Wednesday, June 23, 2004
ze clairvoyant
i presume yesterday's soccer session at sji would be the last.. but it ended with such style!
fast-forward: we had alumni band practice, and lester tried "karachi boulevard", a jap cartoon song and "colonel bogey".. well the band sounded quite bad, and we can't seem to concentrate on playing those pieces well.. lester was rather lethargic, and listening to some of our nonsense really pissed him off.. he wanted to scrap the pieces and change them to simpler pieces.. i played the 1st part with esmond, and i can sincerely say that we tried our best.. but sadly the band is judged as a whole unit.. i pity the trombonists and euphonium players cuz they had quite a stick from lester..
he told us to be serious for band practice from now, instead of playing soccer before band and coming into the bandroom drenched and exhausted.. there's some truth in it, although i wouldn't exactly refer it to myself..
rewind: as afore mentioned, our soccer session ended with such aplomb! we started off using a mini-ball, because bro. michael prohibited the use of size 5 balls.. his rational is that the large ball would damage the goal posts' netting, although i can't see how it would.. nevertheless we had some fun! defending a small ball surely is tedious! poor nicholas hong was on the receiving end of many shots.. the mini ball was so small that it made his life tough as a 'keeper, and the lightness of the ball meant that it flew at a greater velocity.. hehe..
i scored two goals yesterday.. the first a curled right-foot shot into the top left of binghong's goal.. the assist was from vignesh down the left wing.. then we used the large ball as there were only alumni people left.. the second goal was an absolute stunner.. i got the ball from my keeper, esmond, just in front of our goal and decided to hit a long-range shot with the outside of my right foot.. the ball curled right, over everyone, and dipped just nicely over nicholas into the goal post! what a beauty! what a way to end the game! hehe :) hope i don't have to wait so long to play soccer again!
