No, I wasn't bedridden after all. Thank goodness.

Table tennis training today was good, just like Tuesday's one. Except my thigh muscles were alittle tight today. Probably due to yesterday's PT. Was quite happy that I'm able to move faster than I was at the beginning of this year. But darn, just as I'm finally getting the hang of it, trainings are stopping to make way for promos. =(

Lessons today were kind of slack. Ended quite early too. Was supposed to finish my Biology tutorial while waiting for training to start at 6pm. I did about 3 pages, then went opposite with Ah Cat to buy ice cream. Then came back to do alittle more. Then went opposite again, this time with Hweeli, to get the cards for the table tennis teacher-in-charges. When I came back again, sat with some of the floorball girls, and we gossiped? =X Haha. Then Leo Club people said that we could have free food from the buffet that was originally for the elderlys, we rushed to get the food. Lol. Bought the cute small lollipop bouquet(and it was so prettily-wrapped!) from Thaddeus and his friend since it was for a good cause. To raise funds for the Cambodia Outreach Programme. But I don't know what to do with the lollipops because right now in my refrigerator, there's more. Haha.

Teachers' Day tomorrow. Happy Teachers' Day to all teachers out there! There's still Econs make-up lecture at 10.30am. =( Sucks to the max but no, I'm not going to skip it. Probably meeting Tracy and Shanmin after everything ends. Yay! Finally, I get to meet them without something popping up at the very last minute. Shit always happens I was so sure I could make it for the meet-ups.

Okay, I need to go complete more of Biology tutorial! Bye!

Labels: School, Table Tennis

Be Yourself Day was argh. I don't see the purpose of wearing black as a class. A colour isn't a theme. It's like we're wearing something common for the sake of looking united when sadly, we're not. (sorry, I'm not trying to wash dirty linen in public, but anyone can easily see at one glance that we're not close as a class) If you wanted to look bonded as class, I think even school uniforms would do a better job. Kinda envied other classes who were wearing pyjamas, business suits, suspenders, etc. Plus, you must know that wearing jeans and black tops on the week's second longest day isn't comfortable at all. And we pay 20 bucks for wearing black? Ah, whatever floats the class' boat. But I swear if there's such events again and I'm definitely not going to go along with the idea of wearing same colour clothes.

Tennis during PE elective yesterday was great. Learnt some of the basics and Mrs Goh had got to be the best PE teacher around. Looking forward to the next PE elective. I swear I'm going to learnt the basics well and play a reasonably long game with Kristy! Floorball training in the afternoon. Physical training, to be exact. But it wasn't as bad as the previous one because it only lasted 45 minutes. I can't say the same for the guys though. At 6 plus, when the girls were playing at the D-area, they were still running round the track. Lol.

Oh, and I bought a cute Mickey Mouse metal pencil case yesterday! Thanks Weiling for telling me where to get it.

School ended at 12.30pm today. Went with Ah Cat and Pris to Bedok's Pizza Hut for lunch. The company was superb. Talked about damn lot of stuffs, including some really 禁爆 ones. Things that you would never imagine talking about over lunch. HAHA. After eating, Ah Cat suggested going to NTUC. So Pris and I waited for her to get up the travellator, then we ran out of NTUC. Lol. Then we went on to hide-and-seek in a supermarket. Cheap thrills. Started raining just as we were about to leave. Ah Cat was giving Pris(who's so directionless) the wrong directions to the way home. Was trying my best not to laugh when she did that.

Took Bus 38 back to school and headed for the library to 'study' Chem. As you can guess, I decided to sleep first. Lol. Then I think I keep burping in my sleep. It always happen to me when I'm sleeping with my head on the table. Then I can feel air bubbling up my throat from the stomach. Is it just me, or it's happens to everyone too? When I woke up, I realised Lester and his girlfriend were studying at the table behind. Sorry if anyone of you or anyone nearby suddenly heard a *burp* and then smelled a wisp creamofmushroom-beefbolognaise-pepsi. LOL. Okay, I know I'm gross.

After I woke up, wanted to continue studying Chem but felt like vomitting. Then joined Hweeli and her friends. Failed attempt at trying to study. Went opposite with Hweeli to get her Olympic mascot toy and then to table tennis room for training.

Trained for a while. Then played match with Coach, Mr Tan and this AHS senior whom I've never seen before(think he's from Isaac's batch). The Girls (Hweeli, Yichen and I) against the Men. Got trashed like shit. Each person plays 3 matches. For me, it was 3-0, 3-0, 3-0. Their services were already enough to kill me. Played so badly. Not saying that if I played better, would be able to win them. But at least I might be able to win at least 1 set?

Derrick Ho's new album is very nice! Might put it up on my radioblog if I have the time. But not now, because it's time for me to zzZZ... Haha.

Labels: Floorball, Friends, School, Table Tennis

This may be alittle late, but THE SINGAPORE TABLE TENNIS WOMEN TEAM IS IN THE FINALS!!! Definitely something worth celebrating because afterall, they secured Singapore's first Olympic medal in 48 years. Who had expected an underated sports in Singapore to bring home the medal? Yeah, I think table tennis is underated in Singapore even though I myself play it. I mean, I find that most schools tend to make having previous playing experience as a pre-requisite for joining the school team. I think that's partly the reason why it's so underated here. It's like people are denied of playing competitively unless they are able to improve that much within that short period between the time they joined and the competition. Never mind, I like underated sports. The most underated it is, the more I love it. By that, I mean floorball too. Last Saturday, I was on the bus on the way to training at school. Was watching men hockey match on TVMobile. This guy came to sit beside me and asked if the floorball stick I was holding was a hockey stick. I was like 'no, it's a floorball stick.' Told him it's kinda similar to hockey. Then he was like 'so the girls plays floorball and guys play hockey?'. I was so horrified, and quickly corrected him that there are guys playing floorball too. Lol.

Okay, I'm like shuttling between my room and the living room to watch the table tennis finals while typing this. So pardon me if I'm not making any sense in my typing. Do you know Feng Tian Wei has the initial of FTW? Quoted from Elmo. Haha. Anyway, Feng Tian Wei is my new idol! She's damn good.

So let me review my week. There had been a few tests this week which I half-heartedly studied for. The night before Econs test, was webcam-ing away with Tracy. My first time using a webcam. Lol. Haven't met her in a long time. So it was good 'meeting' her, albeit virtually. So 2 webcam idiots infront of their laptops were doing crazy stuff. Had to stifle my laughters in case my Dad thinks her daughter's gone crazy, laughing away infront of the computer. Refused to do the stupid stuffs like the M1 advertisement she asked me to do too because my Dad was just outside at the dining room.

Webcam-ed with her again yesterday night, this time with microphones turned on. My mum came into my room to put my clothes, then she said she wanted to say hi to my mum. So I told my mum to come to the laptop. Her mum came into her room to put her clothes too, her mum couldn't recognise me because of my specs. Lol. Everyone says that I look different with specs.

And oh, this week, I cut my own fringe for the first time. Not that there was much difference in the length since I only snipped off alittle. Haha.

Mass PE on Friday was spent playing table tennis with Hweeli and Mr Tan. Played King. I was the only one who brought my bat, Hweeli forgot hers and Mr Tan obviously didn't bring his too since he wasn't counting on table tennis training on a Friday. So we made do with two lousy bats from the equipment cupboard. Lol. It was fun and thanks Mr Tan for helping us get the key because the other teacher refused to lend it to us no matter what we said. She was like, 'No, you need to play as a class'. And obviously, not everyone will want to play table tennis.

Failed Maths test with 12/25. Such a pity, 1 more mark, but I'm contented enough because I didn't study for it. Won't make a difference if I studied anyway. Haven't got back Chem but I better pass it since I sacrificed Maths for Chem.

Training yesterday seemed to pass so fast. It was very fun. We started off with a warm-up which was something like dodgeball. Had loads of fun hitting balls at those inside the circle. I thought my aiming was damn off, but the girls claimed that I was scary. So when it was my turn to stand inside the circle, all the girls took revenge on me. T.T I got hit like 10 times and each time warrants 5 push-ups, so I had to do 50 in the end. When everyone finished their push-ups, I was still doing mine. Lol.

We went on to train more of shootings and passings. Yay, my silent wrist shot is getting better, but I still tend to swing alittle too much at times. But my loud wrist shot is still CMI. It's like totally silent, no sound. My hands and legs can't coordinate. I always stop before I shoot and then go back to my original position because I realised my right feet is always stepping over the ball. I must have been a funny sight. Coach's advice was 'You think too much'. LOL. Was so pressured when it came to doing the loud wrist passes because none of them were correct. There was either silence or the ball wasn't even lifted a single inch off the ground. Coach took the whole bag of balls and gave it to me to practise. He said he was going to make it his agenda to make sure I learn to do the loud wrist shot before he leaves after training. Felt like telling him that he might want to take back his words because from what I looked like, he was never going to achieve it. Lol. Told ya he's one patient coach. Whatever it is, our Coach pwns yours!

Stayed back after training for about one and a half hours with Pinn Xian to train on the stage, practising shooting with the small goalpost until the boys came and replaced it with a bigger one.

Went to do some grocery shopping instead and bought loads of stuffs, including junk foods. =P Then headed to Parkway to shop alittle. Mum went into GNC and blasted 900 bucks on our daily vitamins and supplements, her beauty tablets(not that it's working at all, lol) and powerful anti-oxidants(so says the box of tablets). As long as I get to have my daily dose of salmon oil capsules to down with my glass of milk every morning and my multi-vitamin tablets to swallow, I won't feel weird the whole day. Haha. Had dinner at Ajisen.

Unihoc has released the catalog for it's 08/09 products! Okay, maybe I'm alittle slow in realising that, but for a person who hasn't have the chance to use the computer for leisure purposes, that's considered quite fast. Haha. Anyway, they've got new series of sticks. Badge and Volcano:







Man, they're so nice! I want one of those. That, I'll ask after promos. But I swear Mum's going to give me a dressing-down for asking for another stick. Haha. And whether I can still remain in floorball, that still remains to be seen from my promos results.



I want the stick bag and water bottle too! Especially the stick bag, the design is damn nice! Probably will be able to get them without external financial aid from parents. But why do I need a stick bag for when I only have one stick which looks like it just came out from the garage sale? Lol. Okay, after promos, after my Mum agrees to a new stick. If she doesn't, no point in having a stick bag. =(

Almost done with WR Draft 2. I'm so relieved. Been chionging the whole of today to slap together the bibliography and the word-cutted version. Now waiting for Pris to send me the FINALEST(there had been too many files named 'final WR') version, then I'll print it out, and then we're done!!! Cheers! The next time we're touching WR again will be after promos! ^^

Alright, I have rambled enough, time to go practise some piano. Bye! =P

Labels: Floorball, Olympics, School, Table Tennis, Unihoc

Today was the down-in-the-dumps kind of day. It started off with an argument with my mum in the morning over some money matters while I was in a frenzy, trying to print my PI research materials before rushing off for school. She was the one who started it, making such a big fuss over something so trivial. She's the one being so unreasonable. It's not like we can't afford it, it's not like I'm being extravagant, it's not like I didn't explain to her the reason behind my request, it's not like I'm using it for something unimportant, because it is, in fact, for something very important, and it's not like she doesn't know how important it is. I was so frustrated that I yelled back at her, I swear I'd woken up the neighbours. Left for school in Dad's car in a foul mood.

And darn, what I encountered while waiting for assembly to start worsened my already-rotten mood. Sometimes I wonder why I'm so smart to be at the wrong places at the wrong times.

NAPHA was pretty alright. Only thing that lifted up my spirits alittle was doing a personal record for sit-ups and Mr Tan, the new PE teacher who often joins in our table tennis training. He was nice and funny. Before we started the sit-ups item, he was like 'Connie, 40 ah!' Embarrassing because getting a 31 is already quite huge an achievement for me. But funnily, his encouragement did work. I did a 41. While doing, I was thinking to myself, 'Mr Tan wants a 40, prove it to him that you can', and somehow, I managed to drag my body up quicker and faster until the 1 minute was up because I didn't want to feel embarrassed.

Lessons were mediocre. But was feeling quite tired. Kinda dozed off during GP lecture. Contact time was quite good. Actually planned to sleep during it, but didn't, because the acapella group was really good.

Then went for floorball. Was looking forward to playing. But there were some miscommunication, I guess. So some of us were playing catch-ball for awhile and trying out some goalkeeper moves. Lol. Then got to play a small match with the Taiwanese students from the Taiwan Immersion Programme. It was actually a floorball clinic for them. I assisted Xin Hui, the Taiwanese who looks like KC. I must be missing him too much. LOL. Can imagine his ego inflating at an exponential rate while reading this. Haha. Anyway, Xin Hui's goal was super nice! =DC. Was quite comfortable with talking to him despite meeting him for the first time today and Taiwanese somemore! Since when was I comfortable with speaking to someone I don't really know well and speaking my lousy Chinese infront of a native speaker? Guess he resembled KC too much, that's why. Lol. Speaking of KC, I wonder when I'll be seeing KC and Co., and the girls. I hope I'll be able to make it after Sports Appreciation Ceremony next friday.

Anyway, after everything ended, it was desserts at the opposite market with some of the girls.

Felt so helpless when I read the sms at the bus stop. Somehow, I don't want to know the true reason, I'm afraid that it'll be so hurtful that I can never look at that person in the same way again. I want to help so much, but I can't think of anything I can do. =(

Yesterday's evening wasn't any better than today. Performance at table tennis training sucked like hell. Couldn't do the 'las' correctly. Either I was too fast in moving, or too slow, or I dipped my bat too low, or my position was really off. Not one was correctly done. Coach used me many times for examples to point out my mistakes. I'm perfectly alright with it, but it goes to show that I wasn't practising what he had taught. I need to change that. Felt so bad towards Zhihao because I was practising with him and I played like shit, while he was trying hard to receive every ball even though I wasn't exactly hitting them to the right positions.

It's seldom that I have an emo post. But today really sucked right to the core. Sorry, I didn't mean to blog an emo entry but I can't help it.

Someone, please, erase this line before it boldens

Labels: Floorball, Friends, School, Table Tennis

Calling for all Secondary 4 Table Tennis players! There will be Temasek Junior College Table Tennis DSA Trials on 27 May(Tuesday) from 9 - 11am at Temasek Junior College's Dance Studio (which is at the Sports Complex). Interested students, please do come down for the trials.

Should you have any enquiries, please feel free to email to tjc.tabletennis@gmail.com or tag on the tagboard at the side of this page. Alternatively, you can also tag at the TJC Table Tennis blog.

For more information on Temasek Junior College DSA Intake 2009, please visit http://www.tjc.edu.sg/admissions/DSA.asp.

We hope to see you there! ^^

Labels: Table Tennis

A quick update since I have some time on hand. Or so, I deceive myself.

PW has been a total hair-puller. We are still racking our brains over GPP. Can't think of a perfect or close-to-perfect GPP. Most of the proposals we came up with have some kind of loophole or another. Been negotiating with Ms Thangam for postponement of the deadline. I would say that we've been rather successful with it so far. Lol.

Enough of PW. Table tennis individual competitions was a total trash. Told ya I was there to take up a butt-space in PLMGS' hall. I think my match took a total of 10 minutes only? Haha. Rushed back to TJ for floorball. Mr Tan, the floorball teacher-in-charge, was in the hall. He looked at me accusingly and said, "I thought you have competitions today?' I was like, 'Oh, ended already.' Lol. Floorball was fun. I still need to brush up alot on ball control, need to control the ball with the stick as if I'm controlling it with my hands. That screams only one word, 'PRACTISE!!!' Sucks having to wait 3 more weeks to get my stick. Made a wasted trip down to Valhall last Sunday, the stick I wanted was sold out. I want my own stick like now.

Alright, it's back to PW now.

Labels: Floorball, School, Table Tennis

Was supposed to study for Econs test on Thursday after school with Catherine and Priscilia at The Bus. It's more commonly and correctly known as the Students Lounge but whenever I think of the word 'lounge', I think of a carpeted room with comfy sofas and cushions. Basically, it's everything which the Students Lounge isn't, so calling it 'The Bus' works more for me. Haha.

In our 3 hours there, I only managed to finish 6 pages of Econs. How productive. Catherine and Priscilia la, kept making me laugh. I think we were being a bunch of nuisances and about to tear the bus down. Priscilia was doing her Japanese homework, and then we took her homework to see we could understand anything. So we came to this word 'Nabe' which means pan in Japanese. And then Catherine kept sprouting the vulgarity and insisting that she was saying 'pan'. Yeah, 'Nabe' is pronounced almost the same way as that certain Hokkien vulgarity. And Priscilia was telling us that the first time she received her homework marked by her Japanese teacher, she was so shocked. Because, on her homework was all red circles, no ticks. It really did look like she did everything wrongly. Turned out that the Japaneses do not use ticks, but circles instead. So on some pages, where the teacher was supposed to put a huge red tick, there was one huge red egg instead. Lol. Catherine was saying that Priscilia will get too used to the Japanese way of marking and then in TJ, when the teachers circle her homework in red, she will think that she got everything right. Haha.

Labels: Floorball, Friends, Sports, Table Tennis

I shall summarise my week since I hardly have time to blog during weekdays and I think this had been and will continue to be the case every week.

First of all, I want to thank CG 18/08 for the birthday song. Even though it was embarrassing, but I really appreciated the thought. ^^

This whole week had been really hectic for me, I'm not saying other weeks weren't, but for the first time, I really understood what 'Too many things, too little time' meant. I had to divide my time between trainings, competition, tutorials, GP reviews, and worst of all, the killer PI! Yes, I know I probably won't refer to it as a killer soon when more components of PW begins. There were quite a few days when I reached home at 9.30pm, have dinner(I think at such time, it's more appropriately known as supper), shower and then finally start on my work at 10.30pm, only get to go to bed at 1 or 2 in the morning and then wake up 3 and a half hours or 4 hours, at most, later to get ready for school. Then the whole routine repeats itself. No doubt, I felt like dozing off sometimes during lectures(especially during boring ones!), but I tried my best not to. Keyword: tried. But apparently not having much success.

Competition on last Wednesday. Jitters! But everyone played great! Though I think I played exceptionally oooglily(uglily). The way I play has always been ugly, but it was exceptionally ugly on that day. Lol.Wasn't quite satisfied with myself. Girls, TJC vs. SRJC, 5-0. Boys, TJC vs. IJC, 4-1. Girls will be up against SAJC on Monday. Double jitters!

By the way, CG 18/08 came in 1st for English Fair Exhibition and won ourselves $100 worth of Ben & Jerry's! That's about a scoop of ice cream for everyone! Going for ice-cream as a class, I like the idea of that! I wasn't present for contact time on Wednesday and when Wenhui told me the next day, I was like 'WHAT!?!' Haha, we weren't expecting to win anything after seeing other CGs' exhibitions because some of them were really good. How the hell did we manage to win, I have no idea.

Duathlon today was a great experience. My first time trying out for endurance sports. The 1st leg of the run was the worst. It was hell tiring. I don't know why. I wasn't even halfway through the route and my legs were already hurting like crazy. Too little warmups, probably. And I came in second-last for the 1st leg, but I think I should be considered last because the last girl was feeling unwell during the race, and she kinda dropped out of the race, and then join back in again. So technically, I was last. Lol. But we didn't come in last at the end! All thanks to Angelina! So, she was the second-last to leave the bikers' holding area because I was the second-last to finsh the 1st leg. I don't know how she did it, but she was one of the firsts to complete her 15km of biking. She must have biked damn fast la! And she claimed that she wasn't cycling very fast. And, she didn't look like she had perspired a drop when she came back, really. Conclusion: She has the speed + stamina. The 2nd leg of the run was quite alright, except that the sun had gone quite high up in the sky. I was cursing it everytime I ran out of the shade and into the sunlight. Lol. I think we got 20th or 21st position. And the goodie bags were fabulous! We got quite alot of things, Puma caps and best of all, the Duathlon Challenge 2008 tee which says 'DUATHLETE' in big bold letters on the front and depending on whether you were a runner or biker, it says 'runner' or 'biker' on the right sleeve. I love the tee alot! I feel so accomplished today! At least, I know I'm capable of 6km which I never thought was possible in the past. But 2.4km mock test next week is another thing. Haha. Anyway, I'll definitely join Duathlon next year if there's one.

Labels: School, Sports, Table Tennis

No, I wasn't bedridden after all. Thank goodness.

Table tennis training today was good, just like Tuesday's one. Except my thigh muscles were alittle tight today. Probably due to yesterday's PT. Was quite happy that I'm able to move faster than I was at the beginning of this year. But darn, just as I'm finally getting the hang of it, trainings are stopping to make way for promos. =(

Lessons today were kind of slack. Ended quite early too. Was supposed to finish my Biology tutorial while waiting for training to start at 6pm. I did about 3 pages, then went opposite with Ah Cat to buy ice cream. Then came back to do alittle more. Then went opposite again, this time with Hweeli, to get the cards for the table tennis teacher-in-charges. When I came back again, sat with some of the floorball girls, and we gossiped? =X Haha. Then Leo Club people said that we could have free food from the buffet that was originally for the elderlys, we rushed to get the food. Lol. Bought the cute small lollipop bouquet(and it was so prettily-wrapped!) from Thaddeus and his friend since it was for a good cause. To raise funds for the Cambodia Outreach Programme. But I don't know what to do with the lollipops because right now in my refrigerator, there's more. Haha.

Teachers' Day tomorrow. Happy Teachers' Day to all teachers out there! There's still Econs make-up lecture at 10.30am. =( Sucks to the max but no, I'm not going to skip it. Probably meeting Tracy and Shanmin after everything ends. Yay! Finally, I get to meet them without something popping up at the very last minute. Shit always happens I was so sure I could make it for the meet-ups.

Okay, I need to go complete more of Biology tutorial! Bye!

Labels: School, Table Tennis

Be Yourself Day was argh. I don't see the purpose of wearing black as a class. A colour isn't a theme. It's like we're wearing something common for the sake of looking united when sadly, we're not. (sorry, I'm not trying to wash dirty linen in public, but anyone can easily see at one glance that we're not close as a class) If you wanted to look bonded as class, I think even school uniforms would do a better job. Kinda envied other classes who were wearing pyjamas, business suits, suspenders, etc. Plus, you must know that wearing jeans and black tops on the week's second longest day isn't comfortable at all. And we pay 20 bucks for wearing black? Ah, whatever floats the class' boat. But I swear if there's such events again and I'm definitely not going to go along with the idea of wearing same colour clothes.

Tennis during PE elective yesterday was great. Learnt some of the basics and Mrs Goh had got to be the best PE teacher around. Looking forward to the next PE elective. I swear I'm going to learnt the basics well and play a reasonably long game with Kristy! Floorball training in the afternoon. Physical training, to be exact. But it wasn't as bad as the previous one because it only lasted 45 minutes. I can't say the same for the guys though. At 6 plus, when the girls were playing at the D-area, they were still running round the track. Lol.

Oh, and I bought a cute Mickey Mouse metal pencil case yesterday! Thanks Weiling for telling me where to get it.

School ended at 12.30pm today. Went with Ah Cat and Pris to Bedok's Pizza Hut for lunch. The company was superb. Talked about damn lot of stuffs, including some really 禁爆 ones. Things that you would never imagine talking about over lunch. HAHA. After eating, Ah Cat suggested going to NTUC. So Pris and I waited for her to get up the travellator, then we ran out of NTUC. Lol. Then we went on to hide-and-seek in a supermarket. Cheap thrills. Started raining just as we were about to leave. Ah Cat was giving Pris(who's so directionless) the wrong directions to the way home. Was trying my best not to laugh when she did that.

Took Bus 38 back to school and headed for the library to 'study' Chem. As you can guess, I decided to sleep first. Lol. Then I think I keep burping in my sleep. It always happen to me when I'm sleeping with my head on the table. Then I can feel air bubbling up my throat from the stomach. Is it just me, or it's happens to everyone too? When I woke up, I realised Lester and his girlfriend were studying at the table behind. Sorry if anyone of you or anyone nearby suddenly heard a *burp* and then smelled a wisp creamofmushroom-beefbolognaise-pepsi. LOL. Okay, I know I'm gross.

After I woke up, wanted to continue studying Chem but felt like vomitting. Then joined Hweeli and her friends. Failed attempt at trying to study. Went opposite with Hweeli to get her Olympic mascot toy and then to table tennis room for training.

Trained for a while. Then played match with Coach, Mr Tan and this AHS senior whom I've never seen before(think he's from Isaac's batch). The Girls (Hweeli, Yichen and I) against the Men. Got trashed like shit. Each person plays 3 matches. For me, it was 3-0, 3-0, 3-0. Their services were already enough to kill me. Played so badly. Not saying that if I played better, would be able to win them. But at least I might be able to win at least 1 set?

Derrick Ho's new album is very nice! Might put it up on my radioblog if I have the time. But not now, because it's time for me to zzZZ... Haha.

Labels: Floorball, Friends, School, Table Tennis

This may be alittle late, but THE SINGAPORE TABLE TENNIS WOMEN TEAM IS IN THE FINALS!!! Definitely something worth celebrating because afterall, they secured Singapore's first Olympic medal in 48 years. Who had expected an underated sports in Singapore to bring home the medal? Yeah, I think table tennis is underated in Singapore even though I myself play it. I mean, I find that most schools tend to make having previous playing experience as a pre-requisite for joining the school team. I think that's partly the reason why it's so underated here. It's like people are denied of playing competitively unless they are able to improve that much within that short period between the time they joined and the competition. Never mind, I like underated sports. The most underated it is, the more I love it. By that, I mean floorball too. Last Saturday, I was on the bus on the way to training at school. Was watching men hockey match on TVMobile. This guy came to sit beside me and asked if the floorball stick I was holding was a hockey stick. I was like 'no, it's a floorball stick.' Told him it's kinda similar to hockey. Then he was like 'so the girls plays floorball and guys play hockey?'. I was so horrified, and quickly corrected him that there are guys playing floorball too. Lol.

Okay, I'm like shuttling between my room and the living room to watch the table tennis finals while typing this. So pardon me if I'm not making any sense in my typing. Do you know Feng Tian Wei has the initial of FTW? Quoted from Elmo. Haha. Anyway, Feng Tian Wei is my new idol! She's damn good.

So let me review my week. There had been a few tests this week which I half-heartedly studied for. The night before Econs test, was webcam-ing away with Tracy. My first time using a webcam. Lol. Haven't met her in a long time. So it was good 'meeting' her, albeit virtually. So 2 webcam idiots infront of their laptops were doing crazy stuff. Had to stifle my laughters in case my Dad thinks her daughter's gone crazy, laughing away infront of the computer. Refused to do the stupid stuffs like the M1 advertisement she asked me to do too because my Dad was just outside at the dining room.

Webcam-ed with her again yesterday night, this time with microphones turned on. My mum came into my room to put my clothes, then she said she wanted to say hi to my mum. So I told my mum to come to the laptop. Her mum came into her room to put her clothes too, her mum couldn't recognise me because of my specs. Lol. Everyone says that I look different with specs.

And oh, this week, I cut my own fringe for the first time. Not that there was much difference in the length since I only snipped off alittle. Haha.

Mass PE on Friday was spent playing table tennis with Hweeli and Mr Tan. Played King. I was the only one who brought my bat, Hweeli forgot hers and Mr Tan obviously didn't bring his too since he wasn't counting on table tennis training on a Friday. So we made do with two lousy bats from the equipment cupboard. Lol. It was fun and thanks Mr Tan for helping us get the key because the other teacher refused to lend it to us no matter what we said. She was like, 'No, you need to play as a class'. And obviously, not everyone will want to play table tennis.

Failed Maths test with 12/25. Such a pity, 1 more mark, but I'm contented enough because I didn't study for it. Won't make a difference if I studied anyway. Haven't got back Chem but I better pass it since I sacrificed Maths for Chem.

Training yesterday seemed to pass so fast. It was very fun. We started off with a warm-up which was something like dodgeball. Had loads of fun hitting balls at those inside the circle. I thought my aiming was damn off, but the girls claimed that I was scary. So when it was my turn to stand inside the circle, all the girls took revenge on me. T.T I got hit like 10 times and each time warrants 5 push-ups, so I had to do 50 in the end. When everyone finished their push-ups, I was still doing mine. Lol.

We went on to train more of shootings and passings. Yay, my silent wrist shot is getting better, but I still tend to swing alittle too much at times. But my loud wrist shot is still CMI. It's like totally silent, no sound. My hands and legs can't coordinate. I always stop before I shoot and then go back to my original position because I realised my right feet is always stepping over the ball. I must have been a funny sight. Coach's advice was 'You think too much'. LOL. Was so pressured when it came to doing the loud wrist passes because none of them were correct. There was either silence or the ball wasn't even lifted a single inch off the ground. Coach took the whole bag of balls and gave it to me to practise. He said he was going to make it his agenda to make sure I learn to do the loud wrist shot before he leaves after training. Felt like telling him that he might want to take back his words because from what I looked like, he was never going to achieve it. Lol. Told ya he's one patient coach. Whatever it is, our Coach pwns yours!

Stayed back after training for about one and a half hours with Pinn Xian to train on the stage, practising shooting with the small goalpost until the boys came and replaced it with a bigger one.

Went to do some grocery shopping instead and bought loads of stuffs, including junk foods. =P Then headed to Parkway to shop alittle. Mum went into GNC and blasted 900 bucks on our daily vitamins and supplements, her beauty tablets(not that it's working at all, lol) and powerful anti-oxidants(so says the box of tablets). As long as I get to have my daily dose of salmon oil capsules to down with my glass of milk every morning and my multi-vitamin tablets to swallow, I won't feel weird the whole day. Haha. Had dinner at Ajisen.

Unihoc has released the catalog for it's 08/09 products! Okay, maybe I'm alittle slow in realising that, but for a person who hasn't have the chance to use the computer for leisure purposes, that's considered quite fast. Haha. Anyway, they've got new series of sticks. Badge and Volcano:







Man, they're so nice! I want one of those. That, I'll ask after promos. But I swear Mum's going to give me a dressing-down for asking for another stick. Haha. And whether I can still remain in floorball, that still remains to be seen from my promos results.



I want the stick bag and water bottle too! Especially the stick bag, the design is damn nice! Probably will be able to get them without external financial aid from parents. But why do I need a stick bag for when I only have one stick which looks like it just came out from the garage sale? Lol. Okay, after promos, after my Mum agrees to a new stick. If she doesn't, no point in having a stick bag. =(

Almost done with WR Draft 2. I'm so relieved. Been chionging the whole of today to slap together the bibliography and the word-cutted version. Now waiting for Pris to send me the FINALEST(there had been too many files named 'final WR') version, then I'll print it out, and then we're done!!! Cheers! The next time we're touching WR again will be after promos! ^^

Alright, I have rambled enough, time to go practise some piano. Bye! =P

Labels: Floorball, Olympics, School, Table Tennis, Unihoc

Today was the down-in-the-dumps kind of day. It started off with an argument with my mum in the morning over some money matters while I was in a frenzy, trying to print my PI research materials before rushing off for school. She was the one who started it, making such a big fuss over something so trivial. She's the one being so unreasonable. It's not like we can't afford it, it's not like I'm being extravagant, it's not like I didn't explain to her the reason behind my request, it's not like I'm using it for something unimportant, because it is, in fact, for something very important, and it's not like she doesn't know how important it is. I was so frustrated that I yelled back at her, I swear I'd woken up the neighbours. Left for school in Dad's car in a foul mood.

And darn, what I encountered while waiting for assembly to start worsened my already-rotten mood. Sometimes I wonder why I'm so smart to be at the wrong places at the wrong times.

NAPHA was pretty alright. Only thing that lifted up my spirits alittle was doing a personal record for sit-ups and Mr Tan, the new PE teacher who often joins in our table tennis training. He was nice and funny. Before we started the sit-ups item, he was like 'Connie, 40 ah!' Embarrassing because getting a 31 is already quite huge an achievement for me. But funnily, his encouragement did work. I did a 41. While doing, I was thinking to myself, 'Mr Tan wants a 40, prove it to him that you can', and somehow, I managed to drag my body up quicker and faster until the 1 minute was up because I didn't want to feel embarrassed.

Lessons were mediocre. But was feeling quite tired. Kinda dozed off during GP lecture. Contact time was quite good. Actually planned to sleep during it, but didn't, because the acapella group was really good.

Then went for floorball. Was looking forward to playing. But there were some miscommunication, I guess. So some of us were playing catch-ball for awhile and trying out some goalkeeper moves. Lol. Then got to play a small match with the Taiwanese students from the Taiwan Immersion Programme. It was actually a floorball clinic for them. I assisted Xin Hui, the Taiwanese who looks like KC. I must be missing him too much. LOL. Can imagine his ego inflating at an exponential rate while reading this. Haha. Anyway, Xin Hui's goal was super nice! =DC. Was quite comfortable with talking to him despite meeting him for the first time today and Taiwanese somemore! Since when was I comfortable with speaking to someone I don't really know well and speaking my lousy Chinese infront of a native speaker? Guess he resembled KC too much, that's why. Lol. Speaking of KC, I wonder when I'll be seeing KC and Co., and the girls. I hope I'll be able to make it after Sports Appreciation Ceremony next friday.

Anyway, after everything ended, it was desserts at the opposite market with some of the girls.

Felt so helpless when I read the sms at the bus stop. Somehow, I don't want to know the true reason, I'm afraid that it'll be so hurtful that I can never look at that person in the same way again. I want to help so much, but I can't think of anything I can do. =(

Yesterday's evening wasn't any better than today. Performance at table tennis training sucked like hell. Couldn't do the 'las' correctly. Either I was too fast in moving, or too slow, or I dipped my bat too low, or my position was really off. Not one was correctly done. Coach used me many times for examples to point out my mistakes. I'm perfectly alright with it, but it goes to show that I wasn't practising what he had taught. I need to change that. Felt so bad towards Zhihao because I was practising with him and I played like shit, while he was trying hard to receive every ball even though I wasn't exactly hitting them to the right positions.

It's seldom that I have an emo post. But today really sucked right to the core. Sorry, I didn't mean to blog an emo entry but I can't help it.

Someone, please, erase this line before it boldens

Labels: Floorball, Friends, School, Table Tennis

Calling for all Secondary 4 Table Tennis players! There will be Temasek Junior College Table Tennis DSA Trials on 27 May(Tuesday) from 9 - 11am at Temasek Junior College's Dance Studio (which is at the Sports Complex). Interested students, please do come down for the trials.

Should you have any enquiries, please feel free to email to tjc.tabletennis@gmail.com or tag on the tagboard at the side of this page. Alternatively, you can also tag at the TJC Table Tennis blog.

For more information on Temasek Junior College DSA Intake 2009, please visit http://www.tjc.edu.sg/admissions/DSA.asp.

We hope to see you there! ^^

Labels: Table Tennis

A quick update since I have some time on hand. Or so, I deceive myself.

PW has been a total hair-puller. We are still racking our brains over GPP. Can't think of a perfect or close-to-perfect GPP. Most of the proposals we came up with have some kind of loophole or another. Been negotiating with Ms Thangam for postponement of the deadline. I would say that we've been rather successful with it so far. Lol.

Enough of PW. Table tennis individual competitions was a total trash. Told ya I was there to take up a butt-space in PLMGS' hall. I think my match took a total of 10 minutes only? Haha. Rushed back to TJ for floorball. Mr Tan, the floorball teacher-in-charge, was in the hall. He looked at me accusingly and said, "I thought you have competitions today?' I was like, 'Oh, ended already.' Lol. Floorball was fun. I still need to brush up alot on ball control, need to control the ball with the stick as if I'm controlling it with my hands. That screams only one word, 'PRACTISE!!!' Sucks having to wait 3 more weeks to get my stick. Made a wasted trip down to Valhall last Sunday, the stick I wanted was sold out. I want my own stick like now.

Alright, it's back to PW now.

Labels: Floorball, School, Table Tennis

Was supposed to study for Econs test on Thursday after school with Catherine and Priscilia at The Bus. It's more commonly and correctly known as the Students Lounge but whenever I think of the word 'lounge', I think of a carpeted room with comfy sofas and cushions. Basically, it's everything which the Students Lounge isn't, so calling it 'The Bus' works more for me. Haha.

In our 3 hours there, I only managed to finish 6 pages of Econs. How productive. Catherine and Priscilia la, kept making me laugh. I think we were being a bunch of nuisances and about to tear the bus down. Priscilia was doing her Japanese homework, and then we took her homework to see we could understand anything. So we came to this word 'Nabe' which means pan in Japanese. And then Catherine kept sprouting the vulgarity and insisting that she was saying 'pan'. Yeah, 'Nabe' is pronounced almost the same way as that certain Hokkien vulgarity. And Priscilia was telling us that the first time she received her homework marked by her Japanese teacher, she was so shocked. Because, on her homework was all red circles, no ticks. It really did look like she did everything wrongly. Turned out that the Japaneses do not use ticks, but circles instead. So on some pages, where the teacher was supposed to put a huge red tick, there was one huge red egg instead. Lol. Catherine was saying that Priscilia will get too used to the Japanese way of marking and then in TJ, when the teachers circle her homework in red, she will think that she got everything right. Haha.

Labels: Floorball, Friends, Sports, Table Tennis

I shall summarise my week since I hardly have time to blog during weekdays and I think this had been and will continue to be the case every week.

First of all, I want to thank CG 18/08 for the birthday song. Even though it was embarrassing, but I really appreciated the thought. ^^

This whole week had been really hectic for me, I'm not saying other weeks weren't, but for the first time, I really understood what 'Too many things, too little time' meant. I had to divide my time between trainings, competition, tutorials, GP reviews, and worst of all, the killer PI! Yes, I know I probably won't refer to it as a killer soon when more components of PW begins. There were quite a few days when I reached home at 9.30pm, have dinner(I think at such time, it's more appropriately known as supper), shower and then finally start on my work at 10.30pm, only get to go to bed at 1 or 2 in the morning and then wake up 3 and a half hours or 4 hours, at most, later to get ready for school. Then the whole routine repeats itself. No doubt, I felt like dozing off sometimes during lectures(especially during boring ones!), but I tried my best not to. Keyword: tried. But apparently not having much success.

Competition on last Wednesday. Jitters! But everyone played great! Though I think I played exceptionally oooglily(uglily). The way I play has always been ugly, but it was exceptionally ugly on that day. Lol.Wasn't quite satisfied with myself. Girls, TJC vs. SRJC, 5-0. Boys, TJC vs. IJC, 4-1. Girls will be up against SAJC on Monday. Double jitters!

By the way, CG 18/08 came in 1st for English Fair Exhibition and won ourselves $100 worth of Ben & Jerry's! That's about a scoop of ice cream for everyone! Going for ice-cream as a class, I like the idea of that! I wasn't present for contact time on Wednesday and when Wenhui told me the next day, I was like 'WHAT!?!' Haha, we weren't expecting to win anything after seeing other CGs' exhibitions because some of them were really good. How the hell did we manage to win, I have no idea.

Duathlon today was a great experience. My first time trying out for endurance sports. The 1st leg of the run was the worst. It was hell tiring. I don't know why. I wasn't even halfway through the route and my legs were already hurting like crazy. Too little warmups, probably. And I came in second-last for the 1st leg, but I think I should be considered last because the last girl was feeling unwell during the race, and she kinda dropped out of the race, and then join back in again. So technically, I was last. Lol. But we didn't come in last at the end! All thanks to Angelina! So, she was the second-last to leave the bikers' holding area because I was the second-last to finsh the 1st leg. I don't know how she did it, but she was one of the firsts to complete her 15km of biking. She must have biked damn fast la! And she claimed that she wasn't cycling very fast. And, she didn't look like she had perspired a drop when she came back, really. Conclusion: She has the speed + stamina. The 2nd leg of the run was quite alright, except that the sun had gone quite high up in the sky. I was cursing it everytime I ran out of the shade and into the sunlight. Lol. I think we got 20th or 21st position. And the goodie bags were fabulous! We got quite alot of things, Puma caps and best of all, the Duathlon Challenge 2008 tee which says 'DUATHLETE' in big bold letters on the front and depending on whether you were a runner or biker, it says 'runner' or 'biker' on the right sleeve. I love the tee alot! I feel so accomplished today! At least, I know I'm capable of 6km which I never thought was possible in the past. But 2.4km mock test next week is another thing. Haha. Anyway, I'll definitely join Duathlon next year if there's one.

Labels: School, Sports, Table Tennis