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Volleyball Camp
Pensive mood on the bus ride home: Oh my god, some people are so freaking dim witted that I could just bitch slap them until they die. Where do I even begin? Firstly, Singaporeans should have more brains than to walk straight into me when I am carrying a huge bag from after camp. I took pleasure in walking straight into people and bruising them with my bag when they showed the lack of IQ to just shove off. Oh another thing, I never realized how retarded some people are when it comes to working with household appliances and preparing convenience food. Okay, enough random thoughts.
Phew, I just came back from Volleyball camp. I am in a somewhat melancholic mood right now after the camp has ended. Don’t ask me why I feel like that, even I don’t know. Haha. It was more fun than I predicted it to be. I must thank the lords that there were no circuit training and it was mostly friendly matches or sets that were carried out. Of course the team bonding was somewhat a failure for me, on a personal level, but I think it was successful for most of the team. Surprisingly I’m not bitter about it at all and I’m actually quite happy that at least the team moral is increasing and that most of the people can get along with one another. Sounds so self sacrificial and unlike me yes? But honestly, that’s how I feel right now; the camp must have done something to me. Oo.
It has never occurred to me on how much I want to make the main 12 until now. I presume I was taking things for granted last year when there were only at most 6 or 7 of us, thinking that the chances of being in the main 12 this year would be moderately high. Who would have known that so much talent would make it to VJC, leaving only a few spots left available? For a brief moment, I thought that the hope of making the main 12 was gone since I have like only 5-6 months experience at present, unlike those with 3 years or more. I mean, if they have three years or more experience, they would definitely have better skills etc than me no? However, it has come to my realization that there may actually be one last golden sit left for me. I can’t believe it took me this long to actually notice how something I want is so close and yet so far at the same time; the irony of it all. Therefore, I have decided that I will put in even more effort for future trainings. Whether or not it is too late, I guess time will tell. There isn’t much time left since competition is coming soon. I can’t even emphasize how much I want this. I have never felt more driven.
Now that I’m done with reviewing the things that I have taken away with me from the camp, I shall go on to do the usual re-enactment of what happened during the three days in the form of what else but blogging. Oh dear, I am so lame.
Recollections of the first day were rather frazzled for me. I have a tendency to remember things that happen a few days ago in bits and pieces. Being the self delusional elephant that I claim to be, I forgot what time we were suppose to report in school. In the end, I decided to play it safe and go at 2.00pm, an hour before the friendly match. Haha, I thought I was actually going to be early, but it turns out that there were already quite a handful of people in school, getting ready. The match against MJC was good, I think it was the first time I actually noticed how “high” the team was in terms of cheering. At some point of time, I decided to cheer along and I must say, it was quite fun to let it out when VJ scored. Haha.
There was this particularly idiotic guy from MJC who was an ex-dunmanian. I was enormously turned off at his lack of team work and sportsmanship during the match. He was shouting at his team mate to move here and there and didn’t hesitate to show his frustration when his team mate screwed up. Some people obviously have never heard of encouragement before.
If memory doesn’t fail me, I think we went to have dinner in the canteen after that and had some free time to rest. I went to get some stuff prepared for sleeping at night, like borrowing the nice fluffy cushions from house den. Haha. Dinner was followed up with a friendly match against NTU alumni, Mr. Chew’s ex-team. VJ has definitely got stronger since the match against SRJC. The NTU alumni were clearly a tougher opponent as compared to SRJC and if I’m not wrong, we won NTU.
We had a bit of time to kill after we washed up. We went to 7-11 to get some snacks before making it back to our bunk, which by the way was at V48! Out of the god knows how many classrooms in the school and we had to get the one on the highest level. Oo Basically, everyone played Indian poker in the bunk and the person who lost had to do a double truth. Hmm, a lot of interesting, horny and scandalous secrets shared. Haha. Things got boring after lights out. People broke off to their small groups and were whispering amongst themselves, so Aaron and I left the bunk because I was wary of the fact that I can’t really whisper and assumed that some people were asleep. We gave those crazy people at EDS camp a call. Things seemed to be going really smoothly for them. Damn, I wish I could have gone for that camp too. It’s going to be a whole other year before there would be another EDS camp to go to. The call to the EDS people brought back many happy memories for Aaron and me. We were trying to recall all the dances move of the different dances we had. Haha, if anyone were to pass by than, we would have looked like spastic morons making complete fools of ourselves. Then again, we were the only people in school than, so it didn’t matter. We also took turns to serenade the crows around. Haha, now that I think back, people would have been really spooked if they were alone in the school and heard us sing.
That was day one, day two started with training in the morning and a set against the VJC old boys. I don’t really know why, I but have serious issues with Jimmy. I can’t even be bothered to begin, so I shan’t. All I am hoping now is that during house committee camp, he has to return to the army and can’t make it back to attend.
In any case, it was more free time ,after training, that Aaron, Darren and I killed by having lunch in school, going to 7-11 and playing a bit of volleyball when the girls were training. There was a friendly match against VJC alumni subsequent to that. The team is strong and according to Mr. Chew, his team got 3rd in his year. I can only imagine how powerful the champion must have been. Oo. I believe they play regularly, judging by how good they still are, even after so many years. I’m guessing their 30? VJC won and it was a much needed victory in a sense that it really brought the team moral to a whole new level. Oh and I before I forget, we had a friendly match against the girls after the VJC alumni match. Haha, actually there isn’t much to blog about the match against the girls.
We showered and went to parkway for dinner. The group split up into two, fast food and hawker center because the food court was too crowded to accommodate all of us. It was around this time when my abrasion started to really kick in. It hurt like fuck and I had an extremely hard time just walking or standing up. What’s worse was that when we left parkway, we had to climb the overhead bridge twice! Cries* Thankfully, Mr. Chew had some Aloe Vera cum Cucumber moisturizer that I borrowed to apply. The rest of the night was spent watching the video of some of VJC alumni match and the MJC match in the English resource room. I sense that I feel asleep at some point of time. ><. I had a few games of bridge in the bunk before bedtime before I called it a day and dozed off.
There was some training on the third day before the match against IJC. There was a four hour break after training, but we wasted one hour of it relaxing on the stage. We wasted another one hour showering. Aaron and I decided to go to bugis to have lunch since we had so much time. However, 197 took too long to come and too long to reach bugis. By the time we reached bugis, it was already three, and we had to be back at school by four. So we ended up eating Mac and rushing back to school on train. How brilliant can we get? The last match against IJC was interesting. The team, in my opinion, wasn’t very good. It was just because they had two or three really good players who were helping to score points. I managed to play a bit after that, and this was the first time I had statistics. Haha. I got a negative two. Haha. And that was just for one set, if Aaron were to have recorded the second set, I would probably have a bigger negative number considering on how I screwed up on many occasions.
Camp was finally broken after we did some cooling down exercise and moved everything back to place. Had dinner at tampinese mall with Aaron before we went home. I guess we don’t really belong with the team, judging by the fact that nobody really wants us to go with them for dinner and I predict that even if we do go, it will just be the two of us talking to ourselves. Haha, I guess we are just too weird for them to accept. It kind of sucks in a sense, but I can live with it.
Now that I reflect back, I do think that the team really does stand a chance of going far this year. Their aim to reach top 3 or more maywill actually be achieved. Haha. I believe that VJC can make it! 来VJ whoosh!
farcical-rants - 9:24 am - Tuesday, March 14, 2006
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