Thank you for a great Monsoon season.
(the collage maker can only fit 9 images though there are more awesome team-mates out there.)
[btw, my phone camera function camera crashed again- 24hrs after collecting it back from the service centre. but since i've had a good day, lets not whine about it here.]
thanks for balancing out my life. having a reasonably tough sch life + a great Touch season is really all i can be thankful for. i think this is one of the best season. from the beginning of training during yr-end last year till STL, till Hong Kong Intercities and end of the long STL journey.
Womens A- 2nd
Womens B- 1st
Mixed A - 1st
Mixed B - 2nd
Mens - 1st
that's all the categories in the league and we're the only club to have dominated the finals. (:
(we really could have won the Mixed B though. still abit 不甘心. but oh wells. hahas)
i really dun think that skill and all was the main reason y we won. but all the heart we have and the effort we put into the training and additional fitness at Kallang Track. skill is probably a bonus, but other clubs have their fair share of talented players too. what brought us thus far is probably how family-ish this club has grown into especially for this season; despite all our differences and wide range different kinds of ppl. i.e students to teachers to CEOs... 18 - 36 yrs of age and so on.
we are not afraid to be ourselves.
we are not afraid to learn and grow through challenges.
everyone values everyone not because how good we can be or what we can provide for each other, but because we want to bring the best out of every individual to make it an excellent team effort.
we leave no man behind, literally.
players who are really so darn good at what they are doing are also so darn humble about it because i guess one sees no point to flaunt their talent but to just use all of it to bring the best out of those around. we dont really judge ppl as how the world does it well, but we just make sure that everyone is feels welcomed in the Monsoon family.
today's finals was probably a good display of how far we've come in this season. we only had 1 mens finals, but literally, almost the whole team was down to support each other with mindless pongpongs and with those long tube-ish looking stuff that when u hit together, it buzzes out a airy sound. (idk whats that, but thats not the point). past seasons, u know, some team members dun even turn up for games coz of last min probs let alone trngs. this season, we're really subconsciously making effort w/o really making effort to support each other in whatever ways we can.
and u know, for the Women's team, we've got 2 guys from the Mens side to help coach us. sounds nothing great right? but, if they're sacrificing sleep time to come early for our games, organize stuff, have their own meetings, send out emails, bothering our ever-so-random-and-out-of-topic-whatsapp-group-chat and even taking time out from their own training with their mens team to come and train us.... all this w/o being paid..... how's that manageable if u dont have the heart in it? Clifford and Edwin, both very busy ppl in their working lives, are the 2 fathers of the team. They're the senior memebers of the club and are the ones who've got so much heart for a bunch of whiny girls who can be quite hard-to-manage at times. hahas. all the words spoken to us with so much fatherly tone to it, and even paying so much attention to our welfare before and after the games are really beyond what 2 guys who are probably big shots in the corporate business world. yea, and not to mention, clifford missed his wife's own sporting competition (also the finals) just to come for our finals. a bunch of kids over his wife leh!!! but really, if its not for them, i dont think the title would be in our hands. that's the kind of difference they are making. so for that, thank u so much for everything.
for the Mixed side.
hahas. what can i say.
drastic ups and downs. but from there, it really shows that if we are focused enough to do it and want it, we can really perform further than what we physically can and that's what T.E.A.M really means - Together Everyone Achieves More. its cliche shit, but its's pretty clear in our games.
in the (mixed up) pool stages, we could actually drew with a team that's in the A-pool who made it to the finals of the, A pool when we didn't have enough numbers on that day as well. it's all because we were all out to play our hearts for each other, using our strengths to make up for other's weaknesses. i rmbr how hard we defended till i think it shocked the opponent. But when the finals came, because we probably weren't on the same page, things fell apart and we lost a game that is ours to own (also basing on past scorelines).
and really, i must admit, its really this yr that i started to move out from my self-constructed safey-cage and not be afraid of who i am.
all these years, i've probably got some minor self-esteem issues, i never like being the first starting 6. and my mentality affected my running lines... they weren't as penetrative as how it can be based of my physical capabilities, and i was just very concerned of how ppl think of me / how ppl looked at me / how ppl would judge me if i wasn't able to perform as i was expected. however this yr, i think i'm able to edge closer to just giving my best on the field w/o letting all this unnecessary thoughts cloud the way i can perform to the best i can be.
"giving your best" sounds casual and manageable, but really, asking ur heart.... how many times do we give our best till we can walk off the field after a game, fully saying that 'i've got no regrets at all'.
and from not wanting to be on the starting 6, i moved out of that and was even named for the 5 players to be on the field for sudden death in HK during the semis against the HK team. it was a first for me, and a very memorable one since everything turned out so Awesomely.
really, all i can say is a big thank you to my teammates for just being ourselves. no politics. not team issues nothing. i mean its not that they're non-existent, but we would resolve them asap #likkaprofessionaladult because we know that we've got each other's backs having each other in mind.
its really a long way for my Touch life especially from the tough decision moving from Pirates to Monsoon in 2010. i wouldn't say its a good / bad decision because in both clubs, i really enjoyed myself and have grown as a player on my part, but what i can really say about the move is that i've not regretted since. of course, there are the downs which made me question my decisions, but in those moments, i do have teammates or even ex-teammates to confide in and i really want to thank God for all these ppl.
and so, what's next?
ASIAN CHAMPPPPSSSSS in KL IN JUNE.
that's only in 3 wks time!
and i really hope that i can bring these positivity into my Contact games especially when the season trng is starting officially...... TOMORROW. hahas. somehow the Touch and Contact calendars seems to have gotten everything planned out for.
anyways.. some of them are hanging out tonight at Avalon while i'm stucked at home doing my project.
too much goodness isn't that good too huh. hahas
and ever since all the incidences during the last december, i'm becoming more and more careful at where i'm treading. good healthy fear i guess, but let it not overcome me.
thank God for today and everyone around me.
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