Thrillah in Manila

The weekend started on Wed, with a marathon packing session till 2am in the morning. And following a 4hr flight to Clark airport and a long long bus ride to Manila proper we got to the serviced apartment where we were staying. And walked around to the main shopping area in Makati. Ate some funny meal at the Landmark mall. And Simon bought 4 shot glasses for like 1 sgd. Oh yes things in Manila are cheap. Very cheap. Dresses for S$70? Check. Even the full length prom ones were only 10 bucks more. Cab rides for less than 10. Pasta buffet for 5 bucks. Woohoo! It wasn’t even worth waiting around for change. Anyway.
The next day, went to the Intramuros area to sight-see.

Ok shall put things in point form. This is too much.

Sight see. Glad Singapore has no gum ban coz I stepped on a piece and that wasn’t nice. Went to the mall. Tried nicer Pinoy food. Went back to hotel to find a tired Simon who played Opens. (He was so exhausted that he face-planted on his search for food.) Went for registration party. And went back early to sleep for the next day’s games!

1st: Vudoo. Lost on universal. Don’t ask. Was embarassing. 8-7
2nd: Cherifer. Crushed them 11-1
3rd: Black Flag. Lost. (Duhhhhhh!) they were clearly the team to beat. Solid line made of players who played UPA club and college. It was tough. 11-6
4th: Kunt. Mostly expat team. Was nice to meet Woody and Koby again. Beat them 11-8. ALMOST got my layout d! Almost. Will try again.

So ended day 1. Surprising we were still seeded 2nd despite the lost to Vudoo. Turns out Cherifer has beaten them. And point differences put us on top. And probably due to the fact that Eddie was not gonna play and going for church instead of Dave jensen who decided to play on Sunday :p Well. Wih luck on our side we were set th plat pre-quarters against Team Philipinas the next day.

9am. Showdown against top seed of the tourney. It was a tight tight game. Unfortunately we lost on universal. It was not not pleasant to go up and let them pull te score close. What more we were starting on O for the last point so we definitely could have punched it in to win that game. But games like that can go either ways as always. And you win some and you lose some.

11am. Game against HK Junk. We won this one. Was a heavily contested game though. Lots of calls everywhere. Not too fantastic of a game.

2pm. Sizzleeeee. Universal point game again. Unlike the last 2 universal point games, we got this one! To win and improve our seed from 6th to 5th!

Then was the finals to watch. Shion basically got steamrolled by Black Flag. Sad to say but that was the truth. But watching Black Flag play was pretty darn cool.

Other than the games… Hi to Kristin Grant Woody Koby Erik Jin and all the other nice ultimate ppl. I like big tourneys, it’s like big gatherings of cool funky ppl. And always u meet new friends and stuff.

Highlight of da day. Got my Black Flag jersey! From the lovely Carmen Tong! And got a Korean one and a boracay one. Yah yah yah! New shirts to wear! And bright purple shorts too.

Manila was so fun!!!!!! I already miss it.

Woes of an employee

I feel like I am back to the old job, the one where I worked on tech issues for xbox, listening to anal and dumb customers who just got the xbox coz they had too much moolah to spend.
And so, I am doing customer service again. This time building a webpage for the client. A client who has no idea what he wants and technical limitations. I did like to see them tackle html, or dreamweaver, or flash, javascript.

So work. Don’t expect to apply what you have learnt in school in your job. Just throw it out of the window and learn something else. Like electrical engineering. Or carpentry. Never know when boss wants a lamp rewired, or request a new table. Forget the degree, just a sheet of useless paper.

For Kiku

Well even though this is for you kiku, I shall still blog about normal things. Just the picture is for you.

Where is all the time going? Anyway, Saturday I went for a wedding. It was pretty. =) Congrats Kenric and Felicia!!!

And other things, I recently got my pay. And already found a big chunk of it will be spent on shopping and attending the 2 weddings I have to go for. But shopping for the weddings is fun. So… this is for you Kiku.

Like the dress? I walked through Isetan, Taka, Zara, and basically every store I saw in Orchard (besides Far East) until I found it at Forever21. Next week you will get another picture. But yeah shopping. Don’t think I have any savings this month =( poo. Time to get into online shopping. Cheaper.

And yesterday, was F1. My sister who didn’t grumble about this for once, she gave me her office access card and a few of us went up to her office at raffles city office towers, 33rd floor, birds eye view of the track. pretty cool. It kinda got boring after a while, but still, to see the actual cars right infront of you, even though far away, thats kinda cool. Vroom vroom. I was hoping something exciting would happen but guess only Force India was exciting. Vroommmmmmmm.

And as a prove to how fast those cars go, I can’t capture a decent picture with my camera. Too fast. Vroom vroom blurs in front of my lens.

October is nearly here! Means Manila is coming soon. Quite exciting!

Hello! Welcome back!

So I haven’t been blogging in a while.

Updates:
Found a job, waiting to start. Its kinda exciting yet scary at the same time. But I trust that it will be fine. =) At least I know I will be an good working environment!
Sing Opens came and past. Playing with FS White was not bad. But I really really felt we could have made the B pool finals. In some ways, I feel more settled into FS than ever before.
NUS Ultimate coming along fine, love love to play with them.
Missing AC training, but I will be back after SUNIG!
Other stuff.

Its been good so far. =D

10th

My 10th day on medication. Getting quite sick of it. Physio is good, but I can’t go anymore coz I ain’t an undergrad anymore. =(
I do really wanna stop taking drugs. Its bad for me. Help help help. Muscle strain go away please!

Training was not bad. 1.5 weeks more to go! Go AC Ultimate!

Woohoo!

League is OVER. Next up. SingOpens!

Excitement excitement.

And I am glad things are going the way they should. =)

The pieces in the puzzle

Fit together perfectly. But each piece on its one, shows us nothing.

Tomorrow I am going to take out my wisdom tooth. Top right one. I am not scared, after all I have had plenty of dental work done. But thinking of the ‘mandatory rest’ I have to take is just like… BLEHHHH. Restless me is really praying hard for a painless and complication-less extraction, so I would be up and running soon. Having said that, I am glad its just one side and not both. I would really look like a stuffed hamster if I had to take out the one on the left too.

I guess the timing couldn’t be more perfect. I am given time to rest the hamstring strain which, up to now, I haven’t managed to ease, despite the stretching. (Somehow, no matter how much I stretch, it remains tight and crampish) So yeah, dental work now, and I get a couple days more to recover from injuries, and then I can proceed onto Sing Opens preparations without glitches. =)

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A couple years back…

… at this time, i was having the best fun i ever had.

I miss AC Ultimate batch of 07. Where’s everyone?

Revelations

Today was a strange day. I thought my mood was at one of its foulest ever. And I was seething mad. But I am glad and thankful for today! And I am thankful that despite it all, I have held my anger, my words and my judgement. Because I learnt some very important things today. That there  is a learning opportunity in all things, be it good or bad.

Sometimes, when I get all Ultimate obsessed, I question myself, and ask myself, why am I fretting so much over this game? Why am I spending so much time on it. Am I really supposed to do that? I think I found an answer today! =) Now I know some of the reasons why God made me love playing Ultimate so much! And I bet He has much more planned for me in Ultimate still! God works in mysterious ways and I have only just begun to understand His plans. =)

i <3 AC Ultimate!