Monday, July 18, 2005
Back from KL. Was pretty fun (I have a huge vocab).
Time was spent mostly playing waterpolo (obviously) and dota-ing again. the game really has a lot of people totally hooked. Kerby played till 4am on sat night and till 530am last night! Amazing haha!
Had some time to explore KL and shop during the evenings after our games. Realize I dislike shopping quite a lot, even though it’s not so bad with guys. So I was quite intrigued to see Karl and Paul buy so much stuff because I only thought girls did that sort of thing. I on the other hand, didn’t buy anything for myself, it wasn't as if I was being sadistic and denying myself, but I simply don't derive much pleasure from generic shopping at all. Maybe that’s why a lot of my clothes are pretty kid-like and without 'style', I should overhaul my wardrobe sometime.
We checked out the KL night scene on Saturday night and went to this happening place called 'The Beach Club' (We got couldn't find Zouk). They have this interesting system where several girls will accost you at the entrance trying to sell you bottles of drink. If you buy the drink, you get free entry (skip the queues) and a table. We bought 2 bottles of vodka, and it worked out to about RM65 per person among the 8 of us. Only SGD30 for entry, drinks and a table! Good value to me. The music was really good, they had a damn shiok live band which played rock and after that it was FAST rnb. I hate slow rnb. Due to the large availabilty of drinks (and that I got owned at 5-10-15) I got high damn fast, and Paul pushed me overboard by making me keep on 'bottom upping'. So yes, I got damn drunk and messed up the toilet over there. I basically stoned for the rest of the night at the table, and missed a few interesting events:( Head was in a real mess the next morning.
The waterpolo games were quite enjoyable. SAFSA sent 2 teams. Team1 consisted of all SAFSA players and the leftovers (me) went into team2, which was supplemented by about 5 ORDed national players. Team2 was damn lucky and we were put into an 'easy' group. Team1 had to face the strongest teams (KL, Penang). The Malaysian players a quite a bit rougher than what we usually experience, and the referees were quite biased at times:p
In the end, amazingly both our teams topped our respective groups and we had an all Singapore final! It felt quite funny to be playing against our own friends and team mates in the finals, but despite that both teams did fight hard went for the win, we didn’t fool around. In the end my team won, due to the fact that we relied almost entirely on the 5 national players. Even though all credit goes to them, I am relatively satisfied with my own performance, I didn’t paiseh myself and miss open goals (unlike some people hahahaha) and stuff like that heheh. The national players on my team were a big confidence booster (duh), and they took a lot of the pressure of us individually, and I tend to screw up a lot under pressure, so they were a really a big help to me in that sense too.
On the last night Kerby and I decided to go for a massage. We went into this parlour and some old men brought us down to the room. It was hilarious the way we panicked when we realized that they (the old uncles) were going to be the ones massaging us. Kerby and I had an emergency discussion right down there: men being stronger would give the better massage, but this would be negated by the fact that they ARE men. We both were definitely not looking for sex, but it just felt ‘wrong’ to let old uncles touch you all over the place. We promptly left that place and went elsewhere. Again outside this uncle tried to coax us into his parlour. Kerby asked if it was him giving the massage, and he said something to the effect of “yes, but we have girls too”, the second part was said suspiciously quickly. So in the end we just gave up and tried to close our eyes and enjoy ourselves hahaha.
Time was spent mostly playing waterpolo (obviously) and dota-ing again. the game really has a lot of people totally hooked. Kerby played till 4am on sat night and till 530am last night! Amazing haha!
Had some time to explore KL and shop during the evenings after our games. Realize I dislike shopping quite a lot, even though it’s not so bad with guys. So I was quite intrigued to see Karl and Paul buy so much stuff because I only thought girls did that sort of thing. I on the other hand, didn’t buy anything for myself, it wasn't as if I was being sadistic and denying myself, but I simply don't derive much pleasure from generic shopping at all. Maybe that’s why a lot of my clothes are pretty kid-like and without 'style', I should overhaul my wardrobe sometime.
We checked out the KL night scene on Saturday night and went to this happening place called 'The Beach Club' (We got couldn't find Zouk). They have this interesting system where several girls will accost you at the entrance trying to sell you bottles of drink. If you buy the drink, you get free entry (skip the queues) and a table. We bought 2 bottles of vodka, and it worked out to about RM65 per person among the 8 of us. Only SGD30 for entry, drinks and a table! Good value to me. The music was really good, they had a damn shiok live band which played rock and after that it was FAST rnb. I hate slow rnb. Due to the large availabilty of drinks (and that I got owned at 5-10-15) I got high damn fast, and Paul pushed me overboard by making me keep on 'bottom upping'. So yes, I got damn drunk and messed up the toilet over there. I basically stoned for the rest of the night at the table, and missed a few interesting events:( Head was in a real mess the next morning.
The waterpolo games were quite enjoyable. SAFSA sent 2 teams. Team1 consisted of all SAFSA players and the leftovers (me) went into team2, which was supplemented by about 5 ORDed national players. Team2 was damn lucky and we were put into an 'easy' group. Team1 had to face the strongest teams (KL, Penang). The Malaysian players a quite a bit rougher than what we usually experience, and the referees were quite biased at times:p
In the end, amazingly both our teams topped our respective groups and we had an all Singapore final! It felt quite funny to be playing against our own friends and team mates in the finals, but despite that both teams did fight hard went for the win, we didn’t fool around. In the end my team won, due to the fact that we relied almost entirely on the 5 national players. Even though all credit goes to them, I am relatively satisfied with my own performance, I didn’t paiseh myself and miss open goals (unlike some people hahahaha) and stuff like that heheh. The national players on my team were a big confidence booster (duh), and they took a lot of the pressure of us individually, and I tend to screw up a lot under pressure, so they were a really a big help to me in that sense too.
On the last night Kerby and I decided to go for a massage. We went into this parlour and some old men brought us down to the room. It was hilarious the way we panicked when we realized that they (the old uncles) were going to be the ones massaging us. Kerby and I had an emergency discussion right down there: men being stronger would give the better massage, but this would be negated by the fact that they ARE men. We both were definitely not looking for sex, but it just felt ‘wrong’ to let old uncles touch you all over the place. We promptly left that place and went elsewhere. Again outside this uncle tried to coax us into his parlour. Kerby asked if it was him giving the massage, and he said something to the effect of “yes, but we have girls too”, the second part was said suspiciously quickly. So in the end we just gave up and tried to close our eyes and enjoy ourselves hahaha.
