life of a secondary school student

Sports Day '09

09/03/09 Update : I've added more photos for most of the events.

Today, my school organized the annual Sports Day at Jubilee Grounds. As always, the 4 houses will compete for first place.

Woke up at 6 and reached there just 5 minutes before the ceremony began. I joined James and Jon in the front lines just before the march started. All the athletes were already on the tracks, waiting for the signal to begin marching!

The houses, Red, Yellow, Blue and Purple, marching towards the front of the stands.

James and Mr Nelson.

Benjamin, the Blue House captain!

After the ceremony, the athletes prepared themselves for their events. I caught a glimpse of them on their way to the shade.

Red and Yellow House came first.

Then came Purple House.

Then Blue, wow did you notice the colours are changing according to hue? Hot to cold.. Crap, that song's kicking into my head again.

As the athletes got ready, we also moved to the area which we were assigned to by Cikgu Ho, which was the end of the track.

Holy crap, 2000m! It's kinda awesome that we get this spot coz the athletes will be running towards us, letting us shoot(take photos of) their faces.

Cikgu Ho's envious of Jon's 500mm! Who isn't? It looks like a freakin' cannon! (it's a Canon too)

Yvonne and Angeline came to join us but were later asked to leave. Umm, not to sound boastful but that area was for the photographers.

I can't remember the event sequence very well, and I don't know all the winner's names. Also, these aren't all the photos, lots turned out blurry like this next one, but I'll add more over time.

I do remember that the first event was the 1500m race though. Long run, bout 3 rounds plus.

Adrian was the winner!

Next event was the Girls 1500m race. Erika Kong got first, she's a champion swimmer too!

I spied Cikgu Govin after I fitted on my zoom.

Our school prefects. Today, they were part of the.. umm, assistants. I think that's the appropriate term.

After a.. 800m race I think, the Kindy sports came in. I remember when I took part in this when I was young, they arrange some teamwork games for the kids to complete.

The young ones getting waiting for their turn.


This event involves balancing a beanbag on your head as you go back and forth. First team to have the members go back and forth wins.

'I'm flyin' high!'


He just spotted me and smiled.

Him as well.

They ran past the finishing line and still continued running! Guess they didn't know where to stop. I did hear Ms Ng, as the emcee say 'oh dear'..

I spy teachers at the teacher's area!

Passionate supporters of Purple House.

After the Kindy sports ended, we moved on to the Primary school category.




Primary category relay race.

Red House supporters.



There were quite a lot of exciting moments when 2 runners were neck and neck to the finish line. You should've heard the crowd cheer.

Ok, after that, on to the Secondary school category! In this category, we see everyone pushing themselves to the limit. Oh yeah, Brandon and Jordan arrived around this time, joined us in photographing too.


Umm, well, he hasn't pushed yet coz the race hasn't started.

That's Shah getting ready on the track.

'And they're off!'

Halfway through the race, Girls event. Long run again, most of them were exhausted after the race.


I doubt I'll ever be able to so much as run along side them.

Lance was pushing pretty hard too.

That's my House, go Yellow House!

I love this shot, look at their expressions. Edbert's a passionate supporter too.

That's before they started..

That's a few seconds after they started..

And at the end of the race, now that's some serious exertion. At least he won, I can't remember which event but it was a long run.

Karen's flying!

The Boys C category sprint start.

*roarr!* Form 5 power! psst.. TV3 colours!

They run like horses, crazy sprinting!

Mike was discussing about Karen's victory.


Yeah, they spotted me too.


Fitted my kit lens back on and shot these.

I left early, around 11. So I missed the result announcements and the prize giving. I expect that James and Jon captured it.

Overall, it was a fun event to shoot, great experience, great atmosphere and tons and tons of room for improvement. Great job to the athletes, they really pushed and had lots of fun (I think?). I'll definitely attend next year's Sports Day.

I'm actually quite tired myself, coz after Sports Day I went for futsal again with some friends. My arms look funny now, half of it is tanned, half is white! There's almost white marks on my feet coz I wore slippers today.

Anyway, have a good night! There's a holiday tomorrow to rest, so maybe I'll push it a bit late tonight.. =P

posted by jordan @ 5:55 PM