Monday, January 29, 2007

What's that smell?

OK, so by now probably everyone on earth knows that Federer won the Aus Open again in pretty convincing fashion. Naturally I have to put my 2 cents in it, & I'm gonna have to back track a bit. Back to the semi finals late last week. Any boy, were they over quick. I took a pit stop at the end of the 1st set of the Federer-Roddick semi & by the time I'm back from the toilet they were already (as much as I'd like to say 'slogging it out' but we all know that weasn't the case) going at it in the 3rd set! That was some beating. At least Roddick can say Haas won 1 fewer game than he did & his (Haas') conqurer was a (comparatively, but who isn't when you're compared to Federer?) lesser opponent. I didn't head down south this year but you just gotta feel for those who bought those expensive tickets for the 2 semis. Don't get me wrong, they were very spectacular matches, but they were over WAY too quickly. There were hardly any contests in them.


Meanwhile, swtiching the focus onto the women's final. It was only going to go, at max, 3 sets so naturally you wouldn't expect it to go for very long. The 2 men's semis were already short enough (both around the 1.5 hrs mark), the women's final was even shorter - by 1/2 hr actually (so if you do the math they actually work out to be about the same per set. Anyways...) That was an even worse beating, with the lower ranked beating the crap out of the regained world no. 1 & reigning US Open champ Shriekaova. For a second I though we were going to beat last yr's record & that match was only 8 games long when the soon-to-be divorced Henin-Hardenne (I guess it'll be back to Henin from now on?) forfeited. Digression: little psychic ol' me guessed right! Some in my little circle guessed 'pregnancy' but the 1st & only thing that popped into my head when she annouced that she wasn't coming to Aus was marital problems. If there were odds on that I maybe should've put some Euros on that. But I guess that could be interpreted as bad taste in some odd ways...


So, an explanation of the title - what's that smell? I guess it depends on which angle you're looking/smelling at it. Was it the sweet taste/smell of success, or was it the stench of rotted game plans & poor execution? No, more like the latter judging by the scorelines...

With the tennis finished for now, it's back to 'normal' TV viewing. Yay! Luckily I'm finishing my studies real soon (right, better do something about that) 'cos there're just way too many programs I want to watch. Apart from the old faithfuls D Housewives, Grey's & Lost, there are of course the newbies of Bros & Siss, Heroes & Ugly Betty. So much to watch, so little time. Thank God OC is finishing soon so I'd have 1 fewer program to chase.

Meanwhile, the seamail that I sent back from Honkers had arrived 2 weeks early! Yippy! My winter clothes are back! Not that we'd need it, back up to 37'C tomorrow. But there were also other little bits & pieces in that seamail, like the anatomically-correct squeeze-a-toy thingy (obviously a Japanese thing) that blushes & shivers if you, well, squeeze it; my moomin bowl & spoon set; my Snoopy & Charlie Brown coffe mugs set; and my trip stuff - maps, etc. Now, where can I find room to put them...


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