the long lost love

been addicted to badminton the past two days. at first it was just a fling back to my childhood days, when i used to play badminton almost every day. but after playing it two nights ago, i keep wanting to play again. so yesterday i got eysc and slam to play at mpsh. played for almost two hours before heading back to my room with sore limbs. i forgot to cool down. so i decided to walk around outside for awhile. i realised that i still like that game albeit all these while not touching a badminton racket. today, i feel the urge to play again. i've got a playmate for today, but not confirmed lar. but if we're playing, we'll be playing after dinner. he's good; one of the hall players. i planned to learn from him today. so i can improve a lot more.

i improved a lot in one day (from friday to yesterday). from almost can't do backhand at all, to being able to play around a bit with my backhand. and since we're playing with net yesterday, i was able to train my net game. i was so happy. net game used to be one of my best game last time. but years of not playing has reduced it to sub-standard (if it could be called sub-standard). anyway, in conclusion, my net game sucks, but i was still happy because at the very least i could still do it.

my overall control is completely cannot make it. i don't know how much strength to put in, my judgment is out of sync, i have to pay a lot more attention to the shuttlecock and less on my opponent. sigh. nvm. can be improved. that's the point of playing, isn't it?
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hmm, when i was small i played badminton a lot. at the road outside my house usually. there's no net whatever, but it was still fun. sometime i played with my dad, sometime with the neighbours. all my experience i have now stemmed from those days playing on the roadside.

then i stopped. i stopped playing when i was in primary 6. to be exact, i took up martial arts and got too engrossed in it. but because of that, i lost 12kg in a time span of six months only. taekwondo and karate is not for a faint-hearted, losing that much weight in six months is just plain crazy.

back to topic, since then, i never really played badminton. in sec 3 and 4, i probably only played three or four times. and that's also casually, without net whatever. in jc, i played only once. when i entered uni, the only time i played was during badminton trial, which i screwed up quite badly. i was basically just a trash in between all those good players around me.

if i do play again today, that will make it 3 times in 3 consecutive days, already more times than during my jc time until four days ago. hmm. 3 times in 3 days compared to 2 times in 3 years. cool!
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i'm addicted to Bic Runga's Sorry. and all just because of one line. how cool is that? i'm still listening to it often...

it's not that hard to say, so why can't i say it now...

no, no. no hidden meaning or whatever. don't get me wrong. it's just that the line was sang so nicely. i can't believe i didn't find this song earlier. it was just waiting there in my iTunes library, waiting to be discovered by me. and yet, all these while, i didn't listen to that song at all.

so why can't i say it now...
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i finished my max/msp patch for my assignment due two fridays ago. fortunately my prof is quite relaxed about deadline. i still have one more assignment to be submitted to this prof before i can start doing the sound project. sigh. and that's to say that this module is one of my best two modules this semester. how pathetic!
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-jump- -jump- -excited-

ahhh! thanks to huiling who emailed all of us that video. no! i'm hooked! can't stop watching! so nice! ahhh! incorrigible! ahhh! that video is a perfection, nothing less. i wanted to take a screenshot, but i can't choose which part, because they are all so nice! crap... taking screenshot is usually the easiest thing to do. hmm. maybe i should do collage. then i won't need to choose out of so many nice scene. not today though. i'll be very busy until tuesday.

what am i talking about?

hmm. huiling wrote an e-mail to yahoogroup, telling us to watch this ballet video. it's actually a music video by Herbert Grönemeyer, titled Demo. the song is in German, and the song is damn nice! damn, damn nice! i'm trying to download it down from torrent right now. not sure whether will manage, because the stupid person who upload it (thanks to this anonymous person though, since he actually bother to upload) put all his discography (some 700MB of them) in a single rar archive. that means, i have to download the whole archive even if i only wanted one song. well, hopefully, his other song is no less as beautiful as this one.

but that's not it! it's the video that hooked me up. the ballet! omg! it's perfect! her expression, her techniques, her grace! all of them. it's so nice to the point of freaky. oh, and the video is a bit freaky too. she was dancing in the middle of an empty theatre. i mean, it must be freaky to dance ALONE, with nobody around (nobody! not even audience). oh but the dance . . the dance suits the music perfectly. whoever choreograph that dance must have put in a lot of effort into understanding the lyrics. i don't understand german. but i know that the dance suits the singing and the music perfectly. if even a person who doesn't know german like me could say that, then you know the standard.

instead of me talking, why don't you watch it here (or here if you prefer youtube, lower resolution though).

At last resort, this is my choice screenshot: