it has been a long journey
was it 4 years already? hmm.. this sounded really long. its been 4 years since i started playing floorball in year one. thinking of it, if it wasn't for alan, i wouldn't have thought of joining floorball in the first place. for that, i would like to thank him. =)

i started out as newbie to the game, no rules, no skill, no team. just a ordinary member in the club, who is keen to pick up the sport. the good thing is, i wasn't alone in this situation. there are many others like me, who made in through the selections. we wasn't part of a team, there wasn't one to begin with. its was just a club and we had to start from the basics. fortunately, there was this captain by the name of senthil, who should be credited for spending the effort to teach us the basics.

6 months into playing the sports, we think we are ready but there isn't any slot for us to fit in the team. perhaps we are just too weak to begin with. =.( the skill level gap between us and huricanes were too wide and there were too many players, enough to form a team on our own. there is just no one to lead us. No team, no game, no experience. we even almost resorted into playing for other clubs just to get the experiences.

then came the coach, louise. =) she came in to help us, to nurture us into a lean fighting machine. WAR machines. haha. this was the time, when blizzards was born. we worked hard, training twice a day, burning those saturday afternoon, hoping to be in time to be in tip top condition during the season. first game.. hhmm. i dun remember the scores, but i think we won. it wasn't long before we got our first defeat. saddened.

but we din give up because we had the support of the coach. spper coach. verbal abuse was the key to get us back on our feets. haha. i remembered from the side line, she would be there standing with one leg on the boards, her hands gesturing in the air and her machine gun, spraying over the courts. hahaha.

we didn't make it through in the first league. we had another shot.. with more firepower. the goals are coming in and we got through, from div 3 to 2 to 1. the 1 is still not official yet. it been a long journey.. we lost many good players, but also gained many. but the biggest loss was made known recently, louise is going off to carry on her new agenda in life. sad for the fact she is leaving, but happy for her new phase in life. jiayou and have a baby soon. =)

Man, i am so going to miss those good old time..


p.s. I am glad that we were all part of one big family, the floorball community in the past, in the present and in the future. we were always be, in our minds and in our hearts.