Thursday, October 18, 2007 - pool - swimming with balls! : ord is in less than a week and i am so totally unfazed by it.

put me in a bunk in Tekong now and the recruits will probably rend me to pieces and stew me body for a meal. that's what happens when you get a posting that allows you to stay out - the value of ord gets diluted quite a bit. but what the heck, at least i don't have to put up with really random crap coming out of a certain individual's orifice and scream bloody blue murder over ridiculous and poorly thought-out instructions.

in any case, my ord farewell speech/essay/story will be up soon. in the mean time, i'll probably rave on about my new hobby.

POOL.

let's just say i've always had an interest in pool, except i never really acted on it. quite a pity if you ask me. so right now, i'm going to have to make up for all those years. i desperately need more practice. in fact, i'm contemplating heading to pool saloons and practicing by myself. but the secondary school examinations are just over, that means lots of juvenile delinquents are going to flood the pool saloons. annoying.

in a bid to get myself to really get serious with the sport of pool, i got meself a pool cue and case, with compliments from fabby giving me his old cue as a break cue. thanks dude :]

here's the cue i got from The Cue Factor at Pool Junction from their boss, Adrian.




it's a lovely Joss cue - traditional design and superb playability. the price is lovely too. 650 bucks. plus a cue case that's a replica of one that is custom made by Jack Justis (his custom made cases go into the thousand bucks each), which cost me 289 bucks. that's a totally of bout 930. almost 1K on this sport. i better make it count. hopefully i can get into the ranks of SMU's pool club. and maybe even play competitive!! but for now, it's a loooot of practice waiting for me.


C.K blogged at 9:12 PM