Singapore's Pride

History was made on 13 Aug, Singapore Time 9.12am!

Joseph Schooling, won the Gold medal in 100m Mens' Butterfly 50m race. It's not just winning, it's also setting the Olympics Record of 50:39s. It's not just breaking the OR but also winning his idol, super legend Michael Phelps. And Joseph Schooling won with 3 others at the Silver position. How cool is that, with Singapore flag on top of 3 other flags. And it was surreal when we heard the National Anthem "Majulah Singapura" played at the Victory Ceremony. All Singaporeans feel really proud, you can tell from all the Facebook feeds, they kept coming and one could easily feel the great pride and joy.

Mr Schooling received numerous congrats and also a warm welcome when he was back Singapore just this morning at 5plus am. It was so warm to see the welcome he received once the plane landed. From the water canon to so many "live" Facebook postings, he is so loved. Haha!

Public Service Badminton Tournament 2013

Randomly saw a few photos with the gals so thought I should blog about this.

Took part (for the 1st time) in the Public Service Badminton Ladies' Open, as part of the Ministry team sometime back in end Feb/early Mar. We fought 3 matches and were out of the game, 1 victory and 2 defeats.

First up was against MHA. They were good. Could tell they were trained and their strokes and footwork were more accurate. I partnered with PH and we blew it because we could not complement each other (seldom partner with her) and we were too nervous. We lost this and went into the Losers' Pool.

This was where we met Republic Poly. They looked very sporty and intimidating but turned out that few were really badminton players. So, we won, could have been a very easy game if not for the nerves (again). This time, I partnered with Irene which I thought made a better combi.

After we won that, we met HDB. We were kind of close for 2 of the doubles, but Irene and I in a way "did the worst". We were too nervous, all the shots were off and we did not perform like how we did while playing at RC. Quite disappointed. We played 2 sets, i.e. 21 vs 10 and 21 vs 9. See, very bad scores.

All in all, it was a good experience, only wished that we could play more competition like this, so that we will not let the nerves play the game. I am hopeful but of course this takes time and lots of PRACTICE.

With the MHA players who are young and energetic!

Our MEWR Ladies Players

Courtesy from Bo -- while Irene and I were warming up