Saturday, March 31, 2007
30 march 2007
I&E activities were quite interesting, i felt.
hahaha, but i probably could have enjoyed myself MORE if the tournament was scheduled on another day.
went through half the day with fluttering butterflies/squiggly worms/crunchy ladybirds in my stomach.
didnt eat much for lunch too, me and gf keep feeling like we wna puke. X)
hahahah, two hours before tournament was the most cruciating one la.
totally jittery and nervous.
was in the nexus with the squash girls, trying to relax and calm ourselves down.
went to talk to lao pu and lao na for awhile. hahaha, laughing always helps.
then we walked over to the yio chu kang squash centre at around twelve thirty.
warmed up and waited for the tournament to start.
then coach had a "talk" with us to decide the line-up for the matches.
first player-jac
second player-me
third player-yuannshan
fourth player-jo
last player-hj
coach asked me whether i wna be the last player, but i decided that i better not.
too stressful.
but actually it's the same amount of stress for every player la, i realised.
i was super super nervous for my first set.
won by a close margin, 9-7.
coach said he could SEE my heart beating when he talked to me after the first set!
gosh. that was how nervous i was. and i was shivering all over. :/
but coach talked to me and i cooled myself down and went in with more confidence.
all he said was "dont be nervous, cool yourself down, go in and focus on the ball."
miraculously i did alot alot better for my second and third sets.
still abit wobbly, but won my opponent 9-1 for both sets.
AJC won VJC, with five-love for the overall. (:
we didnt play our best for the matches, BUT we're going to perform better.
and i know i could have done alot better.
i wasnt alert enough, didnt drive/cross the ball hard enough, forgot to look at the opponent when she was hitting the ball, too slow in running back to the centre.
felt so bad cos coach was disappointed with how we played.
but i'll train harder harder HARDER next week, i promise.
next opponent: NJC, 11 April.
it's tough, but we gta press on.
AJ SQUASH! :D
im not being biased, but i think our jerseys look the nicest compared to other schools. heh.
thanks to cheryn, tze yuan, jiaying and yingtung who came down to watch.
and the SISTER and darren as well.
hahaha, all the smses and encouragements helped too. :D
porky went with me to novena square the day before the tournament to get my orange SB.
hahahah. wanted a hot pink one but couldnt find! X(
we ALMOST got into a fight with two primary school boys in toy'r'us!
hahaha, a fight over who gets to play the xbox360 on display.
got this mini teeth-pressing crocodile keychain.
if you press the wrong teeth it'll bite you! :D
i love playing snakes and ladders at ben & jerry's!
ahahah. porky! we should definitely make it our favourite hobby la.
next week is going to be another week full of trngs.
my tutorials will be feeling neglected and abandoned again.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
30 march 2007 friday marks the start of our squash interschool tournament.
its what we've all been working towards since we joined squash as jc ones.
all the hours that we've endured the gruelling trngs, dont let it go to waste.
last lap, we can do it!
show what we've got. (:
hopefully we'll all be composed enough on friday and other tournament days to play our best.
yea, go girls!
AJ SQUASH, WHOOSH!
and we get to skip house meeting. heh. X)
not going to let anything or anyone affect me and how i play.
i've gotta stay VERY VERY FOCUSED.
cos i dont want to disappoint coach,
i dont want to let my team mates down.
and most importantly, squash is my passion.
i want to do this for myself.
go, joyce! :D
Sunday, March 25, 2007
i did that using paint! hahaha. i think it's quite artistic eh. :DD
planned to wake up early to start on my tuition homework.
well, i did wake up at 0630, but my tuition homework remains untouched up till now.
): i'm so un-motivated.
i need to find my motivation for doing homework.
seriously lagging behind for every tutorial, and i hate to feel unprepared for tutorials.
i find myself not focusing because i dont even understand half of what the tutors are talking about.
ahh well. i should really do something about my academics before i really really can't catch up with the rest huh?
but it's so zzz when the lect notes looks alien to you. i dont even feel like reading them, just feel like dumping the whole lot of notes aside.
hopefully this is just a transition period.
alright.
-back to homework-
Saturday, March 24, 2007
seven squashers. seven orange bags. one desire.
hahahah, we've got a team bag now!
big bright orange and green bags, adidas.
it can be carried as a shoulder bag/sling bag/backpack.
though i think no one will want to carry it as a backpack cos it looks ugly that way. X)
the bag has a shoe bag compartment too, for our bumblebee shoes. ahaha.
so exciting. can't wait for monday to come. hurry hurry! lol.
wore our jerseys yesterday for trng so that we can get used to the material and all that.
hahaha, and it was really quite cool to wear it, as a team. :D
we took many many photos on the mrt train in our jerseys!
got quite high and i hope no one will take the trouble to write to the school and complain about the ajc squashers. :/
i'm disappointed,
with myself for thinking that way.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
yesterday we got our tournament jerseys from coach!
hahahah, joyce is a happy girl now. :DD
we all look like professional squashers la. heh.
the jerseys are super super nice eh.
looking forward to wearing them!
but i dont want tournament to come so soon. hahaha. i'm contradicting myself.
got our new court shoes yesterday too!
bumblebee-ish colour. yellow and black!(:
hahaha. actually it's quite nice if you look at it after awhile la.
the most important thing is that it's comfortable.
gna get a new eye wear too.
cos, urm, mine broke. )):
probably cos of me being an accident magnet! lol.
i get hit by people's racket/balls almost every training. ):
say byebye to my second pair of eyewear. hahaha. the first pair went missing sometime last year.
oh man. i've been doing nothing for the past few days after i reach home after training.
i go to sleep after eating my dinner.
eeee. my physics chemistry econs math and gp are feeling neglected. X)
guys' first tournament match tmr!
up against ACJC at kallang squash courts.
GOOD LUCK!
and i'm addicted to my new handphone game, TOWER BLOXX!
hahaha, you have to build a very very high tower by stacking up the storeys.
it's a very simple game, but fun eh. hahaha.
good, cos i need something to distract me on my bus journeys! lol.
if not i'll just be thinking too much.
it goes higher, higher, and higher.
until it falls and collapse.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
uploaded the photos from my handphone after 1736523468 years. (:
quite random photos la, but who cares.
everybody! say hi to my new boyfriend, Mr T! T for tungsten. :D i've ditched the red and white one already. X)
blue-black number one! ):
blue-black number two! ):
hahahaha. my HUGE zig markers family. :D can't live without them in school.
that's the new mac's breakfast, the BAGEL. the hole in the bread is quite cute la, but i still prefer my HOTCAKES! hahaha.
tuition teacher's CHIN! yes yes, that's a physics tys it's standing on.
the white baby CHIN! hahahah, i feel like having one too! but my mama says i won't have time for it, which is true-ish. ):
hahahaha, the many many oreos from porky tan!
see how much she loves me? :D
thanks, i'll eat them before my tournaments to keep myself HIGH. heh.
i think i successfully disguised myself today, jiaying and guosi said they couldn't recognise me from far. X)
stayed back to redo the cougar house board this afternoon.
looks so much better now. :DD
watched the squash video that mr sanuse very kindly got for us yesterday night using my com.
peter nicol is zai-ness. his footwork, game strategy, mental strength, fitness, judgement.
he's not called the world number one for nothing. :O
hahaha, but that was in year 2000. he's retired now, i think.
i should stop giving myself these heart-racing moments.
yes, i should, i will. soon.
aren't you tired?
please stop running through my mind and into my heart.
Monday, March 19, 2007
i knew something bad was gonna happen during napfa today!
and i was right.
i fell down during shuttle run.
tell me how dumb is that?
when i bent over to pick up my first bean bag i couldnt get up so i just sat on the floor!
luckily that botak wasnt around, if not she'll be busy laughing her ass off at me.
then i'll be too traumatised to continue! X)
but i think the falling down/cant-get-up part was quite funny la.
it was just ABIT embarassing, cos there were alot of people watching!
okay, it's very very embarassing.
i hope all those people suffer from some short term memory disease/have a memory span of 3 seconds. heh.
and my friends all tell me i should get used to it, cos im always tripping all over the place.
but never ever in front of so many people before!
eeeeeeeeee.
and i missed the 'A' for shuttle run by 0.1s.
my mum told me when i was small i used to go around banging into walls.
hahahah, and i'll have this awful black eye.
just when it was about to heal i'll bang into the wall again, same spot.
so the black eye was like, permanently there. LOL.
i cant help it la, im born to be accident-prone.
next time i'll just choose a time when no one's watching to fall. ahaha.
alrights, i shall wear my nerdily-cute specs tmr so that people wont recognise me as the-girl-who-fell-during-shuttle-run. X)
i did okay for the rest of the stations, managed a gold. :D
squash training after napfa was short but intensive.
i shall psycho myself to fall in love with court craft! hahaha.
five sets of court craft is ENOUGH to kill my poor legs.
ahhhhh, cant imagine ten.
but it's good for our footwork. :D
Sunday, March 18, 2007
had a hard time getting to sleep ytd night, probably because i drank too much tea.
and woke up from a bad dream this morning.
):
couldnt remember what was the dream exactly about, but since its bad i shant try to recall. aha.
something funny happened when i was training at the yio chu kang squash court just now.
hahahah. i wonder why this sort of weird incidents always happen to me when i go there.
i was taking a break from my drives when this fat guy came up to me and asked me for a game.
it didnt occur to me that he was ABIT weird then, so i agreed to the game.
hahah. not like i got anything to lose, can gain some experience as well.
he introduced himself as a NTU graduate, yada yada, lots of crap which i cant remember blah, blah, blah.
then he asked me whether i'm a graded player, to which i told him i'm an ungraded player.
hahah, and he probably thought he could win me easily la.
and he lost to me set one, set two, set three and set four.
initially i thought he only wanted to play best of three.
uhhh. then i realised he wanted to play on until he can beat me. :/
and i was trying to control myself not to burst out laughing cos he was really the epitome of unglamness while playing squash.
so i quickly said 'nice game!' and shook hands with him after the fourth game.
he's one weird guy la. really weird. i dont know how to describe, but you gta talk to him to realise that he's WEIRD.
i think he asked me for a game some time back last year.
ahaha.
but i refused him then, last time more inexperienced ma, and i was waiting for someone to join me. LOL.
yea, but he commented on my strokes after the game, in a positive way la.
and i told him that im from the AJC TEAM. :DD
before he left he told me that he'll be more MENTALLY PREPARED if he ever has the chance to play a game with me.
which means to say he expected himself to win at first la.
so what if girls cannot whack the squash balls as hard as guys?
so what if guys have harder serves/drives than girls? :p
lesson learnt: NEVER, EVER underestimate your opponents. (:
not so sure anymore.
i want to have the memory span of a goldfish!
so that i can forget easily.
maybe i'll be happier that way.
oh, but i already AM forgetful enough.
just not THAT forgetful.
Friday, March 16, 2007
watched STOMP THE YARD with jac huijie and shan yesterday at j8.
had to catch the early show, cos i had tuition after that.
the last time i watched an early early EARLY movie was sometime in july last year.
nice movie, and i think its worth watching if you have the time and money.
all the dance moves are very zai eh.
yes yes, its a movie about dancing.
when i first heard the title i thought it was a dinosaur show or what. hahahaha, OOPS.
my daddy is so cute la.
recently he upgraded his phone plan to those which can enable him to send text messages.
before that he can only RECEIVE messages, can you imagine that happening to you?
but dad didnt mind la, cos he always thinks that messaging is retarded.
yesterday he was learning how to send messages.
and he sent me three words,
"I love you"
awfully sweet, made my heart melt like a marshmallow on the bbq pit.
my biological clock is like a primary one kid's one la.
i sleep at nine pm everyday. :D
too tired after training.
but it's a good habit! hahahah.
holidays are ending, and i've only done three questions of my vectors 2 tutorial.
that's like, 1/100 of my holiday homework.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
went back to school for math lecture and squash bonding/training camp yesterday.
had trouble trying to absorb what the lecturer was teaching, AS ALWAYS.
okay, fast forward to the camp.
14 squashers, 14 rackets. 9 hours. 4km. 60 sit ups. 60 push ups. 60 purpees.
and 1 hysterical screaming woman. LOL.
we had a motivational workshop by mr sanuse.
personally, i felt that it was the most meaningful activity for this camp. (:
sports psychology is something new for me.
learnt quite a few things, but one session wasnt enough to really build up our mental strength, as mr sanuse said.
but basically i learnt about the 'goodwill assumption', how to synchronise our thinking during training and stuff.
and we came up with a pledge to say to ourselves before trainings. X)
dont know whether it'll work, i shall give it a try.
after that was movie screening, The Game of Their Lives.
based on a true story in 1950s.
hahaha. the american soccer team won the championship even though they were the underdogs.
actually i only watched the last ten minutes of the movie. the exciting part was the game la.
but there was a line i like from the movie.
can't remember the exact sentence, but it was something like 'nobody knows who we are and nobody is expecting us to win. but after this game, they'll know us, the american team.'
so inspirational!
i hope we can achieve that, too. (:
even though the odds are stacked against us.
felt rather stressed during court training yesterday.
its like suddenly, i cant do anything well.
so disappointed with myself.
and felt quite bad if my emotions affected the rest.
but i felt better after sitting outside and eating oreos.
physical training was alot better than court training.
just have to push yourself, and you can do it.
it's all the same, determination is the key to everything. which, i think is what im lacking.
i give up too easily.
had debrief, got scolded by alice big time, went for dinner, then home.
lost focus, felt lost and stressed up.
but by the end of the day i felt better. (:
thank you, for doing what you always used to do.
i really needed that.
woke up bright and early to play squash in school at seven this morning.
the mental alertness wasnt really there in the morning, but still did better than yesterday.
bathed, then went for econs lecture smelling like a flower! LOL.
in contrast to lao pu who was SWEATING like mad beside me, cos i'm too hot! hahaha.
went to CWP (causeway point!) with lao pu after lecture to 'eat fruits'.
hahaha. while waiting for the 'fruit to be served' we had fun laughing and doing stupid stuff.
felt so tired after laughing NON-STOP. so i slept for three straight hours after i reached home.
training tmr!
and friday!
come on come on come on.
this is my favourite place in school.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
holidays are here!
(i wonder how come i sound so excited when it isnt rlly much of a break. haha.)
but then! at least i can sleep in on days where there are no make-up lectures. :D
got my nerdy black specs made on thursday, and my optician was nice enough to get it made for me the very next day!
was abit apprehensive about wearing specs to school at first, but i dont like the way contacts make my eyes feel dry.
so i'll appear in school on tuesdays and fridays looking intellectual. X)
and i thought i didnt look much different as i normally look.
until i went for the mac ritchie run today!
hahaha. everyone's reaction was so funny la.
yuannshan said she wouldn't have recognise me from far.
lover said i was her motivation while running, cos she wna reach the end point and see my NERDY LOOK.
coach and coach sao didnt know i was joyce at first.
the rest, just laughed.
HAHAHA.
and qian said now i'll be more noticed instead of being low profile in school.
but AJ leh, should have alot of nerds around one la. i can just blend in. X)
went mac ritchie today but didnt run.
cos i pulled my calf muscle.
hahahah. i think all my body muscles run the risk of getting pulled la.
stayed at the car park with coach and coach sao while waiting them to finish their run.
talked about a very bizzare topic.
you know how they say the squash courts are haunted?
its true.
this was how our convo went:
me: coach! the squash courts rlly haunted meh? you saw before?
coach: at first when i saw i felt quite scared la, but they dont dare to come near you. they cannot face humans, thats why you can only see their back views, or their faces will be covered by their hair.
me: eeee. what was the ghost like? guy or girl?
coach: its a middle aged lady. she's always sitting down/floating around.
coach sao: what happens if humans walk through them huh?
coach: wont la! they will siam you la. but if you suay suay walk into them you will fall sick for no reason.
for some weird reason i wasnt rlly very freaked out la, we just discussed this in a very peaceful kind of way. LOL.
coach sao: aiya, this kind of things i dont rlly believe la. GOD is great!
hahaha she's so cute la. she insists that there's nothing to be afraid of, because there's god.
maybe she didnt wna freak me out. hahah.
then the topic went on to other things.
i'm not saying that i dont believe in this kind of things as well, because i think they rlly exist.
or maybe its because i havent really see anything weird at the courts, even though i always go down and work on my strokes alone.
i saw the hose move by itself once, though.
ay, as long as we have a clear conscience there's nothing to be scared of la. yupp.
oh! its LOVER's birthday today, 11 march 2007!
happy 18th birthday, girl! (:
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
monday- JJC friendlies
think our team didnt rlly perform well as a whole. :/
hahah, all not focusing.
i was having a not so fun time shuttling between the heats and the friendlies.
won my game cos of luck la, i guess. X)
updating results for heats is so troublesome.
taking up my break times. )):
and my computer cant open mr sanuse's thumbdrive la!
asdhavfhak.
stayed back after trng to do some drives and stuff.
did the new EXCITING rally with yuannshan.
hee.
i think everytime after coach leaves trng then i start getting energetic and high. X)
tournment is coming soon tournament is coming soon tournament is coming soon!
squash shall be my priority for now till the end of tournament.
i really want us to do well.
i want to do well.
off to sleep!
-ignores vectors tutorial-
Saturday, March 03, 2007
ALMOST couldnt wake up in time for the refereeing seminar in MGS.
but i did. :D
gained alot more insight on how to referee a game properly, like when to allow lets and strokes.
cannot give people red card yellow card blue card green card, but can award them conduct stroke/game if there's visible and audible obscenities. HAHAH.
quite interesting la, so i wasnt unconscious during any part of the seminar. X)
and i think its quite amazing to find myself sitting in an LT full of people who play squash.
cos it isnt really a very well known sport.
last time i used to think that squash is played using tennis balls. LOL!
one more month.
then everything's over.
Friday, March 02, 2007
took these photos to give coach and coach-sao on valentine's day!
but lover only just sent them to me. -glares-
hahaha!
uploaded them cos my cousin-who's-coming-to-aj says i look nice in aj uniform!
-dances around-
okay im abit high tdy la.
tdy's trng wasnt a waste of ime after all.
cos we put in effort tdy. :D
shall post up photos of my blue blacks real soon. HUGE, HORRIBLE blue blacks.
i really am tt accident prone huh? jeez.
either i get hit by people or i hit myself. X)
release of alvl's results today.
i hope i can see myself smiling at this time next year.
chem and phy test tdy was a great big FLOP. -flops-
HAHAHAH.
i see remedials waving at me, together with my huge mounds of homework.
there's a squash referee course at MGS tomorrow!
i hope i wont be unconscious like how NANA and pork always does during lects. :D
yay. then i can send people off the courts with red cards yellow cards blue cards green cards.
hahaha.
i shall stop writing too much emo stuff on this blog.
cos its bad for health. and pork keeps laughing at me for being too emo!
rahhh. whatever la, lao pu.
now i got new place to blog! -grins-
Thursday, March 01, 2007
hahaha. my arm's gna have two new smiley faces again tmr!
yesterday got hit by lover. left arm, one blue black. :D
today tt stupid botak girl whacked my right arm with her racket. right arm, two blue blacks :D :D
gf hit me once. at the same area as one of the blue blacks above. :D
hahaha.
im like a magnet for attracting accidents!
POOR ARM.
then maybe i can have an excuse for not taking my testS tmr.
arm like that how to write!
what's wrong with me la. i keep losing my notes, and they appear again after i photocopy a new set!
now my superposition notes are playing hide and seek with me.
tmr's test got superposition! thanks la. :/
