Thursday, July 03, 2008
I felt that I need to provide a closure for yesterday.
I flopped for Nationals. It could have been one of the invitational shoots or monthly shoots, but it had to happen during Nationals.
My sighter shots and first series were going ok. But when it reached the second series, my sighting went haywire. Coach Ma sent me 3 notes throughout the whole competition to sight my rifle. And my second series was more like a sighter series cos my shots were too high and to the left. Then she called me out and talked to me before my third series. She told me those shooters there have been shooting for three/four years plus so there was no hope and she would rather I go for the experience then the result. She called me out again just before my last 3 shots and asked me to take it slow. So I finished my shoot with time to spare unlike other shoots when I barely finished when time was up.
I was disappointed with the results of course. I felt very bad cos I did not live up to my expectations score-wise. Then I reflected upon my shoot, I realized I know what it is like to really let go during a competition. I’m sure I’ve felt that way before in my previous shoots but this time I was really conscious of it.
Thanks to all those who wished us luck (: Thanks to Coach Ma, Coach Lim and Mr Chow for giving us advice and helping us along the way. And thanks also to Ms Ng, Eileen, Ruiting for going down to support us.
Thanks to us, Serqi and Yuki. I’m sure we all did our best at that point in time (:
All the best to the others shooting in Nationals (:
Another disappointing thing that happened yesterday was the return of the LA scripts. I wanted to do better but I didn’t exactly learn the part on civil disobedience cos I didn’t have time to revise much and that cost me 4 marks. I still remember cramming in everything during pe with the girls haha. Ah I guess those who worked hard for it will do well la, I didn’t exactly work for it, so I shouldn’t expect too much. Just like the Chinese paper today. I was really lucky cos there were MCQs lol, so I shouldn’t do too badly I guess (: and seety won’t either (:
Seety’s going off to Wales this Sunday ): so I’ll be all alone for the next 2 weeks. And you’ll be missing lots of tests hmph! I don’t care, I want a souvenir from Wales ar.
Ok, this time is really goodbye till November.