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Monday, October 26, 2009 @ 3:17 PM
breath Training on Saturday was no better than the previous one. I was hitting with Derek, giving him all sorts of funny shots when Coach stormed in with a bad mood again because some RP player was apparently caught smooching with his girlfriend during their competition and at the venue too. He accused them of improper conduct, and so, we were slapped with a pre-torturous drill first thing in the morning. Suicides until he said stopped. And that was a loooong time later. Afterwards, Coach made me, Preethi, Geok, Steffi, Joseph and Huai Shen hit in one court while he yelled at the other RP latecomers. I was hitting with Huai Shen when, during his(Coach’s) yelling, he said that I had always behaved well. I was like, whoa. I didn’t see that coming. Honestly speaking I never thought I behaved well. HAHA, given that I hung around loudmouths like Nicole, Dannii and Nadia. Then played doubles with Preethi against Michelle and Jasmine, which we won 6-1. Came back, played Bobslap with a twist: Losing team does extra physical training. My team: me, Han Ying, Beatrix, Darren, Huai Shen, Lok Chong. Their team: Derek, Liyana, Joseph, Ernest, Jonathan, Jie Hng and somebody whom I’ve forgotten. It sucked big time because we didn’t get to feed the balls, we were one player short and these disadvantages were looked over. The three people in my team who was always there was me, Han Ying and Huai Shen. I was so pissed that when I got a sitting-duck of a shot, I slammed it into Lok Chong’s back, which scared the toot out of me. We got punished yet again for not having enough ‘fire’. I was sitting at the net with Ernest opposite me at that time. And this time, it was everything thrown into a blender. Lunges, push-ups, half-squats, suicides, running, the usual. There was this punishment where everyone lined up at the single sidelines in half-squat position while each person takes a turn to run to the other sideline and back six times. If anyone recovers from their position, the person running does double. Sweet huh. After that, I played Bobslap like I never did before: I knocked the opposition down with a single shot. One was all I needed. At one point we won a game with only me and Huai Shen taking down all the members of the opposition. I was so happy I went “Yes!” and dropped my racket before slapping five with Huai Shen. Thank God we didn’t get anymore punishments after that. But it ended with one phrase ringing in my mind:“You kids are too soft. |
