havent posted since last sunday! was such a busyyy eventful week!
havent blogged about nationals (wednesday, and thus no GP paper for meee xD). hmm, morning wasn't really performing at my best form, so screwed up a few shots here and there when i forgot to align properly. for some ends of 6 arrows, had about 3-4 goodshots (10, 9,9,8) and then had 2 bad ones like (5,4) because of temporarily forgetting the ideal form. haizzz. ah well, was still quite okay, but not my best...
we were supposed to shoot 2 rounds of 36 arrows each (a total of 72 arrows) for the Scoring Round. that they would tabulate and then rank all the archers in their respective categories (i.e. 30metres/50 metres, male/female). But it rainedddd -.- so we only got to shoot 1 round and 1/6 of the second round. Then they started tabulating for the ranking positions already... so annoying, coz i was finally getting better D: RAWR. got 6th position in ranking... lost to 5th by a few points D: But quite funny, coz 2nd,3rd,4th,5th,6th positions were all RJ girls. soohan (captainnnn :) ) was so proooo :D she got 2nd! same score as the number 1 ranked MJ girl but she got 2nd because of the number of perfect "X"s she hit and because of their one arrow tiebreaker shootout. but surprisingly, after my 6th position, dunno why all the rest 50 plus points behind :X
okay. then they took the top 16 ranked archers to go into the Individual KnockOut round (IKO). number 1 will versus number 16, number 2 with number 15 and so on... actually i was just hoping to get thru the first 2 rounds of iko and that would be utter satisfaction, seeing as the last comp, i got eliminated in the 1st round. D: so anw, luckily this time round my ranking was quite high up, so i got matched against some MJ girl ranked lower down (number 12). that was an okay match! it was quite relaxing talking to her tho, it was just like some relaxing training in a field, coz she wasnt the highly strung up kind. (dun like those who blackface because they arent shooting well and the stress gets to them... gah shant say names, but its very scary to wish someone goodluck jiayou when you're on the field and theyre your raffles teammate and they just stoneee :O srzly, your shooting gets affected if you're angry and not calm.)
haha anw, omg i have never gotten such a good score before. must be because after lunch, i finally got my form correct, warmed up alr plus recharged :) scored 100/120 (for our iko round, we shoot 12 arrows and then the higher score archer "knocks-out"/eliminates the lower one and moves on to the next round). #12 got 47. but nt bad lah, considering its her first comp. i think my first comp i got like 30+ D: amagad. embarassing. everything was missing everywhere. okay so anw after first round, left the remaining top 8.
anw, next round was against suching!! sigh why must our archery girls face each other D: inside competition! so sadddd, esp when we could be knocking out other school competitors instead of ea other D: sigh Eli VS Nicole also. totallyyyy wasted. anw me and suching were like damn happy people, shooting relaxedly. then we were like, thank gdness it's you and not some of those stone faced pple! suching was quite good! our matchup ended in 98-75 :) poor eli lost to nicole by one point tho! ah well. inside comp sucksssss.
Oh oh, this round, soohan was against this TJC girl, and there was this whole BUNCH of TJ girls screaming and cheering obnoxiously at the spectator tents a few metres away! OMG. i could hear them from the next board i was shooting at -.- omg and soohan asked them politely to keep quiet but they refused. soohan lost D: sighh though she's sooo gooddd (numberrr 2) maybe coz she couldnt concentrate due to those ANNOYING *#&(@*$. she lost by so little also! D: End of the round: left top 4.
Next, i was against that TJ girl now. omg the horrors. soohan wanted me to avenge her xD and captain is damn cuteee (esp when she's pissed xD) she brought like 5 other rj archers to come to serve as distractions of our own as well! HAHA mental warfare sehh. so it just happens that i shoot quite slowly (coz i like to chillax and take my time-- as long as can shoot finish 3 arrows in 2 mins), so the other girl will draw her bow first.... then soohan and everyone will be like "GO ANGIEEEEE! You can do it! Don't stress! GO ANGIE" LOL super loud cheering! so that that girl can get a taste of her own medicine. It was damn hilarious i wanted to LOL.
but sadly when it's my turn to be at full draw, the TJ girls will start cheering like mad for the other girl "GO SIOKLENGGGGG, SIOKLENG FOR THE WIN! GO GO GO SL SL SL" I really wanted to laugh sometimes while at full draw because they sounded damn comicallll, coz there's this mega bimbo who sounds damn cheerleader-ish. but luckily anw, didnt really affect me thatttt much hopefully. i dropped by 4 points. but 98/120 ain't thatttt bad. woa close match tho, dearest siokleng got 91. whew. revenge ;D ahahaha
finals match alr. had to go up against that number 1 ranked MJC girl. scary 1st end of 3 arrows. (we shoot a total of 4 ends). I got (X, 8, 6) she got (10,8,6). so that's like we sorta tied in score, but i got more X's to win. i was like omggggg crap if we go on like that, i must sustain or will die. 2nd end she won me. (10, 8, 7) to my (10,6,5). badddd end. i was really going to freak out. luckily the next two were good :) 10,8,7 to her 6,6,5 and 9,9,8 to her 8,7,6. whew. final score 96-86. i really didnt expect a gold medal. was at first thinking (before the start of the final round), should i settle for a silver? but rmbered that i wanted to go in this comp in the first place to give it my best shot. happy i guess =) the sneaking around trying to squeeze in extra trainings during the last 2 weeks while not telling my parents was kinda worth it. and they were happy too! (tho they still dunno abt the trainings XP)
anw, sadly i didnt have a team event. coz when ken (coach) was registering us for competition back in march he decided that me and suching shouldnt have teams -.- what the pong, and he sent in untried and untested j1s who totally had scores like 50 and 70 out of 360. while suching was 3rd place!!! and tho i was 6th... we both got 257-270 out of 360. omg. sigh. unfair. if not our team might have had more chance in the team event to get maybe 2nd or 3rd. coz Eli(#4)-Nicole(#5)-Soohan(#2) power female team got gold for team event :D
actually now i kinda miss shooting! (not only miss the excuse that shooting gave me to not do work) but it was reallyyyy really relaxing. and the satisfaction you get from good shots (though much rarer than the occurence of bad shotssss) is really fulfilling. ah well.
okay that's that for nationals.
Thursday!! LAST DAY OF SCHOOL :) went to watch POTC4 with buddy sarah, sandra, roxxx :D it was NICEEEEEE. and hahaha fangirled over the awesome hot way the mermaid and the missionary guy looked SO GOOD tgt!! ahhhh. he's the replacement for orlando bloom in pirates 4, but he was soooo much better xD Orlando bloom only looks good in LOTR as the elven archer anw. everywhere else he looks badddd imo. anw, fun time stuffing toppings on yogurt with sandra xD and sneaking in our food before the movieee.
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