okay! so i'm back already and i have loads of things to post about. but i can't really remember all of em. so i'll start with the games first.
phuket was cool. we stayed in British International School, and holy cow man. i think our schools should totally be like that. it's so nice but it's in a really isolated place, like right between mountains. but it was scenic and all. the rooms were nice. AIRCON. but it was kinda boring. until the second half of the week, when i found out that the tv had great english channels with awesome shows. they showed shows like troy, the proposal, district 9, high school musical 3, eragon. so we were fairly entertained. a few of us would just camp downstairs where there were nice sofas and three aircons and the best part was that it was right next to the kitchen. hahah. training was still doubles though. even though we were close to tapering. and at 6 in the morning! so yeah, that was the part i didn't like. but the school was so cool. they had this extremely large field, three indoor basketball courts, one outdoor, a pool, a gym and other stuff.
then for laos, it was better than i expected actually. the rooms were quite okay, our room was super cooling cause the sun was never shining into our room. so when we first moved in, it was like we had a hidden aircon. the beds were a little hard though. and there were huge ass mozzies everytime, no matter how many we killed. there'll always be at least two in the toilet. the food was okay, though it got a little boring. and the best part? it was quite cold at the beginning and the end of the day.
the pools were alright, though the grasshoppers and flying beetles and bugs and whatnots were plenty. like seriously, the pool outside had like no bugs, and the indoor pool? loads of em. at night especially, you look up and you see bugs flying everywhere. left right centre. and the grasshoppers. omg. you should see them. they're huge ass and small ones as well. and they jump really far. it keeps flying and jumping so everytime we'd have to duck to avoid them crashing into us. the pool outside was really cold. like holy-shit-i'm-in-antartica cold to me. even if you sprint through your whole session, once you stop you start shaking. and your ears hurt alot.
our rookie initiation was...okay. it was pretty basic. do whatever the seniors tell you to do. clear their plates for them, get them food. stuff like that. but in phuket, we had charades one night and it was funnay. you should see how zach did vertigo. hahah. it was so funny. in laos, we had to shout from one end of the dining hall to the other. and they had to hear you, if not, you have to keep repeating. then another night, we had to wear our swim caps and goggles to eat.
we ate at the recovery house during the meet though. it's this huge ass bungalow the singapore team rented and they filled it with ice baths and massage tables and hydration and recovery drinks. and they had wii! but it was 400m away from the village. the food was nice though. better than the dining hall. the chef from novotel cooked for us. he's singaporean.
our last day of the meet was cool though. we had to wear our shirts and shorts over our track suit and put on socks. then when the seniors said go, we had to drink half a pack of spaghetti sauce [which was actually sardine sauce] with bits of prawns and meat and carrots and stuff, spin around 5 times then swim two laps in the diving pool. then climb up, drink again and then swim. it was hard shit. then after that, we had to climb all the way to the 10m diving platform, and the seniors will line up and all of us rookies will have to kneel in front of them and beg them to initiate us into the team. they can make you repeat as many times as they want or do anything they want you to. then after that, you'll have to jump off the 10 and you're done. hahah. the jumping part was fun. danny stayed up there for like 10 minutes.
i came back on the 16th, then i went out with sakeenah to watch new moon the next day. cheers for taylor lautner's bod! packed all my stuff and then flew to perth the next morning. when i reached, i went straight to the pool to see the guys. and boy, were they fat. hahah. went to the apartment after that and it was so messy. shared a unit with arren jed and kevin. shopped almost everyday for more than 5 hours each day. good way to lose all the weight i gained. i bought LOADSA stuff. and i'm really happy about it. my first holiday in two years. went to the pool to swim still. good excuse to check out the guys too. (: i really do miss perth. it's been so long since i went to oz. the last time i went to perth was jan 07. and now i'm back, and it's christmas and there's only one week to go before i go back to a hellish place called school.
here're some pictures.
SEA GAMES
this is the room at Novotel, the airport hotel in bangkok. nice huh. we stayed there everytime we had a transit, which was everytime we moved.
the view from my room. that's the hotel lobby.
the huge ass bathroom.
ting, roanne and lyn's room in BIS.
huiyu and my room. look at the size difference! theirs is twice as large as ours!
the pool from our room.
the main building of BIS.
the soccer field. it's never-ending.
our dormitories in laos.
the warm up/down pool. it's absolutely freezing. hence, there aren't any bugs in there.
the competition pool.
the diving pool.
our room.
the toilet. it's puny compared to the Novotel one.
me in the hyperbaric chamber. it's really nice and comfy in there. they laid a phiten mattress inside. they fill it up with oxygen and you hafta sleep inside it for one hour but as you can see, i wasn't sleeping. but it was my first time. i slept the other two times i was inside.
this was how much i sweat inside. it was fun though. i could write messages to people. hahah.
waiting for transport to the pool. mark, roanne, sam, me jeff and jiahao.
lynette.
this is what russell does to roanne's foot when he's bored.
the day of my 200m breaststroke finals.
i never knew i dived with my hands like that.
awesome. i love candid pictures like these.
the medal ceremony, courtesy of cheryl tan.
this was on the team singapore site.
what nick ho did to my champi.
jeff and danny.
zach, jeff, lynette, danny, me and shengjun.
worms and grasshoppers.
crickets! we had to eat them.
people on the 10m.
charles walker jumping off it.
team photo!
erika.
charles walker.
don't we look sexy. huiyu, roanne, tingting and me.
the rookies, ready for the initiation swim. shengjun, roanne, clement, nick ho, me, huiyu and sam.
dinner at the embassy. nick, tingting, roanne and me.
this reporter gal that the guys were crazy about. especially jiahao. but you gotta admit, she is quite pretty.
a group photo with her.
dan. he's in charge of the ice baths.
idk who this is.
ting.
a group photo with wei ling.
sam, rainer, tingting, me, shengjun and jiahao.
jiahao, rainer, ting, me, jeff and russell. the rafflesians.
tiffany and the girl whose name i don't know. they were both scared to jump off the 10m. hahah.
the dining hall. i was sitting in the middle, so you see how loud we had to shout.
russell sleeping next to the unknown person's smelly china branded underwear that someone placed on his pillow.
shu fang.
doctor cormac. apparently, he thinks i didn't weigh a thing when he had to carry me during ayg. i think he's lying.
kelvin, my physio.
that's all for seag.
PERTH
this is how messy the room was when my mum and i arrived.
jed and arren.
the toilet. idk why i take pictures of toilets. i just do.
jed in his trunks in the middle of the really messy living room.
the cupboard in my room. they only left ONE cubby hole, the one on top, for me.
kevin and arren's room.
uncle matthew cooking dinner for us.
this is what the guys do to decide who washes what, jenga[uno stacko] or tai tee. or however you spell it. lucky for me, i didn't lose any rounds.(:
kevin, one of my housemates.
jed, another one of my housemates.
yes i take pictures of clouds.
the beach in fremantle from the train. didn't manage to go there. :/
a really huge ass park.
what the guys did at the beach when i wasn't there yet. arren buried with boobs, balls and a 'snake'.
the things they get up to, really.
jeremy, jed, kevin, douglas, arren.
their jizz face. hahah.
i like their beach pictures. they crack me up everytime.
jeremy. a nice picture.
jeremy and his jizz face. hahah.
group photos in front of challenge stadium. idk if that's arren's pajama pants or why he's wearing them.
meet jed, closet gay.
meet kevin, jed's partner.
group photo with some of the aussies.
glenn gerber
mel tantrum. she's the coach.
ben tapley, with jeremy crashing the picture.
jed showing off his retardedness.
whatcha lookin' at?
man, i could eat a bloody horse.
got poked by a fork.
arren got it bad.
whatcha doin'?
a formal picture before we leave.
and then we have this. i really don't know what kevin is doing.
the amount of stuff i got.
check out my new havaianas and gladiator wedge.
the pile of new clothes i got.
got seven new pairs of socks! plus another pair of over the knee socks. love those.
the new togs i got. two two-pieces and five one-pieces.
the rock candy i got. sadly, i'm not keeping em. ): might just decide to keep one though. can't help myself.
the two bracelets my mum got for me. aren't they pretty. (:
the three blouses i got that says everything. hahah.
okay, that's about all. i've got loads more but i doubt i have enough sanity left to put them all up. seeya. this took me three days.
Tonight I'm weak, it's just another day without you
I can't sleep, I gave away the world for you to
Hear me say, don't throw me away
And there's no way out, I gotta hold you somehow
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not for the faint-hearted.