Div 2

A weekly affair since 6th July.

Now, SMU Foxes has ended it glamourously with a 2nd place finish.

It really didn't come by easily.

Our critics were hard on us. We trained. We played. We proved them wrong.

Now who dares deny us of our glory?

A long season it is, so long that I couldn't really remember the first few games. I do think that my memory only dates back to the NUS Callistans game and thereon. Let me just summarize the games that i remember in a few words. And i do really mean a few words!=P

NUS Callistans: A draw. Could have prevented their goals and it should have been to our taking, but i was careless.
One West Supernova: My first clean sheet. The game where i felt i really saved.
Team Hestia: I learnt that no team is unbeatable. But Jill Quek was missing, i would love to receive her shots, since she is such a fab player (i've heard!). Like what dennis said, we had good chances of winning!
Simply Blacks: Well deserved win..
Springfield Ewoks: A good closure.

Well, somehow, I really can't recall a huge chunk of what we have been through. Except, the celebrations, happy moments, the camaraderie as a team.

My first major league, has impacted me quite a bit. I truly learnt a lot and gained more exposure to floorball. However, i did not really felt much contribution to the team. Like what Dennis said, looking back, most of the goals could have been preventable. And they definitely are.

All the lobangs and holes.

The defence was really good, the girls kept the ball away from me most of the time. Not to mention, the centers, who scored a hell lot of goals and also defended well from time to time. And lastly, the forwards, who tried very hard to chiong for the ball..

From the perspective of the player who is right smack in the last line of defence, i saw the tenacity in my team, the perseverance, the rush for the ball. My friends, that has really inspired me a lot and kept me going for 60 mins.

We played for one another, played for our personal improvements, played for the team's advancements.

And the end result, we did not lose a single game.

Ok, i shall stop being so emo and lest i start sniffing.

The road to the runner up position surely wasnt't easy, and we know we are proud of ourselves. Great to see and feel what team spirit is like through Div 2, through smufloorball.

Fond memories, i will have.

On a personal side note, i do think i should start making more improvements, still got a long way to go!=)

jealousy

I'M TRYING TO ANNOUNCE TO THE WHOLE WORLD THAT THIS IS THE FIRST FRIDAY SINCE SCHOOL STARTED THAT I'M AT HOME.

MUAHAHHA.

JEALOUS?

BUT I'M ACTUALLY MUGGING FOR MY MS MID TERM TOMORROW..

Imagine

Do you still remember John Lennon and his famous song, 'Imagine' ?

'Imagine there's no Heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one '

PS. I hope im not infringing on any copyright laws here, anyway, i pasted from a website, so i shouldnt get sued.

Everyone do imagine and daydream everyday. In fact, i day dream and imagine every minute of my life. This is the reason why im always caught staring into space. Now, don't imagine that im staring at you if you catch me looking at you, i should be daydreaming rather than people watching.

Back to my topic, what do you usually imagine?

For me, in order to satisfy my hunger to succeed, i will usually imagine myself on a podium, receiving prizes of sorts. Or imagining that one day, when i log into OASIS, i will see straight A+'s. I will imagine about things ive never done, sky diving, parachuting, getting injured and has to be put in a cast (touchwood!).

Sadly, none of my imaginations has ever come true. Isnt there such a thing as Dejavu? or does it only happen to dreams?

Well, of course i know that just imagining is not going to make anything work. I wil have to push for it with my actions. But since i dream of the skies, its difficult to realise it too. HAIZ!

Ok, i just looked at the time and realised that i should stop my ramblings. Ive got two midterms coming up and CAT assignment to complete. SAVE ME!

Off to Marketing! And the lyrics isnt pasted there for nothing, draw some inspiration from it. Im sure you can.

community service

if its not from the heart, its not service.
if only you benefit, its not for community.

whats community service?

its one of my passion in life, something which i enjoy doing. by engaging in it, i learnt values and developed myself like ive never known before. Community service is mutual learning.

Imagine yourself cleaning up the home of a lonely elderly who lives in a one room flat. You clean the house, chat with her. What did she gain? What did you gain?

She enjoyed your company, she has a cleaner home.

You, on the other hand, gained more understanding of her life and saw things in other perspectives. You learned how to clean up a home, you learned to be more compassionate and understanding.

Your intangible benefits far exceeds what the elderly has received from you.

Now, who says that community service is a one way effort? You certainly benefit more.

Community service comes from your heart. If it isn't, don't bother giving.

summary

Saturday night: I went to the geylang serai bazaar. immersing in the hari raya festive mood is actually quite cool. my mum is working at this shop selling these blouses with a mix of cheongsam and baju kurong(wrong spelling?) ok.. anyway.. the clothes look like:
Sorry for making you throw up! haha.. but my younger sister and i were really bored as we don't know how to sell, and we can't speak fluent malay. In essence, we were useless, so we can only take photos.

Anyway, the trip was worth it as i really felt like celebrating the festival too. There were so many people at the huge bazaar. I'm going to go back this coming weekend to have my hands tattooed with henna.

Sunday: Woke up at eleven plus for my match with SIM at 2pm. I left home rather early,1245pm. And i reached the sports hall at 1pm. However, as i wanted to find the free parking carpark, i ended up circling the whole of Tampines, before i arrived at the free parking carpark 20 mins later. bleah. i have been there so many times, and i can still get myself lost in somewhere rather familiar. I'm such a loser. Ok anyway, today's match was quite chillax, though the players were running their hearts out. Thanks to them, i didn't really have to save much and i thought our team played a good game today. The score was 4-0. Pretty decent.

On a side note, i thought i played badly today as i wasn't able to really focus and was like out of breath though i didnt move much. haiz. my health is really deteriorating, and these few days, i could feel my knees giving way.

ok, im dead beat and have been driving around and sleeping today. They are mutually exclusive, not to worry. haha!

oh, did i mention that i got lost on my way home from the sports hall? =P

mums don't lie

how do you judge accurately that you are fat?

below are some incidents/signs which made me realise that im not slim afterall..

1) Bathing
my friend, its not that this is pervetic or self obsessed. but when you are bathing, i'm sure that all of us will look down and scan the length of our legs. and recently, when i look down to stare at my legs, i found to my horror, that my thighs are like tree trunks. They look ultra stable, in fact, too big and stable for my frame. sigh.

2) Bursting jeans
i got an old pair of jeans, and when i tried pulling it up to try to relive my old times, i found that my jeans actually got stuck at my thighs.

3) The Ultimate: My Mother
Everyone knows that mums don't lie to their children. And whatever they say to their child, they will make sure that they say it in the most tactful words to convery their ideas.
Now, my mum has relayed her thoughts very straightforwardly. Yesterday, while she was trying to wake me up from my 'coma', she placed both her hands on my thighs and said:" Look at you, your thighs are (bloody) fat, totally not proportionate." Ok, my mum wasnt that crude, but the word 'bloody' was more or less implied.

Now, i realise how fat my thighs are. And i felt sorry for having outrightly pointed out to rachel kok that she has cellulite in her thighs. Trust me to do that and now karma has befell=P

cause i had a bad day

today's meeting with fred was quite an ok one, though it didnt turn out as expected. i will expect them to have more budget.. haha.. but apparently not.

smurunabout was today, and our teams did not do very well amidst the damn tight competition, but i must say that our performance is already applaudable. I didnt have the courage to run, due to my ultra poor fitness level. It was really funny to see Toren run. She is always the joker(dont worry, i mean it in a good way) of the team, next time i shall draw some inspirations from her. She is one funny lady.

The one she ran looked like she was going to throw in every ounce of energy she had at the start, and thereafter, she confessed that she actually walked a distance as she was too tired. no wonder she was the last to come in. Hui fen was better as she came in before toren does.

omg, i do sound incoherent up there huh? i dont know whats happening to me. Is it my period? But i just simply can't seem to wake up my idea. I always feel so sleepy and today, i had to take a cab to school just to attend the meeting with fred. And how i wasted my day! i was only in school for the meeting and runabout. I stayed in school a while more to study MS though, but had to come home for dinner like around 7pm..

oh, and did i mention that the taxi uncle cheated me of my money, he shortchanged me! (of $1). I wasnt completely awake then, and i thought that maybe i did my calculations wrongly, hence i didnt dare to confront him. What a loser am i.

ok. time for some long lost MA action..

i'm saving it

good grief, i give up on livejournal.

i simply cant navigate my way through and siti says that blogspot is most user friendly.

ok. so i shall ditch stills-of-life.livejournal.com and bring it back to life here.

i'm in marketing class now, and ouchhhhh... everyone has so many questions and the last group who just presented got bombed.

now you see why smu is so competitive? everyone is hungry for knowledge, or rather for the need to excel.

my first presentation for year 2 sem 1. not bad afterall though my group was quite last minute. heh heh.

my prof is looking at me as im typing in this post sneakily.

zoooommmmmmmmmmmmm.....

i just wanna show off

muahahha! saw my gadgets? the playlist? the photo at the bottom of the webpage? muahahha...... ive succeeded! my first baby step towards my aim of learning how to customize my blog.. heh heh..

anyway, my day just concluded with my ISP Chiangmai meeting, scheduled every thursday. i was late for 2 mins and had to pay a fine of $2. never mind=), set an example shall i.

my participants are getting more warmed up with one another and can see that some of them are really outgoing. the overly-stress school life has made me look forward to the ISP trip earnestly.

shi hui, dec it shall be. now study.

this thought has to go through my mind multiple times a day. ah.. how i wish i can go overseas right away now. but on hindsight, actually im going away to Chiangmai for the recce trip in week 8. haha!

well, later there will be a meeting with fred from osl. wonder what he will talk to us about. he had better not be like the admin staff from the not to be mentioned school who pissed me off totally when he scolded me over a polite phonecall.

oh, and runabout is at 3 plus pm later. hope our runners will win and may smufloorball win best dressed again!