Surf N Sweat

It was cloudy and it rained after and we applied sunblock, but we still got burned!



We lost 5-21, 11-21, 1-21, 11-21, but we still had fun. So what the hell.



YAY TEAM WEE!

Just One Chance

I don't know where to start. I'm not in the mood to write something fantastic.
Perhaps just honest.

This week we had 3 volleyball matches. This team was tight. We didn't always perform the best we could but I always felt the chemistry and teamwork and encouragement that went around when we were playing. I felt the pressure to do well but it was coming entirely from myself and not anyone else in the team.

It's also my first time playing as a setter. It an awesome feeling and it was really refreshing and challenging to play out of my comfort zone.

Of the three matches, we won 1 (by walkover so that's 15-0, 15-0 HSS). We would've really liked to play that one because we were really psyched up for it but the last one that we played is etched in my memory as the best game I've ever played. We went from 0-7 to a deuce. 14-14.

But we lost that one. It was a real pity.

It's a great way to kickstart the new semester, heck, the new year! Playing with this great bunch of guys is memorable. The dynamics was really different from last year and I think it worked really well.

I'm super grateful (I think a scroll through this blog will dig up quite a few of these kinds of posts) to everyone in the team. Edwin, Wei Yang, See Keng, Teh Ping, Derek and Joel. Playing was just such a rush.

I've got 2 more years to play for CS. Urgh! 2 more. Only.

I'll make the most of it.

Dirrty Rich

If happiness is riches then I'm feeling filthy today. Filthy rich.

I also have a filthy shirt which I wore to volleyball training laying in the corner. I was only there for about an hour or two and I had the craziest workout, running all over the court and being the setter - a position that up till now has been alien to me. It was nerve-wrecking and exhilarating at the same time.

I was happy. Happy like a dog chasing a bone. Nothing was on my mind because nothing was more important than keeping the ball up in the air. That intense concentration and clarity of mind is hard to come by.

I relish every moment of it.

I'm "half bucket of water" in everything I do. Usually when I start something, I'll try my best to finish it. That's how I got my Grade 8 in piano - sheer hard work. I'm not really talented in anything, at least not that I know of. I don't play the piano any more. With volleyball, I knew I loved it a lot, but I never knew I'd take it this far, that I'd still be playing it now.

Of course it wouldn't have been possible without all the fantastic people who came down, organised it and set up everything. Teh peng, Karyn, See Keng, Wei Yang, Christine and Pedro.

Especially to Ruiqi and Edwin. It still strikes me as inexplicably, unbelievably coincidental that we play volleyball.

And I guess it's just another one of those things that makes 'us' more magical.