Hey people, Peter here.

I think we should do something about this year's sec 1s. I don't think we want another dis-united batch. It does influence their attitude towards canoeing. I think it's mainly cos of the bond between us that we actually go for training regularly, and it's the bond that makes training more enjoyable. So for this year's sec 1s, if we don't want to complain of another lousy batch later on, I think we've got to use our own initiative to start them off as a team, and then leave them to their own devices once they're ready to start going out on their own.

Though I have no specific action plan as to how we're going to rope them in, I'm confident that we'll find a way to prevent them from adopting lousy attitudes. One way, I know for sure, is to be NICER to them. Man, by the way we treated them last year, it was as they were bugs. That might have been the reason why Ren Hui, at one point, dared to call us f-ers.

Most of our attitudes towards them have changed, yea, but the mistake we made last year, was comparing ourselves to them. That resulted in us berating them for being tired during training cos we did goodness knows what when we were sec 1s. That didn't do anything to help them like us very much.

If we want the canoeing team to keep strong, we don't only need one batch, our batch, to be united, we need the entire team.