Friday, April 29, 2005
pjc 5 yjc 0
had a game with yjc today, beat them 5-0. honestly, they arent a very experienced side..so we shouldnt be too happy with the score. it was frustrating. unconverted goal opportunities. shots that missed narrowly. last second saves from their brilliant goalkeeper. we coulda scored 12. fatben opened the scoring within the first 10mins..followed by his second, and his third, completin the hattrick. :D i scored the fourth myself from a short corner..haha..my very first goal for pjc. i had a shot that hit the side of the goalpost earlier on..im really pleased that my hit ricocheted off a defender's stick into the net, leavin the gk transfixed to the turf. hahaha..
after that it was cruise control for us.. thanks to jamie and her friends for coming all the way down to ccab to lend their warmest support..and thanks for the guys who shouted "ole" whenever i sneaked the ball inbetween their legs..it gave me the motivation..haha..thanks to xh for her pre-match prediction that i will score..thanks to all who gave us their blessings. :D
hmm for the announcement on tuesday, i think i will say something like this..
Hi. I am Fookeat, the vice captain of the pjc hockey team. last fri we played against a very capable yjc side. under the scorching heat, they played hard, we played harder. they ran hard, we ran harder. they fought hard, we fought harder. we defeated them with a score of ... five...zero. thanks to all the supporters who came all the way to CCAB to lend us their support. our next game will be against TJC on tuesday and we have to win, to stay in the running.
ciaoss
popshuvit 7:33 PM
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
realised im supposed to make an announcement durin da mornin assembly bout our victory over TPJC..wth!! its sucha ball-shrinkin experience .. whaat, with the entire sch before me standing at the podium..u wont wanna be in my shoes this morning..oohhh no, u wouldnt.
it went like this..
I am Mak Foo Keat. I am the vice captain of the pjc hockey team. Yesterday, our team played our first match of the Adivisions and battled against a determined TPJC side and emerged victorious with a score of TWO to NOTHING. stutter..stutter.. O-our next match is against YJC this comin Fri at the CCAB on 3.30pm .. ( yes i think i said ON 3.30..haha! By this time my legs were starting to betray me and threatening to send me collapsing to the ground, they were literally MELTING AWAY like some fucking butter in a fucking hot oven..)
well, we played tpjc yesterday and won 2-0, thanks to FatBen, pocketing the 2 goals to himself. :d the first goal was an exact RIP OFF from training sessions..which was why it was so darn sweet. all the SC drills paid off handsomely..haha..i must say this. the sound of the ball WHACKING against the black board of the Goal post ...NOW THATS WAD I'd CALL MUSIC. BOOmmm.
everything was going well until.....
i saw the ball coming towards me in mid year. i raised my stick and tried to a BaseBall kinda swing at it..why did i do tt? i dont know..but i fuckin regret tt act of stupidity..hahaha..cuz RIGHT after that, i felt a serious cramp in my calves..and just fell to the ground.
den this tp asscrack came over and asked " wah leg broken ah??" they thought i was acting to waste time lah..hahaha..but wtf, it was so embarrassing and i had to be carried, no, dragged off the pitch by KEnny and MArk.
i realised one thing. watching the match from the sidelines is much more nerve-wrecking den when ur actually on the pitch..playing the match..the feeling of helplessness was fucked up. i could only massage my calves and watch in horror and suspense..i could do no shit about the match..
i was reduced to nothing but a mere spectator who cannot change the outcome of the game in anyway. it sucks. the feeling of not being able to help out ...argh, woudldnt want to feel in sucha way again..
next match. yjc.
venue : ccab
how to go there : 67 from cck bus interchange. stop after the bus passed the SPC depot
time : match starts at 3.30
cyaa folks
popshuvit 4:02 AM
Thursday, April 07, 2005
wednesday ...
was there for the hockey trials for the aspiring j1 hockey pple :D
really impressed with their hockey i must say .. see lotsa potential in them. anyway..this is not the main point of my post today ..
had a fantastic game against NJC today under the pouring rain at Delta. victory was sweet. =) ..i missed our previous meeting with njc due to suspension few weeks ago..so this match had a special meaning for me..considering the fact that i was in the team that lost to them last year during the 3rd/4th placing.
well firstly, all credits to njc for inviting us to their pitch session for the match. anyway, wad can i say. awesome first half display followed by a more solid approach towards the second half marked our first victory as a team...
our gk was untouched at all. however, their probings through the center gave our defenders and midfielders quite a few troublesome troubles..
our midfield was awesome. we did exactly wad coach sunil instructed us..the converging..the off-the-ball runnings..the switching..the diagonal formation when attacking..those trainings paid off eh.
oh well.. going to have another pitch training at NTU tmr at 6-8..might be staying over at ntu for some midnight hockey again ..den its off to the padang for the SRC 4-aside tournament ..
hockeyyyy.
popshuvit 4:28 AM
Friday, April 01, 2005
stayed overnight at NTU ytd for hockey "fiesta" :Dmy best 2 days and 1 night so far in 2005.
after my spa, which i fckingly screwed up, i needed something to drown my dissapointment. hockey.
after sch. went to ntu hockey pitch and had some serious basics training with rovin ben cst and wk. and yeah, we didnt book the pitch either. it was there for the taking. haha. wad luck. saw tiffany too at nie too haha. sg is sucha small place. we worked on our short corners.. im slowly getting the angle right for my SC. right far post, yeaaaahhh. did some sweeps..ahhh, the basics, really. haha ..well, after like 1+ hr, one of the guard asked us if we're from NTU. and rovin was like..."erm...erm..." den cst told the guard im from ntu lah wtf. he wasnt convinced, obviously. cus he told us he'd give us 15mins more of pitch time. well, he appeared an hour later.
so total ... 3hours of free and easy pitch training.
thats 3x$60 per hour= $180 saved. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA.
rvn wk cst left at about 7pm. leaving behind the 3 musketeers (mebenkenny).
we headed to a pavillion where we tried to study. its seriously uncondusive because u just hadta look to ur left and the hockey pitch is staring right at u.
11pm at night......
we figured we arent going to get much quality mugging done. so we headed to the pitch again...armed with our sticks and balls. it was dark and it was really hard to see the ball being sweeped from me to ben to kenny. haha we're hockey crazy. den suddenly the lights at the toilets near the swimming pool came ON.
fuck . the motion sensor!! somebody was coming out of the toilet. could it be a security guard on night patrol? or some just student who couldnt get to slp? we know tt some of the lights at ntu are activated by motion sensor.
true enough. we saw a dark silhoutte holding something like a walkie talkie walking out of the toilet. we didnt noe wad to do. we were in the brighter section of the pitch, the D nearer to the building. we were like sitting ducks LAH. hahahaha.
the guard saw us, of cause. he stopped, as if to check his reality. ( wad are 3 guys holding hockey sticks running around on the pitch at 12am+ ?? )
we rannnnnnnn.
den ben shouted tt we left our balls behind. and wtf, its a MAZON ball we koped few mths ago. freaking expensive and gd quality. we had to get it back. no comrades left behind ! i was the nearest to the ball, so i had to dash back and grab it. and i came up wif a fucking stupid idea.
u noe ntu pitch got those extra hockey goalposts lined up near the sidelines right? ok.
keat : " GET DOWN GET DOWN AND HIDE UNDER THE BOARD " (the sounding board whenever u hit from a short corner)
i dived towards to the turf, so did ben and kenny.
den i thought, oh no. the guard saw us, so wads the point of us, running towards the exit ( the flight of stairs where u guys climbed to enter the pitch from the bus stop all the time ) and den suddenly diving under the cover of the goal post ? it was adrenaline rush at tt time. but we started LOLing. we thought, the guard must be laughing his ass off !!
ben : he saw us already lah ! hide here for wad ??
kenny : groans
keat : wah fuck. ok on the count of 3 we stand up and RUNN ok.
1..2...3..
we all suddenly appeared from behind the goalpost and make a dash for the exit lah, while LOLing all the way.
the guard saw us, and followed us.
den we went to seek refuge in within the complex......argh, so much for training hockey at midnight. imagine the consequences if the guard was to catch us..(he's probably the same guard who told us to leave earlier during the day)..haha..
well, we slept one of the tutorial rooms at block A. kenny was snoring like no tmr. freaking hard to fall asleep.
7am......
we woke up, and headed back to the pitch again. worked on sweeping ..stopping ..pushing..the routine again. i had kenny and ben in the D while i practised sending cross balls into the D for them to deflect towards goal.. hmm, was great fun.
no security guards this time. =)
anyway, im home now. feeling tired and lazy. ... will update again at night :D
popshuvit 9:54 PM
