Posts from — April 2007

Aching all over after a game of badminton with the family on sat. During dinner after that game, there was a debate going on about which sport took more stamina and energy etc.:

Tennis vs. Badminton
Statistics Don’t Lie
The speed and the stamina required for badminton are far greater
than for any other racket sport.  At the 1985 All England
(Tennis) Championships, Boris Becker defeated Kevin Curren 6-3,
6-7, 7-6, 6-4.  At the 1985 World Badminton Championships in
Calgary, Canada, Han Jian of China defeated Morten Frost of
Denmark, 14-18, 15-10, 15-8.  The following is a statistical
comparison of those matches.

Time:  Tennis, 3 hours and 18 minutes.  Badminton, 1 hour and 16
minutes.
Ball/Shuttle in Play:  Tennis, 18 minutes.  Badminton, 37
minutes.
Match Intensity*:  Tennis, 9 percent.  Badminton, 48 percent.
Rallies:  Tennis 299.  Badminton, 146.
Shots:  Tennis, 1,004.  Badminton, 1,972.
Shots Per Rally:  Tennis, 3.4.  Badminton, 13.5.
Distance Covered:  Tennis, 2 miles.  Badminton, 4 miles.

Note that the badminton players competed for half the time, yet
ran twice as far and hit nearly twice as many shots.

*The actual time the ball/shuttle was in flight, divided by the
length of the match.

Greg Keyes trilogy of “The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone“

update: *Argh! I finished the first 2 books and than I realised that NLB does not have book 3 and 4!!!!!! KILL ME!!! I hate it when the series is incompleted even though the books are published…damnit.  

The run for older ladies who need to drink Anlene for strong bones.  

Heh, this run sounds like it was made for me. Only 1.6km kekekek

Hence I signed up…not to mention it’s gonna be an adidas t-shirt. *yay*

My dog’s favourite toy is my cloth hair accessory aka scrungy.

He has expensive taste…out of many hair scrungies….he took my most expensive, Evita Peroni one. 

Sprained my ankle yet again last week while playing badminton *wore the wrong type of shoes*…so instead of blading, we took a jaunt down east coast with the doggie.

We thought Humphrey after being cooped up at home during the week would run around the beach, get wet or roam around sniffing out the new scents etc…but NOooooOOOo….he insisted on fighting with me for ground sheet space.

After the cursory survelliance of the area, the pissed-off barking at the waves for making his feet wet, he plonked himself (sand and all) on my ground sheet and thus remained there for the rest of the day.

Happy family:

At one with the world:

Packing up to go…and he’s not moving.

Evicted!

Last week we went out for a crab bee hoon makan and because it happened to rain during that evening, the steaming claypot of crab bee hoon was enjoyed even more due to the cool weather. Sigh…I wish the weather would turn cool again these days.

Cindy with her giant claw!

ok, so how do we do our part to conserve the environment and be that little more green?

Here’s some great advice:

“If it’s yellow, let it mellow

 If it’s brown, flush it down.

 It’s just my pee…”

heard it quoted by Cameron Diaz  on E-entertainment

Let’s all do our part for the environment yah?

Look what kept us up all night…this fella charged into our house *similar to humphrey’s existence in our lives*, ate 2 bowls of doggie kibbles and kept wanting to stay on.

Humphrey was super keen to make friends throughout…but I guess I didn’t give them enough time together to explore further. Much as we liked ms cat, she had a collar and belonged to someone out there…am quite sure we will see her around the neighbourhood again. She’s quite the charmer.

Unfortunately, once Ms Cat was out of the house….our dear Humphrey kept howling and barking non-stop…THAT was what kept us up all night….grrrrr.

 Stick your bra into one of these skeletal balls, throw into washing machine/ dryer and get clean, still in shape bras!

I likey!