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Saturday, May 27

t.o.w. the extended family

I won 11 bucks from mahjong yesterday!

10 cent, 20 cent, 30 cent! Not even compound!

Mahjong was hilariously fun. I played with my extended family members; my sister, my brother and his husband. Very fun indeed.

Must play more this hols.

Sheena, Yingcheng and Wilson make the post-bowling days easier. Sheena laughs at everything I laugh at, Yingcheng is what we laugh at and Wilson just feeds Yingcheng with material. I just laugh like a hyena over and over again.

I think I'm still oblivious to the fact that my non-studying and bowling days are over.

Today I unclipped my bowling keychain from the bowling bag to my pencil case. I'm hoping its symbolic.

Mahjong anyone?
kenn thwacked an asshat munchkin' at 10:56 PM

Tuesday, May 23

t.o.w. I can hang with the big boys

I can definitely hang with the big boys.

Just wait and see.

Food poisoning and lethargy aside, luck and desperation on my side and yes, I definitely can hang with the big boys.

This past week has been a major flurry, I think I attended school for like 2 out of 6 days. Everything has just been about bowling and its weird because I now find non-bowling days empty and insipid. The days really rock on by when its spent laughing with Zhiyong about his weird movements, with Sheena and all the ranting about how everything from the lanes to the coach to the balls and to the competitors are wrong, and with the juniors about the stupidest stuff in the world.

I'm glad to say hwachong bowling is one damn bonded family. I'm not one to lie and boast like how others don't mean it cos we definitely have floaters who arent the least bit committed to the sport and I'm not just saying it for saving grace because of how badly we've been bowling. I'm saying it cos I mean it to the extent that I'm not even looking to nationals on thursday but rather the gathering we have after that.

And about nationals. I guess its come what may now.

We all started brimming with so much expectations and hope and all aimed and targetted that elusive 4th. Sad to say, 4th and any other top 8 positions have probably really eluded us now. Not that I'm gonna give up here cos thats now how we operate. Damn, even if we knew 10 perfect games couldnt save us from last place, we would still be bowling to the best of our capabilities. (Not that we are last, we arent that bad). But heck it man. Hopefully by thursday I'll be fine and back on my jumping feet from this son of a stomachache and hang with the big boys man! I don't dare say I'm as consistently good as them cos I'm not, but when I'm on form and turn into my little striking machine, I'm as good as just about any SA/TJ/RJ/AC bowler on form out there.

All I need is that liitle oomph luck.

Please please pleasseee be a dear and take 5 secs to wish me luck if you read this. I LURRVE YOU.

We will strike!
We will spare!
We will win!
Kick some ass!

Tomorrow we have a mini outing so I'm happy.
kenn thwacked an asshat munchkin' at 7:59 PM

Monday, May 15

t.o.w. the pride swelling

OHMMMMMM.

Everybody say OHM. Everybody lets OHM.. Everybody lets Ogre-bash SA, lets Harras AC and lets Mutilate Squad C!

I am all for fair play. Wee!

Hmm. Tomorrow is the first day of bowling nationals and even though I've tried my darndest to try to not stress out myself too much before tomorrows big day by watching survivor and desperate and all other kinds of crap, I am still OHMming (meditating) every minute and second. At least I feel quite at peace now. But I sure as hell know that when tomorrow comes and the signal goes for me to lead hwachong in the first throw, I will be shaking like a tutti-frutti on jello-mello legs.

Its fun though.

I hope everyone bowls well tomorrow. Honestly, I get jealous and frustrated with myself during training whenever others bowl better than me. But I know that won't happen tomorrow because its a team effort and the better they play, the better for me, for the team, for the squad and for the school. Tomorrow is singles so our scores won't be covering that much but everything still adds up to that elusive 4th place position that we are fighting for. The people in school shun us for knowing that we are fighting for 4th and the bowlers in other JCs don't even see us as a threat because we are a relatively inexperienced team. But I say to hell with them. We know what we want and its not a lofty ambition. If we all bowl to the best of our abilities then 4th is definitely not impossible. And for those who think 4th is nothing to brag about then I quote Sheena when I say this but 4th medals arent made of gold, silver or bronze, they are made of tenacity and fighting spirit that is so evident in hwachong.

We arent a main contender for the title, but we can black horse our way through cos even though we don't bowl as well, no one measures up to us in any magnitude, the amount of togetherness and grit we share as a team. We're as different as strike and spare. They are the lucky strikes and we are the grounded, consistent spares.

Swell with pride bowlers, I say swell with pride.

We're gonna make it!
kenn thwacked an asshat munchkin' at 11:32 PM

Saturday, May 13

t.o.w. i'm wronged

How dare you.

After everything thats been going this couple of days. YOU ARE INDEED THE ONE TO TALK. To just sit there and bark words of insanity and insobriety is not only stupid but really reflects moral depth and the small dimension that you live in.

The world does not revolve around me but it sure as hell does not revolve around you or any one else for that matter either.

Maybe next time you talk to me, you might want to think about that.

Crap, your stupidity marred the nice day where I got my 2nd 5-bagger and saw dozens of kids smile like summer.

So much for tomorrow.
kenn thwacked an asshat munchkin' at 10:15 PM

Wednesday, May 10

t.o.w. the black horse identity

I need to focus and concentrate and slow down and throw straight and kek finger.

I realise that if I can do that, I am actually quite a good bowler. Haha.

After my first slump and that minor comeback, I find myself slumping again. Very bad indeed. It got so bad that I had to go to the medic lane for emergency treatment. He didnt really teach me much technically, but he thought me a lot on mental concentration. DAVID of course. Not Paul.

Historic I tell you, because not only did I hit 212 after that and then didnt fall too far off average to a 169, I also had SEVENTEEN consecutive closed frames. That was very nice and very good. I am proud of my two balls. *smirks

So it really all comes down to concentrating my butt off I guess. If I can do that, then maybe his prophecy will and hopefully hold water.

Please note how desperate I am in trying to bowl well. You should feel for me and bring everyone you know down to watch nationals. I will love you very very much. Not that way, you hopeful freaks. =D

Oh well. Still, the thing is, you can train all day hard and long, but at the end of the day, it all comes to nothing if you don't make the winning shot. Tssk. =(=)

Bowling is my life for the next few weeks. Everything else can wait.
kenn thwacked an asshat munchkin' at 7:52 PM

Saturday, May 6

t.o.w. I'm back!

I think I am.

At least I hope I am.

In the long run, I pray.

I AM FINALLY BOWLING BETTER. Ever since my ground-breaking breakthrough an entire month ago, I'm finally back to hitting an average that is not 130++. The past few weeks were dark times because I never knew if I would recover from that slump. So I hope and I pray that this new found upward momentum is here to stay up till 26 May. Please come support bowling nationals. 16 19 23 25 May. And maybe 26 May if all the SA bowlers forgot to hand in their registration form, if all the RJ bowlers got sued for beating HC in just about everything and of course if AC got accused of wayanging too much with their balls in midair when bowling. Yea. Haha. Anyway. The past few weeks were really bad. I QUESTIONED MY EXISTENCE AND THE PURPOSE OF MY LIFE and those are things that I never do. So I'm glad that is just behind me now.

I hope the opposition wins a few seats in parliament. I don't dare say too much because I heard the Minister in charge of the people who monitor the internet is going to look into how blogs and podcasts have affected the GE. I think thats just crap. Don't mind me saying, but I really don't think we need to be grandfathered. Anymore of that and we just might regress. I hear the PAP campaigning vehicle coming around to thank the people for their of-course guranteed win at AMK so I shall shut up now.

You know I still have like 20 million things to complain and rant about how stressed I am because of nationals and school work and stuff but I think it'd be insignificant really because I cant't even get them organised in my head let alone write about it. I just sincerely hope I'm back.

I'm still lost in my thinking though. I recently wrote two crappish essays.

But I bought OTH Season 2 dvds today. It might just make me fall back into broody moody poody season again. =(

I love that the entire team is with me as we prepare for nationals. Vappy, Shaojie my partner, Janice, Banana, Zhiyong, Joy and the other J2s as well as the J1s like Aikling, Youxin, Wilson and Yingcheng (All of whom I find extremely amusing). Its nice to know that you can go through crap alone in school and in class and then all that just goes away when all of us come together with laughter and cheers.

I hate to have to admit this but I've been living the past few weeks and probably will live the next few, training by training.

It's a bittersweet emotion. Oh well.

I hope I bowl well.

Yea. I think this entry is 100% true. Its nice.
kenn thwacked an asshat munchkin' at 10:08 PM