Monday, January 15, 2007
Wooohooo!
12hours of (almost) non-stop tennis today! I only paused when I took my shower...
A bit of report from the centre court:
The two defending champion, Roger Federer and Amelie Mauresmo, sailed through the first round of the 2007 Australian Open today with a convincing straight-sets win. Federer defeated Bjorn Phau (who is half-Indonesian, btw! But he holds a Germany citizenship. He looks good, too...) 7-5, 6-0, 6-4. Fed's game initially looked worrying... his serve got broken for three times, and soon, Phau was serving to take the first set. However, being a great champion with a stack of experiences under his belt, Federer was able to step up his game and to arrest the momentum of the game. Thus the straight-sets win! Mauresmo won 6-3, 6-4 against Shennay Perry of USA... Well... I saw nothing special in that match, so... let's move on. Other results... well, you can see it by yourself at www.australianopen.com hahaha..
According to zodiac forecast, tomorrow's my lucky day! I'm looking forward to it...
OKAY, it sounds stupid to believe zodiac forecasts rite? Truth is, usually I only read it for the fun of it... until last Tuesday.
On last last Sunday, it was forecasted that last Tuesday would be my lucky day. I didn't really buy it (because it seemed that there was going to be nothing special...), so I was just casually taking mental note of it. The day passed by quickly, and soon, it was in the evening when my mother asked me to accompany her to my auntie's place. I usually left house WITH both my handphone and my wallet, but this time, there was only Rp 5.000,00 (less than SGD 1) left in my wallet; and my handphone's battery was being charged, so I left the house with none of those items. When I got home, at about 9.30PM, I saw there was two missed calls, from a number I wasn't familiar with. I called back, but nobody answered. The next morning, I called the number again, and... you know what??
It was from a tutoring agency... offering a student to me... but since I didn't pick up the call, the student was re-assigned to someone else!
SOB SOB SOB!!!!!
I so needed the job to get me out of my activity-less life, so why why why this one slipped out of my hand just because... I didn't bring my handphone???
IRRITATING, eh?
Anyways. I a bit have to do my homework now (yea.. even if I don't go to school, only an exam prep institution, I still have homework!).. so I think I'd better sign off...
Ciao.
Just Another Victim of The Ambient Morality aced on ::9:14 AM::
Friday, January 12, 2007
I've been doing a little thinking to decide whether I should use Bahasa instead of English for this new blog, and have, fortunately, come to a decision: I'll stick with English! My reasoning is simple enough: my English composition skills have never been good, and will only become worse now that I no longer live in an English-speaking country. Therefore, to keep my ability at a decent level, I shall use this blog as an arena where I could compose stuff in English. Of course I could actually just write in English practically anywhere else, such as diaries, but the thought that a few people might read this blog shall push me to write more comprehensively. Ya?
Blogskins is going to be updated, but not today.. And tagboard's up soon too, but not today.. And entries are going to be making more sense, just not today.. Oh how I love repetition! And the abuse of it. Haha.
Anyways. It's been around four-five months since I last post any blog postings, so I guess it's going to be a pretty tough job summing up that period..
These days I'm more and less activity-less, especially in the afternoon.. Haha. Mornings are okay coz I have lessons three times a week until about one pm. On other mornings I play tennis.. well, except during the weekends where I play tennis in the late afternoon instead. As a result of such many tennis, I've become darker and darker with time, especially around my arms. (to other math freaks: yea, the correlation is proportional) Which some might think is good, but NOOOO! I don't want to be darker than I already was six months ago... Sob, sob. On the other hand, I cannot just forego tennis for the sake of lighter arm skin, so... yea, I'm in some kind of dilemma right now. A very-not-important one at that.
So what I do during the activity-less afternoons? Most of the time I watch TV... thank God for Star Sports and Eurosport that broadcast many many tennis matches during the day. If I have lots of dollars next time, I'll make sure to give them Best TV Station awards, Marita's version.
Let's talk about my class... haha... it's been so long... since the last time I ever had an all-Indonesians class, and it does feel good to finally be in one again...
Initially I did get that "lost" feeling because everybody seemed to speak a lot of Suroboyoan, which I hardly speak, even though I can understand its meaning most of the time. (BTW, for those of you who doesn't know, Suroboyoan is a local dialect that is kind of a rougher version of Javanese language)
Also, it was those period where I had to adjust to the fact that I probably would never see Singapore again, would never see you guys I spent my SCGS and TJC days with... in short, it was a very low-key period..
In addition, I also had to adapt to the lessons taught in Indo, where the tutors ain't as good as the ones in Singapore, where the students don't pay that much attention to the tutors, but also, fortunately, where the class atmosphere is a lot lighter, brighter and is full of laughters.
The lessons posed some problem, too. In Indo we learn six different subjects for the uni entrance exam. And as you guys know, I didn't take "A"-Level Biology, so I had lots to catch up. I forgot a lot of linguitical terms in Bahasa Indonesia, too, so I was (still am, actually) failing that particular subject.
With that many to handle, making friends with classmates wasn't at the top of my priority list. Surviving was.
However, after attending the classes for about two months, I had finally found my own comfort zone. Attending lessons, go for tennis, chit chat with classmates (and found out that some of them are amazing people), make friends with some, gossip about guys (even though they are younger than me! haha), do homework, going for try-outs...
I never knew that routine could be so fulfilling!
The nicest thing is, that I finally am in touch with whatever happens in my family! I start to get to know them more and more, and it does good things to our relationships.
OK.. I hope that sum up my life here?
More on recent happenings...
2007 Australian Open is coming next Monday! And guess what? StarSports will have it covered LIVE from 7AM till 7PM non-stop! On top of that, they'd give highlights from 0930PM - 230AM daily! Wawww that means watching tennis on TV all day. Yeehaa.. Love that.
By the way, though, the 2007 AO has the lamest tag I've ever heard:
2007 Australian Open, the Grand Slam of Asia-Pacific: The Wonderful World of Tennis.
Don't you guys think "wonderful world" is much of a phrase by itself, and to add "of tennis" is just.. too much?
I don't know, but that's what I feel anyway.
The governor's son's wedding reception is on tonight at Shangri-La ballroom.. and guess what? It seems that everyone else's family is invited, except mine!!!! Irritating. D Diah's invited because her mother was the governor's daughter-in-law's civic tutor at SMPN 1. A friend of my sis, Karina, is invited coz her father was the director of PDAM Surabaya. How jealous-ing..
O yea.. my mom just bought me a cardigan out of nowhere.. and the price tag that came with it kind of shock me! She got it from Bossini (yea, that brand that everyone in Singapore uses for daily wear), and I was like, "Whattt? you paid Rp xxx just for Bossini?????" Not that I'm ungrateful of the cardigan, but I just think it's not worth it to pay so much for a Bossini.
OK, I'm getting a bit tired typing here, so I'd continue when I get time..
Ciao!
Just Another Victim of The Ambient Morality aced on ::4:12 AM::