1) Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
2) The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
3) Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
4) "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
5) The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
6) The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
7) Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.
8) Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
9) The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
10) It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

dunno y i so free to post such stuff but hope u learnt something. high 5!

1) My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask for sex, she objects.
2) There are only two four letter words that are offensive to men - don't and stop, unless they are used together.
3) Impotence: Nature's way of saying "No hard feelings".
4) Panties are not the best thing on earth, but next to best thing on earth.
5) There are three stages to sex in a person's life: Tri Weekly, Try Weekly, and Try Weakly
6) Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
7) I tried phone sex once, but the holes in the dialer were too small.
8) Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
9) Despite the old saying, "Don't take your troubles to bed", many men still sleep with their wives.
10) Marriage is the only war where you get to sleep with the enemy.

hope these 10 quotes made u a bit happier and maybe hornier den b4 reading it. have fun for the hols!

lol today everyone came for trng... hasnt happened since j1 i think. it was damn happy la, like family reunion or something. guys, we should do this more often! (lolol)

After watching Spider-Man 3 at the cinema and subsequently Spider-Man 1 and 2 on Channel 5, I feel damn pumped up about the lessons we can learn from the Spider-Man series. Here are some quotes which I took from the imdb website. Enjoy!

Spider Man 1

Uncle Ben: Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility.

Spider Man 2

Amazed Kid: [after two kids see Peter use his "spider" reflexes] How'd you do that?
Peter Parker: Uh... Work out, plenty of rest. You know, eat your green vegetables.
Amazed Kid: That's what my mom is always saying. I just actually never believed her.

May Parker: We need a hero, courageous sacrificing people, setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero, people line up for 'em, cheer for them, scream their names, and years later tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who told them to HOLD ON a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble. And finally gets us to die with pride. Even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the thing we want most, even our dreams.

[Doc Ock clamps a tentacle on Peter's neck and glares at him]
Peter Parker: You once spoke to me about intelligence... you said it was a gift to be used for the greater good...
Doc Ock: A privilege...
Peter Parker: These things have turned you into something else... don't listen to THEM...
Doc Ock: It was my dream...
Peter Parker: Sometimes... to do what's right... we must be steady... and give up the things we desire the most... even our dreams.
Doc Ock: You're right.

Spider Man 3

Aunt May: Before you can begin fixing anything, you must first start by doing the hardest thing... forgiving yourself.

Aunt May: Uncle Ben wouldn't want us living with revenge in our hearts, it's like a poison. It can take you over and turn us into something ugly.

Mary Jane Watson: We've all done terrible things to each other, but we have to forgive each other. Or everything we ever were will mean nothing.

Peter Parker: I don't need your help.
Mary Jane Watson: Everybody needs help sometimes, Peter. Even Spider-Man.

Peter Parker: I don't know what to do...
Aunt May: I'm sure you'll find it within yourself to do the right thing.

Hey everyone

I don't know how many of you actually come back to this blog anymore. But I guess that's ok, we all move on with our lives at one time or another. It's perfectly understandable. I don't even know how many will take the time to read this at the end of the day. But I guess that's ok too.

For us J2s, anyone can see that morale is at an all-time low now. For most of us, if not all, we find ourselves trying to work towards a goal that doesn't seem to be shedding any of its light. To be frank, most of us were utterly crushed when NJCC occurred some time ago and resulted in disappointment. In the recent Women's Open competition, we were greeted with 2 star-performances by our very own Javine and Cheryl, and Yang2, who got k2 500m Gold and T1 500m Gold respectively. Let us all extend our warmest congratulations to them. However, today's post is not about such as these. Today, we look at those of us who were left behind in the fast-surging stream of canoeing competitiveness.

A trip to the doctor today revealed a partially-torn tendom on my fourth finger, right hand, which coincidently resides very near where i had previously broken my bone. The doctor insisted on a 3 to 4 week rest period to allow the tendom to heal back. Yes, 3 to 4 weeks. This close to our nationals, barely 20 trainings left, barely a month and a half, and i'm being forced to rest for a silly little muscle group that allowed itself to be over-exterted. Great. Add that to the fact that, truthfully speaking, my rowing skills haven't actually been up to par yet. Add that to the fact that my strength in proportion to my heavy mass isn't even close to that which you see on other t2-rowers. I'm not being delusional, neither am i being overly-critical. To be blunt on myself, my rowing now really sucks.

I guess that now, cutting away all that one-track minded stupidity in just wanting to get at least a something achieved in my life, a lot of you might be feeling the same way as i do: mentally-tired, unmotivated, uninspired, perhaps even bored. Nationals are close enough to scare us, but far enough to keep us feeling repulsed, feeling "what in the world am i doing? should i be wasting my time training when i can go off to do other things which i can do better at, or at least be focusing on my studies? Student athlete, student comes first, right?". It's true that there are a lot of monsters out there. We see those monsters speeding past us and feeding us their wash, almost as if just to turn around and stick a tongue out at us. And no matter how hard we try, it just seems too difficult to catch up to them. This might be even harder for J1s, who may find it even harder to even be able to compete this year.

Here comes the hard part: so what do we do now? Where do we go from here? Even 3rd placing seems to ever be moving away from our reach. Are we the batch that finally lets RJC Canoeing drop out of placings, out of sight, out of mind?

Do we give up?

That question was rhetorical. Please check yourself if you haven't already answered a resounding "NO" in your mind, at least. I'm not an inspirational writer, nor am i someone particularly masochistic, or even anymore diligent than anyone. I'm not talented, in fact i'm UNtalented at many things. I'm your sub-average guy, who don't have the nuance to consider when to start giving up on the things that i really want imprinted in my life. It's not that i'm not being realistic. I know that a lot of you have thoughts in your mind that say "I know i can't do well anymore, so what's the point?" or "i'm trying so hard but i'm not getting the results i want!". Let me tell you, as unworthy a being such as i, that these are very dangerous thoughts. They make us lose focus. They give us a false sense of reality, a false sense of feeling dis-illusioned. They make us give up. It may be true that at the end, we may not even have the slightest chance of winning. No one can guarantee anything. But what does it matter? For now, we become exhausted after each day. But what happens after we're through? After we're done, do we say "oh, i was a canoeist" and in our hearts tell ourselves "but i didn't do my best for the win because i was going to lose anyway", or do we say "I was a canoeist, i didn't win anything, but I gave it my best shot and forced a tough competition down the throats of my competitors". It doesn't seem all too appealing now, but it is my belief, you can choose to take it or not, that when you look back at times like these, it wasn't the medal, or the lack of it, that mattered, but how much you actually put into it that was translated into how much you were actually able to get out of it in the end that did. You wouldn't say "i was just a canoeist", but "I am a canoiest. I am a crazy fellow who put 2 years of hard work into something which i may not actually get something tangible out of at the end." And, strangely, i doubt it only applies to me, that because of that, you would feel a strange sense of pride for what you did, and not what you received.

It's not easy to picture all of this now. A lot of you would be reading this in disbelief now, some of you maybe already left this huge bag of words for other activity. But for those of you who choose to stay to read on, let me say this: if you believe in yourself, believe in your teammates who were there, who is there, who may or may not be there for you in future, then have no regrets in your actions. Work towards what you believe in. Be an inspiration to those around you. Even if you don't receive any official statement, anything tangible, at the end of it all, you can safely say you had already gotten all the good you could get out of life in 2 years of Canoeing.

All the best, everyone.