I am completely aware that time is passing too fast that it has already been one year and five months since I was last able to play table tennis with my teammates.
First, let me begin with how I learned this sport. I was playing and competing 10 years now but the establishment of the whole thing was unanticipated for badminton was my sport until that day during my last year in elementary altered the picture of the whole kit and caboodle. My friends are playing it and I feel like wanting to learn it as well but under no circumstances, I never envisage myself to exist finest at it.
Humbly I say that due to days, weeks, and months of intense training I was marked the best player in the class, in the school, in the district, and even in the province. In fact, during 2003’s Palarong Bicol at Camarines Norte I received two gold medals for being the winner in Single A and mixed double. The dejected part was I could not participate at the Palarong Pambansa attributable to peace & order stuffs in Mindanao where the event was held, it was then going through a conflict.
After a year of improved playing, I bid cheerio to my elementary years and went to High School at Sipocot National High School where table tennis was not highlighted. I was overly avid to play, nevertheless that certainly not transpire until my senior year when the school acts as one of the host schools during the River Meet. Concisely, players are looked-for so I applied and was so glad to be selected. However due to three years nonexistence of training, I did not make it even to championship match.
My career in playing table tennis was in full swing again when I was selected to be a player of Camarines Sur State Agricultural College (now Central Bicol State University of Agriculture) in the State Colleges and Universities Athletic Associations or SCUAA-Bicol held at Sorsogon State University during my first year in college. In the course of training, I was told to play “double” but I was not good at it since I was trained to be a “single” player. There are problems for the reason that Luis, my partner and I cannot even win a single match set against female players from different school in the course of tune up. Consequently, we are not expectant to win at the SCUAA. To cut the story short, it was the other way around. Out of the blue, we never drop a single game in doubles. At any rate, we exited silver medalists because it was a team competition. Subsequently, my team was constantly a candidate in the championship. Throughout my four years attendance in the SCUAA, champion trophy never bump into us for it was always Bicol University winning home the trophy. Anyhow, my team was three times first runner up and one time third runner up, the latter was during my sophomore year.
At this instant, I am already a teacher for one year and have been 17 months dearth of playing. The first photograph further down was captured at embarcadero the night next the awarding formal procedure during my last appearance in SCUAA. We had a little bonding moments and a while for us to purchase knick-knacks as keepsake.
That flair of me will not be fruitless. Since I am sharing my knowledge to my students, one day it will be my skills in playing table tennis that I will share to my students. I am waiting for that day, hopefully this school year 2012-2013.
From left: Gaspar, Mark, Bryan Kim, and Jerome (me) during the awarding ceremonies. We are not in our playing uniform because our games concluded a day before the awarding.
