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Saturday, October 17, 2009 @ 3:46 PM
-nil- I know this is the first post since I went on hiatus, but I am in too much of a foul mood to greet anything. Today was the worst training ever. Let's see how we're gonna summarise it. It started with Coach scolding Jenny for using a vulgarity, and making us do push-ups for godknowswhat reason, getting placed in the same group with GeokDerekDarrenJosephMichelleDresden to do some drill against LiyanaBeatrixMichelleJasmineJiehng. Darren kept making sick jokes about his 'balls', and for a boy who barely finished his PSLE that was something. Got punished(running to the net and back in 7 sec. This occurred MANY times. Oh, and did I mention two rounds of lunges around a court?) for having not enough 'fire' and for not clearing the balls before play. This was ridiculous, as at that time Derek was sweeping all the balls on our side back for us to use and if all the blazing winners I hit weren't 'fire'ful enough I don't know what the heck 'fire' is. My whole team were incensed after the punishments, and started taking it out on the ball. The other team got angry as well, and told us to 'feed the ball properly'. Once I accidentally hit the ball to the side, and I got shouted at. Of course, I retorted. I got so angry once that I kicked the ball, and it hit Joseph's arm(apologised profusely after that. I do have a heart you know). But Derek was the angriest. You should've seen him. For a 10-year-old kid, he shouts like a secondary school boy, save the vulgarities for the latter. Towards the end we got punished AGAIN, shoulder was throbbing BAD, and I puked on the court, but of course, no one gave a damn as they were too busy picking up the balls and rushing out of place. Outside, we got punished yet again as some idiot(I really don't know who, was probably too busy kicking the daylights out of the tennisballs to notice) apparently ran across the court while some people were playing, and we did not have enough discipline, which I am inclined to agree with. Push-up position for at least five minutes, holding one leg up in the air at a time, half-squat position for three minutes, 10 kangaroo jumps, another five minutes in push-up position(this time a diamond-shaped position), more half-squats and some other things which I've forgotten. This set of punishment lasted for, what, 15 minutes? My arms were still trembling an hour later.vFinally we had to sort out all the balls, and after we have done that nicely, Coach asked us to find a special US Open ball, so we had to dig everything again just to find it. Apologised to Michelle for everything that happened just now. And next week he asked us to find the meaning to the lyrics of Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror, and will be asking someone for the meaning. If any of you do know, please tell me, cuz I don't. So, an end to the worst training I've had since I was P4. I think I shall try to refrain from cursing and swearing now, after seeing what happened after a vulgarity sparks this torture. If someone insults you with a vulgarity, and you retort with another, you are no better than that person. But if you swallow it, and not say vulgarities back, then it shows that you are better than that person. |
