Well, this trip is more or less a punishment for attending a workshop that does the baseball spectating chant-like laughing rhyme as a way to teach me to smile and laugh, underestimating my personality and true concerns and attending an event NOT RELATED TO MY INTERESTS! I thought the workshops/conferences at Microsoft were standard looking enough where new technologies were being talked about including Windows 10 stuffs although I could be speechless at times because those features/technologies were done by the enterprises, not standard consumers. However, that workshop organized by CDAC was trying to be a class-wannabe kind of a workshop and I may be sure such workshops like that happen nearly every time. It was an unforgivable and offending day three months ago and the practice attempt at Homerun Baseball was a compensation for the embarrassments and insults given to me.
And by the way, a fake/rhythmic laugh is something gross or noisy to me so a comedy show or a joke that makes us laugh should be decent enough. Also, how about looking at videos or pictures of whatever animal you like? Won't that make you satisfied enough?
At Homerun Baseball located somewhere in Jurong East where the overall trip costs like a few bucks, it was a good opportunity to practice baseball there via either the battling cage or the pitching cage. For the first time, you can also have a 1-year membership which you can get additional tokens. At the battling cage, tons of balls will be pitched one by one every seconds and you have to swing the bat and hit the balls. Horizontally, the pitching angle should go at the metallic blockage but in the real baseball match, this is not the case as I have worries that I may get hit with the ball via deadball. Getting a foul ball or deadball counts as a strike although you won't get an Out if you get a foul ball one more time when you have two strikes. I don't know if that is the same as deadball though. About getting 3 balls to get a base, I guess it can be due to the pitcher playing dumb or playing a fool with you because that gives your team an advantage. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like if there will be scores or not for the battling cage although you should be able to get scores for the pitching cage.
The first time I went to Homerun Baseball, I needed some guidance of the basic skills but I still couldn't get things done properly as I don't have enough strength. Everything felt heavy on me that on the following day, my back, arms, parts next to my shoulders and my hands were really painful. Not to mention that I couldn't swing the bat quite right as the ball was pitched. It was recommended that you do some warm-ups before you start practicing but I went straight away with tiny amounts. Needless to say, I'm terrible at sports although I can do fine in swimming provided that I can swim and see things at the same time without hitting anyone accidentally. There might be baseball/softball teams out there in Singapore and especially for the adult teams but I was suggested to look up online. There is a sports association of baseball/softball located at Singapore Sports Hub at Stadium in which that place is special for sports.
The difference between baseball and softball is that the distance is shorter and the ball is a little bit larger for softball. Baseball on the other hand, has longer distance but it's a shame that we have to go through a different and lighter route with softball if we want to be part of the team. Sure, every sports competition looks fierce but in case of the baseball competition in Singapore, it's not as fierce as the one taking place in Taiwan, Korea or perhaps Japan. So if you want to be a professional baseball player, go ahead although it won't look quite easy for whichever sports career you want. A word of caution, a serious injury can put an end to your sports career like it already happened to some soccer players for instance.
Note that I had seen certain videos of baseball competitions taking place in Japan and they surely look interesting in every way. However, the origin of baseball is from America via MLB or something and the spectation there is nothing like the one you see in Japanese baseball competitions. It was a shame that certain spectation chants were mixed with those stuffs taken from certain games or cartoons and especially for the indoor opening/half-time show or whatever that involves the famous celebrities in whether they are virtual or real. Examples might include like UN Owen Was Her, the final stage BGM of Ducktales NES game, etc. for those chants from the spectators. Those who did those chants/calls BUT are not nerds whatsoever may or may not get turned off when finding out the origins one day. Maybe, those things don't fit in sports-land at all or something.
About that CDAC workshop I attended 3 months ago, it appeared that I was forced by those fools at home to do so and I was insulted by that workshop from the way it wrapped up. Also, my trip to Homerun Baseball took place in November 7th.
