today marked the last water training. after this all that is left is to put all the training we have done in the past all into this sat and sun. all the trainings have all come down to this weekend. it is now or never. it is do or die. it is to finish the race with no regrets. that's it, my friends. that's all to it. really. and sometimes words are just not enough. and i am lousy with them.

ps. settlers' cafe is good place to "nua".
pps. i will take my medicine dutifully and drink alot of water for tomolo. pls let me be off the med by saturday and stop the cough. thanks.

one week and three trainings away to THE RACE that we had been slogging for for seven months. HANG IN THERE!

back from the long awaited for penang race. didn't managed to take aloot of pictures due to the pathetically short battery lifespan of disposable batteries and the lack of memories space, but here are some pictures that i managed to captured when both the batteries and memory are cooperating. had a hard time trying to post all the pictures into one post... for those who know of a better and easier way of doing it pls leave a msg k? my pictures all appear as individual posts...

okay short recap of the trip.

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rushed home after training to finish packing my bag and make sure i didn't leave anything behind and bought the untrustworthy batteries for my camera. (which at that point of time i didn't know it is untrustworthy, total waste of money), met mona at hougang mall and took cab to the airport to meet the reat of the team at terminal 2 BK and prepare for check in.


here all the passports with the tickets ready for check in.

then there is the wrapping of all the paddles that are decorated with colourful tapes to be check in. paddles are not allowed on board the plane as they are considered dangerous weapons.

here is cheeling with the finish product waiting to be stuffed into a smelly army duffel bag.

here is iso with all the paddles stuffed into the duffel bag ready to be check in.

we are taking the malaysia airline heading for penang (duh!) flight MH658. picture a bit blur. think something with the setting of the camera. same goes for all the blur you might see later.

doing what we do best when we have too much free time and too many cameras. TPing while waiting for the check in.

sorry to say that this is not the plane we took to penang, we took a small malaysian airline plane with lousy in flight food. this is the plane parked to us.

finally we are off and on our way to penang. window view out of the plane.
penang race

this is the dinner that we had for the flight to penang. first taste of the rice that is soft on the outside and hard on the inside, which sort of become a constant through the trip and the unchewable vegetable that can only be found on malaysian airline and the salty chicken. the greenbean dessert is the won the most edible award out of the whole meal excluding the orange juice.

opening ceromony of the race, as you can see we are bored while waiting for the vip that we have to play with some long forgotten childhood games, and of course TPing.

after which we walk to this place called happy garden for dinner, they come with the free flow of the soft on the outside but abit hard on the inside rice (but i must say it is much better than the airline one.)

serene was "attacked" by a monkey on the way to dinner.

vic trying to feed the monkey with tomato and jade looking excited.

bananas paradise.

wayang we passed by on the way to dinner.

this is the entrance to our hotel, see the bags in yirang and miss sam hands? they are the little shopping we managed to do within 2km of the hotel. i got a adidas t-shirt for 40rm too.. and a navy blue t-shirt for 13rm.

our hotel room, which i shared with jane, it came equipped with 2 big single beds, fridge, balcony and a bathroom. for those with the corner room, it came equipped with two balconies. our and vic and wendy's room was seperated from the rest of the team in so ulu part of the hotel.

the hotel breakfast, the best meal in the whole day. this is just the first serving... there is still the eggs and the cereals...