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TPJC - Millenia Institute
Saturday, April 26, 2008

A jam packed week with matches with Raffles JC and Millenia Institute. Tutorials and tests filling any extra slots, an inter-class debate and with only 5 hour sleeps as my only respite. In end I went home this Friday night at 11pm with a best speaker win from the debate, my proposition also winning the argument 'This house believes that racial equality is an impossible deal', a 9-3 victory over MI and 9-0 loss over RJC, and a huge improvement from physics from 34% to 73% in my test :D

Not too bad a week. I had so much much more to blog about but since I didn't write it down, my memory has failed me and there won't be as much content in this update. My bad. I accompanied some of my friends to the Parent Teacher Meeting after tennis, cuz the MI match ended around 5. After dinner at the nearby block 201 with a convenient bubble tea shop, supermarket and food court, we headed back to school. Apparently our principal is the best I've had since schooling. She's got interesting stories and analogies, and a far better command of english than Damai's ex principal. A quote from one of her morning talks, 'In the past, why does the master sit in the horse carraige while the driver sits out infront? So that the superior in the interior, does not see the posterior of his inferior, on the exterior.'

Seeing my reputation from teachers without having my parents first hear them is a relieve to know that if anything, I've got a buffer time before the next PTM to change, as they we're busy this time and couldn't attend. But the comments were relatively postive, to my surprise. Phew. Anyways I won't bore ya any further, here're some pictures to break the monotony.

I took cue from Cheryl's awesome macro photos and experimented it with tennis in mind, any opinions?



Just a group photo, from left to right, top row then bottom, Jun De, classmate and recreational tennis player. Vishaal, my tennis double partner who hits largely topspin balls. Edward my captain, adept at all strokes, Danny my chinese class classmate who scored C6 too, but a mix of Indonesian and Chinese parents, hilarious guy, don't know why he didn't smile in this picture, haha. Sellick, another recre-player who umpires quite well if not for the occasional bias he has to our team.

Down, Khayne, a hard hitter who has quick temper, and with 5 years of experience I think. Ivor, 'the half court wall' who is the most proficient at smacks, volleys, dropshots. Equally adept as Dabby at ground strokes, making him I think the second best player in our team. He's slightly taller than me, making him able to reach nearly any ball with ease at the net.

Then that's me, easily the weakest in the competitive team (two teams of recreational and competitive) in terms of experience and consistency. From aces to double faults, I don't really show much consistency. I think it's just years of experience to get consistent, so I gotta be patient. But to break into this sport wioth aims of topping it nationally is unrealistic, considering majority int he field have started out since primary schools. I, on the other hand, have only 7 months of experience so far, a long way to go...



Khayne serving. By the way this is not the same Cain that Mark, Ben and Cheng Chong talk about. His serves are often too hard and too low, hitting the net, but when it passes, it often aces.



Edward's service is extremely consistent when he plays matches. He's got lots of style too, in his strokes.



Ah, now the macro. the backdrop is the track/field infront of the stadium, with the podium nicknamed the titanic for its similarity to the bow of a ship.



Fault! :D