Badminton

I have been playing Badminton since I was 5 years old. It was a casual sport during that point of time until Primary 4 when I started joining the School's Badminton CCA, I had trainings and played competitively joining School's Inter-class Competitions as well as representing my Primary School for Inter-School Tournaments. Our Primary School's Badminton Team is one of the strong teams in the North-Zone but the tournament's bracket is extremely strict, Singapore Inter-School Badminton Tournament consist of 4 Zones based on which part of Singapore the School is from, North-Zone, South-Zone, East Zone and West Zone with North-Zone being the strongest from history. Group Brackets, in a group bracket it consist of 5 teams, one team must defeat 4 other teams in order to get into Round 2. There is a total of 5 groups, we got into the semi-finals and finished off North-Zone placing 4th, unfortunately we didn’t get the Bronze Medal as it was reserved for the 3rd placing. After graduating I went on to Secondary School and joined their badminton team, the trainings were tougher, and also very tiring.

Table Tennis

I started playing Table Tennis at Primary 5, as during that point of time, I recalled that every recess time and after school, the Table Tennis table is always flooded with students taking turns to play by playing points. So every recess time, students will try to get to the table first to reserve the spot and play but normally if there’s additional players they will share the table. It have gotten the school’s attention and they brought in like 5 more table tennis tables in, but short after like one month or two the trend begin to go down and students just stopped playing table tennis for other sports like soccer, basketball and catching. For me, I have also been less active but my friends and I would sometimes bring our table tennis paddles and play among ourselves. Currently, I would play occasionally as it’s still a very fun and interesting sport.