nostalgia
was taking a slow stroll out of the school compound, thinking about some stuff when i passed by the notice board. not any other noticeboard, but yeah, the volleyball noticeboard. ha the juniors did quite a good job of decorating the board... muz have been so, considering the buzz they were making on the day before the open house. ha and its full of photos too.
so naturally i stopped by to look. don't know what held me back then, cos i was rather looking forward to dinner. must be that feeling of nostalgia i suppose...
saw the team pic. all the familiar faces of ellery, jason, weeming, kenneth, tian han and gang... not forgetting the juniors... peng, shawn, wee kiat, kian, louis and many many more... it sure brought back pleasant memories of training and our team activities... haha we sure had a very good time then...
back then, we'll train from the late afternoon till its too dark to see the ball on weekdays. from noon to the early evenings on sat. after that, we'll go for a bath and later probably a drink at the nearby magehaven. we'll drink fruit coolers and eat french fries, cos they were the cheapest and we were always broke. then there'll be the kaobeing sessions we always had... ah poH and his butterfly, louis and his brother, tian han and his "friends" and peng with the "twins"... and who could leave out the team "bonding" sessions. haha sure was fun back then.
saw the girls team pic. haha was thinking how that i knew most of them, yet spoke so little with them. my "sisters", the trio of yanfang, yaying and joy (and in order of height too!). then got yirong, jiahui, grace... not forgetting lingwei, yingyi, jiayan and peixian... haha you guys were nice! then again, the seniors once mentioned that the our batch didn't really gell very well, compared to 'em and the juniors. and this i suppose should be one of our greatest regrets... haha but those that i knew, they turned out to be rather swell. =)
then saw pictures of our juniors. well just can't stop praising them enough... they've got spunk i sure can say... everyone was rather crestfallen when we lost to NY (the eventual champions), some tearing after the match. was as if something had been cruelly snatched away from us, yet there's still some team spirit in this gung-ho gang of guys and girls... haha next year next year... do work hard on it k? i'm with all of ya all to the end!
saw a picture of me and peng. haha right on top of the board summore. haha maybe i should specially single him out for a special mention. ha and to think of how blur he was in the first few month of hC. back then, he was somewhat worried that he couldn't make it into hC, especially when he was from bP. (no discrimination there!) but he still made it in the end. all that worry for nothing~ still remember the times where would would just sit down and talk and talk with the guys or just alone... and he was always worried about his studies... just glad that he made a smooth transition here =)
must have stood at the board for quite sometime before something rumbled. and no it wasn't the sky but my stomach. tore my eyes from e board and left. just like that.
volleyball. more that a simple ball game.