DAY 1I went to school first before I went to
SLTA with my other schoolmates who were
playing to. I did a bit of homework then went to wait for the van. When I reached SLTA, I was surprised to find
Nicole there so early. I thought that she was still in school, sitting for her exams. So I went over to her court where the other
Lodge kids were warming up. I also saw
Zhi En there. Surprise surprise! It’s been a long time since I’ve seen him! Evone was there too. These two lazy bunch have not been to training for quite some time. Anyway, the competition started at 8am. We all went into the master court (court 8) to watch
Ivan play with
Norman from
Green Road. It was super fun to watch
Ivan play. At first he was so humble but when he started to lead the game, his head got big, which was fatal because he made lots of mistakes. Fortunately, he managed to deflate his head and he won the tie-breaker. So the score was
9-8 I think. I was quite surprised, but I’m so totally proud of him. Victory to
Lodge! Quite a few of the other
Lodgians managed to win the first round. Some got kicked out. I didn’t play in the morning, because I received BYE for first round.
Dorothy wasn’t around because she was in
Vietnam.
Nicole received BYE too, so we only played in the afternoon. At 9 something,
Zhi En keep asking for the time because he said he wanted to go back to school to sit for his BM paper, but couldn’t because he hasn’t played his match yet. So I told him to ask the officials to put his match first. And so they did.
Zhi En played
Justin from
Kuching High and won. Haha. Not bad for someone who hasn’t trained for more than 3 months. He has a killer serve, bet he got that from his brother
Zhi Yuan. Lolz. After his match he went to school with
Lina. He didn’t shower and wasn’t planning to. Eewww. He’s one funny dude. The
Lodgians were having their lunch (SCR) while I sat next to them. I was so freaking hungry, but didn’t want to eat just yet. My school teacher didn’t buy any food for us, instead, he gave us RM5 each. Evone and Ivan keep suggesting that we all go to
Scoops for ice-cream. Yummy. We would have gone, but we didn’t have a car so. Later in the afternoon, two sweet angels named
Nicole and
Evone accompanied me to
Civic Centre to have my lunch. I ate “nasi goreng ayam”, the Malay lady was so super-duper slow. The three of us drank Milo shake, nice nice. I think we’re all hooked on it because we drank it the next day, and the next. Haha. After lunch, we went back to the court. By then
Stefanie, Ambrose, Morgan, Greg, Danielle, Eugene, Lina and
Zhi En were back from school. They didn’t want to miss their papers because the school didn’t allow them to resit for the paper. Even if they did, it wouldn’t be counted in their report cards. So unfair. Anyway, I played my first match against a girl called
Istari a.k.a Babe. I played her
8-2 and I advanced to the quarters. Before I played my next match, I had to accompany
Charmaine to
Sarawak Club. She went there for swimming lessons, but
Natalie dragged her all the way to the tennis court and then ditched her.
Charmaine had to go back, but she didn’t dare to cross the road alone. She tried asking
Henry, Ivan, Zhi En and
Morgan, but no one wanted to help her. So in the end,
Greg and I went with her. I knew my match was coming up, so I told the officials were I was going. They gave me 15 minutes only to go! So mean. By the time I got back, my next match was on. I played
Michelle Loi from
St3. It was seriously hot in the afternoon. I forgot what time it was, but it was freaking hot! But I won
8-1 and advanced into the semis. I guess I indirectly helped
Stefanie take revenge because
Michelle beat
Stef in chess. Lolz.
Nicole played
Stef, and she entered the semis, where she was suppose to play
Lyn See the next day. Nothing much happened during the late afternoon, so
Pn Chong send me back to school were I went online. Hehe.
DAY 2
It rained in the early morning, and also when I reached
SLTA. Not many where there when I got there. I suppose its because of the rain, which was very unpredictable that day. When it stopped drizzling,
Lyn See, Sarah, Melvinna, Tessie and I went to dry the court with the rollers. It was a good warm up, and we only did two courts. Once done, we warmed up with each other. The other courts were still wet, like sitting ducks. No one went to dry them. The adults/officials didn’t even get off their lazy butts to dry them. How can they expect us to do everything? So stupid. At about 9am, most of the courts were playable and the matches started. The doubles matches were suppose to be first, but the officials had to arrange the
Girls Under 15 and 18 Singles first because
Lyn See and
Tessie were taking off at 11am to go to
KL.
Nicole played
Lyn See, and lost. But I’m so proud of her because she really did put up a good fight!
Tessie beat
Wena, and straight away played her doubles match. That girl sure has a lot of energy!
Ivan and
Zhi En partnered up and played against some other two guys. I know that they can win. I bet they did too. Because I saw them goofing off during their warm ups before play. Haha. Unfortunately, the rain came down again, and all matches were postponed to the after lunch. This time,
Lina, Stef, Evone, Nicole, Yii Lian and I (plus
William) went to
Civic Centre to have lunch.
I brought bread because I didn’t want to eat mamak food again. Some of them didn’t really have lunch too, and they stuffed themselves with junk food and Milo shake.
We had fun, and
Lina, Nicole and I, oh and
William too, wanted to go up
Civic Centre. The others didn’t want to go because they heard stories about people committing suicide at the top. So they didn’t go, and we left them there. The four of us went up using the lift. The ride up was fun and the view was awesome!
But when we reached the top, the door opened and pitch darkness greeted us. All we saw was a sign board and nothing else. Anyway, it wasn’t really all that scary, but
William freaked us all out! The moment the door slide open and all we saw was darkness,
William started freaking out, sort of shouting and claimed that he saw something. It really really really made
Nicole, Lina and I panic and we almost huddled together and quickly press the down button. My gosh… Never go up with
William again. Haha… Drama King… The whole journey up and down took less than 3 minutes, and when we got back down,
Lina had this whacked idea to scare the others who were still at the mamak stall. She clung onto
Nicole’s and my arms, tilted her head downwards and pretended to be possessed. I kept laughing my head off and the others were like, O-K. Awkward, but with
Lina, everything’s fun! When we got back, I did my add math homework while waiting for the rain to stop, which it didn’t. So I went to disturb
Zhi En and
Lina who were "studying" for their biology exam.
Zhi En was just lying there, so i simply had to bull y him to the fullest because the next day was the last time I'll be seeing him. Anyway, all the matches were postponed to the next day as the rain didnt stop pouring..
DAY 3Matches from the day before resumed without haste.
Zhi En and
Ivan won their doubles match, as expected. We were all having fun as usual.
Greg and
Eugene were playing this cheating-stupid-big headed pair.
Greg’s opponents were so totally cheating, miscounting the score and all. I bet he did that on purpose because no one is THAT stupid. So when they said that the score was
8-6 (it was actually
7-6),
Eugene called for an umpire, which wasn’t much help, because obviously the umpire weren’t on their side. It almost turn into a big brawl. What do you expect from people who are from
SLTA?!? So
Eugene and
Greg lost. But that wasn’t the worst part. The worst part was
Ivan extended his hands to one of the adults to show sportsmanship, but instead was told off! What the crap!!!!
SLTA people can be so … But everything went ok in the end I guess. During lunch, in the hot afternoon,
Yii Lian and
Danielle played against
Wena and
Cecilia in the
Girls Under 15 Doubles finals. They played at the court nearest the clubhouse, which made it easy for us to cheer them on. The
Lodge supporters made so much noise, only to be challenged by the supporters from
SLTA.
Cecilia is from my school.
Yii Lian is my friend. So who did I support? Well, GO
LODGE!!! Haha.
Friends trump school baby! I know, I know, I’m sesat.
Lina kept asking me to transfer to
Lodge. Haha. Whenever
Yii Lian and
Danielle made a mistake, the guys were like, “Its ok
Danielle, it’s the balls fault!” They’d even say “It’s your shirt
Danielle, take it off!!” Haha. Weird bunch. No longer than that, my match was up. I was a total nerve-wreck while waiting for my match. Because everyone was pep-talking me. Saying that
Noraihan (my opponent) is so damn lousy and I am so much better and that I can win for sure. That really didn’t make me feel better, or confident for that matter. Because I knew what was going to happen. I know that in the court, I’m a totally different person, especially when I feel totally pressured. My heart was thumping so hard when I played. And the scorching hot sun didn’t do me any favours either. When I played, I felt as though the court was shortened by 1 meter and my balls keep going out. So seriously frustrating. All the time I wasn’t thinking clearly. I wasn’t afraid of disappointing my parents or my school. I was afraid of letting my friends down, who had their hopes on me and stuff. I didn’t care about my pride. But more of my friends. I wouldn’t know how to face them if I lost. So, my nerves got the better of me, and I lost
8-6. It was a close call, and might have been a totally different score if we played again. After my game I stayed downstairs, I didn’t want to go up and face my friends. I just couldn’t. However,
William and
Johan were there to “comfort and console” me by saying, “How could you lose to her? She’s so damn lousy”. Screw it, it made me felt really really bad. Honestly, after hearing that, I felt worthless, stupid and damn lousy. Thanks guys :p
I felt better after a while, and
Nicole and
Stef were playing
Noraihan and her partner in the
Girls Under 18 Doubles finals. I went to the furthest court to hang with the other Lodgians. I was sitting next to
Lina and
Austin was being such a perv that time! Haha. Someone had better put him on a leash. After that,
Lina and I went to watch
Nicole and
Stef play. They took quite long. 3 hours to be precise. They won of course, and it shocked us all when
Noraihan ran out of the court crying. Sheesh. Sore loser. Their match was the last to finish. The officials didn’t waste any time and did the closing. It you asked me, I’d have to say that was the most pathetic closing ever. No one was there to clap, no speeches, no one to take pictures, no witnesses. That was because it was already late in the evening, and most of the winners had gone home. Anyway, I got my
bronze medal, and that’s that. And
Evone can FINALLY chill because she has her own medal too! Haha
So, the whole time I had fun, bonding with my
Lodge friends. They are oodles of fun (minus the cursing and swearing) and I’d seriously love to do it again with them. I also made new friends, namely
Ambrose, Justin, Morgan and
Eugene.
Since
Nicole and I are both semifinalist, we haven’t made the inter-division team yet. We have to play against each other and
Dorothy, where only two people will be chosen to join the team. Obviously
Dorothy will take the spot with ease, which means either
Nicole or I will have to be kicked out. But the both of us have already made a pact. Neither one is going anywhere if the other isn’t. Therefore, the both of us aren’t playing
MSSS or
MSSM this year. Besides, I’ll be super busy with the school magazine, not to mention I’m having SPM this year.
So I’m not going. No one can force me, because
Haha. Anyway, I won’t be joining inter-school again next year because I won’t belong to a school around this time next year. But I’ll definitely come watch my dear friends play and shout, “
GO LODGE!!!”
(500 years ago) lolz... Easter Rally, 2005