Friday, August 13, 2004

good`friday

I realized how wonderfully fun Friday is, despite having PW as last period. But it's still ok, since my class ends at 1230pm. It's like a Mat Day, a day when the mats finally get to have some time to do things together. No planning needed, absolutely none at all. It's all spontaneity. First and foremost, at 12plus thereabouts, we would just congregate at the canteen front tables and have our lunch together. Then we would take the short bus ride to the mosque together. That's when all hell of jokes break lose, stories of how the hell the past week have gone by, always twisted in some form that's usually hillarious and make someone looks stupid. The bus seems like a marketplace, sorry for the other commuters. Then its off to the prayers, together. After that, it's all random activities. I remembered last week, it was off to the movies after National Day celebration, where we watched The Village. This week, without any planning, it was a session at the weights room. Iylia and Hakeem are musklees, show us the way haha... See the mats do exercise too, we don't just relack one corner. :) Then, coz after weights, we were all bored, we just decided to play sepak takraw at LT 2.5, haha, and that was really fun because I managed to do 2 succesful lipats today. A lipat is like a spinning kick performed in mid-air. It's similar to a bicycle kick in soccer. Yup. Headers are so much easier in sepak takraw bcoz we are actually using quite a soft ball, but when Rudy brings the solid ball from home, then i guess it'll start getting more and more painful. Yup, my serve is also getting better, because they can't exactly return it easily. Seriously, anyone who's reading this, just come down on Friday afternoons, like around 4 or 5 like that, look for the Mats if you wanna join in a game of SepakTakraw! Then had some small dinner at Macs, Kevin Kong and Madan joined us. Haha that was funny too, coz we just laughed and laughed at our really cock up jokes. I think only our Mats will understand this eh?
Ahhhh....It's just wonderful when the Mats are around, we just simply feel stronger when we are together. It's really frustrating when you are either isolated, or when they are no Mats around you for you just chose to do something else that's different from the rest of the Mats. This close-knittedness that only the Mats can provide is irreplaceable, irrevocable. Hakeem..I only knew him like in March this year, but simply he is just like one of us now man, a mat. Hehe. Good stuff. I have always tried to keep the Mats close because our number in RJ is really small. Even then, there are some malay guys who just don't hang out with us. They do other things i guess, not their fault. Its just important to me that I ensure I don't lose touch with the malay guys cos I'm like always with people of other races during class, lecture, even cca. Oh well, its just important to me i guess. Things like this cannot play play. The mat-RI-x that we have established should live on. We must never betray each other. Cos everyone of you is my brother. :)

Rudy bring the Takraw ball!
Mats, Iylia propose that we play SepakTakraw every Friday afternoon. Set?

smash whoever comes my way...evade all touches...glory beckons :) smooth and sensible

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