Sheffield,England

Hey y'all I've been busy with competitions in England and India and i was just too lazy to upload pics...till now....Here are some shots of my England trip

Dubai airport's new terminal

Somewhere outside the gate

Waiting for our transit flight

Yan Xin and I in the bus to Sheffield

The view outside our room window at like 4am in the morning(blame the jet lag). All 4 girls had to cram into one room and i managed to snag the sofa bed just next to the window.

This is Miss Low Wee Nee who is obviously not suffering from jet lag unlike the rest of us who were all bright eyed and bushy tail and watching 90210 at 4 in the morning. (She loves this pic coz she claims it makes her legs look longer)

Me, Wern and the rest of the Malaysian team at Kebabish (a kebab store)

Me doing a super fast lightning speed karate chop...Nah...I didn't know what i was doing.

Me getting distracted by shiny twinkley lights when i was suppose to pose for the camera.

From the left: Kamran (who thought he was suppose to be in the pic), Me, Wern

Wee Nee and Yan Xin. Needless to say we came out of the diner with our coats and scarves smelling of kebab.

Wee Nee and Me

Outside our hotel. I was bored so i decided to take some pics while waiting for our taxis to pick us up to bring us to the train station.

The hotel or inn where we stayed for 10 days. We wern't suppose to stay here but since the booking of hotels were late we had to stay here which is 10 minutes walk from the competition hotel. I know 10 minutes isn't that long but when you have to walk in minus 3 degrees with just a sports jacket as your source of warmth (we can't bring our winter coats coz it was to heavy and bulky to carry around to the courts).

This is our favouritest shop of all..the 99pence store!! Everything in there is super super cheap especially the chocolate and sweets and choc biscuits.

Waiting for the taxis. Yes that's Wee Nee on the right sleeping again.

A snowy view taken from the train ride from Sheffield to Manchester airport. When I was in Sheffield i didn't know it snowed until i was running for the bus and nearly fell on my ass coz the pavements were covered with snow and ice.

Another shot from the train window

SO yeah... this was my trip in England...It's really little compared to the amount of pics that i took in India which i will be posting up on my next post. So til then....

Cheers,

Rachael

The Moment of Truth

Ah...am at players lounge with Alex and Ivan....and we're watching the Moment of Truth on Starworld while going online with our own respective laptops....this is how i usually spend my nights..wheeeeeee.....eeee....eee.......

Everybody SSSMMMIILLLEEEE!!!!

I had my massage today and omg it was like heaven! When i exit the room i always looked like i was stoned coz my face would be so so blur... I'm so sad that Neil(the masseur) is leaving for Canada just coz he wants to follow his girlfriend..not his wife...just his girlfriend...It's such a waste coz he's the best masseur ever! He told me that the reason my right side of my body is drooping is coz squash is a one handed game therefore my right side of my body is more developed. So he totally loosened me up with lots of pulling rubbing and stretching and cracking...daaaammmmmnnnn...it was soo freakin nice....

We went to pasar malam last night...bought 2 packets of semboi finished 1 and now my tongue still hurts eheh...erm....bump into the Singaporean squashers...ate 5 pieces of apom balik...Alex bought this honeydew shake thingy... i wanted to try but by the time i wanted to ask he finished it d...luckily Ivan bought 1 so i managed to take a sip...it was ok lah...

I got bitten by a mosquitoe riiiggghhht in the middle of my forehead...celaka.....

Oh... it's 11pm d...have to head back to my dorm before 12 if not i'll get locked out..Got training tomorrow morning and afternoon...haihzzzzz...

Anyhooo...ciaou for now!

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!