sis ._. Picture

HAHA; im back to this neglected space of mine and as you can see
blocks are finally over, you'd prolly guess why im avoiding the topic.

anyway to allow ourselves to let our hair down after a grueling week; the school decided to let us go on sabbat wihch was fully sponsored. a huge leap from high school where we had to fork out the whole cost ourselves; but then sabbats at high school span over a week but over here its only 2 days.

so you'd prolly guess from the pic that im in windsurfing.

windsurfing for beginners is all about balancing. and overcoming your initial fear of falling in the water; you must psyche yourself up and tell yourself "falling down is okay; falling down is fun!"

the instructor was damn funny; kept repeating "ONE MISTAKE AND YOU FALL" which is actually very true cause the whole positionging of the body is a very delicate and precise process like 1 part imbalance you get ready to capsize liao.

to put things into context windsurfing is basically a huge surfboard and a mast or sail stuck on top. then you have to pull the sail around and maneuver it to get you to ur direction; something i have not mastered yet.

so the whole sessions for me was about:
getting to know how to balance;
getting to know how freaking polluted east coast park waters are;
getting my legs stained with oil? i dunno how (instructor : is that a birthmark? me: eh no. instructor oh its oil. me : ... ._. )
floating around aimlessly after countless tries of trying to get the blancing act right and moving in a direction.
sitting on the edge of the board and going for a joy ride with the instructor cause he was feeling board and i was physically exhausted after countless falling in the water and drinking gulps of sea water. (contains 1/100000000000000000 of oon's urine)
sailing with the wind from one edge of the boundary to the other end; demarcated by huge drains and then realizing oh shit my technique not good enough to turn around then have to jump off and drag the ^%$%$#&*&*( heavy board acrosss to the other end and repeat process.

or simply just drifting around aimlessly; either too tired or waiting for wind. honestly i think i spend most of my time just swimming around.

i think with all sports there's like a basic step you must master and only then can u excel and move on to other greater things. like kayaking is about twisting your body; tkd about raising your leg high enough to do a proper turning kick and windsurfing is about balancing and proper positioning.

crap either im staring at the com too much or i spend too much time at sea i keep getting the floaty floaty feeling zzz.

edit: yesterday was superband for ky and wugeren. grats on making it to the next round! took some pics but the ppl who took it never upload so i don;t have it either haha. only can say i/we all had a good time i'm very sure. (:

ps if you have cable tv and watch tang xin feng bao you would have heard this song; i think its very nice!

psps: dunno why apply sunblock liao my face still sunburnt like my cheeks and nose; so i look like a cross between a clown and pikachu ._.



if you follow the wrong star; my love will get you home

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