Tuesday, June 27, 2006
wow had a good game of badminton today. it's been really a looooong time since i had such a good game. and considering that i play at least twice a week, it's really is a long while. after playing with kj and his friends, i joined this group of 3 people to play doubles with them. played with them over the past few weeks, but today i was seeing the shuttle alot better and moving better. so the by product of that, a really great game for me. it made my day.ah watched the chinese taipei (yes we should all adopt the stand our country takes on the independance of 'taiwan') open and had a good time last sunday. it's been so long since i last spent an entire afternoon watching badminton and it's been a long time since i watched both the md and wd matches satisfied that i would be happy regalrdless of who won. haha. watching sports does weird things to people eh.
anyway, more photos from the graduation lunch were finally uploaded on the math alumni webpage. here's the group photo.
i'm sure you can tell who the students are and which are the profs. except maybe the guy in black in the front row. the one right in the centre. he's a prof. doesn't look like one right? apparently last year, elizabeth and huifen were so, hmmm what's a good word, awe-struck by his looks that they sat in for someone's honour talk because he was either the supervisor or the examiner. haha! girls will be girls.my grandma is going for a brain scan at nuh tomorrow. cat or mri, i havent a clue. well it would do her some good to get out of the rehab centre for a while. she has to spend 2 more weeks there. hopefully by the end of that, she will be slightly more mobile and less dependant. we finally went down to 'nation' maid agency (because xiang yun says its good. ya right!) to get a maid. she should be coming down in about 2 weeks time i guess. time to tidy up my room again. i hate people to touch my things. so the only way i can prevent that is by keeping it neat and tidy. haha. helping my mum pay a bit for the maid with the scholarship allowance i'll be getting from may. i've sort of budgeted for a few months my expenditure so that i will have enough to go to iceland.
speaking about iceland. i've come to realise, with the help of my trusty lonely planet guide, that the best way to tour iceland is to rent a 4 wheel drive and drive yourself round the land of fire and ice. this is perhaps on of the rare moments that i am very disgruntled because i chose not to learn driving during my first few years in nus. grrrr.
wimbledon is on now. so i have to keep explaning to people who dont know or forget that i'm not really interested in soccer that i'm spending my time watching 2 people hit furry green balls back and forth across a net for hours on end in stead of watching eleven time 2 grown men run around a field trying to send a newly improved aerodynamically designed ball into the net on the other side. i was afterall rooting for korea and japan which sadly are no longer in. so if i could have it my way, i hope france wins (only because i speak french to some extent) haha! but that in itself is quite an impossibility i think. haha!
davenport has withdrawn from wimbledon. what a dissapointment. i would have thought that she would try and make up for her boo-boo finals lost to venus last year. she really should have won that. she even had set points. dang! nevermiond, here's the chance for henin-hardenne. dementieva still has some way to go before she can really say she has a good chot at the silverware. but you never know, if all the starts are perfectly aligned, as in the case of mauresmo (what can you say when your opponenets in the smeis and finals withdraw midway through the match?).
on the men's side, nalbandian should be able to make it to the semis where he will probably face federer barring any upsets. henman is already due to meet him in round 2. talk about being suay. and as for johansson, hopefully he takes each match as they come along. so all in all, nothing much for me to cheer for this wimbledon. dang!
ok henin hardenne is thrashing the chinese girl. she has match point for a 6-0 6-1 win. oops. she converted it. so justine's through! happiness joy and jubilations!! time for me to grab some barley before i get sick (dont ask me why, i was told so). my mom sis auntie cousin niece have all gotten the flu in the past week. and i'm walking around looking like an arabian woman with a piece of tissue paper covering my mouth. i pray my efforts wont go to waste. dont get sick dont get sick. the rest of you guys. go eat more vitamin c (again dont ask me why). stay healthy!!
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