the team. But I know that with his effort concentrated on those problems, he of all people can fix them.

Sigh... perhaps its time I grow up out of the fun and thrill of training. Sacrifices have to be made if we want to achieve something great. Alot of pressure now... sea games looks so near yet so far.

I'll just live one day at a time.

Walking like an idiot now.

Andy's squats are really... challenging... both during the exercise and days after.

First sea rowing with safsa today. And how memorable... I broke a pedal.

Was rowing happily, then tried some hard strokes... then I heard a sickening "crunch" followed very quickly by a "snap"... and thought "Oh my god... did my arm just break?!"

Then I saw that I was now rowing with a short wooden stick.

So that makes 4 paddles that I've broken in my lifetime. Highscore anyone?

Jackson was like "bring it home as a souvineer!"

But then I thought... hrm... broken wooden object in my room = mom will either fuss or throw it away. Tho kinda sad to have it thrown away now that he put it like that.

Quite worried about how the team will do for races at the current state that its in. Alot of rowers with no experience... from what I estimate... only 7-15% have rowing background. The rest have to train up in the little time they have... some 6 months, maybe 1 year.

But I have high hopes for them.

Kinda disturbing hearing off the bad relationships between safsa and the national team. Once again I'm caught in some cross fire.

Whatever it is, I don't carry that kind of weight around. They'll understand that soon enough.

Well it's been a very long hard fight,

But things are finally starting to look up.

Specialist visits, mo vists, and now I'm getting transferred to a new platoon. Some weird platoon that I've never heard of in my life... in fact it sounds a little ridiculous haha.

Anyway... that means I'll have time for Safsa. If OC allows.

N team training is so different now... largely due to the fact that things cocked up once again during last weekend's race... and everyone's pressurized to train for the sea games at the year end. I can't wait... it'll be so fun going overseas... in a plane... to row hahaha.

I can't remember the last time I breathed so hard so many times in the boat before. Then after rowing there was...

20 pullups
20 pushups
12 pullups
20 pushups
12 pullups
20 pushups
12 pullups
20 pushups
12 pullups
20 pushups
12 pullups
20 pushups

Haha omgwtf.... 0 rest between pushup and pullups... 2 mins rest between pullup to pushup.

Then.... squats. I hate squats. Oh... found out that if I point my feet outside my knees don't hurt. So... I'll be doing retarded squats from now on.

Went for safsa training this morning....

Weights is fun. Nice guys in the team. Although 5 of the people I know from there happened to all go missing for today's session.

Anyway it was fun in all.





Things to look forward so:

1. Getting the attachment out to safsa secured

2. Find something constructive to do during the massive amounts of free time in camp.

3. Train for sea games.