Ahhh saturdays, the one day I look forward to.

Woke up at 6:30, sun wasn't up. Quickly got ready and left the house at about 7. It felt good to smell the fersh morning air again. Kallang at 8. Canoeing orientation today, Coach went to thailand, very relaxed and slacked. Carried boats out. Starlums. Lots and lots of starlums. Enough for 45+ people, infact. It was such a mess. Starlums everywhere on the floor in SDBA, then starlums everywhere in the water. Managed to use the 218 brasca IV for a good amount of time today. Figured I'm about tall enough to use the panel underneath as a foot rest. So, I can kick! Woohoo! Kicking + brasca IV = flying in the water. Was really flying! Managed to go straight for a good amount of the journey around today. The new guys did capsize drills, and I demonstrated twice as rescuer, hehe. Was a nice change :p

Did some pacing with Yongqiang, I managed to keep up and actually gain on him! (Although I crashed into his side when I did catch up.) He was supposed to go for the nationals along with Naresh, so I'm guessing the peak standard is about there. Muahahaha. Did another set and kept up pretty well, then suddenly I felt my paddle... oops, forgot to lift out of the water fully, hit the surface on my recovery and whee.... down I went. Managed to yell out "Yong qiaaaaaaaang!" As I flipped over. Stupid guy thought I found another dead fish. Hehehe, we found a dead fish earlier, and I scooped it up in my paddle and catapulted it a good distance away.

Phong is damn funny. I learned 101 new ways to paddle on the starlum, and 101 ways to act as a hood/rear ornament. My favourite paddle variation is the baywatch hand paddle. Where you keep your paddle in the boat, lean forward, and paddle with your arms. Some of his hood ornament variations were kinda.... obscene, ahahaha.

Dragonboat orientation next. Got logistics problems so we didn't manage to go down in the starlum. Ended up waiting at SDBA for the new guys/gals to come back, then we did a long distance set and some pickups only. Haiz.

Went to eat with Rendy, Willy Melvin and Jeremy. Jonathan, Wani and Meixuan came along too. Kallang market. Mmm........ hungry again thinking of the chicken rice.

Went home and played UO for a while and then went to bed. I hope sea training will pick up next week.