Which do you hate most?

Of the three miserable cretins listed below, which would you hate most:

1) A liar
2) A traitor
3) A gossip

Back to coaching

The water polo meet is finally over.

For the past three days, I've been waking up at 6 AM and coming home at 8 PM. Super tiring.

Going back to my usual coaching routine will seem like a holiday after these past few days.

Time to get a new computer

My desktop computer has started working again after 3 days of major formatting and reinstalling software. For some sick reason, this POJ (piece of junk) keeps turning itself off due to heat problems. The problem is, when the POJ restarts, a lot of software stop working. When my Windows stopped booting up, I knew it was time to re-format.

Thankfully, I could still surf the web with my trusty laptop from Starbucks, albeit shamelessly. But I can't get into Facebook for some reason. So, I could only surf, blog, whine, check mail, surf and whine some more while at Starbucks.

Thanks for the free Internet, but no thanks for the ultra-expensive latte.

Starting today, I needn't visit Starbucks anymore to satisfy my daily web addiction. Hurray! Finally, the last piece of software has been installed, and even better, Streamyx is still working! Double hurray!

So obviously, the first website that I visited was Facebook, since that was the only site I could not surf to during my 3 days of Net blackout.

Hoo-boy ... was that a mistake!

Immediately after reading some comments, I immediately wished I had not fixed my computer. In fact, I felt like putting an axe right through my computer screen.

It suddenly reminded me of the many Facebook-related dismissal cases I've read on the web. Furthermore, images of "Mutiny on the Bounty" flashed through my mind.

It has made me realize that I've made some rather foolish choices.

Pruning

Wikipedia defines pruning as:

"Pruning is the process of removing certain above-ground elements from a plant; in landscaping this process usually involves removal of diseased, non-productive, or otherwise unwanted portions from a plant."

Bottom line is, pruning can be tough, but necessary in order for a tree to bear fruit.

The Bible also mentioned this in John 15:5.

Snip! Snip!

I guess teams need to do this from time to time too.

One-week break

The 52nd Malaysia Open Water Polo Championship will be held at PISA during the weekend. Pool setup for the meet has already been completed on Tuesday (one day early). This means that the PISA pool is now ready to host a water polo championship. This also means that PST is now without a pool to train in for nearly a week.

For my swimmers and I, this grants us a one-week holiday. Great news, right? No, not really. Not at all in fact.

The fact is, we're already behind schedule, and taking more breaks will not help anyone.

During the Raya break a few weeks ago, some kids missed training because they were "going on holiday". This month, kids are missing training because it's "exam month".

I can imagine the following scenario: 1) After exams = "chill out time", and 2) Year-end school holidays = "serious holiday time".

When will it be "training time"? *Sigh*

FInally, it died

Yep, it died at last. Who? What? My desktop computer.

Now blogging from Starbucks with my laptop. Anyone wanna sponsor me a new high-end, dual core desktop computer?

Déjà vu

It's an all-too-familiar occurance.

Here I am, staying up late at night doing reports and preparing / editing / augmenting workouts for my athletes, but my athletes don't give a damn and are missing training sessions as easily as they would a dental appointment.

Here I am, attending meetings with ISN and MSN, arranging for the use of the gym and for personalized gym workouts to be written for my athletes, but my athletes give even less than a damn about the gym sessions and are skipping the gym sessions simply because "daddy said 'no need'".

I wonder who will daddy blame when his kid ends up 2nd, 3rd or 4th placing next year.

I'm starting to wonder if I'm doing all this for the right reasons.

MSN Anti-Doping Talk

I attended an Anti-Doping Talk conducted by MSN on 6th October. No, I'm not into doping, but it was a talk for the Sukma swimmers and as a Pelapis coach, I had to attend it with my swimmers.

Frankly speaking, I didn't find it very good. It seemed to be aimed at scaring athletes about the side effects of doping rather than educate the athletes on the moral implications and consequences of doping.

Me in ... errr ... "deep concentration".

A major portion of the talk was 18SG and on many occassions I was hoping that the under 12 swimmers that were attending were not paying attention. What's more, the p'shopped images were simply lame.

Oooh, time to wake up. Speaker right in front!

Although some of the info presented was informative, I was hoping it would be done with better, more detailed handouts with the talk emphasizing less on the 18SG subjects

Photos shamelessly ripped off without permission from Beverly Wong's Facebook.

Aeroplane

Kena aeroplane / 747 / PPK again today by a swimmer. Sigh ... I guess some people never learn. A SMS message only costs 30 sen. Disappointment leaves a scar.