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Friday, November 03, 2006 The day was exceedingly memorable, especially after the school song started. I desperately wanted to sing it properly one last time, but unfortunately the tears got the better of me and started streaming down, following which everyone started hugging with so much intensity and love that it was impossible to stop crying. 402: the class with so much spirit, we deserved to win something! no matter what class competition it was, we did everything together we worked our guts out we sweated we toiled we hugged we kissed we encouraged we motivated we loved we cried. be it the national day dance, the kite, the netball carns, the class decor, or the interclass soccer and floorball, everyone put in their heart and soul. we brought a whole new meaning to "Success is in the Process"! But this time, our efforts paid off. yesterday was the interclass world cup tournament, we got through the group stages with 1 goal conceded, and 5 scored. 3 wins, 2 draws. the next fixture: 402 vs 411. 405 vs 414. 402 vs 411: it was down to penalty shootouts in the end. nobody could find the net. both goalies were mentally strong, and i'm going to be biased here and say that sandy was the better one, because she kept out better kicks. our penalty kicks were all wide, or straight at chris-tin, which made her job easy. so it was down to sudden death. both teams had to send out their goalies, their defenders... and serene SCORED. can any word describe the sense of joy and elation that the entire class went through? she was immediately mobbed by the entire class, and everyone was cheering, and tears were flowing. and we were through!!! FINALS, WC'06: 402 vs 414!  high intensity game, 414 was a good match. we had three big fat scoring opportunities. the support was in full flow, and to hear the other classes cheer for 402 was heartwarming as hell! they ooo and aahh-ed at all the appropriate times, and i've got to say that mr.jalleh makes a super good referee. that is not biased, even though he did give us a penalty which made us... THE WORLD CUP CHAMPS.  and what a wonderful way to cap a marvellous job by the WCOC, anyi, weiming, sabby, charmaine, eliz, germ, yen, wenyi, michy and sharyn without ANY of you, the WC would have never bore fruit. and i would never have gotten to know you guys so well without the WC! those late nights we spent together doing up our 20pg proposal, checking logs, waiting for inet announcements to be put up... I'd like all of you to know that i really really appreciate your time and effort, which has been so so so so massive, colossal and gargantuan. nothing could dampen our passion for soccer and the fact that it was totally voluntary on your part... well it just really rocks. :) i really hope that everyone had fun on thursday, sorry if there were any conflicts or disagreements or bad decisions which spoilt your day, because that is totally contradictory to the memories the oc aspired for you to have of this day. may you forget the bad and remember the good, for this is all in the spirit of fun and the passion for sport. AFTER ALL, WE ARE ALL FRIENDS AREN'T WE?! haha. and on this note i would like to dedicate our win to our wonderful Form Teacher James Ong who bought us all soccer socks which brought us lots of attention and perhaps distracted our opponents! haha. As well as Varsha, our beloved Math Rep and Drama Queen, who has left to India to continue her studies. oh 402 is so much love!  10:56 PM
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