Jumping onto a cloud of faith.

Note: Start reading from the 5th paragraph onwards for the essencec of this blog entry.

Hey ppl it's me again! How yer doin'? I had a war of feelings over the week.
Let me describe what exactly happened during the last day of the 45th National Schools Track And Field. The night before Sarah informed me abt it and I was huh?!? I did not run anything in the big track n field competition and you want me to go? I was feeling that way coz i felt rather isolated from the sch's track team at this point of the time. I haven't been training with them for like 3mths.

But the angel in my mind told me, "You should and must go! If you don't even go to National Stadium to support your fellow teammates, you aren't a good tracker anymore!" The devil was defending itself by saying that if I go, how will the other track members there feel about me? I gave myself some time to think over the night and "steadily" agreed to xiangying the next morning and go with the track members. Moreover, the ones running on that finals day were my best buddies. Namely, Yuk Lung aka Ah long, Zhen Huang, Benedict aka Dict or Ben, and Nadzri aka Nad.

So I stepped out of the classroom by 11.40am and reached the car porch to meet up with track members of the school. Xiangying told me that there'll be boys around. I only saw Gentle Giant sitting at a bench alone himself. GG is Isaac. Ok that's bad for me... I never liked going anywhere with lotsa girls around me lol. I haven't jalan with the girls and ppl for a long long time.. I didn't click with them well. That's my personality-shy? That's fine with me i can just walk beside them and..keep silent?lol.. I h8 going out with the track girls. They always have a chain-like connection. When tracy asked where to go for lunch. None of us could decide.. Then the girls will look at each other.That's what they do and nothing is yet decided...Finally they ssssssttttttrrrrroolllleed (so damn slow sia) out of the school gate and we took a bus to Clementi. Again the girls took their sweet time deciding where to eat. Someone said either Mac or hawker centre. So the whole track gang walked to the hawker C. to eat. Now another problem. Suddenly half excused themselves from eating. Some said they just ate, others simply said they're not eating.

A number of us settled down on one long table. Me, Gina, Shan, Loh Ying, Isaac, Fang Yi, Tracy and Kiki i guessed. I was the last to finish my food and what? Isaac disappeared and Gina told me he went with the rest to Mac! What De... Things went faster from now. The Clementi MRT station was our next destination. Missed one train and caught the second one to meet up with Farjar in the train. Bhoo~Hoo~~ The train sets off all the way to Lavender. Bus 16 was already stopping by the bus stop when we climbed out of the underground station.

Moments later the enormous National Stadium was just in front us. With Isaac's instinct as the compass, we three guys led the group to where Mr Tham and the competitor were. I didn't greet Mr Tham, cuz u know i haven't talked to him for so long. Out of a sudden Isaac said the place we sat is actually Cedar Girls' territory.. He remembers tat sch sitting here last year. Mr Tham wasn't concerned about that. He had the heck-care attitude to such things because he thinks there's no such rules as where schools can sit or not.. True enough, a teacher from Cedar Girls came over and commanded us to leave our seats and find another place.. Then we tried to sit behind err NYGH before we're asked to leave.. Lucky Mr Tham's friend(a coach as well) from
NYGH came over and offered us a place in front of them. We thought we can really rest ourselves although it was not under the shelter unlike the first place we occupied..

Then one of the worst situation came to us... "Sorry this place is reserved for Hwa Chong Junior College, can you please leave this place?" a student came from nowhere and shouted at us. Our track members were starting to stand up when Mr Tham angrily barked, "SIT DOWN!"He was so cool....Like a trial boss, we track members are the gang members hehe..Mr Tham fired back, arguing that there's no such things as reserved or booked areas. We can sit anywhere we like.. The students from Hwa Chong and Mr Tham talked for a while before the Nan Yang Girls' coach(quite a plump one) intervened the negotiation. I overheard some of the sentences the NYGH coach and Mr Tham said. A female HCJC student said," We came here at 5am in the morning and booked this place by marking the spot by placing our flags" Mr Tham retorted," So what if you came here at 5am?" The NYGH coach was fiercer in his words," Hey let me tell you this, there is no such rules of booking the place unless it passed down by the parliament. Unless these rules are set by the organiser, they are not valid. At one time i faced Farjar and told him," Farjar, these people study so much and still they are,so selfish,unreasonable?" Don't you ppl think so? Although we sat on 3 rows, the HCJC ppl could have asked us to sit on one single long row and we will only occupy a tiny part of their "booked territory". A thought suddenly flashed through my troubled mind. OMG...if i get into that jc, will i be as unreasonable as them? The Nan Yang girls themselves already occupied around 5 rows of the HCJC's so-called territory. Yet the jc students didn't even said anything.
You know what i am trying to stress here?!??!!?!? We are looked down by other schools! Our numbers there were merely 20! St Nicholas Girls, SJI, Chinese High and NJC count their numbers by the hundreds.Other top schools have no respect for Tanglin!!!

Then Mr Tham gave up and said, "Nevermind, we'll move somewhere else. I want to see how many more schools will chase us away" We marched our way across the grandstand(under the shelter), passing through Chinese High's horde, NJC then CHIJ Toa Payoh. Yay we found an empty space! The Millenia Institute ppl was semi-spreaded but there was still ample space for us.AHH~ We all heaved a sign of relief when the VJC didn't cared when we took a place behind them.

FAST FORWARD. Nadzri went off for his 100m finals. We were all excited and nervous for him! I never felt like this,supporting a close friend in his event. My eyes zoomed in at him like a tele-camera and focused on the first lane. BANG! Nadzri blasted off from his blocks and sprinted with all his strength. He didn't won the top 3 positions, but I am still very very proud of him because he has made this far to the finals and tried his best. Next was that tragic 4x400 event. We waited so long that we got drenched 2 times by the unexpected rain. First time we went through the exit to seek shelter, then came out to watch the running events. Again the rain came but we were smart to get packed fast and hide.

4x400m was next. Zhen Huang was ready at the starting blocks. Off he GOES! He was last when he passed the baton to Yuk Long and he tried to chase the group ahead. Yes! He slowly caught up with the runner in front and overtook afew when he curved in to the last 100m. Benedict was lining up last at the finishing mark with other 3rd runners to receive their batons. Although Yuk Long was 3rd when he reached the receiving runners, bendict was lined last. So benedict wanted to cut the queue and get the baton as ah long was the next coming in. There was a small confusion around and benedict grabbed the baton and went off,4th in position now. A St Patrick guy was just in front of him, so near that it seemed Ben was trailing behind him. I quickly commented that to Farjar,"Eh, Ben's blocked by that guy!" In just a split-second after i turned my eyes away from farjar and focused on Ben, he slipped off and fell into a sitting position. His baton flew at least 3 lanes right of him. But he quickly recovered and took the baton and carried on the race. Now TSS is last.Kaini was covering her mouth with both hands and gina on her shoulders...Everyone was ghastly shocked!

It's over... We lost... I was so devastated! I can feel how the 4 of them felt... It would be hell for them inside their hearts, but they just can't vent their angry in any way they want. Imagine studying hard many months for the O levels and yet you can't get a decent grade. All your efforts have been wasted by a small incident.. In chinese you called it "GONG KUI YI KUI"