I was working on Sunday night when Charlene texted, asking me to head over to Mervin’s birthday chalet after my shift. I was hestitant to join since I did not know Mervin that well (besides that one drinking session with a few others) so I asked if I was invited.

She replied with his text invitation (which he massed texted to those he invited) and I replied, asking in a joking manner I was invited by him or she had forced him to Well, I went down to the chalet anyway.

I arrived just as Mervin was about to put out the BBQ pit. He cooked me some really tasty meat as well as a couple of hot dogs as Charlene introduced me to the small group that was hanging around, drinking and gambling. There was his wife, JD and his girlfriend, Morris, other ex-NAB staff and their girlfriends…

After clearing up, Mervin, Charlene, Morris and I sat down and started playing card games. Loser drinks the cup of beer. We could go a round and either pour more beer into the cup or pour out the beer. Morris kept getting the smallest card and kept putting off drinking the beer until there were four cups in front of him. I think out of the 13 rounds we played, he lost like, nine rounds? And we all helped him with his beer But apparently it was still too much for him and he puked later on

Even though it was not a big thing, it felt nice and I enjoyed myself

My internship started last week and it’s boring. Well, and somewhat demanding. This is a reason why I will never get a full-time job at the office.

Since last week, I have been pulling a five-day-six-night week. I am somewhat amazed that I can just sleep for about three hours a day, pull a nine-hour long office job, then a seven-hour shift at the bar. I guess I can now claim the title Charles gave me a few months ago: Superwoman

It was pretty much a lousy day yesterday with oversleeping, getting to internship an hour late, getting crap from the higher up folks, being demanded to do stuff that gets rejected 7863458976 times, re-doing those stuff 7863458977 times, listening to someone tell me something that I have been suppressing for months so now it becomes a reality, missing training because of internship, getting to work late because of internship…

Okay, basically, internship sucks.

That is why I wanted to go drinking. So, after work at half past three this morning, some colleagues and I ended up at a bar drinking beer and Chivas and watching the Chelsea-Liverpool match. I am not much of a soccer fan but I supported Liverpool this morning. In fact, everyone else was supporting them. But darn Chelsea! If that penalty was not scored, it could have been a draw.

Charlene was the only one rejoicing and making a whole lot of noise, irritating the shit out of everyone else (She is only supporting them because Liverpool kicked her team, Arsenal, out.)

I enjoyed myself tremendously. It made me forget (more or less) about my lousy day. And it made me look forward to working tonight

Yeah, I love working

Note to readers: Tiang is a term we use whenever the ball hits the goal frame. Technically, it should be diang. But I guess we’ll just go along with tiang, eh?

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Yesterday’s training was one of the very few trainings that had all eight of us down to train together. And, of all days, it had to be a day where almost everyone willingly joined the new tiang club—SPTC—because almost all of us kept tianging.

When I was doing some stationary shots, there was this time I tianged four times in a row. Four times! It was so frustrating that I got really angry and it made my following two shots in

I did not practice keeping for a long time. So, initially, practically everyone’s balls kept ramming into the goal. But after getting the hang of it, I managed to keep pretty decent balls. Especially those thrown by the alumni guys And Jackson tianged three times in a row! Jacky was much worse. Almost all his balls kept tianging.

Geok Cheng was saying that we practically tianged more than 50 balls yesterday

We played pretty okay with the guys. We managed to score three goals, too. If only we can play like this on Saturday (minus all the tianging), we could probably trash the other two teams

It would be Joycelyn’s last match with us So Geok was saying we should try and let her score as many goals as she can this Saturday

It is always amazing to discover the bruises and cuts and abrasions one can get after a training session. It is more of a wonder when one does not realise how one got the injury to begin with.

Check out my bruises on my right arm from keeping:

As well as those on my thighs—courtesy of the Vampire (that’s the brand of the boat):

This one on my left may not look as gross but it hurts much more. I mean, its causing me to limp!

Now, my body is aching everywhere—arms, legs, back, neck… I wish I can have a clone of myself so I can get some massaging done on my back.

I decided not to upload every single photo since there were probably 8349053489756 photos of the match itself (which may not look that great) so I just zipped and loaded the group photos. If you want the match photos, feel free to ask

April 5: Day 1
April 12: Day 3
April 13: Day 4

The Genting trip was okay, I guess. The rides were fun but we had the down moments. Especially the terrible service we got there. Not to mention the discrimination. Urg.

Anyway, we played pretty okay last weekend. We were up against NTU on Saturday, and Redtide and Devlin on Sunday.

I guess despite the lack of trainings together as a team, not to mention it’s not the team I have been playing together with for the past two years, we played pretty okay. Not too bad in my opinion. But we could have done better. Maybe we will show them this weekend

My new team (We so need a new team name)

I’m surprised I did not capsize here

If you can’t get the ball, cap the opponent…

… then score the goal (nice pass from Yanli!)

Judaxil could not stop laughing when she saw this

Before our match against Devlin, we were cheering loudly for Jackson as he was playing in the pool. The inside joke was that he complained that during training matches, whenever a girl scores, everyone cheers for her (including the guys) and whenever he (Jackson) scores, his own teammates does not even say, “Good shot.”

So, to make him feel better, we screamed and cheered like crazy whenever he scored a goal. And there was this goal he scored and we cheered like mad and he kind of gave a little bow as he rowed towards us and looked rather embarrassed

So, during our match against Devlin, he cheered like crazy for us, which was really amusing because seeing one single senior guy cheering for the whole girls team was just… amusing. Haha!

Clockwise from left: Yanli, Lilin, Joycelyn, Geok Cheng, Patricia, Joanne, Jolene and Me

The Keepers: Geok and Pat

The Zoners: Lilin, Joanne, Jo and Poi

The Chasers (best you can ever find :D): Yanli and Me

The junior girls

The senior girls

Okay, now I need to figure out how to upload 225 photos (approx. 750MB) online so that seven girls can get them

An inside joke for us to remember and to laugh over. Again and again

Ray:

hi all,
pls be reminded that all participants are required to wear their helmet at all times when u are in the pool. Players are not suppose to take off their helmet when they are inside the substitue area.

Refs can help to take note of that and remind the players to put on their helmet at all times when they are in the pool. thks

At the end of the day is for our own safety, so pls follow!!! thks

Hanlong:

haha yes…pls do wear…if nt both ur front tooth may be broken

Libang:

Stop suaning the guy who broke his front two teeth while doing bow dips with me la..

later he dont want to play the match on sunday morning

Jackson:

yar lor. STOP SUANING
THE GUY WHO BROKE HIS TWO FRONT TEETH.

GUYS! Better sTOP taLking about
the GUY WHO BROKE HIS TWO FRONT TEETH.

it certainly doesn’t feel good being SUANED as
the GUY WHO BROKE HIS TWO FRONT TEETH.

if you dun believe, try putting yourself in his shoe, being
the GUY WHO BROKE HIS TWO FRONT TEETH. mayb you will feel it too!

if you still do not understand or feel it, mayb you shld learn from
the GUY WHO BROKE HIS TWO FRONT TEETH. and break your front teeth!

Conclusion:
STOP SUANING HIM -
the GUY WHO BROKE HIS TWO FRONT TEETH.

thanks for reading!

Heng Fu:

dun worry Potter, we are not laughing at you, we just using the THE GUY WHO BROKE HIS TWO FRONT TEETH. as an example.

Darn, can’t believe we laughed so hard at a lot of things (including the above) on Saturday