Hi everybody,
It's hard to begin talking about sports day and look fair and square since almost every single one of you have seen me in the champion, oops sorry, i mean the yellow house during the past weeks and in the stadium screaming my lungs out saying, as Lyn puts it on her web log, beautiful!
However, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the houses on their team spirit, ongoing and unstoppable stamina and exceptional effort in supporting their athletes during the past weeks, particularly on sports day at Tun Razak Stadium. I mean, from my perspective, Red house was just awesome and the way they had decorated their team as little devils with all the Native American spelling stuff and those bill board with mighty red stuff and the whole crazy feeling of winning saved from them the last place, you just got to give them the credit, having Alex in the forefront roaring "WHO ARE WE?" "RED HOUSE!"
Anyways, the blue house, with out a single doubt was the only house that gave me the shivering icy chills from the very first weeks when they began flooding the points like huge waves, especially in 80m run, and their ocean of athletes looked big and overwhelmingly strong. They were and simply are the most determined group having Pn Siti who can lead an army of soldiers and speaking of soldiers, they had the sonic daniel and the mighty Farhan and the Gigantic Gaul Bilal ;) at the end of the rope that I can't think how Mr.Ganesh+Mr.Darminda+me and half a dozen PE teachers could pull these guys even an inch, this was truly the Legion of Lions.
The Green house had s Elvinna and Pn Royliza and I think that was more than enough to pump up any team and they did began quite well, and we should ask Yen Foo and Pei Ying - I think i spelled her name correctly, i hope - well, we gotta ask these green lovers why they made such a big fuss over the "green grass" of the pitch and the whole controversy of wearing trainers and not wearing trainers and what i can say to them is what Ernest Hemingway once said that it is not "to be" or "not to be" but in fact, it is now "to have" or "not to have" and I guess you guys were not supposed "to have" those weird shoes on and so you had to stop bragging about it.
Nonetheless, the yellow house began the tournament in the worst possible way and you remember how we came last after the troubling refereeing at the boys shot put and the messy wet, muddy pitch for the long jump. I mean, we were not as "equipped" and "opportunist" as the blue house were to have such strategic team of policy makers who could think of bringing all those newspapers on the pitch, instead we ran in the mud and didn't get much points. However, our day of glory came on the third day, the 80m run, when the team had to listen to my irritatingly nagging-like speech about how disappointed I was and how this is the last chance they had of taking that magic step towards victory.
I guess that day turned out to be a very critical point in our journey to the championship since the girls shop put did marvellous and who could forget the day of the long jump when I had to drag Maxuine, Joshua's little sister, to the field having tearful eyes, reluctant to go and not knowing after her injury she would be awarded later that week and she was the one who brought us the bronze medal along with Kun and Mike who won the silver and gold medals, those eagles who flew over the sandbox landing on the other side with Ming kun breaking his own record with a distance of 6.05m making us all proud cheering.
The sports month and especially the sports day was full of memories that we can never forget; moments of glory and gloom, moment of glory when Ming Kun picked up the cup after receiving it from Ms Olive to moments of gloom when Min Yee fell with the thigh injury, and when Daniel Phoon landed on his ankle after the long jump. Undoubtedly, the whole competition was full of such moments, moments of dare and despair, when the boys showed a daring triumph on the ropes after losing the first round coming back with a double win to get the bronze medal. However, there were also moments of despair when Juliana refused to take the last steps properly and swiftly so that we would not lose the gold letting it slip out of our grasp.
All and all, sports day turned out to be a wonderful day of fun and joy with the Yellow house Mascott in front, waving yellow ribbons, Red house determined athletes supporting each other even on the tracks while the contestants were running to the green house at the tele match and who can forget the tearful eyes of champions, such as Ming Kun crying for joy when the boys win the 400m race and the eyes of Min Yee filled with tears in disppointment in why and how could she not take part in the race that she had worked so hard training for during lunch and after school. These were the priceless moments that you could see and feel in words and could see and cherish on my facebook albums.
However, what I want you to do is to post your comments on how you spent Sports day on Thursday after weeks of preparation. Finally, try to use compound and complex sentences and try to describe the experience of these weeks as vivid and tangible as you can... I will be waiting for the your reflections from the Sports Day.
God bless you all.
