Today we had our WISPA qualifying rounds...i'm glad that the draw had changed if not i would've had to play against the New Zealand gal who hits the ball as hard as a guy...so i ended up playing an Indonesian gal and i won....but guess who i had to play in the afternoon...(Lynnie, Bel, Vanna, Xora and Joanne might know if they remembered)...Zoe...yup..the Aussie gal who's coach called me a giant when i played her for the first time in Australia when i was 13. Ever since then if we play any of the same tournaments, we would always end up playing each other...

Unfortunately i lost this time round...but it was really close...3-1...11-8,8-11,11-7,12-10...the last 2 points she won by getting strokes...Shit...Damn sayang...IF i won i would've gotten like US200+ Oh well....I've learned alot though... I was too kan cheong when i'm leading so i lost my focus...damnit...

I can't wait for Christmas!!!!! Since the 1st of December i've been whistling and belting out Christmas songs when i shower either at the courts or gym... So i'm like the bathroom's jukebox...Here's the list of songs
1.Oh Holy Night
2.White Christmas
3. Hark the Herald Angels sing
4.Silver Bells
5.Joy to the World

Yeah...Yay for Christmas!! Can't wait for my mum and dad to come down to see meee!!!!

Ciaou

Rachael (^_^)///

Hang clean squats and Pig's food

Argh... I'm so tired...again...yes i know...i'm always tired...but today was extra tiring. I had gym this morning and we started out with our movement skills to warm up(warm up meaning sweat-pouring-down-your-face kinda warm up not those sissy stretchy warm ups) and Stephen (Gym trainer) made us do ladder work and I was totally hopeless. No wonder i'm so stiff in the court. All the hopping and skippy shuffle thingy got my legs all tangled up...luckily Stephen was in a good mood to day or else....hmm...lets not go there..

Anyhoo, after our 'warm up' we headed to the gym where we did our gila babi Friday program where we do 3 specific exercises focusing on specific parts of our body without resting in between. There were like 4-5 diff types of groups so it was really high intensity.

Somewhere along the line of the third group of exercises i had Stephen shouting at me coz he wanted me to do a Barbell hang clean squat which is this
And as my technique was wrong blah blah blah and it was killing my legs, he was shouting stuff like
"Come on, come on!" "Stop being so weak!" "Don't go weak on me now!" "Push it!" "Weakness is not an option!"

I was like WTF!!!!!! There were so many peeps at that time in the gym; the badminton junior boys stopped whatever they were doing and stared, the synchro girls and karate girls were around also and it was quite embarassing really...

SO after all the exercises were done he was talking to us about our stretching etc etc then suddenly our conversation took a turn

Stephen: Oh yes, when i went to Carrefour a few days ago i saw Pushppa, Nessrine and Zulhijah at Mc Donalds.
Me: Oh (The way he was saying it i thought he caught them smoking or smtg)
Stephen: Do you know how much saturated fats were there in the food they were eating?Mc Donalds food is pig's food.
Me: *Cue big eyes*O.O!
Stephen:...only pigs eat Mc Donalds. It's all empty calories.
Me: (Trying to look at Stephen with a straight face pretending i wasn't thinking bout Mc D's french fries and chocolate sundae only minutes ago)
Stephen: If i ever catch you setting your foot in Mc Donalds, i promise you i will make your life here in the gym a living nightmare *cue thunder and lightning for effects*
Me: (left side of mouth twitching, trying not to laugh)
Stephen: Believe me, i will bury you in the gym if i ever catch you
Me:*Innocent look*

So yeah...if only he knew i was eating KFC for dinner 3 nights in a row last last month. Ohmygawd...

People's Sexiest Man Alive

People magazine has crowned Hugh Jackman as the sexiest man alive!! Yay!!! Wolverine IS hot after all so sucks to whomever that was contradicting my opinion that Wolverine is hot.

6"2 of pure ruggedness and manliness unlike those pretty pretty fair fair delicate and fragile-ish boys that girls are so crazy about nowadays. Here's a real man for ya!

Tired, Hungry and Cold....

Good Lord...I just finish my training regime for today and i'm so damn bloody tired. I had running this morning...at 8.30...it was the sprinting kind of run so by the time it was over i was about to collapse and pass out coz me being kiasu, didn't want to let my friend overtake me during the sprints so yeah...both of us pushed hard....i'm quite chuffed that we completed 29 reps of 15sec with all out sprinting...*gives myself a pat on my back*

Then, i had squash training at 2.30..I didn't really have lunch today coz the food was so crappy....so now i'm lounging in the players loungue with nothing to do...

Oh oH!! I got this blonde joke in my head at the mo....

A brunette, a red head and a blonde decided to rob a bank. They almost managed to get away with it until the police came so they had to find a place to hide. Conviniently, there was an alley behind the bank and there were three sacks big enough to fit each of them. So they hid themselves in the nick of time just as a police officer came to check the alley. He saw the three sacks lying on the ground so he went to investigate. He kicked the first sack containing the brunette and she said "woof'" so he left the sack as it is. He went to the second sack containing the red head and also gave it a kick and the red head said "miaw" so he ignored the sack. Then he went and kicked the final sack containing the blonde and she said "Potatoe!"

Hahahaha...get it get it??...if you don't get it you suck...lol...jk...i understand that not everyone has a great sense of humour like yours truly...

Goin out for supper with Wern and WeeNee later and probably the boys...hmmm...must not eat so much later fat!

Gtg...Ciaou!

Rachael

WANTED:DOGSITTER

Hey y'all! I'm dogsitting my sis's pug and her friend's labrador and it's freakin hard! The lab is called Lola and she's pure black, gorgeous. big and heavy. My sis's pug is called Buster and he's small and as horny as hell (like my simile?). Put these two together and you'll have poor Lola trying to avoid getting hump by Buster for like 3 hours and poor me getting sat on by Lola as she tried to avoid Buster. This was the first time I actually got annoyed by dogs!

Happy innocent meMy horrified expression as i watch Lola chewing my slippers with Buster humping her
Me and Lola wrestling for her blue towel with Buster humping her again from behind

Me managing to hold on to Lola for a bit with Buster still trying to hump her from the back

Me and Lola...with Disney channel at the back ground and...lets see.....oh yeah! Buster still humping her....poor Lola...


Me and Buster

So yeah....i gottago shower....got fur and drool all over me...not a pretty sight....Ciaou!

Poem of the day.....

Walked in rain,
Got drenched with water,
By a really obnoxious driver,
Got real pissed so flipped my finger,
But too late he's gone; he turned the corner.

Written by Rachael

That pretty much sums up what happens to me when i walk back to courts on on a rainy day (T.T)

Laziness

Oh God i'm so lazy to even post pictures from my holiday on this blog!!Good heavens.... Anyhoo, I almost broke my lil toe on my first day of training since i got back from my holiday....I am not kidding...i was walking to courts in the morning wearing slippers.... and i didnt notice a concrete slab sticking out from the ground and totally whack my toe against it. At first i thought it was okay albeit the slight pain when i walked so i just went on with training that is until i took of my shoe after training and my lil toe looked like the size and color of a grape.

SO after goin to the doctor's and having my foot x-rayed twice (that was how bad the knock was...they thought it might be broken) for the first time in my life...they couldn't find anything wrong with it. SO i suffered for another 10 days with goin to gym in socks, before i went back to the doc's to check my toe again coz it was taking too long for the 'bruise' to heal. Still he couldn't find anything wrong with it so he sent me to the physiotherapist.

There, she said it was a minor injury and all that crap and gave me ultrasound treatment and ultraviolet heating on my toe. After 3 sessions, all the stuff they did weren't working so my sis took me to this chinese doctor sensei dude. He took my toe, pressed it and make me squeek in pain...then he pressed it again and i squeeked even louder. Then...he wiggled his fingers and friggin yank my toe with a loud crack!snap! plus a very elongated and passionately said fffffuuuuuuuccccccckkkkkkkkkkk from me, yours truly, he then said my toe is now okay.

I was like whatt?? Then i poked it and there was only a small throbbing pain. So now im currently back in training and by golly (ngeheh) is the training hard this month!

I'm currently benching 40kg (yay me) and if you read my old post, it's almost double my initial weight lifting. Hmmm.... methinks me muscles are bigger now....

Anyhoo, my sis and bro and Matt brought me out to Chillis to celebrate my birthday which was last month... here are some pics...

My sis and me

me and Matt

My bro and me

So yeah... oh Matt is my sis and bro's new house tenant. He and his friends does drifting and race rally cars.. cool eh?

SO that's it for now... must sleeep now coz got running tomorrow *sigh*