Sun: Meeting with the juniors to watch "Curse of the Golden Flower". What the heck man. The fight scenes were good but extremely sparse.. the rest of the show is like an exaggerated soap opera. If you think you're family is screwed up, it'll look perfect after you watch this show.

Quite annoyed at how some things are going on in the school team. I suppose they didn't get what I was trying to teach them 2 years ago - that democracy is an important aspect in any team with those who desire to prove themselves to keep it happy, whether it be genuine or an illusion of democracy. They probably failed to realize this because they were caught up in the illusion that I was creating and chose to believe in it.

There is always a way to direct them in any way that you wish, as long as they don't know that you were the one flashing the little signals which would act as the sub-conscious way points when they think that they make the final decision. Man is so stubborn to want to go in another direction if you just point him somewhere. This I know because I am the most stubborn person that I know.

But, all in all. I will support JS some more, because I was the one who handed them to him in the first place.

Was talking to JW about the successor for sa f sa.

"Too much going on in here" (points to heart) "not enough in here (points to head).

Then it struck me, that I had once said the exact same thing about JW to Den. And looking at how JW has grown so much in this aspect, I know that the dog will too. Because they are so similar. Both ex-canoeists, coming from very disciplined teams, missing their previous teams and trying to recreate the same disciplined environment in the new team. Seeing how proud I am of how far JW has come, I know that one day I will look at the dog with the same amount of pride.

Mon: Met up with the senior team for lunch at new york new york. Should have ordered the whole chicken. The fellowship of the ring was reunited at last. With Bilbo, battle dwarf, frodo and aragorn. It was nice seeing them all again along with the rest of the team. Seeing everyone laugh like that reminded me of days we would spend dying at the track, hundreds of pushups, situps, pullups and weights. Then we would head to the school pool and just play around and laugh so hard trying to drown each other.

Jonny's materialized his dream of opting to join the commandos, complete leaders course and get commissioned. He even got best pt for his company which for a commando coy is quite a feat. I'm glad that he didn't sign on with them in the end, though. I hope my countless dissuades finally got to him to wait and see how things go first.

We live out each other's dreams, in a way. As I lived out Hong's dream to convert from a dragonboater to a canoeist, Jonny made it in commandos. That's was just a secondary one for me, anyway. One that I knew I couldn't pursue anymore once I had decided to change for the better. The team now is what I had dreamed of and want.


Coach didn't turn up. It would have been odd for us, anyway.





Was on the roads after midnight. It really is ridiculously easy. Though when it started to rain I thought of how sucky it would be to be on a bike.

I was never one to shy from the rain anyway.

The sun maybe.... hahaa.


Oh yeah, the lunch made me realize how much I miss eating with the girls team. When they order too much than their little stomachs can handle and come to me with their food offerings. XD