♣ End of Daisy Tan Carnival ♣

Sunday 12.30pm under the blazing hot sun playing netball carnival. Can you imagine playing under this kind of weather when others were happily doing their shopping in air-conditioned mall?

Round 2 of Daisy Tan Carnival with 8 teams of ladies playing... Luckily the umpires were kinda good at catching infringements, or rather say they actually blow for infringements. Needed all these calls when playing against rougher teams.

History breaker in 2008 : Blaze got 1st!!!

We've been waiting for this day for so long~~~

BANDUNG~~~~~

HOCK!!!!

♣ Yummmmm Cha!!! ♣

After such a long request from majority, yum cha gathering finally arrived! Took quite awhile to search for the shophouse & finally we reached our destination.

The pleasure to enjoy the aroma, sipping the tea slowly was so refreshing!

Enjoyed the tea without gulping it down... was totally fascinated by the aroma...

Found an interesting stuff...

What Hui Yan Means

You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out. Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia. Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person. You are a very lucky person. Things just always seem to go your way. And because you're so lucky, you don't really have a lot of worries. You just hope for the best in life. You're sometimes a little guilty of being greedy. Spread your luck around a little to people who need it. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long. You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are a free spirit, and you resent anyone who tries to fence you in. You are unpredictable, adventurous, and always a little surprising. You may miss out by not settling down, but you're too busy having fun to care. You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality. You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.

♣ Skip training ♣

Suppose to be club training but I didn't go because I looked too ugly to go further out. Went to remove those bumps on my face & was "scarred" from it. People who had seen my face would definitely asked, "What happen to your face?" I can't imagine having chicken pox.

Well... Been working hard since I didn't want to go out further from my house area so I did my runs. Today was a miracle when my youngest sis wanted to run with me!!! Oh my gosh!!! Nice run & I made her do squats & lunges.

Special day~~~
*wink*

♣ Buck up time ♣

Been staying in comfort zone for too long. Be it work, personal or sports, it's time to buck up & not let everything sail away.

Through thinking is not enough to make a success but through actions, they can. Imagine if you keep thinking that you will slim down 1 day without doing any single exercises & be a couch potato, will you really slim down? It's not hard trying, it's the start to do things that's hardest.

It's easy to let things fly past you but will you be able to catch them when you realise how much they mean to you?

Impressed that these stuffs came out from thoughts without thinking twice.

I'm going back for rehab tomorrow & will ache badly on sunday. I swear...

♣ Unstable Emotions ♣

Is it due to PMS or is it just a bad day? Does one really get emotional due to PMS or having a bad day?

Thanks for telling what's wrong.

With this excuse, it's easier to flare the emotions out after bottling so much stuffs inside.

And thanks to the Korean drama, The Coffee Prince.

This is part of the excuse to flare emotions.

Does anyone share the same sentiments?

♣ Extra hard efforts ♣

Chin said that if I'm gonna try for this year squad, I got to work extra hard for my ACL leg. It's 8 months after operation & I'm still nowhere... Too slack? I guess so... I need to get my motivation back again...

♣ Pissed or Peace ♣

Wondering how they judge the game each time they were assigned. Judge by the team or the players? Is it fair? Is it consistent? Ask yourself how you judged it.

You had made us become even stronger when the judgements were not consistent. With this inconsistency, we had no choice but to do tougher & be rougher. It's not fair when one side was penalised & the other wasn't.

I'm totally pissed off by the inconsistent judgements by you. When's the judgement when one was over my body? Do you know I got to use my entire body weight to support one's bodyweight when the one wasn't that light? I'm playing netball, not rugby!!!

♣ A day with entertainments ♣

Finally got to meet up with my closest friend & had our lunch at Sakae Sushi. I suggested to go singing as the kick came & to adding to my delight, she agreed to sing too. Yeah!!! Kbox at Marina Square! 1st time there & the system was so good that I could sing non-stop.

Her dearest came & she forced him to sing Jacky Cheung's song. The moment he sang, I was like "WOW" & it's an enjoyment to listen to him singing. 1st time hearing a guy who could really sang so well unlike those guys next door who were singing out of pitch.

Watched movie with my dearest again... "I am Legend"

This movie really freaked me out which I couldn't even understand why it's so scary to watch. But I must say it's a nice movie that has all the feelings in it.

I've been watching movies for the past few weeks.

"Alien vs Predator 2" - really sucks to watch.

"Mission sex control" - comedy & a good educational on birth control.

♣ Facial products are here!!! ♣

Yippee~~ the products I ordered are here already & I'm starting to use it already. So delighted. Cheaper than the products in Singapore.

♣ 2008 ♣

New year new resolution but i'm still planning for mine. Everything is a ? for me. Til now my mind is full of ??? on how certain people are thinking & treating me. Beware... i'm observing.

Politics are everywhere & I can't stand it. I need to get out from it as soon as possible.

Hypocrites? I've seen it which I can't even stand it. Too fake... endotherm at boiling point, ectotherm at freezing point.

What to do?

♣ Sentosa outing ♣

Sentosa outing with the team again but only 8 of us went. Took Sentosa monorail for the very 1st time after it's developed & settled ourselves at Siloso Beach (I think). We had a lot of fun playing Beach volleyball & American football.

Weather started to get bad at 5pm & we had to hide in the shelter til the rain stopped. Went down to the Ocean (by Prem) or pool (by Fern) for a dip & played Ling's favourite game again.

We did our shower using open shower taps & we created a mess over there. People staring at us wondering what the hell were we doing with our shower stuffs. Who cares? We dare to do it & that's us.

Home sweet home... I'm tired...

♣ Tiring weights session ♣

Went to KATC gym for our toning session with Chin. But after doing the program, we were complaining again... complaining why we did so many for our hands... Now my hands were like kang kong, so soft & I bet i'll ache the moment I get up from my bed.

Heard that next year will be an interesting year as there're quite a number of activities going on. Was excited upon hearing the training tour but was quite worried for myself. Year end is coming & I really hope that I can start another new career.

Let's hope

♣ Flywheels at California Fitness ♣

I can't believe I went for spin class alone. The class was boring, music boring, even the instructor wasn't that great either. Sigh~~ I still enjoyed the spin class at Planet Fitness where the instructor was so energetic that keeps me going. Perhaps I should wait for the membership to end...

Hope I won't ache tomorrow...

♣ Club training after so long ♣

Went for club training today in preparation for the coming year end carnival. We played games between ourselves.

Didn't train for 3 weeks & I felt that it's been ages since I've trained. Was so tired, knee hurting... blah blah...

I'm seeing physio tomorrow & I really hope nothing happen to my knee... And the most important thing, MASSAGE!!!

♣ 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.