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heh. havent been updating much.

i've been pretty busy recently with loadsa stuff. so yep.

Soooooooo. since i've not updated for such a long time, shall talk about yesterday's super-fun officiating at SAFYC for the 4th Byte something and the 30th or whatever Laser open! :D

morning i woke up, and saw that Luoling replied my message. At 2.31 AM somemore. LOL. So her dad fetched me, Ningxin and Luoling herself to SAFYC Changi for the officiating. It was like morning 9+ and me and Ningxin were both slowly dozzing off.................................

oh.

back to story.

So, we made this HUGE round around the airport's landing or taking-off area. It was pretty nice. It was like, we were paranoid cos we were gonna be late and we didnt know which way to SAFYC! Finally saw the turning point that looked so familiar, and we quickly asked Lol's dad to turn in. It was familiar cos we went so SAFYC Changi for the June hols sailing camp. A longggg, boring road down and a few commenting session on the buildings later, we were outside at the gate of SAFYC! :D

And oh, the radio played It Ends Tonight by the All-American Rejects just as we were about to reach so me and Ningxin were singing and singing. LOL.

So we walked in, kinda lost. We asked the "Angel desk" people (if thats what the desk thingy was called) about where to go. They told us to go to the breifing area. We remember the place so we immediately knew where to go. It was about 10.20AM.

Thennnnn. WE SAW ENLAI! You know you know you know, that Kids Central actor whos always siao and funny? Yep! We saw him! Haha. He was about to start filming there, so we were like, chionging past him and these kiddos in swimsuits and lifejackets...

.... HEY! That blonde girl looked like the sailor who sails the *ahahaha* ridiculously funny "Turkish Delight" boat during the first race I officiated (most sailors who sail the Optimist would know, she kept going off the course and the race officiating people were super fustrated at her). He was speaking on the phone real loudy in i think Hokkien =/

Later we signed in, blahblah. Then we realised that we had like, a shitty 3 hours more to go before we launch! Sian-ness. So we walked around blahblah. The shirt was green! :D nice. Except the badges sewn on the sleves. Like uh, we didnt sail in the race lah!

Then we saw Enlai and crew filming these people who were rigging up a purple-sailed Pico. I guess they were gonna sail. So we just watched on and commented on how they might sail so lousily, especially since they were on camera.

LIGHTNING! Buahahaha. It got super windy and we saw lightning as we sailors sat on the deck's tables and chairs. Then we saw Enlai and crew (and "Turkish-Delight" girl *or at least look-alike*) pulling the boat (okay, THEY were not pulling the boat. Some people were helping them) towards the launching area. Then the kiddos went to play with the water while Enlai was wadding around in the shallow part. The kiddos then tried to pull the trolley, but they couldnt even pull it lah! It didnt even move an inch okay. So we were laughing. Wanna gei kiang dont gei on camera lah please. There was even this guy who looked like he was their instructor or trainer with them.

Then they went off to launch their boat and cos the launching point there got no wind due to the walls, they were very slow. We were like "ei, they never hear of skulling arh?" and Ningxin was like "oh, they're like, on TV! So of course they musn't disgrace themselves by doing the illegal stuff like skulling. Hahaha." Then they finally got out and the instructor's (we concluded he was the instructor of the girls, since we decided they couldnt sail a Pico too well) sailing was not very good. It was infact bad. This kind of strong wind their sail can still flap (or "laugh" for sailor's terms) and the jeep that they brought also was flapping really badly. So we were there laughing like hell. The kiddos seemed to be more chit-chatting rather than focusing on the jeep. And they're on TV lah.

the guy's sailing was bad. And oh, Enlai was on the "banana" powerboat. Its yellow and small, and more than 5 people squeezed on it so we were laughing our heads off.

we got hungry. But we thought the food there might be too expensive, so we walked down to the pier there instead to watch the guy sail his worst. It was really bad. The wind was so good but his sail was flapping again and again and they got stuck and drifted down at one point. We walked around blah blah blah.

I realised the SAFYC people in the room where we signed in were pissed of at us MFSS sailors. They talk to us also cannot talk properly. That time linjie (i think) opened the door after me and Ningxin went in to take something. Then the lady there was like "What you want lah?!?!" at him in a very pissed off manner. We were also not very shuang with them lorh. Keep staring at us as we go into the room. People go into the room to take and put down things also cannot arh?

Then Cheeteng and Weiming came. As they were rigging up their boat Tzuling told me to go and hide their lifejackets in the room where our bags were. So she threw me their lifejackets and i ran in. Then Ningxin they all came in to take their stuff and she was like "ehh. too obvious lah!" and Ningxin helped me dump our bags ontop of their life jackets. Quite funny lah haha.

Then its like, almost 1 hr later they didnt realise their life jackets were gone. They were even sitting at where they left their lifejackets in the first place lah! =/ so I told Tzuling to tell them before their race started.

So Tzuling was like "GWEN! Bring them leh. I dunno where you put their stuff." i was like "come with me lah Tzuling! You know where i put what, you saw it just now and you said it was too obvious what!" its like, huh. She pushed the blame to me cos she told me to hide the lifejackets. Weiming was like, giving us the -_- face lah. So i went to the room with them tagging closely behind me and i got their lifejackets and passed it to Weiming. Then i said "Once again, its not my fault. Tzuling made me hide the lifejackets de!!!" then Weiming gave me a siansian voice and said "Whoever - is in this plot is at fault." and stared at me. I felt quite bad about it.

Sometimes, I feel that the seniors hate me or something. Esp the sec 2 guy seniors. They seem to hate me in some way. Oh well, I'll live with that fact for about 2 more years. Can renzhu one.

sooooo.

officiating was fun. but the OD boat was so shaky it made me and Ningxin almost seasick. It was retarded. And there was nothing much we could do cos hardly anyone OCS or anything.

But it was really slacky :D we just sat there talk talk.. blahblah. Watch uncle ba ba (nono, its his real name) raise flags and lower the flags, sailors chatting as they sail by, yep. Pretty much all.

Then the problem came. No, not for me and Ningxin. But for uncle baba and the OD crew. The mark boats disappeared (apparantly they went to tow boats in distress back to shore) and the marks started drifting down. The pin-end boat was an ass. Kept drifting down a lot. Its like, they drive up. Then 5mins later they dissappeared from our sight. Looking down we realised that they drifted down. zzz. Uncle baba got super pissed off at them.

So the angry sailors were left there sailing around waiting for OD boat to start the next race. Ningxin said scarly SIN 7 aka the urr, forgot his name, come quarrell with OD boat. HAHA. She told me that happened in one of the races he was in. He's the "DONT TACK DONT TACK!!!" person if you see him in competitions. Quite stupid lah. He's national sailor but when he gets ahead of people he screams at them "DONT TACK DONT TACKKKKKKK!" and i heard one girl screaming at him cos he kept telling people dont tack. HAHA. Retarded. Even the people on the OD boat with me were laughing when he shouted DONT TACK DONT TACK DONT TACK LAH YOU! at the sailors on race one.

So the sailors were left there for about an hour sailing about waiting for next race. Uncle baba actually called it a day due to miscommunications etc when the pin-end boat was giving him a bad day and the mark boats MIA or something (its a joke).

He blur blur dont know rules and almost put up the AP over H flag i think. Aiyah its just the flag that means "All races ABANDONED" or something. Haha. Luckily he didnt put up that flag man. Or all the races canceled liao. Haha. Then he managed to make things okay again and the next race was on! (at like 6pm lah. omg. we were meant to be back at shore at roughly 4pm if things went well)

Then after the last race, there was a problem with the anchor on the boat. It got stuck on some fishing next underwater or something, and we couldnt pull it up. so we were stuck there for about another half an hour trying to pull it up. It was so heavy that when they almost got it halfway up the whole OD boat tilted badly to one side, and Ningxin stood at the opposite side jumping and going "Dont cap dont cap!!!" haha

So after numerous tries yadayada, we decided to go back to the launching point for the boats and leave the anchor there for a tractor to come pull it up. Ningxin and I were eager to find out whats stuck on the anchor. She kept joking that it must be an overweight mermaid stuck there and she'd cut up the mermaid's meat and sell it for like, 1kg 1mil bucks. HAHA.

But in the end we didnt find out what it was cos when we saw Jeremy we didnt ask, when we saw uncle baba when waiting for ningxin's dad to come fetch us he just walked past us waving and didnt hear our question. But it must be super heavy cos it dragged down a small buoy attached to it and two emergency float-thingys. =/

oh well, Ningxin's dad came and fetched us (me, Tzuling, Zachary, Nicholas and of course Ningxin) home.

SORRY TZULING I DIDNT COME TODAY! :(