Endurance Test Results- Seniors

	Seniors	timing
1	Chen Mingxiang	10:39:90
2	Tay Guan Khim	11:15:76
3	Michael Seow Tien Sze	11:41:34
4	Laight Thomas	11:56:52
5	Tian En Qi	12:46:83
6	Tan Wen Zheng	13:17:96
7	Tan Yong Wei	13:33:96
8	Tat Yong Sheng Willie	13:46:35
9	Chua Wei Siong	13:56:53
10	Chua Han tong Dominic	13:59:61
11	Wong Kah Shawn	14:12:39
12	Zhang Ruilin Roy	14:30:52
13	Scott	14:46:80
14	Goh Qi yao	15:16:78
15	Charles Chan Law	15:22:16
16	Sim Kuang Sie Andy	17:29:50
17	Muhammad NurFikri	17:35:23
18	Ann Chun Fa Darren	17:39:51
19	Ang Yuan Feng	18:24:70
20	Muhammad Rasyidin	18:54:71
21	Jason Ng Jie Sheng	26:55:40
22	Ambert Cher	DNF
23	Aaron Wee Chin Chuan	Exempted
24	Jeremy Teo Jit Sheng	DNF

Endurance Test Results- Juniors

	Juniors	Timing
1	Lim Kwoon Hang	14:39:17
2	Ang De yu	15:46:34
3	Mitchell Pooh	16:18:02
4	Lee Zheng Rong	16:26:36
5	Wong Kian Wee	17:05:90
6	Lai Qiu Xun	17:26:07
7	Lingeswaran Chandran	17:47:86
8	Muhammad Saiful	18:08:62
9	Daryl Tan Yen Wen	18:11:41
10	Chew Yi Sheng Vincent	18:11:47
11	Kan ming zhou	18:18:43
12	Lee jun xiang Daniel	18:42:14
13	Poh Jia Hui	18:46:61
14	Shanmugan	18:57:19
15	Chiang Zhi Wei Andy	20:18:91
16	Kelvin Boh	21:08:49
17	Azhari	21:19:02
18	Iwan	21:25:47
19	Choo Guan Hao	22:36:12
20	Koh Si Yuan	22:45:08
21	Muhammad Fashli	23:12:64
22	Gabriel Seah	24:06:01
23	Ken Woo Zheng Wai	24:49:00
24	Liew Xian Feng	26:18:50
25	Tay Hong Liang	27:33:00
26	Sharir	27:55:63
27	Dominic Lim	29:11:33
28	Heng Wang Cong	29:12:66
29	Tan EE Chun	31:20:03
30	Ivan Ho Thiam Joo	35:38:91
31	Muhammad Shareezal	DNF
32	Wong Cheng Ho	DNF

another long day.

half of the day was dedicated to training.
while the other half basically consisted of sleeping and eating.
super fucking tired today man.
but it feels good to train like this.
but then again.
im fucking neglecting on my school work.
week 3 already and im still not doing my fucking tutorials!

im gonna make it a point to do my tutorials every saturday after training no matter how late it is.
before going home after training.
got to do better this sem uh.
so that hopefully
NTU or NUS would wanna take me in.


lol. if only every after training i can be as relaxed and happy like that panda.
but this panda don do dragonboat ar!
one kind one ey. solo panda.

projects are fucked up

yeap. sunday morning.
training.
video taking session.
haha. shit guys we cant run away now cause coach got it all up on tape!
but its good la, in a way you can learn and then improve. and now you can really know how you look like or what the hell you are doing when you are paddling.

after lunch everyone went off to play battlefield 2.
but i got to do my fucking project.
back at good ol place mowi wowi!

i kinda miss those times and fun we had there already.
even before i grad. i want to grad. but on the other hand there are alot of times that i would miss.
people as well i guess.
but oh well.
i will keep them all in the space stored somewhere in the back of my head.
or at least.
here.
so maybe someday,
i will be able to remember them again,
all the fun times,
all the lousy times,
all the crazy times,
all the people as well..

happy deepavali!

One Fucking hot afternoon

endurance test yesterday
time trial today!

super crazy but still got to do it cause its coach's orders.
the finish for both 1000m and 500m was super classic, both distance, i finished with michael in the exact same time. we didnt go bother bout the 100th of a second part. but yea.
i didnt improve my timing, and michael was underperforming. so all in all, it wasnt too good for us.

a super fucking hot afternoon in deed.
joined the ladies for training, learned about their new strategy and stuff, still not really accustomed to it or maybe isnt to what i feel it should be. but oh well, as a young paddler theres still alot to learn. so whatever your coach says just follow and believe in it. :)

guys team underperforming, dunno whats the reason , thus mixed training was being called off.

my head fucking hurts now, and i dont know why.
take care people.

Have a nice Day. :)

wednesdays with 5 hours of break

as the title suggest, i have 5 hours break on wednesdays before training starts. so what happens during that time is just plain chilling sleeping some tutorials and thats about it.
school's not that funn.. but yea im enjoying every part of it cause i know very well i might not be able to feel the same way again. especially if i got to go to work after polytechnic.

wanna be in my seat???


one of my favorite snacks in the lecture theater. haha.you all know why dont you? haha. just kidding la, but this biscuits are really quite awesome. 50cents each at Fc6.




bus ride to training, ever so dazzy. definitely would miss these moments after next month.
work hard team, prove to the school why they are paying for our bus rides!

week 2 !

Masters 5th series.
still remained 5th.
juniors tried their best(i hope) but failed to qualify losing out 1 sec to tp juniors.
seniors went into repecharge and then semi finals and through to finals.
but suffering the same fate, still lose to tp.

oh well. as we can all see everyone's training real hard. so it is almost everyone's game.
tough tough tough.

monday!
same stuff, training in the morn.
stupidest event, michael capsized, i tried to rescue him,ended up i capsized, looking like 2 losers. luckily teamNUS kayakers rescued us. and thankfully we finished our programme already.

lesson.
business development(fyp) not much development... diee..

maths- logratheremaicacnisa
whatever that is...but its log this log that.my brain also become like a log.
(will be needing alot of help, anybody wanna tutor me?)
yeah. :( i didnt take A maths in sec school, so kinda suffering now though.

training after school.
pull pull run run jump jump twist twist.

tmr's a new day. :)

Not so easy after all

done with week 1 year 3 sem 2 term 3.
seems like a hell long of a week, with all that trainings and stuff.
the workloads piling up real quickly, with datelines to meet for my final year project, better known as business development and also another project for the module portfolio management. PLUS we have to submit a resume for communication skills for business in week 4.
so much to do and so little time.


week 4. would be super close to regatta already.
if im not wrong regatta would be in week 5.

hope my body gets accustomed and tuned for school by monday. so i wont feel so tired.

masters tmr.
lets all hope for the best.

just pull it through.

do what is right.
try to be selfless and think of the bigger picture.
i know i got to.
just fuck care what others say or think.
cause in my last days.
i will make my stand.
like it or not.
and after this.
if it still stays this way.
im going at them. and it wont matter anymore.

if they got brains i hope they will think it through.
and look at the bigger picture as well, at least not for themselves.
cause when this ends. they can come at me.
and i'll be glad to take them on.

just pull it through.
not for me.
but for the team.

Last sem day 1

yup. it has begun.
last sem, first day.
more or less everything was the same uh. just then a few renovations here and there in the school.
the day felt extremely long, it started at 8am all the way to 5pm. Friday will be worse 8am to 6pm.(and friday is my only off training day.) schooling and training at the same time is really quite tedious. had MY FIRST MATHS LESSON since secondary school. because this sem i had to take a module called Maths for Business or else i cant enter uni or something like that.
all the stuff looked super foreign to me uh. and it really brings back alot of the secondary school day feel.like for example.
Evaluate.
a.)
b.)
c.)
d.)
that kinda thing. and all the functions ,graphs.. more to come for sure.

felt sleepy throughout the day.
training was tough. worked on anaerobic training and core muscle works.
conflicts and disputes to be settled.
and but the team has to go on..

looking forward to a better training day.

end of holidays.

kayaking in the morning.
greatest way to kickstart your day. :)

after that was lunch with the guys featuring wang peng.
haha. had it a kenny Rogers. chicken pot pie for most of us, got us almost all puking.its damn filling. best part was still the catching up with wang peng. all the army stuff that they have to share is always funny. same like QQ, slacking with them has always been all fun and it always brings back the feeling of the good ol days. hopefully next time if i ever go out with my juniors when i grad they will feel the same too.

from all the things wang peng shared.
feels like i still got alot to do now before i go in. (which is in 10mths time)

went home to rest.

then dinner.
SISTER's TREAT! Fish and Co.
haha. seafood platter for 2. cause she got a job and she's starting on the 20th, as well as a dinner to boost me up for my (hopefully) last sem. dinner was great. thanks sis!

i guess last day of holidays went quite well.
42 days countdown to regatta.
work work wrok.
train train train.
study study study.
play play play.
sleep sleep sleep.can never get enough of it.

the end is close.

train train train.
time trial was today. and i finally improved my timing by 3 secs. :)
but school's starting. means less training. with less training, its hard to improve AND TO EVEN MAINTAIN.
sigh.

went to gym after rowing today with qy and aaron. i just followed what Qy did uh. just wanted to do some gym work. haha. then met up with qy's brother, QQ. for dinner. haha. it was just great to see him uh, seeing him just reminded me of all the times we worked hard together and all the fun we actually had, even when we were not performing as hard. but everyone then really trained hard. but yeah, last year was his turn. now its mine. as we close in to River Regatta, with only 43 days left on countdown.

jersey's already sent for the making.
polo tee and jackets are on the way for printing.
registration has started so hopefully the secretarial department have started doing thier jobs.

equipment have also arrived.

i guess, this would be last thing i can do for you all as captain uh. i already pleaded the school to get in the paddles and finally the paddles are in. so its like a dream come true for everyone, the day we all used carbon fibre paddles. i hope you guys appreciate it and work even harder to make the best out of it.

paddle 5. mx
MX-5

Standard first Aid course

3 days of hardwork.
waking up early.
surviving with the crappy food.
trainings on top of that.
and alot of fun. meeting new people and learning new stuff.

thanks to the school i got the opportunity to do this first aid course, most importantly with many of my friends. the dragonboat people as well as the canoeists. it was fun but boring at times.(many a time actually). had a great instructor faili, taught us all the stuff we needed to know and was patient with us throughout the whole 3 days despite us making alot of (not deliberate) nuisance. but it was a memoriable 3 days.



its all over. but yeah, got my certificate. :) will last for 3 years. will renew till then.

back to training.
and then in a couple more days
back to school.

5 crew

yup.5 crew challenge.
3 teams.
Singapore Polytechnic team A,B & C
3 went to semi.
only 1 went to finals.
Team C (eq,mike,Darren,fen & myself)

but sadly. couldnt make a medal home for SP.

oh well, i guess we didnt
1.train enough in the 5 men boat.
2.lane 1 is really super sucky.
3.we arent good enough.

i think 3. is the best reason uh. so we got to just keep working harder uh.
heads up Singapore Polytechnic team C(ute).
(Supporters,thanks for coming down to support us)

slacked.
shagged.

went to meet mom and sis.
and they got me this!
i know some of you out there really hate crocs. but they are super comfortable.
i think if my classmates sees me in these, i think they will kill me, cause some of them namely bernie and jaslyn are haters of crocs.haha. oh well....

10km Challenge

yup.today's the day where all the distance we've been through during training are being accounted for.
the Singapore 10km Challenge @marina reservoir.

results
1. Mountbatten CSC
2. Singapore Polytechnic
3. Republic Polytechnic.

shocked? yup. it was a really surprising result for us. well. i think it should be credited to everyone. the juniors for turning up every training and pacing with us, the girls, the girls juniors and all those seniors who come down regularly for trainings but sadly couldnt row. especially those year 2s that coach mentioned are stronger then year 3s. you guys played a very big role in our victory today.
Fik, Ambert, Shawn x 2 and yuan feng came down to support us today, we heard your voices when we were rowing, although we didnt know who was it.but we certainly felt the spirit.

Big thanks to Aaron, our new team manager. for helping me alot in terms of registering and all the arrangements such as our bags and belongings.

COACH is the main reason why we actually managed to come in 2nd. his rigorous training programme,his motivation throughout the race and his experienced steering skills. i cannot tell you how thankful and grateful to be taught under him. i bet we would still be losing if we havent had him as our coach. he brought us to a new level, and we should continue to work even harder to make him proud of us. coach is father to many of us and we cannot tell you how much we love him.

thats all for this years 10km challenge.my last one for sp as well.
thanks for making it a memoriable one.

lets all work together more as a team for our one last final race.

chill out.

Morning :)
usual. lighter paddling today cause we were tuning for 10km tmr.
did a bit of C but capsized in a while.in fact almost immediately.

afternoon was spent re-energizing (sleeping)

waited for eq to end his fweep(fyp-final year project) then went to catch BIG STAN.was suppose to go with Denise and Pam,but one was in coma all the way to 4.30pm, so much for waking up the usual time and the other had to give tuition,so they both couldnt make it. so it was just eq,mike,aaron and myself.
the show was super funny.

we attempted to have hamburgers at mosburger for dinner. but they ran out of beef patties. wtf.

after dinner at estella77. we slacked at gloria jeans outside cineleisure.

this is the funny part.
when we order our drinks, we were suppose to give your name. so michael was michael, and i was ben for the moment. the baristas will actually call your name out when they are done doing your drink. so actually you can have any name you what.

aaron said that he would give his name as handsome. but he didnt dare to go buy. after one hour or so after much persuasion. he finally did.

barista:"may i have your name please"
aaron:"handsome."
barista:"huhhh?(giggles)
aaron:"handsome"
aaron:"can you just help me type it in, cause my friends want me to do it."
Barista:"laughes"

-when the drink is done.

Barista:cocoa loco.(instead of calling aaron)

hahah. we all laughed our asses off. that practically was the highlight of tonight.
childish stupid or immature-what ever you wanna describe it.
but theses moments are the ones that will stay with you the longest and when you think back about it, will be the most fun ones.

Changes in training dates next week.

Monday
training as usual 8.30am with shoes
*khim,eq,mike,yuan feng and myself will not be around because we have first aid course

CHANGE IS HERE.
TUE AND WED WILL BE YOUR OFF DAYS

thur
training as usual 8.30am with shoes.

FRIDAY OFF

Sat
last training before school starts.

routine

PART A
TRAINING

had fun trying to drink while rowing with coach's mighty camelbak pouch. its super hard to try to drink while rowing uh. (this is for the 10km preparation) haha. well, today's easy training for everyone. except for me and mike cause we already did sprints in the morning.
it was all fun during training today.

PART B
okay. i dunno why but some of our teammates went crazy.
i suppose they undergo extreme stress during trainings or either they were too bored with their lives they attempted to spice things up. (the wrong way.)

WONG KA SHAWN - never fails to change even after being warned not to come out with only his underwear, or worse the other time, naked! after being warned several times by me, fails to wear his pants before coming out of the shower.
i hope this deters him to come out without anything on.


ANG YUAN FENG- accomplice and probably the mastermind of coming out of showers,naked. too bad i don have a picture of him. but after being dressed, wears his pants up to his chest level with his shirt tucked in.

TIAN ENQI - being him, ecentric. promotes wearing pants up to chest level with shirts tucked in. but i cant really blame him cause he's been through alot of pressure.haha. cause he was forced to train with me and mike. so i wont blame him for finding a way to release his stress.
dudes with pants up high.
PART C

weights endurance training.
and home sweet home.

SUPER SLEEPY

today i felt super sleepy uh.
and i dont know why.

morning-the usual-yup.did 10km
then helped steer during dragonboat training.

after training was supposed to go with eQ,mike and aaron to sim lim square,cause michael wanted to get some harddisk or something uh. but i didnt go, cause i was damn sleepy. hahah. i felt really bad not going uh,they almost dragged me out of the train but was persistant on staying in. i even had a seat on the MRT! so it was kinda fated for me to just sit throughout home. right??

went home and recharged with a mega bowl of strawberry post ceral before going into a coma.

holiday's coming to an end, and from the first week of holiday to the end of holiday,i witnessed how our juniors grew up. to now a much stronger and competitive team. with the right training for the next 6 weeks i believe they will do far better then any other year one batch(that sp has ever had)for my last river regatta.and hopefully these fellas will stay,even though they got to split up to form one more senior boat. and some will not get to row that often or in inter varsity races. cause if they start quitting which sometimes is inevitable, then it will be back to square one problem again. having a small squad. if they dont quit and stay on no matter what,with year 3 as thier target, then they will have a more positive outlook, especially under the guidiance of a mega super power coach.
this is the strawberry sweet which denise(fwb) got for me. haha!