Wow such's a tiring day it can be. Went dragon boating today, having being the first time i ever step onto a dragon boat, remembering the many times when i see those people on a "banana" boat look alike, shouting with the loud drums to accompany. This sure is an enjoyable memory to keep. Arrived at the Kallang Water Sports at 9.05am knowing that we were suppose to meet at 9.30am. Ya this sure is some rare ocsasions when my mom could actually make it there early!...lol... Well we weren’t actually the first to be there. My mom's cousin's (not sure how to address them, kind of complicated), their family were there. Apparently they just wanted to be early(real early). Sat down near the bank and decided to take some pictures, but only manage one before more people poured in. Had to put down my phone and to get ready for the water. Maybe not so soon, with some mini lessons on how to survive on water, ok i mean in the sea on the boat. Ya so it began, first check your life jackets, make sure.......blah blah blah.....and it goes on. The teams wasn't so well distributed after all, one team having so many children onboard and mainly girls (like how wth, my team btw), the other on the other hand had more bigger build which seems to have a bigger advantage. In additon we had to arrange everyone so ask to balance the boat (500kg on its own) but it was quicky done amazingly.Then finally, two teams, 14 each we got on the two boats separately, some kind of wobbly ya. But soon as we got hang of the boat, it was not so bad.We pedaled out into the sea, along the way we were all splashing water at each others boats (not sinking of course)and we passed by a highway, as we passed we were shouting "in, out " to maintain the rhythm on both sides of the boat. The echo below the highway was just amazing, you must go there and really hear it for yourself. We had a small race between the two teams, whahaha....suprisingly we won despite being known as the oldie team. After that we did something that i never knew we would be taught to do on a dragon boat. We were ask to seat at two the sides of the boat at the edge and to rock the boat upwards and downwards....like wow! Following that we we to turn around, still at the two sides of the boat but this time the legs in the water, similarly to rock up and down...cool man. Really enjoyed myself in the water man, you don't get to go onto a dragon boat and row it everyday you know.
After all this we had to go for a shower (like duh) to wash up all the sea water. The place being too small to have everyone to shower, so some of us went to the national stadium's toliets. Knowing that it was going to be the last time that we would be able to step into this stadium again some of us just went abit high at ran onto the field. We lay on the ground and took a photo on the grass. It would be the last time for me to step foot onto this place again before it was going to be demolished or rebulid. Well time passes and everything moves on, nothing last forever.....
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