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Saturday, December 30, 2006

flashback 2006.

it was by far the best year of my life with much surprise. ill tell you why.

i could still remember how i spent my last sec of 2005. i was in the canteen of the regent hotel with mark, taking a break after serving a busy dinner at iggy's restaurant. i got to thank mark for the job at iggy's. within 2 yrs, iggy's won the best new restaurant of the year at the 2006 world gourmet summit and was ranked 98th in the world. nice restaurant, friendly staffs, humble boss, good wines and even better food. cheers!

next was the release of the gce o'level results. judgement day. i was expecting my best R4 to be 17 after getting 21 points for prelims. the fact that my mums telling me that she’ll happy if i can just get into poly didn't help. i was quite surprised when i look at my result slip. only an a2 and the rest b3s. i can see some wtf faces cause i don’t study much and im always seen playing soccer after school. though its not a very good result but im satisfied with it.

i've decided to choose temasek polytechnic's hospitality and tourism management. i knew there's no chance for me getting in with jae. so i went to apply for jpsae, interviewed and stuffs. i was a little disappointed when i received my jae posting result, was being posted to aerospace electronics at sp. so i live my next 2 days trying to tell myself that aerospace isn't that bad afterall. i was surfing the internet and somebody told me that the jpsae result is out. without much hope, i logged in and to my surprise, htm accepted me. and that was the start of my 'real' life.

1h02 is my class. friendly and smart people i can say. the bitchings, backstabbing, and sometimes words of encouragement. sometimes people do change. like i always tell bro kim that when you judge people, you don't have time to love them. so people.. keep on lovin'! thank you classmates for tolerating my craps and temper at times.

TPDB. people always ask me why i choose to join dragonboat instead of my favourite pastime, track. i would say at first i wanted to prove to myself that i can endure the trainings no matter how tough it is and i will quit the following year. every training was hell with that finale pushups. what motivates me is that seeing the other 100 odd guys enduring the same shit that im going through makes me push myself even harder. my passion for dragonboating grew with every training. im not going to quit!

im lucky to have rowed in the senior boat at the river regatta. that was my very first competition. great experience though we only managed a 2nd position for the minor finals. next was the penang race. i experienced the best-set ive rowed since i joined months back. im glad that the yr3s 'ended' their dragonboating life with a golden cookie.

my friends always ask me where im going after classes or during weekends. and there's always only one answer. TRAINING. people say i've no life. but dragonboat is my life. all of us in the team have sacrificed alot. family, studies, friends and some even girlfriends. but i just hope that the rest of us will continue to train hard and bring tpdb to greater heights.

THANK all of you people..

who've guided me along, be it studies, db or at work.
who've dissed me, backstab me, pissed me off, scolded me, trained with me, gymed with me and condemned me. you people make me a stronger person.
who’ve crapped with me, irritated me and informed me of hot babes.

some quotes or lil' poems to end my 2006.

' im going to get through this; im going to be fine. the power to do it is all in my mind.'

' people do not lack strength; they lack will.'

' people of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.'

' There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true self.'

' You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.'

' when you run so fast to get somewhere you miss half the fun of getting there. when you worry and hurry through your day, it’s like an unopened gift.. thrown away.'

' Talent is god-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be grateful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.'

' Hold on if you feel like letting go
Hold on it gets better than you know
Don't stop looking, you're one step closer
Don't stop searching, it's not over
Hold on'

happy 2007 (:


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