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Hey guys, happy new year!
came across the below radio report from Deutschlandfunk yesterday.
Cheers,
Philipp
Schiffsbau exotisch
Drachenboote aus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Die Werft BuK unweit von Schwerin ist Weltmarktführer im Drachenbootbau. Etwa 100 Drachenboote liefert BuK jährlich weltweit. Einige davon nehmen sogar an Weltmeisterschaften teil. Der Ursprung der rund 13 Meter langen Boote liegt in der chinesischen Mythologie.
dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/firmen/1645983
Hi Guys,
SO what are the SRR results?? I did see some medals on facebook but can't figure out what it's for
Congrats anyway...
(Btw, pls do update the pic on the main page, that's ages ago!!)
Greetings from Germany sends the first JFC AEB Hildesheim. You have a , made good site. Then you can be proud of. All the best for the future! I would be delighted if you visited our HP once.
Oliver
1st JFC AEB Hildesheim
Good Luck at SAVA Sprints! Wish we could be there to share in the mudbath
Hey Germs, congrats on the medals!!
Fall in German Dragons drummer in Kepong..her smile really look sooooo sweet.
Congrats German Dragons for their success in Kepong Race.
Keep it up man ! Cheers.
KenTan ,
Pacific West.
Bronze in the Grand Final in KL… Congratulations to all!!!
A wonderful start to the new season; lets build on this success and win many many more.
Cheers!!!
Tanveer
JAY,
you are welcome to join us anytime!
Just come to Kallang for training any Saturday around 2.45pm.
If you need more directions contact us(>Contact>Recruiting)
see you soon!
11-13 March - KL Race
19-20 March - Sava MR 500
28-30 April - Boracay
04-06 June - Macau
11-12 June - Penang
17-19 June - Hong Kong
09-10 July - Singapore Dragon Boat Festival
20 August - Austcham 10k
13 Sept - Macau Open
17-18 Sept - Sava Sprints
20-13 Oct - Malaysia Putrajaya
19-20 Nov - Singapore River Regatta
Awesome team.. Im wondering if I can join your team??
Hi guys! My cousin, aldrin cefre from new zealand referred me to this site. I know some friends who are interested in dragon boat(ing). Id like to see you guys soon!
Gong Xi Fa Cai
Joyeux Noël ! Merry Christmas! 메리 크리스마스 ! Frohe Weihnachten!ميلاد مجي ! весела коледа !圣诞快乐 ! Vrolijk Kerstfeest ! Feliz Navidad ! メリークリスマス !
Reading Facebook, yet again, I cry of joy for you guys in morning coffee. Only one word to add: CONGRATULATIONS!!!
All the best,
Pump Daddy
Good luck for the River Regatta! Show the others what hell weeks are standing for! Looking forward to see you again in December!
hi Silvan! Nice to hear from you, and I am looking forward to paddling with you again; drop us a note when your holiday plans have been finalized!
And wish us luck for Nov 30/31, Singapore River Regatta, where we defend our GOLD medal from last year!!!!
paddles up,
A
Hi German Dragons,
After now few years back home (Switzerland) after my S'pore experience I've just now saw you page again! Great that the team is doing good and few members I still know
I'm paddling for the "Drachenbootclub Beider Basel" in Switzerland who i still one of the only one here in Switzerland
but we do have a national team in switzerland who participated at the world championshi in Szeged this year!
I just want to say hallo and good luck to the team.
Maybe I will come to S'pore for holiday soon and come to the training as well
my best regards from sunny and cold Basel
Silvan (www.drachenboot.ch)
Good luck for the SDBF race weekend! Schwarz-Rot-Gold & Schlaaand !!!
Happy Birthday to the German Dragons!!
It was a great time I spend with guys sweating, suffering and laughing in the boat. At least I got some bronze during my time from '06 to '09 with the Germans! Its great to see how the team is moving on. Keep it going... and paddle hard.
German Dragons - black, red, GOLD!
Hi Katja pls help me to thank your team for giving me that wonderful support rendered, I deeply appreciated it. I enjoyed your german team company a lot. Gd nite.
Happy birthday German Dragons!
Hi Vincent!
thanks for the congrats and wish you were here to celebrate with us. We miss you.
Cheers,
Berry
2 silver medals over the weekend!!!!
To parameswara:
Your country is indeed a fabulous "modern first world country" in which I had the privilege to spend 18 wonderful months of my modest life. I loved every aspect of it, especially its openness to everything and everyone.
To my mind, there are no filthy Germans anywhere - especially not the awesome and great people, many of whom I call friends, I met on this team, and I beg to politely differ with your opinion.
Merry 10th Anniversary, Friends!
Vincent
team, who took pictures during the boat blessing? Can ppl send to me? thx!!
great job, team!!!!!
Now please email pictures of the race weekend to webmaster Andreas!
Thanks
Thanks
hello hi
happy New Year!!!
team meeting on Sat 23rd at Paulaner!
merry Christmas and happy holiday!!!!
CU for Christmas paddling at 3
hello
wow, the elusive gold after all these years!
congratulations on everyone's sweet, sweet victory!
Grattis och Glückwunsch!
hard to understand it is already 5 years since we saw our team win the regatta race.
All the best from Sweden!
Annelie&Matze
my big time CONGRATULATIONS! i am very proud of you, guys+gals!
wish i could celebrate (and row!) with you! GREAT JOB!!!
Schwarz-Rot-GOLD!!!! You are fantastic!!! Great job, congrats guys!!!
Congratulations for a great performance yesterday German Team ..!!
calling jude....pics, can? awesome weekend. congrats to the german dragons team for winning gold in the expat's race singapore river regatta 2009.
hi guys and gals, heard about the awesome results, congratulations!!!
awesome achievement and very very well deserved!!
hope you all recovered from the party, it must have been a good one
CONGRATS!!!!!
Gold in the Expat race, Silver in the 10 crew Inter Houses & Clubs = 2. best out of 82! teams and 1. in the Minor final in the National Championship Mixed 20 crew. GERMAN DRAGONS - GERMAN DRAGONS - SCHWARZ - ROT - GOLD !!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations to all for those well deserved medalsss!!!!
This team seriously rocks!
Guys, congrats, congrats, congrats. Just as I asked you, at the team meeting several months ago, you made me cry in my Sunday morning coffee! Awesome, guys!
Schwarz, Prost, Gold!
Uncle Vince
guys, luck's not required when u r fit, therefore no such wishes from me...
JUST GO AND SMASH THEM ALL!!!
u can do it.
cheers, g
Chaps,
good luck for the November Race!!
All the best from cold and windy munich.
skiing season is on from this weekend
paddle harderrrrrrr!!!
Marco and Hellen
Great Job, Brandy!!!
LET'S ALL SUPPORT GERMAN MANEUVER CUP (GMC) THIS SATURDAY,17 OCT AT 1PM. ALL FORMS OF ASSISTANCE ARE WELCOME.
Congrats on the silver medal at Sava!
Good luck!!! All the best, from rainy chilly Montreal... :/
happy birthday, Delphina!!!
Hey guys,
I am flying home today! Im gonna miss paddling for the German Dragons! I will miss the gold liquid Paulaner Beer! All the best for the up coming races!
Keep in contact with email or in Facebook.
Paddle hard!
Thanks for having me!
Aldrin Cefre
selling phiten necklaces at low prices! check out my site fr more details : sports-necklaces.blogspot.com
hi erline,
please call ewa (hp: 90186160) and she will be able to help!
cheers,berry
Hi there,
I would like to join, the webmaster or recruit links don't seem to be working, please help. Says here that email addys aren't allowed, would really appreciate it if you could look me up on facebook with practice/admin details. Thanks.
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German Dragons, just a reminder that attending tonight's farewell party is COMPULSORY! Attendance will be recorded by André, and accounted for in Monday's weekly email. Those found Brandying will be penalized 3 hours!!! Cheers!
Thanks to André for an especially tough land training. Keep it up like this and The Plan will achieve itself!
www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=92104&id=647315616
Good luck guys!!!
Happy Birthday Dirk!!!
Guys, while it's 4 AM for you, I'm in Vancouver, Canada so it's still 1 PM Friday. Expecting to arrive late late Saturday night, ready to re-start rocking the paddling kasbah as soon as I touch down. We need medals - and this is my last chance. Me wants to declare some metal ASAP
Well done!
Silver and Bronze for the German Dragons in Penang!
Fantastic Job! Congratulations!
Hey Everyone,
as you might have received the email from Peter by now, just to echo: there is NO TRAINING this SATURDAY (23 May) as the German Dragon Boat Team is going to Penang. Trainings resume next week starting on Tuesday(26 May)water training and Thursday(28 May)land training, and then Saturday(30 May)training.
Very nice pictures of the Diva Regatta!!!
Hi, nice to see all the picture from the previous events, hope to be one of you.
reminder:
DRAGON DIVAS race and party tomorrow!
So we'll have Penang training 10-12, and Sunday 12-2pm.
CU there!
Happy Birthday, Philipp
paddles up! have fun guys and gals, and keep it up and keep up the good shape!
we did a great job. let's keep it up! thanks to the whole team!!!so when are the pictures going to be uploaded into our website
?
Philipp,
"great job" doesn't actually quite describe it. You had to be there to feel it. We now believe we can paddle to victory - we even saw this mental thoughness at work against the Americans and the Canadians.
That was the most awesome Bedok weekend of my (short) paddling history. Thanks team!
Great Job!!!
Hi Frank,
thanks a lot!
Our first race of the year is coming soon.
Why don't you come over and paddle with us
Hope everything is fine over there and not too cold!
Cheers,
Philipp
Hey Dragons!
As I follow the entrys and pictures here, I see that there's still a lot going on there - many (new) paddlers...
Wish you all the best for the coming events.
Paddles up!
thx so much, Maki, for volunteering!
padldes up!
A
Hi Dragons,
Weekday watersessions are back!!
First session 24 Februari starting 18:00.
If you arrive late, let the guys know!!
Maki will take the lead and in absence it will be either Dirk or Philipp.
Cheers,
Peter
So many B'days in February... So where are all the party invites?
Landtraining is back!!
Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Oliver and Gernot!
Happy birthday! All the best!
Happy Birthday Anne!!!
Happy New Year to all of you!!
Dragons,
Check out our media page for the latest Impulse article about the German Dragons: www.germandragons.sg/media/media.php
Unfortunately only in German.
Cheers,
Philipp
Guys, there is no Watertraining at 6pm today.
Not enough people to fill a boat.
Landtraining at 7pm is still on though!
Cheers
German Dragons,
I wish I could join you tonight at the Tiger Brewery Tour. I hope your beer-drinking capability will be a proud testimony of your dedication to this team.
Bottles up!!!
thx guys! its encouraging to read all your comments and suggestions. lets look forward to the OFF season now with a few 'relaxed' paddle sessions and a number of parties. CU Friday for TIGER!
i can understand the disappointment...everyone is disappointed...the contest season is over...we have time to think and reflect until january next year...but if there was an immediate lesson learned from it it's a test of committment to the team...just because we didn't reach our goal like being in the final and winning it actually, or one was replace by someone(for so many reasons), or the not so clear organization of seat allotment or assignement, etc...for me these are not enough reasons to quit...i think these are the reasons why i'm sticking to the team to help rectify these shortmcomings... and i also think if some members or people who like to quit i think we have no right to hold them back...we voluntarily join the team then to those who will voluntarily leave the team we should also accord them that right, privilege (i don't know what word to use)...there are always room for improvement...i think we can do this...paddles up!!!
Yes! very true, Berry! Beside being disappointed, I believe still we had a lot of fun this weekend! Thanks all of you, however a very big cheer especially goes to Pam, Andre, Caroline, Anne and Yusoff, who did a great job and put a lot of effort in organizing the event and training us bunch of people! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Looking forward to the next race!
German Dragons, German Dragons, Schwarz-Brot-Gold! (as suggested by Simone, hahaha)
Indeed Berry,
It was great to support you guys in this wonderful event.
Thanks a million to the organisersss
This is an excellent team with or without a medal.
Happy Monday
to all of you who did not make it to Paulaner last night - we who went, knocked down a lot of beers and we drank to:
- all of you who are disappointed. the disappointment is understandable and ok. but don't be discouraged or tempted to quit. there is lessons to be learned, changes and improvements to be made but the best is yet to come if you stick around and keep it up!
- all of you who joined the team more recently. ok, so no medals this time round, but you "newbies" made and make the team stronger with your dedication, determination and spirit. the team needs everyone of you.
- all of the team organizers. most team members easily take those things for granted but there goes a ton of effort, time, endurance, patience, nerves into getting events set up and going. you deserve a big thank you!
- the guys. you are an awesome force to reckon with. all other expat teams know that and you have their respect, medals or not. keep it up!
- the girls. what a bunch of determined, tough and fighting ladies! well done and hats off to everyone of you.
- the supporters (and i enjoy being one of them!). so we don't sit in the boat doing the hard work, but the cheers, the lending a hand here and there, the word of consolation or encouragement when needed also come in handy. aren't we the lucky ones, joining in all the fun too.
we drank to all of you, hence the hangover today.
cheers and with a sore throat one more "German Dragons, German Dragons, Black-Red-Gold"!
Berry
What about?: The biggest, the best, better than the rest!
Long time no see guys, hope you all do well and will have a couple of succesful outings and kick some nice Canadian flesh...
Selamat datang di Jakarta!
Black Red Gold, Black Red Gold, German Dragons has the Gold!!! or Black Red Gold, Black Red Gold, German Dragons got the Gold!!! or
Black Red Gold, Black Red Gold, German Dragon's Gold put on hold!!! (if team doesn't make it and joke only too
...i'm sure it will get the gold...)
Black Red Gold, Black Red Gold, German Dragons go for Gold!!
Wow ppl are really creative. I am impressed!
The one bring up some months ago was:
One: German Dragons, German Dragons! (LOUD like crazy LLOOUUDD)
All: Black Red Gold!
Yesterday Anne adjusted to German:
One: German Dragons, German Dragons! (LOUD like crazy LLOOUUDD)
All: Schwarz Rot Gold!
Lets Go and ksA!
Bernd
wow, my cheer must be really bad one, coz so many people responded n trying to make a better one...
i like the way this is going! some good ideas here already!
cheers, gernot
How about:
"We fight like dragons, we fly like dragons we win like dragons we are German Dragons!"
i will uncover myself only if german team wins
....should be possible...i believe so...
philipp, don't do it...
i think melanie's yell is too long though it's good...i think a shorter yell is better...
I know who is diehard
But does he want to uncover himself??
I wouldn't use the SIEGEN either...
Thanks Melanie, I really like it!!! What the others think about it?
Who's Diehard?
but the word SIEG might be misinterpreted by other people...
Another suggestion is:
Deutsche Drachen, deutsche Drachen, paddeln, siegen, Bier in Rachen!
But unfortunately it sound only good in German.
My suggestion is:
German Dragons German Dragons Go Go Go!
We are a team we are friends we are winners
So let's paddle hard, let's paddle deep and SIEG!
Sieg means win or victory.
here's my suggestion for a yell....i'm going a cliche way
0ne or two person(s) will shout: GERMAN DRAGONS ARE YOU READY!
Team: READY
1/2: READY TO ROCK!
Team: ROCK!
1/2: READY TO ROLL!
Team: ROLL!
ALL: READY TO ROCK AND ROLL!!!
another idea...maye just for inbetween...or to challenge the others...hee hee
one goes: Don't Fuss!
Rest goes: FIGHT!
sorry - need to correct this...
Drachen Ahoi!
Wir bleiben uns treu!
Hip-hip hooray,
we will go for gold today!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO German Dragonsssss!!!!!!!!!!!
There!
Drachen Ahoi!
Wir bleiben uns treu!
Hip-hip hooray,
we will go for gold today!
????
I should have become a poet!
haha
Hey Vera, I like it very much, can you find a second part in english, for the international side of the team (means about 80%) :-p
oh I just found one on the net for a 'German' Dragonboat team.
Drachen AHOI! Wir bleiben uns treu!
will add a 'German' touch to it, though noone will understand it!
'Drachen' is the German word for dragon.
'Ahoi' is an excalmation used to address boats/ships. It's a German baotsman's term.
'Wir bleiben uns treu' means we will stay true to ourselves.
oh... it's the melody of the Ricky Martin 'Cup of Life' song
What was wrong with the song we used to sing? Here we go Ole Ole Ole Ole, go go go, ole ole ole ole. Tonights the night we're gonna celebrate.. gold gold gold ole ole ole :o)
or something like that...
how about use back the Hoi !!! Hoi !!! Hoi !!!
Thank you chicken, but it is what we say right now
But I agree on the short and sweet!!!!
Any short German words we could say instead of "GO GO GO"?
Hey, thanks Gernot for coming up the cheers, I am not sure all of us will be able to pratice it well in 2 days
Might want to try somthing simple like:-
GERMAN DRAGONS GERMAN DRAGONS GO !!! GO !!! GO !!!
How does it sound? It is like Zicke Zacke Zicke Zacke Hoi !!! Hoi !!! Hoi !!!
1 person: “Let me hear the F word!”
Dragons: “FOREVER”
1 person: “Let me hear the A word!”
Dragons: “AAALWAYS”
1 person: “n what do we have for S?”
Dragons: “SSSssssIMPLE”
1 person: “n what does T mean for u?”
Dragons: “TOGETHER!”
4 person(together): “F - A - S - T - What does this make us?”
Dragons: “FAAAAAAAASSSSSTTT!!!!!!”
Hey team!
Keep it up! Moderate the drinking, optimize the sleeping, and keep training hard. The medal's in sight!!!
Cheers!
i think the german dragons has a new mascot: chicken!!! the team can commission someone to make a kind of cap in form of a chicken head. the team can wear this during races....just an idea though....
I don't know. Ask Catherine!
who is this chicken?
Chicken cannot make it????
No option!
We need chickeennnnn!!!!
Chicken will not be able to make it !!!!!! ;-(
hahaha! but next tuesday i want a seat in the boat again!
You're right Vincent. Lucky Dirk and Soubhik were not there or else we have 2 boats that night. Thank you for coming and keep on paddling.
Thanks to Yusof and all the 21 who nearly made us take 2 boats for a Tuesday night training!!! Let's keep it up like this (nobody will tell it was a difficult training!), and we WILL kick some Canadian a$$.
Chickeennnn three
chickennnnn too
Chickeeeennn!
Time trial and BBQ tomorrow!!
Yeah!!!
Awesome race weekend! Thanks to everyone for the great spirit and a special thanks to the ones who spend so much time in organizing this event for us!
Thanks to Azhar for the Chicken Wings yesterday! Was so good after that hard traing....
Special thanks to Hector for today's hardcore training!
Hi Dragons,
don't forget, Paulaner Team Night coming Saturday from 8pm onwards!
And bring your photo please, either for training or to Paulaner for the new membership cards!
See you all this weekend.
Cheers
GREAT SHOW at the Mens Masters!
Congrats to our girls. Coming in first in the semi-final is fantastic! You where the only expat team in the grand finals!
Guys, we where good but once more our girls where a bit better
We need to train harder!
Cheers,
Berd
Hey Germany,
Condolences on your loss to Spain. ;(
I just wanna say thanks to whoever had the brilliant idea to take my camera and snatch a few pics of the departing 20-crew boat full of men about to undergo 800 metres of gruelling power-tens...
)) Whoever you are, a huge Dänke!
hi there German Dragon,
thanks for the paddle session last Saturday! its great for a tourist like me to see Singapore from a very different perspective!
all the best for this weekend's races!!!
paddles up!
wish all good luck...this weeken
Hi Dragons,
I wish you good luck for the race this weekend. Unfortunately I cannot be there but I will keep my fingers crossed - and for the Germany-Spain final on Sunday
HEY GERMAN DRAGONS!!!!
TONIGHT AT 2.45AM GERMANY VS TURKEY SEMI FINAL EURO 2008. PLEASE COME/GO TO PAULANER TO WATCH THE MATCH. IT\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'S GOING TO BE AN AWESOME GAME AS WELL AS THE PAULANER BEER WITH 50% DISCOUNT. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!! DEUTSHCLAND, DEUTSCHLAND, DEUTSCHLAND!!!
Ich noch einmal ;o))
Für Emailkontakt, einfach auf Kontakt auf meiner Homepage anklicken, oder hier: scotlandforever(at)gmx.eu
at-Zeichen ersetzen, weil ja hier keine Emailadressen erlaubt sind ;o)) Und noch einmal liebe Grüße, Steve
Hi Drachenbootfreunde,
ein deutscher Drachenboot-Club in Singapur? Das heißt, ich darf Dir hier auch in deutsch schreiben?
Ich bin durch ein bischen „rumschnusen“ im Internet auf Euren Link gekommen und bin sehr begeistert, so wie überhaupt vom Drachenbootsport!
So möchte ich Euch von Deutschland ganz lieb grüßen!!! Erzählt doch einmal wie kommt ihr nach Singapur?
Ich bin in meinem ganzen Leben noch nie so weit weg gewesen. Das weiteste bis jetzt war Spanien, Frankreich, Belgien und mein absolut geliebtes Schottland.
Aber!!!: Am 24. Juli. 2008 fliege ich nach Bankog und nach zwei Tagen Aufenthalt geht es mit meiner Mannschaft, die dann nachkommt (Ich hatte kein Platz mehr im Flugzeug bekommen und musste somit vorfliegen ;o)) nach Malaysia Penang auf die Weltmeisterschaft im Drachenbootsport. Ich bin so etwas von aufgeregt und überglücklich dabei sein zu dürfen, was sich sehr kurzfristig erst entschieden hatte. Fleißig am Trainieren bereite ich mich bald täglich darauf vor, um alles zu geben. Für Euch ist es doch bald fast um die Ecke? Wird man sich dort treffen? Wäre echt klasse, Kontakt zu bekommen und zu halten mit Drachenbootfreunden aus der Heimat in der Ferne ;o)) Eine Drachenbootfreundschaft German-Singapur!
Würde mich freuen, mehr von Euch zu lesen hören oder vielleicht sogar zu sehen? Vielleicht braucht ihr etwas aus Eurer Heimat, was ich für Euch tun kann und sei Berichte über Ereignisse von hier, oder, oder, oder….!
Ich habe vor kurzem auch eine Homepage gebaut, nicht so professionell wie Eure, aber es gibt viel anzuschauen, unter der Seite „Erfolge auf Fotos“ folgen demnächst noch mehr Fotos. Ich kam vor lauter Training nur nicht dazu, diese mal wieder hochzuladen. Morgen (Samstag) bis Sonntag sind wir im Trainings-Camp in Essen, eventuell danach werde ich mir mal wieder ein bischen Zeit für die Aktualisierung der Seite nehmen ;o))
Gerne erweitere ich meine Webseite um eine Linksammlung, in der ich Euch gerne mit verlinke.
Schaut doch einfach mal rein, einfach ohne www eingeben: drachenbootsport.funpic.de
Ich freue mich auch sehr über einen motivierenden Gästebuch-Eintrag von Euch ;o))
Na, dann, bis bald?
Ganz liebe Grüße an das ganze Team,
Euer neuer Fan Steve Mai
Hey paddlers!
Think some of you might have been at Paulaner for Germany vs. Portugal. Would like to have been there! The time during WM 06 was so cool!
All the best for all of you!
Gratuliere nachträglich zum letzten Sieg!
Power in the water!!!
please don\'t tell ewa what i wrote here (shhhh). she is my officemate. she felt bad not being invited to the dragon boat team. but i honestly thought all the while that i had invited her already \'coz everytime we talked about dragonboat in the office she didn\'t make some remarks. so, i asked her if she was willing to die slowly. and she said \"yes\". so she will join dragonboat with us on saturday
Brandy asked me, if I am ready to die an saturday...:0)I would like to join you this saturday!
In behalf of Kevin and John, thank you for allowing us to train with your team. Its been a great experience specially for me a newbie in this sport. I really enjoyed it inspite of the heavy rain. Thanks also to Brandy for introducing us to your team. See you all in the next training session.
Mabuhay
Finally: Weekday water session is back!!
Do make an effort to come down and help us move the boat; we can only offer this session if enough people are coming down!
CU tomorrow at 6pm at Kallang!
And bring your running gear, as we will follow up with a short jog...
And then a few drinks
Hey guys,
Great BBQ on Sat, looking foward to time trials this weekend.
Good to be back racing today, even if we didnt make the finals!
Cheers
dear kophunter,
sure, come over this Saturday!
We'll be having a BBQ party as well, after the trainign session.
CU on the water,
anne
Dear Anne,so sorry i cant join u guys at last weekend...tis weekend will be joining u guys as newbie...hopefully me n my friend can make it on tat day...cheers
Hi DRAGON TEAM, wir moechten uns auf diesem Wege ganz herzlich bei euch - und ganz besonders bei Britta & Nick - fuer eure Gastfreundschaft und den unvergesslichen Trip am letzten Samstag (17. Mai 2008)bedanken. Es hat uns unheimlich viel Spass gemacht und wird uns ein unvergessliches Erlebnis von euere tollen Stadt SINGAPORE bleiben.
Vielen Dank
Micha & Norbert
- europe - germany - berlin
Great job gals and guys! To bad I have to leave but trust you guys will have a good year ahead!
Cheers
hi Kophunter,
sure, just swing by this Saturday, meeting time 2:30 at Kallang, refer to the map on our website for the exact location.
no worries, we always have newbies!
CU at the beach!
Anne
Hi guys n ladies,went to c the dragon tug,me interested in the team,but as a newbie dun noe whether can i join the team???Pls advise...rks
Dragon Tug!
Hey Team! Well done, well done indeed! Cheering u all during the final race against the americans till me voice will be horsed for the next few days is well worth it. I can still savour the moment of victory witnessing from the pier how we push from behind to become the lead and get the flag!
Oh yeah and the sight of us turning our boat (mens open- I had a great race) haa haa..., sitting by the pontoon relaxing and then having some cute chicks wolf whistle and then blew flying kisses off the pier to us could not have made the moment sweeter, too bad Austchams the chicks dig us more!!! Muahhahahahahahaaaaaaaa.
To sum it all up, Ich bin stolz, ein deutscher Drache zu sein. "vorwärts Drachen, für den Sieg!"
Hi captain Ann, I had spoken to Miss Carolien during Dragon Tug day. That i'm interested to join your Team for serious rolling. As she sms me that she is not able to make it this Saturday training section so she said look for you. Anyway maybe i can meet you during the jogging section, but i not sure abt the place you all meet. Maybe you can drop me a sms or a mail. My contact nos is ( nine eight five seven 22 nine six). Hector here. Like to have serious training and fun with you guys. Thanks
GOLD!!!
well, actually a metallic plate, but first place for our mixed crew in Dragon tug yesterday!
well done, team!
CU for Paulaner Jog on Tuesday,
Anne
Dragontug Saturday 10. Mai 11:30 Merlion - no training at Kallang
Nice pics.. Damn.. Dear team, I miss this, and I miss u guys!
It has been too long and Im sorry for that.
Very busy with many things here in Holland. I hope to come and visit y'all anytime soon.
Keep up the good work!
Cheers!!
hey,
our next regular training session will be this coming Saturday, 2:30 at the Kallang beach. for exact location, have a look at the map which you find on our website under 'join'.
CU on the water!
Anne
Sorry can't put my e-mail add. maybe reply in wed site or someone kind enough to let me know when is the next training session and wat time n also the training ground.my mail is hotmail just attach on the name which i appear.
Hi, I like to know abt the Team as i quite interested in the foregin base dragon. Maybe can e-mail to me like when is your next training session and if possible can i have a contact person. I'm looking forward on it. thanks
nice page!!!
Hi Guys n Ladies,
me interested in yr team,actually me join yr team for training b4 but only last for 3-4 sessions,need to give up due to work...but right now i like to join back,it is ok??
Everyday is a dragonboat day to me, i eat and sleep and think of dragonboat, i talk and laugh about dragonboat, i even dream of dragonboat, i work as a dragonboat rower too, so keep it up German rowers i hope you guys can keep it up and think the same as me too...paddles up!
to all of you who remember Anneli & Matze:
they just announced the birth of their daughter Freja!
Congrats!!
lets have a toast to them on Wed at Paulaner!
Prost,
A
Happy birthday Judith!!!
I am a bit late, but hey enjoy the celebration of yourself and eat a lot of chocolate!
XXX
hey Judith, happy birthday!!
and yes, i agree, we need more of these BBQ... lets hope Brnady volunteeres again
and that you guys bring your yummy Kartoffelsalad again!
cheers,
a
Hi guys,
thanks to all who organized this very nice bbq.
It was good fun!!! Maybe we should have more of these \'team meetings\'
Cheers
team,
nice show yesterday at men's (and girl's!) masters!
CU on Saturday on the water and afterwards our team meeting cum BBQ party!
cheers,
Anne
You have to know, this is written by the most lazy member of the team – attt.. the moment!!
Than perhaps ...mhhh ... wait ... "German Dragons Singapore ... JDS - Go - for – Gold ...go go go" ... Stroke for Gold/ Paddle for Gold...!” no also not good, mhhh
"G-like Germans - D-like Dragons - go for Go - Go - Gold?" ...yes I know not good. I do not think so too.
What about: "G-like/for-Germans, D-like/for-Dragons - G-for-Gold - We-gonna-make-it - GDG - huup/ or johhh/ or whatever...!" - I like that a little, as a work peace.
(Sorry, i did not incorporate in the international thing jet, give me some time).
Regards
Britta
Hi Team,
I have some proposals for the cheer:
"Zicke- Zacke - Hühnerkacke, kein Teamgeist aber Bier! Joh Joh Joh"... or "Wir fahren nach Berlin.. Berlin .. Berlin" ...ok just a joke, sorry!
You have to know, this is written by the most lazy member of the team – attt.. the moment!!
Than perhaps ...mhhh ... wait ... "German Dragons Singapore ... JDS - Go - for – Gold ...go go go" ... Stroke for Gold/ Paddle for Gold...!” no also not good, mhhh
"G-like Germans - D-like Dragons - go for Go - Go - Gold?" ...yes I know not good. I do not think so too.
What about: "G-like/for-Germans, D-like/for-Dragons - G-for-Gold - We-gonna-make-it - GDG - huup/ or johhh/ or whatever...!" - I like that a little, as a work peace.
(Sorry, i did not incorporate in the international thing jet, give me some time).
Regards
Britta
From cold and snowy Berlin I wish you a great race coming weekend!
Show them who's the boss!
Paddles up!
Great Botanical Garden Session on Wednesday with a lot of fun!! We had a good crowd of ppl on the spot. Andre's program was very deliberated and for all levels. The tipps where very helpful. Thank you Andre!
Will try come more often, hope others too...
Cheers, Bernd
Eh... wat a nice BBQ last sat man thanks guys... seen some old faces and lots of new faces yeah.. really glad to join u guys again... but for the training at Bg i doubt i can make it though cos i work at eunos till 7!!! haha so yeah... u guys enjoy the fun!!
I am so sorry, I left out my email address: clement(at)brucedunlop.com.sg
Hi!
Warm greetings from the creative team at BDA (Bruce Dunlop & Associates)! BDA is a global creative agency that provides a range of promotion and design services to broadcasters and advertisers worldwide.
We have been awarded to produce the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening sequence that will be broadcast worldwide, and we would like to request the support of the German Dragons Singapore to help us find international talents to be featured in the opening sequence.
We are seeking to cast non-Chinese sportsmen whom takes part in the following sports:
- Athletics (Running/Sprinting)
- Triathlon (male)
- Swimming (male)
We are especially looking for swimmer as the talents cast so far has been too lean and small-built for the Olympic Board. Thus, we would really need bigger-built and muscled swimmers (we have been told to find someone like Michael Phelps)...
The shoot is expected to take place in late Feb, and we would need to first obtain pictures and contact details for anyone interested.
Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much!!
Yours sincerely,
Clement Ng
Production Coordinator
BDA | BRUCE DUNLOP & ASSOCIATES
71 Kim Yam Road | Singapore 239369
TEL | +65 6732 3300
FAX | +65 6732 3326
www.brucedunlop.com
Hope you guys will have a successful 2008 with many fun events in the boat
Wish we could be there for the excitement...
Paddles up!
Hi all,
Happy New Year and see you all in a couple of weeks.
Thorvald
Hi guys... happy new year! dunno whether if u all still remember me long time no see cos i've been MIA for a year. I will be back to join you guys for this year though i think... hope to see u guys again!
Hey Dragons,
Happy New Year and all the best for 2008!!!
Philipp
i want to see what i have never see before
Hey Folks,
hope you all had relaxed and peaceful Holidays! Looking at the pics of the x-mas party you definetly didn't have a calm start into the holiday season :o) Wish you all a good start into the new year and all the best for 2008!
Regards from Hessen,
Sebastian
I wish everyone of the team Meery Christmas and a healthy and succesfull year 2008!
Warmest regards from freezin (snowing!) Switzerland
Silvan
Merry X-mas and a Happy New Year to all.
Caroline and Wiebke I wish both of you happy birthday.
See you next year.
Merry X-mas and a Happy New Year to all.
Caroline and Wiebke I wish both of you happy birthday.
See you next year.
Merry Christmas and Happy new year to all!!! Enjoy your holidays, the food, the drinks, the parties...And I\'ll see you all on the 19th, because be sure you gonna need some exercise after all the excess
Hi to all!!!!
but venkat you\'re going to germany next year!
happy to know that you\'ve enjoyed paddling with the team. merry x-mas to all and a big bang new year!!!
Hey Dragons,
A bit late - great Christmas party and thanks to the guys who made it happen! And before I forget, I should thank Klaus too for the best gift of the night (a mini Comfort cab - the real one is becoming too expensive)
Looking forward to next year with the team and have to mention I really enjoyed being part of the one and only German Dragons, woohoo!
Special credit to Anne, Britta, Pam, Andre, Bodson, Carolien, Berndt and Yusof for their contributions and sacrifices and to Brandy for introducing me! Let me end my first post with this - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, lets make 2008 our best yet!!
Hi evryone,
I wellcome the cheng as step to imporve team competetively in 2008 and i would like to thanks Andre and Carolin for takeing this responsiblety to bring the team to higher level.
Not toforget about Britta and Thanks to her too,
i didnt meet her personaly,but i am sure she did as best as she could.
Cheers,
Hey German Dragons,
I'm back in freezing Germany now missing all the action out on the river, the beer at the beach and all good spirit of the team!
Hope to come back soon!
Paddles up!
Harald
Danke Anne!
cheers
thanks very much anne! lets rock it on the 8th and for the guys - on the 16th woohoo!! =D
congrats to Veron and Andre for surviving the 42k marathon in style!
a
hi Amir, thanks for that nice and encouraging text! ground training starts next week again, if i'm not mistaken. There will be a team email announcing it.
cheers,
a
GOLD,GOLD,GOLD
Nothing less then Gold for next race,that is what you guys deserve it,blive me,i have join you guys for a few training and i can say with fully comfident you are better team.
i join the German team from Auscham with this blive you haveing strong team and i am very much gald that i was right.
off the watter you are grate team too and i am glad to have such nice team mates.
Guys lets work harder on the water training,that means you have to put training very serusly and come for evry training if you whant to have GOLD,
As for ground traning,since you guys dont have any,i may sujest some work out wich will help your arms spicialy tobe much stronger,fallow some simple step evry day in the morning befor take shower,1-3 set of push-up 30ea/2-3 set of sit-up 30ea/3-5 set of chin-up start from what ever number you can do.
this will take total of 10 minth of your time.(this is good for guys like me who are over weight).
you can reach me by
Mobile:96836569
party!
team BBQ on Sat Dec 1st, after training!
a
Party? Where\'s the party? hahahaha. Social members unite!!!! Oh wait, that could only be me. Party hard?
Guys and Gals!
Waaaaaaaaayyy to many people with the same name in the team
I just counted 4 Philip(p)s and 3 Sebastians (and this is just the active members....
Can we decide on putting the first letter of the last name behind the name? Or some other identification???
e.g. Philipp A., Philip 203 (due to his height), etc
BTW... I'm planning some social event soon. Will keep you posted!
Let\'s go for gold in the men\'s masters
Thank you so much for this nice weekend. I had a lot of fun and it was a great pleasure to see you fighting. Although we didn't win you all made me proud being now a member of the German Dragons.
Really good work!!!
CU in two weeks.
(the new) Sebastian
Dear Dragons,
besides the "slight" disappointment it was a great weekend and an excellent Paulaner night yesterday.
Thanks a lot!
Have a good week and see you on Saturday for relaxed paddling.
Keep your paddles up!
My congratulations!!!
You guys did well!!!
Strive for GOLD!
Hey Dragons, today's races were fantastic and team spirit was ace!!! I'm now officially no longer a virgin and it feels great! Looking forward to more!..races, I mean
Let's go for goal tomorrow!
Dear Dragons,
Great job today and some fantastic results! We have qualified for both the Semi Final of the Inter-Business Houses & Clubs and both boats have made it through to the Inter-Inter Business Community Final, for the very first time! =)
Unfortunately, we didn\\\\\\\'t manage to qualify for the Mens & Womens Open, but we lost out by just a bit. Both our men & women came in with the 4th fastest 3rd place times.
Reporting time tomorrow is 9am, our first race is at 10.24am for the Inter-Biz Houses & Clubs.
Please rest up well and see you all tomorrow.
Let\\\\\\\'s Go For GOLD!!!!
Pam
Best of power for the Singapore River Regatta 2007. Go For Gold People!
Thanks André for the good workout in Botanical Gardens!
Really enjoyed it!
Would be a very good preparation for the race if many paddler show up next week, not only for fitness, but for some timing exercises.
See you there!
Hey guys!
we are winner of the Grand Master's Plate Final!!
That's great!
Thanks to the whole team and to André and Pam for organising everything!
team,
all 10 seats taken!
CU there or at the beach on Saturday,
A
team,
any more takers for the 4 remaining seats for the SDBA fund raising dinner this Friday night?
Drop me an email by tonight please.
cheers,
a
Thanks Phillip(203)! For the very lovely v-momento! ;P
Sebastian.
Looking forward to your visit!
You missed the Oktoberfest, but you will be here for the Singapore River Regatta.
That's just as well!!
Have a good flight!
Alamak - I miss the Oktoberfest by just a few days!!! Party hard folks and looking forward to see you again next week! Cheers from Frankfurt, Sebastian
Moin Moin,
pls have a look at "www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYVcFhTNbtk"
Cheers
Auaaaa!
most welcome Bernd! I liked a lot how the whole team was screaming and cheering for each paddler during his time trial. It makes it so much easier to ignore the pain.
Hope to see many of the team for Botanical Gardens session tomorrow at 8pm!
cheers,
a
Thank you Anne and Caroline!
Your cheering at the time trial was fantastic!
Was great event to build the team spirit
Congratulation Harald for the best result!!
Cheers Bernd
Yeahhhhh!!!!!!!!!
World champions!!!!!!!!!!
Well done German Soccer Ladies!!!!!!!
OK Berry.
Now you know all about the paddle.
Time to try paddling with it!
Paddles Up!!
i find it an advantage that the blade of the heavier wooden paddle does not twist so easily when in the water. however the constant pulling out of the water, lifting up and bringing forward before dipping it in again is much lighter and seems to consume much less strength with the carbon/fibre paddles.
a bit similar to tennis - i learned that with an old wooden dunlop and later appreciated a carbon/fibre racket for it's lighter weight.
i agree though, if the technique is not ok, then you paddle wrong or badly, no matter what.
So glad I drum and organize parties... no big need for physics there
It is technique which matters more (:
Carbon/Light paddle = Heavy Pull/Catch
Wooden Paddle = Moderate Pull/Catch.
Efficiency of Stroke = Speed of the paddle drive in water
Because the energy transfer from paddler to paddle to water is in the drive.
The paddle acts as a medium between paddler and water. The paddler executes the drive.
Dragonboating is in relation to physics! Hope that helped (((:
It is amazing that the Mynamar National team were letting everyone eat water in the Penang race. They were using paddles that were even older than the \'wooden planks\' with the yellow end, which we used to paddle with...
So I guess in the end it is all about the technique!
V.
Hi Berry, Bernie,
the carbon paddles sure look good but I seem to be a bit old fashioned. Therefore I prefer the wooden planks as their weight feels a bit more comfortable. Anyway we looked good on the TV-shot, that I can assure!
Cheers
Hi Berry,
we used the paddels last week we had a TV team on board! Was a TV shoot for Eco tourism magazine. Sure the paddels will look great on TV
Cheers,
Bernd
hey guys,
you got some really awesome looking new paddles just around end of june but too late to use them in the june race. sava must have been the first actual race where you could paddle with them.
how is the feedback and experience that you got with the new paddles through training and at the sava race? any difference? generally better than the old ones?
i used to paddle with the old, in comparison rather heavy wooden planks and am just interested to learn if the much lighter carbon/fibre or what they are made of are being well received by paddlers.
cheers,
berry
Truly Singaporean,
\"Australia risks becoming the poor white trash of Asia..\", - Lee Kuan Yew
\"Singapore would hit rock bottom if it was run by Australians\" - Lee Kuan Yew
\"We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellecually and CULTURALLY anaemic.\" - Lee Kuan Yew
\"My neighbours(Malaysia, Indonesia) both have problems with their Chinese. They(chinese) are successful, they\'re hardworking and therefore they are systematically marginalised(by malays), even in education\" - Lee Kuan Yew
\"The exceptional number of Nobel Prize winners who are Jews is no accident. It is also no accident that a high percentage, sometimes 50%, of faculty members in the top American universities on both the east and west coasts are Jews. And the number of high calibre Japanese academics, professionals, and business executives is out of all proportion to the percentage of Japanese in the total American population.\" - Lee Kuan Yew, 1982
\"I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that\'s the most unlikely thing ever to have been..(because people)had different intermixtures between races, peoples.. - Lee Kuan Yew, quoted the book, The Man & His Ideas , 1997
\"If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who\'s very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that\'s a very tricky business. We\'ve got to know his background... I\'m saying these things because they are real, and if I don\'t think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn\'t think carefully about this, we could have a tragedy.\" - SM Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, September 19, 1999
So now we know where the \"Singapore For Singaporeans\" mentality stems from!
It also gives me the greatest pleaseure to say this, MDA and Singapore Police are reading this too!
Hey Y\'all,
well done in the SAVA sprints, really miss rowing with you guys... am still alive and kicking (or rather kickboxing, hope to join you guys in the Nov race.... Got miss me or not? hahah I think not lah...
anyway, Miss you guys loooong time....
Go German Dragons Go!!!!!
To everyone engaged in the ongoing discussion:
We would appreciate your cooperation in refraining from using this Guestbook subsequently for discussions like this. As Lionel Tan so correctly pointed out, another forum would be more suitable. "Singapore for Singaporeans" & Co, do feel free to swing by Kallang on a Saturday afternoon to continue this discussion after our training session. As everybody knows, we are neither nationalist nor racist; most of us are not even German.
Anne, Captain German Dragons Singapore
Well, I'm definitely Singaporean and it gives me great pleasure in being able to say this, (so let's get really Singaporean on this): Under the revised Penal Code tabled just recently in Parliament, any person(s) convicted of causing racial and religious disharmony can be jailed up to 3 years or fined, or both. (In my humble opinion, you've already qualified on that count)
A formal report has already been filed with both MDA as well as the Singapore Police to alert them to this discussion. May we suggest that you take up your concerns with those relevant authorities and use that as a more relevant forum in which to air your grievances. I'm sure they'll lend a supportive ear.
Truly, Majulah Singapura
A Singaporean (with a rather prickly nature)
Well Well Well...
Whoever is this person... is definitely not a Singaporean. Singapore is a land of immigrants. So she welcomes everyone with a big smile. The little red dot really is one peaceful and beautiful land which is without any hangups abt races.. So pls do not try to insult her.
Besides this, U wanna try the German friendliness... Just come down and paddle with the Germans... This is a multi racial group of paddlers keeping to the Principals of this nation
Hmmm one more word... Grow up. Living in the past makes u grow obsolete
Afganistan, Iraq, Iran, Korea u dont find a German Army there!!! U know what I mean. These are people who are engaged in innovation and discoveries benefitting u and me
Think abt it
Paddles Up..
"Singapore for Singaporeans" - you must be aware that the Singapore Government is very sensitive and very alert to anyone, who attempts to disrupt the cultural harmony here and to anyone instigating disturbance to the racial balance. They have taken action on that before (example: blogger insulting malays) and you are dangerously close to crossing the line.
In fact, in my personal view you have crossed that line already and I would not be surprised, if you were found out pretty soon, making some rather pitiful headlines when being taken to court.
Nothing is easier for the Singapore Government body in charge than to find out who you really are and to put a stop to this.
You have enjoyed a great deal of tolerance by everyone on this website guestbook so far, however i am certain, Singapore will not tolerate anyone poisoning the multi-cultural harmony here - you included!
\"We do not even have to respond to other foreigners whom are from third world countries.\"
\"We also do not wish to engage ourselves with Singaporeans of white-monger nature\"
Reminds me of Ahmedinejad..
Anyways, whatever happened to \"pledge ourselves as one united people,
regardless of race, language or religion\" --> That IS the Singapore pleadge after all.
As for not being responsible for the Govt\'s actions. I feel for you (wo)man
* blink *
Chill out dude(tte).. It\'s just paddling. Really.
Hey all!
Wanted to thank you again for the great race experience at the SAVA sprints... it was fun to drum again after such long time...
Keep up the sporty spirit!
Check your mails on the next event!
V.
To all that responded,
The issue brought up since our first entry was about the establishment of foreign CULTURAL values in Singapore and the CONTRADICTION of the Singapore value of culture as a result of the former. We do not wished to be swayed away from this point.
There is enough material from the activities of this organisation to suggest that the influence of a socio-political end is not far-fetched.
We are not the Singapore Govt nor are we responsible for the actions of the Singapore Govt. We are the people of Singapore and we respresent the people's perspective. As Singaporean,it is within our diminished right to shape the societal mould of this country.
Germans, you are economic immigrants in this country. You are settled here because of the failed economic policies in your country. It is your country's responsiblity to provide you with the lifestyle you enjoy here. Understand your role as economic immigrants and promote your Euro-centric colonial mindset elsewhere.
We do not even have to respond to other foreigners whom are from third world countries. Singapore is clearly not a place for foriegn idealogies, let alone third world.
We also do not wish to engage ourselves with Singaporeans of white-monger nature. These people contribute to the contradiction of the Singapore culture while being oblivious to the backlash from the white society in other countries.
The prevailing argument is that till now, our initial comments have not been addressed:
1. using organizational means to promote German traditions, way of life, culture.
2. engaging in the active recruitment of Singaporeans for the purposes of a German influence in Singapore society.
3. the logo on this website which slanders the Singapore name by being designed in the backdrop of the colors of a German flag.
4. continued persecution of non ethnic Germans in Germany. The lack of initiative from ethnic Germans makes the latter guilty by association.
We still hope the German Dragons would re-organise to fit the means of a sports entity alone.
Majulah Singapura
I visit the gallery and everytime my heart beats seeing the race... Whether I am drumming or paddling.
Its a lovely sport. Just the feeling of paddle in the water beats or washes away all the stress...
Yup I am missing in Action.. Taking a very long break
Keep it up folks. U rock!!!
If not for the entertaining comments below I would not have visited this website more than once a month.
Singapore For Singaporeans why not you join us at the Dragon Boat Session on Saturday's afternoon at 2:30 pm and have fun paddling.
The funny thing about all this is!!
- It is singapore governments plan to increase the population here to 6.5 million
- Most part of this is going to be expatriates according to the government(I personally sense no lapse in logic here either. If u know what i mean)
- when there is a group of chinese in america there is a china town(probably the only place you will find some decent food in US). Similary the more expatriates, there is going to be some spread of influence in the place.
- maybe JUST maybe do you think the government is acting along with all these expats to bring upon singapore a CULTURAL devastation????
- Singapore for Singaporeans... i have identified the culprit for you..so now you know whom to target...
P.S. sorry guys i am young to know history.. but got a pretty good logical reasoning because i am ------. (will not state- nationality...sorry
)
Dear...uhm, well how do i address you? "Singapore for Singaporeans" may well be a slogan of your choice, but as a name for a party that openly posts their opinion on a website, this sounds rather obscure.
That is like me calling myself "Outside of Singapore we are foreigners too" or something. Moving on...
Just to clarify and to spread the credits more fairly:
we also enjoy fabulous champagnes and wines from France, despite any injustices or terrible acts, King Louis or Napoleon may have sanctioned in their days.
We also enjoy the wonders of Japanese technology, despite what those guys did in the past, be that Pearl Harbour or their past deeds in and to Singapore.
We also enjoy Australian dairy products despite their Mrs. Hansen.
We (at least many of us) also enjoy Coca Cola, MacDonalds, Burger King, Hip Hop and what have you,independent from our probably varying views on say the Vietnam war or Iraq, etc.
We enjoy the endless number of scientific achievements out of ancient China, or the oil supplies from Middle East countries, or the rich variety of music, dance, literature, movies and all other art forms from all over the world.
So where do we move to?
Thank heavens we do not have to worry about that at all. As long as we Singaporeans (and most of us do)see that the rich variety of cultural values here stems from us Singaporeans not only tolerating but welcoming them onto our shores, we can enjoy them right here.
As long as we don't get ideas such as building a fence around our lovely island, be that in our minds or hearts or even physically, we shall continue to be able to enjoy and benefit from the choices we get this way. That wealth of choices, that wealth of different cultural values makes us, what we are proud of - a global city in a global world. So attractive to other cultures that they come here to invest, to contribute, to share, to participate, to spend, to explore. And if and when they travel elsewhere or back home, they happily spread the gospel about our beloved island.
I think that is splendid and the way it should be.
Majulah Singapura
P.S. don't you think, this kind of discussion belongs to some other forum, rather than the guestbook of the German Dragons website? I am starting to feel that i am not respectfully behaving like a guest (!) on this website.
Dear Singapore For Singaporeans,
U r right!
There used to be Germans thinking about Germany kinda as u think about Singapore now...that led to the most terrible and most disgusting crime that the world has ever seen!
To my opinion u can do 2 things. Either u hope that this happens never and nowhere in the world again, or u work actively against it. And that is where I personally see the German Dragons!
Since we are no \\\"Germans Only Club\\\" we help to bring ppl together to get to know each other\\\'s culture and learn from each other.
U r also right regarding the Neo Nazis. Unfortunately u will find them in Germany...as in every other state in the world. Being a Nazi has nothing to do with being a German, its about the way of thinking...which brings me back to my first sentence!
And u are also right that a Nazi might just punch u out. But the most dangerous Nazis are the ones who use the more civilized way of communication, they act in the background, using for example the internet... .
If u should make up ur mind and willing to give up the internet as ur camouflage u r welcome to meet us and will probably have a great talk about differences.
That talk should unify us cause we are all different!
But pls, a discussion about whether u want \\\"Singapore For Singaporeans\\\" will never take place, cause no-one needs a backslide in thinking of 60 years!!
Most people learned their lessons, my Malaysian or Indian or Chinese friend...or r u even Japanese!?
With Regards
I get annoyed when racists remarks are made. A lot of peopel don't realise that racism works both ways. And any skin colour can be racists. Its worse when they don't realise that they are being just that. Anyways... i hate racists so i've done some analysing to maybe make it easier for us to pin point the idiot who is saying all this. Not a hundred percent but most likely. And I am confident that if I am quite accurate that he is going to reply back saying I am way off with my analysis. Then we know I'm right. But after reading this he probably won't say anything. Like reverse reverse reverse mind game.. Yeah whatever.
From my analysis.. Naming himself Sang Nila Utama tells me he is a dragon boater from a local dragon boat team. probably a team situated near you guys during your races. He is Malay most probably cause he associated with the name Sang Nila Utama and like everyone else, he doesn't realise that Sang Nila Utama is actually an Indian Prince from a southern Indian Empire. I say age range between 21 to 25.. I doubt he is older than that. from his language and historical knowledge, i say he is from a local tertiary institute or university. Cause the information we get from our history classes are flawed anyway. He is academically educated and thinks he is knowledgable.. likes to brag that he is smart and informed. Always willing to tell ppl about what he knows even though highly possible he is wrong. Wants to be rebelious but afraid of consequences. Typical poser. Wants change but doesn't do anything about it and in the end conforms. Bored, single and a wanker.
I'm local and proud to be one but happy that the world is getting smaller through racial intergration. Culture, society, religion and politics divides the world too much. Singapore has taught us tolerance.. I think its time we learn appreciation and respect. An open mind is harder to achieve than we think it is. So let us all try harder. But please stop giving each other flawed history lessons here. Its too painful when the facts are wrong. Guys. Read from a few sources before you dispense information.
Just wanted to put my intelligence to good use. Have a good day people. Why fight when we can make love. Sounds like more fun anyway.
Wow, this is rolling now!
To Singapore For Singaporeans:
What is your actual problem? Have you ever been taken down by any German? I don not think nor hope so! Further to that please do not put all of us into one pot with a very small number of people who are shit-heads. There are 82 million German passport holders and you talk about ppm though. As we all know people with this kind of attitude exist in every country and I dare to say that you are such person BUT in Singapore. Also do not compare Germany or Germans of today with those guys 70 years ago!
And for the second time you are saying that we promote our lifestyle and cultural values - just tell us how we are doing this!
On our website? Sorry nothing to find here
While paddeling? I do not think so as we have many other nationalities in the team
Drinking beer? Oh shit - the whole world does it
Eating pork knuckles? Well, not all Germans eat that - this is Bavarian stuff
Celebrating Oktoberfest? Again this is Bavarian
And believe me I could continue with this! So what argument are you putting here. You just throw things at the Germand Dragons Singapore without being able to justify those.
Do all of us a favour - either you come around and meet us or any other international dragon boat team in Singapore OR GET LOST!
Dear Lionel Tan,
Since Germany enriches your life with so many wonders, why don;t you move to Germany? You'd be lucky not to meet a Neo Nazi who'll physically take you down just for the fact that you are not ethnic german.
You made it sound like Germany did the world a big humanitarian favor by its inventions. Germans on the other hand are responsible for one of the worst humanitarian crisis the world has ever witnessed.
And all we asked for was not to contradict our Singaporean way of life IN Singapore. Even that in the most civilized manner, in the form of a forum posting.
Remember, our initial argument was about promoting German tradional and cultural values in Singapore.
Make no mistake, it was Singapore which provided the lifestyle that you have today, not Germany.
Majulah Singapura
Wow! We have never had so much traffic on our page...thanks guys and gals!
Now then... Come join us for a nice round of paddling in our multi-cultural team.
We can all learn from each other - a bit of Singaporean history & culture, a bit of German history & culture, a bit of Indian, Dutch, French, New Zealand, Malay, Bavarian (sorry, need to mention them seperately! haha!), Philippine, Brazilian, Japanese, Indonesian, Canadian as well Iranian culture and history (no particular order! Hope I have not forgotten anyone, if I did, then sorry!) ... mixed with a personal note of each member's character!
The result a great team with a bunch of fun and superb spirit! Rock on!
Paddles up!
V.
Thanks for the history lesson.
Dear Singapore For Singaporeans,
I totally agree with you.
Singapura (or Temasek as it was called back then) was founded around 1390 by the Palembang ruler Parameswara. His settlement was short-lived however. Towards the end of the 14th century, it came under attack, most probably by the Thai state of Ayutthya.
Temasek came under the authority of the Melaka sultanate, and devolved into an insignificant fishing settlement, basically little more than an overgrown jungle. When Raffles landed here in 1819 he found swamps, jungle and a lone village of some 100 Malay huts and 30 or so Orang Laut sea nomad families.
So yes, it is reasonably fair to suggest Singaporeans of 13th century immigrant background as “Singaporeans”. I doubt that there are many real Singaporeans left though...
Dear Elmer Fud/CDBT,
Contradictory to what you mentioned, Chinese and the Indians had already been settled in Singapore for ages before Raffles colonized Singapore.
Singapore got its name in the 13th century through its ancient hindu founders. Singapore, a Sanskrit word, is prove of that.
It is reasonably fair to suggest Singaporeans of 13th century immigrant background as "Singaporeans".
Wednesday last week, just after finishing work at the office of my employer (a large German pharmaceutical company\'s regional office here in Singapore)i, a Singaporean, took the keys to my BMW, put my Siemens mobile phone in my pocket and grabbed my Braun Buffel briefcase to head for the parking lot.
I was in a hurry to pick up my wife, also a Singaporean, from her workplace at the rep office of a German TV Station. Her Audi was at the service station for a thourough cleaning, so she needed a ride.
Unfortunately one of my Singaporean work collegues had parked his Mercedes so close to my BMW that i had to wait for him to arrive.
My MontBlanc watch told me that i was running late.
My wife and I had reservations at the German restaurant Werner\'s Oven that evening. We both just can\'t get enough of their pork knuckles along with a couple of Erdinger beers.
Anyway, my collegue arrived, took off in his Mercedes and I was on my way. I loaded one of my favourite CDs of The Scorpions into the Blaupunkt Audiosystem and cruised to my wife\'s office.
My wife loves me and she knows that i love reading. When she got in my car, she handed me a book called \"Perfume\". Great read by the German writer Patrick Suesskind - i recommend it. And since I love her wearing a Jil Sander fragrance, i had bought some on my last trip by Lufthansa to Frankfurt. I was happy to be able to return a gift on the spot.
At Werner\'s Oven we were, as always, greated cordially by one of Werner\'s daughters, who is married to a local and a proud mother of 3 children by now. She used to play very successfully for the Singapore National Women\'s Handball Team, which impressed my wife and me very much.
Anyway, we had a lovely diner there before making our way home.
At home, my wife stuffed our Miele washing machine with the day\'s laundry and then she prepared an espresso on our Krups espresso machine. Good thing to have after a sumptious meal. I can recommend Melitta espresso which is available at every Coldstorage outlet.
She herself had a glas of chilled German Riesling that is being imported into Singapore by the reputed traditional German trading firm C. Melchers & Co.
The next day I read a posting by Singapore for Singaporeans on your website here that made me think:
Should i get rid of my beloved BMW? and my wife\'s Audi?
Should i avoid my Mercedes-driving collegue?
Should i replace my Braun Buffel briefcase with a no name plastic folder?
Should i resign and look for a job in one of the many large Singaporean pharmaceutical companies instead?
Should i ask my wife to resign?
Should i advise her to swap Jil Sander for a Singaporean fragrance?
Should i discourage her from buying any but Singaporean books?
Should we say good-bye to Werner\'s and stick to chicken rice?
Should i change to Tiger beer only?
Should i replace our Miele with a Samsung, while waiting until someone starts making Singaporean washing machines?
Should i throw out the Krups espresso machine and stick to copi?
Should i destroy our remaining bottles of German Riesling and enjoy New Water instead?
We thought really hard about it and then my wife and i decided: nah, all these German people and products have enriched our lives to an extent we would not want to do without - ever!
So i guess, my wife will be driving me in her Audi to the next Octoberfest here in Singapore - we would be poorer without it.
Dear Singapore for Singaporeans / Utama,
You must be a Malayan as the Chinese and Tamils were not here when Raffles showed up. But then it would be Malayans for Singapore. Ah yeo, so confusing lah.
"This organisation is seen as a platform to promote and uphold German culture and trademarks."
Audi, Audi, Go Go Go!
Blaupunkt, Blaupunkt, Go Go Go!
Siemens, Siemens Go Go Go!
*sigh* Better just leave the chant as it is.
Go Germans!
Ditto from the Canadian Dragons, Utama. We've been trying our darndest to promote Canadian culture in Singapore for years, but we haven't actually figured out what our culture is yet, so have failed miserably. But when we do, Utama...when we do...!
GP / Canadian Dragons
Dear Singapore for Singaporeans / Utama,
We on the other int'l dragon boat teams in Singapore feel very left out. We also went attention from you and your group.
Please visit the websites of the American, Canadian, British, Japanese, Kowloon / Hong Kong, Irish and Australian dragon boat teams of Singapore. All have Singaporean members and all also reference their evil and perfidious foreign cultural values right here in the Republic of Singapore. Please do something about this! Otherwise we will be very jealous that only the German team gets your important observations.
TW / American Dragons
Wow! Utama is really persistent.
OK OK. I'll leave Singapore. Maybe in 2020. Or 2030. Or later?
I feel so Singaporean! I feel good...Now everybody!!!
KICK OUT GERMAN IMMIGRANTS!
To Sang Nila Utama and Singapore for Singaporeans:
Why don\'t you come around and meet us. I think we all will have a good laugh then as you will see how \"German\" we actually not are.
BTW - what do you people know about Germany? It obviously cannot be that much. Feel free to come!
to "singapore for singaporeans" - thanks so much for your contribution. it has been some time that we had such a good laugh over a posting here. really, ridiculously funny. in fact, you may have even significantly raised interest in the site of the german dragons. proof again - jokes work wonders.
Hey guys,
Hope u did well on Sunday!!
Unfortunately I fell sick on Saturday and finally slept til this morning. Funny enough, but I still feel tired... .
Hope to soon get an update on Sundays results!
thank you Mark!
we miss you very much as well!
SAVA would have been even nicer with you in our boats.
best,
A
Germans Germans Go Go Go Home!
Even E.T. went home!
On a brighter note, well done at SAVA! Trust me, i miss you guys very very very much (:
Dear Singapore for Singaporeans,
The earlier comments were absolutely uncalled for and entirely ridiculous. I believe the team does not bear any political interest or standing which compromises with the values of Singapore culture.
Just so you know, Singapore adopts a democratic system. What you are speaking of amounts to nationalism; which is entirely incorrect.
According to www.dictionary.com
<1.Devotion to the interests or culture of one's nation.
<2.Devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others;>
in other words; you are making an absolute mockery of yourselves. Do think it over. So for now we WILL continue drinking Paulaner and be Chanting "German Dragons, German Dragons, Go Go Go".
Mark
Team,
what an awesome day!
Very happy to be part of the German Dragons!
rest well and give 120 percent tomorrow again!
Sheesh... where was he 3 years ago???
Hoooolllllzzzz!!!!! Staaaaaahhhhhlllll!!!!!
Prost!
Hahahahaha!
I'm still trying to figure out if Mr/Miss Singapore-For-Singaporeans is actually being serious, or just another GDS member playing with our heads. Not that it matters coz it made me laugh nevertheless.
Crazy coots.
Dear Singapore for Singaporeans,
Denying people from ANY country the right to uphold their culture and traditions is a form of rascism. So for now I think we will continue drinking Paulaner and Chanting "German Dragons, German Dragons, Go Go Go" which isn't actually German by the way.
Cheers.
To our delighted webmaster: You may remove this as this is not what our guestbook should be there for.
A reply to Singapore for Singaporeans:
I hope this blog was a joke, because if it wasn't, then the joke is obviously YOU. Value of Singapore? "Multi-racial, multi-cultural society" - get with the programme you puritan.
We are a group of Singaporeans who are concerned with the activities of your organization.
It has been brought to our attention that you(German Dragons Singapore) engage in activites which are a threat to the Singapore culture and the Singaporean way of life.
This organisation is seen as a platform to promote and uphold German culture and trademarks. (actively engaging in the recruitment of Singaporeans, chanting of German slogans in public, organising German traditions etc) This is not welcomed as it deemed as a mean to contradict the Singapore value of culture.
The logo on the left hand-side of your homepage is also deemed insensitive as the word "Singapore" is used in context of the colors of the German flag.
We hope that you would use your organisational means to engage for sporting reasons only and not in the promotion of the German cultural value.
With the continued persecution of non-Germans in Germany, we find this reminder to you most timely and appropriate.
Hi Anne.. surprised and happy to meet you and Singapore barbarians team at SWAN Race.. although my team (Argonox.Merlions) got knocked out at the very early stage.. very happy that your team managed to fight it out all the way... cheers!!!
team,
if you wonder what Carolien, Jan, Peter and me were doing over the last weekend, check out the new pics Dirk uploaded! We came in 7th in the SWAN race, which is quite an achievement: being the best mixed boat and beaten only by all-men boats.
cheers,
a
Here I am!! I didn't go missing! How can I get back?
Let me see... Cannot be that my "underarm perspiration" picture is gone from this site ;P DOH!
All the best to you all!
Longer, harder... and so on la!
what happened to all the other ex-members???
so many went missing on the page?
Dear Dragons,
Here's the training schedule for this week:
1. Training at Kallang
Tuesday, 28 August, 6.45pm
2. Training at Kallang
Thursday, 30 August, 6.45pm
3. Training at Kallang
Saturday, 1 Sept, 2.30pm
Cheers
Yo dragons!
\'Tis a pity I havent been able to join in the recent races. My knee\'s bust so will take care of that first.
Meanwhile, congrats on the great results guys! And continue paddling hard for the Sava Sprints! I\'ll try to join you fellers for that, as part of the cheering committee. :p
Dear Dragons
The meeting point is at the Marina Bay Platform tomorrow (opposite the Ritz Carlton Hotel).
Reporting time is 1pm as the races start at 2pm.
Cheers
Hey guys!
All the best and lots of power for tomorrow's Men's Masters!
Greeting from sunny Germany,
Anne and Philipp
Dear Dragons,
Here's the training schedule for this week:
1. Training
Tues, 14 Aug, 6.45pm at Beer Beach
2. Fitness Session (Botanical Gardens)
Wed, 15 Aug, 8pm (at entrance near Gleneagles Hospital)
3. Training
Thur, 16 Aug, 6.45pm at Beer Beach
4. Training g
Sat, 18 Aug, 2.30pm at Beer Beach
5. Mens Masters at Bedok Reservoir
Sun, 19 Aug, Reporting Time: 8.30am
See you on the water
Cheers
Pam
Hey Carolien...
SELAMAT HARI LAHIR !! (go figure!)
Many happy returns too !! May you stay young and beautiful always!
dear team and friends,
join us for National Day celebration this Thursday, for a paddling cum beer drinking session. We meet at 6:45pm and paddle towards Marina Bay, as far as they let us go.
cheers,
A
Hi Silvan,
to what Veron wrote before I totally agree . I guess that applies for everybody of the team, get to know you during the far to short time you joined the German Dragons!
So all the best for your future and hope to see you again soon!
Paddles Up!
Britta
Silvan;
All the best and hope to see you soon too!
Will miss your jokes,
V.
Testeintrag, um zu sehen, ob alles funktioniert und Dirk auch aufpasst
. Ich gruesse alle die mich kennen und meine Mamma!
Silvan,
All the best!
Dear Dragons
I had a really great time with this team! I wish every single person from the team all the best for the future and hope see u all soon! I will miss you..
Silvan
Could not go without posting this here... congrats to everyone that showed up at BG yesterday! We broke our record... 17 pax! and on a rainy night... Nice session Azhar..
remember, the "BG Fitness Session" is a "rain or shine event"...
Paddles up!
Dirk, Wilson, & Co...
congrats on the photos... this is the best bacth ever id say... specially with the medal ceremony at Paulaner..
paddles up!
dear Dragons,
have a look at the gallery; Dirk uploaded new pictures from the June race and our medal presentation party at Paulaner! cheers, A
Hey folks,
This is about the Tuesday Fitness Program. Its simply wonderful. It was my first session yesterday. What's good about it?
1) Its in Botanical garden.
2) Its exercising as a group. Each of us kept it going with jokes and encouragement...
3) Exercising in midst of the nature which is so giving... Trust me you need to be there to feel it...
4) Tailor made for the people. Its a combo of heavy and light exercise covering the entire body. (I was very tired from work and after this I was totallllllly freshhh)
5) 1 hour 15 min and with breaks in mid(3 breaks and 5 to 7 min each)
6) Everyone was involved. There was no forcing.If people had some problems then alternatives were suggested.
I loved it and believe me if this is more frequent I'll cancel my Gym membership. Yes, its absolutely free as well
What more do I want...
Azhar and Andre conducted the session wonderfully.
Just one suggestion... Maybe you guys can state the benefits occassionaly of doing some exercise during the breaks.
Of course another very good thing is there was lots of stretching.. I do not have any body aches...
supa seite!
Hi Guys,
fitness session today at 8pm in the botanical gardens.
Everyone keen on sweating like crazy is more than welcome.
See you there.
Cheers!
Philipp
Attended my first fitness-session yesterday, and it was mighty fun. Considering the misfit that I am, this is one helluva way to get back into shape.(Well, SOME shape anyway)...
I would like to encourage more people to come down for the Tues sessions at the Botanical Garden! Come one, come all.
Congratulation to your bronze medal!
After I met you on Sunday at the Paulaner, I'm convinced it was a milestone on your way to gold.
Thomas from Switzerland
Congrats!
Alles Gute aus Frankfurt/Main
eure website ist prima, das neue logo sieht klasse aus, gute wahl beim schriftzug (!), chic die neuen shirts, paddel zum neidisch werden und glueckwunsch zum neuen captain. man redet gutes ueber euch - auch in den anderen dragonboat teams!
GO GERMAN DRAGONS!
Awsome result! Looks like the German Dragons are back in the race ;o)
BTW - sign up for our brunch at Paule on Sudnay 22 July with me!
Vera
Dear Dragons,
Seeing as how I have no voice left, I just want to say you all did an outstanding job this weekend, congrats to all again on the bronze medal!
See you Saturday,
Pam
that was an awesome race day!
we qualified for the semi finals of the national championship with the 20 mixed boat and with the 10 girls boat, by coming in second in both heats.
in the inter international business race, our white boat did a really good job in a very tough heat!
the black boat came in first in their heat and qualified for the final.
lets give everything on Sunday and go for a nice 'n shiny medal!
Hi all,
I am always come to visited ur web but never to say anything to u, today I just saw ur pic at Penang nice pics!!and best teamwork!!
All the best to u!!!
Hi Dragons,
All the best to you for the race! Kick some ass!!
Awesome job guys! Sorry for MIA for some months. Now yay I made it into triathlon elite team and got few sponsors and got upcoming races in July and August. I will drop by Bedok Reservoir this weekend as I live opposite this.
Miss you guys in my heart! I do not dare to promise I will come back to your team but I really do! I miss our days!
New paddles AND new race shirts!! How lucky are we! This is it guys - German Dragons are back and we're breathing fire! *grin*
Way to go Paulaner. We won't let you down this time. Thank you and Cheers!!!
Thannks Matze, for cleaning this up!
havent been row'g fr 3yrs miss u all, tc... lv Alma
keep it up guys and gals, paddles up!! lv Alma
good job Peter!
cheers
TOTALLY WICKED!! Way to go Pronk!!!
Check out new pictures in our Gallery:
1.Christmas Party 2006 by Trixi
2.More Dragon Divas Regatta Pictures, taken by Oli
3.China Yangtze Race May 2007
4.SDBA Masters Series May 2007 by Brian
Looks like you had a fantastic weekend in Penang! Nice pics
I miss you guys and the rowing...However, tonight I am starting the 300 km cycling race around the second biggest lake Vättern in Sweden and hope to finish in about 10 hours together with my brother and crazy father who is doing this for the 30th time!
Good luck for the coming June race and hope to see you in Europe!
Hug,
Annelie
The new paddles look awesome! Thank you Helvoet and Peter! (:
Check out the gallery site!
Dirk uploaded loads of nice Penang Pictures.
Thanks a lot Dirk!
Huuaaaahh... missed Penang... did you buy another Beckham puppet, singing... "Here we go...!" ... or is it just not the same without Nico!
Alamak - miss you guys!
Greetings from Germany,
Cheers Sebastian
Sorry I can't take part in the training til next week, but til then, work it babies. WORK IT! *grin*
Very nice workout yesterday in the botanical garden. A little bit of running or walking, a good circle training. Felt really good.
Many thanks to Azhar. Looking forward to next wednesday.
Good job Dragons, kicking ass at Penang...
18 days to go... Unleash hell on the preparation!
Wow, what a weekend!
2:15 min for 500m !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thank you guy's for the great time in Penang.
hi Anna!
ja, du waerst die juengste, aber kannst ja trotzdem mal vorbeikommen und es ausprobieren? Zumindest um ein paar Kontakte zu bekommen.
bis bald vielleicht,
Anne
hi Brea! congrats to your medals! We are off for Penang on Thursday, cross fingers for the competitions over there! I lost your email address, can you send it to me? We need to plan the next race and party together
cheers,
A
Hi there Anne, Brandy and all the other Singapore Dragons!!
Been back in Oz for a few days and just got some internet access, hope you guys travelled home safely!! We got two bronze medals at the next event (held in Chengdu) - was a fantastic event!
Anyway, I'll email soon, miss you all heaps! (And I am thinking about a holiday...)
Cheers!
Brea
Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks
Heyhey!!
Ich haette echt lust mal zum Training zu kommen... aber waer ich mit 16 so die einzige in meinem Alter?? Wisst ihr sonst was es noch so fuer Organisationen gibt fuer leute ion meinem alter?? Bin als Austauschschuelerin hier und weil ich nicht auf die deutsche Schule gehe, fehlen mir son bissl die Kontakte...
Hey German Dragons, amazing team!
Often see you guys at kallang and its a great motivation for to see you guys row! hahaha... if you guys remember clearly, you actually race with us during training! sort of a friendly match, we lost badly lolx..
Happy Birthday, Etienne!
Happy Birthday, Etienne!
Hey all,
I am missing in Action currently but shall be back definitely to enjoy the spirit of the dragons...
three cheers to German Dragons eh...
Hip Hip Hurrah!!!
:-P
Just browsing, check out the www.pacificdragons.com.au for all the Australian Clubs.
Super Seite
Super Seite!
great site!
Der schwarze Drachen
Der durstige Hirsch sucht den Pfirsichwald.
Der harte Bambus reift vor dem roten Altar.
Der Goldpirol breitet seine Flügel aus.
Der schwarze Drachen stürzt ins Meer.
Hi Dragons,
it was a great experience to do the first race last weekend. Even I could race at the semi final with the British team.
Parallel to the Irish Challenge we will clean our boats on Saturday. This is pre-work for the Boat Repair BBQ. Every helping hand is welcome!
the races were beautiful, truly beautiful(:
however, we have greater boundaries to overcome! so may train hard!
Hi Dragons, it was a great day!
Tomorrow, Sunday, we indeed race in the very first heat at 9.
That means we have to meet up at 8 in order to be well prepared.
And we definitely have a really good chance!
See you all tomorrow.
Paddles up!
Hey, the site looks really professional now!
Not as black as the one I made, but still beautiful
Cheers from Frankfurt/Germany
nothing to thank for ... i or better me and nik were very pleased to get to know you people!
Thanks for a fantastic party yesterday and thanks for all the happy memories we will bring back to Europe! We will really miss all you guys and we hope to meet again the next years.
Hope you like the new webpage
Skål!
Yo Blairs! Wann gehtn hier mal die neue Seite online? Lass sehn, Matze!
Lookin forward to seeing all of you again one day...
Hey Matze/Philipp, when's the new site up??? Looking forward.
Hi Dragons,
I'm leaving Singapore this Saturday so am having leaving drinks on Friday night at No 5 Emerald Hill from 8pm onwards.
Hope to see you there!
Spitz pass auf! Of course its 14.30 pm on Saturdays
17 Febr. 6:45 pm ?
Endlich wieder WELTMEISTER!!!
Hi Dragons
Weekday training will resume from tomorrow.
6.45pm at the beach. See you there.
Paddles Up,
Pam
Hey paddlers!
Hope you had a good start in 2007! I really miss paddling with you guys and all the cool partys at the beach and Paulaner. Hope to cu again in 2007 or 2008.
All the best for 2007!
Hello good design. Very nice. 0n79p7 Enjoy. Goodbay.
Hi all, just in case everyone think I've disappeared... nah, not forgotten, just some problem with my knee. Attending some 'therapy' classes also on every Sat, I hope I'll come back soon! See you guys again.
He all,
do know all was a little bit quiet during the last weeks but we should be back for training ? pam did the start ? and I want to join in ? we start our training hard and fast and deep as every year ? please be welcome to training and 20 litres of beer ? we have races to win ? times to join ? come and train your body! regards britta
Hi Folks,
Something's up with our email server so please note that training will be on Saturday this week at the usual time. Twice a week training will only resume in Feb. Paddles Up & see you on Sat.
Hello people! Nice site!
Hey Folks... six months gone, since I left S?pore and I definetly still miss the time with you guys (and for sure I am jealous of the X?mas party you had last weekend). Well, then I wish all of you a perfect Holiday season, a good start into 2007 and all the best for the new Year. C U next year!!! Cheers from Frankfurt and as usual longer, harder, faster... Sebastian
Dear Dragons,
Nikolaus and I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy start into the year 2007! We both had a lot of fun on our party! We want to thank all members (especially Marcus, Pam, Yvonne W., Uma, Anne, Yoko and Stefan ?) for the warm welcome last year. The sport together with the whole team makes it actually much more easier to feel something like home in Singapore!
Hope to see you in January!
Ahoy Dragons,
please take note ... training on saturday is cancelled because of the X-mas party on friday!
Regards
Britta
hey sorry guys been quite busy lately tts y could not make it for the trainings for about a month already but think could make it this sat ya.... see ya guys.
~cheers
Dear Dragons and friends,
On 15th Dec we are having our Christmas Party at Paulaner. Please sign up with me till 11 Dec. events@germandragonssingapore.org
Vera
Hi Vera,and all dragons,
I will be happy to join big German Dragon boat team ,even at the Christmas party.Hoping that Santa will be good and generous wiyh all of you, please receive my greetings!
Stelian
mailto: stelianvelican@yahoo.com
Gr??e aus Deutschland(Norden).
Sch?ne Fotos. W?nschen Euch immer viel Erfolg
Klaus, Bj?rn u. Marion
The first pictures of the Singapore River Regatta are online in our Gallery section, thanks to our photographers Wilson and Paulo! If you have more nice photos, please send them to my webmaster email address.
Dear Team,
If you?ve taken pictures during our race weekend, please send them to our webmaster Matthias, so that he can upload them into our website?s gallery
or pass him a CD on Saturday at training.
cheers,
Anne
Although u lose the game, it does not mean you lose everything. I saw your race and it was not a good performance, Guys what you need is team spirit. That's what you slacken with. Anyway, all the best in next seasons..
good luck for the weekend and paddle harder GD's, 150 % for the 300+ metres !!!
how to joythe german dragons singapore
Viele glueck fuer morgen!
Hi german dragons
My last week was too busy, so no change to go for a last paddle time to say goodbye to all of you! So via this way, I thank you all for the great time I had, and wish you all the best for the race! I will think of you!!!! You can do it!
Dear Dragons,
Just a short note: Thursday training has been cancelled this week.
Please also check your emails tomorrow for more details on the race this weekend.
Let's go for Gold!
Hello men.
I won't be able to go down tonight, but to britta - Herzlichen Gl?ckwunsch zum Geburtstag!
Very nice resources!
Very nice resources!
No, it will be at Spore Science Park but we are full already - sorry!
the paintball session is it at Orchard country club???
Moin Dragons,
anybody interested in paintball next Sunday at 3.30 in the afternoon? Leslie - you should be going there...and Peter also had the right attitude!
So if any of you is interested please get in touch with Thorsten or myself! Currently we are 7 guys but minimum 10 are needed.
Cheers!
Hello Oliver,
we are really looking froward to meet you and your family in January 07! thanks for writing in our guestbook!
regards
britta
Nice website, will be in Singapure from January 2007 (with my family).
So I will contact you in 2007!
cheers
Oliver
Hi all
Sorry - but we have to cancel training for today Tuesdays 24 October (Hari Raya)...
There are just not enough people who want to train today..
CU all on Thursday
Cheers
Marcus
Hello every one ..you are all having lots of fun.
Enjoy and keep everyone happy. Nice pictures and good website.
Shabudin Nathoo Canada 403 248 2144
Calgary, Canada 403 248 2144
Ves Tu dou you can come at every training. I would propose you to start with the saturday training because of two reasons:
1) we got a newbees boat then.
2) after the training we stay at the beach an try to empty "ein Fass Paulaner Bier".
You can recognize us by the T-Shirts and do not worry about being shy.
Also dann bis bald hoffentlich!
tu dou guess there is training tonight so perhaps you could drop by then yeah? cyaz then.
PRIMA!! Danke schoen Britta. Okay, so I can just turn up anytime?? I guess you guys should be easily recognized by the "t-shirts"?? I'm a little shy especially when it comes to a crowd of new people, but I'll be down... Bis bald.
ja hallo auch! of cause you are welcome to join us, so show up for the next training and let us see if you like the team and our sport activities. we are a german international team so you will have the chance to speak german if you want to. yes we got also other activities but i would just ask you to come to training and have a look.
paddels up!
britta (vice captain)
hallo leute... I just found your site. would it be okay to go down and take a look at the training? I'm more an avid german learner than a sports enthusiast, I don't want to join the sports just because I will have a better chance to use the language. is there any other activities organised and non-members could join?
) Grusse
hey anyone interested in going for a paintball game at the discovery center i am trying to organise one soon... interested parties pls tell me asap during trainig or wat ya.. thanks!
I think we all should come to the beach and decide there. Actually the haze rate is high (i had a look an the national enviroment agency), but if we not overdo it, i guess we can train.
Is there training today?
Why do all ask because of the haze? I got no other information myself. I think we train.
is there training today?
Hi, great site!
Hi, great site!
Hello, you have great site!
Hello, you have great site!
Hello, you have great site!
Just had a look at the pictures from the Sava race...have laughed! Thank you Wilson!
Congratulation for 2 Silvers last weekend Eurobelles ! great job !
german keyboard... amazing I mean...
Hey Dragons,
it was a really amaying time in S'pore! Thx for the action.
Longer! Harder! Deeper!!
The pictures from the Save race last weekend that Wilson took are online in the Gallery, check them out and see you at the Oktoberfest!
Good site!
Good site!
Good site!
Bye.
ooops Yvonne Ang not Evan sorry
Thanks Ulrich. It was really lovely to see you on Sunday
Dear Evan,
Thank you verrrrry much for your support. You were ready to paddle for us as soon as we requested for your much needed help. Its very much appreciated.
do german Dragons paddle very fast on training?
go Dragons com'on, harder, longer !
good luck today
cu soon
Prost
Hi! Nice site!
Hi! Nice site!
Hi. Nice site, good job!
Dear German Dragons, wishing you all the best for the upcoming SAVA race! I would rather be in SGP to support you paddling and cheering, but I can't. With best wishes and regards from Shanghai!
"Eye'n pro sit dare gay murt lick kite!" is the single most important sentence you will need on our Paulaner Oktoberfest (written like this it's not German but pronounced English it almost sounds like
If you don't know what it means yet, just join the German Dragons on the 30th September at Paulaner Br?uhaus Singapore and find out! If you already know ...you will be there anyway
Hey Dragons, just wanted to let you know that there is the WOMAD festival this weekend (www.womadsingapore.com) with world music and nice atmosphere. Last year we really enjoyed it, so check it out!
just to check for the training, do german drangon paddle very fast or normal? Where is the meeting point for the training?
Thanks
Me BACK!!!!!
Ivan.. no need la!
Must we know know to swim if to take up drangon boat?
Rgds
Ivan
Hi Ivan
Send your mail to Marcus@sytec.com.sg
I will answer you asap..
Regads
Marcus
i have try email to captain@germandrangonssingapore.org but is bounce back every time, got other email address to contact german drangon boat? thanks!
Hi Ivan, just write to captain@germandragonssingapore.org
hi, just to check with u what is the enquiry email for german DS? cos, i have email so many times info@germandrangonssingapore.org and is bounce back, can anybody tell me?
Please take note that training for this Saturday (29th July 2006) has been cancelled.
Due to the National Day Parade rehearsal we expect heavy traffic as well as closures of the streets around the Beer Beach...
Please be so kind spread this info so that everybody is informed...
Cheers
Marcus
Das Paulaner ist voll - Lufthansa hat sich dort eingenistet!
Wo schaut das deutsche Team am Freitag Abend???
Hi All,
Who belongs to a pair of gray & mint green booties/aqua socks I found left on the beer beach last June 3? Lemme know, I'll bring them with. See you folks Saturday! Oh, wie ist das sch?n...oh, wie ist das sch?n...
Ecuador - Germany 2night ! watch the game in our favourite brewery at 10.00 pm. cu later
long Paulaner soccer night !
support the german team with a freshly brewed beer in your hand, can it get better at 03.00 am in the morning ? cu from 09.00 pm onwards ... allez allez allez (Ulrich&Alex)
Hi all
Just to give you a quick update about our little sponsor afternoon yesterday (Thursday 08-08-2006).
Pam and I (Thanks Pam for taking half day leave) where showing our "new" boats to our sponsors from Germany represented here in Singapore by GPS/SCDA. 25 people came yesterday afternoon to the beer beach out of which 13 came from Germany. We gave them a little training and showed them that our sport is actually harder than it looks
After about 1 hour of basic training we had a little race between these two boats. Needles to say that my boat won both races......
Hope to see y'all tonight for the soccer game in Paulaner
Cheers
Marcus
Hi All,
I'm writing on behalf of Yusoff. If anyone has accidentally taken a bottle of honey (from the back seat of his car) after Tuesday's training, can you please bring it back today? Thanks!
Hi Lundberg
Did you use an Internet translator for the text below?
If I understand your message correctly - you want to join our team but don't know where and when to find us...
Well, just come tomorrow (Saturday 20th May) at 14:30ish to the meeting point - just click [Training] on the left side and scroll all the way down. There you'll find a map of where to find us...
CU tomorrow
Marcus
Hallo Damen und Herren, interessierte ich, um die Mannschaft zu verbinden, aber ich wei? nicht, wem, ich sich n?hern sollte. wenn Sie mir die Richtungen freundlich es zeigen, seien Sie gro?. Ich nahm an, da? Sie wissen m?chten wem ich bin, mein Name sind lungberg und ich bin auch, wenn Sie Damen beginnen m?chten, mich zu kennen, i werde erfreut sehe Sie allen im Training stattlich.
Guten Tag!
Am Sofia from Indonesia originally, a smaller being than a punkt in a dot on the world's map for a year after living in Japan for 7 years.
Next month is my b'day and was thinking to ask any of the dragons whose b'day is in the same month to celebrate together, plus it'd be a good chance to get to know the members when they're not wet
Arrangement I guess can be done after the webmaster puts me in the mailing list *fingers crossed*
Cheers!
Mirko! Das ist aber schoen von Dir zu hoeren! Schreib mir mal Email. Deine Addy ist leider mit Formatierung des Rechners verschwunden :o/
Hi Vera, wie ich sehe und lese geht es Dir gut! Freut mich. Liebe Gr??e aus Deutschland!
KiKi said this is the best dragon boat team in the world...
Good Luck
Hey guys and gals,
Brunch @ Paulaner on Sunday May 7th starting 11.30 am!
Let me know if you want to join!
V.
Sorry guys,
we don't have enough paddlers for Penang and will not participate.
International race on Penang/Malaysia - 26./27. May
Sign up now and join for this powerful race in a beautiful landscape!
interesting website
German EXPO 2006 : The Gateway to German Technology and Lifestyle 24-26 March in Suntech Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, check it out, cu there
Hi webmaster, tried sending you email to be added in the mailing list but i kept receiving error msg.. here is my email: trix_tc@hotmail.com
Hi webmaster, tried sending you email to be added in the mailing list but i kept receiving error msg.. here is my email: trix_tc@hotmail.com
Hi Guys, Is been long time.. i juz wanna wish this season the team german will retain the title..i really miss the hard pull,long pull and harder in the water..
Before i go, here some, words i wanna spell out..
It doesnt matter, how good you are,and it doesnt matter how tough you can be, the most important how the team build.. "As a team we can do the impossible"
HI to ULI,THORSTEN AND ANNE.. All the best to you guys... see you soon... Especially to MR YUSSOF..( the best trainer )
phillip, i know someone who looks for a flatmate. send me your or her email address then i forward it to my friend. anne@GermanDragonsSingapore.org
Hi folks,
just wanted to check if any of you might have a room to rent for 5 months as a girl from Hamburg will arrive Saturday for an internship and yet she did not manage to get a room...
Maybe someone could let me now tomorrow during practice?!?!?
Phil
Hey All,
Thanks for practice yesterday and the warm welcome... I'll see you on sat!
www.penangdragonboat.com/pidbf-introduction.html
Marcus, Thorsten, Nico and DJ!
Paul and Shidah,
Congrats
Hey you!!Congrats!
Hi folks,
may I introduce myself:
My name is Lea Sophie Brandeis and I've just arrived in S'pore. I'm quite interested in Dragonboating but my Mum told me I should wait until I have gained some weight.
Is 2,8 Kg not enought?
Anyway, I will Ask my Dad Paul.
I'm sure he won't say 'No' when I smile at him with my beautifull eyes and if this won't work: Buaehhhhh-Buaehhhhhh
Congratulations to Paul&Shidah and their baby girl Lea Sophie.
Please remember to inform me if you are interested to join the race in Penang/Malaysia, end of May. Until now we have 4 persons only, which means we open the trip to the barbarians.
Thanks
just in case you did not get the email: bellies training tomorrow 6:45 together with the Brits!
greetings to karen from opa
Hallo Leute,
wenn Ich die Bilder sehe und mich zur?ckerinnere werde Ich ganz melancholisch!
Aber eines Tages komme Ich zur?ck
Viel Erfolg f?r die n?chsten Rennen und paddles up!!
viele Gr??e
Helmut
P.S.: finds spitze, dass die Ehemaligen noch mit Bildern drin sind.
Recpect WEB-master! Good site!
Hi people .. hi Web-master .. very nice site!
Recpect WEB-master! Good site!
Hi people .. hi Web-master .. very nice site!
Hi people .. hi Web-master .. very nice site!
Recpect WEB-master! Good site!
tech problems with our team e-mail !
Training details : Tuesday (24.01.), Thursday (26.01.) 18.45 Beer Beach and Saturday ( 28.01.) 14.15, don't forget your sneakers, be punctual !
paddles up
Recpect WEB-master! Good site!
Yes ! : Tuesday, 17. Jan 18.45 Beer-Beach
Training details? Are we training tomorrow?
happy new year again, meet you guys for the first training session of the year on saturday, 14. january 14.00 ! cheers
So, Training this week lah? What's the story morning glory?
So, Training this week lah? What's the story morning glory?
X-Mas greetings from white cold Germany. I wish you all only the best for the new year and may all your dreams come true in 2006 ! Guten Rutsch
Best wishes from dark and cold Sweden.
Hope you all have a nice Christmas (God Jul) and a Happy New year (Gott Nytt ?r)!
See you end of January
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to Uma and Trip.
Happy birthday to you.
Last weekend is awesome that I have a lot of things to say :P To me, it is kind of first medal I get which I row for Germans for past 10 months... so why it is quite emotional... Time flies... Ultimately all of us did well no matter what results are. Sportsmanship is the virtue in everyone mind.
And of course we had have and having fun!
soon I will send u photos! Excited!
Terence
PS: Thor, please recover quickly!~
Silver and Plate, Awesome!
Go for gold, Dragons! All the best...
good luck for the race weekend German Dragons, give 150 % !
get ready, paddles up
Greetings from Cambodia,
No paddling here but keep a place for me
See you next week
Paddles up
Greetings from the Phils! Nice site! It was great rowing with you in the SAVA. Congratulations to the ladies. Keep it up! Hope we see each other again in more regattas to come.
Paddles up!!
Greetings German Dragons Singapore!!!
Kudos to all u guys in the SAVA Race. Well done. Especially the ladies team. The men and mixed team u guys were great too. Keep it up. See u guys during training.
POWER IN THE WATER!!!!!!!
Sehr gut gemacht! Darauf trink ich einen!
Halo. I was just surfing the net and i came upon your website. well designed indeed. Anyway, congrats on your achievements in SAVA. see you in River Regatta.
teamNUS db rower
Yesterday was a lovely moment for all of us. And yes we do not forget the "A" boat men and women of yesterday. They were wonderful. "A" boat three cheers to u all. Hip Hi Hurrah (3)
Ladies this is our dream come true just with three weeks training!!! Hip Hip Hurrah
Well done Dragons,well done.
Congratulations to all participants in this race - especially to our Ladies Team and the british support.
Regards from Zwibbelkuche un Federwei?er!
(onion cake and feather whiter)
The first pictures of the Paulaner Oktoberfest are online in the gallery! Check them out. If you have any funny pictures of that great night that need to be online too, please send them to me at webmaster@germandragonssingapore.org!
Very well my friend!!!
Sehr gut, mein Freund!!!
Simple German Language for you...
Please correct me if wrong...
Guten Tag! - Tag!
Hello! - Hi!
Guten Morgen! - Morgen!
Good morning! - Morning!
Guten Abend!
Good evening!
Gute Nacht!
Good night!
Wie geht es Ihnen?
How are you?
Wie geht's?
How are you?(informal)
Danke, gut.
Fine, thanks.
Sehr gut.
Great
Es geht.
Okay.
Nicht so gut.
Not so well.
Auf Wiedersehen.
Good-bye.
Finally I am back from hellish business trips to few countries! See you!
Hi everybody! This is real nice site!
Ok, since we had quite a lot of spam in our guestbook lately, there are no links allowed anymore. Sorry-lah!
Hey Jez Droppin By TO say hi T all German Dragons...!!!
By Da Way I'm one Of the Rowers in da PCG police team Dat U sparred wit on 8th Sep.. U guys were great hope 2 c u guys again in da next upcomin events... Contact me At my e mail add- filthy_fingers36@hotmail.com
dragons,
check out the site of our new pub in k?ln!
there is a webcam apdated every 5 sec
www.dingleberrys.de
go for more gold medals!
stefan
Happy Birthday Dear Pam ! will buy you a Kilkenny 2night at Molly Malone's Irish Pub, Circular Rd (behind Boat Quay) at 19.30, Prost
Happy birthday to all August guys/gals as it is soon end in August... Pam, Happy birthday to u tmw!
It should be right not left :P...Summary I was a left rower last Saturday...Me blur!
Have a nice and gorgeous week!
Make sure all of u pay $50 for last Q4. Uli or Trip is chasing for it! Hehe! Time to give it away!
Last Saturday's training is very shiok but painful!!! especially when I was a right hand rower for last Thursday and Saturday when I was desperate to row left... because it is 3 years since I was a right hand rower for former National Team. But I feel very happy and confident when my coach, Yusoff told me I did very well and much better than left one... to my dismay! I guess because I am a left handed and my left arm is stronger than right one...
Anyway, great sharing with you and my left arm is sore until now!
Happy training and see you on this Thursday!
Hey Andre,
Tempt u more... It was very royal sitting on it yesterday... Maybe a trip to Sing...
Very, very nice boats!
I'd love to sit in one of them...
Gr??e aus Darmstadt
I loooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvveeeeee our new boats! I like classic wood seating if it look damn expensive :P but the side of boat is making my legs sore... hehe! Strive for our 2 upcoming races!
It was a proud moment yesterday to see our boats. They are lovelyyyyy. Hmmm waiting to paddle today in the new boat....
finally ! thks to everybody who helped clearing the container today, great teamwork with the canadian team together. training tomorrow beer-beach ! Dankeschoen Kess
Heya boys and gals... do drop by Balaclava on Thurs 11 Aug from 9pm onwards. I'll be celebrating my bday.
Marcus, thanks for your effort today!!
16 girls on the training today-fantastic!
And we were almost faster than the mens boat...just need a bit more training
Congratulations!
Oso can win medal without us, ah?
great stuff,... after my wedding I hope to join again. amazing where we stand today considdering where we were two years back!!
Congratulations to the GERMAN Dragons!
Best regards
SILVER!! Silver for the GERMAN DRAGONS!! With fractions of a second behind the very strong Australian team we made the second place with our A boat. This is my first, but not my last medal with all of you guys!
What a great race day! Just came home very tired from the Singapore Dragon Boat Festival 05 at Esplanade. We started with three boats, big mixed A boat (2. place), big mixed B boat (3. place) and one small men (2. place). With these great results we have for the first time two (big) boats in the final tomorrow!! For the small men unfortunately the second place was not enough to reach the final, since only the fastes boat in each of the six heats qualified. Let's paddle for medals tomorrow!
Great to meet you guys in Penang...nice web site too! Now, just send us about 40 of your t-shirts and we'll call it even! If you're heading down under, let us know and we'll share a stein or two!
Just found the Photo s from Penang thanks I am from the Black Dragon Adelaide team hope you all had a great time we did Sue
signs - page will be online soon ! thanks Terence for coming around and the enrichment
Terence, its a pleasure knowing you. Its not very difficult at all aprroaching you....
Would love to know more abt signs...
Since we trained on a canoo on a swedish lake, Annelie should be pretty fit for the race.
Swedish regards
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Carmen, Jan, Uma, Sascha, Oliver A, David
Thank you for being my intrepreters during rowing. It must be pretty difficult for you especially gestures so I take my opportunity to say a big thank you. So if you want to learn signs properly, come to me and I teach you ABC-Z and numbers so that easier to use this during rowing...
Love you all!
Stay pretty! Soon tossing the coin...
Finally almost everybody (Uma is still in M'sia) is back from Penang and still excited. I'm sure you are all even more motivated now for the next training - POWER IN THE WATER!!!
And as Jan just mentioned - 1 - 2 - 3 - Ole, ole ole
Paddles up guys
1-2-3 Here we go - ole-ole-ole
Here we go - ole-ole-ole
WHAT A GREAT WEEKEND!!!
What a GREAT weekend in Penang! We had a lot of fun, very good races, where paddeling against some of the world best international teams and even reached the semi-final with two boats!! 10 of us just arrived in Singapore by plane, most of the team is still in Malaysia at the final party, coming back by bus tomorrow. I put the first pictures of the weekend online in the gallery, more coming very soon. A very tired but happy dragon is going to bed now
, see you soon!
Back in Sweden for 3 weeks. It is freezing but I am actually enjoying it! Have fun in Penang and show them who is the best! Good luck and see you at the Marina Bay race.
Today's training is very shiok (very exciting in malay) and looking forward for more training since being MIA from dragon boat for one year due to triathlon... I admit I miss my days in National Team but I am very proud I am in German Team. Pardon me if I am hearing impaired and I could not talk but I gladly can teach you signs if you want. Just approach me and I teach you!
Strive for it for our PENANG RACE SOON!
LOVE YOU ALL!
It's about 30?C and I'm wearing my Team-shirt. I'm off for the Frankfurt Dragonboat festival and wish I could meet some of you there...
Prost!
Enjoy Germany and be back for the Penang race....by the way, you didn't sign up...!? Feel free to do so
Beer for 29 cents...., must be Karsquell-Edel-Pils or Hansa.....
Anyway, say hello to the old gang
Aso back in Germany, but only for 2 weeks...17?C is definitely too cold for short trousers, but a can of beer is only 29 Euro-Cents (60 Sing-Cents), that keeps my heart warm
!! Good to see Andr? and Wendy again...
Back in Germany!!!
It was a very nice Monday evening bbq and I say thanks to all of you. Furthermore, I really appreciate that Matze, Janine, Frank and Ulrich accompanied me to the airport and stayed till the end (4:30am). It means a lot to me.
"Die Konsorten" describe with their song "Lang auf" quite well how I feel now:
"[...]
F?r mich ist gestern noch lang nicht aus.
Ich bin schon viel zu lange auf.
Alles leuchtet und sieht strange aus.
Und die Tage ziehn an mir vor?ber.
Ich springe auf und fahre mit.
Momente kommen, bleiben, fliehen.
Ich sehne nach und l?chle still.
F?hl mich entspannt, doch wie beschleunigt.
Ich bleibe wach so lang ich will [...]"
See you soon in Germany AND Singapore!
Sad story but next time we get another gold medal. I#m sure you all did a good job and the local teams are really strong. Nevermind, as Andre said, next time the medal is ours...
See you soon in S'pore
Thor
The second day was more exciting than the first one and with 2:27:22min we were really fast. But as the last mixed expat team we were racing against local teams only. It was close, but the others had a bit more endurance. No final heat for us this time. However, we showed a very good performance and next time, when there will be categories again, the gold medal is ours!!!
I simply forward Annelie's SMS:
"We qualified with 2:34min and a lot of luck. 3 boats crashed and had more that 3 min."
How can 3 boats crash?? They should get a medal for that!
However: HURRAY!!!
McRichie Reservoir really is the most beautiful place in Singapore to arrange a dragonboat race. We met this morning from 8:00am on and it was like a big picnic. Very nice. One also has a very nice view onto the race track itself. Pictures will follow.
Unfortunately 2 persons were missing this morning: Yusoff (stuck at work) and Emanuel (waiting in Kallang?). That meant that we had no coxswain and one paddler was missing. Anyway, we got another coxswain and did the race with 17 paddlers only (max. 18) while Markus was counting instead of Yusoff.
Our heat started a bit delayed at maybe 10:20 or 10:30. We had a wonderful start and we were leading at least half of the track before Nanyang Polytechnic. But, and we're famous for that, in the end the others had more endurance and beated us with 2sec which we cannot believe, because it seemed to be really close. However, with 2:30:30min we reached place three only and thus the men's team is out. Still we are the best expat team leading by 7sec. The Canadians' time is not available so far. They, too, had a very good race. The Aussies on the other hand had quite strong competitors and therefore they were beaten with several boat lengths.
The mixed team should race in about 10min. The mixed team ist our strength and I'm sure we'll be racing again tomorrow.
For my first "training" since 4 or 5 months this was really quite tough
All the best for the race! Power in the water and if you can not you also can. Go for gold and kick some ass.
On the boat again
Just can't wait to get on the boat again ...
I loved being back in Singapore!
Train hard and go for another gold medal,
Wendy
Hi there dragons!
I was searching for dragonboat photos and found your website. Just wanted to say hello from Germany.
Have a great season.
Best regards
Sven
www.drachenboote.com
Happy Birthday Andre!!!!
Hi y'all, you should change the style of your logo. It looks a lot like the letters the Nazis used during WW2 (Runes), which is NOT VERY GOOD!!!!!
I want to be back!! I miss you guys!! Train hard, I'll be back in April!! It's so f?$&* cold here!!
Dirk from Germany!
hm.. everyone writes in English...so do I. Hey Vinz, well done! Hope you do well and come back to good ol? H-town soon. There?ll be masses of tasting (cheap) beer, your neighbour (me) and fuckin?cold weather.
And Dragons: good luck for the future!
cya
All i have to say is.. well done dragons..
well done.. keep the good worked done..
Keep it up! Don't stop paddling! Give me that 110% power !... Pull harder ! POint your paddles at 45 deg... yes, it's a team spirit effort will bring you all the way to the finishing line..good luck!
Congratulations on the $30,000! Great cause! I'm proud of you all!
Please put Brians picture on members list.I promise I won't forward this page to the F.B.I.
Miss rowing with u guys. Been a little busy with work & school for the time being... I will definitely come back and have more fun (like I always did).
See ya'll!
Hi All,
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the fun, the camaraderie and the adrenaline rush!
Due to work and personal commitments, I am no longer able to be a part of the team. The only thing I would not miss is the (almost) putrid Kallang River water. Yikes! For what it's worth, I must say that I had a fantabulastic time!
Keep up the good work, train hard but keep things in perspective. It is not about winning, it's about...er... actually it IS about winning! Paddles up!!!
Dear all,is great to be a german dragon,and i really proud to be part of the team member..
Wish u all the best and luck...
take care dude.. and have fun...
By golly, the Singapore River Race?!
Hey dragons, it seems an eternity since I left Singapore in May, but I'm mighty proud of you
for winning _the_ race! The team really has come a long way since winning the first gold at the Sava Sprints. I remember every second of that race (but not much of the party afterwards
and I feel honoured to have been there. I miss our training sessions (not much worth paddling on here in Munich...) and the BBQ-parties everywhere!
Keep up the good work in 2005!
Cheers from Munich, with a cup of "Gl?hwein"!
Ready, Paddles up, ...
Martin
Hi Dragons...!
It's been quite a while...
Nevertheless I wanted to take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy New Year and continued success with kicking butt...!!!
The team has come a long way and has made awesome progress!
Keep up the good work.
Hope I get a chance to row with you guys again sometime down the road...
Until then, all the best from Hamburg...
GERMAN DRAGONS ARE YOU READY...?!?
Headache!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you from cold and rainy Norway. Very happy to see the good result in the river regatta. Wish I could have been there and seen it all after having rowed in the German team since 2001. All the best for the continuation in 2005.
Cheers
Siri-Anne
Merry X-mas, dudes and dudettes!
We just had one lonely cold K?lsch-beer at Vera's home since we cannot go outside due to heavy SNOW-fall!
So cold, so cold.... and wet..... ;o) that's why we now go to bed...
Tongues out!
Hi Dragons,
best greetings from good (c)old Germany! Miss all of you already and the rowing sessions with Yusoff!
Hope the GERMAN DRAGONS will continue winning!
It was a great honour for me being your captain and rowing together with you!
Keep in touch,
paddles up!
Stefan
I MEAN ,I WANNA SEE LIVE,,THAT YOU GERMANS R REALLY GOOD IN ROWING
ANYWAY I WANT TO CONGRATULATE EVRYBODY,,,
N I WANNA SEE HOW REALY GOT IS THE GERMANS IN ROWING
HOPE TO C YOU SOON
IM FROM H,K,MAYBE ,ILL BE YOUR ONE OF THE GUEST ONS DAY
THANKS
wow, what a success!
Congratulations!
enjoy christmass celebrations!
R?hren, Bahni-Mann!!!
I am looking for an appropriate place to put all my medals... maybe around my neck?
I miss the training, the beer beach and all of you!
Wat is eigentlich mit'm Bahni-Mann, der ruehrt sich garnicht...
Looks like a lot of fun!!! And it is nice to see that the doping (beer) comes out after the race. Regards from a Snowy sweden.
/Relatives to Annelie Lundin
Looks like a lot of fun!!! And it is nice to see that the doping (beer) comes out after the race. Regards from a Snowy sweden.
/Relatives to Annelie Lundin
Looks like a lot of fun!!! And it is nice to see that the doping (beer) comes out after the race. Regards from a Snowy sweden.
/Relatives to Annelie Lundin
Bye Bye Captain!!! We'll miss you but we will not forget you!
Yesterday Stefan has left Singapore. We said good bye to him at the airport.
Stefan, have a good time in Germany!
I keep my fingers crossed for the weekend.
...and remember: if cannot, also must can lah!
SSSSStttttaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhlll!!!!!!
ja... wohl in singapur...
ja... wohl in singapur...
war schon 2 mal dort... hab euch aber nie gesehen 
habicht:
Wo warst Du und wer bist Du?
Go German Go! Go! Go! .. 100% POWER! KEEP IT UP!
GD Day German Team, I am one of Yusof former rower. Nice website. I impress with your team achievement.Keep the team together and you will go far.Paddles UP..... :o)
To those rowers I know eg. Rikkyah and company and the German Coach, Yusof Rasi, and also their mens team, all the best and good luck in all the dragonboat events they're participating in every year.
May the FORCE BE WITH YOU, God Bless !
luv, Emma a.k.a. Rahmah
20032004
great website, andre! thanks.
Viele Gr??e aus K?rten. Bei den Bildern bekommt man glatt Fernweh.
Thumbs up for Andre for the impressive website. Good luck to the Dragons for the up coming September race.
Great website, Andre - respect!
You guys make me proud and you make me miss Singapore so much. I miss the sessionson saturday.
The new rowing shirts look great. I am jealous, I need one.
Have fun, greetings from Karlsruh',
paddles up
Wotan
Guys
you did a great job and I'm very proud of you. The good nutrition must have caused it all. Looking forward to see all of once again
Miss you all
Wolle
Missed the food but I guess I didn't miss the best part of the brunch - Nightmare as usual, good work! Paddles up!
Gratulation zum 3.Platz.
Ich w?rde ?brigens auch gerne mit euch paddeln, br?uchte halt auch eine Karte, aber nur von Frankfurt.
I will try paddlen for you if you pay for my ticket from the states
Hallo German Dragons,
Klasse Rennen. Das viele Training muss sich ja gelohnt haben. ?brigens tolle Website.
Weiterhin viel Spass
Servus,
bin wieder zur?ck in good old Germany, war super witzig mit Euch. Bis zum n?chsten Mal, macht et joot!!!!!!!
I am also proudddddddddddd like Emma in New Zealand heheh =op..although that i did not know all of you but as a part of german team, i would like to say CONGRATZ to you GUyz........CHEERS!! =)
Alles Klar
I am sooooooooooooooo proud! I remember when you approached Paulauner for sponsorship and now look at you! Miss you Guys - PROST! x X x X x
Great job on the site!
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