The Laments of a Broken Hearted Silhouette

It has been nearly a week since my last update here. I wanted to write posts but unfortunately my trusty sidekick (my laptop) is quite sick and I have been trying to diagnose what is the problem with it and finally, it has been confirmed that the hardware is faulty; I am not too sure which but my intuition says it is the RAM. Anyway, I am waiting for the price quotation from Dell for the on-site repair and also an extended warranty. Cannot really blame my sidekick for falling sick since it has served me well for the last four years and coming to five now. It is pretty ancient but it is still running and only now it is experiencing a little hiccup.

Nothing much has happened over here except my craze over lawn tennis. I have been catching up with the matches on cable television and caught up with some inspirational movies on the Hallmark channel. I think that is the least watched channel compared to Star Movies, HBO, and vice versa because the films shown there are pretty old (sometimes!) and usually they carry a certain theme that has connection with life and how we should learn to face reality, and the whatnots. Yes, I am quite the boring one.

Anyway, life has been fine for me and even more so when I stopped bothering my thoughts with unnecessary contemplations. Besides, I have been doing some thinking over the relationships that I had had with those around me because a few days ago, my thoughts flew over to superficial friends and those whom we would choose to keep in touch after we leave school (primary/high school and varsity) because we would unconsciously segregate them and their importance to us. It all started when I met my ex-high school friend during my mother’s Sunday grocery shopping at the local supermarket. I was surprised to see her after four long years and we lost touch because of her ever changing cellphone numbers. When she told me that she has been married for three years, I looked at her in awe shock because all these while I only heard rumours about her engagement but she finally confirmed it to me. Anyway, the feeling of seeing an old friend was definitely overwhelming - in a way.

On the other hand, I will temporarily suspend all bloghopping activities until my sidekick is repaired because my feeds are not in this ancient desktop (it has been with us since I was ten years old!) and will resume my reading once I am back in a few days time - hopefully!

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I turned on the sports channel on the cable television and could not believe my eyes when I saw the scores. By the time I tuned into the match, Kudryavtseva was already leading one set in the game and I was praying that Sharapova would serve and drive the ball placement better on the court.

Sharapova lost the first set in just 32 minutes!

With every drive she made, Sharapova was doing unforced errors giving free chances for her compatriot to win against her in the game. Things got tougher for Sharapova and her ever infamous shriek grew louder with each shots yet her play was not solid enough to overpower her compatriot, Alla Kudryavtseva which was only ranked 154 in the world unlike Sharapova herself, whom is the world number three.

Usually, she’d fight back but she was still very much handicapped by her shoulder discomfort (maybe!) and her forehand was not as strong as before. The game was totally a disaster and one of the shakiest I have ever watched. Besides that, she also made unprecedented 22 unforced errors and managed to only break two out of six break points. Furthermore, Sharapova committed eight double-faults where three of them was in one game in the first set. Definitely a black hawk down!

Kudryavtseva won 6-2, 6-4.

Every drive she made was either out or errors, and I am seriously disappointed over the match because I was hoping that she’d be in the finals this year but I guess it will never happen now. Hopefully, she will perform better in the next Grand Slam, the US Open.

Anyway, I don’t fancy her compatriot either, Miss Alla Kudryavtseva. I applaud her for breaking Sharapova’s game and driving her out of this tournament but I am sure that Sharapova will come back in the next tournament with better game play strategies and amazing physical form.

It was even barely a week into the Grand Slam, so many of the top seeds crashed out of the tournament namely Andy Roddick, James Blake, Novak Djokovic, Daniela Hantuchova and finally Maria Sharapova. Honestly, I’m really upset with Sharapova’s match. Perhaps, it just wasn’t her day.

Perhaps.

[UPDATE]

Finally, Ana Ivanovic [SER] is out of the tournament after being defeated by China’s Zheng Jie whom only ranked 133 in the world. She secured an amazing 6-1, 6-4 victory over the clear favorite to win this year’s Wimbledon, Ivanovic. Well, the match was great and Zheng Jie deserves the win!

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Wimbledon, the world’s oldest professional tennis tournament is back!

Held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, world renowned tennis players gather at the private club for series of competitive matches to determine the final victors of this Grand Slam. I’m hoping that Maria Sharapova will pull through all the matches (Ladies’ Singles) to hold the Venus Rosewater Dish as the winner! As for the Gentlemen’s Singles, it would be fun to watch Rafael Nadal battle it out against Roger Federer; like how they battled each other at the Roland Garros finals.

Anyway, this is what I have been occupied with for this week at home — tennis all the way and some gaming on the other hand. Besides, I totally dig Sharapova’s latest Wimbledon fashion style — her attire was inspired by men’s wear as she loves them in general. For the first time I was able to see her wearing shorts in a Grand Slam tournament and it was not just any plain shorts because hers was worn low on the hip with wide-tailored waistband which gives the pin stripe-effect and adorned with gold stitched buttons. I love her top though; a sleeveless one with a tuxedo-style bib front and she also wore a single-breasted jacket with gold stitching on the collar lapel and front edge when she strode into the court. Even Serena Williams’ style blew me away with her much talked about white mackintosh with the familiar gold swoosh perched above oversized buttons.

Well, it is true that tennis is a sport but with these fashionable sports apparel donned by the tennis stars, it makes the whole game interesting because I get the chance to see various styles. Can’t deny that they don’t look good while playing!

Honestly, I am enjoying the simple hedonistic of being at home. It has never felt this good before knowing that I have nothing more to worry about when it comes to my results or anything related to the varsity. I am finally graduating! However, whenever I think about the working life ahead of me, I do worry and have a little contemplation or two but hey, I have surpassed the challenges of being a student for four years now, so I doubt the harshness of this reality; the working world can beat me down anytime. After all, I have been through quite a number of hiccups (who doesn’t?!) when I was still a student but I survived them all so, this can only be the upcoming challenge for me. I’m waiting with all my strength, faith, hope, intelligence, and etcetera. I’ve heard a number of complaints/rants from my surrounding about work and how tough it can be but seriously, when you quit complaining, start and learn how to enjoy what you are doing, you will never like it because reality bites and checks-in, always. Nothing comes easy in life unless all of us were born with multiple silver spoons. But fate intertwines, not everyone was born with such luck, noh?

I might be called naïve for saying that people ought to stop complaining about life and its sub-components, but if you don’t try hard enough, how would you know what it’d be like to feel the sunshine everyday?

Being human, we need to be grateful — always.

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