My dragonboat life part 4..


From the starting days of training.


To the days of bulking up and still training.


Till the days of coaching...

And the days of showing, what we ITE CW are made of.

With the partnership of my coach, since the day I joined, since the day I row dragonboat and swim for ITE, till the day I focused on dragonboating, joining clubs, going overseas to race, never forgetting my roots came from ITE CW and where my coach, mr lim wee lip, his teachings and me learning every single thing from him. Arguing about the stroke, the training methods, laughing at people whom we dislike, learn about basic morals, helping breast cancer foundation with dragonboat, doing good deeds that can make you smile from the inside.

I'll never forget your teachings, even when I'm at canada. Thank you Mr.Lim Wee Lip for all your guidance.

If you may, when I come back from canada, I'd like to train up team CW ITE with you once again.

I FUCKING LOVE YOU CWDB!

CW,

KEEEEEEEEEEEYAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

-Andy Asshole-

Part 3 of my dragonboat life..


Yes that is the hall we train in, and yes that is ruiwen taking the dumbells home since we're abandoning dover ITE for choa chu kang ITE.

To those whom never knew, or want to know. This is the gym we train in. Our College West dragonboat team. It's kinda cramp, theres not much resources we have. But yeah, this is where 4 years of my dragonboat life is. Most of it besides kallang waters. All the screaming, all the cardio machines, pushup, 2.4, situp, 2km rowing, deadlift, shoulder press, full squats, front squats, circuit, vomits, injuries. Everything that screams dragonboat to my mind and body comes from here. Sadly we're leaving this place for CCK. But my memories will never ever die.

I LOVE YOU DOVER GYM, I thank you for letting us use that place for training. Sounds kinda spiritual but Thank you. I'll never forget that place.

Part 2 of my dragonboat memories.

Then we have KL putrajaya race 2010


the 8 of us went, without ameer inside this picture :)

Rowing with team kiyah-splash.

Celebration picture, that the race is over? hahahaha.

Group picture of us with our medals, winning 3rd for some finals I forgot. hahahaha.

And we have my batch of ITE boys second june race. Winning minor finals 2nd placing as ITE 2.

the 10 of em whom went for the race and YY the drummer :)

College West ITE 2010. I'm very proud of my boys, honestly. They brought back what I've always wanted. The CW spirit and the craziness to want to win.

Them rowing, duh.

And our prove :)
And I won't forget you guys, ITE alumni. You helped me coach my boys whenever you can although you started pangsehing me for god knows why reason. Maybe because training ends too late and you have work/school and stuffs. But yeah, thank you guys a million :)

The pictures will do most of the talkings :)

Our very first CW group picture..

To our very first SDBF which we got into the finals after 2 months of super hardwork, 4-11pm.

Unforgetttable..

People come and go and our first Regatta.

Our very main strong 7 on our way with seahawk to taiwan race.

With seahawk group photo.

Second june race which we won tertiary 3rd 20crew mix. It's nothing to be proud if you know what happened. hahahahaha!

PK Lim as our captain.

My favourite kind of shot, run forward when the person's about to click. HAHAHAHA!

The firsttime I coach a bunch of boys, my first SDBF boys and girls whom I trained out.

It was enjoyable but the same things happened. People come and go.

Regatta with seahawk 2009. It was enjoyable though. :)

Mixture of different batches of CW people.

This post is dedicated to everyone's that important in my life.

Yes, as alot of you people know already. I'm flying to Canada to study, and I'll be there for 5 years?


I'll be back once every 8months and stay ard singapore for maybe 3-4months?


Life will be totally different.


Different friends, different environment, different ethics, different culture, just different.


But yes, there're still alot of things in singapore which I can't let go just yet, but I've to, for the sake of my future, I've gotta look long time.


From my girlfriend to my dragonboat to my friends to my family and every other single thing.
To my dearest Sim Yanyi. I know, life's been hard for you when you're with me. Especially this period when I'm flying soon to canada to study and you're left all alone in singapore and Long-Distant-Relationship 's really hard to handle. As the day inches closer towards my flight, I get really stressed up bit by bit as the stress level climbs onto me. There's alot of things we can do, places we can go, but I'm just not in the right mood and there isn't enough time. I wanna give you the best yet I'm just not in the right mood for anything. But I want you to know deep inside me, I still love you alot alot. I swear until lightning shoot me I also siam fast fast and continue swearing HAHAHAHAHAHA okay wtf...

Next off is my secondary school clique. We've been, drifting far apart, joining/combining/separating from cliques to cliques. There ain't much picture of us cause we don't really like taking pictures I guess? Feels awkward when we take one hahaha, I think? But yeah, we change organizers, from me to joseph to maybe rodney/zhihao and now its joel doing the SHITWORK hahaha! But yes, well its kinda suprising that we're still hanging on until now. Everyone really have their own stuffs to do and I believe after NS, things will surely change again. But yeah, we gotta move on with our own life don't we. :)

This post is dedicated to myself and to my CW boys and everyone else whom had a part in it.

Yeap, its almost a year and 2 months after I've taken over as CW assistant coach and help mr lim, discuss with his really stubborn attitude, and my explosive temperamental, about every and any single way to build up our CW boys.

Even though there were unhappy things that happened throughout this whole time, today, today is the day ITE WEST went down to perform, what they should perform and shock the entire dragonboat association.

Today in the inter-business 10men open category, even though they got 2nd in the semi finals losing 6 secs to no one other than mountbatten whom took the first place, I'm very fucking proud of my boys. Trust me, everyone was standing behind me, some of my boys are on the stage platform shouting. I'm the only idiot shouting like a mad dog and seriously, they did very very very well.

I really wanted to be abit touchy and emotional and my tears were on the verge of falling. I'm seriously seriously touched by their achievements. Every training, me and mr lim shout at em, destroy their ego, destroy their pride, reverse psychology, negative teachings. Just to hope that they'll make their mark somewhere somehow, not in the lower ends and get kicked out in the semis, but yes, to hit somewhere where people will acknowledge em for their very presence.

TODAY, my fucking boys did it.
Although I won't be there for em for regatta when I fly over to canada to further my studies after I ORD, but.. but they really never fail me and they really inscript a deep carve, a deep memory into CW's dragonboat legacy. Fuck, I feel like tearing while writing this post. Honestly, I've never ever felt more happy/touched. Even winning a medal, from that year at the tertiary mixed. It felt like nothing, nothing compared to this, nothing compared to teaching a team, in my way, mr lim's way, to make them this powerful.

We teach, we train, a bunch of boys, with heart problems, body injuries all over, weak mentality, ITE attitude, non sportmen genes, run like a faggot, no body no build.

I guess I'm really proud of myself and my team. This is the fucking best thing I've done in my life yet so far, to build a crazy team, aiming for not the medals, but the ambulance, see who whack until go lie inside first.

I LOVE YOU CW! FUCKING HELL, IF CAN I'LL ASK MY PARENTS TO GET ME AN AIR TICKET TO COME DOWN AND WATCH YOUR FUCKING REGATTA RACE AND BY THEN YOU DONT LET ME DOWN I TELL YOU. SHOW ME THE FUCKING ITE COLLEGE WEST SPIRIT ONCE MORE!

CW KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

Andy asshole :)