Women Of Destiny

We had training today! =) Like every other sessions, i got reprimanded by my coaches. Quite alot. But that's ok, i'm pretty used to it. I have to be teachable in order to improve. Haa.

Just 2 days ago, I received an sms from my coach that we will be playing a friendly against Clementi Town Sec. SECONDARY SCHOOL. Can you imagine our individual skills and standard..? Well, the team is still quite new and only a few of us had some experience.

Anyway, we were suppose to be celebrating our 2 coaches' birthday, since they lie around January so we decided to celebrate for them together. The girls put in alot of effort such that they wanted to give them a surprise, by starting first with some shocking arguments among themselves, storm off the court angrily, then come back with a cake. 2 cakes actually. They even prepared 2 balloons with messages on them.

Only the supposedly "shocking arguments" never came, we were all too gigglish to even start one. Everyone was so frantically trying to think up something, other than quarreling. NOTE: We were all doing drills and planning at the same time, so my coach is like pretty frustrated when he caught us talking in our small groups.

Finally, we just took out the cake, light the candle and walked towards the court where he is coaching the new Year 1s. Another NOTE: There were many people at the court, because the boys bball team at a trial selection today, also with the hockey team behind, and the tennis people not far from us.

And we started singing the happy birthday song. This caught the attention of almost everyone at the court.

ONLY, the 2 coaches TOTALLY ignore us. The first one just turned around and looked at us, " Go to the side please, give them space to do lay-ups." The second one came, hang around for awhile, and he went dribbling off.

But 2nd wasnt too bad, AT LEAST HE BLEW THE CANDLE and made a wish when we asked him to. ( His wish: That we would win every match)

The 1st? "Have you finish your break? Not long enough is it?"

GOSH!! WHAT A GRATEFUL BRAT! We really should apologise for celebrating his birthday for him.

And we continued with our training. Like a group of girls holding on to 2 cakes, singing birthday song and having everyone staring at us (probably in disbelief and maybe, awe, because the birthday boys just ignored us, and we kept singing, as though to ourselves) haven just happened.

Many of us were so angry! Its obvious they didnt appreciate us at all... Well well well, we have taken in some new year 1s, dont think he need us anymore. My friend said he might be allowing the year 1s to play in our upcoming match.

All of us have trained for 1 years plus plus plus, and now we are being replaced so fast.

I totally felt like crying throughtout the whole training. =(

Signing off,
Joanne (always 17!)