THE DAMN SAYING IS WRONG!

MY MOOD

Its blerdy wrong! WHen you are in the pits.... and when seemingly, the only way is up.. There's always gonna be a bird that will fly by and dump the shit on u! Either that, or some big feet will come stample you all over again!

Here's what I got when I came back from yet another day of "I forgot to bring my water and lunch out to sea" when I am the one who wants everybody to pack lunch and bring lotsa water on their boat.. smart ass..

That's my 320gb harddisk, in which, stores my entire year's work, my watever portfolio, my all. Now, I have nothing to show, 'cept for an empty bank account. and a relatively clean hard disk.

Well.. I guess its my own fault for not asking it to be couriered over. But I just need to sell that one picture and I din have space in my computer to bring it over cos I din have time to clear it. and also I did not have space in my handcarry for it too! But now. I am so totally regretting it. Shouldn't have asked a blerdy PC user to get stuff outta a hard disk that has been 'oh so attached' to a mac. Blerdy mistake. Oh. and there goes the sale. now i'm in deficit.

Sigh... I am speechless... a string of explicits hang precariously off the tip of my tongue... but alas..... it was done....

Its time to delete this chapter of my life and move on...

Tm is the 34th Annual Glenmar Sailing Association Small Boat Regatta... and i'll be competing in a laser. Having lost to Michael (my student) in corrected time yesterday evening.. I think I should be quite raring to go out there and prove a point... Let's see how it goes.... good nite all.....

When you are at the bottom, you can only go up!

I am beginning to like this saying quite abit, I mean, its brilliant! If you are at the bottom, the only way is up! By this, I must say I am quite spurred. Its not that bad after all... I mean. I have been too hard on myself and them. But then again. That's me. I always expect everybody else to be able to do stuff like I do them. It is a problem that my officer while I am in OCS very aptly pointed out. She fears my problem will be to expect my men to be able to do what I can do. Which shouldn't be the case, cos if they can do what I can do. They should be officers as well!

I am actually quite glad that she pointed that out. Cos I never really do realise that. I just blame it on my star sign, Virgo, perfectionist. heh.. But it is also because of that, that I always try to do my best when I start out on something, it is also a tumbling block, when I do not know how and when to call it quits and say its good enough, and I should just move on to the next thing.

My tumbling blocks? Being a perfectionist??

Anyway.. today's classes wasn't too bad. I spent the entire morning sorting out boats and stuff, and after lunch, we got some solid water time with the wind blowing quite abit, and yet, not too badly that they can't sail at all. It looks promising, but I couldn't really tell just yet, if their attitude will hold out. But I see some delighted faces on the water doing the new drills I just showed them... pray....

Taking small steps each day into the unknown..

My truck! As I have promised. hehe.. A picture of it. a 1988 Toyota, I think the tyres not too good ah.. Drove it all the way into Annapolis yesterday for a regatta, a first long distance drive, and a first time towing a trailer behind.. I think I'm quite mad.... it was quite crazy, it takes quite a while to stop when i'm towing stuff, and it won't really go more than 60mph when i'm on the 5th gear.. I floored the darn accelerator and it still wont' go. Have to lower the gear to get it moving up slops... But.. no choice la. I guess its the only one. too bad. suck it up. heh.

Do I really have to????

My mood in the morning....





I've decided that its gonna be cool posting pics of my mood in the mornings. haha... That's the aircon thingy outside my window, dun really hear it most times, but i'm ok with that lil bit more noise. It gets too quiet around here sometimes, maybe that's why they say silence is deafening.. That SUV in the background is the family's car, it takes us to church! and that's me on my nice queen size bed!

The race today went pretty decently, in a certain sense, there's certainly alot of rooms for improvement, but I think it is quite encouraging to see some of the kids trying, and willing to do stuff when I ask them to. But still, I cannot show that I'm a nice dude.. not just yet. I got them some books to read, not sure when I'm gonnna give it to them or how I am gonna give it to them, dun wanna give it away too cheaply, I want them to earn it. Any suggestions anybody?

Some shots from today..

Well it looked like a decent shot, but from a sailor's point of view, its horrible! What's the sailor doing, taking a knee on the deck during a tack????

That's Alex Brylske's younger bro, he has a big heart! check out that funky hat!

My fellow colleague was quite anal about going too close to the course, and the longest lens I have is a 70-200mm lens, sometimes, I like my 1.6 crop. I'll be cursing and swearing when I don't get that kinda reach when I go full frame or 1.3 crop.

Man, I knew it was gonna be bad.. I din know it was SO BAD..

I guess the title said it all.

Once again, I amaze myself at how unmotivated these kids are. I know they need a lil pushing, but it is getting silly. Mind you, this is only the first day. Oh mama.. It is gonna be a long season.

This picture depicts how I feel right now....Kids nowadays..

Yes.. its complaining time!!!

I have one kid turn up, signed up for the optimist. No boats, no arrangements for a boat. And too blerdy big for an optimist. Hell, I dun even know if he can sail! And I'm suppose to take him for a race tm???????????? Man... i think I must be insane.

All their rigging is !@_)%*!@#)@@! but its fine, I expected it, so I got everybody, and got them to point out each other's mistake. So we got everything down. I had to go back home to pick up the other laser cos the new kid din have a boat. WhenI came back, nothing was done! And they were playing frisbee with my assistant! Got them all together, and gave them a big dressing down. Oh well.. we shall see what happens tomorrow at the regatta..

Its starting.....

In a little more than 10 hours, I will be facing anxious parents and excited, well, maybe not so excited kids. I'll be heading the whole program this time around.. and in a certain way, its kinda stressful cos of expectations... and all the yadeh yadeh.. apparently, people arnd here knows or heard of me, even thou I have not met them! Its crazy, it feels good to know that my work is appreciated and people like it. But wow.. I'll have to start pushing that pressuring thought behind!
Anyway... I just witness a true blue american mass orgy.. check it out. I've got pictures to prove.

Like how many pairs of beetles are there man? Dude.. its frigging awesome! There's even spectators! Far out man!

This is the building that I finally go get my finger printing done @ 5 dollars a card. and there's two card! its crazy!

Its another Issac thing again.. playing in the pool.. n that's when water leaked into my casing and it actually flooded.. i'm surprise the camera is still alive. there's water in the battery compartment, CF card slots and whole lens is soaked.. blerdy helll.. I need my 1Dmk3!! CANON!! HURRY UP!!

Oh well..I had better go get some thing called S-L-E-E-P done else i'll be a stoner tm. heh. Wish me luck! Oh.. Btw.. i just saw my 1988 toyota truck.. its not too bad! got some pics. will post later.

Oh well.. It always seems I have to do catch up with my blog... and the worse thing is... I can't remember where I left off the last time.. and now I have new things to write, and I'm too lazy to click on another button to get the page on another page, if any of that makes any sense to any of you.... hmm..

In short, Christina got me to the Maddox's. It was all good.. everybody's pretty much how I remembered them.... Anna's away for horse riding camp... Sam's got a car from his uncle, its a really cool vehicle I tell you. Anna supposedly got alot taller than before... and Issac, is taller and more talkative. I did some shoots of Issac, n I think I should be able to pitch him as a child model, and I have lotsa pics, but I think i'll split them up in to sections for a more chewable bite size piece meal..

Issac in mono

We did the Big boat race on wednesday nite... went out, took some pictures, some of them I feel are front page worthy.... you shall have to decide for yourself... I think we came in first, I would like to think I contributed to the winning by calling out some tactics.. but of course not in the most diplomatic way I would say... cos at one point.. Steve went.. So who shall I listen to? I have 4 people telling me different things! I'm thinking.. er... me? Cos I think i'll beat any of these guys easy? keke.. just kidding.. but if you remember.. they made me tactician my last visit... and there was this one race... when I got them to tack more than they usually do, cos they believe that the boat's heavy and don't do very well tacking, and they actually crossed tack with a J24 that is always miles ahead of them at the 1st windward mark, I had the skipper's jaw dropping. But anyway... we won.. that's all it matters.. and sometimes, I dun do things by reasoning.. its just instinctive! Oh well... just me and watching my language again...

Here's Steve, he is me BOSS, look fierce aye? Ok la... He tries to be funny....

Then come thursday nite.... where we have the small boats race... They have managed to merge the monday nites and thursday nites together, and have it at the sailing club, rather than going to middle river, which is quite a hassle. So its all good.. only thing is... there was a few fronts coming thru.. reports of 30 to 40 knots wind... and they sorta waited till 1830, and talked themselves out of it.. o well.. the only good thing abt it is, I managed to rekindle my friendship with Lindsey and we went for crab cakes after, with the Fahrmeier's, less Jules, she's down at ocean city working for the summer. GOod on her!

Friday came and Steve had gotten us an appointment to get finger printed and paper work processed. So Sam took me down, cos Steve have to go up to NYC to teach sailing at a college there, Sam drove me there in his red Scout, it was a lil scary, cos its a big vehicle, and its alil airy cos its quite open, and he tend to follow abit too close for my liking, I had a really bad feeling when I was going there... So, we ended up in Townson, the policeman told us they only do fingerprinting on thurs and sat, 10-6, I'm like. what? we had an appointment!! He went, we don't do appointment, come back again. !_(@%!_#)$!@ and it was done, we found out later that we got the wrong place, bugger, some miscommunication... Anyway.. we were later on the way back.. when we got into a car accident. Yes.. tell me abt it.. It seems that everytime I come back to America, I have to get into a frigging car accident! This time round, it wasn't so bad, I saw this hideous pink Saturn coming down the street, and next thing we knew, she turned out infront of us! I was like "SHIT" thinking.. what the hell.. again??? I din had the feeling of death this time, like I haven't done alot of stuff in life and stuff like that this time, but it was like. WAH LAN... Anyway... none of us got really hurt.. We had like almost the whole fire department down... 4 police car, 1 unmarked car, 3 different fire engines.. and yeah.. it was quite a sight, a fire truck passed us first, he stopped and he radioed for help, and again, its blerdy fast. Then came a police car, then the big fire engine, and people running out looking real important. ANYBODY HURT? YOU need to go to the hospital? Do you need to go to the hospital??? checking the cars, and cos Sam's radiator blew out, it had green spew all over, he saw it and went "We've got a bleeder!!!" I'm like.. Ok... Nice.. bleed away... So.. meanwhile, since it is a 1 lane road, we have traffic backed up all the way, and with a few police cars and fire engines blocking up the whole road, not caring if they are actually blocking and there's actually room on the side to park so that the traffic can still go on, they just continue standing arnd looking important, fussing over the girl... duh..... I guess the people are just used to stuff like that.. and I spoke to the officer later and he said, well, this is a bad intersection, it always happens. I'm like. ok. DO SOMETHING ABT IT YOU DODOs!!!! Like, since you know it! put some blerdy warning of some sort!

Here's Sam, pondering, and the girl in the background making calls, that's basically our damage, and her's what the fireman calls a "Perfect T-Bone". How nice of them..

Check out the no. of people arnd her, and that white fur and that roll bar in that car.Nice boots...

So Sam's grandma came to pick us up, the officer Leard was kind enuff to offer us a ride to civilization.. I met Chance, her 7 month old grandson, and he is a sweetie, but he will look at me, i'll count to 3 in my heart, and he will start crying.... then he'll stop, decide that he wanna check me out again, 1..2..3... WAIL!!!!!! man...I think I have the word "SCARY" written all over my face.

This is Chance

Anyway, I got christina to come pick us up and go on down to the sailing centre for Teen Sailing nite! It's awesome, plenty of pizza to eat. ahhhahah... and we had fun sailing. It was good. Christina sailed most of the time.

Saturday, I got my finger printing done, it cost 10 bucks. Its ridiculous. I could have done it myself. More pics of Issac, only this time in the poool..... and right now..... I'm waiting for Suzanne and Sam to come back with the truck that I'm suppose to get for the summer.. its a 1988 Toyota truck, I shall see how beat up it is. heh...