botak club
ever since block leave started, i havent been up to much at all. i’ve just been spending lots of time at home, texting very very very very regularly, playing my newly installed GTA 4, catching up with loads of ppl, passing stuff to jono and advising him abt army life in general, helping my sister with work and general lazing abt at home. that probably explains my 2 day hiatus from blogging, mainly because i have too little material to work with heh.
for some really strange reason, many year 7s decided to head back to school today for various reasons. most of us just wanted to collect our diplomas, but a number came for other reasons like FRISBEE for example (; the year 7 turnout for ultimate today was pretty big: fish, shaoyi, me, wilson, benlee, joel, justin, yang jian. and then there were the rest of the ppl that showed up in school: david chan, derek, kenny, patrick ong, blandon, ian gan.
at this point in time, i think shaoyi’s shorts deserves a special mention. with a design like the fbts my sister wears underneath her school skirt, with just the saf logo replacing the brand, shaoyi cut an impressive figure today with his baby blue cks tank top and his really really reaaaally short saf shorts. you know it’s bad when fish, wilson and i look at it, and collectively go "WT_" in unison. (you can fill in the blank with an ‘f’ or ‘h’ or any other letter, we basically used them all)
frisbee today was very different from how i used to rmbr it. the size really exploded, and like 4 of my juniors from ncc air joined the team as year 5s. it was weird, considering that they had no idea that their awesomest senior every in the history of ncc air also joined frisbee, and when i came back today i was just getting strange looks from them. joel was very strict too, and the seriousness of the whole training could be felt as well. i suppose that’s what’s required when we’re training towards a respectable first showing in the A Div this year, so i cant blame him for that (: some things never change though, like me getting hit across my face by a disc within the first hr of training. sean’s still the ultimate disc magnet, and that’s why he’s an excellent deep lol. the discs are naturally attracted to me, and always find a way to catch me off guard at the same time.
the year 7s didnt really come back to school to do drills, run rounds, or train for competition like the rest of the team. thus, we pretty much ended up throwing among ourselves, encroaching into the touch rugby area (and annoying the shit out of them), and the soccer area (annoying the shit out of the teacher). and this happened even though there were onli like 6-8 ppl throwing at any one time, with 4 of us permanently plastered onto the astroturf playing bridge. and when we all got lazy or tired or wadeva, we sat ard and all we could talk abt was army. tiff can vouch for that haha. the title, botak club, is courtesy of our favourite handler clement, and his big mouth when he walked past us and saw us sitting down together on the astroturf chatting. watch out arh year 6s, make fun of us now… you all next year go army you see who your commanders are heh.
it was very encouraging though, to see frisbee grow like that! the guys were training pretty seriously, and the girls did put in much effort even though their discipline was more lax in comparison. the year 6s have improved tremendously, esp the girls like munching (HAHA I KNOW YOU’RE READING THIS), whose throws and catches are not too shabby now (: i dun need to talk abt the year 6 guys lah, they already own the year 7s in terms of skill and speed heh. it’s a pity that the club’s getting bullied though, but i’m sure God has a way of letting things work out in the end.
so after a seemingly endless drill session, scrimmage finally commenced at 1945. so essentially, i had like 15min to play a proper game before i had to rush off to meet section 1 for dinner. it was the first time in 2 months that i ran so hard and so much, and man did it feel good. it’s a pity that play was interrupted so often though, but i guess it cant be avoided when you have ppl who just picked up the sport playing with you. playing with fish on my line just reminded me of the good old days of the .14 team… we seriously need a proper class gathering of some sort.
so after frisbee, it was dinnertime! the bus took forever to come, and forever to get to the mrt station because of the rush hr traffic. and being the blur, tired idiot that i was, i alighted at raffles place because dinner was at raffles city. alas, i onli realised my mistake AFTER i tapped my card, and i had to retap it just to travel to city hall sigh. and when i got to raffles city, i was so lost and disoriented because i couldnt find din tai fung, and i was already 1 hr later than everyone else so that wasnt exactly the best thing to happen at that point in time. thank goodness i managed to find my way in the end, and i sat down just in time for the food to arrive, so i just tucked into the food voraciously and had a nice chat with everyone present.
so after dinner, the guys still wanted to hang out and do sth together. in true army fashion, we all couldnt come to a decision and we just ended up wasting abt 30min deciding on a place to go. in the end, we (or some of us anyway) decided on the loof, which is like a sort of an open air rooftop bar. the place was really full though, so we had no choice but to leave. william then decided to lead the whole lot of us, with his gf, to the pool fusion place at bugis for some good ol’ pool goodness. unfortunately, almost all of us suck terribly at pool save for william, jeremy and kc. i ended up playing just 1 game, teaming with william to beat jeremy and mingyu, before it was 10pm and i had to leave for home.
so now, i’m back in the comfort of my chair, sitting in front of the comp yet again documenting my day here. sorry for running out of army stories munching, you’ll have to be content with the few posts i have before this one (: i’ll update this place as much as i can, so that those that actually bother abt how i’m doing can have a clearer idea of what’s been going on in my life. till then, cya ppl!