Friendly match. Friendly.
AJC bowling had some form of 'friendly' match with 3 other JCs, namely YJ, TJ, VJ.
My lane was playing against a TJC team, and we got thrashed. Like, steamrollered. Completely no redeeming factor. It was humiliating. And when I checked other lanes I could see that AJ was like 'no fight'. No point fighting, seriously. Some lanes did well, yes, but our best is their average. I know I'm not exactly an AJ-loving dude, because it's too stifling, but even I felt like our already not-so-wholesome pride on AJC just got smashed.
Then I wondered, what's so extraordinary about the other JCs that allows them to train their students to such standards in bowling? I mean, I've had one year of training in AJ bowling, and so have they. Why are they like so zai as compared to me? OK, maybe I'm abit slower than the rest in picking up the sport, but even the best of AJ bowling falls to their average bowler. It can't be mass-illiteracy in the game, right?
Even though I may not appear to have much pride, I do have a lot of it. I cannot stand how we got steamrollered. So I began wondering why are we so weak.
Is it the lack of practice? Is it because we don't bowl > 2 times a week for the better half of last year? Is it a coach problem? Is it the lack of subsidy and thus less incentives to buy better balls?(Our TJC counterparts brought 3, while the most of us only have 1)
Which reminds me of a rather depressing story. Last year, I was called forth to my bio teacher because I failed a lecture test(quite badly). He asked me whether it's CCA commitment, and I said that I was in bowling. I didn't even have to include the information that I was in the recreational team(meaning non-competitive --> no need train as hard) to have him retort 'But bowling isn't AJC's niche CCA what. That's not a reason for your lousy results.' or something along those lines.
Even the teachers know that bowling as a CCA sucks in AJC.
You may not see what I'm driving at yet. Here's it: Why the fuck does AJC want to set up 'Bowling' as a CCA if it doesn't even wish for it to excel? Bowling funds is always non-existent, save for the name. Is it just to make it seem like AJC has a lot of different CCA choices? The members of bowling do have pride you know. We are OK with losing, but not OK with getting thrashed. By setting up this CCA and not allowing it to flourish it's like trapping the members of the CCA in this 'Ha we have bowling members, we make our presence known in the bowling arena, end of story' trap. I get this feeling that AJC just wants a foot in everything, whether or not students benefit from it. In this case, yes, AJC's presence in the bowling arena is felt. But we're known as a lousy CCA.
I don't really know what to tell people when they ask me for my past CCA.
For the bowling people from AJC who might be reading this: You have to admit that we sucked. Even if you didn't, the most of us did, and what I'm saying is that 'most of us' is representative of 'all of us'. Meaning if 75% of us did badly on our lanes, the 25% won't get much glory for doing well because the 75% defines the view other JCs would have on the 25% of the better players in AJC bowling.
And I can only angst and complain about it and no one really cares anyway.
On a lighter note, the TJ dudes we were playing against were good and friendly.
And..that's about all the good thing in the friendly match.
Fuck. The dude who failed at cybersex yesterday is talking to me again. 'Lol can u talk or trainin mage? Lol u wer gd last night :o'
-- 3/20/2010 12:52:00 AM
