Sunday, March 04, 2007
yay! to the medicine canoepolo team. i am glad i woke up early on a bright happy saturday morning (and skipped muddies training ho ho) to paddle easily-capsizeable boats in a little pool. new accessories-- matching medals for boys and girls. haha.
boo! to a badly-played (by me and not VAGIVAGIVAGIMIGHTIES!) game today, in the freezing pouring rain. moving the disc all the way up the field til it's 1 metre from the endzone, and (literally) flinging it away, only to watch helplessly (usually while running relentlessly but fruitlessly across half a football field) as the opposing team hucks the disc faster than mortal legs can move-- not even our demigod capts can save us then-- and the disc is caught in the endzone just as four or five teammates barrel into where the disc was five seconds ago. AUGH!
bloody hell. i hate being shitty at something i like. damnit.
the only bright spot in today was my i-believe-i-can-fly d (and the collective cheer from VM sideline). wah! i must describe this! sorry! i saw the disc flying towards my direction, and two of the opposing team players busting ass (as joyce would say) to catch the pass. so i got myself ready, shuffled a bit to correct my positioning, looked at the disc, flipped my cap round, and jumped. JUMPED. and my fingers just stabbed the disc (the Poke of Doom!!!!!!) and it flip flip flip flipped all the way to the ground. THUD! cue collective gasp from the greek chorus! (aka vm sideline) groans of dismay from Double C 7! (opponents) and praise for the Conquering Heroine! and it was a turnover in their half!! oh joy! confetti! fanfare! debauchery!
okay ya la i exaggerate the last part obviously. but only the very last confetti bit okay. and i must say it was fun to do something cool and spectacular like that. im just not good enough to do that on a regular basis. usually my involvement in the game is more of confusing the opponents (due to my freakishly bad field movement) or just plain catching (which isnt very camera friendly haha)
and the fact that i got my league jerseys today! yay! was another nice thing. it more than balance out the fact that i got all my freaking mb notes wet due to the shitty incessant rain. vagivagivagimighties!
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9:25 PM
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plangere, latin: to strike, or to lament.
in the depth of winter i finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
--albert camus
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to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
-- ee cummings
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