Tuesday, March 6

It’s yet another rainy night. Is it a result of the change in seasons? It’s spring, the wildflowers are out, but I don’t feel particularly joyful even though I've got 2 of them right beside me.

Photos of my gorgeous daffodils.














Probably because I watched 2 of the squash videos uploaded on the blog. I mean, I’ve seen it before, in the editing process. But watching them 1 after another, I can’t help but feel a pang of loss. That I was a year early in graduating. That I wasn’t part of the later process where the fruits of our labour are reaped.. coz I was already gone.

I really do miss the times where we hung out together. Humble beginnings where our seniors didn’t really care about squash. Ngee ann squash club was ready to be closed down, and the 3 of us – desiree, amanda and I had to start our own recruitment drive, gather more people and prove to them that squash should stay open..

We were all dedicated people who over-stayed our squash trainings till the courts got locked up, going out for suppers together – jianny (jian hong), yongren, gary, desiree, me. And other players like baozhu, gloria, grace, josephine, kenneth, michael. We didn’t have much then, but we didn’t really care. While we trained, we could listen to the dragonboat guys participate in their twice-weekly mass orgy in the gym.

Then the new batches came in – shwu huey, kathleen, ven, trina, krystle, serene, yu shan, lynn, joyce, miao qin, leslie, bryan, jonas, luke, weizhong, ryan, zhengjie, skye, stephen, dion, sam, mike,jian qi, gaston.

The best times were during IVP, where we trained harder with a coach, squashed almost everyday and were tight as bunch. Of course, with more people, there’re just more bunches, but still, it was all good. Met many people from NYP, TP, SP, NTU, NUS, SMU. Yvonne, Denise, King, Damien, Marc, Aldren? from TP. Calvin Gay, Yu Xuan, Sarah, and some forgotten names (but not forgotten faces), from NYP. Hansel, Ade, (plus the kingkong lookalike) from SP. Leo and Ian from NTU. (plus I rem the gd players like Poh Kwang, Woon Kwang, the puking chinaman, the national player from India, Wynne, Gracie, etc)

We tried our hardest but up against the university teams, we couldn’t hold up with our amateur skills. We were once top amongst the poly teams, but lost to the universities. Such a shame. Luckily for the later batches, they only had to compete amongst the poly and ITE teams and came in 2^nd & 3^rd for guys and girls.

Reminiscing the past is not really all that fun, coz.. everyone has moved on. I miss all the good times but while I know it’ll never be the same again, at least I had all these beautiful and glorious moments once before.

Labels: Daffodil, IVP, Ngee Ann squash