I challenged Don to a game today, even though i knew i will lose. I don't mind losing, as long as i've learnt something out of it. I knew i wasn't on form today... i had flu... but that's not an excuse for being off form. I juz couldn't direct my balls around the court today. Also, i made many unforced errors. Not only that, there were also many double faults.

I really felt okay during the warm up with magdeline. I felt that i could contact the balls well, but i suppose warming up is different from match play. My match play still sucks. I still got lots more to work on. But losing 6-1 to don was a lousy score. I expected at least 3 sets. I knew that i should work more on directing my balls around the court, as well as keeping unforced errors to a minimum when the opponent moves me round the court.

Well, besides that, i learnt a lot of other stuff today. Don taught me how to volley and smash. I really felt that my volleys improved quite a bit after that session with him. At least i can now contact with the balls better now instead of missing the balls like last time. I also realise that if i take the balls in front of me, i can do better volleys.

Don's analogy of doing volleys: catch the fish in the net and throw it out again... but throw it back into the sea.

But the most fun part was learning how to smash. I never thought i could smash. So when i ask Don to teach me, i was thinking that i would take a really long long time to learn it, juz like how i learnt how to volley. However, it turned out better than i expected. Smashing isn't that hard after all. ITS FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Playing with Don is FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, i guess i owe him a lot for today. Wanted to thank him for his time and patience. I really appreciate it. Really wish i can learn more stuff. There are lots of stuff that i want to learn, like a topspin serve and slice.

Like what Andie says... tennis is fun. It is meant for me to enjoy... so i shdn't feel that stress up when im playing tennis. We don't play for the sake of playing... we play bcos we enjoy playing. Darren says... don't hold back, just go all the way out to hit it... Don says... you shouldn't throw your racket, coz' you are increasing your opponent's confidence.

Wow... so much advice from all the tennis pros up there. Its going to take much effort to do these. But i believe, if i try and with a little confidence in myself, i should be able to do it, right?

We lost our softball semis against hall 3 today. Its just so disappointing. All of us were very off form today, including qiuyi and swee ching. I could see that qiuyi wasn't really in a good mood from the start. Think its bcos of the organising. The timing was changed last min from 10 30 to 12 00. Softball semis also crashed with canvasing today and some of the main players couldn't come down. Then janice couldn't come down also becos she has to go back to malaysia for her medical report. I was super off form too, coz' i wasn't feeling well.. came down with flu 2days ago and my head was spinning when i was playing softball. Luckily, i was the catcher... dun need to do anything much except to throw the ball to the pitcher.

Its such a miracle that we have gotten so far. But i know we deserved to lose today. Our fielding and batting were juz so off. Several balls should have been stopped by our infielders and yet, the balls went through to the outfield and thus letting the opponents score home runs. I can't imagine that i actually hit a foul ball and was strike out by the pitcher. This has never happened for the past few matches. I guess i was feeling the stress bcos im the manager and i naturally feel this need to perform. If i can't play well, its fine, but at least i shouldn't bring down the team.

Hengkia and Chris thanked me for managing the softball team well. I felt so paiseh. I didn't feel i did a good job with the team, bcos for every training, attendance was always less than half full. Also, i didn't know anything about the sport, and thus i think i couldn't inspire the team to do as well. I must really thank the rest of the girls for being so patient with this blur manager here. However, i can say from the bottom of my heart that i really put in my best for the team. Can't imagine that when i first took over the sport, i actually went to the library to borrow books on how to play softball and conduct softball drills. Now that i think back, i think its pretty amazing for me to do that for a sport that i have totally zero interest and knowledge in at that time.

My players really did a good job in coming this far. Without them and their cooperation, i wouldn't have been able to do my job as a manager. Really wanted to thank them for coming down for the matches and for being there always to help me out with the equipments, but i really don't know how to express my feelings to them. Always get tongue-tied when i have to make speeches to the team, but luckily the seniors are always around to help me out. I'm tired and dizzy... i guess that's all for today...

Finally continuing with my blog after such a long long time... guess im juz lazy to write down my thoughts and feelings...
Well, lots of things have happened since i entered into uni. I din like hostel life at first... but i have grown to like it. I have a great roomie(even though she left for nus), great hall mates around. I've got to know lots of ppl, and also widen my social circle. Hall life is fun and happening. I think i had a great first semester. Didn't exactly understand my subjects well, but still manage to do quite okay. Then, i got to play a new sport, softball. Hated the sport at first, coz' the ball isnt soft at all.. but gradually i found it to be a fun sport. I guess if you approach things with an open mind, things will turn out better in the end.

I also got into the tennis ivp team. Really din know how i could have gotten in. Must be bcos of xiaohan lah.. bcos of her good skills, we clinched the doubles champion for the ntu open.. and i think tats how i got into the team loh...

But i don't really like the team a lot. Can't really click with the ppl and I feel out, and inferior, coz' everybody is so good there tat i actually feel pressurized. I suppose its also bcos im not performing as well as i should, and thus i get easily stressed up. Luckily, i got a great roomie to listen to my sorrows and help me destress a bit sometimes... Thx a million!

But there are a few nice ppl in the team tat i got to know... wee tin, don and john. I think the best part of my uni life besides hall life, is getting to know them. They make hall training so fun, together with the rest of the ppl like jaime,shuzhen, weixing, louise and yudi. I actually found that i like hall training better than ivp trainings!!! Haiz.. but too bad.. we lost to hall 13 in the semis. No more hall training... Really feel so so disappointed. We juz missed by that little bit. I was looking forward to playing xiaohan. I really thought we could make it to the finals, then Louise can have a chance to come back to play for us again.. bcos she sounded really disappointed that she couldn't join us for the semi match.

I guess in life, you can't get everything. God already blessed me with an entry into the quarters for softball, and we are likely to get into the semis if we can hold the score. When i first took charge of the sport, i really thought that we couldn't even make pass the preliminary rounds. I was so stressed up bcos of that. I laid my trust in God, and he took care of it. I suppose God has a plan for everything. Maybe he is planning to let us get into the finals for IH tennis next year, so he is giving hall 13 a chance this year. We can't be so selfish to want everything rite?

Name: yixin

I care about how I look, how I dress, and how others think about me. Most IMPORTANTLY, I care about my family and friends.

I'm obsessed with classical music! Current favourite: Smetana- The Moldau

All our lives we search for someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance the song of heartbreak and carry our hopes within us, wondering if somewhere,somehow there is someone searching for us.

Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
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