It must've been like... 30 billion years since the last time I played pool. Why? Well, I owe it all to Keith, my cousin, who introduced me to the cousin of that game I used to love so much - snooker.

People who plays snooker would most likely say that snooker is so much more challenging than pool, and as a snooker player myself, I'd think that way too. But wait! There's more to it. Being more challenging doesn't mean being more fun, as it could be very frustrating sometimes playing snooker. 1st there's the smoke as snooker centres are usually full of imbeciles trying to smoke their lungs into bronchogenic carcinoma (that's lung cancer to you and me). 2nd, Keith's just so cocky at times, and he's simply too good. He could start at a very low point of negative 40 and still win. Maybe it's just that I'm too weak. But anyhoo... he's not a very patient teacher, and playing snooker with him is a pain in the ass.

So Rong and Shin were telling me about playing pool at a place I hadn't been to before - Old Town Kopitiam. Even though I tried so desperately to save money, I couldn't resist the temptation of going to Ming Chu (near Jusco) for some decent chinese food and playing pool afterwards.

Let's skip the dinner part. Everything was fine and... well... boring, so to speak, till Kong and I got to the pool tables behind Old Town Kopitiam. We started playing while waiting for the girls, namely Rong, Shin, Steph and Jaz, to come. Heard they were buying durian in Jusco or something. So yeah, my skills were a bit rusty as I wasn't taking things seriously at the very beginning. Kong beat me twice, and both times I was left with ball number 12.

After a while the girls arrived. They started playing but no one wanted to break because Kong and I were watching. They finally did break, but were doing rather badly, I think. So i decided to act like I'm a pro and started teaching them the correct posteur for playing pool. In case you're wondering, I didn't go behind each of them and show them from behind how the pose should be, though what wonderful experience that would've been >:)

Anyways, Kong and I started playing again when we started to get a lil' bored of their (the girls') game. This time, I had the chance to get rid of ball number 12 early in the game and I did. And guess what? I won, haha! Rong was impressed, I guess, but later Kong got a phonecall from his girlfriend, and he had to step out of the place so that he could talk in a mushy manner to his girlfriend without being teased till death by us, while I decided to do a lil' more coaching.

Incredibly, both Rong and Shin were rather fast learners, and they pick things up very quickly. In no time at all I have witnessed both of them doing shots that even I had no confidence in perfecting. Not bad, not bad at all!

Well, of course I'm not such an unfair person. I also taught Jaz and Steph how to make good shots and all, but the way Jaz's left hand (the one that supports the cue) never touches the table was really funny and hopeless. I kept seeing her having the correct angle but still miss the shot because the moment the cue shot forward, it became slanted to one side. I tried teaching her as much as possible to a point where I think she kind of got pissed off and sent the cue ball towards my finger which was still pointing at the part of the table to show her where the cue ball should be headed. She almost had my finger flattened between 2 balls.

On the other hand, Steph wasn't too happy having me around either, I think, as she was kind of frustrated when I managed to help Shin and Rong score a bundle. I tried helping her but she's got some problems with her posteur. Not that she could help it anyways, as she's wearing something that would expose the twins if she's not careful. I tried to look elsewhere and look innocent, and I hope she buys it.

So after some turns, Steph got really frustrated and went out to get a bottle of... not sure if it was a Carlsberg or Heineken. It made my mouth water, nonetheless. Seriously... I would surely love to have a bottle of those, if the price hadn't been so expensive! Curse our government! Why do we need to buy booze at such a high price just because the "earthly prince" of this piece of land are not supposed to drink alcoholic drinks (which they still do)? Lame! Go on and cover your eyes and ears and say it's not happening, you bloody stupid ostriches! Go bury your heads underneath the sand!

So as I was saying, Shin and Rong were doing very well, while Jaz and Steph were struggling to get the balls into the pockets. So finally, after some 4 or 5 games, they decided that it's time to go back and I thought I'd check on Kong. Coincidentally he just got off the phone with his girlfriend, so I challenged him to another match which the girls stayed and watch, hehe. Well, maybe it's the girls, or maybe just my luck, I won again, this time anihilating Kong totally. I didn't mean to, but everything just went well for me in that game.

Poor Kong was complaining to me later that nobody saw his victories earlier on because the girls weren't there yet, and the 2 games that I won were played when the girls were watching. Well, what can I say? Better luck next time? Hehehe! I went home, feeling deeply satisfied having played a game that I have always loved ever since I touched the first cue stick of my life.