Today, I tried to walk to a nearby cafe for brunch as I have three 40% discount vouchers expiring sometime next week. Since the food is tasty, I had every intention of going back to use the vouchers but hadn't done so because the thesis is (or rather, was) taking up too much of my headspace. I should've gone earlier, in retrospect, because today, ( Read more... )

My writing; so lazy! If there were to be one particular cause for the failure that is my life, it would, without a shadow of a doubt, be my laziness; and with that, my chronic lack of self-discipline. It is staggering that I have written only two entries this month; and I have no other excuse other than my laziness ( Read more... )

Tennis

Elijah is very enthusiastic about tennis. Like I told him today, I think the reason I have been so tired in the mornings and having major difficulty getting out of bed before 9am is because our tennis sessions are so intense! We play two sets, sometimes three (like on Monday morning!), if there aren't people waiting for a court; and after ( Read more... )

The tone of the previous entry was rather too magic and rainbows for me. In the interest of full disclosure, I wrote it when I was under the slight influence of alcohol...one measly gin and tonic. But maybe the gin was particularly potent, I don't know ( Read more... )

WimbledonI haven't been writing about Roger Federer in a while because I've moved on from that crazy fangirl phase (thanks, friends, for sticking it through and tolerating my zillion entries about him), and because I have other things going on and no time to follow his matches all that closely. But this is Wimbledon; or rather, it was Wimbledon, ( Read more... )

I wasn't in tears like I was last year when Roger came back from 1-3 down in the fifth to win, but when he started crying towards the end of his winner's speech because he was overwhelmed by it all, I had tears in my eyes, too ( Read more... )

I won against Olga today, 7-4. I won the tiebreak something like 7-3 ( Read more... )

I played two mini-league matches today back-to-back (okay, with a 40-minute break in between)...and won them both.

The first one was against Allessandra, whom I beat 9-2 the last time. I suppose my first mistake was expecting an easy match because it turned out to be a bit of a dogfight. I was up 3-0, then couldn't hold serve, and she was ( Read more... )

I'm just home from winning my second mini league match of the current round; two down, three more to go. Is it unrealistic to set my target at winning all my matches? The thing is, I have unceremoniously been demoted to the bottom of the league, and so far, I have found myself playing opponents who are rather below my level technically. If they are ( Read more... )

I played my second tennis league match today. I lost 6-2, 7-5 ( Read more... )