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Friday, May 30, 2008 ► Social touch + NTU Touch Attack

Hello, we're having social touch next Saturday (7th june), 4pm at sports complex. Everyone's welcome to come down and celebrate the end of your ct. Those who find the time inconvenient, pls tag. Committe members, just the girls + Caleb and Russell, we'll be having a meeting at school's cheers at 130pm. Again, please tag if you cannot make it. Thanks!

Below are the NTU Touch Attack details:

Venue: NTU Sports & Recreation Centre Main Field
Date: Sunday, 15th June 2008
Time: 2pm to 8pm
"Look out for our GOODIE BAGS!" (yayy.)

Registration fee is $80/team so, please give Eudora $14.20 for the girl's team, and same, $14.20 to YueHao for the mixed team.
Girls under 20 team
1. CC
2. Eudora
3. Puisan
4, Mag
5. Mun
6. Jac
Mixed team
1. Caleb
2. Kenneth
3. Yue hao
4.CC
5. Eudora
6. Puisan
See y'all then!

CC



Monday, May 26, 2008 ► NTU Touch Attack

Please look at the link for more details. I think this is a pretty good opportunity for the juniors (guys & girls) to try out a smaller version of touch since its 4v4 format. Form your own team of 6 and let your seniors know!

http://ntutouchattack2008.blogspot.com/

Seniors (girls), we're definitely going to send in a team. We have 9 of us now. It's 6 per team so those who're not interested, please tag. Oat's will be away then so only 2 girls can withdraw from this. It's a first come first serve basis, so hurry tag! (Lian, Birdbird, don't say i never give you chance okay!) Once the 2 girls have tagged, i'll send in the registartion form. So, for the rest of the seniors, please keep your 15th June (Sunday) free. Tyvm.

CC



Sunday, May 25, 2008 ► M1 Part 2 match report.

A summary for those who are interested to know what happened on Saturday.

The girls' first game came face to face with Hwa Chong JC who won us in the previous M1. This time, all thanks to Eudora's (aka superstar aka side-step shen!!) side-step that landed us 2 nil, in our favour. Puisan, also the bullet train in the team, did a very nice scoop but a pity someone claimed to touch her boots (?!?!), ball was turned over to Hwa Chong. One clap for effort though!

The second game against SAJC was an equally good one. The weather played a part in the rough touches and vulgarities but again, all thanks to our Eudora/superstar who sacrificed her right knee that landed us the first try against them. The subsequent try happened because some SA girl likes to do fly defence, and with a little bit of luck and a vision of gap, mo mo ren managed to score a try with Puisan's pop pass. The game ended 2 nil, in our favour again.

With these results, it landed us face to face in the semi-finals with SP. 7 minutes into the game, the girls were tired, and that was when SP's captain managed to run past our defenders. If only the 5m were more like a 5m, chances of winning would be higher. Anyhow, the game ended with 1 nil, against our favour. Nonetheless, I think we did a great job against SP. So, how bout a round of applause for everyone's effort in the team.

Lastly, a thank you for those who came down and support the girls. Caleb, our captain who don't know for what reason became the team manager, Yue Hao who also don't know for what reason became our self-acclaimed proud assistant coach, and Ronald who came late. Of course, not forgetting the junior guys and girls who surprisingly came down.

THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

End of report.



now begins the photo report.

"primal instinct and concentration. that is the way, of the side-step-shen"
credits to: filzah's friend.



Friday, May 23, 2008 ► training updates

hello everyone, training will stop next week and resume on 10th june, tuesday.
please note that the follwing are tentative and are subject to changes, so check back for further confirmation.

time: 6-8pm
venue: sports complex

good luck for common test!

CC



Wednesday, May 21, 2008 ► M1 Touch Part II


Venue is at CCAB. Again, if you're dont know how to go there, please ask someone for direction. First game is at 1036. Meeting time is 10am. Please be punctual. Thanks.



Wednesday, May 14, 2008 ► Fresshies!

hi fresshies! i think some of you are quite disheartened that you didnt make the so called 'team' that was picked out earlier. point is, dont be! cause what we have presently is a rough draw. changes will be made, people will be added. besides, we do believe in the existence of late bloomers. so give us some time and give yourselves some time as well.

pls do continue to come down still. i think we didnt stress this point enough, so we're hoping everyone sees this. i think one more point we left out is the fact that there are many touch competitions and other seasons that are to come. so dont feel like all is lost. after today, its apparant that there are some of you we missed out earlier, and for that, i do apologise.

so pls give us some time to sort you guys out. and i really hope everyone sees this post. if u know of pp who dont come to the blog, do ask them to come here more often as this is our most immediate way of sending out notices.

lastly, if i may give ya'll some advice, dont see this as a limitation to how much you will advance in the sport, but as a motivation to work harder and improve. practical advice as to how you can improve, would be to watch how the seniors play and pick up the habits and the way we play the game. that should help.

thanx for showing your support thus far.
Cheers,
Caleb



Friday, May 09, 2008 ► plans for camp and trainings

seniors. do we want to have a june camp? it is good we have one. last year's was memoriable (jackson and kc. whoo!). so... i heard some pp will be going overseas. thats a valid excuse. if u havent made plans.... PLS keep ur weekends.

if not, i will organise it on a week that everyone is available. seniors i mean. freshmen, too many to account for, for now. we hope as many of them can come of course - and that will likely be the case if we follow last year and have it the same week common tests end. can the seniors text caleb and let him know if u can make it. if not, give reasons. and pls. dont skip camp for something lame. seriously. haha.

(aloy. i know u're flying off to thailand. cant change date?! ok. so i take it that ur other weekends are free?) i'll try to find a week everyone can make it. thanx guys. tell me now. i need to submit proposal to mr gerald now. and i need time to plan the camp. i may call up some of ya'll to help me. thanx again. hear from ya'll soon :)

Cheers,
Caleb



Wednesday, May 07, 2008 ► m1 + pol-ite.

hi all, there's singapore all school touch championship on 31st may but we wont be joining since it clashes with the mid-sem assessment.

however, there is a second m1 touch on 24th may and we will be able to take part in that. unfortunately, m1 is only available for girls. so juniors and seniors, train hard and hopefully we'll be able to send in 2 teams.

another thing for the girls to look forward to, pol-ite is coming up in july. for those who dont know what pol-ite is, it's a yearly event where all the polys plus ite come together to compete against each other. it's an important game for us, more important than any other carnivals.

seniors, if we want to do better than last year, we really have to improve a lot more. my point is, we only have 2 months to prepare before we play pol-ite, and to just train 4 hrs a week is definitely not enough. let's step up our level of urgency and discipline, and influence the juniors to adopt a better attitude towards training. i dont know if any of you rmb but we said we'll aim for at least 3rd this year. i know we can do it, its just how much we want it. and how much we want to achieve it, we show it during training. simple as that. i know sometimes i lose heart even during training, please bear with me. scold me or do whatever it is to push me on. it's just that i really have so much faith in us to achieve more but every time results are not up to expectation. basically i just wanna say, when tables are turned, victory tastes all the sweeter.

juniors, there're available spots up for grab but not many. if you want to be part of the team, you've got to show us what you can do. it's your skills but more importantly your willingness to learn and your attitude during training that we look out for. so start working hard now! same for junior guys btw.

anyway since training starts officially at 7 for the seniors, can we all help train the juniors before coach comes down. with so many juniors now, just caleb and a few are not enough to handle all. k thanks.

CC



Sunday, May 04, 2008 ► T-E-A-M!

I really honestly didn't mean to push Caleb's post down but
here's something interesting.

Rugby Journey (:
It's all in bits and pieces though. But yeah. Photos are cool.

i don't know which m1touch was this but like quite a long way back. :D on lian's birthday!

RINA COME BACK FASTER PLEASE ):

team barbecue! those already graduated: faith, yasmin, shihan. those mia: rina, trudy, maxine.

team stairs! HAHA retarded and camwhorish we are!

uh. BONDING CAMP! the first first one! HAHAHA. (psst. look at cc :D teeheehee. she's so morphed lah. look at her now! *cue wolf whistle)

LOL DODGEBALL WINNERSSSS.


touch once-freshies! :D circled: cherylteo, kavina (who left np), myra and ... *cue drumroll BIRDIE EUDORA YAP IN HER YELLOW CANARY TEE!


maggie q , oats, jun (MIA), nicole (also MIA), and my head is not there.


CALEB THE WORM!, RUSSELL THE BEAR!, and AMEER THE.. The.. the... :D

HELLO PRETTIES! WHO'S HIDING BEHIND. oh it's retarded mag and the bird. LOL

my full happy to no end, team. (:

Without ya'l, we can't spell team. (: What I wanna say is, yes, people come and go. But those who stay really don't want that to happen. When you first joined touch and played as a team, you make a non-spoken pledge to stay because of your passion and love for the sport and for the teammates. To go, is breaking it. And it saddens us. And we try very hard to find means and ways to make ya'l stay. But still, your choice. Don't give us up okay? (:

Lovelovelove,
Qi

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psst, read Caleb's post below:



► training this tuesday.

hi everyone. important updates. from now on coach will take all seniors. we'll just have 1 or 2 people to help the fresshies.

seniors be down by 530 for game. freshmen, 6.

i know people have been hearing things about pp quitting. this is seriously dam depressing (if not for you, for me). so pls stop freaking passing the word around. i havent heard anything official and its getting irritating to hear pp ask me about who's quitting blah blah blah. its like rubbing it in to my already depressed state. give me a break pls. i'll (or 'we'll) announce any news once its official ok?! thank you all so much.

Caleb