canoe nationals this year was really a wonderful experience.

it started off for the guys' team with jquek breaking his paddle and probably climaxed around where looloo won his c1 race. when the dust settled, we ended up bagging the bronze.

when i mentioned to my friend that we bagged the bronze, he gave me a weird look. perhaps he thought that having the reputation of being one of the craziest people in school, we ought to be deserving a gold. but really, to someone not familiar with the canoeing scene, third is an achievement to be proud of, and its an achievement we are really proud of(our cheer really said it all).

while i continued explaining that we were actually aiming for silver, he gave me another weird look. "why aim for silver when u can aim for gold?" and then i thought: hmm, why not? while canoeing nats 2006 has ended, next year's nats is still far away. let us go for gold next year. let us put in every ounce of energy we have during training. let us give it our best shot. let us defeat the previously 'undefeatable' schools. let us hold our hands up in triumph in 365 days times.

for raffles canoeing, this year was a victory. we came in as the underdogs and for the many years that nj or hc seemed virtually unbeatable. this year we were inches away from them. that is our victory. for we have shown that we are close, or even the same, their standard. may we continue down this victory path the j2s have shown us. may we one day overtake them and end up as the unbeatables.

raffles row!

on a more random note, lanning 8 hours in a row can make u feel really sick.