School life has been okay.. first few weeks of term 2 were super slack, but CCTs and projects (and NAPFA, chin-up gg) all coming up soon, coupled with all the late night RISE rehearsals that ends at 9pm+, and so that's when we die.

Next match of the Raffles league for our class is against 4G, Max's class. Speaking of Max, MEP soccer has been great, childish yes, but fun too. I could still remember the stunning (and a bit lucky) goal i scored on Thursday. It started with me chesting a throw-in from Samuel, turning around and volleying it, resulting the ball hitting the wall and rebounding at a reflected angle slightly greater than the angle of incidence. However, my long legs ensured that I caught the rebound in the air, using the same leg with I took the volley (i.e. my right leg -- my only decent leg) I smacked the ball into the goal, olay-ing the 7-stRA keeper Vincent in the process.

Cool eh?!

Friday's rehearsal was one of the best in the 4 years of RISE history, cos we started with a short run-through of the Britten, followed by a 2.5 hours break for sec 4s while the others do the Arts at the Atrium stuff. Of course, me, Jinghui, and Daniel went to play soccer with all the other pros who had finished their interclass matches also.

It was basically 2B'06 + 4T'08 and one or two random people versus the rest. The game seemed a bit lobsided at the start cos 2B+4T had a whole team of pros like Manish, Tanuj, Yihao, Pranav, Joel, and many many more, but there were a few noobs and some sec 1s on our team. But once the game started, the situation changed.

There was one sec 1, which I really had to applaud. I think he stopped like at least 5 attacks from the other side with his superb defending skills, including spot-on tackles, clearances, and even headers. With him and me on the defense, we were actually 3-1 up (1 goal from JingHui the imba) cos the other team couldn't attack for like a whole half an hour.

Then our keeper start to go up and attack, leaving me to fall back as keeper. Ok fine i screwed up, but the other teams were basically whacking balls towards the goal, and even though some of them were obviously out, they just went "GOOOAALL!!!" and ran away. So the game became like 3-4 even though at least 2 of the goals weren't legitamate.

Then dancer/hocker JingYuan came and joined in the fun also, and he took my role as keeper. Haha so the moment I stepped out and joined the attack, I scored a goal :)

Running free on the left, I received a goal kick from Jing Yuan, and moved swiftly down the wing. Two defenders came after me, and I got pass the first one quite easily. The second guy however was a big sized dude Pranav from 4P, but I did some trick involving the back heel and got past him too. Shooting a cross into the centre, the ball rebounded off someone there, and went back in my direction, so I ran towards it, and shot it past keeper Faizal.

The game was really cool, but I did a high-boot on Yihao (aka Giant) and hit his face. So he laid there in agony while the rest of the people signaled me to go away if I still want my life. So stood there for a while, but still left in the end. However, I still felt quite bad and sent a sms to him shortly after to apologise, and he forgave me :)

For more soccer action, come down to the field next Tuesday and watch 4D trash 4G.