I feel... kind of like I've just done one of the most stupid things in my life.
Something in me knows that it's not really that important, and yes, it's true, I don't really need it since I'm graduating this semester, but still.
People train long and hard for this, people work for this, people fight for this; and I gave mine away.
I don't know why. Sylvia says it was nice of me to do it, but I *know* that I'm not a "nice" person. So I don't know why. I really don't know why.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Finally..!!! My IVP Gold trophy, which has eluded me for the last three years!! :D
Good competition for the whole team as well, and for the first time, we won more awards in the higher Recurve categories than in Standard.
So, first time shooting 90 arrows instead of 72; my individual score on Saturday was actually quite lousy, I think.
My 60m round went fine; score of 211 out of 300. Good, I suppose, considering that I only finalised my sight for 60m on Thursday, when I went down to Zhenghua to shoot with Wai Xin and Weiquan.
My 50m and 40m rounds, on the other hand, were not as good, at least not by my own expectations. I missed the board twice in each round, and ended up getting a score of 230-plus for each. If I'd landed those arrows, my 50m and 40m scores would've been nearer to 250... damnit.
Tired, lah. Plus my stupid cough wouldn't leave me alone and go infect someone else.
But it turned out to be good enough. By the end of the FITA 900 round, I was ranked third, but first for IVP, since the two girls with higher scores than me were not in IVP. NTU held both Open and IVP Outdoor together, so technically, this means that IVP archers will be ranked in both categories. So in Open, I was ranked third, and in IVP, ranked first.
So, individual knockout on Sunday for Open; damn shocked when I found out there's IKO on Saturday-- I haven't been to a competition that had IKO for almost two years...!
But went well, haha. Me versus an NTU girl first; 3rd vs. 6th. I forgot her name. Oh dear. I won by 12 points.
Next, me vs. Winnie Khoo from RP. She's actually pretty good! :) The two of us were talking crap half the time, behind the shooting line, *at* the shooting line, walking to collect arrows, talking nonsense while collecting arrows... *rolls eyes*
It's actually the first time I've ever been friendly with an archer from another club during competition, haha. I usually keep to myself and only talk to NUS people. Must be getting soft in my old age. :P
Beat Winnie by just one point. Really close. In the first end, I led by one point, in the second end, she led by one; in the third end, we tied, and in the final end, our arrows had almost all the same score: we each had one yellow, one red, one blue, but one of mine in red cut the line. XD
So, onto gold medal and bronze medal match for myself and her respectively. Me against a girl from HTNS, she against Crystal from NTU. I ended up losing to the HTNS girl by just 7 points, but at least it was a good fight. I knew she'd be pretty tough to beat anyway. :)
So 2nd place in Open instead of 3rd; IKO actually turned out to be a good thing. Lol.
I wasn't in the team event, but Linette, Mengyi and Serene later beat the NTU girls' team to get Gold for team. Yay. NUS now officially holds both the FITA 900 Ladies' Golds. XD
At the same time, Joseph, Joshua and Connor beat the NTU team they were up against to get bronze. That was a great moment, man.
The best picture of the whole competition. Hafiz with Joshua halfway over his shoulders; Connor and Joseph in the background on the left. A little to the right is Mengyi, and that's me hugging Serene.
Now for more pictures.
FITA 900 Ladies' Team: Linette, Serene, Mengyi
Gold Medal
FITA 900 Men's Team: Connor, Joshua, Joseph
Bronze Medal
FITA 900 Ladies' Individual (Open): Me!
Silver
(the guy standing in first position was just collecting the trophy for the girl coz she'd left early, but his club made him stand up there and take the picture, lol.)
FITA 900 Ladies' Individual (IVP): Me again
Gold
Standard Class Ladies' Individual: Sin Kei
Bronze
All the medallists, plus Coach in the middle...
...and one of the whole team. :)
Good competition for the whole team as well, and for the first time, we won more awards in the higher Recurve categories than in Standard.
So, first time shooting 90 arrows instead of 72; my individual score on Saturday was actually quite lousy, I think.
My 60m round went fine; score of 211 out of 300. Good, I suppose, considering that I only finalised my sight for 60m on Thursday, when I went down to Zhenghua to shoot with Wai Xin and Weiquan.
My 50m and 40m rounds, on the other hand, were not as good, at least not by my own expectations. I missed the board twice in each round, and ended up getting a score of 230-plus for each. If I'd landed those arrows, my 50m and 40m scores would've been nearer to 250... damnit.
Tired, lah. Plus my stupid cough wouldn't leave me alone and go infect someone else.
But it turned out to be good enough. By the end of the FITA 900 round, I was ranked third, but first for IVP, since the two girls with higher scores than me were not in IVP. NTU held both Open and IVP Outdoor together, so technically, this means that IVP archers will be ranked in both categories. So in Open, I was ranked third, and in IVP, ranked first.
So, individual knockout on Sunday for Open; damn shocked when I found out there's IKO on Saturday-- I haven't been to a competition that had IKO for almost two years...!
But went well, haha. Me versus an NTU girl first; 3rd vs. 6th. I forgot her name. Oh dear. I won by 12 points.
Next, me vs. Winnie Khoo from RP. She's actually pretty good! :) The two of us were talking crap half the time, behind the shooting line, *at* the shooting line, walking to collect arrows, talking nonsense while collecting arrows... *rolls eyes*
It's actually the first time I've ever been friendly with an archer from another club during competition, haha. I usually keep to myself and only talk to NUS people. Must be getting soft in my old age. :P
Beat Winnie by just one point. Really close. In the first end, I led by one point, in the second end, she led by one; in the third end, we tied, and in the final end, our arrows had almost all the same score: we each had one yellow, one red, one blue, but one of mine in red cut the line. XD
So, onto gold medal and bronze medal match for myself and her respectively. Me against a girl from HTNS, she against Crystal from NTU. I ended up losing to the HTNS girl by just 7 points, but at least it was a good fight. I knew she'd be pretty tough to beat anyway. :)
So 2nd place in Open instead of 3rd; IKO actually turned out to be a good thing. Lol.
I wasn't in the team event, but Linette, Mengyi and Serene later beat the NTU girls' team to get Gold for team. Yay. NUS now officially holds both the FITA 900 Ladies' Golds. XD
At the same time, Joseph, Joshua and Connor beat the NTU team they were up against to get bronze. That was a great moment, man.
The best picture of the whole competition. Hafiz with Joshua halfway over his shoulders; Connor and Joseph in the background on the left. A little to the right is Mengyi, and that's me hugging Serene.
Now for more pictures.
Gold Medal
Bronze Medal
Silver
(the guy standing in first position was just collecting the trophy for the girl coz she'd left early, but his club made him stand up there and take the picture, lol.)
Gold
Bronze
Friday, February 15, 2008
A Valentine's caper.
In which Gerri bakes an Oreo cheesecake for the first time. :)
I've only ever baked cheesecakes before, never the version with Oreos added. So for this version, I used 11 cookies for the crust (which still turned out to be pretty thin); which means 22 Oreo biscuits, with the cream removed and added into the cake itself later, so I used less sugar in the cake since I figured the cream would make it pretty sweet.
Then just went about my normal cheesecake-making process, cheese and (less) sugar and eggs and all, and then threw in the remaining um... 19 biscuits, broken up into chunks.
The mixture turned very brown indeed. Lol.
And it very nearly overflowed the dish that I use for baking cheesecake all the time! I hadn't considered the fact that adding in the cookies would make that much of a difference in the volume. :P
But it turned out okay; Joseph and I had two slices of it each, he took three slices home for his grandma and his parents, and all the archers in RVR had one slice each. :D
Everyone said it was nice; pretty good for a first attempt, I think. Haha. But I think Connor was right in that the crust was a little soggy. Sigh. The biscuit crumbs refused to stop clumping together when I was making the crust; they're really different from Digestives that way, and I have no idea why! Oh well. Shall try to improve on that on my next attempt, haha. ^_^
In which Gerri bakes an Oreo cheesecake for the first time. :)
I've only ever baked cheesecakes before, never the version with Oreos added. So for this version, I used 11 cookies for the crust (which still turned out to be pretty thin); which means 22 Oreo biscuits, with the cream removed and added into the cake itself later, so I used less sugar in the cake since I figured the cream would make it pretty sweet.
Then just went about my normal cheesecake-making process, cheese and (less) sugar and eggs and all, and then threw in the remaining um... 19 biscuits, broken up into chunks.
The mixture turned very brown indeed. Lol.
And it very nearly overflowed the dish that I use for baking cheesecake all the time! I hadn't considered the fact that adding in the cookies would make that much of a difference in the volume. :P
But it turned out okay; Joseph and I had two slices of it each, he took three slices home for his grandma and his parents, and all the archers in RVR had one slice each. :D
Everyone said it was nice; pretty good for a first attempt, I think. Haha. But I think Connor was right in that the crust was a little soggy. Sigh. The biscuit crumbs refused to stop clumping together when I was making the crust; they're really different from Digestives that way, and I have no idea why! Oh well. Shall try to improve on that on my next attempt, haha. ^_^