actually wanted to do this blogpost yesterday, but didnt have any inspiration. im not that good with words :( but here's an attempt, because saturday deserves to be down in the book. (or blog, for that matter)
saturday was well, spammed with activites! MAF, fundraising, PVP. this mid-autumn was different, and special in its own way. didnt get to enjoy the performances, play with lanterns or sparklers, and didnt even 赏月!
haha actually its quite funny lah, like how melvin puts it, our first two matches werent very good, only the last two matches pretty well done, but we act like we performed very well in all the matches at the end of it lo. haha yea i have to agree with this, the last two matches really left an impact on me, especially the one against the j3s!
jinqing iris and i were sitting and talking just before the semifinals, and i was telling them i believe that if our j1s team played hard enough, its possible to beat the j3 team! haha but when i was walking up the field i was like uh uh uh okayyy i hope we can play well, but i never did think that we had a chance to really beat them. but the real climax was when we were at 3-5. then we slowly climbed up. 4-5. and then, we were playing for 5-5?!!? and our team's morale got very high! tired, but everyone was still persevering. it was awesome. there was this common goal, for that point.
i remember very vividly melvin was handling and then he called my name and the next thing i knew i was running deep all the way to the end zone and omg the disc was above my head and i was so close to getting it then eh!!!! someone was trying to get the disc from behind also then i was like 'ahh!!!!' BUT THEN it turned out that jiajie got the disc so we scored after all??? freaking awesome, a 5-5!!!!!!!! but then we didnt know whether he caught in the end zone or not and nobody knew so then the next thing we know, we are playing for the LAST POINT. then everyone was like dead tired already and yea me too but i just told myself dont care liao lah last point already leh!! must mark my person damn tight and do my best!!!!
the two teams were like damn tensed because the winning team would play for the 1st or 2nd placing!! then everyone was trying so hard and everying its kinda touching now if you think about it :) i cant remember what happened but it all passed in a blur and the j3s scored. but nontheless eat2disc were happy because we were really awesome, played to our bestest and had been so close!
then for the next match it was against eat3disc to determine the 3rd and 4th placing. that was when i really cmi liao. there was this point which we scored and we were waiting for the pull. i was just choking coughing and tess asked me whether i was okay and i wanted to say something but i lost my voice?!?!?! think i was too overwhlemed :( and i was pretty worried about my toe because in the previous point i injured myself already :( but still, i played on, but no longer to my full ability. im kinda sad about this, but then again when i think about it now, it was probably a rational choice.
and we won that match too! :) yup yup so that placed us in 3rd placing, and in the end, the j3s were 2nd in place and the j2s were the champs! HCULT :D
oh yea, in the morning, marcus asked me if i would like to play for the j2 team as they were short of players. im glad that i chose to stay on with eat2disc, because the match with the j3s would be one that i would never forget. i think every hcult member's should have the chance to be able to have such an experience, the notion that the whole team is together as one, going out there for the same aim, and achieving it.
eat2discs! :D i love the blue it makes us stand out :) and our team woosh rocks too!
HCULT, 3 generations! :D
When you get old, in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that’s a part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life’s this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us… And I know if I’m going to have any life anymore it’s because I’m still willing to fight and die for that inch, because that’s what living is, the six inches in front of your face.
— Al Pacino, Any Given Sunday
i like this quote because its like frisbee too. you jump too early you dont get the disc, you take a step too late and you dont too. but the most important thing is, to fight for that inch. thats like an ultimate game play, and also life.
[edit @ 3.22pm] oh yea iris, if you ever see this! im kinda apologetic that i robbed you of a chance to play the last game well, because you got distracted by my injury ):
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oh yea and fundraising! fundraising had its own share of things that can give you a warm fuzzy feeling.
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Friends. i have never really liked fundraising because there would always be people that are mean, mean, mean. like i havent say finish what im selling and you have already interrupted me and said 'no thanks'. but it always helps seeing the familiar face, and friends that are not running away from the mere sight of you (and layeng also haha) with a cooler. that's nice. and for buying icepops from us, even when they would be better named waterpops :| and for patronising our store again and again and buying >5 icepops individually i thankyou!!
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Friends. well, there's friends again! friends who have showed their support even more then they are required to, like helping us sell icepops! there's glen, ju and kenny thanks lots lots :D
and well yea, strangers too! which are just as willing to help out for our cause :)
im pretty proud of how we have done overall actually, given the circumstances! think we dunno jihong like how many people in total and everyone made a very conscientious effort to try to clear our stock :) and the process was very heartening too, seeing everyone volunteer to help out, like jon leaw volunteer to pay for our icepops first, even if it means that he has no money for lunch now and needs to borrow, jieqi for the coins as change etc etc. makes the whole project a whole lot easier :)
well guess that was a pretty meaningful weekend? oh yea, anyway appreciate the concern that many of yall showed to me yea over my leg/foot/toe :) was like limping back home on saturday ):< its just a bruise on my toe, no biggie it will be alright soon i hope!
and happy studying everyone! i think since we have to study, might as well make it an enjoyable process Y/Y? :)
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