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I spent the past few hours going to the mini-television in the office, and back to my cubicle, and then to another meeting, and yet with my heart firmly glued to the television.

I saw many people come and go from the front of the television, some of them filled with negativity, some of them simply nonchalant, some of them, like me, were brimmed to the max with adrenalin.

I joked about how if I was at the stadium, I would have been red-carded as well(I think some of them were red-carded… for some reasons I know not what, since our television was muted, and the only grunts and ooohs were heard, were from us).

We ended with rounds of cheers and claps when Feng Tianwei sealed the fate of the Singapore Women’s Team for table tennis, and they are in to the finals.

It was so exciting can?

And when Feng Tianwei came on the 2nd time for the final set, all the females in my office went, “Wow…. so cute! So suave! So handsome!”

“Wah looks like a Korean heart throb leh! Maybe that’s why the South Korean chick cannot concentrate!!!”

Coos. Coos. Coos. Coos.

We were shouting from everything from, “ONE MILLION!!!!”

“PUBLIC HOLIDAY!!!!!!”

“YOU MY NEW PIN UP!!”

“SO COOL!”

SWOON SWOON SWOON SWOON.

Now May suggest I can print her pictures into 30 x A3 posters and stick on everyone’s office table.

And the other player, Wang Yue Gu, was called auntie by some of our colleagues, before we realised she is like, less than a year older than us. Her efforts were really commendable when she came back from behind.

And though many slammed Li Jiawei for not performing up to expectations, I do think she did contribute to the doubles’ victory. And for those who think she cannot hold herself together during pressure, for the numbers of big events she had taken part in, I really wonder how she did it.

And of course, most people think “Singapore sure get silver now one lah!”.

But don’t forget, never underestimate the underdogs. And with my Moscow experience, I repeated this just now once too many times, and I will repeat this again, “There can be miracles, when you believe….”

(Tidbits: Feng Tianwei actually beat world number 1 Zhang Yining before! And she was world’s 73rd when she came to Singapore last year, and she now is 12th. Auntie Wang is 8th, and Li Jiawei is 6th)

And gee, I didn’t even realise Singapore’s coach is actually the older brother of China’s coach!