Captains ball 29th Jun

I'm sure everyone is pretty excited to read about what happened last week at church....especially after seeing all the wonderful pictures, and reading all the wonderful captions ( except the armpit hair one which i assure you will be removed shortly). So im gona try my very best to share with all u guys what happened for captains ball on sunday =)

Most of us started gathering at 2.30pm...some of the youths had skit practice so we waited for them, plus most people were pretty tired from the AMAZING RACE earlier in the morning. To be entirely honest, i was afraid no one would turn up because of the exhausting and demanding activity in the morn...plus when i went down to e basement, all i saw were the sec 4 girls amongst others (deborah, audrey, benita, elaine, edna....etc etc...sorry i cant rem). But thanks to God's grace, people started pouring in...and i mean...pouring. for the record, we had 23 people that day...MOST EVER in YCKC history. Even new people showed up...brothers darren and brandon brought their friend zach(or zack)...wilson who recently joined our youth also came down looking ready to game...Kevin also joined us for a 2nd week in a row ( coming back from an ankle injury...woohoo!). It's really God's grace that so many people joined us that day...and man did we have alot of fun. We split up into 4 teams...with nick, nigel, ern and kevin as leaders. Being the sporting people they are(haha!)...they split up the teams evenly and we were good to go.

Here were the line-ups:

Team A: Nick, Kwek, Zack(Rookie), Gracia, Deborah,Cheryl
Team B:Kevin, Brandon, David Chu(Rookie), Amanda,Benita, Syl, John Tham
Team C: Ern, Geri, Elaine, Clement, Daryl
Team D: Nigel, Darren, Wilson, Edna(MIP=Most improved player), Rachel Lam(Rookie), Ethel

And with that, the battle for middle earth ensued...Nono, of course not, just a fierce battle ensued. Not before we stood in a circle and prayed for God to watch over our safety, and for us to play like true sportsmen and sportswomen =) Team A was owning in the beginning(haha....) with Nick's ferocious blocking...Gracia was intercepting balls as if she could bend time and space...Deborah and Cheryl were making space and making opponents run...and Kwek was doing was doing what he does best...Run' N Gun' =p. Over time, teams stepped up their game...Team B had Kevin moving like he never got injured, Syl was being a nuisance to opponents by scoring at will, David Chu was catching for Team B and he did really well considering its his first time. Team C led by the veteran Ernest Hu Yi Ren, YCKC's no 2, was making a good run by bringing his 'A' game and blocking well...and Geri was literally running all over the place, Elaine was holding the team's defence well with her good court vision, Daryl(aka Magnetic Hands) was weaving his magic as usual, grabbing goals from impossible angles....too bad we changed the ball, if not im pretty sure he could have caught more(phew) Clement showed his attacking prowess by scoring a few shots of his own. Team D pretty much lost most of their games...but they played with an excellent team spirit and never die attitude, nice. Nigel was keeping the team in the game with top notch blocking and Ethel was leading Team D's attack with her pin point passing.

I guess that down-side to sunday would be that, Rachel Lam injured her ankle. The perpetrator/accused is sorry and guility. Let's all pray for her speedy recovery =)

After the grp stage, everyone was pretty much exhausted and we decided to have a MASS GAME. with teams 1 and 4 pairing up and teams 2 n 3 pairing up. I can't describe much about this game cuz it was seriously chaotic(picture 23 people 1 ball....go figure). But all i know was that, it was still alot of fun..haha. in the end teams 2 and 3 emerged champion...congrats! and that was it for a truly tiring sunday, where im sure everyone had alot of fun, and had a good sweat in the process. Keep it up guys, even though i wrote a whole lot up there about how everyone played well, it really doesn't matter how well u play...I'm really encouraged by everyone's participation, your ethusiasm in inviting people and your admirable sportsmanship =)

With that said, we're gona be taking a break this sunday 6 jul and we'll resume next sunday. In the meanwhile, stay safe and we'll hit the basement again soon. All For His Glory.

-kwek