i FINALLY got a phone. dream come true. ahh...
played soccer again today. PJS was WET! man! it was like going to sungei buloh.
got my shoes all wet and muddy. THEY HAVE TO DRY BY FRIDAY! ARRGH! CAN THEY?
i left early for PJS but still got there late. blame the funeral bus that i took.
the moment i got down i "put on zhi yi's shoes" and CHARGED!!! not easy,
considering that i had a bagload of stuff to carry. then jenna came and we decided
to wait for zhi yi and ryan. surprisingly they didn't come on the 945 bus, but
from a HDB block. i have no idea how they got there.
so then we started. and i HAD to be the pioneer into the swamp. i guess that's
what you get when you play there just after a heavy shower. but at least we got to
play...
did a bit of passing, then started on the set pieces. free kicks and crosses;
penalties and corners. practiced all. then it happened. zhi yi kicked the ball
between the posts (slippers) and ryan had to get it. unfortunately the ball ended
up near the two flagpoles. and ryan, being ryan, had to start shaking them. at
first it was only one pole. for a laugh. then it became two. then zhi yi went over
and started wobbling them and made a REAL racket. attempts to stop them were to no
avail, and the noise prompted a resident to shout at them. not funny. not funny at
all. they had to spoil the mood.
after that ryan wanted to get a drink. no one wanted to accompany him, after what
he had done. so he went alone. then zhi yi, probably feeling guilty, decided to
play keeper. and jenna IMPROVED A LOT. her shots packed the power and the curl,
almost beating zhi yi once. the reason? "i do this better when i'm angry".
ryan came back and straight away went to the bench to sip his new drink. didn't
look like he cared about the flagpoles at all. and when he came to the field, the
first thing he did was throw the ball right into the big puddle of water in front
of jenna, getting her wetTER. no brains. and his ball retrieving skills, on a
scale of 1 to 10, is somewhere in the sub-zero range.
after the awkward feelings dissolved in the mud beneath us, it was match time.
four lps guys against the "juggernaut united". final score: 9-0. hattrick to the
lps goalkeeper, two for me, two more for zhi yi, one from jenna, and one from
ryan. i have to say, our wing play was quite good. my position? left winger. jenna
took the central field while ryan was given free rein. zhi yi took the right wing.
amazing match, until the lps "man of the match" got his leg injured. then ryan got
is leg injured.
and zhi yi went mad after that. he tried to hit jenna with HER ball, and believe
me, it's not that easy trying to prevent that from happening. espicially when ryan
caught some of his madness as well, and tried to pull me away from zhi yi. in the
end, i failed in my quest. sigh.
and after that, even when zhi yi calmed down, ryan was still fired up. trying to
hit jenna with every ball he sees. no way i could change the direction of the
ball's flight, but the least i could do was offering him is own medicine. it
didn't really serve much purpose, as his mom doesn't care about his white shirt
getting brown, contrary to jenna's.
5.30pm came and jen had to leave. i hope she managed to clean up enough to escape
the wrath of her mom. as for me, i showered for half an hour after i got home. and
the only problem i had was my shoes. that's bad enough for me. if they can't dry,
i'll have only one pair to bring to taiwan. ARRGH!
oh, i've been blogging for almost an hour. got to sleep soon. school tomorrow.
actually maybe i won't go... not worth going all the way to school to run when i
can do so in my estate.
ok, bedtime. blog more another day.
