tug of war!

so i started out my day with really low self esteem due to the upcoming tug of war that was to be held after school. the second i stepped into the bilik pengawas, i started rambling to everyone on how we (the green house girls) were gonna lose cause we are so thin and yada yada. in fact, i felt so low, that i asked eu jin a few times whether the names can be changed. he said no, and i had to just comply with it.

tug of war, was no doubt the hottest topic of the day.

i did some errands during the last period of school until 1.45pm? somewhere around there. and boy, i dread getting signatures of approval from certain teachers! i got pushed around like mad!

"i'll be back in a minute.."

yeah rightt. i waited for around 5 minutes and ran some other errands for other teachers in the meantime, and still she did not appear. i got a lil fed up of waiting, knowing i'm not so much of a cough cough, patient person, so i asked my way around and ended up seeing her in bilik guru, chit-chatting with other teachers. excuse me, i've been running around for an hour to get whatever approval you need before you sign, and you're here chatting?! uhh, the anger. thank God she finally gave me her signature after a million years of waiting.

after that, i went for a video and photo session to film my "5 seconds of fame" video, taken by kj. lol. had to think up of our very own pose and yeah, i did a lame one - buttoning up my blazer. gosh, i'm so creative, i can be a creative director next time! sarcastically of course. haha. had real lots of fun anyways. kekeke.

2.30pm. i realised my white pe shirt is a lil too transparent for my own good. umm, not gonna elaborate here bout it, but yeah, in short its transparent. very, very. haha. so i called my mum to bring my green shirt to school. after eating my lunch, i thanked my mum for bringing my clothes and headed off to the tug of war competition. running competition started off first though. cheered for them, walked around, blabbered to weng wah and sze huey about how green house girls gonna lose and all. and soon, it was time for tug of war.

they started off with the guys first....fortunately. i was talking to this girl from green house at that time, and she did not know whether her name is inside the list for this event....she wanted to join, and thought it was a open event. i panicked, cause she was the biggest sized girl there at the pavilion. if she isn't in, we'll have a great time losing, i thought to myself. i quickly asked eu jin and he said that the judges don't really mind, as long as you have enough members to pull. right then, i thought of ru jun and dashed off in search of her to pull since the rules changed, or in this case, is lenient. found her in zone 2 meeting and got her out from there to change.

went back to the pavilion, and found the green house guys starting their game, fighting to get into the finals. (blue house guys lost to red house guys while i was away with ru jun.)

they lost the first round. shucks, was the first word that came to my mind. they exchanged places with yellow house for the second round. i had the sudden urge and vibe, therefore resulting to my scream, "RUMAH HIJAU!"

.........and i was the only one who shouted at that time. paiseh giler. nevertheless, they lost again. so they were officially out of finals...and had to fight to get the 3rd place with the other losing team, which happens to be blue house.

in the meantime, the whistle was blown.

"peserta tarik tali perempuan sila ke hadapan.." (all tug of war female contestants please come forward.)

SHUCKS! haha. i was so prepared to lose.. and so happened that we had more than 10 contestants (some who did not register their name came along too.) it's a good thing, cause some of them are big sized and yeah. so i asked eu jin to pick 10 of us, and i was chosen..ru jun was not though.

sat at the field along with the other contestants and scanned around. yellow house girls were humongous! they practically had the top 5 biggest girls in our whole school in! .........and we prayed hard not to get them first. i bet blue and red house girls were praying hard too. haha.

they did a lucky draw, and thank God once again, that blue house was to be against yellow house! such a relief...seriously. they started off first, and duh..yellow won.

at that moment, we couldn't deny..that,......it was time.

us against the red.

got up and we gave words of encouragement to each other. did some cheer and got ourselves ready. everyone was in position; this basketball player right in front, thuvija the second, and i was after jun lin, somewhere in the middle, and another basketball player was behind me along with 2 other girls. held the rope and i dug some holes with my feet for better stand.

everyone was ready.

while waiting for the whistle to blow, my heart went, dub dub dub, dub dub dub dub, dub dub dub dub dub. yeap, faster and faster.. wye mun cheered for me, and i roared in response, as a form of semangat. haha. yes, i know its very unlady-like but aiya, who cares! xD

and the whistle was blown.

"TARIKKK!!!! PULLL!!!"

all i could hear were noisy muffled words. couldnt hear what everyone was cheering or saying.

keep pulling...keep pulling.. 1, 2, pull! stand on your ground. bend your knees and body behind for lower gravitational center. keep pulling....1, 2, pull! keep pulling, andrea.

that was what i recalled thinking of.

"pittttttttttttttttttt!!"

WE WON THE FIRST ROUND! WOOOHOOO!

we then exchanged places with red, and dug holes again.

siew called me while standing at the side, i turned to look, and he said, "andrea...dont like this la..give chance to us(red house)" sorry siew, friends are friends, tug of war is tug of war. haha. afterall, red house is leading overall right now. paul, on the other hand was there too, cheering green house girls on.

we took hold of the rope once again, and waited for the whistle to blow.

"pittttttttttttttt!!"

Mr. Herman blew!

again, muffled voices were heard.. and we were.........losing it. we took a step forward...which clearly meant - closer to losing.

i dug my leg inside the hole and my toes coiled in response to being pulled.

hang in there everyone... and i guess we were thinking the same at that point of time. we started the 1,2 pull thing.

we gained a few steps back. good, keep going, keep going. keep pulling at the count of 1,2.

"PITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!"


and we.......OFFICIALLY GOT INTO THE FINALS! WE WON BABEH! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHA! :DDD


we jumped and hugged and cheered and yeah. we were so bubbly and hyper after that! haha. such is the enthusiasm portrayed.. hehe.


anyways, we had great fun today! and i've got a medal secured! HURRAY! (the guys got 4th place though..) and as you guys know, its my last year in school so its a big thing for me! memories such as these are priceless. imagine me telling my children about my high school life next time, so fun so fun! :DDDD

the finals will be on sports day itself.....and i am able to foresee us losing to the yellow. guess most probably we'll get silver medal. well, its still a medal! rightright?! :D hehehe.

all in all, praise God for everything and for His grace that kept me going! thank You, Lord! (:




it's 2.23am now; andrea's off to sleep! :)