今天我回去了两趟。。。
但，（还）没找到它。。。

Fuck...

I left it behind in SDBA....

What the hell.

idiotic me....

Please 'wait' for me....

Better... in Time?

Leona Lewis - Better in Time

Although her first hit singles conquered the "world" making everyone "bleeding love", i prefer this other single.
Hit me right away on the radio waves. Especially part just before the chorus. So catchy , and again, the lyrics..
My limited vocab wouldnt do justice to it.

"Going, coming
thought I heard a knock
Who's there
no one
Thinking that I deserve it
Now I realise that I really didn't know
If you didn't notice you mean everything"

".. I'm gonna smile cause I deserve to
It'll all get better in time .. "

"...If I'm dreaming
don't wanna laugh hurt my feelings
but that's the path I believe in
And I know that time will heal it..."

It's just playing over and over in my head, and rinign on my phone..
*Addicted*

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Was back in camp for a brief ICT yesterday doing a "dont-know-for-what-the-hell" purpose 8km route march. Not surprising though, it came from our good old "X-X-F"
They just do nonsensical stuffs.

Caught up abit with one of my platoon mate and reminded me again of this used-to-be and still aspired -to-be team in the vball arena.
The V-Team.
This was(and i believe still is) the enviable team to join, learn and compete.
Played a friendly once many years back, and their skills were so , "superb"!
Moreover its coming from a group of working individuals/students, that just got together for the love of the sports.

That reminds me... am I getting too distant from the sports?
it used to ba a weekly affair. sometimes twice a week.
Competitions are held almost every quarter.
But now,
Its at most once a week.
Competitions are held once/twice a year.
hmm....

Why ?

Why are we trying so hard to "please" these people?

Why have to be "extra nice" and pay particular attention to all these?

I'm kinda tired of all this.

If they dont bother to take the first step forward, why bother.

It doesn't really affect me.

why take on the extra chore for yourself if everyone could be self-motivated?

That's why it's never an ideal world.

Then why bother trying sp hard to 'create' one?

So sianz..,

我只想划而已。。

Singapore Night Festival

The Night Festival held pver the weekends was a new experience that one gets to witness in Singapore.
A great sensory treat, and something very "not" singapore.

dance performance in the air, combination of light + water presentation, and "waterdance".

Great moments captured by the trustworthy Canon Ixy25i

RBS CCG 08

Preview ...

RBS Dragon Boat Team- CCG 2008

What would happen .... if?

Watched this very interesting "documentary" on Nat'l Geo TV yesterday.

About experiments on What would happen if this/that was carried out..
Skewing more towards physics/chemistry and also daily life chores....

Thsi one was interesting and spurs me to try it out...

A Right-handed was challenged to use her left hand as the master hand for daily chores.
Includes preparing food with non-masterhand, using your left hand (non-master hand) to carry out all task.
And the most simple for us who cant stayed away from PC, teh best way to start that is to put your PC mouse on your left hand side.
Try it, and in one months time, your left hand would be as good as your right masterhand.
Tested and proven on the TV show...

And research also shows that actually having your PC mouse on th left hand-side is actually more conducive for people who works with it 12hrs per day...

hmm.. let me try it, and hopefully soon, I can spike with left arm, and row on theleft , all with as much ease as my right...

Procrastinator

Finally....
I ended my month long of procrastination.
its really one of my greatest flaw...

Hope to hear some something soon.. I hope...

Phiten Racing Series

Finally got an excuse for myself to spend extravagantly on this little wonderful 'equipment'.

Had the intention to get it after June race as a reward, but the results doesn't justify the spending...
With the satisfying results from July CCG, I got a damn good excuse (ahem: "reason") to pampered myself to this long awaited "reward"!

Actually intended to get another model less 'intimidating' in terms of price...(I could get an oakley with that price tag) but then again, beautiful things just attracts me... nonethless, its "power' is much higher..

haha.. I choose to believe it works for that price tag...

If i were in Japan, I could well get this at half price... But I can't wait to lay my hands , or rather, neck, on it...

I'm hooked to these like gals hooked to diamonds..

but at least this "thing" has health benefits hor... Or I choose to Believe?

Thank You!

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The Date: 12 July 2008
The Day : Saturday
The Time : 8:00am
The Venue: Bedok Reservoir
The Event : Corporate Community Games - Dragon Boat Race
The Team: RBS Dragon Boat Team

A smaller scale Dragon Boat racing event, that involves corporate Teams, mainly Banks and Other corporate Organisations in Singapore.

14 Mens Team (10 crew) competing for the Men's Category, and 18 Mixed Team(10 Crew).

A day that will go donw in my history with pride and glory.
A small achievement by the Team, but its a testatment of the Team's committment, hard work, and more importantly, the Team spirit.

We were ousted after the Semis in the recently passed SDBF June race for the men's and clilnched a Bronze for the Women's.

After 2 weeks of intensive trg and sheer determination (determination to win as a Team), we were back in this Corporate Arena, and Clinched not one, but 2 Team medals.

RBS DB Team Clinched the Mens 10 Crew Champion and the one of the Mixed Team garnered the Bronze.
The joy and achievement does not lies in the title.
But the process of getting it.
It was filled with adrenalin, fighting spirts, Team spirits, Trust and beliefs.

The men's Gold was a roller-coaster ride "journey".
Got through the heats as a 2nd placing, but the performance was disappointing. We all felt we coudl have done better, but the body just too stiffs..
First race of the day is always the toughest and the worst performance one.
Never expect, our Semi race was even worst and disappointing... 3 secs longer than the first race...
That puts us up against 3 Exxonmobil team in the finals.
I't looks like they are sure to clincheed the 3 metals colour for this category...
Being the 'underdog' in the Finals alongside with Keppel-lite, the Team was determined to glide past them all.
It's not wishful thinking, it's not baseless "hope", but you see the determination in everyone's eyes.

You see it in everyone's stroke.
We pushed off well, power and speed, and we tell ourself never to be left behind, or that's teh end...
in less than 82 secs, Team RBS Men's Team killed all 3 Exxon.
I know it sounds cruel, but that's the greatest joy in the win. We "killed' all their 3 chances of a gold medal.

The synergy of Team work, it was great, it was wonderful, it shows...
Thanks for the first medal, and making the colour shines....

赤壁

It was since dont know how many many months i last caught any movie on the big screen..
And Friday was a real treat to the well -acclaimed chinese film, 赤壁.
150mins (2hr 15 mins to be exact) and yet you dont find it that Draggy at all!!
If you think it's another Boring Chinese Literature retold, or another long and draggy 十面埋伏，think again.

This is one of the best made chinese ancient movie ever in my A-List..
Despite my very "private limited" knowledge on ancient chinese history, this show definitely never bores me for a second at all!
Wonderful Cast, great story, exciting battle scences and strategies....

I'm gonna catch the sequel man!
Yes, there's a sequel........

and te "YouTube" version!

And alas, its up on Youtube.
Well, in line with RBS aim to extend its reach "globally"...
This is an attempt to 'announce' the presence of RBS in Asia, and in the DB scence!

Lol..

Completed!

Finally its completed!
Gathered something new this time...
Converting videos to Flash format before uploading, and it saves me tonnes of time!!

As much as you do not wished to be reminded of that freak incident, it just creeps in upon chance.
It just dampen the mood, brings back uninvited memories, stories, and unexplained logic.
Life's really unpredictable.

It Would have been better if they were still around.
It suddenly seems like this world, life, whoever the almightly up there, is not fair after-all...
Damn freaking bias...


An Islelife Production
Rendering/uploading

Shagged

Shagged...

6 hours of continuous training fo rthe first time, and i guess should be the last taht I'll see..?
2hrs normal trg, followed by 4 hours race set ...
I think i did more 300m race sets than I ever did for the past 2 years?

We should be fully and well-pepared for the coming sat race, but I don't have a very good feel still...
On paper, it looks like our chances are definitely much better than last week.. It almost seemed like a "sure-win".

Just don't know why, I have more reservation on the possible outcome this time...
hmm.........

I hate this kind of "prenominent...."

another islelife production in process..

"Fi-Ling"

大家都很熟悉这句话:"做很多事都是要靠 'Feeling' 的喔。"
'Feeling' 来了， 一切就如鱼得水了。。。。

来了吗？应该是吧。。。

another islelife production in process..

Processing.....

It's that period of time again, when "Islelife Production" kicks in.

Many other stuffs takes a back-seat while this "studio" sprungs to life....

another islelife production in process..

Post Race-thoughts

Different Teams....

...but for the same passion

Thought No. 1
It really feels different when you are up against in the same race with your frens representing different Teams.
Definitely not one of jealousy nor"conflict of interest".
Be it that we used to/still train under the same team, or friends acquainted off the DB arena, amd competitors on the water.
Giving that sincere pat of encouragement and congratulatiosn to one another after the race ended,while minutes ago on the same water, we were breathing down each other's neck trying our best to bring one another down.

Friendship conquers all, even amidst those comeptitive spirits that filled the air.
We may be racing for different teams (or even up against one another), but that's altogether for the spirit of the sports. Freindship and comradeship never deteriorates amidst them all.



Thought No. 2
You may be a nobody in a team, but what the sports count is team spirits and passion for the game. you may not be valued in one team given teh limitations, but you could make a significant difference in another.
Its more than physical strength and brawn in this game. Its the spirit of competitivness that brings out the marvel in this sports.
You have made the right choice to switch, a switch to a team where you find out the true spirits of comeptitive races.
Races where you never failed to give your hundred-and-one.





Thought No. 3
Its not just about beating the boat beside us, trying to get ahead regardless of placing, but rather, racing against the race-leaders, keeping one another in pace and finally crossing that finishing line with a sense of doubt of whose 1st, 2nd or 3rd..

That's the kind of race experience thats truly worth all the sundays and saturdays.

After so long, I realised how it really felt to be in a true race..., when you are breathing down one anothers' neck for that race-leader position...

It's time to break from the stagnant level we are at , and up the physical trg intensity. We have made our First-ever appearance as a combined team with a bang, and that is definitely not gonna lose steam..

It's gonna just picked up from here there-on.. HP, here we come.....!

June Race 08: an experience never before

Day 1
"Jubilant of Triumph"
The joy and excitement the Team experienced after teh triumphant over the many corporate Giants.
Seeing the results of endless hard-10s and "tyre-towing" under the afternoon weekend sun paid off.
The solid leads in starts re-affirmed those trg techniques really worked. Not once, not twice, but all the time.
Our greatest enemy has turned from "Charging" to "Maintenance".

Boat B performance was above average. Against 2 petroleum giants , whom surprisingly didnt engage the use of their "V-power" or "Synergy 8000".
Probably becos of the increase in petrol prices recently, one has down-graded to Formula 95 and the other just Synergy 5000 due to cost cutting measures?
That probably gave us the winning edge?

"Anguish of Defeat"
Boat A wasn't so lucky though.
Surrounded by 2 teams of giant corporate PC provider, meaning they can "program" anything to their own likings, including race results? lol
The "fashion apparels" team didn't ffare that badly, driving down the message that they can not only sells, but "delivery" provided...

The 20 crew mixed open Championship was a great experience for us.
Alongside the studious uni undergrads (i think they trained harder than they studied... lol), and peolpe from down-under, we were glad we could stillbreathe down their neck thorughtout the 800m course. But the fact is, our "head" didnt managed to squeeze into the finsihing line before the younger students...

Day 2
"Jubilant of Triumph"
The gals team heats and finals took place on the same day.
With an awesome starts that put the gals leading was really an advantage.
Breathing down their neck was the petroleum team (read: Exxonmobil) ,but i think they forgot to top up full tank before the race, and have to shift down-gear midway through.
Probably the "marketers" (Mg & G aka Naga) or rather the media industry has an edge over the banks.. Quietly they stealth from behind (from 3rd placing initially!) and hit the finishing line just a second ahead at the last 50m!
All hope's not lost, as the gals still get into the finals as a hot favourite.
But then, this time faced with that big computer giant that can "program" anything, it was like a breeze for the latter right from the start.
So it was clearly a fight for the second spot with the "Media ladies" once again...
Alas, it was clear the media has the upper hand over the bank and garnered the silver piece of metal.

"Anguish of Defeat"
The guys Semis were full of adrnalin and "true racing experience".
Thanks to the great coaching techniques (and it works!), we managed to pulled off the start as a leading boat for the first 100m, throwing behind the red coloured local bank and the green UK-based bank far behind.
Hitting a side-by-side pacing scenario with the media team once again, ( i think they are really out to give the banks a run for their money), effortlessly breathing down our necks again.. (but really, we got no money, stop chasing us!!).
Reluctance to give way, it was clearly a fight for 1st and 2nd placing for the next 650m. you hard-10, i speed up, you speed up, i hard-10. Still, they were just too powerful for us to play the catching-up game. It was a really great "pacing" race between the 2...
Talk about the poer of media...
Amidst all this chasing game, the group of health freaks (read Fitness & Health Institute Pte Ltd) just crept up to take a 0.36s lead into the finishing line before us... WTF.....

Hello Laksa, Curry, Sushi!

Finally its the end of June race 2008
Mixed feelings of Joy and disappointment (too strong a word?)

Also, that marks the "temporary" end of my "no-spicy-food, no-coconut-milk (read curry) diet" in prep for race days...
I can go indulge in Laksa with lotsa sea-hum, sashimi and curry chicken noodles!
And yes, my first "snack" right after sunday's race is Chirashi Sushi Don!
However, that is gonna be short-lived for 1 week... thereafter its back to that "strict" diet of carb loading, no-spicy, no coconut milk, watch-what-you-eat regime..
CCG in 2 weeks time...

Didnt realise actually such simple discipline could have a direct and evident correlationship to performance level.

There exist stronger meaning to races to me nowadays...something you can hardly put into words, given my limited vocab, but the kind of feeling is just priceless and indescribable.