Starboard. Gold.

Got back from Lumut's Navy Day Open Regatta last night... Managed to bring back two medals: 1st for Laser 4.7 class and 9th for Laser Overall class... They should've given medals for the girls class (they usually do), as there were nine girls participating the Laser category... Usually the numbers doesn't even reach five... Would've gotten a silver for that category...

Slept in a 3-room apartment (A31) in the navy base with KL and Selangor's officers, which are all men, so I had one whole room to myself (yippee!). Stayed there for 3 nights from Thursday till Sunday. The aparment units there (the ones not permanently inhabited), always seem run-down with some broken furniture, dirty mattresses, no curtains and such... Altho it's only my second stay at an apartment like this in 8 years, the unit looks bad as ever... the only new items found in the apartment are the newly installed wall fans... Being old, it's an eerie place for me to sleep in a room alone... With my windows facing a jungle, I just had to leave my light on when I slept... Most of all because of the memories that I have from my first stay at the apartment (A33) 8 years ago in Standard 5, we (the girls) were haunted by stories from the guys who had no other business than scaring the heck out of us...

So.. the lumut regatta from my point of view:

Day 1 (Thursday):
Cikgu Ropi (team manager, CR) picked me up from my place at 10.30 AM... 1.5 hours later from the promised time... We headed to Klang to settle the boats and CR had to pay the lorry driver... Had lunch, 'lepak'ed at Uncle Rosli's house while waiting for him to get ready as he'll be in the same car as CR and I. It was about 1 PM when we left for Lumut. The road trip was uneventful. We arrived at Lumut at approximately 5.30 PM. Had to unload 20 optimist boats from the lorry, then CR and the other officers arranged the allocated accommodation, had dinner, played cards and slept at about 12 something midnight.

Day 2 (Friday):
I was in the bathroom after waking up when I received a message on my handphone from CR telling me to wake up... Went to the racing venue, the Boat Yard (BY), registered and obtained my chartered laser boat and equipment. The race was scheduled to start at 10 AM but due to the registering process still going on and lack of wind, the race was postponed until after Friday prayers. Had to races today and I finished 4th and 2nd. It wasn't a good performance for me and I had to recheck my rigging for the next day. I was even over course side (OCS) on the second race and had to go back and restart... Happy to have caught up to 2nd tho... Nothing much after, that... the usual unrigging, bathing, dinner, and card games again til 1.30AM. Learned a new card game --> jim-ra-mi <-- I've absolutely no idea how to spell this card game, so this spelling is from what I heard them call it... I may even get the pronunciation wrong...

To be continued... 'Cause I'm hungry for lunch ;-)