we are the champions!

we had our annual billiards tournament yesterday and our team won! we dominated the women's division with 3 of our players reaching the semis and had 2 players in the finals of the men's division.
from our team's perspective, that's a good thing as we rack up majority of the points yesterday.

from an individual standpoint, it sucks... i played well enough to make it all the way to the finals undefeated only to lose it all on the final shot. you see, the score was 6-6 in a very tightly played final. 1 ball left and i was on the table, left with a shot i'd make all day and probably even in my sleep. problem is, when i shot the 9, i was expecting it to disappear into the upper left corner pocket and not to bobble at the pocket's jaws like it did. i lost 7-6 but our team still won so i'm happy just the same. that's 2 years in a row for us. oh well, i'll get 'em next year!

after all the dust settled, ethel and i went to greenhills to wind down after 8 grinding hours in the pool hall. she bought around 6 different shirts in the tiangge and i got a really, really good class A copy of last year's real madrid jersey. we had dinner in italianni's after and had a couple of servings of the complimentary foccacia bread, baked zitti (which was superb!), and a watermelon shake. dinner was good but it could have been better given the loss but it's ok hehehe.

hunny, thanks for staying there all day with me. i know it was hard for you especially during the later stages when most of our friends already left and you had less and less people to talk to. i really, really appreciate it. i love you!

at least you got to watch a few of my matches with richie hehehe :)

here's a picture of us over dinner with a glimpse of the greenhills savings branch:

have a nice day y'all!