My Race

Finally. A chance to pen down something in my blog.

I'm counting down to 2 more weeks and it's my next dragonboat race. Kind of anxious about it cos the thought of losing is quite unwanting. We initiate to start our training for the season earlier than usual and we always train with a car tyre in our rowing. What we might be lacking is the timing and coordination and perhaps the aggresiveness in the waters.

I was corrected by my coach yesterday for not being aggressive enough in the last charging. I hope I can row up to his expectations on the actual race and clinch a title for our men's team. Seems like coach is not too keen in my idea of focusing on getting our mixed team to win and I want to trust in his decision. He might forsee something which I would not know until the actual race itself. I'm glad we had a good coach and with our once a week training, we are progressing steadily. I hope. Too bad we can't squeeze in another training during the weekdays or we would sure to pose a big challenge to other corporate teams.

I gotta stay calm on the actual race day. Can't afford to mess up the timing and the stroke rate. Stay calm as the water, I told myself. Focus. Don't get swallowed by it. Glide on it like a cruising boat. Yeah.

Just last Saturday, I accompany my aunt to watch the Sky Wu's concert. She also sponsored me to listen to it since she couldn't find anyone else to acccompany her. Heh. So fortunate to have a free concert ticket landed on me. It was a really long time since I watched a concert. It could be the previous Sky Wu's concert that I watched in Suntec a few years ago. Watching his concert at Suntec was a bad experience. The seats were not comfortable and the rows were not inclined. To make things worse, the stage was not high even. My view was simply blocked by a lady of permed hair. Couldn't enjoy the visual part of the concert properly. So if there's a concert that's gonna be held at Suntec, I'm not going for sure.

Anyway, back to the recent Sky Wu's concert. It was a concert shared by him and Jeff Zhang so if you are going to the concert solely for Sky Wu, you'll find the songs sang by him not enough. Sky Wu seems so energetic compared to Jeff. Jeff looks like he hasn't been exercising after disappearing for all this while. However, his love ballads are still as appealing and reminiscing and the most impression part of his performance is the song "guo huo" done in a spanish way and the guitar fingering as the intro. Simply fantastic.

After the whole concert, really wish Sky Wu could present more of his songs. There are so many of his songs I wanna hear him perform. Hopefully the next time he holds a concert here, my aunt would want me to accompany her again. Heh.