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read between the lines
Monday, December 10, 2007
clash of times
 i don't usually watch tennis, but i happened to check the tv schedule on 22 november and realised that piece of eye candy, roger federer aka. the swiss fedex was playing pete sampras aka. pistol pete in a friendly match 'live' at shah alam that night. i happily flipped to the correct channel at 9.30pm and watched it the whole one hour, haha.
 it was surprisingly entertaining and beat my expectations of how boring i thought it was going to be, watching a game of tennis. (heck, i love bowling yet i can't even stand to watch people compete in it on tv.) the crowd was practically rooting for pete, what with people shouting out his name and yelling "go, pete" or "come on, pete" every time he faltered. but then again, he was big news here in his heydays and rightly so, considering his as-yet-unbeaten record of 14 grand slam titles.
 he was also the more animated of the two, even gesturing to the court's baseline and where he believed the ball actually landed and then looking at the crowd as if to seek support from them when the umpire gave an out call. but of course i kept my eyes peeled for shots of fedex, hehe. he went on to narrowly win the match -- 7-6, 7-6 if i'm not mistaken.
 and he managed to pull off wearing a hairband without looking gay, haha. although he did remove it during the awards ceremony, naturally.
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i don't usually watch tennis, but i happened to check the tv schedule on 22 november and realised that piece of eye candy, roger federer aka. the swiss fedex was playing pete sampras aka. pistol pete in a friendly match 'live' at shah alam that night. i happily flipped to the correct channel at 9.30pm and watched it the whole one hour, haha.
it was surprisingly entertaining and beat my expectations of how boring i thought it was going to be, watching a game of tennis. (heck, i love bowling yet i can't even stand to watch people compete in it on tv.) the crowd was practically rooting for pete, what with people shouting out his name and yelling "go, pete" or "come on, pete" every time he faltered. but then again, he was big news here in his heydays and rightly so, considering his as-yet-unbeaten record of 14 grand slam titles.
and he managed to pull off wearing a hairband without looking gay, haha. although he did remove it during the awards ceremony, naturally.
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