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testasd . Mar 05 2008 05:49. Posts 0

So here it is then.. the long entry.Like I said earlier in a small post, I have been sick lately and away from home. I went to Vlissingen (place of birth), to visit family and catch up etc. When I came back I was feeling kinda sick, but nothing extreme. Boy was I wrong. On Monday fever hit me full throttle. Sweat was literally dripping from my face and I spent most time in bed, trying to recover. It lasted a couple days but now Iâ€™m feeling great again. First things first, I was gonna put in a long entry about a tennis tournament here. One of the more fun days in the past months! I did get to do some stuff while being sick though. I recorded some sick lethal rap:<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AKjEangX15w"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AKjEangX15w" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>ABN Amro Tennis TournamentItâ€™s the biggest tournament Holland offers and one of the favorites of the proâ€™s themselves. I been there a couple times when I was young and innocent, but thatâ€™s like 8 years ago. I was really excited about it. Also, this was gonna be Raemon Sluiterâ€™s last professional tennis tournament. People were anticipating this match greatly. Sluiter is the crowds favorite in Holland, which you can clearly tell from watching Davis Cup matches. I watched a ton of them always and I share those feelings.All the more happy I was when Jaco, a friend of Sluiter, invited me to come to the match. I met them in the week before the tournament and so it was very cool to invite me <img src="http://my.pokernews.com/i/smiles/laugh3.gif" alt="Laugh" />. Jaco said there other people coming along, specifically from the world of snooker. They showed up at my apartment around 3 pm, sick life. Half woken up and half dressed I opened the door and at first I thought â€˜oh fuckâ€™. Everyone was well-dressed and my apartment was a pile of garbage. Then I thought â€˜fuck itâ€™, itâ€™s just the way it is and the only ones I clean up for when they drop by are my grandparents. Luckily, they didnâ€™t mind at all and loved the way my â€˜bachelorâ€™s padâ€™ looked.Little did I know, these two gentlemen were greats from the world of Snooker, and now also Pool. Jan Verhaas, who is basically the best Snooker referee out there. If you see a big match on TV, itâ€™s highly likely he is ref. The other was Tony Drago, long-time top Snooker play and #4 in the world in Pool as we speak. We had some coffee here and then went to play some pool. Was really fun and we had some drinks. Tony Drago had his first drink in 6 years and was hammered pretty fast from drinking a couple Baileys. We played a game of pool and I won with some cheesy 9-ball combination ZOMG! When he wanted to rematch I obviously declined, securing my winning record against a top pool pro by doing so. Ship it.We went to Ahoy in Jacoâ€™s car and had some food in the VIP Village. During dinner I met Richard Kraijceck, which is cool, cause Iâ€™ve been a fan of him since I was a little kid. He is basically the first player I watched when I started to follow and figure out tennis. After dinner we got ready to attend the match. Jaco had tickets for Kraijcecks VIP Box, so our seats were sick. We shared the box with Sluiters family, who were of course attending his last performance(s).The MatchHe was playing Llodra, a young talented player who was running good lately. It was kinda weird. I just met Raemon but I was really, really nervous. I wanted him to win so bad and sitting there with his family and friends only made that feeling stronger. You get a glimpse of the whole world behind a top athlete and the importance of every performance. The match begun and people feared it would be over soon. Llodra won the first set with 6-1 and was playing like there was no tomorrow. He basically had 1 unforced error the whole first set. He hit everything and I hated him for it.Then the second set the match really started. Sluiter was getting a better rhythm in the match and then one of the most intense moments I ever had in sports was borne. My god, I was literally shaking and my hands were sweaty. The crowd went completely crazy, supporting Sluiter. The whole hall was filled to the top, close to 10,000 attendants. The cool thing about watching a tennis match, is that you can hear a pin drop when points are being played. Then as soon as the point has been played, the hall explodes and you hear 10,000 people screaming their lungs out. The second set went to a tie-break, which was o so fitting. I think I hadnâ€™t been that nervous since Holland and Brasil faced in penalties in 1998 World Championship. (fuck brasil holla)Here is an example of people exploding thinking Sluiter hit an Ace. It's quiet, he serves, people think he hit an Ace, they explode.<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JH7IlwYdW5A"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JH7IlwYdW5A" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Unfortunately he lost the tie-break. However, to me it didnâ€™t really matter. Of course I would have loved to see him win, but the match was sick ass cool and the crowd loved it and showed their support. They had a cool closing ceremony to thank him for everything he has done for Dutch tennis. After that we hung out a bit and talked about the match. Around midnight Jaco offered to take me home, but not before Drago, Jaco and me went to eat some Chinese. Christ did they love duck <img src="http://my.pokernews.com/i/smiles/laugh3.gif" alt="Laugh" />.Later that week we went to another couple matches at Ahoy. We saw Llodra play again, also Nadal and Davydenko. Most fun that day was playing padel. I was with Jaco and Lisette and they introduced this sick ass action game to me. My goodness, I was dying, but with a smile. Itâ€™s an action packed mix between tennis and squash basically. Here is a highlight vid from it.<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BWqH3agMxEA"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BWqH3agMxEA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Jaco hit the most impossible ball at the end of the match. Like, fuck, itâ€™s even hard to explain it. He was running to the back of the field following a lob and then with a flick of his wrist sent the ball racing towards our side with his back towards us. Was sick.After the match I went to Vlissingen and came back home sick.PokerI played some poker when I got home, well some, I ended up doing another 45 hour session. I started out with some tourneys which went well. Finished 3rd in the 50 rebuy on T6 Poker. I had some minor cashes on Pokerstars, but nothing special. Then I played some cash games on Stars, in which I also did good. I played heads up vs Bart Spijker at the end of the session, swing mania. Bart was believed to be one of the weaker high stakes players, when he just made his appearance on pokerstars. That was probably true, but boy did he improve. Playing him now is sick ass, high variance, and not just upswings now. He puts sick amount of pressure and every pot is a big one. Props to him for improving so quickly and itâ€™s fun to see, cause I like the guy a lot.The rest of the week Iâ€™ve been lying in bed like I said earlier. On Friday I did put in a lot of hours, which is good, cause I havenâ€™t been playing much. Pokerstars had a double VPP/FPP cause it was leap-day on Feb 28th. Yesterday I played some hu on 2-4 and 3-6 and that went pretty well too. I donâ€™t have any really interesting hands to show from the sessions, sorry.Guitar heroSince my last blog I have a couple of new achievements and stuff. I 100% FCâ€™d Generation Rock and metal Heavy Lady. On metal Heavy Lady Iâ€™m top 100 on the leaderboards in score, yay. Also a new No Doubt song-pack came out and I would recommend it! Sunday Morning is such a fun song to play. Oh, I made a list with my scores on Scorehero.com. I didnâ€™t put every score there yet, but Iâ€™ll gradually complete the list, so if youâ€™re interested check it out. I also finished the game on expert finally, fucking Lou.link to my scores page: <a href="http://www.scorehero.com/scores.php?user=126345&group=4&game=6&diff=4" rel="nofollow">http://www.scorehero.com/scores.php?user=126345&group=4&game=6&diff=4</a>Itâ€™s a good thing that I 100%â€™d a couple more songs. I needed the morality boost. More and more I was getting pissed off when I played bad, basically because I hate to suck at something I love doing. One time I was so pissed off when playing Evelyn online, I just walked away and went to bed. From her point of view it was as if I stopped playing, but she had no idea where I was going. I told her the next day I had internet problems cause I was kinda embarrassed. So NOW YOU KNOW, YES I LEFT PISSED OFF. Childish me, but fuck it I donâ€™t care.Tomorrow is my first session with a personal trainer. He trained Sluiter before he quit and he has a lot of experience with some big football teams in Holland. He is probably gonna kill the living shit out of me, but thatâ€™s kinda the point. Canâ€™t wait to start and I hope it improves the way I live. Hollaaaaaaaaaaaa. Maybe he can even teach me how to do this:<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UZAfSD1Misw"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UZAfSD1Misw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Hope you enjoyed reading it and if you didn't well.. your probably an idiot anyway.

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