Wednesday, May 25, 2011
And if that wasn't enough. ; 4:26 PM
It's been a long, intense (and as usual, tiring) week.
I don't know where to start.
So I'll start with the freshest things in my mind, not in chronological order.
- Finals on
Monday against MJC
We lost 2-0. The two goals were scored against us within the first few minutes of the game. Those were silly goals. As in, they could have been prevented easily, but we gave the game away.
We stepped up our game, but didn't manage to convert any shots to goals subsequently. Coach only played two pairs of defenders for the whole game; I ran so fast and so much that it took a hundred and ten percent of my mental and physical strength to keep me going on.
One thing that's been repeatedly reinforced into my brain after these few months of training and matches, is that the most important thing I need to conquer is my mind. All the negativity and pessimism has to be overcome by a never-say-die mentality. As coach keeps telling us, champions are those who don't give up, and don't stop fighting. We didn't win against MJ, but we won against ourselves, and the last two periods of our final game are moments that will constantly remind me of that.
After all, for all the blood
(literally. and bruises, sprains, blisters, shin splints, torn ACLs, twisted ankles), sweat
(gallons of it), tears
(especially after finals), and scoldings
(scary, yet inspiring), I'd rather we play a good game to get second, than to have an undeserving win.
Congrats to MJ for winning double gold(the boys and girls teams) though.
At least, there's still next year.
We went to Seoul Garden with coach, and all the non team players (guys and girls) for a steamboat buffet dinner. It's a good celebration to the end of season, and also the end of fasting from fried food/fast food/soft drinks/prata.
By the time I reached home, I didn't feel like doing work, not less studying for GP, and I was kinda overwhelmed by the day's events.
It was a disheartening loss. But I'm glad to say that after everything, I've learnt so much more than simply the game itself.
It's actually a good thing I didn't join basketball.
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Tuesday (yesterday) was quite a horrible day. I didn't get much sleep, had a headache+neck ache+shoulder ache+back ache, spaced out a lot during lectures, and fell asleep sporadically. That's further compounded by the fact that Tuesday is one of the longest days of lessons, and I had to go for lesson in the evening. Which meant that I had hardly any time (or mental strength) to study for GP. I kept telling myself that I'd study for GP after season, but with merely one day in between to rest, it's kinda hard.
Right, and then there was the curious incident of the lizard in the night time.
Basically, there's been a bothersome lizard that has been roaming about the house since a few nights ago. Before I went to school, I found it in my toilet. When I came home, it was staring at me from my sink. So after I showered in mom and dad's room, I decided that I'd be nice and open the toilet window for it to go out. But it didn't. Instead, it somehow slithered into my room and stared at me trying to study GP. I got really irritated, and well.. to cut the story short, I chased it out in the corridor, where Dad used his slipper to whack it about 5 times (on separate occasions). Each time he whacked it, he was convinced that it'd died (despite my protests that it was playing possum), and told me to pick it up and throw it away. And each time I did that, the lizard would suddenly flick its head and move away from me. In the end, Dad whacked it so hard that its stomach somewhat split (I saw some red stuff sticking out), and it finally died, so I flushed it away.
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Wednesday (today):
Once I woke up, the train of thought that went past my mind was 'oh man, why am I not sick?'.
Anyway, sitting in the ISH was so reminiscent of O levels.
After 3 hours (and a 15min break in between), I finally felt a little less burdened.
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Tomorrow's the last day of school for this term, because it's staff day on Friday, so we get a day off.
- I'll be away from next
Monday to Thursday for CCA Leaders Camp in Bintan. Hope it doesn't rain too heavily.. I don't fancy living sleeping in an inundated tent, nor do I wish to see it floating off into the horizon (extreme, but then again, the area where we pitch our tents is near the beach, so anything could happen).
Up till now, I'm still getting over the shock. I ran for Quarter Master. And during the exco interview, I specifically mentioned that I'd rather be QM because I like doing stuff relatively behind-the-scenes, and not leading the team upfront, since I'm not much of a 'people-person'.
So when we were told the exco results, I was genuinely surprised to find out that I was made the new Captain. I've got big shoes to fill, and I'm worried that it'll make coping with work hard to handle with all the commitments, and especially now that I'm not exactly top of the class or anything close to that.
But on that note, I'll definitely give it my best shot and serve the team as best as I can.
- I just found out, there's no more shaker fries. Man.. just as season ended.