Hellooo. Hope you guys are doing fine, one and a half months to freedom! So anyways, here are some overdue photos to distract you from your mugging ((:


And this was really really long ago heh. Our little salvation army adventure!!

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for a team that hasn't trained since april, i must say, you guys are really pretty amazing (:
this is to say thanks for everything since the start of touch last year. i don't know about you, but for me, it's been a brilliant one and a half and a bit more years. i couldn't ask for a better team, and i'm glad that the people who stayed active are you lot.

i've probably never told all of you this, but personally, it's you that has made my RJ experience worth it. All the shiz and stuff has been made tolerable because I know I start my morning with yall at the touch table and end my day on the field with yall. I know yona will probably stick her tongue out in disgust and say something horrible and make me laugh in response to this, because it sounds corny, but it is true okay. Everytime someone asks if I regret coming to RJ, i would so much like to say yes, but i think of yall and i say yes and no. no because if i didn't come, i wouldn't have met yall and wouldn't have found a team like that, more focused on welfare and family than killing each other on the field.

i'm thankful that you chose me to captain yall because its been a great ride. ups and downs yes, but its made me come to appreciate yall a lot more and even though yall always laugh at me when i'm actually being serious, i know yall will never leave each other alone on field. thanks friends, for your support and respect, and for giving me a place i really belong and a place where i can be me. and even though you still don't know the team vision for this year, which made me and ame very sad, (it's T.R.Y - technique, rapport and you), we still love you guys and its heartwarming to know that at least some still remember the Y, which means we've made this place a place you can look back on and smile.

i wouldn't give up raffles touch 09 for anything, all the fun and mud, omg do you remember how derel made us jumpball at the start of training at the swamp and only andrea was clean cos she came late, and how derel forced us to run 4k in 25min, and how we had 2.4 every before every training, and how we sang 'its been a long time, since we first met you...' and the juno song for derel and khai, and how we won first place for derel and ms chan at m1 round 3 on teachers day, and how we got accustomed to caleb and can horse around with him now and really appreciate him too, and how we bake under the sun and call everyone except ourselves black (yes thats you liting and ger hahaha) and how we played the most violent game of rugby captains ball during camp, and how proud we feel when we wear our batch jersey...

i know i'll always be here for yall, and i will always play my heart out for yall (:


on a much lighter note, i really had fun yesterday and i was also very touched when you all tried to cover for me even though yall were already very tired cos i got my head smashed twice and wasn't very much use to yall for a while. thanks friends.

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i'm back i'm back woohoo

anyway we are TEAM WAFFLES for youth in touch ohkay, credit to momo
i love the name nyahaha

SO REMEMBER TO KEEP AUGUST FIRST FREE and if you've forgotten that you've promised rachel that you'll play - yes you did, anzie, amelia, andrea, alina, germaine, chernping, yijie, liting, weili, momo, (hopefully)yona, YES YOU.

((:
j1 trng starts next week we need to go and crash and play some ball so we dont get owwwned.


ho hum hope you guys are happy! cts are over put it behind us lets work very hard for prelims ahhhh

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Wow ok there are like a million pics and blogger is really really annoying now. I'll send you guys the rest soon. Plus M1 Round 1 pictures!! Hahah outdated like maaaad I'll send them all out soon I promise!

Thanks for all the loveee my friends. If you are wondering (you better be hahaha), I'm doing fine! :) Won't be coming around the Touch table in the mornings till I can walk without my crutches, so I'll see you guys around school yea?

Train hard guys. It's really the last stretch for us together as a team. I hope you guys make the best out of the remaining month so or, take joy in every training, every match. Give it your all and stick it out for each other. It may all be over before you know it, in the most abrupt way. (Trust me on this) But if you know you gave it your all, tried your hardest and can walk away from it all with no regrets, then you know you've made the best out of the past year and a half.

So make every training count guys.

The next time Caleb or Derrick gives us PT, jump for joy and rejoice ok? Hahaha easy for me to say right. Do it together and do it for each other. It'll make everything worth it :)

Touch might be over for me, physically. But it will never ever die within me, within us. I already miss playing with you guys so much, I swear thinking about it drives me insane. I promise to be your cheerleader/ water person/ food person/ whatever, at our next game ok? Hahaha.

Loves all of you to infinity and back :)

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Hey friends
derel sent me an email -
thought it might encourage you guys and lift your morale and spirits (keep your heads up!)


i also heard about your game with MI yesterday. didn't go too well? don't worry too much about trying to win or put in the tries cos that's when everything will fall apart cos everyone will be trying stuff on their own. concentrate on team play, and the tries will take care of themselves k? rem what the policies are on defense and attack.on attack: to keep driving the ball forward, and swing the ball to space when you're at the opp 5m. do your set moves like arrow, chinchow, mango and mango splits. also, as a form of aggressive defense, ball must stay alive for all 6 touches.on defense: squeeze and always be alert for the cover defense. keep talking and moving back -concede the ground, but not the try.

love, derel

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A friend once told me something and made me think about what a team means, and i hope you will give it some thought too,

There are days where we can't pass well
days when we can
days when we can't throw a switch pass properly
days when we can
days when we die on the field, breathless and let our man through
days when we're in shape
days when we don't hit gaps and hit faces
days when we're on fire
days when we can even score tries

we may not pull moves off brilliantly everyday, or feel at our fittest everyday
but everyday we can work hard, and we've got everyday to work hard.

and friends, i just want yall to know, that i may sometimes push the team a bit harder to the extent where it gets on your nerves and seeing me along the corridors makes you wanna turn and go the other way, but we all need to work hard individually to push on together. that's what a team means to me, individual responsibility for the team (:
so as training starts again tomorrow, and trials on thursday, and J1s coming in next week, let's get up and do our best, because we are capable of so much more - that means trying our utmost best to come for PT, putting in 200% at trainings with caleb, and even post-training and loving the team and the game okay (:

T echnique, R apport, Y ou

Yay let's go friends (:

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