headed down to seletar with soon. SUPPOSED TO MEET AT 10 AM AT POTONG PASIR, but unsurprisingly she was late. and i was nice enough to wait patiently at the bus stop. but we were not late in fact we reached pretty early. so we decided to jaywalk across to the stdium to go toilet. but something caught our eye. we are so gonna do that the next time!! so awesome! fast forward to the part when we were paddling there, water is great and boat was fantastic. and since i was sitting in front, i heard val was extremely off form today. and though i cant see, i certainly felt it. and belle was such a sweetie to bring down our paddles from mac! imagine carrying 4 paddles with you on the bus, when each of us were already so annoyed with just 1. lunch-ed at the world's most sinful place. and boy did i have the time of my life. the things we talked about was, speechless. belle was more like a friend than a teacher, fancy telling us stuff that we would never expect a teacher to say. haha. i love her to bits!! belle was such a sweetie again, cuz i wanted to eat ice cream, and just so happened that mcdonald's ran out of it. she went all the way to god-knows-where and got 4 ice cream, conveniently forgetting about herself. but in the end, since soon doesnt really fancy chocolates she ate it. but still, how awesome can she get! after lunch, bus-ed down to macritchie to paddle. AND OMG, I THOUGHT I WOULD NOT HAVE LIVED TO BLOG AGAIN! IF THAT BLOODY T1 DID NOT PADDLE BACK TO SAVE I WOULD HAVE DROWNED AND DIED. AND IM PRETTY SURE ABOUT THAT. HERES THE STORY AND ITS GONNA BE IN CAPS:

WE WERE DOING 6-5-4-3-2-1 SETS ANS WE (AS IN VAL, SOON AND I) WERE AT OUR 2 MIN SETS WHEN ITS STARTED TO RAIN CATS AND DOGS AND IT WAS AFFECTING MY VISION. AND THE WIND WAS BLOWING DAMN DAMN DAMN HARD, THE WATER WAS DAMN HARD. IT WAS LIKE PADDLING THROUGH ROCKS. I WAS TRYING MY BEST NOT TO LET MYSELF CAPSIZE. BUT I WAS OVERCOMED BY THE WIND AND PLOP, I WAS IN THE WATER. AND OMG, THE WAVES JUST KEPT GOING OVER ME, THE RAIN FORBID ME TO OPEN MY EYES, AND I COULDNT SEE WHERE WAS MY BOAT AND WHERE THE HELL WAS I. I COULDNT SEE, I WAS DEAD TIRED, I WAS PRACTICALLY STRUGGLING TO KEEP AFLOAT. VAL AND SOON WERE DOING K2 SO NATURALLY THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN FASTER THAN ME, SO I WAS STRANDED. I DONT WANT TO DIE DROWNING SO I TRIED MY BEST TO OPEN MY EYES AND JUST MOVE BUT IT DIDNT FLET LIKE I MOVED ANYWAY. UNTIL I HEARD SOMETHING KNOCK MY BOAT AND THANK GOD, MY LIFESAVER, MY MENG NAN TO THE RESCUE. HAHA. and that was how close i was to death. the guy so sweet paddle behind me so in case i capped again. but in the end he went to save another c1. 

anyway, moving on with life, tried my best to lift up 30 kg after that but omg, i couldnt even lift it up half way. and boy was i glad to be heading home. 74-ed home with soon, end up she came to my house. slack, watch tv and planned for chem. i love sherlene soon. :) around 7-ish we got our lazy ass-es out of my house to have dinner. and i embarrassingly paid for my dinner in coins. he gave up counting and said, 'i trust you', AWWWWWW!!! i love sherlene soon! :) 

we are like about a week away from nationals. to be exact 10 days away from nationals. and i want to get into the finals so bad. for belle and the girls, cuz i want to make them proud. i want belle's teachings to be fruitful and not barren. and i think belle deserves a medal from each of us. for all that she has done and sacrificed for us, i know the pain im going through is worth it and temporal. so no matter what people say about canoeing, im just gonna give my best and show them we are not as weak and lousy as people perceive us to be. medals are not everything, they are just accesories and evidence of participation, cuz i know no matter what happens on the 14 to 17 of april, i have belle and the girls behind me, supporting me, and thats all i need, them. we know we are strong, both physically and mentally, we just need to know it for ourselves, we dont need to prove it to a bunch of people who dont have the faith in us. so to SHERLENE SOON, VALERIE TAN, WONG YUEYING, LAU JIAQI, ANNABELLE NG, TRAIN HARD FOR THE NEXT 10 DAYS AND REAP THE REWARDS THAT WE DESERVE. NO MATTER WHAT, I LOVE YOU! :)