This is life...

Today, I learnt something important about life.
Life is never like we wish.
Today, we had our set game challenge. Javan and I agreed on a deal to meet Yuxuan in the finals.
Too bad, our promise was broken.

Ok, lets talk from the start of the competition. We , or I mean, our class, was so unlucky! We fought with our own classmates in the first two rounds! First round was versus Soo Wee and Marcus. It was close. But luck was on Javan and my side as Soo Wee lost his entire stack of cards. So Javan and I beat them.

I felt sad for them. We were classmates after all.
They left the competition sadly.
The second match was against Binglin and Wenshen, our classmates again!

OMG

This was the match Javan went mad. He alone trashed both Binglin and Wenshen badly.

HE GOT A TOTAL OF 16 SETS!

Binglin whispered, "Spare us man!"
Many of the organising people crowded around our team, talking about Javan. They said he was 'in-ba' although I don't know what that mean excactly, I think they were saying that Javan was super pro.
The whispering around us made me feel awkward, as I only got 5 sets, which made me seemed useless beside a pro.

The third round.
Our luck went down.
I accidentally lost my stack during the 7th minute as I took a wrong set. The gossipers around us said my team still had hope as Javan still had 13 sets.
However, after 1minute, Javan lost his stack too! Our two Sec 2 opponents cheered. We were actually trashing them!

Oh no.

I totally lost hope as could not find any sets at all.
Javan was frantically searching. He was drenched with sweat.
Javan also showed that he was nervous as he got several wrong sets continuously.

Finally, he found one set.
Ring....
Time's up.
Oh dam, we lost badly.
We were the only group for our class that was left and we lost!!!

But our genius Javan seemed to have six-sense. As I was about to leave, he called me back and told me maybe there was some sort of revival round.

To my surprise, after five minutes, our group was called back to the competition room again. Javan was right!

This time, I gave in my best effort and Javan and I both found 8 to 9 sets, trashing the opponent. We were overjoyed.
Soon, we were called in for the semi-finals.
We met with yet another Sec 2 team.

We commited the same mistake again.
Javan lost his stack of 10+ sets.
Within the last two minutes, Javan went mad. He found sets after another.
We have hope!

But...........................................
The opposing team cheated!
After the bell rang, they took another set!
I tried to protest but the judge said it was allowed. I was baffled. Allowed?
I tried to create an uproar but was silenced by the phrase, ' the judges decision is final.'

I was simply exploding with rage. As they counted the cards, we lost by one set. ONE SET. They cheated the ONE SET.
Later I found out the judge was our opponents classmate.
How could he be so biased!

So in the end, we lost.
End of Story.

Moral of story:
Life is never fair, but sometimes we could do nothing about it.
Just go on with life.