Getting sidetracked

“[...] and if you are not a tennis person, I suspect this may be somewhat hard to fathom – the idea that watching two men spend that many hours hitting a ball could actually make your heart pound so hard that you have to keep jumping up and yelling and grabbing your own head.”
I live [...]

Finesse

Inspired by Joachim (it happens more often than I care to admit)…
All evoke emotion and ambition – senses so strong that they might very well outweigh my abilities. This isn’t false modesty – little else is worse than falling short of expectations.

Vertigo

Put simply, there is no satisfactory way to describe the Roddick-Federer Wimbledon final.
I usually am very stingy about including other players in a Roger Federer post, but I would be remissed if I did not mention Andy Roddick’s glorious display of an arsenal of skills throughout the tournament, which stunned even the most staunch of [...]

Pièce de résistance

By no stretch of the imagination, Roger Federer’s win at Roland Garros was extraordinary, not to mention a long time coming. Having never won the Coupe des Mousquetaires, made worse by his fall slight decline from greatness in 2008, this makes his victory even sweeter. As a Federer fanatic, I am tired of seeking written [...]

Multiracial superficial

Good looks aside, why I am infatuated with Oguri Shun is a far cry from the reasons behind my schoolgirl crush on Zheng Yuan Chang and Lee Min Ho.

Judge a book by its cover

Only literally, of course.
I am a superficial book-snob who is all about the aesthetics, so an ugly book cover is simply unacceptable. Never mind if it’s the lousiest pieceashit I’ve read, or too abstruse for my comprehension; as long as it sits pretty on my bookshelf…

Working relationships

Life can be so pedestrian at times that you’d rather it be a stage… Or a set. Then again, reality’s dramatics might provoke a desire to be directed just so one is relieved from doing any decision-making. And on the most banal level, at least the hours in the cinema give a sort of escape.
Shot [...]

Get it out of my system

It was so surreal and almost make-believe that I discounted the fact that it actually happened. And just like that, my ‘date with destiny’ came and went.

How more hardcore fans remain satisfied with such a short-lived encounter I can never fathom. I, too, quietly gasped when he made his appearance; laughed harder than necessary at his antics; [...]

Young and restless

I want Jon Favreau’s job; better yet, I want to be Jon Favreau:

Who wouldn’t?
He gets to create alongside Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and other great names – all delicious and brilliant in their own right.
To have Obama speak the words he writes… Come on!
He plays around with the written word of our time – I [...]

Delayed reaction

A word to the wise: Do not talk or ask questions about Japanese, Korean or Taiwanese television series in my presence – you will send me into a tirade of squeals, kawaii actions, made-up Japanese and Korean phrases and laughable conduct in general (please observe).
I blame this behaviour, unworthy of an adult, on the deprivation [...]