I just want to share a bit about my favorite sport, yeah it's table tennis or so called ping-pong.
Yesterday I just played ping-pong again after such a long long time. Since I moved to Jakarta for college, I didn't do much sport anymore. I did went to the gym or swimming quite some time before, but right now..hmmfftt.. no more physical activities at all. (oh, I feel weak) It's just because currently live in Kebayoran Baru, I did walked around the neighborhood on Sunday during the car free day (2 times only so far! :P)
Alright, back to the main topic. So I played ping-pong yesterday with my friend at Regatta Apartment, Pantai Mutiara (It is a very nice place btw). I played there because my friend's grandparents lives there so we could use the facilities all free :D
I love ping-pong a lot, I don't know why. I just feel happy when I play it. There is no burdened feeling like when I exercise at the gym. It's always different right when you do the things you love so much, it flows naturally without effort. I don't play that really well, very far from expert, even too bad to be called an intermediate one. But since yesterday after I finally started to play again, there is a strong intention inside me that pushes myself to start practicing it regularly. I then today searched some tutorial about how the professional players play, I soaked myself into the basic things I need to know about table tennis. Oh geez, nothing in this world is easy. Even the most fun thing for me, such as playing ping pong, is quite difficult if I want to learn it correctly be a master of it.
So I wanted to practice regularly and "correctly" right, then I was looking for a table tennis club near my place, and I found some clubs that practice at Senayan, Kemang, and Gatot Subroto. I contacted the person in charge and delivered my intention to join the club, but then another obstacle was coming. All the members are ALL MALE, unfortunately. Gosh, how could I handle this situation. I think I would be a little awkward to just randomly come there by myself and joined the guys in the club without having any fellas with the same gender with me. It's not that I'm a sexist, I just don't feel comfortable if I have to be alone among those "om-om" with sweaty sport-shirts and must be mostly all experts while I'm only a little girl with almost zero skills in ping pong >.<
Oh why all the girls prefer to go the gym and have an aerobic class rather than play pingpong? *cry under the shower* T_T
Btw, today I have such a terrible muscle-ache because of yesterday's playing, especially around my waist, butt and thigh. It shows how weak my body is... and how rare I trained my physical body so that all my muscle were shocked over a little exercise. Buhuhu.
However, it was all fun and I enjoyed yummy seafood, drink hot mint tea with quite nice view of the sea at Jet Ski Cafe. I call it quite a Sunday :)
Cheers,
Liz
