17th aug
it was a day of highs and lows. Match between China and Thai. China lost! How could that have happened! Match between Singapore and Msia. Singapore lost! Such a waste!Watched china Vs thai with much anticipation, predicting a walkover by china but was taken aback when china lost the first match. Thought he was testing water. But apparently he aren't though the 2nd match was a tough fight. For a moment, he caught up. But lost regrettably in the end. Came as a total shock!
Moving on to team Singapore Malaysia. Msia seed was really good. Singapore's huang chao committed mistakes that were regrettable. Probably due to pressure from home team supporters that flooded the whole stadium with their never ending cheers. Was a highly anticipated match, so much so that u get to see the media crew moving all around. Even the ministers were here to support! How to not feel pressured, u tell me? Amazing supporters seen during the match, with students rallying the kallang wave spontaneously. And it was brilliant! Cheers were also very spontaneous from the crowd, with everybody cheering as one. Tough fight put up by team spore, 21-16, 21-18.
pictures with Magen(our team leader) and Leo & Merly!
damn ex sial! $39.90 each!
18th aug
Interesting day at sis today. Me n Magen took up the responsibility to do the check list all by ourselves. Realized could spot out so many faults if we want to do it cautiously. Was a good try by us I would say. Watched match of china vs great britain(Girls). Easy walk over by china.
Highlight came when Msia fought w Thai. Ownage! First match I watched that requires a third round to determine the winner. Thai took the first game while Maia put up a tough fight at 2nd round and claimed victory on the second. Was a nail biting game indeed! As usual, the Thai contigent was around to rally support. But I supported Msia wholeheartedly!
Games took a twist when msia seed was injured. He gave up when scores was 3-11. Thai got it! It was heartwarming to see these young athletes encouraging each other after the match though. That sight was the Greatest takeaway for today. btw, Thai boy rocked!!! he is reeeeeeally great!
Neeways, back to work, Steven gotta leave early as something urgent cropped up at home, leaving me n Magen to do the clean up. Stress! Managed to talk to venue manager, Doris and things were settled. Cool! In beginning to love all these. :)
Thai guy autographing!
his autograph is so cutey right!!!
19th aug
omg! took pictures with the youth olympic champion!damn shiok!!!!! yz was damn jealous cos she loved thai boy alot too!
thailand~
20th aug
off duty for today for the changeover to table tennis at SIS. so decided to go for the swimming finals with yz, cia and friends!
all the swimming guys are hottttttttt, i tell ya! i don't see how they are below 18 seriously. it was a fantastic night over at the sports school i would say. yay!
china was the biggggggg winner for the day. they are freaking good!
us, camwhoring after the match. bought spore flag cos Team Singapore's Amanda Lim was in the finals!
china's He Jian Bin. he's totally our cup of tea man! couln't bear to leave after the games, hoping to take pictures with the atheletes. haha. but to no avail! sian.
21st aug
first day of changeover to table tennis.
so cool duh!
young school kids waving the spore flag feverishly, in support of our Singapore players!
Isabelle Li and Clarence Chew!
both braved through the first day of prelims to enter quaterfinals! so proud man!
22nd aug
finally the chance to go down to the field of play for pictures! yay!!!!!!
yz, me and yati at the podium!
btw, isabelle manage to fight her way though the quaterfinals to enter the semifinals! meaning, we are on our way to a medal!!!!!!!!!!
23rd aug
it was the proudest day for all of us the indoor stadium! isabelle won thai and she is on her way to the finals- gold medal match in the evening! it was so so so so so cool!!! everyone was so happy and excited! though she's up with china's Gu yuting, we were still assured of a silver medal AT LEAST! damn hou yeah~~~
reckon that it would be too wasteful to not catch that match live, me and yz went back to the indoor stadium for duty even though we are done alr!
match of china Vs spore!
the very supportive crowd. they are simply amazing!!!
our silver medalist!!!!!
victory ceremony- rising of singapore flag! though we were reallynot up to match with china's gu yuting, can only say isabelle did her best and did all of us proud! even the PM and several ministers were here to support!
picture with our silver medalist! that's one of the wonderful thing about being volunteers?! heh heh.
24th aug
first day of the mixed doubles table tennis! isabelle together with clarence in Team spore!
they played quite well, eliminating a couple of groups, but fall out when they match up against Japan. Japan's team was really strong cos it was made up of the Boy's individual gold medalist!(he's a cute and handsome guy yea!) anw, i think there's something really fantastic about this yog. they actually mix different countries together if either of them didnt send their girl/boy representative. for instance, china's gu yuting was paired up with a Tunasian guy for this mixed doubles event. and they are called Intercontinental 1. it was quite a dream pair cos they manage to fight through alot of matches to emerge as the bronze medalist in the end! kudos to them and to the organising commitee! indeed a game of trust and friendship!
anyway, before the start of our duty, me and yz got off at orchard road. and we totally lost our minds there-posing with leo and merly! hahaha!
25th aug
its the 2nd last night and i started to feel the nostalgia! decided to go watch the youth olympic torch with yizhuang before it gets extinguished at the
Float@marina bay.
view from outside! then the highlight of the night came. there were barricates obstructing the entry to the float, but a section of it was removed when the people wanted to move something in. we saw an ang moh lady walking in(she was wearing the workforce pass btw) and the people like just look at her walk in, don't dare to say anything.
so me and yz were like:
eh敢进吗？
steady bo?
真的要进吗！
okay la. 走啦。just act zai!
and with that, we just walk in!(with our pass also) damn high man! we freaking can't believe we sneaked in!
so this was the front view of the torch!
so we just walked around, act like a big shot, take pictures and leave through the carpark! holy mama!!! fengggggggggg diao!
26th Aug
it's the last day of duy at SIS! aww man.
picture with uncle steven ohhhh~ he is a joke seriously!
the magnificent view of the indoor stadium.
and here we present the medalists for the mixed doubles. it was a fantastic match to end off the series of competitions held at the indoor stadium.
new friends made from the EVS team! really lovely of them to make something for me!
can only say indoor stadium was a place where i saw tears and sweats, laughters and cheers. everything was just so amazing! i loved the audience, i loved the atmosphere, i loved the atheletes; basically loved everything over here!
for the finale of the youth olympic games volunteering journey, i decided to watch the closing ceremony "live" with cia. not in the sense of getting a tix, but watching it at the live telecast at the marina
promontory@marina bay. took us a great deal of time and effort to find this place and yay! we finally reached!
cute leo and merly mascots on stage!
and the splendid fireworks display! though it was much much lesser than the opening ceremony, it was still awesome! especially to be able to see it "live" instead of from the tv.
there were certain parts through the ceremony that i can't help but feel all my goosebumps up. the whole yog experience was simply brilliant! and of course the best moments of my life! can't be thankful enough for this once in a lifetime experience! can't imagine how much pride i felt in this volunteering work!it was really a great time spent contributing to this world wide event. and im really so proud so proud of singapore! to be able to host such a successful event in a short span of 2.5 years. can't bear for the event to end at all. but guess happy times are always short. in fact, too short! totally don't look forward to school start because i had so much so much fun. all in all, i really really had an awesome time at this inaugural Youth Olympics. i'm just so glad that i did volunteer! and yes, WE CREATED HISTORY...
