Free at last!

After almost 3 months of enduring the harshness of military training, yesterday(August 12,2006) was finally the last training day for the first term.

Yesterday was the commandant turn-over ceremony of the military organization of the university. It was really boring. We had to stand at the football field for almost 6 hours under the heat of the sun. The first 4 hours, we had rehearsals for the ceremony. After the 20-min. break, the ceremony was to start. Our officer told us that we had just to stand for 30 minutes without moving, but later, when the ceremony started, it turned out that the ceremony took over an hour to finish.

There was the old and new core commander delivering their speech. The speech of the new core commander was boring. He was telling a weird story, which I don't understand. I had to try my best to keep my eyelids from coming down. I had to try hard to stand straight, despite my aching shoulders and arms. While the ceremony was being held, I kept saying "faster faster faster!" , praying that the speakers would talk faster so we could dismiss earlier O_o

After over an hour of standing without moving, my legs went numb. I felt as if I was paralyzed LOL I can't even feel the pain anymore. When the officer commanded us to scram out the field within 10 seconds, I was surprised that my legs can no longer run and my knees cannot anymore bend >.< With the voice of the officer counting down beside...I tried my best to "run" HAHA

I was happy that I was one of the few who withstood the heat until the end and was still able to get out the field without fainting LOL Many cadets from our platoon fell and had to be carried out the field to rest. Our officer congratulated us, "survivors," for being to able to stand till the end. I felt good about that, considering that my arms and legs still hurt till now :P

But, at the same time of triumph, there was also a bad news waiting for me. Remember my tennis tryouts? The assistant coach told us that he would send us a message when the results are out. I haven't received the message till now, after the tryout 3 weeks ago. Since I am really running out of patience, I asked another girl who also went to the tryouts yesterday whether she had received the message or not. Her answer was "yes." At that moment, I immediately knew that I did not pass the tryout, for the girl I asked was the same girl whom I mentioned before who played like a pro. CRAP! I want to curse myself for not playing well during the tryouts.

In order to have my outburst, I went to play tennis yesterday afternoon for almost 2 hours, putting out my full strength. I felt so relaxed after the 2 hours because I haven't practiced tennis for a month, which is as long as a whole year for me. I also invited Solomon to play tennis. The coach told me that I need more strength to increase the speed of the returned balls, so I decided that I could need a bit of help from weights. Later today, I am going to SM Mall of Asia to buy weights, just the light ones coz I don't want to get big muscular arms @_@

Oh well, I guess I'll have to practice more so I can join the tryout again on the third term. I've decided that I would pass the varsity tryout no matter what. Thanks for the incoming 2-week term break this August 28,2006, I could go play tennis everyday or at least thrice a week. I hope I could improve faster.

Friends out there, whoever wants to play tennis, just tell me. We could go to the tennis court together ;) I'm a member there, so we could play anytime. Welcome! See ya on my next post! :D