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Dragonboat.

Participated in the 2004 Singapore Idol..... opps! i meant Singapore River Regatta(heh heh :oP) over the weekend.

Never in my live will i ever think i would do something like this. Was "saboed" into joining... the 11 weekends burned at the yucky murky kallang river....the hey shou hey shou... the blisters on arm, the acheing butt.... all over in a matter of less than 2 mins. In fact, 1 min and 48 secs.

It was fun nontheless. Didn't know i can row a dragonboat. The butterfiles in my stomach while waiting for the race to start. The adrenaline in rowing. It's a short surge of euphoria!

Sat was the heats. Was worried that our dragonboat will not get in as we were 2nd for our heats and there are 3 heats. Luckily we got in.

Sun was the finals. Our team sent in 2 boats and both our boats were in the finals. As we set off to the starting point.... i was so excited that words failed me. And when i hear "paddles up!" , i thought to myself that it is now or never!

"PHHHEEEETTTTTTT!!!!!"


And off we go......


I paddled so hard that i felt nausea just after the halfway mark. And when i hear the drummer go,"Stand by to charge!" I just let it all out! Really all out!.....



Agggrrhhhhh!!!!!! Charge!!!!!


But we lost.



We got 4th out of 5 boats.



The results: our boat A came in at 1 min 45 sec ++, 2 other boats came in 1 min 47 sec++ and our boat B( which is the one i am in ) came in 1 min 48sec....


Sigh.

Were very disappointed. VERY VERY VERY VERY DISAPPOINTED.


But C'est la vie.

Someone gotta lose but i just hate it when we are us.

What a difference 1 second make.