When : 16th May 2009
Where : Stadium Badminton, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur
Time : 7am
Attendance : WKM, LMC, LCK, andy, jun hann, farng hui, cherry, jasmine, pei yun, arena boyz etc...
i could only sleep tight after 6am on saturday because a mosquito came into my room and kept disturbing me, i was so frustrated and kept my eyes open just to kill the mosquito. when i wanted to fall asleep it bite me, when i wanted to kill it, it flied away, what a clever mosquito!
people called me early morning at around 7am and 8am. i was very tired and did not want to pick up any call because i need a 4-hour bed time at least since i had a sleepless night. however the calls kept on coming in, i felt so frustrated and really wanted throw my hand phone away and dip into a cup of water.
i finally looked into my phone when andy called me, saying that jasmine had to be lining up immediately at the arena. i was wondering sparring competition by right should be started after lunch time. Geneviene called me earlier and i did not pick up the phone, and i called her inform her that jasmine had to go there immediately, she knew it earlier and her father would send jasmine to stadium badminto immediately, we were very frustrated talking on the phone because received some stupid information from them.
i sacrificed my bed time and went to the stadium immediately and coach them, by the time reach there, jun hann lost in the 1st round. after that was andy's turn, i had had already taught him a good strategy which could guarantee he could keep his right attitude towards the 1st round against a giant competitor. most important thing to do is to keep himself relax and never ever fight like a bull with competitors! when came to his turn, he lost his mind when his competitor injured his leg (nail), and he fought like nobody business, the feeling was like wanted to revenge! during rest time i told him to control his emotion and relax his mind, maybe he did not realise that he was playing bull fight but on judges side or public side of view, he was actually out of control. things to learn : do not attack opponent blindly even though you are having serious pain on your body (arms, legs), relax and mind control are crucial, do not show the sign of pain of yours to yours to your opponent because they could easily take advantage against you.
for poomsae competition, i saw most of them were just came and play, performed a poomsae without any preparation and practice, what a sad matter! however i knew 2 of my juniors farng hui and cherry had done their best, unfortunately they did not have any chance to qualified for top 3, i saw actually had 2 participants for women category were fantastic, especially in term of skill and technique to guarantee them gold and silver, 3rd was hardly judged because almost the same. in men category, arena boys were fantastic especially in team poomsae, their cooperation, teamwork, just brilliant! i am speechless! anyhow i have a lot of things to learn from them also, in fact i had recorder down their performance so that i can gain something good from them. congratulation to arena team!
when came to opening ceremony, this was the only sleeping time i had, but having seen madam loh, lokmanian co-curriculum advisor, so i had a chat with her and discussed on the help-up events in future. meanwhile, the performance came with a not-so-good team performed, hmmm... just enjoyed their funny performance only. the only excited performance came from arena team, they showed me the importance of teamwork is, the team is actually very huge, i was wondering when could i get such a big group from now having all the black-belts performing 'koryo' poomsae. planks breaking section was the only performance i had been waiting for so long even though i had seen it before, just superb! indescribable!
2nd half of sparring competition began after the opening ceremony. jasmine and pei yun's turn were after 4.30pm, why i wanted to sacrifice my sleeping time came here so early?!! well, pei yun and jasmine did very well and won the 1st round. however i needed to rush back to prepare myself for dinner tonight, i left 4.45pm. i received news that both had lost in quarter final, i felt it was okay for them since this was their 1st time taking part in the competition. well done!
last but not least, i would say well done to everybody especially our juniors who had taken part in the competition, even though they had not won anything, always support you all! keep practising! keep passionate! stay cool! stay strong! finally bye bye!
brought 2u by WKM
