Oh what a day....



I won't exactly say that this is a day I've been waiting a long time for, but at the back of my head, I have always been wondering when we will meet again. It has been 2 whole years. So many things have happened since. I wondered what you look like now... whether we'll get along the same..... what we are going to talk about?

Though the meeting was a short 3 hrs, it was lovely, pleasant, simply a joy. You seem like still the same wonderful girl I adored so long ago. We had lunch at a neat french brasserie, chatted like old friends, caught up with each others' lives, promised to see each other soon... though soon may be another 2 years. It feels that in a way I know you well.... but then maybe not.... afterall, counting today, we've only really met each other for 9 times. It could very well be the case of us always being on our best behavior whenever we meet each other. Oh well, not like that is very important.

More importantly, this meeting seems to bring to a close a chapter of my life that was never properly completed. The end, while not ugly, was abrupt. I'm glad to see that you still look great, and doing fairly well in your life.... it was great meeting up.


That afternoon, xt & I finally had a chance to test out what we had been preparing for the longest time - playing hold'em at a casino. It certainly felt like a fish out of water in the beginning. Though along Champs-Elysees, it is not your typical pretty LV casino where it is luxuriously decorated and spacious. This was cramp, messy, and made to be just sufficient in terms of ops & deco.

To get a seat on a table, you actually have to bug the runner to write your name on a white board; not unlike when you play pool at a pub and have to write your name on the chalkboard if you wanted to play. We then had to wait rather long for a seat.

There are all sorts of people here, who are of course all strangers, so that feels different as well, especially when we are so used to playing with our frens. You try to check out the crowd and get a read on what type of people we'll be playing with, but there are simply so many of them.... you brain can't process it so quickly.

Then add to the fact that we were about the few handful of asians there, and probably the only asians there who don't speak French. At least the Americans don't stand out that much you know....

So we played at this 2-4 euros blind table, and did pretty well I must say. Other than getting some experience playing real poker, I think we managed to get an accurate read of the type of table we were playing at, and how best to play against it. Not to mentioned getting paid abit for all this.... haha... So we'll definitely try to go back a few more times to validate our strategy, gain more experience and hopefully make some extra pocket money along the way....

It was certainly a great day... one of the more eventful ones I've had....

- DD