Adventure, savvy?
Skipped school, (fullday) watched pirates at Cathay with the class, helped Yousian get stuff at Plaza Sing for bodybuilder, went to support soccer, went City Hall then went Serangoon, then went home. Overall its been a pretty good day! =)
Basketball girls won by a close 53-50 to RJ, clinching the championship! Didn't watch the match but it sounded like a really really close fight (evident from the scoreline..) Good job to them!
Of course, it wasn't good when the girls lost 0-1 to SA with a pretty stupid goal. I realise that when girls play team sports and get tense/nervous (or maybe its because they play team sports) their performance drops by a larger proportion compared to when guys are tense. Really, i'm not being sexist but perhaps its just the difference in thinking? During the match for the large part both teams were stressed and panicky, making hasty passes when there was time to think and thinking too much when there wasn't. After SA scored the goal however, you could tell they loosened up and then their playing became much better with neat passes and good coordination compared to the hasty rushes of VJ.
For the first half of the match though, it seemed like VJ was dominating the game, with the ball hardly ever entering our half. We were even saying Farah was falling asleep and that she needed tea or something to keep her from dozing off in boredom. But that fact meant that there were over a dozen people in one half, making attacking a messy business with many wasted chances and many attempts that just couldn't work due to the sheer number of people present! Overall it was perhaps an error in tactics, or a breakdown of concentration and team bonding. Whatever it was it doesn't matter now that its over, it can be a lesson learnt, a painful memory to drive yourself harder in future, but the fact is its over. So cheer up girls, the rigours of training and the effort you've all put in won't be forgotten and won't be overlooked, just look at the sheer amount of people who voluntarily went to support you all! (after all, with fullday noone is really obliged to go) Since you gave it your all to play the game, theres no regret, no "what ifs" and "should haves", theres just the knowledge that you can face yourselves!
Okay now about pirates, its probably the coolest shows i've ever seen, with an amazing storyline and an even more amazing set of characters. Jack Sparrow is the most interesting character, mixing good and bad with a likeable charm that makes you rethink your conceptions of the good and the bad. Sadly the movie felt rushed to me since its like a whole trilogy was cramped into the span of one 3 hour long movie when it could've been featured more deliciously in 3 2 hour movies. True, the wait would be unbearable, but the story wouldn't have so many loopholes. So how did the kraken die? What exactly can Calipso do? What happened to Davy Jones and Calipso? So many unanswered question that it begs for there to be a sequel, even where none has been hinted.
The allure of the series is also the very notion of pirates, with their lawless behaviour governed by a code (i.e. a law) The idea of being a pirate inspires images of freedom and the power to grab what you want, to carve out your destiny as you saw fit. Especially so in Singapore where we are confined to our barless cage of social responsibility, societal responsibility etc. For us, to living as a pirate would mean living a life without the monotonous certainty the next day would be safe and routine, where events hardly occur and life is as colourful as a piece of transparency. A pirates life meant that your own power, skill and wit amounted for success rather than the ability to store copious amounts of information for later regurgitation.
Like sweet release it would be, and the movie portrays it so beautifully, showing us the carefree nature of men who could stroll decks pregnant with flying splinters and blazing cannonballs, of men who risk their lives merely on impulse, on what they feel like doing without regard for consequence or responsibility. A stark contrast to the life of a typical singaporean. Perhaps its just how we always feel the grass is greener on the other side, but either way an attarction is an attraction.
Ultimately, to live a life where we don't look back in grief, where we aren't haunted by the ghosts of our past, the reaper of our past misdeeds, to look back content and accepting - that is happiness.
Think of the past to change the future, think of the future to mend the past, think of the future to pick your present actions. The future is important but it means nothing without a past, or present.
jiayou sam! =)
Basketball girls won by a close 53-50 to RJ, clinching the championship! Didn't watch the match but it sounded like a really really close fight (evident from the scoreline..) Good job to them!
Of course, it wasn't good when the girls lost 0-1 to SA with a pretty stupid goal. I realise that when girls play team sports and get tense/nervous (or maybe its because they play team sports) their performance drops by a larger proportion compared to when guys are tense. Really, i'm not being sexist but perhaps its just the difference in thinking? During the match for the large part both teams were stressed and panicky, making hasty passes when there was time to think and thinking too much when there wasn't. After SA scored the goal however, you could tell they loosened up and then their playing became much better with neat passes and good coordination compared to the hasty rushes of VJ.
For the first half of the match though, it seemed like VJ was dominating the game, with the ball hardly ever entering our half. We were even saying Farah was falling asleep and that she needed tea or something to keep her from dozing off in boredom. But that fact meant that there were over a dozen people in one half, making attacking a messy business with many wasted chances and many attempts that just couldn't work due to the sheer number of people present! Overall it was perhaps an error in tactics, or a breakdown of concentration and team bonding. Whatever it was it doesn't matter now that its over, it can be a lesson learnt, a painful memory to drive yourself harder in future, but the fact is its over. So cheer up girls, the rigours of training and the effort you've all put in won't be forgotten and won't be overlooked, just look at the sheer amount of people who voluntarily went to support you all! (after all, with fullday noone is really obliged to go) Since you gave it your all to play the game, theres no regret, no "what ifs" and "should haves", theres just the knowledge that you can face yourselves!
Okay now about pirates, its probably the coolest shows i've ever seen, with an amazing storyline and an even more amazing set of characters. Jack Sparrow is the most interesting character, mixing good and bad with a likeable charm that makes you rethink your conceptions of the good and the bad. Sadly the movie felt rushed to me since its like a whole trilogy was cramped into the span of one 3 hour long movie when it could've been featured more deliciously in 3 2 hour movies. True, the wait would be unbearable, but the story wouldn't have so many loopholes. So how did the kraken die? What exactly can Calipso do? What happened to Davy Jones and Calipso? So many unanswered question that it begs for there to be a sequel, even where none has been hinted.
The allure of the series is also the very notion of pirates, with their lawless behaviour governed by a code (i.e. a law) The idea of being a pirate inspires images of freedom and the power to grab what you want, to carve out your destiny as you saw fit. Especially so in Singapore where we are confined to our barless cage of social responsibility, societal responsibility etc. For us, to living as a pirate would mean living a life without the monotonous certainty the next day would be safe and routine, where events hardly occur and life is as colourful as a piece of transparency. A pirates life meant that your own power, skill and wit amounted for success rather than the ability to store copious amounts of information for later regurgitation.
Like sweet release it would be, and the movie portrays it so beautifully, showing us the carefree nature of men who could stroll decks pregnant with flying splinters and blazing cannonballs, of men who risk their lives merely on impulse, on what they feel like doing without regard for consequence or responsibility. A stark contrast to the life of a typical singaporean. Perhaps its just how we always feel the grass is greener on the other side, but either way an attarction is an attraction.
Ultimately, to live a life where we don't look back in grief, where we aren't haunted by the ghosts of our past, the reaper of our past misdeeds, to look back content and accepting - that is happiness.
Think of the past to change the future, think of the future to mend the past, think of the future to pick your present actions. The future is important but it means nothing without a past, or present.
jiayou sam! =)
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