Chapter 18- The Tainted world of Man
Today was supposed to be cross-country day... let's skip the explaining ok? Everyone's got it in their blogs. So yes, then imran, me, darren, latif, kenneth, avinesh, jia jun and murali decided to play soccer, to train ourselves before the upcoming tournament on saturday. So, everyone followed me back and i made them wait at the bus-stop while i went to fetch my ball and also to change my shoes. So on the bus to toa payoh's street soccer court, we saw the girls, cheryl xuan and belle and samantha walking towards thomson plaza! ARE THEY CRAZY??!??!? omigosh, they walked to thomson plaza! Powerful legs they have... must have trained them from constant window shopping trips. Too bad i hate shopping, i hate even going out to the bus stop. So we went there and unfortunately some people from beatty were already playing there, so we proceeded to challenge them, we just didn't get that certain feel which you can usually get so we didn't play well. That wasn't the point. There was this guy, his name was nanda, he's a good soccer player. So, he played the ball away from me and i tailed him and tried to tackle him, then he started playing with me and taunted me, so i tried even harder to tackle him, i think i kicked him accidentally or i stepped on his foot, it was all accidental! Then he suddenly started calling me '' punde'' or something, which is a some bad word in tamil. And he started calling me that after he passed to his friend, he then motioned for his friend to pass back in tamil, but i understood what he wanted to do, i knew he intended to inflict much pain upon my soft body by driving his ball straight at me, but luckily his friend didn't pass to him. Throughout the remaining of the game, he stared at me and repeated his vulgarities, he was on the verge of assaulting me, i told him i was sorry earlier but he kept staring at me. Thankfully the game ended quickly and when i was resting, he pointed straight at me and said, " I want that guy to play'' i quickly ignored him.
What am i to do? What wrong have i done? Maybe i accidentally hurt him, but i had no purposeful intention... he taunted me and although i supposedly hurt him or something, i still said i was sorry and now i'm bookmarked, what's he gonna do? If humans weren't disciplined or taught the right thing to do whether or not by religion, acting on my human instincts, i would have given him the finger honestly.. but i didn't, instead, i apologised.. what wrong have i done? And now it seems that he's gonna take some action sooner or later and i'm not very comfortable with that thought. But nevermind, if he attacks, i'll try not to retaliate and if i die, please do tag my board more.
So we decided to head to another court which supposedly had more favourable conditions for soccer. Soccer, when was the last time i touched this game? I've ignited the old passion, the game i played so passionately, so '' freely'' i mean, pool cost me money.. Soccer, the game that more or less caused the low psle aggregate score, the game that indirectly disallowed me to take up higher chinese.
Let me tell you the history of soccer, please, i say here, there would be bragging... so if you can't stand my bragging, skip to the next paragraph. Soccer, i do not know when i started playing well, i think when my church friend taught me the basics. I suddenly developed '' lightning fast dribbling'' and superb dribbling, haha, i can't help myself, but seriously, i felt i was a good player when i was in primary school, the only letdown was my stamina. I could play a keeper quite well too. Nothing, not even pool can bring about a feeling when you're walking on the pitch, with the northeastern monsoon winds blowing across the grasses of spring, and when you're slowly walking across, your heart skipping because, you're gonna play soccer, that simple. It was just great, my primary school years, i was in catholic high then.
Morning- 30 mins, soccer
Reccess- 30 mins, soccer
After school- 3/4 hours, soccer
That was how i played. And i was in em1 at that time.. i failed to acheive the expected, ironically, it was english, not chinese, i had 69 for english and you needed 70.. My mom talked to the teacher and he said i was too lazy and i played too much soccer. 1 mark, for english, just one mark!!! This was chinese! not english! Nvm about that. I just stayed back everyday after school to play soccer, and my complexion was just, black. My mom told me i was too dark and that she was afraid i'll never be fair again. So, soccer led to my disappointing downfall and i came to beatty. I still remember the first game i played in beatty, during some orientation or something. Imran and latif and shi xiong, whom have already become friends, immediately formed their team, and it seemed like a star team, also with andy with it. The quiet anti-socials were left out: murali, me and peera. HAHAhah, we showed them what was soccer, although i didn't quite know any of them, we played super well, and it was in this game where i got to know murali, i celebrated a goal with him. So that was it, other than that, another memorable game was when 1t1 played with us in pc lesson, i was running up and down and when i saw andy, who was the hapless goalie subject to all the power ful shots, i decided to save his skin and take over him instead, only then, was there peace.. haha, although we lost. Other than that, the last game we played was the sec one interclass, i, on the other hand, became another andy and i let in countless goals..ahahha
so that was the last of my soccer career, then my skin decided to turn fair when it had the opportunity and turn me into a nerdy looking guy who seemed like he doesn't go out. Then, pool took over my passion too.
So today, we played with ourselves at the other court and we really trained well, although jj isn't exactly a superb keeper, he's the best we can ask for.. And we really had a great time playing, full of laughter.. Until the dark clouds from macritchie blew over and rained right on us, that's when we started to slow down and then, stop. I went with imran to eat a very filling meal of zinger meal and one large whipped potato, i was pregnant when i finished it.. it was simply great.
And before we end,
A Tribute to the late, Joey Tian Wei Zhou, founder of Tian's acedamy, person of great knowledge, person of incredible pool skills, the person responsible of breaking one of safra's pool cues, the person responsible for our enjoyment, while we sat back.. watching his trickshot videos.. doubting his skills, doubting the genuineness, he put in a lot of hard work into the videos.. for what? For your enjoyment! So doubt his skills no more, do not doubt his authenticity or i shall smite ye with me staff, and me sword, and me cue, for he hath the skills you hath not. For he is my master and my chalk...He is the one, the one who led me to this path, where i constantly see my wallet empty.. We remember, Tian Wei Zhou, and although he isn't here with us today, Tian's acedamy will go on, Me, teck siang, kenneth will lead the noobs..
13/04/06.. Tian Wei Zhou wasn't with us today, but we will continue.. although we'll all see him next monday, but we will all remember this day, 13/04/06, the day, we lost our master..
What am i to do? What wrong have i done? Maybe i accidentally hurt him, but i had no purposeful intention... he taunted me and although i supposedly hurt him or something, i still said i was sorry and now i'm bookmarked, what's he gonna do? If humans weren't disciplined or taught the right thing to do whether or not by religion, acting on my human instincts, i would have given him the finger honestly.. but i didn't, instead, i apologised.. what wrong have i done? And now it seems that he's gonna take some action sooner or later and i'm not very comfortable with that thought. But nevermind, if he attacks, i'll try not to retaliate and if i die, please do tag my board more.
So we decided to head to another court which supposedly had more favourable conditions for soccer. Soccer, when was the last time i touched this game? I've ignited the old passion, the game i played so passionately, so '' freely'' i mean, pool cost me money.. Soccer, the game that more or less caused the low psle aggregate score, the game that indirectly disallowed me to take up higher chinese.
Let me tell you the history of soccer, please, i say here, there would be bragging... so if you can't stand my bragging, skip to the next paragraph. Soccer, i do not know when i started playing well, i think when my church friend taught me the basics. I suddenly developed '' lightning fast dribbling'' and superb dribbling, haha, i can't help myself, but seriously, i felt i was a good player when i was in primary school, the only letdown was my stamina. I could play a keeper quite well too. Nothing, not even pool can bring about a feeling when you're walking on the pitch, with the northeastern monsoon winds blowing across the grasses of spring, and when you're slowly walking across, your heart skipping because, you're gonna play soccer, that simple. It was just great, my primary school years, i was in catholic high then.
Morning- 30 mins, soccer
Reccess- 30 mins, soccer
After school- 3/4 hours, soccer
That was how i played. And i was in em1 at that time.. i failed to acheive the expected, ironically, it was english, not chinese, i had 69 for english and you needed 70.. My mom talked to the teacher and he said i was too lazy and i played too much soccer. 1 mark, for english, just one mark!!! This was chinese! not english! Nvm about that. I just stayed back everyday after school to play soccer, and my complexion was just, black. My mom told me i was too dark and that she was afraid i'll never be fair again. So, soccer led to my disappointing downfall and i came to beatty. I still remember the first game i played in beatty, during some orientation or something. Imran and latif and shi xiong, whom have already become friends, immediately formed their team, and it seemed like a star team, also with andy with it. The quiet anti-socials were left out: murali, me and peera. HAHAhah, we showed them what was soccer, although i didn't quite know any of them, we played super well, and it was in this game where i got to know murali, i celebrated a goal with him. So that was it, other than that, another memorable game was when 1t1 played with us in pc lesson, i was running up and down and when i saw andy, who was the hapless goalie subject to all the power ful shots, i decided to save his skin and take over him instead, only then, was there peace.. haha, although we lost. Other than that, the last game we played was the sec one interclass, i, on the other hand, became another andy and i let in countless goals..ahahha
so that was the last of my soccer career, then my skin decided to turn fair when it had the opportunity and turn me into a nerdy looking guy who seemed like he doesn't go out. Then, pool took over my passion too.
So today, we played with ourselves at the other court and we really trained well, although jj isn't exactly a superb keeper, he's the best we can ask for.. And we really had a great time playing, full of laughter.. Until the dark clouds from macritchie blew over and rained right on us, that's when we started to slow down and then, stop. I went with imran to eat a very filling meal of zinger meal and one large whipped potato, i was pregnant when i finished it.. it was simply great.
And before we end,
A Tribute to the late, Joey Tian Wei Zhou, founder of Tian's acedamy, person of great knowledge, person of incredible pool skills, the person responsible of breaking one of safra's pool cues, the person responsible for our enjoyment, while we sat back.. watching his trickshot videos.. doubting his skills, doubting the genuineness, he put in a lot of hard work into the videos.. for what? For your enjoyment! So doubt his skills no more, do not doubt his authenticity or i shall smite ye with me staff, and me sword, and me cue, for he hath the skills you hath not. For he is my master and my chalk...He is the one, the one who led me to this path, where i constantly see my wallet empty.. We remember, Tian Wei Zhou, and although he isn't here with us today, Tian's acedamy will go on, Me, teck siang, kenneth will lead the noobs..
13/04/06.. Tian Wei Zhou wasn't with us today, but we will continue.. although we'll all see him next monday, but we will all remember this day, 13/04/06, the day, we lost our master..
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