Thursday, December 30, 2004
players and umpires.
i umpired at least 5 netball games, i have seen umpires who cant umpire, players who cant play, players who want to be an umpire while playing. apparently, everyone went through a change during IHG period, even myself. we do things which we wont usually do during games, like we challenge the umpires' call, even to the extent of intimidating them and we do fanciful play. i was pondering why didnt we display this kind of behaviour during IVP games or OSL? then i realised the reason is jiaolian. when he is around, no one on court would display any other kind of court play other than what he expected us to do, no one would ever dare to challenge the umpires' call. we just played our game dutifully. how magical. how disciplined jiaolian can turn us into and how different we are without jiaolian. its like a cat and tiger thing.
im pretty sure jiaolian will be very disappointed and disgusted, if he knows how we are trying to manipulate everyone, on court and off court.
Sunshine ; Thursday, December 30, 2004
