china & thailand!

omg.
guess who's back?
aisyah's back.
SHE IS BACK.
hurrah.
crazy.

so u know.
CHINA was... cold.
2 layers of jacket wasnt enuf. but that was all i had. morning temperatures could drop to as low as 5 degrees. and nowhere in singapore will we ever set the air con temp to 30 degrees. thank god the hotel had warm water in the toilet. if not, i wouldnt have showered for 5 days. nyaha.

pictures to show how GIGANTIC chinese rowers are.

just look!

whoa.

we feel small.

the women dont wanna lose out.

what more can i say?

okay so i dint win any medals. wanna hear my excuses?
1. the opening ceremony was freaking long we dint had time to warm up.
2. the weather was so cold plus i dint warm up so i wasnt prepared.
3. the weather was so cold mucus was flowing out of my nose during the race.
4. i didnt even break a single sweat cuz it was that cold.
shit. im full of excuses. and my timing for the 2000m race was so poor. it was like 8 mins plus and there was this china coach who had to announce that those who rowed more than 8mins have no hope for medal.

ouch.
other than the 2 qatar men who were old but i heard they're rich and nic said they were interested in me but i was sooo not interested in rich old men, i was the only competitor who wasnt chinese. the other teams were from chinese taipei, korea and hongkong. and china, obviously. the only ppl i spoke to throughout my stay in china were elsie and nicholas. haha. and i attempted to communicate with this chinese taipei girl, wendy.

i think she's handsome. dont ya think so?

dont worry im still straight. haha.

we visited the boat making factory on the last day of our race which was so cool.

on the last night in china, we travelled to shanghai and stayed in this 4 star hotel, the Olympic Hotel. somehow we were upgraded to the executive suite at no extra cost so it was only around S$45 per night. it has a computer in the room and the toilet has a bath tub cum jacuzzi. what more could u ask for? seriously.

check out the suite:

and i was so excited about shanghai. we went shopping that night but we went to the department stores where the things were quite expensive and there was nothing interesting. so it was quite a waste that we didnt get to go to the bargain area. but anyways, i took some vids of shanghai, cuz u know, its not like everyday u get to go china!

yup. we went to shop at the stadium the next morning. still, nothing much, really. only shiok climate. eeyer. i miss china.

our 5 hours flight back was BORING to the max. china eastern had no music, no tv, no flight entertainment - at all. elsie was so bored she asked for jigsaw puzzle and was walking around the plane. i read about half of my jodi picoult book.

then a few days later, i went to THAILAND.

the exciting thing is that some people are actually going to school when im like having a holiday. okay, mean but oh so true. :)

thailand was no holiday tho. we trained twice a day. woke up 5 am every morning, training starts at 6am. we lived in a small bunglow in pattaya near the mapbrachan lake, where the sea games gonna be held. thailand was like dogs heaven. the first time i was there all types of dogs were chasing after me i was so scared i screamed and screamed and grabbed onto kumar for my dear life. haha. but i got used to the dogs eventually, i have to cuz they are everywhere. they are kinda cute tho. like our neighbour had this timid german shephard, another had this grumpy looking bulldog and some brown dogs. ya. brown dogs. sorry lah i dont know their type but they're seriously adorable. they will run to u and jump around. soooo cute nak mampos. haha. tak halal, aisyah.

the people in thailand either look like malay or chinese or like me. there was once we went to this public gym for our gym session and there was this freaking muscular ang moh who happily walked up to me, smiling, and started talking to me in thai! i was like, "sorry, im not thai." and he was like, "oh sorry i thought u were someone i knew." haha. paisey!

and thai guys are generally okay looking lah.

but the thai rowers are hot stuff. nyaha.

and in thailand, it seems like all they eat is fish or pork. and they eat fish like there's a lifetime supply of fish. they eat fish like crazy. its like nutella to them. haha. we went for bbq something like seoul garden twice. and it costs only 120Bhat per person which is like S$6 for bbq. hello. super cheap, pls. but then again, most of the food they had was fish. fish and pork. pork and fish. so i only ate rice, noodle, chicken, fruits and ice cream. yummy yummy ice cream with jackfruit bits.

shopping in thailand. need i say more? haha.

too bad we couldnt visit the chatuchak market cuz elsie said we had to rest. :(

we visited the navy beach which was oh so so beautiful. they had this small island where u could walk across the water to reach the island and the island is formed because thats where 2 ocean currents meet and i dont think its called an island and i know, im a lousy geogger. haha. but oh well, it was gorgeous. we ate sticky rice and bbq chicken at the beach which was yummy. and the fruits there are simply the best la.

we visited the turtle conservation centre also. where i found out that the bigger the turtles, the smellier they are. haha.

then we ran up this mountain. i took 23mins and the guys took like 15mins. it was painful, i swear. the path was inclined all the way to the top. seriously. no more, please.

oh and i went home like 3 days earlier cuz i had to go for the compass test. and hello, nicholas (the boss) was so angry he was scolding me on the phone when i was in thailand cuz i dint tell him i was leaving earlier and i had to freaking pay for my flight tickets. grr.

on the last day, i followed some of the thai rowers to bangkok cuz they had an exam to sit for. so i roamed around bangkok for like 4hrs- ALONE. but most of the shops werent opened yet tho so i walked around aimlessly.

then they fetched me to the airport where i did everything alone which was quite exciting. haha. like some kind of an adventure. checked in alone, walked around the airport alone, boarded the plane alone, sat alone. haha. i finished my jodi picoult book druing the flight and it was so touching i cried okay. haha.

i reached singapore safely- alone.

exciting or what.

then then.

now im back to full time rowing.

im not schooling, not working, not earning.

something like a slacker, but not really a slacker.

and im so not enjoying it cuz my friends are earning, and im not.

sacrifices, they say.

pantat, i say.

nothing more to say.