6 days here in Adelaide already, time passes quite fast this trip, yesterday we did a 5 hour training out at sea, it wasn’t tiring but boring after a while. Jiao lian told us our training program ytd and we are trng on the 24,25. Rest on 26. 27,28 short sail. I can’t wait to get to the rest day, it’s been the usual here, moderate to tough PT in the mornings and sailing in the aftn.

Qing is sick and I hope she gets better, Mum, grams, tim, ah yi and daryl is in Thailand now I think, at some holiday beach place. How fun is that. The beaches here are ugly; there is nothing whatsoever to do as well. Cant wait for competition to start cause time will pass even faster. Arghh.
Qing I hope u get better! And to the guys in Thailand, have a great one!.

Day one started alright except for the fact that I almost missed my flight because ssf didn’t apply for me my visa!. Wouldn’t have minded staying in sg for the weekend since the container doesn’t arrive till Monday anyway. Anw the visa came in last min and I rushed off into the check in, not before hugging the family.

When we arrive here this morning it was raining and 17degrees. Quite cold but it got sunny as the day went and we went out for Physical Training(PT), did light jogging and jiao lian’s weird games. I will upload pics of the place we are staying, its really not bad but the only bad thing is there is not bloody internet which sucks! Therefore im writing this in Microsoft words to save first! I am rooming with Justin. Jiao Lian is rooming with Serena and we are all staying in apartments. The other 6 boys are staying together in 1 apartment and same goes for the girls. Wow it pays to be the senior ones, muahha. The room is big enough for Justin and i. we set up the LAN GAMing system today, managed to play for 2 hours.
Another set back is, we got kitchens in the apartments so we got to do the cooking of dinner every night. I managed to stike a deal with Cheryl and co, Justin and I do the washing and they will do the cooking. But tonight Justin and I decided to cook pasta, a lot faster and easier and we manage to do a good job.
I got my aust top up card today, don’t know why but it seems more expensive than last time, my credits are going down very fast. $30 to last maybe 5 days? That’s a lot man. Wonder how everyone is doing at home as well. I’m starting to miss everyone, its really boring here with a lot of time and no shopping malls and stuff.
Talk to u guys soon, will upload this when I find internet. Hope qing isn’t freezing her ass off in china!. Btw Adelaide is 2.5hours faster. Its 1035pm now here, and its 815 in Singapore. Really tired from the flight. Speak soon guys! x

Day 3 here in Adelaide. 21/12/09.
Firstly, happy birthday taz!. Hope you got really good food there over at your side. Yesterday we did nothing much, same ol’ thing with PT in the morning and town in the afternoon. Town is like 40mins by bus so it is really far and plus there is nothing much to shop.
Today we had the usual PT and were suppose to leave the house at 930am for the club, but we got a phone call saying the container would only arrive at 1pm. So at 1.15pm we left the house and reached the sailing centre at 2pm. W managed to unpack the container and we also had customs there checking our boats making sure we didn’t ship drugs along with us, they were very strict and so we had to open all the boats up and the boxers which had our spares had to be taken out as well.
Justin and I were the first pair to get our boats ready at 430pm and were ready to sail, but jiao lian said we got to wait for the rest and were probably not sailing because it was getting late. We helped the rest and they only managed to finish at 6pm! By then it was a lot of time wasted waiting for Justin and I, and it was hot under the sun, lucky to have applied sun block before leaving the apartment.
We only left the sailing club at 630pm so we didn’t have time to cook (yay) , instead we went to find a Asian cuisine place and I settled for hokkien mee with meat and seafood, it wasn’t too bad. Dinner for me was $17 AUD. We just finished playing computer games and as usual Cheryl is watching DVD in her room with her roommates, they got this thing about watching at least 1 dvd a day.
Tomorrow I have PT at 8am, followed by breakfast and sailing full day most probably from 10am-6pm. So it is a long day and I am all packed up. Tomorrow Qing will be going back to Singapore, hopefully she can use my skype to call my pre paid card. Cos my phone is crazy and is using money even when I am not sending smses and phone calls. And the sailing club has internet! So I might bring the iphone down, I don’t know yet. Hope it goes well if I have internet. Once again, happy birthday taz!. And get well soon Qing, and wishing daryl, mum and ah ma a safe trip to Bangkok!. Saving this post on my com, when I find internet I will copy paste into blogger.

Goodnight everyone!.

did nothing much today! played soccer for PT then breakfast, after that i went to havianas store
with the team, bought 30pairs!! omg haha so slipper happy now. if u guys want anymore back at home look at the pics and tell me your size okay! going for dinner now, tmr i will get the sailing equipment then we are gonna prepare the boat so i will get quite busy after tmomorrow alrdy! those at home pray for the winds to be lighter! goodnight everyone!

more updates from brazil!

the internet has been damn slow here, like crazyy slow man, so whenever i use skype to call home, its damn
laggy and i hope evryone isnt too irritating by that. ytd we did nothing but we had dinner at this posh italian place, it cost us 500US, haha the team managers were complaining i think.

this morning we went for a light jog, and the aftn we went to find havianas and i think we got one of the cheapest stores.
8sg a normal top pair and 15bucks for limited ed ones= family and qing!. tonight we are going to have dinner at 630pm, not sure where yet. just now in the aftn we went hiking on this mountain,it was damn cool, will upload pictures here!. internet is expensive here so i might not be using the net everyday. tmro we are going to another beach to check the surf out, should be good. then maybe some light swimming. the day after, we will be sailing alrdy so tmr is the last day of relaxing,

might get busier from tmr onwards, hope its all good at home!

in brazil now.

hello everyone back at home, i arrived in brazil this morning after spending around 30-34hours on transport,2/3 planes that i sat was delayed because of technical problems but that aside,im finally here and my luggage are all here as well so its pretty alright. i hope everyone is alright back at home, we sat in a bus today from the international airport to the domestic airport,it took around 30mins and i observed the environment in brazil, it looks very similar to malaysia i must say but its worse, everything here is very worn down and its a 3rd world country, so there's alot of poor people here and run down old buildings here. a new and enriching experience for me, cos the previous 3 youth worlds have been in countries like england,canada and denmark.

we just had dinner at the airport's hotel,the place where we'll be staying for tonight, fortunately enough we have internet here for the night, tomorrow we will take a 3hour drive to buzios (the sailing place) where hopefully there is internet so i can make contact with the family and my QingQing frequently!. the weather is not that bad, in the morning its 17 degrees so is the night, quite chilly but i am still quite used to germany weather so its not much of a problem for me. in the afternoon when we are sailing the temperature goes up to 22-25degrees,perfect for sailing i say, so i really hope i will make a good one this competition,also my very last year in youth worlds and its something ive spent the past 4 years training ultimately for.

alright i got to head in to sleep now, need a 9.5hour sleep to charge my body up and the next 3 days will be spend just walking around and chilling in the hotel.hope theres internet and will update soon. take care everyone.! tazzy boy boy as well heheh

2nd day of competition,

the wind was too strong today, we waited for around 5hours at the club then the organisers decided to call off the racing today. haha just some pics to show,

6 more days till i'm back woohooo!

nothing much happened for the past 2 days except we've been starting trng earlier and ending earlier too so thats great. its becoming warmer now in germany and hope that it lasts as well!. the wind has been light too haha. 2 nights ago we ate dinner at home and the night after we went to a mexican restaurant to eat, i had chicken wings and RIBS, it was quite good. tonight we went chinese place again and it was the same, not too bad.

got good news, jiao lian eveentually decided to give us a rest day the day after tomorrow provided we are done settling with registration and everything on the boat tmr. hope i can start shopping!.

will upload some pics, tomorrow is gonna be quite slack trng and the last trng b4 competition starts. GOODY!

day 4

hello everyone, day 4 today nothing much happened, everyting's been the same just some minor changes to tmro's sailing like leaving 1.45hr earlier to the sailing club and morning physical trng is earlier by 30mins. ooo sounds like its gonna be cold man hah dont worry its gonna be awesome experience.

quote of the day -

''what doesnt kill you makes you stronger''

Qing & i swear by that!.

day 3. nothing short of the same, cold and windy!

day 3 started off well as expected, we played rugby in about 13degrees and a light drizzle. then had breakfast and called the family plus qingqing!. we left for the sailing club at 12pm. went sailing from 1.15 till 4.45. i just found out that my drysuit has a hole today, so water could get into my suit haha. it was bloody cold, maybe i could rate it under as top 5 of my coldest moments. it was blowing today, quite windy and training was quite alright if not for the cold. dont worry guys i will wear more tmr and it should be warm and toasty!.

this procedure goes like this.
7.10am wake up
730am PT
8.15 breakfast
9am talk to family plus qing
11.15 get ready to leave house
12-5 sailing
630-8 dinner
8-9.30 free time
930- sleep.
i like this plan, how everything is arranged in the way i like it, then of course this is just training period, when competition starts from the 25-28 then my timing becomes tighter but i like challenges!. uploaded some pics for everyone to see. we went supermarket just now b4 dinner. my day has been good! just read a super sweet email from qing.
goodnight everyone!.

its 8.36pm here in germany and 2.36am in singapore!