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-best known as May Ching-
-09/01/1990-
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Saturday, April 26, 2008, 4:54 pm
What a morning.Have been participating in sports heats on Monday, Thursday and Saturday morning, all the throwing events (and now my throwing arm hurts like crazy). Which begs the question: how am I going to survive Bio and Chem SPA on Monday and Friday respectively next week??!! XP
Somehow got recruited into high jump, an event I am supremely not built for. Since it was the first time I ever did this event, I had a total of 3 collisions with the damn pole. Ouch. Just as I am rubbing my sore butt, along comes Desmy and wins the event. -.- Later, we made another pilgrimage to Sakura (where else?) to gorge.
Supremely pissed with Owens right now. Participation this year is so freaking low, T-pain's song could have been inspired by it. I mean like, bloody hell, I was the only person from Owens in girls' shotput. Yes, the only girl. No J1s whatsoever and the other J2s had dropped out. Pathetic ya? No wonder Owens is lagging so far behind in the points rankings. Anyway, I'm not happy with my throwing because I threw a fault when it easily could have been a 3 pointer. -.- Doesn't make any difference now, because on my lonesome, we'll definitely come in last for girls' throwing events.
Today, well today really took the cake. Participation was at a all time low. The most pathetic thing was tug-of-war. Bannister, I knew, had been conducting training sessions for their teams. Today, we had no team. Yu Feng asked some of the J1s to call their friends down but none actually came. Desperate, we ran around the school searching for people in Owens house who were willing to pull and even recruited people who weren't even from Owens but were happy to help. Even then (incredible, isn't it?), there wasn't enough to make up a J1 team or a J2 team. (20 people per level, 10 guys and 10 girls). To prevent a walkover, the teachers allowed us to form a Owens (and guests) mixed team, conforming only to the 10 guys and girls rule.
The teachers were very unhappy with the house, promising a big scolding on Monday for everybody (definitely not good, there's Bio SPA first thing!!!). Crap. Furthermore, we were humbled by the awesome house spirit of Bannister. Apparently, there wasn't enough Bannister J1s to make up a J1 team so some were asked to call their friends. Amazingly enough, A WHOLE CLASS came down within the hour, ready to pull. It just makes Owens all the more pitiful and shameful.
Moving on, the Owens mixed team (surprisingly) beat Banni 1. Bikila 1 thrashed Owens and Banni 2 and Rono 2. :( My hands were thankfully not blistered, but they were certainly quite raw (thanks, Ching Wei, for the ice!). Touchingly, Bannister lent us their leather gloves that they specially bought for the event when we were pulling against Bikila. It certainly spared my hands some of the sting, Bikila pulls like nobody's business :P
After the event, Banni held a meeting to discuss whether they should protest against the Owens mixed team (if they did, we'd be disqualified). Thankfully and generously, they decided friendship is more important than winning and Banni, Owens and Rono should work together against Bikila. :D I seriously think that Owens participation is damn screwed.
I mean like, it won't hurt to participate in some events! On Monday, Hema had to drop out of javelin so I asked some of my classmates to replace her, just for the sake of earning a few participation points. (We certainly couldn't win, not after the Bikila girls flung that damned javelin beyond the maximum mark). Infuriatingly, they all refused to join. What the hell??!! It won't bloody kill you to toss that goddamn javelin around! Bloody unenthu lazy bums with no sense of house spirit.
I digress. I must go back to studying for Bio SPA, ugh. No point getting angry.
Labels: houses, low participation, sports meet, tug-of-war