22nd july. there was a total eclipse. an once in a life time event. however, it didn't make my day. what made my day was another once in a life time event. it was kobe's asia tour.

he came out for a short 45 minutes, did nth other than giving some pointers but it was inspiring. i always wanted to know how it will feel like to see your idol in real life. so this is how it felt. excited and nevous at the same time huh? well, although i only manage to see him from a great distance away. hahahahahaha

i think i'll faint if i was one of the lucky 8 youths who got through the trials for the kobe clinic. after the event, i was really motivated. kinda lost that motivation somewhere while doing my own training. guess seeing kobe from afar really helped.

how did i got the tickets? i went for the trials. it was really an eye opener and the whole process was funny as shit when i think back. the top players in singapore are really great. no doubt. it'll take a hell lot of work to even match up to them.

samuel accompanied me to the trials. once we were outside sba, we kinda got intimidated by the atmosphere there. the players there all belonged to some team and we 2 are some no name trying to mix in with them. took the registration form, sat down and spent all the time staring at the form thinking, "fuck, this is really fucked up. why am i here? they have teams, experience and the confidence. who am i to go against them?" the same shit was running in samuel's mind also.

told him that i need a breather and we went to the coffee shop around the area and shagged for close to an hour. "wah how? we go in like don't know our place arh? actually think we can fight with them? but if we go home now, ppl will say we hum, go liao don't dare go in." those were the thoughts in our head for the period of time. its a back and forth thing.

kinda felt that i had my back against the wall and broke that chain of thought.

"eh samuel. cannot be lah. i don't think we are that noob. its true that we don't belong to school team but think about it. we've played against chengyu before. lucky or skills, i don't know, but we've actually won against him. that proves something. i'm going in. i come here for a chance to be trained by kobe. good or not good enough. we'll know"

result? ain't good enough. if not, i'll be on newspaper as one of the 8 chosen youths. hahahahaha.

anyway, went to the event with samuel, nigel and anton. was initially planning to invite my brothers from team18 holdings but fuck, only had 1 ticket. can't possibly tear it up so that each of us can have "one". lol. and to avoid the situation of "inviting this one and the rest how?", i jit tao don't invite anyone of them and save myself from all the trouble. samuel already chose nigel so might as well complete the poly clique with anton.

enough crap. some photos.

kobe asia tour.

before kobe came out. tried to snap a photo of him from far but everything buang. hahahahaha.

4 of us. sry arh. abit bright. exposure +2. forgot adjust back. hahahahahaha!

the black mamba. the man i admire the most.

time to buck up. have some serious training to do. hope that the next time he's here, i'll be good enough to be trained by him.