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Gwendolyn N.
26 years young, a dreamer struggling ever so slightly to not let the world's negativities consume her.


Tuesday, March 20, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GREATEST COACH MF SAILING TEAM 2 ABSOLUTELY Ys!

yay! happy birthday dearest aunty yvonne! you're a great coach, carry on with the greatness :D team2 loves you!!! :D

today must have been absolutely the BEST training since i joined sailing. Forget about all the winning and getting of first placing during training. This training, MF sailing TEAM2 really had fun the NSC team way! :D we're a family! :D

at first i didnt wanna sail.. thought of camp and only camp - whoops i havent packed my stuff yet.

after rigging up in the super hot sun, i went to change, bought a drink, chat with Isabelle and went for breifing. it was super noisy, the boys were chatting away while aunty yvonne discussed the tactics we used during the competition. it practically wasnt a breifing at all! then we began the real breifing after she talked and told us the mistakes we made in the recent regatta. i was so excited (which was really weird) to hear we were gonna practice kiteing our boats while on a run, since it was light wind.

launched, then sailed slowly in the on-off wind. got to the training point and watched team1 practice their trapezoid course.. miss them so much! haha.

started rounding the course - upwind, then run. upwind, then run. it just kept going, especially since it was light wind. it was super boring.

then aunty yvonne whistled us to get to where she was, as she was gonna start a small race. Before that, i found a tennis ball floating in the water, and picked it up. looks pretty old, but the color made it seem new. told David, but he was too far for me to pass it to him. Then told wenfeng and threw it into his boat. after rounding the downwind mark, David asked me for it but i told him it was with Wenfeng -_-

then when aunty yvonne just about gathered the whole of team2 (we're a small team btw), she wanted to whistle when the boys protested that they wanted to carry on playing with the tennis ball i found. amazingly, she just readily agreed. she said "those who wanna play, go that side to play okay?" then she started the powerboat moving.

she set down 2 buoys - black and yellow. then she whistled. at first we all groaned cos we thought she was gonna start the race, but end up she wanted us to gather round to hear the rules for the game we were gonna play using the tennis ball! :D

turned out to be like captain's ball, except it was on water, and the participants were on boats. we split ourselves into 2 groups. Daryl, Wenfeng, David and Ryan in one team, me, Linjie, Aaron and Jack in the other.

We were not allowed to have the ball in our boats/hands for more than 5seconds, and we had to be at least 2 boat lengths away from each other, and were meant to follow the normal sailing rules. the person with the ball must then go and sail till the buoy that is designated to each team, for my team it was black.

then we went crazy, suffered 2 boat cracks, one huge one small, and a bump on the head. Aaron's boat cracked cos Jack banged into him even before we began (i heard a "prak" sound from afar), then he kena hit on the head by i think linjie's boom -_- Ryan's boat also had a crack, but a pretty small one, also caused by Jack.

One about 20bucks, the other (aaron's) about 100bucks++. the whole MF (NSC side) team2 decided that we'd contribute a few bucks each for them :D and from now onwards, whenever anyone accidentally bangs their boat and it ends up with a crack, we're all gonna chip in for them :D I LOVE TEAM2! <3

while the team1 people were all busy training (having the race), team2 people were there screaming and shouting for right of way as we threw the ball around. lol.

after recovering our boats, i nagged at wenfeng for not bothering to help the others. he's always the one who pulls his boat up to wash first after recovering, while all of us are helping either each other or the seniors. he's always the first one from NSC side to go to bathe. argh!

then we had debreif as aunty yvonne went through the reports about the crack in Ryan and Aaron's boats. then she said "haiyo.. gimme such a nice and expensive present on my birthday hor!" haha. then at first we thought she was joking. then we went "TODAY'S YOUR BIRTHDAY?!" then she "o.o yaya it is.. haha. you guys ah..."

after debreif i suggested we sang her happy birthday and we all did :D she seemed pretty happy. but our voices got softer and softer while singing. lol.

yay! about a day or two after camp the NSC people (me, ryan, wenfeng, david, aaron, linjie, jack) are gonna go J8 or something to get aunty yvonne a present. Aaron and I are making her a card :D we got loads of suggestions from each other : New sunglasses (top choice, thanks David :D), shirt with our drawings, billabong cap, a shirt with something to do with sailing on it, and even a sports bra -_- guys are so lame sometimes. when i think David or Aaron suggested that, i was like "-_- zzz i am NOT gonna go bra shopping okay misters!"

so yeah. the guys kept crapping with the hose -_- how... fun.. -_- but we had a good time laughing our heads off. then wenfeng's lips cracked. he was drinking water from the hose (while Ryan kept stepping on the hose, blocking the water. then he'll suddenly jump off and the water would spray at wenfeng's face. lol). then suddenly he went "ehh why got blood taste one???" then Ryan looked at him: "your lips are bleeding lah.." "oh." haha. he said its cos its too hot then his lips crack.. poor guy. one side of his lips were red with blood can? ewwness!

and i got my track pants :D REEBOK! haha. i think its the same one as Tzuling's o.o it was on offer so my dad suggested i get it. quite nice :D wearing it for camp, then for trainings (:

havent finish packing my camp stuff yet.. ohh well. tata! :D

I WILL MISS MY COM,
MY MUSIC,
MY BED,
MY PILLOWS,
MY BLANKET,
MY SHOWER,
MY STUFFED TOY DOGGIE,
MY COMFY SOFA,
MY NEWWWWW HUGEEEE! TV,
MY TASTY HOME-COOKED FOOD,
MACDONALDS, MOSBURGER, SUBWAY, BURGERKING,
DEAREST CELINE, SOMEBODYSSSSS,
MY GAMES,
INTERNET, INTERNET AND INTERNET!!!
(and manymanymany more!)


awws.

buhbyes my loves! ):

thou shall be gone for 3 days 2 nights. miss me not. thou shall miss you if thy misses me (:

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