Main Characters
- Pablo
- Producer,
probably Italian, someone like Al
Pacino, this person is important as he will argue with Pablo while making the movie - Italian vs Mexican?
- Joe,
the Video Editor, who is mute and deaf, - gd friend of Pablo
- Naomi
- Doug, Talent
Scout
- Errol
- Coach
Lee
- Tobias-
yoga coach
- Female
Wrestler- not sure who yet? Need a
big female wrestler
- Wally
the pro, the hustler
- Chris
the kid
Summary of Movie (this is not
the marketing piece- just for ur info only. The marketing piece is 20 times
better)
Pablo, a successful but
struggling conceptual artist, met a Sports Talent Scout, who thinks he can get
him a sports sponsorship that will solve his financial problem for having a
baby with his wife. However he met some competition and have to beat a 12 yr
old kid in a ping pong match scheduled one month later to win the sponsorship.
And so begins his journey of self discovery through meeting of 5 strange coaches, to help him prepare to
beat the kid. Not only did he learn ping
pong, he discovers hidden secrets of life he never quite figure out throughout
his life as an scientist/engineer and conceptual artist. Though he lost the match at the end, with a
stroke of fortune, he met a film producer that helps him make this film.
Flow of the movie – the whole
film is Pablo narrating his life to the audience in real time while making the
film LIVE with the Producer and Joe, his video Pabloitor. The movie scenes
rotate between Pablo’s past, present, some funny documentaries, and real time
arguments in the studio between Pablo and the Producer while making the film.
Pablo,
I have finally finished the script, pls read this asap,
about 80pgs long (1 hr 45min to 2 hr film)- however it needs improvement based
on the reasons below:
1. The success of this movie lies primarily on you- the role of Pablo.
I think I know u well
enough so I script it to the best of my knowledge of u- the success of this
movies depends on your ability to act out the hyper, manic bi-polar personality
of yours, in speech and action.
The second most important is the cast. The chemistry between
u and the rest of the cast.
The audience must be able to relate to the Pablo character
early in the film- someone nice and friendly, but funny and crazy.
I also added a lot of
fictional facts about your family, your girlfriend Naomi, your grandma, which
we can change if u don’t like them. This
movie is supposingly
“based on a true
story”- bit it doesn’t mean we cant make it semi-true if it makes a better
movie. Ultimately, the audience must laugh, laugh and laugh, with tears in some
critical moments.
Some parts of the script I still need info from u regarding
ur family, so I leave ******, meaning we will add info.
The humor I still need to perfect- after u read this
draft, we will talk.
I just want us
both to agree on the Structure of the movie first. I can tone up the humor – make it more
intellectual or leave it stupid. Either way is fine I think.
2. This movie is marketed as a comedy on “ping pong as most evolved form of martial
art”, targeted towards the young martial arts fans, but with a strong Mexican
flavor.
However, the movie in essence is about you- your life story,
your philosophy of life, society, values, thinking – for eg your thoughts on
how ping pong will save the world.
3. Some parts of the script has ***** because I m still not
sure what to put. But this is easy and
wont take more than a few days.
- This
script is written without the camera effect, melody effect, music effect.
These will be done in the last stage and easily.
- I try
to Improv each character’s voice and personality when I wrote the script-
so forgive me if I didn’t get yours or Naomi’s correctly (eventually I
want to add some Mexican slangs to make the film more funny).
6. This is a first take
on the script- so pls read it quickly and feel free to email me on what u like,
why u dislike, and what u want to add or change, or delete.
I think it is a very organized script that depicts your view
on life and society.
7. Though I have proof read it 3 times, I wrote this 80 pgs
in a very fast fashion, so there may be still some structural errors, grammar
etc. But this is not important as the
actors will not follow the script “word for word” but will say the words in
their own way, demeanor, style and slang.
So as u read along, ignore the errors, if any. Just focus on the info.
8. It is funny how good ideas comes out only after one
finished the script. As I am sitting here writing u this note, an idea of
re-writing or adding a part where the ping pong match gets played in slow
motion with detailed humorous analysis of the “comments” of each player’s brain as the ball gets played out each pt in
slow motion- to depict the psychopaths behaviors and thinking that good ping
pong players go thru in their mind in a intense match. Will add that later
after we have our next salty magaritas and
cheesy nachos! Will like to meet
ur wife as well in our next drinkup. My treat, let me know when.
Name of Film : Pablo
Lee Ang Copyright
2012-2013
Pre-opener:1.5 minutes
Mexican Bull fight song with shoe tap dance sequence starts
off the film- shots of sunset rotating with a Mexican bull fight stadium- this 2 images interacting
with a repeated shot of “pong-paddle and ball in black and white”
Changes into 3 seconds shot
of a bull fighter against the bull, film transforming suddenly
Into a martial arts scene comes in with the music getting
louder and commanding.
The martial arts scene between 2 martial art practitioner
with paddles and balls as weapons, should be slightly humorous.
“pong is the highest from of martial arts, most evolved form”
Pre-opener music ends –this is to get the audience fire up
and excited about ping pong as most evolved martial arts
The first scene comes in as Pablo tries to introduce himself
in an uncomfortable, shy, awkward way.
Pablo: yes….ancient bull fights…..and ancient kung fu….and
the new kung fu - ping pong!…but what does all these has to do with a Mexican?
my name is Pablo, yes
Pablo- uar-do and….
Producer smoking a cigarette, looking at film slides,
interrupting: whoah whoah, wait there, listen to me, did u just put a spanish
bull fighting stadium in that preopening, I thought u r mexican, there is bull
fight in mexico?
Pablo: yeah yeah there are bullfights in mexico..
Producer: so why the hell it says Barcelona on the slide….
Pablo looking at his Joe, his video editor, who is startled
and making funny gestures back at him teasingly…
Pablo: no no its mexico, don’t worry, we fix it….
Producer trying to mimic Jo’s tease gestures twice: what is
this ? huh huh? Whats your problem, Its either we going to do this right or we
aint doing this, stop ^%$& wasting
my god damn time, so tell me what is this? (Referring to hand gestures)
Pablo: Ok ok calm
down , we got it , we got it , we goin to make jalapenos fall from the sky, not
spanish sausage, Mexican jalapenos ok?! ok relax! Calm down comparie…w e got it!
Producer calms down and gesture his hand to carry on….
Pablo: ok…my name is
Pablo, I am from mexico, and I come from a family of
8 brothers and sisters, and my grandparents come from a long
line of original mexico ancestry, from the ***period in the year ****.U know
what is ****?? No? it represents the old
fashioned traditional family who rules *****. And we come from a very strict
old fashioned culture, I remember when my dad……
Producer frowning at the length, stopped Pablo,
yelling: Cut cut! ok ok we know! Mexcico
very nice! Kapish! We are very short on time(pointing to his watch) ……so
Move on to the ping pong,
pls yeah? Yeah, kapish?
Good…. (heavy hand gesturing to Pablo)
Pablo:ok ok …no problem.
Just 30 minutes ago, I was
playing the match of my life. Yes ping pong (holding up a ball) is a beautiful
thing, I love this thing call ping pong, ping pong is my life, my
resurrection. Wait…Joe, play that
footage ! (Joe plays some footage 30 minutes ago of the match between Pablo and
Chris, focusing on their eyes, facial expressions, with background noise and shots of the table-ball etc) yes , this
little white ball is going to change the world, I mean truly change the world….
Producer: whoah whoah cut cut,…….more expressions pls
Mexican, ping pong is my resurrection,
it could truly change the world(raising his voice and hands)!
Pablo imitating: my resurrection and change the world…ok ok,
got it, I am going to do it my way, but
I got it ! I got it, comparieh!
Slide on atoms and ping pong balls will be used here.
Pablo: Ping pong is life= all the constant flow of energy,
of movement, and rhythm! All coming at you at different speed and angles! The
way the ball spins, up and down, resembles all elements of life, like oxygen in
the air, the molecules in liquids and the atoms moving invisibly in solids. The
Spins all resemble the energies flowing in the air, constantly. Its just that
we cant see it, not visible, but its there!
I m so addicted to
all these! The spins and the flow, the right and left, the ups and downs….like
the yin and the yang, the pluses and the
minuses, and also all inside my brain, the neurons and synapses, intertwining
and processing, spinning inside every
fiber of my being, similar to atoms inside every element throughout earth and
the entire universe!
I was always wondering why I m so addicted to this game- but
that’s it! When I play ping pong, I am
life! I am the universe! I feel the universe! I m feeling life, chewing every
moment of it and I don’t even know it!!.
Its like life on steroids! And yet so utterly clean and simple! A ball
bouncing on a table!
Pablo sarcastically: so
ping pong is my life, my resurrection, and I mean this little white ball
is going to change the world! I mean
truly change the world(rubbing the ball,
getting slightly sexual with Joe giving him the dirty looks) ….However, ping
pong is a fast game! the ups and downs happen in a flash, just like the high and lows of life! One moment u are
on top of the world, tasting the rainbow, but a few Errors a few seconds later,
u feel like an idiot who just swallow 2 mosquitoes! It is truly bi polar on
steroids! how fast things change! Boom!
Ka boom ! 30 minutes ago, I was playing
the most exhilarating match of my life! And
30 minutes later? guess what? I really hate this ball with a
passion! Such is the life of ping pong!
Scene moves back to the Pablo’s past-
Pablo:to really understand the relationship between me and
this little white ball, we have to go back to about 1 yr ago, where the story
really starts…..music please., put on something acoustic(snapping his fingers
and telling Joe to put on some gd optimistic upbeat music)
Scene fades out to a
yr back at a modest art gallery..
Pablo: I was a artist at this small gallery of mine in new
york…..and was doing financially well for yrs until the day of the Flying
Cockroach….yes! the day of the Flying Cockroach! so here we are, on the day of the Flying
Cockroach, roll the tapes Joe…
Drums comes on
Pablo was trying to sell one of his weird conceptual piece
to a old lady, the artpiece is a large fish tank enclosed with 3 living
organism: a fish in a bowl, an ant, and
a cockroach.
Pablo: ok u see, the
way this piece works is very simple…first u turn this lamp on and off a few
times to see the reaction of the fish, and then the tiny ant there and
afterwards the cockroach, yes in that same order, and then on the….
Lady:whats the name of this piece?
Pablo: what ?name? uh….wait…Naomi….(shouting to Naomi) whats
the name of this piece here?
Naomi is not in the background, shouting from a
distance: which piece?
Pablo: the one with the cockroach? The cockroach?
Naomi: ok..but which
one? U have so many pieces with cockroach.!!
Pablo:the one with the orange ant …and..and the fishbowl?
Naomi: Ant? what
ant? Oh the fishbowl! Yes …its call….the Mystery of Relative
Smallness-also call, also call something else!
Pablo:oh yes yes….the Mystery of Relative Smallness, or
there is another name for it,
“Don’t eat me because I m small”
Naomi: u sure there is an ant in the piece, how come I don’t
see it?!
Pablo: there! Its there, its in there, there! So that’s the name of the piece….so
Lady:so why the name, can u explain it…
Pablo: oh yes, yes, let me finish….so after u play with the
light here, on and off , on and off a few times, u go to the left side where
there is a gong, a Chinese gong. Here u gong it a few times with this stick
here…here, try it…
Lady:ok…..
Gong gong!
Pablo:ah ha…see… now u see how the 3 species react to both
the light and the sound…
Lady:ok …in what sense…whats the theory here?
Pablo:ok… very simple..ever wonder why this ant here is such an intelligent being and
hardworking, but still unfortunate enough to be stepped on by humans?
Lady:yeah?
Pablo: Or the cockroach here who has wings and can fly,
definitely more superior than human beings?
Lady:ok ok…?
Pablo: The moral of
this story is why isn’t there rights for these insects or fish when there is
human rights and animal rights and environmental rights and all the other
rights in the world?
Lady:ah..ok I got it , but why the light and gong?
Pablo: Ah u see, let me finish on my theory, maybe these
insects don’t have rights because they
are not sentient or civil enough. U know
having rational mind and rational behaviors and all that?
Lady:so u use the light to….
Pablo:yes yes u are very smart, my beautiful friend, the
gong and light is for u to think! To reflect! If these 3 spices should have any
rights, by u analyzing their rational reactions and behaviors to the light and
the gong…
Lady:oh watch out…that cockroach looks like it is eating
that ant…
Pablo jumped up and smack the glass a few times: don’t worry don’t worry, Cockroach don’t eat
ant…come here cuchi chuchi ...see still alive..
Lady:ok interesting….how much is this piece?
Pablo:for u? any
thing…..it was originally 50K at the auction, but it’s a easy piece, ehh.. for
u 5K is good..
Lady staring at him….slight disbelief…
Pablo: And I can name
the piece anything u want, we put your name on it, anything , and I sign it
too!
Lady convinced, taking out her purse to write a check..
Lady: ok ..one qn: how did u come out with this idea…
Pablo: ahh…long story…its kind of embarrassing..
Lady: it ok its ok..say it…
Pablo: ehhh.. u see one night , I am fooling around with my
wife, Naomi in bed..…and Naomi has
always been nagging me for a baby these days….so she try to convince me not to use a condom…well… she
already had one abortion before…and we have this argument always about
me killing unborn babies having sex with no intention of having a kid,
and whether my sperms are millions of babies, and me a mass murderer! I mean
look at me…. (camera close up on
his face) I look like mass murderer? Yeah ? yeah? And then we talk if sperms should have equal rights, u know like
the cockroach and the fish….
Lady: Ah..ah…most interesting…so whats the conclusion?
Pablo:ehhh…about what?
Lady:if your sperm have any rights?
Pablo:oh ohh..we haven’t conclude yet..we still
analyzing…thinking..we are close though
But no..not yet……but study the piece u just bought here, my
sperm is in the piece..
Lady shocked: what do
u mean? Your sperm is in this piece?
Pablo: yeah yeah in
the fish bowl….here my sperm is in the
bowl too..(Pablo stirring it)
Lady disgusted, stared, and walked away quickly….
Pablo chasing after her…
Pablo: ehh..hey hey , its not so bad, hey u still want the
piece?….i have some other pieces…
In the background, show the other weird pieces, paintings
etc.
Camera going back to the studio set.
Pablo narrating on the set:
so that’s how the Day of the Flying Cockroach ends and strangely ever
since that day, things took a sharp turn somehow, and with the financial crisis
still having a effect, its a tough sell on every piece , money is real tight ….and with my sweetheart
Naomi bugging me to have a kid each and everyday…. that really puts me in a
corner…
Joe in the studio was doing hand gestures asking Pablo when
was the very first day Naomi asks Pablo for a baby…….
Joe gesturing.
Pablo: what? Is the
roach still alive? No….not what u asking…baby?
The roach has a baby? No? oh! the
baby idea…when my wife ask to have a
baby? how it all started? Alright…lets put this in film too…
Scene shift to about two yrs ago when Naomi first started
bugging him on having a baby….Camera shifts to his gallery 2 yrs ago
Naomi staring at his weird pictures and art pieces and
sipping her broccoli clam chowder…
Naomi: u know what , Pablo?
Pablo working on his art piece: what?
Naomi: Looking at your art work makes me think of something…
Pablo: I know, weird! But Simplicity! The simplicity in
Complexity! Even I m confused! No….what?
Naomi: it makes me think of… I better not say it…
Pablo: come on, say it …
Naomi :no maybe some other time…
Pablo: ok then… come over here ….and see what I am working
on ….
Pablo showing off his latest art piece.
Pablo: u put this little ball here, and u let go of this
lever and the ball go flying!
Come try it! The
ball lands on that round spot, and the
gate opens and the iguana or whatever u
put in that cage gets free…..look heres the picture of a big iguana for
adoption…..
Naomi: ah huh…when are u going to adopt the iguana?
Pablo: huh? The
iguana? Don’t have to adopt….its already
here….look behind u!
Naomi jumps out of her chair screaming: whaaaaaaa!
Pablo: just kidding, relax…..i don’t have it yet, relax….u
scaring my cockroach here….no wonder it no longer flys around and play with
that ant..
Naomi: oh u! stop
playing such stupid jokes!
Pablo: ok…but u like
it? U like the piece? …yeah yeah? I
think I m going to name it after u…
Naomi: what? me ? after me?
Pablo: yeah yeah, I have never name a piece after u , so
this will be first….
Naomi: really? That’s
very sweet…what would u call it,..
Pablo: what would we call it? Umm… let me think …something that goes with
insect rights u know rights for
bugs…...what about…ah ah…got it got it…
“Freeing Claudia”?
Naomi giving him a snare and a vicious look: Claudia? Whos Claudia?
Pablo: Claudia?
Woooo…Claudia …She is my …ok ok relax…I m just joking….i m calling this
piece “Freeing Naomi”…ok Naomi…..no Claudia…
Naomi:it better be!…. hah interesting….eating my creamy
brocolli clam chowder now kind of make that piece appear more sexy ….like
shooting that cream of yours at the cage and freeing me….
Pablo shocked at her honesty: ah hah..must be the Mexican clam broccoli
chowder I make, that creamy thing having an effect on u!
Naomi: talking about
that, lets have a baby..
Pablo pretending to be shocked: have a what?
Naomi: a baby?
Pablo: baby? Whose baby?
Naomi: what do u mean
? u and me! Are u seeing someone else?
Pablo: No no noooo, I mean u have been looking at those
adoption web sites, I thought u want to adopt one…..
Naomi: good reaction…explanation accepted…ok so what u
think? Yes or no?
Pablo: well…I think we talked about this before, we are not
ready yet, at least I am not and I don’t think u are either…so don’t let that
creamy sexy brocolli chowder fool u and brainwash u….
Naomi: no no I m ready…I ve been thinking about this a long
time and wanted to tell u this earlier….
Pablo: uh huh…..
Naomi : I think we are not getting any younger and this is
the right time to have a kid….i mean …I mean..i aways wonder how this place
will look like with a little bambino running around playing with your toys
here…
Pablo: a little kid hanging around here? Messing around with my toys? No no I don’t need a kid running around,
kicking and screaming…no no I mean ..i
mean …I am the kid running around here, I m
the kid who run this place….I m still a kid for god sake, we don’t need
two kids running..no no …..
Naomi: oh come on Pablo, if not now when?
Pablo: no no not now!
Naomi : ok ok then u better throw away all those evil
condoms of yours cuz from now on, I don’t want to keep massacring those sperms
with no purpose!
Pablo: how many times must I tell u that those sperms are in
the millions and they all die , with only one will survive anyway to become
baby! and the rest are going to die either we want a baby or not……Nothing can
save them…nada nada ….nothing..so please stop…
Naomi: it makes a difference….at least we had a purpose and
they didn’t die in vain!
Pablo: And the millions of sperms didn’t die in vain…I know
iknow for god sake…the millions of sperms didn’t die in vain….we gone thru
these a million times before…but the
sperms still die and nothing could save them from reincarnation into something
better..ok so pls don’t use this as argument….
Naomi slamming the door at him: ok then… u can.keep using your condoms and
start playing with yourself….
Camera back to the present with Pablo narrating:
Well I didn’t get my condoms that night, or any other night
ever since, she just forbid me from having my boom da boom ba wa with her.. yes life is bleak, the sky
is falling, the iguana stop singing and stop pissing on the desert…….
until one day ….drums please…(signaling to Joe to beat the
drums, with the Joe looking very annoyed and staring back strangely, and
Producer looking very impatient)
Drums please…. Yes! The Mexican fried plantain starts to
rise, gets really oily and started to shine again! You see, I met this old
friend of mine on the street just outside my gallery…….
Camera going back to scene outside Pablos gallery, smoking a
cigarette 2 months ago when he bumped into his friend Doug
Doug: Isnt that the
infamous Pablo …the precocious kid from mexico?
Pablo: Doug! Is that you! Havent sen u for years!
Precocious? no no that’s 20 yrs ago!
Getting old and slow here…..u still practice law? Animal Rights? I
remember..fighting rights for a few chihuahuas and kahulnas..yeah? I remember… Hows life?
Doug: life is ok..and
no I don’t practice law anymore, I am now in Talent Management scouting for
talents, like actors and models, sports people, u know for advertising
companies…
Pablo: Ahhh.
Nice…nice…Havent seen u long time, but come in.. come in…when was last time
u bought painting from me? 5 yrs? Come
in I have something gd..something for the girls huh? Something erotic? Huh?
Doug: no no …. I really got to run, maybe some other time…I
have to go meet Nike for this campaign they are doing “the most Unique sportsperson
for the year” they are giving out half a million dollars. So…
Pablo: I see ok, ok. No problem, next time then…take care
now yeah..
Doug: great meeting u again..
Smoking his cigarette and suddenly realize his problem could
be solved…he ran after Doug..
Scene moves to Doug’s office where Pablo tries to convince
Doug for the nike’s sponsorship money.
Doug: it states here
Nike is giving half a million over 5 yrs for nearly every sports that is
adequately popular, and yes! Table
tennis is one of them (pointing to his fact sheet)
Pablo: yes? That’s it ! That’s it! Thank the heavens of
mexico…
Doug: but wait! It
says most Unique sportsperson…what makes u unique?
Pablo: I mean
unique!? Look at my face….(camera
closing in again) , don’t I look unique?
Doug: I mean this
aint going to fly Pablo, we need a reason, something special about you…and u
are not a champion….and
Pablo: champion?..wait wait, I was junior champion in my
country when I was 11..
Doug: yeah but that was a zillion yrs ago…I m sure they want someone
good now and..
I m sure there are tons of people out there that is more
Unique..
Pablo: what if I wear
this chameleon outfit and ..
Doug: a what?
Pablo : ehh a
chameleon, u know that lizard that change colors…u know u find them in
mexico..all over the place..
Doug: oh a chameleon…ok and ?
Pablo: so I am going to put 2 of them on my shoulders when I
play ping pong…Unique no?
Doug: I don’t think
that is going to fly….
Pablo:ok ok what about a chihua hua?
Doug: what about?
Pablo: u know I wear this underwear with a mexican Chihuahua
on it that say: Animal rights- I bark
here!
Doug getting annoyed and impatient: ok ok I don’t think this is going to work
out, Pablo, I m sorry….
Pablo: its ok… its ok , just a few ideas…no problem.
Doug: nice meeting u again, see u at your gallery one of
these nights.
Pablo disappointed, walking away: ok ok no problem…see u
around..
A few seconds later, a flash comes across Doug’s face,
Doug: wait Pablo, u still play ping pong?
Pablo turned around:
yeah of course….every now and then
Doug:are u still good?
Pablo: yeah yeah…
Doug: well..can u prove it? I mean can u win a few
tournaments, u know any tournaments, doenst have to be the highest level?
Pablo: yeah possible….and?
Doug: well…that may actually work…we can make u the “Most
Comeback player of the year” and that may fly with nike..
Pablo:ok ok I like it and put something like…something like
a slogan, like the “mexicana Mojo don’t die with age”…
Doug: no no ..but I
could see it worked with “Where Age is nothing” !
Pablo: yes I like it!
Doug: let me make a few calls to see if that flies…
Camera back to the studio set.
Pablo: And so I played competitively for 2 mths, winning a
few low level tournaments , just to make it official that I am the comeback
kid, hey play the film where I win tournaments..(signaling to Joe to play the
film) …..and music ..some Rocky 4 music
..come on huh? What copyright issue? Ok
just play it with no music ok…,, here play that mexico national song….
A documentary of basics of
pingpong is played here in black and white.
The game is played on a
rectangular table, 2 paddle, and one white ball made of plastic.
The paddles are made of sponge,
rubber and wood. Recent yrs, the wood
has advanced to other additions like carbon etc.
Because the ball is round, it
spins, like our planet earth.
The game is played on either
backspin or topspin.
If u hit a ball normally, the ball
carries some moderate top spin naturally.
And if u spin the ball upwards
with the rubber, u created top spin. This is call a loop shot, like washing ur
car window.
And vice versa if u spin it
downwards, u created underspin. This is call a chop, like chopping ur salad
bowl.
Some players love to loop while
some likes to chop u to death and others are mixed and use both.
Pablo: That’s it! Simple game
right? And drums pls…..i mean trumpet
pls…..joe?
(all below will be done in very
funny documentary form)
Pingpong is cheap to play, great way to make
friends, for all ages, good for losing some weight-it’s a great fat burner!
And a great psychological stress release, a
great workout when played quick and powerful, more than any aerobic workout,
but
also a number one brain sports for hand eye mind coordination, building ur
reflex, keeping u alert.
SHOW BRAIN ANALYSIS SLIDES HERE
But heres comes the hidden Secret! Not many people know about!
Ping pong could also actually cure obsessive
compulsive disorders! Or any addictions! For a cure to addictions, there
has to be a strong substitute of Activity that dominates the former
addiction. Ping pong played at higher levels constitutes a series of
quick energy flow in the brain-body function that could simulate or
subjugate the excitement or urge of the former addiction.
The
energy flux flowing across multiple parts/cells of the brain, is in
concert with the body, thus generating a enormous physiological release.
And for this very reason, here
comes the best and most exciting part about ping pong- u get to meet people
from all walks of life, from the very crazy and the eccentric to the nicest
person on earth! With bi polars, maniacs, all kinds of people with all sorts of
compulsive behaviors or habits !
From ur crazy artists, avid chess
junkie, video game nuts and genius card players to the itchy punchy wrestler,
kung fu guys…u name it we got it , they are all here….
Pingpong is a game of passion, a
game of extreme love and hate- it is a game of details where a few subtle
mistakes here and there will turn the tide against u and transform ur love into
hate in seconds!
Pablo: ok we need to show ping
pong is played by characters of all kinds…
Producer smoking heavily: no no,
we don’t have time..skip that…
Pablo:no, its ok, we will
improvise it….i can do it…..without film!
Producer staring at him in
disbelief
Pablo:making funny faces and
gestures for each: here…. the shy, the
lunatic, the devious, the skinny, the fat, the loud, the hustler.., the film
producer, the Italian film producer…
Proudecer: hey watch it!!
Pablo: But Pingpong is more than all the above, this little
white ball is going to save the world!
Produucer stopping him,:
whoah whoah…stop it already ! what is this ?documentary? we re making a
movie here…not some god damn documentary about saving the world…...
Pablo: relax relax …I
know what I am doing…calm down… smoke ur italien cigarette..no don’t smoke, go
do something italien…
Camera goes back to gallery……
Pablo narrating: after waiting for Doug for a few days, the news of the
sponsorship finally arrives….
Pablo: hey Doug, whats going on my man, come in come in, let
me show u this piece I just finish (showing off his newest piece “my poo is you” )
Doug: no no …Pablo, I
m here to report some bad news..
Pablo: wha..what news?
Doug: well…nike decided to give the sponsorship last minute
to someone else..
Pablo :someone else?!
No…no ….my whole life depends on this…Naomi is going to have a kid, my
little bambino, u joking with me right?
Right Doug?
Doug: well, it is not
up to me, they decided to give it to this fat kid here (showing Pablo a picture
and some papers) , here ”most important Fat sportsman for the year-where fat is
everything”
Pablo:wait wait whoah whoah I know this kid….his name is
…his name is ….
Camera flashback to 1 mth ago, when he is playing a
tournament…
Camera closeup back to Chris’ fat face, and how Pablo got demolished by him in that
match
where chris just stood there without moving…..
Pablo narrative: I mean how can u forget that face, that big
fat mean ugly face,….this kid just stood there, like some wall of china, he
didn’t even move, and in a flash, the game was over…….
Back to footage where Chris held out his hand after the
match instead of offering a handshake which surprised Pablo…
Pablo:what?
Chris: Kiss it….
Pablo stood there motionless…While Chris sneered and walked
away…
Camera flashed back to Present at gallery
Pablo narrating: while ping pong
is the most dynamic sports in the world, probably the no 1 sports in mind body
and spirit, there is simply no money in the game. The culprit turns out to be
the hero itself, the white ball, which is too small and fast for viewing on
television. No one wants to watch the game on tv and that means no advertisers
and sponsorship money, unlike tennis football, basketball baseball ….
Compared to these other sports,
Ping pong is the better game, the no 1 most dynamic game in terms of mind ,body
and spirit. Think about it for a
second, what sports use all 3 elements
mind body spirit to compete and that is
really fast? Which sports come even
close to ping pong? Squash? Tennis?
Badminton? Not even close compared to the speed and reaction.
Racecar? Common, u cant be serious?!
Football, basketball and baseball ? nope not a chance.
Ping pong, bar none is the most
dynamic sports in human history!
What joe? Bunngy jumping, skinny
dipping? No, not even close !
And yet the US players don’t even
have a formal place to train for the Olympics and it is said that in some of
those yrs, the Olympians paid for their own expense to compete in the Olympics.
It is tuly a sad situation for such an
advanced dynamic sports.
Pablo: u cant be
serious in giving sponsorship to that fat ugly kid…what kind of message u
sending to America…the Fat is ok, fat is the way to go…
Doug: its too late, they already signed….
Pablo:what too late…I mean, how can all that cheese and
slimy meatballs these kids eat are ok and too late?…what we telling America?
That fat and lazy and being a big fuzzy
lazy cheeseball is cool and ok? Go tell their parents to go ***%^&in
their face, for doing sports is bullshit and that having heart attacks is
awesome and all that cheese and fries is good for u?!
Doug: that’s what
they want, they want to sell more cheese and fries and bagels with lots of
cream cheese…
Pablo:Oh come on Doug, u can do better than that, what
happen to that Superman Doug eh? The one
that want to save the world ? to make
the world a better place…u cant allow something like “fat is everything” , fat
is ok , come on …(yelling ) fat is a
crime!
Fat is the downfall of the world! Even my iguana wont allow it!
Doug:ok ok …calm down ..let me make a few phone calls …let
me discourage them, let me see what I can do..
Camera moves back to 2 days later where Pablo got a call
back…
Doug in his office:
hey! good news…. the sponsor agrees to put the sponsorship on hold and
let u two , u and the kid , play an exhibition match , where the winner wins
the sponsorship.
Pablo: a what ? a
exhibition?
Doug:u have no problem with that? do u?
Pablo:oh no,no, no issues there. I will beat him, like a
Mexican sword slicing a cheesecake (ed getting animated there), no issues
there.. ehh.. how much time do we have?
Doug:…say a mth…
Pablo: a mth !? that
long?! No worries there…too much time…
it will be Mexican soup fest…no worries..
Doug: ok then got to run.. .will wait for your good news.
Pablo:ok ok thks Doug.. (hangs up the phone and stated
acting agitated) one mth! Even my iguana
cant catch a fly in one mth! How am I
going to beat that idiot kid in a mth?
Camera goes to a day later outside his gallery with his fat
friend , Joe, who is both deaf and mute, a war veteran.
Pablo using tons of gestures and hand signs to try guess what he is saying…..
Pablo: u saying
what? Me go kneel down who? Kneel in front of that kid and beg him?
You know I wont do that!
That sick son of a…
Joe signaling: no no
Pablo: ok so u mean
go learn kung fu (acting agitated) from
kung fu masters, Shao lin monks??! And then kick his ass?
Joe signal no no
Pablo: ok ok oh oh
…u mean learn from ping pong masters….yeah..we have only 1 mth…
Joe taking out a list…
Pablo: ok I see …u
have a list…let me see….hmm…u have 4 names ….u sure its enough..i mean is it
going too work?
Joe gesturing lets go …
Pablo murmuring: there is hope after all, to the war
veterans!
Camera moves back to the studio with ed narrating: Joe is a good friend of mine, he is both
deaf and mute, a veteran from the Iraqi war, and a very nice person,
…and that’s him sitting there , a hero, a war veteran! Smile
and say hi Joe, ….
Producer: cut cut! Alright enough of that bulls*^&, what
is this fu%$# veterans day!?
Deaf and Mutes day/?!
Get on with the ping pong already, Mexican!
Pablo: ok ok calm down…we getting there..
Pablo narrating : And so we embark on the journey of seeking out the ping pong masters that can
transform me in 1 mth, drums
pls….(signaling to Joe with annoyance from producer) and yes ..Joe here is friendly with these so
call masters, and first on the list is…….
Camera to scene at fishing pier with Errol and Pablo fishing
together….a long song with
“are u ready ?” or some hickibilly mexican sound about
fishing in it…….
Pablo narrating: first stop – Errol. Errol came highly
recommended by Joe as the ex Caribbean champion in his youth , and the best
coach since he did produce the most champions and highly rated players in the
new york area for the last 20 yrs of coaching….His cultural mix is even more
intriguing, he is half Jamaican and half Chinese, and loves long fishing trips
and tons of Jamaican beer.
Errol: But are u ready to be a champion?
Pablo: of course I m ready, I am always ready….
Errol: well I mean
are u truly ready?
Pablo: yes yes I want to train under u…
Errol: ahh….everyone wants to train …but are u ready to be trained?
Echoes of “are u ready?”
resonates thru Pablo’s memories that it takes him back to his childhood
when he was 7 in his school yard…….
A 7 yr old Pablo: I
am ready!
And he got punched in the face black-eyed and was beaten up
by gangster students in school in mexico city…
Pablo narrating :well I come from a traditional, strict
family of 8 brothers and sisters, living in this house called****, u know what
a **is, well never mind..it is a *******in mexico city.
Our ancestors are from the northern part of spain and they
settled here in mexcio in ***yrs. I grew up in a house full of arts and
science. My dad is a engineer all his life, and so am i. I studied science and
engineering before falling in love with creating art fulltime. My brothers and
sisters are***************. And my
grandparents comes from a line of **********.
And this is my grandma. My most
beloved grandma who loves me the most out of all her grandchildren, though my
very cheeky sister would claim otherwise, I know thats the ultimate truth. Why
I know? Well….grandma has the habit of
making me promise things for her, sometime ridiculous things, so ridiculous I
don’t understand it and she only did this with me. (a long pause here as Pablo
is trying to remember something)hmm……Now that we are on it…I just remember on
my sister’s 8th birthday, she
actually got a very nice present, a zoro
action figure from Grandma and I always wanted to question grandma on why I
never got one for my birthday, that but i never did get to it….hmmm…..well its
too late now …grandma is gone…
Pablo’s dad: how many times have I told u to stop watching
those kung fu tapes those Jackie chan bullshit, and stop messing around with
the bad kids in school!
Pablo age 7 with black eye:
its not fault , these shit face started it first…
Dad: ok no more kung fu , enough of this bullshit (staring
at a bruce lee’s poster perhaps criticizing his physique or style or pose)…no
more videos..give me all the tapes….and no more pocket money for u, nada u understand ….
Pablo:its not fair, it s not my fault….
Dad: here…from now on u play with this ..(showing ed a
wooden ping pong paddle)
Pablo staring at the racket…
Dad: here u want to prove u are ninja, here, go beat up a
few players with this, go prove u are good with your hands and legs….
Pablo:but this is stupid….no…
Dad staring at Pablo…
Pablo:ok if I do
it…what do I get? More allowance?
Dad: I buy u anything u want and double allowance, if u
become…..ehh…a champion.
Pablo:champion?
Where? My school?
Dad:ok your school….anywhere…ok your school.
Pablo :deal! and I get to buy that bruce lee’s costume and
nunchuck!
Pablo narrating: And that s where the story of the mexcian
legend begins…I went on to become junior champion in mexico at age 11. Drums
pls(pointing to Joe) and put some dramatic song..something like star wars..u
know…
At the corner was the Producer snoring falling
asleep….awaken by the drums!
Producer:huh? Carry on ….
Pablo narrating :ok back to the fishing old man Errol…
===========================
Errol who is drinking some Jamaican beer, half drunk and
bubbling along…
Errol: Ahh…the fish
has bitten…see its moving (pointing to his rod)
Pablo: ah I see…u need help..
Errol:no no don’t need 2 grown men to catch a fish….
Errol stuggled for 20 seconds bfore the fish got away..
Errol: ahh…smart fish….one who knows when to have enough and
let go…
Unlike these fishes here(showing off his pail of caught
fishes)..
Pablo:ok.ook what does that got to do with ping pong….
Errol: pingpong? Oh nothing!
And everything!
Pablo:huh?
Errolr:your time is up ? another $20?
Pablo: here here $20 …
Errol took it without shame and …..
Errol: u know I
started playing ping pong at age 7, and back then there is no one telling me
what to do, what is right or wrong…There wasn’t a lot of good players in
Jamaica, so I have to write everything down , un know, I ask a lot of qns and I always write down
the answers.
Pablo: wow…so anything interesting u want to share?
Errol: calm down my friend….patience….todays players have no
patience…they just want to play well, they see how the Chinese play on tv annd
try to imitate them…without asking the right qns or analyzing the details….
Pablo: ok…the details…
Errol:yes ping pong is a game of details, the most subtle
details, between a small plastic ball and the wooden rubber…what u see is not
always the truth…what u see is not always what u get!
Pablo:ok…ok..what u see is not always the truth…..because
the game is so fast?
Errol: when I was young , I always video myself to see the
problems…and video others and I even made dvds of the best players……todays
young kids don’t do that, they do not put in enough effort..they don’t care….
Pablo: wow…..
Errol: u know all these players, they played at the club, their
whole lives u know, waste of time! They don’t know what they doing , all of
them, fools u know.. ..they come in each day , doing the same thing , no clue
what they doing…u come back 20 yrs later and they still doing the same damn
thing….no clue…it’s all about knowing what to do…..
Pablo getting impatient:
yes yes , doing the right thing…
Errol:the right thing!
But what is the right thing? Its
like fishing u know, u got to know the right thing?
Pablo:and the right
thing is…
Errol: it is like life, you got to know the right
thing…otherwise u go thru life blind….
Echoes of the Right Thing….The Right thing….echoing……thru
eds mind….
Camera to a documentary of the “Right Thing”…. Evolution of
an egg to a chicken to animal kingdom where the fittest survive, where the
strong eats the weak, a world without mercy and survival….
to the human world of society building, living,
economy…where the bigger corporations swallow the smaller ones, where it is still and remains strong eats
weak…where animals are still killed for food,
the sharks eats the fish and we eat the sharks, where the bigger insects
eat the smaller ones, and in turn eaten by animals like the ant eaters…
We have been asking the qn: What is the Right Thing?…we have
been asking that same qn since birth, birth of humans and birth of the
universe, whats the right thing?….
Is the essence of Nature the right thing?
And maybe at certain pt of out times, we stopped asking
because we get sick of receiving no answer, or we stop asking because we don’t
want to know the answer for the answer will piss us off, or we stop asking because we never want to
question the order of Nature, the Nature of what is, Strong eats weak , the
nature of its right and wrongs,
But maybe, just
maybe it is about time that we face the music and do the Right thing for the
first time of our lives…..i mean
Is it Right to be in the Wrong, knowing we live in the
wrong?
It is time we stop that!
Does it matter if the essence of Nature is the right
thing….what is important
Is we start doing the Right thing.
Not just because we want all the Right things to happen to
us overnight
or we wish that by some pure magic all the Wrong things will
become right in a instant,
but that We actually
start doing the Right thing, for the sake of it,
taking that first step doing it for the first time, for a
change…..
So How about not stepping on a civilized hardworking roach
for a change?
Camera back to the Fishing pier….
Pablo:ok ok so what is the right thing for ping pong
Errolr :I didn’t say pingpong yet, u got to listen, listen
carefully….u must learn to listen..
Pablo:ok ..listen…
Sun is setting at the background….
Errol: though I am half Chinese, I grew up in Jamaica and
trained under a Carribean culture…..
Pablo almost falling asleep: and hows that?
Errol: hows that? Nothing!
There wasn’t any real formal training program there, we made it up as we
go along. You see, the Chinese is very
practical but we Caribbean compensate by being creative…..but to get creative,
u need knowledge!
Pablo: knowledge?
Errol: knowledge!.. its all about knowledge and constantly
questioning knowledge! what u see may not be the truth…
Pablo nodding impatiently:
and the truth is ….?
Errolr :ahh..the truth..u want the truth….first u got to
understand life…
Pablo:ok..so what is life, the truth of life….
Flshback to Pablo in college in Mexico…..where he is doing a
college presentation on
“Engineeering Life- Solving ALL Problems” with a black
board scribbled with formulas of LIFE
Pablo: There u go!
That’s the formula for Life. The
symbol for Life (L) = the Summation E of the derivative of the derivative of
f=mc ^2 . In other words, your emotions
and actions depends on the speed of various cycles up and down, the average and
extremes of the variables of 41 emotional forces or emotions such as fear,
guilt, invincibility, ambition, and the level of your poo pooo and urine urgeny
alertness and whether u are feeling nauseous on the hotdog u ate for lunch, all
aggregated into one massive summation E- all these forces and cycles all going
on at once inside your brain as well as the physiological effects on your
bodily action. U get it class?
Camera goes to show the Presentation only interest 3
students who came, the snoring student, a comic book reader, and a fat Joe.
Pablo: so yes any
qns?
The very shy fat Joe raised his hand…
Pablo: yes! Qn!
Joe was moving his hands, gesturing and making strange
noises…making funny gestures to convey happiness
Pablo: can u pls speak up?
Pablo: oh I m sorry ..u are mute…I mean handicapped…sorry
there..u were saying…..
What is the formula for gas, lots of gas, u mean from the
poo or urine?
Oh oh love…not love, ok o k…u want formula for happi…oh oh
happiness..
Yeah! Gd gd….
Pablo : ok so from this formula of Life, can we derive the
formula for happiness?
Well..from this equation, u see that the amount of poo and
urine is directly proportional to how
many times u get to use the toilet and in mexico that depends on if toilets are
available and since toilet is a scarce commodity in mexico, then the equation
shows that it depends on whether your
wife or girlfriend is constantly hassling u, because then u would have no time
for toilet at home and life will become sad and miserable. And these wife and girlfriend
factors are constants and singularities in Life. Which means u cannot be happy
if u stay married or together as a couple for very long.
Get it?
Fat Joe, munching his burrito nodding his head.
Pablo narrating: And that was the first time I met Joe, as a
friend. Joe, say hi again…
Joe made funny gestures again with Producer getting annoyed
again.
Camera shot back to Errol at the pier….
Errolr: all these players u know , they think they can watch
a few videos on utube and get a few coaches and go out there and try to beat
the crap out of everybody, but they are
wasting their time, because no one shows them the right way ,the truth u know…
Pablo:Ok and …
Errol: because no one teaches them life! u see to be good in
this game, u got to be a master of life…..
Pablo: huh …explain..
Errol: only when u could do the tough things, the right
things in Life, can u do the tough
things in ping pong…its about honor, it s about a promise…a promise to
yourself…
Pablo: a promise?
“Promise?” echoing ……….
Camera shot back to the deathbed of Pablo’s grandma years
ago…
Grandma: U promise grandma!
Pablo: yes I promise, I remember my promise…
Grandma: Yes u promise your words….
Pablo: yes grandma look, I just got kick in the ass here by
the local shitheads in that movement, look ! bruised! Here too! but no worries grandma, I promise I will make
progress for this country!
Grandma:yes u swear..
Pablo: I swear…here 3 fingers…I mean four here…
Grandma: what is this 3 fingers? u became protestant…
Pablo:no no here, still four fingers, still catholic…no
worries…here ..grandma, grandma …still there?
Grandma passed.
Pablo narrating: you
see, my very religious Roman Catholic grandparents come from a long line of
early ancestry of mexico, fighting crimes and social injustices. And being
productive and Meaningful to society is everything to them, that’s their
life.
So like I said
earlier, grandma loves me to promise on all kinds of things when I was a kid…I
still don’t know why I didn’t get the zorro action figure my sister got from
grandma but anyway, to make grandma
proud, ever since my college days, I have been participating in all kind of
social rallies and movements….fighting for all kinds of Rights.
So throughout the years since college….
One day Right –no abortion
Some day Left- no guns in schools
Right – No taxes
Left -Clean
environment
Right - Capital Punishment
Left – No Capital Punishment
Right- Against Gay Rights
Left- Gay Rights all the way
Like a nut case
running around….like a rat running in circles….
And on and on…..u see back then, I didnt realize that it
doenst matter u are left or right, or middle!
For the root of the
problem of society in the last 6000 years was never solved.
Until one day I realized this little white ball revealed the
answer! yes! The biggest revelation ever in history of
man kind….this little white ball gave me
the answer to ALL Problems of Society for the last 6000 yrs of earth history!
Producer yelling at him: whats your problem? Look here…..
Pablo: But that’s for the end of the movie . ….otherwise the
money hungry italian Producer, I mean
the producer sitting there will get angry, u know, giving it away early in the movie….
Camera back to pier
Errol: U see this
fish ? u know, u got to understand how this
fish thinks and what it is thinking…then u can catch him….
Pablo: so u mean we must be like fish, think stupid and
simple? And why are we going back to the fish , can we move back to life?
Errol: ah patience young man…the problem is most people like
u have no patience, and they assume they can do things quick u know…
Pablo:ok ok …. So what does …
Errol: what u see is not what u thought u see, I mean look !
this fish looks like it is biting on the line and I got him…but that is just
fooling the stupid….this fish is biting it in a way where it is getting to
escape any time…u got to be able to recognize that…
Pablo: and how does this translate to ping pong?
Errol: Ahh….ping
pong….good let me ask you, let me test u ..
Pablo praying to the sky: gd god finally …
Errol: when the ball hit the racket, how many times does the
racket hit the ball before going off again?
Pablo looking at him thinking it is a trick qn
Pablo: zero ?
Errol: what zero? How
many times the racket hit the ball?
Pablo: ok ok its not a trick qn… yeah..the ball is not a
ghost?
Errol: no no no trick qn…
Pablo: ok once..once.
Errol u sure?
Pablo: yeah
Errol: no 3 times!
Pablo: 3 times?
Errol: yes 3 times!…I told u what u see is not what u get…..
Pablo:how?
Errol:$20 ..i mean $30 this one is gd stuff, important !
Pablo: huh ?times up already….ok ..wait here $30 ..
Errol taking it swiftly into his pocket: U see , u have to look carefully…it is like a
hustler playing with u, 3 times, first time is when the ball first hit the
rubber, second time is when u applied pressure and start spinning the ball
back, the rebound of the ball, and the last time when u follow thru, brushing
through the ball giving it a side and top spin.
All 3 strokes within one instant!
Errol gesturing with his hands…
Pablo:so by theory, u are breaking down the stroke into 3
components all within that second …
Errol:correct! Most players don’t realize this but this is
what they are doing naturally…they play all their damn life and they dint know
it….fools…but the really good players knows the difference and understand how to manipulate these 3 different parts of
the stroke.
Pablo nodding taking down notes..
Errol: so how much
time u have?
Pablo:heh?
Errol :how much time u have till your match ?
Pablo: ehh…about a mth…
Errol: one mth…gee ..u doing the impossible…u have to go to
the best, u have to go east?
Pablo: east ? east
where? Jamaica? Jamaica ping pong gods?
Errol:no no I mean the Chinese….
So after $230 later, no pingpong balls, no ping pong or even a slice of sushi
from the damn fish. I ended up East like Errol recommended…..
Sound of a loud Chinese gong and
Pablo ended up in front of a building with chinese opera
music….door is open and Pablo walks in casually and notice 2 men practicing
kung fu….
Man1: yes can I help u?
Pablo: oh…I m sorry
is this the International Table Tennis Association?
Man2: I m sorry , this is the place for kung fu, not a place
for the ping pong wuz…
Coach Lee walked in from nowhere…and does a few kung fu
moves with one of them.
Lee:hey hey what u
say about being wuz….u guys are the real
wuz..the uncivilized, the unevolved promoting violence…
Man1: go away pong
head, go back to your cave and play with your
own balls, this place is for adults …not for kids..
Lee: Ping pong is the
most evolved form of martial arts, it;s non violent, u uneducated monkeys..come
Pablo lets go back to my place…
They left hastily.
Pablo: sorry I went into the wrong place..
Lee: no problem…people do that all the time, the address
here is slightly confusing….
Pablo: so how u been , I haven’t see u for a while…
Lee : yes it has been a while…I was busy in china for a bit
and was working on promoting ping pong as the most evolved martial arts.
Pablo: oh wow! Really?
Funny u talked about that , Errol told me to come see u …
Lee :Errol? Gd old
Errol, the Jamaican?
Pablo: yes yes that’s him?
Lee: and for what reason?
Pablo: Errol told me
u have the Chinese Secret Manual ?
Lee :what Chinese secret manual? u mean for cooking Chinese cuisine? Kung pao
smelly chicken?
Pablo: no..no
Lee: oh! U mean secret manual for how to dance sexy with
Chinese girls? Chinese tango yeah?
Pablo: no no, stop playing…I know u have it!
Camera off to documentary script on History of ping pong
Ping pong originates in France around the time of tennis
yr****, and also made popular here in America in ****. Most people dont realize that the chinese
were actually late comers in the game. They wont even in the game until the
60s, popularized when Nixon played Mao
to a friendly game of pong. And since
the ***yr Olympics the Chinese has dominated the game except maybe one Olypimc
in yr ***.
While talking about the Dominance of the Chinese in pong, one cant help talking about Chinese kungfu,
its similarities, and why it is not
surprising kung fu originates from china.
China has the widest variety of martial arts in the world.
Outside of china, we have japan
ninjitsu and karate, Koreas tae kwon do, Thai Muy Tai and boxing in the
west. But in China, there is probably hundreds of styles and names, each coming
from some ancient Sect.
Wiki pedia here different sects like kun lun, wutang, shaolin etc
Different internal-qi and
external forms of martial art
External form are broken into Long form and short form, very
similar to ping pong
And Lee is probably right in saying that “ pong is the highest from
of martial arts, most evolved form”
Lee comes from the Chinese national team in the 70s which is
about the time china took over the sports and gain dominance ever since……and it
is always rumored that there was a
secret manual hidden from the rest of the world, like some secret Chinese kung
fu manual that allows u to fly thru the woods
and walk on water…..
…
Pablo using two fingers to his eyes : the Chinese secret
manual…….
Lee: no there is no Chinese manual..
Pablo:no?
Lee: No
Pablo no mean yes in Chinese?
Lee no , no mean nada in Mexican
Pablo: no?
Lee : There is no
Chinese secret manual (lee gave him a wink) ….but u have one mth to your match? With me?
No problem! Just 2.
Pablo: 2 what?
Lee :the Chinese way …2
Pablo:20 dollars.
Lee: no 20 K
Pablo: what ? even if I sell burritos nude with g strings
and bikinis for 2 yrs I wont have 20Gs….
Lee: well lets see….
Pablo: see what?
Lee: lets see what can be arranged…ah ha u could help me
train a few students every day…and in return u got my secret training..
Pablo:students? What students?
Lee: u know I have a few students…but for u . I make it easy
for u, a few beautiful ladies…easy to coach!
Pablo:yeah yeah?…
Camera flash to a few fat old Mexican ladies learning from
Pablo with Pablo holding their hands showing them the sports with the ladies
making funny faces on waist movements at him….(Mexican music )
Pablo : u told me beautiful…
Lee: they are Mexican, they are beautiful! Look the way they move…
Nighttime when Pablo is exhausted after a days of coaching….
Lee is dancing with the Mexican ladies….his hobby
Lee :come on, have a dance, have some swing, some samba….
Pablo: I see u still have not forgotten your passion for
dance…
Camera to trophies of lee for dancing
Lee: yes, u got to move, keep moving to the rhythm….good for
ping pong you know…
Flashback to rhythm of Salsa in mexico when Pablo first
met Naomi 10 yrs ago at his friends
gallery where Naomi was working as assistant.
They were dancing to the salsa music.
Naomi: so whats the mathematical formula for love?
Pablo: Ah love….it depends….u want the one for love or love
at first sight?
Naomi: whichever …how
about love at first sight?
Pablo cutting her off : hmmm.. lets see…..love is the
mystery of the universe, layered with the mystery of the sudden moment of
revelation….the forever eternal unquantifiable moment in which the
infinite positive could turn highly negative into hate in a
snap! At a moments notice at its vortex!
hmm..difficult to quantify…but believe me, I have been working on it….
Naomi: Maybe u should
be in the arts….
Pablo:huh? Why u say that?
Naomi: it is easier
to explain your concepts in the arts than in mathematics…
Pablo:hmm….true…and perhaps more profitable….
Naomi :try explain formula of love to me in the arts…
Pablo: u mean love is like the sensual movement of spinning
a beautiful lady like u fast and slow, high and low, feeling the incredible
dramatics every moment until one day I
make a mistake and its all over…..(ed kissing her after spinning her around and
touching her ass after the spin) now
slap me!
Naomi starring at him….and slaps him seconds later…..
Pablo narrating: and
that was the first time I met the woman
of my love and the day I become a professional artist ……drums pls……(Joe asleep
drooling, waking up)
Camera back to Lee’s pongnasium…
Lee reading out his secret manual:: Secret Manual stroke 112
3. 2 swipes== test the sidespin drag, minimal drag wanted,
if change hitting lane ==put more effort, maybe slightly more drag
dead
balls – hit thru with spin
sidespin
floaty = swipe thru doubleball effort.
Aim
for extreme sides
Pablo nodding and
taking down notes frantically….
Lee speaking really fast : stroke 113
Spin with the tip
Must
learn how to swipe from all different positions 3 left, 3 middle, 3 right.- all
different clocks 1230, 1, 130,2 , front
of ball and higher up on ball.
Also
swipe on the rise from all positions with incoming varying spin
Add
that end of shot extra-turn to control path of ball into table – do this on the
2 swipes.
4.
cg - bkhand straight and slightly down
on followthru, direct bodyweight toward placement spot.
- ½ sec fwd- prep===everything- brains and
prep for the next stroke
Pablo shaking his head..
Pablo: how many strokes are there…I have to memorize all
these?
Lee: don’t worry, only 200 rules more to go…
Pablo:what!
200! Even a iguana cant catch the
fly fast enough! No no…there got be a
easier way……
Lee: no there is no
easier way..u want the Chinese secret manual, here no short cut …haha….
Pablo: We have only
one mth…we need short cut…there got to be short cut!
Lee : ahhh u want the margarita but u don’t want the
salt….ha ha possible, possible
(make this line better in mexican )
Pablo: possible….what
u mean?
Lee: raising his 2 fingers
Pablo:what ?2 hrs?
Lee giving him a stare
Pablo: ok ok 2 more K?
Lee smiled : 200 bags of fried grasshoppers…
Flashback to Pablo’s
“Save Animals? What about the Bugs? Save the Insects Movement” back in
College…..
Backboard
written “ Iguanas and
Grasshoppers are lives too!-engineering the future Buildings of tomorrow- Taking the first Step” where there will be special
pathways for these bugs and insects. And alarm systems too. For size is only
Relative!
******* insert video of history of mexico first, its race,
religion then iguana and grasshopper
Pablo narrating: ok heres the history of the Mexican
Grasshopper and the Iguana. But before diving into the Iguana and Grassshopper,
lets go over a little bit of history of Mexico.
Mexico was the Nahuatl
term for the heartland of the Aztec Empire, namely, the Valley of Mexico, and its people,
the Mexica,
With an estimated population of
over 113 million,[12] it
is the eleventh
most populous and the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world —
In pre-Columbian Mexico many cultures matured into advanced
civilizations such as the Olmec,
the Toltec, the Teotihuacan, the Zapotec,
the Maya and
the Aztec before first contact with Europeans in yr 1521.
But Does this really matter?
In 1521, Spain conquered and colonized the territory from its
base in México-Tenochtitlan, which was administered as
the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
Since then, Mexico is
ethnically diverse, the various indigenous peoples and European immigrants are
united under a single national identity.[184]
The word "mestizo" is sometimes used with the meaning of
a person with mixed indigenous and European blood.
A study by the National Institute
of Genomic Medicine, Mexico reported that Mestizo Mexicans are 58.96%
European, 35.05% "Asian" (Amerindian), and 5.03% African.
But Does this really matter?
Mexico gained independence in 1821.
The post-independence period was characterized by economic
instability, the Mexican-American War
and territorial
cession to the United
States, a civil war, two empires and a domestic
dictatorship. The latter led to the Mexican Revolution in 1910, which culminated with the
promulgation of the 1917 Constitution and the emergence of the country's
current political system
And we happen to be
majority Roman Catholics and the largest Catholic country in the
world. And we are known for our
chocolates- the candy of love.
Chocolates originates
from Mexico.
But once again, does this really matter?
By 2006, we have a few political parties and now we are
considered Socialist?? in nature.
But does this really matter?
Ok, before boring u to death on this history, what does all
these got to do with chewing on Grasshoppers and Iguanas?
Nothing…it is just
happened that we mexico has lots of them. And they are tasty when fried. Especially with that lime and chili sauce.
Our recent drug wars
since 2006 created a lot of fear and distrust among our people.
“Trust no one” became
our motto.
So the fried
grasshopper and iguana became our way of being amigos again.
Eating them
together. Besides the boring tacos and
fried plantains,
Sangria, moqito …..
They make a good delicacy with beer and wine and a good
round of salsa with the girls…
And for one last time – does this really matter?
Throughout our history, throughout our evolution, we evolved
from the very ancient to the very civilized, we went with the flow, going along
with whatever was the flow, whatever was the cycle, whatever puts food on our table, whatever requires the least effort…..never
questioning nature, its existence, history and order of things….however, we
talk and complain all the time about all
kinds of things in history, whats right and wrong, going along with whatever is
most easy, and yet, we are oblivious to
the most simplest of things, the most simple logical truths….
I say it is about time we get truly evolved, we do the right
thing and stop eating these iguana and grasshoppers, and treat them with
Respect!
Not because these Iguana are going to one day transform into
a giant monster and swallow us up!
But because we are not worse
than these iguanas and
grasshoppers. We are civilized, evolved beings and we can do better as humans!
We all act like we don’t know whats right, but we do!
So today I proposed that we start on the smallest thing!! We
focus on not stepping on the ants and
roaches for now!
We start focusing on the smallest things, because they do exist! We must stop
pretending they don’t matter!
For the first time in history, we do the Right thing!
Camera to a room of very few bored students and one of them
is eating prawn crackers and bacon cheese bagels…..
Pablo narrating:
Anyway I end up with 2 black eyes that night as we went to
the Mexican streets protesting on the grasshoppers hawker stands.
Camera goes back to Lee’s pongnasium..
Lee munching on the grasshoppers: Ok u want shortcut…hmm these are
delicious…crunchy…where is the tobasco..and lime sauce? oh here….ok where were
we? ok shortcut…u need the 5 secrets of Modern Kung Fu..
Pablo: huh? Why kung
fu, we playing ping pong here…
Lee: ah ha! why kung
fu…. Because ping pong and kung fu is the same…in fact it is the most evolved
form of kung fu, there is no violence, and ping pong is more advanced than kung
fu since u have to deal with the wood, rubber, sponge, the table, the wind and
the ball. In kung fu , it is just u and ur opponent, and u can hit anywhere u
want, not so in ping pong!
Pablo: ok ok but lets…
Lee explains while a documentary film is played here: let me
show u….u can play short form of kung fu close to the table, long form of kung fu away form the table, or
short vs long or long vs short. Instead of hitting ur opponent, you are attacking thru the ball….and yes a civilized
sports played by the evolved , and not some gangsters….the lowlifes. In fact u
can play with 2 rackets, here try….
Lee showing off with 2 rackets in his left and right hands.
Pablo:ok ok lets focus on ping pong…
Lee::ha ha no patience!
ok first, the 5 secrets of modern kung fu…wait !let me go find it..
Pablo:huh?
Lee: it’s in another manual, wait…ah…here …..(found a
dusty manual in a secret closet) Lets see… the 5 Secrets of Modern kung Fu from the Secret Sect of ****. China.
Pablo staring at it in disbelief….
Lee: Ok here goes, the first Secret: In every defense is an attack, and in every
attack is a defense. The yin and the
yang, the yin within the yang and vice versa,
the universe…it is like dancing…back and forth (lee putting on a sexy dirty dancing move)
Pablo: ok ok….
Lee: here u see it in the stroke of pingpong itself, the
taiji movement! In your defense, every retreat is an attack , and in every
attack, it has your next defense already taken care of! And in this way you
are unbeatable!
This really originates in the Wing Chun Sect of martial
arts…
Pablo:Wing what ? fried chichken wings?
Lee: no no wing chun…ahh! its ok …ok next… Ok Second Secret
-
It is call half.
Pablo:half? Half what? Half a fried plantain?
Lee:no! half a
second!
Pablo:half a second! U want me to cook my fried
plantain in half a second? I couldn’t
even please my wife in half an hr, u want me to do it in half a second?!
Lee: no no, it says here in very very small print here: your
brain is half a second forward while your body stays in the Present…
Pablo: what is this?
Science fiction? Time traveling?
U want my plantain to be half a second forward while my body stays here?
Pablo gesturing funny with two hands….
Lee: no no it
means u must anticipate the next shot, half a second forward all the time, at
every instant! Only then could u be always prepared and unbeatable.
In this fast game of ping pong, half a second is really
eternity…
Pablo: I see, my body here but my mind is there….i got
it….its like thinking about what kind of cigarette I should smoke afterwards
while doing sex…I got it…I do that all the time…
Lee: the 3rd one is …..oh….oh…this is too good, I cant
tell u…
Pablo: u joking…$20 …
Lee no no, if I tell u , I will be beheaded , no no I cant tell u., that’s why it says secret
manual, secret!
Pablo: u cant be
serious…ok next one
Lee: ah..this one …um
ummm…it is also too gd…cant tell u
Pablo what! (jumping
up and down) u cannot be serious!
Lee: ok relax…I don’t want
a ninja showing up in my place at night u know and give me a knife here
(pointing at his pants) u know….i still have a girlfriend u know..
Pablo: u r kidding..
Lee: don’t worry, we
have one last one…..ahh..this one is also too gd… too good…
Pablo: come on don’t give me the bullshit now…..
Lee: ok ok the last one here says” The drunk is the
ultimate!”
Pablo: huh?
Lee: go get me a
bottle of Mexican tequila and I will explain….
Pablo: u can t be serious!
Lee: no no very serious…..
After a few hours of heavy drinking and salsa dancing with
Lee’s friends at a nearby latino bar….
Lee : are u drunk yet…..u look wasted
Pablo: me? no no me mexicana, tequila monster! no wasted…
Lee: gd, go drink more…u are not ready….
After another 2 hrs….
Lee: are u …
Pablo yes yes I m drunk….
Lee: how u know what I m asking , no no u not drunk yet…go
drink more..
After another 1 hr….
Pablo speechless while lee manages a whisper
Lee: are u … and ……
Lee fell unconscious
before finishing his sentence……
****Dream Sequence
Pablo waking up again from his booze….surprised by a mexican
lady massaging his head,
sitting right next to him at the bar..
Pablo: oh….hi…
Mexican lady: hey there sweetie pie…u look tired, u look u
need a head massage…
Pablo: no no I don’t
need any massage…
Lady: its ok….i m not charging u or anything…I m not a
masseuse…
Pablo: oh…..where is my friend?
Lady: oh.. the Chinese guy? The smooth dancer?
Pablo: yeah yeah…
Lady: I think I saw him dancing on the table there half naked
a few hrs ago and left with some chick…
Pablo: huh? He left
without me…..
Lady: don’t bother
him…u have me to hang out with…u don’t look very sober,..can I buy u a coffee….
Pablo: no I m all right….
Lady: come on don’t be shy….i know everyone here….Bartender!
here….one espresso for this gentleman…
Pablo: oh thk you…
Bartender came and give him a espresso….
Lady: so who is that Chinese guy, your regular friend? Is he your lover?
Pablo: huh? Lover? no no , me no gay….just a friend….
Lady: oh
Pablo: he is my ping
pong friend , actually he is a coach, a true chinese champion in china….
Lady: oh wow, really…a real Chinese champion?…so u play ping
pong?
Pablo: I play ping pong? u kidding me….ping pong is my
life…I played my whole life, was junior champion at 11 yrs old in my country
mexico….
Lady: wow u champion too?
Wow…so why u need ur chinese friend, why u need a coach? Why he has some secret manual?
Pablo: huh? How u
know bout the Secret manual? My friend
told u?
Lady: no no …just guessing, just making a comment? U know,
chinese and kung fu and secret books, secret manual for kung fu…..
Pablo: oh oh , u watch too much chinese kung fu movies huh…I
see…well I m forced to play this tournament with some fat stupid kid for
sponsorship money, so I got Lee my friend here to help out….
Lady: ahh…for money… I see…and the reason u need money is
becasue u are having a baby….
Pablo:huh !? how u know I m having a baby….are u a spy or
something?
Lady: when u drunk sleeping , u keep yelling the song: baby
baby one more time….. and u say
something that ur Naomi wants a baby….
Pablo: oh really…wow
I must be really drunk…
The Lady all of a sudden stops speaking and starts
communicating in hand signals
Pablo: whaat happen to your voice…ok u trying to say….
Lady gesturing more….
Pablo: sorry my mute friend Joe is dumb too….he does these
hand gestures all the time…u are trying to say…..
Lady: I was trying to say: u promise Grandma u will save the
world…
Pablo: what? What u
mean? U meant my grandma said I will save the world? Wait! How u know my grandma said that?
Lady: u were drunk and talking about your grandma…
Pablo: oh…sorry.. I must have said a lot of things…well
actually u look a lot like my grandma,
yeah yeah…anyway..yeah I promise grandma that I will save the world and
solve all of the worlds problems….. well… I m getting old and so far not happening..
Lady: but the white ball could…
Pablo: the white ball?!
Huh how u ..oh I must have said that in my dreams too…yeah I have this
thinking about how the white ping pong ball is going to save theworld…u want to
hear it?
Lady: ok but first whats your name?
Pablo: oh my name? I m sorry…should have introduce
earlier…..Pablo
Lady: Laguana…nice to meet u
Pablo: what iguana?
Lady: no no not iguana…the lizard…Laguarna
Pablo: oh oh sorry(both laughing), I think too much about
mexican iguanas…nice to meet u
Laguarna..
Pablo raise his right hand to hand shake but Laguana played
the handshake game on Pablo a few time
before raising her right hand to his cheek and say the same way Chris would
have said
Lady: kiss it?
Blurry of images of chris and Laguanra floats in eds head of
drunk confusion…
Pablo: ok , if u command….
Lady: ahh ….nice kiss…delicious…hey Pablo u want to try the
delicacies here?..they make gd snacks here that goes with beer..
Pablo: I know! the fried grasshoppers?
Lady: no no they have the
fried roach with marinated ant and sperm.
Pablo: ant and what? Sperm u said..
Lady: yeah …roach, ant, and sperm…bartender! Lets have a plate of that roach, ant and
sperm…
Pablo staring to his left at the bartender and then looking
down, still heavily drunk
Pablo: huh! that sounds like a art piece I created no t so long ago, but mine
has an ant, fish and sperm… so what kind of sperm are we eating?
The Lady changed her voice into a monstrous tone: your
sperm…..
Pablo looked up and see the lady transform into a giant
grasshopper….and he screams!
Pablo: ahhh…..!
Pablo found himself waking up in Lee’s Pongnasium…..
Pablo:ahhh…..!
Lee: wake up! My
Mexican friend…….
Pablo whoah!
Whoah…….grasshopper! it is not my fault!
I didn’t want to eat u! giant ,
big…..!
Lee :what ?! what u saying?? It’s a dream! relax…..
Pablo: ok …ok….
Lee: let me make u some Chinese coffee, secret ingredient,
best stuff!
Pablo: ok thks! Never tried chinese coffee before…
Pablo sees Joe in Lees pongnasium as well
Pablo: oh, hi Joe!
Didn’t see u there…
Joe gesture to say hi
Pablo then see Lees trophies from his past….
Pablo: quite a
collection of trophies u have here….i see one here that says ballroom dancing…
Lee : oh yeah…that was a long time ago, before I first met
my first wife, did u know she is japanese?
Pablo: ah ! really?
Pablo: u wont believe what dream I just had….my grandma was
in it…and this crazy mexican chick was talking crap about ping pong, my
grandma, and human sperm….geee…..and she turns into this humongous grasshopper
in the end….scare the shit out of me..
Lee: wow…how much
tequila we had last nite?
Pablo: don’t know must be a lot! Oh…u still haven’t tell me about the Chinese
menu…
Lee looking guilty: yeah don’t worry …not yet! we have
time….we can still go drink tonight and have more salsa and chica if u want…
Pablo: oh come on …u got to tell me the secret menu
now….don’t tell me u don’t have it!
Lee: no no I have it, but the time is not right?
Pablo: why?
Lee :Because we are not drunk anymore…remember we got to be
drunk for me to reveal the secret?
Pablo: ok ok ….
Lee: relax relax, patience is the virtue…whats the formula
for Patience, my mathematician friend?
Pablo: Patience? Humm….interesting…never thought about that
one, maybe I will create one…..but I can give u the formula for love if u are
interested…..
Lee :ok Love, gd…tell me….
Joe gesturing at him trying to communicate……….
Pablo: what are u trying to say ? huh? A
stick ? no no not stick
A long sushi , u want to eat sushi? No no not sushi, a long tail?
A what tail? Iguarna?
A long iguarna tail? Yeah yeah that’s it? Ok what about it?
Pablo looks down on Joe to see that he has grown a Iguana
tail and the tail came swiping at
Pablo’s face!
Pablo screaming in his dream when he wakes up at the bar…..
Pablo: ahhhh…!
Lee: relax relax it’s a dream….
Pablo: huh? A dream ?
another dream?
Lee: what another dream?
U must have too much of that tequilla with mojito….
Pablo: must be…must be…whoah..what headaches…
Lee: gee…let me buy u the espresso…they make the best
Mexican espresso here….with Mexican chocolate!
U know chocolate originates from mexico right?
Pablo: yeah of course…..gd…. a espresso is gd…wait ! this is
not another dream, is it? Twice in my
dreams someone bought me coffee….
Lee: what dream? No u
not dreaming, how could u be dreaming? Look at u, look at yourself !
Lee pointing to Pablo’s nipples, that is being pierced
ringed with 2 ping pong balls….
Pablo stared at them with ashock …
Pablo:ahhhh!….no ….who did this? Who the hell did this !?….
Lee is laughing….
Lee : come on …it
looks gd…it looks sexy…
Pablo: sexy!? What am
I ?a playtoy…oh wait…this is not happening…I must be stuck in another
dream…..this cannot be reality…..
Lee: come on ! let me play with your pingpong nipples….
!
Pablo: stop it! Stop it! …...oh well, alright! whatever…yes
yes play with them…I am in a dream
anyway…do whatever u want…..
Lee: really…?
Lee dangling with his nipples balls with his fingers and
then his tongue….and laughing
Pablo : yeah yeah go ahead, lick them! U sick
muth&$^$^…its not real, its all a dream…
Lee :u look like a Mexican circus Chihuahua..
Pablo: yeah yeah , u look like a stupid Chinese monarch in
chinese tv, u know monarch with no f$%^&& dicks , they cut them off in
the king’s palace before they could serve the king..
Lee laughing: oh yeah?….and u look like sexy maddona
dangling for love with those ping pong
balls….slap me ! dangle me!
Pablo: and u know who
else u look like? u look like a slime tortoise every time u stare
at woman, as if u just came out from your stupid shell after
hibernation…ha hah ha
Lee: ok ok ….now u are pissing me off a little..they say
people say the most honest things when they are drunk….i guess u really mean
what u say….
Pablo: yeah yeah I m
in a dream anyway..so who cares what I say…..
Lee: ok britney sprears…..uh uh…..uh huh (singing)
Pablo: yeah yeah come feel my nipples , pull at them, make
me itch…
Lee: ok u ask for it….
And Lee pull hard at his nipples pong balls and Pablo yelled
in pain….
==============
Next day…with a slide that say” this is not a dream- no more
dreams from here”
Pablo showed up with bandages on his nipples in Lees
Pongasium
Pablo: why didnt u tell me I wasn’t in a dream ?
Lee:huh? We were all
drunk, how would I know what bullshit u saying?
Pablo: gee…I wonder
when all these will heal?
Lee: stop worrying about your nipples….so where were we
yesterday in our class material ?
Pablo: huh? Oh oh the Drunk is the best whatever…
Lee : ahh yes! But
the problem is we are not drunk anymore…
Pablo staring at him…..
Lee: yes! Go get a
few tequila! Here…
Pablo: u kidding…..?
After 4hrs of drinking….
Pablo pretending to be drunk…
Pablo: tell me now …before I passed out….
Lee; ok ok its very simple….u ever watched the Drunked
Fist…the movie..
Pablo: the movie…yeah yeah
Lee: ok thats it. Be
naturally unexpected…least expected
Pablo:naturally unexpected?
Lee; yes in every
move u make, u have to be so consciously unconscious and unconsciously
conscious…so to be unexpected ….
Pablo: u mean that movie is real..the drunked fist?!
****Documentary insert of the inventor of drunked fist
(wikipedia true history show footage)
Lee::Not only it is real, it is considered the highest form
of martial arts!
yes yes , that way u will always be naturally unexpected…in
kung fu or ping pong!
And lee fell unconscious again after imitating a few drunken
punches and falling…
Lee :always Unexpected…..(falling down)
Unexpected……the issue of Unexpected…
Insert Pablo narrating the “Unexpected” on sub urban traffic with toy cars..
- Lots of suburbs street has no signs or traffic lights.
When one drives in the quiet suburbs, there is FALSE feeling and sense
of peace and serenity- where nothing ever happens, and nothing will
ever happened. This cause most drivers to speed it up, speeding over 30,
to rush to where they are going. The danger always lurks in the
dark, the unknown, of that one car peeping out of nowhere.
Imagine an example of a car going straight
upwards with another car coming in at him on a adjacent street (90
degree) on his right.
On these adjacent streets, there is
usually cars parked fully on both sides of the streets. The car going
straight has no visibility of the car on the right incoming adjacent (90 degree
going left) at him since the line of cars parked on the adjacent street totally
blocked his view of any incoming cars until he cross the path of the incoming
car. And neither does the car on the right have any view of the left car.
He has the same problem of his view being blocked by the line of cars
parked on the left adjacent street.
In the above eg, to brake to a full stop in the
last instant -ONE second -from 30 mph is almost impossible if not truly a
feat!
2. The problem in the example above get
compounded especially if the streets are adjacent at a dangerous weird
angle, for eg an acute angle of less than 90 degrees. In this example,
the driver going straight will have no chance of seeing the incoming driver on
the right. Neither will the right incoming driver on any sight of the left
driver either. Most suburb streets are never organized in
straight lines or boxes. Always in some odd angle.
3. Another problem compounding the error above
are streets with elevated slopes- and most suburbs have that. In the above eg
again, a car going straight on a upslope will have no view of the right
adjacent car incoming on the other side of the slope. And when he comes
down on the slope, he will be accelerating at more than 30 mps. The
car on the right will neither have any view of the left car until it is too
late.
Producer: Wait cut cut what the hell is this ? what does
this traffic bullshit got to do with
ping pong?
Pablo: Nothing. This
is for the safety of the general public. It is call Unexpected.
It is the
responsibility of everyone to be good citizen to inform the danger of any kind
to the public….
Producer: what is..this is no traffic documentary! Enough of this Mexican cahuna…
Pablo: calm down calm down…it s good ….are u a good citizen?
Producer yelling: I don’t care if I am a god damn good
citizen or crap, no no I am going to erase that part…
Pablo: no u don’t!
Producer and Pablo getting into a wresting fight before fat
Joe stopping them…
Camera goes back to Pablo narrating:.And so after one week,
of intense training of so call Chinese Secrets……
Pablo: thank you for everything (he bow to leave)
Lee: yes, u have
master the secrets, to the west u go!
Pablo: West?! Where
west? Mexcian Cowboys?
Lee: no no …I mean to the
lower west side…
Pablo: oh..ok where?
Lee: u must complete your training with a good friend of
mine, the mystic…
Pablo: mystic?
After a train ride to the west side in small apartment
building….with candles and plants, rocks,
mats, nice odor…
Tobias: Now open your eyes slowly….. Now what do u feel?………
What do u feel..?
Pablo:
um..nothing….oh light light everywhere….
Naomi is with Pablo
Tobias: ok ok … I mean….. what do u feel inside? (saying every sentence with some kind of
repressed emotions locked inside)
Pablo: ok ok u mean
inside my head…blackness., nothing….or do u mean inside my heart? My veins? Or
my mojo?
Tobias:no no your head. But u feel nothing?…. then u are
doing it wrong…u are supposed to focus your head on the things around u….
Pablo: things? Like
the….
Tobias: yes yes like that rock u see there……the bamboo
sticks here…..the little incense burning, …..
Pablo: yeah yeah…that disgusting smell….
Naomi: its not disgusting..
Tobia: disgusting?…oh I m sorry I didnt know u don’t like
it..
Pablo: it smells like dungeon and dragons ….
Tobias: oh ! I m sorry we can change that…no worries…..
Tobias went to change the incense
Pablo narrating: Tobias is highly referred to as the Yoga
Master and lots of gd ping pong players use him for his so call
Enlightenment…..
Tobias: now I want u
to focus on the things around u…
Pablo: how …in what way?
Tobias: I need u to
feel with your head and your palm held up , yes yes that way, without touching
anything, with your eyes close…
Pablo: what is this, some kind of jedi trick?
Tobias: no no no jedi trick…you want to think for each
moment u concentrate on each object around u, that You are that object!
Pablo: oh boy ob boy…ok ok let me try again….
Naomi nagging him: just follow instructions, stop being a
pain in the butt!
Pablo: no I m not being a pain, ok relax…let me do it my
way…
Pablo does some stupid queer weird style
Tobias stared in disbelief
Tobias: ok do it your way…
Pablo: ok…eyes
closed, hands raised, my palm is to feel each thing…..ok ..i feel the rock
Tobias shouted: good!( excited immediately. A bit too much
exaggerated, as he is naturally hyper)
Pablo startled by tobias:
whoah wohoah relax, im concentrating….
Tobias: oh im sorry..
Pablo: no no its ok…
ok focus…..i m the rock …I m the
bamboo…..
Pablo gesturing in funny manner
Flashback to Pablo’s mind, hypnotically spiraling ……
focusing deep into a trance…. to a musical documentary of the origin of the
universe, but all he could only see is a lot of ping pong balls, with lots
of white pingpong balls spinning and suddenly
the big bang…..to the asteroids, Rocks,
nova, supernovas…the plus and minus flow of energy and its extremes- and
mash –gay?- plants soil animals, dinosaurs and then the scenic views of mexico-
mountains rivers etc that WE are all part of the air, planetary
atmosphere, particles, gas , liquid, physicals like rocks soil etc
Insert here a boring black and white documentary of the above
Pablo narrating: it goes way back to memory of being a
college kid and always curious about LIFE…there was a time when I just traveled
throughout mexico, trying to figure out that answer….and trying to figure LIFE
out mathematically on a blackboard…and at that very moment of truth through
yoga, I caught a glimpse of that answer! The Answer I have been seeking all my
life…. WHAT IS LIFE???
Show slides of:
I give birth to my poo which becomes soil and fertilizer
then becomes plants and grass where animals like goats and cows eat and then all these cows become food of humans
and the grand cycle starts over== that “my
poo is u” and u are my poo . And
I m your poo.
Similar to the Big Bang where all planets were thrown out
each evolving into their current states and eventually as the big expansion
stops, they ran out of energy they die
and fall out of their path due to gravity and when it get too heavily
accelerated, forms mini balck hole, to be merged into other mini
blackholes to form a major bigger black hole, sucking in nearby
planets and all elements and eventually in the last stage, sucking in every
element alive!
And then the whole
new cycle begins as one massive black hole suck in and spits out another big
bang and yet another new universe.
I am part of the
previous black hole, part of the big bang, part of the atmosphere in this
universe, rocks, asteroids, planets and finally my poo.
And soon after another billions of yrs, the whole cycle will start
again.
Tobias: so what are
u Pablo?
Pablo: I am the rock, the bamboo, the floor I am sitting
down, I am the air, and….
Tobias: and what else?
Pablo: umm that it?
Is there anything else?
Tobias: what about my nose hair?
Pablo: your …your what?!
Tobias, my nose hair…and my toe nail….
Pablo opening his eyes:
what? That too?
Tobias: feel it and say it….
Pablo: ok ok ….i feel it… I am your
Tobias: your what?
Pablo: your toe…damn it I cant say it….its disgusting…
Tobias: u want to be ping pong champion or not?
Pablo: ok ok…..i m your nose hair and your disgusting toe
nail!
Tobias acting slightly gay trying to take advantage and play
out his repressed emotions: ahh…..but u are just saying it because I told u, u
must say it with all your heart.
Ok..try say I feel your nipples, I am your nipples….
Pablo:: huh? I feel your nipples, I am your…
Tobias:u can do it….say it
Pablo:no I can t
Tobias:yes you could…
Pablo:no I cant!
Tobias:yes you could
And they got into a loud fight where Tobias repressed
emotions and anger got spilled over in a strange and negative way.
Naomi: ok ok stop
guys ….stop let me try it with him
Naomi faced Pablo, hands connected
Naomi: ok Pablo..say u feel my nipples….
Pablo: I feel your nipples….
Naomi: say I am your nipples….
E lauging: why don’t u be my nipples first?
Naomi: common Pablo..
Pablo: at least my nipples is strong and firm, not draggy
and sloppy…oops Im sorry….
Naomi: what did u just say?
Pablo: nothing..i meant.. my testicles is draggy and
sloppy..
Naomi: I heard what u said…say it again…
Pablo: no? its nothing….
Naomi: come on, be a real man! say it!
Pablo narrating: We rarely fight, I and Naomi , she is
really my soulmate, my companion for life…so the times we fight I remember very
well….
Camera flashed back to years ago when Pablo plays ping pong
with Naomi after a serious fight….
Pablo
narrating: this is when ping pong will come in helpful, ping pong is not only a
great game, it is a game of communication or for people with communication
problems…..its truly a ice breaker!
Use documentary video here-
ping pong is the high art of communication –
in fact it is the highest form of communication without speech! The going back
and forth of the ball with you and your buddy's unique energies in
it do all the talking and babbling. That give and take of energies
through the little white ball does all the interacting.
Try it
and you will know what I mean. Having communication problems with your friends,
families, or love ones? Start paddling that little white ball and
all ice is broken!
Pablo narrating: this
happens 7 mths ago when I and Naomi have an argument for days, and up to a pt
of not talking to each other for a while….
They are playing ping pong but quiet, not speaking to each
other
Pablo: Nada
Naomi: nada what?
Pablo: Nada
Naomi : what?
Pablo:nada I m still right….ha ha caught u…
Naomi: stop being an ass…..
Pablo: Think of it this way, why are we playing ping pong
now?
Naomi: don’t start…
Pablo: I mean if we are all meant to go to the same place at
the end, why are we even here? how it is
possible that we are here holding 2
dumb paddles playing with a ball?
Naomi: what same place?
Pablo: I mean if it is all destiny and we all go to that
same hell or heaven at the end, then whatever we do is meaningless? Which means
this ball we are hitting is meaningless…
Naomi: don’t start…
Pablo: and this table is meaningless, u are meaningless and
I m meaningless, the whole world of 7 Billion people are meaningless and their
reactions means nothing…
Naomi: I never said human history is meaningless or that
human actions are meaningless…I just meant the bugs, the insects u so care
about protecting….
Pablo: well that’s the same thing….
Naomi: no it s not
the same…
ED: yes it is
the same…as long as they show
civilized rational behaviors, they are sentient beings and should be treated
equally, like cats and dogs…I mean why should they be treated differently…just
because they look nasty, has long ugly testicle on their face and is hairy and
disgusting looking….
Naomi: well, they are meant to be lower beings , ready to be
reincarnated in their next cycle of life to a higher being…
ED: no no I don’t see that…just because they are ugly
roaches and ants, or centipedes, they were meant to be killed??
Naomi: I didn’t say that, that’s why they have shorter life
spans…they are designed to have shorter life spans, like 3 yrs or 1 yr or even
mths for some bugs before they naturally die…ready to be reincarnated into some
other higher being…
Pablo: so then that gives us the rights to kill them or step
on them by accident…thinking all that is ok…
Naomi: I didn’t say that ….i
just meant it is meaningless for us to protect them since they were
meant to live only a very short time and are all ready to move on to their next
life of evolution..
Pablo: so u saying if a new born baby has cancer and can
only live 2 yrs, we should abandon him?
Naomi: that’s not what i m saying…
Pablo: but that’s exactly what u saying! And if it happen one day that there is some giant race who are 10000 feet
tall and lives till 1000 yrs old and they will come to earth, and they feel we
are too small and we live a short life of 80, that gives them the right to step
on us?
Naomi: all I m saying is that there may be a greater reason
for everything..it is predestined…not everything is random and unexplainable….
Pablo: so u saying its ok for a lion to eat a nice cutty
rabbit and a snake to eat my chicken crop when I was a kid and I had to starve
..just because nature say so?
Naomi: I didn’t say that….but maybe your chicken is ready to
reincarnate to other higher beings?
They are playing ping pong while arguing and the ping pong
is getting more intense as they start yelling at each other with greater
intensity..
Pablo: what nonsense!
So everything is destiny and there is no free will? So why are we humans even
here? So if some assassin comes right now and shoot u in the face
(ed smacking the ball at her….)
that will be destiny too? and I should stand here and watch u die , ready
to let u reincarnate to become some stupid firefly fairy?
Naomi: no I didn’t say that! don’t twist my words….
She try smacking one at Pablos face …….
Pablo narrating with camera back to the present: so yes ping pong is really good for
communication and breaking ice…yes! try it!
Camera back to a ping pong table where Pablo and Tobias was
sitting on it motionlessly
Tobias: so tell me
what we mastered in the last couple of days
Pablo: I learnt that
I am the ball
Tobias: good good very good..
Pablo: I am also the table….
Tobias: goooodd… impressive….you are or u truly feel it…
Pablo: no no I am really the ball and table….and I am also
my racket, and my opponents racket….
Tobias getting excited: and… and?
Pablo: I am also my
opponent’s sweat, poo and his testicles…
Tobias getting excited :
ok ok why testicles?
Pablo: well because it is the part of the body that dangles
the most without purpose.
Tobias: hmm interesting…..
Camera to graduation ceremony
Tobias with a headband giving headbands to both Pablo and
his Naomi
Tobias: u are almost
finish, today is the final class…
Pablo: what ? there is more?
Tobias: yes and perhaps the most important
Pablo: ok ok I m
ready…as always
Tobias: close your
eyes again….
Pablo: yes yes
Tobias: u have learn
so far to appreciate all things, all things raw , all thing simple, all things
small or big….all things around u…
Pablo: yes yes simple and raw..
Tobias: but u forgot something…..the most important
Pablo: and whats that?
Tobias: the energy
around them…
Pablo: oh damn, now energy too….?
Tobias: yes yes u
must feel the energy of these things, if u would to become these things…u are
the energy
Pablo: ok ok …I am the hotdog u just ate for lunch..and I am
that nasty and cheesy energy…and I am fighting it out in your intestines…
Tobias: gd gd…but think positive….u are all forms of energy,
the good and the nasty
Pablo: huh? Positive on the nasty too? that I will soon become your poo?
Tobias: yes! think
beauty, think joy, think happiness…
Pablo: huh? Happiness? Ok …poo is happiness, I am happy to
be your poo…
Tobias: yes…pingpong is a game of happiness, and everything
about it is joy, beauty and harmony….so think happiness…all energy plus or
minus….plus and minus of everyone and everything….
Pablo:ok happiness, I am happiness…I am everything around me
and I am happy …
Tobias: no, not u are happy, u are those things and that makes u happy…
You have to embrace Everything, the good and nasty and only
then would u not get affected by these things.
Only when u are happy to embrace those things around u can u
truly be those things and one with those things…..and only then can u feel
everything and respond to everything in pingpong.
Pablo: ok ok I got it…I am one with Everything….the good and
nasty
Tobias: ah but u are
not convinced, much practice needed.
Pablo ok practice……can we end this graduation ceremony now?
Tobias: yes but u are
still missing one final piece which I cant teach u…
Pablo: huh? One final jakepena is still missing?
Tobias: here u must
now go face the wrestler?
Tobias handling him a paper..
Pablo: what wrestler? Wwf? What is this?
Camera to a boxing arena…….where Pablo took a body slam from
a Wrestler onto the ground
Pablo: ok ok I think I got the idea….
His friend Joe helping him up…
Pablo: so when are we going to learn how to slam others ?
Female Wrestler: who
says anything about slamming others?
Pablo: huh?
Wrestler: u are only
here to learn how to get slammed….
And more footage of Pablo and Joe both getting judoed and
slammed …..
Wrestler: so how do u feel?
Pablo: I think we have enough…
Wrsleer: wrong
answer….
And more funny footage of Pablo getting slammed.
Wrestler: how u feel now?
Pablo totally white eyed and exhausted: enough …I mean for
one day…
Wrestler: wrong answer again…
And more footage of Pablo getting slammed.
Wrestler : how u feel now?
Pablo trying to sneaked away with help of Joe ….Joe pointing
away gesturing…..while ed tries to run….
Wrestler: no answer is wrong answer as well….
Pablo caught by 2 bouncers and more slams followed…
Nightime……after 5 hrs
Wrestler: so how u feel now?
Pablo: um..umm I think u are beautiful…
Wrestler looking fierce:
come again…
Pablo: no no I mean
I love it!
Wrestler : love what?
Pablo: I love being slammed!
Wrestler: good ..its time to move on to round 2
Pablo; round 2?!
Camera moves to dark rm with no light…..
Pablo : hello hello?
No answer…..
Pablo: hello hello…anybody here…ahghhhhh!
Wrestler lit the torch light suddenly facing Pablo scaring
him: sorry to surprised u…but a gd ping pong player should be able to handle
sudden surprise….
From here on the scene is being filmed in the dark with
playful torch light appearance with either character
Pablo: what are u doing…?
Wrestler: Relax…I m
giving u a massage….
Pablo: what!? Say again!
a massage?
Wrestler : yes a massage….like me touching your body
Pablo: touching my body?!
Where? Which part? Ahhhhrhhgg! No! Help!! Don’t touch my little
mojo cahuna!
Wrestler: Relax, I am a professional. yeah sorry for my weight …but u should be
able to handle pain…
Pablo: yes yes, u are not tooo slim u know…
Wrestler: u mean I am chubby?
Pablo: no no no Arrgghhhh…..soft…I mean perfect ,u! u have
perfect body…
Wrestler: good…I heard u come to me referred by the yoga coach Tobias?
Pablo: yes yes Tobias….
Wresler: so u should know what this is all about….
Pablo: huh ?about… arrgghhh…geee.no non I swear to my
Mexican iguana and dog shit that if I know, I will never come here…
Wrestler applying heavy pressure playfully: what? come again?
Pablo: arghhhh! Wait
wait…I mean I swear to my iguana and dog shit that, thank god for Tobias,
otherwise I will never come here….
Wrestler: good, fast thinking, well,
what do u see now?
Pablo: nothing! Its dark in here…
Wrestler: wrong answer…
Pablo: argggh….mama mia! ok ok I feel u stepping on me….
Wresler: gd and …..what else?
Pablo: yes yes and ..wait wait, don’t step yet..Arggghh
Wrestler: wrong answer again…
Pablo:ok ok …I feel u , I am your legs, I mean your big fat
cheesecake legs…I mean no no sorry,
that’s not what I …arrrgghhh!!
Pablo: I mean your beautiful legs, I swear on my iguana
that’s what I meant
Wrestler: ok much better and .. what else?
Pablo:huh? What else? Oh oh……ok … I got it , I got it! i
feel the pain!
Wresetler: obviously, and ?
Pablo: and and I am
this pain , im the pain…
Wresler: gd gd , seems that Tobias has taught u well…..and?
Pablo: I am you , I am the pain, I am the pain u inflict….Arrghhg….pain!
Pablo narrating: talking about pain, my forever drifting
imagining brain cant help going back to the days of my midlife crisis, trying
to solve a math equation that will explain it…
Camera goes back to Pablo’s College classroom where he tries
to Solve the equation of Pain of Love on a blackboard…..Can there be Eternal
Love?
On the board: think
Nobel Prize! Love= L = Summation E
of all of Me, my existences Plus the Summation of all of You to the power of a infinity derivative.
Pablo: but this equation doesn’t work right or look right,
otherwise why do people break up and get divorce…and all that…something seems wrong…
And strangely , every time I work on this mathematical
problem, my grandma shows up in my dreams…..
And in my dream my grandma keep repeating and repeating and
repeating the same words: u promise! U promise!!
And I always said
“ yes I promise, I promise”
Grandma : we came from a long ancestry of selfless royalty,
u will solve these problems..
Pablo yelling in his dreams: yes I will, stop strangling
me…ahh ahh I promise!
=========================
Camera back to the present to that dark massage room …..
Wrestler: what else…..?
Pablo:arrghhghhh…wait ! I have ADD and slight
Alzheimer’s! I don’t remember what I
learnt wait!
Wrestler: wrong answer!
Pablo: arrghhh! ok ok …I just remember….i embrace evything…I
embrace the pain!
Wresler: and ….?
Pablo: I embrace ur weight, your body, your legs,
everything…..!
Wresler: good,now that u get it, it s time for me us to move
on….
Pablo:huh ?move on where?
Pablo felt something else slapped on his back other than
Wrestler’s leg
Pablo: Arrghhh…..how u get so heavy! Mamam mia help!
Wrestler: well, u will move on to the final level….
Pablo: wait, why do I feel something warm lying on my back,
it feels like a ….like a …wait! Is that your dick? What ? dick?
Ahhhhh…..!!
Wrestler: Relax I am
not a man……
Then the Torch light reveals Joe’s face as Pablo just
realized that joe was in the room all
along and now is being thrown over his body.
Pablo: screaming in surprise :Ahh!!
Joe :arrrghhhh!
Pablo: whoah whoah
Joe! What u doing here?!
Joe nods his head…
Wrestler: joe here is to help us out here…ok joe, move over
to the other bed…
Joe moves to a bed right next to Pablo
Wrestler jumps on Joes back and hear Joe squeaks…..
Wrestler : so Pablo , so how do u feel now?
Pablo: what? nothing ……
Wresler jump back to his bed on Pablo’s back and puts pressure
Pablo: arrgghghh….. ok ok I am thinking….
Wresler jumped back to Joe…
Joe :arghhghgh
Wrelser :ok how do u feel now?
Pablo: nothing…but hey u cant abuse a war veteran, joe is
dumb and mute! Argghh!!
Wrestler: relax, joe is having fun…right joe?
Joe squeaks
Pablo: argghhh!!! oh
no no, ok ok ….i got it , I got it, i feel everything
Wrelser: everything what?
Pablo: ok ok I feel his pain, I m Joes pain…
Wresler: gd….now u are half way there….
Pablo: half way!?
Wrestler: well, now pretend I am the ball as in ping pong,
and joe here is your opponent…..
Pablo:yeah u are the big fat ball….no sorry I mean….
Arghhhh…!….?
Wrelser: I am now jumping from one bed to the other, back
and forth…like the ball in a ping pong match….
Pablo:arghgghh…ok …
Wresler: now how do u feel,,,,,
Pablo ok ok I got your pt…..i am the pain, I am u , I am the
ball, and I am the Joe, I am everything…
Wresler: and how do u feel?
Pablo: I feel great!
I feel Arrghhhgh….i feel happiness, I feel joy being everything…I liked
being spanked!
Wresler: yes ..u have finally graduated! only when u embrace all the plus and minus of
life, the joy and the pain, all that is around u, could you be one with everything, and only then
would u play well, because u are not afraid of anything…..since u are already a
part of Anything…….anticipating and
reacting similarly to every movement, subtle or big…..u are everything and yet
u are nothing, afraid of nothing- like the wind!
Special Video made for the Taiji Yin and yang relationship
of life and Relationship below -
Pablo narrating: From the Wrestler, I learnt a lot about the
highest level of sports, the highest of any sports!
You are everything around u! You have be all things around u
and only then could u be whole…only then could u move like air, like the
wind, totally in sync with your
unconscious!
You are unconscious and yet u are conscious…the highest level of any sports….
if u focus on beating your opponent and act feisty, u cant
beat him! For ur energy and focus on beating him is a distraction. Only when he
becomes a part of u and u becomes a part
of him and when everything becomes one would u becomes everything and react naturally and calmly to overcome any
opponent….
Never with fiest but with embrace….just like Life and all
relationship….
And it doesn’t matter what kind of opponent u face, the
second he is a part of u , u become unbeatable
It is all about accepting differences, when everything and everyone is
interconnected, connected as One at
every instant….
Camera goes back to Lee’s pongnasium with Pablo and Lee
watching the tape on Chris….
Lee: u have no chance…
Pablo: what! What do u mean…after all those punishment, no
chance?
Lee: u n don’t undersrtand…this kid is using the newest
technique…
Pablo: newest what ? my ass..i will beat him..
Lee: no no he is
using the Latest technique of No movement, of zero movement…..of the short vs
the long , the suble vs the deliberate
Pablo: huh?
Lee: a new form ….similar to the new Chinese kung fu modern
form Wing chun …
Pablo:wing what again?
Freid chicken again! I have enough of that chicken shit…
Lee: no no wing chun, let me explain….this kid is using the
simplicity of 5
Pablo: 5 what? Taiji? Shaolin monks?
Play Zero Movement Documentary while Lee explains: no, look closely at what he is doing…..All
throughout ping pong history, we were told to move our body all the time, to
move into Position before the ball
arrives, we were all brainwashed!
Brainwashed the same way by all coaches, that only when we are in
position for the ball can we hit our best shot on every ball……..well no
longer! enters the new player!….The new
player understands the importance of not moving, focusing his energy on
ALL aspects of the game, like everything
else, calculating his moves forward,
instead of focusing on getting his body in position.
True, this requires more training and practice since he has
to learn how to hit most of his shots out of position but it could be easily done
with practice, I mean the kung fu people has done it all their lives, nobody is
going to tell you which part of the body
your opponent is allow to kick in
kung fu?! Your opponent in kungfu will hit u unexpectedly in all directions and
u have to have the preparation to defend and offend at the same time in any
postions……
Pablo: I see, I see what u saying…..
Lee: By not moving, I don’t mean not moving at all, if u
look at the tape, he is shifting his center of gravity on every pt, getting the
center of gravity in position, because even if u move ur body, that’s what u
trying to achieve anyway…..and he has the approach of an inch backward movement swing preparation within
his elbows, hip and knees to generate body mass…and also look how he is
minimizing his arc to a ¼ movement for short swings…All these simplicity allows
him to focus ½ a second ahead since he is moving less and focusing more on
everything else….
We have been all brainwashed by watching the superstar
Chinese players play, seeing how fast they are and trying to imitate them, when
the irony is that they are the ones who truly understand moving away from that
style as proven by the unorthodox play of recent new champions like wang hao and zhang zhi ke, I mean look at
their backhands…..
Pablo: I see the light! The style of not moving…. Yes… I know what u saying….i have to master
this…
Lee: Well u don’t have enough time, so U have no hope, u r
hopeless, take it from the Chinese….
Pablo: no I can do this …I have time…
The Hustler a few feet away heard Lee ‘s convo on the tape
and steps in.
Hustler: Yes u are hopeless, But not if the other person
believes he is more hopeless!
Pablo: huh? What do u say?
Hustler: its all about belief! The power of belief! And it doesn’t have to come from u believing
in yourself. Your opponent just got to believe he is worse than you, that he is never going to beat u!
Lee: Hey Wally! long
time no see….where u been lately?
Wally: not much homeboy….just a few tournaments here and
there…
Pablo narrating Wally intro: as a USA professional player
playing on the international leagues, toe to toe up against the Chinese….but a
few levels away…however he seems to have a
few bags of tricks up his sleeves….
Pablo: and how are u going to make your opponent believe he
is in a shithole, some jedi mind tricks …
Wally: well, u have come to the right person….
Pablo:ok…
Wally : but for a price….a low price….
Pablo: here we go again…I am tight..i just paid this guy
here…no no cant do..
Lee:why don’t u give
him one of your art work…some gd painting…..Wally here is a art fan…right Wally?
Waly: u an artist too…damn ….ok we can strike a deal…..
Pablo narrating : And so starts the training from another
ping pong legend, the legend of hustling….
Wally: Ok Lesson one- killer instinct.
Pablo: killer instinct….
Wally: damn
right…look at me in the eyes….see my eyes?
Pablo:yeah? Its brown
Wally: see how I m
glaring at u? with full intensity and
fiest?
Pablo:yeah…its still brown
Wally: how do u feel?
Pablo: that u didn’t get any sex for a yr?
Wally: what?
Funny…but gd…aint matter what u think….damn sexually frustrated? damn
right..and I am about to f%$&$%&
explode on u, the killer instinct…i want u to focus all your energy on
your eyes and expression
Pablo:ok ok …
Pablo showing a face slightly lame….
Wally: no no, not like that not enough! look ..act mean, you are a mean
f%^^%. Say it !
Pablo: I am a mean ^%&%&.
Wally: that’s what u going to do, the very first moment u
see your opponent. Stare at him. And keep that stare until he feels all
weird. Don’t let go! Never let go until
the handshake. Remember, killer instinct!
Pablo: ok ok got it!
Killer instinct!
Wally: that is stage 1,killer instinct …stinking fear in
your opponent immediately. Next we are going to focus on Stage 2 – Distracting
your opponent. We want to distract him, make him focus on anything and
everything else besides thinking
about his game, and besides thinking about your game…..
Pablo: ok…and…
Wally: when u first arrive at the tournament scene, u want
to dress in some gym clothes with a sweater with a hood that cover your face
…with a cap on ..that way no one can see your face ..u want to create mystique,
mystery ….the first step …
Wally: ok, when u two
first meet, when the tournament director announce your names, you get up,
remove your damn hood and cap and just stand
there and stare at him with fiest, and then say something weird about
your name, like Snaky Pablo, something weird and strange that throws him
off…..to make him think…
Pablo: ok hi im
jiggly Pablo…I mean jigaloe
Wally: thats right…throw him off…makes him go huh? Jiglyl
what?that’s your name…
Pablo: ok.
Wally: and when he says his name, you want to pretend not to
hear it first and two times, make him repeat twice and then say something close
or funny just to annoy the shit out of him….Lets practice…whats your name?
Pablo :Pablo…
Wally :what again
Pablo :Pablo
Wally: wha ? louder
come again?
Pablo :Pablo…
Wally: ahhh Ecuador, the country Ecuador?
Pablo: ok ok I got it
Wally: oh ok
frogcooldoor, got it got it…u see what I am saying? Annoy him…but
subtle.. Irritate and annoy! That is stage 3, irritate and annoy the shit out
of him…
Wally: ok next…..the handshake…when its time for that
friendly handshake…u raise your right hand….come let me show u , work with me…
Pablo raising his hand to shake with wally
Wally: U pretend to shake it…and then u shy away….stop 3
seconds, look at his face….same stare…and then raise your left hand….then shy
away and then stare 3 secs again…then rub your ass with your right hand and
raise to shake….
Pablo: rub my ass?
Wally.:yeah slightly, a little slide here, subtle….
Pablo: ok …
Wally :I m sure he wont shake your ass smelly hands but if he tries to shake it, shy away
again…never let him touch your hand…remember!
Pablo: ok ok …do I
put some perfume on my ass , I mean on my pants before shaking?
Wally: hmm…interesting..never thought of that before, let me
write it down….
Pablo staring at camera…
Wally: next….u want to start the match immediately and u
refuse to warm up with him…that way is to maintain that mystique and fear about
your game…cause ifu warm up and he sees weakness in your game, he gains
confidence and your makeup for instilling fear in him is lost….
Pablo: gd.. ok…no warm-ups..
Wally: and hopefully, before the match starts, u want to
start bringing things out of your gym bag…u know things like dirty smelly
clothes, dirty socks and hang them on your chair, and u taught me this one, put
some perfume on it, and put some different ones, yes bro…mash it in, mash it
all in………maybe u want to bring some lucky charm like a smelly lemon, or grapes,
or a Chinese eggplant that smells weird….make them think “totally! whuz up with
this dude?!”
Pablo staring at camera :ok ok
Wally: or put up one
of those Chinese incense….and start praying to it…
Pablo:ok ok
Wally: and now to
really throw him off…start wearing something that reflects light..tlike some
shiny sunglasses, some bright silvery jewelry or earrings, or some crazy shit
shinny silver hat that really reflects any light to really throw his vision off
when he looks at you…
Pablo: ok
Wally: and perhaps wear some crazy color shirt , light
really bright shiny silver that throws light at him…oh and one more thing….get
a fierce tattoo, some weird shit, just to throw him off…like a fierce pitbull
or monster on your neck or arms to scare the shit out of him…
Pablo writing them down ….
Wally: and here comes a gd one, during the match when u get
a time out, u want to put on some loud weird walkman music but not too loud,
just enough to throw him off, but u hide the walkman somewhere in your bag
…..or maybe make your cellphone beeps constantly for no reason…that shit really
annoys the shit out of people.
Lee was impressed at all these info…
Lee : wow I didn’t know u have all these bunch of dirty
trick s up your kahuna! Great stuff!
Wally: And when the match starts , u move on to stage
4. U Confuse the shit out of him!
Not only do u irritate, annoy, u going to add Confuse.
Pablo: ok ok how?
Wally:when the match starts, this is when u transform into
another person and start acting weird, meaning u start talking to yourself, I
mean start murmuring to yourself and you pretend not to hear things, like the score....things
like that.
Pablo:ok..i mean I do that naturally anyway,
Wally: ok for eg….before u serve , whisper something like
“big bad wolf big bad burger”
And then serve quickly….or say “ balls looks extra juicy”
.just say something weird, something incomprehensible, just to throw him off,
make him think about what u saying, make him analyze what u saying instead of
focusing on your serve…. U got that?
And u should have
like different serving styles before u serve…some weird styles, like raising both
arms very high or leaning down really low, or some weird dance move style, and
if it is funny looking, even better, make him laugh, make him focus on the
humor of it all, make him focus on anything but you…..
Pablo narrating : It is call the Uncertainty principle. All
these acting weird, confusing, and uncertain to throw off the opponent makes my
weird brain think about something I have
been working on- it is strange how the brain works, it simply discourse into the
equation I have been working on for the last few yrs ever since my mid life
crisis, which is the mathematic equation
for Love…..
Equation of Love or passion is inversely proportional to the
level of mystery or certainty – according to the famous author/mathematician
greg benford, and therefore love is destined to be minimized to just
companionship in the long run, all infatuations runs out, all mystery dies
away, since the longer u know your
soulmate, the less the mystique or uncertainty. Tie this in with a mid life
crisis, the math formula of a mid life crisis equates to all relationships
ending up with just companionship in the end.
But looking at Wally act out all these different characters
makes my brain suddenly pop out a light bulb!
Maybe Love could go on infinitely if somehow the Uncertainty
factor stays unchanged or even go up, meaning u would have to change into a
different person or play a different character every now and then, to maintain
that mystique with ur love one!
But what would cause a person or both the couple to go thru
such crazy constant changes to maintain a relationship? Lunatics perhaps? Like Wally?
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Camera back to Wally and Pablo
Pablo: yeah yeah..gd stuff.. what else?
Wally: and before u serve, u walk around talking garbage no
one understands, start talking shit to the crowd, walk to the crowd, and
pretend to talk to them or talk to some imaginary ghost, yelling at yourself or
asking stupid qns…..
Pablo: ok
Wally: when u ready to serve , do anything weird!
Improvise! u can switch your stance from
left to right, or to the middle a few times, just to throw him off. This is all legit as long as u don’t overdo
it on each point……come lets practice this once…
Pablo:ok ok….
Wally: and sometimes, I m not saying it all the times cause he is going to
complain to the referee, sometime serve unexpectedly while u do your song and
dance….
Pablo:whoah ok…
Wally: and when the match really gets going, keep talking
shit to yourself with different tone, different voice sometimes to confuse
him, keep saying the weird stuff, walk
around as if your are clasutphboic and has some mental issues…..
Pablo: ok ok
Wally, and u want ot pretend not to hear the score sometimes
, make him repeat a couple of times…like say the score is 9-8, u go what ?
what? Twice and then say 8-9 no 9-8 yeah
that’s what u said 9-8 ….do that a few times to really throw off his momentum
and timing….or throw up qns like who is serving and who should be serving…the
whole purpose is to make him work so hard and irritated and annoyed that he
just want to get the match over with and start making mistakes while focusing
his mind on the madness that is going on…….u want him to think,”whats wrong
with this guy? Where is he from? Is he
doing on purpose? Is he for real?”
Pablo: ok ok
Wally: and of course u are doing on purpose, but u want to
be subtle in doing all these, making him think that’s how u are…..that’s the
way u really are and u are actually a nice guy.
Pablo: ok ok interesting…
Wally: and maybe u
want to be pretending to be hearing things, he said something..and asking him
to repeat what he is saying…do that a
few times..say something like” did u hear that?”
Pablo: ok…
Wally: and oh yes! Time outs! U want to take the maximum number of time
outs, and when u do, pretend u are meditating and ignoring him even when time
is up, or go disappear in the bath room to only appear in the last moment when
he is about to lose his patience and complain to the referee…and oh yes the
injury time too…. Pretend u need it for your legs or hip or anything…or maybe
even fall asleep during one, always wait for him to wake u up!
Pablo: ok…interesting…
Wally: and u want to change rackets , say different color
rackets during timeouts or ask for ball change or even different color balls,
say u want the orange ones because they
are better or that ur ghost said it is better or some weird shit ….
Pablo:ok..
Wally: and if all these doesn’t work and makes him want to
quit the game, at this pt..he is all
frustrated and about to quit the game and let u have it…but if all things fail
and he still maintain his cool and u are still down in the match , it s time
for Stage 4
Pablo: stage 4?
Wally: stage 4 is time when u start acting eerie or really
weird up the ass…
Pablo: weird what?
Wally: yeah u bet
homeboy…. U going to throw in that f$%^$^ wrench of yours up his ass.. U going
to start spitting out some Fear in him…
Pablo: ok how?
Wally: first, u start yelling , yes start yelling really
loud at yourself and weird on every pt, no matter if u win or lose, and even
better when u win, u get more mad, just to throw him off…
Pablo: ok
Wally: come lets practice….say u just won a pt, say something like…
Pablo:”stop doing that!
See what u did, do the right damn thing!”
Wally:right! Confuse
him… Act like u lost the pt to confuse him.
and when u lose a pt?
Pablo: ehh..
Wally: say something like: yes! That’s the way to go! That’s the way to make
him pay and act really fierce staring at
him, striking fear in his eyes…as if u won the pt.
Pablo: ok ok
Wally: and maybe u want to start picking up a fight with the
crowd, with anyone say something stupid and confusing, just saying shit that
scare him off…
Pablo: ok..
Wally :start being loud, weird and scary…but always at yourself and the crowd, never at your
opponent , remember that! U never want to piss him off directly….because one he
goes to the referee and two, worse! u wake a giant up and he gets pissed ,he is
going to play better, u never want him to focus on his game or any game… remember that…
Pablo: ok
Wally: And if all
that fails…
Pablo: u still have more?
Wally: yeah damn it of course! u talking to a pro here….when
all that fails, it time to use the last 2 techniques….
Pablo: ok….
Wally: technique no 1.
start smashing ur racket on the table, on the ground , even better break
it, show him your fiest! Show him the
fiber in that wood….the broken racket, better still break two of it! Make him
feeel your fiest, that u are this damn beast and is ready to explode and when u
explode, u cannot be controlled!
Pablo: ok …and
technique 2?
Wally: this one is when everything really fails and u have
no hope but to try it.
During play, start smashing the ball anywhere! Ping pong is the only game where u can smack
the balls around, at everything and anything real hard and get away with it!
Think about it! Smash really hard at everything around u, show your anger, that
u are crazy, u a re a madman on the
loose, and no one should mess with you….but make sure u don’t smash the
ball at his body! Remember ! Never at him! Never make him mad!
Pablo: hmmm……thats it?
Wally: nope! not yet, here comes the really good part….
Pablo: ok and …
Wally: $40 bucks..
ED; what?????
Wally: come on, its really good…..
Lee: give it to him…
Pablo: here….$40
Wally: that’s right
my man always trust my mojo…
Pablo: and…
Wally: after u finish acting crazy and losing your temper,
after smashing balls violently and all that and yelling at the crowd, start
acting queer…
Pablo: what ? keh?
Wally: queer….start acting like a girl after a pt, u know do
some girly move or talk in some girly voice…walk like one, scream like one….u
practice that…
Pablo: huh?
Wally: come on u hear me homeboy….do a cat walk…come on
Pablo did s a cat walk, a bendover, and some stupid girly
shrieking scream….
Wally: whoah whoah …that’s some gd shit…that’s enough!
Wally; And here s the next step..u want to mix it up….let him think u are really a nut case…and
after u put in the queer stuff….start acting angry loud and mad at everything
again, smashing the balls all over the place again….remember u are a nut case not to be messed
with….angry, queer, angry , queer
Over and over, and at this point, he might just quit and
walk out and not risk having his balls
chopped off later…..
Pablo: ok…ok got it…
Lee: wow great stuff!
Now I know how u cheat your way to become a pro!
Wally: wha? Cheat??
Whats that word u use?
Lee: cheat…
Wally: me no cheat!
This is all legit! I didn’t break
any rules, I m playing within the rules of the USTTTA
Lee::its USTTA, not
Wally: ok ok USTTTT
Lee: two ts
Wally: ok damn it who cares how many ts, I aint bereak any
USATTTTT fs^&*&^*^& laws or rules alright, so stop calling me a god
damn cheat!
Lee: ok calm down, u aint cheating ok no one said u did…
Wally: u did
Lee: ok my fault, sorry, relax….here, have a dumpling
here….and that is the peanut sauce…have a dumpling to calm your dumplings…
Wally: I made my
dough the legit way ! 100% legit and no one will call me a cheat .No one ever,
u got that!?
Lee :ok ok relax…
Camera to day of the match bet chris and ed
Camera showing a
blank screen for 10 seconds……
And then a marker came on …
“no this is not a screening Errolr…pls remain in your
seats…this is darkness….yes darkness… this is how it looks like when I
meditate….”
Producer: cut cut! What is this damn meditating thing, move
on with the film…
Pablo:relax I want to show how I meditate…
Producer: u want to what? U want to what? this meditation stuff
aint going to make my dough, I don’t sell Mexicano meditation tapes….
Joe stopping Producer with his new fond pet , a mice….
Producerer: whoah whats that? Whats this? U ate your
igunana and now U threatening me with
some Mexican mice now? Whats this? Move that away!!
Pablo: relax its only a mice! Sit down let me do my thing…
Pablo narrating: blank screen again pls…..ok where were
we?
Oh right…I was meditating…. So what was I thinking about ? hmm….oh right…nothing…when I meditate, I
don’t try to think of anything…..But today was different…today was the day when
the match begins in 10 minutes…..my match with that fat ass kid chris….so my
normal meditation pattern is disrupted….today ….at this moment, I must try to
feel connected….connected to Everything….the ball..the table….my racket , I am one with everything…..that I am
everything….even if I try to cheat like Wally suggests…oh wait…not cheat, not
cheat…whats the word….hustle, yes hustle…even if I try to win by hustling, I
feel no shame ….for I am one with the hustle, one with the shame…hmm..that
doesn’t sound right…wait let me think…
ok yes, I am one with Everything…and with Anything that helps me win…ok that sounds better, I m
ready now….
Camera to eyes of chris, then eyes of Pablo, then table….
Pablo staring at Chris for 5 seconds before raising his hand
to shake….
Pablo: my name is yogurtrato , whats yours?
Chris ignoring him, just staring at him…
Pablo: Whats yours, I said…..
Chris still speechless, then raise his right hand to Pablo’s
cheek
Chris: lick it…
Pablo: U like being licked? U will lick all u want when the
match is over….
Pablo raising two fingers at his eyes and pointing at chris,
staring harder…..
Chris imitating him
with 2 fingers and do a baseball hand signal move…
Pablo confused, just stood there with his confused stare….
Chris always emotionless, try to make Pablo crack up by
trying to slap at Pablos cheek
Pablo didn’t fringe, Chris try
prickling with his fingers at Pablos face, Pablo didn’t fringe, And chris cough
his saliva into his hand and lay it near Pablos cheek, Pablo fringing a little
bit….cracking up, before moving away, repeating his two finger move.
Pablo: save the toss, u serve!
Chris : no u serve
Pablo: u serve
Chris:ok
Pablo stare at hum….with his two finger move again..
And the match starts
Chris serves first and won the first two pts easily.
It is Pablos serve next, and he starts to do his funny
confusing style of moving around before serving. He did a few funny ones, like 10 of them with
the unexpected ones. But all failed to win him any pts as Chris
just smack everything and wins.
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Pablo finally won a point and he started yelling
Pablo : thks to the ever lasting iguana!
And then he quickly took out a pot of sand and a stick with
a fried dead iguarna on it and place it on a chair and ligsht some incense and started humming some Mexican rhythm and
start dancing around it. Chris stare at it for a few seconds before walking over,
stars at it while Pablo improvise on making fun of Chris with the iguana.
Chris stare at it for a few seconds, finally lost patience,
spray some perfume on it and then unexpectedly kick the pot with the iguana on
the floor. Pablo got mad but couldn’t do anything with the kid as he has decent
size and fatness.
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Pablo lost a few points, call time out, and he started playing the cellphone trick,
by making the cellphone beep annoyingly.
Pablo pretending to be startled: whats that!? Did u hear that?
Chris pretends not to.
Pablo: did u hear that again? Is that yours?
And Chris starts improving by playing his Bbox rap back to
him in a strange manner, annoying Pablo even more.
Pablo: whats that?
Pablo appears more annoyed by chris hidden bbox that he lost
a couple of pts.
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Pablo takes time out and
Pablo changing shirt and put on a shirt “ I will chew on everything that is u
except that!”
And the back says “except THAT I will save for desert” and stare at Chris before Chris smack a ball
at his face.
Pablo narrating: at one interesting moment of the match,
probably the most important moment of my life,
I took timeout and try to meditate, closing my eyes. I was trying to
throw chris off by doing that, and strangely I actually did fall asleep,
snoring…And in that brief moment, grandma face shows up in my dream again,
yelling the same old
” you promise! You
promise! “ but this time she added
something different
“be naked! Be
selfless, u stupid!”
Pablo narrating: So when
Chris wakes me up with the iguana stick on the floor, I came to the
realization of something important! Not
because grandma was trying to tell me to focus on Everything else in the game
and not to focus on myself and winning, but her words spark my brain on a strange journey to actually solve the math
equation for love!
If u recall, If Love is based on the inverse of Certainty,
then to maintain a long loving relationship, it
requires constant mystique, being uncertain and playing different
characters, like what I m doing right now, like a lunatic, trying to win a
match….but what if being selfless cause u to play those different characters?
Much like being a different superhero all the time?
I mean look at me now! Because I want to rescue my
relationship with Naomi and my baby, I wont mind being totally naked, and act
out all these weird characters to win the match!
Being totally Selfless as in the case of Give all and
helping others?
Most full at most empty, its like the mystique of the black
hole in the universe, sucking all u have into the hole, leaving u totally
selfless, and spitting u out, like rebirths,with novas and supernaovas in
another universe, with this cycle repeated over and over again, leaving u
constantly transformed. Your relationship with others is constantly rebirthed,
renewed, rediscovered thru the process of “most full when u are most empty”,
when u r totally selfless….
Thus The nature of give and take
, the yin and the yang
Chris was on a hot roll when
It was 9-8 in the second set, when Pablo tries to play the
score confusion trick.
Pablo: 9-8 my serve. I mean 8-9 ur serve.
Chris:no it is 9-8 my serve.
Pablo:right 8-9 your serve.
Chris :no 9-8 my serve.
Pablo: thts what I said 9-8 your serve. U won the last 2 pts and I won the previous 2
pts and I won the previous 7 and u 6 so 9-8 your serve. Remember the first pt u
did this, and I did that and then the next pt u did this and I did this serve the next.
Pablo acting out the pts in a funny manner to try confuse
Chris more.
Chris : ok whatever….
Ad chris still win the pt.
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Pablo starts to pretend to talk
to imaginary friends and ghosts, staring at different directions.
Pablo before serving, talking to
himself: no the ball don’t like that,
the ball wants to be sliced. Let me move here….here serving here is best…but
the goddess of ping pong say stand like that and underspin it…so what do u say
pingpong gorilla?
Pablo pretending to be gorilla
scratching his fur: scratch scratch….
No matter what act Pablo is up
to, chris shows no emotions….
During a timeout, Pablo spotted a elderly woman firend in
the crowd that he has bribed earlier and
started talking to her, trying to confuse Chris with what they say….
Pablo: hey Laura, how
u been? It is long time since we met
Laura: oh hey Pablo, gd to see u here, are u playing a
match?
Pablo: yeah yeah, it has been a while since I play a real
match, u know ever since I have my breast implant operation, it really hurts so
I couldn’t really play…
Chris staring at Pablo and Laura with a fink of his eye but
not showing much emotions.
Laura: oh, when did u do those implants?
Pablo: not so long ago, only 3 mths…but my doctor say I
should avoid playing sports,
Especially since my dad also has his booty adjusted…
Laura :oh when did that happen, u didn’t tell me about it?
Pablo: oh my dad adjusts his booty size all the time, he has
lots of friends u know…
Chris still showing not much emotions. Some people in the
crowd were just shocked by what they are hearing.
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And no matter what Pablo does, he couldn’t find a way to
win- changing rackets, balls.
So he finally ends up
trying the outrageous outburst technique.
Chris serves and Pablo smack one really hard past him.
Chris motionless and didn’t care.
Chris serves again and Pablo repeated it by smacking one
past his left and right.
Still no emotion.
Pablo smashes one really hard on his table and started
yelling like a wolf.
**On winning a pt, he started doing his celebration dance,
and when losing, his yelling and intimidating.
Then he tried smacking one at the crowd, and started yelling
at the crowd.
Pablo: hey u , give me that son of a %^&%^& ball
back! Yes you! You !
Pablo running into the crowd, trying to retrieve the ball…
Pablo: cant u see the ball a alive, treat that ball with
care! U asshole %^&% son of a
#$%$#%.
Stranger yelling back: what did u say!?
Pablo: I said give me that god damn ball and ….
Pablo getting a into fight with stranger and then more
strangers…showing bruised eyes, yelling on top of his lungs pretending to be
monster fierce.
But Chris shows no emotion. Pablo shows up bruised eyes from
here on.
Then after losing a pt, he tries
to smash and break hi s raccket but he just cant break it no matter how hard he
tries whileyelling stupid stuff trying to intimidate chris.
And when the intimidation
technique didn’t work on Chris , Pablo starts to combine acting like a queer or
a girl with his yelling to confuse chris.
Pablo: son of a b%&%&,
did u see that! That’s impossible! The
ball must have #$%#@$@fliescheese on it
to fly like that!
Pablo improv as queer girl: oh
yeah, u think so, I so like flies on cheese….
Pablo: Ma ma mia I swear on the
stinky flies that the balls must have
that blue smelly cheese that u like
Pablo as girl: oh oh …that’s so
exhilarating!
Score trend: first he tries not to cheat, tries to win the fair way, then after the 1st
set 11-2,
He knows he doesn’t stand a chance, so he started doing his
hustling, no difference 11-4.
Pablo narrating: In the third set at 7-2 against me, I finally realized what I seriously did
wrong. And what an idiot I have
been. From all the training I received
in the past month, focusing on being one with the game, one with the opponent,
one with the ball, one with the table, I did not do any of that and I basically throw all that out of the window. All because I was focusing on trying to
hustle, to hustle a few pts here and there by acting stupid and funny, like a
bozo.
The joke is truly on me because what I learnt in the last 2
mths and intend to do, Chris is doing it throughout the whole match. He is
truly in the zone, focusing on being one with Everything.
So at 7-2 in the 3rd set, I decided to focus on
being one with everything and starts fresh.
Pablo wakes up from his yoga stance after the timeout,
started acting in the zone.
Slides where he feels everything, even Chris, and started
really anticipating, applying everything he learnt from Lee, Tobias, and even
the Wrestler of liking to be spanked, welcoming the pain of losing.
Pablo narrating: I
simply focus on what I learnt from everyone, of welcoming any form of pain or
spanking, being totally one with Everything- to the extent I could feel
everything in advanced, since I was part of everything, I was being able to
anticipate any shot in advance, in that split of a second ahead of every shot.
I was really in the zone and in no time, I came back 2 sets
11-9 11-9
This is the last set
and before u know it, it is 11-10 to Chris.
This is the crucial moment for if I lose this pt, the match
is over, my sponsorship, my money, my life, my baby and who knows, perhaps my
relationship with my wife, my one and only Naomi.
So I decided to use a serve I never used before, that I
learnt from Wally. It is a really gd serve to confuse and distract the
opponent. It is call the umbrella Serve.
Camera to Pablo using the umbrella serve, the serve came but
Chris remains undistracted, smacks the ball and wins the pt.
Pablo narrating:12-10 the game is over. And so is my dreams.
Chris lets his entourage kiss his hands, turned around make
a few baseball hand signals at Pablo and left.
Pablo narrating:
Chris deserves to win as he in one with everything the whole match,
including that last pt. If I have stayed
focused on that last pt, instead of trying something new, trying to focus on
distracting chris with a new serve and
instead try to be One with him, I would have won that pt.
Once again, not being one with everything at every moment
cause me that match.
Pablo stays there
stunned and quiet for a few moments.
Then the Producer who has been eating popcorn and watching
the match approaches him.
Producer: that’s one heck of a match!
Pablo : yeah….
Producer : I see that your friend (Joe)has been keeping
footage of the match, hey I am a film
producer, u interested in making some film out of it?
Pablo narrating: just like that! That’s life in ping
pong! and by the stroke of luck, my
fortune totally reverses on me at that very second, as I quickly convinced him on making this film. This film may actually works and save my ass!
But he has only 4 hrs to hang around before he flies home to
meet his investors so here we are in this lab, working our ass off, trying to
tie it all in …..
Camera back to the lab..
Producer: So Mexican,
how did the white ball save the world?
Pablo: huh? What white ball…oh oh…
Producer: I knew it …u don’t have an answer, u made it up,
remember how u said that pingpong willsave the world, how this white ball is a
naked superhero and is blah blah
blah…tad la da…nada and a bunch of mexicana bullshit…
Pablo: whoah whoah …relax!
I have it …I have it
Producer: yeah yeah yedi yedi….tell me!
Pablo: Relax, I have to remember…..get me a corona or
something,…lets see(as he smoked his cigarette)
…yes! Joe put on that music and roll some drums !
Pablo narrating: the
game of ping pong is a lovely game of high energy between 2 lovely people, in
fact it is the highest art form of Life. The sound, the motion of the people
and the ball, the spins, the ball going back and forth, all that energy flux
mashed into an unique, beautiful stream
of communication between 2 people…a
communication without voice and without physical contact, and yet carries a signature, a bond, a
chemistry that is Unique only among those 2 people. And that unique combo, that
energy mashed from 2 lovely people, can never be duplicated anywhere else in
the universe……
In fact, pingpong makes u
appreciate all things that is
happening around you. To play well in ping pong, it forces u to appreciate the other person,
to FEEL every motion he makes, every reaction, every thought, every feeling,
every small nuances that is going through his mind or through his every vein,
bloodcell and fiber of his being! Think
about it! It is the highest form of appreciating the beauty of this other
person! And thru a ball!
This ball helps u
appreciate and feel every single detail,
every iota of energy, of love,
and all emotions, all the plus and minuses , of this other person!….. and thats
it!
Ping pong teaches u to focus on others first, putting others first and
truly appreciate this other person u are playing with.
.
Throughout my training in the last 2 wks, we learnt
that at the highest level of pingpong comes only when u focus on all the
interconnectness of the game- ball, player, table, energy, all energy threads
of the game could u play at the highest level, whereas the zealousness in
beating the opponent is a distracting form of energy, which is obstructive as
it distracts u to focus on Everything….
Therefore,
victory comes most naturally, when u least seek it, since ur foucs is 100% and
solely on Everything else……
Which is the same as in
life-. As in life, happiness comes
naturally without seeking for it consciously, when u focus all ur energies on
placing Others first.
And throughout human history(play documentary tape of
mexico, the strikes, conflicts, war, movements, revolutions etc) what is
missing is not about having the correct
theories or philosophy of left , right , middle ……but whats missing is the root
of all problems that is still missing,
this root call Appreciation, Appreciation of Others, learning to appreciate others, learning “to
place others first”…
For when u “place Others first”, any theory would work….it
doesn’t matter left or right……left ass or right ass, left nipple or right
nipple, all things naturally takes care of itself….
And that’s how ping pong is going to save the world……this
white ball wants u to feel Everything about this other person …and “Place
Others First”
End of Pablos speech.
Producer smoking, speechless and disbelief, that Pablo could
deliver on this speech: I will be
damned…..wait!….ok, good….bravo…..And Cut!
END
25% of Profits goes to ASCPA in saving animals
and 0.000000001% goes to Pablo for treating skin disease
after being licked by the iguana while he practiced yoga in front of it.
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