What's up babe? I've just came back from court. The good news is - overall, everything went just fine. Lol. Actually I got nothing to say, but just feel like blogging.
Remember the final match? Indeed, I have bought a pair of handbags to tie on legs just before that day. Yeah, one day is not enough to help. Yet it spoilt my performances after that.
I cannot forget how I miss all the easy baskets during those matches. I've been trusted, but I made everyone disappointed. The effects haven't end though. After that day, as long as I was in court, I've poor shooting. Just miss and miss and miss. Even when I was just in front of the basket, my field goals made won't more than 60%. That's terrible.
Perhaps this is because of the sandbags. I've tied them on my legs for few days (including days after the matches). I couldn't explain what are the causes, but I feel a bit imbalance while playing, especially when landing on ground from a jump. Is this the cause of my poor shooting after that? Well, I don't know. But this may be one of the factors.
Today is just different. I came back to the court in this morning. I started to control the ball, with some moves. Surprisingly, everything went smooth. I tried to made shots, and it was better than I expected. Yeah, the curse has finally broken.
Coincidently, a coach and some trainees were there too. They've been there for practicing. Therefore I've the chance to learn from them. Haha. At the same time, I, at the other side of the court was playing as usual. I took roles like what I used to be. However, the players there are just plain players, so I could do things slowly and carefully, as a long warm-up after the depression period.
In conclusion (writing essay?), I am back. Yeah. Maybe I still need some time to get back to normal. But I am satisfied enough. Because I still severely suck yesterday, compared to today's performance. Again, sorry for my poor English. Cheers.
The Answer
First of all, I am not talking about Allen Iverson, haha.
As mentioned in the previous post, the match held. And the answer? I lost 2 games. Yeah, it's strange to say that after losing a game, I was still able to go to the final.
Before the match, I felt sick for 2 days, more or less. It wasn't a sick, but kind of. Sometime I was fine, but most of the time not. However, when I was in game, I din't feel sick. Haiz, too bad that I couldn't put all the blame into the sickness, haha. Perhaps the only effect is feeling a little bit tired in the game.
Ok, it is time to stop crapping. Starting from the first match, my shooting was terrible. If not mistaken, I made the first basket in the first match, and after that I don't think I made any basket. That's not enough, I missed too many easy baskets. My team almost lose the first game because of that, with the gap of only 1 point. Yeah, my team won in that game, but I lost though.
Surprisingly we went to the final. The opposing team was too strong for us, though we still stood a chance to win, if I played well. Their defence wasn't that official --- with a lot of illegal body contacts. What I can say is I contributed a lot in defence, but on the offensive side, I did nothing to help, other than a missed shot.
I got skills, but couldn't exert. When defenders defended me in a distance, I don't dare to shoot. When defenders came near to me, I didn't have the speed to cut through them. (wonder why?) There were some times that I crossed to the basket, but then I missed the baskets. Maybe because of this, one of my teamate decided to control the ball, instead of letting me to be the controler. He should take rebounds and receive the passes from me. But the positions changed, all was playing outside and there was no rebounder.
In the last minute, I was holding the ball, and decided to believe myself. I knew there's no much time left, what I could do was score as fast as I could. Before the opposing players reached their positions, I penetrated to the basket while crossing 2 players. Yeah, I was fast enough to do that. Then, I faked a shot to let another defender to jump over me.
That was the chance to score. To prevent 3 seconds violation and to avoid defence from another 2 players on my left, I took an instant shot. You know, it was right in front of the basket, but I still missed it. Damn. What the damn. I got everything right but missed the shot. Somemore it was a critical shot. I destroyed the last chance for my team to continue the game.
Just after that, one of the opposing players on my left got the rebound. Then passed. Then passed to another player. Then finally reached to a player in front of our basket to make an easy lay up. The ball went in.
Gone. Everything was gone. And it's caused by me. I cannot forgive myself. Really. The games were over but I cannot stop myself to say sorry. My teamates won 1 lost 1. I lost both. Please blame me. Thanks. Otherwise I won't feel comfortable.
As mentioned in the previous post, the match held. And the answer? I lost 2 games. Yeah, it's strange to say that after losing a game, I was still able to go to the final.
Before the match, I felt sick for 2 days, more or less. It wasn't a sick, but kind of. Sometime I was fine, but most of the time not. However, when I was in game, I din't feel sick. Haiz, too bad that I couldn't put all the blame into the sickness, haha. Perhaps the only effect is feeling a little bit tired in the game.
Ok, it is time to stop crapping. Starting from the first match, my shooting was terrible. If not mistaken, I made the first basket in the first match, and after that I don't think I made any basket. That's not enough, I missed too many easy baskets. My team almost lose the first game because of that, with the gap of only 1 point. Yeah, my team won in that game, but I lost though.
Surprisingly we went to the final. The opposing team was too strong for us, though we still stood a chance to win, if I played well. Their defence wasn't that official --- with a lot of illegal body contacts. What I can say is I contributed a lot in defence, but on the offensive side, I did nothing to help, other than a missed shot.
I got skills, but couldn't exert. When defenders defended me in a distance, I don't dare to shoot. When defenders came near to me, I didn't have the speed to cut through them. (wonder why?) There were some times that I crossed to the basket, but then I missed the baskets. Maybe because of this, one of my teamate decided to control the ball, instead of letting me to be the controler. He should take rebounds and receive the passes from me. But the positions changed, all was playing outside and there was no rebounder.
In the last minute, I was holding the ball, and decided to believe myself. I knew there's no much time left, what I could do was score as fast as I could. Before the opposing players reached their positions, I penetrated to the basket while crossing 2 players. Yeah, I was fast enough to do that. Then, I faked a shot to let another defender to jump over me.
That was the chance to score. To prevent 3 seconds violation and to avoid defence from another 2 players on my left, I took an instant shot. You know, it was right in front of the basket, but I still missed it. Damn. What the damn. I got everything right but missed the shot. Somemore it was a critical shot. I destroyed the last chance for my team to continue the game.
Just after that, one of the opposing players on my left got the rebound. Then passed. Then passed to another player. Then finally reached to a player in front of our basket to make an easy lay up. The ball went in.
Gone. Everything was gone. And it's caused by me. I cannot forgive myself. Really. The games were over but I cannot stop myself to say sorry. My teamates won 1 lost 1. I lost both. Please blame me. Thanks. Otherwise I won't feel comfortable.
Under Pressure
Tell you all something. I am feeling very worry about next Monday match. It is a small basketball contest organized by our school students.
Yeah, I know, you may think that I am kinda foolish. Sincerely and honestly, I never ever scare losing. It is just a battle, there will be winners and losers. Though I don't want to lose.
I told this to my friend, their responds are likely negative --- You are not fighting for your state, but in school only, that means winning or losing doesn't mean anything. Yeah, I admit that I took it quite serious. I don't expect to get the prizes or whatever rewards, all I want is just to win, I WANT TO WIN.
At first, I was quite confident facing the next team. I was confident on my offensive skills and my ability to stop some opponents from getting easy baskets. But a fact has been forsaken --- in our team there're only me and another guy can do things at safe level. While the opponent team included 3 players who can score and defend. I was planning to minimize my misses to leave them apart because our defence is too poor.
Yet, later I discovered that scoring is not that easy, although opponent players couldn't really stop me single-handedly. As I tried to play with people who don't know about basketball, I found that their defence is still suffocating. Without proper rules, they could do anything to stop you. While at the same time, you cannot do things that against the rules.
A simple reason, because they don't know how to play, so the referee won't call them for foul easily. So they are franchise players. Now the case is I have to face franchise players, but not rookies.
OK, stop discussing about this. Let's say if we won them, then we would go to the final. On the same day, we will be fighting for the second time, with a real team. The real team means every player inside knows about basketball. It is too difficult for us. They could do defence, we cannot. Everyone of them can score, whereas only 2 of us can score.
You know, defence is the major part of games. Without defence, it is going to be tough --- tougher than we imagined. The only thing to cure is getting a rebounder, that's all I need for now, I don't expect more. If this happened, that means the game became fairer. One of the reason is our team doesn't have a rebounder, and another reason for it is the opponent team also doesn't have a rebounder.
I don't mind if we have to make much more efforts in the fight, but what I hope is fighting with a chance to win. Even myself also couldn't explain why I want to win so much. It is not about rewards or reputation or anything, but when I am in game, I am responsible for it --- for the win. The competition is organized for competition, whereby we could enjoy and experience it.
Therefore, there's no point to devote everything into a sure-lose game. No point to let opponents absolutely own us. No point.
Hopefully everything will just be fine. We will get a suitable player for rebounding. The following games won't cost our energy that much. Well, it is just a dream, lol. Cheers.
Yeah, I know, you may think that I am kinda foolish. Sincerely and honestly, I never ever scare losing. It is just a battle, there will be winners and losers. Though I don't want to lose.
I told this to my friend, their responds are likely negative --- You are not fighting for your state, but in school only, that means winning or losing doesn't mean anything. Yeah, I admit that I took it quite serious. I don't expect to get the prizes or whatever rewards, all I want is just to win, I WANT TO WIN.
At first, I was quite confident facing the next team. I was confident on my offensive skills and my ability to stop some opponents from getting easy baskets. But a fact has been forsaken --- in our team there're only me and another guy can do things at safe level. While the opponent team included 3 players who can score and defend. I was planning to minimize my misses to leave them apart because our defence is too poor.
Yet, later I discovered that scoring is not that easy, although opponent players couldn't really stop me single-handedly. As I tried to play with people who don't know about basketball, I found that their defence is still suffocating. Without proper rules, they could do anything to stop you. While at the same time, you cannot do things that against the rules.
A simple reason, because they don't know how to play, so the referee won't call them for foul easily. So they are franchise players. Now the case is I have to face franchise players, but not rookies.
OK, stop discussing about this. Let's say if we won them, then we would go to the final. On the same day, we will be fighting for the second time, with a real team. The real team means every player inside knows about basketball. It is too difficult for us. They could do defence, we cannot. Everyone of them can score, whereas only 2 of us can score.
You know, defence is the major part of games. Without defence, it is going to be tough --- tougher than we imagined. The only thing to cure is getting a rebounder, that's all I need for now, I don't expect more. If this happened, that means the game became fairer. One of the reason is our team doesn't have a rebounder, and another reason for it is the opponent team also doesn't have a rebounder.
I don't mind if we have to make much more efforts in the fight, but what I hope is fighting with a chance to win. Even myself also couldn't explain why I want to win so much. It is not about rewards or reputation or anything, but when I am in game, I am responsible for it --- for the win. The competition is organized for competition, whereby we could enjoy and experience it.
Therefore, there's no point to devote everything into a sure-lose game. No point to let opponents absolutely own us. No point.
Hopefully everything will just be fine. We will get a suitable player for rebounding. The following games won't cost our energy that much. Well, it is just a dream, lol. Cheers.
Nuffnang
There are only 2 online blog advertising communities I've ever used, that is Google Ads and Nuffnang. Some of you may struggle in choosing the right advertising community, so do I. So, I would like to share my experience of using both ads communities during this short period.
I had started to use Google Ads (in another blog) before using Nuffnang, that was about few months ago, if not mistaken. However, from the start till the end, I never earn even a buck. Anyway, I have to admit that I never put any effort in promoting that blog.
After that, I gave Nuffnang a try, in both of my blogs. To maintain the "glitterati" status, I removed my Google Ads codes. Then, until now, I've earned RM0.50, each blog get 25 cents. I don't know which is better, but I would like to share some of their pros and cons.
Google:
Pro: It generally knows user's interest by collecting the keywords they searched by google searching engine. This makes the percentage of clicking the ads higher.
Cons: It is quite boring because its ads are full of words.
Nuffnang:
Pro: It is more attractive in the first glance because contain nice graphics with animation. I also comes with 3 different sizes. Besides that, the most important thing is, it also pays for Cost Per Unique Visitor, basically I also don't know what is that, haha.
Cons: It is really hard to find a blog template that can support all the 3 sizes of its ads, like what I mentioned in previous post. Another thing is, the ads won't appear in the page regularly. Sometime, it even slow down your blog loading period.
So, what's the conclusion? You may tell me your experience for me to get the right answer. Good night, and sorry for my poor English, hope you all can understand it, lol...
I had started to use Google Ads (in another blog) before using Nuffnang, that was about few months ago, if not mistaken. However, from the start till the end, I never earn even a buck. Anyway, I have to admit that I never put any effort in promoting that blog.
After that, I gave Nuffnang a try, in both of my blogs. To maintain the "glitterati" status, I removed my Google Ads codes. Then, until now, I've earned RM0.50, each blog get 25 cents. I don't know which is better, but I would like to share some of their pros and cons.
Google:
Pro: It generally knows user's interest by collecting the keywords they searched by google searching engine. This makes the percentage of clicking the ads higher.
Cons: It is quite boring because its ads are full of words.
Nuffnang:
Pro: It is more attractive in the first glance because contain nice graphics with animation. I also comes with 3 different sizes. Besides that, the most important thing is, it also pays for Cost Per Unique Visitor, basically I also don't know what is that, haha.
Cons: It is really hard to find a blog template that can support all the 3 sizes of its ads, like what I mentioned in previous post. Another thing is, the ads won't appear in the page regularly. Sometime, it even slow down your blog loading period.
So, what's the conclusion? You may tell me your experience for me to get the right answer. Good night, and sorry for my poor English, hope you all can understand it, lol...
Tonight, You are Mine
Ah. Ahh. Ahhh!
As what I mentioned in previous post, the templates searching process almost killed me, then I changed my strategy to edit the html codes in the template. After busying for that whole night, I still din't manage to settle the codes.
So, tonight, codes, you are mine. As what I expected, I defeated the codes. Ceh, not even a contest. Haha. Be honest, the codes made me feeling so suffocated. I have to replace the missing pictures, change the colors and fonts, remove the unnecessary components and reorganize the whole thing. Yeah, I think it is done now.
Playing with the codes is not fun at all, but at least I learnt something. Therefore I felt so excited. Haha, something goes wrong...
Again, Selamat Hari Raya Puasa. And good night. Cheers.
As what I mentioned in previous post, the templates searching process almost killed me, then I changed my strategy to edit the html codes in the template. After busying for that whole night, I still din't manage to settle the codes.
So, tonight, codes, you are mine. As what I expected, I defeated the codes. Ceh, not even a contest. Haha. Be honest, the codes made me feeling so suffocated. I have to replace the missing pictures, change the colors and fonts, remove the unnecessary components and reorganize the whole thing. Yeah, I think it is done now.
Playing with the codes is not fun at all, but at least I learnt something. Therefore I felt so excited. Haha, something goes wrong...
Again, Selamat Hari Raya Puasa. And good night. Cheers.
Haiz...
You know what? Blogger templates choked me!
I've devoted myself into template searching. At first, I was looking for Tracy McGrady or NBA theme, but found nothing. Therefore I decided to find green color theme. When I thought I got the right one, you know, it doesn't support nuffnang ads. I meant there is no enough space to put all 3 types of its ads, including header-size ads.
After that, I kept searching and searching. The templates found either contain no enough space as mentioned or contain some errors (eg. picture cannot displayed, descriptions text alignment). The unsatisfied results forced me to give up on searching.
At last? The templates searching campaign had ended up with html codes editting. You know, this is the first time I "communicate" with the html codes so intimately. It took me a few hours - yet I had done nothing. However, I have no other choices because I only can get what is fine for me by editting codes.
The html codes choked me badly. I had a suffocating time. But never mind, I will continue my job tomorrow and you'll see how I defeat the noob codes. Good night. Oh yeah, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, to John and Alvin. (rotf)
I've devoted myself into template searching. At first, I was looking for Tracy McGrady or NBA theme, but found nothing. Therefore I decided to find green color theme. When I thought I got the right one, you know, it doesn't support nuffnang ads. I meant there is no enough space to put all 3 types of its ads, including header-size ads.
After that, I kept searching and searching. The templates found either contain no enough space as mentioned or contain some errors (eg. picture cannot displayed, descriptions text alignment). The unsatisfied results forced me to give up on searching.
At last? The templates searching campaign had ended up with html codes editting. You know, this is the first time I "communicate" with the html codes so intimately. It took me a few hours - yet I had done nothing. However, I have no other choices because I only can get what is fine for me by editting codes.
The html codes choked me badly. I had a suffocating time. But never mind, I will continue my job tomorrow and you'll see how I defeat the noob codes. Good night. Oh yeah, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, to John and Alvin. (rotf)
About Blog Template
Few days ago I was trying to search a satisfied template for my blog. But failed. Perhaps of my lack of searching skills. But what to do? Do you have any idea about this?
Actually I tried to search for Tracy McGrady themes. Yet I just found one, which I don't really satisfy with it. I wonder how they creat their own templates. Is there insane skills needed? If not, can anyone teach me?
Yeah, there are quite a lot of sites provide blogger templates. But when come to special themes, such as baller, then the results become lack. It is better if I can creat my own template, of course. So, would you save me? Haha...
Actually I tried to search for Tracy McGrady themes. Yet I just found one, which I don't really satisfy with it. I wonder how they creat their own templates. Is there insane skills needed? If not, can anyone teach me?
Yeah, there are quite a lot of sites provide blogger templates. But when come to special themes, such as baller, then the results become lack. It is better if I can creat my own template, of course. So, would you save me? Haha...
So It Begins
First of all, I have to say sorry to my friend - John Loo Keat Leong, because I just copied the title from his first post in his blog. Haha. Noone ordered him to write so well. Nonetheless, I won't copy his contents as there's a term, namely 'copyright'. But don't blame me if I imitate your way of writting, haha.
For those who don't know much about me, I am a boy. (I think some of you may leave because of this...) I am not nice looking, well built and anything you think may be a good trait in a boy. I am currently at the age of 18 and I am a Chinese from Malaysia.
I would like to meet people of different culture, especially Tracy McGrady's fans. Tracy McGrady is the most favorite player of mine. Other than him, i love 2 more guys, namely Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan. Of course, all of these are for basketball only.
In politics, I prefer Lee Kuan Yew, the first president of Singapore. Erm, what's more? Jet Li, Albert Einstein, Jing Kong and many more. Among singers, perhaps I prefer George Lam, Anita Mui, Sandy Lam etc. I better stop here since I don't think people are interested in it.
Now it's the time to tell you all my aim of making this blog. It's just simple - to improve my English. Of course, if you are willing to teach me, you're welcomed. But make sure you won't charge me a buck. Haha.
By the way, if you are generous or helpful enough, would you mind to correct my mistake or provide me the better sentences in the post? (John, I know you are that kind. )
So here is the end. Enjoy.
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