On a bright sunny afternoon, a few of us went to the 2005 swim meet. The first match support i have ever been since the start of they year, in attempt to fill my match support card.

The match was quite exciting actually. And the raffles schools won almost everything! I think rjc did very well too. The last match was the most exciting because it was between acjc and rjc and they were so so so close! Fortunately the last swimmer exceeded the other swimmer and we got 1st for the relay. Impressive impressive. I never knew match support can be so exciting.

But i must admit i'm not a very good supporter, because i was munching sea weeds while the RI boys in their small tight white square pants were cheering at the top of their voices. Quite noisy actually, disturbing my mini picnic.

Then out of the blue, i heard a continuos chatter from a hoarse voiced lady behind who caught my attention. Clad in an orange obasan 3/4 pants and a tight-fitting shirt peppered with orange slices and small small funny orangy designs, she was busy conversing with another kiasu parent. According to the way she recites all the swimmers' name, i can tell she is indeed a very supportive parent. A kiasu one too. Her conversation was super interesting and i have no choice but to eavesdrop.
I dont want to mention names, so let's call her Mdm XLM ( X-tra loud mouth).

Mdm XLM: Wah! That boy actually swim very fast arh, but he touched the wall too slow Wasted! Or else he would have won!
Parent B : Yah his body too short!
Mdm XLM: He should eat more *taw tau suan , can make the body longer. I must give my son eat more taw tau suan next time! Your son Danny got eat or not? Next time make more taw tau suan give him next time then can touch the wall. Aiyah..

*taw tau suan i figured is long beans, believe to help lengthen body to make the body like long beans.

The above is a short excerpt from what i eavesdropped from Mdm XLM. The way she speaks is really funny. Sounds totally like apical kiasu parent.

Then the competition went on and on and my butt hurt quite badly because i sat at the concrete floor non-stop for 2 hours, only exercising my mouth.
Suddenly the head prefect decided to make everybody stand so as to cheer louder. This is a very bad move because it caused Mdm XLM to flare up.

You see, being a very kiasu parent, she need to have a clear and perfect view of the swimmers. So, when people stood up to block her view, she was indeed very very furious. Her make up started to melt off her face and her hair expanded and became like a mad woman.

Mdm XLM started screaming at the prefects behind her.
Mdm XLM : YOU ARE ARE NOT SHOWING PUBLIC CONSIDERATION! YOU ALL STAND UP LIKE THAT HOW YOU EXPECT ME TO SEE. ASK THEM TO SIT DOWN!! CALL YOUR TEACHER IN CHARGE HERE NOW, I WANT TO COMPLAIN TO HIM.

*Poor prefect who was flabberghasted was too slow to react.
Mdm XLM: YOU DONT UNDERESTIMATE ME OK! I WAS YOUR EX EX EX EX STUDENT FROM RI. YOU ASK YOUR TEACHER HERE NOW!

*prefect rushes off to inform whoever.

Mdm XLM to the students in front of her : DID YOU ALL NOT HEAR ME! I TOLD YOU ALL TO SIT DOWN! NOW!

But due to her hoarse nature of her voice, she could not project her voice properly and some student could not hear her. So she was really really angry.

However, i think she is being a serious nut. First of all, if she wanted a clear view, she could have just moved to somewhere else instead of sitting right at the back, hidden in the crowd. So she have no right to command people to sit down. She almost complained to Mr hodge who just arrived, but i doubt she has the guts to do so.
Secondly, being an EX EX EX EX EX student of RI, (according to reliable info, she graduated in 1976. that's like how long?!), doesnt give her the right to make everyone compromise their cheering for her personal enjoyment. Lastly, it's just normal for people to stand and cheer what. Great impact alright, you obasan!

During the interval, i heard she went to complain to the head prefect. Upon returning to her seat she was all laughing and joking about how nice the prefect was and how singapore has hope of a better government. And she told her friends that standing up to cheer occurs only at certain matches and she understands it. My goodness. this kind of woman also exist.

On the other hand, her friend got infected by her foul temper. She said that students have no brains and inconsiderate. Whatever, because i did not stand ok! In fact, i dont dare to stand, i was right in front of her.

I must say Mdm XLM and company derives great pleasure scolding her so-called "juniors". XLM's company scolded a girl for taking a book without permission and said she was thoroughly " disappointed" with her being her senior. After which, she proudly narrated how she scolded the girl to mdm XLM and both of them chuckled happily. This is bad, because they are bullying students and making fun out of them. I'm embarrassed and disappointed to have such seniors.
Lucky she never scold me ok, or i will take a photo of her, disort and post it here.

That's all for match support which i did not get my card stamped because no one was giving stamps! They better not accuse me of not attending any match, because i just did and i showed a lot of support. I even warned you all of this orange XLM woman so if next year you happen to go, you know who to avoid, where to sit and when not to stand.

And i broke Guinness World of Records today.

Name: Benjamin Lim

Broke the Record of:

Controlling Urine -

Controlled Urine for 3600 000 ms (aiyah dont need to count, 1hr)

Venue: LT1

Time: 10.05am

5 Comments:

crossbearer said...: Hahaha, there's such a thing as match support card? And erm, how could she have gone to RI is she is a mdm? I thought it's a boys school! Hahaha...anyway, she's very annoying, I agree.; 7/13/2005 9:31 PM
Anonymous said...: Got this kind of alumnus also diu lian already lah.. -.-

My bio teacher in Nanyang used to say that humans can hold their bladders for up to nine hours. (Her excuse for not letting us go to the toilet. Bleh!); 7/13/2005 11:43 PM
F said...: hahaha..this is interesting..typical unreasonable barbaric AUNTIIEEE???but somehow i dun trust ur criticisms cause with u it always appears 10 times worse?!?HAHA jkin jkin; 7/14/2005 5:30 PM
BenJ said...: sean: last time dont have rjc, so ri is essentially ri+rjc

the rest: i never exaggerate! The aunty is really funny.; 7/14/2005 9:48 PM
enuttyone said...: that woman is seriously a nutcase. but if i were there i would be laughing at her i think. haha. she sounds hysterical.; 7/15/2005 7:56 AM

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7/13/2005

Kiasu parents are so cute.

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