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Weekend Report

Saturday morning: Went to Tanjong Beach for OC. (outrigger canoeing) and had a preliminary lesson in steering the canoe. Unlike dragonboating which usually takes place in closed waters and is thus easier to steer, OC is done in open waters, so a steer needs to be able to read the waves, wind, etc - not easy!!! I still have loads to learn. I guess what's important for the club is to train up more steers to increase the depth of the club and provide more flexibility in training.

Saturday afternoon: Went home and spaced out on my bed for awhile. Continued to read Zadie Smith's On Beauty. First book of hers that I'm reading. Not bad so far. She's pretty good in fleshing out her characters.

Saturday night: Girls night out with my secondary school pals! It was a belated birthday celebration for monoceros. Five of us dressed up (just for the fun of it and to feel good about ourselves!) and headed to Ristorante da Valentino for a lovely Italian dinner. A review is to follow. The food there was excellent. After dinner, we headed to Wine Company along Evans Road and opened a bottle of Gewurtztraminer to share. The evening was punctuated with lots of laughter, silly jokes, wisecracks and just a lot of mucking around. Pure girlish fun.

Sunday morning: I woke up at 6am cursing myself for signing up for an 8am OC session. Tempting as it was to fall back into a slumber, the thought of 5 others waiting for me at the beach to take the canoe out prevented me from doing so. It was a tough session - I was at point (i.e. Seat 1) for the first 20min set and was totally knackered after that. It's always toughest at Seat 1 'cos that paddler is pulling dead water. Two other 20min sets followed but thank goodness I swapped seats after the first set.

It was good to start the day early though. After practice there was still so much of the day left. I went to Thomson Plaza and borrowed some VCDs from VideoEzy. Went home and had a nap in the afternoon.

Sunday night: Watched my VCDs - Le Papillon (The Butterfly) and L'Enfant (The Child) a French and Belgian film respectively. Enjoyed the former more. Anyway, it was off to an early snooze for the night despite a nap in the afternoon. Just too tired! I think I'm getting old!

Posted by DSD at October 3, 2006 10:08 AM