mission accomplished. lol. i've officially passed the test that samuel has set for me. went on a consecutive 5 bballing days shooting spree. thats the test he set for me to be labelled as a shooter. =)

alright. although i've passed the test, i don't think i'm very good yet. i'm only effective when i'm at my hotspots. somewhere around the top of the key and some other places.

red circles mark my hot spots.

although thats a pathetic range, its good enough to draw defense out to clear some space to drive in. am able to do more stuff now. somemore, even if the hotspots range are small, i think as long as i'm able to get a clear shot, its more than enough. i'm thinking of adding hotspots at the baseline on each side of the court.

went balling with wilson, chen wee, chengyu and 2 of his friends. aftermath? my calf hurts like hell now. calf strengthening exercise and then 2 consecutive days of bballing. even superman will peng man.

so yah. kinda had revenge for the defeat last week. had cheat code mah. played against them with chengyu and he totally own-ed them.

then its 4 on 4 with some new challengers. won 1 loss 1 i think. then final game was against mr tan, yeah, tp bball team's head coach and dunman's teacher. but was totally useless even from my hotspots because i was simply too wore out.

went cheers for redbull and then coffee shop for milo before heading home. campbell for dinner. erm tutorials and dynasty warrior 6 for night activity. currently blogging to waste time.

lol. ok lah. enough of updating. ciao.

alright! ytd was a nice day of bballing man. felt happy as i was playing bball with kwok, jm and justin. long time nv share the same court with justin already. finally eh? always felt the lack of his presence. be it for rebounding, defense or offense. its like a big loop hole for us. lol.

played from 5 plus to 7. not bad. eventhough its only for a short while, its real fun. played 4 on 4 against some guys. one of them was a jun yuan sec bball team guy. used to play with him once but lost to his team. that didn't happen today. lol.

we won 11-10. close win. was a roller coaster ride man. lol. i wasn't doing anything at first until we trailed 0-6. lol! was holding back so that our star player joshua kwok can show off his worth and skills. too bad for calling me lvl 1. basket.

so yah. thats what happened. when the score was 0-1, i was telling myself. nvm, first point only. 0-2, hahahahaha, haven't warm up arh. 0-3, ok, everyone lets get serious. 0-4, alright, this is bad. 0-5, what is kwok doing man? 0-6, alright, its my turn now. lol.

hmmmm. i think i kinda slacked off at first so that everyone can get a shot or 2. also, on the defensive end, everyone was very scrambled up. too messy. someone will be left wide open for an open shot at times and no one is actually rebounding nicely.

0-6 was my limit. told everyone to man mark one guy and the fight for the rebounds. then i went to work. yeah. kept on scoring, assisting and playing defense. 2 blocks and 3 steals. not bad arh.

hit one 3 pointer and 2 jump shots. one of them was a turn around fade away jumper. nice lah. hahahahaha. justin, jm and kwok all chipped in to close the gap to 9-10. but i think they lost track of the score somewhere. we certainly scored more than just 9 points in that stretch. justin, josh and jm all had 2 points in that run. i too drived in and score lots of points on layups.

but whatever, 9-10 jiu 9-10 lor. i even-ed things out at 10-10. after alot of hustles, i got a rebound but missed my reverse lay up. thought it was the end, but jm got the rebound and hit the game winning shot. lol. miracle shooter as always.

overall, i think everyone did a very good job on rebounding and defense when we were making a comeback. forced alot of turnovers and tough shots for the opponents.

enough about today, went to watch madagascar 2 with samuel on saturday. was late by 20 minutes due to him wanting to buy cheesy pasta from gv when we are watching at shaw. then gv cannot receive nets on that day. went to withdrew money and then back to pay before going to century square. anyway, comments on the movie? funny until peng.

movie poster for madagascar 2.

alright, thats all, bballing again later on with course/classmates. =)

well, i feel like a noob blogging about what happened to me today. hahahahaha. to get things started, i always told my brothers that one day, i'll learnt my lesson for being too complacent at times. today was the day, the lesson cost $6. hey yeah! i failed my ftt. song boh?

seriously speaking, it wasn't song at all. felt so noob. but can't blame anyone else but me. complacency got the better of me this time round. ky and jj both did a book full of ftt questions before taking the test. me? i read the book and read through 4 pages of questions. deserve it lah. lol!

next time better chiong. anyway, apart from wednesday and the setback today, i've been in really good mood these few days. hahahahahaha.

wednesday was shit. had flu and the printer decided to screw up too. it almost became killer litter. no joke. good thing i have good anger management. hahahahaha. was printing dm notes and found out that i've printed colour. so cancelled job and tried to print the rest of the notes using black ink. the fucking printer decided to print 2 page and stalled. cancelling the job took eons, was pissed off so restart com. the same shit happened again after that. print one set of notes with only 11 pages, freaking hell take 1 hour! wtf!

all these aside, the reason why i was in good mood. well, i think its because ppl are starting to call me a shooter in terms of bball. song eh. i guess some ppl just don't understand how it feels. the word "shooter" and me used to have no link at all. however, after my training and playing bball with chengyu, everything started to change. i thought that it was because that i was playing with chengyu that i shot so accurately. well, for tuesday and today, i continued to shoot the lights out of my opponents. =)

seriously, i'm really happy and fortunate that all these happened. was starting to think that i'm hopeless and was planning to stop playing bball. but now? hell no am i gonna stop man.

loss 4 games in a roll on tuesday. all i can say its that we loss on rebounding and were too slack on defense. one of my opponents was like lebron james man. so damn strong. chen wee went to block him fully and he can still complete the layup. kena called shooter by the so called "lebron james" sia. ji happy!

then went to play bball with boss, kwoky and jm today. power lah. won 2, loss 1. won the 2 on 2 match among ourselves. pr and kwok against jm and me. we started slow and they were leading 0-2. the match ended when both jm and me got into the momentum. won 7-2.

saw choo zhi wei and they played 3 on 3 with his friends. i decided to watch them play because kwok has always said that he's the star player among us. yeah. not bad. the scored quite alot at first and in the end subbed out because he can't keep up and they were scoring too much.

subbing me into the match didn't have much effect initially. they went on a scoring spree and were up like 21-10? something like that. didn't played match point but i sort of keep tracked of the score.

yeah, then i went on a scoring spree by shooting the lights out of them and driving in like mad. won this unofficial game in the end. with a score of roughly 34-30. seriously, i remembered that we caught up and lead the game.

last game. us against choo zhi wei and his friends. 3 point game. loss 1-3. was too tired to really do anything. so yah. lose lor. lol.

then went cheers with them and had dinner with kwok while peiren gave jm a free ride home on his bike. lol!

oh yah. another reason why i'm in good mood. i think its because i have more self confidence now. not as in a whole lot more. i still have low self esteem but its not as low as compared to the past couple of years. also, not as pessimistic as the past right now. =)

ok lah. gonna slack now. hahahaha.

alright. alot to blog about eh. was pretty busy these few days. wasn't busy with sch work though, was busy hanging out with brothers and close friends.

shall start from thursday. sch at 1pm, 2 hours break and project discussion with anton until 6. was about to meet up with ky, jm, jw and gwee but went home. they said that they were going down to ehub, so might as well go home first and wait for them.

plans to go to ehub was cancelled but they were planning to meet up and drink. yeah. they plan to finish jm's vodka which was left with 200ml. met up with ky at tampines interchange. took bus 81, sir boarded half way and went to look for boss at the pasar malam. went to buy drinks, kope cups and ice and went to look for the girls.

they drank and some got slightly drunk. played dai di, talked cock, made noise and kena booked by police before going home at around 1 plus. walked home with jm and ky. ky said that he was alright but i wasn't convinced so decided to walk him to somewhere near his house.

why wasn't i convinced that he's alright? well, he was holding a cup filled with vodka mixed with f&n cherry when we left for home. by right, he finshed the whole cup of vodka. however, by left, he only drank half of it and the rest was spilled onto the floor unintentionally on the way back. if u were me, you'll send him home too. lol. cabbed home after that.

4 hours of slp before heading back down to sch.

after close to 2 years in tp, i finally found locker 182. lol! so gonna rent it. blink 182 all the way.

hang around free access lab while waiting for boss and jm. lunch with them and then walked around tp for ccn day. lesson learnt, don't sit down in the canteen during ccn day, its like being sitting ducks. open for attacks by those "promoters". oh yah, was walking around when some of the promoters called us brothers.

jm: i hate those ppl keep calling ppl "brothers" when selling stuff.
me: how come?
jm: tell them, know us 4 years or go ncc with us for 4 years before calling us that.

lol, nice one man.

anyway, boss left for class and jm came to my house to play assassin's creed. waited for boss's lesson to end and ended up playing bball near my house.

won 2 match quite easily. 11-3 and 11-5. for both games, i had a total of 10 points and 7 blocks. lol. well, the 2 teams we played with weren't exactly weak, remembered having troubles playing with them in the past. its just that on friday, everyone was doing the right things.

justin wasn't with us, so everyone was trying their best to rebound to limit our opponent's to only one shot and increase our chance of getting another shot when we missed.

before we played those matches, i was teaching both of them how to do proper layups. told them not to attack whenever they had the ball, instead, survey the situation and only attack if they see a chance to.

for the first match, was leading all the way so wasn't feeling much pressure. peiren and jm did a good job in defending their guys.

second match was abit more exciting. we were trailing initially. i missed all my first 3 shots. missed 2 jumpers and blew one lay up. was down like 0-2 before jm and pr sank one shot each to help us even the score. my turnaround jumper off jm's screen gave us the lead and we nv looked back. was leading 8-2 before they closed the gap to 8-5. jm hit 2 shots, one off my assist before i sealed the deal. lol.

nice one lah. jm and pr make good tag team man. hahahaha. the way pr asked for assist is damn funny.

went back to my house to wash up before going out to meet ky, jw and gwee.

on the way to meet them. we were talking about our big win. i told them, in this transition phase where everyone is learning and picking up knowledge together, we'll tend to lose alot of matches. but nvm, lets try out as many things as possible so we can improve. as most when things go wrong and we are losing, we know there's still me. i'm not very good but i'll try my best to keep us in the game for as long as i can.

dinner with them and then we parted ways. jm, ky and gwee went to meet up with vanda for pool. i met up with samuel and went to suntec with him.

he wanted to see his priscillia who was at dunman's prom. so drag me to go down with him. bo bian. he asked me out on wed but i couldn't make it so i promised him that i'll accompany him on friday. nice one. nv tell me he was going to clash a prom and i wore like i was going sch. lol!

on the way there, we ended up talking about sec sch life.

me: seriously arh, i tell u, the best days of my life was during sec 3 and 4.
sam: same.
me: no worries, go sch just for fun, tired jiu slp.
sam: yah lor.
me: dnt, brothers, jiao weis, pranks and huan lohs. that's the life man.
sam: best of all, isolated behind the class by mrs vijay.
me: yeah man. hopeless till that extend.
sam: yah lor. wen jie, u and me, 3 musketeers. actually it was 4.
me: including jj.
sam: yah lor! but vijay want to save him so put him infront. but jj is the one who don't want to be saved and everytime we kena blame when tio tai ji one.
me: hahahahaha. we are like, since vijay want save jj, then let her save lor. at least jj still got hope.
sam: yah lah! then he everytime come find us play. so not we drag him. lol. he come find death with us one.
me: yeah. haix. sometimes when i'm free. i sit back and think back about the past. great life with great bunch of brothers. too bad. things can't stay that way all the time.
sam: how come?
me: first is dk, then its wen jie and u, then liang hao and some others. its good that everything was alright with dk, but its not the same anymore u know?
sam: oh.
me: when u look back. u kinda blame urself for letting all these happen. kinda blame urself for the inability to prevent all these.
sam: that's life, you got to accept this and move on. at least u tried when things went wrong.
me: well, thats true. so what's left is the make to most out of the rest of us i guess.

back to main topic. had alot of cock ups actually. prom was on the third floor and we went until 2nd floor only. lol. forgot there was another 2 convention halls at the corners of the 3rd floor. sms-ed and called priscillia. its either slow reply or nv reply at all. called mrs vijay for help but she was having maternal leave. called mr lee and he was in india. that explained why the operator was speaking with an indian accent.

i was giving that uber sianned look and samuel asked me to lighten up.

me: i'm having muscle-ache. i'm tired. i'm bored. i'm hungry. i'm dressed like an ah beng and i'm clashing a prom looking like an ah beng. you think i can still lighten up?

hahahahaha. so after like 1 hour of hanging around. we finally found the place. sam saw his girl and we chionged to ehub to meet up with the rest. wanted to talk to mr lee, but he's in india. so too bad lor.

was telling samuel that wasting time around suntec was worth it as long as he's happy. hahahahaha. next time i need help like this, better come accompany me also.

reached ehub. they already stopped playing and was about to go home. gwee missed her last bus. so ky asked his bro to send her home while jm and i took bus no. 3 back to tampines. reached home at around 1 plus 2.

slpt until 2 ytd. and 10 minutes after i woke up, ky called. gonna meet gwee soon again. hanged around compass point until 6 plus and went home. was going to meet up again, but ky had dunman anniversary dinner. don't know what time he's gonna be free and gwee didn't tell me that she was alone. so ended up telling her to go home. lol.

enough of typing. visuals now.

jm reading newspaper while waiting for me to wash up after bball.

he wasn't wearing this t shirt for bball by the way. he was wearing one of my jerseys. lol. so was peiren.

like finally. he secured his bike to something thats rooted to the ground.

another view.

jm with his ccn day balloon which he bought for his sister.

biker kwa.

laid back kwa.

dulan kwa

back view.

boss.

boss and his followers.

stuntman boss.

lastly, jm said that we brothers should take another group photo. he said my handphone's 2007 version of "brothers of life" was outdated already. only ky, jm and me. so yah. got time lets take a nice one then i edit.

ok. end of post.

was planning to start slacking and play dynasty warrior 6 on my com. but i remembered seeing this,

11 nov 08, 19:28
slacker slacks: hey chicky dance...update leh...work so boring...come your blog always see boss's bike...haha...cannot use for jobfeed somemore...

so here i am, trying to entertain my bored brother at work. lol. steady hor? blog because u bored hor. honoured boh? lol. actually, i don't think it'll help much, at most 5 more minutes of things to do and 5 minutes less of boredom. but then again, for the bored bugger lky, anything goes i guess.

first up, wtf. what chicky dance? lol. don't anyhow. later ppl and me got conflict and think i gl how? hahahahaha.

oh yah. current affairs. robbery in singapore. noob fuck sia that loser. disguise as woman and one man show. hahahahahahaha. james bond also cannot do that lah! brainless mofo.

being a loser aside, i think its good for that person also. try thinking logically, attempting to rob bank means no money. boh lui. pok gai. bankrupt. so now go prison, government feed also good. free lodging and food. but the trade off is the possibility of having scars on ur butt. not bad lah, apart from the pain, i think that noob benefited. but if he got family, then too bad for them lor.

talking about a robbery. we, the huan lo gang (with reference to jw's and ts's blog label for us), shall show u all the right way. "for the sake of brotherhood, thy shall carry out the masterplan."

current member includes me, jeremy "the jem" lim, samuel "stifler" lim, justin " the megazord" lim, lex lee khai yew, sir kwa and the god of jiao wei, cjj.

additional member may include sim pei ren the boss.

this masterplan is a master piece. a beautiful story about corruption, inside job and outfront daytime robbery.

ok lah, crap aside.

went bballing with samuel, wilson, chen wee, chengyu and arvind just now.

arvind went just to look around before going off with chen wee for their ftt e trial i think.

then its 2 on 2 and rotationary one on one. playing with chengyu is omg man. so tall and pro. as expected from tp sch team. playing with him is like going into unlimited limit break, seed break, trance mode, whatever u call it. cannot even relax for a moment. but i think its good, at least for me. pushing myself to improve. was very satisfied with my shooting man. was at least quite accurate for my standard. lol.

oh yah, for the 2 on 2, its chengyu and wilson against samuel and me. outcome? lose lor, but nv get thrash happy enough.

the rotationary one on one. 3 points game. its samuel vs me, chengyu vs me, chengyu vs samuel, chengyu vs me, chengyu vs samuel, chengyu vs me and chengyu vs samuel again. lol. can't seem to win him even after so many attempts.

then chen wee returned. 2 on 2 again. chen wee and me vs samuel and chengyu. played for a long time before playing an 11 points game. lost 8-11. not bad liao. hahahahaha.

after that, home sweet home. fun day man. lets do this like every tuesday. hahahahaha.

downpoint? my knee hurts now after pushing myself so hard.

ok lah. done. oh fuck. there's maf test tml! aiyah. fuck it. study during 1 hour break. dynasty warrior more important. hahahahahaha.

new found glory - iris
originally by the goo goo dolls

and i'd give up forever to touch you,
'cause i know that you feel me somehow.
you're the closest to heaven that i'll ever be,
and i don't want to go home right now.

and all i can taste is this moment
and all i can breathe is your life
'cause sooner or later it's over,
i just don't want to miss you tonight.

and i don't want the world to see me,
'cause i don't think that they'd understand.
when everything's made to be broken,
i just want you to know who i am.

and you can't fight the tears that ain't coming,
or the moment of truth in your lies.
when everything feels like the movies,
yeah you bleed just to know you're alive.

and i don't want the world to see me,
'cause i don't think that they'd understand.
when everything's made to be broken,
i just want you to know who i am.

and i don't want the world to see me,
'cause i don't think that they'd understand.
when everything's made to be broken,
i just want you to know who i am.

and i don't want the world to see me,
'cause i don't think that they'd understand.
when everything's made to be broken,
i just want you to know who i am.

i just want you to know who i am.
i just want you to know who i am.
i just want you to know who i am.

legendary song from 1998. 10 years old man. although its originally from the goo goo dolls, i find new found glory's cover nicer.

current time is 12.11, gonna slp soon. bball later on with classmates/coursemates. gonna be fun.

anyway, i've gotten over the fact that i'm not talented in bball and so to satisfy my hunger for improvement, i'm gonna train hard. doing calf strengthening exercise soon. =)

damn! just had my ass kicked in red alert 3. was playing ra3 on hamachi with samuel. 2 on 2 against medium ai and we got thrashed. retry don't know how many times still the same sia. lol.

seriously, cannot believe it lor. throw face.

anyway, updates on ytd. sch ended at 11. slacked in sch until 12 and then had lunch with jun ming and boss. went to get boss's bike with him. he actually parked it under the block opposite tp for 2 days. that bugger can't even recognise his bike. he say the way he differentiate his bike from others' is by the lock. lol. power lah boss.

walked all the way to my house and u know what?

this was how boss secured his bike. pretty spastic right?

well, thats boss for u. jm played assassin creed on my com while boss and i watched tv again. actually, i was only me. boss was busy watching jm play assassin creed and giving him orders. lol.

ytd's nba was nice though. houston against trailblazers going into overtime. buzzer beating 3 pointer from brandon roy got me cheering and screaming man. lol.

then its down to my area's bball court for some bballing. for most of the time, it was jm and boss having one on one. i did some shootaround only. then finale was the 2 of them playing against me. i barely made it sia. score was 7-5. was trailing 2-5 before turning the tables around.

went back to my house for more gaming and tv. samuel came over. then jm and boss left soon after. samuel played ra3 on my com and i laughed at him kena thrashed. lol. but hey, i got thrashed too along with him just now. lol.

then tm to meet ky for dinner. swensen's for dinner. samuel's treat. lol.

home sweet home and gaming until now. alright, gonna slp soon. take care peeps.

had fun bballing ytd man. =)

was down with flu, so went home straight after lunch with nigel, samuel and anton. bought lunch for my bro too.

took half a slp-ing pill and went to slp for an hour. woke up and was still drowsy. packed up, changed and rushed back down to tp.

met samuel at 3 and went to the bball court to play bball with kang jie, chen wee, wilson, chengyu and one bit senior which we nv see before.

overall was fun man. the bit senior was pretty pro. had fun trying to go up against him. damn, he's fast man. too bad i couldn't go 100% at him due to my condition. glad that i could keep up with his pace and traded baskets with him. but damn, he said he stopped bball-ing for one whole year man. and he's like trading baskets with me already. what if he's a consistent player like me. omg. need to work harder liao i guess. nov 18! lol.

epic match of the day was chengyu and kangjie teaming up with me against samuel, chen wee and the bit senior. lol. of course we won cause there's chengyu. lol. tp sch team leh. hahahaha. forgot the score but it was pretty close. like 11-8? scored 6 points. swee lah! the drowsiness wore off like halfway into the match and i sank 3 straight shots. miracle man. lol.

quote of the day was by chengyu. "who says center cannot shoot 3 pointers?". and he sank one after saying that. gamewinner somemore.

well. as expected, samuel said that i've made only slight improvements in my shooting. felt the same way too. hmmmmm. starting to lose motivation already but after bball-ing with the senior and chengyu, maybe i'm gonna get fired up again.

hmmmmm. maybe training with kwok will really help bah. seriously hope its that way. i still have the urge and hunger to get better at bball. its in my mind all the time.

anyway, hanged around with samuel until 8 plus just to talk about bball, life and so on. nice chat dude.

k lah. there's sch later on. jem signing off.

went to remove some ball rust on thursday. haven't been playing much lately due to weather, laziness, lack of motivation and lack of companion. lol.

i kinda got a scare when josh called me at 9pm. u know something like least expected call? somemore from joshua kwok leh. the blur cock who's taking a's next week and gonna has his own special transport plane called k1-30. anyway, here's the conver.

josh: eh jem, u free now?
me: yeah, y?
josh: wanna play basketball?
me: sure.
josh: let's play one on one.
me: sure. but u know what time liao not? 9 leh.
josh: yah i know, so u faster come down.
me: where?
josh: my house's bball court.
me: alright. i bring bball?
josh: yeah. mine not with me. oh yah, bring tissue hor.
me: for?
josh: later you lose to me then you'll cry mah. to wipe your tears.
me: oh ok.

so i packed my stuff and ran all the way to the bball court in kwok's neighbourhood. his friend was there. did some shootaround and then its one on one time.

that shit head nv touch the holy ball for one whole year and still dare to taunt me. his first attempt at the basket didn't go very well.

he tried to drive in against me. well, was expecting that and used my so called "secret technique". allowed him to drive pass me before blocking him from behind. lol. smack the ball against the backboard and sent it flying out of bounds. swee lah!

kinda slacked off at the start and kwok was leading 1-3. then got serious before i closed the game out 7-3. aiyah. not very satisfied with the win. u know kwok hasn't been training for like one year sia. i won't be able to win also if i'm in his position i guess.

played 2 on 2 with kwok's friend and an uncle. then went to play 3 sets of triple threat with kwok and his friend. not bad lah. played until 11pm.

i'm waiting for kwok's a's to end so we can train together every week. really looking forward to it although we'll be thrash talking alot when we are balling together. hahahaha. at least got companion and ppl to pass the ball to. if not my ball sense will become dull again.

as for ytd. met jm and peiren after sch. then they came to my house. jm played coh and assasin creed on my com. peiren watched cable tv with me and bleach movie 2 on my bro's com.

then they went off for sakae sushi with jw and meiyi.

ok lah. thats all.