well. Just stepped my pair of feet into the house. ok, i and isaac 'skipped' school today to go for the shooting competition held at safra yishun. We went there as a group together with the others and teachers too. The atmosphere there was somehow different as compared to the school range although the place seem to be very familiar after shooting there for competition coming to 5 years. I felt high in the beginning but after shooting, my mood went down like an airplane nose-dived in the speed of light.
During my shots, sighters were like shit and its literally shit. After 10 shots of sighters, i was like, 'great!' the shots seems to be like a diverging lens. Upon heating the target card, it went north south east west and central(bull). I was contented with the bull but not the other 4 'directions'. So my coach called me back and told me to adjust my left feet to correct the alignment. So i did as told and phew~ finally, it went back centre with five bulls(10pts each) consecutively. Comes next shot, "pam!" a shot landed on the 7 boundary. I shooked my head. ish ish ish.
After gaining back my confidence and shot(big thanks to my coach for calling me back, if not for him, my shots would be splattered around the card), i started the first shot. First 5 real shots were great. accumulating about 9 or 10 each. Than in between, it went off the 9 10 boundary. fuck man! The last few shots of a series, it went back again centre. There are a total of 6 series with 10 rounds each. so total is 60 shots lar. In every series, its inevitable for me not to get 6 or lower. There will definitely be 1 or 2 shots off the black circle. Its a norm for me lar. So shoot and shoot till the 60th shot. I packed up and left the range. Ms Tham and Mr Poon were sitting outside talking and i just walked behind them and i felt really down man! Freak. I tok out my english book and practiced on it. Soon, the other 2 shooter came out. Of course they did better than me lar. Im a novice in pistol but good in rifle. =)
I still don't understand why im not allowed to shoot rifle for now. My passion is there and not in pistol and that is why im not doing well in pistol although you guys claimed that i do quite well in it. I can sense that these words are made-up so as to please me and urge me to carry on shooting pistol. So what if my score is 540/600. Its not constant and stable as compared to the other 2 male shooters with score ranging from 550^/600. So, as you can see, im the black sheep. By the way, my score for competition was 523. Dropped i know. Now you know the reason. Please! I want to shoot rifle. I will prove it to you that the rifle team will be as good as the pistol team with the help of new rifle coming in somewhere in march. Please, i beg you to let me shoot rifle too. Good result can be achieved for rifle but it requires alot of time and effort. Same for pistol, when we first started out in 2005, we did not do that well but as the years goes by, we got better up till now. Please! let me shoot rifle too. If isaac can shoot pistol because of the passion he has in pistol, why can't you let me do the same thing? Let me shoot rifle because my passion is in there! I will produce good result too. sigh.
Overall, the pistol guys team clinched 2nd and girls team clinched champion. It was the unexpected. Seriously. We didnt know that we have won. Kudos! A very good farewell 'gift' for mr tanaball as he's leaving comes 29/2/08. I wish him all the best in his endeavour! Farewell for him and gun-off for him tomorow =)
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