♣ Bored... Pain... ♣

I can't imagine my life at work without internet access... The time will pass very slowly, slower than a snail.

Today I woke up with back ache or pain that irritated me while I'm washing up. Am I old already?

When there's more free time, my mind were all occupied with thoughts, be it good or bad. Thoughts occupied in my mind for reasons & they all came from my instincts. I just hope I won't do any silly stuffs.

♣ Member of California fitness ♣

Supposingly I should get 2 weeks free trial, but couldn't resist the promotion that they offered.

Reason why I didn't reject the offer was I always wanted to join California fitness but it was too expensive to join. On the other hand, I don't want to join due to my hectic schedule as a national player.

Taken the offer as I couldn't stand myself doing nothing at home after work. Furthermore, no one will be so free to ask me out everyday. If not... I rather start whatever trainings now so that I won't wait for this or that.

♣ Goodbye Coach Kate ♣

Arrived Changi airport at 5 plus in the evening to send Kate off. Us + Kailing, Grace, Rachel, Ms Nor, Min Li, June & Cyrus were there waiting for her. She's trying to avoid eye contact with us, & we know the reason why.

She gave a card for us, the team, with her curlsive writing again that took us awhile to recognize the words. So touching... I think she'll miss us a lot.

Fern & I gave her a photo album (compilations of 2004 to 2007 photos), notebooks for her to pen down her trainings/thoughts.

Time for her to check in & everyone wanted to hug her for the last time but she didn't want to. Prem just went to hug her & slowly Kate went over to hug everyone individually.

Bye Kate... We'll miss you...

♣ Farewell party for Kate ♣

Netball Singapore organised a farewell party for Kate at Ami, Siloso beach. The theme was Tropical & we, the national players, decided to wear blue bodysuits. Again, we made Kate embarrassed!

Had been drinking wine, beer ever since we finished our World Champs games. Got to stop soon, if not, the beer belly will pop out soon!


Kate gave a long speech on her interview in NS, the long journey she had with us, her happiest moment in Singapore was when she's with us, the national players.

That's touching~~~

On behalf of the team, Jean presented a gift (Adidas black watch) to her from us. As usual, Jean gave a thank you speech & she cried while the rest of us were holding back our tears.

Vicki also gave a speech on how Kate had brought up an elite team players. She's the one who introduced Singapore team to the Global. The credit goes to you, Kate.

♣ Back to singapore ♣

Sorry folks about not posting about other games with Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Malaysia. Too sick of updating about netball, too sick to watch netball matches telecast in their sport channel, too sick to hear those whistle sounds again...

Before we left from auckland, everyone just went up to Chaz to give her a final hug. I guessed she enjoyed being in the team as she cried while hugging us. It's ok, we'll still see one another in 2011.

Touched down to singapore, thanks for the sports school gals who came all the way down & waited for our arrival. The team seemed not wanting to go home as we kept hugging one another. This team had been training together for 3 to 4 years & we will definitely miss those training days.

Kate is leaving on sat for her another new career in Tasman. I think most people will be happy of her leaving. I will miss her when she's not around coaching us. She's the one who improved the team in terms of play, physically & mentally, bringing up Singapore standards, showing the world how Singapore plays.

Will we get another coach who's so devoted in coaching Singapore?

♣ 3rd game with Jamaica ♣

Yesterday I didn't have the mood to update the bloggy as got to wait for the com to be free to use & furthermore the wireless connection isn't that good.

Obviously we lost to them by a lot of goals but I'm quite happy as we met the atacking target. It wasn't a great game to watch as the Sunshine gals just lobbed into their shooter.

Netball has becoming more & more physical. More physical than men. Well... I guess netball is still a girls sport & every country is improving their play.

♣ 2nd game against Cooks ♣

The players were huge in size & most of them were 1 & 1/2 size bigger than me. Had a terrible hard time going around them, finding the free space. I got to squeeze my way through the front to pull a contact by them.

I played with Fen together & I wonder what the NZ commentators will say again. Yesterday they commented the pair of 1.69m shooters. What the hell... I wanted to be tall either. Sigh~~~

It was a tough & close game... We lost to them by 2 goals, 45 - 43.

♣ Game against Fiji ♣

We played our 1st game against Fiji & the score is 61 - 32. It was a good game compared to last time we played against them.

I went in at the 3rd quarter after Ling got injured, was nervous as I didn't do any mental preparation.

Terrible shooting... I don't know why either... I'm trying my best too despite playing with the injured finger.

Tomorrow against Cooks Island & I'll give my best.

♣ World Championships 2011 in my country ♣

Congratulations!!! Singapore won the bidding on hosting World Championships 2011.

Hope I won't hear about disgusting humans hooking up on the IFNA or the World Class netballers but I guess some will.

Bootlickers?

♣ Dislocated for the very 1st time ♣

Today friendly game against the NZ under 21s squad. I got my last left finger dislocated at the 2nd quarter last few seconds.

Luckily Eunice helped me to fix it back for me. I had to keep on icing the finger til it recovers.

Bad luck..

Just came back from the CandleLight Ceremony & seen different players. They are so tall...

♣ Falling sick soon ♣

I'm have sore throat ever since I touched down to NZ & have been taking Danzen for inflammation. Seems like it's not working... Sigh~~~ Soon the flu will be coming as the sinus is already here... Jia lat!

Hope it will go away soon...

Now my right leg hurts after the game with Barbados...

♣ Cold windy night in NZ ♣

Hi all...

Updating my dearest bloggy at a Cyber cafe down the streets from the SkyCity Hotel. It was so cold & windy the whole day & I couldn't leave the streets without my Levis jeans. Got my 2nd birthday present from Ling, Eunice & J9. It's a long pants I'm yearning to buy & wear here.
1st friendly against Barbados & we lost by 3 goals. Could have won if we played even better during the 1st quarter.

Was rather moody throughout these 4 days & I'm waiting for everything to finish.

I just couldn't stand how people treating others in a different manner.

♣ World Champs 2007 ♣

Hi all,

I'll be flying off to Auckland at 8+am in the morning...

Wish the team all the best for our games.

I'll be celebrating my birthday at Auckland...

Sayonara!!!

♣ Last weights session ♣

Today is the last day of weights for the team & some of the players. Emotions are flying around the gym.

As usual, Ah Yong (our trainer) gave us a tin of lollis & jelly beans & thanked us for being so hardworking. Of course, we are the best.

I tried to avoid looking at the rest of them as some were tearing. *sob sob* I think no one will want this to come into an end although we kept complaining about trainings we had.

We are a team for 3 to 4 years & train so intensive. I guess I won't enjoy as much as I do when they aren't around.

News updates : Thieves are appearing out of nowhere to steal valuable items from unattended bags. Please don't leave your belongings unattended!

♣ 3 quarters of court time ♣

Had a wonderful 3 quarters of court time just now. Played 2 quarters of GA & a quarter of GS. My runs were better this time round & couldn't felt the stiffness on the knee.

Mental breakdown after being knocked by Ling. I was shocked by the knock I guess... Started to tear...

I need to stay stronger this time round... No more tearing...

♣ 2 quarters of court time ♣

Just had 2 quarters of court time with the squad, played GS & GA. My movements were so stiff & not smooth when I'm playing GS. At GA, I could run freely without thoughts in my mind & the movements were better.

My conclusion : Got to warm up my right leg more than usual.

Today's video shoot was a joke. We were informed that the shoot would be at indoor court but they changed their minds & turned out to be at outdoor court. What a waste of time!!! They should have done the shooting at Kallang netball courts instead of Singapore Sports School.

Well... never mind...

Got new bodysuit for upcoming World Champs. It's blue in color. Yeah!!!

♣ It's so fun with them around ♣

Game in the morning was cancelled due to the rain & we did wet weather session indoor. Had a mini run throughs for the attacking end.

Had a powerful nap from 2 to 4.20pm which I didn't even wanna wake up to go for training. Was so glad that I increased my single leg press weights to 170kg. Though the right leg seems to grow stronger, it wasn't that strong as I thought on court. But it's ok... just got to pull it through the World Champs!!!

They were so funny today... Wondering what's happening & what caused them to laugh so much. 1 of them had her shorts torn while trying to do the barbell squats & created hilarious laughters in the gym.

This World Champs will be the last journey for us together as a team. Let's make it a memorable one!

♣ 1st training game after 5 months ♣

I was down for a quarter of training game with the squad. It's MARVELLOUS!!! Really felt so good playing on court though it's only just a quarter.

But I landed too hard on the ACL leg while doing the warm up drill & it hurts. *OUCH*

My shooting was 100% (I think) & really felt so different from previous trainings. Guess I'm possessed when I'm on court playing.

The sun was so hot in the afternoon & I was sunburnt during the video shoot at Singapore River Promenade. My face.... hands.... neck were so red... I got a "chao ta" forehead now.

♣ Added too much pressure ♣

Recently my shooting really sucks, it's not just a miss, it's 7 to 8 shots consecutively missed!!! What's wrong again?

Obviously Kate came over & asked me why. I told her that I was too focused on my movements that I forgot to switch into shooting mode. And partly because I really felt very bad throwing bad passes to them & I kept saying "Sorry" to them throughout the whole training.

Too much emotions in me, I got to get rid of it. But I guess it wasn't easy. Too much stuffs happening at home... How to concentrate?

♣ Stronger? ♣

Increased the weights for my program today & really worked me out.

Progression : I did 2 chin ups on my own. *applause*

This morning when we had the training, I couldn't catch Lix's passes. Came into conclusion that it must the missing carrot cake. I didn't have it for breakfast as it's sold out.

Tomorrow will be hydro at 8am. Gosh!!! So early... We'll be making the most hilarious joke in the pool tomorrow. All of us will be in our "ATTIRE" for the hydro. =)

K Lunch with some of them tomorrow!!!