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RoboSoccer Jr. Tournament

July 4th, 2004 in Personal

My Kuching trip. It was friday. The flight is on 11.55am, so I have to skip school. Oh no… my accounts class!! My teacher is teaching the hard part that day. *Sigh*

So, I reach the Miri airport at about 11.15am, checked in right away when we reach there. Go in to the plane, take off, for about 50 minutes, landing, reaching Kuching at about 1.10 pm. My teacher got a taxi ticket and we just got to the hotel right away.

This hotel is much better than the hostel that we stayed in the last trip (DUH~). Of course hotel is better than hostel. There’s a single and a double bed in that room, quite roomy for the 4 of us (me, Lex, Kotarou and my teacher).

Since the hotel is in the centre of the city, so eating is not a problem. We all went to the nearest chicken rice shop and ate there. As for dinner, we all ate at the some food shop, tried the claypot rice.

The four of us went to Tun Jugah. Looking around, but didn’t buy anything. Nothing to buy, I suppose. And then we went to the waterfront, and this time Lex did bring along his digital camera. We took pictures, of course, since the sight there is very beautiful.

Then we walk all the way back to the hotel. It was like almost 10.30pm. That’s when we did a last minutes enhancement to our robot, making sure it works fine for the tournament the next day. Doing all that until it is 12am.

Lex and the teacher, always the first to sleep. That’s when the “wild” me and Kotarou, not yet asleep, talk and talk and talk. About 1am like that, me and Kotarou go out to “lim teh”, but in the end we “lim milo peng” Both of us sleep at about 2am.

The next day, the day of the tournament. That tournament was a mess!! Don’t know who to blame, but it so out of schedule. And we’re out of luck too. There’s no quarter-finals, and there’s 4 groups. So, obviously, the highest 4 groups will proceed to the semi, and there’s no 2nd highest can’t proceed since there’s not quater.

Well, the qualifiying round is just like the any other football game qualifiying rounds, win 3, draw 1, lose 0. In group C, we, SMKDP are leading with 7 points, while the other team, SMK Kapit is 5, and the rest is really out. Well, the last game of our team is againts SMK Kapit, we’re all pressure to win, of course. In the end we lose, but if there’s 5 more seconds, we can score for a draw!! *Sigh*

After that, I am so out of mood. I spend time walking around UNIMAS, taking pictures with Lex’s digital camera. As for the LAME final, St. Joe Miri wins SMK Limbang. Was it a good match? Hell no, its so boring, its like as if the sensor of the robot doesn’t works.

Well, I still remember the last year’s match between our school and St. Joe Kuching, it was like a real soccer match. Everyone was like cheering, you can even feel the adrenaline and the excitement. You can feel some people cheering “St Joe!! St Joe!!”. Even some other Kuching supporters cheers for our team. I still remember the score, it is 5-4, we lose. But it was really an exciting match.

As for this year’s RoboSoccer Jr tournament, it’s like all the favourites has been eliminated. All the new teams proceed. Looks like new robots is better than experience.

So, we went back home, bringing a bad news. *Sigh*

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