Results for my Combined Sports Meet

On thursday was our class relays. Our 4 X 100 m relay team was boasting with confidence , sure that they would emerge first in the heats. However, our first runner pitted our loss. He was much slower than other classmates, but he just would not want to give up his position. He lagged behind a lot people. Fortunately, our second and third runners caught up. But the best was still the last runner. Although he was lagging by at least 20 m, he gave all his might and chased up at the finishing line. He dived forward, and looked as if he had won. However, he had lost by a mere 0.06 seconds and lost.

I also ran my class relay(12 X 200 m event). We won by a tremendous margin over the second positioned class. As our class has a sprinter, we had a huge lead, which helped greatly in our success. I was not in my best form that day, and ran quite slowly, although I maintained the lead. However, our victory was not sweet. There was a ruffle between who was going to run. There was a last minute decision to change the runner just before the race. It was our captain's decision, and the person who was booted out was very sad when he saw that our class won.

Combined Sports Day

I am so excited. I had taken part in 3 events, discus, long jump and 12 X 200 m relay. I have already won 3rd position in discus, but I lost my long jump as I my timings clashed, and I decided to go for discus instead, because I had a higher chance of winning. In 3 days time, y 12 X 200 m relay will begin. I hope that our class will win and retain the challenge throphy. Our class has won the other 2 relays and quite a few individual events. I suppose that the closest competitor will be 1P2, as they have a lot of DSA Sports people, especially track is their fort. If we win the 12 X 200 m, the title will more or less be ours to take. I will try my best, as I have long legs but I can't run fast. Although I do not have spike shoes, I will not slacken as I am not the main runners, but instead try to run faster and not to let my classmates down.

The Recent Spate between Sec1O3 & 1O3's CMC

On Friday and Monday, our class just replaced our monitor, who did not do a good job. Just 2 days after stepping up, our new monitor was being opposed by some people. As he came up with rules that are not reasonable, many people did not follow the CMC while others supported them. Opposing them was not a good choice as they had a strong backing from the teacher. However, supporting them will resulting in losing your friends. This was what happened to my friends. One of them said that he supported the monitor while the other is not supportive of the CMC. In the end, the one who disliked the CMC shouted,"Get lost larh, you want to support CMC go away larh! Down here is those who oppose CMC!" In the end, he felt so hurt and pushed the table and ran out of the classroom crying. It is such a difficult choice to make. Also, the monitor pissed everyone off by holding class meeting during recess. They even used 2 periods to do revision with us. Even though we knew that they meant well, we did not like their arrangement as we wanted to do our own revision. However, the CMC agreed to take down the rules and let the class show that they can behave well. From this incident, I learnt that the CMc and the class is like a big family. We should not have any differences and should learn to give and take.

I Am So Happy I Got A Gold For NAPFA :D

On Wednesday, I took my NAP FA 5-item test, and I felt that I had did quite well. In total, I got 23/25 marks. I did exceptionally well in my Standing-Broad-Jump and Sit-and-Reach stations. I managed to come in second and first in the respective events in my class. I managed to jump 223 cm and I had improved by more than 10 cm. I am so happy as i thought that I would since i did not train for it. I managed to stretch 48cm to top the class. However, I did not fare as well in my 4X10m and my inclined pull-ups. I only got a B for both of the categories. Two weeks ago, I ran my 2.4km. It was quite slow as I haven't ran for quite a while. I missed my A by 0.4 seconds as I am 12-years-old. I hope that i would be able to improve and hopefully get full marks for my next NAP FA test. All in all, I am quite satisfied with my results and I will strive to get better results next year and I hope that I will enjoy all the fun games in my following P.E. lessons.

Yay, HCBT going into Top 8 in Nationals in 90 years of history!

Tomorrow will be the last round robin match in the prelimary round of the nationals. There are 16 schools participating, four from each zone. We came in 3rd in the West Zone, but we so we did not have a good draw. However, it seemed that it was the best draw amongst the west schools. Boon Lay Secondary were grouped with Singapore Sports School and ACS(I), Kranji had SJI and Victoria and FuHua was with Raffles. However, we had a tough oppponent: Dunman High School. It was the first match against them, so we had to be mentally prepared well for that day. If we won, we would get into top 8. Seeing that we will have a tough time, our teacher-in-charge said that he would treat us to Japanese food at the restaurant outside the Sports Hall. We were so motivated and kept cheering our players on. We put the best players out first so that we would gain an advantage and would have confidence in baeting them. We won the first singles and first doubles against them and had to win the second singles, or we would lose. We did not expect us to start off by such a great lead in the first set, and in the end the opponent lost all his confidence in himself and lost the match with less than five points. All of us were so happy that HCBT managed to enter Top 8 for the first time after almost 10 years. We hope to keep up the good work and be able to maintain such good results.

Councilor-in-training Selection Camp (CIT) in HCI

During the March holidays, I was one of the few Secondary Ones and Twos who went for the CIT Camp. Max had also gone to the camp. He encourage me to go and was so enthusiastic, in the end I decided to accompany him and attend the camp. I did not expect it to be very fun, but I enjoyed the camp very much and the activities were interesting and entertaining. The only two events that I disliked were the bumping session and the night trail. The bumping session was right after dinner and we weren't prepared for it at all as the seniors were still chatting happily during dinner. It has delayed the activities by almost an hour. Despite that, the seniors knew the importance of instilling discipline into us. I feel that discipline is the most important value that a person should have in order to succeed in life. After that, we went on a night trail. it was my first time at night in school alone. I was a little scared at first, but seniors told me not to think of the scary things that might happen to me, but instead try to think of girls,(because we do not have girls in my school). When I was on the trail, I tried to kept thinking about happy things that would occupy my thoughts during the trail. It lasted about 15 minutes and it was over in a blink. As we could only go one by one, it was 11 p.m. when it finished. By the time we got to bed, it was already 1 a.m. The next morning, we had breakfast and team-building games. We played caterpillar, and another game which required us to move water from one pail to another. It required teamwork and cooperation from everyone in the team. it was fun and entertaining. My team was the second team and for winning, the councilors poured the water onto us. Although my team members were not really happy for getting wet, but we still enjoyed it as it makes us go through thick and thin united as a team. It was time for lunch. After lunch, we prepared a skit for the campfire. As nobody could come up with a good idea, we came up with something crappy and was meant to make the audience laugh, but it turned out to be an epic failure. The campfire was also a pep talk from the seniors and to tell us how tough a councillor's life would be. Even though my group was the worse, we were encouraged by seniors and we felt consoled. It was the last activity of the camp and we did cheers for each others and wrote good comments for each other. The next morning, we packed up and left after bidding each other goodbye. It was the best camp which taught me many values. Even if I don't get in Council, I feel that it was still worth my three days of my precious march holidays.

My Youth Squad Selection Trials Results

Finally, after weeks of playing round-robin matches against the top players in Singapore, I finally managed to pull through the Qualification Round, I made to the Final-Round and emerged tops of the group and qualified to join the National Youth Squad. The playing system goes like this-there are 16 players and they are split into two groups. The top four of each group will proceed to the next round, where the top four will proceed into the Youth Squad. Sounds easy? Nope,not at all with the Sec twos around. I was quite lucky this time as many of the good players missed the matches. I hope that I will be able to make it to the Youth Olympic Games in 2010 and win a medal for Singapore, although know that it is difficult to defeat players from China and Indonesia, who train practically everyday. Nevertheless, it is always good to dare to have a dream instead of having no target in mind. With that, I end off what I have say here.