today's main event: go queensway shopping centre to buy shoe. that's for me wil and olk. kr? hmm... more like just tagging along? haha... after that supposed to go sim lim to shop for olk's "AudioTechnica EM700" earpiece/headphone (i dunno which one le...)
ok to the "event" proper... met olk wil and kr at woodlands interchange... late again cos i watched pokemon until 11.30 den chiong quick shower and then go meet them, by the time i reach was ard 11.45 le... hmm quite fast actually, considering me taking shower + prepare stuff + chiong for bus to go to the interchange in 15 mins...
ok. i mistook the bus number. it was supposed to be 961 but i tot is 960... screwed... lucky i saw the directions screen on the bus 961 and quickly alerted them and then we chiong to the bus 961 when we were at the berth some distance away waiting for 960... lolx
motion sickness again. i guess kr suffered the same "illness" too... we both were like taking turns to yawn every other minute or so (cos lack of oxygen ma). endured all the way for the past 50 mins on the bus...
felt like vomitting when we got down. whew. lucky with a few deep breaths i managed to recover.
went in for lunch at mac before shoe searching. saw this 2M tall guy standing TALL in front of me... we all 吓倒 leh. anw, i got not much appetite, but i helped finish the cold french fries anyway.
shoe searching! started from the 3rd floor of cos... wil saw this black shoe priced at $80+... which he seems very interested in, probably due to the colour ba... so... -shoe reserved- . olk was searching for "new balance" brand shoes to his liking probably cos they cost much cheaper to him of he is more used to wearing this "brand" of shoes... kr basically just rotting around, giving "useful" suggestions wherever possible.. and i was searching for street soccer shoes and/or slippers.
we continued searching.. from 3rd flr to 2nd flr to 1st flr.. wil spotted cheap but "ang-kong" sneakers, able to make him Attract Attention (AA) in school. haha. we tried persuading him out of buying such shoes... and fate played a big part as well... the shoe dun have his size... haha so sad, no more POSER shoes...
and searched and i found wad i wanted. covered slippers! yeah the one with a "shell" at the front but behind got no support that kind. (ya shall show u the pic of that shoe later in the post)
ok.. so i tracked down wad i wanted... now is price bargaining... i asked the retail man how much slipper-cum-shoe cost... he said, "lup-za-gau" (er.. i dunno how to spell but it means $69 in hokkien) haha. summore he malay leh. wow la. impressive. ok.. i shall go around asking for prices 1st...
prices very. from that $69 to ard $105... wow la. i really dunno which shop is the one cheating money de... as heard from someone (i forgot who le) some time ago...
ok lor. i think $69 is the cheapest ba. and i guess.. that uncle began to zhuai liao, cos he knew his shoe was the cheapest and using the theory of demand, he knew i would come to him and buy, and so he dun care service attitude le... he gave me some sort of fucked-up attitude, kp-ing me from start to end... i held it down. wadthehell. pissed off man. that i almost felt like just walk-out from the shop. but i bought it anyway. at $69.
this sort of reminded me of a similar event that occurred to me some time in early april. hmm. when i was browsing for my silicon cover for my w800i, the retail man came to me and asked me if he can help. ya that sounds "friendly" though. but as i answered a call from wc then, and i was being pestered by him to buy the "damn" silicon cover, being stuck in between... the retail man sort of got pissed off and asked me to hang up and just buy the thing. (ok i dunno how to describe the situation then but it just got me pissed off; is there anything wrong talking to my fren on the phone while browsing for my stuff?) i forgot wad "teasing insults" he hurled at me that made me so pissed off, but i was sure he did, then. but i bought the cover anyway...
looking at both cases, i think i should have given that pissed-off attitude back at them by just walking off. that could teach them a lesson. >.<
ok enough. i bought my slipper-cum-shoe le. put them on. hmm. stuffy... but still ok...
now back to wil and olk's shoe-hunting. to no avail. wil went back to ask for the shoe he "reserved" of his size. but.... just too bad.... dun have his size de... sadded...
i got wad i wanted, but the other 3 left empty handed...
next destination: sim lim square. felt like sleeping... again i spotted the wrong bus. lol. supposed to be bus 33 when i said bus 14. sigh...
again, we searched 5 floors for olk's "AudioTechnica EM700" earpiece/headphone. floor by floor. shop by shop. really! wow la. i could see olk's D-E-T-E-R-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N to GET THE DAMN THING LA! lol... we all walk with him until 脚酸 already, yet he will runs around each floor trying to spot one... and i 顺便 bought a sound card to fit into my com (cos i realised my motherboard no integrated sound card... wth) and they bought some bluetooth adapter...
again, olk's search to no avail, went back empty handed.. next destination: go blk 850 at khatib for bball with kh, gl and duak.
time: 6.30pm. when we reached the bball court there. played a bit while waiting for duak. he took really damn long la.
and halfway through, some "teenagers" from the opposite court asked us for a full court bball match. ok lor...
match began. we started chionging. ya, they said i was "too fast, too furious" haha. maybe. seconds after i got the rebound i was already at the other side le. what they commented: "zoom zoom zoom zoom, we havnt get ready to attack, u already there." lol. of course, there were some "pro moments" when gl just did a "horizontal lay-up" from outside the penalty box... and it went in with a almost 90° deflection from the centre of the board into the rim... wow la.
and there was this guy (i think he is a sec 3 sec 4 teenager) who was very zhuai... at 1st he still ok, he proved himself to be worthy of us defending against him... but as we got more people to form some kind of "fortress" to defend against him, he started charging and banging and trying to ram through the "fortress" in order to execute a lay-up. hmm. it's kinda obvious that he is starting to play rough... and he finally unleashed his roughness when this scenario happened:
i took the rebound. chionged to the front and made a forward pass to gl at the right flank as he charged to the middle. he was about to pass when this guy suddenly grab hold of his ball and snatched. yup. he got it. after much fierce struggling with gl. he fast-break into the defending court and as he did that, i managed to slap the ball off his hands (without touching him, thanks to my fast reflex) and the ball bounced to his leg and off, and i got the ball safely in my hands. just then. he became so pissed off. he rammed past me trying to snatch the ball off my grip on the ball, but failed. that was when he reached the top of his violence. he stomped to gl with that 他妈的 look and hurled abuses at him. gl was pissed at him also.
the game stopped. we were all pissed off at his attitude man. the others we have nothing to say for them, they played a fair game, but not for this unsportsmanly noob, who doesnt know about the rules of the game. siann. we almost got into a gang fight with them, but we chose to leave instead so as to prevent unnecessary violence. duak came at the right time, when we were about to leave the court. haha. came to this court for nothing. >.<
this reminded me of another case. in sec 4. duak, wil, justin and i were having a 4-on-3 match at fragrant wood. in youth day. the 3 opponents were also those zhuai kind, showing off their 3-pt shots. strangely enough, i thrashed them in the 1st 2 matches through my 3-pt shots as well... i remember my 3-pt % score was like 70% la... zai la... and summore i was quite zai at blocking then... their lay-ups always kena 盖火锅ed by me... and then they started playing rough le... i was tired at the wrong time. but i was on form. they got so pissed off at my tired-yet-so-zai ness that they played rough against us. yet we were still scoring. halfway through, when i was about to execute a jump shot, while i was hanging in the air, i felt someone push me. ya. wadthehell. i imediately shouted "foul!" cos i knew that foul was intentional. yet, i remained my cool. i told him, "relax, relax." he can't say anything! shuang la! i gave him that "oei, i din do anything wrong to u la, u buey song me for wad" look, enough to make him do nothing worse. haha. the power of calmness.
ok so back to reality. we went off, also in that pissed-off mood (esp for gl). i understand that. sigh... wad can we do? we can only discuss it all the way from the court as we find another court for bball.
kept searching... until we found 1 located somewhere which i never seen before >.<>
ya. the 2 matches there were more fun la. duak was improving, i can see. =D
played until 8+. tired man. after all that walking, running...
whew. time to go home. and little did i realise that bluetooth adapter bought by kr, wil and olk today were meant as a belated bdae present for me! haha... thx!
tired. spoilt mood.
oh ya.


my slipper-cum-shoe! i noe it really looks weird... but.. hahah....
ok this post is really long la... shall stop here!