I set a goal for myself to play more badminton this year. I really needed to be more active beyond the once-a-week lunchtime yoga at work. To make time for this, I decided to drop choir. It was a tough decision, but my hope was that it would allow me to play drop-in badminton on Wednesdays at the community centre. I've had a 10-pass membership ( Read more... )

These 6 weeks of Baby E being in daycare is unofficially "the month of me" (to steal a friend's resolution), and I am making the most of it by doing that which always makes me feel revitalized: play badminton! I went again today despite my protesting muscles, and promptly forgot about "moderation". Now I'm so sore I can barely move (and the bruised ( Read more... )

After putting it off for a week, I finally got my act together and went to play badminton after dropping Baby E off at daycare. It's been another 6 months since that one time I played! Where did the year go ( Read more... )

It's been... what, 4 years since I last played badminton? Damn. Between laziness, injury, wedding, home purchase, and baby, I just... stopped. Which sucks ( Read more... )

nling and I went to play badminton at the club yesterday. Can you believe it, it's only the first or second time I played at a Friday night gym night... in my life. Dude, I've been joining the badminton club since first year and I never go on the busiest gym night of the week. I suck ( Read more... )

My college badminton team won the championship! The New Asia Girls badminton team is the 2003 winner of the Intercollege badminton competition. We managed to beat Chung Chi college (the bigger richer one) by 1 point in the final game, 13-12. Now THAT'S a close game, esp since girls singles only play to 11 points normally, and will only reach 13 if ( Read more... )