November 28, 2005
Post-River Regatta
In saying that I am disappointed with the results of the weekend’s races, I think I echo the sentiments of many of my teammates. I honestly thought we would have done better.
I felt horrible when I saw the anguish and disappointment on Nick’s face after the results for one of the races were officially announced. We made it only to the semis for all the four events we were aiming for. As with all sprint events, the results were often determined by split seconds, nanoseconds, milliseconds, whatever. But whatever it was, a loss is a loss. Or in this case, losses.
I guess what shocked me personally, was how other teams we normally didn’t lose to had stepped up, improved and beaten us in this race. I don’t think we practised any less than they did, but what were they doing right that we weren’t? I still can’t quite figure out.
Anyway, that’s the short of the weekend’s competition. At least it ended on a high note with a team dinner at a coffee shop along Keong Saik Street. Putting aside the day’s disappointments, everyone made merry with a lot of beer drinking, beer drinking competitions and other silly but fun ruses. The usual jokers in the team made everyone laugh with their hilarious antics and we really brought the house down. I think the other patrons were pretty cheesed off by the noise we were making!
