{"id":153,"date":"2005-02-07T19:46:15","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T19:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=153"},"modified":"2005-02-07T19:46:15","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T19:46:15","slug":"snooker-dim-sum-and-then-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/02\/07\/snooker-dim-sum-and-then-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Snooker, Dim Sum, and then Some"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally found a worthy alternative to pocket billiards. It’s called snooker<\/a>, or as I’d call it, pool without pockets. Last Friday, my labmate took me to a Korean billiards joint<\/a> in the Fenway, which can only be described as, in the words of 50 cent<\/a>, “so gutter, so ghetto, so hood”. The entrance is an unmarked door between a gay leather bar and a porno shop, and the place itself is located in the basement past a series of poorly-lit corridors, kind of what you’d imagine a gangster hangout to look like. At the end, I concluded that I’m just not smart enough for snooker. Between all the spins, banks, follows, and draws, I was completely drained after the 2.5 hours it took to complete two games. The rest of the weekend was a good mix of work and play, though I dreaded having to wake up early on both days. I spent Saturday morning interviewing some high school students for college<\/a> before a belated holiday meal with the lab over dim sum<\/a>, where I served my usual function as the Canto-translator. We even made it out to a club<\/a> that night (finally), which featured an eclectic but fun mix of dance music from hip-hop and old school rap, to 80’s rock and pop. Though exhausted, I scrambled out of bed again Sunday morning to chat with some Harvard<\/a> pre-meds over Dunster’s<\/a> famous Belgian waffles, paid a visit to the shops at Chestnut Hill Mall<\/a>, and concluded with some warm treats at a Chinese New Year party over at Amy’s. I’m not sure how much longer I can handle weekends like this. It’s tough just thinking about going back to work today…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally found a worthy alternative to pocket billiards. It’s called snooker, or as I’d call it, pool without pockets. Last Friday, my labmate took me to a Korean billiards joint in the Fenway, which can only be described as, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}