The Day My Muscle Stretched!!
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005“And the last teams competing in the preliminary round, Turbo Tortoises and Hitz team 1,” the organizing committee announced.
We were standing at the starting point, looking anxiously at the opponents, it didn’t help that the Hitz team happened to be PopShuvit (the Malaysian band). Me against JD. Both of us eyeing the same ball. The whistle blew and we ran towards the ball, trying to grab it as quickly as possible. As we’re about to reach, I realized that I couldn’t grab it before he did, so I backed off. And as I turned around, to my horror, only 2 left out of 5 of the Turbo Tortoises still “alive” in the court!!
So, Turbo Tortoise James and I tried hard to attack the Shuvits. And in the same time, we performed some acrobatic moves to avoid getting hit by the opponent’s flying ball. I saw one of the balls coming down slowly and I stretched and I caught the ball! Turbo Tortoise Lee was called in to the court. However, the damage was done by then, the Tortoises couldn’t recover the turbo power and hence one by one the Tortoises were exterminated by the Shuvits. And that’s the end of the game.
Dodgeball, it stretches every muscle in your body. (Adoi, still pain la!)
Turbo Tortoises comprises of Li-Ann, Shirleen, James, Lee, Kong Wei and me.