ohkays, ya'll church ppl saw me all red and lobstery tooday! well, it is with all joy that i declare the following : I COMPLETED MY ONE STAR KAYAKING COURSEE! *smiles stupidly*

yaya i know lots of ppl complain about me being law-saw and posting too much so i'll make it quick [as if] and run through yesterday. many apologies for not posting yesterday. i was too busy sleeping.

waited at yishun mcdonalds and met everyone there. b.darren picked us all up and headed for kallangggg! we did not get lost this time, and found the place with ease. once we reached there, got our kayaks and vests and went toilet and locked our bags up in the wooden locker and headed to the beach! launched off and warmed up for a while, practicing what we learned in the previous week. zhiyang had problems fitting into the kayak and had to test a few to find the right 'size'. lol. this week we got single kayaks, which we had not used before, and we had to get used to it. it wasn't very hard, in fact, it was easier than the doubles. the sun was blazing hot. after warming up, sir made us practice our 360dgree spin. did that with easee. :) now it was what everyone had been 'waiting' for -- RESCUE ! we broke up into groups of three and each of us had to be either victim, main rescuer, or assistant rescuer. i was victim first, and i had to capsize. [says capsize with much drama!] i managed to get rescued after much .. comotion. LUNCH! went for lunch. i had BEEF HORR FANNN! WHOO! it was nice. i stuffed myself because in the sun, my energy gets drained relly fast. purposely drank sugar cane for the extra suger. smart rite? lol. [rolls eyes] by that time all of us were red and burning, but more heat was to come! headed punctually back to the beach and waited for our instructor. once we got back, we did more capsizing so everyone got a turn at every role, especially victim. i rescued shermaine and she rescued clara. had more practice and practice and then learned how to do some rudder manuvering thing. i didn't spell tt right, did i. lol. wells, we practiced again. he then taught us to do something with the paddles to avoid capsizing. while he was demonstrating, he accidentally capsized. as if tt isn't enough, he tried to get back up by himself so we didn't have to rescue him. haha. in the end tim and zhiyang got to put their knowledge to the test and rescued him. yah. rescue sounds so drama. helped him lah. lol. now the jc ppl had to go home, and we from church could go on a mini expedition. anyways, we were out of time and it was about to rain, so in the end, we just played a game on our kayaks. at first we were supposed to do a kallang wave and STAND in our kayaks. then we changed game and just sat on top of the kayaks with our legs wrapping around the kayak and paddled around like idiots toward the instructor. lol. he told us this was the kayak igallop. we paddled to shore and headed home.

some funny things tt happened in our day:

zhiyang found a tennis ball and we got possession of it. played around with it for a while and finally i flung it at sir. he got fedup and confisicated it. i took it back before lunch when he was doing smth. yay! souvenier. shermaine has it now.

zhiyang capsized like, 5 times.

the sir called the victim a patient, then laughed at himself.

gabriel turned naughty and started pouring and splashing water on us girls.

tim tried to splash water on sir, and sir almost capsized him. before he could, tim jumped out of his boat.

tim did not loose any shoe. yay!!

when the wakeboaders pass by they make a huge wave. we were lining up and it made our kayaks bang from side to side very.. noisily. our screamings made it even more noisy. seriously, we were screaming our lungs out.

TOODAY WE ALL LOOK LIKE LOBSTERSSS!!

 

 

 

 

 

tomolo will be another round of kayaking and hopefully i'll get my one starrr. :) i'm quite excited. OK LAH VERY EXCITEDDD!

tooday jacob got baptized at sembawang park. it rained and rained. i was trying to catch the part where he submerged but Bjohnny did it so fast i just blinked and he was all wet aredy. boo. lol. had lunch at salang and headed home. lucky [dog] was present throughout the whole thingg. awww.

WHOOOOOOOO!!! kayaking was just great today, only thing was i didn't get my tan, but whu cares! john, clara, zhiyang, sis. jill, keli, serina, sher, tim and i went and some JC ppl joined our group. ok just a quick [ha] run through of wad we diddd. met at yishun mcdonalds, [my family had breakfast there] and s. jill picked us all up. went for a long drive to kallang and got a lil lost and was unable to find the correct place for a short while. found the place and met my boggle-eyed sir. ohkays, cannot call him tt now because it's mean. didn't expect to meet him and i behaved pretty badly the last time i saw him, so i relly wanted to hide my face when he walked up to me and sher with a HUGE smile [seriously, he has a big smile and array of teeth. uh, in a good sense. good dental hygine. ??] anyways, he gave us kayaking theory 101 and we got our kayaks and set off for the beeeeeechh! at the shore, more theory, then, LAUNCH OFFF! practiced wad he taught us on land when we were in the water. the weather had been quite cloudy ever since we got there. no rain yet. so, after practicing and playing around and teasing sir abt singing [sher only you get tt part] it was dreaded capsize drillllll timeee. WOOSH! got it done and over with quite quickly, and it was real fun.the whole group was split into two groups of four. our group did the drill first and the other group got to do it after we ate lunch. after we capsized we were supposed to swim and bring the boat back to the shore. in doing so, EVERYONE had a turn getting stuck in the think, dark grey mud that covered half my shin and stole my bro's adidas water sports shoe. yes. singular. one. the ud swallowed one shoe up and sucked it down so deep none of us could find it. money flyyy byee byee. sobs. he got a scolding from my dad when we got home. so, after capsizing like idiots -- LUNCHEE! had chicken rice at a nearby coffee shop in our capsized clothes. nice. after lunch we got more theory abt how to move sideways [believe me sir used chimmer terms than 'how to move sideways'] and got to work, hard work practicing. practiced different strokes, reversing and gg forward, and then, showtime! the four who hadn't capped yet had their time and a good audience. lol. we then did our 50m swim test which we all completed with ease. ((: rested a while nd launched out again to head for shore to pack and wash up. had something i guess you could call a bath, and headed home sleepily.

some funny things tt happened in our day:

sir tied my kayak to a buoy so that everyone could gather around it without me drifting away. after they gathered, he talk finish, and everyone go aredy, he forgot to untie us and we were left wondering why we couldn't move as we too had forgotten we were attatched. i ended up screaming for sir like some moron and everyone was staring at me. he was relly far away lorh, dun scream then do wad?!

gabriel and zhiyang took one kayak. it looked like a see-saw.

saliva flew out of sir's mouth and landed on me when he was instructing everyone on the beach. don't stand too close to him. at least 6 feet away. yuckk.

GAHHH! kayaking one star course is tomorrroo. [yeah, must spell the whole thing out so it looks chim-er. :-P] so, yes, i am VERY excited [childishly] and no, i am not scared. tim is, i think, of the capsizing drill. praying tt it won't rain so i can tan and bake till i turn BLACKK. ((:

yay! i'm in happy mode. been into short stories lately, as in writing them. BUT nobody's gonna get to read them [unless accidentally lah] Bcos they're kinda lame and boring, and i don't have thick skin. my aunt's boss' mother gave me a three whole books of crosswords and other puzzles like tt so i'm doing them until i go giddy. ha. do crosswords boost IQ?

oh, i've been doing dumbells religiously everyday. 5KGees. [stop laffing, ya'll. i know it's not much but it's just nice fer mee. STOP LAFFINGGGG,] hope to build nice big biceps. triceps. wadeva. both lah.

struggling with french. struggling with mathematicticticss. uhhh, everything oso hard lah. but, WHOOOOOOO! kayaking is my painkillerrr. eh kayaking tmr leh. i think i aredy mentioned tt. anyways. YAHAHAHAHAAA.

whoo! went swimming t'day. ohkay, technically, i can't swim properly yet, so my dad's teaching me. i'm fed-up. tim can get the strokes right faster than me. BOOO. came back today wiffa nice light tan. [ok tt sounds ironic.] can't wait forr KAYAKKINGGGGGGGG !

bon soir everyone. i am TIRED. today my dad was in an exercising mood and he got us all up to do morning exercises tgth. it was funny lah, and kinda kool. i like doing stuff with my dad. :) tim kept making fart sounds while we were doing squats. lol.

went for wise teens and games [frisbee, captain's ball, guys played soccer.] the lesson was about the human nature of judging and predjudice. it was a good lesson. sometimes i feel very judged, in many aspects. sometimes i judge, and very severely. learned alot from the lesson today. :))

can't wait for kayaking and thailand. hope the thailand thing will work out smoothly! bon nuit. :D