Montreal DragonFly

Ciao guys!

 That was our last practice of the YEAR 2009!!!  And we finished with a great practice…  we obviously worked on our technics with Melissa’s personal feedback on each of us…  and we also worked on maintainning power, pace & technic while increasing the pace…  just like if we’re calling for start…  a pick-up or a finish.  Most excellent!

 And Melissa finished with a little treat for all of us who showed-up to practice last Friday…  homemade cookies made by her truly!  Thanks Melissa for the cookies!!!  They were real good!

 Hanting had sent out an e-mail about our next 10KM run for next year.  As you all know, every member on the team must do a 10KM run.  Reminder to register for it!  Here’s her message:

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Hello DragonFly,

Just a friendly confirmation that our 3rd Annual 10K Run will be on May 16th, 2010 (Sunday) @10:15am. Online registration is now available at http://www.circuitendurance.ca/en/racepierrefonds.htm. Yeah, as long as you remember this crucial date and consider doing something about it some day some time soon, please continue to help yourselves to the third, fourth or even fifth helping of that ever-so-yummy dish! =)

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Cheers,

Hanting

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Also, the team is selling ski tickets for Jay Peak as our next fundraiser…  all the profits will go into paying for next summer’s festivals/races that the team will be participating.  We’re selling the adult tickets at 47$ and student (<18 years old) tickets at 37$.  If you want tickets to sell, ask Vicky & Brian for tickets!  There’s a prize for the best seller!

So, guys, next practice is 08JAN2010!!!  Enjoy the little time-off during the holidays!  Merry X-Mas & Happy New Year!

 Nancy

Ciao!

What a crazy weekend!!!  And you know what?  I wouldn’t have changed a thing!  Great work DRAGONFLY!!!  We beat all are record times for this season at the Rawdon DB Festival…  from here, we can only get BETTER & STRONGER!  Here are our times over the weekend: 500m - 2:19:31 min, 250 m - 1:06:07 min and 500m - 2:21.41 min.  Most excellent!  I have a feeling that we’ll be going back next year…  close to Montreal…  nice small venue…  and beach to finish-off the day!  What else can-you ask for?  Oh wait…  bubbly wine for winners of the first three position in each category…  we were 3rd in division D out of F.  Bonus, we beat Jade Dragons!

And to celebrate the great season that we have up to now…  we had our annual Montreal DragonFly BBQ at Nancis’…  lots of food…  great company…  crazy laughs…  & tons of memories!  Thanks to all who came and made this day most EXCELLENT!  Leslie, you’ll have to make it next time!!!  You were missed!  And you better grab Melissa who went MIA on us!

Obviously, for every event, we have tons of photos…  Enjoy!

DDDRRRRAAAAGGGGGONNNNFFFFLLLLLYYYYYY!

Nancy

Ciao!

 The team’s next fundraiser event is two nights at the Comedy Works (02JUL2009 and 09JUL2009).  All team members will be selling tickets for this events!  Most of the proceits goes to the team and enrollements to dragonboat festivals.  Show support by atttending to this event!  Hope to see-you there!  Here are the details:

Event: Fundraiser at Comedy Works

Dates: 02JUL2009 & 09Jul2009

Time: 8:30pm-10:10pm

Address: 1238 Bishop, Montreal (corner of Ste-Catherines)

Cost: 12$/per/night

For tickets: contact any member of the Montreal DragonFly team.

Ciao!

 Vicky’s company are going to LaRonde on 04JUL2009 and wants to know if you’re interested in joinning her.  If so, contact her.  Check below for details:

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Hi All,

I’m going to LaRonde July 4th and planning to attend the fireworks as well.  It’ll be Australia that night.

If you’d like to go for the whole day(11am-10pm) and have silver seats fireworks I can get the tix from work for $48 for adults or $30 for kids.  All prices includes tax.

The $25 deal for after 5pm is sold out for that day=(  Sorry about that.

If you want to just goto Laronde and just watch in there w/o seats I can get tickets at CAA for $33 for adults and $22 for kids all tax in.  Regular prices are $44 and $29 respectively.

Let me know if you want to come and which tix you want^_^

Cheers,

Vicky

Ciao! As most of you know, being part of the Montreal DragonFly team, you all know that you must run a 10km before the Montreal DB Festival…  this tradition was started by one of our former coaches, Winston Eng, which we have kept.  Most of us partipated at last Saturday’s 10km at Les Iles De Bouchervilles.  You should all give yourselves a tap on the shoulder!  Well done!!!  It seems that next year, we’ll be doing it in May instead of June…  I wonder if it’s because of the heat???  LOL  Here’s photos of the event.

Here’s the race time for those who attended:

Lin Wang - 48:38
Steven Lam - 53:47
Mikael Tournier - 54:22
Shu Ngok Lee - 55:55
Jerry Jao - 57:40
Jialf Maf (assuming this is our beloved Gloria...)- 59:52
Victoria Louie - 1:02:20
ANGELA CHOI - 1:02:21
CHI ZHANG - 1:03:04
Hanting Por - 1:03:34
Lei Fang - 1:10:28
Nancy Wong - 1:17:03
Benedicta Chan - 1:17:16
Patrick Kent Lau - 1:17:17
Rami Panossian - 1:19:15

Ciao DragonFlyers!

 Our dear teamate, Mikael, who hasn’t been that long in Montreal, is making the best of his time with us…  not only did-he join our dragonboat team…  but, now, he’s also putting his head…  or should-I say “Hair” on the line…  Mikael decided to partipate at the Shaved Head Challenge 2009.  It’s a fundraiser to help kids with cancer.  He’ll be shaving his head on 07JUN2009…  the day after our 10km run.  The boy is going all out that weekend!

 With that said, please support our teamate and his cause.  Here’s the link if you’ll want to donate: http://www.defileucan.ca/Participant.aspx?id=11918

 Nancy

Ciao DragonFlyers!

 Our dear coach, Jennifer, is having another fundraiser.  This is for those who loves shoes & jewelry!  For more details, check below.

 Nancy

Hellooooo ladies,
 

On April 19th, House of Shoes and Love, Montreal jewelry will donate 20% of their proceeds to support a local athlete (guess who!) in her quest to win GOLD at the World Championships. 

I’ve been named to the National Women’s Dragon Boat team, and I’m preparing (15-20 hours of training per week!) to compete at the World Dragon Boat Championships in Prague, Czech Republic in August 2009.

We all love shopping, why not support a great cause at the same time?
Come shopping on April 19th from 12-4 at,

HOUSE OF SHOES
203 HYMUS BLVD, SUITE 203
(ST.JOHNS BLVD / ABOVE TD BANK)
POINTE-CLAIRE, H9R 1E9

www.houseofshoes.piczo.com

Brand name shoes at discount prices

www.lovemontreal.net

Unique and affordable handmade jewelry

The store will be open to anyone and everyone, please invite other shoe & jewelry-loving ladies.

Best regards,

Jen

Ciao!  Like every month, it seems that we have tons of b-days to celebrate…  For the b-days of the month of March, we’ll be going to the sugar shack.  Here are the details:

Event: B-day celebrations at Sugar Shack

Date: 08MAR2009

Time: 12:00pm

Place: Les Vergers Denis Charbonneau

Website: http://www.vergersdc.qc.ca/menu-champetre-cabane.php

Hopefully, this year, the b-day boys/girls won’t get lost and end-up at the wrong sugar shack like last year! LOL  Anyways,  I hope that you can all make-it.  Please confirm by 23FEB2009.  I’ll be making the reservations by then.

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• People who have confirmed up to now:
  - Nancy & Francis (space for 2 in car)
  - Charles & Rita (Space for 1)
  - David & Yan (need ride)
  - Sam (need ride)
  - Hanting (need ride)
  - Stephanie & Erik + 3 (need ride)
• - Vicky (space for 3)
  - Lei & Arden (space for 1)
  - Karnon
• - Cindy (space for 3)
• - Joyce (Space for 3)
• - Ayman

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Ok, guys…  only a few days to go to confirm if you’re coming or not…  Please confirm ASAP!  I’m making the reservations on Monday!  Also, I’ll need to know who needs a ride there and who can offer lifts there.  As for lifts, I’m suggesting that we meet at Metro Angrignon for 11am.  It’s about 45 min car ride from there.  So, let me start the ball rolling…  in my car, I have space for 2.

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OK, well that’s it…  I just did the final count…  if anybody adds on at this point, they’ll need to have their own car or ride.  ‘Cuz now, we’re just enough with nomore room to spare in any cars!  We’re now a total of 20 going to the sugar shack! 

Ciao!

This is biggest event in Montreal for dragonboat and it’s a must to go with over a hundred teams participating!  Our team participates at it every year gaining more experience every year as well.  With every race, different teams to race against = different experience!

Here are some pics from the event.

And more…  pics!

Hi DragonFly!!!

Welcome back to our winter session!!!
PRACTICE
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Our first practice will be THIS Friday on November 7th from 7-8PM. It is confirmed that we will have Seb as our coach for our winter session. I have booked a personal trainer, Lisa, to come in from 8-9pm. She will work on helping us getting a good training program for our season.
ATTENDANCE
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I have the following confirmed for this weeks practice:
1)Victoria 2)Jerry 3)Kevin 4)Ramy 5)Gloria 6)Patrick Lau 7)Riry 8)Sokhom 9)David 10)George 11)Erik 12)Arden 13)Sam 14)Mirka 15)Winnie 16)Angela 17)Brian 18)Ayman(Sam’s Friend) 19)Cindy(Patrick’s sister) 20)Lin Wang(Sokhom’s collegue) 21)Kevin’s collegue#1 22)Kevin’s collegue#2 23)Jessica(Winnie’s friend)

MEMBERSHIP FEES
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The cost of the winter membership fee will need to increase to $110 per person. Please bring in the membership fee to me this Friday. I accept cash and checks. If there is a cost to use the gym next year we will probably do it on a per practice base or a small add on fee if it’s not too expensive. For part-time members the cost per practice will be $8/session.
FUNDRAISER
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I will be ordering the Jay Peak Ski tickets next week. Please update me on the progress on how many tickets you have confirmed. I’d like to know how many you plan to get including yourself and others. Thanks. Please see below for more details about the event.
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Our last season has ended and we did an amazing 4 races this year!!! What a great experience!?! But with this we has the expense to cover all the races and extra practices added. We will be having another fundraising event this year. It’s to sell ski lift tickets to Jay Peak in Vermont. It’s an amasing mountain with great slopes. Retail price for a ticket is $65 canadian tax included. If we can sell more than 200 tickets we can get the tickets for $35 each and sell them for $50 one ticket and $45 if buy more than one. Also we might be planning our next ski trip at Jay Peak next year sometime in mid-February. I think it will be a great way to raise money keep in shape and have fun. You can buy for yourself, as a gift, sell to friends, family and collegues. These tickets have no blackout dates and can be used anytime through the December 2008 and April 2009. Further details will be sent out later this week. I will be posting an event of FB as well so you all can send the event to your friends.
Try to sell it to people before the season starts so they can start skiing early and also get them as xmas gifts^_^ Let me know of all your pre-orders and I will order the tickets.
Here is the cost of the tickets and on the amounts we sell:

Buy in bulk & save: Retail window rate 25-50 tickets 51-200 tickets 201+ tickets
Adults                            $65                           $42                  $38                      $35
Juniors (6-17)              $45                           $35                  $32                       $30
All rates are in Canadian funds and include taxes.

I plan to order the 201+tickets to maximize on the sales. Any unsold tickets are refundable so we can continue to sell throughout the whole season until April. But I intend to sell them all before that date.
Please put your best foot forward in helping our team raise the money we need in order to be able to race in great and fn competitions next year and as well cover or expenses from this year.
Also for those who love to ski in our team and want to sell but don’t know who to sell to you can go to the ski hill and sell over there before you hit the slopes:) hehe but of course you should do it discretely;)
Our next fundraising event will be next Spring Comedy works. But hehe if we do very well in this event maybe we won’t need it^_^
EVENTS
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House party chez Erik - November 22nd, 2008
Erik will be hosting another potluck party=) Please let me and Erik know if you can make it for that day and what you plan to bring.
Thanks,
Vicky