Who said we can't have fun?

I'm still secschick after so long - secondary school sick, the syndrome that you get after playing violently in your classrooms in secondary school and having a realisation hit upon you that suddenly the school isn't quite your playground.

But opportunities are always around, and when Fridays come by I found substitutes for my usual activities in secondary school. Like how you have substitute goods for different goods, I applied the Economic concepts to daily life and poof, even though the PED might be less than 1, I still derive some satisfaction at the newly-invented games I have.

Go try them out someday, perhaps you'll like it.

Canteen Table Tennis (sub for Gryphon's Lair Table Tennis)
A simple but delightful game involving the use of, well, two table tennis bats and a ball! Then of course you need two hardcore table tennis enthusiasts willing to play anywhere, because the canteen is not a very easy location to play in. H3 Chem students streaming out of their lectures were slightly amused at the prospect of us punting balls to each other's sides, but I bet they were jealous.

The rules are as per table tennis rules. Just that you should avoid smashing any balls because you might find that it might end up in the Stall 5 noodle soup along with fishballs and very unfortunately, table tennis balls are hard on the surface and hollow inside. I doubt that would make a very good meal. But it's a delightful sport, absolutely. You'd be daft to miss this one.

And a little modification is always welcome. If you can't hit the table, hitting the bench where you sit on is all right as well. Sometimes for noobs we also allow air balls (ie like badminton doesn't have to hit the table/bench) and long shots. If you love punting balls all over the place, NO LIMITS is for you. Once again, you'd be daft to miss this one.

Parade Soccer (sub for Violent Soccer)
Well this is one very poor substitute for the electric atmosphere of Violent Soccer but hey, this is RJ you know. Not very easy to come up with games, especially without classrooms. Using a tennis ball for a soccer ball (yes this game emphasises control), you play on the parade square with very small goal areas. Good practice for accuracy and nimbleness. Can try playing on different grounds, since the parade square is more or less divided into three.

The first is the main ground where the flags are, and arguably the most tiring ground because it stretches all the way to the tennis courts. But you get a panoramic view of Toa Payoh and it just takes your breath away while you're trying to dribble past a defender or a Zidane who's literally trying to take your breath away by knocking it out of you. Using his head.

The second is the "sub" parade square, just down the steps from the main, and leading to H block. That one is slightly more exciting, and the view is not bad too. Can watch basketball training but focused soccer players won't notice them. The third is just some obscure ground a few steps away from the "sub" parade square. Let's just call that "Noob's Ground". Being of the smallest pitch area of all three, this pitch doesn't really test your stamina at all. Still, its nice and cosy atmosphere makes people want to play there.

Least of all me. Just don't try to act smart and kick the ball down. Then it's going to be a painful long walk to get it. Try playing first to three wins, it's just exhilarating.

Council Soccer (sub for Violent Soccer)
To continue the soccer series, here's another variation you could try. The venue is the area just outside the council room, where two chairs are located. The idea is to actually make the ball go through the chair's legs, though variations could be implemented.

Dustbins could be placed on both ends, and any hits on the dustbins would warrant a goal. It's not easy, and it takes a great deal of effort rounding the idiot (50% chance it's a councillor) guarding one silly bin and err.. it takes skill to score. Plus the excitement is upped when the stones used to hold down banners are placed on top of the dustbin. When you whack the dustbin, BANG, the stones will probably fly off the dustbin in a pretty violent fashion. I'd recommend it to you, just don't play in school uniform when teachers are around.

By the way, I passed my time playing Council Soccer before Chemistry CTs the next day. Okay that kind of explains my Chemistry grades, but let's not get to that.

Of course, there are many other games that I've yet to discover and some I'm lazy to type because after today's experimentation of the new games I'm really tired. Oh and plus there's PTM tomorrow and I'm all set to get into trouble woohoo! Thanks to my obsession with BW, that's precisely what I got for my CT grades hoo!

If you don't see how I got that W, say the word slowly and maybe you'd get a little enlightened. And my other subjects were pretty borderline as well, meaning they are mostly Excellents and Superbs. Okay I should stop ranting about all this.

Basically PTM = PREPARE TO (GET) MURDERED!!!!

Here's wishing everyone whose parents are going to meet teachers tomorrow, GOOD LUCK.