About two weeks ago, our team was told that we were selected to play in a Junior Mens All-Star competition to raise money for charity. I didn't really take it in that much when we were told. I thought it was just another short tournament or something with all the junior mens teams playing. On arrival to the venue, I found out that it was actually only one game, with the best from our competition versus the best from the Salvo's competition (The Salvation Army for those who are aussie-slang impaired :P)

Our team consisted of team members made up of...
4x Eclipse (Andrew, Nas, Vince, Myself)
3x Kings
2x Cougars
2x _______ <-- Sorry.. don't know what team they were from >.> lol players #20 and #24

At about half time, the score was roughly 37 to 31 in their favour. At halftime, the three point competition started... Andrew and a player from Kings (Freeman) represented the Riverview All-Stars. It was eventually won by some random not even playing in the game so we will end the discussion about that here.

After halftime, we picked our game up. Lots of drives, lots of foul-drawing and a fantastic steal by Nas. Vince was there giving it his all with great rebounds despite the height advantage our opposition had. Andrew was just plain cleaning the court with his sharp passes and layups. I contributed with a lot of boxing out, defending and stuff... Nothing amazing, but it helped the players that were good at scoring, so I don't mind. Basketball is a team game after all :P

The final score was 50 to 54 in favour of the Riverview All-Stars. I was stoked! I really didn't think we'd get anything more than the feeling of a great win, but we were each awarded with a shiny golden medallion :D On the back it reads:

---Community---
All-Star Series
-----2008-----
--YOUNG GUNS--
--CHAMPIONS--

That really made my day. Maybe even made my week. I don't really win things very often, so it was really rewarding to get something like this, as simple as it is. Being selected to be part of the 'All-Stars' team was really rewarding too. Although I think I still have PLENTY of room for improvement.

Title is last night and today so far in a nutshell.

I went to see 21 last night with Caren. The movie was GREAT... until it slowed down for the build up to the climax. It was a pretty intriguing movie that broke a lot of the drama-streaks with comic relief. The part that slowed down had no comic relief, which is probably what made it feel like it was dragging on. That, and it was already after 11pm. The resolution was lame... I gotta admit. The music choice was horrendous at best. Opening music made me feel like I was watching a replay of an arcade game. It didn't really add to the situation... Especially since it was so bad it actually made you THINK of the music. The ending song... An opera group singing their rendition of the song "You can't always get what you want" by the Rolling Stones... RUINED!

Had our basketball game this morning. It was four of us against five of them... We beat them 37-10 last week with all our players present, so we were hoping of something akin to that. We were up 16 to 6 at Halftime, then I proceeded to screw up in the second half. A lot. Double dribbled once...two bad passes. Then I did my back in, so I'm now in a lot of pain where my spine meets my pelvis... Lower back for those who don't know anything about bones... It was terrible. It was almost the end of the second half and the score was 23 to 22 in the opponents favour. They drew a foul on Charles. He managed to get both shots in, bringing us up to 24 points. After that, it was a matter of keeping the ball off the opponent for the remaining 47 seconds left in the game. Once the ball got thrown out of court twice, we had the game. Ball was in our possession and they were down by 1. The buzzer rang. Game: Eclipse. It was kinda tough to deal with, only winning by one point. But we did only have four players, and considering how much I screwed up, we didn't do too badly.

I haven't posted in a few days... simply because my net got shaped (from getting Death Note / downloading stuff from Wii Shop Online / playing Mario Kart Wii online) and my net couldn't even handle loading my blog... lolz. Anyways, let's see...

I got home on Friday night and felt absoutely rooted... Had a shower then crashed.I woke up on Saturday afternoon at 2.40pm, missing my basketball game, which went terribly... However, I ended up going out later that night to go to Pot Black then Han's Cafe for dinner, then to Icey Ice again... I must say, Icey Ice really does give you a good sugar high! The sugar highs you get from that are cheaper than getting drunk, and more fun... and tasty XD What's weird is that the next morning I had the worst headache... But I've never had a hangover before? Icey-ice-over IMO...

All in all, was a fun night... had a great laugh. Went into Gelare that night to see who was working, and what do you know. SOMEONE has a huge hickey on their neck. It looked painful XD

Sunday I didn't really do much... My brother's friends came over and we all played Mario Kart. Great fun :p Then yesterday I just worked... There were 3 people on from 4-6, with a hardly any customers... Even one person could handle the traffic! Had a good chat with Jane though so it's all good. Got home and decided to play some Zelda: Twilight Princess :P (In case you haven't caught on yet, I play games a lot to pass the time.....) It's a nice improvement over previous games, with a lot of added stuff! It's not a big improvement over Ocarina of Time though... But then again, it's hard to improve on a near-perfect game.

I was starting to get a little annoyed at the difficulty of Mario Kart Wii on 150cc mode / unlocking expert time trial ghosts... So I decided to try using the Gamecube controller on a whim. All I can say is WOW. I went from a D-grade, Silver-trophy win on Special Cup 150cc to a 1 star rating, gold trophy win in the same cup/class. Then I did the Lightning Cup for the first time and got a double-star rating on my first try! The improvement was huge! Wii Wheel is fun and all... but it just doesn't cut it sometimes :(

Today I'm doing my first ever Tuesday shift since I started work at Gelare... First ever day I'm going to sell half priced waffles XD Should be interesting, despite being during the 'quiet time.' Anyways, I must be off... Gotta do some shopping and grab some lunch before my shift starts. Adios!

Okay, so I went to play basketball today and started off pretty crappy... Missing shots from under the ring is inexcusable.. But once I got my groove I was boxing out and defending pretty damn good. Towards the end, when we were playing with 4 Eclipse (name of the basketball team I'm a part of) players against 4 other regulars at the Canning College courts and we came out on top. I think I managed to score 3 of the 9 points required to win, so I was feeling pretty happy about that.

After that we headed to Makan Cafe in Vic Park. Had some decent Mee Goreng there, and 2 glasses of Teh Tarik... Damn it's good! If you're ever in the area, go to Makan Cafe and get yourself some Teh Tarik... I prefer the cold version :P (It's near Icey Ice, across the street)

Speaking of Icey Ice, I finally went there for the first time today. It was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo gooddddddd!! I tried Oreo, Strawberry and Mango flavours and I have to say that the Mango one was the best. The Strawberry and Mango one came as the "Twin Towers" thing.. Roid made the smart joke of holding a spoon and saying "Here comes the aeroplane!" while zooming it around... I found it hilarious. Maybe I'm an asshole for that, but oh well. If you don't get it, it's probably better that way :P After that whole episode I was on a high, most likely sugar induced, but it was fun all the same. Probably one of the better food-outings I've been to in a while, in relation to food enjoyment <-> cost.

Ooh, and I finally got my Wii online this evening, and ended up versing Quanny in a few races :D I think the record was 2 - 2 as far as GP(Grand Prix) wins goes with just the two of us competing... He got so lucky with those red shells! Hax imo... In one instance, I had a fake item square guarding my back, and the red shell went right through it! And then there's Rainbow Road....................... I hate that stage. If you want to beat me in a stage on Mario Kart, that's the one. I hate it with a passion. I hope it dies in a fire. A very hot, scalding fire that's hot enough to sear it to a charcoal black but not hot enough to incinerate it within an instant. >_> Hate. I also ended up doing a few games online, one GP against Aussies only, where I averaged about 3rd place in most races. Another GP I did against the rest of the world... Something like 2 people from Japan, 2 people from Holland/The Netherlands, 6 people from America, 1 guy from Sweden and myself. I averaged second in most races.. The guy who averaged first in the races was from Japan. They had a female Mii.. So they might have been female. Whoever they were, they were nuts! Something like 8000 points to their name as opposed to everyone else's 5000-7000.

Anyway... Does anyone have Death Note? I can't find the series anywhere!!! I got to episode 13 or something then no more :( Also looking for any good comedies... Or any other anime with the amount of amazing twists and turns Death Note takes :P Speaking of anime, in the video store I went to today with Roid so he could drop off some vids... They called the anime section "MANGA TO RENT". OH EM GEE. I wanted to shoot whoever put that there. Let it be known now.

Manga =
Japanese Comics, or comics in general

Anime =
The animated form of these comics. May or may not be inspired by a Manga, but generally refers to animations from Japan, made in a Japanese/Anime style

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