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Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Went out with Samuel yesterday. Haven't seen anyone from Secondary school who isn't in ACJC for two years. Pity the other people I usually hang out with in Secondary school can't make it.
Anyway, we were supposed to meet at Cathay at 11:30am. I reached there at 11:30 or 11:31 or so, but that idiot decided to come 30 minutes late. Anyway, we were going to watch
From Paris With Love. I haven't been keeping up with movies news other than the ones that are hyped up (Avatar), so I don't really know if there were better movies to watch.
Anyway, we bought our tickets first, then headed to Plaza Singapura to find something to eat for lunch. So the idiot decided to take a lift to the 6th floor, walk to the Japanese restaurant, flip a few pages, then walk around some more. Then I suggested Cafe Cartel and we went all the way back down again. Cafe Cartel has this set lunch meal for $9.50, which includes soup, free flow of bread, a drink, main course, and dessert. Pity the main course was kind of crappy for that day. Their fries suck. They used to serve ice cream for their dessert too. Now its some cream chocolate roll that you get from Polar Puffs & Cakes.
We were kind of late for the movie, so we went off right after lunch to Cathay. We were late, but not late enough to miss anything important. Only had to sit through about a minute of trailers before the movie started. Did I mention the movie is rated M18? To be honest, that rating doesn't even make sense. Movies like 300 and Hitman feature much more gore and nudity, and they're NC16. The censorship board being stricter maybe?
The movie is about two secret agents who try to protect people from terrorist threats and other shit. That's pretty much it. Lol. Just sit back and enjoy the action.
Quick rating: 3.5/5.0
So after the movie we decided to go play pool at Marina Square. I've never played pool before then, so I guess I wanted to try it out. But that idiot had a lot of things to do. Lol, keep calling him "that idiot". Anyway, he wanted to go buy some bread from Breadtalk, then he wanted to go to the bank. When we were in the link between City Hall MRT and Marina Square, he wanted to buy sushi. Well, I went to buy ice cream from McDonalds in Marina Square.
There are a lot of toy claw machines thingys outside the pool place, and I told him that there was this particular kind of machine which I think may be easy to win at. Its those kind of two-claw machines. Two claws might seem harder, but if you look at how they place the items, its always sticking out dangerously over the chute. I'm always thinking that all you really need to do is give the toy a little push with the claws, and you win. I never bothered to try. I don't want to sacrifice $1.50 to do that.
Either way, we went to play pool after that. It was $12 an hour, and apparently they don't accept our student Ez-link cards. So we had to give a $50 deposit. We didn't have 50 bucks, but the guy there was kind enough to just accept 30 bucks.
I kind of screwed up the first few shots, but who doesn't? I couldn't exactly get a comfortable hold with the stick, so I ended up hitting the ball weakly and off-centre. Well Samuel isn't that good at pool anyway, so I wasn't too far back even though I kept hitting like an idiot. He somehow managed to hit the cue ball off the table. Lololoolololooooooooool.
Halfway through the game I managed to get a hang of it. I didn't screw up my shots anymore, but that doesn't mean I'm pocketing balls left and right. Its going to take a lot of practice for that to happen. That doesn't even happen when I play pool on the computer. Anyway, I won the first game, mainly because Samuel took an eternity to pocket the black ball. I was like 4-5 balls behind him, and I had the luxury to pocket all those balls while he desperately tried to pocket the black ball. Somehow 1 game takes 30 minutes, so that really sucked.
The second game ended really quickly, simply because I accidentally pocketed the black ball before I was done with the coloured balls. Since there was about 15-20 minutes left, we started on a 3rd game. I did pretty well in the 3rd game, since by the time we had to stop, I had pocketed all my coloured balls, while Samuel still had 4-5 balls left. I went on a method of "just hit the damn ball and see where it goes". It works pretty damn well actually, since the balls just somehow manage to reflect off the walls and end up in a pocket you'd never expect. Even if it doesn't the ball might manage to end up somewhere that might be easier to pocket.
Comparing pool with bowling, I have to say pool is a lot easier to get a hang of. Just 10 minutes and you're pretty much able to hit the balls properly. I even made one shot that pocketed a ball from corner to the opposite corner, along the longer length of the table. Mastering pool is another thing. I still can't get a hang of pocketing a ball as long as its not an exactly straight line. In fact, I miss the straight line shots sometimes. On the other hand, bowling takes a much longer time to get a hang of. You're going to throw your ball into the gutter more often, and even if you do manage to hit the pins, you'd rarely ever be hitting anywhere close to the middle. But once you get the hang of it, throwing the ball where you want it to go is not much of a problem. However, causing any sort of spin or getting strikes constantly is something that would most likely not happen unless you had professional training.
We thought of bowling after the pool game, but they were doing some upgrading works on the bowling alley, and half of the lanes were closed. The remaining lanes were almost fully occupied, and the whole alley stuck of paint, cement, and all other smelly things you can think of that is related. It was getting quite late too, so we just went off wandering into the shopping mall. We went into quite a few techonology-related shops, such as Creative, Sennheiser, and Sony. To be honest, I really want a good pair of earphones. One that blocks out noise, and one that plays music with a quality as rich as normal speakers. Another funny thing is that I've never seen a PSP Go yet. PSP fails too much for them to bother selling it? Too expensive to bother trying to sell? Whatever the cause, all I know is that my PSP is becoming obsolete.
The idiot somehow managed to walk into a clothes store and wanted to try a pair of jeans. Full of problems.
Anyway on the way back to City Hall MRT, I bought the chicken floss bun from Breadtalk. I haven't eaten that in years, and geez doesn't it taste good. If there's a type of food I have to choose to survive on for the rest of my life, it'll be bread and cereal. Played the game where you have to tilt the phone to guide a ball into a hole on his iPhone. Pretty fun. If the iPhone isn't obsolete by the time I'm out of army, I might get one. Bloody hell.
I decided to stop at Dover MRT again to try to walk back home. Well, this time I didn't make a wrong turn at all. But the problem is, I didn't turn at all. So I ended up walking a lot more than I should have again. I ended up at Pine Grove, and damn that place is bigger than I thought. I don't know when I'll be attempting that walk again, but since I didn't turn at all, now I know that there's a total of 4 turns, and the 1st and 4th turn shouldn't be made at all. So there's two turns left for me to explore.
posted @ 8:13 pm
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