went for the RP invitational canoeing race yesterday at lower seletar.
met wen hao and steph and we took a train down to khatib.
the journey was so long and we were carying our paddles, no doubt there were people staring at us.
we were late so we had to run from the mrt station to the reservoir.
reached there and i was told that i was in the first heat.
steph asked me if i was nervous, i said no.
then she said: eh please lor you are nervous.i can see it from your face.that act guai face.
LOL.
i was nervous because the rest were from nyp, np, sp and rp.
most of them had two years of experience and i'm a pathetic noob with only 7 plus months of training.
no doubt i came in last for the first heat for women's t1 out of the five girls.
but after the second heats for women's t1, the timings were out and I WASN'T THE LAST (:
i was the sixth out of the ten girls.
the first and second for both heats went straight into the finals.
the rest had to go for the semi finals.
and guess what, i wasn't the last again.
yoyo was a position ahead of me.G double O D JOB.
sam and chrys were not that bad either.chrys made it to the finals.the only tp student to get into the finals.the rest were disqualified as they capsized halfway.
but it's not too bad as it was our first race (:
damien said:we're just like singapore at the olympics.we're still noobs, but we can train harder and improve.someday we'll be like them and maybe, even better.
nyp and rp are damn good.
we'll have to train much harder then!







though we're a small team as compared to nyp, rp, sp and np, we're bonded and can beat them someday.

don't just paddle.love it (:

my year of being sixteen has been nothing less than fantastic.
i've been really busy over the past couple of weeks.
celebrated yanjun's and vanessa's birthday during the first week of november, followed by TP RAWKS which was awesome fun, all the secondary school kiddies were damn enthu.
we were in charge of captain's ball and i took the slacker's job, being a time keeper.
it was all fun and i made new friends(:

met up with winston a couple of times and we chit chatted over dinner, thank you friend!
went for training last saturday and sunday and boy, my stamina has dropped.
i feel so tired after paddling a few rounds.
this saturday is the RP invitational canoeing race at lower seletar.sam and chrystal will be racing using k1, jm and wen hao on k1, not sure which guy is using t1, yoyo and i will be racing on t1.
500m is damn long.
i know i'll come in last or one of the last few.ohammgee, such a loser.
nevermind, like coach said, we're just here for the experience, after all we've only had a couple of months of training unlike the others who had trained over a year or two.
coach said that WE ARE STILL NOOBS, so it's alright to lose.

had ccn day last friday, went walking around with a basket trying to sell cakes and stuff with sarah.
the class made quite a bit.
ash, rathi, siew tin, sarah and i ended up gorging on food.
i remember eating nachos, chocolate pudding, root beer float, cupcakes, otahs and some french pastry thingy.

did henna on my left shoulder but its fading away.oh well.i can't get a tattoo, so i'll just have to settle for henna.
oh and i finally got the boyfriend shirt (:
so happy.

so far, today's the only day that i took a cab to school because i was to lazy to walk to block 23.
damn far and damn lazy, so i took a cab from home and it wasn't because i was late.
just reached home not too long ago.
i tripped on my way home and now have a huge and ugly cut on my right leg.
the pain of it when bathing is worse than anything.
pffffft.i look like a self mutiliator now.so emo, wow.

math test tomorrow and biochem test the day after.MYOHMY.OHMMGEE.
going through half of my reading and realizing that i have no complete idea what the hell the damn writer’s talking about.
ohsofantastic.
SHIT.
translation, transcription, DNA replication, enzyme inhibition yada yada yada.
ughhhhhh.

sometimes i think certain words eat into me. take a life on its own and kills my brain-cells. emo is bad sarah.my imaginery reflection is telling me - you cannot blame yourself for your feelings. or your feelings that have gone out to play.

i've just read a book titled Love, like rain.
im typing excerpts so i can save them, but here's some - for the lost and loved souls.

people say they "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock.but love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman.what people find then is a certain love.and eddie found a certain love with marguerite, a grateful love, a deep but quiet love, one that he knew, above all else, was irreplaceable.once she'd gone, he'd let the days go stale.he put his heart to sleep."eddie." she almost giggled. "have you forgotten so fast how I used to look?"eddie swallowed. "i never forgot that."she touched his face lightly and the warmth spread through his body. she motioned to the village and the dancing guests. "all weddings," she said, happily. "that was my choice. a world of weddings, behind every door. oh, Eddie, it never changes, when the groom lifts the veil, when the bride accepts the ring, the possibilities you see in their eyes, it's the same around the world. they truly believe their love and their marriage is going to break all the records."she smiled. "do you think we had that?"eddie didn't know how to answer."we had an accordian player," he said.why was he talking about this? what was he doing? was he really with her? like a hidden grieving that rises to grab the heart, his soul was ambushed with old emotions, and his lips began to tremble and he was swept into the current of all that he had lost. he was looking at his wife, his dead wife, his young wife, his missing wife, his only wife, and he didn't really want to look anymore."oh god, marguerite," he whispered. "i'm so sorry, i'm so sorry. i can't say. i can't say. i can't say."he dropped his head into his hands and he said it anyhow, he said what everyone says."i missed you so much."(crap, i cried here)Love, like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. but sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.he spoke of the Blue Man and his story, why some die when others live, and he spoke about the captain and his tale of sacrifice. when he spoke about his father, marguerite recalled the many nights he had spent enraged at the man, confounded by his silence. eddie told her he had made things square, and her eyebrows lifted and her lips spread and eddie felt an old, warm feeling he had missed for years, the simple act of making his wife happy."you had to live without love for many years, didn't you?"eddie said nothing."you felt that it was snatched away, that i left you too soon."he lowered himself slowly. her lavender dress was spread before him."you did leave too soon," he said."you were angry with me.""no."Her eyes flashed."OK. Yes.""there was a reason to it all," she said."what reason?" he said. "how could there be a reason? you died. you were forty-seven. you were the best person any of us knew, and you died and you lost everything. and i lost everything. i lost the only woman i ever loved." she took his hands. "no, you didn't. i was right here. and you loved me anyway."lost love is still love, eddie. it takes a different form, that's all. you can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. but when those senses weaken, another heightens. memory. memory becomes your partner. you nurture it. you hold it. you dance with it. "life has to end," she said. "love doesn't."

the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
enough said, i'm diving straight into my books now.I LOVE STUDYING (:

okay so here's the continuation of yanjun's birthday surprise.

met xiu on wednesday after her work at around 10 plus and we took a bus down to yanjun's place.
we called her sister and she told us that yanjun was sleeping.
haha great we thought, what a good way to smash the cake on her face.
and yes we succeeded (:
i smashed the whole chocolate cake onto her face when she got up.
i tell you, her reaction was hilarious!
she started screaming hysterically and was trying to get the cake off her.but xiu was damn evil luh, she took the remains of the cake and throw it at her.
haha goodness.it was damn fun anyway.
babe i bet you loved the suprise, presents and the cake smashing (:
YAY i can't wait for this saturday.the clique's meeting up again!!

anyway i had awesome fun today.
was supposed to go training during my break but didn't go (long story).
headed to east coast to lunch with the class girls.
we ordered a hell lot of food and stuffed ourselves silly.
ate ice creams and took a walk at the beach.
did many retarded things.we're like a bunch of psychos seriously.
and one thing, i can't help but go into a laughing fit whenever i see ash's legs.haha ash, you know i know why.HAHAHA.
it seemed as though it was the holidays or something.
and we're going sentosa for picnic after the term test.okay long way to go, but still we made plans.
we took a cab back to school for biochem make up tutorial at 4 which ended at around 6 plus.so damn draggy.that dr raja kept asking us whether we have any questions, well obviously not, no one was paying attention.i have a concentration span of only like what, 30 minutes, and after that i get really fidgety and start disturbing the people around me.ash has experienced it like a thousand times tho.haha.

oh i met lemuel last sunday for dinner, after a million over failed dinners.
cheryl was supposed to come but she had to work.oh well.will catch up with her another time then.
dinner was good and his arms are shorter than mine.
i feel like some orang utan or something.ughh.

i can't wait for next saurday.
saturday saturday saturday.shopping with the class girls.
time to save some money babyyyyyy.

okay i haven't really been touching my books.
and there's an edevckt quiz next tuesday.
goodness gracious me.
MATI.
time to start studying.
got a new assignment to do for biochem.
what are genomes, what are genomatics yada yada yada.
there's the psps project to complete.
time sure passes by quickly.

alrights thats for now.more soon.

hellllloooo world.

it's been a while since i've updated.
school's been good.
number of times i cabbed to school this week : zero (:
which is good because i usually cab at least twice.
haha.


i met xiu yesterday after school and we went to parkway to get yanjun's birthday present.
that girl really does treat me like a maid.and i really mean it.
we went to m)phosis and she asked me to wear the sandle for her because she was wearing a skirt and it would be rather inconvenient for her to bend down.
hello woman, there was a platform like thingy for you to sit on but you made your poor friend kneel on the floor, just so you could try on the sandle.
TSK.
we bought a couple of stuff from the pasar malam over there too.

there were two policemen patrolling over at parkway and xiu said that they were here to arrest me.
this was how our mini conversation went:


xiu: eh sarah, look! the police are here to arrest you.


me: okay, so what did i do this time round? did i steal something or what?


xiu: they are here because......you stole my heart!


OHAMMGEE.why is my friend so lame.
i started laughing non stop.
haha.
that girl really does say the darnest things.
she never fails to put me into a laughing fit.


i haven't been going for training that often and steph just called me just now to say that she misses me.
yes i miss you too woman!
oh well with a sucky timetable, it's no wonder i don't get to see them that often now.
but i'll be going for training on this friday and saturday.
it's been like a week since i last paddled ):
the week's been passing pretty fast.
i just can't wait for the next holiday to come.



went for otc interview with yanjun, jasmine and sharmaine.
i think we kind of screwed it up.
the guy was asking us questions like "why must i choose you to be a GL and not others and state the qualities you have."
he also asked us to cheer but didn't in the end.
only half out of 700 over applicants will be selected.
oh well.
but i so want to go for foc.
nevermind, there's always next year.



i saw this cc syke inspired gold woven chain at diva yesterday, i want it so badly.BUT I DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH MONEY WITH ME.HOW SADDENING ):




me likes this a lot.

anyway i can't wait for later.i'll be meeting xiu to give yanjun her birthday suprise.
more details later (: