tennis, life and a few things in between

Ending the year with a winning night.  Not too bad, :).  Li suddenly shows up for work because of his kids’ holiday schedules.  Shishe, I must be the most unfit mother on both continents, asserting my pleasure ahead of my kids’.  He takes his kids for painting, dancing, piano, tennis, go over their homeworks .. .. no wonder we don’t see him often at the game.  He’s one of better players around.  We were hitting for a good half an hour before Simon showed up, then followed by Michel. 

Anyway, Simon and I won the 2 sets rather decisively again him and Michael.  We wanted to play the third set, but he left early .. wanted to go over kids homework.

Li commented that badminton is an easy game to learn, than tennis.  Actually he has a point.  We all played badminton in China, without a net, just hitting back and forth.  He had nice form and his shots are lethal, but he never took lesson, ‘just by watching and figured out myself .. but tennis is impossible to master without a proper coaching.’

Last night only the four of us showed up for work.  When there’s too many players, we don’t get to play (this is often the case .. taking turns) but when too few show up we don’t get to play either: not enough warm bodies for a doubles :).

Did anyone see me leaping for that budwiser?  (And What This Obsession with the British accent?)  .. .. 8pm football in NY on a rainy/sleeting nasty Sunday evening in December, we’re nuts or what?  You can’t even tailgate yet the stadium is full.  Golfer declined two tickets to the Giants game tonight.  I wasn’t even mad.  Gawd, it’s more enjoyable to watch it from my coach than the bench there.  What’s this obsession with da Giants?  Jets isn’t the same.  Doubt Giants will win the Superbowl this year with that coach.  But hopefully Eli will win one soon for us New Yorkers.  Oppppps, first fumble ball fm Eli; he needs to holds it better if he decided to run .. ..  Lord, all kicking game thus far.

An icy night here in NY .. Jen called asking if we have badminton tonight .. due to the forecasted snow storm.  Are you kidding?  Of 

course!  Life goes on with or without the storm, 🙂  We took Mike and his wife out last Wednesday at our year end dinner.  It’s great.  Sammy loves to drink too.  He matched well with Simon.  We are getting few enthusiastic families lately.  It’s really great.

Simon and I won three sets out of 4 against John and Mike.  The last set could have gone either way.  John further announced that his daughter’s high school just got notice .. three kids got into Brown (200 or so students of the graduating class).  That’s a lot!

This issue of Golf has Eli Manning talkin about golf. .. apparently he likes karaoke too.  When asked if he’s better golfer or singer, he replied: “Well, I’m not very good at either.  But I guess that’s the great thing about singing and golf: you don’t have to be any good at either to have fun.”  :))) I left that page open for Golfer to read, 🙂

LaDainian Tomlinson that is.  Ehmagawd, can’t believe the media allowed LT to be used for another footballer!

1. LT = Lawrence Julius Taylor only. 

2. Why 300 flat screen TVs for the fire displaced San Diego victims?  2,000 X’mas dinners for the poor I can understand.