Never been so effectively thrashed in a looooong time until today. In badminton. Hahaha. Seriously. I played against a guy from BU4.. it was agreed that I'd win if I reach 11 points and he'd have to play till 21 to win.
Hahahaha. By the first 3 points I realised, uh oh. The guy could take all my shots, and sent me scrambling for his. He was leading about 18-3 when he started making all these unforced errors(purposely, I strongly suspect) and let me reach until about 9 points. Then he decided to finish the game off.
Anyway, it's been really ages since anyone thrashed me so soundly in the game of badminton. It's not so much the score(9-21 sounds bad, but not awfully bad), but the way he pushed me around. Without a single smash. Lol. But oki lah.. just made me realise how terrible I really am in the game. Hahaha.
Anyway, 164 days to SPM... time to start stressing...
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
Pirates of the Caribbean..
Was good! =) Although I did not watch 1 and 2... but hey, a good movie is a good movie.
Went for the 9.55pm show in TGV, 1 Utama yesterday. The show was over at 12.45am! We(my brother and I) stayed past the credits to watch the short scene after the credits that has seemed to become the trend for many movies.
Then went home.. reached home about 1.15am. Read a bit, then entered dreamland(a dreamless one, as usual) at about 2am.
Woke up at 6am... am so tired now... Teacher's Day was great fun though. Hehe. Then came home(no CF today), and slept again... for another 1 hour.. before dragging myself out of bed for a badminton session. Won 2 doubles games and 1 singles game. Against guys. =) The girls that play badminton seems to be suffering extinction.. so I have to resort to boys. Hehe. But anyway, was kinda tired, not enough sleep, so my body felt like lead.
Saw the SBA training there again... saw old friends as usual.
Am having another badminton session tomorrow at 9.30am before I leave for Port Dickson.. hehehe. This time with a group that I'm more familiar with, and perhaps gives more fight. I've been feeling a need for competition lately. Not as in an organised tournament, but competition, close fights with opponents. After being in MBA for more than a year already I'm beginning to feel bored.. but I just need to hang in there a while more. Hehe. Till SPM. Or perhaps the guys will start improving.
Take care,
Joanne
Went for the 9.55pm show in TGV, 1 Utama yesterday. The show was over at 12.45am! We(my brother and I) stayed past the credits to watch the short scene after the credits that has seemed to become the trend for many movies.
Then went home.. reached home about 1.15am. Read a bit, then entered dreamland(a dreamless one, as usual) at about 2am.
Woke up at 6am... am so tired now... Teacher's Day was great fun though. Hehe. Then came home(no CF today), and slept again... for another 1 hour.. before dragging myself out of bed for a badminton session. Won 2 doubles games and 1 singles game. Against guys. =) The girls that play badminton seems to be suffering extinction.. so I have to resort to boys. Hehe. But anyway, was kinda tired, not enough sleep, so my body felt like lead.
Saw the SBA training there again... saw old friends as usual.
Am having another badminton session tomorrow at 9.30am before I leave for Port Dickson.. hehehe. This time with a group that I'm more familiar with, and perhaps gives more fight. I've been feeling a need for competition lately. Not as in an organised tournament, but competition, close fights with opponents. After being in MBA for more than a year already I'm beginning to feel bored.. but I just need to hang in there a while more. Hehe. Till SPM. Or perhaps the guys will start improving.
Take care,
Joanne
Monday, May 21, 2007
Now... let's talk about training
All of a sudden my usual coach in MBA disappeared... then yesterday this new guy coach turned up.
So all my fellow trainees with me were immediately prejudiced... before he even trained us, mind you. All talked about quitting. Tried to get me to agree to quit too. But I said no... I told them I'm only quitting MBA after SPM... that's when I'm gonna train a few times a week.. now MBA is like just a place for me to continue oiling my strokes so it doesn't become rusty after SPM...
Anyway, so yeah.. they all judged the coach before he even did anything. Then he started the shuttle drill.. it was quite tiring.. I mean, for the others lah. For me I've done way worse ones before I joined Megah.. All start talking about quitting even more! Say so tough.. too tough... too old to improve already... I was like, "HUH??!" Oi, want to improve then train lah. Don't want to improve waste money, for what? For me I found him good lor.. the past few weeks we've not been doing shuttle drills, just games and what was that word again? Forgot already.. see lah so long never train properly. Skills..? Oh! no no Routine. Yes. That's the word.
Then after that games... the last 20 mins. For the 1st time in a long time I was asked to play singles with the girls.. while the guys played doubles... wah quite unfair wei I prefer doubles... with the guys somemore! Haha. But anyway.. I understand lah.. new coach.. how he know I can challenge and sometimes beat the so called better guys...?
So those monkeys went out to the counter and complained... "Want to quit already lah if this coach is permanent!" I just shrugged... no point trying to make them see the light if they refused to..
Next thing I know.. somehow all this hue and cry reaches the Puchong branch.. the main branch.. the big boss branch...
Anyway after school I had the chance to talk to a couple of them.. they said they will stay on in MBA... I should have known all this big talk was just nonsense.. Instinct told me so actually but I brushed it away... and they had no solid reason to actually quit.. First thing they saw me, "You're aching or not??! My legs, stomach etc etc all aching!" But I just said no.. eh it was only 3 different shuttle drills, 1 set each...rest about 15 mins because there are 6 others somemore.. What aching muscles?? Wait till you do 2 hours nonstop of all kinds of drills... 3-4 sets each... OBT did that before until his MAID scolded him. Lol! He was like, "want to improve then where got complain one."
Apart from being 'tough' and 'use that tone'... they have no solid reason for condemning him lah. And I told them so. I said people never do anything don't go and cause them trouble..
Then went to CineLeisure to watch Spiderman 3... not too bad, just that well, it was kinda brief, the characters were too.. erm, not delved into properly. But good show, I liked it :)
On the bus on the way back to KJ station... next thing MBA calls me up. I was like, 'HUH??' But nvm.. just answer lor.. they wanted to know my opinion on the new coach or something like that.. honestly, they've got so many others to call and ask... why me? I'm considerably new to MBA as compared to those who trained 5 years there already. I gave them my honest opinion lor.. I find him good(I don't want them changing to another coach, sekali not as good then...) etc etc.
But if they think they can bring up champions with a good coach... well, honestly. Very honestly in my opinion(and many others), it's the players themselves who choose whether or not to improve. As far as I know, as long as I've got a coach that knows more than I do, I can improve by leaps and bounds. My old XD partner? His dad could hardly play well.. but wow, his training methods were unique.. no wonder we took the title without much fight. So while I'm pretty sure I could have beaten that old uncle in a game, I benefited A LOT from his training. His style of training certain shots are really awesome.. even my coaches were amazed by my backhand pushes during the tournament.. it just kept killing the guys behind(esp. left handed ones).
So yes.. MBA students need a change of attitude... and that includes me. I think I'll stop complaining about training... haha. But really, when I complain I'm really just jesting.. I don't mind training... I've always said, "You can train me any way, any where, any how, super hard, as long as you don't kill me." Then I realise how tough human beings are.. want to die also cannot... cause good coaches really know how much players can go... and how much to push... unfortunately for me the limit seemed... to be my shoulder. Haha! Then my coach thought he overcame that problem when he cross-court lobbed nonstop with me for... I think about 600 times.. not sure, try lobbing for about 10-15 minutes nonstop, with attacking lob, probing lob and defensive lob all in.. After that he proudly declared my shoulder cured. LOL!
Oh yes... MBA is having a friendly match with Wira Tangkis club or something like that... next Sunday during training. Since I'll be returning from Port Dickson on that day I told them I can't make it.. I'm not very willing to go now actually.. with my current form like that.. I'm trying my level best to get back some sort of form, these past few weeks I've just been dropping more and more... perhaps it happened gradually.. just that I never realised it. Then during the 3 days when I'm in Port Dickson(AGAIN), I'll be missing a tournament.
Now this tournament is high-standard one oki... So I don't really mind missing it.. not because I'm afraid I'll lose... but I don't want to meet my old coaches there. They will surely be there.. KL tournament somemore... At my current form it's totally embarrassing oki... I don't want them to start asking me to go back to them for training... though RM120 for 3 times a WEEK is dirt cheap... but... haiz... sorry coaches... not now... plus last I heard no one around my standard anymore... a few moved on to become state players.. only gong gong players like me stopped... So there's not much use for me to go back... I played with one of their current 'better players' a while back and gave her 3 points..
At first when I heard all my friends are stopping I didn't mind too much.. then it hit me.. who would I play with??? Those who give some semblance of good fights leave.. then what do I do?? Thankfully... they are staying.
So anyway.. I don't mind new coaches.. I always have old coaches to fall back on if the need arises. New styles keeps the game exciting. =)
So yes.. sorry for another badminton post... :-)
God bless ya all,
Joanne
So all my fellow trainees with me were immediately prejudiced... before he even trained us, mind you. All talked about quitting. Tried to get me to agree to quit too. But I said no... I told them I'm only quitting MBA after SPM... that's when I'm gonna train a few times a week.. now MBA is like just a place for me to continue oiling my strokes so it doesn't become rusty after SPM...
Anyway, so yeah.. they all judged the coach before he even did anything. Then he started the shuttle drill.. it was quite tiring.. I mean, for the others lah. For me I've done way worse ones before I joined Megah.. All start talking about quitting even more! Say so tough.. too tough... too old to improve already... I was like, "HUH??!" Oi, want to improve then train lah. Don't want to improve waste money, for what? For me I found him good lor.. the past few weeks we've not been doing shuttle drills, just games and what was that word again? Forgot already.. see lah so long never train properly. Skills..? Oh! no no Routine. Yes. That's the word.
Then after that games... the last 20 mins. For the 1st time in a long time I was asked to play singles with the girls.. while the guys played doubles... wah quite unfair wei I prefer doubles... with the guys somemore! Haha. But anyway.. I understand lah.. new coach.. how he know I can challenge and sometimes beat the so called better guys...?
So those monkeys went out to the counter and complained... "Want to quit already lah if this coach is permanent!" I just shrugged... no point trying to make them see the light if they refused to..
Next thing I know.. somehow all this hue and cry reaches the Puchong branch.. the main branch.. the big boss branch...
Anyway after school I had the chance to talk to a couple of them.. they said they will stay on in MBA... I should have known all this big talk was just nonsense.. Instinct told me so actually but I brushed it away... and they had no solid reason to actually quit.. First thing they saw me, "You're aching or not??! My legs, stomach etc etc all aching!" But I just said no.. eh it was only 3 different shuttle drills, 1 set each...rest about 15 mins because there are 6 others somemore.. What aching muscles?? Wait till you do 2 hours nonstop of all kinds of drills... 3-4 sets each... OBT did that before until his MAID scolded him. Lol! He was like, "want to improve then where got complain one."
Apart from being 'tough' and 'use that tone'... they have no solid reason for condemning him lah. And I told them so. I said people never do anything don't go and cause them trouble..
Then went to CineLeisure to watch Spiderman 3... not too bad, just that well, it was kinda brief, the characters were too.. erm, not delved into properly. But good show, I liked it :)
On the bus on the way back to KJ station... next thing MBA calls me up. I was like, 'HUH??' But nvm.. just answer lor.. they wanted to know my opinion on the new coach or something like that.. honestly, they've got so many others to call and ask... why me? I'm considerably new to MBA as compared to those who trained 5 years there already. I gave them my honest opinion lor.. I find him good(I don't want them changing to another coach, sekali not as good then...) etc etc.
But if they think they can bring up champions with a good coach... well, honestly. Very honestly in my opinion(and many others), it's the players themselves who choose whether or not to improve. As far as I know, as long as I've got a coach that knows more than I do, I can improve by leaps and bounds. My old XD partner? His dad could hardly play well.. but wow, his training methods were unique.. no wonder we took the title without much fight. So while I'm pretty sure I could have beaten that old uncle in a game, I benefited A LOT from his training. His style of training certain shots are really awesome.. even my coaches were amazed by my backhand pushes during the tournament.. it just kept killing the guys behind(esp. left handed ones).
So yes.. MBA students need a change of attitude... and that includes me. I think I'll stop complaining about training... haha. But really, when I complain I'm really just jesting.. I don't mind training... I've always said, "You can train me any way, any where, any how, super hard, as long as you don't kill me." Then I realise how tough human beings are.. want to die also cannot... cause good coaches really know how much players can go... and how much to push... unfortunately for me the limit seemed... to be my shoulder. Haha! Then my coach thought he overcame that problem when he cross-court lobbed nonstop with me for... I think about 600 times.. not sure, try lobbing for about 10-15 minutes nonstop, with attacking lob, probing lob and defensive lob all in.. After that he proudly declared my shoulder cured. LOL!
Oh yes... MBA is having a friendly match with Wira Tangkis club or something like that... next Sunday during training. Since I'll be returning from Port Dickson on that day I told them I can't make it.. I'm not very willing to go now actually.. with my current form like that.. I'm trying my level best to get back some sort of form, these past few weeks I've just been dropping more and more... perhaps it happened gradually.. just that I never realised it. Then during the 3 days when I'm in Port Dickson(AGAIN), I'll be missing a tournament.
Now this tournament is high-standard one oki... So I don't really mind missing it.. not because I'm afraid I'll lose... but I don't want to meet my old coaches there. They will surely be there.. KL tournament somemore... At my current form it's totally embarrassing oki... I don't want them to start asking me to go back to them for training... though RM120 for 3 times a WEEK is dirt cheap... but... haiz... sorry coaches... not now... plus last I heard no one around my standard anymore... a few moved on to become state players.. only gong gong players like me stopped... So there's not much use for me to go back... I played with one of their current 'better players' a while back and gave her 3 points..
At first when I heard all my friends are stopping I didn't mind too much.. then it hit me.. who would I play with??? Those who give some semblance of good fights leave.. then what do I do?? Thankfully... they are staying.
So anyway.. I don't mind new coaches.. I always have old coaches to fall back on if the need arises. New styles keeps the game exciting. =)
So yes.. sorry for another badminton post... :-)
God bless ya all,
Joanne
Exams are over... for now
Well for today I'm free from exams... mid term's last paper was today. Needless to say I really had to rush last minute for this term... I was too busy with koko before that, and a few projects to actually start studying earlier. Plus a tinge of laziness, of course.
Let's do a review..
4 May - Moral. Hmm. What shall I say? Moral teaches us nothing! Absolute nothing, just total utter nonsense. If I get an A it's because I tembak my nilais well.
7th May - BM 2 and Ekons 2. BM was.. well, I was unprepared for it lah, didn't read the Komsas part... no time... Ekons 2... Surprisingly quite tricky.. not hard, but tricky. Not the usual straight to the point kind of questions. I think Beh Beh is out there to get me. Seriously! After his paper he loves to ask me with that sadistic smile, "Hard ah?" The past 2 terms last year I usually said no... this term when he asked I just said, "Eeyer! Cacat paper! Lousy paper! Where got set like that one!"
8th May - BI 2 and Accounts 1. BI 2 was... oki ler easy. Got 72/75.. got two wrong in objective.. careless.. haiz. Accounts 1... Wow there were so many mistakes in that paper that whenever I couldn't get the answer I just moved on.. true enough the teacher comes in to correct after a while.
9th May - Ekons 1. Got 37/40... considering I had totally abandoned Ekons by Tuesday to study Science it's not bad... Ekons overall 85% though... means my paper 2 did quite poorly.
10th May - Science 1 & 2. I just hantam some.. not too sure.. ended up with a 79%(for the 3rd term in a row).
11th May - Math 2 and PJK. Whoa stress stress stress I created my own formulas.. as usual =P. For the first time in Taman Sea exam history formula sheets were given.. waste my brain space only memorise for nuts... PJK I just did, made sure I had shaded 50 boxes, and caught up on much needed sleep. I really fell into deep sleep for about 30 mins.
14th May - History 1 and Georgraphy 1. Tembak quite a number in History.. Geo oki lah... considering I spent only about 1 hour on it.. got 35/40... then as I was studying for Paper 2 yesterday so geram... if I had studied easily 40/40.. everything was in the textbook. Sheesh.
15th May - Accounts 2 and BI 1. Accounts was not too bad, everything balanced so.. not too bad lah. For once I had a lot of time to check over my answers. BI 1... 2 essays... just wrote lah. But my English has not been up to mark lately, been playing too much badminton and hardly reading.. so I lost some 'touch'... hahaha.
16th May - Teachers' Day in the morning and after recess BM 1(essay). It rained so they attempted to fit 1000+ students into our small school hall... ended super early cause couldn't control the students... the middle ones were really hot and sweating needing oxygen... BM 1 essay wasn't too bad... superbly easy actually all the questions.. really your standard essay kind of questions.. cara, sebab, kesan, langkah... etc. Not much of a challenge, nothing too fun to write about.
17th May - Math 1. Hahaha... oki lah... the day before my brain just went kaput and I didn't know how to solve any sums when I tried.. so I just went into the exam room with faith. :-)
18th May - The dreaded paper. History paper TWO. I really created History. Cause I had no time to study anything... I studied 3 chapters out of 9 chapters.. How to answer anything? I just created History on Gerakan Islah... Hahahah!
21st May - Today... last paper... Geo 2. Now let me tell you usually Geography, like Ekons is superbly easy. NORMALLY. USUALLY. Not that case today. Haiyoh... I really never wrote so much nonsense for essays before... after that my teacher asked, "How was the paper?" I just said, "Bad! Why set so hard?" and she smiles that way... arrgh cannot tahan all these teachers.
In conclusion... I only expect to do reasonably well for Accounts and English.. Accounts was the only paper I could tell my teacher, "Oki lah, survivable" in reply to the usual "how was the paper?" question.
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Let's do a review..
4 May - Moral. Hmm. What shall I say? Moral teaches us nothing! Absolute nothing, just total utter nonsense. If I get an A it's because I tembak my nilais well.
7th May - BM 2 and Ekons 2. BM was.. well, I was unprepared for it lah, didn't read the Komsas part... no time... Ekons 2... Surprisingly quite tricky.. not hard, but tricky. Not the usual straight to the point kind of questions. I think Beh Beh is out there to get me. Seriously! After his paper he loves to ask me with that sadistic smile, "Hard ah?" The past 2 terms last year I usually said no... this term when he asked I just said, "Eeyer! Cacat paper! Lousy paper! Where got set like that one!"
8th May - BI 2 and Accounts 1. BI 2 was... oki ler easy. Got 72/75.. got two wrong in objective.. careless.. haiz. Accounts 1... Wow there were so many mistakes in that paper that whenever I couldn't get the answer I just moved on.. true enough the teacher comes in to correct after a while.
9th May - Ekons 1. Got 37/40... considering I had totally abandoned Ekons by Tuesday to study Science it's not bad... Ekons overall 85% though... means my paper 2 did quite poorly.
10th May - Science 1 & 2. I just hantam some.. not too sure.. ended up with a 79%(for the 3rd term in a row).
11th May - Math 2 and PJK. Whoa stress stress stress I created my own formulas.. as usual =P. For the first time in Taman Sea exam history formula sheets were given.. waste my brain space only memorise for nuts... PJK I just did, made sure I had shaded 50 boxes, and caught up on much needed sleep. I really fell into deep sleep for about 30 mins.
14th May - History 1 and Georgraphy 1. Tembak quite a number in History.. Geo oki lah... considering I spent only about 1 hour on it.. got 35/40... then as I was studying for Paper 2 yesterday so geram... if I had studied easily 40/40.. everything was in the textbook. Sheesh.
15th May - Accounts 2 and BI 1. Accounts was not too bad, everything balanced so.. not too bad lah. For once I had a lot of time to check over my answers. BI 1... 2 essays... just wrote lah. But my English has not been up to mark lately, been playing too much badminton and hardly reading.. so I lost some 'touch'... hahaha.
16th May - Teachers' Day in the morning and after recess BM 1(essay). It rained so they attempted to fit 1000+ students into our small school hall... ended super early cause couldn't control the students... the middle ones were really hot and sweating needing oxygen... BM 1 essay wasn't too bad... superbly easy actually all the questions.. really your standard essay kind of questions.. cara, sebab, kesan, langkah... etc. Not much of a challenge, nothing too fun to write about.
17th May - Math 1. Hahaha... oki lah... the day before my brain just went kaput and I didn't know how to solve any sums when I tried.. so I just went into the exam room with faith. :-)
18th May - The dreaded paper. History paper TWO. I really created History. Cause I had no time to study anything... I studied 3 chapters out of 9 chapters.. How to answer anything? I just created History on Gerakan Islah... Hahahah!
21st May - Today... last paper... Geo 2. Now let me tell you usually Geography, like Ekons is superbly easy. NORMALLY. USUALLY. Not that case today. Haiyoh... I really never wrote so much nonsense for essays before... after that my teacher asked, "How was the paper?" I just said, "Bad! Why set so hard?" and she smiles that way... arrgh cannot tahan all these teachers.
In conclusion... I only expect to do reasonably well for Accounts and English.. Accounts was the only paper I could tell my teacher, "Oki lah, survivable" in reply to the usual "how was the paper?" question.
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
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