Heys all you people, Did you miss me? I know you did, just admit it lah...haha.
Friday after work, I went to RSC...traveled by bus to Sing apore. All the "tour virgin"( meaning those who are on their first time in a tour with the team) had to wear a headgear. I was one of the tour virgin, during the whole tour we had to wear the head gear and do whatever the senior players or coach ask us to do.
getting my head gear and puttin it on.
We had a few games on the bus, I was in team BEARD.
me in my beardWhen everybody was sleeping, coach Haflil took a walk on the bus...I wasn't sleeping la...so I smiled at him...he got shocked...( Can you imagine? Almost everyone sleeping in the bus and suddenly you turn and you see someone smilling at you...haha). Coach Haflil walked around 2x and both times also I smiled at him...hehe.
Anyway, we reached Singapore about 3am-4am, we slept at Value Hotel Thompson
Address: 592 Balestier Road Singapore 329901.
Oh, I have a mouth guard now :) Yay! but everytime I wear it I feel like vomitting, Wei said I need to learn how to breath with the mouth guard.
Saturday: Had brunch and some free time till 11am. Bus to Yio Chu Kang stadium(YCK). Kit up, warm up and practise...Too much pressure on myself( National Team you know...not a club..Representing your country)...I started to fumble, couldn't catch nor passs properly. Coach Mamak said to me, "Just relax, do like you do in practise..Don't pressure yourself. In training I saw you throw beautifully, you can do it.", Coach Mamak also said, "If you are not confident to pick up the ball and you are scared that it's going to be a knock on, then just dive on the ball or gurbble aka kick the ball". Jasmine said, "Have fun". Captain Wei Said,"If you think you cannot, then 50% of the game is lost already".
My jersey was number 11 and my position was a winger. Most of the time I was a blind winger.
The weather was hot. In the first half of the game, Singapore A scored a try but failed the conversion and therefore leading the game with 5-0. There was many critical moments where Singapore almost scored.
Second half, it started raining. In the first 10 minutes we scored 2 tries, but failed the conversion kick, so it was 10-5. Then lighting started and the game was halted...the thunder and lightning was quite loud and we waited for lightining to stop but it didn't. So, game just stop there loh. I think it was just 11 minutes or 13 minutes in the second half. So all together we played about 40min(first half) plus 13 minutes(second half) therefore 53 minutes. Still got about 30 minutes more to play but weather didn't allow us...anything could have happened.
Personally I think the rain helped us....cause during our daily trainings before this match, our practises was in the evening and usually after rain...so, kinda similar playing condition...LoL.
Clean up and watched the Asian 5 Nation Games...Malaysia Men vs Chinese Taipei...it was a pretty interesting game...the chinese taipei were quite good in wheeling the scrum, Malaysia men won 35-8. Sri Lanka men vs Singapore, Sri Langka won by 23-16. The SIngapore and Sri Lanka game was a bit funny...a lot of kicking going around. Singapore kick, Sri Langka kick back, Singapore catch the ball n kick back, Sri lanka catch ball and kick back...Sri Lanka played a better game la.
After the matches, we makan(ate) at the YCK hall...while waiting for the makan time, the Malaysian Women rugby team played "007 bang", loser had to drink.
After makan, the Malaysian women rugby team had a "Kangaroo court" (A court that ignores principles of justice; a court characterized by incompetence and dishonesty. This expression is thought to liken the jumping ability of kangaroos to a court that jumps to conclusions on an invalid basis. [Mid-1800s] . P/s it's a idiom-->Kangaroo court)
All the tour virgins were found guilty in the Kangaroo court except Ooni...The guilty ones had to snort(suck up the drinkthrough nose n them let the drink come out through the nose...pain la) or drink. First all rise for the honorable judge, then one by one, each virgin had to stand on the chair and get judged. I was guilty for scaring Coach HAflil on the bus...hahaha. BTW, i was also the best tour virgin...Yay!-->but it was bcoz I was picked on the most la..carry Tiara's, Wei's and Jef's bag, take drinks for Sarah and Nora and Aki, take food for Wally and stuff like that. I laugh till tears came out during the Kangaroo Court session, it was really funny! We had to state our name then state our position/title for ourself and then agree whether we are guilty and if we plead not guilt, we can ask someone to defend us...but then again, it's a Kangaroo court, so whatever also, we would get guilty except in rare cases like Ooni...haha
Time for best player and Ayam award. Brenda had best player award while I had the AYAM award. Ayam award is something like the silliest mistake award. I let an opposition player run with the ball when I could snatch the ball from her...
Then we travelled by bus back to the hotel and watched the video of our game. It was really funny too...I always guard dog(defending) even when we are attacking...so silly...LoL.
I remember in the game vs SRC at Garden International School, coach Wally told me to stick to the opposition winger mah. And I also remember in training, Coach Jef told us to guard dog, point and shout "Mine,mine, mine!". I guard dog the winger all the way in the Malaysia vs SIngapore A match loh... Funny part was also even when one of our players was injured and it was rest time...i was still on guard dog position, so ready for the game to continue...hahaha :P
All my team mates who watch the video laugh at me, even i laugh at myself. It was really funny.
On sunday morning, we had breakfast. Hideko had Singapore 6 Dollars to finish up, we entered a convenience store in singapore named "CHEER" and the things came up to 6.20 Sing Dollars, so Hideko put away one item but the retail assistant said it's ok and paid the 20 cents for her, Whoa, that was really amazing. Whoever said that Singaporeans are Kiamsap(Hokkien for stingy), they are very generous OK!
FYI: there's a saying Singaporeans are Kiasu, Kiasi and Kiamsap( fear of losing, fear of dying, and stingy) .
ON the way back home from Singapore, Jasmine got lost in the Malaysian Immigration and went down to the wrong side of the road, she went to the one heading back to Woodlands Singapore. So Me, Hideko and Shima was sent on a rescue mission, we did an illegal thing by tracing our way backwards on a one way path..LoL. Finally a guard stopped us and talked on his walkie talkie(he said something like "Another group of people lost from the same team"), then another guard came and gave us directions how to get back..which were the wrong directions which took us down to the same place Jasmine went...apparently Jasmine found her way back before we could rescue her...Anyway, a Malay lady official saw that we were also lost and she let us use the official gate to go back to our bus which is on the other side...Haiz, this proves that Malaysians just are not good in directions...haha. All the 3 officers were also the same one Jasmine bump into.
It was really funny la...getting lost in the Malaysian Immigration...what an adventure!
After that, we travelled by bus back to Malaysia.We played a few other games in the bus and overall my team won! Yay!
It was really fun and interesting and super cool experience to be with the women rugby team of Malaysia.
My second "cap" aka my second time playing rugby in the Malaysia Women Rugby team la.
"This afternoon also witnessed another A5N milestone in the first ever women’s test match played as a curtain-raiser to an A5N event with Singapore hosting their Malaysian counterparts. An entertaining match that saw Singapore take an early lead into halftime (5-0) but then concede two quick tries to Malaysia in the second half, had to be abandoned due to a lightning storm. Under the tournament’s abandonment procedure, the match score stands as it was in the second half, giving Malaysia a 10-5 win."
Credits: this paragraph is taken from http://www.heavensgame.com/asian-5-nations/sri-lanka-is-asias-newest-top-5-team-after-winning-hsbc-a5n-di-final
Rugby Glossary: http://www.scrum.com/scrum/rugby/page/97263.html
Cap - anytime a player plays in a match he/she is technically awarded a cap but the term is mostly used to note the number of official games a player has appeared for his/her national team against another national team. A cap is an honour, there is typically no physical item awarded, although originally there was.
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