Sunday, March 23, 2008 . 12:42 AM

The feeling of playing in pouring rain is... Like having a sense of release... Of freedom. Of not having a care in the world.

I went back to RI to play soccer for the first time in about 1+ months... It was good to see all the guys again, and just play soccer without any worries. Somehow, with these guys, I don't feel the need to "prove" myself... Unlike playing with the M1 soccer team... I can just play for the heck of it you know? Making mistakes is okay, you won't die just cos you lose the ball... And with that worry eliminated... I guess it would make anyone a much better player. But that's what demarcates the better players from the average ones right, the ability to cope under stress... But I'm digressing.

Well halfway through the game it started to drizzle, then POUR... We were so gung ho that we just continued to play. The astroturf was flooded but still we continued to play... And it was fun, I tell you. Like I said, a sense of freedom, uninhibited release. Until the lightning came. Hahaha... Then it was a mad rush for shelter. :P

We spent some time in the shelter, trying to dry ourselves (all of us were DRENCHED), and complaining about how untimely the rain was, and blahblah... Some of the guys were crazy enough to go back out and kick the ball around, till lightning struck again, at which they ran like mad people back into shelter. Lolll. Quite funny.

I'm quite worried about my left knee... Nowadays when the weather gets cold, or when it's going to rain, the medial side of my left knee will start to hurt really badly... It's not like an ache or something... But a sharp pain that will come sporadically. Needless to say it gets worse when I play soccer, so well =\ I can't think of anything that I've done to it to make it like this though.

I scored twice again! Today I opened the scoring and closed it. Dunno why I can't hit hat-tricks but as long as I score, I'm happy.

After the match, Shuo Jie and I had dinner at J8's McDonald's, after that we just walked around, even checking out the not-so-new arcade at J8. There was a couple at the basketball game machine, they were like seriously quite sick. Everyone around was just looking at them! The girl was like a machine, shooting and shooting and getting most stuff in, but the guy was sicker. He was not even LOOKING at the basket, and he got an accuracy of 90%. O_O What do these people do in their spare time man...

We then went to Coffee Bean, where we sat, drank and chatted till 11 plus... I've missed talking to Shuo Jie like this man... Just sitting down talking about lots of stuff, ranging from BGR to comics to soccer etc... Most importantly we also share our problems and other concerns with each other. Even though we may not always have a solution for the other, but having a listening ear always helps... Shuo Jie is one of the few friends I have whom I can really talk to honestly.
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I just got Kanye West's first two albums. After watching the MTV "Touch The Sky", I was quite taken in by his music. He takes themes from famous songs of the past and uses them as his motifs for his songs. Rather interesting. I like the lyrics for "Touch The Sky" a lot.