Wednesday, March 16
I miss you, my blog!Been exactly 15days since I last blog! Yup… I have set my foot on Guangzhou & left plenty of carbon dioxide there too!! Okie.. I shall make this short and sweet!!3March: Fen came to send us off.. sat all alone onboard cos I was supposed to return early alone for NUS Open House.. sob sob.. gusts of cold wind welcomed us at the airport.. all were excited by the vapour formed as we spoke!! Haha… I wore my beanie!! Whee!!
Settled down at the sports centre.. didn’t expect the room to be tt goood… had our own
INITIATION NITE… I was named as one of the initiators cos the ‘seniors’ proclaimed tt I have yet to do any since I joined the team.. orite.. I glady accepted tt appointment.. big sacrifices I made.. did the
BIO-ORE Porepack adverb by sticking super duper big blackhead across my cheeks n nose.. not forgetting steff’s self-made sanitary lookalike Porepack!! All in that cannot make in Hongkee Tong accent!! Glad everyone enjoyed it..
4-7March: 1st 2 trainings & games ( against GZ 2nd state team) were real test for the team as we had to work at a
rate of 150% hardwork to keep our body & muscles warm in that cold windy weather!! Never in Singapore will u see us train in
full tracksuit, gloves, beanies and even thick winter jacket (loaned to us by the china nat team) on top of our grays attire! We also went for Korean dinner feast hosted by the china national ladies’ coach, Mr Kim Chang Back!! Yum yum!! Everyone were so happy and crazy over training.. doing translation of steff’s stupid mushroom joke in Hokkien, Japanese, Thai & Cantonese!! *
steff ying jan & qiao left us on 7Mar*
8March: This day was declared as the shopping day! Everyone woke up excitedly!! We gonna get our Macs lunch since we have craved for it since the 1st day!! Went to Beijing & Lao-Shu (Mouse) streets where we tried and succeeded with our bargaining skills!! So proud of ourselves!! As we were taught by the china players to at least start the bargaining price at 40% of wat was quoted!! Everyone felt like queen!! Oh ya.. before I forgot.. Xiu, Leng & myself had this fetish of taking pictures with the street signages over in GZ.. my pix will tell ya more! As this was supposely my only shopping day. I had almost spend all my money on food goodies.. thus lugging armful of plastic bags back to the centre… end of shopping day means back to training days!!
9March: we were done with pitch training but coach had fitness for us in mind already.. I missed the 1st morning fitness as I was down with diarrhea but played the subsequent afternoon match against the Guangzhou 2nd state team in a ‘
spinny’ state!! * we could have easily beat them if we have our full senior side & if we have our full senior side.. we could have play their 1st team!!*
10March: Joined the team for my 1st fitness run followed by a game of ‘Hatum Bola’ aka Poisonous Ball on the open field.. Guess wat.. Coach kindly cancelled our afternoon’s fitness and granted us shopping rights!! We headed for this street full of A-grade sports imitation stuff.. whereby u could get an Adidas sport bag at S$6 = RMB$30!! * how cheap rite?* Tian He Cheng aka TeeMall was our 2nd destination… everyone practically headed for the supermarket and combed all the food stuff off the racks! Time passed so quickly.. next moment I realised… I was busy trying to squeeze all my shopping stuff into my luggage and keeper bag!! And continue with our usual round of JIM RAMEE , a card game which made my room 310 the official DEN!!
11March: the day has come for me to bid farewell… I have to followed Mindy to send the team on their 3rd shopping trip w/o me this time round at Shang Xia Jiu before I head back to the sports center for my luggages!! I has a personal LIMO to send me to airport!! Hehehe… at the airport.. I had to plead with the young officer not to charge me excess baggage cos of my keeper bag.. & he was so understanding after my much explanation that im actually with a team but cos I have to go back alone early for work reason.. otherwise.. I will be charge RMB$1400 for my excess at RMB$70 for everyone 1KG!! That wasn’t the end.. my China beer didn’t clear the china custom.. so I have to surrender the beer (which costs my less than S$5) that I have bought for Sue, RobinA, Jer and Papa.. sob sob.. afterall.. travelling alone wasn’t tt bad and frightening except the excess baggage part!! I landed in Singapore safely..
12March: woke up early..reported for work at 0730 for NUS Open House… im so glad things went on so well!! Big big round of applause for my colleagues; Mr Loke, Mei Mei Hui, Macik Mariana, Marie, Fred the Frog, Tempies Shermaine & Eliz!! Thanks for covering on my duty where I was away training hard and shopping too!!
Now.. im continuing my 2nd round of diarrhea at home… sob sob… my 500++++pictures should be up soon.. Lil’s passing me hers too so tt I can upload for her too… oh ya… Premier starting this week!! SRC Pplaying SCC at 430pm!!as I have begun to believe.. I play for MYSELF… n the Nation!! Im glad I did well for the GZ state.. cept for 2 mistakes!! I will rem and work on it coach!!
For now.. time to take medicine … back to my bed… I need to be ready for my two visits tomorrow at work!! Poly principals’ dialogue session with Provost & Visit by the Rwanda Foreign Minister
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