joy in misery

2008-11-04T20:45:00.002+08:00

Hey guys -

serene schadenfreude got a little acquiescent, so i'm now found at

http://sh-shakeit.blogspot.com

see you guys on the flipside! :D

2008-11-04T00:33:00.006+08:00

Somebody has got to be kidding me.
I just got an email from a Viagra company.

But that's not all, yes that's not all.
I am beyond belief. I am in shock.
Serena Williams dressed as Roger Federer for Halloween.
She looks horrendous - which I am sure is the point, but....

A Roger Federer with ... boobs?!
BLASPHEMY!!

damn that Roger sure got some courage to give Serena a cardigan!

Serena's blog entry:

Halloween!!!

Guys you have to check out the Halloween pics (Click here)! Can u guess who I am dressed as???

If you said Roger Federer that you are correct! I love him and he's my fav player!!!
Being a big fan of Roger (and playing tennis has its perks). Roger gave me one of his Wimbledon Sweaters! I was so ecstatic when he gave it to me I did not know what I was gonna do.

Than for Halloween day I got invited to this party and I HAD to dress up and.... Well..... Let's just say I hope he's not mad with what I did to his sweater. It kept me super warm all night and I of course still have it, and will forever cherish it.... And the memories I had wearing it. Lol

I hope he doesn’t see these pics and say "I'm never giving her my Line again!" Hahaaaha we will see......

Anyways- Let me know what you think!!!
Ttys

Xxx
S

Are you freaking KIDDING me?!
If I were Roger and I saw those pictures - I'd just cry.

and after all this time, you'd think the pain'd go away.
but it won't ever.

"I only cried once this year - after well, losing.. a big match, I'm pretty sure you all know what it is."
-rf

Just a few hours more -
Just too far from where you are
it's the nights I miss you most.

2008-11-03T21:15:00.004+08:00

My brother is unbelievable.

Alright, so he wants me to exchange beds with him due to his phobia of beetles, and our discovery of a huge one a few days ago on his bed. After much negotiation he agrees to give me one of his PSPs for the use of my bed for 24 hours.

I wrote a highly elaborate contract detailing him giving me his PSP and he signs it happily. Just as I take the PSP, he grins merrily and goes, "Your contract didn't say anything about memory cards!" and takes out the memory card. As a gesture of goodwill, he leaves the battery in, but doesn't fail to remind me that my contract didn't mention the battery either. So I am left with a PSP with NO games.

Damn, I need to master this skill of writing air-tight contracts. I can't believe I got outwitted by my brother.

And I still miss you. Tons.
Hurry, come backkk.
You told me five days - tomorrow's the fifth day.

2008-11-03T00:13:00.003+08:00

In the dark of night, in a room lighted artificially by the florescence of energy-saving lights with SS notes in hand - it's always the teenage anthems of Simple Plan that keep me smiling.

This is who I am and this is what I like
GC, Sum and MxPx rocking up my room
If you're looking for me, I'll be at the show,
I could never find a better place to go,
Until the day I die,
I promise I won't change.

As the music fades to the electric buzz of a guitar - so does the smile. Yet, thinking as I befriend the shadows on the wall and memorise the dancing pattens of palms in the night breeze; I think -

What is life if we have no time to stop and stare?

I'm missing you. :(
Wednesday couldn't come fast enough.

Come back quicklyyyyyyyy
I miss you I miss you I miss you!

"Roger was very fond of Peter. They were inseparable. Peter loved Roger too, he told me he once called his father and said "Dad, I think I might have found something special in this new boy here.""

2008-11-02T10:00:00.005+08:00

just saw this on fb by cheong.

seriously the fun times i spent looking like a freakin' nerd with that nerdishly bi-parted fringe. kinda reminds me of a joke by jimmy kimmel.
"who parts your hair? moses?!"

and who could forget the horrendous orange glasses?

spot the giraffe.
and interesting to note that terenz's fingers about to spear my face.

nerdish equipment - kinda enjoyed ri boys zapping themselves though.

yay wenrui! :)

and my favourite shot.

the angry little ron jumping.

seriously though, i cannot ever ever ever, for the life of me, imagining myself majoring in something in the science field. although i did feel my iq rise a couple of points in those mere three days there, i cannot imagine myself going from failure to failure without the loss of enthusiasm, which is in itself the perfect definition of success, according to prabhu.

nice though, to revisit memories i actually have of the countless stuffs written in the ss text.

Son, I am not everything you thought that I could be,
But every story I have told you is a part of me.

and i'm slowly falling in love with tsonga as we speak.

what's there not to love?

he may not be the most handsome guy on earth, so what?
(neither is federer), his wit is sharp and his articulation of ideas quick.

AND, he's funny:)

i like the thing he does after winning big matches.

there's the graceful Federer flop, the Nadal snow-angel, the Bryan Bros hug, maybe even the Djokovic come-tear-my-shirt! now there's the Tsonga roar. :)

centrestage, baby.

French players, French players - just do me in, don't they.

GAEL MONFILS. :D

my favouritteeeeeee. :D

(drawls) he's freaking cool man!

the only hair i love more is roger's.

gilles simon. :)
effectively the one who made roger lose world [1].
still haven't forgiven him completely.

and now tsonga!
(don't like richard gasquet that much)

2008-11-01T22:20:00.003+08:00

Last night, before I fell asleep, I spent a long time imploring God. I lay on my bed, and thought a great deal before I finally drifted off into careless slumber. Most of the things I cannot say in public, for want of some deal of privacy.

And this is for Karyn - how stars are made.

Watching this video, it seemed to be in slow-motion that my heart was wrenched apart.

And yes, omg thanks for reminding me Elyn, I have wonderful memories of slamming into that wall.

"Ah, this is row A... *slam!* shit!"
"..."
"Elynnnn, I slammed into a walllllll."

Walls inside cinemas shouldn't be black! At least, they should be cushioned like the Khoo Audi or have curtains like GV!

2008-10-31T21:25:00.002+08:00

shit la, i'm freaking depressed, don't even begin please.
If you leave me now, I'll wake up alone,
don't tell me I'll make it on my own.

Now that it’s all said and done
I can’t believe you were the one
To build me up and tear me down
Like an old abandoned house
What you said when you left
Just left me cold and out of breath
I fell too far, was in way too deep
Guess I let you get the best of me.

Well I never saw it coming
I should have started running
A long, long time ago-oh.
And I never thought I’d doubt you
I’m better off without you
More than you, more than you know
I’m slowly getting closure
I guess it’s really over
I’m finally gettin’ better
Now I’m picking up the pieces
From spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together
‘Cause the day I thought I’d never get through
I got over you.

You took a hammer to these walls
Dragged the memories down the hall
Packed your bags and walked away
There was nothing I could say,
And when you slammed the front door shut
A lot of other’s opened up
So did my eyes so I could see
That you never were the best for me.

Well I never saw it coming
I should have started running
A long, time ago.
And I never thought I’d doubt you
I’m better off without you
More than you, more than you know
I’m slowly getting closure
I guess it’s really over
I’m finally getting’ better
Now I’m picking up the pieces
From spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together
‘Cause the day I thought I’d never get through
I got over you.

I never saw it coming
I should have started running
A long, long time ago.
And I never thought I’d doubt you
I’m better off without you

And I never saw it coming
I should have started running
I’m finally getting better
Now I’m picking up the pieces
From spending all of these years
Putting my heart back together
And I got over you.
And I got over you.
And I got over you.

The day I thought I’d never get through
I got over you…

freakin' bio!
5 marks gone.
and another stab to my heart each time i look at the 'good luck' message.

2008-10-30T19:35:00.002+08:00

Federer?
KL?
Mr Jo?

Sounds about right to me. ;)

I love Tsonga man.

"It's a pity that these super fast surfaces should disappear. We will have to play a style of tennis where the most important thing will be to have four lungs, not the variety of strokes....."

(I wonder what Tsonga's first name is)

Right on, Jo(-Wilfrid Tsonga)

2008-10-29T20:07:00.002+08:00

So today - studying at Wheelock - and halfway through we call Miss Lim for help and turns out she was at Wheelock too. So she came over to Coffee Bean ("Huh this one Coffee Bean ah? I thought the one in front!") to help us with a little emath.

Kept them laughing with imitations of Miss Lim and Mr Tang, and when Miss Lim left for the barbecue in school we bought her sudoku books to spend her time - and a sudoku 2009 calendar! HAHAHA - a sudoku to a day.

But who do we see in the underpass smiling at us?! Miss Sie.

THE PERILS OF STUYING IN A SCHOOL SO NEAR TO ORCHARD.

2008-10-28T20:10:00.003+08:00

I have a new dream in life. Forget Brangelina - my goal is to get adopted by Heidi Klum and Seal.

Their children get taught soccer ... by David Beckham.
And their children get taught tennis ... by Roger Federer.

CURSES!!!!

Pennsylvania, that’s what hope is about – the belief deep down inside us of us that we can do better than we’re doing right now, that there better days ahead, if we’re willing to work for it. If we’re willing to shed our fears and our doubts, if we’re willing to reach down deep inside us, when times are tough, when it’s cold, when it’s rainy, when it’s hard - that’s when we stand up, that’s when we reach for a better future. And if all of you are willing to be just as determined as you are today, if all of you go out on election day, if all of you get your friends and your neighbors, your co-workers, if you are determined to bring about a better America, then I promise you this, we will not just win Pennsylvania, we will win this general election and you can I together, we’re gonna change this country and change this world.

- Barack Obama

I ADORE HIMMMM.

2008-10-27T18:50:00.009+08:00

DADDY GOT AMERICA! :D:D:D:D
LA, to be exact. I am damn happyyyyy hahahaha.

Here's to

and disneylandddd:D:D

ahhhh every little girl's dream. :D:D

no more turning black or red:

and let's hope I can find Ellen Degeneres in LA when I'm at it.
I love her! :)

I am hackin' excited, and I haven't been this excited ever since sec1... when we uh, last went LA. :) Maybe I'll even get a peek at Terminal 3!

I mean, I was hoping for Dubai or Switzerland (y'know - the Federer sighting thing), but LA's cool too - maybe we can drive up to Las Vegas and catch Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf. :D :D :D

his kid is the cutest thing on earth:
(and that's taylor dent in the screenshot by the way,
his kid's about 5?)
WATCH THE VID.

speaking of holidays, elyn and i were having a conversation -

elyn: "so where you going?"
me: "probably america if my dad can get leave and seats, you?"
elyn: "oh, spain."
me: "ah, land of nadal."
elyn: "isn't that egypt?!"
me: "huh?! no, spain what!"
elyn: "egypt!"
me: "nadal's from spain!"
elyn: "oh nadal... thought you said the Nile..."

hahahahaha
who cares about nadal anyway?
i was watching PURE FEDERER OWNAGE,
this is the basel finals from yesterday.

nalbandian got ownedddd man,
roger lost like what, 7 points throughout the entire match on serve?

i like it at around 4:something, i think it was, where federer flicks a arm, and the ball just smashes to the other side of the court, and he doesn't even bother to look at it.

i love roger!:D:D:D:D

yep, song, dance and blue underwear.

the night is his to keep. :)

and fat lazy roger buys pizza for the ballkids as usual.

he's so awesome, mirka must be so happy to get his first kiss before 57 trophies came his way!

over at the women's side,
i am stupendously happy that my favourite player there managed to win too! :D

and i swear as ana gets prettier, murray gets uglier.
i like murray so i shan't post his pictures to scare people.

2008-10-26T20:26:00.006+08:00

6 years ago, I was at Alex's house, when we were really good friends back then.

She introduced me to a band called Dream Street and asked me which I thought was the best looking. I pointed to a blond guy that I fell in love immediately with. His name was Jesse.

Today, I went on Wikipedia for fun, surfed around and almost died. That guy was Jesse Mccartney.

I cannot believe I have loved Jesse Mccartney for 6 years of my life and never known I did.

And ohman if I lived in Basel and posters like these lined the streets?
I WOULD NEVER GO HOME.

i'd just gaze adoringly at it.

edit:
ROGER JUST WON!
HIP HIP HURRAHHHHH!

he's gorgeous in black.
(swoon)

... he's gorgeous in every freaking colour haha!

omg i don't understand a freaking word of german, but i would listen to roger speak it all day, oh he's just ddg! i am dead!

2008-10-25T00:23:00.005+08:00

this song is frikkin' awesome man!

it's the I Hate Facebook song.
the lyrics hold somewhat true for me,
could it be true that in the midst of exams,
going online is actually getting boring?

and this is for the facebook fans out there
REALLY rad song, love the lyrics and tune:

and for the obama fans:D
obama.. singing?

same vid on bigscreen, john mccain trying to do something with it,
buttttt, all the worst for it.
worth watching just for the ending.

OMG LOOK NO TENNIS!

2008-10-23T22:42:00.005+08:00

i just watched a horrible video of roddick shouting at the umpire, so i had to watch some funny videos of roddick to neutralize the effect.

i won't post the horrible vid up here because i like roddick too much, but suffice it to say that you would never have found roger doing such things. nadal is different - came close to it once, maybe did it once.

choice quotes:

"you know those things at side of your head called ears?! you can use them you know, you can use 'em if you want."

"you'd have to be a second grade drop-out, to say the least,"
roddick yells.

thought that was funny.
most people stop at "you asshole!"

but okay, just to neutralize the nastiness, here's a pro shot for karyn

this is for zhao

and this is about the evilest thing that roger has ever done:

and this, this is just for laughs.
the most honourable art of press conferences and how to hold them.
the lovely Mr Andy Roddick!

there's even a HUIMEI POSE THROWN IN, so huimei, watch this one!

tag if you find the pose.

2008-10-22T23:28:00.003+08:00

gah. nothing to do.
except play with edward the lovely erythrocyte.

oh and looks like roger may not be the only one dancing ballet!

okay blake just about broke my heart at the olympics, but yeah.

anyway, i just realised my hamster responds to its name when i was cleaning its cage today.
how adorable. i love my hamster. :)

anyway, i think rf fans are hilarious, for the millionth time i know.
i just read that someone threw away 3 new bottles of lanvin perfume,
just because rafael nadal started endorsing it.

and another girl ripped up her entire bedroom wall of real madrid posters,
just because she heard that nadal supported that team,
uh after 16 years of supporting the same team.

and quite alot of people sat through the entire barca-basel match just so that they might catch a glimpse of roger at the match.
i didn't do that of course, i could just turn on my comp. -.-
but i am pretty sad that the team roger loves got thrashed.

barca-basel was about 5-0.
basel was destroyed by barca;
roger played in the basel team before he decided to focus on tennis.
ah see what happens when roger doesn't go for it.

and there roger is at the match, according to eurosport,
"Roger Federer, a Basel fan, looks downright miserable in the stands, tucked behind his scarf."

hope he'll be happy after his match with nieminen today then!:)

2008-10-22T17:56:00.003+08:00

omg, are you freaking kidding me!
prom queens have nothing, NOTHING on them.

dare i say, even ana ivanovic might be hard-pressed?

anyway,
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
(primal scream)
I BEAT ZHAO'S HIGH SCORE AT GEO CHALLENGE!!!!!!!

I AM NUMBER ONE AGAIN
THE NUMBER ONE RANKING IS MINE!
(another primal scream)

2008-10-21T20:33:00.002+08:00

I just finished English, and I'm glad I came online. There's tons of hilarious things to laugh at online. Found this article on Federer and a few choice quotes:

Roger Federer looked blankly at the interviewer, probably thinking he was either mad or had been at the sangria.

Of course, you don't get to make $43m plus in prize money alone without being pretty cute on and off the court, but his decision to pull out of the Stockholm Open recently, thereby forfeiting €700,000 in appearance money, is proof that the man isn't greedy. "Suddenly tournament directors everywhere started calling me up, asking "Are you coming to our tournament?'," said Federer. "It was a sign of respect that they no longer took it for granted I would come."

"At the same time, Rafa has never had to go five sets in Paris, but of course he looks like he's suffering all the time because he sweats like crazy and makes a lot of noise," said Federer.

But since they swapped rankings had the relationship changed? "No, he's still treating me with respect, I don't feel he's looking down on me in any way. I'm the president of the players' council, so in fact I'm looking down on him, he has to report to me…no, I'm just kidding."

hahaha, love Roger.

2008-10-21T01:37:00.002+08:00

woke up to baby blue eyes from afar whoah whoah
and when the sun shines through and lights you like the angel you are whoah whoah
i know i do you wrong when i'm with you
i've been gone

i love, love, love this song. daniel powter's voice is so wonderfully smooth and mellow, and the delivery so magically soothing - crossing over from falsetto and back effortlessly and the music tinkling and light, one cannot help but fall in love with him.

and somehow, the combination between local stories and listening to this song over again, is somehow enough to make me tear. and finally, the guy who brought the song that helped us through so many bad days, is back, with such a wondefully dysphoric yet smooth song that just calms me down.

i'm feeling rather patriotic and pro-chinese now that i've spent the entire night preparing local storylines for tomorrow's free-writing and i think i've found the perfect storyline to go with my signature moving narrative.

no more dying tennis stars, and no more captured soldiers banging their heads on walls. time for a local twist.

2008-10-20T20:22:00.002+08:00

When two or three are gathered in my Name, there I will be in your midst.

And so much more than two or three turned up for prayer at the flagpole today! I am so heartened that even in the midst of all our exams, that so many students actually bothered to take time off to pray and share and praise the Lord! It was amazing, almost like having a mini youth rally of some sorts!

We made a huge circle in the basketball court instead of at the flagpole, but it was symbolic enough that as more and more students trickled in, and we opened the circle larger and larger, that it got to look a little like a heart shape - God's plans never cease to amaze me. I think I might actually be inspired to carry around a little pocket Bible from now.

It felt really great to be part of something, not a revolution by any means, but like in tkm, perhaps a step, just a baby-step, but still a step towards - something that I've only ever read about in teenage inspirational stories.

It is perhaps testimony to the harmony of Singapore that even as we learn about wars between Christian denominations in countries like Northern Ireland, that so many Christians from so many denominations were able to sit down and pray together as one church. Indeed I am proud of the Christian faith that something like this just started out as perhaps 6 to 8 girls sending out smses, and it all culminated in such a huge event, singing songs of praise, breaking into groups and praying for one another.

It is amazing, and our God is awesome!
Praise the Lord!

2008-10-19T19:57:00.002+08:00

The day has been a delicious one.

The sky has been a myriad of swirling thunderclouds, writhing like angry black snakes, with raindrops hissing down in a relentless downpour. It has been cool and calm, while I am decked out in three layers of clothes, managing to beat Karyn's high score by a pretty substantial couple of thousand is satisfying.

I creep tirelessly towards Zhao's high score and it is safe to say the least, that one day I definitely will beat her. Armed with the weaponry of highlighters, sharp pens and mechanical pencils, I approach the chem textbook cautiously, pounce on it, and begin to devour the knowledge inside. If only the truth could be half as exciting, I would have no problem with the little subject called chemistry at all.

As it is, I had a very good chem tuition, which cleared up alot of doubts, and now it's back to electrolysis and local storylines for chem and english!

2008-10-18T01:25:00.001+08:00

can't beat them?
might as well join them.

2008-10-17T01:48:00.003+08:00

I can't sleep. My wracked mind can hardly process the playlist of calming music and songs I compiled, and my vision is a hazed, cracked future. I am exhausted yet untired, though not tireless.

I feel like a wandering spirit, one trapped in precarious trepidation on a tightrope between one world and the other, neither able to barrel my way into the next, nor able to turn back and appease the causes of the consequences I undoubtedly will soon face. I face the future with stilted confidence and perhaps almost pusillaminous nature, a far cry from my past confidence, brimful and on perhaps bordering on arrogance.

I remember the times in primary school where I was constantly around the top of my class without hardly trying, and perhaps I would not trade the trials and tribulations which have made me who I am today. And yet, as I face one of the biggest trials I've faced so far, cowardice grips my heart and I constantly fret with dysphoric impatience at my indecisions.

I'm faced with inner demons like never before. I have never been afraid of exams. Nervous, yes. but fear was perhaps an emotion I never really considered ubiquitous in my emotional domains. With Dutch courage on the decline, I think I have to learn to use dissatisfaction as a crux rather than a crutch.

I hate being in second place, I hate being the one who listens instead of having people listen, I hate others being praised instead of me. And what is the most satirical of it all perhaps, is that I hate being praised because it's such a forced sense of accomplishment. I am not content with seeing people ahead when I know I could easily be amongst them. If they can, I can. But lately, why have I reached the treadmill of a plateauing stagnance?

The feeling is ineffable as yet, the words are hidden like the newest petals. But perhaps, it's the way my dissatisfaction so swiftly morphs to anger. When anger impedes progress, perhaps then the gradient of achievement steepens and the pinnacle of accomplishment becomes a trudging duty rather than a refreshing walk. And yet in reciprocation, the faint spark of the signal fire is enough to light the candle of intra-personal discovery and ambition.

And on that note, Zhao Xian, you watch out. Ambition is illimitable, and I am capable of foolish things when I am pushed to my limits. You wait until I'm done with the mugging subjects. Then we'll see who is the real king of the courts of Geo Challenge. And don't tell me it's facile, because quite simply, I will not settle for second place.

Penultimately, I rise in insubordination to the regimented dictats of idle interpersonal classification, and begin my journey by finding inspiration in the seeking of the words of another.

"Being number two sucks."
-Andre Agassi

"When I find myself in times of trouble,
Mother Mary comes to me,
Speaking words of wisdom,
Let it be.

And in my hour of darkness,
She is standing right in front of me,
Speaking words of wisdom,
Let it be."
-The Beatles
(Indeed, the very same song that helped my parish priest bear through his days of Italian Bible Study.)

And so with (barely) renewed vigour, I turn to the lined paper and the inked pages. Yes, daring to disturb the universe and romp through fields of conditioned learning. Borrowing others' words to find the truth in my muddled dawdle, reminding myself even the smallest plants arch heavenwards in search of light; and in parallel, bowed under the weight of selfsame yearning, I reach deep into my heart, fuelled on the brink of epiphany to begin my clawing out of the ashes, to take to the skies on wings of knowing.

2008-10-16T21:15:00.003+08:00

awwww i love my brother. :)
he gave me a psp today!
so now i have my own psp hahaha.

i mean yeah he gave me cos he found his old psp and gave me his new one,
but that's still cool, especially cos he made sure he gave me the one with the tennis game.
yay i love you markyboy!

okay next, it's great to see federer back in shape and hittin' balls with style!

yay i love him.
missed him so much!
and ilyyyy alot alot brenda!
thanks for updating me hahahahaha.

and also equally great to see the bryan brothers healthy and happy!

love bob and mike.

anddd,
can you say reclining hairline?

and yes, i love my gulbis.

okay and now i potter off to do the express thing i came online to do:
beat zhao at geo challenge.
bye!

edit:
forget it, i don't have the brainpower to do it tonight.
i concede my number 1 ranking to her over the o level period.
the year-end number 1 ranking is still up for grabs though.

and i forgot to mention,
i love tracy goh,
TRACY GOH IS MY NEW HERO.
I LOVE YOU MISS GOH!

you're the bestttttttttttttt english teacher ever! :) :) :) :) :)

2008-10-15T22:31:00.004+08:00

so i was asking mr jo a question about antibodies and foetuses.
if antibodies can diffuse through the placenta, then if the mother and child have different blood groups, why doesn't the foetus just clot up and die?

think about it.

so he went,

"choose a blood group for the foetus."
"b!"
"choose a blood group for the mother!"
"o!"
"okay, so -"
"hahaha bo, barack obama!"
*roll eyes roll eyes*

HAHHAAAHA
YES I KNOW I'M LAME BUT I WAS TIRED!

haha then before that i was sms-ing him to see what time we could see him,
then he went

"hmmm doing a bit of admin stuff now, later can?"
"oh what time will you be in school until? cos cass and i need to meet miss goh, cos she's the literature goddess."
"mm around 5 la, lit goddess huh? so what does that make me?"
"cass says bio freak! haha aiya bionic man la! "(mr jeow joke)

hahaha okay worky work.
but before that,

i know it looks so wrong, but it feels so right!
gulbis is so cute!

gulbis and little kei are gonna be my favourite players after roger and roddick retire.
just nice, gulbis and little kei are a year apart; just like roger and roddick! (:
and gulbis has the same birthday as roddick so that's nice.

awww i love gulbis. (:

2008-10-15T00:44:00.003+08:00

and so for i think the 15th time this year, i found myself poring over someone's personal statement. my russian friend came to me for help with his finance mba application to usa, and i had to uh, edit it very strongly for him. and he was overjoyed when i sent him back the edited version.

"cool. super. you are great. yahoooooooooooooooo."

of course, he was very sweet and he sent me a very nice powerpoint with angels in it and telling me i was an angel. and then i asked me why he was applying to usa when he said he wanted to come to singapore, and then i had to comfort him after he became super emo and said his country wouldn't pay for him.

so i promised to look out for scholarships for him and if you know of any, please come tell me now now now now now.

2008-10-14T01:29:00.004+08:00

hahah so i was listening to lullaby by shawn mullins, kudos to huimei.

and then i remembered whiskey lullaby, which is one of the music videos that has the ability to make me cry.

went back and listened to it, and mmm.
...

MOVING ON,
yes i'm in love with the new single by all-american rejects!
it's a very rad chill-rock song, very very fun. :D

just heard it on the man of the hour podcast.

when you see my face,
hope it gives you hell,
hope it gives you hell,
when you walk my way,
hope it gives you hell,
hope it gives you hell
if you find a man,
who's worth a damn and treats you well
then he's a fool
it's just as well;
hope it gives you hell,
hope it gives you hell.

i swear it could be brenda's theme song! hahaha
if you couldn't guess already,
the song's called 'Gives You Hell'

LOVEEEEEE IT.
chill-rock!

and, then i was listening to the new song by the killers too,
called human.

and the lyrics were
Are we human, or are we dancers?
My sign is vital, my hands are cold
And I'm on my knees, looking for the answers
Are we human, or are we dancers?

what can i say?
scarily scgs.

that's the song if you want to hear it.
pretty chill song too. :)

2008-10-13T22:10:00.003+08:00

hahaha okay so i went to orchard to study today with karyn.
then after that met cass, claire and sibyl cos they needed help with bio.

and then went to borders coffee bean to find karyn,
and met debo, jeck and lyd. awwww i love deboooo. (: (:
she hugged me straightaway,
and lyd went

"hahahaha serene we thought you were the hwachong boy!"

and ugh! can't nadal NOT bite a trophy for once?!
anyway, i was quite glad to see that his number one trophy had a very, very small "1" printed on it.

that being said, nadal DOES look pretty okay in a fitted jacket and jeans.
here's (in brenda's words) the mutated rat who managed to look pretty much like an endearing hamster.

to quote tp, "... no wonder nobody wanted it for the last 237 weeks."

ah but tp, you see,
when true number 1s get to number 1,
they get bigger prizes.

in addition to nice(!!!!) trophies,
atp gives the real number 1s a cake:

of course, that's a pretty old pic of roger, because that was all the way back in 2004 when he first got world 1 (and held it to august 18, 08)

and i think safin is hilariously trying to be gay:

okay, that's all for today.
time to get back to worky worky.

2008-10-12T23:26:00.000+08:00

omg give me acsi please please please.

ib originated in switzerland.

2008-10-11T22:38:00.002+08:00

found this online and died laughing.

1. Roger Federer is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his forehand and backhand respectively.

2. If paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, and scissors beats paper, what beats all 3 at the same time? Answer: Roger Federer.

3. If, by some incredible space-time paradox, Roger Federer would ever play himself in a best of 5 set match at Wimbledon, he'd win. Period.

4. Roger Federer is not capable of hitting a target on the broad side of a barn with his forehand. Every time he tries, the whole damn barn falls down.

5. Roger Federer is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.

6. When Roger Federer sends in his tax return, he sends blank forms and includes only a picture of himself, ready to hit a forehand. Roger Federer has not had to pay taxes, ever.

7. Someone once tried to tell Roger Federer that his forehand wasn't the best shot in the history of tennis. This has been recorded by historians as the worst mistake anyone has ever made.

8. There are no steroids in tennis, just players Roger Federer has breathed on.

9. If tapped, the power generated by a Roger Federer forehand could power the country of Switzerland for 44 minutes.

10. The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed... unless it meets Roger Federer on the tennis court.

11. Roger Federer is so fast, he can run around the world and still hit his own forehand back to himself.

12. Roger Federer’s forehand is the only hand that can beat a Royal Flush.

13. Scientists have estimated that the energy given off during the Big Bang is roughly equal to 1RFF (Roger Federer Forehand)

14. Newton's Third Law is wrong: Although it states that for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, there is no force equal in reaction to a Roger Federer forehand.

15. The other night in Time's Square, Roger Federer ordered a Big Mac at Burger King. He got one.

16. It is scientifically impossible for Roger Federer to have had a mortal father. The most popular theory is that he went back in time and fathered himself.

17. There’s an order to the universe: (1) space, (2) time, (3) Roger Federer.... Heh-heh. Just kidding. Roger Federer is first.

18. The air around Roger Federer is always a balmy 78 degrees.

19. Roger Federer can get Blackjack with just one card.

20. Bigfoot takes pictures of Roger Federer.

21. Roger Federer once hit a forehand so hard that the tennis ball broke the speed of light, went back in time, and struck Amelia Earhart's plane while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean. Mystery solved.

22. Roger Federer doesn't churn butter. He hits forehands at the cows and the butter comes straight out.

23. Faster than a speeding bullet ... more powerful than a locomotive ... able to leap tall buildings in a single bound... yes, these are some of Roger Federer's warm-up exercises.

24. Superman once watched a replay of the 2005 Wimbledon Final. He then cried himself to sleep.

25. As President Roosevelt once said: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself. And playing Roger Federer."

26. He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword. He who lives by Roger Federer, dies by the forehand.

27. There are two types of people in the world... people that suck, and Roger Federer.

28. I'm not saying Roger Federer's speed is underrated, but he once qualified with a top speed of 324 mph at the Daytona 500. Without a car.

29. Roger Federer doesn't daydream. He's too busy giving the other ATP players nightmares.

30. Roger Federer is not Politically Correct. He is just Correct. Always.

31. Roger Federer isn't afraid of Urban Legends. He IS an Urban Legend.

32. One night, Andy Roddick dreamed he beat Roger Federer in straight sets to win Wimbledon. The next morning he called Roger Federer up to apologize.

33. Roger Federer once played 18 holes of golf using a 12 inch strip of rebar and a sun dried tomato. He shot a 54.

34. On the Asian market, Roger Federer' urine is worth $400 per fluid ounce.

35. Roger Federer once jumped off the Empire State Building. He sprained his ankle. It was a mild sprain.

36. The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Even the worst-laid plans of Roger Federer come off without a hitch.

37. When you say "no one's perfect", Roger Federer takes this as a personal insult.

38. The Manhattan Project was not intended to create nuclear weapons, it was meant to recreate the destructive power in a Roger Federer forehand. They didn't even come close.

39. There are now five cup sizes at Starbucks: Short, Tall, Grande, Venti, and Roger Federer.

40. Roger Federer can hold his breath for nine years.

41. Roger Federer invented a language that's composed of forehands and backhands. So the next time Roger Federer is kicking your butt, don’t be offended or hurt, he may be just trying to tell you he likes your hat.

42. Superman only has two weaknesses. The first is Kryptonite. And the second, Roger Federer's forehand.

43. The sound of Roger Federer missing a forehand can cure cancer. Too bad he's never missed.

44. Roger Federer can divide by zero with his slice. The result? Pain.

45. Mr. T pities everyone except Roger Federer

46. What happens when you go faster than the speed of light? Scientists theorize that you may catch up to a Roger Federer forehand.

47. It's rumored that Rod Laver has a poster of Roger Federer over HIS bed.

48. If you Google search "Roger Federer getting his a** kicked on a tennis court" you will generate zero results. It just doesn't happen.

49. Roger Federer went bowling once. He was only able to bowl one frame. He knocked down one pin after hitting the bowling ball (forehand) with his tennis racquet. The other nine pins fainted. His ball refused to come back through the return machine. Now that's intimidation.

50. Roger Federer once shot down a fighter plane. He did so by pantomiming a forehand and yelling, "Bang!"

51. The Bermuda Triangle used to be the Bermuda Square, until a Roger Federer forehand knocked one of the corners off.

52. Fear is not the only emotion Roger Federer can detect. He can also detect hope, as in "I hope I don't have to play Roger Federer."

53. Roger Federer can hold serve at love. He can do so only serving three times.

54. Love does not hurt. Playing Roger Federer does.

55. The moon is actually a comet that was once on course to hit Earth... then a Roger Federer forehand knocked it into orbit.

56. Roger Federer's smile once brought a puppy back to life.

57. The Hubble Space Telescope was misaligned off the bounce of a Roger Federer kickserve.

58. When Roger Federer plays tennis, he only hits with 1% of his full power. At 2%, the ball would explode on impact with his racquet. At 3%, people die. At 100% Chuck Norris would lose all 6 testicles.

59. A forehand delivered by Roger Federer is the preferred method of execution in 17 states and 3 countries.

60. Every time Roger Federer drills a forehand, he finds oil.

61. When Ivan Lendl hits you with his forehand, you get knocked down. When Roger Federer hits you with his forehand, you actually won't get knocked down... but as you look down at your chest, you will notice a hole the size of a tennis ball.

62. Nothing can escape the gravity of a black hole, except Roger Federer. Roger Federer can serve and volley out of anything.

63. Every time you return a forehand from Roger Federer, you lose one full year of life expectancy.

64. Contrary to popular belief, hurricanes are not caused by heat energy from the ocean, but by Roger Federer practicing his strokes.

65. The events that were portrayed in the movie Armageddon were fictional. What really happened was Roger Federer hit the asteroid away with his topspin forehand to save the world.

66. Bush and Blair had it all wrong when they attacked Iraq. Roger Federer has all the weapons of mass destruction.

67. Billions upon billions of US Dollars were spent on the development of an anti-ballistic missile defense shield when all they needed was Roger Federer.

68. Roger Federer is so ice-cold that when he eats ice cream, his body temperature rises.

69. Roger Federer hits a forehand so clean you can eat off of it.

70. Since 1981, the year Roger Federer was born, topspin forehand related deaths have increased 13,000%.

71. Roger Federer went back in time to stop the JFK assassination by using his faster than light forehand. As Oswald shot, Federer volleyed all three bullets away. JFK's head exploded out of sheer amazement.

72. Darth Sideous could never turn Roger Federer to the Darkside. Roger Federer is just too good.

73. When Roger Federer is really short on time for lunch, he usually orders pizza. He can always get his slices in.

74. McDonald's has served billions and billions. Roger Federer can out-serve McDonald's.

75. In war, nobody wins... unless you're Roger Federer on any given Sunday.

76. The saddest part of an ATP pro's life is not when he learns that Santa isn't real, but when he finds out Roger Federer is.

77.It was once thought that Roger Federer lost a match to an ATP pro, but that was a rumor created by Roger Federer to lure more ATP pros to him

78. If John McEnroe and Rod Laver were to play each other in their primes, you know who would win? Roger Federer. Playing left-handed.

79. Roger Federer invented the drop shot.

80. 'Icy-Hot' is too weak for Roger Federer. After a workout, he sprays himself with liquid nitrogen. He waits a few moments and then rubs his muscles with liquid-hot magma.

81. Whenever you see a great shot during a tennis match not involving Roger Federer, just remember this. Federer could have hit it even better.

82. Roger Federer doesn't do push-ups. He pushes the world down.

83. If you're an ATP player, the only sure things in life are death, taxes, and that you'll lose to Roger Federer.

84. Most people fear the Reaper. Roger Federer considers him "a promising junior player".

85. There are only two things that can cut diamonds: other diamonds; and a Roger Federer forehand.

86. President Teddy Roosevelt once rode his horse 100 miles. A Roger Federer forehand once propelled a clydesdale twice that distance.

87. I acknowledge that there might be two perfect beings in existence. I know about Roger Federer and I believe in the possibility of God.

88. Aliens DO indeed exist. It's just that they play tennis, and know better than to visit a planet that Roger Federer is on.

89. Roger Federer CAN in fact 'raise the roof'. And he can do it with one forehand.

90. When Federer hits a hard forehand, it is not Federer groaning. It is the earth groaning.

91. Federer once hit a shot so beautiful everyone on the planet orgasmed at once.

92. When playing a tournament in the U.S., Roger Federer must register his serve and groundstrokes as lethal weapons.

93. Roger Federer's at rest heart rate was recently measured at 52 beats. . .per day.

2008-10-10T22:56:00.003+08:00

OMG WE GOT A NEW WII AWESOMEEEEEE.

as much as i abhor frivolous posts (i know, i know - looking back the past 2 years, you can't tell, right); it is highly unlikely there'll be any substantial posts until the exams are over.

while it is sad that for the wii version, they changed andy roddick to andy murray,
I WANT THIS GAME.

it even has roger in the shirt that he used to beat nadal at hamburg 07, the first time ever anyone beat nadal on clay.

plus, roger on the cover has to be roger of us open 07, where he beat djokovic in straights!

yes, so great sentimental value, and i hope i get this game before long. :D

and ohman, bob bryan's blog is HILARIOUS!
he was talking about his injured shoulder..

"Skipping the US Open was not an option, so my only solution to was to get a cortisone shot. The Kochs flew me into Manhattan on their helicopter and I got the shot done on Friday. BTW- that was a big frickin' needle!"

winning olympic bronze,

"On the flight over, I was thinking that anything less than gold would be disappointing. But when we came back from a set down against Clement/Llodra to be able to stand on that podium , there were no happier twins in the world! Those medals didn't leave our side for one second on the trip home. Mike actually almost caused a riot when he flashed it around in the Beijing airport. A 100 Chinese people flocked to him like he was Yao Ming! It's weird, but people seem to be transfixed by an Olympic medal. "

that's pretty good, so i don't feel guilty about roger and stan winning gold.
and winning us open -

"The last couple slams we've won, we've kind of freaked out, dropped our rackets, and Mike has jumped into my arms and crumpled my hat. It wasn't as graceful as the Federer flop or Nadal's snow angel but when emotion takes over, it's impossible to script a beautifully choreographed maneuver."

HAHAHA can't help but love the bryan bros.

2008-10-09T21:11:00.002+08:00

great, they replied my letter of commendation. hope the staffers at cine will be happy. :)

anyway, on rf.com, there's a thread that talks about how "fat and lazy" roger is, and it's hilarious because they find pictures and videos of roger eating. and roger always gets cakes from tournament organizers.

but moving on, there was a comment:
"when tournament organizers don't give roger a cake, he eats his sweatband."

HILARITY.

the second instance of hilarity is gael monfils' face here:

2008-10-07T19:51:00.004+08:00

omg my bryans are the coolest everrrrr.

what do you do when one half of a doubles team is injured and you don't want to play tennis without your brother? you become rock stars! omg i love the bryans seriously. they performed with the counting crows, and they're the coolest ever!

counting crows allowed the posting of the live recording on the atp website, so now i have a nice song in my itunes by "Counting Crows ft. Bob and Mike Bryan" YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. the bryan brothers are so lucky - they're really good players, they're smart (stanfordddddd omg), and they're musically talented!

today's the best day ever!

got a really nice note from msleong, saying .. she wants to drink wine with me when i'm above 18? hahahaha and other silly stuff like thumb-wrestling and eating icecream. yay i love miss leong. (:

then i got a trophy from mr jo! :D then i got a really nice sms from him! :) so yes, today is a happy day because i also watched house bunny!

i loved anna faris as the bunny
"gosh, i gotta meet this fricking bird!";
and colin hanks as oliver was enough to sweep me off my feet even though he's not that hot in real life.

and then i lost my wallet, but the lovely staff at cine crawled around in the darkness until they found it for me. :D
thanks y'all!:D

2008-10-06T22:54:00.003+08:00

At this point in time, I am perhaps in a state of dazed shock that all my dreams lie on how well I use these two weeks. All.

Top lawyer.
Top uni.
Dream third-year attachment to D&N.
ACSI and hot guys.

DAMMIT HERE I COME CHEM.
i will turn into a "zoombie" with self-induced jet lag. (:

2008-10-05T20:52:00.002+08:00

went over to the rf forum, and saw a thread about roger and tfa. so many roger fans were bashing tfa that i felt obliged to write a very long essay explaining both sides of the Fedal debate.

hating nadal doesn't mean we have to be mean to him. i guess. i'm not the best person to judge, because of the huge bias. if i were a source, i'd be eliminated immediately from o levels and be reduced to sec1s examining me for practice on detecting bias.

and daymmnnn, i was watching the live performance of pink's dear mr president, and while one can't help feeling sorry for george bush, one must.. appreciate, for lack of a much better word, the extent of his.. effects.

i speak of george bush like he's some natural disaster. to some extent he is, but we are all human, and who are we to judge?

2008-10-04T11:00:00.003+08:00

oh! (eyes widen)
how cute!

has miss ivanovic found a boyfriend?

at an ana match.

my reliable sources say yes yes yes!

it is fernando verdasco, not bad a player, i say good choice!
hahah verdasco is a left-handed player from spain,
but i'd take verdasco over that cavorting mallorcan, any day.
he's cuter. and his muscles are less scary.

if you don't know who the cavorting mallorcan is,
this is one of the many *ahem* paparazzi shots from atop his yacht.

someoneeeee got busted changing his shorts!

but phew, at least ana won't marry djokovic now!
bigggg load off my mind. (:
their kids would look really good,
but they'd be total brats.
AND roger would hate their grandparents.

not good.
kids should grow up loved by roger.
especially those in the tennis world.

like hence so and such as:

yay.

oh no i need to comfort my little kei.

and DAMN!
del potro and ferrer,
and get this:
del potro is 19. ferrer is 26.

okay just got the stats, baby:
del potro is 1.98m tall.
uhm, in contrast,
roger, nadal and djokovic are all 1.85m exactly.

alright,
i'm back to my siege, then it's off to the tcm doctor to check my injured neck.
you know, i think i injured it while studying! hmmm.

RF MARATHON.
hahaha quote of the day:

"it was always boom boo-boom boo-boom boom boom."
-robert federer, when asked to describe how his son was like at home as a child.

2008-10-03T03:53:00.003+08:00

okay, so i've gone with blogging for how many days now?
feels like forever. i am having rf withdrawal symptoms,
he's injured or sth; in any case he doesn't know when he'll be able to play again.
missing him big big big big time.
its alleviated only slightly by mr roddick,
and my little kei is out of tokyo open. :(

i'm waiting for the sun to rise, so that i can watch the palin-biden debate,
i think it's going to be amusing and informative,
oh and did you know that barack obama and brad pitt are related?
they're ninth cousins! hahahaha and...
angelina jolie is related to hillary clinton! they are ninth cousins, twice removed.

so obama and clinton are 81th cousins? or are they 18th cousins?
whatever.

okay this has been a very short and frivolous post,
a bit telling of my mood now.
i shall post a funny picture of my second-favourite player.

ah. love him.

and my little kei.
little kei looks abit like kuznetsova, what do you think?

let me find a picture of kuzzy:

kuzzy may be ugly, but she's really good!
on the other hand, there are people who are good and look good.
like little kei.:D

i think he's going to be my favourite player when roger and roddick retire!
let's see who are the young people...
oh gulbis too!
i like the colour of gulbis' flag.
and the country "latvia" is so nice to say!
lat-VIAAAAA.

besides, gulbis was the guy who managed to take a set off nadal at wimbledon,
the only guy beside roger.
and also, gulbis was the guy who killed nadal in my english prelims.
AND gulbis is pretty cute.
ooh, roger's playing gulbis at kooyong next year!
roger you cool man.

and anyway, i know it's really irrelevant,
but gulbis is really rich! (:
he has his own private plane already.
at 20 years old!

hahah roger has a private jet too. (:
and "he likes fast cars, so he has 3 mercedes and one aston martin at home"
hurray i like fast cars too.

oh look what i just found.
an article about roger and mirka from 1st december 06,
there's a quote!
"In fact, the day I meet them is their six-year anniversary.
"Of what?" I ask.
"Our first kiss," they say in unison."

how cute.
okay i am hungry.
i shall go to sleep before i start eating chocolates.
poem about roger's body parts!
beware the lovestream hahaha:

As We Watch

As we watch,

His eyes
Whether burning in concentration
subtly following the back and fro of the tennis ball
then dancing in happiness with one last casual flick of the wrist.
Or soulful and loving, gazing upon his first lady
two halves of one whole we have embraced to rule the tennis world.
Or dark and intelligent, glittering with humour
as he falls back into a second childhood during a press conference
Yet still, filled with startling tears
as he contemplates another Grand Slam trophy
a needless reminder of his regal bearing in this kingdom.
His kingdom.

His hands
Whether they grip tightly the white rubber of the racket
and volley, smash and slice
creating divine shots, and history for our hero
Or they hold gently the hands of the one he loves most
Protective, caring, loving.
Or they warm themselves on Stan’s fire
to the delighted cheers of fans world over.
Or fly to his mouth, the forgotten tennis racket discarded
as he falls to the ground, champion once again.
Or as they hold out a congratulatory gesture to a contender
a genuine offer of sportsmanship, whether having met with Triumph or Disaster
Or they caress carefully, one more trophy,
one more of the many that already line his shelves.
The Champion of champions he is.

His legs
Whether they dart like quicksilver
his white Nikes skimming the courts
bearing him upon the breath of dawn
as he takes to the skies and soars in a perfect arc upwards
where other contenders can only look up and gasp in awe.

Most of all, as we watch him win again, again, again.
He is adored and cheered even in defeat
Because above his superior skill, strength and intelligence
a pure joy emanates from beneath his being,
we gasp and sigh, mere love an understatement.
For it is his Heart, that has captured ours.

okay this post wasn't so short after all.
i am tired
fare thee well, for i am sick when i do look on thee!
YAY ROGER!:D
omg i'm high.
dammit who gets high at 4 freaking 30 am.

well unless it's us open finals,
which is probably the only reason i would be high at 4 30am.
OKAY BYEEEE:D. (waves like fred)

and for those who don't know who fred is YET;
this is the latest fred video:

2008-09-30T00:28:00.002+08:00

Look into your heart,
and you'll find love, love, love.

the land before rebonded hair.

roommates and the maori.

my plate after 5 days of sandwiches.

new zealand love.

i'm sick and tired of being alone,
when are you coming home?

2008-09-29T22:55:00.003+08:00

(yawn)

Just woke up from what, a 3-hour frolic in slumber on my mum's bed because she chased me out of my room. :) fun, I'm nice and refreshed now, unlike the entire day today.

hilarious quote of the day:

During bio quiz, where we groaned at every question,
"I believe you guys have studied, and that you guys are just pretending to be bimbotic right? Yes, right okay."
-Mr Jo

Wow nice screencap of shirtless Roger. Viva La Vida, it's strange that such a apt song should be in such a language. Oh well -

One of my favourite songs, set to the beat of my favourite player. I was really sad when I saw Roger holding the ATP Number 1 trophy, it's been too long without a [1] next to Roger's name. But the king will rise again, and all the Nadals and Djokovics; not mention the Samprases and the Hewitts can fall off the earth and die in shame.

Agassi's still safe because Roger doesn't have an Olympic Gold Singles or a French Open yet. :) But Agassi is cool, so he won't fall off the earth.

Earworms:
There She Goes by The Boo Radleys.
Another of my favourite songs, sung by a band that drags me back to the crux of O Levels literature, haha.

Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely) by Pink
An entire song full of oxymorons, contradictions and rhetorical questions, leaving her human mindset to be analysed by lit students. (:

Go away,
Give me a chance to miss you
Say goodbye,
It'll make me want to kiss you.

Cutting off the phone
Leave me the fk alone
Tomorrow,
I'll be begging you to come home.

Leave me alone,
I'm lonely
Leave me lone,
I'm lonely.

Go away, come back
Go away, come back
Why can't I just have it both?

2008-09-29T02:54:00.002+08:00

I'll probably regret this when I wake up tomorrow - I should really spend my time studying/sleeping but for now, the ungodly-hour passion to write has covered my common sense in novocaine, and I wait to write.

I took a look at the box where my dad stacked all my cds nicely, and flipped through dusty cd case after dusty cd case before I found the one I wanted - the cd burnt by Kelvin for us of his pictures from New Zealand. Months, a year has passed, and I am further away from New Zealand than ever before, trapped in a self-contained penititiary of attempted mugging and self-deception - it is only when I look up from my study table, and see the pictures I've plastered there to remind me of the great times I had, that I feel a sense of nostalgia so strong, it's almost overwhelming.

New Zealand, where words flow like rivers from pens and where the scenery is the child of Poetry.

2008-09-28T20:54:00.002+08:00

omg andy! :D

whaddup, homedog!

omg i love andy, i really really love andy.
he won the china open, and he's donating 25 000 bucks to the sichuan earthquake victims.
none can compare except probably agassi and federer.
agassi is the bill gates of tennis,
and federer did miles and miles for the tsunami victims.

"It’s my great honor to be in Beijing to work with CTA to assist those kids who are in need. It is an athlete's privilege and responsibility to give back".

it is terribly, terribly touching, and so very humanizing to see the efforts and the deep-rooted humanity of man in the supposed cut-throat world of sports. deep down inside, i yearn to be like them someday, to be respected for a leader, a professional and most of all, a person.

it is perhaps, these pioneers in the philanthropy of their actions, that they inspire fans around the world, and perhaps somewhere in the cliche of "every little thing counts", we'll find change in this world. that perhaps, somewhere out there, there is hope for a better world; and it is very inspiring that actions such as these should start with such high-profile athletes who seem to have direct influence on fans around the world.

andy roddick started his andy roddick charity when he was 17. i'm turning 16. i've thought about what i want to do with my life, and it's time to start putting things into action. one day, i'll be just as great a philanthropist as the leaders of our time -

Andre Agassi, Roger Federer, Andy Roddick.

2008-09-28T16:29:00.004+08:00

So after blow-drying my hair so that my uniform didn't look like I just plunged into the Singapore River for a swim, and making sure my hair was tightly tied back in an attempt to look like a bookish mugger; I headed off for the MOE to attend the scholarship briefing. After they went through a whole list of ex-scholarship holders, I heard Debo's mum's name and the entire SCGS table did a sort of collective gasp of realization that was pretty funny.

Emcee: "Mrs Lim.. who is currently the principal of RJC.."
SCGS: "*ahhhh* Deborah's mummmm."

Of all the humanities tutors who interacted with us, I took a liking to most of them, but I liked this history teacher from TJ the best. :) I was very amused by the British Physical Geog teacher who has "been teaching in Wear Chong for around 23 years now." I only found out that "Wear Chong" was Hwachong in a British accent after he went "been switching between Raffles and Wear Chong". He sat down and immediately looked around and went "Oh. SCGS. The O Level school." That was hilarious. Although our meeting with him didn't amount to very much because of our entire teacher, there were only two scgirls taking full geog, and both of them already have a place at RJ.

And I was similarly amused by the British literature teacher from RJ, who was really.. (insert adjective form of "sweetheart" - there's no other word). She sat down at our table and immediately went, "Wow, a whole table of sexy uniforms!" and talked to us a bit. She recounted the tales of SCGS girls in RJ for us, and she was absolutely endearing. :) By the way, the British version of RJ is "Ah-jay".

However, I was horribly freaked out by the VJ literature teacher. Horribly, horribly freaked out - she's the closest idea to a Miss Sie in her twenties. Ohmyhell, she sat down and immediately went "We like SCGS girls, we treat them very well!" She was top of her university class but she's probably the second-best example of how good students do not necessarily make good teachers. The first, of course, would be the chem teacher in SCGS. Anyway - Miss ___ of VJ: "You got any problem, can come poke me on facebook. I will poke back lah. Sure can one, after I finish marking." and the most frightening of all, was a mock-girlish half-roar: "Come to Vick-torrriaaaaa.", which of course, just led me to sympathize with Rae that she would be spending two years learning literature under that lady.

And of course, my favourite tutor who we got at the table - I took a liking to him straightaway, he was the History teacher at TJ; and his humour had a very, very large resemblance to my favourite bio teacher's, haha! He was a cross between Mr Razak's looks and Mr Jo's personality. He was very articulate, with a quiet but attention-drawing manner and wore nice ironed office shirts (the colours of the stripes were that of the TJ uniform, which I thought was hilarious), which is hard to find in most male teachers nowadays. "Come on, O Levels are chicken feed. At the end of the day, it's just a slip of paper with alphabets and numbers on it."

I always fall for the priceless conversations!

(Talking about H3 history papers)
Mr H: "Oh, one student did a research paper on Che.."
SCGS: *blank looks*
Mr H: "Che and his impact on pop culture..."
SCGS: *blank looks*
Mr H:" Che Guevera...?"
Me: "OH OH OH HUIMEI'S WALLET!"
Rae: "OH OH OH THAT ONE AH."

Haha, could it be that I have fallen in love? Again?! But sadly, I don't plan to go to TJ.

2008-09-26T23:10:00.002+08:00

Oh my damn, what a bad day!

Absolutely no worthy lessons to have warranted my stay in school today - no bio, no chem, no best friends - and double english to cope with, omg! To top that, I have a huge headache and it feels like all seven of Snow White's freaking dwarves with another one of Brenda's favourite male dwarf I always see around in scgs are pounding on the inside of my head with their anvils and chanting their silly work song.

Finally, to add insult to injury, I have the bloody beeping opening of Jesse Mccartney's Leavin' stuck in my head. (groan) During amath tuition I was so determined to finish my work super fast so that I could rest my aching head that once I started blasting music, I didn't stop work and Mr Chia was very impressed. (: But that didn't solve my headache. :(

Rawrrrr, it's one of those days you want to overdose on panadol and sleeping pills, smash your head on a water pillow and go to sleep.

Oh, daddy's going to Germany tomorrow. :( I shall go ask him to buy me a nice tshirt and a nice keychain. My mum just finished telling me about hardcore sex in Germany. How interesting. Okay, I shall post some nice tennis pictures today.

djokovic acts tough but is very tired.

ana's so pretty!

if i could be like that, i would do anything.

jw tsonga hams it up as his lookalike, muhammed ali!

and roddick m'boy is pure power!

2008-09-25T21:40:00.002+08:00

hey ch, take a look!

photo of the day:

gael monfils!
one of the players i have mine eyne on.

anyway, i swear becoming sec4 is like some fast track to How To Be A Freak, and at that, especially in scgs. i think only in scgs, can you ever hold an entire conversation in shakespearean quotes.

leanne: (sits on meree's chair)
meredith: (pushes her off)
leanne: ehhh, go away for i am sick when i do look on thee.
meredith: be gone, vile thing! stop sitting on my chair!
nicole: (narrows eyes) tempt not the hatred of my spirit! now go away before i beat you up!
jecky: oh no, i feel.. inadequate! why must you flout my insufficiencies so!

i was watching what the buck's latest entry, and it got me thinking. sexual orientations - go think about it.

and i am in love with grant imahara!

when smart is the new sexy.

if you don't believe smart is the new sexy, ask the big bang theory!

2008-09-24T20:22:00.002+08:00

had a rather productive afternoon with mr jo who finally came to find me during study camp today to help me with my bio. but the funniest part was when mr lau crept up behind mr jo.

it went like,

mr lau: "(hissing) hello ssssssir."
mr jo: "ahhh don't kill me! here, (grabs my apple) apple, eat eat!"
mr lau: "(stamps the ground like a kid) i ... DOWAN an apple."
mr jo: "eh careful careful, you shit on the ground i am not going to clean up."
mr lau: "(points at me and cass) THEY can clean up."
cass: "(wakes up) clean what?"
mr jo: "mr lau's shit."

mr lau: "bye ssssssssir."
mr jo: "eh when you walk away, careful, don't vibrate the earth."
mr lau: "yessssssirrr. (growls)"

i almost died laughing.

anyway, i was reading simply-bing, something i don't usually do, but i clicked on the link when i was checking out sp.com. anyway then i saw this post by bing:

Something's wrong with Singapore's Justice System.

"Man stabs wife, leaving her with 80 scars, wanted to kill her."
Jailed for 4 years, caned.

"Man hurls son onto wall, wardrobe, ceiling, because son was watching TV."
Fined $1000.

"Housewife killes NS man while driving negligently"
Banned from driving, fined $8000.

And you get hanged for carrying 3 grammes of Heroin. (even if somebody stuffed it in your bag)

So.. Stab your wife, throw your son around, knock down some old people, and in total your punishment will be less than a victim of drug smuggling.

i think, when i become a top lawyer, i'm going to do something.
*

you thought your problems were gone -
carry me - away away away... (:

days swiftly come and go
i'm dreaming of her
she's seeing other guys
emotions astir

the nights are long,
and i am left,
while the tears fall.

did you think that i would cry-y,
on the phone?
do you know what it feels li-ike,
being alone?

i'll find someone new,
swing swing swing from the tangles of my heart
is crushed by a former love
can you help me help me find a way
to carry on again.

i love that songggg.

time for some lame shit, and then study time:

AND i love the way
by aiken, clay
who has come out to say
that "yes, i'm gay."

okay i really do like the song 'the way' ! :D

2008-09-24T20:07:00.003+08:00

look at him dammit, i love himmmm.
how can i ever bear to ask roger to beat him?
and twice at that?

it's impossible not to love roddick.

and at the same time, how can i ever, ever bear to see roger lose?
*whimpers*

when roger loses, it's heartbreaking.
it seriously is, the entire roger world nearly died of heartbreak after wimbledon.
i could never bear to ever see roger lose.

WARRIOR: Drive them before you, see them fall and hear the lamentations of their women.

Now, who shall be my warrior?
I think Roger.

and some paparazzi pictures from db on rf.com,

he's gorrrrrrrrrr-geous.
PEACE. AROUND THE WORLD! FOR GENERATIONS. :D

2008-09-23T20:08:00.002+08:00

Just gotten a google alert that the marquee tie for first round of davis cup next year is out.

Interesting clashes:
USA will host Switzerland
and I am most certainly trotting off to die in a drain.
I love love love both the USA and the Swiss athletes.

my guesses for the line-up
and my personal choice for who i want to win:

Roger Federer vs Andy Roddick -
I'm going to be devastated no matter who wins.
pick: Roger Federer by about 5%.

Stanislas Wawrinka vs Sam Querrey/James Blake-
If it's Stan against Sam, Stan all the way.
If it's Stan against Blake.. I'd be disappointed,
but I haven't forgotten that Blake beat Federer in the Olympic singles.
pick: Stan Wawrinka by about 500%

Fedrinka vs the Bryan Bros -
This is like the Olympics all over again.
I want to cry trying to choose a team,
But since Switzerland already has 2 points,
pick: Bryan Bros by about 0.00000000000000001%

Roger Federer vs Andy Roddick again -
DEFINITELY.
ROGER.
FEDERER.
pick: Roger Federer by about 99999999999999%. :D

pick for winner: Switzerland.

Spain will host Serbia.

pick: Serbia, but I don't care about the score.

ALRIGHT GONNA STUDY NOW.
davis cup, masters cup, aussie open all can wait.

quote of the day, the last verse of my favourite poem:
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

2008-09-22T23:20:00.002+08:00

Would you die for the one you love?

Would the chains of human life bind you, or would the winds of love bear you gently past the border where dream and reality blur into one? Rhetorical questions cloud my mind today, and I've been trying to answer them slowly one by one. Yet, they drift by, too fast to catch, let alone ponder, and I am left in a myriad of questioning amusement, standing in a mist of time, alone on the plains of knowledge, where dreams are boundless - golden and silver to caught in shimmering splendours of butterfly nets.

Sprinting, trying to outrun and outdistance time in a ceaseless pursuit, wondering if an adult message in a children's book could actually have deeper meanings than teaching mere right and wrong? That love truly is the most powerful magic?

And in an ending full of bathos to end off a rather deep post - i think i am emo today.
i need to do work and i am tired.
bye.

ONE DAY I WILL MEET ROGER FEDERER.

2008-09-22T20:40:00.002+08:00

I LOVE YOU BRENDA LOW YI SIU BECAUSE I LOVE MY NEW IPOD.

i love love love the shuffle function. i've been shaking my ipod the entire day playing with the shuffle function hahahahaha. :D:D:D:D:D:D AHHHH BRENDA LOW I LOVE YOU AS MUCH AS ROGER.

omg i'm delirious with love - it's red it's pretty it's amazing AND YOU CAN PLAY THE SAME GAMES ON IT AS THE NEW TOUCH - it has the tilting game graviting function too!

ahhhhh :D:D:DD::D:D:D:D:D:D:D
mr jo's been sending me lame messages about my ipod.
anywayyyy, bio was hilarious today!

hahha MR JO WAS IMITATING MR LAU THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE LESSON.
it'd be a few seconds of a splitting image of mr lau, then a soft call for afirmation from us -

"(roars) BIO QUIZ TIME! TIME FOR OUR ... HOT DATE!!!!! (how am i doing as mr lau?)"

mr jo is so endearing ahhhh i love mr jo!

2008-09-21T18:53:00.002+08:00

I MISS BOBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB! :( :( :( :(

BOB WHERE ARE YOU CAN YOU PLEASE GET WELL SOON. D:

bob and mike isn't the same without bob. :(
i love bob and mike almost as much as i love rogerrrr.
i think i support roger more though,
during olympics, i was rooting for roger to win that match.

but, bob and mike - love them forever!

missing youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
hurry get better!

and please don't let spain win davis cup!

on a brighter note, i've just gotten roger's fall/winter attire from nike, and wow wow wow i'm gonna go into cardiac arrest when i watch him play at tmc shanghai - finals are AFTER o levels! :D

the black is lovelyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
that's just roger-DDG.

2008-09-21T16:46:00.002+08:00

hurray roger got our birthday present!

he just sent back photos today for us. :)
roger's so cool man. :D

presents that about 190 000 fans all helped to do:

2008-09-21T01:07:00.003+08:00

Gosh, I'd hate to be a Swiss tennis player if my surname isn't Federer or Wawrinka. Can you imagine? All I get to do is cheer. Kinda sucks hahahaha.

If Fedrinka had lost, then Roger would have played third singles the next day, and if he lost for some strange reason - then and only then would Yves Allegro and probablyyyy Michael Lammer play.

But it cool baby - it cool - Wawrinka won first singles, Roger won second singles, then Fedrinka won first doubles. So match to Swiss Team 3-0, while all the other countries are sluggin' it out nice an' slow 2-1. I think, I think the only other team which has managed 3-0 is Team Serbia. I told you they were strong! *cries like Fred*

Oh yes, Bryan has done his magic, although I still miss Bob Bryan. Mikey with Mardy got past Lopez/Verdasco on clay, although it went to a fifth set. So USA-Spain 1-2.

Swiss celebration were ah-mazing and hilarious; and terribly, terribly endearing.

first came tactics.

ready, steady, do you like spaghetti?

next came the win.

then came the hug.

and the secret smiles.

roger so cool, he had to warm himself with wawrinka's everlasting olympic doubles fire.

and then the swiss crowd kowtows to them.
so they do what politenes dictates - they kowtow back.
(i'm actually not kidding.)

AND I DIDN'T GET THAT PHOTOS FROM THE SAME PLACE.
I SEARCHED A THOUSAND DIFFERENT WEBSITES TO GET THEM TO MAKE A STORY OKAY.

I TOOK LIKE HALF AN HOUR TO FIND PHOTOS TO COVER A PROCESS WHICH TOOK 4 SECONDS IN REAL LIFE. HURHURHURHUR.

2008-09-20T11:33:00.003+08:00

oh right, almost forgot!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS! :D

haha i smsed him happy birthday and he sent back that he hasn't heard from me in eons and wished me good luck for my exams. (:

hope he has a good time with geraldine. >:)

meanwhile i want a pocket pig!

*awwwwwwwww*
they're so tiny, they fit into your pocket!

2008-09-20T09:56:00.004+08:00

Okay Davis Cup updates!

2-0 to Spain-USA playoffs in Madrid.
Spain is absolutely thrashing USA on clay -
Ferrer beat Roddick for first singles
Nadal beat Querrey for second singles

So today doubles are up - hope Mike Bryan and Mardy Fish can pull it off
Hope Mardy can do it - he's a new husband now!
Viva La America!
Okay that doesn't make sense, viva is a spanish word.

Okay whatever, guess who else is in Madrid?
SIMPLE PLAN HAHAHA THATS WHO.

2-0 to Switzerland-Belgium playoffs in Lausanne.
Stan the Man fought hard for first singles and won
Roger pulled it off nice and easy second singles in straight sets.

But he got really, really pissed in between. Kinda screamed at the line judges abit, and then asked for them to be removed and got new ones oncourt. The second set:

Roger was losing 1-4, screamed at the line judges.
Then won the set 6-4.

Enfant terrible!

Doubles today, and Olympic Gold Medallists Fedrinka are scheduled to play. :D
If they don't win, then Roger will play again in third singles.

So in either way, Roger should clinch playoff for Swiss Team.
Can you imagine how the Swiss Team was like without Roger!
He hasn't played Davis for the past 4 years hahahaha.

I just realised the playoff is in Lausanne, which holds kinda pretty bad memories for Roger.
It was the time he was in the tennis federation, and he hated it because he couldn't speak French and everyone didn't talk to him. And he was so homesick he called his mum twice a day and cried every day.

Poor Roger! Well, at least he knows how to speak French now. (:

Meanwhile, found a couple of really cute pictures.

roddick is trying to a thumbs-up, my dear ferrer.

and.. guess who was spotted in the land of Nadal attending staubli's wedding! :D

clue: his eyes haunt.

and he's adored by the swiss fans!

yep, that much is prettyyyy obvious.

roger finds himself in a picture of his high school class.

On a brighter side, after countless Roger interviews in German, and countless newsrolls I've been watching - I'm beginning to understand a little German now! :) Hahaha, it was quite loser, I can only recognise some tennis terms because I know what they were in English. Still better than stoning throughout the entire German thing and only waking up when I heard the words "Roger Federer".

quote of the day:
"I feel for the opponents who are winning in the start of the match, but eventually lose in straight sets. Roger may play with his food, but eventually he consumes it."

Okay bye!(:

2008-09-18T21:28:00.003+08:00

Cheer up, sleepy jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen.
Cheer up, sleepy jean.
Oh, what can it mean.
To a daydream believer
And a homecoming queen.

I don't know why all my new favourite songs are in that genre hahaha!
Daydream Believer - The Monkees
Still The One - Orleans
For All The Nights I Can't Remember - Hedley

But I know the Wright Kids sang Daydream Believer! :D:D:D I'll post a video of them later - Levi Wright is the cutest thing ever! He's like 6 and he's playing this huge double bass and singing so cutely. Baruch - that's the middle child and the lead singer - he's like 9, and he looks like a mini George Clooney and he sings like a mini Elvis Presley! Mg, I'm falling in love with a 9-year-old!

This is them singing Rockin' Robin - I posted it because Levi Wright talks alot during the introduction and he's so cute, but my favourite performance by them was the one where they sang Daydream Believer, to which the lyrics are in italics above.

*cries like Fred on youtube*
BOBBBB!
*bangs the ground*
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

This cannot be happening, no! Please tell me it's a nightmare and I'm going to wake up. Bob Bryan is injured! This is the first time in a million years that Bob and Mike haven't played together during a Davis Cup. Bob's taking 6 weeks off, I miss him already. :(

NOW THE OTHER LEFT-HANDED PLAYER IN THE USA-SPAIN PLAY OFF WILL BE HAPPY INSTEAD. :( :( I was so hoping USA would win the USA-Spain play off! :( Without James Blake, without Bob Bryan - and with a clay court? Gee, I wonder which team has that bullish muscled Greatest Claycourter Ever?

Oh well. Get well soon, Bob. You and Mike are always in my heart.

On a related and considerably happier note, the Swiss Team looks very, very strong and very certain to beat the Belgium team in the play off.

The Swiss Team are really, really cute! They look more like nerds than athletes.

If you're wondering why someone dared to stand in front of Federer, it's because he's Severin Luethi and he's the captain. He's one of Roger's coaches. I feel really sad for Yves Allegro, he's the extra-looking person on the extreme right - he used to be Roger's usual doubles partner. But this time, Severin picked Stan to play doubles with Roger.

Logical choice, looking at the Olympic gold, but I'm quite sad for Allegro. :(

But omg, Michael Lammer (Roger's left) is hot!

Still, Roger looks amazing (and looks like he has a ton of gel in his hair).

Omg, today was the best ever! Rounders during recess is rad! Next game - Tuesday! I think we're going to invite Mr Lau too. Mr Jo and Mrs Yogee are superbly, superbly entertaining.

Mr Jo: "Whooooooo! Serene, did you see my home run?"

Oh and double bio was the best in the entire year! The lifescience lab fascinates me, I swear. It's so interesting doing all these stuff, reminds me alot about imcb, kinda miss my rgs friends there. But most of all, double bio had damn many funny quotable quotes.

Mr Jo: "GY, which animals glow?"
GY: "..glow-worms! .. fireflies! ... jellyfish!"
Mr Jo: "Very good, now why do jellyfish glow?"
Me: "To find sex partners."
Mr Jo: "Yes!"
Huimei: "Wah man, how did you know that, Serene?"
Mr Jo: "Because Serene glows what."
...
Mr Jo: "Joking lah!"

Mr Jo: "Put the Ependoff tubes into the ice, then wait for 10 minutes."
GY: (does everything)
Mr Jo: "Okay, we have 10 minutes. Let's talk. About life."
GY: "Okay."
Mr Jo: "What colour are your prom dresses?"

The best thing,
Meredith: "ORANGE!"

2008-09-17T21:26:00.002+08:00

I am exhausted, but I am delirious with joy hahaha. Finally, I'm liking the feeling of staying up all night, sleeping all day. Okay fine - I'm not sleeping all day, but I'm not sleeping all night either! The adrenaline has started to pump!

Also, I am rather happy that Jose Higueras has been named elite director of elite coaching of elite players of elite American elite something. Because this "effectively ends his working relationship with US Open champion Roger Federer."

I think with Roger, it's a "Why bother? Why not?" situation with coaches. We've known it all along, and the recent Nike commercials have only served to reinforce that Roger doesn't need a coach. Before a coach, having a coach, after firing the coach - he wins and loses just the same. I haven't seen any vast improvement of his game or anything.

After I read who his hitting partner was, I was even more convinced that Roger didn't need a coach. Get this - his hitting partner is Mirka. I watched him practice with her on youtube, (well they only showed Roger), but based on where the shots were, Mirka obviously has a great tennis game and brain, and Roger had trouble get some shots back!

I think Roger's game is based more on support hahaha - Roger won easily when Reto Staubli was there. Oh, Reto got married! Roger was there for the wedding in, get this, Mallorca, a.k.a the famous land of Nadal; and apparently all the tour-guides were pissed off because the tourists stopped listening to the history of castles, but started taking pictures of Roger. Hahahaha. I also heard that the Swiss football national coach is pissy and keeps insisting that football is more popular than tennis there, "even though people talk a lot about Federer."

Mats Wilander told the media he wanted Roger to consider him. DREAM ON, MATS. I remember what you said during all the US Open matches, even though they were in the middle of the night. I do remember something like,

"Pity, pity. Roger was such a great champion, but I don't think he'll ever win a Grand Slam again."

I wonder how Mats felt 4 days later. (evil laugh).

I realised Roger's playing Davis Cup in September! It starts... day after tomorrow! So he's playing something after all, happy times! I love my Roger, lucky number 13-time Grand Slam champion!

"I'm not going to stop at 13, that's for sure. That would be terrible, right?"

"I mean, 13 is such a bad number, you know. (smiles)"

2008-09-16T23:02:00.002+08:00

Okay I got the call hahaha! And *exhausted* omg, go watch Fred on youtube. He just EXHAUSTS you. Ana introduced me to Fred, who was introduced to her by Zayana. And omgggg, I'm addicted to Fred and his screaming fits and brattiness. "The 6 year old with anger management issues!"

He looks 18.

Okay, gotta go - the teachers are getting psychotic. Oh and I was messaging mr jo in the afternoon, and he has to be the lamest shit everrr. Hahaha I love mr jo. I swear he's coolest lame shit on earth. His replies were just killing meeeeeeee.

2008-09-15T19:51:00.003+08:00

These few days promise to bring exciting times, though unconfirmed as yet.

I'll find a way to keep you guys updated. (:

Today, Mr Jo was teaching about anaerobic and aerobic respiration and I was thinking, this is the reason why he's one of my favourite teachers in SCGS - today, I felt something that I haven't felt in a while. These past few bio lessons have just ben consultation after consultation, leaving not much room for teaching.

When he was teaching this morning, I felt the spark of life I used to feel every bio lesson. Okay yeah, sounds sentimental to the point of creepy; but yeah I enjoyed this morning's bio lesson more than any of the bio lessons during this period of time. Thought I'd give it a ention, but I think only Mr Jo's students will understand what I'm talking about. :D

Okay, gotta go prepare for _____ now! Hope I get the call. (:

2008-09-14T19:13:00.003+08:00

My internet's spoilt, so I foresee not many blog posts. I'm using wired internet now - kinda sucks, but I told my dad not to fix the wireless. I'm going to get my ipod tomorrow, and I couldn't be happier. :D:D

I'm dying of laughter at ch's blog, it's the funniest blog online together with tennisplanet.

Let's do a list of websites I'll miss when I'm gone -

10. Blogger.
Cmon, I blog more than once a day most times. Don't tell me I won't miss it man. Writing is therapeutic, and the ability to do so - to reach out - to attempt to halt my thoughts in their track and comprehend them enough to put them on pen and paper; well, screen and electricity, to connect to people means more to me than anything else.

9. MSNBC.
My first source of information, any time o' day. I spend hours trawling through intriguing news report after news report. Also my favourite site to follow US Politics, it is informative, objective and very, very entertaining. I love the personal touch that recounts have, and I've cried more than once reading them.

8. Barack Obama
Tell me I won't miss the inspirational speeches, that make me want, more than ever, determined to chase my dream down and become an inspiration like him. He's the first man to make me reconsider my career choice.

7. SereneSchadenfreude
I read my own blog more times than I bother to tell you.

6. PostSecret
Helps the ego a bit to know that there are more people out there with secrets that you never knew you never knew. It helps you the tiny bit too, that you're not the only world who think ths world is a huge evil place. And it helps the most when you know you're not the only one that wantsto cha-ee-ay-ange the world.

5. Simple Plan
The latest dates, the latest tours, the latest vlogs, the latest greatest. I love Patrick's great posts on the blog, and I love the guys in the band - friendly, personable, down-to-earth but always professional. Great guys.

4. Facebook.
Three words - Text Twirl, dammit.

3. YouTube
Damnnnn, who wouldn't?

2. TennisPlanet
One of the few blogs I follow daily - I love love love tp to the death, and if the webmaster ever stopped blogging, I'd never be able to find another blog to follow as much as this one. Witty and insulting, it has the perfect mix of humour and cynicism to make me smile and throw my head back in laughter while fuming quietly on the inside that FEDERER IS NOT GAY.

1. Roger Federer
I could go on forever, but I won't. The forums are the friendliest places around, and the people electic and welcoming. The power of the internet is astounding and I swear, if the entire world were Roger Federer fans, there wouldn't be any wars. Ever.

2008-09-13T13:51:00.003+08:00

forget the touch.

I WANT THE NEW NANO-CHROMATIC.
i'm getting it as soon as possible, its gorgeous! (swoon)

i want the red one.

also, from gillette!

2008-09-13T12:48:00.000+08:00

Saturdays are my favourite days! :D

SICK
Shel Silverstein

"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay,
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash, and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more--that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut, my eyes are blue--
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke--
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb,
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is---Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"

2008-09-11T21:50:00.004+08:00

Today's been one of the worst days of my life - perhaps not one as dramatic as my fights or my claims to kill myself - but there was once a phrase used to describe the way Roger's opponents lost to him - "killed softly".

Today has been one of those days - where I've been killed softly today, for quite alot of reasons I'd much rather not discuss. I think I'm getting oversensitive or maybe overemotional, but for whatever reason, amath tuition went really badly too; Ray was really, really nice but the frustration in his eyes when I just "couldn't get" a sum just proved too much. Add to that a missing layer of skin from my ankle that's been left on the school track during PE, and I'm almost in tears right now.

But somehow, I'm slowly getting cheered up on the computer, by who else but my idols? There's something about watching old footage of Roger's greatest matches on youtube, watching magical shots, and gasps of awe from the crowd and the rapid machine-gun rattle of the commentators "Oh my, did you see that, guys?", while listening to Clay Aiken's The Way. Ancient, I know - but I heard it for the first time on youtube, where else(?), but a tribute video to my hero.

It's in the way that you move me
And the way that you tease me
The way that I want you tonight
It's in the way that you hold me
And the way that you know me
And when I can't find the right words to say
You feel it in the way

One last video which cheered me up no end, was a reading of one of my favourite poems of all time, If by Rudyard Kipling, read by none other than two of my most respected people in the world.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,

Also, on a brighter note, I've finished the autobiography of Roger Federer! I stopped reading after he lost so many times, but promised myself I'd finish it after he won an improtant victory, which he did! (:

My ankle hurts. :(
I want my layer of skin back.

2008-09-10T19:50:00.004+08:00

Today has been a highly fascinating day.

So what was left of study camp after amath mocks was spent talking about bad english teachers *coughcough*(i wonder who), religion and good authors with Miss Choo and Sibyl. (: That was fun hahahahahaha - Miss Choo and Sibyl recommended lots of great books and I can't wait to get started yayyyyyyy. :D:D:D

And Mrs Fern came trotting along to chat too, and when she saw me,
"Youuu. You are the person who gave Audrey that .. ANIMAL. Do you know she walks around the staff room with your elephant ON HER HEAD?! ... ON HER SHOULDER?!? AND AROUND HER NECK!?!?"

I couldn't stop laughing! Anyway then Sibyl and I were introducing the people to Miss Choo, so we got to Rachel, Nic, and then Meree.

Mrs Fern: "Huhhh, that name very aunty leh."
Miss Choo: "Tell her! Tell her!"
Serene: "Hey Meree, Mrs Fern says your name is damn aunty."
Mrs Fern: (narrows eyes) *hissssss* "I will behead your elephant."

Saw Miss Leong around 7pm, so I said bye to her, and she said she was in the process of replying my teachers' day letter to her! So that's really something to look forward to. (:

Other than that, read a really touching post on Roger on tp, and okay happy because of that. My favourite English teacher didn't turn up for TWO lessons today, so my mum is complaining to my equally beloved principal. About all for today, cheerio deario!

Laughing my head off today:

"Before he managed his 20 minutes of shut-eye, the champion went on to the internet to study images of his performance. “I wanted to get a sense of what the fans saw,” he said. “I like to see the pictures before I go to bed. I would never have done that at Wimbledon this year. I have never seen a picture of Rafa [Nadal] holding the trophy and it's something I don't ever want to see."

When I'm hungry, I always get Fed.
Breadsticks and bagels, baby!
(you won't get the second part unless you understand tennis slangs.)

2008-09-09T19:38:00.002+08:00

okay, pictures!
many people were watching the match,
i saw anna wintour cheering in roger's box, which means she was there on his personal invitation! (:

i don't have a picture of her, but i do see that:

trumpy was there.
and his son doesn't know the meaning of "you're fired!!"
so trumpy makes him keep quiet the hard way.

regis philbin of the regis and kelly show was there.

spiderman was there.

and uh many more, which i don't recognise.
i will tell you though, that ralph lauren himself was there!
didn't see tiger woods though, he's probably skulking somewhere.
this is amazing hahahaha,
both tiger woods and roger federer have won their respective us opens!

but audiences are audiences,
and today i only had eyes for the king of tennis.

ooh darlin', cos you'll always be my baby.

okay there's no real need to act like nadal.
let's try something more civilised.

that looks fine to me. (:

happy happy roger!

and jealous murray.

a superstar lighting up the sky,
like a tiger defying the laws of gravity.

when i see you smile,
i forget the world.

interviewer: "i don't know if you noticed, but after you won, they started playing orleans' "still the one." "
roger: "third time already."
interviewer: "uh well yeah."
roger: "good eh, that the guy playing the music is a fan of mine."

interviewer: "sth sth sth how do you feel now with regards to your illness?"
roger: "well, you get all these crazy people writing to you, thinking you need help mentally and physically. i'm glad now that the phone can stop ringing at my parents' place and i'm happy about that."

2008-09-09T05:31:00.003+08:00

wow i can't believe i managed to stay awake throughout the entire night.
match has started and i am EGGCITED!

wow that's roger at his best best best.
omg drive volley! 0.0
dammit that is really, really great from roger.

people around the world are starting to wonder...
could roger finish so that they could go to work on time? (:
maybe just maybe, maybe, he could finish before i go to school?

roger's steamrolling at the moment!

2008-09-09T01:20:00.003+08:00

*dances around*

i've been doing a whole lot of dancing lately, i'm in such high spirits. i know i've been blogging alot, but that's what you get when you have a sleepless night of perpetual fear that you'll miss the start of the match. i missed about 45 minutes last year when i gave up and went to sleep about 2plus, and woke up at 5am, when the match was supposed to have started at 4am. :(

so i shall not sleep tonight.
that being said, i'm supposed to call meredith at 5:15am to wake her up. (:

anyway, i'm quite elated that serena williams has won the us open womens'! so that just leaves roger to win, and then all my picks for the tournament will have won!

bryan brothers for men's doubles.
serena williams for women's singles.
dare i say already, roger federer for men's singles?

i think this is hilarious,

leanne: "omg nadal has seriously, no dress sense. everytime i see him play, i'm like dude, if you want to wear pants, wear. if you want to wear shorts, wear. don't wear three-quarter pants and play tennis dammit!"

and another during bio, after mr jo sees a horrendously vandalised picture of federer, courtesy of cass and rach.

mr jo: "hey serene, have you seen them desecrate.. there is no other word really.. your Federer?"

2008-09-08T23:34:00.002+08:00

Last night, between the moments of falling awake and careless slumber, drifting in the wuthering winds of semi-sleep. I remembered a favourite quote from my childhood.

Lucy leant her head on the edge of the fighting-top and whispered, "Aslan, Aslan, if ever you loved us at all, send us help now." The darkness did not grow any less, but she began to feel a little - a very little - better...

An albatross...circled three times round the mast and then perched for an instant on the crest of the gilded dragon at the prow... But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's.

For oft a time in my darkest moments when I was in need of comfort, I'd curl up under my blanket, and repeat Aslan's words to myself. "Courage, dear heart,". I would think about Aslan, and he would seem so real to me, as if he had just strolled out of the pages of Narnia.

In contrary now, I'm in one of my happiest moments, where Roger's the favourite to take the US Open title, I will still look back and say, Courage, dear Roger; with every ounce of determination to match those of my darkest moments. Hopefully, it'll turn into a scene like this:

Then Aslan turned to them and said:

"You do not yet look so happy as I mean you to be."

Lucy said, "We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often."

"No fear of that, " said Aslan. "Have you not guessed?"

Their hearts leaped and a wild hope rose within them.

"There was a real railway accident," said Aslan softly. Your father and mother and all of you are - as you used to call it in the Shadow-Lands - dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning."

Heaven.
I love Narnia.

2008-09-08T22:30:00.003+08:00

I saw this quote, and I thought it was pretty apt.

"Your life will change now that you have become a fan of the great Roger Federer. Your schedule will no longer be your own - you will make plans around Roger's matches and you will find yourself so emotionally invested in someone you don't know personally. BUT it will be the best time of your life and you will see the most beautiful tennis played in the world."

Still, plans to stay up all night are firmly in place, I will do it for Roger. (:

If he wins, I'll plaster the classroom walls of 4gy full of Roger's face.
*dances around*

The fans on the USO website seem pretty evenly divided between Roger and Murray, but of course, I'm a Rogerfan through and through. I think Roger can do it, and do it easily, Murray doesn't have the calibre to push Roger through 5 sets, Roger will either win quickly or lose quickly. I pick win quickly.

Rafa may be a bull, and Murray may have stopped the bull; but today he will face a lion. I, for one, cannot wait. I don't care that I've been sneezing and sniffling the entire day, I don't care that I have a splitting headache, I don't care that I slept at 2am last night - the sleep can wait, Roger cannot.

2008-09-07T16:36:00.006+08:00

ooh look who's handsome today!

roger could so totally be a model i swear!

awaiting the results of the nadal-murray matchup.

who would i rather win? interesting question.
this would have to go the same way as the quarters.
i don't care - as long as roger beats them in the next round

then again, if roger plays like this:

it'd be pretty hard to beat him, baby.
that shot is a OMG-ITS-ROGER-FEDERER shot.

choice quotes from msn:

"Ominous clouds overhead, the sort of hard court that troubled him this season underfoot, Roger Federer sensed something Saturday he hadn't in quite a while.

He was playing exactly like that guy named Roger Federer."

"The Federer who has won 33 consecutive matches and four consecutive championships at the U.S. Open. The Federer closing in on his 13th Grand Slam title."

And a mention of the famous point:
"That roar grew louder a game later, when Djokovic hit a smash that would have ended the point against nearly anyone. Near a wall, Federer stretched and jumped and carved a winner that stunned Djokovic. Federer raised a fist imperiously, and five points later he danced in delight, the fourth set and momentum his."

"Moments later, the match was over, and Federer pumped both fists and bellowed.

He was back in the U.S. Open final. He was back, period."

"Federer was asked whom he'd rather face next. Nadal routed him in the French Open final, edged him in the Wimbledon final and supplanted him atop the rankings last month.

"Who do I prefer?" Federer said, then smiled, knowing the words he was about to say would draw loud approval from the crowd. "I prefer the trophy. That's what I prefer.""

*

eagle in the dark, feathers in the pages.
monkeys in my heart, are rattling their cages.

omg haha right i forgot. i love rayyyy,
ray i know you'll never read this, but you're the best tutor i ever had.

ray: "serene! i don't know how to answer your mum's sms. she asked me about some paper you were supposed to pass to me to mark?"
serene: "uh just say yes."
ray: "okay! (smiles)"

and ray's brother came today i think!
his name was roy.
they're so alike, omg. they even insult people in the same way.

ray: "and then roy will hold your arms together."
roy: "yeah, while ray slaps your face."
ray: "until the both of us are happy."

random student: *keeps laughing*
ray: "i think jeremy too stressed already."
roy: "yeah! he scares me. the OTHER jeremy - i had to sing him a stress song."
ray: "really?"
roy: "yeah it goes like you dunno how to do the question right? dunno right? dunno right? dunno right? dunno right? dunno right? dunno right? dunno right? dunno right? dunno right?"

okay time for some more serious news.
bear-baiting. doing some awareness-raising here:
please watch it - though it'd never happen in singapore,
we have no bears! BUT STILL WATCH.

it's the depravity of it all -
if i ever ever ever see anyone engaging in such stupid things
i don't care that i'm a woman, i don't care that i'm physically weaker

i'm going to find a way to break every single bone in their miserable body.

2008-09-07T01:57:00.003+08:00

YESSSS OMG I LOVE MY ROGER!
I know the scores by heart!
6-3 5-7 7-5 6-2!

fatal, baby, fatal.

Djokovic kinda gave up in the last game, what a loser! Still, he's got spunk, he applauded a couple of Roger's shots. That was nice of him. I swear, Roger's the only one I'll ever ever ever love besides Andy. Meanwhile, Meredith is a newly-converted pure Rogerfan! She used to be a Fedal fan. Now she's all Roger!

serene:"I think I'm going to sleep. The Nadal match looks like it's gonna take a long long time."
meredith: "Yeah, omg it's delayed cos they started from the beginning. I'm so glad I'm not his fan."

oh okay meredith is not a convert, she's a "finally i see the light fan." enlightened! support roger, reach enlightenment!

Phew, now the smiling Djokovic's face is monochrome, not Roger's. My dreams are still alive - Roger and Serena's faces are still in colour.

2008-09-06T19:26:00.009+08:00

Omg I met Daryl in church, and the first thing my mum said to him was
"Wow you're getting damn fat now."

To his credit, Daryl didn't get pissed as he would have done, but instead just rebutted with a
"Nice to see you too."

omg daryl and my mum don't even know each otherrrrr.

加油，费德勒!!!

It's such a great day today - it's raining and nice and cool. And the best thing is that Seb and Pat are back with a Man Of The Hour Hour podcast! After 4 months, I've sure missed them! They're playing good music, I'm enjoying music by Flobots now - it's pretty good. (:

they are totally my favourie podcasters, sorry mr brown.

seb: "I think he was going for the gay biker look. I think he totally nailed it!"

seb again: "you said you had a couple of questions for me."
pat: "yea yea!"
seb: "did you forget them already?"
pat: "no no no no no no, but let's play another song first!"

seb: "as far as your eye can see. and the eye is a pretty good organ let me tell you that."

pat: "maybe she's broken-hearted as she listens to this. 'omg she stole my boyfriend... your love is a lie...!"
seb: "okay cool i got the pun, yeah!"

seb: "we're just about to embark on a south-east asia tour."
pat: "oh cool, what countries are you planning to visit then?"
seb: "uhm probably thailand, malaysia, singapore...."

2008-09-06T14:15:00.002+08:00

Omg, I'm the best I swear. I was listening to Piano Sonata in G Major by Mozart.

And the qualifying word for Text Twirl was SONATA, and I couldn't guess it. This is so bad man, I swear it could be in a movie.

On a brighter note, I achieved one of my life goals today! (: Nice to achieve a life goal at the age of 16, if I live to be the average Singaporean female age of 80, that'd be only 20% of my life gone. I got quoted in straits times. :D

I woke up to a persistant buzzing of my phone, it was Nic who smsed me in the morning to say "amazing you are, made it onto the papers!and Haha you 'were not persuaded' eh Haha. YOU ARE SOO CRAZY HAHA."

I read the sms, and fell back asleep. A few hours, my mum rushed into the room, shook me awake and went "Serene! you're in the newspapers!" and I was like, "lag. my friend told me already."

Straits Times page a30. (: One day I'll make it back into the papers as a top lawyer.

2008-09-06T02:31:00.002+08:00

yessss! mens doubles us open 08 champs!
i said i'd go to sleep at the end of this set,
turns out that the end of the second set,
was the end of the match! :D

from livestream:

yayyyy i love the bryans.
now all i need is for roger and serena to win us open,
and it'd be the best weekend ever.

2008-09-05T22:46:00.006+08:00

I'm not very cheerful today, yet still not completely cheerless. I think I've caught a cold, I have a headache and my teeth ache cos I just tightened my braces. It's ridiculous - I can't even bite cheese. :( I think I sound like Djokovic. Seriously though, even Mr Chia noticed.

Mr Chia: "Serene, why you so quiet today? Surprising."
Shiang Ling: "She tightened her braces."
Mr Chia: "HA. HAHA. HAHAHA. I shall suan her and make her try to talk."

Another thing that's dampened my spirits is the US Open website, where a SlamTracker allows you to track the matches of your favourite players, with a maximum of 5. I tracked Roger Federer (of course), Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Andy Roddick (of course) and for the sake of knowing the enemy, not Nadal but Novak Djokovic.

What pains me is the monochrome laughing pictures of Venus Williams and Andy Roddick in place of the colour pictures just a few days ago before they had to deal with a loss. A small unbiased part of me tells me Djokovic played better than Roddick, and a larger part of me tells me most certainly I will die if Roger's picture turns to monochrome.

Still, I found a paragraph on the US Open that made me smile.

Despite his tremendous victory, Djokovic came to his press conference looking down-right miserable. Some other players in the locker room, specifically Federer, didn’t warm to his imitations last year, and this year, he’s mostly stopped.

Talk about hierarchy, guys. Look at the power Roger has in the locker room, can you even begin to imagine? Just proves Roger's not just number 1 in our hearts, but also number 1 in every other player's eyes - even Djokovic had to concede defeat. Impressive.

Hmm, let's see what Roger has to say.

"YESSS!!! WHOOHOOOO!"

Okay Roger, whatever floats your boat.

I'm falling asleep watching the Bryans' finals now - I'm pretty sure they're gonna win even though the scores are really close and it's getting really hard to stay awake to be honest. It's.. too... latee... I need to sleep! And sleep after this game I will.

And to make things even happier, my mum bought the album Rock On Piano, a purely instrumental album I've wanted for very, very long now. So now I'm bathed in the wonderful uplifting piano music and I couldn't be much happier in terms of music life. (:

Also, today, I went about downloading my favourite old classy love songs, like Hard To Say I'm Sorry and Heaven Knows and Faithfully, and all those. And then I downloaded my favourite classical music pieces, like Mozart's Piano Sonata Number 15 in C Major; or Beethoven's 5th Symphony, or Vivaldi's Four Seasons (Spring) - all of which positively floor me.

I can't believe I've gone so long without classical music, what world have I been living in! I've missed this.

Finally, Joe Biden once said on stage, the difference between being a father and a grandfather, is that grandchildren are better. I think it's kind of true, I really, really, really most positively adore my grandmother.

She's adorable. She's fiery and perfectly independent and speaks about a gazillion languages and dialects. I love the way she keeps taking my side against my mum. When my mum complained to her that I was getting uncontrollable and she had to slap me and all that jazz; she came to me and said "so poor thing!" and gave me 50 bucks.

2008-09-05T18:53:00.002+08:00

I just found out about the rankings.

If Djokovic wins this tournament, Roger will drop to World Number 3.

I don't mind it much (shrugs) - I don't think Roger will let Djokovic come close to beating him.

Nadal made Roger cry and I will never forgive him for that.

I don't think Roger will let Djokovic make him cry.

2008-09-05T09:31:00.004+08:00

baby nadal.
actually his name is sam haha.

roddick playing now, lost first two sets, won third, looks to be taking 4th.
i think it's hilarious how much the crowd is behind roddick.
djokovic serves into the net,
crowd: "YESSSSS!!!!!!!!"

okay shit roddick missed many serves.
but as a rogerfan said it about djokovic,
"lungs are getting heavy. soon, the stomach will start to ache, and the head wil get tired, the ankles will get sprained and he will call the trainer."

oh well - i don't really care who wins i guess.
i'm hoping for andy, but i don't mind djokovic too.
one's my second-favourite player and the other is a player i have mine eyne on.

my my, djokovic getting angry,
new york crowd's not going to like that
they're alllllll behind andy,
they don't like angry djokovics.

oh djokovic won, oooh new york crowd's not happy at all,
wrong thing to say, djokovic.
never tell a new york crowd that andy roddick's not nice.
oh ho, i'll be surprised if he makes it out of the court alive.
people are starting to throw their shoes at him.

the announcer went "let's get some applause for novak!"
and half the crowd was silent.
the other half booed djokovic,
i'm not kidding - the only people cheering are his parents.
and all the announcer could say was
"i tried, novak."

okay breakfast now.

2008-09-05T07:39:00.002+08:00

so i jerked awake at 7 31am exactly and checked my watch.
i saw that i had missed the roger quarterfinals
but then i saw he won in straights,

and then superman could finally smile.

2008-09-04T22:48:00.002+08:00

"Hey Serene, cheer up. In 3 months time, you'll forget you were ever this miserable."

"If your mum gives you shit, ask her to call me. I tend to protect my students."

Ray was really nice today.
Feeling shittier than ever.

2008-09-04T15:52:00.004+08:00

roddick and blakey in 2002.
i want to cry, roddick's so young and cute!
he was 19 at that point going on 20.

and james blake had hair!

i mean, it's kinda nostalgic to know that all these young players are now the top10 players, while they were just kids trying to break into the professional circuit just years ago. and now with the appearance of people like nishikori, del potro, cilic, gulbis - even just two or three years down the road with murray, djokovic, nadal - it's kinda hard to imagine the future of tennis and everything.

perhaps the hardest idea to conceive is that roger has already been playing for 10 years and his time on court is running out.

it makes the notion of the changing of the guard so much more real, and with that, so much harder to accept. but perhaps i won't think of such until such times come. i don't think i'll ever love a player again the way i love roger and andy, but i guess all good things have to come to an end someday.

roger was right.

"players, legends will come and go, but tennis will always be here. you can never be bigger than the game, and i think you always have to remember that."

for now, i'll stick with roger and roddick, maybe they'll play each other in the semis, now that djokovic has 16 injuries and bird flu, anthrax and sars. (:

plus, reto has arrived to support roger!
that's reto with roger's dad, robert federer.
robert gets so nervous during matches,
it's the most endearing thing to see him clap his heart out.

i love reto, he's like roger's lucky charm.
reto is roger's childhood friend,
one of his best friends now
and is a professional banker.

he tries to make it for roger's matches, which is nice.

meanwhile, look what cass helped me find on facebook!

2008-09-04T12:03:00.002+08:00

Watching the Nadal-Fish match online now - there's a dude on the chatbox that says "If Nadal loses I will cut my penis."

And commenters underneath said things like "Well, better get ready that knife now then." or "Where's the chopping board?" because Nadal, for about the first time in a long while that I've seen him play, looks shitty.

Might be interesting if Fish reaches the finals - Federer against an American Fish, I mean - who will the crowd support? The homeboy or the favourite son of America, as far as I can see, the New Yorkers positively love Roger perhaps even more than Andy Roddick! But an American in the finals - I mean I still have nightmares about Federer winning Agassi in 2005. That was the worst I've ever seen a crowd against Roger.

Fish won 1st set, and Rafa's ahead in the 2nd set. Will be interesting match. I hate the commentators. Can we petition to shut him up? He wasn't nice to Roger when Roger was World Number 1, but he's all about the Rafa right now.

I am going to write a complaint letter right now to usopen.
"You cannot be serious!"
I hate Jmac.

He hugged Roger after Wimbledon finals, but I swear he practically airhumped Nadal after that.

2008-09-03T23:15:00.003+08:00

Half an hour of showers and scrubbing later, I still smell like insect repellent. Thanks a lot, little bro. I was imbibed, I swear, imbibed and inundated in repeated sprays of insect repellent from head to toes, with courtesy to my brother.

Feet soaked in two inches of cold, muddy water; shivering in the spray of the heavy rain, we waited to see what our minister had to say about the new dorm foreign workers in Gardens. Anyway, I asked him a question he couldn't answer, so that was pretty cool. (: A reporter asked for my number and gave me a namecard so that was cool too. (:

Quotable quotes:

Mr Daz: "(gives a whole string of statistics about master plans and asset values and safety issues.)"
Georgeyeo: "(looks bewildered) Sorry Mr Daz, what do you work as?"
Mr Daz: "Well, I used to work in parliament."

Old woman: "I am a septegenerian and I have braved the heavy rains to speak with you directly, minister."
Georgeyeo: "......Oh yes, whether you're a septegenerian or an octogenerian or a (leans back to other mps) "What do you call people over a 100...?""

Aunty Rose: "I have just one more tiny, tinyyyy concern. Who's taking your notes, minister?"

And I still smell like insect repellent and I'm horribly tired now. I think. I think I shall sleep now. But leave off with a quote from Federer.

Interviewer: "You seemed genuinely elated."
Roger: "Elated?"
Interviewer: "Yes, elated."
Roger: "I don't understand elated yet."
Interviewer: "Uh, happy?"

Hahaha.

There's more - matchpoint was even more gay.

Matchpoint - "Federer screamed, then turned to his girlfriend in the stands and flashed a grin at her."

I almost died during the match! Roger has a really, really dark sense of humour.

"It was fun."

2008-09-03T18:28:00.002+08:00

Omg Roddick suans Djokovic like mad I swear.

They asked him if he thinks Djokovic was exaggerating his "16 injuries - stomach, hip, ankle", and Roddick was like,

"Hmm yeah, bird flu, anthrax and SARS too."

I like Djokovic now, but Roddick's the funniest everrrr. Nic and I agreed today - Nadal looks like a construction worker.

If Nadal's the worker, then Roger is the head architect and Roddick is the site foreman. Djokovic is the junior and Kei Nishikori is the exchange student, Gulbis, Del Potro and Cilic are the apprentices!

2008-09-03T07:03:00.002+08:00

Is Roger worth $20 worth of taxi fares?

I think so. (:
I shall stay to watch the match.

Omg, that's horrible.
I need to go to school now.

2008-09-02T21:03:00.001+08:00

my, my, i wonder who?

2008-09-02T19:38:00.004+08:00

Wth! I swear no sleep tonight.
Roger's match is at 2:30am.

By the time it ends, I'll probably leave for school.
I'm so tired today!
I played more than an hour of tennis with Meree and Rachel,
I swear I got more exercise from running around picking up balls than from actually playing tennis.

Oh no, hopefully I'll get to nap or something.
Roger ftw!

Andreev - who actually cares?
The only thing is that he's a potential block for Roger to reach semis.
At semis, Roger should meet either Roddick or Djokovic -
depending on who wins that 4ths.

Roddick against Gonzalez and Djoko against Robredo.
Robredo is Nadal's doubles partner -
I hope Djokovic wins.
I hate Gonzalez! I hope Roddick wins.

Of course above all -
Roger to win!:D

during amath today:
(some parts censored)

serene: eh you know something something something!
leanne: omg, he's doing that? that's like .. something something something!
mrs gan: did you just say something something?
serene: uh yeah.
mrs gan: oh i never knew something something something!
serene: hahaha
mrs gan: serene ah, why do you sound like his guardian angel?
leanne: oh but she is. if you know what i mean.
rae: yeah man! she follows him around like hell!

2008-09-01T20:35:00.003+08:00

"Look at him! He's got something to prove."

"People counting him out, don't count out Mr. Roger. Federer."

Oh man, I love my Roger! (:
I do I do I really do.

When they introduced him on the tv last night, which was probably the only part of the match I watched, I felt this rush of happiness and at that moment, I knew Roger was going to win the match. I just watched the highlights of his match, and omg Roger's playing so well!

Two backhand volleys in a row on the fastest surface in the slams had me swooning over again. Of course, Confucius says to know your enemy, so I went to check out Rafa's match with Troicki. Rafa's playing clay court tennis on hardcourt, it's disgusting. Rafa's game was significantly less tactical than Roger's.

Roger's game seems to be one with the mind, Rafa's game one with the body. Still, Roger's probably the second-fittest guy on tour after Rafa, so it should be fine if Roger keeps this level of play up.

Okay study time - *excited* - tennis with Meree and Rachel tomorrow. Maybe Nic will drop by too to help us from embarassing ourselves.

2008-08-31T22:12:00.002+08:00

I was out at Hougang today and I saw a man with Down's Syndrome begging for money from the time I started dinner to the time I finished shopping for stationery and computer stuff. I felt quite sad that society had evolved into a stage where we could walk past someone so in need of help, and yet not help.

Singapore. Gracious society? Not yet - not until we elevate the status of the down-trodden, of those marginalised by society, of those sidelined in our bid in the ceaseless rat race to be stronger, faster, better. In team sports, there's a saying that a team is only as strong as its weakest player.

We will always be as weak as those we leave behind.

I want to grow up, and look back someday and actually think, hey my teenage years were actually some use to the world. I want to be able to evoke change, I want people to remember a trail I blazed.

Andy Roddick, one of the biggest jokers on tour, set up his foundation for children at the age of 17. I'm reaching 16 soon, and I need to think what I've achieved in my life.

2008-08-31T16:44:00.003+08:00

Mr Jo has to be the funniest fart on earth!

"Urgh. Thanks serene. Now i'm going to dig a hole and bury myself for 300 years."

But I think the ultimate came when I reminded him of his Grease dancing

"After all that geek-to-acoustic-guitar-player-wannabe-and-back-to-normal-teacher-transformation, i am seriously considering a night job as a masked vigilante caped crusader. I think it'll work out for me. =)"

I got the smses at what, 8am after church in the morning and when I read them I just started laughing out loud.

Then I had to go for tuition, and chem was so boring cos I didn't bring my work. So I started writing lyrics, and surprisingly I knew lyrics to songs that I never bothered to read the lyrics. I knew the lyrics to Tonight by FM Static, Lips of an Angel by Hinder, Never Too Late by Hedley and Always Be My Baby. Amazing. Always knew I was an audio learner.

You'll always be a part of me
I'm a part of you indefinitely
Girl don't you know you can't escape me
Ooh darling cause you'll always be my baby
And we'll linger on
Time can't erase a feeling this strong
No way you're never gonna shake me
Ooh darling cause you'll always be my baby

One day I'm going to find out why this blog cannot have boldened words. >:(

Til then, I'll use my underlines, sigh.

It was like dreamin', except we always woke up.
-FM Static

You know it's never too late
Get up and start over again
You know it's never too late
There's got to be a better way
Don't settle for the cold and rain
It's not too late to start again
Find a way to smile again
And never let it get away-ay-ay.
-Hedley

Honey why are you calling me so late?
It's kinda hard to talk right now
Honey why are you crying? Is everything okay?
I gotta whisper cos I can't be too loud

Oh well my girl's in the next room
Sometimes I wish she was you
I guess we never really moved on
It's really good to hear your voice,
Sayin' my name and it sounds so sweet
Comin' from the lips of an angel

Hearing those words, it makes me weep.

-Hinder

2008-08-31T01:37:00.003+08:00

Tonight I've fallen and I can't get up
I need your loving hands to come and pick me up
And every night I miss you
I can just look up and
Know the stars are holdin' you holdin' you holdin' you
Tonight.

I have open wounds in my mouth, where my braces cut my mouth. I got pissed at my mum today when she slapped me. So I asked her mock-politely to slap me again and again and again, until she got tired of slapping me and was on the verge on calling the police and declaring me beyond parental control.

The bad part about not losing my pride is that I have to deal with horrendous ulcers in my mouth. :/ I mean it - I have a 2cm open gash on the right side and multiple cuts everywhere else.

Anyway - I did my To Do List for the holidays, and to my almost-utmost horror, there are more than 300 individual pieces of homework for me to complete, including my self-revision. The only thing that's keeping me going is that I can't go on the computer or get my handphone until I finish all my work. So I have to finish all my work for the day if I want to watch Roger or get updates from Meree.

(Yawn).
Okay, I got to sleep now.

That's the bad part - more often that not, I finish my work too late to talk to anyone or blog. Still, it's bright and sunny over in New York, and there are three pretty riveting matches going on at the moment.

Rafa Nadal vs Viktor Troicki of Serbia
Nadal leads by a set to none, but Troicki leads in the second set.
This could be a dangerous match, for Nadal.
If Nadal loses, then Roger should only need to get past Djokovic.
Could Roddick make it to the finals if Nadal didn't get through?
Maybe Blakey - if he wins Fishy, he could quite possibly take down Nadal.
He's done that 8 times before.

Stan Wawrinka vs Cipolla
Stan two sets down, but took the third set, and looks to be taking the fourth set.
I'm proud of Stan the Swissy!
He's truly deserving of the second-best Swiss player!
The guy's an Olympic gold-medallist cmon! (:

Andy Murray vs Melzer
Melzer taking first set, looking to be taking second set.
This is not right.
Andy Murray is supposed to be wiping the floor with Melzer.

But I'm watching Roger on youtube now. The highlights of the Alves (that's pronounced Elvis) match are simply amazing. I am a hundred percent serious. Whether it's watching Roger casually stretch his arm out that little bit to flick a backhand which barely clears the net, then falls down and stays there; or it's watching Roger dance to the net and with a little backhand, and watching the ball twinkle in the sunshine where it bounces devastatingly close to the baseline and Alves can't do anything - I'm just stunned.

If Roger continues playing at this standard, the Nadals and the Djokovics can go drown themselves - and it's supposedly a bad day for Roger.

Anyway, watching Nadal play now - I don't think he could beat Roger this year. So the player to beat is Djokovic.

2008-08-30T18:03:00.000+08:00

I turned around as Roger left the court and announced, "Ladies and gentleman, I leave you to your Rafa. I have myself a man to follow."

2008-08-30T11:24:00.002+08:00

Teachers' Day!

A day full of laughter, of screams, of joy and of shouts.

Definitely what I'll miss most about sc when I leave, will probably be the school cheer. There's really nothing exactly like 2000 girls rising to their feet and stomping on the ground fit to beat the Spanish bull charge. And the cheer - a continuous ceaseless scream, fever-high in pitch and punctuated by a few sharp yelps, part almost-English and part unknown language - remains un-understood except by the select group of girls able to call themselves students of SCGS.

I love the sc cheer!

Also, there's really nothing like watching your teachers on stage falling over themselves attempting to remember the moves to hip-hop rountines, and actually mananging to scratch out a routine that looked pretty passable. I mean well, if you discount them slamming into each other when they miscalculated their moves.

Unless it was another item consisting of the teachers trying their hardest to look cool while shimmying away to We Go Together a la Grease. The images of Mr Jo giggling while jumping straight into the air spasming will be embedded in the recesses of my mind forever, traumatizing me in my nightmares. Or could it be Mr Tee - with his dark glasses and leather jacket; actually managing to look pretty cool? (although, it couldn't have been that hard - Mr Tee was dancing beside Mr Jo)

Of course, it could easily have been Mr Teo's commentary! I really donsch know. His comic timing was perfect - "Welcome to So You Thought You Can Dance .. Meh?" Of course, there was the issue of the changing show name - from So You Thought You Can Dance Meh?, to So You Think You Can Dance Meh? I think this has probably been the only time in the entire history of time that someone (and an English teacher at that), could make tenses reverse through the passage of time.

Oh also, Mr Jo sang Always Be My Baby, and it was pretty cool to see scgirls and ex-scgirls alike rise up and form swaying chains and sing along. Went backstage afterwards with Caroline to congratulate him and give him his presents, and I did the 4gy respect sign and he understood and smiled. (:

I talked to him for a while until all his ex-students came to find him, then I went to find Miss Leong to give her her big giraffe toy. Then she asked me for a picture with her. (: That made my day!

Then I got an sms from Mr Jo a few hours later, after he read my letter to him.
Hey Serene, i didn't know i was cooler than phelps. =) thanks! U made my day. =) u're cool.
So of course, that made my day for the second time!

Okay, I've got to go off now to avoid a psychotic mother. She screams fit to beat two Maria Sharapovas playing against five Serena Williamses.

2008-08-30T10:41:00.002+08:00

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDY RODDICK!

You'll always be one of my favourite players, ever. You're one of the few men whose achievements were not dominated by tennis, but by the philanthrophy and the amazing amounts of charity that you do. And all with the greatest sense of humour. Tennis-wise, you're all there - attaining the World Number 1 even before Roger Federer, despite being younger than him, and breaking the record thrice for the fastest serve ever - but what people will remember you by is your ability to look fate in the eye and tell a joke.

I love you Andy Roddick! Look, win or lose tonight - it'll all be alright. Roddick's playing Gulbis now. The funny thing is that both of them have the same birthday!

2008-08-27T21:22:00.002+08:00

Today I was insanely happy, yet also insanely tired. I actually called my mum at 7pm to fetch me home instead of the usual 8pm.

Roger won his match pretty well, and I swear, only tennisplanet could make Roger's win sound bad. Did tennisplanet watch the (THREE hour long) Nadal match?

I found live-streaming, so we were hogging the class laptop all through break. So then Meredith, Lydia and I got inspired to be world-class players and during PE, we played tennis, and we got so excited because "omg, we're playing tennis at the same time as Federer!"

Also, went to Orchard, and special thanks to Brenda and Brendad! It was raining pretty heavily, so we had to go save Cass from the bus stop. And the wind was so strong that Karyn's umbrella flapped around and this lovely woman stopped to save me from the rain and told me how to fix her umbrella!

And then I got lost.

Serene: "Zhaoooo, where the hell is Heeren!?"
Zhao: "Okay, where are you?"
Serene: "Uh.. duck tours?!"
Zhao: "Okay uh, turn left, wait, which side are you facing?"
Serene: "I'm facing.... OKAY NEVER MIND I'M FACING HEEREN."

And then went to Tangs and bought a zoo for my teachers!
Spent 200 bucks on them, and I'm insanely happy!
The cashiers at Tangs were VERY amused.

2008-08-26T21:03:00.003+08:00

Quotes of the day:

"Just because you were supposed to win, and did, doesn't make it any less of an achievement."
-MSNBC to USA Basketball Redeem Team.

Bio lesson:
Mr Jo: "Yes!" (whiny bimbo voice, stamps the ground in gay agitation)
Ana: "Omg that was so a cheerleader move!"
Mr Jo: "What cheerleader move!"
Class: "Do it again, do it again, do it again!"
Mr Jo: "Shuttup."
..
Mr Jo: "Actually in scgs, cannot say shuttup. You must say SHADDUP. The new angmoh teacher said shuttup and her class laughed. Shuttup shuttup shuttup."

Bio question MCQ 28, sperm question.
(a crowd of about half the class surrounds mr jo at meredith's table.)

Serene: "How many of you put A quick raise your hand!"
(everyone raises their hand except Teri)
Meredith: "Seeee!"
Mr Jo: (looks around) "Teri, what answer did you put and why?"
Teri: "Oh I put B. Cos I took 2 days plus 3 days and then I added one day cos I thought it was a trick question."

Mr Jo's face is priceless.

2008-08-26T01:31:00.003+08:00

andy roddick is the best, seriously.
i've searched long and hard for this video,
finally got it.

andy suaning djokovic.
HEEHEEHEE.
arthur ashe kids' day!

gotta admit djokovic was really good at impersonations there,
he did what, the roddick steps, the sampras serve, the jmac "you cannot be serious!" and the agassi backwalk in those few seconds.

i just realised those are all american players! hahahaha. cool.

2008-08-25T22:43:00.003+08:00

I can hear the soft breathing
Of the girl that I love
As she lies here beside me,
Asleep with the night

And her hair, in a fine mist
Floats on my pillow
Reflecting the glow of the winter moonlight

She is soft, she is warm
But my heart remains heavy
And I watch her breasts gently rise, gently fall
For I know at the first light of dawn I'll be leaving
And tonight will be all I have left
To recall.

Oh what have I done
Why have I done it?
I've committed a crime,
Broken the law.
For twenty-five dollars and pieces of silver
I held up and robbed
A hard-liquor store.

My life seems unreal
My crime an illusion
A scene badly written,
In which I must play
Yet, as I gaze at my young love beside me
The morning is just a few hours
Away.

2 minutes and 13 seconds of music is all it takes.
The lyrics are lovely, and my heart is smiling.
Okay, so I felt like a change, so I updated my profile.

I'm scouting around for a new blogskin, even though I can't bear to leave this pretty, pretty one behind.

2008-08-24T21:09:00.004+08:00

Omg, how much can I love Andy Roddick!
Seriously, how much?

He's so much of this kiddo it's so hard not to love him -
it's a different love from Roger - Roger's one is imbibed with respect and reverence.
But Andy Roddick omg.

Okay Arthur Ashe Kid's Day,
Novak Djokovic and Andy Roddick play points:

Crowd: Djokovic, do an impersonation!

Djokovic: Okay, okay! (imitates Andy Roddick's antsy shuffling)

Andy: Hey, let me do one too.
(gets ready to serve and bounces and bounces and bounces and bounces the ball, never serving)

ANDYYYYY!:D

Okay and whoever says Roger isn't muscled,

look at his legs and go drown yourself!

sometimes you wonder if roger ever asks mirka about her phone bills.
i mean - roaming fees!?
or maybe both of them spend equal amounts on phone bills.

omg his hair.
is gorgeous.

ahh, one of my favourite pictures.
roger sees stan and waves to stan.

roger looks at a ball and pretends its nadal.

i.
am in need of cpr.
krist has an entire album of breathtaking pictures.
exactly 500 pictures in fact, on the first day.

that, that. that... th-th-th-that vein.
on his right arm.

omg.

2008-08-24T16:58:00.005+08:00

Have you ever had this place in your mind, where you really, really wanted to live in?

For a while now, it's been Switzerland for me (STILL IS!) - and now I realise I really, really want to live for a while in the USA! Roger Federer trumps everything of course, but the USA has people like Michael Phelps, Andy Roddick, Billie Jean King, the Bryans, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi, Steffi Graf now that she's married to Agassi, Shawn Johnson (I became her facebook fan!), Nastia Liukin .. Barack Obama even - it's such a place of freedom where talents are allowed to grow - instead of being cultivated like China. :/

Alright - now for our drop dead gorgeous!

WILSON RACKET PARTY

twin! his eyes, his eyes, omg his eyes!
it's like getting lost in heaven,
when i get lost, in your eyes.

(narrows eyes)
RF is Serene's.
Not Serena's, dammit.

ARTHUR ASHE KIDS' DAY!

this is horrendous though -
when people said the grey looked like brown, i didn't believe them.
roger looks like he works for UPS, instead of being The FedEx. D:
where's my roger in red!?

oh i get it. that picture was photoshopped.

there's my roger in red!

"heehee, his shorts fell down."

i was looking at a picture of roger's and rafa's legs together. i like roger's legs better. roger's are defined, shaped and nicely built - rafa's are power-packed and chunky. :/

these are the outfits together -
dusty red with smoky grey - and grid orange with white.
rafa's shorts are pretty!
but his shirt? not.
to quote a fan: "i think the breast pocket is totally unnecessary - what's he going to put there? A TENNIS BALL!?!"

lindsay, roger, serena and rafa.

omg omg i just found this:
Ruby12: Why is it now that Nadal has decided to change his outfit?
Fedex100: TFA is the new World Number 1, no?
Marian_gr: LOL, that made me laugh.
Marwa_Rf_fan_4eva: Me too, no?

I miss Roger so much! It's only been what, a week?
Gosh, what am I going to do when he retires!

"So especially this year I hope, you know, maybe not playing my best tennis, maybe this year they will come out and support me and carry me through to another US Open win."
-Roger

"Roger needs the media like he needs a hole in the head."

(does the Nazi salute)
Never fear! Chaaarrgggeeeeee!

2008-08-23T21:06:00.006+08:00

I was looking at the rf website, the thread where they were discussing the possibility of Roger firing Jose and getting a new coach.

Random person: "I think Roger should get Toni Nadal."

I laughed until I choked, seriously.

Let's see what Roger has to say about that.

I think he says go away, you freaks.
Okay, point taken.

Alright, time to study, but I've got this new favourite song, it's so lovely - so soft, so sweet, so gentle - you get lulled to this sense of loving security, and your mind is calmed down immediately. It's quietly soothing, and so unintrusive; the way most songs aren't nowadays. It's so Five For Fighting-esque, combined with a little bit of Angela Ammons and Jason Mraz, touched with Teddy Geiger and sprinkled with Secondhand Serenade.

It's so lovely!

One foot in the grave
One foot in the shower
There’s never time to save
You’re paying by the hour

And that’s just the way it goes
Falling awake
And that’s just the way it goes

Slipping through the bars
Aware of the danger
Of riding in the cars
Taking candy from strangers

And it’s never out of hand
Never out of pocket
I’m supersonic man
Do you wanna buy a rocket?

I went to church and I swear, the church is my favourite place on earth when it rains - when a storm is raging on the outside, and you're comfortably cool inside with the lovely golden lighting and glassed water on the altar walls quietly stream. The stained glass panels take on a life of their own - with depictions of Jesus walking on water - God calming the seas - and the fields of life all come alive with the aeronautical flights of lights of the dancing rain.

I prayed for Roger today. I never knew it was possible to love a stranger so much until I met him. Joyous will be the time when you rise again, larger than life, and more great, more terrifying, more majestic than ever; and the tennis world falls at your feet. Right now, I still shiver when I see the '2' next to Roger's name. I've never known Roger at number 2. :/ Until now. Still, there's hope because I still choke on whatever I'm eating, once I see a picture of him. I hope he gets his 800dollar haircut while in New York soon - we don't want the Rafael Nadal look, do we?

These few days over the Olympics - we've been .. wow. We've certainly been through so much. In hindsight, we've been through so much crazy things that no Roger match will ever floor us! To quote someone on the website, people all over the world pulling together to find livestreams, ways around livestreams, posting scores in the match thread, and then finally celebrating that golden moment together. And all those pics, gifs, videos, translations and so on.

But I mean, if it means nothing in terms of tennis, it only proves the enormous, enormous draw Roger has in the world over; and never again will be replicated his talent, his style, his class, the man he is - this old-fashioned guy from Switzerland with the language of a teenager crossed with a translator.

"So I was like, oh my God, you know", the King must rise again.

2008-08-23T14:26:00.005+08:00

I've always wanted to be here.

The city that never sleeps.

All my life, I've read chick lit books about this place. Hopefully, I'll be able to be there this year! Roger's there now, all the luck in the world to him. :) The US Open is my favourite tournament after Wimbledon. Hopefully Roger can get his 5th title there, beating Djokovic in the semis, and whoever is across the net after that.

Possibly some guy from Spain.

heehee. i think i know who it is.

You had the Thrilla in Manilla, the Rumble in the Jungle and now, you got da Grapple in the Apple. You got da Magician of Precision and da Matador of Spin - pick one, I say I say I say.
-Don King.

Hahaha Roger and his powerful toothpick arms. Magician of Precision for me, I say.

what the buck, roddick can cook!

always loved the roger of 2005.
he's the cutest ever in the blue and yellow.

i just heard something on the rf website, this is the funniest thing ever.
there was this guy diego hartfield who stood in front of roger's picture with his thumbs down in front of international tv this year before the aust open.

i started laughing because then i realised that roger faced him in the first round, and the score was something like 6-0 6-0 6-something. and that was roger with mono. one's got to feel sorry for the guy, seriously.

2008-08-23T00:27:00.003+08:00

Okay, was emo earlier on, but my itunes is being very sensitive to my mood. plus, now there are more important things.

Roger's outfit for the US Open:

daytime.

night time. (yawn)

where was roger's fashion sense when nike presented him with the shirts? (hello mirka? hello wintour?)

wilson ad, i think.

AND!
nadal is abandoning the sleeveless look!
i feel for you, oh poor sucky nadal fans.

i hear you.
What, no more armpit hair?!?!

"caroline went up to miss choo, and miss choo said "on one hand, so many people wrote about chemical bonds, on the other hand - there was someone who wrote about tennis stars committing suicide."
-zhao

:D
guess who made nadal climb over the ledge of his dubai hotel, knees shaky, knees capable of bearing him through 5-hour gruelling matches to fall into the arms of his next leading lady - the flighty temptress of Death?

i got many smiley faces! miss choo must really hate nadal.