Till next Year

TILL NEXT YEAR.


When you will be back.

It was agonising watching Nadal wilt in the hands of Davydenko. And, to make it worse, my ever so optimistic mother was just as optimistic as ever. Yeah, optimistic that Nadal was going to lose.

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"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..."

He was the only player in his group 0-2 down in his round robin matches and 0-4 in the sets... wth man. D:

AND ANOTHER THING.
I am constantly surrounded by people who are absolutely anti-nadal. All of them are ever so hard on poor Rafa. All my dad kept saying since Nadal was hampered by injury was that "cannot play adi-lahhhhh...,".
WAIIIT FOR ITT. The worse yet to come...
"HE SHOULD JUST RETIRE!"

I TELL YOU!
Writing him off just because he had a rotten second half of the season and just because he keeps seeing the jackass Soderling bloom under the spotlighted court. But then again, that was what he said when Feds was moving through a rough patch and look where he is now.

NADAL WILL PROVE YOU WRONG. ALL OF YOU, WRONG.
Why? Because i say so, thats why! HAHAH. :D
Next year he's GONNA WHIPLASH ALL HIS OPPONENTS STARTING WITH SODERLING.

Watch out buddy, revenge is his.

one word : SIGH.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AHCHOO

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,----AH CHOO! !


The bespectacled genius turns sixteen today, at long last.

Sorry, i sneezed. On purpose. :D
Hahah, the old Shia joke. Dont worry Choo, he promises to belanja you free sushi.

But you'll have to remind him for that.

one word : BIRTHDAYYYY. :P

HYPOCRITICAL BITCHES

HYPOCRITICAL BITCHES.

I'M SICK HEARING AND LISTENING TO OTHER GIRLS WHINE ABOUT THEIR WEIGHT WHEN THEY ARE STICK THIN TO THE POINT OF A STICK INSECT OR EXTREMELY SLIM AND YET MOAN ON AND ON BECAUSE THEY ASSUME THEY PUT ON 10KG AFTER DOWNING HALF A DONUT .

WAKE UP YOU ANOREXIC BIATCHES BECAUSE YOU ARENT AWARE HOW OTHERS FEEL BEFORE OPENING YOUR BIG MOUTH. HOLY COW, IF YOU'RE FAT THEN WHAT ARE THE HELL ARE WE OTHERS? OBESE TO THE POINT OF NO RETURN? !

BE THANKFUL YOU CAN PUT ON JUST ABOUT ANYTHING WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT WHETHER YOU LOOK FAT OR NOT BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY YOU'VE NEVER EXPERIENCE BEING FAT BEFORE.
AND IF YOU STILL THINK YOU'RE FAT OR OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE, THEN GO FREAKING STARVE YOURSELF TILL DEATH BECAUSE I BET YOU'RE ONLY SATISFIED WITH O% FAT IN YOUR FREAKING BODY. TO HECK WITH THE LOT OF YOU.


Because you're all anorexic hypocrites, all of you.

Glad that's out of my system. These skinnies who proclaim their obesity everywhere they go really makes me ill to the point of boiling rage. They certainly never know what it feels like to have trouble getting dressed or low self-esteem and then insult others who arent as thin as them with their omg im so effing fat complains.



They can rot with skeletons for the rest of their lives for all i care. And i hope they do.

one word : SUCKERS.

2nd Time Unlucky

SECOND STRIKE.


Sometimes, tennis can be a dream but also a nightmare.



And today, it's neither a nightmare let alone a dream.

It's one hell of a deja vu.

one word : SOUR.

Ready to Rumble

READY TO RUMBLE.

Oh, you can bet they are.


Grand opening of the 02 Arena.




Personally, i'm glad that they finally shifted the venue to London. Never really fancied Shanghai too much. And, that new arena is just awesomely awesome. I cant think of other words to describe it. 8D

Oh i got one.

I WANNA BE THEREEEEEEEEE.
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Giganto iPods!


I love group portraits. And this year's is by far the BEST <3>

Presenting....

King Federer and Queen---i mean,er, Prince(?) Nadal....with their "courtiers"..heh.

Nadal, quit acting gay and uncross those legs wom-- i mean, er, man!

Awwwwww, i cant think of anything else i love more than that shot at the moment. :D

I love del Potro but he always has that " I'm going to kill you.." look. Like now. Urgh.
I love Verdasco but HE LET HIS HAIR GROW LONG AGAIN. Why, Verdasco, WHY??? D:
I love Nadal but... wait he's not acting gay here! :D Hurray!

And, i love Feds too but he needs a flaw so i can kutuk him. Hahaha.

Bryan brother : Check this out, i caught my brother's balding head...
Federer : Will..kill...you...Andy.. watch out...
Murray : Must..strategise..defeat !
Nadal : *Tis the season to be jolly, FALALALALA--LALALALA....

Hehhehehh. Sorry, couldnt help playing with candid shots. 8D


The Bryan brothers, twin doubles prodigies.

I have a new wish now.


CATCH THE LONDON ATP TOUR FINALS ONE DAY.

But then again, my dreams never come true.
Esther, you dream too much.


one word : DREAMS.

Chopped.

CHOP-PED.

Like literally.

For months everyone was telling me to go get a haircut cause my hair was like an overgrown mop of black mass. The last time i went to trim my hair was like what-- six seven months ago??? Yep well sorry was too lazy to drag my ass off to Pyramid.

Ma finally dragged me to the salon today since she wanted to trim her hair as well and suggested that i try something new since it was the hols. Well, why not?

So we decided to.cut.it.all.off.

This was what was playing in my head when i saw what Willis first did :


" ZZAARRRRPPP........."

Hahahahahh. Well i didnt expect him to take his scissors and chainsaw a whole chunk of my hair off at one go right? My first thought was,
" OHHHHH EMMMMMM GEEEEE....,".O_O

And when i meant short i didnt mean for him to keep snipping till i begin to wonder if this was a good idea after all.

And all the time i was trying not to laugh because seeing Willis reminded me of the day we inadvertently found him on Facebook without expecting to. XD
Seriously, finding your hairdresser on facebook is not a very funny thing although we laughed our heads off at the photo LOL. :P

And Steph, Thomas looks more and more like Kor everytime we go back there. Somehow or other he keeps reminding me of him everytime i catch his reflection in a mirror.

................

Too bad Jia cancelled the sleepover for tomorrow or else they would see my hair now. XD

But for the time being, my scrunchie and hairband have been put out of use.



This is going to take some getting used to.

one word : GONEEEE.

ATP London Finals

FINAL-LY.

Jia, just so you know this post is about nothing but people who spend their lives hitting a ball to another person across a court in which you hate deliberately. So take note and navigate away immediately. TQ. :D


For other more stately readers, its time for the final tournament of the season! :D * Jump for joy, ppl. *

As you know, only eight can qualify for the finals held in London this time after all those years in Shanghai. The final eight :

Those that qualified earlier through the season...

the usual...

the other usual...

wish he wasnt a usual...

... gahh.

I dont know why i'm being so decent posting such a decent pic of Andy Murray. Usually i'd find the ugliest, distort-iest face that i could choke out from the internet. Maybe the rest were kinda boring, i suppose.

And the thing is, i have to admit he actually looks pretty good in there! :O *chokes self.*

But i dont need to be decent to get Juan Martin to look decent! :DD


Roddick was lucky he qualified early cos he was out injured during most of the season after Wimbledon. Or else he wouldnt even be going to London.


And, like always every season, the final 2 spots are always the main tussle among those wanting a last-minute qualification.

Davydenko clinched the 7th spot after fighting it out.


And finally....

the last person to occupy the spot.......


Fernando Verdasco! :D :D:D (and Nadal)

Sorry if the photo's kinda gay. You can blame Nadal for making it look gay. But then again, Verdasco owes it to Nadal for beating Tsonga and giving him the last spot in the Finals.

Such a generous partner---i mean, er, friend.

However, in case the above pic is burning your eyeballs, here's a pic that will cool them down :

Awwww,

Ice, snow, penguin, and verdasco.
How can you not find it adorable. :D

So, we shall see who will achieve crowning glory starting Nov 22.
Feds, you better get your game face on.

one word : FINALE.

Holiday Treats

SCENTS OF NOSTALGIA.

Who knew the old badminton court and net would come alive once more?

I love holidays.
The past weekends were filled with nothing but gatherings at my grandpa's house for event after event. Not that i mind, i actually enjoy all the chaos that spells family is forever.. lol. In this case, we had more gatherings to say farewell to Li Koo and family before they left.

ONE : Potluck.

While the boys the other kids were outside being addicted to badminton most of us were inside having "disagreements"...

Table talk.

Joel and 2Koo were fiercely debating over the modifications of the movie title "Jennifer's Body", after 2Koo called it "Joel's Body" and Joel attacked back with "Johnny's Body(2Koo's name)" ...

...uh....

..

...can we just stick to Jen's Body, kay.

Seriously, i never laughed so much in my life. LOL.

TWO : Steamboat!

Yup.

Fei Sian sneaked some toothpicks from the restaurant because she amazingly still remembered how to make stars from them like how i taught her years ago. O_O

And no, that star is MINE. Hey i can still fashion them because i amazingly still remembered how Yip taught me years back. XD

And in turn she was trying to teach her younger sister lol. Ah, skills are meant to be shared, yes?

Moving to the present, Joe missed squash for the fourth week wanting to attend some school event. HIS UPSR RESULTS ARE OUT NEXT THURSDAY. Ahahahaha jumping time. XD

So for the fourth week Coach had nobody to push around but me. He made me spar with him today AND GAVE ME NO CHANCE.

I LOST 4-11, 0-11.
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Sad kan.

But he made up for being so mean. :D

Coach went to Shanghai for referee-ing last month.

So he got me this! :D

Mirror mirror...er... in my palm... ?

Thanks Coach hahahahahh. XD

And Steph, Kiki's being annoyingly bising right now. >:(

There's your fat cat madam.

Funny how you never thought of this when you were here and made so much trouble for yourself going downstairs every night. Although Daddy would kill me should he find out. :)

Tmr i'm going for the undang kursus thing with Jia and others. I wish i neednt sit through six hours of yapping or wake up early or come home at 3pm.

Nvm, i can do this. Six hours, aint nothing. Right?

one word : HOLS.

Another Three Years

THREE YEARS DOWN THE ROAD.


You wont see this no more.

After all, 12year olds grow up quick.

Li Koo and family left for Canada on Tuesday. And i got to miss piano to see them off :D
Piano teacher was non too pleased but i love going to KLIA, idk why. Besides, i wanted to say goodbye.


Wont see my uncle for another three years lol.

They had lunch at Eden. Food sucked and ridiculously overpriced. Shyte you, Eden ppl.

For some insane reason i love KLIA. I know it sounds crazy but i like airports.

Before they left i tried to grab a quick photo of Nic and Joe but they werent very cooperative.

They got along like long-lost best friends and yet were so sheepish when it came to taking pics.


I tried in vain for them to put their arms round one another but all they did was stare uncertainly at each other before...

... oh forget it. They have such short attention spans.

There was like 15 minutes left and they even had time for card games.

Man. United vs. Arsenal!


Another quick last pic moments before.

It was quite sad seeing them leave. BUT...

We discovered the magic of Skype! XD

....

...just Skyped this afternoon after previous failures yesterday lol. But then Daddy yelled at me and Joe to get a move on to tuition so we hung up for another day.

But not before i saw everything in their house! :D

one word : SKYPE.

Goodbye Safin.

FAREWELL MARAT.


Safin during his final match against Juan Martin del Potro.

We all saw this coming anyway.

We fans will miss your court tantrums very much. :D


Wishing you all the best in whatever is to come. :)


. . .

Oh and another thing.

HOW ON EARTH DID YOU LOSE TO JULIEN BENNETEAU IN STRAIGHT SETS???

Did Djokovic kick your confidence out of hand that day or what.

one word : GOODBYE.

Nearing the end.

NEARING THE END.

Safin's last tournament has come and its rather hard to believe tennis without him. :(

This post is dedicated to Marat Safin for all his unconditional "contributions" during his colorful tennis career before he retires after his final tournament at the Paris Masters.

So i'm not into Safin as much as i am into Rafa and Feds, but who cant love the guy when he provides such entertaining performances on court. :D

THE COMMEMORATION OF MARAT SAFIN.

He started out as a fresh tennis prodigy, winning his maiden Grand Slam at the US Open in 2000 by defeating Pete Sampras.

Five years later, he captured the Australian Open by defeating Lleyton Hewitt for his second Grand Slam.

He won a total of 2 Grand Slams in total, and continued his career by entertaining us with his..er...anger on court.

You dont mess with the SAFIN. XD

He means it, you know.

Usually, the umpire bears the brunt of his rages. Goodness knows how many videos there are of him taking it out with the umpire during a match over a foot fault, a line call, or some other reason.

CODE NAME : RACQUET ABUSER.
Yup. He smashed an average total of 700 racquets during his career and picked up 90,000 pounds in fines for his outbursts. Which, of course, is what makes him so Safin. :P

Also, Safin plays the highly important role of big brother! XD

I find this pic super hilarious, for some reason i cant explain. I mean, how often do you get two siblings to play mixed doubles together?

SAFIN : Excuse me? Out? You really wanna test my anger?
SAFINA : I think i'll let him handle this..

Besides, he is the best of friends with the world's top players! :D

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

How gay. ;/

But Safin will always be irreplaceable, and he's a true gentleman off court, and a champion always on the court.

You just gotta love him.
(Steff stop drooling please).


May you retire with many of the best happy memories tennis has given you, and the everlasting love of your fans all over the globe. You are always a champion in our eyes. :)

Have fun with life after tennis! :) :)

Okay getting abit lame-o there. And forgive my promise to quit tennis-blogging, actually i didnt really break it since i did mention i would be blogging at the end of the season.
AND JIA; ITS NOT NADAL SO YOU CANT COMPLAIN HAH.

Told you so. >:P

And in a totally-unrelated subject, i stumbled upon this unintentionally while hunting for Safin pictures..

I know im a Federer fan but this was just to funny to pass over. XD

Finally, Feds is wearing pink! LOL.

I'll miss watching Safin play with his trademark shrug and trademark arguements and trademark muttering and cursing and racquet smashing. He is, after all the only Safin classic we'll ever get in a lifetime and a rare gem that should be treasured forever.

(Hey Steff rmb this photo we saw on the youtube video??? You know what happened. XD hehehehehehhhh)

one word : MARAT.