Yesterday, our C Division beat Catholic High 4 - 1. I wasn't there, I just knew that they won. I had extra lessons, again... Met Yan Tian, Benedict, Jia Ming and Darryl on the way anyway, and they were jay-walking. I did not follow them though. Our B Division match was against St. Gabriel's, and we lost the first 2 matches. You Hao looked like he had a chance, but his opponent was just so lucky and he dropped the ball onto the corner of the table in the final point, sealing the victory for them. We won the 2nd doubles as they were the only SG players in St. Gabriel and they weren't too strong, then Sean lost the last to make it a 4 - 1 loss. Tomorrow we will be facing SJI and it doesn't look like it'll be a win for us, but I shall see.
I had an "OK" training session today. Dozing off repeatedly through the periods before Recess, I was woken up during the break and was hence able to fully concentrate after that. And I ate more than usual, but I was still hungry during lunch, for some reason. I was hungry in the morning too. Braces hadn't allowed me to eat well, so I guess my body needed to balance that out. I started off nice and well with a very close win against Yi Kar 3 - 2. Then he played against Wei Yen, beating him 3 - 0. I lost to Wei Yen 3 - 2 after that, then Kai Xun won me 3 - 1, and that's ridiculous considering the fact that they hadn't come for training in recent weeks. So I was upset with both losses. What happened after that made it worse. Coach called for a Doubles match - Timothy + Me vs Daryl and Darren. He said that if we lost one set we would have to Wa Tiao. We took the lead to 2 - 0, then we started to lose in the 3rd set. At 10 - 6, it was time to put aside our playful mood, if there was even one. I brought the score to 10 - 8, then when we were playing the 19th ball, Darren had to hit it just above the net and cause the ball to drop right after it, which of course no one would expect, so we lost that set.
We won that match 3 - 1, but of course Coach wasn't happy. He let us rematch for a chance to redeem ourselves, and guess what, we lost the 1st set. I told Coach I would just Wa Tiao, but he told us to win the whole thing. Well of course the opposite happened. We lost 3 - 1. Wa Tiao it was.... 6 times. And that was the end of today's Off-Form training, although I felt ON Form.
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
I got my Braces on Saturday, they're white, so it isn't very obvious unless you're 5 metres away. I was fine with it initially, having worn the Jaw Expander for 2 years. The feeling was the same, except that there was nothing to block my tongue, so it's much easier to talk with it, certain vowels were made unclear when I wore them. Now, that issue has been eliminated, at the cost of additional temporary problems. About 7 hours after putting them on, I started to feel pain on both sides of my mouth. It hurt to bite. I was so blessed that dinner that night was Noodles, and noodles can be swallowed without much difficulty.
So then on Sunday for breakfast, was Hotcakes! Easy to cut and put into the mouth and swallow. Training was better than usual, my Win/Loss ratio was above 1. I felt that I had improved anyway.
Monday was ok, I felt lethargic in the morning when there was no reason to do so. I only had half a day, but I couldn't get through that without constantly putting my head on the table. The "extra" session for some course that I thought I had in the afternoon was a mistake of mine as it was not for me, but I had to stay until 5.30 for training anyway. I found Daryl and added to his History Homework in an attempt to pull up his grades, I'm not sure if I was successful. Then he left me to rot, once again, in at 3.30pm. With nothing to do, I read the Newspaper in the canteen for half an hour, then I decided to run off to J8 to pass time. Once there, I decided that I would have a Hot Fudge Sundae, then I went back. It was 5pm then, and the side gate could not be opened from the outside. It was also raining, so I obviously avoided the option of running round the school in the rain just to get in. Instead, I waited for someone to come out, which was what happened. He came out and I went in, held the door for that RGS Cheryl, who happened to arrive at that moment, then went in alone. I did not notice the rest of the group. Found Sean loitering at the hall, he was wondering if he should jump in from the top floor, as the door was locked. When I told him RGS had arrived, he made it a "No". 5.30, Coach arrived, ban zhuo zi... As I did that, NY came, then more RGS came. After I was done, I went to my usual slacking place. More NY came, then another group of RGS came, then an additional set of NY came. OK...... this training was officially cancelled for me. The "twins" Daryl and Darren arrived. We sat and talked until 7.30 when we were FINALLY allowed to play as there were now free tables for us. I was asked to play one match, which I won, and that was "Training" for the night.
So then on Sunday for breakfast, was Hotcakes! Easy to cut and put into the mouth and swallow. Training was better than usual, my Win/Loss ratio was above 1. I felt that I had improved anyway.
Monday was ok, I felt lethargic in the morning when there was no reason to do so. I only had half a day, but I couldn't get through that without constantly putting my head on the table. The "extra" session for some course that I thought I had in the afternoon was a mistake of mine as it was not for me, but I had to stay until 5.30 for training anyway. I found Daryl and added to his History Homework in an attempt to pull up his grades, I'm not sure if I was successful. Then he left me to rot, once again, in at 3.30pm. With nothing to do, I read the Newspaper in the canteen for half an hour, then I decided to run off to J8 to pass time. Once there, I decided that I would have a Hot Fudge Sundae, then I went back. It was 5pm then, and the side gate could not be opened from the outside. It was also raining, so I obviously avoided the option of running round the school in the rain just to get in. Instead, I waited for someone to come out, which was what happened. He came out and I went in, held the door for that RGS Cheryl, who happened to arrive at that moment, then went in alone. I did not notice the rest of the group. Found Sean loitering at the hall, he was wondering if he should jump in from the top floor, as the door was locked. When I told him RGS had arrived, he made it a "No". 5.30, Coach arrived, ban zhuo zi... As I did that, NY came, then more RGS came. After I was done, I went to my usual slacking place. More NY came, then another group of RGS came, then an additional set of NY came. OK...... this training was officially cancelled for me. The "twins" Daryl and Darren arrived. We sat and talked until 7.30 when we were FINALLY allowed to play as there were now free tables for us. I was asked to play one match, which I won, and that was "Training" for the night.
Friday, 26 March 2010
Today's Table Tennis performance was unsatisfactory. I was dismissed at 1.20, so I could reach PLMGS in time to witness the C Division playing, which was embarrassing to watch. We are such a failure now. Our opponent proved to be formidable, or was it just the fact that the other schools had trained harder than us? SJI had only 1 China Player, which our very own counterpart lost to. Then Yi Kar and Zi Ping lost the 1st Doubles, our Xiao-Master failed at what he did best, possibly because his opponent had stronger attack capabilities. That sealed the win for them, followed by the untimely arrival of our own intimidating players made-to-win. If only the 2nd and 3rd Singles of either side's lineup had swapped, we would have won. But what's happened has happened, and there is no such thing as "If only", it will never happen.
Our B Division faced Sports School once again and it was another intense 2 hour match as Benedict lost the 1st Singles 3 - 0, our first China Pair balanced it in the 1st Doubles, then Sean got trashed by National Player Pang Xue Jie, while the second China Pair made it equal again, then we cleaned up with our final China Player. It was nothing to be proud of even though it was a win for us, because none of the Locals did the work. And the Locals in Sports School could match our tougher players. The 2nd Singles match would have been more interesting to watch if it had been one of our China players, but that would mean that the defeat of Sports School didn't exist, it would have been the other way round.
Our China players were always defeated by any fellow opponent of the same race, we used them extensively and that was how we claimed our Title of 1st in National Table Tennis. Now our reputation has gone down because we cheated and failed, and we did not improve as much as the other schools, to the point that Local players could now beat the seemingly invincible players of the team. This is why I feel that the School is being dishonorable and we do not deserve these awards that have been gained through unfair advantage. We failed this year, and the worst part was that our B Division team was the same as last year, only with an increased amount of China "Talent". However, this was rivaled by the massive improvement of the other schools, who seem to have enhanced their own players to the point that our most powerful players are no match for them, and they also brought the previously C-Division players over, who seem to have been refined as well.
Our B Division faced Sports School once again and it was another intense 2 hour match as Benedict lost the 1st Singles 3 - 0, our first China Pair balanced it in the 1st Doubles, then Sean got trashed by National Player Pang Xue Jie, while the second China Pair made it equal again, then we cleaned up with our final China Player. It was nothing to be proud of even though it was a win for us, because none of the Locals did the work. And the Locals in Sports School could match our tougher players. The 2nd Singles match would have been more interesting to watch if it had been one of our China players, but that would mean that the defeat of Sports School didn't exist, it would have been the other way round.
Our China players were always defeated by any fellow opponent of the same race, we used them extensively and that was how we claimed our Title of 1st in National Table Tennis. Now our reputation has gone down because we cheated and failed, and we did not improve as much as the other schools, to the point that Local players could now beat the seemingly invincible players of the team. This is why I feel that the School is being dishonorable and we do not deserve these awards that have been gained through unfair advantage. We failed this year, and the worst part was that our B Division team was the same as last year, only with an increased amount of China "Talent". However, this was rivaled by the massive improvement of the other schools, who seem to have enhanced their own players to the point that our most powerful players are no match for them, and they also brought the previously C-Division players over, who seem to have been refined as well.
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Dealing with anger on the spot is a tough and one of the most frequent challenges in life, most people are guaranteed to go angry once every 2 weeks. When I do get angry, most of the time I cannot control what I say, but recently I've found a way to sustain my cool and shut up so I don't make a fool of myself. And the anger I'm talking about is when two parties are involved in an argument or disagreement.
Firstly, try not to say anything crude and directly offensive. If you do that and the person retorts, you're probably going to get angrier and that will make matters worse. It's just going to backfire on you.
Secondly, DO NOT go for physical contact. It CAN happen if some feel that verbal insults are not enough to hurt the opposition, and no I'm not saying I fight and please don't even have that idea, but it has happened, I have witnessed it and it happens because of intense verbal conflict.
And lastly, the most effective way, is to know that it's meant to happen. Just think that the thing that made you angry has happened, it was meant to be so, you can't do anything about it, focus on the future and know that there are happy times to come. You will always have an enjoyable moment somewhere after a distressful experience, and this may not come until a month later, but there will always be something that will make you happy in the future.
Firstly, try not to say anything crude and directly offensive. If you do that and the person retorts, you're probably going to get angrier and that will make matters worse. It's just going to backfire on you.
Secondly, DO NOT go for physical contact. It CAN happen if some feel that verbal insults are not enough to hurt the opposition, and no I'm not saying I fight and please don't even have that idea, but it has happened, I have witnessed it and it happens because of intense verbal conflict.
And lastly, the most effective way, is to know that it's meant to happen. Just think that the thing that made you angry has happened, it was meant to be so, you can't do anything about it, focus on the future and know that there are happy times to come. You will always have an enjoyable moment somewhere after a distressful experience, and this may not come until a month later, but there will always be something that will make you happy in the future.
Today, I was very sleepy in the morning, again. It didn't make any sense, I slept quite early last night. I made it through the first half because my kind teachers did not object to me putting my head on the table and closing my eyes for 30 seconds. Then I was deciding to sleep during Recess, but after buying my bun and eating it, I didn't feel sleepy anymore. I was actually talking. Now that's weird. I survived the next 4 periods, then lunch. I was going to go straight to the Biology Lab, but then I saw some people eating Roti Prata, so I decided I would take lunch too. Just couldn't resist it. The queue was quite short, but Prata was also out of stock, so it took quite a while. And they spelled it "Paratha" on the menu. My scholar classmate kept looking at his watch because he was afraid that there wouldn't be enough time to consume his 3 pieces. I had 10 minutes to finish mine, but that's ok, 5 minutes was enough. Made it to the Lab in time at 2:25.
Our teacher started it off with a nice round of admonishment. He was upset with the work that we handed in the previous lesson. I looked at my work and found that I had followed his instructions quite well, so I wasn't one of those that he was unhappy with. Just a ridiculous round of careless mistakes in writing down the contents of each test tube, but he didn't say anything about that part. I had 5cm³ of Starch, 5 drops of water and 1cm³ of Amylase in the first test tube. I went to fill in the exact same thing for the 2nd and 3rd test tubes, when the 5 drops of water were supposed to be 5 drops of Hydrochloric Acid and 5 drops of Sodium Hydroxide respectively. Small mistake on the worksheet, at least I didn't follow what I wrote when I was doing the experiment.
Today's experiment was to find out the rate of enzyme reaction with enzyme concentration as the limiting factor. We had 2 slices of potato about 6cm long, and 2 slices of boiled potate about 4cm long. The potato supposedly contained the enzyme required. With 5 test tubes labelled A to E, I had to put Hydrogen Peroxide into each of the test tubes to a depth of 3cm. The instructions said to use a dropper, but our teacher mistakenly provided us with a syringe. So of course everyone would misread the instructions and fill up the syringe with 3cm³ of Hydrogen Peroxide. So the depth wasn't 3cm. Sadly, I was one of those who messed up this part, but fortunately for me, I was slow in my experiment, so when the teacher reminded us that we were using a syringe, I could correct this mistake as I had not started the procedure yet. Cutting up the potato was ok, human error caused each slice to be about 2mm long and not precisely 2mm. Then the experiment was carried out. I will not go into details, it is not your business to know what I did unless I want to share it with you, which obviously this sentences tells you, I don't. But I have to say that the plastic container labelled "Throw biological waste in here" after the experiment was a sickening blue black coloured liquid with pieces of potato in them, with every group's container in the lab looking the same.
Then next, I had to choose what to do. 3.30pm. Training would start at 7.30pm. 4 hours of doing nothing? No. I happened to meet Junn Wei at the MRT Station, and it just so happened that he was going to Bishan, and it was so coincidental that we both wanted to eat even though we were not hungry. That meant that we were still in a state to walk, so we did not go straight to eat. He wanted to go to Popular first, to buy a Maths Assessment book, then about 5 pads of Foolscap paper. All ready to go hardcore studying, he just needs another 7 Assessment books for each other subject. So next, was Lunch? Dinner? Whatever you call the meal that you eat at 4.30pm. I think it's called "Tea" in the US. We went to the Food Junction, but as we were not hungry, we weren't very sure where we wanted to eat. Food Junction does not appeal to me when I'm just there for a light meal. So I told him to shut his eyes and do a 360˚ spin and see where he was facing, then we would look for something to eat at that area. He complied and we found him facing Golden Village. I rejected that and dragged him into the Food Junction. Golden Village was NOT a place to eat, unless you were going to watch a movie.
From the previous experience about a couple of weeks ago, I was sure I wouldn't touch the Chicken Rice again. When I bought it that day, the chicken was 50% bone and 20% Skin, leaving a mere 30% of chicken. And the Rice quantity did not adhere to my satisfaction either. All that for $4? No way. Well, today I had another shock, so that's 2 chances off this place. 1 more strike and I'll never come back here again, but we'll see what happens next time. Anyway, the supposedly "light meal" became my dinner. What was that? Cheese Prata. Just couldn't get enough of it after lunch. 1 piece: $2.20. I knew that 1 piece would not be enough, so I ordered 3, I needed to last until 9pm. $2.20? The one that I had for lunch was 2 pieces and it was only $1.50. OK, that was plain prata, so each piece would be 75¢, but one slice of cheese can't cost an additional $1.45. That was completely ridiculous, but what could I say? Feeble words of complain won't make them lower the price, that's not the way you haggle, and it's food, who haggles the prices of food? OK, I dealt with that short moment of resent. At least it was good quality, that's what matters.
Ate the food, did some work, then Junn Wei had to go for tuition, left me to return to school at 6pm and rot for another 1-and-a-half hours. No, I finished up the non-computer related homework (which is what I'm supposed to be doing now, but nevermind) then slept until 7pm. Saw the Taekwondo training in the TK Low Hall, then wondered how we would be having Table Tennis training because their training was until 9, according to Daryl(Not my junior Daryl). The last time they had it and we had training, Coach told me to go home. I also thought I got my training times mixed up, so I called Coach. He confirmed that training was on tonight, hence I felt safe that I had not wasted my time here.
I played just one doubles match. Yi Kar and Ziping against Sean and I. We took the first set, lost the 2nd, lost the 3rd, getting trashed 8 - 1 in the 4th set, then Sean said "Nevermind we still can catch up".The impossible thing happened. We did the difficult thing and brought the score to a nice 10 - 10, then kept our cool as we deuced to 18 - 18. I got a Service Ace, then Ziping served into the net. 2 - 2. We led the last set and won it 11 - 5. When we were losing 2 - 1 and Coach knew that, he looked at us disapprovingly, then when Ziping lost he was quite upset with him. It looked like he couldn't decide who he wanted or expected to win.
So that was today, tomorrow I have another long day, but I don't care, I like eventful days, and this has been an eventful week :D.
Our teacher started it off with a nice round of admonishment. He was upset with the work that we handed in the previous lesson. I looked at my work and found that I had followed his instructions quite well, so I wasn't one of those that he was unhappy with. Just a ridiculous round of careless mistakes in writing down the contents of each test tube, but he didn't say anything about that part. I had 5cm³ of Starch, 5 drops of water and 1cm³ of Amylase in the first test tube. I went to fill in the exact same thing for the 2nd and 3rd test tubes, when the 5 drops of water were supposed to be 5 drops of Hydrochloric Acid and 5 drops of Sodium Hydroxide respectively. Small mistake on the worksheet, at least I didn't follow what I wrote when I was doing the experiment.
Today's experiment was to find out the rate of enzyme reaction with enzyme concentration as the limiting factor. We had 2 slices of potato about 6cm long, and 2 slices of boiled potate about 4cm long. The potato supposedly contained the enzyme required. With 5 test tubes labelled A to E, I had to put Hydrogen Peroxide into each of the test tubes to a depth of 3cm. The instructions said to use a dropper, but our teacher mistakenly provided us with a syringe. So of course everyone would misread the instructions and fill up the syringe with 3cm³ of Hydrogen Peroxide. So the depth wasn't 3cm. Sadly, I was one of those who messed up this part, but fortunately for me, I was slow in my experiment, so when the teacher reminded us that we were using a syringe, I could correct this mistake as I had not started the procedure yet. Cutting up the potato was ok, human error caused each slice to be about 2mm long and not precisely 2mm. Then the experiment was carried out. I will not go into details, it is not your business to know what I did unless I want to share it with you, which obviously this sentences tells you, I don't. But I have to say that the plastic container labelled "Throw biological waste in here" after the experiment was a sickening blue black coloured liquid with pieces of potato in them, with every group's container in the lab looking the same.
Then next, I had to choose what to do. 3.30pm. Training would start at 7.30pm. 4 hours of doing nothing? No. I happened to meet Junn Wei at the MRT Station, and it just so happened that he was going to Bishan, and it was so coincidental that we both wanted to eat even though we were not hungry. That meant that we were still in a state to walk, so we did not go straight to eat. He wanted to go to Popular first, to buy a Maths Assessment book, then about 5 pads of Foolscap paper. All ready to go hardcore studying, he just needs another 7 Assessment books for each other subject. So next, was Lunch? Dinner? Whatever you call the meal that you eat at 4.30pm. I think it's called "Tea" in the US. We went to the Food Junction, but as we were not hungry, we weren't very sure where we wanted to eat. Food Junction does not appeal to me when I'm just there for a light meal. So I told him to shut his eyes and do a 360˚ spin and see where he was facing, then we would look for something to eat at that area. He complied and we found him facing Golden Village. I rejected that and dragged him into the Food Junction. Golden Village was NOT a place to eat, unless you were going to watch a movie.
From the previous experience about a couple of weeks ago, I was sure I wouldn't touch the Chicken Rice again. When I bought it that day, the chicken was 50% bone and 20% Skin, leaving a mere 30% of chicken. And the Rice quantity did not adhere to my satisfaction either. All that for $4? No way. Well, today I had another shock, so that's 2 chances off this place. 1 more strike and I'll never come back here again, but we'll see what happens next time. Anyway, the supposedly "light meal" became my dinner. What was that? Cheese Prata. Just couldn't get enough of it after lunch. 1 piece: $2.20. I knew that 1 piece would not be enough, so I ordered 3, I needed to last until 9pm. $2.20? The one that I had for lunch was 2 pieces and it was only $1.50. OK, that was plain prata, so each piece would be 75¢, but one slice of cheese can't cost an additional $1.45. That was completely ridiculous, but what could I say? Feeble words of complain won't make them lower the price, that's not the way you haggle, and it's food, who haggles the prices of food? OK, I dealt with that short moment of resent. At least it was good quality, that's what matters.
Ate the food, did some work, then Junn Wei had to go for tuition, left me to return to school at 6pm and rot for another 1-and-a-half hours. No, I finished up the non-computer related homework (which is what I'm supposed to be doing now, but nevermind) then slept until 7pm. Saw the Taekwondo training in the TK Low Hall, then wondered how we would be having Table Tennis training because their training was until 9, according to Daryl(Not my junior Daryl). The last time they had it and we had training, Coach told me to go home. I also thought I got my training times mixed up, so I called Coach. He confirmed that training was on tonight, hence I felt safe that I had not wasted my time here.
I played just one doubles match. Yi Kar and Ziping against Sean and I. We took the first set, lost the 2nd, lost the 3rd, getting trashed 8 - 1 in the 4th set, then Sean said "Nevermind we still can catch up".
So that was today, tomorrow I have another long day, but I don't care, I like eventful days, and this has been an eventful week :D.
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
E-Learning today was great. 4 subjects only. Compare that to last year. What was it? 7 Subjects. And the portal wasn't lagging at all either, how great is that? Last year it'd take 15 mins to load a page with one question, 2 mins to answer it, and then click submit, and another 15 mins to display the next question. All I can say is that I spent only 1/4 of the time that I spent last year doing this E-Learning, I even had time for training! Last year you had to start early and end at like 11.59pm, plus minus 1 minute. Nah jk but it really could go that late to about 11.30pm, firstly because of the amount of work, of which 80% you would hate, and the fact that the portal was lagging with over a thousand students on the same website simultaneously. So, today was an excellent E-Learning day and I shall look forward to the next one in July, if it is just as good as this.
But of course, everything comes with it's downsides. Expecting a long day of staring at the computer the night before, I went to Studywiz to check if anything was out yet at 12am. I saw an E-Learning survey, so I took it. They asked me things like "Are you satisfied with the amount of work you get?" and "Are you satisfied with the speed of Studywiz?", something like that. Well, naturally, I wouldn't know at that time what it would be like today, so I used experience from last year. And of course, after what I said in the paragraph above, I went to check the Disagree options for those questions. And then there was a box at the bottom for "Additional Comments/Opinions". What did I put there? I requested for less work and a faster portal. Now, that's really unfair, after what they did today. 4 subjects compared to 7 last year, and I want less? And Studywiz was working fine, I don't need a better server. This is a case of "Don't count your chicks before they are hatched". I did the survey too early, more than 8 hours early, in fact.
I guess I should go and do the survey one more time and fill in the opposite of what I did the first time. I really didn't expect today to be a good E-Learning session, I thought it would be the same situation as last year, and with even more work. So, Strongly Agree and Disagree should cancel out to become Agree, so that should be fine. And I shall emphasize on my satisfaction with E-Learning today to make them happier.
Anyway, I was up late into the night this morning, listening to really funny conversations on Skype. It was just... epic. And as a result, I slept late, which means not enough sleep, so I was tired during training, I could really feel a significant drop in my reaction time and I was not in the mood to run for even 2 metres. Thus, training was somewhat bad today, but somewhat bad is in between quite bad and OK, so it's not too bad. I did really badly in the 3-point thingy though, it was quite cold today and I couldn't move.
But of course, everything comes with it's downsides. Expecting a long day of staring at the computer the night before, I went to Studywiz to check if anything was out yet at 12am. I saw an E-Learning survey, so I took it. They asked me things like "Are you satisfied with the amount of work you get?" and "Are you satisfied with the speed of Studywiz?", something like that. Well, naturally, I wouldn't know at that time what it would be like today, so I used experience from last year. And of course, after what I said in the paragraph above, I went to check the Disagree options for those questions. And then there was a box at the bottom for "Additional Comments/Opinions". What did I put there? I requested for less work and a faster portal. Now, that's really unfair, after what they did today. 4 subjects compared to 7 last year, and I want less? And Studywiz was working fine, I don't need a better server. This is a case of "Don't count your chicks before they are hatched". I did the survey too early, more than 8 hours early, in fact.
I guess I should go and do the survey one more time and fill in the opposite of what I did the first time. I really didn't expect today to be a good E-Learning session, I thought it would be the same situation as last year, and with even more work. So, Strongly Agree and Disagree should cancel out to become Agree, so that should be fine. And I shall emphasize on my satisfaction with E-Learning today to make them happier.
Anyway, I was up late into the night this morning, listening to really funny conversations on Skype. It was just... epic. And as a result, I slept late, which means not enough sleep, so I was tired during training, I could really feel a significant drop in my reaction time and I was not in the mood to run for even 2 metres. Thus, training was somewhat bad today, but somewhat bad is in between quite bad and OK, so it's not too bad. I did really badly in the 3-point thingy though, it was quite cold today and I couldn't move.
We lost to RI with a score of 3 - 2. Even cheating with 5 China guys didn't work. But it does mean one thing, our SG players have got talent. So when they're up against Sports School, we'll see if they can do us proud and show us that RI has better players than Sports School, which will completely throw away the meaning of Sports School and shame them. It might be ok for Sports School to lose to China, but not to SG players.
Today is E-Learning day. Starting on it now.
Today is E-Learning day. Starting on it now.
Monday, 22 March 2010
Yesterday's training left me tired after 3 consecutive days of training. OK, Day 1 was only 1 hour, but hey it's wasn't easy beating that kid. Then I did a whole day on Saturday (No not full, I left at 4.30), and yesterday I did a complete Sunday, or almost. In the morning I was just doing Umpire duties, and of course with every match you'll see some great points. I started officially in the afternoon.
Threw myself to the last table, again. No, coach did, because we were supposed to be letting the Primary School kids have a chance, but how's that happening when they are all put at the second half of the tables and I'm at the last? So I decided to be the nice guy and play rallies with them. Didn't hit hard or use any cheat serves. Their strokes are better than mine, I can assure that. So, when I got to Table 7 (I started at 11), I couldn't play nice rallies anymore, my opponents were getting stronger. OK, so I climbed to table 5, and Daryl was at Table 3 :). He lost to the Thousand Thousands, so I met him at Table 4 :D. I took the first set but he leveled it with the 2nd and then he chose to start at 5 - 5 for the third set when he found out that I started Service, and not 8 - 8. Why's that, I wonder, he can easily take my serves. So whatever, we brought the score to 10 - 10. Deuced again. Then in a lucky shot, my service hit the side of the table, and of course he was caught of guard, so he missed that. I had Advantage now. I ended the match with a high ball and got lucky again because he missed the smash :D.
OK after that it was a lousy game for me. Doubles with a Primary School girl, against another pair of Primary School girls. My strokes went all wrong, not that I was perfect, but I could definitely do better. OK so we lost that. Then we went on to a Singles match with HZ... And she hits real hard. Not worth giving high balls, but that's what I did best, and it wasn't that great either. Still, I clinched a 3 - 1 win, then we moved on to Doubles. Me and HZ, vs Julian and Benedic. How's that fair. We've got 2 Power Smashers and a Super Lucky guy playing, and I got nothing. So I lost, lost and lost again. Didn't win a single one even after pairing with all 3 of them. That just shows how weak I am at Doubles. Ended the day by beating YK's brother. Like, finally? This was where my high balls proved useful and worthy. Another 3 - 1 win.
OK enough on that, the new term started today, and I was very sleepy. Fortunately it was Monday, and Mondays are basically half days, we just have to last until Recess and the rest of it is slack. But tomorrow's erm... ok day, I'm looking forward to the match against RI. Then on Wednesday we'll be at home, and after that will be another long day, then on Friday I'll be watching another match depending on who our opponent is. A somewhat eventful week to look forward to.
Threw myself to the last table, again. No, coach did, because we were supposed to be letting the Primary School kids have a chance, but how's that happening when they are all put at the second half of the tables and I'm at the last? So I decided to be the nice guy and play rallies with them. Didn't hit hard or use any cheat serves. Their strokes are better than mine, I can assure that. So, when I got to Table 7 (I started at 11), I couldn't play nice rallies anymore, my opponents were getting stronger. OK, so I climbed to table 5, and Daryl was at Table 3 :). He lost to the Thousand Thousands, so I met him at Table 4 :D. I took the first set but he leveled it with the 2nd and then he chose to start at 5 - 5 for the third set when he found out that I started Service, and not 8 - 8. Why's that, I wonder, he can easily take my serves. So whatever, we brought the score to 10 - 10. Deuced again. Then in a lucky shot, my service hit the side of the table, and of course he was caught of guard, so he missed that. I had Advantage now. I ended the match with a high ball and got lucky again because he missed the smash :D.
OK after that it was a lousy game for me. Doubles with a Primary School girl, against another pair of Primary School girls. My strokes went all wrong, not that I was perfect, but I could definitely do better. OK so we lost that. Then we went on to a Singles match with HZ... And she hits real hard. Not worth giving high balls, but that's what I did best, and it wasn't that great either. Still, I clinched a 3 - 1 win, then we moved on to Doubles. Me and HZ, vs Julian and Benedic. How's that fair. We've got 2 Power Smashers and a Super Lucky guy playing, and I got nothing. So I lost, lost and lost again. Didn't win a single one even after pairing with all 3 of them. That just shows how weak I am at Doubles. Ended the day by beating YK's brother. Like, finally? This was where my high balls proved useful and worthy. Another 3 - 1 win.
OK enough on that, the new term started today, and I was very sleepy. Fortunately it was Monday, and Mondays are basically half days, we just have to last until Recess and the rest of it is slack. But tomorrow's erm... ok day, I'm looking forward to the match against RI. Then on Wednesday we'll be at home, and after that will be another long day, then on Friday I'll be watching another match depending on who our opponent is. A somewhat eventful week to look forward to.
Saturday, 20 March 2010
:D
I am somewhat satisfied with training today. I went for AT training in the morning, and it wasn't too bad, but there are really mischievous kids over there who said I bullied them because I did not give them a good ball to hit when they hit it out. They told me I had to go for 5000 years of prison because of that. OK, fine, I won't even be able to complete 2% of that sentence anyway. ZH was also getting somewhat bullied, so he told coach he wanted to play with me, just to get away from them. What do you want to see in a match between us? The results are known before they are out. Of course I lost, 3 - 1. So after that, at 12pm, I took a bus back to J8. And the China people ran across the road in between moving cars just to catch the bus.
Lunch was 2 Standard Sausage Buns from Bread Talk. Enough to last me until 4.30 anyway. So I got back to MSHS, had a slight quarrel with Ee Jin :(. Then coach made me train like usual. Played with the I-will-trash-you guy, then assigned to beat that kid that I always lost to. Like, finally?
Lunch was 2 Standard Sausage Buns from Bread Talk. Enough to last me until 4.30 anyway. So I got back to MSHS, had a slight quarrel with Ee Jin :(. Then coach made me train like usual. Played with the I-will-trash-you guy, then assigned to beat that kid that I always lost to. Like, finally?
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Random
Sleeping positions are important. If your neck is not properly supported, you might find yourself with a stiff neck when you wake up, and it is NOT fun to have a stiff neck. I had one the other day, during my exam, so I couldn't write properly. But no I was not sleeping during the exam, I meant that I had a stiff neck while I was doing the exam, I got it in the morning, and it hurt.
When you wake up in the morning, hear a crack somewhere around your neck and your neck starts to hurt when you move, don't panic, it's just a stiff neck, your spine is not broken or anything, but the bad news is that you're going to suffer that pain for at least 2 hours.
Stiff necks cause your neck to feel pain when you turn beyond a certain range. At the start, you can only move about 5˚ clockwise and counter-clockwise, and this slowly improves over time. It can last up to 3 days, and it hurts a lot when it does. At this stage, you're probably going to feel pain every 20 seconds as you turn your head quite frequently.
When you first get a stiff neck and you're in a car, be prepared to feel pain VERY frequently in your neck, because car rides are bumpy, and bumpy means causing your head to turn, be it up or down, left or right, at that point in time your head cannot handle it
When it does start to improve and you feel yourself able to turn 30˚ both sides quite comfortably, you will still feel very afraid of turning your head because you don't know at which point it might hurt.
In 2 hours you should be able to turn at least 60˚ clockwise and counter-clockwise without any pain
When you can finally turn 90˚ on both sides, you can start to manually handle your neck. Rubbing the back of your neck with your hands will help, then occasionally try to turn beyond that. The pain will be a lot less throbbing compared to when you just got it.
But that's not the end yet. Even when you can turn 140˚ on both sides, you might still not be able to turn your head upwards fully. Continue to rub your neck from time to time.
Stiff necks are really painful when you need to turn your head. And when writing, it's incredibly agonizing because you have to turn your head to read the words you're writing, and when you do, you feel a sharp dose of pain strike the back of your neck, and then you would have to stop writing and possibly cry out (No I didn't). So be sure to have a good pillow that will support your neck high enough when you're sleeping, say at a 20˚ angle. Sleeping without a pillow is fine, but try not to sleep flat. Lean to one side, as lying flat means your neck is straight, and it's going to be straight for at least 6 hours, which could result in a stiff neck.
When you wake up in the morning, hear a crack somewhere around your neck and your neck starts to hurt when you move, don't panic, it's just a stiff neck, your spine is not broken or anything, but the bad news is that you're going to suffer that pain for at least 2 hours.
Stiff necks cause your neck to feel pain when you turn beyond a certain range. At the start, you can only move about 5˚ clockwise and counter-clockwise, and this slowly improves over time. It can last up to 3 days, and it hurts a lot when it does. At this stage, you're probably going to feel pain every 20 seconds as you turn your head quite frequently.
When you first get a stiff neck and you're in a car, be prepared to feel pain VERY frequently in your neck, because car rides are bumpy, and bumpy means causing your head to turn, be it up or down, left or right, at that point in time your head cannot handle it
When it does start to improve and you feel yourself able to turn 30˚ both sides quite comfortably, you will still feel very afraid of turning your head because you don't know at which point it might hurt.
In 2 hours you should be able to turn at least 60˚ clockwise and counter-clockwise without any pain
When you can finally turn 90˚ on both sides, you can start to manually handle your neck. Rubbing the back of your neck with your hands will help, then occasionally try to turn beyond that. The pain will be a lot less throbbing compared to when you just got it.
But that's not the end yet. Even when you can turn 140˚ on both sides, you might still not be able to turn your head upwards fully. Continue to rub your neck from time to time.
Stiff necks are really painful when you need to turn your head. And when writing, it's incredibly agonizing because you have to turn your head to read the words you're writing, and when you do, you feel a sharp dose of pain strike the back of your neck, and then you would have to stop writing and possibly cry out (No I didn't). So be sure to have a good pillow that will support your neck high enough when you're sleeping, say at a 20˚ angle. Sleeping without a pillow is fine, but try not to sleep flat. Lean to one side, as lying flat means your neck is straight, and it's going to be straight for at least 6 hours, which could result in a stiff neck.
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Yesterday, Social Studies lesson in the morning. Our teacher just talked and talked, but at least her talking was interesting. Then after that, I went with Keefe, JL and WL to J8 for lunch. We wanted to eat KFC, but then we saw Bishan Gay so we went to the Food Court instead. OK after lunch, came back to school for training. Training was ok, JL played so crappily. Only 5% of his smashes went in, but at least we didn't lose to anyone. And we're both Lefties, which puts us at a disadvantage when we play Doubles :). I was quite tired today.
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Starting a new life...
OK I REALLY REALLY REALLY hope I'll be posting on this blog like much more? From a 108 posts, I reduced it to 15. It looked so rubbish last time. Assume that this blog starts here but was created in 2007 :). I left those posts there because they were worthy enough to remain there.
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