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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
I WANT A CHINCOTEAGUE PONY COLT
COS THEY ARE SO CUTE
Ok, got that our of my system... the answer is no no and no
Not now, though i want to, and will get a horse.in.the.future.
Even if it is a colt, after BDF i think i am confident enough now.
Things i wish to accomplish in the next school year
1. Do better in classes
2. Take up riding lessons
3. Volunteer
4. Make more friends
5. Take DRIVING LESSONS
6. Take up a salsa/ tango class
Sighs... i need to stop fantasing about owning a horse, NOW.
COS THEY ARE SO CUTE
Ok, got that our of my system... the answer is no no and no
Not now, though i want to, and will get a horse.in.the.future.
Even if it is a colt, after BDF i think i am confident enough now.
Things i wish to accomplish in the next school year
1. Do better in classes
2. Take up riding lessons
3. Volunteer
4. Make more friends
5. Take DRIVING LESSONS
6. Take up a salsa/ tango class
Sighs... i need to stop fantasing about owning a horse, NOW.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
i AM SO GLAD I AM NOT THEM
I am glad those days are over, where i first got my early riding instruction. I suppose i do owe it to Sentosa riding centre, saddle club, polo club, Riderslodge. Dammit why can't they have flipping normal names like " Beaver dam farm" or " twisted Pine " huh? oh well....
I never fit in very well with horse people, you would think i would... but sometimes when you have people who are too similar to you it does not go well. Some kinds of horse people are snobby, the worst kind, i had to put up with them and their hundred-thousand-dollar imported warmbloods, like they are better than you. NEWSFLASH NO THEY ARE NOT
I viewed the industry from the other side, the employee side. I loved it.. not really the people, or should i say person... but being with the horses. WORKING with them, every single day. Yes, it is tirring, exhausting, and takes a lot out of you emotionally and physically it is rewarding to look back and say... Hey, i worked with that three year old, beginning his under saddle training or hey i handled those young horses and introduced saddles to them.
Ok.. rIGHT now am on chincoteague island. Went camping over the weekend and SAW WILD CHINCOTEAGUE PONIES, motherfuckers. Take that... HAAA. Survived a storm in a small tent on a beach. TAKE THAT !!! HAAAA.
I almost wish i could buy a colt... but no... i can't for obvious reasons. I suppose owning a horse DOES tie you down a bit... you have to see him/ her everyday, ride him/ her everyday, then you form a bond with them. I can only imagien what it would be like to sell your baby... after years... hell i almost started tearing up when i thouht about having to leave orion and willow. I would not be able to lead willow up a ramp to truck and see her leave... i would just fucking cry.
But anyway... im glad im in canada and plan to stay on there to pursue my dreams, whatever they may really turn out to be. I know i don't want to do it in SIngapore.
Don't get me wrong now
I like singapore, i will always have a place for it in my heart, i will never ever forget her.But realistically some things just cannot be acheived there.
I am glad those days are over, where i first got my early riding instruction. I suppose i do owe it to Sentosa riding centre, saddle club, polo club, Riderslodge. Dammit why can't they have flipping normal names like " Beaver dam farm" or " twisted Pine " huh? oh well....
I never fit in very well with horse people, you would think i would... but sometimes when you have people who are too similar to you it does not go well. Some kinds of horse people are snobby, the worst kind, i had to put up with them and their hundred-thousand-dollar imported warmbloods, like they are better than you. NEWSFLASH NO THEY ARE NOT
I viewed the industry from the other side, the employee side. I loved it.. not really the people, or should i say person... but being with the horses. WORKING with them, every single day. Yes, it is tirring, exhausting, and takes a lot out of you emotionally and physically it is rewarding to look back and say... Hey, i worked with that three year old, beginning his under saddle training or hey i handled those young horses and introduced saddles to them.
Ok.. rIGHT now am on chincoteague island. Went camping over the weekend and SAW WILD CHINCOTEAGUE PONIES, motherfuckers. Take that... HAAA. Survived a storm in a small tent on a beach. TAKE THAT !!! HAAAA.
I almost wish i could buy a colt... but no... i can't for obvious reasons. I suppose owning a horse DOES tie you down a bit... you have to see him/ her everyday, ride him/ her everyday, then you form a bond with them. I can only imagien what it would be like to sell your baby... after years... hell i almost started tearing up when i thouht about having to leave orion and willow. I would not be able to lead willow up a ramp to truck and see her leave... i would just fucking cry.
But anyway... im glad im in canada and plan to stay on there to pursue my dreams, whatever they may really turn out to be. I know i don't want to do it in SIngapore.
Don't get me wrong now
I like singapore, i will always have a place for it in my heart, i will never ever forget her.But realistically some things just cannot be acheived there.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Writing this now in hostel in Washington.... I like travelling, but i am looking forward to going home. Back to Singapore, not neccessarily complete familiarity but home at least. But wait... once you go away to a different country your concept of home changes. What is home anymore? who is family?
I've been in Canada for the last two years and four months, when i go back to Singapore im out of touch with it, both physically, emotionally ans socially. When i went home i realised just how consertive it was, how much more liberal canada was compared to it. I had forgotten. Maybe it seems dumb that i didn't realise it, but i didn't, once you immerse yourself in a different society you end up viewing things from a new point of view. Well i couldn;t help it anyway. I've grown up and changed so much in the time i've been away. Experienced many new things which will shape me and which i will take with me. From Being at Bronte to an intern on a fjord farm. I alwaya say, i never thought i would end up here, but i do and find it unbelievable.
Like this summer, i never thought i would bring on a young horse, i would one of his first riders. Or introduce saddles and bridles to colts, did i really know what i was doing? i was basically just learning as i went along! WOuld i learn so much about driving and meet so many amazing people ? i don't know.
Today accomplished a lot with stephanie, went to the meuseum of women in art, the Meuseum of the American Indian and went to watch SPRING AWAKENING!! which i couldn't help but make references to Singapore and how we could make a Singaporean version of it!! a) Oppressive sexual culture b) Emphasis on academics c) Awkward BGR
I think i have had enough travelling for a while, enough jetting around, im ok with going home for a month and not going anywhere or doing anything in particular. I will be fine with that. I have accomplished sooo much being away. I also can't wait to move into my new apartment and start a new school year, i really don't mind.
Going back to ride at RL will be very different for me, my equine-confidence level has increased after being a " staff" at a barn i feel i can do anything now. Im not as backward as i thought! HELL I BROUGHT ON A YOUNG HORSE, I WORKED WITH COLTS!! I WORKED WITH SOMEONE WHO GOT A FUCKING PLACE TO COMPETE AT THE WORLD EQUESTRIAN GAMES. So suck it IT OTHER RIDING GIRLS WHO MADE MY YEARS OF RIDING WITH ALL OF YOU FUCKING MISERABLE and my confidence being lowered. YEs, i do know, even among the interns i am not the best, i don't know everything, and i still don't, but as long as you want to learn. Now my regret is not getting BOb to teach me to drive.
But hey, how many people get to ride gypsy vanners? take care of them?? eh ? eh??? muahahahahah
But the sad thing is that
It is over, i have gone, it's never going to come back, im never going to see pie or sky or lexie, or my baby ORION again, i miss ringing the triangle and yelling " COME ONE GUYS!!!!!!!!!! COME ON!!!!" at the top of my lungs like a fucking goatherder or defying death by feeding adolescent colt monsters or going on poop duty.
In any case, i am ready to come home, or at least my Singapore home.
I've been in Canada for the last two years and four months, when i go back to Singapore im out of touch with it, both physically, emotionally ans socially. When i went home i realised just how consertive it was, how much more liberal canada was compared to it. I had forgotten. Maybe it seems dumb that i didn't realise it, but i didn't, once you immerse yourself in a different society you end up viewing things from a new point of view. Well i couldn;t help it anyway. I've grown up and changed so much in the time i've been away. Experienced many new things which will shape me and which i will take with me. From Being at Bronte to an intern on a fjord farm. I alwaya say, i never thought i would end up here, but i do and find it unbelievable.
Like this summer, i never thought i would bring on a young horse, i would one of his first riders. Or introduce saddles and bridles to colts, did i really know what i was doing? i was basically just learning as i went along! WOuld i learn so much about driving and meet so many amazing people ? i don't know.
Today accomplished a lot with stephanie, went to the meuseum of women in art, the Meuseum of the American Indian and went to watch SPRING AWAKENING!! which i couldn't help but make references to Singapore and how we could make a Singaporean version of it!! a) Oppressive sexual culture b) Emphasis on academics c) Awkward BGR
I think i have had enough travelling for a while, enough jetting around, im ok with going home for a month and not going anywhere or doing anything in particular. I will be fine with that. I have accomplished sooo much being away. I also can't wait to move into my new apartment and start a new school year, i really don't mind.
Going back to ride at RL will be very different for me, my equine-confidence level has increased after being a " staff" at a barn i feel i can do anything now. Im not as backward as i thought! HELL I BROUGHT ON A YOUNG HORSE, I WORKED WITH COLTS!! I WORKED WITH SOMEONE WHO GOT A FUCKING PLACE TO COMPETE AT THE WORLD EQUESTRIAN GAMES. So suck it IT OTHER RIDING GIRLS WHO MADE MY YEARS OF RIDING WITH ALL OF YOU FUCKING MISERABLE and my confidence being lowered. YEs, i do know, even among the interns i am not the best, i don't know everything, and i still don't, but as long as you want to learn. Now my regret is not getting BOb to teach me to drive.
But hey, how many people get to ride gypsy vanners? take care of them?? eh ? eh??? muahahahahah
But the sad thing is that
It is over, i have gone, it's never going to come back, im never going to see pie or sky or lexie, or my baby ORION again, i miss ringing the triangle and yelling " COME ONE GUYS!!!!!!!!!! COME ON!!!!" at the top of my lungs like a fucking goatherder or defying death by feeding adolescent colt monsters or going on poop duty.
In any case, i am ready to come home, or at least my Singapore home.
Monday, July 13, 2009
And... as quick as a flash my Nova scotian adventure is OVER
I do miss it... but i've been doing so many things i do not have the TIME to miss it.
Once i left planet bdf i was off at waterloo... of traipsing through toronto...
Amazing
BDF taught me tons, it was nothing what i expected. I learned to long line a horse, trained a young horse, taught him to be trained under saddle, probably his first rider. Honestly if i had money, the time, the right trainer to help me i would buy him and bring him on. Ive never been so close to a horse, like never had that kind of connection that i did with him. He was my project, the one i took on.
But i think the real adventure started after elisabeth left... when bob giles came things picked up wonderfully. It was just an amazing experience...
Here is what we did everyday
7.35-9.30am Prepare feeds, bring hin horses, groom horses, muck stalls, check water
9.30-12 am Colts feed/ groomed/ handled, bathrooms cleaned, horses ridden
12-1pm lunch
1pm- 2pm Catch horses and tack up
2pm-3.30pm trail ride
3.30-5.30pm Ring work riding, working with young horses/ gypsy vanners, clean tack, check water tanks, refill water tanks, feed and bring in horses
between 7 and 9pm- Feed gjest, take in yvonne and feed, redo stella's leg, showe offf holly's udder / leg
I do miss it... but i've been doing so many things i do not have the TIME to miss it.
Once i left planet bdf i was off at waterloo... of traipsing through toronto...
Amazing
BDF taught me tons, it was nothing what i expected. I learned to long line a horse, trained a young horse, taught him to be trained under saddle, probably his first rider. Honestly if i had money, the time, the right trainer to help me i would buy him and bring him on. Ive never been so close to a horse, like never had that kind of connection that i did with him. He was my project, the one i took on.
But i think the real adventure started after elisabeth left... when bob giles came things picked up wonderfully. It was just an amazing experience...
Here is what we did everyday
7.35-9.30am Prepare feeds, bring hin horses, groom horses, muck stalls, check water
9.30-12 am Colts feed/ groomed/ handled, bathrooms cleaned, horses ridden
12-1pm lunch
1pm- 2pm Catch horses and tack up
2pm-3.30pm trail ride
3.30-5.30pm Ring work riding, working with young horses/ gypsy vanners, clean tack, check water tanks, refill water tanks, feed and bring in horses
between 7 and 9pm- Feed gjest, take in yvonne and feed, redo stella's leg, showe offf holly's udder / leg
Monday, July 06, 2009
5 days left
Im gonna miss it here... but yet im ready to move on, it's been fun. I've been here since fricken may!!!!!!
Rode holly on the trail today. She felt like a coiled spring in the beginning... jus wanting to go. So during the short spurts when we did we went MAAAADDDDD galloping away, awesome time. Gonna miss these fjords, my orion, my willow. But i've learned so much, tolerated stupid annoying carole. Who has to dammit share a name with me.
The show was a success!!!! although i was FREAKING nervous before, and the only one in a black jacket and shirt. But apparently i looked realy nice with a black and white gypsy vanner. we spent SOOOOOOOOOOO long getting those feathers looking SHINY and white and clean clean clean. They looked SPECTACULAR. With those looong manes and shiny clean white feathers. WHen the music started i just WENT and tried to
a) enjoy myself
b) tell myself it was jus another day of training
c) not knock into bob
d) Not make up random movements not part of planned routine so not as to collide into bob
Im gonna miss it here... but yet im ready to move on, it's been fun. I've been here since fricken may!!!!!!
Rode holly on the trail today. She felt like a coiled spring in the beginning... jus wanting to go. So during the short spurts when we did we went MAAAADDDDD galloping away, awesome time. Gonna miss these fjords, my orion, my willow. But i've learned so much, tolerated stupid annoying carole. Who has to dammit share a name with me.
The show was a success!!!! although i was FREAKING nervous before, and the only one in a black jacket and shirt. But apparently i looked realy nice with a black and white gypsy vanner. we spent SOOOOOOOOOOO long getting those feathers looking SHINY and white and clean clean clean. They looked SPECTACULAR. With those looong manes and shiny clean white feathers. WHen the music started i just WENT and tried to
a) enjoy myself
b) tell myself it was jus another day of training
c) not knock into bob
d) Not make up random movements not part of planned routine so not as to collide into bob