
Yesterday I had a great time spending the afternoon with doing something new and interesting: Dragon Boating. Dragon Boat (or Dragonboat) is one of the fastest human-powered boat. Originated in China over 2000 years ago, Dragonboating has been a popular modern water sport, beside its importance as a main performance in Duanwu Festival (Dragon Boat Festival) in many areas in Asia with significant populations of ethnic Chinese, such as: China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.

We, all ITG staffs left the office in the afternoon, directly went to Kallang Riverside Park. All of us joined together with
Canadian Dragons, a Dragon Boat team in Singapore, learned history of Dragon Boat, prepared the equipments, learned how to handle the peddle and use it, practiced in the water, and had fun and exciting races. We were grouped into two teams, Blue and Green. I was in the Green Team together with
Heng-Cheong,
Selva, Florence,
Michael,
Emmanuel and
Suryanto, guided by Jim and Rob. From the three race, we won two races over the Blue Team (
Jeff,
Rio,
Anu,
HJ,
Sean,
Pavan, guided by Raj and one more person).
After the three exhausting races, we had a pleasant meal. The foods are so good, asparagus with ham, beef steak, sweet potato salad, grilled chicken, steamed fish, burgers, satay and more than enough beer. What a perfect afternoon. :)

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