February appeared. And
with it came my sports responsibility. I was the school’s sports secretary.
This time around, I planned to run all the activities within this month. The
first week we had mini marathon. The second week was filled with sukantara.
This year we were having two extra events, javelin and long jump, to add
to the existing events, short putt and 100 metres. Though we had additional events, luckily
everything ran smoothly. The third week was for all acara awal sukan: tug of
war, football, netball, 1500m, 800m, 4 x 400. It was good that all the events
were held in the morning because in the afternoon since late January, I had
football training to handle. Time was a constraint because of the tight
schedule. 
Nevertheless my plan was running as how I had wanted it to be. Oh, in
between my busy schedule, abil was accepted to Malaysian Aviation Training
Academy in Kuantan.
Syukurnya. The whole family went to Kuantan in the first
weekend of February to send abil. We stayed the night at Swiss Garden and the
children had a lot of fun.
After breakfast the next morning, abil registered at
his college and after sending him to his hostel and making sure he was fine, we
left for home with a heavy heart. Hopefully abil would be okay there,
insyaAllah. But on a sad note, lisa’s application to mrsm was not granted. Pity
her. But God knows best, kan..
By the last week of
February, with the annual sports day lurking on the 28th, under 15
inter school football began. Thank God I had managed to settle all paperwork and
tasks pertaining sports day beforehand. All this endless sports work was so
tiring that when sports day was over, I felt so relieved. Suddenly all my
worries were over, a big burden had been lifted off my shoulder. And I had
achieved what I aimed for: to finish every school-based sports activity by
February. Yesss! Alhamdulillah.
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| part of the supporters |
On the day the sports
day was held, the under fifteen were playing in the semi against Tok Perdana. I
was at the stadium for the opening of the sports day and stayed back for
another couple of hours to make sure everything was running along fine before
going for the football match. As anticipated, the team won 3-0. And they were
in the final for the third consecutive time, against the same opponent, SM Sri
Manjung. We won 1-0 last year and lost 0-3 the previous year. As defending
champion, we had a point to prove: our win last year wasn’t a fluke. Last
year’s final was a thrilling match with equal number of chances for each team,
but we managed to score to be crowned champion.
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| last minute pep talk |
On the day of this year final, the supporters,
christened pangkalan ultras, from our school came in full strength. They sang
songs almost all throughout the match. The atmosphere was spectacular. When the
game started, the boys settled down fast. They swarmed the sri manjung half,
attacked and attacked, and were unlucky to hit the post. Suddenly sri manjung,
against the run of play, struck first. But the boys did not panic and raziq
equalized within a few minutes later. It was 1-1 at half time. When second half
had barely started, and yours truly was about to settle down on the bench,
hadrie the captain fantastic, scored our second goal. We were all over sri
manjung and it was a matter of time when hadrie scored the third. We should
have scored a couple more.
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| pangkalan bikin baek! |
At the last minute, sri manjung got a penalty and
converted. It was a heart-stopping last minute because right after that goal,
sri manjung came at us in full force to get the equalizer, but we managed to
contain them and became champions again. Yeahhh!!
It was the icing on the
cake kind-of-finale for February as I had finished sports activities as
projected and the under 15 became champions again.
Thank you God for
everything.
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| champions again!! |
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