sports days

did swimming with the cous last week at SAFRA jurong. despite 12 yrs of not having swum with him (took lessons with him all thru pri sch and NVR was close to beating him despite him just being one yr older), i fully expected to beat him in my our 50m freestyle battle. afterall my technique's q polished as compared to before, whilst he hasn't been swimming much since then.

well i was quite wrong. typically i like to stay on par with the opponent till ard 25m, then pull away after that. so i was quite surprised when i had to push myself to nearly my limits just to keep up initially. he so fast one meh! i thought.

ok maybe the fact that i kept peeking at my left to check for his progress instead of just swimming properly hindered me but the fact remains that i'm not really tt much better, even if so.

ok it ended with him stopping abt 10m away from the endpt in fatigue and me stopping similarly when i saw it, so there was no outcome. either way, i lose, i feel. hahaha. but it's ok - i'm far from being the competitive person i was long ago.

next was peilee and the badminton session. having totally outshone me in our 5 on 5 match at the local basketball court (i'm horrible at b-ball and she's what, sch team?), i thought that it'd be a good way to salvage some pride, but no, for some reason she was doing alot better than the last time we played and i would have gotten skinned if i hadn't played abit more seriously. sigh.

hmm for some reason, just like i admire pple who can do sports at a high level or are simply gifted with athleticism, i can't but not have alot of respect for pple who simply doesn't care or aren't good in that area. well, it's just me i guess. everyone is entitled to his/her little quirks.