Papillon Sea training change to Sun 23Sep @ 7.45am + min summary on Tue gym

Dear folks,

As we all know or is participating the sat run, the normal sea training is
changed to Sun, same time, same place.
Anyway, my legs is aching terribly from the 50 squats @ gym yesteday.
hahaha... Hope I can still jog this sat....

We did 5 station yesterday with guys weight = 10kg, female weight = 6.5kg

Coach came with new pattern again.... we were make to stand in a row to
queue for our turn (did I say queue, it's like 2 person to 1 bar lor) and
we ended the session with ROWING machine!! As usual, coach showed us that
with optimal. speed of 31/32, he is able to achieve a far longer distance
than all of us. Same goes to Yen Nee also, she was able to go for a
furthest distance among the ladies with a min speed. So it's works not just
on Coach. ^.^

Anyway, hand aching, can't type much. LOL.... See ya on Sat & Sun!!

**Hydrate yourself before the sat run*

- Su Li

01 Sep 2007 - Resumption of training / First training (in a long time) with tyre

(finally getting up to speed)

After a good month-long hiatus, Papillon was starting to turn mouldy. YES, it is time to resume training.

Warm-up was a tad late and lenient, so everyone was secretly happy, but who knows, this happiness was but a short-lived smokescreen. The actual water training was FWAH LAU EHHH... (We all wonder if Coach knows that tyres are actually meant for land / road use.)

The arduous journey out towards the endless bridges (arh?? which one!?) seemed awfully far with the excess baggage weighing us down. But like Coach said, although the coordination was good, our consistency could be better and we need such training to build up our endurance and power. Okay, point taken (and swallowed). *GULP*

We then beached ourselves and did the hardest 20 push-ups ever, on the sand. By the end of this, most arms were just dangling from our mortal bodies, with exception of a few superbeings.

Papillon then headed back and was greeted by a welcome party of one man - dear Freddy! A brief de-brief and Papillon whoosh then capped a most tiring but fulfilling session.

(See y'all Sat!)

=Chief Editor signing off=

29 Aug 2007 - J.I. Race celebration + 6-year anniversary dinner

Briefest summary ever:

dinner @ Safra Pioneer Spring restaurant.
celebrated all of EM's triumphs and cheered each other on.
papillon was presented with surprise award.
watched video of how the EM Dragonboat family has evolved.

26 Aug 2007 - Yen Nee's wedding photoshoot @ Kallang River.

dear diary.

i haven't been good in keeping up with my entries. before i grow old and forget, here's what happened -

A neat-looking dragonboat was adorned with a golden drum (plus XXL “喜喜” stickers) and a bunch of people who dared the grey skies above to not rain. It worked - the rain never came. Instead, the sun was out in its glory, illuminating the beaming faces and rippling muscles of the (c)hunks of us who were out in full force.

After putting the boat in the water, the guys decided to congregate at the back of the boat - much to the disgust of Pierre ("Why can't a lady sit beside me for a change?!") - while the girls occupied the front. Papillon started rowing towards the wall to meet Yen Nee and hubby. When nearing, everyone looked high and low for the bride (eh?? where ah?). THEN we noticed something in white striding purposefully towards us, with a spiffy groom in tow. Ah - it can only be... Yen Nee!

Bestowed with brand-new white nike caps compliments of the lovely couple, Papillon gamely circled a few rounds in order for our photographer to capture the perfect shot(s). To that end, "mountains" were also shifted, shirts were also stripped off and kawaii-act-cuteness was all the rage.

Our antics were not un-noticed by some other boats who cheered when they saw us. The icing on the cake however, came from a surprising source - an "uncle" on the bridge who shot us (with our permission of course) turned out to be a "STOMPer" and promptly posted a couple of our photos on the Singapore Straits Times website... Papillons have become accidental celebrities.

kawaii-act-cuteness overdose

picture purrrfect!

After this leg of the shoot, we bade farewell to the happy couple who moved on to other locations while Papillon rowed back to shore. The boat was returned with some difficulty after executing a highly tricky 100-point turn in order to stuff the boat back into the deepest corner of the dragonboatpark.

The eventful morning was ended with a trip to good ole Kallang Airport food centre where Papillon finally ID-ed the correct fish soup stall with some help from Samuel. (HAHAHA you mean y'all eat so many months already still don't know which is the original best-est one meh?? *!unbelievable!*)

(And, as we learnt on Monday, Papillon became the toast of the (dragonboat) town as news spread of our "newspaper" appearance ;)

=Chief Editor signing off=