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Monday, July 10, 2006

I'm feeling very sleepy now. Watched the Wimbledon and World Cup finals! Both were exciting matches. Federer displayed his awesome skills on grass and defeated Nadal, who had defeated him in all 4 matches they have played this year. Think the Federer-Nadal rivalry is pretty interesting. And then, of course, the World Cup final, which Italy won on penalties. I got so nervous watching the penalties, even though I didn't really mind either team winning. But yeah..I guess the Italians were deserved winners. Though I don't know how the match would have turned out had Zidane not been sent off. It is such a disgrace that Zidane got sent off. A tainted ending to a glittering career. And he wasn't allowed back into the field to receive his medal also. So I guess the last memory we'll have of Zidane as a football player is of him headbutting Materazzi and getting red-carded. I find it an injustice that such a great career has to end like that. Ah well.

I can't believe that the World Cup is over! It's been more than 1 month of soccer and the World Cup, like all other things in life I guess, came and went just like that. In the blink of an eye. Watching the final, it seems to me that watching the matches back in pittsburgh in the morning or afternoon was like eons ago. I must admit I really miss watching matches with xinghao and jessica, and all the silly imitations and everything. Haha. On the same note, summer school also seems like a distant memory. Time..such an intriguing, yet an extremely important part of our lives. What is time really?

People have been asking me how US is like and each time, I've answered rather indifferently, "like that loh". I can't really find a perfect word to describe it..I don't think words alone can describe the past year that I've been through. One thing for sure is that I've changed a lot as a person, for the better I hope, and matured quite a bit. One change I've noticed is that I realize I've become less quiet (and shy??) now, less afraid to speak my mind and I've become much more talkative and confident. I think it has to do with the culture and lifestyle there. Americans are generally very open and friendly, and I've also been forced to speak up quite a bit during class discussions (won't really speak up normally). Or maybe it's just talking crap with the people there that has caused me to become much more talkative. Haha. Whatever it is, I hope it's a good change. If you know what I mean.

I must really decide soon when I'm going to go back to Indo. It's such a dilemma really. I want to go for SC2, but the timing is pretty bad, cos if I go back after SC2, that means I'll only have about 2 weeks in indo. I prefer to spend about 3 weeks back there. I'll be coming back here on 15 aug you see. We'll see how I guess.

Anyway, I think I'll take a short nap now. Met Huiling for lunch just now and had stingray! Yummy! Gonna meet her again later to watch Superman.

posted by vivien at 4:10 AM




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