Yesterday was my final team practice for the upcoming Putrajaya International Dragonboat Festival 2009. It is the first time Putrajaya is having this international event and I feel an outburst of energy about it! My team Corezone-BUFF have been training every fortnight over the past many weekends . We all started with zilch knowledge and experience for this activity. I remember how cacat (handicapped) we looked about 8-10weeks ago. Not only did we row awkwardly while huffin’ and puffin’, we were most definitely not in sync as a team. Thinking back, it has been quite a team journey. 
For the dragonboat sport, the secret is to get your entire team paddling and propelling at the same time. It doesn’t matter if you’re a power and strong rower. Team work definitely makes the magic work with dragonboat. Today our rowing efforts are definitely more synchronized. I actually feel rather proud of how far we’ve come
Yesterday was a fantastic practice. Great team effort. We had the best time record ever from our fortnightly practice – 500 metres, 3:15 minutes . I am not sure how we stand among the other teams, but it felt like good timing for an absolute amateur team!
We’ll be racing with 5 other teams which makes a total of 6 boats for our category.
1 Pos Malaysia
2 Team Splash
3 Pacific West Foods (M) Sdn Bhd
4 Team CorezoneBUFF
5 Team Venus-Get Active
6 Skrine Dragon KL
Putrajaya Actual Race Site
Come and cheer for us this Sunday. The race site is beautiful! So catch some sun, bring a camera along 
Cheer for Team CorezoneBUFF ok? I’ll give you my best row! We’ll be on Lane 4, dressed in blue!
Event : 1st Putrajaya International Dragonboat Festival 2009
Date : 7th June 2009
Time : 8:30am – 5:00pm
Venue : Water Sport Complex, Presint 6 Tasik Putrajaya
My Race Time : 10:15am
Category : Malaysia Corporate Ladies Crews ( 500 M )
*If you wish to be there earlier or stay on throughout the festival, you may download the itinerary here for the entire festival’s events and schedules for 5th-7th June. They are some other exciting categories as well. I highly recommend you to catch the Open International 2000m Challenge, which also falls on Sunday 7th June when I’ll be rowing too!
See ya!
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Yeah! CorezoneBUFF for the win! Will be there to root for you.
Will try to be there to do some cheering.. and jumping up & down! Stay fit!
well done to your team! It was a great race and see you and your team next year! I was over on the other boat that came in right after yours.
@Edmund, Thanks for coming all the way to support Ed! Hope you enjoyed watching the race!
@leesh, Congrats to your team too leesh! It was indeed a great racing experience! Will definitely see you next year! Mean time, stay in touch!