Hello all, not sure how many of you are hanging around online, catching some last minute moments of flatwater videos, facebooking or hanging around this blog frantically clicking "refresh" every 5 mins hoping to see a new post. It's less than 12 hours to our penultimate competition big day, so I'm here to post some stuff for those lonely cyber-souls out there who, like me, have nothing better to do at home than to await tomorrow.

It's heartening to hear all the input from yesterday's team talk, some regarding fear and how to overcome it, some encouraging us to cheer for our teammates, some ensuring our fearful hearts, that our opponents are as scared as we are. It's equally amazing that such an event, NJCC, can cause jokers and crapheads (me included i guess) to straighten up and give their best for just this once. All in all, i feel that we have really grown as a team in the face of adversity.

There's a chinese proverb which goes 台上两分钟,台下十年功(directly translated), "10 year's of work off the stage, for 2 minutes of performance on the stage".
Indeed, for most of us in this team, we have spent 2 years scooping oil off our soup, hardcoring gym, dedicating our mornings to stroke training, returning home at 8plus pm only to coerce ourselves to finish that bloody tutorial; only for that short 2 minutes (applicable to 500m rowers) in the water. Is it all that worth it? For your info, that was a rhetorical question and the answer better be "yes". For that short moment of intense excitement and fatigue, we have forked out so much more as compared to the usual RJC student. I believe it pays off. I'd rather join canoeing, torture my body using metal bars and carbon fibre sticks, burn my ass off with the sun on my back, for two minutes of thrill and glory, than to sit in an aircon library reading tintin and decompose at home on youtube.
All of us have chosen that path, all of us have dedicated our energy to this cause. And without regret, we're going to channel all that we've trained for, into this very two days. We are going down to macritchie tomorrow and show a sportsman's attitude. Win with humility, lose with grace (not really applicable, since who says we're going to lose?). As for nathan and i, we're going down to make friends with our opponents, and show our friends that our wash is bigger than theirs yo!

Have you got the spirit?
More importantly, can you SHOW the spirit?

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