What will be shall be

Sports Meet

I took part in the sports meet or Games Day as they call it last week. Basically all the various companies in Tekong will come and gather at the stadium and there will be various games and every company will compete against each other. Points will be counted and the company with the highest point will win at the end of the day.

The last time I took part in such events was when I was in Primary 6. The game which I took part then was Shot Put. I ended up in the bottom 3. To think that the year before when I was in Primary 5 I was the school overall champion.

Anyway the game that I participated for the Games Day was called Bull's Eye. It was like a rally race whereby there are 8 men on each team. Each will run a distance and upon reaching a point, we have to turn 10 rounds clockwise round a wooden pole and run towards a pail of balloons whereby we have to try to throw into another pail. In short, we were all made to look like idiots.

By the end of the 10 rounds round the pole, I am already in drunken master mode. Some participants even rotated themselves into other lanes.

At the end of the game as I sat at the spectators' stand, I recalled an amusing incident when I was in primary 1 or 2. I was in the class team competing against other classes in a running rally race during our sports day. We ended up champions and the prize was a file. I didn't really fancy it very much and in fact I had my eyes set on the pencil case which is the prize for the 1st runner-up. I then went to exchange it with one of the guys in the 1st runner-up position.

When I told my mother what happened when she came to fetch me outside the school, she chided me for being so stupid because the file cost much more than the stupid pencil case. She then brought me around to look for the guy whom I exchanged the file with. Yes, she was already a very very kiasu auntie back then.

In the end we couldn't find the guy and I walked home a very unhappy boy. Perhaps now you should realize where Jack Neo got his inspiration from for his movie Homerun.

And oh, just in case you are wondering how I did in the Games Day in Bulls' Eye. Well, I suceeded in playing the clown and my company even ended up last among other 9 companies and I made a silent vow to myself never to take part in such nonsense again.

posted by malmoncolo @ 3:00 PM