just read alicia's blog and i realised that life doesnt deal in a way we expect it to be. rather, it is the unexpected which happens where unpreparedness just throws us off our feets.

i remember a few months back, probably in April/May, when Colin told me that Cher was thinking of putting me in a K. i was Shocked/Awed and whatnot. i've always harboured the impression that i was going to do T for Nats. considering that at that time i have not even tried a K boat before, imagine my expression. even rachelj3 told me last time, it's some unspoken rule that Cher will place you in a T1 la. how was that possible? barely 2 months of training before Nats? who wld my partner be? do k1? these uncertainties flooded my mind, over and over again. i could not understand how things could be so different the way i expected it to be.

we realised that we both had to fight for a spot for T1, to beat our Ultimate Aim. after a while, we decided not to compete against each other and try a K2 tgt instead. in retrospect, i thought we were pretty bold to ask cher to allow us to try a k2 tgt. considering that both of us merely did k2 with a senior and not with each other before and were the only 2 j1 girls who tried k2 tgt first. having Gaybo was fun, it was initially Disastrous, no doubt capping Every training. i still remember the 3 nyjc friendly races we had. it took place barely less that 2/3 weeks after we tried our k2. lets compare it to the 4years partnership the ny pair had. = whats more, our trusty Gaybo had been taken off our trolley, right before our very eyes while we did warmups. we had to try a blue cj k2 instead, less stable. hey, we werent even stable in Gaybo! felt weird in the boat initially, just didnt feel right. the first race, we capped before the halfway mark. second, we capped Just before the finishing line. the Third race, we completed it, but behind the nyjc pair. it was no wonder Cher flimmed them instead of us, haha.

we had coordination problems. we couldnt count out loud for fear that we would cap. we were afraid to twist. there were many obstacles which we had to cross, just to get to the Nationals starting line. but Hey, we did it! with barely less than 2 months of training tgt, being a j1 pair, we got pass our heats and proceeded on to semis. look back, i realised, it's an achievement (: hey partner, we did it! (: others might not think that its anything significant but it's a good beginning.

sometimes the unexpected happens and we're lost& confused. and sometimes, it aint that bad. maybe things might turn out for the better, we never know. (:

yesterday's happenings were too, rather unexpected. we both had different mindsets, expecting something else. but, it turned out otherwise. instead of lamenting how it should have been, we should take heart that maybe the wrong we thought was the beginning of something more than what we'd ever expect. God works in mysterious ways (:

to quote alicia,
"I love the Excos.. All of them. I love the team too"
True (:

and i rmb saying,
Change the potential energy to Kinetic Energy (: