interview with mossy

Today I stumbled upon a new interview of my favorite Scottish rugby player, Chris Paterson.


Listen here to the interview with BBC Scotland.

[I need to listen to it several times to understand what he was saying - but oh, I love the accent]

looking forward to this...

My friend Lay Min got us tickets for Sunday, Aug 3.

Look at that day's line up:
Jason Mraz - Yay!!
Alicia Keys
One Republic
Panic at the Disco
Jamie Scott
Stacie Orrico
Rick Astley - feeling nostalgic already?
PussyCat Dolls

I will arrive back in Singapore (from Jakarta) at about 3am that Sunday, hope for a good night sleep, so I can dance and sing along all sunday long... :)

happy birthday, my little darling!

today is my nephew, jesse's, 3rd birthday. i can't believe he's three. he was one of the reason i left chicago and moved to singapore. i didn't want to see him only once every few years. i try to get home to jakarta a couple times a year now and it is good.

unfortunately i couldn't be home for his birthday. but i wish him the happiest of day and many many blessings on him.

happy birthday, jesse ***mwwwaaah***

wednesday night at the pump room

it was a late st. patrick day's celebration, i went to my favorite hang out place in singapore, the pump room at clarke quay, with a couple of girlfriends. wednesday night happened to be ladies night so we celebrated with champagne complete with strawberries and cream. yumm...
at 10.45pm ish, the local band - jive talkin' - came on and the party started.

the boys are back in action... (almost)

rugby is almost here. the super 14 teams have started with their preseason matches. The big day is less than 3 weeks away - Feb 15 to be exact. still waiting for the tv schedule from the australia network.

last friday night, the crusaders got off to a good start by canning the canes 55-33 in motueka, at the top of south island. here are a few photos from the match:

top: richie jumped for line-out ball, middle: stephen brett and ali the crusaders, below: captain tackles bringing down canes' masoe

so it is sunday morning in singapore. whilst there is no rugby action on the telly, there will be live coverage on the men's final of the aussie open this afternoon, which i am planning to watch. the french unseeded player, jo-wilfried tsonga vs. novak djokovic. who could have thought it? they beat nadal and federer, respectively, in the semi. i hope it will be an interesting match.
(sharapova won the women's title - blech...)

tough day at the office for the world no. 1

roger federer survived a five-set thriller at the aussie open today. he prevailed 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-1) 5-7 6-1 10-8 against serbian janko tipsarevic in round 3 of the tourney in an intense 4 hour 27 minutes. i spent my saturday afternoon glued to the tv and biting my nails. the match was a bit weird. at one point there were lots challenges lodged against the calls, lots of uncharasteric unforced errors from federer. but there were great moments, awesome winners from both sides. the world no.1 didn't look like as mighty as he used to be. he seemed to br a bit lacking match fitness (OMG, sounds familiar???) he pulled out of kooyoong classic warm up tournament earlier this month because of virus infection so he practically hadn't played tennis since november. hope that this could be the thing he needs to get his game back on.

but who is this janko tipsarevic? he ranked a lowly 49th in the world and yet to qualify for a quarter-final at one of the sport's four annual major tournaments. but today he didn't look the part. he gave the fed-express a run for his money. there were times when he seriously looked to bag an upset.










the great Swiss admitted defeat crossed his mind as tipsarevic played the match of his life. he said in the after match interview with Jim Courier, "This is when you get the grey hairs a bit earlier in life. What a great battle I thought it was.
Fair play, he's a nice guy too and it's just a pity someone has to win in tennis sometimes. You wish we could have draws as well.It's a pity for him, but what a great victory for me anyway." well said.

i am definitely going to keep a look out for the young (and quite cute) serb. hope to see more of him in the future. looking at the tongue photo above - hm, i approve :)

the defending champion in the meantime should be recovering from the tough day at the office today and on to the fourth round where he awaits for either czech 14th seed tomas berdych or argentina's 21st seed juan monaco.