To and fro, back and forth
HI please appreciate the following content cause i'm neglecting my rest and studies for it. Geog test is tmr (!!!) Table tennis girls better read. I'll give a pop quiz on it hahaha.
Today marked the end of nats, with both divisions emerging 4th. Yeah it may sound loserish- no one rememebers 3rd/ 4th placings. But hey, just take a look at our journey, it wasn't a tad bit easy. We fought, we lost, we cried, we won, we smiled.
Frankly speaking, Nanyang definitely deserved to be top 4 instead of us, they won us 4-1 mind you. So be contented with 4th placing. Yep it was a super duper mega jumbo close fight, (WHAT HURTS THE MOST WAS BEING SO CLOSE- RASCAL FLATTS LOL) 2-3 for both divisions. God was blessing us all the way till even here, when we lost. He helped us put up a very good fight.
Let's go back to zonals haha long way back man. We were demoralised. Anglican match was the worst, it affected my confidence till nats. Anglican Cdiv broke our 15 years zonal champs record. Ended up both divisions got 2nd. We didn't give up, yet. We 'vowed' to bounce back from our defeat. And we did, somehow.
Nationals. Our top 16 draw was Nanyang, Newtown, Anderson. Obvious who we lost to and who we won. Top 8 draw. IF NOT FOR THE DRAW WE WOULDNT BE IN TOP 4, PLTT! We got into a very good group. Very good equals able to win. Our draw- Anglican, St Nics, Chung Cheng. The other group was a gone case if we were in it- Raffles, Nanyang, Cedar, Gan Eng Seng. Once nanyang knew their draw, they cried. So you can see how upset they were to get that group.
We lost to St Nics terribly, 0-5 and i rmbered i broke down during the set because PL got a big fat zero to our list. We lost to Anglican 2-3. That i'm not disappointed but rather bu fu qi cause out of our two clashes with them, we lost both. Winning them 2-3 was damn impt if you guys rmb, if we didn't, we had to win chung cheng 5-0 to be top 4 which was RATHER impossible as they improved tremendously. We were already down 0-3 but in the end we got two impt points. Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, look how blessed we are! On to the Chung Cheng match, we had to win 4-1 no matter what if not they will get into top 4 instead of us.
In the end, we did it and were through to top 4. It meant so much to us because we were only top 8 last year.
Then we had to play with RGS to determine who will play for first second position. Duh we lost.. 0-3. And so, bdiv had to play with Cedar for third fourth position as they lost to St Nics. Cdiv played with St Nics.
Okay shall say the cdiv match first. Kimmie won the first point. Mansan and Jingpei were supposed to win the second, but didn't. Magdalene wasn't playing her best but it was okay as her opponent was really strong. So score then was 1-2. The next doubles, seriously no one expected them to win, they proved us wrong and won. Levelled it up to 2-2. I think the St Nics second doubles were reserves.. Last set was played by Janice Yoong. We expected her to lose 0-3 or get a thrashing. Yes, we are very unkind seniors. She proved us wrong, no she didn't win but the point is that she was so calm and collected for the first time. In my opinion that's her best match ever. She played sososososossosososo well damn it! She lost 2-3, guess what the last set was? 9-11!!!!! AHHHHHH!
So summing cdiv's match up, the ones who were expected to win, didn't, but those who weren't expected to win, won/ played well. Anyhow, i'm really proud of the whole cdiv team even though i keep criticsing you all the whole time. It is for a good cause, understand me juniors!
Okay now the best part. Today's match with Cedar. I don't know if the line up was screwed or not. This time, the 2 doubles won. WE ONLY NEEDED ONE SINGLES TO WIN TO BE THIRD. 3 singles, 3 chances, all failed. I played trash during my match. Oh man if you were an outsider, meaning you don't know a thing about table tennis, you'd have thought i didn't know how to play tt. Yes it was that bad, not exaggerating. Most infuriating is that Kim said it's very easy to play against my opponent. HELLO LOOK AT WHAT RUBBER SHE'S USING. SAME AS KIMMIE RIGHT. Okay a little recap, out of 20 matches i played with Kimmie (junior), i only won like THREE TIMES. It is really difficult, my friends. Okay it is just me. I should shut up about my match.
First singles lost, first doubles won, second singles lost, second doubles won, third singles lost. The 2 doubles were great, they fought hard like warriors :-) So proud of suann and jillian, they attacked, blocked, chyed their way into victory, won 3-2 mmhmm. JILLIAN PLEASE STOP SAYING YOU'LL QUIT TABLE TENNIS LA. If you quit, i quit with you and go join hmmmm let's see, SWIMMING HAHHAHA, since they only have 4 swimmers?! You know what, i think we'd get counselling and interrogation from mrs lee for 10 hours and submit her a 10 page essay, using times new roman font size 8, on why we want to quit table tennis. SO DON'T QUIT! We'll train hard tgt, improve tgt, and prove kim wrong like how the juniors proved us wrong :D
PLTT, we did well this year so you all shouldn't have any regrets. Sorry to everyone in bdiv who won, esp chan su ann. Tsk you la soupy, made me feel so damn guilty, even though you said it wasn't my fault. Aiya whatever it is, the journey was incredible. Now the sec fours have to leave. We should spend our time being sad because they are stepping down and not because of the match's result!
We are the best, we are the best, we are the best among the rest. We wanna show you our power, power, power! We are the best among the rest :)
You all are victors in my eyes and don't let this minor setback affect your training attitude. In fact, this result should make you all have the motivation to train harder to achieve better postions next year, right? We have about 8 months plus till zonals. Anything can happen, doesn't mean if you're not playing this year, you won't next year. Your future is in your hands, not your teacher's :O)
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My mum just called and she's still in office. My dinner is with her and the time now is 910! Belly's grumbling. Anyway i think i should go study geog now if not i can prepare to fail.
Everyone watch ch23/ 24 on april 29 and root for Man Utd! =D According to straits times poll that ends on friday noon, 61% (tentative) felt Man Utd would win Chelsea. Yay! Three cheers to that :-D
Oh andandand i reached school at a record time today, 625 beat that! Earlier than the cleaner lady cause i walked faster. But the gate was only opened at 635. I feel so... GUAI. Serkali tmr you see me standing with the late comers, lol.
I wanna add smtg about the match today. During our previous match with chung cheng, me and michelle drank red bull and puked. Today i ate bananas, i puked out the bananas. Michelle didn't even eat anything but still puked. Omg we are the puking duo. When candice is scared, candice pukes. BUHBYE.
