Tuesday, August 09, 2005
[this is the way we row the boat.]
[and this is the way we smile.]
WHOA!
one month beb. 4 weeks. 28 days.fooooooo-yoh.
i wanna babble to you ALL about it!!!
lemme start with korea - Asian Junior Rowing Champs 2005. Hwa Cheon, Korea.
ANYO-HASEYO.
i saw the 38th parallel! not actually the border. i just saw this huge rock at the side of the road that says, "38th PARALLEL". almost saw it. big thing man. big thing.
we stayed in this motel. i was afraid to sleep alone so i insisted on sleeping with my rowing partner. felt sorry for her. we shared the same queen size bed in a tiny room that could only fit the bed, a tv and 2 of us. the water supply is either FREEZING cold or BLARDY hot.
the food we eat everyday, 3 times a day for 7 days, is almost the same for every meal. egg, bread, milk, kimchi, rice, mayo, jam, watermelon, kimchi, kimchi and kimchi. and kimchi makes me go, EUGHHYUCK. yuck. yuck. yuck.
the water we row in is cool and the surrounding is beautiful. hardly any winds or waves.
the people are friendly. but the town is just too small for a big shopping fanatic like me. i was bored. dead bored. the town looks almost dead at night.
no cute guys. not at all. its either that or i dun haf the thing for small-eyed guys. no offence ahh. oh and the chinese rowers look like uncles!! its a junior rowing competition for goodness sake. i wonder how they would look like when they're actually older.
we stayed in this motel. i was afraid to sleep alone so i insisted on sleeping with my rowing partner. felt sorry for her. we shared the same queen size bed in a tiny room that could only fit the bed, a tv and 2 of us. the water supply is either FREEZING cold or BLARDY hot.
the food we eat everyday, 3 times a day for 7 days, is almost the same for every meal. egg, bread, milk, kimchi, rice, mayo, jam, watermelon, kimchi, kimchi and kimchi. and kimchi makes me go, EUGHHYUCK. yuck. yuck. yuck.
the water we row in is cool and the surrounding is beautiful. hardly any winds or waves.
the people are friendly. but the town is just too small for a big shopping fanatic like me. i was bored. dead bored. the town looks almost dead at night.
no cute guys. not at all. its either that or i dun haf the thing for small-eyed guys. no offence ahh. oh and the chinese rowers look like uncles!! its a junior rowing competition for goodness sake. i wonder how they would look like when they're actually older.
the kazakhastan guys were not bad-looking. other than that...
no bread. no bun.
no eye candy. no fun.
im aisyah. what do u expect?
oh btw, we dint win anything in korea. came in last for every race but our time improved from 8"09mins to 8"02mins. was a lil disappointed but we learnt a lot.
its singapore in an asian comp. what do u expect?
then there was the transit from korea to singapore and to amsterdam and then to berlin. i travelled to 4 countries within 24 hours. big thing man. big thing.
Brandenburg, Germany- World Juniors Champs 2005
the amsterdam airport was blardy long. and we only had like 15 mins to get from one end of the airport to another. and we were caught up in long long long blardy damn long queues. and we ran and ran and ran and our throats were freakin dry and hurting. and we reached the gates for our flight to berlin- 5 mins late. and the flight left us. blardy hell. we waited about an hour for the next flight.
from berlin, someone fetched us to brandenburg.
we reached a small town called plaue, where our boathouse was located. big blue beautiful house. facing a lake. the place simply rocks. u heard that right. R-O-C-K-S. whoa. everything about our stay in germany rocks big time man. big time.
esp the food. we had cooks hired for us! 4 of them. and the food they serve us are super-duper delicious. waffle. yoghurt. nutella. pancakes. meltedbutter. cheeseandmushroom. pasta. grilled chicken. chicken salami. quiches. cereal. fruit salad. alot la. alot! and everyday, mtv mtv and mtv. with weekly pimp my ride sessions.
the weather can be annoying at times. there was once when it rained like shit for a few minutes. we were blardy cold and almost freezing and then we were burning under the hot sun the next minute!! odd but cooool. on our last day, it rained ice droplets. not snow. neither hailstorms. just tiny ice droplets. cooooooool, aye?
the guys are hott hott hottt! esp the rowers. austria, spain, south africa, slovenia, italy, serbia and montenegro, alot la. really. alot! nice to see. haha. but i like the japan guy best. super cute! oh damn, his name slipped off mymind. nevermind.
the water isnt nice to us. there was all kinds of winds. tailwind, crosswind, headwind. its not easy to get a good timing there bcuz of the winds.
anyway, we beat one team to get into final B which is a big big thing, esp for singapore. esp for me. hard work paid off. even tho we were last for the semis and the finals, we finished them smiling. cuz our timings were good. our techniques were almost flawless. our coordination was there. thats all we want. that sense of achievement. we came. we rowed. and we left. haha.
oh and we had sponsors. and we had our own van that drove us around. we got sooooo many souvenirs from our sponsors and friends. we went to the city and to berlin for shopping. berlin rocks, btw. foo yoh. my shopping paradise. but i had not much money so it was kinda a waste.
i saw the berlin wall, left my hand and footprint on it.
we went to alot of places, did a lot of things, appeared in the papers 4 times! appeared on tv twice! whoa~
it was really fun. seriously fun.
damn, i miss germany. alot.
shit maaaaan.
ergh.
back to school.
sorry i dint mention about getting any homework done. cuz i dint get any done.
die.
anyway, happy national day. wee. ("-_-)
enough said. 2:41 AM
