Sports Day

Every day is like a soccer match to me. As the days go by, it seems to get more and more physical draining. My body seems uncomfortable to this but i m loving it. Time management is the key to enjoy my JC life!!!

Thursday's training was tiring. 12 laps of fartlegs. hahah not sure whether the spelling s like that. 100m sprint, 100m jog, 100m sprint 100m jog, all the way for 12 rounds.

Friday was gym as usual, had a good workout.

Saturday was suppose to be my rest day last week. But instead, i went back to SJI for the interunit games.



>>> NCC land vs Scouts

The standard dropped dramatically. Those were the days when NCC land reigned supreme. NPCC was pathetic. I wanted to go there and at least help them but they got kicked out even before shawn made it to sji. The water puddles didnt help though.



>>> DRAMA

And there was a joke. Jonathan from Land had a cramp half way through the match and the game was halted for about 10 minutes. Crazy. In the end he was stretchered off by the paranoid SJAB. IT WAS JUST A CRAMP!!!

Anyway that was when Land started losing without their star player. Subsequently, they lost the 3rd and 4th placing with an own goal by Bryan David. Sad, he killed his overall performance with that kick of the ball. The quality of play was so bad that even i didnt wanna watch and joined the kiddos at the hockey pitch for some friendly game together with shawn and jun jia.

Went for some striding around the track after that to sort of to warm up for sports day. Was more comfortable with shawn's spikes. It s more stable. Anw, went home after that to chiong some hw.

Monday's training was really a test for endurance and power. 1000m at your fastest pace. and it s 2 sets. Dun think i did well since we practised the relay as a class after school. Sprinted 400m as samantha and darren could make it.

Tuesday was fun. Whole class stayed back after chem test, which i presume it s hard to pass for me, to help the council elects with their campaign. Did posters and stuff and some left home instead of joining for dinner. Gabriel was bored and asked me to kick ball with him. Nicholas joined in and we all got scolded by Mr Chua for playing in uniform. I wasnt really sure about the rule anyway so didnt feel very guilty. But Gabriel was quite affected by it since he has always been a guai kia. Went back to the group after the scolding and stoned there till almost 7 before leaving for chomp chomp.

Changed bus at some bus stop and finally reached at almost 8. Bought food and actually wanted to go to Woei Xin's house to eat but decided to just eat at the open space near the bus stop. So there we had Hokkien mee, chicken wings, satays, stingray, sambal fish, carrot cake, sprite, green tea, pizza all over the floor for 16 people to share. It was quite a sight. An old man was chased away in the process. As usual, had class photo and evacuated the place around 9 plus. Took a bus with Timothy to Toa Payoh and changed to bus 8 from there. He alighted at SA while i had a nice nap home.



>>> He who hails from the Almighty Environmental Club. Ang Zheng Da clearing up the mess!!!
Good job dude!

Wednesday is THE day. SAJC Sports Day 2008. Even though i lost the 400m finals pathetically. (is there such a word?) the mood is still there. I just wanna run!!

Was almost late for that day and had an early morning warm up with a dash across the bridge to make it in time to the gallery. There, the whole class of 08S19 was there, and when the emcee announced for participants of heat 5 to report, one by one they walked below the grandstand. Ahh... exaggerating again. To cut the story short, the whole original team comprising of

Diana
Woei Xin
Samantha
Cassandra
Jolena
Yong Pin
Gabriel
Darren
Nicholas
Timothy

reported to Mr Dan Ho and got ready for the race. And just when i was walking to the canteen past Gabriel, he asked me to run the first heats, subbing Darren out. And that was when all the adrenaline starting pumping again. Whoo, just thinking of it makes me excited. yep, so i subbed Darren and we qualified for the A Finals with the best 8th timing. Arg but we are in lane 1 again. The curse of the lane 1. Primary school sports day both my individual 200m and 4 X 100m team relay was in lane 1 and both i got last. And most recently, the 400m finals, lane 1 and last again. This time, the curse continues...

After all the musical chairs and teachers relays, it s to the finals. B finals was up first with the next best 8 timings but only the top 3 in that race qualified for a medal. Surprisingly the top 3 in the B finals had a better timing than us. So we were lucky in a way, since a medal is comfirmed, just that whether it s 8th or 7th or 6th. That s the usual pessimistic me.

But when the A finals kicked off, i had the feeling we still have a chance of getting a top 3. Diana started average but against stronger opponents like the top female sprinter in track, Cheryl, it s considered very good. We were some what 5th or 6th when Woei Xin took over. And when the baton was passed to Samantha, we were 3rd! Amazingly. But from Jolena to Cassie to Yong Pin and Gabriel, we stayed at 4th. I was disappointed with myself to only be able to catch up a 3rd for the team. I knew i could have done slightly better and bring the distance between us and the 2nd team a lot nearer if i took even bigger strides.

Darren took over and lost the 3rd place. Ok, a 4th isnt that bad i thought. And so i waited at the finishing, looking out for Timothy with the baton. But i waited and waited. One by one, the first runner came in, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh. crap. not again... then timothy came in.

I was really disappointed, but seeing everyone else still smiling and feeling so happy, i thought maybe it isnt all about winning. Seeing how close the class has become is really a joy. Even just by getting 8th and last for the finals, it s an anchievement for a group of people who only practised a couple of times for it. We beat a whole load of J2 classes and let our class spirit shine so strongly that others sitting at the gallery were overlooking in jealousy.

THAT S IT! 08S19, we are it. Good job class! Even those not running cheered so loudly for us and served us Milo after the race. These little things do wonders. This bonding is better than any ionic or covalent bond.

However, i feel guilty that i took Nicholas's place in the final. He said he had first aid duties but i found out it wasnt compulsory. He could have ran and took the medal, but he said it was ok and i deserved the medal. Gabriel added that i ran both races and if i didnt, the class would not even make it to the finals, that really made me feel a lot better and i accepted the medal but i m dedicating this to Nicholas.



>>> First SA medal

Dun worry, 08S19 will be back next year, with a big bang! and nicholas will get his medal.

After the event, we made a stupid mistake and played soccer at the D and the class broke up again. Hui hui, lois, woei xin, jocelyn, mann and weili went to PS while the rockclimbing gang of cassie, timothy and nicholas went to yishun instead since they had training at yishun safra. After we stopped soccer, Zheng da and Darren decided to go home while Yong Pin, Gabriel and me left for yishun to try and catch up with the rock climbing gang since we didnt know where the other gang went. Diana met up with us but parted at the bus stop since she was going CCAB to watch the cross country finals.

Anyway the time together with Yong Pin and Gabriel was fun. We talked a lot, from serious to unserious issues. The bus ride to yishun seemed so much shorter. By the time we reached the interchange, the rockclimbing gang left for safra and we had to eat alone at BK. Slacked there for quite a long time. And it wasnt enough.

We walked from the interchange all the way to SAFRA, admired the place and decided to go say hi to the rock climbers. Instead, the guy thought we were late for training and asked us to dropped our bags and change shoes. So we walked away after thinking of skinny dipping in the pool when the weather was a killer. Found a nice place near the reception to slack and talk more rubbish. Nice ambience with comfy sofa chairs, together with Yong Pin's neverending funny stories, really a good time.

Wanted to shower but realised the shower was within the pool facilities and have to pay to use so we abandoned the idea and walked all the way back to the interchange and parted ways there. Took 39 straight home that cost $1.80 since the driver didnt believe i was a student. Didnt bring my student pass. Anw, another nice nap on the bus straight home from Yishun.

Thursday's training was really tiring. 25 times up the gallery steps. 4 sets. Entire leg felt like dropping off after that.

Fri had math test which shld be able to pass probably by 1 or 2 marks. didnt know how to do the next step of MI. Chem mock SPA was bad. Filter funnel not working and choked the whole thing up, causing the KMnO4 to overflow and spill all over the bench. Uniform screwed, bench screwed, script screwed. Damn sad. Really like some wartime bloodshed. Spent time cleaning up redoing the whole crap and couldnt complete. Argg... i m gonna try make some FeSO4(is it the reactant?) as my stain remover next time. Gym training after that pretty fun and slack. Yong Pin became my partner since the usual sprinters had pool training.

Whoa i think this is the longest post this year. Anw gtg and mug bio. Dun wanna fail anymore.