MaDe it tO tHe FiNaLs!!
Assalamualaikum
Wah wah wah! Its been a very long weekend full of twists and turns and lots of madness! This year's tertiary silat competition is rather harsh and hostile. Well especially to my school that is. Cannot really blame anyone i guess.
ANyway im going to the finals next week on sunday! Honestly speaking, i never EXPECTED i can go this far. I HOPED and WANTED to though.Naturally, anyone would want to win right. Because i know that im only still new to this arena and this is my VERY first time that im competing in such fights and winning SINGLE match would do me enough and satisfy me. But deep down inside i know that if i can try harder and do better...why stop there right??? HAHA!!
Anyway based on my PRELIMINARY ROUND fight, and for a first-timer, i think im quite good!! But passing through the quarters and semis was a gimmick lah i think for me.
Well here the story goes why i think im a gimmick...
On saturday...
I was supposed to face an opponent from TP.ON that day i dunnoe y i feel like OUR and especially MY mood was down.Plus that heavy head of mine.MAybe becos some of our mates lost the quarters. And also maybe because of the air-con that makes me feel lazy.
Anw i stressed so much for that days match and thought so much on how the opponent gonna be so good and blah blah blah.you know the usual fzal negative thought thinking thing!!
So when the time actually comes to weigh...i was pretty nervous and blurry and when my opponent stood on the scale and saw tt his weight was 64.7kg...i was like givin tt one dumb look! My cornerman asked to weigh again and poof it was the same and the wasitd said sorry to him and try again nxt yr.So i won the match through disqualification. So that did not really require much effort.
On sunday...
Ok...my mood was better that day and feeling hot and energetic and so on. Warmed up and so on. I made alot of noise cheering for my mates who was winning and so on. I guess that was some retribution i should say. So when it was my turn to go in gelanggang, i was quite confident ah.OKOKLAH! Then i guessed i fared quite well in the first round considering that it was not my usual game and did not use my sweeps. But the second round was like the moment things got to be on par. HE swept me down twice because i was like doing a jumping kick. GOODNESS!!! How could i FALL for that!!! LITERALLY!!! I was fed up seh.NOW.Luckily not in the ring. If not, that could have been my downfall!!
And so after tat i think if i remembered correctly...he kicked my face and he got reprimanded for that. SO thats y i say we were on par based on the sweeps and subtraction of points from being reprimanded.
Then the third round i dun really know the status lah. I guess he kicked me more and he was the better man.Yada yada yada...i think we were equal lah. THen the last bulk fight i recalled was when he gave me a series of ANYHOW punches and his right fist reached my left part of the mouth. As i tried to regain myself, bending down and putting my left hand onto my mouth, suddenly, blood was pouring on the mat sia!!!! Then i checked my hand...it was BLOODY i tell u. I was too busy with thinking wats happening but i guessed the wasitd reprimanded my opponent and took away his points ah. But damn i just could not go on ah. Skip all the later part...
Have to get stitched because they told me its seriously very DEEP. DEEP as the blue ocean maybe??I dunnoe! I dint get to see it. SO blah blah blah i called mum. THen when everything was over, CIk Lan tolde me that it needed no stitching. SO i tried to escape from doctor saiful. Then blah blah blah i had to get it stitched.
GOODNESS!!! the doctor sure knows how to take his own sweet time man!! Singing and everything and all. hah...ok im not bothered to tell u the process. Ok maybe i am. The doc covered my face and started the jabbing.It was stinging and i thought the whole thing was over. But he has not even started on the stichting yet!! hah but it was not that bad lah. I felt the string going through my lips and my skin being pulled and so on. But most importantly there was no PAIN. THANK GOD!!
So yeah...ive got 3 STITCHES for the first time anywhere, on the inside of my lips!!!
Hah...so thats my story...well its up to you, my readers(those whom i do not know), and my friends, to judge and decide whether i deserved to be in the finals because i know that i know for some people, especially those in the ivp MAY be unhappy. WEll im sorry if i caused any upset and sorry for being not able to carry on with the fight.
Well i guess thats it for now...i think im gonna lose in the finals.
Friends help doa for me hopefully that i can win my final battle...PLUS i will be safe,with no injuries please! Ameeen! Thanks!! Do appreciate if u could help me with this prayers.
I will try to do u guys proud, to those whom have really gave me the support. You know who you are. Ill give u credit once i win GOLD aites!! HEE!!
Assalamualaikum
Faizal Fernandez
10:44 AM
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Assalamualaikum
Hey hey...This weekend is really something man.Friday was very tiring, cannot remebered what i did and slept late even though i was supposed to wake up early the next morning.
Saturday
So on saturday morning woke later than intended time and quickly got ready and went out together with mummy to the interchange to top up my bus concession.
Then badabing badabung reached bedok jetty area to prepare and make water bombs for the kids from Muhammadiyah welfare home.Or was it Jamiyah welfare home????Hmm haha! cant even remeber.So the event went quite well.Better than expected.I enjoyed it.Except for the occasional small fights and 'minor' vulgar language usage by them.Me as a "big brother" to them tried to talk to them nicely to be nice and not to fight.Sad i would say...
The gladiator them which invloves one to be sitting on top of the other's shoulder was a mess and i just carried one of the boys and we fought and agressively he used my body as part of his extension and becuase of that i straint my neck.Darn it!!
haha...but the water bomb game was the best i should say.My idea of course. Was the best but not free from the small childish fights they had.
When everything ended,we gave them prizes and they even fought over it.HAHA!! Then took pics with them.Haha my personal favourites were the small ones especially alwie and the other chubby boy.So cute seh.Pinched his cheek.
That was only the first half of the day.Quickly met my friend then headed to nyp for the opening ceremony of the tertiary silat competition and we cheered like mad and almost lost my voice.The place was so freaking hot man!!It was supposed to be air-conditioned BUT they did not turn it on.HECK!! They did not even bother to turn the FANS on!! DIAO!!
Nothing much on saturday except more seni, but later on at nite Amri fought and won!! NICE.
Went home and yeah got ready for the next day.
SUnday
Got ready and went out.Was nervous.I knew the guys would be late.I met ehksan and sallehan and we were the first few who came early.Then we went for a slow jog because some of us were afraid that we were overweight.HAha!
Then waited the rest for like how long. SAllehan and rahim won the quickest matches ever!! By walking over lah that is cos their opponents were late and overweight respectively. HAH!!
Then cant remember who fought after that. After the break, adi went first and it looked ugly but somehow the opponent accidentally hit his mouth/face and adi bled.The doctor checked and so on and blah blah and the wasitd was like counting for knockout but abg im scolded to see that adi was bleeding and blah blah blah finally adi was brought out and he won the game.FUHHH!!
Then it was my turn ah...nervous about the weight. Wah it was damn exhausting man!! I never knew a single match could be like one whole day of hard work. I thought i had the stamina sia.
But i made it! Managed to make him fall a number of times. haha! at first he caught my leg and made me fall. Nvm nvm. IN my mind...i knew...if he made me fall, a favour must be returned!!
But it doesnt hurt if he doesnt return me the favour.Even better!
But the part i liked the most, my favourite, was in the 2nd round when i managed to the a spinning leg sweep and he fell.WOOHOO!! I was like clenching my fist and pulling my elbow down signalling "yes i did it!woohoo!", also purposely tryna make a joke by doing that and make a fool out of myself. HAHA!! Who cares...that was what i always wanted to do.I liked it!!
But no one caught the second round on tape!! BOOHOO!!
That iqah only recorded the first and the second round...aiyah!
Anw...I managed to bust my left thumb!! DAMN...Im typing this with care.Hah and it was very hard to sleep without moving my left arm much. How am i supposed to fight next week??
Next week is the quarter finals. Hmmm i wonder if i can make it. I was lucky to have won the prelims. I hope i can make the next one to atleast seure a bronze and to prove that NP can do it! Thats my burning spirit!! I can do it!! AMEEN!!!
Dear friends...help me pray i can make it through to the next round too!
Well i guess thats it...haha...Take care ppl!
Smile always and do not take life for granted.This world is only a place that we are visiting for a very short while.SO do things that are worthwhile and that can prepare for the next place.
Have a nice day!!
Assalamualaikum
Faizal Fernandez
10:26 AM
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