Memories of JJC Softball 98/99

I tink this Softball Team is the most unique team I've ever come across, not that it's made up of star players, in fact, 8 out of 11 of the players only touched softball for the 1st time when they entered JJC (Jurong Junior College). The main reason for its uniqueness is becos 9 out of 11 players come from the same school--- Clementi Town Secondary School, the 2 remainder came from RV and Chinese High respectively. Of course softballers from Chinese High and RI will tink dat dats nothing special cos their team will consist of such proportion, but remember Clementi Town has got no affiliation to JJC, and to be honest, the Softball Team in CTSS, unlike the "top" schools, is also one of the top school in softball, counting from the bottom (and it had already walked into History several years back, and the poor juniors were forced to join CHOIR unwillingly), and most importantly, 7 out of 9 players were total noobs then. As a consolation, i tink we've reali done well, in terms of our team spirit, sportsmanship and committment to the team. I tink i got a special fate wif softball, even though i got little natural talent for the game....yes...it took me about 3 years to throw a decent shot from 3rd base to 1st base, and it took me 5 years be able to throw sufficiently, consistently, accurately around the diamond. Somehow i entered JJC, blur blur dragged by my senior into the team, later blur blur became the captain of the team. Blur blur train for 1.5 years, trashed NJC dat time 37-3 (a great hoo ha for JJC cos we were usually trashed the other way round by other schools) , almost won a medal for the team cos of 1 point, 1 error in fielding...Thinking of it, my fingers got itchy again...when can i start playing the game again? Shot taken outside the library: it's unique becos we were all arranged according to our position. The one right in front was our team catcher, CH. By now, some of the players haf reali gone out of shape....Fitness and Fatness is juz differentiated by a vowel....I'm still desperately clinging on not to fall to the latter category....Unfortunately, I'm oni still in touch with several guys, and the remainder had basically 'vanished' from my life, or i could oso say, i've vanished from their lives.

Somehow the world is really very small. On monday when i was working day shift at office, i was helping my colleague to take care of one small group of trainees on board, and i saw this guy.....he simply looked like a photocopy of one of our player then, Andrew Goh (top row extreme left), but it can't be him becos he's much taller and slightly bigger size than the Andrew I know.

So i asked him:

Me: What is ur surname?

Trainee: Goh......y?

Me: (Surprised) Are you related in any way to Goh Siang Lee (Andrew's full name)???

Trainee:(sound very sian, dunno y oso):Argggghhh....yar....Andrew rite???

I tink you know the conclusion......It's such a small world......