Saturday, April 24, 2004

delirious

first off, i think yesterday there was a slight misunderstanding, although my friend did ask me stay out of the job thing i guess its ok. i'll find sth somehow cuz today they went for the interview and were told that from now till mid-may they would only work 1 day per week and then after that they would prob be slotted in for more days. so i guess good for them lorh. no hard feelings. i'll cancel yesterday's comments after i'm done with this.

secondly, i think i've just experienced the biggest comeback ever in my pool life. today, we had a match against ept. losing this would mean we would prob finish no lower than 5th and no higher than 4th. went into the match against a very strong line-up. and i guess it affected us mentally.

although benny got the first frame, by the 1st quarter we were down 1-3. galvin didn't really get a touch on the ball and i was a bundle of nerves, even my capt couldn't seem to get the rolls. 2nd quarter, and i won the only rack in it. (against jackson *MUHAHAHAHA should have seen his eyes go boggy when i cut the 11 in and perfect position for the 14) so end of 2nd quarter, we were 2-6 down. 3rd quarter was slightly better with galvin and james winning against their opponents and giving them a run for their money, 4-8.

that's when i said to all of them, that if we won all 4 racks in this quarter, it would be the greatest comeback we've ever seen. and guess what it did happen :D
-- first rack, benny was up against jackson. didn't take very long to send him packing ^^
-- then galvin against zhenjie, which was a game of chicken haha..pressure was mounting on both sides, and finally it took a great shot to the next step of escape.
-- then it was me against eugene, (who btw has quite a record) he broke and scratch in the top right pocket and i went for stripes (9 in the left side pocket), then i then tried to cheat the pocket for the 13 but my shot was full in the face and i was stuck in the jaws of the top left pocket. played a safety on the 11, leaving cueball on the rail but he elected to go for a long shot on the 1 (which he made, beautiful shot!) and then straight on the 6 (which i thot he was out of position for) he confirmed my doubts when he started to address the cb with high left. just as he was stroking before he hit the shot, galvin said this to james, "i hope he does sth crazy like pot the black". as though he heard galvin (which i'm sure he couldn't have, cuz i didn't hear him either) he hit the 6 and two things happened. one, the 6 rocketed in. two the cb hit the 8 and the 8 went right in as well. incredible! :P so now the scores were 7-8 and we needed the last rack to hold for the draw.
-- james was up against anthony and it was anthony's break, he broke, made a ball and ran 3 balls before missing. james came on and ran 3 balls and then left himself hooked. he played a safety, anthony got out of it made the next 3 balls and missed on the last one. james took the ball in hand made a ball and then incredibly missed the 5. anthony made his ball, then galvin said that he hoped anthony would scratch on that shot, and he did scratch leaving the 8 on the table and ball in hand for james. james then made the 1 and over ran the position for the 5. he had to use a bridge to stun the cb out. (lol you could see his hands shaking from the tension) he made the shot and perfect position for the 8. potted the 8 and the comeback was complete.

unbelievably we managed to take all 4 games to tie the score at 8-8. thank God for that. like i believe without Him i wouldn't have won my racks or that my team would have drawn.

feelin so high now :P and when i went fong seng for supper the police tried to give out summons hahaha.. saw the pple just rush out to clear their cars away rofles. made for good entertainment before my food came.

match tmrw against pck and i hope to win at least 3 out of 4 of my racks (though i wanna win all 4! :P )

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