past is past
Its alright to lose, as long as you learn and had fun with it. I didn't manage to rush down to watch the boys play, only to watch them cheer. With the exception of a devastated Haiwei, the team seemed pretty relaxed and took the 12-0 loss with a "haiz, oh wells" air of resignation. I suppose to them winnning would have been nice, but closing the 21-1 gap to 12-0 was somewhat of an improvement. Doesn't matter, you guys have hit short of champions but all that there is to do now is to win the rest of your matches, while praying RJ falls to ACS. (whom you peeps will beat on friday) Which of course would give you fighting chance for the trophy.
The girls lost by a extremely tight 1-0 with Bidhya nearly making it to first base with two down on the last inning. Park and I were probably getting cramps from the frustrated actions we were making in the last few innings. It is interesting to note that RJ enjoys hustling and during the girls match, even the guys team was hustling the batters from the bench. Perhaps thats one of the reasons why it appears to me that the girls bat exponentially better during their trainings? Or perhaps its nercousness, or nervousness from the hustling. Either way, i feel the loss wasn't due to much difference in skill of pitching or fielding but rather to suay batting.
It is quite pitiful when a team has to rely on making fun of others to throw them off though. Its all right to irritate the batter or even the pitcher by coaxing them to make mistakes, at least its a general, non-personal attack. But when you start to make fun of their own styles? When you tease them for how they play? Thats just disgusting and it only proves how being a team for 6 years has apparently contributed nothing to your dignity and pride. The pride of our nation? From what i'd seen today/yesterday, if thats true then our nation is doomed. If we made personal attacks at you people you'd probably end up crying. Be thankful Park and I have our moral restrictions.
Anyway, the games are over, theres no point looking back and wondering if you could have put in more effort, for that energy should be spent working on reaching your potential for every game from now. For your potentials are vast, most of you have come from schools that picked you for your talents and honed them for four years and now you have been thrust together by fate to play as a team. Its time to act like one, to cheer like one, to live like one. Stop fragmenting despite the tension that exists in some places, ignore what doesn't matter in games and play for what does.
It isn't for you to decide who plays with you, but it is for you to decide what you play for. So play for the team, not any individuals and remember that when a team loses, its the teams fault, not anyones. Of course, you can also blame it to a coke buying teacher who tries to give you all stomachaches but thats up to Park/Jenzus/Edmund to settle.
Either way had dinner with some SJI peeps today, wanted to catch a 9-something movie at first but due to lousy timings we settled for a talkcock session at carl's instead. Then along comes FC and Sham goes "fuck, hide hide its *******!" So i confusedly looked around for some guy in VJ uniform while he was going "fuck dont look la cheebye, don't let him see us!" So ya i only saw him after he passed us in home clothes, and it was like, 11 at PS. Nothing much to do there at that time. And so Sham, Justin, Xuan and me heaved a sigh of relief he didn't notice us even as the rest of 'em at other tables continued making a nuisance of themselves. Quite sad to be remembered negatively by secondary school ex-classmates and your JC schoolmates huh. tsk.
Anyway to fill my suddenly empty post-school/studying/other-stuff timeslots, my bro and I have decided to look for a dragonboat club to join, currently i'm hoping his teacher in charge will have some ideas, but shy ol' nick will probably take a few months to come up with a speech to ask for it. Well, theres still the guitar course.
And why hes pissed at some school with a wierd name: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m2z_TWj2No
This is the video of their 1st/2nd placing being screwed by some random school that can't steer properly. Stupid, huh.
The girls lost by a extremely tight 1-0 with Bidhya nearly making it to first base with two down on the last inning. Park and I were probably getting cramps from the frustrated actions we were making in the last few innings. It is interesting to note that RJ enjoys hustling and during the girls match, even the guys team was hustling the batters from the bench. Perhaps thats one of the reasons why it appears to me that the girls bat exponentially better during their trainings? Or perhaps its nercousness, or nervousness from the hustling. Either way, i feel the loss wasn't due to much difference in skill of pitching or fielding but rather to suay batting.
It is quite pitiful when a team has to rely on making fun of others to throw them off though. Its all right to irritate the batter or even the pitcher by coaxing them to make mistakes, at least its a general, non-personal attack. But when you start to make fun of their own styles? When you tease them for how they play? Thats just disgusting and it only proves how being a team for 6 years has apparently contributed nothing to your dignity and pride. The pride of our nation? From what i'd seen today/yesterday, if thats true then our nation is doomed. If we made personal attacks at you people you'd probably end up crying. Be thankful Park and I have our moral restrictions.
Anyway, the games are over, theres no point looking back and wondering if you could have put in more effort, for that energy should be spent working on reaching your potential for every game from now. For your potentials are vast, most of you have come from schools that picked you for your talents and honed them for four years and now you have been thrust together by fate to play as a team. Its time to act like one, to cheer like one, to live like one. Stop fragmenting despite the tension that exists in some places, ignore what doesn't matter in games and play for what does.
It isn't for you to decide who plays with you, but it is for you to decide what you play for. So play for the team, not any individuals and remember that when a team loses, its the teams fault, not anyones. Of course, you can also blame it to a coke buying teacher who tries to give you all stomachaches but thats up to Park/Jenzus/Edmund to settle.
Either way had dinner with some SJI peeps today, wanted to catch a 9-something movie at first but due to lousy timings we settled for a talkcock session at carl's instead. Then along comes FC and Sham goes "fuck, hide hide its *******!" So i confusedly looked around for some guy in VJ uniform while he was going "fuck dont look la cheebye, don't let him see us!" So ya i only saw him after he passed us in home clothes, and it was like, 11 at PS. Nothing much to do there at that time. And so Sham, Justin, Xuan and me heaved a sigh of relief he didn't notice us even as the rest of 'em at other tables continued making a nuisance of themselves. Quite sad to be remembered negatively by secondary school ex-classmates and your JC schoolmates huh. tsk.
Anyway to fill my suddenly empty post-school/studying/other-stuff timeslots, my bro and I have decided to look for a dragonboat club to join, currently i'm hoping his teacher in charge will have some ideas, but shy ol' nick will probably take a few months to come up with a speech to ask for it. Well, theres still the guitar course.
And why hes pissed at some school with a wierd name: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m2z_TWj2No
This is the video of their 1st/2nd placing being screwed by some random school that can't steer properly. Stupid, huh.
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