soul searching

grand opening was over. perhaps not many people would understand what our team has went through over e past 1week or so. has been real busy with preparation especially with e arrival of "ah-gong" aka mr. sheldon g. adelson, e whole establishment simply turned every single stone over to make sure it's cleaned, oh hell yes, that digusting.

during this period of time, i've did lots of soul searching as well. not because i wanted to but e people whom i've met during this period of time really inspired me. actually, not really inspired but i would say, finally there's someone who knocked some senses into me! i almost forgotten what i really want and what i really can do, not until senses-knocking session hit. i nearly lose a battle which i could easily win. well, i've recovered from e crisis and back as a better person now. ironically, it's e motherhand from las vegas and macau who saved me from drifting away. they should know who they are and i am really thankful.

not sure if anyone of you has ever known someone who's trying to be good but no matter how seriously they want their life to be back in a proper manner, they will always encountered obstacles? i've met a couple of such people in my life. in e news recently, a local artist was once again in e spotlight - for e wrong reason. i wouldn't say i really know her well. i got to know this artist through our common friend some times back.

anyway i feel that we could have better control our attitude, not as in being sarcastic but be sincere. even if you're telling someone off, be sincere about it. i believe e person would be able to accept it, be it instantly or gradually. that's jun's philoshy. junphilosphy would definitely attracts doubts and debates but hey, why not give it a try? would you want your everyday to be a stressful one? would you want to invite fights and arguements everyday? think about it. life could be some much easier.

wiser

getting wiser comes JUNE every year. ya ya, its my birthday. this year, i celebrated my birthday with a new group of friends - new colleagues threw me a surprise lunch celebration during lunch. and also received a gucci wallet from my beloved wifey too. these days have been really tiring and busy. probably will write more after 23 june - MBS Official Opening. lastly, birthday wish? world peace.

back again

back to e island for e second time this year. this morning was a different group of accompany but e pleasure was there. i appreciated everybody's participation. credit definitely goes to mr. sim. for this trip, i brought my new toy along. practically i am e photographer for e day. although many shots were taken at e most perfect moment, i am not satisfied with e pics - finding them over-exposed. well, hopefully that could be fine-tuned overtime. world cup has come. late nights... may e best team wins. peace-out.

fast week

e past week had been wonderful. futbol under e sun... e usual tasty cafe latte... well, e week passed so fast that i couldn't have a chance to reflect on what i've missed out actually. you know some weeks pass real slow and i am dragging my day but god was kind to me this week though.

over e forever-looking-forward weekend, its e DVD week! my DVD collection welcomed another 24pieces of movies! to raise e celebrative mood to another higher level, i bought a long-overdued DSLR!! deng... deng.... his name is Canon EOS 500D! hey kid, welcome to e tan family!

coming week would be another new week of actions - event approaching and to satisfy e ego of e big men at e venue, i think i would have to stay low and do my freaking job which i would deem as MY OWN AREA OF JOB... e rest i would let e nature takes it course and finally, GOD BLESS!

killabala

attended killabala at e cage today. other than e wass & gautier from paris, i met lots of local freestylers. street freestyle futbol is still very new to singapore. if you're going to say there are only a handful, lets say probably 20pax of local freestylers around in singapore, today i met 7-8pax of them at e carnival. they were awesome with e tricks. each of them put in 2-3hrs of training time aday to reach their current standard. For a man who's reaching 30s and placing work as his priority, that amount of training time does not work for him - no time sia. i'm glad that i met all of them here but i would bet my last penny that my only practising time would be e time where i'm warming up for a futbol session - that could be those east coast futsal session or once in a blue moon 11-aside sunday game. anyway, my vision and passion for e beautiful game has risen to another higher level. good news for me myself but definitely a bad news for my wifey.

footballers from paris

missing out on a session with sean, e world greatest futbol freestyler last year, this time round god was kind to e young man here and this humble young man was granted his wish of mingling with sean's team, S3 Society - watt (pronounce as what) who was on e right of e pic & gautier (pronounce as go-T-air) on e left of e pic!

e guys speak english and we exchanged some ideas on futbol as well. among e two, gautier seems more approachable as he enlightened me on some of e tricks by showing and correcting me. some of e tricks which were taught to me were so hard but strangely this morning, all e tricks which i've learned from them looked so easy!



getting involved in such occasion was really enjoyable. all e while i am observing e performance which was put in by e french by e side, hell it was so easy for them to execute some ground moves and even tricks in e air! especially when "panna" was done, opps well "panna" is kind of move where futbol players push e ball pass in between opponents' legs, domestically we call it "LOBANG"! in europe, it's actually a big game where 2 players trying to LOBANG each other. nobody cares about scoring but see who can skillfully push e ball pass e legs and that's a win. you guys can catch lots of that in e youtube!

friday is e killabala at e cage, probably i should drop by to enjoy e moment of freestyle. quotation of e day... "do we strictly need to juggle a size-4 ball for freestyling?" asked jun... gautier replied, "not really, if you're confortable with e normal size-5, just go ahead, it's freestyle...frrreeeeeeee......"

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