Eventful week

A lot of things have happened during the last few days. First I received a surprise message from my long lost best friend which went over to China in order to pursue his dream. Chatting with him made me remember the times we had together and how important he was to me during my high school period - that young and innocent me which used to think and hope that a friendship can last forever.

Another thing that happened this week was that my mother had a fall from the bicycle due to a black out. Fortunately, after being thoroughly examined, she was said to have suffered from the loss of consciousness due to exhaustion and thankfully that all she had was a fractured elbow. She has went through an operation and everything should be fine. It was told that she could be released from the hospital tomorrow if everything goes well.

I would like to thank those who have prayed for my mother and helped her through the ordeal. With blessings, I can only keep my fingers crossed and pray that she doesn't go through anything like this anymore.

Another thing that happened was that yesterday, me and my fellow volleyball teammates had a friendly match with our University's Russian teammates. It was like sort of a competition and we were playing our second game (the first game was held last Friday).

Due to the fact that we just came back from Malaysia and had not been training properly, I did not really expect too much from the competition but just to gain some experience and at the same time expose some of the juniors to the game play.

Though yesterday, while playing against the University's first squad, I felt a sudden high stress due to a very lousy performance on the second match. During the first match, we were sort of leading and had a good chance of winning but lost at the end. During the second match, I could not make out what came over me. I was making a lot of amateur mistakes and could not focus on what I had to do. In the end we lost the match.

After that I felt really bad and down due to the fact that I was the main reason for the downfall of our team. I became quiet and went off home a little while later. All the time keeping silence and not talking to anyone.

I seriously have to change this habit of mine.