great day. great weather. bad start. great finish. great workout. great mood.

that roughly summed up my saturday. went to sch to do some bball training with samuel. well, i was late. hahahaha. my fault i guess. didn't set the alarm clock. thought that i won't slp until so late but hell, woke up at 1.20pm. was supposed to meet at 2.30 u see.

worse still, no lunch. so had to go over to mac to get my lunch, before rushing down to tp. slacked around the concourse level before heading down for bball. bball after lunch wasn't a great idea i should say. lol.

wasn't really in the mood for intensive training. can't really focus for the bulk of the day. don't know why and can't figure it out. its been a problem for me for a long long time.

asked samuel to pushed me by playing one on one. maybe i need my back against the wall before i will really perform. result? no good. can't focus still. result of one on one? samuel won 7-4. he's playing he's best whereas i'm just slacking throughout.

its not that i don't respect him. i respect him and i love playing against him. its always been this way. it just that there's a gap between us and i can't help but get complacent. i've told him this and he understood it. its like, why the hell would i need to go all out against him when 40% of my full strength is enough to beat him. well, its proven. 40% don't quite cut it.

like i've said in the previous post. i'll go all out against players i respect and samuel is one of them. prob is, its easier said than done. deep down inside, i wanted to go all out. he knows it, he can see it, i know it and i've been trying real hard. whatever the reason, i just can't.

5pm. some security shithead chased ppl playing around the sports complex out. "the sport complex close at 5. you go at 5." that's what the inflexible shithead said. well, u win.

went to the sheltered bball court outside tp. did some shootaround and then slacked. bo bian. there were ppl playing matches there. so finally, they stopped for awhile and i decided to go for one more try.

all out basketball. time was running out as it was getting dark. so one on one match. no holding back. result? i won 7-1. finally succeeded eh. think samuel was kinda shocked at first. he told me that i've improved as compared to the last time we went head to head against each other.

so after that, he regained he's composure and we play the best one on one against each other ever until this point. each brought out whatever energy and intensity we have left in us and never backed down from the challenge.

he led 3-1 initially. i chased it back to 4-4 before he took the lead at 6-5. he's final move was quite a mistake. did a step back jumper. he didn't really train on that whereas i did. i kinda knew the difficulty of step back jumper and already calculated the possibility of him missing.

told myself that it he ever missed his jumper, i'll use the opportunity to mount a comeback win. he missed and i made 2 straight lay ups to win the game at 7-6.

exciting game. tough win. and this is what i call respect. going at each other with everything we've got. both of us think that this kind of training will seriously benefit us in the long run. so how about bball every sat eh? lol.

anyway. went back to tp to bathe. dinner at subway before heading home. was really in a good mood after the 2 one of one matches. i'm not happy because i've won. i'm happy because i just went all out in a basketball match with a player i respect. its that respect factor that made it so valuable. well actually, winning those 2 matches did made me a little happier. hahahaha.

ok lah huh. shan't talk about bball any longer. gonna slp now. =)))