Sunday, August 27, 2006
I had the most exciting day on saturday when i had my first experience of wakeboarding!!! It was an exhilarating experience i ever had in such a long time!! How should i describe it......??
It just started off like any other day, just that i knew it would be a fun day the moment i woke up
. Packing my things and getting ready was done at a fast pace. Reaching pasir ris, the sky was a beautiful blue and the sun ray was so comfortable on the skin... Perfect day for water sport! Speeding off in a speedboat, feeling sea sprays and sea breeze on my face, i had this thought that i can be flying like this forever... slowing down to a stop at our spot, i can once again feel that rush of energy thru me... being the second person to go down into the water, i had the advantage of watching my fren having the 1st go at the sport. It gave me time to listen and absorb the things the instructor was giving us. Reciting the instructions in my mind, i watched my fren surf on the water... "that would be me next" i thought... somewhere in me, i was afraid of falling and gulping sea water....
as my fren slowly made his way back to the boat, i knew it was my turn. Strapping on the life vest and the board, i can feel my arms tensing... running through the necessary steps with the instructor, it was time for my first attempt at wakeboarding....
Feeling so alone out there floating in the water, my mind was in a whirl... "Relax your body, knees closer, arms straight, shoulder forward, don't stand up too soon, 2 o' clock position of the board, butts close to ankles.....blah blah blah...." without having a minute more, i can feel the tug on the rope i was holding on. feeling myself being pulled up onto the wakeboard, i told myself i can do it and i will not crash so soon.... Easier said than done, it was not a moment too soon that i felt a strong pull, lost grip on the handle and "SPLASH" into the water i go!!!! Cold salty water went into my nostrils and mouth. my first attempt at wakeboarding failed miserably... slightly disappointed, i took on a second try. this time, i did it with a slightly better result of crashing the water after i managed to get up on to the board and travelling a little further. *smiles* a few more attempts finally saw me riding on the water. Words can hardly describe how i felt...
Rising slowly from the water, i can feel my body weight getting onto the board. the tug on the rope kept me going forward... only 1 thought was in my mind then..."I GOT UP!!!! I"M RIDING ON THE WATER! I DID IT!" then i kept telling myself to press my heels down hard and press my right foot down.... "point at 2 o' clock, knees bent slightly, dont look down" In the distance, i can hear cheers and shouts from my frens on the boat! I wanted to look at them at break into a silly wide grin, but i just cant seem to turn my head towards the boat. my head kept looking forward... i had to concentrate if i wanted to stay up longer... i had to grip tight and keep my rope slightly to the right... feeling a bit steadier, i can finally enjoy what i was experiencing! Wind blowing right into my face and the thumping feeling of riding on the water under my feet... it was something that i had never felt before... i just wanted to scream!!!! but there is still a feeling of fear while i was on the wakeboard... a fear that just doesnt seem to go away....
then i felt a hard bump under my board, felt a hard tug on the handle and i lost my grip... once again i fell into the water... as the instructor turned the boat around towards me, he asked how was it... i din noe wat to say but gave a 2 thumbs up and grinned... all right, next person up!
"good job done... nice try..." that was wat i can tell myself... i may not have done what others might regard as 'successfully accomplished', but i felt that it was good for a first experience... it will not just end here... its only the beginning of a whole new sport for me... i am now looking forward to the next wakeboarding trip. i'm confident that i can do even better the next time round....
the day ended with a nice dinner with my whole group of frens... somehow physically, i wasn't as tired as i would have expected myself to be. but it was a fulfilling day for me... sleep last night was instananeous once my head hit my pillow....*Zzzzzz......*
3:12 PM
Sunday, August 13, 2006
tired...... just came back from a long jog. feel so good and allowed me to sort out all my thoughts... havent felt so good for so long hahaha... shld jog again soon....
firework festival is over! yest was the finale. not bad not bad, but i still prefered the firework on friday... colourful and magnificent!!!! hahah and not to mention that we got a good high spot to watch! yesterday's we watch at Sheare's bridge... very good up close view.... and very near the fireworks. cant wait for the fest next year!!!!!!
my com is starting to give me the same old problems again... really dunno wats wrong.... thinking if i shld just go buy a laptop.... smaller and less bulkier. and i can carry it ard if i wan to use outside.... but its gonna cost me lots of $$... so i'm still pondering whether to go get this repaired or to just get a new one... hai decisions decisions....
countdown to taiwan trip...2 mths!!!
11:13 AM
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
wow! firework are so beautiful!!!!!! Its tat time of the year for National Day celebrations!!! Too bad this year I cant get tickets to go watch the parade...again... but at least i went to the firework fest to watch the fireworks!!! Oh man i can tell u it was FABULOUS!!!!!! havent got a chance to watch it a lot in SG. the last time was last year, during the firework fest too. that was 1 year ago... so long ago le....
was so packed with pple at the esplanade... cant even walk properly without brushing past all the sticky pple... no breeze, so stuffy and sweaty.... but luckily, i managed to get quite a gd spot with my fren and her frens.... definitely worth the squeezing and pushing.... hahahaha.... brought back lots of memories... the whole display took abt 15mins, some low ones and some high ones... mostly were in red and gold colour.... green also.... some were spectecular, but a bit boring cos a lot of repetitions for long periods of time.... still, credits to the engineneers!!! *BRAVO*
after all the excitement, getting myself home was a bit tough. traffic was almost to a halt... lots of pple trying to get to the mrt stations at the same time and lots of pple in the trains as well. luckily i din have to wait long for the train. managed to get home in abt an hr time.... *phew* thought i would be very late... 2 more sessions coming up on this fri and sat... I wanna go watch again!! cos this one i caught was by our own SG!!!!!! last sat was by Italy... and 2 more coming up! surely will be different in variety.... excited sia... hahaha
tired... gotta go and sleep...going out singing tml!!! YAY!!!
11:32 PM
Sunday, August 06, 2006
weekends are going to be over soon.... over the past week so much things have happened and it has really caused a big effect on my life...
now then i realise that sometimes things that happens in drama series are not exactly over dramatic and it can actually happen in real life... i used to sit and watch those drama and sometimes tink how come scriptwriters can be so imaginative and how thngs can be so coincidental. how can pple in real life have so much dilemma over choices to make and how come some pple can be so unbelivably strong to give up wat they so much love and hoped for...
to pple out dere who used to think the way i tink, trust me: such thing can happen...
to someone: be happy and cherish what u have at the moment... sometimes choices have to be made, no matter right or wrong. but believe in yourself and believe in the person beside u... what is meant to be, will be...
2:17 PM
Thursday, August 03, 2006
phew! hot day today.... and i was out at clark quay... i applied for a half day off and went to get my lucky draw prize. I was watching Ice Age 2 with my frens a few weeks back and ther was a lucky draw. so we just drop our names in and din expect that i actually got a prize.... I din even remember that i had entered for the draw! so i walked frm clark quay mrt all the way to robertson walk! Under the hot sun, carrying a big bag of stuff i got my colleague to buy for me and melting under the hot sun hahahahhaha.....
saw a lot of interesting stuff.... oh man, i gotta to get out of my hse now... got to meet chris and shuzhen at city hall... sigh... i shall blog tonite when i get back! lots to tell!
5:06 PM
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
in no mood to work... i need a break desperately... tinking of getting time off tml... stressed out frm work... did not sleep well last night.. was half asleep and half awake the whole night. kept having dreams about my work place and my work. this is definitely a sign that i need to take a breather... usually when i'm stressed out over something, i would usually toss and turn, or be like last night, half asleep and dreaming about the thing that i'm stressed over. Hai... probably due to PMS ba.... hate those hormones in me... y cant they behave normally??
good thing is that its wednesday and friday is a half day frm work. i'm so looking forward to the weekends... i shld go and get some exercise... rollerblading??? Hmm... that sounds good...
Gotta get back to work if i wanna try for half day tml!! wish me luck...
*when u r at the bottom, there's no where else to go but UP*
12:39 PM
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
finally its august!!! 2 more months to TW trip!!!! i'm so looking forward to it.... but i'm afraid i may not be able to save up enuff for me to spend there... i must buck up and SAVE!!!!! so nowadays i'm more of staying in for lunch, trying not to go out and eat. cos whenever i'm out, i tend to go and 'shop shop' ard the 7-11 stores and buy more titbits and chocolates... so at the same time i can prevent putting on weight hahahahaha!!!! desk bound jobs can really make a person gain some weight and expand sideways....
currently i'm being cooped in the office and there's the flu bug going ard the office... sadly, i am already one of the poor unfortunate souls who has caught on to the flu virus *ha choo! sniff sniff* we really wonder who passed on to who as everyone is just getting well and falling sick again, on and off.... i'm just glad that i'm not too sick to work... i cant imagine my pay if i'm always having MC.... oh well, as long as i can get my head cleared of the virus, i'm definitely coming to work!
My feet are not exactly feeling good too. last nite when i got home, i saw 3 big blisters on my right foot and 1 on my left... U shld see the amt of 'water' in those blisters.... Euggghhhh.... wordering if they would heal faster if i prick them or not..... hmm.... now i'm sticking to leaving them alone to heal..... hai....
12:58 PM
