no regrets.

hey dudes.. i had great plans to study after sch n all today.. guess i've failed miserably haha.. its ok.. im jus tellin myself right now that our nats are more impt for the time being.. screwed up priorities? u decide. but soon after all this will be over.. so i choose not to regret what i do in the meantime. NO REGRETS. btw this is my first real post.. not bad eh..

i had lotsa trouble slping last night.. heh.. simply out of excitement i guess. but this is jus an extra point to take note of.. abt psyching up before a race. the night before your race.. or even from this point.. dont think too much abt your race.. until your heart beat go ke seow or somethin. nah wont help much man. this is wad i heard frm nik ar. on the day itself.. u should start yer real psyching up like 4 events before your race starts.. like just when they start callin your event out. by the time u depart from the bay.. u should be at your most psyched up state.. like totally focused on e task ahead. but but.. jus before u race.. lower your psyching a bit.. should feel a bit relaxed just before u paddles up. wont do much good if u pent up so much but then lose it frm e moment u start. ya just a point to take note of ppl..

anyway.. i duno how u guys are feelin right now.. down with competition fever eh? juniors.. its more than jus a competition.. its a culmination of what you have been doing for your time spent here. like what nik said.. every single thing u do wrong in your past trainings will come back to haunt u during your race.. like not finishin fully past the 1000 mark.. not doin proper pushups.. slackin home trng off.. it will come back to haunt you. whatever the result is.. dont care if u finish at the top.. but if ya didnt give ya all durin all the countless trngs.. u ought to be ashamed. others may eventaully not do well in their race.. but if they really gave it their all durin n not durin trngs.. they should be proud of themselves.. hell they deserve self-satisfaction more than u.

well hey look on the bright side.. everythin u hav done right durin gym & rowin sessions.. everytime u hav pushed yourself to beyond your threshold..every single improvement u hav made since u first started out.. u are on your way to achieving your sense of completion.. and hopefully it will all culminate on race day n get you to your target. anyway.. its too late to regret all the wrong stuff you've done since u've gotten here right? its just too bad. so jus focus on the positive.. nothin much else u can do.

personally.. the memories frm last yrs nationals still remains etched in my mind. i remember sam n i when we first started out k2.. haha.. my goodness.. not only did we start learnin 1 month after the rest.. we had tons of stability problems all the way lor. even until race day we were still quite shaky.. (nik used to call my legs like a hooker's.. forever open one.. haha). for our starts we were like behind the whole lot.. if im not wrong we were miles behind the first one.. but it didnt matter.. even durin the course of the race.. i kept shoutin out to sam.. DUN GIV UP.. DUN GIV UP.. ALL E WAY!.. he didnt give up on me.. and i nvr gave up on him. we came in last. but at least both of us still had somethin to smile abt when e race was done. again.. we went down to row without regrets..

i still remember my snrs farewell speech after last day of com. by tt time all é com hype had subsided a bit.. and i think acjc was one of the handful of teams left at sdba by then. one by one when they went up n shared their thoughts.. i became really touched.. seeing them i almost moved to tears man. it was like this sudden connection n bond with the snrs.. and that i will nvr forget. hell i even thought chua was a bastard for very long.. but durin that period i saw through him.. and my impression totally changed. frm then on i told myself that i was gona become someone with no regrets.. someone with the drive to push on in spite of all adversities. it was truly a life-changing moment. after all was said n done the snrs jus went berzerk.. jumpin into the NONdirty kallang water n all.. haha.. mad..

juniors.. no regrets. i hope i drive the message home with this one. im sure ya''ll watched the gladiator right.. remember the line.. 'what we do in life echoes in eternity'? guys.. whether u like it or not.. ya'll gona be the future of this club.. this tradition.. this life. whatever u do in front of your juniors durin trngs or on race day.. they will remember. even all the knitty gritty n the louyapok points. make sure u carry on the torch guys.. its really whether ya'll want it or not.. but personally.. and im sure alumni n the snrs will agree with me.. we do want to see the ac spirit n tradition flyin high.. bein passed frm generation to generation. so do u want it??

haha.. tts abt all i havta say for now.. is it? dUh.. *points at bicep* ha. make sure ya'll slp early.. drink lots of water.. and take care until weds.

NO REGRETS. treausure the experience.