Everything good must always come to an end...

March holidays are practically over, so lazy bums, pls start on your homework now, whoever reading this post, finish it and close the IE or Modzilla window and stop lazing around !!! hoho...

Same for me, more or less marking is done over the whole week.. can u imagine that? half of my mind during marking for the past 3 days had been on the National Age Group championship (NAG) held during this March holidays. in the end i guess the championship is considered fruitful to me, as i guessed some bowlers learnt more than just getting points and trophies, but also learnt to be patient, not to turn temperamental, not to give up HALFWAY, and do it AS A TEAM.

Seriously, the whole team has come so far now, i have to agree with Coach Alvin that the bowlers are standing a good chance of winning a few titles this year. NAG, to me, has been considered a tournament to show other bowlers what we, Team RSS, can do. of course, we will see more skilful bowlers in the coming Interprimary Championships.

Mingxuan & Shaun Chua, coming in 4th for Doubles,
Lorraine & Charmaine coming in 1st for Doubles,
Rachel Chan & Jiamun coming in 4th for Doubles,
MingXuan, Shaun, Benjamin & Ryan Pan coming in 3rd for Quartet,
Lorraine, Charmaine, Vivian & Ellis coming in 2nd for Quartet,
Ryan, Mingxuan & Shaun coming in top 12 for All events,
Charmaine, Lorraine & Jiamun coming in top 8 for All events,
Charmaine came in 2nd for Masters finals.

i want to congratulate the winners for doing very well, and also the rest of the competitors who had taken part in it... thou they have not won anything, they have learnt from the experience competing with outstanding bowlers from other schools or organisations. it was surely an eye-opener for our P4 bowlers, Donovan, Jin Ron and Cavan. do not be disheartened by your own scores. keep up the effort and im sure the results will improve, i can guarantee that.

lastly but sadly, there are a few bowlers, who did not learn the above-mentioned phrases, or who have forgetten about Coach Alvin's words. why is there the pessimism, the giving up after 1 or 2 games?

1 lesson learnt:
Ryan Loo (not from our school), is Rock Bottom of Masters after 2 games, 116 and 110, and he needs to play 8 games consecutively. tiring right, u must have thought so. he came back roaring with guts to fight on, scored
171 180 163 127 158 172, and eventually come in 3rd in Masters. what does that mean??

why is there the internal competition, "i want to win my fellow bowler friend" kind of attitude still lingering around in Team RSS? are we not supposed to be ONE team ???

2nd lesson learnt:
there are 2 fishes in a small pond, they were competing who is the faster swimmer. A, who won by a short distance, was proud of his record. on the other hand, B lost, and was so sad he wanted to give up train his swimming. A did not want to teach B the technique, so B gave up soon after.

so one day, A wanted to go to the big ocean to challenge other sea creatures, so he pulled B along. he was thinking, even if i lose, im still not the last, B is behind me. once inside the ocean, they were overwhelmed by other sea creatures. they just use their might to swim, caring about their own safety. In the end, both A and B were eaten up by faster, and ferocious Sharks.

the pond is like RSS, the ocean is like Interprimary Championships. and the sharks? other stronger bowlers from other school, of course.
Moral of the story? You figure it yourself.