Couldn’t find anytime to write at all. Everybody in Singapore is crying for some attention. DAMMIT! “Get a LIFE!!!” (Right, that’s GRumPY Rina talking. Overworked? Nar..more like too much of it..makes me sick in the guts!!! Desperately need a break!!)…We derived that it could be the 7th Month thingy that’s causing the sudden surge. Sighz…

Alrite! Enough about work! I feel so harrassed just by talking about it.

Anyhoo, just a little update about what’s been happening so far, Pretty exciting stuff been going on for me! Tai Chi classes started last week, been going for classes on Monday evenings at Yio Chu Kang CC, with me Dad and Laura, just had our second lesson last night. My aim is to progress to the level whereby I can be like the other senior Tai Chi masters or students at the CC who dances around gracefully with their sword. So COOL!!! I WANT MY OWN PAIR OF SWORD TOO!!!!

Besides having started my Tai Chi classes, Jono and I have been religiously waking up at 8.30am every Saturday mornings, to go for Tennis lessons with Jono’s gang – Adam, Gewei and Raymond. Bob, our coach, is pretty patient and calm, considering that he’s got to take me for a student. Hahaha…I can’t deny that I am indeed a slow learner when it comes to sports, other than running. I have very bad co-ordination and psychomoto ability. I’m not quite the agile type. I probably look pretty disjointed when I’m running around, trying to get my posture rite, while swinging my tennis racket, combining all that just to get a good swing at the DAMN ball, and then missing it altogether!!! AHahaha…takes quite a good effort for me to get a swing at the ball, even though it doesn’t make it past the net in the end.

We’ve gone for 3 classes so far, we were told that, it’ll prolly take about 10 lessons to be able to at least play a match properly. But I think it’s going to take me double of that!!! I need more practice and more lessons!!! I mean, hey! I find it hard to co-ordinate my body, and limbs during Combat classes, and I don’t have to hold a racquet for that, talk about Tennis. But I haven’t quite been the best at all racquet sports to begin with, no foundations on the footwork thingy which will definitely help you get from one end of the court to another, thus its a lot harder when you are trying to pick it all up at the age of 26. Still, being old and disjointed doesn’t give me an excuse to stop me from learning. Besides, we are never too old to pick up new skills, and begin to do something useful in our lives. There’s more regret than anything else, that I haven’t started earlier. What have I been doing? I guess I wasn’t able to support my leisure activities years back.

I mean who can? Its $72 for 24 lessons for Taichi, at least $24 for 2 hours of tennis only when there are 5 of us learning every Saturday, $120 for one month of Gym which I go at least twice a week, and at least $25 for 6 games of bowling every Friday nite. Hahaha…. Wow! thats quite alot of dollars spent on my leisure activities!! OH Gosh!!!, not forgetting the couple of other marathons I’ve taken part in and spending like $40/each at least. But I am not complaining at all. In fact, I am absolutely enjoying it all!!! My life couldn’t be better without all these, now, if only I could just teach myself to shop less, and spend lesser on eating. That’s gng to be hard!!! Hahaha…I love to eat, so I’ve been trying to scrimp on weekdays, having only packed bread for lunch, so that I could indulge a little more over the weekends. As for shopping, I am still trying to cut down and buy only what I need or can be sure I’d be able to wear for a long time. But I can never resist buying over the counter facial products!!! Gotta control somehow. Gotta learn it. Gotta learn to save me more ‘Yusof bin Ishaks’!!!

Besides having to spend on the games themselves, there is also money invested on the gears required for these activities, such as appropriate and comfortable attire for each individual sport, and their necessary gears and accessories. I’ve settled my bowling ball already, might intend to invest in another heavier ball soon. Luckily for me, my Very-First-Tennis-Racquet was sponsored by Jono, who offered to get it for me, for being a “good girl“!!! Hahaha…. Chose me a Babolat racquet, because Nadal face was on it!!!

Every week I’d look forward to Tennis on Saturday, to get a swing at the racquet and try my bestest best to get a good hit on that green ball!!! I’d look over from Yio Chu Kang mrt station to the Sports Council to ogle at how some people play, how great they look and play, and hope that one day soon enough I’d be able to WHACK!!! the ball like them. Besides that, I’d try to catch any tennis matches on Cable at Jono’s, namely those that Nadal or Federer is playing in. Keke…Jono says I’m obsessed with Tennis or Nadal. What can I say? He is really good.

Enough said! Else I’ll definitely sound obsess! I just hope I get to catch most of his matches on cable while at Jono’s, else i’d get his permission to arrange to bunk in to catch the live matches lar…When did I even become a sports fanatic??? What have become of me??? I am even watching EPL matches sometimes lar…(when Man U are playing of cos)….For Now….its Tennis….

GO NADAL, WIN THE U.S OPEN!!!!