CWDragonBoat

2008-11-12T07:22:00.000-08:00

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

2008-11-02T02:41:00.000-08:00

No much time left for regatta. 2 more weeks to go. Is either u wanna win or you dont go down for race at all.No point going there to lose. Attendance has been bad, people take things for granted, though that they still have time to fool around. its not fair to your own team-mates to make an effort to come for training regulary. Its really very piss off when u cant even have a full attendance for just a training day. SOMORE STILL GIVE STUPID EXCUSES??? COMON, YOU ARE NOT A KID! NEITHER DO WE! why issit so hard for? Jackson put in so many effort on us and attend every training that he culd. His aim is same with us but u all are not co-operating. and this is wad you guys do in return - Attendance issue.Everytime say things and cant do!! what for? Action louder than words. I don't know what to say already, Are you all hungry for medals? i don't think so. If you really did, Prove to jackson. Theres so much room for improvement in training. is wheather you guys want or not. You guys decided.

River regatta 2008
Wanna win? Dont talk about winning
Prove it out.

2008-10-14T09:34:00.000-07:00

Land Training days and timing are changed.
Trainings will be from every Tuesday and Thursday at 6.30pm, Dover ITE.
it will starts from this Thursday,16 Oct.
Please try to come as regular as possible as we are gona train duper hard for the upcoming races.

and for Sea Training, it'll remained the same except for the timing.
Please reached Kallang be 3.30pm on Friday. Be reminded to bring your running shoes along!
Dont be late, and try to come alright.
okay. As for Saturday, there will be 2 sessions. Timing to be confirm again.
Guys will be having their Master Series and most probably we'll have our sea training.
will keep you guys updated!:D

ITE WEST DB!!!

2008-10-14T05:28:00.000-07:00

So wads next? Singapore river regatta 2008! One of the Most important race. We have no much time left. 1 month plus to the race. Tired is just a period of time, Glory is forever. We wanna chiong, we chiong all the way. Im sure you're hungry for medals. So work double or triple hard for it. No matter wad, ITE West wont give up. And dun forget, we have a super duper good coach. Cherish that, We win for the school, the team, the coachs, the teachers. We wont let him down. Last burst for the year! Singapore river regatta 2008, Here we come, ITE WEST Train hard. work hard.

Training make things simple.
Mind over body.

-Lexson

If the passion is there, nothing can stop you.

2008-09-30T08:56:00.000-07:00

Hello Team,

there's some changes for the timing, Wednesday training will starts at 8am and it'll be the last training for this week as Jackson would like us to rest for the races.

okay, as you guys know that 10km race and 5men crew are this Sat and Sun. We have yet to improve our strokes and the problems we are all facing. Some were putting in so much efforts and some are not, but let's not be selfish? it's a team, you row and think like a team.

everyone can talk things out nicely and not blast out at each other. Giving each other encouragements will be a sweet thing too see and also to see everyone improve and grow together. - Karen
Isn't it true? i mean sometimes thru scolding can drop other's morale,confidents in rowing and i really dont want any of us to feel that way and i know no one will want to feel this way too.

Jackson may be disappointed with us, but let's all not let him lose faith or confident in us. Show him that we are really hungry for the medals. we dont need to do for other teams but just for Jackson,Mich,Mr Lim and our Schools. We do it for them and we neednt care what other teams said.

2008-09-28T09:50:00.000-07:00

Hey CWDB

Monday's training will starts at 11am. Please be sure to be there by 1030am and dont be late yeap.
Tuesday's Training will starts at 1pm, some of us will be training for 5 man crew!
Wed and Thur will starts at 8am and Friday rest!
Saturday will be 10km competition! so guys, better train hard and win the goal we want!:D

2008-09-25T07:33:00.000-07:00

Hello Team,

Please be inform that Friday there will be no training for us.
Saturday, there will be 2 sections.
sec 1- 8am to 930am, break til 1pm.
sec 2- 1pm to 3pm
Sunday, there too will be 2 sections.
Sec 1 - 10am to 12 pm, break til 2pm
Sec 2 - 2pm to 4pm
It's compulsory to come one Sun and i really hope everyone will come with full attendances yeah!

Remember what we learnt today guys!
be sure to learn from it and do better for the next training!:D

EDITED

2008-09-22T09:53:00.000-07:00

Hello CWDB ,

This week,Thur and Fri we are gonna have our 10km trainings, note that THERE WILL BE NO TRAINING ON WEDNESDAY. So whoever who are free, pls try to come for all trainings if possible. trainings will starts from 5pm, and let's all practice hard!:D Cherish every trainings that are given.

like what Jackson said, "Practice makes it Simple"

let's all practice our strokes and do as well as ever! now our goal is to aim for top 5 for 10km.

and even if we aren't able to get that goal, at least we know that we ll try and learn our mistakes to what goes wrong.

Today's training, everyone tried our best and we know we did.

but we can do better in future. Some of you were tired but who's not?

Even thou how tired some of the guys or girls were, they still give it all out ,having the great mindsets and agressiveness in them. if they can do it, why cant you?

Our team are doing better and let's keep it going!

Never never let anyone bring us down. let's not let he or her poison our minds and make any of you go by his or her way. it's never ever worth,think smart and dont be the next victim!

Girl's team(incompleted) pic from Master Series, sorry didnt manage to take pics of the guys team.

and also to welcome 2 new girls to the team.

Sharon and Jy!:D

welcome welcome!

2008-09-21T04:47:00.000-07:00

Hello Team of CWDB,

Please be inform that tomorrow there will be sea training at Kallang.
Try to reach the latest by 430pm as we needa launch that boat at 5pm sharp.
thanks and sorry for the late update!

2008-09-17T11:47:00.000-07:00

Hello Team,

just to keep all of you inform, there will be Sea training on Friday,2pm.
follow by Saturday same timing at 2pm.
and as for Sun, the guys will be having their Master Series.
for the girls, let's all go down and give them our support.
also try to learn something from the race, timing 8am to 1pm at Bedok Reservior.

it's really time for us to be serious during training.
10km is around the corner and we really needa improve our strokes and staminas.
Let's all try to really get into top 10 for 10km and make Jackson,Mich,Mr lim and everyone proud!
and most important thing, Please do come regularly and improve your attendances.
we can't miss any more trainings as we needa practice very hard for the goals that we aim for.

every trainings are precious and all of you know it.it will be easier if all of you come and train together as a team and also to improve.
row as a team, think as a team!

2008-09-10T08:45:00.000-07:00

Hello to all CWDBs,

trainings will resume on Friday, lets all really buck up and train duper hard for the upcoming races!:D

Please be sure to be at the Seahawk area at 2pm and try not be be late yeap!
Attendances will be taken and to those who didnt come, please produces an MC.

As for Saturday's training, it'll be the same time as friday's, 230pm to 5.30pm.
and Sunday's, 8.30am to 11.30am.
Thanksss!:)

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING AND PASS UP THE FORM OR ELSE YOU'LL NOT BE ABLE TO ROW.

"A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind."

2008-07-19T12:21:00.000-07:00

Hello team. its been a long time since the last post! Train is never easy, but this is part of life, you love the sports, Make sure you get something out of it! Bitter first follow by sweet! We dont have everything,But our biggest asset is the people and a coach! Manpower is what we need. What i mean is very simple, More people to join our family! One person grab around 2 is enough to make the team more BIGGER! if theres more, they are more then welcome to join us! As i say, NOBODY is born to be talented in rowing, No one! Is how you train them to rowers! you get what i mean? from a nobody, we will train them to be rowers! as long theres more people, more things can be done! Endure and force through every training! Together Everyone Achieve More! Nothing is impossible! if you are willing to try, you will get the results at last! Lets C'mon fight hard together! CWDB keeliao!

*The strongest is equal to the Weakest!
The weakest is equal to the strongest!

Monday Land Training
-Venue : Dover ite Gym
-Time : 5.30pm
No one are to be late! Attendance is compulsory. Mc will not be entertain! If anyone is coming late with vaild reason, Please contact Captain and EXCO to let them know about it!
Attendance will be taken!

2008-07-10T14:21:00.000-07:00

To ALL CWDBs, these are my thoughts. If there're any enquires, please let me know, I hope they don't sound too harsh :D

I think we people lack adaptability, motivation.But we dont lack hardwork, in the wrong way. What I want to say is, we need to think, then work towards it, and seek understanding before moving on, don't just hardwork blindly get it? Even the most hardworking person can never attain his goals if he work the wrong way.

Everyone wants to rush through training, hoping that it'll end as soon as possible. Okay, who doesn't, but at least give your all out, don't just endure thru the exercises we give you, but force through it to gain better results, you know?

We can improve by :
1)Challenging each other is also a healthy way, but a friendly challenge of course, we can improve by that way too.
2)Setting goals like within this time period, I must be able to do this amount of weight or such.
3)Motivate your friends but don't over motivate, remind em to be self motivated, cause you have your own training, you can't possibly look out for everyone, everytime.

After being the CW alumni captain, i found out the responsiblity of a captain, even though its a small team. I understand how much stress a captain's handling, but everytime we tell you people to be discipline and work hard to make things easy for the captain and vice, you guys nod without actions, or maybe you're doing it right already but lets put it this way first, you guys don't prove it through actions yet.

What I think a captain's role is :
As a captain, he have to push really hard so as not to be a bad example to the rest, he have to take care of all of our attendance and needs. He will chiong all the way to prove to you guys that he can do it, and so can you. But if you people prefer to flock in your own group and just endure through the training, instead of setting goals, striving to be better every training, coming regularly and everything, we'll very fast burn out and die. No matter what, we must support one another.

I hope all of us can be self motivated and push hard, for the sake of a better team. Everyone have a part in the team, don't they.

Over and out.

[Edited]

-Harshly pointed out by Andy, the ancient rower-

2008-07-10T03:20:00.000-07:00

There will bbq on this coming friday! After training =D
Time: After training then go down
Venue: Pasir ris park
BBQ Pit number: Not sure yet! Ask coach after training

TEAM-MATES! Do turn up for the bbq! enjoy yourself on that day!
Those who wish to stay overnight at dere, you may do so!

And Saturday training will start at next week! Please pass down the message!

Lexson
Cwdb!

2008-07-07T01:47:00.000-07:00

To all Team-mates!

Please be reminded that land training will resume on this coming wed 9/7/08
5pm-8pm @ Dover ite gym!
Do not be late and attandance is complusory! If u are absent on any training, Please produce an Mc! Letters will not be entertain! Or call any captain to inform that you are not coming for training with vaild reason! If you are sick, Mc is needed! So please coperate!. New attandance will be taken for new season! Any doubt, you can contact the Captains! Coach and teachers will not hesitate to take anyone out from the upcoming competition due to poor attandance! So do take note! Thanks!

By: Lexson
With <3 CWDB!

2008-07-05T03:41:00.000-07:00

Hey CWDBERS!

Please note that tomorrow will be Michael's birthday dinner at a restaurant somewhere in Little India.

We will be meeting 7pm at Little India mrt control station and we will walk there.

Don't be late!

P/S: Enjoy the last of your holidays to the fullest! school is starting in one day's time!

Happy studying!

xoxoxo
Karen

2008-07-04T09:44:00.000-07:00

*A message from Pk.Captain!

To all EXCO members, i want to go through all documents for last race season. Eg, Attandance books and things that we done for training etc. I wanna analysis so that i can inprove on it for this season!.Please send to all exco. especially pk! Thank you for yr co-operation!

*This is a reminder again to all team-mates!
To protect your team, or to play safe, Please do not blog anything about how our training works, About the techniques and etc. other than that, its fine, so long you dont blog things that dosen't benefit the team.Thanks again for your co-op!!

Rest well, Sch's gonna reopen, Have fun before the sch starts!! =D

Post by : Lexson Lim
~* Theres more event coming up, More to go! And im sure more training is need to be done!
Strive for the best! With love <3 CWDB! Takecare!

training

2008-07-02T07:20:00.000-07:00

Team

Theres training on this coming friday! 4/7/08
Time 12-3pm.
Venue: Seahawk meeting place
Attandance is compulsory! so don't be late or absent
If u are absent, please produce an MC, Letters will not be entertain!
Objective : To prepare you guys for river regatta!

Any enquiries

You can contact me or message : 94487887
:81474213 -Both number working! i will reply u asap! tq
You can also add me on Msn : hoau_91@hotmail.com

By : Lexson Lim.V.c

2008-07-01T10:29:00.000-07:00

Hey CWBERS!

From what you've noticed, the right sidebar is gone.

So sorry for that

I'll try my best to restore it asap or maybe change to a new skin.

Anyway, the photos of SDBA '08 (from Raymond's camera) is out the links's here and here.

I have also compiled both albums for the benefit of non-Facebook users. The link is here.

Hilarious photos!

xoxoxo
Karen

2008-06-29T21:15:00.000-07:00

Hey CWDBERS!

WE DID IT!

With our hard trainings, strength swaet and (for the girls) tears.

Though it's only a bronze, we will crave for more and will train hard for it right?

Guys, girls and the mixed team did well for their events.

Great job done people!

Just take note, don't be too complacent or have the over confident crap
(aka OCC) in you.

But all these won't come to pass without one person's help.

The person is none other than our dear COACH JACKSON!

He help built this team's morale up, help us in wherever/whatever things he can. Goes home thinking about how we could further improve our strokes and went through the trouble in getting boats for us with SDBA and used the free time he have to train us. All of this, free-of-charge.

What more can we do but thank him and appreciate him.

Anyway, please keep this friday free. There will be a team bbq.

Will update you guys with the time and venue again.

Here's some photos I've grabbed from Ignasia.

Guys team

Girls team

xoxoxo
Karen

2008-06-24T07:39:00.000-07:00

Hey team! SDBF competition is this weekend. So be prepared and stay real focus. Its time to change to competition mode and start thinking ._. As i said, the medal is there, is how badly u want it? Have a real good rest and prepare for last burst on that day! Should u takecare of yourself and prevent from any injuries and sickness, drink lotsa water and before competition day, please dun go out and chiong alrdy =) Trust each other in the race and dun "kanjiong" spider. Once ure kanjiong, ure dead. So stay real focus and stroke by stroke! One word - Must be "Aizai" Ok! CWDB KEELIAO!

*~One more important thing. To those who have blog, If u want to post blog, please don't post something that dosen't benefit the team, as in accident leaking out info of the team etc... not yr fault but people will link and link.Maybe to yr blog also.So beware wad u post.

Take Note
Tomorrow : Sea training @ KSSC
10am Sharp! *Please don't be late*

IS HOW HUNGRY U ARE!

EAT ALL OF THEM UP!

Lexson

With love <3>

2008-06-21T04:12:00.000-07:00

Hey CWDBERS!

Next week's schedule are as follows:

Monday
Swimming trip
Time: 3pm
Venue/Meeting place: Jurong East Swimming Complex (might also be known as Jurong East Stadium)

Tuesday
Team Meeting
Time: 1.30pm
Venue/Meeting Place: Dover ITE Canteen.

Wednesday and Thursday
Training as per usual (time tbc)
Venue: KSSC

Friday
Rest

SATURDAY&SUNDAY
SINGAPORE DRAGONBOAT FESTIVAL

That leaves exactly ONE WEEK to SDBF!

Everyone, please give in your best during trainings!

Please also beware of what you blog in your blogs.

There might be people reading your blogs, wanting to know what we've done to train/prepare ourselves for the upcoming race.

Anyway, train hard and rest well!

Quote of the week: Race like training, Train like racing.

xoxoxo
CWDB

2008-06-20T05:24:00.000-07:00

Hey CWDBERS!

Tomorrow's training will be at Seletar Reservoir with Republic Polytechnic's dragonboat team.

We're starting warm-ups at 11am sharp. Please be punctual.

If you wanna meet, please meet us 10am at Khatib mrt station.

Oh and there's an important meeting on tuesday, 24th july, we'll be having a meeting with mr.Lim 4pm at Dover ITE Campus.

Please do not be late.

xoxoxo
CWDB

2008-06-19T07:07:00.000-07:00

Hey CWDBERS!

From today onwards I'll try and put up latest updates for trainings and events coming up ASAP.

So, right, the current updates are as follow:

Intensive Training
Tomorrow, 20 Jun 2008
10am-4pm, KSSC

There will be a lunch break at 12pm - 2pm as well as short breaks in between the time slot of 10am-12pm and 2pm-4pm.

You are advised to bring light snacks like sandwiches, bread, biscuits etcetc for in case you get hungry during the short breaks.

You are also advised to bring your own water bottles (big or small ones also can. But is advisable to bring a big one though. (;) and money for lunch.

Saturday
To be confirmed latest by tomorrow.

And lastly, there will be an outing next week.
Venue, time and cost will be confirmed again.

The weather might be very hot ( I say might because of the sudden shower yesterday.) during trainings these few days.

Try to drink up the day before (but not before you sleep. It will cause puffy eyes. A beauty tip for guys and girls. (X) .

Please be very careful these few days.

You wouldn't want to lose focus of the race due to your sickness/injury right?

Take care and drink up everyone!

xoxoxo
CWDB

2008-06-15T05:32:00.000-07:00

Hey CWDBERS!

This is the revised intensive training schedule.

Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays:
Venue: KSSC/Bedok Reservoir
Time: Ladies Team - 12pm-2.30pm
Mixed Team - 2.30pm-3.30pm
Guys Team 3.30pm-5pm

Tuesdays and Thursdays:
Venue: Dover ITE Gym
Time: 10am

Everyone should know where they belong to by now.

Please be punctual for ALL TRAININGS because we don't want to waste any precious time of training for unnecessary stuff and don't give lame excuses and skip trainings because you're tired.

Farh have said, What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

And also what our team motto have said, One for all; All for one.

We have fun together as a team and we suffer togther as a team.

Be focused during trainings and don't fool around.

SDBF is just 1WEEK and 5DAYS away.

Do YOU want to waste our precious training for unnecessary stuff?

I'm sure you don't.

We work as a team.

Remember, it's ONE FOR ALL; ALL FOR ONE .

That's CWDB.

Train hard y'all.

xoxoxo
CWDB

2008-06-13T10:32:00.000-07:00

HEY CWDBERS!

SDBF is drawing nearer and nearer and trainings definitely have intensified.

Here's the training schedule as of today:

Intensive training schedule
Monday - *12pm-2pm/2pm-5pm@ KSSC/Bedok Reservoir
Tuesday - 10am@Dover ITE Gym
Wednesday - 12pm@KSSC/Bedok Reservoir
Thursday - 10am@Dover ITE Gym
Friday - *12pm- 2pm/2pm-5pm@KSSC/Bedok Reservoir
Saturday - *12pm- 2pm/2pm-5pm@KSSC/Bedok Reservoir
* Ladies' session

Take very good care of yourself.

Don't hurt yourself unnecessarily.

Drink lots of water and rest well.

Let's dump our pride aside and work as a team to reach our goal no matter our gender, race, religion, skin colour, hair colour, height, wieght etcetc.

We're a team and as a team we work together.

One for All; All for One.

May the Dragon be with you.

xoxoxo
Karen

2008-06-11T20:34:00.000-07:00

Hey CWDBERS!

Okay, I know it's late but WELCOME BACK FROM TAIWAN, GUYS!

They touched down safe and sound on Monday night.

They came in the 6th position of 46 teams!

Great job done guys!

Anyway, Coach decided to let us do land rowing during training yesterday.

And it was great.

Things to focus on:

1. Twisting of body
2. The rotation/recovery of the bottom arm
3. Number 8 that your body twisting motion have

The twisting of body and 'number 8' are two very good things for lessening the tiredness of the arms.

Lol.

Anyway, 2 weeks and 3 days more to Singapore Dragon Boat Festival!

Train hard y'all!

xoxoxo
Karen

2008-06-05T07:03:00.000-07:00

Hey CWDBERS!

The guys have flown to Taiwan.

Please keep them prayers.

Read from Lech's blog that Taiwan have or might have slight earthquake.

Pray for their safety and also the best for for their race.

And also, JiaCong said that Coach Jackson had met with a motorbike accident and was not able to make it for the Taiwan trip with the rest of the guys.

Please drop him a sms or give him a call to show that you are care about him.

Do recover well Coach!

xoxoxo
Karen

2008-06-04T08:50:00.000-07:00

Hey CWDBERS!

As you all know that most of the senior guys (KokAnn, John, PK, Alvin, Andy, Lech, JiaCong) are going taiwan tomorrow, please drop them a sms to wish them if you're not sending them to the airport ya?

xoxoxo
Karen

2008-05-25T09:23:00.000-07:00

hey cwdb-ers!

Race is coming (i know i mentioned it alot of times already) and time for training is getting shorter and shorter.

Jackson is planning to send our team for the following races. Categories not confimed yet. :)
20 crew mixed team
10 women's team
10 men's team

hope everyone can put in their 120% effort.
those who've been through friday's training know that it's getting harder and harder.
Breathing techniques and strokes tgt needs 200% focus.
So, next time when on the boat, pls dun talk unless it's drink up time and listen to every advice Jackson gives. :)

When we say "focus", face front and be prepared for calling already.
dun be slow. react fast enough. First few strokes is very crucial and vital as it helps lift up the boat. :)

Aggressiveness is wad we are lacking too. Just think about whacking hard and for gals, if u are afraid of showing ur garang face, just pretend that u are fighting against ur bitchiest gfs. haha.
Guys u all should'nt have a problem with being fierce now.

alright gotta stop here.
meanwhile hope our team can have more bonding and team spirit k?? jiayou jiayou!!

CWDB ARE FIERCE!!

2008-05-20T07:06:00.000-07:00

Hey Boys and Girls! :D

Race is coming and there's been a recent spate of unecessary events that nearly done our team in.. I hereby repeat here, if you guys or gals have got any unhappiness regarding anything, or whoever, please make it a point to tell us.. We dun want any people to go and create troubles here and there k? We are a team, share problems tgt..

Just focus on our race and concentrate on what we need to do now to win. I dun wanna see any detractors bringing the morale of the team down nor do i wanna see people acting smart and doing really stupid things whenever we have trainings.

Every Monday: Endurance, Cardio, Running training.
Every Wed: Weights Training
Every Friday: Sea training
Every Sat: Sea training

These 4 days every week now is specially catered for us, cwdb-ers to train well for upcoming races like Singapore DragonBoat Race and River Regatta. So please do come for regular trainings too.
Got any personal problems, solve them after training. Do not bring in ur troubles into trainings and give me shit results.
New systems now, and we're gonna be stricter then ever.
Wanna play or fool around, dun come back. i will make sure i get ur ass kicked out.

Attendance is gonna be taken into serious considerations too. We have a strict system now, so better think twice before skipping any trainings. :)

alright just hope that everyone can co-operate with us and we will train well tgt and get prepared for our first battle in june. :D

doodling done by Joy :)
CWDB KEELIAO!!

2008-05-17T07:22:00.000-07:00

Hey CWDBERS!

Congratulations to all those who have earned their positions!

Work hard and lead the team into greater heights ya?

Anyway, there's still people falling ill.

Please people, take in more vitaminC rich food (eg. veggies, fruits, yogurt, yakult, fruit juice etcetc) .

It will increase your immune system and won't let you fall sick easily.

Please drop those who are still sick a loving message from out team ya?

It's time to show our soft side and care for one another as a team.

As what our team motto says, ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL.

Oh and remember guys, please train hard because there's the Master Series next sunday at bedok reservoir.

Let's give our teammates support and go down to Bedok Reservoir to cheer them on! X)

xoxoxo
CWDB

2008-05-14T22:55:00.000-07:00

hi to all dragons!!=)

Most of us are busy preparing for competition now.. but be reminded not to neglect ur healths okie?? =) we have an upcoming race dis sunday too! first time racing for some gals too! hope we can do well!

drink more water and eat more fruits tat contains vitamin C! =)

back to competition matter, to everyone in cwdb:
if u guys and gals want a place in the top 20, Pls DO Come For Regular Training!! missing one training may sound okay but it can actually pull ur standards down..

Gonna be straight forward here..
even if the best rower is not guaranteed a stable place... think twice before skipping a session of training unless u are sick. No bogus ill-ness and dun give us stupid excuses.

u want the top 20 seat all the way, show em wad we've got!!

I dun want to see people coming to training to be a joker and talk non stop 24/7 and not listening to commands. follwing kok ann's phrase: dun stuck FuZhou fishballs into ur ears!
Seniors meant well. Dun give F**K attitude problems and dun be complacent. Never ever be complacent. even if u are damn good at everything already, strive harder for better!!

And i really hope tt u guys and gals can stop day dreaming, june race is drawing nearer!!
No More Fooling Around..
Make sure when u all carry weights, do it correctly and dun skip any sets.
Make sure when u all are doing endurance aka running and cardio training, Do it correctly and dun skip any sets!

WARNING: i have observed quietly and have spotted a few "Snakes" in our team..
figure out wad tt is..

if u feel guilty as charged, dun tell me all kinds of stupid stories like my leg pain, my bones breaking wadeva.. and dun skive on the sly.. tts wad i found out too..

if u want to be a skiver, dun join db.. i rather u go n sign up with the library club.. =)

alright tts my weekly report!
take care and god bless to whoever is sick.. =)

Doodling done by: Joy :)

2008-05-13T11:35:00.000-07:00

Hey CWBERS!

Recently, there's people falling sick.

Please take care of yourself alright?

Drink lots of water to hydrate yourself.

I know that traning and pushing hard is a must.

But pushing beyond what your body cannot take is a dangerous thing you musn't do.

Your body will weaken and you will fall sick easily.

And if you fall sick and you push even harder you fall sick even moore and take a longer time to recover.

Please people, listen to your body and have a good rest whenever needed.

Especially when you're really sick.

But don't try being absent if you want to chao geng.

It won't do any of us good and might as well just leave.

Anyway, I don't want to scare the guys but I found the lanes and heats of the 25th May Master Series.

Anyway, to Lech, John and those who are really sick, TVGC and rest well ya!

xoxoxo
Karen

2008-05-10T22:17:00.000-07:00

Hey CWDBERS!

I've made a new blogskin for our blog!

Hope you like it(:

Ps:There's a new tagboard too.

xoxoxo
Karen

2008-05-07T10:50:00.000-07:00

He CWDBERS!

Here's something to have a good laugh at.

Andy, PK and Lech were having fun in the gym today.

See, we do relax once in a while.

Ps: Like I've said in my blog, laughter's the best medicne. So you sick people out there who find the above video funny, laugh away to good health!

xoxoxo
Karen

2008-04-27T03:58:00.000-07:00

Hey guys,

I know that you're upset/angry/pissed etcetc upon finding out that you guys are not going to either Taiwan or Macau for competiton.

Please don't alright?

Just think about how fortunate you are to even go to Indonesia for competition.

We girls don't get the chance because we don't have enough quality female rowers.

You guys have the chance to be reconized and be sent overseas for competitions in the future.

I'm not saying that the girls don't have the chance.

We do, but not as much as the guys.

Please guys, I know how upset/angry/pissed etcetc you are, but you don't need to go to the extent and quit dbing right?

If you have the passion/love for db, you won't quit because you didn't get the chance to go overseas for competitions.

Cheer up ya?

xoxoxo
Karen

2008-04-25T10:02:00.000-07:00

Hey CWDBERS!

I hope you've enjoyed the training with Coach Jackson.

He is indeed a jewel to our team.

For him to come and coach us foc, is a really honorable thing because people would think that ITE students are just a bunch of ahbengs and ahlians in a school doing nothing but destroying stuff, vandalizing stuff, create riots, smoking etcetc.

But they will never know that there's students who are hardworking, who are physically disabled and there's people who are passionate about the the sport they love dearly.

We fall in the last category.

And we will not let Coach Jackson down and do our best in whatever we can.

Do whatever is told and we will not want to have conflicts in our team like some teams have right?

Here's an email that's forwarded to every cwdber,

Hi Guys and Gals ,

(I've deleted a portion of the email due to highly confidential matters.)

More Q&As, just email or call me @93****** or next time when i see you all.

Help me send to those who is interested or have doubts in the new way of paddling..

Lastly , STAY ON to this team all guys and gals, the TEAM needs everyone to form..
Its time for everyone out there to know ITE College WEST existed.

BUT
always remember THIS :
we are always a TEAM and
TEAM = Together Everyone Achieve More!

Thanks alot.

Regards,
JACKSON

See, he even made an effort to email us more information on our strokes.

This is how he feels about team.

He has high hopes for us.

I quote from Joy :" I can tell you, Jackson is a good coach, he told us to fight hard and row hard to win Ngee Ann Poly (NP). Gave us some tips and advice for competitions and stuff too~haha~

I guess he made our team morale high coz he mentioned one phrase: "Polys are trained to be fierce, but you are borned to be fierce." "

I really hope that we can stay together as one team and work hard together to reach for the goal that Coach Jackson made for us.

Oh, Coach Jackson, if you're reading this, WE LOVE YOU AND THANK YOU FOR SACRIFICING YOUR TIME FOR US! X)

Please be reminded to check your emails for the full email above and also don't forget to get a notebook and write down your workout routine!

xoxoxo
Karen

2008-04-22T05:51:00.000-07:00

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Hi All,Its good to be back.Glad to see new faces that join the CWDB Family.Genuine Friendship& Unity is what i see in our family.Love one another unconditionally,lets share the good and bad times together as one.Lets strive together as one and do our CWDB proud! All the best in CWDB!
Cheers =)

Seng.

2008-04-07T08:53:00.000-07:00

Great job guys!

You all did well for the Master Series!

Though there are accidents that happened, at least you guys are back in one piece.

xoxoxo
Karen

2008-04-07T08:39:00.000-07:00

Hey cwdragonboater

How do u think about todays training?

Did u give your all?

I myself have try on what i'm suppose to do regarding ur target that are suppose to be done for example.

5km do below 21min.

As for the girls they are told to do 15min all out, i think they can give a target for themseleves and improve themseleves for every training.

Rmb

This is what u should do every training!!!!

Do your best and give all out!

Hows the circuit today, it gonna be easy if u didn't try ur best! No matter how fit u are, as long as u do ur best for the training, u can't tahan the training one.

Alright.

As for those who aren't serious and kept talking during training, i know who u are and i saw it!!!
Do it for the team and for yourselves please, i'm trying to control myself now and do what i can during training!!! Serious for the whole training please, if people disturb u or something, do control urself and everything will be stop!!!!.

And guys

Remember what u say when ahlim ask us what position will we be for the upcoming june race.

Tell them what we cw have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Although we dun have full 20 girls and 20men, but we gonna train hard ourself and also train those new comer and get what we want!

Alright.

Sleep well everyone =) training wed!

2008-03-30T02:32:00.000-07:00

Hey Dragons!

Please take note that our holiday trainings have been increased from 3 time a week to 5 time a week starting tomorrow.

This is to ensure that everyone trains for the up coming competitions we'll be having including the june race.

By the way, Congrats to those who are chosen to go for the Masters Series 2008 this sunday!(:

Those who want to go and support (most prolly the girls) them can reach by 8.30am or 9am.

Anyway, train hard and play hard ya?

xoxoxo
Karen

2008-03-22T15:07:00.000-07:00

Hey Cwdragonboater cum sea hawker cum kiyah splashiesss.

Some comment about our team.

Compy is coming, yet we still doesn't have the discipline we use to have last year when our senior vice and captain is leading us..

What are the reason that make us so disicipline when they are around and not now?

Well

We can still improved on this, because the time haven come.
But if this is going to carry on, this team is gonna be those team that take part in compy for fun or even close down due to no disicipline and people quitting the team becos of conflict/attitude people/unconsideration people and etc.....

Stuff u have to do is to keep quiet and train what u are ask to and try to reach your target, if not u gonna improve more and do extra. I know u guys are tired, but who are not tired? Inorder to win something?. I dun wan to stay in this team and win nothing out of it, i dun expect u guys to stop all your jokes and talking during training, but at least cut down slowly and eventually there will not be any.

Well, actually it wasn't the team i wanted to have that everyone is like so dam serious and doesn't have any fun in the team, but think about it when u get something out of it after all this hardwork.

Probably u can joke around during training but not when u'r doing your sets and when someone is leading the team is talking, for example kok ann or ah lim or even the girls captain and vice joy and karen.

When the new batch is in, seriously no joke, make them think that we are serious about the stuff and automatic, those who wanted to fight for their place in the boat will stay and continue training.

OK WIF IT??

Target have to be reach for us

Guys 5KM(20min) Girls 5KM(25min)
Extra 2KM for u all if u can't reach ur target.
Guys 2.4KM run(10min) GIrls 2.4KM(13min)
Guys ChinUP(30) Girls ChinUp(10)
Guys 2KM(7m30s) Girls 2KM(9min)

This are a few target that most dragonboater can do before their race.

Anyway

ENJOY URSELF DURING THE CHALET AND HOLS
Take this hols and train even harder and show the news batch of guys and others what we CW HAVE.

John =)

2008-03-21T09:27:00.000-07:00

Hey fellow CWDBERS!

Our well deserved three weeks march vacation is finally here!

These are some of the up coming events:

March 25th - Angeline's birthday
March 24th-26th - CWDB Chalet
March 27th - CC's birthday
April 1st - April Fool's day
April 4th - Qing Ming Jie
April 14th - School Reopens
April 16th - Lechiner's birthday
April 19th - Pa Paddle Championship
April 20th - Lexson's birthday
April 20 - Pa Paddle Championship

Those people who are going for the pa paddle championship must jia you ar.

I know we're rowing for another team, but do your part to train up for this comp.

I will put in my best effort to train too!

Oh, before I forget,

This coming monday's training have been canceled due to the chalet, as for wednesday, we'll confirm with you during the chalet itself and those who went for the Youth Olympics Countdown event and have yet to recieve the s$5 as promised by MrLim/PE HOD, please come to me.

Thanks

Lots of love,
Karen

2008-02-22T09:29:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone!

One month has passed.

I bet you guys have been training hard right?

Do you see any improvements in yourself?

If you did, then good for you(:

If you don't, then you aren't training hard enough.

Train hard, push yourself to the max during land/sea training.

Try to avail yourself as much as you can to commit to this team.

Anyway, I betcha you heard about the YOG right?

so let's CONGRATULATE SINGAPORE for winning the bid by saying what we'll always say,

SINGAPORE HUAT AR!

Lots of love
karen

Good Effort!!

2008-01-29T08:27:00.000-08:00

hmmm... i'm very happy with wad Mr.Lim is giving us now. All the hard trainings to help us endure better and be stronger mentally and physically. =)

Recently, we welcomed new comers, both gals and guys to our team. They are pretty committed till now. I really hope tat they can train hard and be able to do standard chinups (supported) asap! =)

And Mr.Lim told us tat he'll be starting CW's sea training after CNY (Chinese New Year). I guessed everyone is eager to serve our paddles water right? Then i also hope tat everyone can come regularly. Attendance is pretty good for land trainings now so i hope it will be the same for sea trainings. =))

meanwhile, let us all built up our fitness, endurance and stamina for further challenges!!

xoxo, JCCC... =D

2008-01-28T23:39:00.001-08:00

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Freshies came!!

AND YAY! THEY ARE STAYING!

& btw, CONGRATS to karen for being appointed as the new vice-capt.

xoxoxo
Farhana
Lechie

new semester, new teammates!! =D

2008-01-10T05:52:00.000-08:00

WASSUUUPPP DAWGS!!!

hope you guys and gals have enjoyed our db chalet to the fullest!! =DD now our time to the march race is drawing nearer and nearer, are u pp well prepared?? hehe..

let's hope our team will be freed of obstacles this year man! ping ping an an! soon soon li li!! haha!!
CCA fairs are all around the different campuses now.. make sure we do a good job in recruiting pp!! And i really hope there will be no cliques or wadsoeva le.. i want a united team, not a team which is dispersed..

we are one family... and hope that u seniors can show a very good example by having good attendance,good committment etc... and please!! i dun wanna see any discrepancy of new teammates aight? welcome them with warm reception and guide them if they got difficulties... =))

alright... gotta go study for exam le.. play is play, study is study... LOL...chaos..

xoxo joyccc!!

2008-01-08T06:08:00.000-08:00

Hey people!

Need your co-operation this week and next week.

It'll be CCA fair/open house in the different campuses of College West.

We'll be needing people to help out in getting the freshmen/freshwomen interested in our team and will be setting up booths in the various campuses.

Need manpower to help set up booths, give out flyers and answering questions of CWDB.

Please avail yourself if you can. (:

Thanks sooooo much! (X

xoxoxo
Karen

2007-12-31T10:30:00.000-08:00

HEY PEOPLE!

WISHING EACH AND EVERYONE A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!

And the long awaited CWDB chalet is on WEDNESDAY!

If you want to help get stuff or help ferry us and the food to the chalet, you are free to meet either Joy or Kok Ann.

Anyway, enjoy your last few days of holidays before school reopens on the 7th!

Ps: Contact KokAnn or Joy asap.

xoxoxo
Karen

CWDB MEETING

2007-12-05T04:35:00.000-08:00

wassuupp dudes and gurls!!

A Very Important Message To All Dragon Boaters Of CWDB!

We're having a meeting held by Mr.Lim, i guessed, to call for all dragon boaters because we're going for a March Race next year. =D

Time: 12pm
Venue: Dover Gym

please bring yourself there. i hope to see everybody there. it's a great opportunity. =D toodles.

CWDB SALUTES THE 5 NATIONAL ROWERS!

2007-12-02T03:24:00.000-08:00

alright. i think you guys and gals have heard the news about our 5 missing dragon boaters from Team Singapore. We are not directly affected but they were our accolades and partners and friends of the same passion at the same time too. They are the ones who fought on the treacherous waters of Tonle Sap River. And they were the ones who carried the same fighting spirit and they were the ones who beared all of Singapore's Dragon Boaters's hope and represented us to win something called satisfaction and honour.

But God wanted to take their lives, 5 lives at once. We are all deeply saddened and affected. And those who were their teammates must have felt un-consolated now. Let's pray for them and wish for their souls to rest in peace.

Let's hope from this unfortunate accident, we can all learn from it and practise water safety from now on.

May all of the 5 rowers rest in peace!

love, joyccc.

UPCOMING MARATHON. 2DEC'07.

2007-11-26T21:08:00.000-08:00

HI GUYS,

are u prepare for the marathon this sunday?
erm, 10km,21km and 42km run. O.Oahhhh...
goodluck for our one and onli shengde for his full marathon! goodluck!

Everyone must complete the marathon. not onli everyone! everybody instead. lol.
if cannot oso must run! why?
the reason is simple.
cos we are CW paddlers! we must run like a CoW!
all right or left paddlers,coxswan and drummer must complete the marathon.
hmph. not funny lah. wahahs.

sleep early and have a light nutritious breakfast in the mrng.
try to avoid food like prata, nasi lemak and etc.
rmb to set ur alarm clock.
dont give cock excuses lik alarm nvr ring, 'overslap' OPPS! :x is overslept.
dont lik freddy and nash liktht. tsktsk.
sleep early of cos try to avoid nightmares and wetdreams. wahaha!!

this is the marathon route of all events map.
http://www.singaporemarathon.com/en/route/?sec=204&ssec=553
water is needed for sure.
water is essential for life. lol.

do some warm up too.

this noose is brought to u by:
ahyew the "pui kia" :p
lech the "san paul" :D

2007-11-24T10:38:00.000-08:00

Hey people. It's me again.

I know, I know. I don't have any rights to say this but I've got to say what I've got to say.

Yes, it's boring to come to ITE Collage West Dover campus' Gymnasium for training again and again doing the same things on the same days.

Especially those living in the northern/eastern part of Singapore and the more centralised areas.

But if your passion for CWDB is there deep down in your heart, you won't even care about things like that.

Please don't come for the sake of coming, come with the same mind and same vision as the Coach and the Captains instead.

Do not always be dependent on the seniors for the number of people or the quality of the team.

Fyi, they are graduating next year.

You guys are supposed to take over their role to motivate, encourage and help one another.

Rude awakening much?

Yep, for all of you.

It's the end of the year now, Christmas is coming.

And what are you guys doing?

Compromising on trainings, not coming for training for personal reasons, to tired to come, minor injuries/sickness or just too lazy to come.

Injuries, those having serious injuries like Buay and WeiHao are reasonable. For Buay, though he tore his knee ligament, he still came for the last few sea trainings at Kallang. And for WeiHao, he hurt his deltoid/shoulder muscle thus making him can't train for upper body but he still came for training.

Those who said they are training themselves, please do really train. Do not lie yourselves. It's not our problem that you guys didn't train or whatever shit, but it's the truth to yourself.

This is taken from our old blog's tagboard:

"emo dude: I'm much more better than you guys! Dragonboat can get ready to close down!LOUSY TEAM!"

Do you really want that to happen?

People telling us that we're lousy and cursing OUR TEAM to close down?

Do YOU PEOPLE really want that to happen?

Obviously not right?

This is our team, people.

Who's in with this team?

I know I am.

How about you?

Tag it at the tagboard.

Oh, and a good news.

Like what Joy had mention in the earlier post, Team Kiyah Splash's in-charge is asking us to join their team for training only. NOT JOINING THEIR TEAM.

Karen

CWDB JIAYOU!!!

2007-11-24T00:30:00.000-08:00

hey peeps! mr lim told us to try to maintain whatever number of people we have now and also try to recruit more pp at the same time. and i hope those who just receive your paddles can stay on and not disappear.

our seniors are leaving us roughly about next year already. we cannot keep counting on them and i hope we, the juniors can do our best and strive even better than our seniors. we have received a news from Kiyah Splash's in charge asking us to join them for sea trainings. don't worry, we'll still be in CWDB team, although sea trainings with kiyah splash will be on next year.

i really hope we can have more team spirit and bonding as i found that we tend to stay in cliques. i think our CWDB chalet will be a very good programme for us to start bonding as one team.

meanwhile, i hope not to see mediocre attendance as attendance is very important to our team now. =D

no matter how hard trainings are, we must be determined to strive harder at each training. =D ps: some of our teammates will be running for standard chartered marathon on the 1st December 2007. those who are interested can approach me to schedule for meet-up time. chaos!

love, joy!

2007-11-13T06:24:00.000-08:00

Regrets after joining db?

Yes. After that incident during our first sea training.

No. Have great Captain and Vice-Captain to motivate and encourage me to hang on no matter what the circumstances are.

And yes, I can say that through months of training with both of them, I've became stronger than before but I know that I can be even stronger and I'm aiming to be.

Of course, training is tough but nevertheless, we must hang on and have the 'never say die' spirit in us.

Internal Conflicts?
Yes we have. But after all we're still one cwdb right? Let's just toss the conflicts aside and have that bond/unity back in us and not to have cliques within the team alright? Like the song 'Auld Lang Syne' Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind.

I think that the db chalet is a really good thing. coz it's a time of bonding and making friendships stronger thus making CWDB stronger than before.

Teehee~

Anyways, I want to take this opportunity to thank Joy and Dama for being there when I needed encouragement, motivation and a shoulder that I can cry on whenever I have problems.

Domo Arigatto Gozaimasu~

I really appreciate it alot (:

xoxoxo
karen

my experience

2007-11-09T17:55:00.000-08:00

HELLO :)
thanks to our dearest teammate, KAREN, for the establishment of the new cwdb blog.

first time i stepped in to the team, there were 2 girls which was only Joy & I.
Imagine ONLY 2 GIRLS? lol.
all the guys looked down on us saying that we can't stay long in the team.
BUT WE SURVIVED!
but not only 2 girls, we now have few more girls.

Nowadays, it seems that there's lacking of team spirit. The team isn't as close as we used to be before the June Race. There are many cliques in the team.
Yes, the number of people is as important but still, team spirit is the most important. It doesn't matter how many people we have in our team as long as all of us can build up that team spirit and keep it stronger.

Lastly, I really hope the girls will come back and train with the 5 of us regularly. I am really disappointed, in fact to say VERY disappointed. What I can say? I have no right to pull and force all of you to come. It's all have to do with the mind and determination. Not only attendance, by doing the workout and stuffs like that, we need strong determination to do. Don't ever let the negative influence pull yourself down. Don't say "I can't do it," instead say, "I can do it," then you can do it. If you girls want to take part in next year race, we really need your committment to form a good and strong girls team.

DAMA :)

REGRET??

2007-11-09T17:33:00.000-08:00

Any 1 of yr regret been in this team?? Why?
Cos there's No TeamSprit?? Not enough Teammates??

Let me tell you guys, at first i do feel regret in this team as well.
But still i take this challange & look for to a better team and YES, not bad a group of new students came in. Which really make a diffs. =)

Yr must be thinking why i wrote this.. Is cos i find tat this team not jus lacking of teammates But as well the teamsprit.
We can don't need to have lots of teammates lik those poly or better teams BUT we cant lack of fightingsprit & teamsprit.

So i hope tat those who are keen Nex year get more active students &
also hope tat it wont be jus 1 guys team, For the gals have some fighting sprit can??
Gals i kw yr wanted to go for race, lik those Simei gals but bare with it.. Will it be better tat yr can make a new gals team, not jus getting for top 20 sits, yr also can take challange with others?? More challanging rig? =)

I hope things a go well nex year, i'm looking forward to it. 1 pair of hand make a prata clap.. A team makes a thunder clap. We Must Work Together..

Kw wad u fighting for..
Kw wad u wish for..
Kw wad u must accept.. try to take & give.

Committment

2007-11-09T07:16:00.000-08:00

hello everyone!! it's joy here.

just wanna state a few words of encouragement for u all.

i know River Regatta is just over and you all must have felt abit lazy to come back for training. i know its hard for you guys to be committed to a sport which requires so much time and strength. but, its all still within you. if you really want it, you will still come for training and train hard with those who're very committed and has the ultimate passion and drive for CWDB.

but if you dun, not even Mr.Lim can force you to come for training right? but think back, if you were to give up right now at this very moment, esp for those juniors and year ones, would'nt it be a total waste?? dragon boat is a very competitive sport and it requires alot of committment. cos if you are'nt committed, you will be missing trainings. and when you miss trainings, you will become weaker and weaker.

and being a dragon boater is not just bout holding tat paddle and walk around like you are a expert. its also bout being able to sustain tat passion. =D

so, i hope we can hold this committment to ourselves and strive for the better!! =D

no sea trainings now but land trainings will still be on. monday and wed from 5pm-7pm and friday from 12pm-latest 3pm. Hope to see more people turning up for our trainings. mediocre attendance will only mean tat we will be drown by other teams in next year's race.

tats all i wanna say. toodles. =D

2007-11-07T08:05:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone (:

this will be a non-dead cwdb blog.

teehee (:

There'll be lots of updates and photos too(:

so bear with me ya (:

anyways gotta go (:

karen (: