Sports Day ---- 27/06/08

Surprisingly, SMK Taman Sea organized their Sports Day on 27th June this year. Compared to my previous school(SMK BU4), this is 3 months late and its a good thing for me because I get to participate in this event. =)

Two Weeks before the Sports Day, the committee of Blue House, Darren and Eng Eu ran all over the school just to recuit new marchers to get 30 marchers in total. I wondered why they got no one to take part. Since I was one of my NS camp best marchers, I decided to volunteer myself because I want to contribute to my house. I didnt know that there will be a marching competition so I march just for Blue House.

We started training on last Monday. The weather wasnt that hot and it encouraged me to go on. Unfortunately, the rest of the members except Yong Kang and Daniel were marching like undeads ~_~ I can march with my leg up to 90 degree, but as we go on it dropped till 45 degree together with my spirit since they were just too lazy to lift up their leg to the optimum height. I am not bragging myself, I think I m the top 3 marchers in that team since the rest has no spirit to march. They were just doing it for that 50 co-corriculum marks. Sigh.

Fortunately the situation gets better later on. I was happy because at least 90% of the team is able to synchronize after 5 days of training. With all the basics mastered on the 5th day, Eng Eu finally taught us the formation and Hakka Dance which he told us earlier. At least this school allows us to perform in marching after they banned POM POM(sport days will nvr be fun without pom pom =( ). The formation is a V shape and the hakka dance will be performed when we done the formation successfully. I wish there are pictures to be shown here.

We have always kept this hakka dance in secret so that no one else other than the team know what we have prepared. Its some secret weapon to us =P. It looks like some tribal dance, and I m familiar with it since we had other company performed it too during ns camp. We dont even know what were we chanting haha =X~

Finally on the Sports Day, we had the confidence to win after daily training of marching till 4.30pm (except for Sat and Sun). We reached the school around 6 because Eng Eu said he is going to 'decorate' us. Ok.... he painted our face half blue half white, gave us a dog bone necklace made out of cupboard, sprayed our hair into blue, gave us a head band that has shuttlecolt feathers on it and lastly, asked us to wear strings that has coconut leaves on it around our waist. We looked like some babarian that you cant even recognize who we are since our face were painted. *Will upload the pics soon*

During performance, we gave in our best and we shouted loudly when we should. For that, we had the audience cheered and clapped the loudest ever on that day especially when we do that hakka dance because the ending pose rox! All of this time I have been doing my best just to gain the best applause from the crowd for my house because that is what matters. We were happy that we did it with least mistakes after 10 days of training. *cried happily with tears*

At the end of the day, its where all the winners are announced. Marching and working as a team has brought 30 of us together and we shouted 'Hang Jebat' whenever any blue house member won a medal. We got 2nd for house decoration =) Finally, its time for the Marching Competition winner. The 2nd place goes to Green House and we clapped for them because they were the champ for marching last year. The first place goes to...... * drum rolls*....... Blue House! YAY after days of marching training and Hakka dance practiced secretly we won the competition =D
The Trophy is kinda big ^^ For the best house, green house won and we got 2nd. We still get a trophy so in total we got 3 gigantic trophy that shown the rest that we 'raided' the prize =)

Once the announcing part is finished, we immediately end the day with the last Hakka dance and it was fun to do it with lots of people looking at you and they cheered after we performed that nicely ^_^ After that, we went to our 'House' to take a big group pic together with all the trophies won.. This pic has captured all the glory and hardwork paid off because everyone were just too happy for winning the competition after training so hard and sacrificed their time. I took lots of picture and hopefully I can upload them here after my friends pass them to me since it was taken with my friends camera =)

In conclusion, I learnt a lesson that hardwork does pay off and this has strengthen my determination to study harder. I wish next year we can win the marching competition too ^^


C=_=D, CD