Today joined OBT's training... the one with the Australians one.
Wow. The agilities... No, I'm not aching, not at all. But at that time, it was my cardiovascular system that was put to the test. I really, for the first time, had to bend over to try and get in as much oxygen as possible before the next exercise.
What did we do? The usual agilities, the length of 4 courts. But get this, 3 X 3. What does that means? It means we had to continue the agilities back and forth 1, 2, 3 times continuously without stopping, the length of 4 courts! And THREE sets! Of EACH exercise.
Wow. And the people I was training with were all people of considerably high-standards... so I ended up being one of the slowest, had to do my best to get on par with them. But in between each set all of us had the same posture, bent over, trying to get in enough oxygen.
OBT's training can be pretty heartless at times.
Seriously, never in my entire life, not even under Coach Raja's training. It may have been tiring before, but we had breaks. Not this one. I couldn't even talk, and I actually lean on the wall, hand on forehead. It was as if, I could hardly think, couldn't complain, couldn't grumble. Nothing! Just as if... yeah, like I was dying.
At that point of time I remember telling myself, "Hey, even a sprained ankle is better than this torture..." But I survived it. =D He told us to take a 5 minute break... all of us went outside to get the fresh air, just sat, some even in the sun, not caring. Didn't talk for a while. After a while all started talking again.. and dreading the next set... earlier on he told us 2 sets of that! We were like, "Oh no, another set of that..."
But he must have seen us all... he cancelled that set. He gave an extra set in shadow though, but I don't mind that, not as bad as agilities.
Anyway, I think the 2 Australian guys were Chinese, the 2 girls were 'mat sallehs'. 1 of the girls(18 years old) plays for Australia.. the other(14 years old) is a state player, around my level. The guys I don't know, but they are good I guess. But they did tell us something surprising though.. In Australia, they never do agilities! Just some jogging, skipping, and get on the court. We sighed, saying, "Must be like heaven." Lol! They agreed.
And well.. they don't understand my English. Sometimes. Lol. Hey, not my fault okay.. I can't speak like an Australian!
Well anyway, was a good work out today, after that did some shuttle drills, played some games till about 10.45am. Then showered in OBT's house, walked to a nearby coffee shop and ate. Then walked back to OBT's house, basically camped there till 3.30pm. Then 4pm was the next session. This time no agilities(Thank God!). We were joking, "If there's agilities I'm walking out right now!" Hahaha. Just concentrated more on skill.
So.. well, I think I can safely conclude I just went through the toughest training in my life.. for my cardio. My legs not aching at all, good thing. But my cardio system was never so severely tested before. I even thought, "Hey, I just went through hell and came back alive!" Lol.
Have to repeat... I was actually bent over, trying to breathe, and breathe, and breathe! Normally when I'm tired(what I used to consider 'tired' anyhow), I just walk around a bit. Not today. Uh uh.
But my stamina's really gone. Haiz. I believe I used to have better stamina.
Well, anyway, I'm only going for that training again this Friday.. don't want to go tomorrow, got squash in the evening. At this rate squash seems... delightful. Hahaha! Like I said before, I'm enjoying being a beginner. =P
Honestly? I'm questioning myself why I'm choosing to go back to that training this Friday again... sometimes people are quite stupid, aren't they? Lol! Well, may as well improve my stamina & strength this holidays.. even if it kills me.
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Sunday.. Sunday!
Came back from Malacca.. Malacca was okay lah, ate the usual... A LOT. =D
Can't stay in Malacca too long, otherwise will balloon up. Lol!
Went to Ah Ping's house at about 1pm to help with her party. Made some sandwiches. Lol! After that went for training at 3pm.. Okay lah today, compared to last week, chicken feet. =P Only thing out of the ordinary was that coach brought us outside the hall to do 10 rounds of jogging.. it was drizzling so we thought we could get off.. unfortunately, only the little kids got off.
I don't get it man. How come I wasn't given all these special priviledges when I was a little kid? I suffered just the same, if I recall correctly, my coach even made me join the big ones for their shuttle drills. Sheesh. Plus I'm obviously the shortest among the big ones.. why can't I be considered a small one? =(
Anyway, the 10 rounds wasn't too bad. Except that our coach obviously doesn't trust us.. she was too lazy to stay outside to make sure we ran so she sent a lil' boy eating ice cream to check on us.. 2nd round I noticed him standing there.. eating ice cream. Thought he was just curious about us. Then by 3rd round when I saw him again... I suspected that he was our lil' spy.. so I asked him. "You're supposed to count for us?" I said. His reply? "No, not count for you, just make sure you don't stop." He was a gutsy lil' guy though. Lol! After that he had to endure our comments each time we passed him.. some were a bit rougher, "I steal your ice cream then you know!" and some were.. well, bribery, "Come lil' boy, I buy you 2 ice creams if you go inside..."
But no, he didn't buy any of it. He just smiled and shook his head. After that some started making signs at him.. not so friendly signs, if you know what I mean. Haha. But he didn't mind much. Yep, thats one brave hearted guy. Others would have taken up our suggestions of going to buy more ice cream.. or just scared away by our unfriendly reception. Of course, some still couldn't stand it, started to walk.Now I can only hope no one I know saw me jogging out there.. sure ask questions one. Haiz. What do I reply? "My not-so-clever coach lah!" :-S Spoil my court shoes somemore!
Nevermind, no one actually called me up enquiring about it yet... lol.
This guy and I set the pace, ran side by side, 1st two. I pity those who tried to follow.. hahaha. Actually I believe if the 1 of us had slowed down the other would have too.. but being a guy, his ego at stake.. if he slows down and I shoot past him... but yet I didn't want to be behind him. So.. we just stuck to a pace where we were slightly tired at the end, but still reasonable alive.
Actually.. come to think of it, I believe I've just been conned... totally! 10 rounds around 16 courts plus the office area and all... normally I only do about 20-25 rounds(depending on good or lazy day =P) around 4 courts.. Yep. Just been cheated. Haiz.
Then played games.. but each of the 'bigger ones' were paired up with the 'smaller ones'. Wah I tell you, nearly died trying to cover my 'smaller one'! Somemore winner had to stay on court.. so I stayed on court for 3 games in a row, then took a drink, and played the 4th game.. wow. 4th game was slightly different.. one of the 'big' ones lacked a 'small' one... so a coach partnered him, with her LEFT hand.
Never laughed so hard before(okay, so maybe that's an exaggeration..)! She took the front.. so I kept dropping right left right left... to hear her groan everytime she had to hit with her left hand... I had to let go a few balls because I couldn't take it anymore, had to laugh! But I must admit she was still better than the small ones, gave the most fight. We were leading by quite a large gap when I decided to relax a bit.. bad mistake. They actually managed to catch up to tie the score, something like 14-14, then 17-17.. etc. Until 20-20.. then 21-21... Lol. But somehow something happened and we managed to win 23-21.
Then partnered another fella to play with the 2 coaches.. kinda weird if you ask me. Anyhow just made some stupid mistakes, and of course lost the game. Lol.
Then at like.. 4.57pm, I thought time to warm down already. The coach called us to gather there.. separate big ones and small ones. I heard someone say, "Oh, we're gonna do running" and I was just so shocked, I said, "No lah, mad ah??" Come on, it's 4.57pm! But true enough, we were to do some running. Hahahaha. Kinda sorry for my tone now, but hey, I was really shocked okay.. running? No warning too..
Well big kids against small kids. The usual story lah.. small kids less distance to run.. big kids lose.. if you check back this post: http://joannetmj.blogspot.com/2006/10/life-hurts.html it's about the same. This time too lazy to argue already lah, what for, they're mule-headed beasts. *Rolls eyes* Well, I suppose it beats pumping/running/star jumps etc anyday though. Lol. Pretty easy to accomplish.
And no, I refused to run after the shuttle again. So after turning around the shuttle I just picked it up and threw it against my coach. She was holding the shuttle I was supposed to touch anyway, no doubt to torment me. Lol. But she wanted me to do again.. I went and sat down. =P She told me to do again after the last guy did it. Told her that people wanted to use the court already, but nooo... didn't work. Did about 3 circles and got up, dunno what happen lah.. but didn't want to throw the shuttle again at her, enough disrespect shown towards a coach for one day. HAHAHA! Anyway she just let me off the hook.
Yes, in the end I do respect my coaches you know. I've got a few that have taught me stuff that is life-related.. not just badminton. The confidence I've gained is not from anything else other than what my coaches taught me. It's just now out of.. I don't know what, but what I'll go through if any of my coaches ask me to do things, even the stupidest of things. Explains why I'll do all these gong gong things that the Megah coaches put us through. Hahaha!
In squash last Thursday.. we were supposed to do some 'driving'.. on the forehand side. The coach put a racquet cover at the end of the court.. there were 2 of us, supposedly the ball we 'drive' hits the cover, the other person would have to do push ups. Well, actually he asked the other girl to give a number... I urged her to pretend not to understand him.. but... nooo... she said 2. Okay, not as good as 1, but way better than a stupid reply like 5! Anyway, he was pretty kind hearted, he said if our score was like, 2-2, it'll be cancelled out for both of us.. I hit the racquet bag 5 times(10 push ups) but she hit it once, so it was down to 8.
p/s. Reason I put 'driving' is just that.. I don't understand what it means in the squash sense. LOL!
Not too bad, considering usually I'm at the losing end of something.. Lol! Usually it's my mistakes that cost me.. this time it's my 'good' that cost others... I mean, usually if like I smash the coach and the coach isn't too happy about it.. yeah, believe me. Some coaches will go to that extent to prevent their students from making their coach the bulls eye! Once I think I smashed my coach once too many times... he threatened, 10 push ups each time... hahaha! Trust me, a person learns pretty quickly(in my case, immediately) not to make him my target anymore. I doubt he was kidding about that part. Lol.
Anyway, in squash, it feels good to be a beginner actually. Nothing too hard is expected of you, careless mistakes & poor strokes are looked over. =D And somehow the coach always treats you nicer.. hehehe.
Talking about coaches... OBT's Australian players coming here to train already... this week.. hmm.. should I go? He asked me.. but their standards will definitely be way too high for me... haiz. Nevermind, I'll see.
Anyway, then went to CP's place at 6pm. Ate.... well, a lot. Really really a lot. =( From Malacca to a party. Haiz. Lol! The water balloons game was.. well, violent. After I got a bit wet I retreated into the shelter of the house... thats when they started filling up pails and soaking each other. Gilaness. I went to eat somemore.. that explains how my already too-full stomach started to really really ache.
Then cut the cake.. =D Was okay, ate somemore after that. I feel like a total pig now. Lol!
Anyway, it's quite late already, need to do some stuff tomorrow.. so... blog later!
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Can't stay in Malacca too long, otherwise will balloon up. Lol!
Went to Ah Ping's house at about 1pm to help with her party. Made some sandwiches. Lol! After that went for training at 3pm.. Okay lah today, compared to last week, chicken feet. =P Only thing out of the ordinary was that coach brought us outside the hall to do 10 rounds of jogging.. it was drizzling so we thought we could get off.. unfortunately, only the little kids got off.
I don't get it man. How come I wasn't given all these special priviledges when I was a little kid? I suffered just the same, if I recall correctly, my coach even made me join the big ones for their shuttle drills. Sheesh. Plus I'm obviously the shortest among the big ones.. why can't I be considered a small one? =(
Anyway, the 10 rounds wasn't too bad. Except that our coach obviously doesn't trust us.. she was too lazy to stay outside to make sure we ran so she sent a lil' boy eating ice cream to check on us.. 2nd round I noticed him standing there.. eating ice cream. Thought he was just curious about us. Then by 3rd round when I saw him again... I suspected that he was our lil' spy.. so I asked him. "You're supposed to count for us?" I said. His reply? "No, not count for you, just make sure you don't stop." He was a gutsy lil' guy though. Lol! After that he had to endure our comments each time we passed him.. some were a bit rougher, "I steal your ice cream then you know!" and some were.. well, bribery, "Come lil' boy, I buy you 2 ice creams if you go inside..."
But no, he didn't buy any of it. He just smiled and shook his head. After that some started making signs at him.. not so friendly signs, if you know what I mean. Haha. But he didn't mind much. Yep, thats one brave hearted guy. Others would have taken up our suggestions of going to buy more ice cream.. or just scared away by our unfriendly reception. Of course, some still couldn't stand it, started to walk.Now I can only hope no one I know saw me jogging out there.. sure ask questions one. Haiz. What do I reply? "My not-so-clever coach lah!" :-S Spoil my court shoes somemore!
Nevermind, no one actually called me up enquiring about it yet... lol.
This guy and I set the pace, ran side by side, 1st two. I pity those who tried to follow.. hahaha. Actually I believe if the 1 of us had slowed down the other would have too.. but being a guy, his ego at stake.. if he slows down and I shoot past him... but yet I didn't want to be behind him. So.. we just stuck to a pace where we were slightly tired at the end, but still reasonable alive.
Actually.. come to think of it, I believe I've just been conned... totally! 10 rounds around 16 courts plus the office area and all... normally I only do about 20-25 rounds(depending on good or lazy day =P) around 4 courts.. Yep. Just been cheated. Haiz.
Then played games.. but each of the 'bigger ones' were paired up with the 'smaller ones'. Wah I tell you, nearly died trying to cover my 'smaller one'! Somemore winner had to stay on court.. so I stayed on court for 3 games in a row, then took a drink, and played the 4th game.. wow. 4th game was slightly different.. one of the 'big' ones lacked a 'small' one... so a coach partnered him, with her LEFT hand.
Never laughed so hard before(okay, so maybe that's an exaggeration..)! She took the front.. so I kept dropping right left right left... to hear her groan everytime she had to hit with her left hand... I had to let go a few balls because I couldn't take it anymore, had to laugh! But I must admit she was still better than the small ones, gave the most fight. We were leading by quite a large gap when I decided to relax a bit.. bad mistake. They actually managed to catch up to tie the score, something like 14-14, then 17-17.. etc. Until 20-20.. then 21-21... Lol. But somehow something happened and we managed to win 23-21.
Then partnered another fella to play with the 2 coaches.. kinda weird if you ask me. Anyhow just made some stupid mistakes, and of course lost the game. Lol.
Then at like.. 4.57pm, I thought time to warm down already. The coach called us to gather there.. separate big ones and small ones. I heard someone say, "Oh, we're gonna do running" and I was just so shocked, I said, "No lah, mad ah??" Come on, it's 4.57pm! But true enough, we were to do some running. Hahahaha. Kinda sorry for my tone now, but hey, I was really shocked okay.. running? No warning too..
Well big kids against small kids. The usual story lah.. small kids less distance to run.. big kids lose.. if you check back this post: http://joannetmj.blogspot.com/2006/10/life-hurts.html it's about the same. This time too lazy to argue already lah, what for, they're mule-headed beasts. *Rolls eyes* Well, I suppose it beats pumping/running/star jumps etc anyday though. Lol. Pretty easy to accomplish.
And no, I refused to run after the shuttle again. So after turning around the shuttle I just picked it up and threw it against my coach. She was holding the shuttle I was supposed to touch anyway, no doubt to torment me. Lol. But she wanted me to do again.. I went and sat down. =P She told me to do again after the last guy did it. Told her that people wanted to use the court already, but nooo... didn't work. Did about 3 circles and got up, dunno what happen lah.. but didn't want to throw the shuttle again at her, enough disrespect shown towards a coach for one day. HAHAHA! Anyway she just let me off the hook.
Yes, in the end I do respect my coaches you know. I've got a few that have taught me stuff that is life-related.. not just badminton. The confidence I've gained is not from anything else other than what my coaches taught me. It's just now out of.. I don't know what, but what I'll go through if any of my coaches ask me to do things, even the stupidest of things. Explains why I'll do all these gong gong things that the Megah coaches put us through. Hahaha!
In squash last Thursday.. we were supposed to do some 'driving'.. on the forehand side. The coach put a racquet cover at the end of the court.. there were 2 of us, supposedly the ball we 'drive' hits the cover, the other person would have to do push ups. Well, actually he asked the other girl to give a number... I urged her to pretend not to understand him.. but... nooo... she said 2. Okay, not as good as 1, but way better than a stupid reply like 5! Anyway, he was pretty kind hearted, he said if our score was like, 2-2, it'll be cancelled out for both of us.. I hit the racquet bag 5 times(10 push ups) but she hit it once, so it was down to 8.
p/s. Reason I put 'driving' is just that.. I don't understand what it means in the squash sense. LOL!
Not too bad, considering usually I'm at the losing end of something.. Lol! Usually it's my mistakes that cost me.. this time it's my 'good' that cost others... I mean, usually if like I smash the coach and the coach isn't too happy about it.. yeah, believe me. Some coaches will go to that extent to prevent their students from making their coach the bulls eye! Once I think I smashed my coach once too many times... he threatened, 10 push ups each time... hahaha! Trust me, a person learns pretty quickly(in my case, immediately) not to make him my target anymore. I doubt he was kidding about that part. Lol.
Anyway, in squash, it feels good to be a beginner actually. Nothing too hard is expected of you, careless mistakes & poor strokes are looked over. =D And somehow the coach always treats you nicer.. hehehe.
Talking about coaches... OBT's Australian players coming here to train already... this week.. hmm.. should I go? He asked me.. but their standards will definitely be way too high for me... haiz. Nevermind, I'll see.
Anyway, then went to CP's place at 6pm. Ate.... well, a lot. Really really a lot. =( From Malacca to a party. Haiz. Lol! The water balloons game was.. well, violent. After I got a bit wet I retreated into the shelter of the house... thats when they started filling up pails and soaking each other. Gilaness. I went to eat somemore.. that explains how my already too-full stomach started to really really ache.
Then cut the cake.. =D Was okay, ate somemore after that. I feel like a total pig now. Lol!
Anyway, it's quite late already, need to do some stuff tomorrow.. so... blog later!
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Friday, November 24, 2006
What I did..
Today trained badminton 2-5pm. Was asked to at 11am, didn't want to turn down, already turned down a couple of times... Sigh. Deproved a lot in badminton. Sigh. So sad.
Then walked home... and went for squash at 6pm. Till about... 8.40pm I think. Survived through it, not too bad actually. Was still more tiring in badminton because... well.. maybe because squash I'm still at beginner's level, but badminton not anymore.
Squash is well... yeah, maybe slightly tough in the sense that I keep using my wrist. The footwork is not that easy to remember, but pretty much okay if you practice it often enough.
It's quite okay, I enjoy it.. =)
Anyway, it's 3.42am. Have badminton at 10am. Blog later,
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Then walked home... and went for squash at 6pm. Till about... 8.40pm I think. Survived through it, not too bad actually. Was still more tiring in badminton because... well.. maybe because squash I'm still at beginner's level, but badminton not anymore.
Squash is well... yeah, maybe slightly tough in the sense that I keep using my wrist. The footwork is not that easy to remember, but pretty much okay if you practice it often enough.
It's quite okay, I enjoy it.. =)
Anyway, it's 3.42am. Have badminton at 10am. Blog later,
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Squash training..
Wasn't too bad.. I enjoyed it actually. I think I'm now more familiar with squash.. so maybe starting to actually really like it.
Of course I still have trouble with the basics.. hahaha.
My timing too fast.. in badminton I've always been taught to reach earlier than the shuttle, more options to do then, less rush. Haha. So in squash as usual badminton theory don't work lah. I'm used to it. *Rolls eyes*
But I think I'll have fun. =D
Till later,
Joanne
Of course I still have trouble with the basics.. hahaha.
My timing too fast.. in badminton I've always been taught to reach earlier than the shuttle, more options to do then, less rush. Haha. So in squash as usual badminton theory don't work lah. I'm used to it. *Rolls eyes*
But I think I'll have fun. =D
Till later,
Joanne
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Will I ever recover?
Training today was.. arrgh.
For warm up it was terrible.. well, not really, but quite bad lah. Had to sprint the width of 4 courts, walk the length of 1 court, sprint the width of 4 courts, walk the length of 1 court. That was considered 1 round. Had to do 25. Actually not too bad lah, need to improve my cardio.. been going down down down lately. Lol.
Played a doubles game after that. We somehow managed to go into rubber set. Lol. In the 3rd set at our game point(20) I was discussing with my partner whether to win the one point right away or play around with our opponent.. then saw my coach coming and quickly served, didn't manage to decide. Lol. But anyway, we won.
After that was shadow footwork.. I usually don't mind footwork, but this one was especially a killer.. had to squat down and get up in the centre of the court before going to each corner of the court.. before every single corner! But I found it easier to move with the 'spring' from getting up after the squat.
1st 2 sets okay... 20 times each set. Infact, with the squat way I found myself springing up and going faster.
By 3rd and 4th sets the effects of the squats are beginning to sink in.. man, the springing up started to hurt. Hahaha. Nonetheless, I survived through it, reasonably well. The 2 small kids who counted for me were kind.. gave me 'discounts'. LOL. Intentionally or not I didn't ask. =P Anyway by 4th set my footwork was slow. I'm not a machine, after all.
But I really pitied the 2 kids.. hahaha. Their expressions really showed P-A-I-N. Especially the girl.
We took turns after each set.. My group had 3.. the others had only 2 people per court.. so they finished pretty quickly. Anyway.. the 2 small kids with me kept doing the wrong footwork, or forgetting to squat. Forgetting to squat I can understand.. but to still have the wrong footwork?? Those kids have been in this training for quite a long time already.. From when I first joined MBA in March they were already there.. they should have the right footwork by now. Then again, maybe training once a week/4 times a month isn't enough to get the right footwork.. But thats still impossible... maybe by 3-4 months should be able to get it right.
Anyway, then they did wrong and I was just leaning against the pole relaxing.. then my coach starts threatening to make me do push ups if they make a mistake.. *roll eyes* Who's the coach now? Hahaha. Anyway I did shout out a couple of times to "SQUAT!" when they nearly didn't. 2 small kids trying to avoid some pain in their calves wasn't worth my pain of doing 10 push ups. Hahaha. Footwork of course I can't help them lah, takkan I grab their legs and force them to do it right. Haha. But anyway, 1 coach supposedly saw a mistake and my coach wanted me to do 20 push ups.. I didn't, surprised she didn't comment, but hey, who's complaining? ;-)
After that did some shadow side-to-side jump smashes.. wasn't that tiring. Lol. I think I know why. The 4 sets took so long in my group that the so called 'advance' group started without me.. the coach pointing either left or right. They went exceptionally fast! Hahaha. And many times too. =P As for me, I joined the younger group. Coach was forced to go slow.. or slower than the previous group anyway. Lol. So I got off pretty easily.
Then came my worst nightmare.. lunges.
Lunges aren't so bad.. but when you've just endured the shadow footwork as described above, it's one step away from the pit of fire. Lol. Plus I absolutely HATE lunges. Causes pain in every muscle available in my legs.
That was the killer. I say if I didn't do that I'll probably just be feeling slight aches from the numerous squats I performed.. but now.. oh boy.
In the beginning there was this really cute kid, 1st time in training. I was supposed to lead the warm up, and a coach asked me to teach this guy if he did it wrongly. So how was I supposed to warm up while teaching him? Let others hold each position for 30 secs while I attempt to teach him? Lol! I didn't do that.. left the teaching to the coach.. she taught. But that guy.. for a standard 3 guy, he's really tiny. And so quiet + shy! I could barely hear him.. he kept muttering something and looking at me.. he tried to tell me something but I thought he was speaking Chinese.. turns out it was English. Hahaha! Everything I did he said, "I don't know" and lifted his shoulders.
Anyhow, I don't know how my coaches ever taught me until I am where I am now.. looking at that guy he didn't even know how to grip his racquet! I was like that too.. amazing eh all my coaches are. Hahaha.
But the thing about the training in MBA.. what puzzles me is that there are players there who still don't know how to count, how to serve properly etc. I'm not talking about a perfect serve, but just one that is proper. I left MBA in form 2.. there I left behind some kids that are now standard 5, 6... but joining MBA again I find the same strokes, same footwork.. still don't know how to count properly.. Even a few advanced players still don't know where to stand after each point!
But I don't know if it's the coaches' fault.. or the players. At first I thought it was the coaches.. but now I'm beginning to think it's the players themselves that need to change.. I noticed many students in MBA who just want to play games.. when there is some hard training they'll fuss and try to get out of it. I mean, sure sometimes I make some noise for the fun of it, but no matter what I'll continue with the exercise.. what is training for after all? If want to play games then just go and book a court, invite some friends.. join some group.. no need to join training. Perhaps many of them lack the will to improve... maybe the players there are mostly spoilt children of parents who are rich, seeing the training fee is exorbitant, plus its only 4 times a month. If it's 8 times a month the fees are even more.
I am not stopping MBA because I enjoy it. The price may be expensive.. but Megah is by far the most convenient place for me to go.. the training time is suitable too. But those factors aside I just plain enjoy the training. Maybe because I've got some friends there.. but I doubt so.
Tomorrow tiring day... going around the whole of KL with my bro.. by LRT/KTM and bus 11. My 2 legs. Lol.
Joanne
For warm up it was terrible.. well, not really, but quite bad lah. Had to sprint the width of 4 courts, walk the length of 1 court, sprint the width of 4 courts, walk the length of 1 court. That was considered 1 round. Had to do 25. Actually not too bad lah, need to improve my cardio.. been going down down down lately. Lol.
Played a doubles game after that. We somehow managed to go into rubber set. Lol. In the 3rd set at our game point(20) I was discussing with my partner whether to win the one point right away or play around with our opponent.. then saw my coach coming and quickly served, didn't manage to decide. Lol. But anyway, we won.
After that was shadow footwork.. I usually don't mind footwork, but this one was especially a killer.. had to squat down and get up in the centre of the court before going to each corner of the court.. before every single corner! But I found it easier to move with the 'spring' from getting up after the squat.
1st 2 sets okay... 20 times each set. Infact, with the squat way I found myself springing up and going faster.
By 3rd and 4th sets the effects of the squats are beginning to sink in.. man, the springing up started to hurt. Hahaha. Nonetheless, I survived through it, reasonably well. The 2 small kids who counted for me were kind.. gave me 'discounts'. LOL. Intentionally or not I didn't ask. =P Anyway by 4th set my footwork was slow. I'm not a machine, after all.
But I really pitied the 2 kids.. hahaha. Their expressions really showed P-A-I-N. Especially the girl.
We took turns after each set.. My group had 3.. the others had only 2 people per court.. so they finished pretty quickly. Anyway.. the 2 small kids with me kept doing the wrong footwork, or forgetting to squat. Forgetting to squat I can understand.. but to still have the wrong footwork?? Those kids have been in this training for quite a long time already.. From when I first joined MBA in March they were already there.. they should have the right footwork by now. Then again, maybe training once a week/4 times a month isn't enough to get the right footwork.. But thats still impossible... maybe by 3-4 months should be able to get it right.
Anyway, then they did wrong and I was just leaning against the pole relaxing.. then my coach starts threatening to make me do push ups if they make a mistake.. *roll eyes* Who's the coach now? Hahaha. Anyway I did shout out a couple of times to "SQUAT!" when they nearly didn't. 2 small kids trying to avoid some pain in their calves wasn't worth my pain of doing 10 push ups. Hahaha. Footwork of course I can't help them lah, takkan I grab their legs and force them to do it right. Haha. But anyway, 1 coach supposedly saw a mistake and my coach wanted me to do 20 push ups.. I didn't, surprised she didn't comment, but hey, who's complaining? ;-)
After that did some shadow side-to-side jump smashes.. wasn't that tiring. Lol. I think I know why. The 4 sets took so long in my group that the so called 'advance' group started without me.. the coach pointing either left or right. They went exceptionally fast! Hahaha. And many times too. =P As for me, I joined the younger group. Coach was forced to go slow.. or slower than the previous group anyway. Lol. So I got off pretty easily.
Then came my worst nightmare.. lunges.
Lunges aren't so bad.. but when you've just endured the shadow footwork as described above, it's one step away from the pit of fire. Lol. Plus I absolutely HATE lunges. Causes pain in every muscle available in my legs.
That was the killer. I say if I didn't do that I'll probably just be feeling slight aches from the numerous squats I performed.. but now.. oh boy.
In the beginning there was this really cute kid, 1st time in training. I was supposed to lead the warm up, and a coach asked me to teach this guy if he did it wrongly. So how was I supposed to warm up while teaching him? Let others hold each position for 30 secs while I attempt to teach him? Lol! I didn't do that.. left the teaching to the coach.. she taught. But that guy.. for a standard 3 guy, he's really tiny. And so quiet + shy! I could barely hear him.. he kept muttering something and looking at me.. he tried to tell me something but I thought he was speaking Chinese.. turns out it was English. Hahaha! Everything I did he said, "I don't know" and lifted his shoulders.
Anyhow, I don't know how my coaches ever taught me until I am where I am now.. looking at that guy he didn't even know how to grip his racquet! I was like that too.. amazing eh all my coaches are. Hahaha.
But the thing about the training in MBA.. what puzzles me is that there are players there who still don't know how to count, how to serve properly etc. I'm not talking about a perfect serve, but just one that is proper. I left MBA in form 2.. there I left behind some kids that are now standard 5, 6... but joining MBA again I find the same strokes, same footwork.. still don't know how to count properly.. Even a few advanced players still don't know where to stand after each point!
But I don't know if it's the coaches' fault.. or the players. At first I thought it was the coaches.. but now I'm beginning to think it's the players themselves that need to change.. I noticed many students in MBA who just want to play games.. when there is some hard training they'll fuss and try to get out of it. I mean, sure sometimes I make some noise for the fun of it, but no matter what I'll continue with the exercise.. what is training for after all? If want to play games then just go and book a court, invite some friends.. join some group.. no need to join training. Perhaps many of them lack the will to improve... maybe the players there are mostly spoilt children of parents who are rich, seeing the training fee is exorbitant, plus its only 4 times a month. If it's 8 times a month the fees are even more.
I am not stopping MBA because I enjoy it. The price may be expensive.. but Megah is by far the most convenient place for me to go.. the training time is suitable too. But those factors aside I just plain enjoy the training. Maybe because I've got some friends there.. but I doubt so.
Tomorrow tiring day... going around the whole of KL with my bro.. by LRT/KTM and bus 11. My 2 legs. Lol.
Joanne
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Friendster..
I noticed a trend in Friendster..
People use the testimonials section to CHAT! As in, 1 liners, exchange with each other.
I know I'm not anyone to judge, but I can't help wondering.. why?? We have MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, AOL... why on earth do we use Friendster?
Only plausible explanation I can come up with.. people want others to see what they are talking about and to whom. And if my explanation is right.. the next big question comes up. Why?
Another long night...
Joanne
People use the testimonials section to CHAT! As in, 1 liners, exchange with each other.
I know I'm not anyone to judge, but I can't help wondering.. why?? We have MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, AOL... why on earth do we use Friendster?
Only plausible explanation I can come up with.. people want others to see what they are talking about and to whom. And if my explanation is right.. the next big question comes up. Why?
Another long night...
Joanne
Friday, November 17, 2006
Lousy Com
Everything's not working! Stuck stuck stuck jam jam jam!
Someone get me a new com...
Pretty please with sugar on top?
*Smiles sweetly*
Someone get me a new com...
Pretty please with sugar on top?
*Smiles sweetly*
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Squash!
Yes, me, Joanne Lim Ee Wei, the badminton freak, actually tried squash today.
Hahaha.
Went for squash lesson the 1st time today. Let me tell you, I know nuts about squash. Haha. Absolutely nothing. Not footwork, not stroke, not the scoring system.. I didn't even know that squash balls are meant to be squishy.. I thought it needed air.. the ones I could squish were spoilt ones...
Yes, that bad.
But it was kinda.. tough. I've never plunge myself into such a thing as such a beginner in many many years. Every skill I have now I learnt when young.. cycling 2 wheels at 5, swimming at 7, badminton at 7, piano at 5...
So I haven't actually been a beginner in anything for many many many many years. It's a humbling experience, I tell you.
First off, the footwork is completely different from badminton. Left legs are the important ones here! After 8 years of learning badminton, to suddenly change my 'racquet leg' to my left is.. not an easy task. Man..
Strokes.. since I injured my shoulders, my coaches always asked me to use my wristwork more, and taught me how to strengthen it. With all kind of things.. hard to describe here. One of them was a squash racquet. So I bought a cheap squash racquet..
And used it today. And today my squash coach told me if I used any wristwork with my squash racquet(considered heavy, cheap mah) I'd risk injuring my wrist.
Ironical, eh? The very thing I used to strengthen my wrist may now end up injuring my wrist.
Hahaha. And the exercises at the end was completely different from all I'd learnt before.. except duck walk. The rest.. weirdest ones I've ever seen. Perhaps I'm not used to it. Hehe. Used to strengthen pelvic muscles, apparently an important aspect in the game of squash. Supposed to be important as we need to bend down a lot..
And the control.. oh goodness the control. Ask me to slam the ball anywhere I can do that.. but to control it, to hit it against the wall SOFTLY.. oh goodness me.
May I never feel superior to a beginner again. Never, in my entire life, never.
But, it's fun!
Haha, perhaps not as fun as badminton, yet, but I'm feeling optimistic.. I'm sure if I can get the footwork down pat squash could prove to be one interesting game..
Of course.. less diving(if any) in squash anymore..
But anyhow, it feels good. Kinda wish I can train 3 times a week.. but the Sat. session is 3-5pm.. exactly the same time as youth, so it's a definite no-no.
For this hols I can train twice a week.. when school reopens.. well, it's a different story altogether. Eng. Lit ends at 6.45pm...
Plus it's SPM next year.
Till then, I'll enjoy. =)
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Hahaha.
Went for squash lesson the 1st time today. Let me tell you, I know nuts about squash. Haha. Absolutely nothing. Not footwork, not stroke, not the scoring system.. I didn't even know that squash balls are meant to be squishy.. I thought it needed air.. the ones I could squish were spoilt ones...
Yes, that bad.
But it was kinda.. tough. I've never plunge myself into such a thing as such a beginner in many many years. Every skill I have now I learnt when young.. cycling 2 wheels at 5, swimming at 7, badminton at 7, piano at 5...
So I haven't actually been a beginner in anything for many many many many years. It's a humbling experience, I tell you.
First off, the footwork is completely different from badminton. Left legs are the important ones here! After 8 years of learning badminton, to suddenly change my 'racquet leg' to my left is.. not an easy task. Man..
Strokes.. since I injured my shoulders, my coaches always asked me to use my wristwork more, and taught me how to strengthen it. With all kind of things.. hard to describe here. One of them was a squash racquet. So I bought a cheap squash racquet..
And used it today. And today my squash coach told me if I used any wristwork with my squash racquet(considered heavy, cheap mah) I'd risk injuring my wrist.
Ironical, eh? The very thing I used to strengthen my wrist may now end up injuring my wrist.
Hahaha. And the exercises at the end was completely different from all I'd learnt before.. except duck walk. The rest.. weirdest ones I've ever seen. Perhaps I'm not used to it. Hehe. Used to strengthen pelvic muscles, apparently an important aspect in the game of squash. Supposed to be important as we need to bend down a lot..
And the control.. oh goodness the control. Ask me to slam the ball anywhere I can do that.. but to control it, to hit it against the wall SOFTLY.. oh goodness me.
May I never feel superior to a beginner again. Never, in my entire life, never.
But, it's fun!
Haha, perhaps not as fun as badminton, yet, but I'm feeling optimistic.. I'm sure if I can get the footwork down pat squash could prove to be one interesting game..
Of course.. less diving(if any) in squash anymore..
But anyhow, it feels good. Kinda wish I can train 3 times a week.. but the Sat. session is 3-5pm.. exactly the same time as youth, so it's a definite no-no.
For this hols I can train twice a week.. when school reopens.. well, it's a different story altogether. Eng. Lit ends at 6.45pm...
Plus it's SPM next year.
Till then, I'll enjoy. =)
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Monday, November 13, 2006
Holidays.. or not?
Oh yeah, forgot to tell, yeah I got my final A1. Would you believe it, 75%! Pregnant teachers don't make lenient ones. MY essays were given extremely low marks, and she wasn't around in school for me to claim more marks. Lol.
Actually at first it was a 73%. Imagine my.. well, utter disbelief when I saw that. I mean, I had friends who got only their objective marks in the teens and twenties and still ending up with an A1! But here I was, 32/40(quite badly done, but still not too bad considering I didn't study for the paper 1) and still ending up with a 73%!
Then when I checked my paper, I realised that my teacher added up wrongly! Imagine how I felt. The 2 marks she didn't add up gave me just enough edge to get my A1, precious A1! =P My class teacher refused to give any marks, not her subject you see, but she had to grudgingly give me my 75% when she counted by herself and found out it was wrong. =D
So my final average was 84.2%. Not too bad, better than most of my other terms results anyway, and a 3% increase from last term. Also an amazing feat, never before have I INCREASED in terms of average for 2nd semesters.
Considering how last minute I was with some subjects.. honestly, I put the most effort into History(Paper 2 at least) and it got me my lowest marks. Lol. Hey, I'm not complaining with my 75% anyway. Compared to some(not my classmates, the pure science kids) the amount of studies(or rather, the lack of it) I put in sure didn't measure up to theirs.
Anyway, I've got some debating to do with myself, so off for now. It's 2am. =)
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Actually at first it was a 73%. Imagine my.. well, utter disbelief when I saw that. I mean, I had friends who got only their objective marks in the teens and twenties and still ending up with an A1! But here I was, 32/40(quite badly done, but still not too bad considering I didn't study for the paper 1) and still ending up with a 73%!
Then when I checked my paper, I realised that my teacher added up wrongly! Imagine how I felt. The 2 marks she didn't add up gave me just enough edge to get my A1, precious A1! =P My class teacher refused to give any marks, not her subject you see, but she had to grudgingly give me my 75% when she counted by herself and found out it was wrong. =D
So my final average was 84.2%. Not too bad, better than most of my other terms results anyway, and a 3% increase from last term. Also an amazing feat, never before have I INCREASED in terms of average for 2nd semesters.
Considering how last minute I was with some subjects.. honestly, I put the most effort into History(Paper 2 at least) and it got me my lowest marks. Lol. Hey, I'm not complaining with my 75% anyway. Compared to some(not my classmates, the pure science kids) the amount of studies(or rather, the lack of it) I put in sure didn't measure up to theirs.
Anyway, I've got some debating to do with myself, so off for now. It's 2am. =)
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Exam results
Training aside, let's talk about my exam results. Not too bad, I must say so myself. =) Waiting for my last 1A. History.
Let's see.. BM & Science 79%, Moral 82%, Math & Geography 84%, Econs 87%, Accounts 90%, English 94%. Yeah my Geography, Econs and Accounts dropped.. but not too much. My weaker subjects like Math and Moral improved by leaps and bounds. =)
I'm surprised too. Trust me. I studied way less than last term! But well, I'm happy and not complaining. Only effort I put in extra was Math and Moral, and that sure paid off. =) Especially my Math! For paper 1 I decided to let it go, cause it was same day with some important subject, so I got super low for it, 25/40. Then I decided I must get that A1 this term, so I put in plenty of effort(the day before) into Math for paper 2. Got an amazing 92/100 for paper 2!!! Yeah, I'm amazed. =D
I'm enjoying this. Hahaha. My average percentage is now 84.945%. Amazing. Now.. I can only hope on History..
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Let's see.. BM & Science 79%, Moral 82%, Math & Geography 84%, Econs 87%, Accounts 90%, English 94%. Yeah my Geography, Econs and Accounts dropped.. but not too much. My weaker subjects like Math and Moral improved by leaps and bounds. =)
I'm surprised too. Trust me. I studied way less than last term! But well, I'm happy and not complaining. Only effort I put in extra was Math and Moral, and that sure paid off. =) Especially my Math! For paper 1 I decided to let it go, cause it was same day with some important subject, so I got super low for it, 25/40. Then I decided I must get that A1 this term, so I put in plenty of effort(the day before) into Math for paper 2. Got an amazing 92/100 for paper 2!!! Yeah, I'm amazed. =D
I'm enjoying this. Hahaha. My average percentage is now 84.945%. Amazing. Now.. I can only hope on History..
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Life Hurts
Sore index finger on my left hand. No idea why, been very irritating for the past few days. Then just before training I cut my finger nails, third finger's finger nail on my right hand too short, just as irritating.
So I went for training with 2 injured fingers. Well, not really injured, just painful.
To start off my training.. jogging. Normally I'll just follow the fastest fellow if I feel like it.. so today I felt like it. Well, today was 15 rounds, not 10 minutes. So this fellow started zooming off. I just followed, thinking he'd tire out soon enough.. but nooo... with me on his heels it just spurred him on, I think I was irritating him that he couldn't shake me off or leave me behind. So I had a really exhausting run for the first time in many many months. *Sigh* Plus he supposedly ran 2 extra rounds. Sheesh.
Immediately after that had games. Supposed to play with nearly everyone for ranking, or some nonsense lah. I was still exhausted from the run, and then my coach asked me to play with the same guy who made me run like a mad dog. So.. yeah, I played. Thought no problem cause I've beaten him a few times before.. only think I found out is that I was still exhausted, and still needed to recover. So he won that game 14-21. No problem with that though. Games are games.. meant for fun. =)
After that played a few more games with others.. oki ler quite fun. Except for one thing.. all my opponents were so serious! All intent on beating me.. Lol. I would have prefered doubles, more laughing + talk. Today my opponents were basically out for my blood, no smiles and all. Forced me into that mood too. =(
But still had fun lah. Games are good for health. =D
After that had some running.. well, it was us big kids against some small kids. To make it short, the coaches just wanted us big kids to lose. After that did some mind-dizzying thingy(turning around) as 'punishment'. Right.. well, I did not intend to go first, I just wanted to see how many kids they killed before they decided to call it off. Well, not enough appararently.. I was about to get off scot-free cause 1 coach forgot that I hadn't done yet... but another coach had to open her large gap and said, "Joanne haven't done!"
So yeah.. I had to do.. I just had this gut feeling that they'd torture me extra you see.. cause of my erm.. not-so-quiet method of voicing my opinion over that whole turning thing. Hahaha.
Gave some crap about exam tomorrow, nope didn't work. Gave somemore crap about SPM. Nope, didn't work. Yeah, I'm on the losing end here.. they're coaches after all. Hahaha. Who cares? Make their life tougher and that's all that matters. Rather than going down meekly and following their not-so-bright ideas.
Well, after doing the turning thing we're supposed to walk and touch another shuttle.. just to see how dizzy we are I guess. Well, I went slowly, they can't force to go faster. I didn't count, just got up after a few circles and as usual my coach had had to count.. so I had to do somemore. Slowly, I add. I faked some dizziness when I saw another coach taking the shuttle from where it was supposed to be.. and when she was in front of me I made a move that was surprising for a supposedly giddified person. Well.. some previous victim had left sweat all over the court/tile right where I made my lunge.. and yeah. You can guess the rest. The usual cartoon character sliding over banana skin, except I slid over sweat. Flat on my back.
That was too much for me. I just started shaking.. with laughter. LOL! After my coaches rushed over and certified that I was alive without any broken bones, some silly fella decided to carry me for a bit.. by my arms and legs. Someone mentioned an ambulance..
So yeah.. I'm still alive, with an added injury. Not really an injury, just some pain on the right side of my waist. What do you expect, after sliding like that? Well, I suppose I'm just fortunate I didn't injure myself furter.
So much for thinking that my injury-prone days were over when I stopped that training. That was injuries obtained during training. This one is injuries obtained during playing. Lol.
Well anyway, I don't know if I'm going back Malacca next weekend.. so may have to skip training. Was actually hoping to see if I could train with my cousin in Malacca.. just for the fun of it. Will have to find out.
Pastor was sick yesterday and today.. praying for him. Compared to what he's facing, a couple of sore fingers and some pain on me are nothing.
Take care all,
Joanne
So I went for training with 2 injured fingers. Well, not really injured, just painful.
To start off my training.. jogging. Normally I'll just follow the fastest fellow if I feel like it.. so today I felt like it. Well, today was 15 rounds, not 10 minutes. So this fellow started zooming off. I just followed, thinking he'd tire out soon enough.. but nooo... with me on his heels it just spurred him on, I think I was irritating him that he couldn't shake me off or leave me behind. So I had a really exhausting run for the first time in many many months. *Sigh* Plus he supposedly ran 2 extra rounds. Sheesh.
Immediately after that had games. Supposed to play with nearly everyone for ranking, or some nonsense lah. I was still exhausted from the run, and then my coach asked me to play with the same guy who made me run like a mad dog. So.. yeah, I played. Thought no problem cause I've beaten him a few times before.. only think I found out is that I was still exhausted, and still needed to recover. So he won that game 14-21. No problem with that though. Games are games.. meant for fun. =)
After that played a few more games with others.. oki ler quite fun. Except for one thing.. all my opponents were so serious! All intent on beating me.. Lol. I would have prefered doubles, more laughing + talk. Today my opponents were basically out for my blood, no smiles and all. Forced me into that mood too. =(
But still had fun lah. Games are good for health. =D
After that had some running.. well, it was us big kids against some small kids. To make it short, the coaches just wanted us big kids to lose. After that did some mind-dizzying thingy(turning around) as 'punishment'. Right.. well, I did not intend to go first, I just wanted to see how many kids they killed before they decided to call it off. Well, not enough appararently.. I was about to get off scot-free cause 1 coach forgot that I hadn't done yet... but another coach had to open her large gap and said, "Joanne haven't done!"
So yeah.. I had to do.. I just had this gut feeling that they'd torture me extra you see.. cause of my erm.. not-so-quiet method of voicing my opinion over that whole turning thing. Hahaha.
Gave some crap about exam tomorrow, nope didn't work. Gave somemore crap about SPM. Nope, didn't work. Yeah, I'm on the losing end here.. they're coaches after all. Hahaha. Who cares? Make their life tougher and that's all that matters. Rather than going down meekly and following their not-so-bright ideas.
Well, after doing the turning thing we're supposed to walk and touch another shuttle.. just to see how dizzy we are I guess. Well, I went slowly, they can't force to go faster. I didn't count, just got up after a few circles and as usual my coach had had to count.. so I had to do somemore. Slowly, I add. I faked some dizziness when I saw another coach taking the shuttle from where it was supposed to be.. and when she was in front of me I made a move that was surprising for a supposedly giddified person. Well.. some previous victim had left sweat all over the court/tile right where I made my lunge.. and yeah. You can guess the rest. The usual cartoon character sliding over banana skin, except I slid over sweat. Flat on my back.
That was too much for me. I just started shaking.. with laughter. LOL! After my coaches rushed over and certified that I was alive without any broken bones, some silly fella decided to carry me for a bit.. by my arms and legs. Someone mentioned an ambulance..
So yeah.. I'm still alive, with an added injury. Not really an injury, just some pain on the right side of my waist. What do you expect, after sliding like that? Well, I suppose I'm just fortunate I didn't injure myself furter.
So much for thinking that my injury-prone days were over when I stopped that training. That was injuries obtained during training. This one is injuries obtained during playing. Lol.
Well anyway, I don't know if I'm going back Malacca next weekend.. so may have to skip training. Was actually hoping to see if I could train with my cousin in Malacca.. just for the fun of it. Will have to find out.
Pastor was sick yesterday and today.. praying for him. Compared to what he's facing, a couple of sore fingers and some pain on me are nothing.
Take care all,
Joanne
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Good days
Well, let's see.. on Sunday training.. ooh. Coach really decided to torture us. So much for torture training being over.
She made us roll up a full 1.5litre bottle! Lazy to explain now, but trust me, it's not an easy task. 8 sets of it. She made my group do 12! Won't go into detail about why. Lol. The multi-shuttle drill and skipping was easy.. but that stupid bottle thing? Wow. As it is my shoulders are weak... good thing this one didn't affect my shoulders though.
Anyway on Monday nothing ached, so I was reasonably happy. By Tuesday some pain started in my left arm. Today, there's pain whenever I clench my fingers and my left arm has absolutely no energy! AHHHHHHH! Hate this! My right arm no problem.. but I'm not used to my left arm having problems.. sheesh.
Oh well, it better go off soon. And I mean it. *growls*
I'm supposed to go for some drama acted out by Sunway college's arts students, but I don't think I'll be going.. it's Sunday 3pm. Don't want to skip training.. lol. Yeah, kinda funny reason, but it's true. Good thing my teacher's not around this whole week so she can't force me to go. Hahaha! She's the one who wants me to go. *shrugs* no idea why.
Today Dawn and Joyce came over to my house to.. brace yourself.. make Oreo cheese cake! Well, it's still in the fridge, not ready yet. I was just watching the two of them.. and told them to domesticate me. Lol. I mean, ME? Joanne?? Making a cake??! HAHAHAHAHA!
Well. You can shut your gap now. I did. ;-) Not too bad, except we had no idea how to use the gelatine.. so I went out to buy sanatine.. in the rain.. but it started pouring.. so I turned back home. Well, long story, I'm sorry, my left hand is way too weak to continue typing. Anyway, we got it done.
Arrgh. My left hand really really lacks energy now.
*Hand tired*
Going cycling now.
Bye! God bless ya!
Oh! Forgot about my results.. ah, later lah. Just happy with all so far. SO FAR. ;-)
She made us roll up a full 1.5litre bottle! Lazy to explain now, but trust me, it's not an easy task. 8 sets of it. She made my group do 12! Won't go into detail about why. Lol. The multi-shuttle drill and skipping was easy.. but that stupid bottle thing? Wow. As it is my shoulders are weak... good thing this one didn't affect my shoulders though.
Anyway on Monday nothing ached, so I was reasonably happy. By Tuesday some pain started in my left arm. Today, there's pain whenever I clench my fingers and my left arm has absolutely no energy! AHHHHHHH! Hate this! My right arm no problem.. but I'm not used to my left arm having problems.. sheesh.
Oh well, it better go off soon. And I mean it. *growls*
I'm supposed to go for some drama acted out by Sunway college's arts students, but I don't think I'll be going.. it's Sunday 3pm. Don't want to skip training.. lol. Yeah, kinda funny reason, but it's true. Good thing my teacher's not around this whole week so she can't force me to go. Hahaha! She's the one who wants me to go. *shrugs* no idea why.
Today Dawn and Joyce came over to my house to.. brace yourself.. make Oreo cheese cake! Well, it's still in the fridge, not ready yet. I was just watching the two of them.. and told them to domesticate me. Lol. I mean, ME? Joanne?? Making a cake??! HAHAHAHAHA!
Well. You can shut your gap now. I did. ;-) Not too bad, except we had no idea how to use the gelatine.. so I went out to buy sanatine.. in the rain.. but it started pouring.. so I turned back home. Well, long story, I'm sorry, my left hand is way too weak to continue typing. Anyway, we got it done.
Arrgh. My left hand really really lacks energy now.
*Hand tired*
Going cycling now.
Bye! God bless ya!
Oh! Forgot about my results.. ah, later lah. Just happy with all so far. SO FAR. ;-)
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Wow
Been checking out the BAM website.. saw this year's 100plus Power National junior circuit's results.. particularly the U12 boys singles' results. The champ was my former training mate..
Well, even from the start of training last year that guy was good I must admit. Couldn't beat him, but at least I managed to give him a fight. In the beginning. Lol. But then he started to really really train, and his parents were there all the time. Then he started improving by leaps and bounds. But I never expected him to take the gold medal in the circuit so soon.. not finals(don't know whether grand finals done already or not cause I can't seem to find the results on it) yet, but for someone who started training intensively at age 11.. to shoot past those who have been training since 5, 6 years is amazing.
But I wonder if it is worth it.. maybe yes, if he makes it really big someday, which really requires a lot of hardwork + dedication + talent... but you always hear about these young people who do well until about age 18..19.. then slowly they start to decline. No, it's not the same for everyone, but look at the former junior world champions. When they get out of the 'junior' world they face the real big guns. I always did tell him to study hard last time.. I intend to find out his results for UPSR when it's out. He was hoping to enter BJSS next year.. don't know if he got it or not. *shrugs* Well, I can only wish him all the best in the badminton world. After all, the sports world is a tough world to be in. There can only be 1 champion, and being a runner-up is never the same. Someone told me before, "When you see the difference between the 1st prize and 2nd, you'd cry". Lol, I didn't cry, the 2nd prize was actually better in my opinion, but in the real sports world there is a difference. Not just a bag or a racquet.
Apart from that.. I'm sick. My body is protesting I guess... sleeping at 2am and waking at 5.45am the past few exam days... hahaha. Miserable time. I really detest being sick. I'd rather injuries like scrape knees, bruises or whatsoever. I'm talking like a duck now! =P
Exams.. have been.. well. Won't do as well as last term. But hey, I keep looking ahead at the bigger picture.. SPM next year. AHHHH! Well, no big deal actually. It's the results day that scare me. Haha. Plus I'm going to be 1 lost person floating around, not knowing what to do. A levels? Ausmat? Matric? Form 6? There are so many options.. no inkling on what to do.
Oh well. Still have time.
It's 1.45am now. Gonna hit the sack soon. Bye!
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Well, even from the start of training last year that guy was good I must admit. Couldn't beat him, but at least I managed to give him a fight. In the beginning. Lol. But then he started to really really train, and his parents were there all the time. Then he started improving by leaps and bounds. But I never expected him to take the gold medal in the circuit so soon.. not finals(don't know whether grand finals done already or not cause I can't seem to find the results on it) yet, but for someone who started training intensively at age 11.. to shoot past those who have been training since 5, 6 years is amazing.
But I wonder if it is worth it.. maybe yes, if he makes it really big someday, which really requires a lot of hardwork + dedication + talent... but you always hear about these young people who do well until about age 18..19.. then slowly they start to decline. No, it's not the same for everyone, but look at the former junior world champions. When they get out of the 'junior' world they face the real big guns. I always did tell him to study hard last time.. I intend to find out his results for UPSR when it's out. He was hoping to enter BJSS next year.. don't know if he got it or not. *shrugs* Well, I can only wish him all the best in the badminton world. After all, the sports world is a tough world to be in. There can only be 1 champion, and being a runner-up is never the same. Someone told me before, "When you see the difference between the 1st prize and 2nd, you'd cry". Lol, I didn't cry, the 2nd prize was actually better in my opinion, but in the real sports world there is a difference. Not just a bag or a racquet.
Apart from that.. I'm sick. My body is protesting I guess... sleeping at 2am and waking at 5.45am the past few exam days... hahaha. Miserable time. I really detest being sick. I'd rather injuries like scrape knees, bruises or whatsoever. I'm talking like a duck now! =P
Exams.. have been.. well. Won't do as well as last term. But hey, I keep looking ahead at the bigger picture.. SPM next year. AHHHH! Well, no big deal actually. It's the results day that scare me. Haha. Plus I'm going to be 1 lost person floating around, not knowing what to do. A levels? Ausmat? Matric? Form 6? There are so many options.. no inkling on what to do.
Oh well. Still have time.
It's 1.45am now. Gonna hit the sack soon. Bye!
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Examssssss
Lets be honest. I gave up trying to study for this term. Hehe. Only concentrated on my fav. subjects, that is Econs, Geo and Accounts. Geo also hardly, just started studying last night at 10pm till 2am.
Too busy lah this term. Busy + lazy. Fine. =) I realise that I'm actually quite a lazy person. Hehe. Not in terms of lazing around.. I hardly laze around. I guess my mind is too lazy to actually think. Sigh. I only studied Geo last night till 2am cause the paper is today and it was quite fun. =) I don't mind a job that has something to do with Geography actually. Hehe.
Tomorrow PJK and History.. History I gave up already. After I sat for paper 2 last week.. Only a miracle can save my marks. Haha. So.. let go paper 1 also lah. PJK... hehe I will score an A. At the very worse, a B. =P Mind you, I have not touched my PJK text book for 4 years now! Good thing it mostly asks facts + parts of body(muscles).
Day after Econs. I plan to score for this paper =P. Beat my 91% last term. Last term was a mistake.. the 91%.. my teacher's fault.. he didn't tell that the essay part was slightly wrong.. ah long story lah. Don't bother. Anyway that mistake affected my marks a lot. I wrote 3 essays in 20 minutes. LOL!
Anyway, yeah, I'm letting this term slip past me. Being in 4 Mawar has that effect actually. Becoming lazy. Musn't be! Nah I was really busy this term. Prefect installation, PBSM installation, clubs and club stuff, camp... etc.
Oh! And my ko-kurikulum got the highest average ever! =P Thanks to PBSM(got a 58%, unbelievable eh?).. Well, I went for only 3 meetings.. haha. Amazing. I'd like to thank all the irresponsible people out there!
CF got a 71% and Badminton got a 68%. Not too bad I must say, because this year badminton marks was given honestly.. if you get what I mean.. usually I get an A.. this year I decided to give it to the honest teacher.. no, I wasn't feeling honest, I couldn't find Gurcharan, and my other teacher advisor asked me for my ko-ko form. I had no choice but to surrender it to her.. with the condition she didn't give me too low marks. =D
So.. (58%+68%+71%) and divide it by 3... don't forget my free 7 bonus marks for serving the school as a (useless)prefect! =)
Hmm.. anymore crap? Plenty, but.. irrelevant.
Oh yeah. Another thing. My shoulder seems to be getting stronger after such a long time. =) Used to ache a few days after training, especially if I did push ups, but recently it has been okay.. no more aches for a couple of weeks now. =)
Well, anyway. I'm gonna die soon. Yes, physically die. Not never study so "Die!" kind of die. Hehe. Why? Been sleeping at about 2am the past few days.. Why? Because I start studying/covering the whole year's syllabus in 1 day, the day before a specific paper. For many subjects. Some I started earlier. Hehe. Not that bad yet.
Thinking of learning squash.. since I cut down badminton.. life has been torturous.. I lead a pretty boring life since then. Haiz. Want to find a group to play with also hard.. for reasons I shall not state.
So.. I don't know. I may just decide to learn squash.
Gah. Okay.. going offfff now. Lately nothing to do online. That's the problem with Streamyx.. use too much at first then you feel as if you've enough internet to last a lifetime.
Byeeee!
Too busy lah this term. Busy + lazy. Fine. =) I realise that I'm actually quite a lazy person. Hehe. Not in terms of lazing around.. I hardly laze around. I guess my mind is too lazy to actually think. Sigh. I only studied Geo last night till 2am cause the paper is today and it was quite fun. =) I don't mind a job that has something to do with Geography actually. Hehe.
Tomorrow PJK and History.. History I gave up already. After I sat for paper 2 last week.. Only a miracle can save my marks. Haha. So.. let go paper 1 also lah. PJK... hehe I will score an A. At the very worse, a B. =P Mind you, I have not touched my PJK text book for 4 years now! Good thing it mostly asks facts + parts of body(muscles).
Day after Econs. I plan to score for this paper =P. Beat my 91% last term. Last term was a mistake.. the 91%.. my teacher's fault.. he didn't tell that the essay part was slightly wrong.. ah long story lah. Don't bother. Anyway that mistake affected my marks a lot. I wrote 3 essays in 20 minutes. LOL!
Anyway, yeah, I'm letting this term slip past me. Being in 4 Mawar has that effect actually. Becoming lazy. Musn't be! Nah I was really busy this term. Prefect installation, PBSM installation, clubs and club stuff, camp... etc.
Oh! And my ko-kurikulum got the highest average ever! =P Thanks to PBSM(got a 58%, unbelievable eh?).. Well, I went for only 3 meetings.. haha. Amazing. I'd like to thank all the irresponsible people out there!
CF got a 71% and Badminton got a 68%. Not too bad I must say, because this year badminton marks was given honestly.. if you get what I mean.. usually I get an A.. this year I decided to give it to the honest teacher.. no, I wasn't feeling honest, I couldn't find Gurcharan, and my other teacher advisor asked me for my ko-ko form. I had no choice but to surrender it to her.. with the condition she didn't give me too low marks. =D
So.. (58%+68%+71%) and divide it by 3... don't forget my free 7 bonus marks for serving the school as a (useless)prefect! =)
Hmm.. anymore crap? Plenty, but.. irrelevant.
Oh yeah. Another thing. My shoulder seems to be getting stronger after such a long time. =) Used to ache a few days after training, especially if I did push ups, but recently it has been okay.. no more aches for a couple of weeks now. =)
Well, anyway. I'm gonna die soon. Yes, physically die. Not never study so "Die!" kind of die. Hehe. Why? Been sleeping at about 2am the past few days.. Why? Because I start studying/covering the whole year's syllabus in 1 day, the day before a specific paper. For many subjects. Some I started earlier. Hehe. Not that bad yet.
Thinking of learning squash.. since I cut down badminton.. life has been torturous.. I lead a pretty boring life since then. Haiz. Want to find a group to play with also hard.. for reasons I shall not state.
So.. I don't know. I may just decide to learn squash.
Gah. Okay.. going offfff now. Lately nothing to do online. That's the problem with Streamyx.. use too much at first then you feel as if you've enough internet to last a lifetime.
Byeeee!
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Taman Megah training
Training today was not too bad.. quite fun. Well partly because it wasn't the usual run-as-many-rounds-as-possible in 10 minutes in the beginning. It was just run-as-fast-as-possible 1 round, taking turns. So I still breathing normally lah after that. I mean, sure, I like running.. but I prefer to do it fast, and covering whatever distance I'm supposed to, not just go on and on and on in a time period. Gets kinda boring.. lol. There's like, no goal, just waiting for time to pass.
Then the coaches did the 'lat'?? Don't know what it's called.. then the coach that won was so happified and said, "Joanne!" Fine. Whatever.
Later on ask us to play games.. so yeah lah.. I played.. enjoyable. Friendly game only mah.. cut down on smashes, do more lobs today.. a couple of games I meant to win 21-19.. you know, at least it was a 'close' game.. so I walked lah. Today not jumping around the court. Haha. After a while life gets boring you know.. must slow down the game a lot. I brought them too far and lost. But no big deal right.. friendly match only.
Haha. Or so I thought. Turns out we were actually in teams.. I was supposed to win all my games. *shrugs* I told them to say that in the future.. never tell that we're supposed to win.. it was a tie. Lol. One coach went, "You thought friendly match only ah??!" Knowing me.. I gave that stupified smile and said, "Yeah."
Well.. I suppose in my old coaching place this would never happen.. me playing walking games. My old coach always wanted me to be serious, no smiles and jokes.. like a tournament. Gah. I can only perform my best in.. well, tournaments. Haha. In tournaments I'm a totally different person.. only the occasional apologetic smile like when I smash people.. but training.. training is the place to play mah. =)
Which is why I'm rather pleased with Megah's training. It allows me to fool around a lot. Hehe. Running no need to run my best.. just.. well, enough to please the coaches. Playing.. I have fun, can already. Besides, in Megah now not so much fight.. so yeah, I admit I've slowed down a lot.. doubt I'm improving at all. Truth be said, if I remain exactly like where I was in my previous training without dropping I'd be superbly happy already.
Oh yeah. Not to mention no more injuries. =D
There's only one problem. I don't get enough badminton! It used to be every other day.. wah now wait 1 whole week for the next session.. can die lah. I really need to find a group to play with already.
Been thinking.. it was really an amazing journey last year.. the titles I won.. the occasional upsets I caused.. 1 scene I still remember.. all my training mates rushing in the court to hug me after I beat a player I was expected to lose to in a 3rd game. That feeling.. wow. The disappointments in losing.. the awesome feeling of becoming the champ.. breaking a record by entering 4 finals in a tournament.. being known as Lim Ee Wei in most tournaments because my coach never got it into his head that 'Joanne' was in my birth cert.
Really past all that now.. now I'm just another social player.. join only the occasional tournament..
Well, so many factors.. and the reason I give most people who bother to ask is the least of it. I said they moved to Kepong. But there are so many other reasons.. afterall I have no problem about Kepong.. they provide transport mah. It was my shoulder, my wrist, my studies, my parents, myself, my life...
I had no idea how far my coaches wanted to bring me.. I think as far as I could go. My improvement that 1 year was by leaps and bounds. But.. well..
Anyway, yeah I enjoy Megah's training now.. no pressure, fun.. hahaha my old form is rarely seen. Except maybe just as glimpse in the MBA friendly match. Maybe more if it hadn't been 15 points without service. Hahaha!
Yep yep yep. Life is good.
God bless ya all!
Then the coaches did the 'lat'?? Don't know what it's called.. then the coach that won was so happified and said, "Joanne!" Fine. Whatever.
Later on ask us to play games.. so yeah lah.. I played.. enjoyable. Friendly game only mah.. cut down on smashes, do more lobs today.. a couple of games I meant to win 21-19.. you know, at least it was a 'close' game.. so I walked lah. Today not jumping around the court. Haha. After a while life gets boring you know.. must slow down the game a lot. I brought them too far and lost. But no big deal right.. friendly match only.
Haha. Or so I thought. Turns out we were actually in teams.. I was supposed to win all my games. *shrugs* I told them to say that in the future.. never tell that we're supposed to win.. it was a tie. Lol. One coach went, "You thought friendly match only ah??!" Knowing me.. I gave that stupified smile and said, "Yeah."
Well.. I suppose in my old coaching place this would never happen.. me playing walking games. My old coach always wanted me to be serious, no smiles and jokes.. like a tournament. Gah. I can only perform my best in.. well, tournaments. Haha. In tournaments I'm a totally different person.. only the occasional apologetic smile like when I smash people.. but training.. training is the place to play mah. =)
Which is why I'm rather pleased with Megah's training. It allows me to fool around a lot. Hehe. Running no need to run my best.. just.. well, enough to please the coaches. Playing.. I have fun, can already. Besides, in Megah now not so much fight.. so yeah, I admit I've slowed down a lot.. doubt I'm improving at all. Truth be said, if I remain exactly like where I was in my previous training without dropping I'd be superbly happy already.
Oh yeah. Not to mention no more injuries. =D
There's only one problem. I don't get enough badminton! It used to be every other day.. wah now wait 1 whole week for the next session.. can die lah. I really need to find a group to play with already.
Been thinking.. it was really an amazing journey last year.. the titles I won.. the occasional upsets I caused.. 1 scene I still remember.. all my training mates rushing in the court to hug me after I beat a player I was expected to lose to in a 3rd game. That feeling.. wow. The disappointments in losing.. the awesome feeling of becoming the champ.. breaking a record by entering 4 finals in a tournament.. being known as Lim Ee Wei in most tournaments because my coach never got it into his head that 'Joanne' was in my birth cert.
Really past all that now.. now I'm just another social player.. join only the occasional tournament..
Well, so many factors.. and the reason I give most people who bother to ask is the least of it. I said they moved to Kepong. But there are so many other reasons.. afterall I have no problem about Kepong.. they provide transport mah. It was my shoulder, my wrist, my studies, my parents, myself, my life...
I had no idea how far my coaches wanted to bring me.. I think as far as I could go. My improvement that 1 year was by leaps and bounds. But.. well..
Anyway, yeah I enjoy Megah's training now.. no pressure, fun.. hahaha my old form is rarely seen. Except maybe just as glimpse in the MBA friendly match. Maybe more if it hadn't been 15 points without service. Hahaha!
Yep yep yep. Life is good.
God bless ya all!
Sunday, August 13, 2006
MBA Friendly Match
Yesterday went for the MBA friendly match.. Taman Megah branch MBA students against Puchong branch students.
How did it go? I was in Team A.. played in teams.. 1st and 2nd singles were advance players, 3rd and 4th singles were intermediate, 1st doubles was advance + intermediate, 2nd doubles advance + beginner, 3rd doubles was advance + advance.
The 1st two teams we played against were easy.. small kids lah. I doubt they even had enough advance players in their teams. Don't know why Puchong coach arrange so weird one. We won 7-0, 4-0(Once we won 4 they stopped us from playing, no time). 1st match we played 21 points with service. Took too much time I think, my team finished the earliest lah but the rest were still playing. So they decided that they had to cut down to 15 points NO service, ONE set. Miserable right? The games after that over so fast! Hardly any time to get warmed up even. And you know me lah.. always get slow starts.. this new system is not good for me.. everytime opponents get about 4 to 5 points before I really buck up.
Hehe anyway, yeah we entered semi finals. And met a team that seem to consist of so many advance players! Even their so called 'intermediate' players played very well, and were even better than some of our advance players!
And I played 2nd singles.. against an Indian guy 2 heads taller than me. That guy has the fastest smash I've ever encountered! Amazing. I lost 13-15.. but if there had been service or at least until 21 points.. I daresay the game could have been different. I hardly even had time to read his game. Hehe.
Well, then I played 1st doubles.. they won 3 singles games by then. so they needed only 1 more. I partnered quite a good player for doubles.. managed to beat the other team.. I was always wondering whether I could beat that girl.. never had the chance to play against her before you see. Somehow our names are always on the opposite ends of the draw and we tend to be knocked out by stronger players before getting to meet each other. But I enjoyed that game a lot. Cause the girl was attempting to cover her partner and I just pushed her around.. smashed into empty places.. etc.
Anyway, we won our 2nd doubles too.. and managed to push it into the deciding match. But that one we lost..
So that team emerged as champions.. no time to play off the finals, someone just decided to make them the winners. Kinda unfair.. but I guess we were really out of time.
Overall.. not very satisfying lah. 15 points no service.. the games are over so super fast. Haiz.
Hate the new system. No more suspense when you reach the game/match point.
Anyway, reached Megah at about 6.30pm.. met a schoolmate there.. he invited me to play with him.. so I played lah. Played about 20 minutes then stopped.
Not too bad a day lah. =)
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
How did it go? I was in Team A.. played in teams.. 1st and 2nd singles were advance players, 3rd and 4th singles were intermediate, 1st doubles was advance + intermediate, 2nd doubles advance + beginner, 3rd doubles was advance + advance.
The 1st two teams we played against were easy.. small kids lah. I doubt they even had enough advance players in their teams. Don't know why Puchong coach arrange so weird one. We won 7-0, 4-0(Once we won 4 they stopped us from playing, no time). 1st match we played 21 points with service. Took too much time I think, my team finished the earliest lah but the rest were still playing. So they decided that they had to cut down to 15 points NO service, ONE set. Miserable right? The games after that over so fast! Hardly any time to get warmed up even. And you know me lah.. always get slow starts.. this new system is not good for me.. everytime opponents get about 4 to 5 points before I really buck up.
Hehe anyway, yeah we entered semi finals. And met a team that seem to consist of so many advance players! Even their so called 'intermediate' players played very well, and were even better than some of our advance players!
And I played 2nd singles.. against an Indian guy 2 heads taller than me. That guy has the fastest smash I've ever encountered! Amazing. I lost 13-15.. but if there had been service or at least until 21 points.. I daresay the game could have been different. I hardly even had time to read his game. Hehe.
Well, then I played 1st doubles.. they won 3 singles games by then. so they needed only 1 more. I partnered quite a good player for doubles.. managed to beat the other team.. I was always wondering whether I could beat that girl.. never had the chance to play against her before you see. Somehow our names are always on the opposite ends of the draw and we tend to be knocked out by stronger players before getting to meet each other. But I enjoyed that game a lot. Cause the girl was attempting to cover her partner and I just pushed her around.. smashed into empty places.. etc.
Anyway, we won our 2nd doubles too.. and managed to push it into the deciding match. But that one we lost..
So that team emerged as champions.. no time to play off the finals, someone just decided to make them the winners. Kinda unfair.. but I guess we were really out of time.
Overall.. not very satisfying lah. 15 points no service.. the games are over so super fast. Haiz.
Hate the new system. No more suspense when you reach the game/match point.
Anyway, reached Megah at about 6.30pm.. met a schoolmate there.. he invited me to play with him.. so I played lah. Played about 20 minutes then stopped.
Not too bad a day lah. =)
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Since I've entered Arts stream...
Well, nowadays whenever I enter a pure science class, particularly 4A, 4B, and 4C, I feel like.. the prodigal son returning home. Lol. I really feel comfortable.
But.. I've left them too long. To most, I'm just a person they used to know.. from friends who talk a lot to friends who are 'hi and bye'. Not that I mind.. all this while I've been following the plan mah. But it's weird right.. how fast you can be forgotten. Or maybe 8 months is too long.
Yes, I knew all these would happen when I chose my class. Sometimes.. you just wish it was back to the old times...
Actually I've heard of a few people who want to change to arts.. but pride, parents, friends etc.. you know the usual story. I'm pretty sure if pure science was not hyped up that much.. well, there will be more people out there doing subjects they actually enjoy. But.. with technology advancing more and more.. of course must be science science science mah. Oh, don't forgot the ego part. Lol. Some are like, me? ARTS?! Our poor egos would be bruised! Lol. And of course... the one that afflicts most people.. apart from pride.. parents. You know how parents just wish their kids would take over their footsteps.. or do even better... doctor.. engineer.. etc.
I suppose I'm no one to judge.. but the few of us in arts stream always well.. debate with those who are 'living out their parents' dreams'. Whose life is it after we graduate? Who's gonna be working a job they hate all because of their parents? Sure, we owe our parents.. but to choose a career we can never learn to enjoy? *shrugs* I'm sure parents would love to see their children happy in the future.. not constantly coming home frustrated.
Just some thoughts.
Anyway, aside from that.. my life has calmed down a lot these few days already. It's a relief. Today's the last day I'll have to do anything with PBSM =) Just went out for the dinner.. that was so expensive.. madness. I really hated forcing myself to go for the meetings.. but if I didn't.. there is just a sense of responsibility that will nudge me. *phew* Anyway, it's all over and done with. As Pilate said, "I wash my hands." Hehe. Enough is enough. Now just let me serve in what I love.
I realise that many things I do is just to satisfy myself. Hehe. Sports.. like my teacher told me she made me the 'pengurus pasukan' of the badminton team for yellow house just for the gerko points. I told her no point.. for my gerko points I take from badminton team. But she said nevermind lah since I did all the work already. So.. ok lah I just take it.
Then studies.. for fun only lah.. if I don't get a scholarship I want I'll just go form 6.. after all, one of my fav. sayings is, "I can do anything that requires hard work.. but if it requires skills that I lack.." So hard work in form 6 is absolutely no problem. But if I'm needed elsewhere.. I'll pack up my tent and shift. Hehe.
Well, nowadays whenever I enter a pure science class, particularly 4A, 4B, and 4C, I feel like.. the prodigal son returning home. Lol. I really feel comfortable.
But.. I've left them too long. To most, I'm just a person they used to know.. from friends who talk a lot to friends who are 'hi and bye'. Not that I mind.. all this while I've been following the plan mah. But it's weird right.. how fast you can be forgotten. Or maybe 8 months is too long.
Yes, I knew all these would happen when I chose my class. Sometimes.. you just wish it was back to the old times...
Actually I've heard of a few people who want to change to arts.. but pride, parents, friends etc.. you know the usual story. I'm pretty sure if pure science was not hyped up that much.. well, there will be more people out there doing subjects they actually enjoy. But.. with technology advancing more and more.. of course must be science science science mah. Oh, don't forgot the ego part. Lol. Some are like, me? ARTS?! Our poor egos would be bruised! Lol. And of course... the one that afflicts most people.. apart from pride.. parents. You know how parents just wish their kids would take over their footsteps.. or do even better... doctor.. engineer.. etc.
I suppose I'm no one to judge.. but the few of us in arts stream always well.. debate with those who are 'living out their parents' dreams'. Whose life is it after we graduate? Who's gonna be working a job they hate all because of their parents? Sure, we owe our parents.. but to choose a career we can never learn to enjoy? *shrugs* I'm sure parents would love to see their children happy in the future.. not constantly coming home frustrated.
Just some thoughts.
Anyway, aside from that.. my life has calmed down a lot these few days already. It's a relief. Today's the last day I'll have to do anything with PBSM =) Just went out for the dinner.. that was so expensive.. madness. I really hated forcing myself to go for the meetings.. but if I didn't.. there is just a sense of responsibility that will nudge me. *phew* Anyway, it's all over and done with. As Pilate said, "I wash my hands." Hehe. Enough is enough. Now just let me serve in what I love.
I realise that many things I do is just to satisfy myself. Hehe. Sports.. like my teacher told me she made me the 'pengurus pasukan' of the badminton team for yellow house just for the gerko points. I told her no point.. for my gerko points I take from badminton team. But she said nevermind lah since I did all the work already. So.. ok lah I just take it.
Then studies.. for fun only lah.. if I don't get a scholarship I want I'll just go form 6.. after all, one of my fav. sayings is, "I can do anything that requires hard work.. but if it requires skills that I lack.." So hard work in form 6 is absolutely no problem. But if I'm needed elsewhere.. I'll pack up my tent and shift. Hehe.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Arrrgh
I'm feeling more and more and more pressure now. Everything is piling up even my shoulder's hurting!
HELP!!!!!
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
HELP!!!!!
God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Arrrgh
Sorry have to rant already.
GERAM!
You all won't know who but that's all for the better.
He won't let others help my department! Got problem with helping?? We are SUPPOSED to help others! Gah I cannot stand it. This is too much man. At least take it out on me, not my assistant!
So we don't help others to clean lah.. don't help others to collect money lah.. illogical.
My worst fear is that he becomes the next president. *shudders*
No mood now.
GERAM!
You all won't know who but that's all for the better.
He won't let others help my department! Got problem with helping?? We are SUPPOSED to help others! Gah I cannot stand it. This is too much man. At least take it out on me, not my assistant!
So we don't help others to clean lah.. don't help others to collect money lah.. illogical.
My worst fear is that he becomes the next president. *shudders*
No mood now.
Saturday, June 17, 2006
I'm hoping to be able to help my friends see the light in the next two years. The more see, the better. But how? I ask myself. How???
Do I just live my life without using words? I've never been one to speak well.. writing yes, but not speaking.
I'm rather afraid I'm making myself enemies actually. Especially with my results for the 1st term.. people would love to say I study all the time, 24/7.. to justify my results. But then they see me always running around in school doing club stuff. Then representing school for badminton. Being able to hit the farthest for softball in pe class. Goes out to shopping malls at least 3 times a week. *Crash* Their 24/7 studying nerd profile of me is gone. The know-nothing-do-nothing-but-study idea about me dies away.
Thus I'm afraid they will turn to hatred instead. Arrgh.
How do I show them when I am not even sure how and why?
Perhaps the only reason they treat me nicely is because I hold the answers to all their questions.. literally. My books are the most popular items in class when homework is due.
Answer me...
Forgive me.. pride will be my downfall..
Yours,
The know-nothing-egoistic-fool
Do I just live my life without using words? I've never been one to speak well.. writing yes, but not speaking.
I'm rather afraid I'm making myself enemies actually. Especially with my results for the 1st term.. people would love to say I study all the time, 24/7.. to justify my results. But then they see me always running around in school doing club stuff. Then representing school for badminton. Being able to hit the farthest for softball in pe class. Goes out to shopping malls at least 3 times a week. *Crash* Their 24/7 studying nerd profile of me is gone. The know-nothing-do-nothing-but-study idea about me dies away.
Thus I'm afraid they will turn to hatred instead. Arrgh.
How do I show them when I am not even sure how and why?
Perhaps the only reason they treat me nicely is because I hold the answers to all their questions.. literally. My books are the most popular items in class when homework is due.
Answer me...
Forgive me.. pride will be my downfall..
Yours,
The know-nothing-egoistic-fool
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