Home Part Two.

I forgot to previously mention the royal treatment I was getting from MASCA VIC. I wanted a change of lanyard colour, and they eagerly let me choose anything I wanted, Hazwan even offered to give me every colour. And should I have anything to ask, and had to wait for 2 minutes to be served, I had the P and VP running up to me to ask if there was anything they could do to help. Life felt good to be intimidating then. I had powers to do anything I want and I could have any whim of mine easily satisfied. It was really fun.

Right, so down to day three. Day of netball.

Well, they told us the day before that the games was supposed to start at 830am, so we decided to meet up at 8am at the sports hall to warm up and do some last minute training. When we got there, there were already some other teams there doing their thing.

First complaint, we had no idea where to go and had to ask the Sports Hall people. When we got to the hall, Hillyah and I noticed that the courts were set up for basketball. So we started looking around for the person-in-charge to ask. Couldn't find one. So we headed down to ask the Sports Hall people.

The guy there told us we had to set it up on our own, and we were like, we don't study here and have zilch idea what to do. Maybe we looked lost enough, so he was kind enough to offer to help us set it up.

So yes, ACT people were the only ones smart enough to get a netball court set up for a netball match. So after that, we still found no one who we could turn to. So I made use of my position as the great intimidating Xin Yi and called the P to complain. He said he'll get someone to be there as soon as possible. By then it was 840am and no one from MASCA VIC was to be seen. Tak nampak sebatang hidung pun. So super disorganised la. (If disorganised is the right word, unorganised? inorganised? well, basically not organised.)

At bout 850am a person showed up and told us the games will start at 9am. Apparently, the entire committee woke up late that morning. How totally responsible.

So yes by 9am, games started off, and then there was a problem with the scoresheet. It was totally hard to understand la! So I did my thing again. I took the entire scoresheet, turned it around, and wrote my own.

And during the games that we played, I suffered 3 head injuries, one of which apparently bled (according to Hana Mai), but tiny bleeding la. But it was a loud hit. Cause I jumped up to catch the ball and got knocked over from behind and fell straight down backwards, head hit the floor real hard on the back, the sound of the hit apparently heard by the entire hall. I also fell 3 times and badly injured my knee.

Oh this leads me to another complaint, there was ZERO first aid service. I was self-proclaimed first aider for ACT as it is, but it turned out I was first aider for the NCG as well. Silly doofuses.

And then I also had to mop the floor. I'm pretty multi-purpose you know. You see, someone spilled some water on the floor and I nearly fell and sprained my ankle. The girl who spilled it was silly enough to not tell anyone about it and MASCA VIC was ignorant enough bout it. So I myself had to go to the Sports Hall people and ask for cloth or mop and a warning sign. They managed to provide me with some cloth and a mop, so I had to self-service la, since no one seemed to be taking any action.

Well anyway, we were last place for netball. Not a really huge surprise, though we expected a lot better.

And then there was volleyball and sometime during the game, I tripped over Miss Tan and fell again, backwards again. I whacked her eye in the process and had a bunch of people running to me to see if we were okay. Eri so cute and asked me "How come you keep falling down?". Well, I guess I love the floor. Hahahaha...

And then because I was cheering for volleyball, I ran out of time to go home to take a bath and change for the AGM. I missed dinner that night and attended a very boring AGM.

During the AGM, I was shown how powerful I was when I got nominated for a position for MASCA National by Hazwan and I was seconded by some other person from another state (I think). Wow. I think I was the first ACT person to be in MASCA National.

But I kindly rejected it and gave some lame excuse bout next year being my final year and wanting to concentrate on studies. Just didn't want to be in MASCA National la. Too much work. By the end of the AGM I was glad I didn't accept it. Cause the next year's committee had some people who didn't look very capable and also cause I'm not the biggest fan of the NSW people and MASCA National is made up of mostly NSW people.

But the knowledge that people wanted me in the committee was flattering. Haha. When I rejected, I could actually hear the entire room going "Awwwww....". Hilariousness.

So yes, I walked home alone that night, tired and hungry.

Next day, badminton. This time, at least there was Anthea there to take care of things. I'm thinking she's probably the most reliable one of them all. So badminton was all going fine. Until there was a glitch. Apparently the hall was booked from 10-11 and Anthea didn't know bout it cause of miscommunication. So we had to vacate the place for an hour before resuming. Poor Anthea seemed sooo apologetic and stressed out about the glitch and we all felt so bad for her and we were telling her that it was really okay and we would gladly wait.

And so we played our badminton, while in the next hall, basketball was going on. At the end of the day, I think we were trashed for every game in basketball, but we didn't do too badly for our badminton. We had a medal for every event except Ladies Singles. Ladies Doubles we got 3rd, Men Singles 3rd, Mens Doubles 3rd and Mixed Doubles 2nd. We were all so happy that we all won a medal, but turns out none of us did cause the event was grouped as a team event, and our overall points didn't get us anywhere. Stupid.

During the badminton game, Miss Tan and I made some friends with some Queenslanders, namely Donna and Dila. I actually knew Dila from 2 years back as I've been playing netball with her in the past 2 years' NCG. So when we weren't playing, we were supporting them. And they us. We also made friends with Sze Ching and Ming (from Victoria and NSW), who were volunteers for NCG, who helped out with the umpiring, scorekeeping and timekeeping of netball and badminton.

That night, we had Malaysian Night, which turned out better than expected. I could see MASCA VIC put a lot of effort into that night. But at the start of that night, I was failed by my own ACT committee. Hong Yin held the tickets and she was late. So I had more than half the ACT contingent awaiting her arrival as none of us could get in without the tickets. I told Kelly to get her to pass it to me earlier that day, but Kelly assured me they'll be there earlier as they'll be taking a cab. As it turns out, my feet were faster.

But she got there la, and then the tickets were distributed, in a reaaally messy way. Then I took over and just ushered people in first, to get the crowd out of the way. And then when I finally managed to get in, I didn't like the table I was sitting on. Maklumlah, I'm not exactly closest to the rest of the committee. I was pretty much the odd one out. And then on the table, I was more than the odd one out. It was pretty much a couples table, except for Phoebe, Ai Lin, Eu Jern and I. There was Kelly and Beng, Chern and Pui Ling and Rach and Alvin. All happily coupled, hands on each other, being couply la.

And even better I got a great seat! With my back to the stage. And so I complained la. And Phoebe, who was next to me, said ya la, bad seats cause we got there late. And I was like, "Hello! I got there late cause I was busy giving out people their tickets?". I was actually doing a job and my duty as a committee member la! And my repayment was a great view of couples and none of the stage. Seriously, I felt very unappreciated then.

But forget that, the rest of the night was fun. Hazwan wanted a picture with 'the great Xin Yi'. So did Rafiq (another MASCA VIC committee member). =) And then Phoebe, Ai Lin, Kelly, Sze Huey and I camwhored a whole load. And there was great food and great dessert (very very very very very rich chocolate mousse) and there was dancing. Disco ball dancing on dancefloor dancing.

And I went home that night high from the mousse. I was screaming on the roads and I frightened Grace and Pei Hua with my sugar high. When I reached home, Ter Lee and Miss Tan were spared as I recovered from the sugar and was just tired. So I just packed then went to bed.

Last day, I woke up to a whole load of phone calls, and then wasted some time not wanting to wake up. Then wanted to have Nasi Lemak for breakfast. Walked all the way to Lazzat (where there was 10% discount) but it wasn't open till 11 (and it was about 1050) but I had to get back cause I had a train to catch at 12. So I didn't get my Nasi Lemak, nor did I get my Freddo's. I settled for a Boost Juice and a Boost wrap. Found my way to the train station, was nearly late for the train and got all worked up cause the rest of the people travelling back with me wasn't there yet.

They all arrived just in the nick of time, as in 2 minutes before the train leaves. Maha came up the train with a package of stuff (Graduan books to be exact) and said Chern told me to pass this to you. And I was like HAAAA???? And thus my P did his thing again. Thrown me stuff without letting me know beforehand. As if it wasn't enough, later Abel passed me the MASCA phone with the list and stuff. "Chern told me to pass these to you." After the Maha episode, that didn't surprise me as much anymore.

Well, I'm going to make use of the phone and use up the remaining credit. Don't care la if I'm meant to do it, I'm just going to.

The remaining of the journey was again an uneventful 8 hours. Slept most of the way. Really nothing much else to do on a train or a bus.

Reached back and had Ah Boy waiting there for me with a trolley, then Chia Pei said she'd come and bring us out for dinner. Went for dinner, got back home, threw all my luggage on the floor, and went to sleep.

And that ends my very interesting Melbourne trip, of which none of Melbourne was enjoyed except for the egg tart.

Thank you for managing to keep reading till here. Now you know nearly everything about my trip. Yay.

And like my MSN personal message says: Activating hibernate.

Toodles.