Ricky Chew.

Thanks for the advice ricky, as your student i definitely will take this into mind. However my passion for pool is so strong that it drives me to do better each and every time at the table. Until the day that the policy turns transparent, where you will then stretch out your hand to lead me to the top, i will use and hone everything you have equipped me up till now to improve.

I will not waste my time and energy, because i have my priorities set right. Thank you, coach. I am lucky to have you around to guide and advise me.

Now

I'm feeling much better now after some quality beer. I wanna say here, that i really think that I am doing real good right now, with friends, pool and my family. Life's never been better. Stress from school is as per usual, never expected it to diminish, I've just learned how to deal with it. I want to say thanks to everybody who made the extra effort to be there for me. And erwin, i guess we both agree that time alone helps alot.

I've changed alot from how i used to be, and i feel good this way, without so many worries and commitments. Perhaps it was only after I've gone through all those hectic times that I've finally comprehended how to appreciate a simple life.

Fatin asked me, "So do you still think of her?"

I did not hesitate to tell her the truth, because I still do, every single day. The only difference is I no longer look back at it in pain, because a memory this beautiful shouldn't be a tool for inflicting hurt on a person. I've slowly learned how to look at the best times we had and every single moment we shared, and smile. I often tell myself that i would rather have lost you than to have never met you at all, because our love was worth every step i took until i met you.

That means that as long as your face still lights up with my favorite smile, even if it isn't because of me anymore, I'm happy.

Holidays.

The hard part wasn't letting you go. The hard part is looking back at how we used to be. I never knew why you left, and i left it at that. I'll never ever see you again, and now that I'm telling myself that all over again it hurts.

But hey, holidays are here to heal me up. CALL ME OUT, EVERYONE.

IWANTOPLAYPOOL.

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I want to play pool!!!!! But sadly i have so many assignments to deal with. After all, studies is still of a higher priority. Shucks. Let's hope these following 3 days end real fast so i can proceed with my secret training. =)

Keep it up, me!

TPC 9-ball Champion

Belated Pictures

Outside Klassic Cuesports.

Top 5 finalists and TPC coaches.

With Challenge and Champion Trophy GOD i wish i could bring the big Challenge Trophy home.

TPC 9-ball Championship

And so, after 2 weeks of hard work and practice and tough tournament play, the TPC 9-ball championship has come to a close. I've put in so much hard work and it really wasn't easy for me, having to study and play pool at the same time. I really had to manage my time and i didn't have much time for myself. It was one hell of a week for me, having to focus fully on two things.

But i am proud to say, i have emerged as TPC 9-ball Champion. Much effort and support have contributed to my win, and although i made many mistakes in the tournament, I'm glad to say my skill barely helped me scrape over. All those hours of practice really made a difference in the last rack, 4-4 in a race to five. I had a really tacky situation with 7 balls left on the table, i had to play the cue ball into a cluster and yet maintain position. I made a recovery shot on the 5 to drop on the 6, but it was all wasted as i wasn't tall enough and had to rely on the bridge. I had to pot the 6 ball with a lot of spin using the bridge, and due to the insufficient skill and control i went out of line again.

Facing the tough shot on the 7 i was glad i held it in there and didn't blame myself or get frustrated. I made a 90 degree cut on the 7 with left spin to drop on the 8 ball, yet again out of line. I was too focused on the game to care by then, and i did not give myself undue pressure for getting out of line 3 times in one game. I potted the 8 to drop on a perfect nine, and suppressing the adrenaline rush i cleaned up the race to 5 with a runout from the 3 ball to the 9 ball. Only the last rack was worth watching though.

I am so glad!!! This is my first challenge trophy and i hope there will be more to come.... Pictures coming soon! A big thank you to those who took their time out to come down and give me support, Rambert, Chester, Beng Wee, Zhan Suo, Joash and other players from TPC. Thank you all!

Perspective.

Only if you see it the right way. Life is beautiful when you decide to look beyond the ugly things. You might just find out that they aren't that ugly after all, its just the different ways things appear or people express themselves. If you still think that they're ugly after looking beyond their ugliness, then look at yourself, because in the mirror you will find that you are the ugly one who's unwilling to waver to anything.

From crawling to walking to running to leaping and back to walking, there's something I've learned in life that helped tide me through all the pretense, backstabbing, judging, hate, anger and other problems that caused me to even think for one second, that life was meaningless, that life was nothing but a mess and i found problems with everything, even the ones i loved the most. That is the last thing i would do, and i think anyone would think twice too. Because these are the people that will stand by you unconditionally whatever you do, they will be able to accept you no matter what you are, even if the world hates you. So cherish them.

I once had many many problems in my life, that caused many knots in my heart that made me angry with everything, wanting to destroy those who made me angry, made fun of me or made my life miserable. Little did i know that instead of helping myself, i was carrying all those emotions, that only helped make my life even more miserable. I still embraced it and came all the way here to be a happy go lucky guy. How? I'll tell you how.

Life.

Life is getting something and losing another. You can't have every piece of the pie. Time is a one use thing. If you're using it for one thing, it's obvious you can't be in another place using it for another. It's about deciding what's really important. And for accuracy and in case you don't regret, think about the importance in the short-term. Because that's whats really gonna affect you directly for the next few years. For me, i'm going to work hard for my wife who's coming in 2 years instead of 4(SHIT and YES) figure the two out yourself and so short term demands i have outstanding performance in life. So i'm going to design my own life and live it the way i've designed it for the next two years. Set.

Enough about me. For erwin chua jia hong. Hello man wake up. If you think majority of your friends have no drive, look for me. Look for someone else who has a drive and is a brother. If you wanna work hard together sure thing man. Don't see your life as boring, aimless, or doing nothing, sad or shit like that. Your life is what you see it to be. I have two pictures for you bro. Take a good look and think deep.




And for some side entertainment for people who think that i'm gaining weight(ok fine so? my wife doesn't mind. Not YET.)

Signboards

This is for those who don't know what they want and yet want their life to be lived to the fullest. Go ahead!

My life.

And to someone else out there, save your sacarsm for yourself. There isn't any right or wrong in whatever you have plunged yourself into. I do not hold any grudges to whatever you have to say, and i hope you walk out of your slum too. Hurl all the abuse you want, i will not mind nor will i blame you. Just know that nothing you do or say can stop me from living life to the fullest, having all the fun i can have, grinning because i'm happy everyday, doing things my way, now and forever. I just hope you find your light and a new meaning in your life. Life is what we all make it out to be. Think about it.

My brother.

And so, to one of my best brothers out there, get over it. You know you can. Walk out of the shadow she has cast over you, because your life deserves more. You once said life was about survival,everybody is just doing what they can to survive. Well guess what. That line was nothing but bullshit. Look at me, look at us brothers. Are we just surviving? No. Look at me. Okay maybe now its a little unfair, so look at me back when i was single. Was i surviving? Not even close. I was dying but living life the way it should be. I had a blast every single day i decided to have fun. I was all i wanted to be- Fun, and i still am now, and nobody can stop me. You should too. Think about the things i said, brother, and look at yourself and ask yourself. Do you deserve more? If you do, walk out of the slum right now, and start living life to the fullest.


Remember this.

H1N1

I hope swine flu spreads REAL fast so mst can be cancelled. Yes, i know all you bastards hope for the same thing....

Pressure + Stress = Pimples

School life, especially. I have grown one pimple due to all the stress. More bad news. Mst is coming, and projects have started to come. It is an ominous sign. Damn. To be honest, i haven't studied at all. All of those times weren't called studying, it was called slacking with books in front of me, reading the lines, JUST reading. Shoot. Let's hope i survive.

Chasing dreams (Part 1)

He was 27, back then. He used to work at mines, shouldering cold, hard coal and trudging his way back to the truck in the snow. When it was summer he would work by the docks, cleaning up the deck as part of a crew. In autumn and spring, he had the happiest job out of the rest. He got to work as a bartender near his home, where he could stay with his kids and his wife for at least half a day each day.

And so he worked and worked and worked, till the stubble on his chin turned grey and bushy, till his eyebrows lost their grip and fell, till the wrinkles on his weathered, rough face made it appear as if his skin had shrivelled up. He was forty-two when he looked in the mirror one day, and scrutinised his face. In his eyes he saw a gloomy visage staring back at him. He was befuddled with what he saw. He had enough money to get by and a little more, and had a family that always was copious of laughter. Yet it seemed succint that something was lacking. He reminisced the years that had flew by, and it finally hit him in the face. He had yet to pursue any of the dreams that his friends did when they were young, and the thought that he had lost his opportunity to do so rousted a vehement urge to chase his dreams he used to have. Before he knew it his face became a deluge of saltwater of regret.

He dragged his feet out to the porch, where the sun was happily beaming upon the grass, and he slouched on his good old armchair. As he watched his son and his wife, Caleb and Trixie, out playing in the sun, he couldn't help but smile. Caleb seemed so happy, the innocently happy smile never failed to cheer people up, but this time he didn't return the favor. Trixie turned around and locked gazes with his. A gorgeous smile spread itself comfortably upon her face without stint. Those sky blue eyes seemd to scintillate, even amidst the sunlight. She was beautiful. Only then did he wonder what it was that lacked inside his life.

That night he mooned over the things he wanted to do, those sugary dreams that were inculcated in his mind through the different movies and people he loved. He dithered about what he should do, too resuscitate those meaningless dreams or to stay with the life he had.

He was torn twixt the two, what he loved and what he wanted to do.

Chalet week.

After the other chalet i posted earlier, i went to chalet for marnillo and john. Hhahahaa freaking marnillo drank shots like no tomorrow and he still could play Fast and Furious and win wtf! The bastards was all there and i swear, John was looking like he could do Veronica any moment OOPS. Sorry veron!

Hahhaah so didn't really sleep and got clothes and bathed, before going to sentosa with LSK to sentosa!!



Hahah freaking fun and nicholas was ranting on and on about X-men, and the guy's head popping out under my arm is ruben, and ruben looks like the BEAST in x-men! Doesn't he? Okay introducing the lap sap kias, from the left, Lau, Ivan, Ben, Nicholas, Reuben, Me, Marvin and Edwin. Aaaaaaaaand our latest member, the guy with red and white spots, in between the letters ''L'' and ''S'', his name is RenZhe. NINJA. Ok inside joke.

After which i headed to Ivan's chalet, and got to met new guys and girls at the chalet. After which i headed over to Ivan's place to watch soccer and ton. Blacked out halfway waiting for the match lol!

In the morning we headed back to chalet. Went to play pool at ehub. Met endi and some other guys who came for second day and played. I played pool without Sandra Romain sorry sandra my love! Next time i'll bring you to play, saturday saturday, its not too far away.

At night marvin, nicholas stupid, and ruben came over. After which Jonan came and we did probably the most exciting thing i could do with a medicated oil bottle. I threw it full force at the guardhouse glass panel at downtown east and ran like fuckers. Hahhahaa jonan was steady enough.

Left Ivan's chalet for Relliez Chalet. Damn fun that one.Went with marvin, mark all to buy beer,
and headed to the chalet. They all had to go in due to some discussion and games after that. Me and jonan seriously DIDN'T MIND because we had our friend carlsberg to accompany us. >=D
The longer they stay inside the more we can drink nyahahahahahaa

I shall cut short alot of details because i'm dying after 1 week of not going home and chalet fun everyday and practically not sleeping at all so i'm gonna finish this chop chop.

We drank pretty much, and then went in to give emylee luck for mahjong but i think i made things worse lol! Sorry ah! Mark taught me and jonan how to play mahjong but we still noobs ah. Jonan won in the first dummy game we tried between me, mark, jonan and dummy yalam (Somebody left halfway =/)

Went cycling to yet another chalet!

Went over to Sunny's chalet, where we slacked for abit and inhaled hard liquor fumes LOL. Damn high. When we headed back we were damn tired and stoning, me and jonan i swear we had like 4 meals in the duration of 1am-6am(5 hours). After stoning we went to have fun with a very feminine cat. >=D

OMG I'M DYING NOW PLEASE SUPPORT ME ONE MORE PARA OR SO TO GO.

Arggghghhh okay so after that went over to sunny's chalet again to bathe but alvin and moustache went back to chalet after they bathe without telling me and marvin and jonan, who were outside playing name the band. Shit la. We waited for nothing and went back home soon after. REALLY FUN TIME MAN GUYS. THANKS AND SEE YOU ALLLLLLLLLLL BYE CRASHING NOW


a special treat, a candid shot of my belly good brother nicholas lim. >=D

WHAT A BLAST

WHAM. What a blast! Past 3 days was the BOMB. Where should we start?

Thursday.

Went to marketing exam, pretty much left half the paper blank, and went off after writing everything my mind could crap about the concepts. Met rambert and chester to go play pool afterward. And i swear, cj has to take supp paper! Poor guy mixed up timings for wed's paper with thurs' paper. Hahha..... Supposed to meet him but my matric card i left it inside the examination hall. WTF! Went back to get it. Thanks yiwen for offering to help! =)

Ended up playing pool with rambert, joash and chester. Nobody wanted to hustle. -.- So we headed straight to the chalet. THERE IS WHERE THE FUN BEGINS NYAHAHAHA!!!
Marvin got liquor, Johnnie Walker. Went to kup some beer with the rest. HEHEHEHE i went to spoil children's dreams by pinching all the kinder joy eggs out of shape GIAN SONG! Alex and azmi laughed their evil asses off. Bastards!(Like me =P)

And so we went to chalet to play games and drink, and we sung as well. Hhahaha ruben and nicholas were the shit man they played the songs. Sang sorry, heaven, always, i'll be there for you.

Soon after we went to the redhouse, where we climbed in in groups of 4-6, with me were marvin, ivan, jonan, ben and sq i think. Last guy can't really remember. So we went around, looked in the mirror, and pretty much saw nothing. After we got out, i told ghost stories. Everyone wanted all the tp stories for more kick cause we're all in tp! Hahhaha i told stories till i myself had goosebumps. I still think bloody mary had the most kick huh?

We saw while i was telling stories by the curb, that some malays driving a lorry came by. Some of us went in with them. There was this one girl who could see 'things' after going in to take photos, they came out, and fucking hell there was really something in one of the pictures. I stopped looking before i could see the whole damn thing clearly. That pretty much was enough for me for the whole ghost thing.

Headed back to chalet for ghost stories round two. (MARVIN YOU AND YOUR HYENA GHOST SOUND SPOILER!) HAHAHA. Yup so we turned off all the lights and i told stories, myths and real life stories, in the dark with only one light shining on my face, as you can see below.

After the stories me and jonan and ruben and ben and nigolas narbay went for something SPECIAL. HEHEHEHE CAN'T SAY, ASK ME PRIVATELY. Here goes! >=D


Hahahhaha it was the BEST MEMORY MAN YOU LSKs!!! FUCKING SHIOK. It ended with me and jonan doing the ultimate challenge YEAH JONAN. You and me make the shit! Hahhahaha and after that pretty much slept till morning.



Friday.


Haha friday was a blast too! Met yanshan in the evening to help her with her public speaking CDS. Hoped i did help anyway. Went to buy food from the pasar malam and then went to macs. Met Zain and the rest at mac! Gracie Phua, moustache, brandon and all were there too. After doing project with ys, i headed over to the chalet.

PARTY TIME!
With the help of a beer i managed to start a really nice fire and i decided to call her baby. Now take a look at my baby. Isn't she beautiful?

So we cooked stuff and talked and talked and talked about all the stuff we could share. Nigolas decided he's scared he's getting married hahahahahaaaaaaaa no worries nigolas narbay! Got us around man. >=D So it was pretty much doing crazy stuff after that.

Hahahahahahaa and so it was BOXERS CATCHING! HAHAHAH FREAKING FUN. Well i guess we were all high after all the singing and shit so it ended up like that. Ran all around downtown east chalet. Freaking fun.

Lastly, here's some snapshots of the-best-after-exams-days of my life. Thanks guys, every single one of you.



AND LAST OF ALL,

HAVE A BLASTING HOLIDAY BIATCHES.

Studying + Gig

Super eventful day! Actually night was better. Met up at ivan's house in the noon to go study, and of all things i spilled coffee over myself and my WHITE JEANPERRIE jeans ZOMG!!!!!!!! Shit it la. So i tried on ivan's brother's pants and berms but cause i was going for a gig after studying, berms wouldn't do. Sooooooo i decided otherwise. Went home to change, and introduced this Indian look-alike chinese guy called MARVIN to my mother and the Ivan and Sebas came in and looked around.

Left for gig after that, met Narbay outside Cathay, then headed to Gossip Bar. Played pool there while waiting for them to start playing, Nicholas and his band. Soooo they finally started......

Ming was the vocalist of their band, Sky Rocket. Sui ah his singing, until when they were performing "Dream on" by Aerosmith and Jonan and Reuben(Steven) all started moshing wtf????

Push until Marv fall on me wtf??? Until i sit on the stage with marv on top of me wtf???? Despite that continue moshing wtf???? Okay so they eventually stopped and i got up. Nicholas went solo and was damn good. He kind of looks like a hamster when he spams the notes. HEHE can see right on top =B Yup so it ended around 10.... Those who were present for the gig were Latif, Desmond(moustache), Angmor, Vas( seriously dont know how to spell ), Stanley, Sebas, me, Ivan, Marvin, Jonan, Reuben(Steven Lim), Ben(god its ben man ltns!), and i hope i didn't miss anybody, but we enjoyed Sky Rocket together. The last band, Tambi Kaysiao (thanksss man sebas) was damnnnnn funny. Had this really corny indians who cracked jokes with a super heavy and thick indian accent. They were FUCKING FUNNY annnnddddd FUCKING GOOD. Yep so that ends the gig!

Me and sebas and ivan and marv and desmond went to play pool at meridien afterward, and allow me to sidetrack a little. While we were walking to Meridien, we passed by this place where the grass goes deep into the back of some buildings, and is very dark. I wanted to go PT so i walked inside.(This is NOT a ghost story)

And as i walk inside i hear moaning and i look up and below a shadow was a couple fucking. FUCKING!!!!!!! NEAR FUCKING PLAZA SING AND FUCKING THERE??!?!?!?!?!? CRAZY FUCKS! So me and sebas, being guailan as usual, started shouting at the top of our lungs near them, saying "OH YEAH FEELS SO GOOD! URGGHHH YEAH" LOL and something else down that line. Hi-5 sebas! Okay so we ended up at meridien where i got lucky again,,,,,, cause sebas said he only will wait for 15 min if no table we'd go drink. And at the last minute someone punched out the table. NYAHAHAHAHAH. Here's some pics of serious and yandao ivan playing pool ;)
(When is my turn coming man?)


So we played till 11 plus and ivan had to leave for the last train home, and so did desmond. Me, sebas and marvin continued playing for awhile more, before we headed to drink beer at Istana Park(possible fav. haunt?) We played many games, The Chinese Idiom one, the Dont do what's on your forehead one, and Guess what i'm doing game. Hahahah freaking fun. Thanks for staying Marv, and thanks Sebas. Both of you made my day. So we decided to go PT.

AND FUCKING HELL WE SAW ANOTHER COUPLE FUCKING. WHAT IS THIS MAN. SEX NIGHT? THE GUY WAS BLOODY GYRATING HIS HIPS AND HOLDING UP HER LEGS ZZZZ.

Fuck this man. Seriously. It feels good right? Doing out there with the excitement of being caught? KNN. Be considerate can. At least invite us right anot. 3 young studs leh. HAHAHA OKAY I WAS KIDDING.

So i cabbed home and crashed. And that, was all of yesterday. As for today, Maybe i'm gonna find marv, sebas and ivan, narbay maybe coming? Dont know, see how. Oh and for a booster, i saw ella the bella! =D Have a good evening. =)