It was Burnin' Up at Buona Vista's Ulu Pandan Community Centre today, simply because it was West Coast Classics 2009.
Yoyoers from around Singapore came to participate/support their fellow friends in the Competition, which was divided into the 1A Division and the Y Division.
The 1A freestyles were thrilling man! Each player got the audience at the edge of their seats as they pulled off some yabai* tricks.
My day started with the ringing of my phone's alarm at 7:30, followed by the rushing into the toilet to bath, change up and get ready to meet the other players at Woodlands MRT.
Quite glad this morning was much much cooler than yesterday's peanut butter-ish warm and humid weather. Took a train trip down to Buona Vista with the guys and then walked to the community centre.
We were the first players to arrive and had the whole stage for us to fool about on. Other players arrived like an hour or two later
(yes, we were that early). Okay, suddenly there at the doorway stood this cleaner auntie. She was shouting at us as though we killed her rainbow coloured pet elephant, like "WHY YOU OPEN ROOM! WHO SAY YOU CAN OPEN ROOM! ROOM CANNOT OPEN! ROOM CANNOT ANYHOW OPEN! WHY YOUR OPEN ROOM!" repeated the auntie in Mandarin. We were like "Wtf?" cause the auditorium was obviously opened by the organisers, how the hell would a bunch of kids be able to open a whole theatre just for the sake of spinning yoyos on stage?
Then my friend whispered to me, "Ignore the auntie, she's alittle crazy one, I recognise her from last year, the other staff also say so." Then suddenly the auntie came up to us and started provoking us with random statements like "Play that one no use la!" and we then decided to ignore her until she finally left.
The freestyles started at around 12.30pm, for both division's prelims, each player had to do a 1 min freestyle to convince the judges that they've got what it takes to proceed to the 3 min freestyle finals. From the serious look while practicing on Darell's face, you could tell that he was probably going to win.
Ironically, as the prelims went on, Wei Xuan got more relaxed from his nervousness while Darell got more nervous from his ever-coolness as his turns approached. As they took it out on the stage, they left the audiences with impressive jaw droppers.
And yes, expectedly, Darrell got 2nd place in 1A and Wei Xuan got 3rd in both 1A and Y. Winners were given a medal and a yoyo courtesy of
Spinworkx (Darell got a Duncan Crew Worldwide FHZ while WX got a Speedmaker and Aquarius)
After the main events were over, took part in a side competition where I had
to do 10 basic tricks in the faster time possible. Died real badly, but the fastest timing of all belonged to Christopher
(2 love).
Went to a nearby coffeeshop where we had dinner. Duck rice, yum yum! =P
Just the first taste of the dish and I can tell why the stall is so hyped about. Tried beancurd
(tau huay) from one of the stalls and I have to say that it's the smoothest beancurd I have ever tasted, honestly. It totally beats those famous stalls selling beancurd at $1.20 per container or so, costing only 60 cents, with silk smooth beancurd in a generous serving.
I'll try to remember to take pics before I eat next time =X
So yeah, moral of the story? Buona Vista coffeeshops = Good food!Long day today, just got home feeling tired. I can feel the fatigue taking over; I need some sleep soon. Thank god it's
Monday tommorow!
* yabai means crazy ( in a good way), usually used to describe tricks
