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Apr 22

2007 Inter-University Softball League Grand Final

2007 Inter-University Softball League

Grand Final

CUHK : HKU

15 : 8

The cup is ours.
Yes, OURS. CUHK‘s.
We’ve made it.
We are the
GRAND CHAMPION of
INTER-UNIVERSITY SOFTBALL LEAGUE 2007
WELL DONE!!!

Our wut-gei line-up:

1. Gigi 3B

2. Kitty SS

3. Bon LF

4. LiKwan (MVP of the game) P

5. Nomon C

6. Si 1B

7. Beverly(Burberry) CF

8. Lucci 2B

9. Shek/Milly RF

Last but not least, ALL other team mates who cheered on and on and on and on

Is that it?

Does this mark the end of my first ever Inter-U softball season?

The idea of winning this game did not immensely sink in until my team mates left my place at night, when I was alone at home. As I’ve said so many times, this game really meant a lot to me. We’ve ventured a long way: from UST, to CityU, to HKU, to PolyU, to meeting HKU again. Looking at the photos taken during the game, I felt that everything passed so petrifyingly fast. The game this morning, which justifies today my happiest day in CUHK, suddenly became much like a dream:
The game we’ve all been fighting for, for the whole semester, even the whole year for some, completed;
Our 5-days-a-week hard-core training, which finally paid off, over.
What’s next will be a softball-less month.
a miserable month.

You get what i mean?

This sorrow feeling of emptiness is inevitable yet has to be overcome, especially when final exams are drawing nearer… and nearer.

To be honest, I did not play up to my expectation. Could have done a lot better.

“第8bat 即係另一個第4bat 不過無禁穩定”

(f.y.i. 4th bat is usually the cleanup hitter, the home run player)

I always bat 8th for CUHK. Yes I see my problem. Stability. That’s what I’m seriously lacking. Sometimes I get nice big hits, more often the ball’s fed right into an infielder’s glove. This is ridiculous, unacceptable. I promise, I’ll practise damn hard this summer. Much harder than I ever did.

I love the spirit of this team.
Simply enjoy playing with you guys.
Such sweet memory for my first year in CUHK.

Thank you CUHK Softball for not giving me up despite all the errors I make on the field, constantly. I don’t mean to sound mushy, but I feel really really touched to get to play in every game. Thanks for giving me this chance. I really appreciate that. I hope you guys had fun at my place – ps2 drums, wii (Thanks beverly for lending!), mario kart, jamming songs, blowing water, pizza, kfc….. Looking forward to playing with you guys again in summer after our exams.

Thank you Lilian Rosinni Tammy Michelle and Jimmy for coming to watch us play. Your support really really means a hell lot to me. I hope the game did not bore you. And Thanks Jimmy for all the excellent photography. So Pro.

What a perfect end to my first ever season as a CUHK Phoenix.

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Apr 01

Rest in Peace, Cheetah

What a game

Phoenix: Skyers
19:4

out of 20+ playes only 9 came, just enough for team. Imagine one of us couldn’t make it during the last minute. That would be an automatic lose. I understand that we all got other commitments, but hey, who doesn’t? Softball’s a team sport, and it’s the effort made to squeeze some time out of our schedules that makes a complete team. Everybody’s participation counts, not one less.

Played Shortstop, batted 4th….dear me, never took up such big positions both offensively and defensively in the same game. Anyway, it was cool. Most balls were hit towards the right side of the field though.

Made my first everr double play at softball. caught a fly out, then with constant screams of reminders from my team mates, I managed to put out the second runner at third base who headed home without realizing I got the ball. Sorry for daydreaming :p

Offensively – 3 at bats, 3 walks. no comments. there were strikes. I need to reshape my mentality in the box.

Everybody’s done a great job. Especially the new playesr. You’re definitely doing miles better than I was when I started baseball. Applause.

*******

As most of you know, I lost my little bunny on Saturday morning, right before I left for softball practise.

Dear little cheetah,

I’m sorry I made up shit loads of excuses when I ignored you for the past month. projects, exams, homeworks, tutorials, various designing tasks, the list goes on. It was completely unfair for you since you did not deserve that at all. But you left just too soon. way too soon. You suddenly became weak and immobile on Friday night the 30th after I return home from softball practise, so I planned to bring you to the vet, during lunch time, right in between my morning softball training and afternoon baseball training. In Tai Wai, when you first visited the vet for diarrhea and dehydration, nearly 2 years ago. you were still a tiny little 4 month-old back then. And you feed on baby food. The vet gave you some antibiotics and you recovered in a flash. Suddenly you became toilet-trained. You’ve always loved to eat grapes, and is kind enough to share with cougar. You loved to dash under the dining table, and it was a nightmare getting you back into the cage before my mom returns home. Then I left HK for a few months in a row. By the time I returned you became big and strong. Yet you still love grapes.

You’ve been active all the time for the past month, saw you standing up and nibbling hay, clinging on the side of the cage staring at me when I pass by. Did not expect anything to happen to you. I thought of letting you and cougar out for a run after my exams. I really did. I was thinking about it when I was having my PMUS exam on 23 March. Also during my PHES exams on 30 March.

But then you left on 31 March, Saturday morning.

I couldn’t stop thinking of this poem, a poem which made me cry back when I was a kid, when I lost my hamster Brownie.


Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.
There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together….

Cheetah, enjoy rainbow bridge. You’ll be the cutest rabbit there is.

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