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Thursday, May 18, 2006

i must blog about whatever that has happened today. okay, for the J2s if you do not know.. the J1s (the team) had a meeting with the two teachers. tan and chan. the main objectives or aim of the meeting for us is to get approval from them for 3times a week training. in addition, we wanted to talk about their attitude towards the tourney and stuffs (but we did not manage to complete the second task) okay.

now. as the coversation went on..mainly myself, yt and delia were speaking. till walter came. firstly, tan did the speaking. chan kept quiet all the while. and as usual, they rattled on about our studies. and us being students and not sportsman. our motive of coming into a JC is to proceed on to the university. the first highlight of the talk: why do we have to train 3times a week? anyway, no matter what, or no matter how. we will not be able to meet the standards of top colleges. quoted from tan: "i have relations to badminton for over 30years. i coached nj girls in 1987 and they were the champions. one look at a player, i would know their standards. the girls team, can still fight. but the guys.. ur standard of level is this low, while other colleges are so high. how much can you improve within this short span of time?.. take the j2s guys for example, they were very impressive during past trainings. but still we fought a losing match. when a college sends in a team, we wan to win. we don't play to humiliate ourselves and feel disappointed when we lose. while you are improving, others are also doing so too. 2times or 3times per week trainings does not make a difference......" in short, this was what he say. he told us to "give up". as in not worth sacrificing our studies for 3times per week training. and we should follow college rules of 2times per week. no point cause we will never make it, the other colleges standard are way to far away from us. we kept telling him our next aim is to get into top 8 first. there's no way we can break through to top 4 in a year. but he keeps comparing us with RJC! -_- urgh! damn pissed. myself, yt, delia and walter's blood was boiling like nobody's business. =/ damn damn angry lah. *gosh*

talking about the difference between standards. yt and myself rebutted. why don't we put the same situation into our studies? no matter how hard PJC tries, we will never be able to match the standards and results of RJC. why don't we stop studying or stop going to school? or maybe we need not attend school for 5days? 3days will do? anyway, no matter how hard we try or how much we improve, our standard can only reach that maximum point.. if we keep failing our tests, no point taking mid years and promos what. why not we wait till we are confident of getting good results before we take the exams? it's exactly the same concept. this is the same as tan saying we are going for a competition only to humiliate ourselves..RJC fights with confidence knowing they will get into top4, however we can only struggle in court.. wth.

we wanted a chance to prove to them that even with 3times a week trainings, we would still be able to do well academically. so what even if we train twice and have 5days free? quality is better than quantity. what makes them think that the extra less one day of no training, we would spent it studying? tan suggested, train twice den show him that we can do it for our midyears before he considers changing to thrice.. why not let us train thrice now and prove to them during midyears? rather than wait till promos. that's more risky. =x

we were speaking for almost half an hour alr. and zk listening to us, was also getting irritated. whatever we say, if they have nothing to say back.. it will relate back to our studies. they were just so stubborn. tan was better, he was alredy giving in a little. but chan had to psycho him with studies and studies and studies. damn him! zk spoke up.. a rough summary of what he said: " something to do with the team. he emphasised on the point that the trainings are worthwhile. the J2s who trained hard, 5times a week for this tourney would find it worthwhile. he guranteed them that any J2 they asked would have said it was worthwhile. cause we all knew the amount of effort, passion he put into training us. heart and soul. all we, the J1s, are asking from them, is just to give us a chance to prove to them that we can do it. and as teachers in charge, we need them to support us morally and give us encouragement. that's all. nothing more. why not give us a chance.. now? " and this was the statement that changed their mindsets immediately! I PROMISE YOU THAT IF ANY OF THE J1S DID NOT PERFORM UP TO STANDARD IN THE COMING MID YEARS, WE WOULD CEASE TRAINING. NOT EVEN ONCE A WEEK. TO LET THEM CATCH UP ON THEIR WORK, AND FOCUS ON THEIR PROMOS. this was our last resort. zk said it all. yes and it worked.

we asked over the target for our mid years. tan said an average of C's. anyone who doesnt meet that criteria... cease training. and chan added that we had to pass gp too. we said okay. den he continued. GP is not an easy subject to pass. and he GRINNED WIDELY. that EVIL/SLY grin. wth. why is he so irritating!!!! and i can tell you, walter's blood was boiling way over 100 degrees le. like a volcano erupting anytime. yeah that was it. the new J1s you will be facing. nerds. -.- the conversation did not end here. yea though we managed to fight for our 3times per week training. tan told us about how we must not only try but make sure that we meet their targets. and chan interrupted again! "what if those cases where.. student gets A A F/E?! " !@#$%%!#!@$#@?!!@!@#!@!!!%^& i tell you. horrible. tan said it can be negotiable. if you can get two As, shouldnt be a problem. acceptable. and chan says AGAIN " but will they have enough time to catch up on that F graded subject!?" ~~FCUK~~ zk was really pissed. he said, anyone with a single E/F. they would haf the right to stop that person from coming for trainings and even ask the person to drop that subject. couldnt talk any further. we were.... speechless. idiot chan! ended the talk. wth.

fellow seniors.. if you ever meet any of your juniors in school and they dao-ed you or ignore you or did not recognise you. please forgive them. they might be over-stressed. mental blockage. hahahaha. we apologise for that! =)

J1s. gambatte! one for all! all for one! =)

-sheila (:

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