Magic Journal Part 2

Hey hey. Another entry in my magic journal.

Went to Kovan's Street Magic to try to buy Bicycles.. they were out of stock.. and the stupid store owner is FREAKING dao. I like stood there for 1 minute and he just kept talking to his friend don't care me. Damn unfriendly even when i talked ot him.

(Bicycle is a brand of poker cards that is very famous in the US, and widely used by card magicians)

Then went to Park Mall's Magic shop.. the shop is like tucked away in a corner in the basement. Haha nice sia the ambience. The entrance is damn small i missed it the first time i walked past it.

The owner is some old guy.. and they have Bicycles! Heh i just bought one. 6 bucks. Then i just stood around in the store for awhile looking around (it's actually really small, like.. 3 by 3 metres of standing room then the counter already. ) then the guy automatic pull out some tricks show me! So nice!
One was where i picked a card, he put it in and shuffled the deck, placed the card down.. then my card magically rise. haha. pretty cool if i didn't know how it was done but i learnt it before already :p
Another one was this Swiss analog watch he showed me.. he wave his hands over it the watch stop, wave again then start. =)

Last one is the coolest. He took out a deck of cards, he called it 'kids deck'. It's quite cute the back of the cards all random squiggles on white backing.. each card is different squiqqles. He spreaded the cards out.
Then he turned over some random cards, the cards were all like drawn by kids lidat. E.g. the 8 of diamonds is like 8 deformed red diamonds drawn with colourpencil haha. Quite cute.
Then i pick a card.. memorize it. Then give it back to him.
He does something i can't remember, like a wave or something, then he put that card facedown on the table. Then he fans through the deck in his hands.. and they all become normal cards! Like normal back and normal fronts. Then he asks me to check my card that i picked.. and it became normal also :S
Quite cool man. It's a trick deck of course, costs $35 la walao. haha.

Anyway since he was so friendly.. i wanted to strike a conversation with him but yknow me, super shy and all then i just stood there like a dummy while he showed me tricks every 2 minutes haha.
Then finally i mustered the courage and said something like "So.. do you get many customers here?"

Then we talked for awhile.. he says he gets regulars blabla. Then something like it's better if not too many ppl come cos some idiots may go reveal tricks.. bla. Then Lucky plaza that shop always very crowded. Can go there see tricks.

So friendly! MUCH better than the stupid kovan malay guy.


Anyway, Bicycle cards are SUPER smooth la. It's SO smooth that it becomes.. a bad thing. Slippery. The cards keep slipping when i put them together.. which is bad most of the time.
The up side is that i can do things like spreads and fans super easily.


Card trick wise - performed bizarre twist to Kel, amazed him i believe =) Bizarre Twist is more or less mastered, now just practising on my Bicycles.
Invisible Palm.. practising still.
Learnt some random tricks too via videos. Hope to be able to pull them off soon.

I want to try Indecent! The effect is simply i have a Ziplock bag.. and a deck of cards. you select a card.. can even sign it. Then i put the cards on top of the Ziplock bag.. then with a wave of my hands.. i reveal that the card appears INSIDE the ziplock bag =)
I know how to do it already but i haven't exactly done it before, due to laziness to find a ziplock bag. haha. must try soon =)

alright cya