26th Feb 2007

We are back from the Chinese New Year and our fitness movement deserve a new name. "Fitness is cool!" and it is. Just look at the happy and sweaty faces. The next thing I need to do is to get Adidas to endorse my quip ... well impossible is nothing right ;)

So, you game yet to join us?

Volleyball Tidbits: We raised the bar this week, literally. We had a made shift net between the two teams, and again it was between the juniors and the seniors. New net, new skill developments?! Blocks, sets and spikes, all so exciting. Belly still heavily worked for all the new unorthodox moves! Juniors seemed to found a weapon - Edi's serve! Although they managed to force us to two deuces, the oldies held out after all. Good job team Ruthless!

Three Legged Mahjong? Haha..

12th Feb 2007

In our usual no nonsense fashion, we finished our fitness training very quickly. As promised before in my email, there were interval training, some weights training, and agility. Nothing but fun and excitement. But for today, Volleyball ruled!

Volleyball Rules the Day

Ruthless continues to the motto of the senior Volleyball team. "Ruthless" in a baritone voice we would chant before the showdown match between the seniors and juniors. Although seniors outnumbered the juniors by one today, their youthfulness well made up for it.

Susan was our new addition today and she opened the match with a storm. Her serving prowess coupled with Wenhui's relentless and nothing less than ruthless blocking skills, was a formidable combination against our juniors. However, our juniors learned fast! They caught up quickly with a few tricks they learned from Wenhui's blocking, and they brought a few crucial points back when Wenhui was rotated to the back row.

Fortunate for us but unfortunate for the juniors, even though they were catching up fast, Yee Leen was in immaculate form today. She was blocking and smacking even more ruthlessly than Wenhui. Then when Susan was rotated to the front with her, she was also picking up speed with all that blocking even though she found us weird playing with no net, blocking and kicking the ball.

The first game ended in a tense manner because the juniors were really hot on our heels. Then professionally we switched court and kicked off our second game immediately. We dug, spiked and blocked the ball, and fended off the juniors' resistance. As the good old Chinese saying goes, "Older ginger are more spicy," we kept the juniors attempt to beat us in Volleyball at bay. Two games to us seniors - RUTHLESS!

Sideline Tidbits
In desperation, there were many unconventional moves that garnered a barrel of laughter:

(1) Wenhui invented the backwards block today! It was almost like a move in the Japaneses Volleyball show back in the 80s... it was fantastic but more importantly, it was ruthless...!

(2) Shanyou caught the ball before chest passing it to our side??!! Immediately, she was cursed out by the seniors like Buffy the Vampire Slayer chasing a Vampire with a holy cross!

(3) Nana and Geraldine tried the backward dig and pass, but unfortunately the ball bounced to their faces before it could come to our sides! Although they were "pai sei" we could not help but roll on the ground with laughter. Sorry if we laughed too hard but it was beyond our control!

Watch this space for the photos of the two rival Volleyball teams.

Team Juniors - Ever so youthful

They tried to look sulky for this supposedly "losers" photo but could not quite pull it off... except maybe for Ziying, but I could not quite make out the expression... looks like she using the "big white telephone!"

Team Ruthless!

You scared yet... see Yee Leen, Lijuan and Lili's faces!

5th Feb 2007

A Side-Line Story
The fitness training resumed this week after the Daisy Tan Carnival. The one week break made people yarning for the session I hoped. But guess what, Susan really wanted to join us this week and I don't know what happened with my reminder sent to her. I sent her a sms reminder on Sunday night saying,"Fitness training tomo night 7.30p.m MGS." She must have gotten the message on Moday and thought that the "tomo night" was Tuesday night. She actually went to the court on Tuesday night, and called me at about 8p.m to ask me what happened to everyone?! You know, sometimes my phone just misbehaves because I dropped it too many times by now, so I am not sure when my sms actually went out at. Anyway, sorry Susan, I hope you'll come the next session because our session is filled with nothing but excitment, trully :)

True Excitments:

Nothing but laughters...

Volleyball!

Remember the juniors were adamant about playing soccer at the end of the session the first time they came? Well, they have acquired a liking for Volleyball now. However, rather unbecomingly, our juniors feel that it is always a senior vs. junior thing at Volleyball. In a "natural selection" manner, they grouped themselves together to play us seniors even though the grouping turned out to be 10 of them vs 6 of us??!!

The Volleyball Game report:

During the game, despite having 10 of them playing 6 of us, the juniors could not quite convert their serves. The main person in the way was Wenhui, the fantastic blocker. She was like a wall, and the ball kept boucing off her and back to the juniors court, RUTHLESSLY. Soon, the momentum of being Ruthless, from the senior side, really caught on, and the juniors were so eager to convert some points that the ball was caught under somebody's foot! Trully ruthlessly, the seniors stopped the juniors from raising above us even though Yee Leen and Wai Yee served terribly that night. We won 2 games striaght.

Some Statistics:

Attendance - A few from Speed, all regulars and 2 from Force

Music - Radio?! Music, need good workout music!

More Tidbits from Diasy Tan Carnival 2007

Best young supporters