SHIYI is here for the SECOND time

NOW i know the reason why nobody blogs..not because they are busy.and not because they have nothing to blog about. it's because most people do not know wad's the password.LOL.for your information, there are already three noobs who asked me.to protect their privacy, i shall not reveal them.AND it's only after giving them so many many obvious clues thennnn they got it right.haiii..i think we still do not know each other well enough.we have yet to develop the strong telepathy.we are still unable to know wad's on each other mind. haii.so to understand each other better and to improve our communication on e field, i suggest we should talk on the phone every night. just like what me n claud do most of the time. MUAHAHAHA.

and to think that training has stopped. our pentium 1 telepathy network may fade away. arghhh.and i noe in this 4wks. you all will definitely miss me...hahaha..all of you will miss my wonderful commentation. hahaha..
and mr au ahh..always pretend pretend..but he's actually eavesdropping our conversations. especially our gossips. at the same time..loading all the gossips into his motherboard. n occasionally, chuckling at our comments. RIGHT MR AU????
i conclude that mr au is a spy. hahaha

hmm..anyway..yesterday training ended off quite well. I HATE RAINY DAYS. spoil our wonderful day. yea..playing with the young lions is a very great experience. it's such a rare chance to play with such pro-players. AND although i only touched the ball ONCE..it's so fun..running around the not-at-all-botak field under the floodlights in the slight drizzle. i feel as if i m playing in world cup. LOL.. ok. over-exaggerating. hope we can get more chances to play friendlies with other pro players or whoever. u really learn alot. it's like yesterday..the lions were so fast, never stop communicating (in malay, so we cant intercept their plans.haha) and i like their passes, crosses and their shots are so strong and beautiful..hmmmm..when can we ever play like them..it's so wonderful la..OK. we shall work harder after promos :))

meanwhile..MUG HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SHI HUI THE GREAT

woohoo~ ok it isnt the yr end bash.. but i finally can sign in and blog
had difficulties coz our dear RAra told me the wrong password. as in i thought the username=password ok...

btw mr au, its RONALD not gordon!!(shiyi pls thank me for this) anyway thanks for the card :) hope you like the cookies and all the stuff. hahaha

i've officially spoilt my first ever pair of boots! i need to go on a boot-search right after promos, so anyone who wna join in the search pls sign up here __________________ . leave ur contact no. here _________________. and you will be notified shortly after promos :)

our match against the lions ROAR was fun though we lost.. but thats a lesson to be learnt i guess. we need to start pulling up our socks.

training training without raining, all i want is to be mighty. gtg BYE

Looking ahead. Moving forward.

=)
This was supposed to be an 'act cool' pic btw!
Thanks so much girls! And to think I laughed when Bekah talked about being a MICHELIN tyre! Little did I know I may become the MICHELIN after all.....CHECK THIS OUT!
The amount of SWEETS u girls gave me?! Wah! But seriously, from the bottom of my heart, many thanks for the gifts and the card. You know you are greatly appreciated! :) (btw, Claud just told me my card is nice, nicer than 'other' cards. So I'm really blessed!)

So, it's the time of the year when CCA and training stops, and the mugging begins, although I know most of you would probably only want to start after next week's hols. Whatever it is, study your hardest, get together to form STUDY groups (not gossip groups about OGL/Gordan/etcetc, mind you!) if you need to and REMEMBER to KEEP FIT. It's your personal responsibility to look after your own health and fitness alright. And if ever you girls wanna like 'kick balls' in the midst of the mugging or hols to just take a 'break', I'm up for it!

I hope you had fun at yday's evening game. The objective of the game was to have fun, gain experience and know where we stand. I believe we met all 3 objectives and I'm glad we walked onto the pitch with guts and off it with pride knowing we did our best and had great fun playing together as TEAM TJC! =)
The good news is, if you haven't already suspected, I'm probably here to stay with you girls for another term, at least!

I've been sourcing for materials on what we could train after your promos and I may just start with 'Drama Classes'. Yeap! You heard me right. Check this out to further understand what I'm talking about.



What we will definitely NOT learn to do is this.
hey, as RabaBaRoSa would say... "Materazzi Own lah!"



Alright, nuff said! Who's next?

Sorry, I had to add this in last minute. Remember what we talked about with regards to kicking with our instep (supporting foot position, posture, hands, locked ankles, etc). Here's a perfect example of an instep shot. Anyone would like to guess where his shot went (clue: look at his supporting foot!)

happy coach's day

HAPPY COACH's DAY MR AU!
haha i guess all our thank yous have been written in the card already, but still wanna say another THANK YOU here for all your coaching and support!for all your dedication, effort and time put into our trainings.
hope u like the nice present.

anyway girls, good effort for the match today. guessed we learnt alot, and should start working from there. was really an eye-opener, but hoped u all had fun.
guess training ended off quite nicely before our break and studying for promos. start MUGGING!its mugging mode now.but do remember to keep fit!all the best (:

the entry all of u have been waiting for..

OH shiyi is here to blog something.
to satisfy ur hunger. hahahahaha.

the blog template is so green..it's so TJ can..but it's quite nice la..hohoho.. at first i looked at the side..i was wondering why dont have my name..i thought everyone's name is supposed to be up there. n i thought u all left me out. LOL. then i realise it is all of ur blog links. LOL..shiyi's so interesting eh? haha..i feel relieved cos i noe u all wun forget me..right? I WILL NEVER WALK ALONE. WAHAHAHAHA.

OK seriously i have no idea what to blog about. because mr au wants the entry to do with soccer. something to do with team tjc. hahah..so it's quite difficult to find something to talk about. especially because i m not good at words. hahaha..so probably this is the reason why nobody has blogged yet except for bekah, mr au, mr au and MR AU. LOL.

hmmmm..just wanna thank mr au for puttin in so much effort to organise every training. every training is just so fun n so useful..after every training, i feel so tired but it feels great..it's the only time where i need not bother about studies and anything else..i enjoy goin for trainings. i look forward to every training so much.
i hate skipping trainings. i felt like i miss out something this week. n having training with you people is such a great experience. a bunch of crazy funny people.
arghh..i dont want any study break!!!

so..we left TWO more trainings before promos come. i hope we could have FULL attendance for both trainings cos it has never happened. we only have 16 ppl..it's not a big number so ya...hope all of u can come for training on monday n on wednesday..

COME OK? cya dere~

It's not in what you wear or kick.

Thanks Rebsie for that opening speech. Was nice to have the team captain step up to say a few words aye? But hey, this space aint just for the captain, vice-capt (not that she has said anything so far tho') or me. It's for anyone of you in team tjc to say anything with regards to the team or football. Let your voice be heard!

And so since training was cancelled on Friday, I decided to satisfy my hunger for football and thus drop by East Coast Park this evening on my own to like kick around. Not by myself of course! I put on my ultra-thick skinned suit aside from the usual soccer gear and stepped up to ask one guy amongst the other five kicking around...
Soccer-hungry Melvin: "Hey...you think I could just kick around with you guys?"
Football Man (in his 40's): "Ya..ya...can...!"

The rest was history. Match was rather slow paced and of low quality aside from the occasional through passes I threaded. =) But you know, I realised football fans/players alike are all UNITED by a single ball. Yea, we indeed are. to the point of putting our differences aside just to chase a single ball on the field and try, at all cost to pass it into a space marked out by two metal bars.
Looking forward to my amateur league game tomorrow afternoon. Guess where it's at? Turf City. Yeap. It's been slightly more than a month now since I had my first glimpse of you girls in action there! Time flies by. . .

But more than that and for the purpose of this post, let me share with you an encounter I had whilst browsing for a new pair of boots at Queensway Shopping Centre on friday.
There I was in this particular store browsing the Adidas boots section when I heard voices of a couple of boys (I figured from the way they spoke they were Upper Sec, or at most year 1 JC BOYS) behind me. As far as I can remember, the conversation went a little like this. . .
(For the sake of relevance, especially since some of us here experienced the un-gentlemanly side of them, I shall refer to them as JC Boys. )

JC Boy 1: Eh..please leh..next time don't bring that ball to play leh...damn hard leh...kick already damn pain can? and some more cannot kick far wan!
JC Boys: haha...hehe...
JC Boy 1: Ya lah..bring the Adidas ball can...or even the World Cup one also better..can kick further..easier to kick and CAN curl some more!!??

(they carried on with their lovely chat. I was simply enjoying eaves-dropping btw. ;) )

JC Boy 1/2: (looking at pair of diadora boots. apparently very nice designed pair of boots) WAH! Damn nice lah this boots!
JC Boy 3: Yah man! damn nice!
JC Boy 4: ehh....the price also very nice lor!
JC Boy 1: wah! Like that...I must as well buy Adidas lor....predator still can CURL the ball very well lor...
Mr Au: (under my breath) yah..and Nike Air can run faster and jump higher.....

So, what can we conclude from this girls? If you haven't already realised, it's not in the pair of boots we put on or in the ball(s) that we kick! Yea, momentarily and initially, it would make a slight difference in how we feel on the pitch (IMAGERY of us playing like our favourite football stars or looking like them, at least?), But honestly speaking, football is definitely more than that. Aside from getting our basics right, Football is about passion. It's about the team. It's about my friend on my left, on my right supporting me when I'm in possession of the ball or when I'm trying to BUY TIME (with the money justinE so claims we don't have). Football is about the love and time we share with each other. Football is about mugging together when training stops (and I'm glad you girls are doing so!).
Football at TEAM TJC is about giving our very best, staying Committed, Disciplined and Dedicated to the team and ourselves in spite of how we feel.

Are you in or are you out?

I'm IN.


btw, should i get the Adidas or Nike boots? =)

1st entry from BEK

alrighty. first, gotta thank MR MELVIN AU for creating this blog!=)
the blog template is fine, seriously! dont think we should make it too fanciful either. this is neat and easy to navigate. haha,yep. but of cos, you girls who can find even better templates, feel free to edit it. (i think every1 will be too lazy to do so anyway).

haha, yep, so you must be wondering HOW to blog.
the user is obviously "teamtjc". password..pls read the 1st entry and guess the password. haha,. if you're still so dumb, just ask me personally.

hmm, actually, was wondering how successful this blog will be. well, cos since most of us have our own individual blogs, guess its hard to spend more time blogging in this. BUT, people like shiyi, who is so talkative and doesnt have her own blog, may be flooding this. but yes, pls do post entries to spice it up yea? and of cos, pictures and GOOD videos pls. hahah.

now about our team.
again, i'm not saying this for the sake of saying. BUT, i really see a GREAT great potential in the team and of course, in each and every girl. Now girls, all you need to do is attend trainings and master as much as you can. i'm not "selling" the point that you SHOULD go training..but i'm emphasising this point because in my opinion, i think its very impt tt the whole team improve as a whole unit! and, since we've mr au around, i think its a GREAT and super lucky opportunity for us to brush,polish whatever crap skills we have. dont u think so?

alright. and i shall be straight here. to those, who feel that no matter how much they attend trainings and train, you'll never be chosen to play, DO NOT. i repeat, DO NOT think that way.
remember, nothing's impossible.
every1s fresh, and every1s given equal chances to improve, but that includes your own personal goal to what you wanna achieve. hmm, understand? and for goodness sake, ME,mr au aint BLIND and definitely not biased. if u show the skills, you'll definitely play alright. even if you cant play, you're still in the team! cos,look, we're TEAMTJC. ;)

alright, shall stop nagging. but anyway,last point.
PROMOS coming up. pls be disciplined and mug. and of cos, dont 4get training yourself at home. that includes running and kicking balls with yourself and the wall. yep.

and. most importantly, pay SOCCER FUNDS to huimin. we're gg broke.
thank you very much.

loves,
BEKAH.your so ever adorable captain. =D

(okay, i wanted to upload a very nice pic but i guess it REFUSED to. so...)

The ABC's of Passing.

"Nothing destroys a team quite so quickly as inaccurate passing.
Nothing builds a team's confidence more rapidly than accurate passing.
Without good team-work accurate passing is impossible... The more successful
passes a player makes the better he is likely to play and the more he is likely
to want to play. The art of passing in Association Football is very
largely the art of doing the simple things quickly and well." 9

- Charles Hughes

It takes two people to make a pass. One has to give the ball, the other has to get it.

So girls, in a nutshell, to play the 'give-and-take' game, one has to give and one has to take.

Meanwhile, enjoy the two videos. We talked about stringing 7 passes together and even tried our hand at it. Look what we can do if we can string 24 passes together. Argentina DID IT at WC06! So can we! Come to think of it. I think we had at least 4 passes leading up to WaHaRa's goal against NUS? Reb-Shiyi-Claud-Reb? Well done! We are almost there! so.......
IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING!

*meantime, let's aspire to try out the first video at our next training session, aye? =)

See you tomorrow! Get ready to sweat it out!

Kick-Off!

So I just thought it would be nice to have something like that for our team, since we all love each other so much (and I'm referring to wholesome, healthy love here) and enjoy talking our ourselves and everything else all the time. This blog certainly does not exist that we may say bad things about others (as some are in the practise of doing so), but that we may encourage and spur each other on another step closer to satisfying our hunger!
Also, feel free to post whatever pics you think may be of interest to the rest of us (e.g.our dear Claud falling asleep in lectures, Gelin with another 3-step stride, Huimin with one of her ballet moves. I'm sure you get the drift.) Unless it's totally necessary or simply too long an entry to 'tag', please insert all comments or random thoughts as 'comments' or on the 'tag board'

Then again, if you girls think this is too much of a hassle and don't think this is worth the effort, no problems at all. I'm just exploring the options we have towards working our common goal! =) Feel free to contribute whatever thoughts or suggestions you have with regards to this.

1 more day to training day.

Oh yes! One more thing! I've created a shutterfly collection for us as well. The link is up. Click on it. Password to add photos to albums is the word our team captain has been stressing alot on Sunday(don't know, go ask her but contribute to the team's ice-cream fund at the same time). Feel free to add other pics in there.