Team Night 2007
Wow, what a team night it was yesterday. Haiz, I wanted to keep my speech short, but I realised it was probably the last time we will all be together so it was realli hard to keep it short. Yesterday was a wonderful night, and it was all cos of the company I had, laughing at Ben and talking to JR mini and Beng were hilarious as usual.
It was good seeing all of them, and I will sincerely miss them, reading Jaslyn and Farah's letters was realli emotional to me and I will miss them dearly. I managed to speak to all of them individually and I guess goodbyes always hurt but I kept telling myself that having our paths cross was the most important thing in the first place.
I am proud of the juniors as well. I think they put in so much effort. I remember asking myself how it would be without jaslyn, jolyn, viv all in my life, would it be weird and would it be hard? But I realised that it was no point comparing anybody to anybody because each one of them is unique. I have grown to love this batch so much, but i will always remember the batch of 06/07 simply because they were handpicked by me and I watched them grow into the beautiful individuals they are today.
All in all yesterday was a great nites, will relalimiss the practices with BFF late into the night but its ok, now we face something greater and I reckon an even betetr journey is about to begin.
Thank you Deb, Jo, Viv, Rach, Jaslyn, Jasmin, Lam, Mitch, Farah, Primary 6, Viv and Jing. I will miss you guys so much.
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Updates
Hey all,
Im finally back, been a busy few days, and I have yet to do a lot of school work, which I feel must be done as soon as possible. I plan to start tomorrow. PROMISE.
Other than that, OFI coure was a blast!!! I dreaded it so much, but in the end more than just the physical thing I gathered two things:
1) People can change - Seeing FI Gus now is realli a complete 180 degree turn, we were so scared when we heard he was our FI, no thanx to his rep in the past, but he really touched my heart with his sincerity and care for all of us, even though we were taking up his leave and all, realli respect man, he kept saying he was a changed man, and I realli believe him now.
2) NSmen can bond - Though all of us were from different divisions, it was realli easy for all of us to talk and to bond together, I actually kinda miss the guys already now, and I thought that everybody realli gave it our all, no fighting, no bickering, just realli supporting each other through the whole thing. Nobody discriminted against each other, JOs or SOs, and it was a thoroughly enjoyable experience.
Other than that yesterday was the match against RP, and it was a good experience for the girls, it was good to see all the sec 4s get a run out, and Joan even scored. Most imptly it was good to see simles on their faces. Its been a tough holiday period, and things are gonna get harder, but I have no doubt in my mind that we can pull through as long as we stay together. Nat had an unfortunate incident with her shoulder, which of course yours truly is very familiar with, but thank God she is alright. She still wanted to continue playing, respect, although I told her she should rest, I know I wuld have laid on the field myself and make them drag me out as well, if I was in her position. LOL. I wrote myself some personal goals, and though I reached some, I still am way off some of them and I will need to work harder in order to reach them soon.
Besides that today went marketing with my mom, haha, I kept asking her about everything, in preparation for what is to come next time. It was quite fun actually, and a good learning experience, although I realised that people nowadays never realli bargain, whereas I remember my grandma bargaining her ass off at every stall in the past. The market near my place is also much cleaner as well.
Well, I guess thats all, I hope to get started with my 3 term papers due in a months time, next week, as well as start exercising again very soon, Ive been realli tired since the course. Also, school is gonna start soon and of cos im damn excited to meet up with the class and lecturers again.
Wishing eveyrbody a good holiday and new year.
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Wasting My Time
Yesterday was a complete waste of time, I cant believe I actually sat down to watch the Singapore Malaysia match, cos it was an absolute waste of time. I guess its better than watching a JC boys soccer match of course, but then this was a supposed international u-23 match and it was of a pathetic standard.
Singapore had a lot of good chances, and the way they wasted them, I began to root for Malaysia, and I realli hoped the Singapore will be made to pay for it. I know this sounds realli bad of me and all, but then again, I have always had something against teams which seem to take things for granted, whether in vj or when I watch soccer in general. Luckily for Singapore though, Agu, the 80000 dollar thief managed to get something for us.
What happened next left me cursing.
Instead of turning the screw against an obviously stretched Malaysian defence, and a defence being unable to handle Agu's strength, they started heading to the corner flag with 6 minutes to go. My gosh, and do you know what the headline was yesterday night? WE DONT PLAY FOR DRAWS - Raddy. Haiz. And after the final whistle, the absolutely wild celebrations started, as if we have done something amazing. I guess this just goes to show how poor our standards have fallen when qualifying for the semi finals of an 8 team tournament spark such wild celebrations, its crazy, I tell you, I felt sick to my stomach.
The worse thing is that our lack of desire to score the winning goal would mean that we will be facing thailand in the semi finals. And yes, youre hearing it from me first, I hope the Thais kick our ass, not cos I hate Singapore or whatever, but simply because I think we do not deserve a spot in the final.
Luckily though, the night was much better, and looking at how fluent the football was it made me have faith that I was doing the right thing watching EPL.A lot of ppl will say, stop criticising and watch Singapore soccer, but i say this, if you wanna feel fulfilled in your heart, then go ahead and watch Singapore soccer, but if you truly wanna learn more about the game, pls dont, you will learn nothing except what NOT to do.
Next week will be off for OFI course, all the way till end of the week after dat, personally Im not scared lar, I think I have prepared myself reasonably, and if I am lagging, I will just make sure I work my ass off compared to the other course attendees. But ok lar, timings at runs, and especially pull ups have realli improved.
Only got two worries, the first being how I am gonna get there by 7am on the first morning, cos its at CCK. I know this sounds absurd, but I am kinda hoping I can stay in over there, sometimes miss the life of being a recruit, just chilling and exercising everyday, I shall ask the PNS office tomorrow if I can do it. My second worry would be the girls of course, call me a control freak, but everything I have done and usually do has been done cos its part of a bigger picture, so I realli dunno how things will be these coming two weeks. I dont want the program to be messed up, and also I want the program to be done at the correct intensity. But I trust KR and Nat lar, and I believe they will do a good job. Just realli sux when Im not there, but I guess I will need this mental break somehow, even if it means that I will spend this break exercising. I hope I can escape at the soonest possible time though and hopefully join them at training.
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Reflections at T1
Today went to fetch my mom at the airport. And two thoughts emerged from the 1 hour plus I was there.
The first was how grateful I felt when I saw my mom back, just thinking about stuff, and how I often take her and my other family members for granted. Sometimes Im sad how my brother doesnt realli treat the family as being all too impt, and I just hope he will be around in case anything happens, and does not regret it like the last time when he did not spend enough time with my grandpa before he passed on. I think the late Rueben Kee's dad is right, we should make an effort to tell our parents when we leave, and greet them when we come back, simply to let them know we're around. Cos life is too unpredictable, and you never know what may happen.
Secondly, I realised that I have not left on a plane to anywhere since 1999, thats like 8 years. And somehow I dont realli feel it. Even my mom asked me "Eh, you dont wanna go anywhere ah?". Well, not dat I din try, but perhaps God just wants me to stay here. And besides evrything is good over here, so I guess Ill take my time, hopefully I can go soon, but never mind for the moment its ok. Just tired at times, seeing ppl off, and welcoming them back, and you're never the one.
And on a sidenote, my mom brought to fabulous adidas jerseys from HK, one in the VJ yellow and black concept, and the other is a real madrid training jersey. Im gonna wear to training tomorrow, dont care.
Dats all for now, thanx again 28, i realli app. it.
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