Sunday, September 25, 2005
Forty-Forty, Deuce, Avante Server!
IMU Cup is going on and yours truly is not participating in any until I heard that our Tennis team needs players, if not, it's going to be a walk over. So I decided to join, on the logic that we are going to lose anyway, so lose fighting.
A few things to clear up before I go on.
1. I've never played tennis before.
2. Hell, I've never held a tennis racquet before.
3. And of course I don't even know how to play game and its rule.
But being the self-sacrificial kid I am, I decided to just go there and make a fool of myself. After all, we are going to lose. But guess what? Because of me, we got into the semi-finals, something our batch never did before.
Sheena: That's just because two teams pulled from the competition.
Hey, but before you judge, let me tell you, if not for me, we won't have a team and we won't be even in the semis!!!
Richard: Kembang sendiri.
So on that Saturday morning, I trooped down the Bukit Jalil Club House to play in the competition. Yup, no training whatsoever! Just got thrown into the lion's den with the lion waiting there to swallow me up. Kamikaze fighter pilot ready to go!!! Shiva briefed me on the rules on the way there and upon reaching Grace taught me how to swing the racquet.
Grace: Use the waist, not the wrist!!
And then after 20 minutes of trying to serve the ball over the net and failing, the competition starts with me and Shiva paired for the first match.
Elena: What the HELL!!! Fuck, screw it la.
My first game was the funniest game I ever played. It was so cool. I was up againt Elaine and her friend KitKat (sth like that). And when the ball came towards me, like weeee!!! I swung the racquet and totally missed the ball!!! Haha...
Then they served again. The sound made when the ball made solid contact with Shiva's racquet sounds good. It was like a gunshot, bang! but when the ball zoomed towards me, it was more of a thud and it flew to another corner far far away.
Mitra (opponent team) was yelling orders at me: Don't use your wrist, swing now!!! Wait for the ball!!!.
Even Elaine (opponent of the mattch) came over to teach me how to serve. It was a damn funny game. And the funniest would be when everyone is yelling at me to move (the rules of tennis is that you have to switch courts when and when). It was like: Elena, move to the right. Then Shiva serve. Then: Elena, move back to the left, NOW! Then Shiva serve again.
During that whole game... the competition was not really in anyone's mind. They were all about teaching Elena how to play the game. Almost everyone was screaming advices, Mitra included who keeps on yelling: Don't get excited!!! Wait for the ball!!
But during my second game... I did better.
Grace: Better than me too.
I managed to win a game by serving all the way. I did underhand serves all the way. The ball went thuck, bang, thuck, WHAM! and flew away so far (by the opponents). I did that about ten times and won that game.
And when we won it: Game-forty, I was screaming with joy and wheeling all over the place, screaming: Did you see that, did you freaking see what the first timer did?!!!
And as a beginner, it was good to break a serve and smash it into the opponent's court. It was like something only a pro would be able to do. The ball came whoosh, Shiva hit it back, bam, and the opponent girl (Sue) wham it back so powerfully. And I decided to intercept that volley. Smash!!! The ball landed right between both of them and they couldn't do anything about it.
The noob saved the day!!! I was dancing right at the court, everyone was laughing and I'm having fun, so why not??
But still in the end we lost the match. Haha... However, the noob showed excellent beginner skills. That's an Elena So-and-so (russian name) in the making here. MWAHAHAHA!!!
And it's all thanks to CK, Shiva, Phang, CalvinJit, Grace, SienHui, Elaine, Andrew(sem2), Sue(sem2), and not to forget Mitra.
Downside: I got really sunburnt. My neck was hurting, my arms are like lobsters.
Me doing the lobster dance.
And so IMU Cup is underway. M2/03 has made it into the semis for almost every game... and somebody please tell me why are we trailing behind M2/04 by 27 points????? Goddamnit!!! At least that shows that we the seniors are not playing dirty, so unlike the years before.
Madre de Dios! Es El Pollo Diablo!
- Captain Blondebeard, Curse of Monkey Island
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