Winning doubles at wed comp

I was quite happy yesterday that we won our doubles again. It was a really close game, the score was 15-17, 15-12 & 15-13. We were leading at 10-4 in the first set and 7-2 in the third set. It seems really strange that we can’t hold the leading edge from the middle of the games. The pair we best yesterday was one of the top pairs at wed night. They won all their previous games. I am really proud of ourselves. It was largely because of my partner, Tiffany. She played really well. So far she has the best winning percentage of her games in our team. Most of nights, she won all her games. I am so lucky to be in the same team with her. Overall, I am really happy about our doubles.

Then, it comes to my mixed double. What should I say?? I am just really bad. I should really play for D grade mixed at melb uni tournament (30 ice cream voucher each!!) although Zel made a good point yesterday by saying I did not like ice cream much, it is free. If I have ice cream in front of me, I will eat it. (just like Andrew’s theory – don’t feel like eating particular food, but if the food is just in front of him, he will eat it.) I can’t move, no concentration….. We were quite lucky to win the first mixed double at 21-19. It was all Sam’s effort. Zel said I played really bad. I couldn’t move, and left lots of front shots to Sam to take it. He had to move to the front and went to the back to take the next shot. I felt so sorry about it. (but I guess, he needs some running and exercises.) I lost badly for the second mixed double. We only had 7 points. They were 11:0 leading. Didn’t know what happened. Our team lost by 2 points the whole night!! Only if we could get three more points!!! Felt a bit bad about letting the team down.

Now, it is Thursday comp. I will try to enjoy as much as possible. We are at the bottom of the ladder, it can’t be any worse. I will not be able to play next week as my friend from Malaysia will be here. It will be the first time we catch up again since we last met each other in April 02. He will be here only for a week, I don’t mind spending more time with him. However, I did not know that we would have Andrew to fill in for our team from next week and I would play against someone I really want to beat (but without andrew to fill in, there would be no chance at all). Well, I can’t get everything in life.

It is actually my 100th Blog. It sounds like a milestone.

Had some training today in relation to interest rate risk management. It makes me feel like going back to my uni books to learn it all over again myself as the presenter, in my opinion, was not a good presenter. He could not answer the questions, the presentation was far too technical and he could not explain clearly either. One word he used the most in the presentation was "whatever".

I want to go home now. However, it is only 3:30. At least another two hours to go.