With the editors sloshed from alcohol due to the ushering of the new year, the scheduled NTU Rugby trip to Bangkok for the South East Asian Tri-nations competition seemed to have come and gone, without anything eventful having taken place. That is all before we received a knock on our heads by the Chief editor to remind us that the trip has been rightfully cancelled due to the numerous bomb blasts that occured in various parts of Bangkok. What a way to kickstart the new year with several industrial strength fireworks!

As the team remain disappointed for having such a hugely anticipated trip cut short, the editors have been quick to pick up on some leads and sussed out some highly plausible conspiracy theories that has emerged. Of all, the editors have published two of the most likely theories for public debate:

1. The bombs were put in place by the recently mentioned Mr Y. It was said that he learnt of the distribution of oversized Polo Tshirts to the team for their trip, and he spent his New Year's eve igniting those several bombs so as to stop the team for making the trip, thus recovering the shirts and giving them back to the Dragonboat boys to wipe dry their oars after training to prevent algae and fungus on growing on their sticks. Mr Y could not be contacted for comments, however his wife divulged that he has locked himself in the basement to carve out a majestic looking dragon head to adorn his newly purchased car. Mr Y's extra huge bonus comes as no surprise as Rugby is not the only sport to have had their budget cut.

2. NUS and SMU has been following up on the electrifying progress of our young starlets (minus SK) through his wildly successful blog. They have determined that NTU is indeed a big threat to their title ambitions for the coming year. Unconfirmed reports said that NUS School of Chemistry and Ballistic Science developed at least one of the six bombs used and SMU's School of Finance sanctioned the funds to put the bombs in place. NTU's School of DOS (Denial of Service) and Intellectual Property theft stumbled upon this plot while monitoring the rival school's public servers and email systems. With the help of the India Professors from School of Computing, they managed to upload the millenium virus into the bombs and caused them to explode on New Year's eve, instead of 3rd Jan where the team was scheduled to land.

Whatever u readers may believe, it is a reality that the trip has been cut short until further notice. However, the spirit of the team is still not dampened. Andy Prakarsa is still adamant on pushing his single bed together with SK and he may be making a mid-IHG season transfer to Hall 1 just to be SK's sleeping partner. Whatever weird news you hear, these boys are still very much part of the team and may our Muslim brothers in the holy land of Mecca now pray for these lost souls and bring back their innocence.