Of balls and billiards.
Heh no pun intended.
A couple of days ago, on friday night to be specific, I met up with my 2 best secondary school pals, jiajin the ah-gong kia and xiuzhi aka nanny-kok. My friends give each other weird nicknames.
Anyway after having dinner at a rather expensive cafe at Cathay Cineleisure, my friends were deciding what to do. After ruling out watching a movie, which is rather weird since there's a plethora of good movies out nowadays, and we movie buffs are inundated with choices. Xiuzhi suddenly reminded me of my desire to learn billiards, which is actually one of my goals this year, and after much reluctance, she and Jiajin decided to pull me to K-Pool on the 8th floor of cineleisure to commence their Billiard lesson ( or rather, malu - session) on me.
Funny what peer pressure can do to you. To quote Xiuzhi correctly, "every man should know how to play billiards". Or pool. whichever you prefer. So after much consideration I decided I will make the proactive step towards fulfilling one of my goals of the year -- learning billiards!
Now now, you must be wondering what are the reasons why I want to learn billiards, considering it isn't exactly the best game around, or the most entertaining activity to do, or even the most cost-friendly social activity around. So then, these are my reasons:
1. To be able to be damn SART around the pool hall and be able to strut around the table displaying your wide array of sexy and cool poses so as to attract the hottest chick around. And of course you know that there are many hot chicks in pool halls. I want to hear the gal from across the table scream out " Oh migosh! That guy there so hot and cute! Hen Ke Ai le!!! Ai si ta. Look at him! I want to orgas...!" Erm, maybe not the last part. Yes, I'm a Christian! My imagination just runs wild sometimes.
2. To be able to socialise more easily. Like Xiuzhi says, "every man ji tao know how to play abit of billiards". Although I am an extremely individualistic person and hate conforming to social norms, especially ones that doesn't make sense like guys need to know how to play billiards, I realize that many of my guy friends do know how to play the game. So grudgingly I decided to learn it. And I have to admit it's a great game to socialise.
3. To be able to show off my arms. Hmm my arms aren't exactly in the best of shape now, but they used to be so much more toned last time. Anyway once it's back in shape, imagine the girls staring down at my bronzed arms like I'm some hottie! All right, I'm no chick magnet, and I'm greatly exaggerating. But the day will come! :D
All right, if you really think I'm using the game to try to pick up girls, let me assure you with confidence that I'm no desperado or casanova or some neurotic and unstable weirdo on the hunt for girls to prey on. But I would like to know the feeling of being so superior at the game to the extent the girls ( and even guys, for the matter) look at me play with admiration. That would be SOOOOOOOO COOL!
Back to reality.
My first pool session was a total nightmare. The players are K Pool were so masterful at their craft that balls seemed to be controlled by them telepathically. Thus, when a newbie entered the hall, and seeing them manouevre their cues so adeptly, I was extremely apprehensive. Jiajin and xiuzhi got the game rolling first, before i started my first few hits.
I remember that horrible feeling I got. Like, wah biang eh! So troublesome! Need to bend here bend there then the arms lock here lock there so uncomfortable. Worse of all, I imagined a million eyes zooming in on me. I remember trying to be thick skin and forgetting about anyone around me... and I guess I was just a little bit successful. I didn't know even just controlling the cue properly was so freaking hard. All the technicalities of the game, just like any other game, say for example tennis, can be quite hard to grapple with initially. I was struggling even with basics like body posture, they way to lock the arms and to move the cue etc. I think Jiajin and Xiuzhi did a great great job not bursting out in laughter with every shot I took. Although sometimes I was damn tycho to get some balls in the hole.
Anyway, nonetheless, Jiajin and Xiuzhi, being 2 wonderful friends of mine, kept telling me I'm having a good start, and compared to them my start was not bad. Maybe it's true, but probably they're just lying to protect my fragile confidence. I swear that night when Xiuzhi was playing and she skillfully hit ball after ball into the hole, my own balls shrank to the size of peanuts! My ego was so bruised. Lol. Even though it was obvious I was still in the learning stages. Anyway, it's amazing when people believe in you more than you believe in yourself. Love those 2 people.
Sorry to any Christians out there for some of the rather crude terms used... it was simply employed to bring out dramatic effect. :D
And here's the part where I, like marilyn, get naggy:
MUN LOON!!! UPDATE ASAP!
A couple of days ago, on friday night to be specific, I met up with my 2 best secondary school pals, jiajin the ah-gong kia and xiuzhi aka nanny-kok. My friends give each other weird nicknames.
Anyway after having dinner at a rather expensive cafe at Cathay Cineleisure, my friends were deciding what to do. After ruling out watching a movie, which is rather weird since there's a plethora of good movies out nowadays, and we movie buffs are inundated with choices. Xiuzhi suddenly reminded me of my desire to learn billiards, which is actually one of my goals this year, and after much reluctance, she and Jiajin decided to pull me to K-Pool on the 8th floor of cineleisure to commence their Billiard lesson ( or rather, malu - session) on me.
Funny what peer pressure can do to you. To quote Xiuzhi correctly, "every man should know how to play billiards". Or pool. whichever you prefer. So after much consideration I decided I will make the proactive step towards fulfilling one of my goals of the year -- learning billiards!
Now now, you must be wondering what are the reasons why I want to learn billiards, considering it isn't exactly the best game around, or the most entertaining activity to do, or even the most cost-friendly social activity around. So then, these are my reasons:
1. To be able to be damn SART around the pool hall and be able to strut around the table displaying your wide array of sexy and cool poses so as to attract the hottest chick around. And of course you know that there are many hot chicks in pool halls. I want to hear the gal from across the table scream out " Oh migosh! That guy there so hot and cute! Hen Ke Ai le!!! Ai si ta. Look at him! I want to orgas...!" Erm, maybe not the last part. Yes, I'm a Christian! My imagination just runs wild sometimes.
2. To be able to socialise more easily. Like Xiuzhi says, "every man ji tao know how to play abit of billiards". Although I am an extremely individualistic person and hate conforming to social norms, especially ones that doesn't make sense like guys need to know how to play billiards, I realize that many of my guy friends do know how to play the game. So grudgingly I decided to learn it. And I have to admit it's a great game to socialise.
3. To be able to show off my arms. Hmm my arms aren't exactly in the best of shape now, but they used to be so much more toned last time. Anyway once it's back in shape, imagine the girls staring down at my bronzed arms like I'm some hottie! All right, I'm no chick magnet, and I'm greatly exaggerating. But the day will come! :D
All right, if you really think I'm using the game to try to pick up girls, let me assure you with confidence that I'm no desperado or casanova or some neurotic and unstable weirdo on the hunt for girls to prey on. But I would like to know the feeling of being so superior at the game to the extent the girls ( and even guys, for the matter) look at me play with admiration. That would be SOOOOOOOO COOL!
Back to reality.
My first pool session was a total nightmare. The players are K Pool were so masterful at their craft that balls seemed to be controlled by them telepathically. Thus, when a newbie entered the hall, and seeing them manouevre their cues so adeptly, I was extremely apprehensive. Jiajin and xiuzhi got the game rolling first, before i started my first few hits.
I remember that horrible feeling I got. Like, wah biang eh! So troublesome! Need to bend here bend there then the arms lock here lock there so uncomfortable. Worse of all, I imagined a million eyes zooming in on me. I remember trying to be thick skin and forgetting about anyone around me... and I guess I was just a little bit successful. I didn't know even just controlling the cue properly was so freaking hard. All the technicalities of the game, just like any other game, say for example tennis, can be quite hard to grapple with initially. I was struggling even with basics like body posture, they way to lock the arms and to move the cue etc. I think Jiajin and Xiuzhi did a great great job not bursting out in laughter with every shot I took. Although sometimes I was damn tycho to get some balls in the hole.
Anyway, nonetheless, Jiajin and Xiuzhi, being 2 wonderful friends of mine, kept telling me I'm having a good start, and compared to them my start was not bad. Maybe it's true, but probably they're just lying to protect my fragile confidence. I swear that night when Xiuzhi was playing and she skillfully hit ball after ball into the hole, my own balls shrank to the size of peanuts! My ego was so bruised. Lol. Even though it was obvious I was still in the learning stages. Anyway, it's amazing when people believe in you more than you believe in yourself. Love those 2 people.
Sorry to any Christians out there for some of the rather crude terms used... it was simply employed to bring out dramatic effect. :D
And here's the part where I, like marilyn, get naggy:
MUN LOON!!! UPDATE ASAP!
