Finally its over, but still lots undone...
Yesh finally over...
The NTU Tertiary Institute Outdoor Archery Championship 2005 is finally over, after months of preparations and planning. Been really busy the past few week, getting last minute stuff settled, calling, liasing, rushing datelines, training and working. Guess the handphone bills and stress level for me and my vp reached a sky high figure this month.
Its kinda hard to cope and to adjust at the start of this month. Starting attachment and i have to been away from NTU, lots of co-ordination stuff put pains into me daily. Had to make calls to various people during office hours without my supervisor knowing, doing work on one hand while finding means to solve problems on organising the competition on the other. Still glad that my supervisor is kind enough to just laugh away and not complain at my Alpha Program Test which failed badly that day at work. And also my vp who did most of the planning stuff, neglecting his studies. Both of us were really happy yesterday after the competition once it ended after the prize presentation and photo taking. He said, "Yes, no more phone calls", guess it was really like putting a big stone down from within us, finally time to relax and return to our normal lifestyle, or maybe not...
Working life sux. Can't really have time to go for training. Felt really tired after work, though it was mainly sitting infront of the pc doing programming 8 to 5, guess it was due to the mental strain. Even if i have energy after work, by the time time i reach NTU its already sun-down, can't even shoot at night. Felt guilty not going to shoot with the competition coming up. Especially it was a "home ground" advantage competition, all the NTU archers wanted a big win.
Then i found myself becoming a "weekend warrior". While most people rest at home or party out during the weekends, i travel early in the morning to NTU to shoot and travel back home in the evening every saturday and sunday, even on Hari Raya. Though it was tiring to do so everyweek, i felt contented and happy every weekend. Seeing my strength coming back and feeling the good form again. Grateful of the Final Year Archers who couldn't really train during the weekdays like me due to their FYP to train with me on the many Sundays. Even the final year archers wanted NTU to win in this important competition and took time off their busy schedule to train and work hard together again. Happy to spend time with you guys each Sunday working hard together. They even know that i was busy with attachment and offered to make a new string for me first before themselves so i could go for this competition with a better edge. I could say i owe a quarter of my total scores to you guys. Thats the spirit of NTU archery, always look for the team win, not an individual win. Though we have no coach to help us, we have ourselves to help, and with hard work, we can still win with pride. I would like to say Thanks and you guys deserve the credit.
The organising of the competition got me to learn and see lots of things. It made me more confident and quick to make firm decisions. Learned to push people to work hard, meeting datelines, establishing good relations. It made me realise we cannot stand alone and not know the world out there in order to achieve certain stuff. They may want to get an advantage on us, but we can also in other ways get another advantage back on them in order to draw more attention for our competiton, it works both ways. We just have to know whats our objectives and work towards it. It was an "eye-opener" for me. I found out who i could really trust and who i could really depend on. More evidence and truth on various rumours came to light for me. I finally knew the true side of the story and who was right, who was wrong.
This was the best competition ever in the many competitions i went. The weather rocks with overcast clouds, no rain, slight wind, best weather for archery. Though being part of the organising comm, i had to wake up earlier and make arrangement even while i was competing, i felt great. Wasn't a bit anxious, nervous, pressured or tired while shooting. It could be due to a "home ground" feeling and also could be that i was shooting with many other archers from various clubs who i already made friends with through many competitions. Its like a get together session while enjoying the challenge from archery. I felt the love of the game yet again.
Yet again, NTU archery swept most of the medals and hopeful of being ivp champion for the running year. But various events shocked me, as i saw another institute getting stronger for the ivp archery arena. I saw the threat it posed to NTU's domination in archery. It was like they are following the foot steps of NTU, pushing more archers from their team to the national training squad, training in the open category to improve and to defeat us. After the competition, i talked to my predecessor and he felt the same as i did. We cannot stop other clubs from being stronger, but we ourselves cannot maintain at our current level, we have to work harder. We will have to look far, to beat the national players at their own game at the same level even without being in the national training squad. We had a long talk in evening even after a long day competing. Finally able to know how he felt when he was in my shoes.
Although the organising of the competition was over, there was still many things left to do to improve ourselves. Still many things that is needed to do to pass on the tradition and never let is die out.
The NTU Tertiary Institute Outdoor Archery Championship 2005 is finally over, after months of preparations and planning. Been really busy the past few week, getting last minute stuff settled, calling, liasing, rushing datelines, training and working. Guess the handphone bills and stress level for me and my vp reached a sky high figure this month.
Its kinda hard to cope and to adjust at the start of this month. Starting attachment and i have to been away from NTU, lots of co-ordination stuff put pains into me daily. Had to make calls to various people during office hours without my supervisor knowing, doing work on one hand while finding means to solve problems on organising the competition on the other. Still glad that my supervisor is kind enough to just laugh away and not complain at my Alpha Program Test which failed badly that day at work. And also my vp who did most of the planning stuff, neglecting his studies. Both of us were really happy yesterday after the competition once it ended after the prize presentation and photo taking. He said, "Yes, no more phone calls", guess it was really like putting a big stone down from within us, finally time to relax and return to our normal lifestyle, or maybe not...
Working life sux. Can't really have time to go for training. Felt really tired after work, though it was mainly sitting infront of the pc doing programming 8 to 5, guess it was due to the mental strain. Even if i have energy after work, by the time time i reach NTU its already sun-down, can't even shoot at night. Felt guilty not going to shoot with the competition coming up. Especially it was a "home ground" advantage competition, all the NTU archers wanted a big win.
Then i found myself becoming a "weekend warrior". While most people rest at home or party out during the weekends, i travel early in the morning to NTU to shoot and travel back home in the evening every saturday and sunday, even on Hari Raya. Though it was tiring to do so everyweek, i felt contented and happy every weekend. Seeing my strength coming back and feeling the good form again. Grateful of the Final Year Archers who couldn't really train during the weekdays like me due to their FYP to train with me on the many Sundays. Even the final year archers wanted NTU to win in this important competition and took time off their busy schedule to train and work hard together again. Happy to spend time with you guys each Sunday working hard together. They even know that i was busy with attachment and offered to make a new string for me first before themselves so i could go for this competition with a better edge. I could say i owe a quarter of my total scores to you guys. Thats the spirit of NTU archery, always look for the team win, not an individual win. Though we have no coach to help us, we have ourselves to help, and with hard work, we can still win with pride. I would like to say Thanks and you guys deserve the credit.
The organising of the competition got me to learn and see lots of things. It made me more confident and quick to make firm decisions. Learned to push people to work hard, meeting datelines, establishing good relations. It made me realise we cannot stand alone and not know the world out there in order to achieve certain stuff. They may want to get an advantage on us, but we can also in other ways get another advantage back on them in order to draw more attention for our competiton, it works both ways. We just have to know whats our objectives and work towards it. It was an "eye-opener" for me. I found out who i could really trust and who i could really depend on. More evidence and truth on various rumours came to light for me. I finally knew the true side of the story and who was right, who was wrong.
This was the best competition ever in the many competitions i went. The weather rocks with overcast clouds, no rain, slight wind, best weather for archery. Though being part of the organising comm, i had to wake up earlier and make arrangement even while i was competing, i felt great. Wasn't a bit anxious, nervous, pressured or tired while shooting. It could be due to a "home ground" feeling and also could be that i was shooting with many other archers from various clubs who i already made friends with through many competitions. Its like a get together session while enjoying the challenge from archery. I felt the love of the game yet again.
Yet again, NTU archery swept most of the medals and hopeful of being ivp champion for the running year. But various events shocked me, as i saw another institute getting stronger for the ivp archery arena. I saw the threat it posed to NTU's domination in archery. It was like they are following the foot steps of NTU, pushing more archers from their team to the national training squad, training in the open category to improve and to defeat us. After the competition, i talked to my predecessor and he felt the same as i did. We cannot stop other clubs from being stronger, but we ourselves cannot maintain at our current level, we have to work harder. We will have to look far, to beat the national players at their own game at the same level even without being in the national training squad. We had a long talk in evening even after a long day competing. Finally able to know how he felt when he was in my shoes.
Although the organising of the competition was over, there was still many things left to do to improve ourselves. Still many things that is needed to do to pass on the tradition and never let is die out.
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