Monday, August 13, 2007
Might be quitting the team ... Or isit just a path for me to strt anew?
<-- These are my jerseys , from top left number 15 , sec 3 , sec four coach give as souvenir number 12, number 14 ,second jersey from sec 3,
bottom left : number 3 , sec 2 jersey (one of my hot favourite) , republic poly youth team number 14 x 2 and last bt nt least , my favourite jersey , 1st jersey in life , sec 1 , number 11...
I thought for the whole day , keep reminescene , recalling my past ... finding that sometimes i prefer the past ...
I remember I was just primary 5 , trying to confess to a girl , but before I even did , she some sort knows it n hint to me that I was just too short... I wasn't a sweet talker , wasn't able to court a girl with tactics ... so the only way was to grow taller than her , one day , I asked my mother and she told me basketball is the perfect sport ...
I immediately save up some money to buy my first ball , which is a cheap 6 dollars one but it was memorable as that was the time when I know how useless as a human I was ... I always thought I had friends around , though nt alort , bt at least some gd friends , but basketball showed me their true colors , I can clearly see the line in the sand , the people who looks down on me ...
Of course , as a beginner , I do not even know how to dribble , nevertheless say shooting , my friends are at least 150+ cm that time , I was just 135cm when I played , but because I always hate losing , my determination (which is also my weakness ) keeps me from giving up basketball ...
in primary 6 , I find that I love the sport , not because I want to grow tall enuff to court the girl , but because i simply love the challenges of the game , I probably will not love it tt much if I am taller , thus , I did not regret being short whenever i recalls ...
Basketball became the thing i turn to when i feel stressed or feel lik crying ... Even if i cry , i feel that basketball had cried along wif me , in the form of my sweats ... sounds stupid ain't it ?
When I reached sec 1 , the level of the game increases with my age , though i still no much difference ,137 cm ... really extremely short ... But i ain't the only one , one of my classmate (who eventually made it to the sch team ) Te Wei , is also 137 but play extremely well , he can easily defeat me ... you can say tt my style of playiong is inspired by he's , and can be similar , but just that I modified it with my own style after awhile ...
I tried to perfect my lay ups ... and as years goes , my three pointer shooting as well as my jump shooting , which begins the era of the "tweety bird" ... Due to repeating absence to trainings ,grounded by my mum , I was not selected into the sch team , though i was disappointed , but one day , the coach finally saw my skills ... the non sch team was to pit against the sch team for awhile to be their practice opponent , on that training , it was the 1st n the last time i shine in front of the sch coach ...
In the sec 4 , I played with sch team players such as Kelvin and Teng Hui and Yuan Li v frequently , and more ppl took notice of me as despite my size n height , which was then , 158 , has some skills out of the physical limit ... I was able to lay up against tall opponents , pass fancily and shoot my patented trademark fade away shooting ... gained some regonition
after graduation , which is now , He Wei was formed and is going well , Yuan Li n Teng hui joined , but i am currently still at a cross road whether I should still join the team as last week , I said i want to quit the team cause I feel that everyone were not serious in the trainings ...
My decision which was made now while writing the blog is that I will consult some friends as well as observing the team whether they can still improve their seriousness to unleash it's potential .
Anw , really talked v much ... sometimes I really feel I grew alort since secondary school , especially when I saw the pictures just now ... hmmm ... Tada!
<----Taken Last year december
<--taken 3 months ago
Haha ... firstly , I had more moustache, secondly , my face nt so tweety bird liao , third , I taller by 6 cm liao , fourth , I darker . And fifth , most importantly , I am a member of HeWei basketball team now ...
Sometimes I feel that my skills are lagging behind , last time when I was shorter , I was more determined and ran faster ... now lik too old and keep having sports injuries frequently ...
While thinking of all these , still thinkin if I should join bck the team ... haix =(
plying basketball on 10:10 PM
