Tuesday, January 31, 2006

:( no riding 2day :(
sighhh... i hope zul remems my request...

oh yes, lol this is REALLY overdue:
fri's riding. rode cowwgirl penny :D dawn got we r on ( begging sue really works ;)hahahaha ) caro got oatie. and viv got songkla (jealous stare). lol so we basically did open order cuz caro n dawn were late. but sue like kinda gave me a lesson on flexing. anyways she said i nearly got penny into an outline :D. i have to WORK REALLY HARD!!!! and CONQUER this horrid obstacle in my way!!! haha. nhow, viv dawn n me made requests :P and we used like tons of postits b4 we got it neat... lol ok it was actually me... until viv took over lol. i asked 4 songkla bobby chuckie or oj. and when i came home i realised i 4got to ask 4 PENNY!!! :S:S:S:S sighhhh how am i ever gna learn to flex... (cupcake does not count)

|`kath| 9:23 AM|

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Monday, January 30, 2006



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Thursday, January 26, 2006

rode watercolours on tues. yeeech. she's like huge gray mare and really stubborn and TOTALLY IMMUNE to d whip. sighh. she is soooo irritating and frustrating to ride :S. needless to say it was a horrid lesson. her canter was all over d place. AND she kept trying to attack johnny (caro) and sam (elisabeth)(jun didn't come. btw jun, ere supposed to ride smint). plus she nearly attacked zul too!! :S luckily he took it like he has huge horses trying to attack him everyday lol. in d end he took caro's whip and used it like a lunge whip to keep her on d track. oh yeah he kept saying he was zorro haha!!

mr chew came as well and gave us a partial refund 4 d bangkok trip. (??) he also said that there was a free slot in d fri slot that me dawn n viv r in and caro took it :D !! apparently that gabrielle person was moved out and surina can't make it 4 d lesson now.

riding 2moz :D lol finally back at btsc!! hope i ride bobby. i haven't ridden him in EONS!!! and i miss his canter tooo!! NO ONE can match it!! <33

it's my parents anniversary 2moz too!! lol 15th to b exact. we're going out 4 dinner i think... and we got smt 4 them too :D

|`kath| 7:51 PM|

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Monday, January 23, 2006

lol i LUV going 2 btsc!! haha i went again on sat w/ viv n jun and it was sooo fun!!! even though we weren't riding!

ok gave jun a lift and we got there like abt 3 30 ish? and n min we walked through d stable gate sue was like... really happy 2 c us and like waving lol. nways she asked us if we were bored and promptly gave us work to do. she was like "are u artistic? bcuz i need u to paint letters for heaven so d begginers can practise walk-trot and then rewrite d metal name plates 4 d horses." so we sat down in d yard and used black paint and painted letters sue had drawn earlier on wooden plates and got paint on my hand ( luckily it washes off!!) me n jun after washing off d paint on our hands decided that they didn't look too bad and decided to advertise ourselves as professional arena letter painters lol. and we work for rides :D hahah.

after that sue handed us these paint markers and got us to do d horses' nameplates. d head syce saw us doing sonny's and then drew a horse on it lol. looked quite good actually... ( viv was jealous :P haha) and we did d other horse's ones too.

after that viv came and we all went to ask of sue had anything 4 us to do. viv n i ended up filling a bucket full of water 2 soak d sugarbeet. jun went to help sandra tack patch up 4 this little girl.

after that sandra's 6 15 class came. aka PRINCESS CHARLOTTE!!! * fanfare* lols. camille and cathleen were sick so lucky charlotte had a private. so sandra sent d 3 royal attendants to help her royal highness onto d royal mount; translated jun, viv n me went to help charlotte onto patch. lol when we walked to d pony's stables patch's groom was like walking 2wards us and holding a saddle and bridle. and asked " who r u riding" and we all said "patch". lol he thwacked his forhead and d other syces ard started laughing and he said he had untacked patch. and jun was like "ahhh all my hard work!!!" lol so d syce tacked patch up in record time and charlotte mounted and went 4 her private lesson "w/ d royal riding instructor" hahaha.

after that d 3 of us decided to bath d horses in sue's lesson. viv was washing her sonny-san, jun got biscuit and i got BOBBY!!! lol i haven't like really spent much time w/ him lately. :S i miss riding him!! sighhh... nways i got really wet bathing him cuz d hose was leaking and kept spraying me. after that we just basically hung ard and all untill jun's dad came and got a lift from her.

OH YES!!! big news!! lol halfway while skipping out chuckie's stall (jun n me were waiting 4 d marker ink to dry) mr chew called!! lol he said I CAN RIDE FRIDAYS!!! :D:D:D with viv n dawn!!! cuz no one wants d slot! :D:D:D YAY!!! lol soooo happy!!! lesson begins this fri!!!!!!!:D

|`kath| 6:13 PM|

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Saturday, January 21, 2006

if u wanna insult me, why don't u just do it to my face bitch? if you think you're all that, you're wrong. don't act like u like me to my face; i noe what goes on behind my back. why not just admit u hate me? that is, IF YOU DARE!!



|`kath| 10:44 AM|

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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

yesterday's riding was the BEST!! i rode this 3 YR OLD SORREL (bright chestnut) ARAB!!! she's sooooo cute!!! and her name really is cute too lol. it's CUPCAKE!! <3<3

i was suppose to ride wolfman but they 4got 2 put caro's name on d board. anyhow, me n jun went 2 c zul and in d end he made me ride cupcake and caro rode wolfman. jun rode buzz and elizabeth rode onslow again.

Cupcake's like REALLY tiny... then again she's 3... and she has a REALLY araby head. u noe, all dished and stuff. she's got REALLY nice paces. er steps r real tiny though... think misty maybe a tad smaller.

lol i was kinda nervous abt riding her. so i mounted and did lots of walk -halt transitions. then after that we did like serpentines and circles in trot. did alot of flexing on her and she started tossing her head alot. so i stopped using soo much hand and i just flexed lightly in d corners like sue taught us and she was like SOOOOO EASY TO GET ON D BIT!!! it felt REALLY NICE riding her after that. haha

as usual we did lots of canter. cupcake has NICE trot-canter transitions!! only prob is getting her to keep the canter. it was really fun doing it though. lol she's officially in my top 5 favs :D i just haven't decided what no yet... :P i am so fickle haha

|`kath| 5:41 PM|

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Monday, January 16, 2006

RIP JETSET!!! :'(


sat was such a horsie dayy :D picked jun up at thomson plaza then went to btsc. 1st we went 2 d club hse to get jun's customary "saturday glass of water" while d nice lady was at d counter and ended up bumping into ( would u believe it??) rick aka d natural horsemanship guy. lol he said he was meeting mr chew and all cuz he was thinking of doing a course 4 us pony clubbers. somehow ended up trying 2 explain d diff btw pony club in btsc and spc. rick actually thought we had our own stable 4 a while. in d end he gave us his card to pass to mr chew.

after that, we went to pet chuckie in d lunging ring ( he was going 2 b lunged by sue). then went 2 check d noticeboard. apparently there had been a syce training workshop that afternoon and they used goldridge, oj and oatie 4 it ( aka d "anti human horses" ). rick had conducted it and apparently the 3 aformentioned horses were all very quiet 4 d duration of d course!! can u imagine??!! ( sandra told us that last year oatie charged rick outta d arena!! hahaha! )

then after that viv came and we watched sue lunge chuckie 4 a while. then sandra enlisted us to pull manes :S we started on bilco. he was sweeeeeet!!! he just like stood there and let us just do whateva we wanted w/ him <3. sue was like "wah! got stable management lessons for free ah??" jun was d best at it. all those she pulled were all from d roots!! after that we moved on 2 lobo and left sandra to finish our... lets just say we were more of a nuisance... SORRY SANDRA!!! lol lobo was quite hard to pull. i gave up after a while.

after that we walked ard 4 a bit and then at abt 6 05 realised that lobo was in sandra's 6 15 class and nt tacked up so we tacked him up (yes 3 ppl 4 one horse haha) then waited 4 d riders 2 come. charlotte was riding little red, camille had tikki and cathleen had lobo. in d end i helped cathleen mount up and do up her stirrups. they had to b twisted like TRICE!!! her dad was quite nice and helped me hold lobo while i twisted d stirrups. ( i think they r phillipinoe cuz of their accents... ) we went up to heaven and jun walked w/ charlotte, i walked w/ camille and viv walked w/ cathleen. sandra set up that box game and we played it 4 a while. tikki kept trying to take a chunk out of my leg ( annoying little guy) and nearly bit my hand. camille found it most amusing... after that we did trotting and i lead lobo 4 a while. IT WAS DISASTROUS MAN!!! lobo kept going soo fast and he was sooo strong so i kept having to pull him into a circle :S cathleen was really sweet abt it though. she wasn't like annoyed or whateva when i did it. in d end i switched w/ sandra and lead tikki again. after that we went down and viv had to go home so we gave d horses her carrots. chuckie was sooo cute!! he sooo remembered that "say please" thingy it taught him <3<3 heee :D after that we walked ard d stables 4 a while then got a lift from jun home.

viv is sooo lucky!! she riding on fri!! at btsc!! and dawn too!!! sighh... ah wells there'd riding 2moz!! can't wait!! i hope i get... er... CABBY!!! :D:D:D

|`kath| 6:17 PM|

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Monday, January 09, 2006

man!! school's been one hell of a hectic blur!! and d sec 1 cca orientation thingy on sat is sooo nt helping!! i think i was dillusioning when i was filling my sub comb form!! :S

nways riding on sat was gd i suppose... hank was REALLY sweet. but halfway i got a STOMACH ACHE!!! like what a waste man!!! ah wells we didn't canter at all cuz it had rained b4 and sue was afraid d horses would run off. so we just did alot of flexing ( nt easy job on -- quoting chun-- "hank the plank" lols )

we oso helped at sandra's 6 15 lesson. it rained like DIRECTLY after our lesson ( lol REAL MIRACLE!!! soo kwl haha) only cathleen ( my namesake haha) and camille came so sandra took them and penny 2 d sandbox. 1st they had to untack penny then sandra sent them to get penny's leadrope. after that they rode bareback on penny ( envy!!). told sandra she should have put them on james lol; me MEAN muahahaha. nways they were kinda freaked abt it and then sandra made them do ard d world while penny was walking. of course they were like nonono so she made them do ard d world while penny halted.

haha was quite cute to watch them do it. and everytime they lifted their boot over penny's neck they would leave sand on penny's mane. so sandra would like b "angry" and acted like some housekeeper and tsk while brushing d sand off penny's mane haha. was quite funny.

after that we hung ard in sandra's office and just basically talked n stuff. nways she said 4 weekdays d 4pm slots r all free so i'm prob gna ride on fridays now... dno... ah wells.

|`kath| 6:05 PM|

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Thursday, January 05, 2006

RIP Sandman... :'(

|`kath| 12:38 PM|

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Wednesday, January 04, 2006

When we talk about basic paces, we are talking about the paces a horse has been given by nature. The idea is to maintain their purity, and then improve them under saddle. Many riders lose the purity of the paces because their horse doesn't go properly through, and on the bit. The rider's driving aids are insufficient and the horse never allows the half halt to flow through its body. The horses develop a block somewhere, the neck, the back, the mouth, wherever, and that takes away the freedom of the pace. The horse becomes restricted through the rider's aids, rather than enhanced in his paces through the rider's aids.

... i'm talking crap... school was crap... lesson was crap ( and NOT poor saksmiri fault -- MINE!!! ) the WHOLE of yesterday WAS pure crap... urghhh this is depressing... ...

|`kath| 3:49 PM|

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Monday, January 02, 2006

one last day of FREEDOM!!! :/

|`kath| 5:31 PM|

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Sunday, January 01, 2006

i'm BAACKKKK!!! ( yes i can hear u groaning manda hahah)

HAPPY 2006 PPL!!!

the nz trip was kwl!! lol and i also made a conclusion:

a dressage whip if not fitted into luggage is actually TOP priority baggage haha!!

yes i finally found the PERFECT dressage whip at the canterbury saddlery and it was CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP toooo!! paid like $15!! lol so then my mum tried to fit it into d luggage but of course i would NEVER allow her to bend *like the lotr ring obsessed guy (i 4got his name... my brain melted in d nz sun u c...) * my preciousssss. in d end carried it w/ my horsie mags i got in hand ( so i wouldn't crush those LOVELY cover pages... of the mags i mean...) lol

at d airport d person at d check-in counter was kinda unsure if i could carry it on board and so she checked w/ security who after a good laugh (humphhhh!!! * glares* ) said that just 2 b sure we should check it in.

so the NICE SIA lady at d counter next door went to get some left over boxes and tape and this sponge/ styrofoam thingy. so d two of them like kinda cut up d box and sponge and like made this make-shift box to fit my whip in. lol i cut up the tape ( which was neon orange and is like super super offical looking-ish. plus it had NEW ZEALND AIRPORT AUTHORITIES printed on it!! soo kwl haha. then we put it in a huge plastic bag and sealed it up w/ more orangey nz aiport tape. then came the fun part!! they like put sooo many priority tags and basically WRAPPED it in "FRAGILE!!!" stickers and i added the "TOP STOW" stickers!! haha it looked REALLY funny lol! then the lady was like "that is d MOST prioritized piece of luggage i have ever seen!!" hahahahaha. lol and it was the 1ST peice of luggage out at the belt too!! haha so kwl!

lol oh yes and i rode twice. western!! 1 word: OUCH!!! both times were hacks or as the kiwi ppl call it trekking. the terrian was quite uneven and all. but it was quite fun...

wahhhhh only 2 more days of hol left here!!! :( then it back to school and stress :S and tests tooo *moan* only good thing is d new school building and d lockers. lol i'm gna put chuckie's pic on d inside of d door! haha

|`kath| 2:56 PM|

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