CP old days

Hi everyone. Here are some pictures from our early days. Enjoy!

Acrobat sprinting days. Randy is happy.

Our humble beginning..the baby pool. Now weechye is happy.

Another picture. Who is that wearing goggles?

It's goggleFOUR!

Another picture.

Thanks!

Tentative schedule for Day 4 Sunday 6th Sept

Hi all,

schedule for Day 3 isn't fixed yet by right. But tentatively the games are on these times.

NUS High 2: 0930-1000

NUS High 1: 1530-1600

Sorry girls that you all on't be playing in the second round.. good job in some of the matches though, give yourselves a pat on the back. Train hard for the comp next year! Sure will do better :D

Game timings are not fixed, and i think it is still possible to change the timings on Saturday night. So please check your schedules and make proper arrangements ASAP. inform us before saturday if there's to be any changes.

Take care,

Hao

LATEST AS OF 27/08 5PM

Here are the corresponding dates:

Day 1: 29/8

Day 2: 30/8

Day 3: 5/9

Day 4: 6/9

Day 5: 12/9

Day 6: 13/9

The first 2 days of the competition would be held at NTU, afterwards, it would be at the SP pool.

LATEST AS OF 27/08 5PM

Men's Schedule

NUS High 1 (Senior team)

Day 1:

0920-0940 NUSH1 v NUS A

1700-1720 NUSH1 v NP 321

1840-1900 NUSH1 v NP123

Day 2

1500-1520 NUSH1 v REDTIDE ULU

NUS High 2 (Junior team)

Day 1:

1240-1300 SP C v NUSH2

1440-1500 REDTIDE 3 v NUSH2

Day 2:

0940-1000 NUSH2 v NUS B

1320-1340 NUSH2 v TEAM TPS

Ladies' Schedule

NUS High Girls

Day 1:

0940-1000 NP ALUMNI (MONSTERS) v NUSHG

1520-1540 NUSHG v NTU GRADS

1800-1820 NUSG V NP (TITANS)

Day 2:

1340-1400 NUSHG v BLIZZARDS

1700-1720 NUSHG v SMURFS

LATEST AS OF 27/08 5PM

Xuan Hao

Nat Champs 2009 Schedule (edited on 26/08 4pm)

Hi all, the national canoe polo championships is finally here again. Here are the fixtures for the games. Please take a look at the fixtures for your own team, mark it down and make yourself free on that day. Please take note that you would need to be at the venue at least 1 hour before your game, to settle the equipments and do your warm ups etc. If for any serious reason that you are unable to make it for any of the days/times, please let wanyu, tingan, or I know asap. We will try to appeal and sort the timings out with the comp organizers. Thanks!

Here are the corresponding dates:

Day 1: 29/8

Day 2: 30/8

Day 3: 5/9

Day 4: 6/9

Day 5: 12/9

Day 6: 13/9

The first 2 days of the competition would be held at NTU, afterwards, it would be at the SP pool.

LATEST AS OF 26/08 4PM

Men's Schedule

NUS High 1 (Senior team)

Day 1:

0920-0940 NUSH1 v NUS A

1640-1700 NUSH1 v NP 321

1820-1840 NUSH1 v NP123

Day 2

1500-1520 NUSH1 v REDTIDE ULU

NUS High 2 (Junior team)

Day 1:

1240-1300 SP C v NUSH2

1420-1440 REDTIDE 3 v NUSH2

Day 2:

0940-1000 NUSH2 v NUS B

1320-1340 NUSH2 v TEAM TPS

Ladies' Schedule

NUS High Girls

Day 1:

0940-1000 NP ALUMNI (MONSTERS) v NUSHG

1520-1540 NUSHG v NTU GRADS

1740-1800 NUSG V NP (TITANS)

Day 2:

1340-1400 NUSHG v BLIZZARDS

1700-1720 NUSHG v SMURFS

LATEST AS OF 26/08 4PM

Xuan Hao

updated holiday training schedule

Date	Day	Time	Type of training
01/06/09	MON	2 pm – 5 pm	Pool training
03/06/09	WED	2 pm – 5 pm
05/06/09	FRI	2 pm – 5 pm
08/06/09	MON	8 am – 10 am	Land training
10/06/09	WED	9 am – 12 pm	Pool training
12/06/09	FRI	2 pm – 5 pm
15/06/09	MON	2 pm – 5 pm
17/06/09	WED	2 pm – 5 pm
19/06/09	FRI	2 pm – 5 pm
22/06/09	MON	8 am to 10 am	Land training
24/06/09	WED	2 pm – 5 pm	Pool training
26/06/09	FRI	2 pm – 5 pm

Here's the latest training schedule!

Do remember to bring your thermometer and consent form next training :)

SPCPOC Schedule (Day 4,5 & 6)

PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THE CHANGES!!!
Linesmen duties:

10.30 AM: Finals against NTU1
02:00PM: Finals against SPB


Hello! Gah, just recovered from the shock. I'm here to inform all of you that there will still be games going on tomorrow, as well as next weekend! (Yay!) So here's the schedule:


Men's Group H Schedule

5th April (Sunday)
9:00 AM: NUS High vs NTU Guys

11th April (Saturday)
5:00 PM: NUS High vs Steam (NP)

12th April (Sunday)
02:30 PM: NUS High vs SPC




GIRLS GROUP D (L) Schedule

5th April (Sunday)
1:00 PM: NUS High vs Blizzards (NUS)
4:30 PM: NUS High vs Titains (NP)

11th April (Saturday)
11:00 AM: NUS High vs NTU 1
1:30 PM: NUS High vs Black Crooks (NUS)

12th April (Sunday)
01:00 PM: NUS High vs SP Ladies


YEP, now knowing that you all have so many more coming up, do finish up your work by tonight. Eat well, rest well, see you tomorrow! Heehee. :D

The Ball Religion

inspired by Jackson

Brief Description
The Ball Religion (to be refered to as BR) refers to the general worship of balls, especially blue-and-yellow balls, commonly known as the canoe polo ball.


The belief in detail
Like all gods, The Ball would usually be given lots of space. Believers believe that the BR god (ie. the ball) is sacred, and that unholy palms should avoid touching it, unless necessary.

Believers also believe that keeping the BR god for extended period of time is a crime. They believe that their god is for the community. And thus BR believers would attempt to divert their god to another individual almost immediately upon the god's visit.

While believers try to maintain their distance with their god, they believe that it is extremely sinful to leave the BR god unattended to. Attempts may be made to bring the god to his/her possession. However believer would be happier to have someone else to house the formidable god.

When bringing in the god, believers do it with the most gentle manner. When the god is within handreach, believers are likely to molest it, testing for its intentions. When the god is out of handreach believers are likely to tap it with the paddle. In all circumstances, believers would be more than happy if someone else would intercept and steal their god. At this point, we must understand the BR god is extremely temperamental, and believers would not want to have their god when he is in his less-than-sunny mood.


A believer's privilages
A believer to BR would be granted with the ability to maintain minimal blisters, callous, and injuries in general. Moreover, believers would be free from attacks, such as hand-tackle, illegal paddle, or dangerous paddle. Believers usually live through a simple, danger-free life.


Dangers and tradeoffs
Tempting as BR sounds, believers would usually be subjected to boredom, and in extremely circumstances, shoutings from "the higher being".
Moreover, the BR god is a very jealous god. By believing in BR, one has to give up his/her other beliefs such that BR is the only religion he/she believes in and practises.


To take up the Ball-Religion or not, the decision lies in you.

Results & Goals

RESULTS

Men
NUS High vs. Meet the TPians: 3-1
NUS High vs. SPB: 0-5

Women
NUS High vs. NTU 1: 0-5
NUS High vs. Redtide Ladies: 0-11
NUS High vs. Black Crooks (NUS): 0-7

Goals
Look out for the goal-setting space in the Canoe Polo Room(beside the bball court) that will be up soon!!! So that everyone can stay focused on what they want to achieve!

Just a supplement note: sometimes what we want to do or things that we like to do may change... & our goals change, so it's perfectly alright to change your intermediate goals, or review your long-term goals.

Ask yourself why you are here in Canoe Polo! The answer will help you in setting your goal ;)

IMPORTANT (sorry last minute)

WE HAVE LINESMEN DUTIES

Day 1
12.30 PM: NP Alumni(Monsters) vs NTU 2

Day 2
9.40 AM: SPC vs NP Alumni A
2.10 PM: Red Tide 2 vs NUS Z

Red indicates matches we have duties for, which have timings earlier than our school's first match of the day. (Means we have to go earlier)

Linesmen Duties

IMPORTANT - PLS READ

41.
GOAL LINE JUDGES [TR]


41.1.
The goal line judges shall be situated diagonally
opposite each other on the left-hand side of each
referee.


41.2.
The duties of the goal line judges shall be to
signal until acknowledged by the referee by:


41.2.1.
Raising a green flag when the players are
correctly positioned on their respective goal lines at the
start of a period;


41.2.2.
Raising a red flag to indicate the ball is out of
play by crossing the goal line. (Goal line-throw, cornerthrow,
goal);


41.2.3.
Waving a red flag for an improper start or
restart;


41.2.4.
Waving a red flag for an improper re-entry of
an excluded player or improper entry of a substitute.


41.2.5.
Pointing both the red and green flag at the goal
when the ball enters the goal frame.


41.3.
Each goal line judge shall be provided by the
organising committee with a supply of balls of the
correct size. When the original ball has gone outside
the field of play, they shall throw a new ball, when
directed by the referee, to the goalkeeper (for a goal
throw) or to the nearest player of the attacking team
(for a corner throw).

SPCPOC Schedule

Ladies match against Devlins on Day 3 timing has been changed to 10.40(from afternoon).

There has been changes to some match timings from morning to afternoon for Ladies Category(Day 2 & 3)

Hello everyone... sorry for updating so late... I'm sorry that after today(16/3) the organising committee of SPCPOC will not be entertaining any requests for changes to the schedule... so sorry for any inconvenience caused(I did request for some changes to accommodate some players who cannot make it for certain times).

Men's Group D Schedule

Day 1
3:10 PM: NUS High vs Meet the TPians

Day 2
10:20 AM: NUS High vs Cubists

Day 3
9:20 AM: NUS High vs Juego Fuego (NP)
11:20 AM: SPB vs NUS High

Women's Group A Schedule

Day 1
10:00 AM: NTU 1 vs NUS High

Day 2
1:50 PM: NUS High vs Redtide Ladies
3.50 PM: NUS High vs Black Crooks (NUS)

Day 3
10.40 AM: NUS High vs Devlins (NP)

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Just a reminder,

holiday trainings are on from 9-12pm on mon, wed & fri this hols!~

JIAYOU EVERYONE!!!

-ting an

sososososo impt!!!

The people who will be participating in SPCPOC are as follows:

Dao Team(NUS High Ladies)

-myself

-wanyu

-magneline

-mariel

-becca

-fei

-karyen

-yunzhi

-yingzhen


Gay Team(NUS High(M))

-hao

-tiong

-randy

-chye

-chris

-stuart

-stanley

-jong

-tankuan

-han

actually... the indemnity forms were due last friday x( but i had checked with the organiser & he has agreed to let us submit our forms this coming friday, & that's the latest he can provide for... ooops. so... it's really impt that we collate everyth to be submitted on friday!

i hadn't had a chance to give out the forms to all the girls yet... so sorry about that x(


as a safety measure, i'll send the above people the forms(soft copy), pls print them out & give to me(or hao/tiong for guys) on friday or send me a scanned copy(WITH signatures) by thursday night...


URGENT!!! :S

we need to submit all the indemnity forms by THIS FRIDAY 7pm!!!

thank you for your cooperation!!

JIAYOU DAOGAY! hahaha!

Announcement

THANKS FOR YOUR INFO :) t-shirt/singlet orders are underway :D

Hello everyone!

I need your help!

Please sms/email me the following details:

1. Your lesson ending times on Tuesday & Thursday
2. Your size for T-shirt/singlet!~ (agar-agar ;) )

=D have an enjoyable day =D

-Ting An

Scandals Part 2

Hmms, remember this picture then? Taken during last yr's SP comp! :P

Scandals

(Picture taken on 11 Jan 2009)

Tsk tsk... what would Randy say?

Observations and advice as an alumni (in training)

"Alumni" is a good word. Haha. Makes you feel more "senior-ish", even though it may or may not be true. Moreover, "alumni" kinda means you wouldn't have to trouble yourself with all the voting and form-filling and decision making business. And you are excused for posting point-less posts because you can sleep till 9am, and bum around while the rest try to stay awake in class.

So here are some advice for the newbies, and I have no doubt your "seniors" would agree with me. (Seniors, if you don't, start agreeing.)

1. Always put sunblock, for the girls at least. No girl would want to walk around like a banana split (chocolate and vanilla skin-tone), even though banana was our fruit the last time I checked (please inform us if there's a change). Putting sunscreen on your face is extremely important as well, you don't want your skin to pigment pre-maturely (that is, uncontrolled pigmenting before you turn 60). And for the guys, sunblock is said to help prevent skin cancer.

2. Take good care of the equipment. Treat them like how you want to be treated. You wouldn't want to be thrown around too much and break your back right?

3. Prepare a fist aid kit if you are exceptionally injury prone. Some necessities include ointment for bruises (<-- important!), medicated plasters for open wounds and cuts, non-medicated plasters for blisters, water-proof tape for split fingers (a specialty for a particular person), tape for fibre glass splinters removal, sunblock, and aloe vera gel for burnt skin. Depending on your need, Subway and the ice-cream shop across the street provide good first aid services too, when you need healing for your heart.

4. Make hand-to-hand passes. First, we shall define. Hand is defined as a part of our body that is attached to our arm. It measures about 5.5" x 6.5" (dependent on individuals). It usually comes with 5 pertrusions known as fingers and a thumb. Although it may look extremely similar to the head, do not confuse the two, or the consequences can be fatal (concussion follow by capsizing follow by drowning). Note that the head usually has (visible) hair, while the hand does not. With these two confusing parts of the body define, hand-to-head passes would hopefully be minimized.

5. Do your stretches seriously for cool-down. Need I say more? It's for your own good.

That's it for now. More "wisdom" next time. ^^

A Test Announcement

i just updated some Useful Contact Information at the sidebar ^^ hope that is useful for any juniors who come to this blog.

Anws, just testing an announcement(will send out email soon), for all juniors(intending to join officially in 2009), pls send me a tabulation of your free periods & days you will be coming down for training. :)

current training slots are:

mon - PT 4-6pm
tues - water training at NUS Pool 2-5pm
thurs - water training 2-5pm
fri - water training 2-5pm

pls include the slots u will be coming for(try to make time for at least 3)

just testing the announcement...

Canoe Polo 3v3 Week 2 (Juniors) Review

No worries, I already wanted to blog about it last night (Xuan Hao and Jong can be my witness.)><

General Observations and Insights (from the observer's point of view)

1. Another choice in the path of life. When it comes to choosing between you and an umbrella on a hot sunny SUNday, you are, once again, going to be option 2. Forget about how complex, or how biologically intrigueing you may be, you are still in second place. No kids' perks, no senior citizen privilages, no whatever, unless you are a spreading canopy made of who-knows-what. No wonder there's a song written about it... Ella, ella, e, e under my umbrella...

2. When the games end late (or early, if you are talking about two o'clock in the morning), transportation will always be a problem. You will be surprised what interesting topics may arise from that singular topic. Topics may include squeezing WITH girls, sitting on laps, pole dancing, drink driving, etc. One thing is rather certain, transportation functions similarly to alcoholic drinks. The thought of it makes you high. And its usage makes everything around you move.

3. Punctuality is always a virtue. Arriving late means you might have to return home without watching a single game, or stay for hours just to watch ONE game.

4. A cocktail of emotions can occur when watching games (that kinda explains why people enjoy watching those football matches so much). We are really proud to see (or hear from others) that our juniors play so well. Yet at the same time, it is rather demoralizing to know that we are really sucky players *emo-ing*. Still we are proud of your Jellies! ^^

5. Kids or juniors will always have some privilages. It may not be during the games, but certainly so after the games. You have "slaves" to help you carry your boats and paddles. "SENIOR citizens" should have that privilage too. xp

Since I've only watched one game. Can't think of much to write. So go write something on your own. Cheers!

Schedule for 11/1/09

The schedule for tomorrow are as follows:

Womens Junior Category
0900: v.s. NUS 4
0945: v.s. Titans Two
1045: v.s. Titans One
1130: v.s. Pretty Pink
1230: v.s. NUS 5
1315: v.s. Xiao Long Bao

Mens Junior Category
0915: v.s. NUS C
1145: v.s. NTU 4
1230: v.s. Banana
1500: v.s. TP Reds

JIAYOU TO US :D

Canoe Polo 3v3 Day 2 Review

General Observations and Insights
1. When choosing between a teammate and the ball, you will likely be the second option. The first person who would be more inclined to save you when you are dying (to be more specific, when you capsized and tried more than once to roll) would likely be anyone other than your teammate, perhaps your teammate's mother. How ironic.

2. It may prove unwise to have your teammates have too much faith in you. The lack of faith in your skills may come in handy when you capsize and is too lazy/tired to roll. This also applies to ball skills: having less faith in your ball skills means that your teammates would be more inclined to support you, or to pass better passes to ensure ball possession.

3. Familiarize yourself with all sorts of games, lame or otherwise, when you are young. Know all the little games, or you'll be labelled as "no-life", although it is often untrue.

4. Do all the crazy things when you are young, remember the lame stuff that you did, so that you'll have plenty of stories to share when you get OLD. Good sharing from Wee Hong and Heng Foo today. No kidding!

5. Hydrating masks are the best comfort for your skin after 2 days of scorching sun. No kidding. But I didn't use it today.

6. If you do intend to lose your glasses (you may not think it, but you may show that intention through your actions, like capsizing with your glasses on and helmet off), pick a more striking color that can be easily spotted in the pool (which means no pool-blue), for easier retrieval.

7. If earings are a must to match your rashguard (or lifevest or paddle or boat), wear chunky ones, preferably with striking colors (again, pool-blue is out of the list). The pain of losing an earing is unbearable, especially if so many of yours had been lost in the blue waters. It is tragic to think that your other best companion may be lying somewhere in the slums, to be dug out aeons later by archealogists when it is coated with dust and mud.

8. Coconut oil works better than tanning lotion. Hmm... Is that why some people use coconut oil on the hair? Oh some shampoo and conditioner has cococut extract too!


And most importantly, breaking, ahem-I-mean BENDING rules without getting into trouble is an art. Although I would like to clarify that I did not break or bend any rules today. ^^

Fixtures for Day 2

Womens Senior Category
1300-1315: v.s. NUS 3
1330-1345: v.s. Oh Hot Damn
1445-1500: v.s. Libra

Mens Senior Category(for Team 4D)
1245-1300: v.s. NUS A
1415-1430: v.s. Long Jiao Silver

details for day 3 will be updated sometime next week... pls jiayou for all junior cat teams ^^

3 on 3 Day 1

Disclaimer: Pics not in chronological order... only close-up pics for now as other pics are not very good(mr chua will have more good pics on his cam ^^) mr chua... before the guys' game...

Grace stretching while being a sub. Getting ready to ATTACK!!

Getting out of the boats... or getting in?

NUS High Ayumi Hamasaki... standing against the Sun with wind blowing... (where's the sun?)

(complete with professional photographer; standing in the background)

Best Photographic Effect 2009 - When Randy blocks, it is ARMAGEDDON for the opposing team!!

He is so going to kill me for posting this because I didn't take this well & I still posted it :P

No, he isn't getting the ball. He is going to the other side to start 2nd half ^^ classic starting stroke position.

emo...?

handsome kid telling you "I'm Good!!"

Who is this? Can't see lifevest no....

"Girls... you need to remember..." Stop laughing lah Yingzhen -_-

LOL why are they all laughing

Trying hard not to laugh?

Weehong: Listen to meeeeeeeeeeee! (is tt a pout? haha)

i'm getting into the boat!

tiong is very shuai in this picture! the hair! now you see it now you don't! because he is going to put on helmet!

hmm... put on helmet or not also no diff ba... (joking!!)

NUS High: Helping teammates

That's about it... maybe will have more pics for 2nd day... sorry the captions are very lame but you can always suggest better ones ^^

-ting an

Canoe Polo 3v3 Day 1 Review

Sorry for the lack of non-sense for the past few months. Can't think of any "skewed common sense" (although Tiong would do a much better job if he were to blog).


Anyway, some interesting stuff that happened and reflections for day 1 of 3v3 2009, mostly for Peanut Butter, but also for 4D and Quickpick.

1. The first team that was playing with us this morning got pretty excited when they learned that they are playing with Peanut Butter. We are still wondering if it was because they thought the name was amusing, or because they knew they can trash us.
Next time, we shall call ourselves Strawberries and come in strawberry-everything (bags, shirts, shorts, what-not. Thinking of vandalizing the paddles too... XP

2. As usual, nice people are everywhere. Lost my paddle because I threw it away trying to catch a ball, which I missed in the end and had to paddle toward it with my hands. The opponent was super duper nice and passed me my paddle. So touched... *tear in the eye*
Lesson learned: being nice to others inspired others to be nice to more people as well. So Yingzhen, stop being so nasty to certain poor soul. Although she's still nice to others.

3. We are not spoilt anymore. A great improvement! We moved our own equipments and take care of our own stuff. Okay, maybe an occassional help from juniors and coaches, but still... Way to go from last competition. (refer to way older posts)

4. Lian Han's hair is soft... Wonder what shampoo and conditioner he uses... Or is chlorinated water plus sun good for short hair?

5. 4D and Quickpick both played well. So proud of them!! Keep it up.

6. I only realized today that we are not paying consession fees anymore. Adult fares are so expensive! When you start paying adult fares, you are not a kid anymore. This is the time when you really wish to remain a kid, at least I wish it.

Pardon the dying off. I am really sleepy. More updates next time. ^^