Clash of the Titans

Yesterday was the final between SST and SPE for men's basketball. I heard the sciencetech of my school had printed some posters of transformers to symbolize the clash of this two teams. This match is fair with our team without Ah Ken and their team without Ah Bi. SST had provided us a box of 100 plus. This boosted our team's spirit. Thanks SST!!! This is the picture of our team taken after the match with UMS coach.

Back to the match, the match starts at around 4pm although it was written 3 in the schedule. The weather was burning hot. All of us were equipped with sunblock. The game started normally with my team having a 4 points lead. Nothing special in the 1st quarter. Just halfway into the second quarter, Johnathan form SPE punched my teammate Wei Guan(no.10) in the stomach. Coach saw it and he was disqualified. Until now i still don't understand the real motive of his action. Wei guan just did nothing.

After this incident, SPE starts to play aggresive. I get an elbow from Jack straight into my waiste, scratched at the back and got hit in knee when i layup. That caused my whole body in pain today.

With those injuries, i couldn't perform well. I just grab some rebounds and give some blocks. Scoring jobs were done ny Ah Quan, Pun Chong and Wan. At last we won at 10 points margin.

I had to admit this game was tough without Ah ken.

Fortunately we won. This is the 1st gold medal for full court basketball competition. This maybe will be the last competition for me before graduate. I am pleased with my team's performance and i think SST can be champion again next semester.




I had taken this picture with Wan after we received the medal and trophiy. On my way back home the question comes to me again: "Is the end of University life = End of basketball life?"..............

MASUM team and stories behind it........

Representing UMS is my goal when i enter UMS. With hard work from training everyday-continuous baseline shooting, 4,3,2 pass layup, half court press, I am selected for MASUM(inter university games) basketball team. Our team had started training for the whole semester but from early stages that has i think 30 something people, we left the best 12. The training is really tough, after physical and stamina training, we are needed to perform half court press. I got once training until my vision is blurred because of lacking stamina.

No.14 is Mahathir always my best teammate. He is also my teammates in intercollege competitions. He always know where i am going and what i want to do on court. No.12 Ah siong is our ace player. He used to represent SUKMA for Perak and he is the captain of our team. No.11 Ah Zing is Sabah state player. He is also known as jumpman because of his ability to dunk. No.7 and No.15 Sani and Ah Quan are our centers. Sani is also my teammates in intercollege competitions. Ah Quan is the freshman with great physical strength. No.13,No.10 and No.5 Ah Ming, Boon Chong and Jing Yi are our forwards. Ah ming is a good passer, Boon Chong unlickily injured his leg just before the tournament so he didnt play a lot, Jing Yi has great stamina as he is one of the PALAPES. No.4, No.9 and No.6 Jonathan, Vui Kien and Ah seng are our guards. Jonathan used to play for asia city team and he is a consistent shooter. Vui kien used to played for Darrulsalam and is a good dribbler. Ah seng has his special moves made him unguardable. Lastly me No.8 obviously lacking tough body played forward for the team.

This photo was taken before our game with petronas staff at DBKK. We snatched a 30 points win in this game.

During MASUM 1st game we were up aginst UIAM. The whole UIAM team were foreign students. Their forwards and center are at average 6 feet high. We manage to keep the score shoulder to shoulder until fourth quarter they just got some luck, scored a couple of 3s causing us to lose. I didnt managed to score in this game.

2nd game we were up against UM. They were defending champion so we don't expect a lot for this game. We just played our best. The result of course is we losed but i think our team played better for this game. We didnt do many mistakes. We losed just because they are experienced and their physical strength are better. I manages to score 9 points all from 3 points area.

This year MASUM will be held at Terengganu if i am not mistaken. UMS had declared not to send basketball team just because we didnt won last year. This reason really sucks. We trained hard, prepared well. We losed just because we lacked experiences. If UMS stopped sending us to MASUM, this mean we will not gaining any experience so how are we going to improved??? This is sad really sad not fair for all the basketballer in UMS. Football also didnt won last year but why they are given priority??? UMS has 3 football fields. 1 of them is fully equiped with 4 big spotlights tower. What do basketball court has??? with only 1 basketball court, its fine. The court has no spotlights, it s also fine. The worse is even after raining, the court just flooded. Sad.....really sad.

We make it to the final!!!

Today is the semifinal match of interschool basketball competition between my school(science and technology school) and SKTM(engineering school). I went to this match with mixed feelings because half the team of SKTM are my UMS teammate and also my best friends. Actually i am expecting SPE(business school) in semifinal, but SKTM accidentally losed to SPE causing we had to meet in semifinal. The game starts well for my team as our guards are super fast having a few fastbreak and we had around 10 points lead at the end of 1st quarter. I had 2 early fouls causing me had to cool myself down at the bench. SKTM managed to maintain the gap with us until they substituted their bench players(mainly junior). Their bench players make silly mistakes causing the gap become larger. At last we managed to win with the gap of 22 points. I managed to get 4 points and had a few good assists. For overall, my team played well and had only a few mistakes.
The another semifinal game was held just after our match ended. It is between ssmp(school of food) and SPE(business school). This match is more exited because both team managed to maintain the gap below 4 points until the end of 4th quarter. Although there were massive fans crowd to support SSMP, their key player's stamina are limited and their bench players cannot catch up the tempo of the game. SPE managed to win at around 10 points gap.
So, this saturday will be improtant for us to fight for gold. The match between SST and SPE will start at 3pm. We need supporter so please come. We will be missing ah ken. He is going back to Sandakan this saturday so i am expecting a tough match. Hope my team can play like the form today. I want another gold medal before i graduate!!!!!

UMS just don't get it

I think those of you from UMS must have heard that one student had involved in an accident last few week before. The student name i am not going to mention here had fall into the drain near the main gate causing severe damage at liver part. He passed away the next day. You are not going to find this news in the papers as it is kept closed by UMS. Ok, thats fine. Then after that incident, UMS kept the road lights and all the ligths at SKTM on. Last night, my friend had told me that lights behind the library(the only entrance to Megalab) is kept off at night. UMS just don't get it. There are lot s of students using the Megalab. How if the darkness causes accident again? Is it accident occurs only at SKTM? I had stayed back at lab at SST for a few nights. The condition there is the same. They turn off all the lights causing me had to use flashlight from my handphone just to get to my bike. What is going on with UMS? They can spend a lot for dinners and functions. Why not use more to secure students' safety?

Manchester United losed again

Fulham 2 Manchester United 0 is the full time score last night. Danny Murphy put Fulham ahead in the 17th minute when he converted from the penalty spot after Paul Scholes was sent off for handling a header from Bobby Zamora. In overall performance, Manchester United don't played well last night. They are under pressure most of the time. The game get uglier when Wayne Rooney was dismissed for a second yellow card caused Manchester Untied reduced to 9 man. Zoltan Gera scored for Fulham yet again 3 minutes before full time. I am not happy with the result. This make Manchester United lose 2 in a row. Come on Manchester United!!! I am looking forward to see the quadraple!!!

Blogging for the first time

I decided to try blogging because i had seen some of my friends' blogs. They are nice and the more important part is blogs keep beautiful memories. Now i am just a few months away from graduation. I have a strange feeling today when i drove my motorbike when coming home from school. I can feel that my basketball life will end very soon. Is it end of university life is the end of my basketball life???someone please help me.