An Asian Tradition, Beer Pong

My buddy Dee and I decided we should black out last night; and black out I did.

Yesterday, Dee hit up the local sports store and bought some ping-pong balls. My favorite thing about the sports store is a large box they have in the window labeled "6 Second Abs." I feel that the name is either incorrectly translated or the Asians have come up with an unbelievably efficient way to tone your abs.

After work we got some Korean barbecue and had a few pregame drinks. We went to a local grocer and bought plastic cups and headed back to our neighborhood to play the inaguaral beer pong match of the 2007 season.

We lined up the cups and let it fly. The first game was definitely a game for the ages. It was back and forth the whole time until the end when Dee managed to pull away, and eventually made a shot into my last beer, almost ending the game. However, beer pong enthusiasts will remember that one is given a rebuttal opportunity to save their own ass and stay in the game. Dee still had two cups on the table which meant that I would have to make two perfect throws to send the game into overtime.

I set my feet, lined up the shots and made two shots under pressure. Local sports journalists have compared it to the Christian Laetner shot against Duke. Others have called me the Asian-American Tiger Woods (not to be confused with the actual Asian-African-American Tiger Woods.) I'm cool under pressure and have ice flowing through my veins (or beer) when the game is on the line.

I ended up winning the game, which is even more impressive when you learn that the game took place in Dee's apartment. It was an away game for me and I still managed to pull out a victory.

The beautiful part about beer pong is: although one player may be defined as the "winner" and the other as the "loser," there are no losers in beer pong. Everyone is afforded an equal opportunity to black out, thus we are all winners.

The beer we were using for the game was Cass Red. Cass is a beer I've been drinking ever since I arrived in this cooky land. It is basically a shitty Natural Light, but don't allow those words to convince you it is decent - it is a horrible beer. Recently, Cass has come out with Cass Red which is basically the same beer with twice the alcohol content. I'll be honest, it did the trick.

Somewhere around 1:00am we ended up at the convenience store buying more beer. The convenience store is about 100 yards from our apartment building and somehow I managed to lose Dee on the way home. I honestly have no clue how we got separated, but we managed to part ways and I woke up with two gigantic beers in my fridge and a minor pain in my head.

I don't remember coming home or how my night ended - a textbook case of blacking out. I set a goal for myself at the beginning of the day and I accomplished it. Let this be a lesson to all of you, if you set a goal and really put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything. Reach for the stars!

Love from Seoul