For some its more than just a game..

“Please like my post, please comment” ..shrieked Sachien Mittal as he fell down the bed..in his sleep. Looking around he realised it was another RRCC+FB dream that was haunting his sleep yet again. It was 4 in the morning, too early to be up, but sleep was lost. Sachien quietly slipped out of his bed and headed to the study room. There placed right in front of his laptop was a book titled: “De-addict from Facebook in 10 days – by the anti-social media expert Dr.Nikhil Patel”. Sachien picked the book and logged into his laptop and headed straight to his facebook page to post:  “Reading a book on how to lose facebook addiction at ilibrary lounge, Rivervale crecent”. Swearing at the author he started flipping through the pages before quickly going back to his profile and commenting on his recent post (2 mins ago) “Come on guys, no comments on this?..please can you ‘like’ it at least”.  He went back to staring at the book for about 30 seconds and decided it was a bad idea to have purchased that book (apparently It was all in Gujrati, with only the cover in english..who would have thought that..well done Patel!!).  So ,by 4:15 am Sachien went back to doing what he is best at, posting rules of the game on RRCC and then rules on ‘rules of the game’ and more in a similar loop of things.

Anyways, the point here is not about my skills at spying Sachien Mittal (how good is that though?), but just illustrate how the visionary thinks and works for his passion. In a recent conversation he mentioned how small things that people fail to comply with irks the hell out of him..i remember those lines filled with anguish and anger very vividly:

“Woh sala motu Mani, Lol..dhed shaana bantha hai. Samajtha kya hai woh..sab se nazdeek rehta hai aur phir bhi late aatha hai..jaise harmony square pe aake meherbaani kar raha hai hum pe. Uska bas chale to woh us jageh ko ‘HarMANI’ square bana de. Aur ek Venkat hai jo Commonwealth me rehte hue bhi humare Sengkang cricket ke liye itna kuch karta hai..bhagwaan kare uski shaadi itni jaldi naa ho..nahin tho phir ek enthu wala bandha kho baithenge. Sometimes I am so worried ki mere baad RRCC ka kya hoga..i have already started teaching Neev some stuff about organising, but he too seems disinterested and starts saying ‘baabaa black sheep…’ ; I hope one day he will start valuing the legacy I am about to leave…..oh damn these jobless people are back to creating controversial threads on Facebook….” and then he had to take leave to clear  some urgent posts on FB which included deleting a nonsensical poetry-jugalbandhi between usual troublemakers Kukreja uncle and Mani. 

From being a quite couple of weekend games played internally RRCC now goes on overseas (more in the next post on why exactly it is called overseas) tours playing teams like Bedok IXORA? And Yishun’s YPL etc. Very recently RRCC registered their first victory too and that certainly has brightened the path ahead for RRCC enthusiasts. Apart from competitive games externally, even on the RRCC internal front things have spiced up with Sachien’s latest brainchild THE RRPL (Rivervale premier league) which is a an in house league competition where players are all competing against one another for cricketing points to get on top of the HOF (Hall-of-Fame) and captains are competing for pride and title as well.

It’s not difficult to see why the man is so emotional and expressive about RRCC. Afterall it’s a vision that he has for cricket lovers across Singapore and not just Sengkang. .afterall for some its more than just a game!

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