Indy's tournament

well, I almost didn't attend this tournament. In the beginning I'm kinda hesitate since this tournament is too near with my exam time and plus now I need to go to Bloomington on Sunday. But out of nowhere I try this new experience since I don't have any MD partner. Start with handoko last week and now I just talk with Hery a week before the tournament that let's try playing MD for Indy's tournament. Well, I don't have any expectation, just want to play together with friend and the place is in Indy too so it won't be a problem since it won't required me to drive like 3 hours or so. So we play today and we lost the first match. It's like we're lacking of concentration to attack on the second game and end of third game. We can win comfortably in first game but they decide to play more aggressive and do a lot of shot variation. The net play haven't give me any problem but one of my opponent smash is devastating (Not as devastate as Edy though :P). it cost us the match when we can't concentrate on the last point. Then we play the consolidation match. We play the second match and we won then we cruise to final in MD consolidation. The funny thing is that we expect Budi and his partner to win the other consolidation semifinal match and they win it for like 1 minutes until they realize that they make a mistake since they're not familiar with the rally scoring. They think that they already win at 23-22 until someone told them to continue since it need a difference of 2. Then when they play again, of course they already lost their concentration and lost the match 23-25. When we play the final, the score is always very close. I never thought that we can win the final match since our opponent is much better than us (me & hery). But thanks God somehow we manage to win the first set like 21-16 or 21-19 I'm not sure but it's a very close one. During the second game, we lead the game first until they change their strategy and lead the game. It is very nervous when they lead and we make a lot of mistakes so the gap is getting bigger. Until, we somehow manage to make it even 18-18. Somehow again I'm not sure that we get 3 points consecutively and close the match 21-18. That's one of a close game, and for sure it's very fun to partnering with Brothers in Christ. One thing I learned from this badminton game is that to keep focus and never give up. I realize it during our final on second game, when me & Hery already make a lot of mistakes and make them lead the second game. In my heart I want to throw away this game since we already win the first game. But once again, He reminded me to keep fighting although it's hard and finally I decide to just give my best in the game and I don't want to think about possibilities or winning & losing and we won the game. Today the Lord taught me another lesson to never give up although the situations against you to climb up.