I know I've been so excited about the carnival today right ? Well , here's a surprise .


I am so utterly disappointed .


We lost all 5 matches of the qualifying rounds . I totally did not expect the team to play like this . I shall not elaborate , but I can't stand this . Jac and I were so mad , and it's even more unbearable that we can't do anything about it . Right after our first match , we went to the water cooler to refill the colmens , and I felt like punching the vending machine right then and there till I left a dent .


Whatever , what's done is done . The next carnival will be the Pesta Sukan one in March at KNC , and I'll be able to play there . I don't want to see a repeat of this horrible performance .


Sometimes I feel like a mother hen over the team .



This morning I woke up at 0530 to meet them at Mickey Donalds at 0615 for breakfast . There was this transgender 'woman' who had a manly voice . She was wearing a tight white dress and no underwear AT ALL . So as you can imagine , people could see her nipple . Like , quite clearly . The MickeyD's Cafe crew laughed at her , and she made a big ruckus out of it , although exclaiming that "I don't want to be a big hooha ." 'She' threatened to call the police and get the crew sacked . Though if she did call the police she'd be the one getting charged because of her 'nudity' .



This afternoon Jac , Bernice and I were stuck at KNC because it was raining . At first we were sitting at the little building just talking , because it was raining before that . When it cleared up , we moved our stuff to the benches under one of the tents and went to shoot . While the three of us were on the court , I suddenly heard this very loud noise , sounding like a lot of people running . I'm sure they heard it but they didn't give it attention , until I looked at the sky and noticed in the distance the overcast sky . Turns out the rain was falling some distance away and was about to hit us ! We quickly ran under the tent and just in time , because it started raining .


And that's not the end . At first we were just sitting on the first row of benches , talking . The rain just got heavier and heavier , till the rain was seeping across the ground towards the bench . So we just climbed a row or two up . But it just got heavier and heavier , till the wind was blowing all the rain towards us , so we climbed and moved our stuff to the highest row , the fifth row of benches .


And then there was thunder and lightning . The lightning was so close to us ! It even struck somewhere around a tree near us , between 25 to 50 metres away . It was such a loud crack of thunder that we all jumped . Frightening ! We were all saying stupid things like , "okay God I'm sorry , please forgive me" LOL . And Jac told us of her own philosophy - don't anger God in the monsoon seasons .


The storm just got more and more violent . The wind started blowing in huge gusts , so much that we could hear the wind whip across the tops of the tents ! Like the sound of giant eagles or whatever flapping their wings right above you . We could also literally see waves of all the rainwater gushing down the court !


We also saw this weird lady at a little road next to the KNC . It was retarded , she was walking so slowly across the path , and you know why ? Because she was trying to sweep water off the path . She did so for at least 10 seconds across each step . She didn't even notice there was this man she was blocking until he pushed her gently out of his path . LOL .


At that time there were even cars at some times driving out of the KNC carpark . Whenever we saw a car driving out we would say things like , "why are there no good Samaritans who see us stranded in this lone place and come over offering a big umbrella and a free ride ?"


But it was pretty cool stuck out under the tents all by ourselves under thunder and lightning and rain . I commented once that we were like Survivors / refugees . Now we could tell people that we've been through so much together , we've even been almost killed together ! (Hey , there was the lightning .)



Sorry for the long wordy boring post people . I shall update with my holiday schedule soon . Meeting Jac for the planning of the netball camp tomorrow . Need to rush the camp proposal and plannings before Wednesday . Gosh !