Time

Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst. ~Willaim Penn

In less than 30 mins, it is gonna be Fri. another week has passed. It is so scary. Just the day before, a few of us were talking, adults feel that time flies by the seconds while students will feel that time is slow because of long lessons, long days. How true is it? I don't know. I must say I feel more and more scared as time flies by the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months... I mean now is already week 8. OMG!

I had an interesting short exchange with a student during lesson. I was giving some tips on some designs to his friend sitting next to him and he popped this question, "' 'cher (means teacher), you are very free hor? how come you run everyday?" I stared him in the eyes intensely and said,"nope, I have thousand and one things to deal with, but this is self-discipline. I make time for it, time don't wait." haha, anyway, I have great rapport with this class.

But how true it is. I went down to support the bball boys in their semis and to be very frank, I was terribly disappointed, with the attitude, that lack of passion, hunger and conviction, the lack of fitness and this really affected the morale, the performance. The skills are there and comparable to their opponents, but everything was so sloppy and passive. Team sports cannot just hinge on two ballers fighting their guts out while the rest stood like statues. haiz! i think my point is heard.

But really, our sports peeps need to have the discipline to drive themselves, do their own training and conditioning to up fitness. They cannot just rely solely on the CCA training sessions. Skills can be honed through practice, which is done during CCA time, but physical fitness needs time to build up. Without fitness, not matter how skillful one can be, one and the team would lost terribly because you cannot sustain. Of course, the other tipping point would be conviction and attitude.

All these needs TIME, and it calls for conviction, it calls for the self-discipline to make time. The question is do they want? Are they hungry enough to do the best that they can be? Maybe, I am old school, at least during my school days, my friends who were in sports made time to train on their fitness, as a team or individually. And mind you, these friends of mine did well in their academics and sports, they are focused. And they still play the sports now as adults.

Sometimes, old practices are good to keep.

Or is the culture such that we are making the place too comfy and things are taken for granted? People just sit down and expect things to be handed to them free? if not, take things into the own hands at the expense of and showing no respect for others or the institution?

So this is to the critics of the recent so-called "changes":
横眉冷对千夫指
俯首甘为孺子牛 - 鲁迅

I will listen and dialogue, share with me your rationale. If not, let's all reflect on ourselves first, before criticising.

On a more personal note,
i did 10 x 200 m repeats today!
yeh! at 38 to 42sec per lap. Trying to train my mental and body to perform at higher threshold.

shall go and read.