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 :)

Like a pheonix rebirthing from its egg,
Like a child born to continue the lifespan of his family line,
Like sprouts climbing out the soil to reach for daylight,

...
(andy's way of those 'act sophisticated' phrases..)
Like maintaining your refrigerator to keep your food edible,
Like pouring kerosene on that tiny flame to let it burn once again..

Like typing in my damn bloody blog, to revive it's lustre and readers.

A wordy person, is not neccessarily a boring person.
Yes, I'm talking bout one of my very irritating personality, being wordy :)
Though I've seriously no idea what am I gonna type for this next few minutes before I head down to the embassy to get my canadian permits/photograph/passport renew?/lunch?!?!/medical checkup done.

Anyways, Life's always been so busy and tiring. But the happy thing is , I guess I'll be doing what I like to do before I fly away to canada. There's the upcoming KL dragonboat race, then theres Singapore Dragon Boat Festival - aka - the June Festival and last but not least, if im selected or if theres a 20men crew for this Penang race, yeap, I'll be in that too.
Coaching, knocking sense, blending into all my ITE dragonboat students 's getting quite well. Especially yesterday's training, feels abit like my time. But I feel that they're taking too long to reach to that level I want. Sadly, oh wells, we gotta just do what we can, pick up as fast as possible I guess.

I have to go now, guess I'll continue blogging soon man.
Whereas for my life in the unpredictable future, I can only hope and try to make the best out of it. Sometimes what I feel and think about is just so demoralising and stressing though its the god damn truth and lots of people I know are always trying to avoid that question or try to stay on the positive side.
I AM staying on the positive side, and at the same time preparing for the worst case scenario.
Gonna end this here,

Life's a box of chocolate :)

-Andy Asshole-

Will I, in the end, study in spore after NS, or go overseas?!
Anws, tmr will kinda be a big day for me, new intakes coming in. Gotta be a firm coach and start off with a good speech. HAHA!

And, in 3 more months, April season, will be my first year as a coach for CWDB. I wonder How will I fare for this up coming june race.

Damn, getting all excited LOL

Since I've time now, I shall blog for abit before I sleep.

Kinda guilty MC-ing so much nowadays. But the truth is I really got thing to MC what. Haha hope my bosses don't purposely pick on me.

Anyways, its a whole new year, and I'm turning 21 this year.
I still gotta work on what do I really want for my career. Maybe landscaping. HAHA! Thats just what my father tell me to try out. Maybe I'll give it a goal since my brother's gonna pick up law studies.

Well, CW's been a headache for me, a real headache. Guess I need to cut away all the ties I have w the rowers when 5pm hits every mon and wed. This way then the team can have a tad bit more disicipline and a whole lot easier for me to coach.

KK, this is what I actually wanted to type right now.

To my friend, Tan Xue Yao.
I still haven't got over what happened to you.
I still don't wanna believe it actually happened to you.
But it did but I am still.. living in self denial at times.
Sometimes I just wish we could've spent more time together, our whole CW pioneer batch.
But still, we actually still, have a sense of belonging in CW. Our whole pioneer batch, I mean most of it lah.
So, heres my resolve, you, rest in peace and hurry up reincarnate into another family and hint me or pioneer CW pple that you're alright and safe, WHILE I, will do this, cause its the only thing that its related to you and me and the rest of us. I will bring up CW's name, and let it etch in everyone's heart that CW is strong, and will be even stronger. I will not fail this time as a coach and you, rest in peace.

Thats all I have to say, needa crash. Takecare all pioneer CW pple, we will meet again. :)

why..
the tinge of irritance, when you answer the call.
why..
that doubt and questions when you hear my questions.
why..
my concerns are nothing but irritance.
why..
you have to always explode so quickly before accessing the situation.

why..

Life's just a spin huh. You never know what's gonna happen after that.

Its always like that isn't it.

you can't find someone to appreciate your whatever you wanna show off.
you will find another to let him/her notice it.
you chance upon a particular person.
you let him/her blend into that interest you have.

Then you piss another one off.

Then things will become so dark.
Lies cover one after another.
Is it wrong to be truthful sometimes.
My whole life I've been entertaining people.
And now i just got fucked entertaining another.

fucking hell, I shall take a day to calm myself I guess.

The asshole has let all his readers, if he ever had any, down.

Just couldn't get into the mood nor have the time to blog even.

Recently life's just.. been abit hectic and I have this ' I wanna laze at home and do nothing ' attitude going around me. I don't know why, maybe its just the end of the year was spoilt due to the holidays secondary school/ITE gave me.

Fishing's been my new hobby nowadays. It gives me a thrill, not a cheap thrill but a thrill thats always carved within me whenever I see the tip of the rod shake or even a big pull. But it dies down if the fish didn't get onto the hook but oh wells, theres always another chance.

Okay if you ever get to see me, please dont complain how disgusting my leg is, nor how ugly the pimple on my nose is. The pimple on my nose happens every end of the year, its like the 3rd time already. Wtf, how I wish it would go away so I can regain the handsome me.

And the disgusting part bout my leg? Its the mosquito bites I got from woodland checkpoint vicinity and Ubin fishing. I have at least.. AT LEAST 40 bites on my legs and hands. Tamade, and brad/mh got nothing. I tanker or what sia LOL.

Life's pretty much the same for me besides the additional hobby.

I am still a coach for my dragonboat team.

I am still working at my base.

I am still stressed bout what I wanna do after 9 months = ORD.

I got my driving licence already :D

I am getting fat because my knee wouldn't heal and theres so many things I can't do just because this fucking knee always start to pass intel to me, telling me its in pain and should stop doing whatever I'm doing.

I miss playing hardcore basketball.

I miss swimming sprinting with freestyle.

I miss jumping around crazily without any fear of my knee giving way.

I miss sprinting and jogging around freely.

Sometimes I wanna live in denial and wish that time will turn and my knee ligaments never tore.

Sigh, theres just so much I still wanna do but this obstacle is blocking my every next move.

Am I just blind not to see another route open for my future.

Or am I just plain suay.

Okay, time for the last part of my blogging session.

Of course I wouldn't forget my girlfriend, my dear, my love.

I still wanna go out with you and watch movie/fly kite/picnic/play basketball/dinner.

But let me get over the laze within me.

I love you my girlfriend :)

p.s. dont hate my hobbies leh >< HAHA *hugs*

her face never fails to make me smile huh? :)