2nd day......

Ok this is going to be shorter than yesterday. Today i had 100m fly and 50m free.

Journey there....

This time followed my parents there. Same story, i slept in the car. Until we reached the pool. The warm up was same as yesterday also. I swam in the diving pool. But this time i swam alone.

100m Butterfly

I was placed in a heat where i knew no one. Except for Georgiyi Simak. I knew he was quite fast but told myself to take it as a challenge. Since fly i can't look at the other swimmers I'll fast forward to the finish. I finished 1.11.19 and beat someone in lane 3 by a touch. But Simak was 5 seconds behind me. WOW!!

Ok here is the good part. I didn't swim my 50m free. That's why I'm here typing this thing. I got fed up of waiting and left the pool. Oh well, still got 2nd and 3rd leg.

1st day.......

Today was the 1st day of the competition i was talking about earlier. Today had 50m back,50m fly and 100m free. Here goes..

Journey there....
I followed Caroline there. Woke up at 6.30, my dad sent me to her house. Left her house at around 7. Slept in the car while listening to my MP3.

Warm up
We reached there a bit late so the competition pool was filled with too many people. So me,Caroline,Jet Ming and Yuan warmed up in the diving pool. There too we had trouble finding space. Kept getting blocked by the stupid syncro swimmers. In the end managed to warm up also. After that went up and waited for our events. OMG.......there were so many people taking part. We were dying of boredom. FYI.....It lasted like that the whole day.

50m Backstroke
Target was nothing because i only wanted to take it for fun and as a warm up. So did all the normal things la. Nothing special about this race. Except me and Jet Ming were almost late
and kinda rushed but i managed to do 38.53. Not bad for a ''for fun'' race.

50m Butterfly
While waiting for this event i fell asleep couple of times. Laze around the pool area and practically trying to stay calm. When my event arrived i was relived yet nervous. Swam in the same heat as Kwang Lee, i lost to him in PRAKL and i didn't intend on doing it again. Didn't do a good swim there but this was a different story. After the horn i jumped in and immediately remembered my mistake at PRAKL which was not kicking fast enough in the underwater kick. So i kicked a faster pace this time. My target was below 33 and turned out i did 31.75 =). Exactly when i touched the board i looked over at Kwang Lee's lane and he was already there. Turns out he beat me by 0.3 seconds. DARN!!

100m Freestyle
The event i was looking forward to the most. I knew i was going to improve for i have improved a lot the past few months. Same story as 50m fly. I was in the same heat as Kwang Lee. After the start i realised i was half a body in front of everyone. After the 25m mark i realised Kwang Lee was catching up but still i remained my pace saving the final sprint for the finish. We turned at to 50m at the same time. But on the push off he led. He was in front my an arms length. The energy i saved finally exploded on the last 35m. I caught up with Kwang Lee and overtook him. The rest was blur as i touched the board and saw that Kwang Lee was already there. He beat me by 0.14. Turns out he overtook me in the last 5m. How sad is that. Anyway i was aiming for 1.05 low and i did 1.02.94 =).

Overall
I guess today was pretty good considering my excellent times. But because of the boredom the day was ruined. Although i managed to catch up with my old friends.

Annie, Yes long time no see and now i can ejek you about being a SUKMA swimmer.
Kwang Lee, 2 words, DAMN YOU!
James, the bet is off man.
Jeremy, Yes i am taller than you. Deal with it.
Ian, you 13 year old gigantor!

Journey back
My dad fetched me back and i slept on the way back. While discussing about my swims.

Ok have to sleep now. Another day at the pool tomorrow. Hope can do good times like today. Ciou.

Tagged........

Ok i still find this whole tagged thing pretty lame but what the hell, i'll give it a try. I was tagged by Serena on like how a random song can remind you of people. Such as friends/family/loved ones. Ok so here goes........

Fort Minor-Remember the name : Q-hung
Kate Voegele-Only fooling myself : Mariam and my sis
LFO-Every other time : Me
Black Eyed Peas-Let's get it started : Stingray performance team of 2005!!!!
Haley James Scott-Halo : My sis
Yellowcard-Rough landing holly : My sis again
Aerosmith-I don't want to miss a thing : Serena
Yellowcard-Only one : Serena
Linkin Park-Bleed it out : Azfar and Rohaizad
Red Hot Chili Peppers-Dani California : Tiam
Good Charlotte-Keep your hands off my girl : Lihui and Joanne
Greenday-Holiday : My bro
Akon-Belly dancer : Naufal
Five For Fighting-Superman : Superman
Juanes-La Camisa Negra : Matthew
Linkin Park-What Ive Done : Human beings
Justin Timberlake-Like i love you : Serena
Simple Plan-Jump :Me
Backstreet boys-Drowning : Serena (probably the song that reminds me about you the most)
Guns N' Roses-Sweet child O mine : Azfar
Akon-Smack that : Cindy Ong
Taylor Swift-Teardrops on my guitar : Kar Sing
The Offspring-Hit that : My bro
Simple Plan-Shut Up : My sis
Ronan Keating-When you say nothing at all : Serena and Mariam
Usher-Yeah! : Wade Robson
Good Charlotte-The world is black : Tiam
Avril Lavign-Sk8ter Boi : Charlene
Simple Plan-Welcome to my life : Tiam
Good Charlotte-Lifestyles of the rich and famous : Paris Hilton
Jojo-Too little too late : Kok Weng
Sum41-Over my head : Tiam
Will Smith-Black Suits Comin : Naufal,Chai,MinYi,J.Ho
Rihanna-Unfaithful : Chantal
Barry Louis Polisar-All i want is you : Serena
Flo-rida-Low : Addy

Race against the clock

Got a competition this weekend. Sports Excel 1st leg. So here are my targets i hope to do there.

50m Freestyle
Current time:30.54
Target time: Below 30 ( I don't mind taking 29.99) =)

100m Freestyle
Current time:1.06.23
Target time: 1.05 low( Below 1.05.50)

50 Butterfly
Current time:33.12
Target time: Below 33 ( Again i say......i'm fine with 32.99)

100m Butterfly
Current time: 1.13.45
Target time: Below 1.13.20

50m Backstroke
Current time:38.13
Target time: None ( This is just a ''for fun'' event)

Hopefully i can do all those times. I've been able to get close to my current best time during training.( For non sports people, close to your best time in training is very good ). I also have felt much stronger these past few months. But there are a few things that go to my disadvantage. Like for some reason my fitness level have dropped. And that i'm not tapering for this competition. ( for non sports people-tapering is a month long process where your training gets harder and harder and harder until its peak, then it comes down becoming easier easier and easier so that when the competition is here, you are well rested and not suffering from fatigue) Yeah, not doing this cause it's not an important competition. Ask my coach why..........

Fun relay/port luck/farewell party

All those things were held today at training this morning. It was suppose to be special because it was a part farewell to The Windleys(Chantal,Bradley,Scott). We played 3 games during the fun relay. Very messed up games. My group in the end got 4th/5 haha. Not too bad.

After that was the port luck. And wow was the food great. Many different kinds of food brought by the parents. Ate until all of us were pretty much bloated. Once all finished eating, there was a speech by CIndy, followed by the presentation of the prizes to the groups. Then followed by the money presentation to the swimmers that qualified to NAG 2007,NAG 2008,SUKMA 2008, and the point winners of Presidents Cup.

After that they presented 2 big collages to the Windleys. Very nicely done. Not very emotional since we will be seeing them more. They are only leaving early July. We had a group photo with them. Really gonna miss the 3 of them. Will talk more about them in a future post when they actually leave.

In Europe.....

Russia beat Holland 3-1. It was 1-1 at full time. But Russia scored 2 goals in the last 8 minutes of extra time. Quite a surprise but as they all say, the ball is round therefore it can go any way. Tonight will be watching the Spain vs Italy match. Viva Espanyol!!!

Extreme Damage

Whoa!!!!Ok now i'm good. Haha. Today was crazy as hell. There was this huge thunderstorm in Subang. Our school was very badly trashed. Roofs flying off, tiles swirling in the air. What a day.

Anyway, it started like this. We(2 Setia) went to our usual class but there was no electricity. Therefore, we went to 4 Bakti since there is electricity there. Started with BM. Maizon came in and blah blah blah. Just before recess, there was lighting and thunder but still no rain. Suddenly it started raining heavily. Then there were strong winds. No big deal, just the normal rain storms. Suddenly there was this big gush of wind that blew into out class. Since me, Matt, Lihui, ShangQin, Ruthe were sitting at the door. We felt the wind directly at us. It was cold and oh so scary. After the wind went down, we closed the door and push a table towards it. It was already time for recess.

But then Edric came knocking on the door. He was drenched from head to toe. He said to stay in class because there was already a little damaged done to the school. So we closed back the door and again pushing the table towards it. Few minutes later,the strong wind came again. And guess what, it managed to push through the door and the table flew back. We were shocked so this time we put 2 tables there. Then Edric came and told us to get our bags and get to the canteen. When we stepped out of class, we saw our original classroom trashed. The tiles on the roof were gone and everything was like hanging everywhere(wires,rubbish bins,twigs). We went to the canteen and soon it started overflowing.

So the prefects told us to get into the hall. Once there, Joanne, Lihui, John and Q-Hung took advantage to sell their interact club cookies. For the rest that was hungry, they had to give their orders to the prefects and they will buy for the students. So the prefects were pretty much very busy. So we lepaked in the hall for most of the day until around 5.30 and we went back to class. They whole school was a mess and all i can say was that thank God we changed to 4 Bakti because our original class could have resulted in us being seriously injured.

The hero

Hi guys. I just came back from training and something amazing happened. Hannah had some problem and she suddenly started drowning. Cindy(her coach) suddenly shouted out,''Someone get her out of the damn pool!!!''. Then my friend, David, was like 25m away. He sprinted to her and pushed her out of the pool. Fortunately Hannah was still conscious and fine. She thanked David while the rest of us were so shocked that we were speechless.I think that was the fastest i ever saw David swim. (Eh David,better not let Chantal know what you did). Anyway, we were scared because just that Sunday, one of the public swimmers had a heart attack and drowned. Sadly the lifeguards couldn't save him in time and he passed. The victim was an old man possibly over 60 to 70 years of age. And that was on Fathers day as well. His friend called the ambulance but it took them more than half an hour to come.( This is a comment on our Malaysian medical system and how they have just cost a life)

Anyway, on my story, i'm watching Portugal vs Germany tonight. Should be an entertaining game. Looking forward to it. Ok that's all for now. Bye!

EMO.......

Ok so i listened to an old song which once used to be my favorite song until i grew sick of it. Now i am back to enjoying it again. But the bad thing about it is that its an emo song. This are 1 of the very few emo songs i like. Not a big fan of emo. Im a happy person =).

Ashley Parker Angel-Let you go
Broken promises,
But you dont really mind,
Its not the 1st time and you know it,
Don't you know,
Tell me why it is you only smile inside,
But when you break me into nothing,
Don't you know,
Its not like I haven't tried over and over again,
Stupid fights,wrong or right,
Goodbye!!!

(Chorus)
I remember when you came with me that night,
We said forever, that you would never let me go,
But here i am again,
With nothing left inside,
Know i don't wanna,
But i gotta let you go.

You're the one mistake i really didn't mind,
So beautiful,unmerciful,
It took me down,
Too little and too late,
See now i know your kind,
You fake it easy just to please me,
Don't you know,
Its not like we haven't tired over and over again,
Sleepless nights,wrong or right,
Goodbye!!!

(Chorus)

I gotta let you go,
Its you,
There's nothing i can do

(Chorus)

Blue ribbon

Today i ran a charity race organised by INTI University in Nilai. It was to help the blue ribbon campaign by the Rainbow Of Life Forces organisation. I was very impressed by how well organised the race was considering it was done by all college students. Although, they measured the distance wrong for my category(5km Men). My time was 18:57:20 haha. 5km my foot la. Most probably it was around 4km plus. Could have gotten 1st but a big group of indians came so that tells the story.

The blue ribbon campaign is to raise funds for children with cancer. The Rainbow Of Life Forces has other campaigns such as red,orange,indigo, and other colours of the rainbow. It's to show that all of us are united with the rainbow despite race,religion,background and nationality. Hopefully, by me running i managed to help get treatment for 1 child out there who suffers the sickness thrust upon them.

My list

Ok im officially bored. So i'm going to put some random bullshit here. Sounds ok? This is my list of the hottest girls that walk the earth.

1# Emma Watson

Movies:

Harry Potter 1,2,3,4,5(Hermoine Granger)

Ballet shoes(Pauline Fossil)

2# Ellen page
Movies:

X-men 3 (Kitty Pride/Shadowcat)

Juno(Juno Mcguff)

3# Danielle Panabaker


Movies:

Stuck in the suburbs(Brittany Aarons)

Sky high(Layla Williams)

Yours,mine,and ours(Phoebe North)

4# Demi Lovato

Movies:

Camp Rock(Mitchie Torres)

5# Kate Voegele

Shows:

One tree hill(Mia Katalano)

True love

Let me ask all of you a question. Do you all belive in true love? True love is not being fond of someone you've seen. True love is not your feelings for someone you think is hot or sexy. True love is not something to keep you busy or have some fun with. No, true love is none of those things.

True love is the feeling you have for a very special someone. True love is the feelings you have for the person you know you are fated to be with. True love holds people together despite anything that is thrown at you. True love is loving someone so much that every time you watch/listen a love song, love movie and love scene, you think of him/her. I'm a true beliver in fate and destiny. I belive your true love is the person you end up living the rest of your life with because that's your destiny.

For all you people that will go '' Nah, true love is for punks'' or ''true love is for sissies'', don't be surprised that you start beliving in true love when you have it. If not, imagine living the rest of your life alone or single. Yes it's quite a horrible tought. Yet people still take relationships as a game or just as a hobby and still be able to use the word love. Well sorry but i say you don't deserve to use that word. Don't say what you don't mean.

Happy birthday coach!!!

Ok so today is our Stingray Club's head coach,Cindy Ong's birthday. Because of that, during training this morning we played underwater hockey. There was to be no suffering or pain that we usually suffer from training. By the way, my group won 6-2 =).

Ok now about Cindy. Cindy is our head coach and can be strict sometimes. Ok fine almost every time. She actually doesn't coach me. She coaches other swimmers. I'm under her brother Allen. Anyway, she 1st came here from the U.S after completing her studies 2 years ago to fill in for Allen while he was away at a coaching course. After that our previous head coach left to be with his family in China so she stayed here permanently to become the new 1. Most of us were surprised with her unique training programs since hers is U.S influenced while before was from China. I'm sure most of us have improved alot since she came.

Oh and by the way, she qualified for the 2004 Athens Olympics along with Allen. But unfortunately she didn't go while Allen did. She wanted to continue with her studies. Besides that she has a long period shoulder injury which is probably going to be permanent. She claims she is not sad about not going for knowing she qualified is good enough.

So happy birthday coach!!! Although sometimes we may wish you never show up for training or don't take your training seriously, we still are very grateful that your here. And although i'm not your swimmer i'm still glad your in the club.

My head coach!!!!

When you were rebellious snobby swimmers like us

That's Allen(my coach) and Cindy (my head coach)

Johor-Melaka-Port Dickson

Ok so i got back from a family trip a few days ago. Only updating now because was waiting for the pictures from my sister. Anyway it was just avderage since it was an eating trip and im not a big fan of food. As long as they keep me alive im ok. Don't need some high class or famous food or something. Also didn't enjoy because it was just my family. Would have had more fun if they whole big family would have came. Like uncles,aunts,couzies. At least i got to see the historical places in Melaka and find out actually what is so important that we have to study it in text books and make us stress every single time. Anyway here are the pictures which my sister took ages to upload......

Ooh Sun..........What you taking la jie?

Biasa la come back to Johor have to eat eat and eat!!!

Ruins of the church. So big la.

I look sesated in this picture.

Ready, FIRE!!!Bomb Portugis

Sun set, damn nice la the view from the hotel room.