Volleyball Game XS vs MHS: Lousy...

the pictures. Not the players. The day before Ondoy brought havoc to Metro Manila and our lives, the Xavier Faculty Women's Volleyball Team brought me nearer to dying of heart attack with the way they conquered, defeated, and maybe humiliated the fancier team from Loyola Heights.

I was only able to take four pictures of the occasion and they were all taken before the first ball was served. I was too engrossed, too excited, too pumped up to remember pointing, focusing, and clicking the camera after that. The opponents came with a deeper bench, flashier uniforms, and more impressive warm up skills. Ours had one or two players to spare, created on the spot uniforms (my kindergarten coloring skills were made useful), and a defeated, tired looking warm up. But as they say, looks can be deceiving. We had the more tenacious, grittier, and possibly more motivated team that day. Where did the motivation come from? Maybe from the A Day celebrations earlier or the aggressive cheering and support of a number of co-faculty members who came to watch them.

Am I proud of Xavier? You bet!