SHANGHAI was cold. it was never above 20 degrees when i was there. and it rained like half the time i was there. and i complained it was too cold.
but now singapore is just way too hot.
just be thankful hor.
i miss china!
i think.
haha.
tell u a secret.
i went there alone. the SIA flight was good. it was a night flight. 5hours long. but i slept for like 2 hrs. i watched kite runner. i reached pudong airport around 6.30am. and i was scared cuz there was noone there to pick me up. the number they gave me was invalid. so i waited. until 8.30am. i was already freaking out okay. i msged lilian and nicholas and izzat. i dint know what to do. :( then then then, i saw the thailand team arrive. phew. finally at 9am, the bus came and drove us to shanghai water sports centre. waaayyyyy in this rural province of shanghai called Qingpu. it was about an hour's journey.
on the first night i cried. I KNOW. i feel so stupid, pls. but yeah. i felt so alone and desolated and miserable. i wanted to go home. i felt terrible. it was cold. and silent. and i cried and cried. i called my mum, i called izzat. omg. its only the first night and i was already home sick.
IT WAS (embarrassingly) BAD.
to think about it i felt so bodoh nak mampos! haha. shit. okay, over.
everynight i sleep with the lights and TV on. (dont ask me why)
and shanghai's springy spring spring season is gorgeous. LOOK!
the water sports centre
the hotel (with no name)
15 mins walk to the water sports centre
i had a room with 3 beds to myself.
and a TV with 70 over channels,
and only one in English.
and its a news channel.
the boat house.
the sign outside the boathouse says,
"GROUND FOR TRAINING ONLY NO ENTERING WITHOUT BEING ASKED"
right.
training was pretty okay. it was considered light but for this fat blob from singapore who havent trained for 5 months it was pretty hard. and my blisters were back. ho ho ho. i counted them i have 14 in total on both palms. SEDAP, you.
rowers are sadists.
dint you know?
dayung my sampan.
eh. its so cold there i hardly sweat.
and there was this one morning. the only morning i was there in fact, there was sunlight.
sunlight in Shanghai is a rare occassion.
i dint say i was a neat freak.
oh and my bag was so heavy cuz i had books in them. i brought books to study and yes i did study okay! im so proud of myself. but my progress isnt far. slowly but surely. hmm, yelah.
and sometimes i got bored.
well, most of the times.
so i doodled.
finished up izzat's triple chocolate crunch (the best cereal in the world),
attempted to learn chinese.
(oh wait, i learnt chinese.
but i forgot half of what i learnt.)
(and OH! im a quarter chinese.
but i dont look like im a quarter chinese.)
oh well.
and i LAYANed DIRI.
i was THAT bored, pls.
okay so yah. we have coach's meeting everynight. im an athlete, a coach and a manager. power kan? and my coach is Andreas from Swizerland. he's really nice. :)
there were many many countries involved in the training camp and we were separated into groups and each group was coached by FISA coaches. so my group had Andreas and my group had thailand, qatar, mynmar, malaysia and south korea. the koreans left halfway to another group. the mynmar rowers were fast. the mynmar lady was the one who beat my in SEA games to clinch the silver. we attempted to communicate, but to no avail. haha. but she's nice. she gave me coffee sweets.
err, yah.
look at my mismatched handles. they are the cause of my pretty hands. my palms now are a good match for my pretty toes. wee.
oh and i celebrated my birthday in china. how exciting. i celebrated alone. very fun u know. u should try it too.
so on sunday, 20th april 2008 when i turned 20. i had a time trial which i did badly. its a good way to start a birthday.
but good thing was, sunday was free day. so in the afternn, the organizers had plans to bring us to shanghai city!
we went sight seeing at the Bund, we went up the Oriental Pearl TV Tower (something like that) and we went to the Super Brand Mall! but we dint shop. cuz the stuff were kinda priceyyy. :(
but oh well. i had fun. i made lots of new friends! :)
and new discoveries!
like..even TEAs have sexual orientations.
ans we went up 263 stories high!
haha. nolah. 263m.
okay best. then we headed back to the hotel.
what a great birthday.
hmm.
on the last night before i left, they made us change hotels. so i moved to another hotel down the road which was under renovation.but the rooms were gorgeous!
but certainly not the name!
ORIENTAL GREEN BOAT GO VACATIONING HAMLET
hahahahahahaha!!!!
i had a roomie tho. she's from vietnam and she cant speak english. and i cant speak vietnamese. HAH!
china is not china without its powderful engrish.
and i miss china and its ppl. theyyyrreeee sooooo niiiiicccceeeeee. okay everyone was nice to me cuz they pity me that i was sad and lonely. HAHA!
there was this volunteer who cried when i left. AHHHHH. she made me cryyyyy. :(
but im thankful im home. despite the HEAT!
i wont be touching chinese dishes in another month or so.
i received my first birthday present from izzat. weee. i was so emo that night. haah!
EHHH. check out my SEA Games race. Im the one in WHITE & RED. (not the black, neither the white nor the yellow). weee.
I MISS ROWING.
shit, im actually saying it! last year i was complaining abt having too much training, and now im complaining abt not training.
annoying tak?
OH sudah tentu.
BISH.
okay no. i love myself. but i hate the fact that im so lazy. and unmotivated. and FAT. im like a blob of fats. i hate my fats. they grow like bacteria.
and the conditions of my knees are aggravating. its annoying. please heal, dear legs. i need you.
and my back is so sore thanks to the sports massage.
OMG stop complaining, you whiner. grr.
anyway.
i bought a trigger ball which izzat says looks like my new sex toy. in case he's not around i know what i can look for. HAHA. it gives me pain and pleasure. it reaches the hard to find pressure points in your muscles. good for tight muscles like my freaking I.T.B. roll sit lie on it. sedap, yang. athletes are masochistic, u didnt know? WE LOVE PAIN.
kinky ke per.
okay. school has been pretty okay. okay, cuz im a slacker. ppl are mugging like crazy now and im...updating my blog? BISH. i do my assignments last minute, burn the midnight oil to study for my tests, and just made it over the passing mark just cuz i consider myself lucky, not genius. why am i so pemalas? :(
there was this geog project i had to do with 3 of my geoggies and one of us was responsible for printing out and submitting the project paper and apparently he didnt check the whole thing b4 he handed in and when i went to collect it the first thing that shocked me was a C and when i flipped thru the project, IT WAS BAD. the diagrams, pictures, paragraphs and what nots were all over the place. and because it was SO BAD and disgusting, we got a C for it. i emailed the prof and explained to him the truth and ta da, we got upgraded to a B. yayness for aisyah :)
and then there was this saturday afternoon when me, heen and elly and her bf volunteered to help out at my mum's carnival. we were mending the henna and beads booth. im not that BEADSY kind of person so i was henna-ing. OMG. i have a hidden talent. ive found a new possible part time job! and i had plenty of satisfied customers. wee :)
no prize for guessing which one's MY hand.
i think this is SO cool.
izzat's masterpiece on my legs.
YAY!
we were judges for the day okaaay.
red house patriots.
HAHA. i cant believe i was red house captain for 2 years.
mrs ee's famous cheer: HIPPETY HIP!
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! shit!
sorry,I DONT MISS HER.
anyway. oh look at us at work :)
exciting!
pretty henna for pretty ppl.
by a pretty girl.
HAHAHAHA. mengarut.
stop it pls.
Q dint want to miss out on the fun.
then it started to rain LIKE MAD. so so bad that when Q was driving we couldnt even see the car in front of us! GASP. we waited for the rest at bugis.
we planned for some sort of a triple date at mosi cafe. we were supposed to wear CHECKERED but look at shaheen :(
the angmoh, the philipino and the thai.
and the 6 of us.
YAY. done.
then.
last sat, i went to acjc's fun o rama with my bodyguards. HEH. superstar perr. shaheen had to leave early :( we spent like $40 on bloody expensive food and lame games and the only thing we brought home was a 1litre DOVE shower foam that yours truly here won it in a lucky dip. hahaha. but oh well. it was all in the name of charity. CHARITY & ACJC is like...
...nvm.
okay, come one, its ur school, u goondoo. OKAY fine. yay. AC rocks.
iylia looks so bored! gee. iylia's like CHARLIE and both of us are the 2 annoying unicorns that made charlie go for the adveeentttuuuuurrreeee!
DONT TELL ME YOU'VE NOT SEEN CHARLIE THE UNICORN! then u should watch this. pls, do urself a favour.
8 million viewers on youtube. BEAT THAT.
and u wonder HOW.
ask iylia, he memorized it.
HAH!
then there was this day i cant remember when exactly i went out with elly. we were from my mum's carnival briefing where we had to wrap gifts. then we went to try out dresses. we had sooo much slenger fun. ten thousand reasons why i love elly <3
then we met CIKGU IZZAT.
reason #357 why i love this guy.
me and izzat went to watch step up 2 last week. we were excited when we were stopped on the streets to receive free RED BULL.
red bull doesnt make u grow man boobs. dont worry.
and step up 2 has HOT dance moves but super lame script.
we wanted to set up a crew. anyone interested? HAHA.
cool enuf or not?
then we pigged out with avocado snowshake and DQ's blizzard and what nots.
every night or day with him is an adventure. :)
adddveeennnntuuurrreeeee.
okay. on 19th of feb, the SCDF guys had their very first regatta at pandan. okay, imagine this. HUNDREDS (literally, hundreds) guys clad in uniform congregating at this ulu training centre of mine. and 4 ladies, me included. HAHA. exciting ke per.
and for aisyah to say that she's not interested in looking at any of them is crazy but yeah, she's wasnt interested. :)
i had to rush off halfway to go to school tho. haha. sometimes, i think my job rocks. i do what i love and i love what i do. and i get to meet CD guys of all shapes and sizes and colour.
shaari and herman came in 3rd.
the faisals were champs!
the influx of SCDF guys.
okay best. i got so many pictures but im so lazy wanna upload can?
TELL YOU WHAT.
okay set. join the rowing instructors team. u might get a chance to coach these guys. IDEA?
tell me if ure interested. ure always welcome to join us. :)
yesterday, i went to coach springfield netball team. IT WAS dammmmnnn FUN. i think i know what i really wanna be when i grow up. like as though im not all grown up. :)
and iylia says im like a superstar. cuz i have my own boat, im going to an all expense paid trip to china (and latest news- im taking SIA!!!) and i have a personal trainer. hahahaha!
hmm. hows that?
okay, i have one week to china and less than a month to exams. ppl say im crazy. WHATS NEW?
we were showered with 
and recently, he's got a fad for starbucks. 
and hello, i miss being slenger with him.
