A new chapter is beginning...

omg thanks everyone!

marcus, kaiyu, weishen, jianying, ben ooi, nigel, joel, yinrong, yuda, jon lim. you guys were magnificent! thank you all for your fantastic effort. you all made our raffles trail a success. truly. you made me the i/c proud of you all. today was a great day for raffles waterpolo. im truly proud to be proud of this group of guys. the spirit is awesome.

they all stayed longer than their designated shift times and worked very hard so that almost every single parent was able to come into the classroom and listen to us introduce waterpolo as a cca. and they all conformed around the guidelines that i printed for them on what to say to the parents. im so proud of them all!

at the start, i actually didnt want so many people around to talk to the parents, i actually wanted a more serious environment and i didnt want to usual jokers like marcus to talk to the parents. but boy he was fantastic! after listening to me talking to the parents a few times he took the initiative and started standing along the corridor to get parents to come into our booth and gave them a talk about waterpolo (that sounded hugely like mine, but i wont complain). im so proud of you marcus.

our day basically started with meeting at the poolside at 9am to collect the stuffs from mr lim. posters, photos, trophies, vcd, etc. then we brought all these to class and started setting up. after partially setting it up, i hounded yanliang for the laptop and the noticeboard. he said it was with mr kwan who didnt come until relatively later. so we just slacked around wtih our almost complete booth and eventually started playing soccer with an old polo ball lol.

after getting our laptop and noticeboard, we put the cd inside the laptop and started watching our old videos of us in malacca. haha and saw my great saves too! hahahaha it was very fun and eventually we got a brainwave, which was to try and connect the laptop to the classroom system and play it through the projector. but we didnt have the key. so i lugged the laptop to j8 to have lunch.

we had lunch at subway and it was my first time in a long time eating at subway (explains my size la. got all the fast foods and i dont eat the healthiest) hahaha then after lunch and burning a hole in my pocket, yet still feeling hungry after subway, we headed back for school.

zhang laoshi lent me her key to open the lock to connect our laptop to the class system but the key wouldnt work. probably it was a wrong key la. haha so we just used the visualiser and shined it on our laptop screen and it was almost as good as it being connected to the projector. haha ingenious ri boys! haha

after that the sec 1s came and we started introducing our cca. we were sharing a classroom with swimming and those swimming boys were damn nasty. they told the first class who came not to join waterpolo and to join swimming. wah that time i got verily pissed and i went to talk to the sec 4 at the booth. he said okay they wont badmouth us but the next class who came they toned down abit, but still had. i was fuming by then so i called yanliang the overall i/c of raffles trail and he put a stop to all that nonsense. i tell you if he didnt i would've gone to put a stop to it. and supported by the rest of the poloers. maybe it would've escalated into a full scale riot between polo and swimming but we dont care. we must protect our own interests.

anyway i think yanliang went to tell a teacher too so they got abit screwed also so serves them right la. wasnt the sec 4s fault i think it was the sec 2s and 3s fault. they got some inferiority complex i think or feel that our display was nicer than theirs and started saying bad stuff about them. then the sec 2 and 3 poloers wanted to go fight with them over that but i told them that i would settle it lol. hahahaha i guess being sec 2 and 3 swimmers they just arent mature enough yet la. haha i can say that now im the oldest batch in the school!

haha i did most of the talking for the sec 1s and introduced them to the cca blahblah bullshit here and there blah blah haha and marcus had a try too. he sounded too unnatural but hey doesnt hurt la. haha he should be in charge next year hes enthu and hes a great bullshitter like me hahahah

then after that we started getting all the parents. any parents that walked past was directed into our booth. haha i put nigel outside to direct them in while me and marcus stood inside. i think our business today was great because of this strategical maneouvre lol so not bad la, at least the parents are well informed of our cca. whether or not that translates into good numbers for the trials is another thing.

we werent able to reach all the sec 1s. there was a huge delay so not all the sec 1 classes came to our booth. im looking into the possibility of making an announcement on monday or mobilising our whole polo team to relay the information to the sec 1 classes during interaction time on monday the time and day of our polo trials, so that we wont miss out on any potential polo players. i was put in charge for this and i want to make it good.

anyway, im really really extremely proud of the guys and i think they have put in very hard work for me at short notice. their spirit was very willing too and i see a new champion batch in the making. they are willing to do this for me and work so hard for me, i dont see any problems we will have with this team.

i love my team! raffles waterpolo for the win!