Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Wotcher world! Yesterday we had our first training session of the year! And as usual, Nicola started the whole thing off with her famous, traditional words of ‘Fuck, the water’s cold.’
Go Nicola!
Okay, for the ones who want to know how much we swim, I have calculated it last night, when I was lying in my bed, nursing a bloody blocked nose and the ‘flu.
Training:
200m Freestyle
100 x 10 IM
600m Kicking
4 x 100m Freestyle
8 x 50m Breaststroke
200m Backstroke
4 x 100m Breaststroke
8 x 50m Freestyle
200m Backstroke
100 Warm Down
Total = 3900m
Go figure. At the end of the entire thing, my limbs were dropping off and I couldn’t feel my fingers at all. Ah Liew looked exhausted but noo…. She had to swim so fast and frighten everyone. Bah.
We had actually heard horror stories from Ah Liew and Nisa about how evil the woman could be… oh because our original coach was off for some reunion dinner. Nicola said some very sensible words:
‘What are we doing here at training when the Coach and the coach’s daughter aren’t even here?!’
Guess how many people were actually there swimming? For our club lah, that is.
Four! Hahahaha!!
I saw my uncle and his wife. That means Sean, Sherman or Selena were in the area around the swimming pool. Hahaha I borrowed a float from them for Nic, only to discover that the coach had given one to Nic once she said that she didn’t have a board.
My uncle and aunt had threatened me, jokingly, that they wouldn’t give me my New Year money if I didn’t return it to them, and when they saw me coming back a few moments later with the float they laughed and thought I was really scared that they wouldn’t give me my angbao money.
Wa hahahahhaxx
And the lady deserves an Oscar for ignoring me. Nisa said that she would ignore those that were slow, and she talked to Elizabeth only! Hahahahhaha true to her words eh.
After that training session, we went to Toa Payoh Central for dinner.
We had to climb up the overhead bridge, and we took one step up the stairs only to discover a serious problem.
We were too tired to climb the stairs!
Okay, fine, we climbed the stairs and then we finally got to KFC, which I found out later was a bad, very bad idea.
I ate the Bandito Meal while Nicola had the Zinger Meal.
We both felt sick later after dinner. Nicola’s stomach hurt while my head ached. Hahahah
We are so screwed.
Today I didn’t go to school. I had a splitting headache, and had a blocked nose and today wasn’t accounted for, as it didn’t have any lessons and my mom scolded me and made me stay home. I went to bed and woke up only after the entire thing had ended, ie 10am. Hahahahahha!
Oh yes.
ELEMENT OF THE MONTH: Chlorine
Why:
Because it got into my nose so many times when we were doing backstroke, that I think it enunciated my condition of the bloody flu. Chlorine smells funny, tastes weird and is used for disinfection in the swimming pool, and when you want to make NEWater, whoever wants to drink it.
Go Nicola!
Okay, for the ones who want to know how much we swim, I have calculated it last night, when I was lying in my bed, nursing a bloody blocked nose and the ‘flu.
Training:
200m Freestyle
100 x 10 IM
600m Kicking
4 x 100m Freestyle
8 x 50m Breaststroke
200m Backstroke
4 x 100m Breaststroke
8 x 50m Freestyle
200m Backstroke
100 Warm Down
Total = 3900m
Go figure. At the end of the entire thing, my limbs were dropping off and I couldn’t feel my fingers at all. Ah Liew looked exhausted but noo…. She had to swim so fast and frighten everyone. Bah.
We had actually heard horror stories from Ah Liew and Nisa about how evil the woman could be… oh because our original coach was off for some reunion dinner. Nicola said some very sensible words:
‘What are we doing here at training when the Coach and the coach’s daughter aren’t even here?!’
Guess how many people were actually there swimming? For our club lah, that is.
Four! Hahahaha!!
I saw my uncle and his wife. That means Sean, Sherman or Selena were in the area around the swimming pool. Hahaha I borrowed a float from them for Nic, only to discover that the coach had given one to Nic once she said that she didn’t have a board.
My uncle and aunt had threatened me, jokingly, that they wouldn’t give me my New Year money if I didn’t return it to them, and when they saw me coming back a few moments later with the float they laughed and thought I was really scared that they wouldn’t give me my angbao money.
Wa hahahahhaxx
And the lady deserves an Oscar for ignoring me. Nisa said that she would ignore those that were slow, and she talked to Elizabeth only! Hahahahhaha true to her words eh.
After that training session, we went to Toa Payoh Central for dinner.
We had to climb up the overhead bridge, and we took one step up the stairs only to discover a serious problem.
We were too tired to climb the stairs!
Okay, fine, we climbed the stairs and then we finally got to KFC, which I found out later was a bad, very bad idea.
I ate the Bandito Meal while Nicola had the Zinger Meal.
We both felt sick later after dinner. Nicola’s stomach hurt while my head ached. Hahahah
We are so screwed.
Today I didn’t go to school. I had a splitting headache, and had a blocked nose and today wasn’t accounted for, as it didn’t have any lessons and my mom scolded me and made me stay home. I went to bed and woke up only after the entire thing had ended, ie 10am. Hahahahahha!
Oh yes.
ELEMENT OF THE MONTH: Chlorine
Why:
Because it got into my nose so many times when we were doing backstroke, that I think it enunciated my condition of the bloody flu. Chlorine smells funny, tastes weird and is used for disinfection in the swimming pool, and when you want to make NEWater, whoever wants to drink it.
