the king of the crucible is in round 2

there's no denying that zhang has skills (some lovely long shots, but exciting? no). im probably predisposed to be snide about anyone playing hendry. so here's what i think...he's slow. like old person slow. he walks slow. he makes the balls move slow. would i have liked him more if he was playing say doherty? probably.

anyway hendry won it (10-9), to my deep deep satisfaction. i was visualising being devastated. man u losing to arsenal in a penalty shootout level devastation. but stephen made it work...he was just...i actually 'wow'ed at one long red.

today's been a good day for my guys i say :D

button won and selby's through to round 2 beating ken doherty 10-4.

ah selby selby. i caught a couple of frames at the end there...ever the jester (he had a bit of a struggle with sitting on the table for one shot XD and rolled his eyes and everything). and just supremely smooth today. loving the form he's on (in?) ..also black on black with purple waistcoat back - very vampyrchic!

masters snooker - predictions!

ok so ronnie beat ebdon, and williams beat murphy :) alls well in the world. todays matches are:

• maguire v day
• selby v allen

...the first match i really dont care. didnt watch either of their matches in the first round and so have no idea what sort of form they're in. so im saying nothing. either.

selby's got to win i think.. because really allen only won cause higgins was off his game. and he knows it too. but selby, now he's a man in the zone. gorjuss long potting. gorjuss everything.

im rooting for a final between williams and selby. which means i think mark's going to beat ronnie. setting up a final where im going to torn between.. the marks! lol just realised they have the same first name! allen's a mark too XD

ps. i dont really know why iv taken ronnie out of the equation. its probably cause him being so down on himself is catching. really he's got every chance of beating williams. i must be realistic about this.

turned out steve davis was right it was rocket vs jester in the final and mark won :) so happy.

th'masters

quality snooker today. shaun murphy and stephen hendry both. final score 6 - 4 (best of 11). it almost went to 5 - 5 with a decider. murphy took the 10th frame with 3 balls on the table. potted the blue and that was it. wrenching stuff. the commentators kept using the words 'top drawer' to describe the play and form of the 2. wonder where that comes from... there was also a load of reference to 'leicester rhyming slang' like.. 'forrest' as in forrest gump... think it had something to do with being a in world of trouble... i dont really know.

they also did a flashback to 2003 doherty vs hunter. was i sad. so sad.

anyway now all my hopes rest on selby. selby ftw!

dont know about the 'leicester' kind, acc to cockney rhyming slang forrest means shit. the verb.

Mince Pies

Eyes

She got beatiful minces.

they used this one when talking about hendry "nothing wrong with his mince pies"

forrest gump was also to do with hendry...

Forrest Gump

Dump (shit)

"Off out in 10 minutes?" "Yeah, just got to have a Forrest first".

...i dont know. i need to be reminded of the context.

my predictions - shanghai masters (snooker)

1986: the year stephen hendry began his professional career and alex feguson started managing united.

key: right/wrong

Stephen Hendry (Sco) [my hero!] to beat Marcus Campbell (Sco)
Liang (Chn) to beat Peter Ebdon (Eng)
Allister Carter (Eng) to beat Tian Pengfei (Chn)
Shaun Murphy (Eng) to beat Michael Holt (Eng)
Neil Robertson (Aus) to beat Ken Doherty (Ire)
[i seem to be getting anti oldie...except when it concerns hendry and higgins]
Stephen Maguire (Sco) withdrew
[havent heard of this barry bloke]
Ronnie O'Sullivan (Eng) to beat Graeme Dott (Sco)
[easypeasy...but anything could happen with ronnie]
Ding Junhui (Chn) to beat Stephen Lee (Eng)
Mark Selby (Eng) [whyyy??] to beat Stuart Bingham (Eng)
Mark Williams (Wal) to beat Joe Swail (NI) [i hate swail so much]
John Higgins (Sco) to beat Selt (Eng)
[he can beat anyone! and i havent heard of these 2, many new ppl hovering about the place]

darth anna and the mockage side

almost forgot to update about the past couple days in my half nelson distraction. anyhoo i got whisked off to sheffield sun night when anna and her parents came to visit.

sun one episode of 'firefly' (the one which starts with nathan fillion naked in the desert...his evil ex wife etc :D), 'serenity', half of 'bring it on' (for reasons of extreme mockage and eliza dushku is hot i think)
mon second half of bring it on, futurama, 'breach'...the OC (episode with the killers in, mr flowers looks maha shmal)-(anna's a fan too :D and we both agree that ryan can act and seth/ryan bits r best blah blah) half nelson :) we did record 'insomnia' and some other movie but never got round to actually viewing...
tues (morn) bout half hr of 'high school musical' (afore mentioned mockage....way more extreme than bring it on...). train to leeds (anna got to watch the oc while i sat in a train! LOL *sob*). met suzanna who's now studying in leeds (senior frm my ug). bonded over food and movies and goss.

i should really stop telling ppl that i went to sheffield. the past few times have been pretty much actually i went to annas house and we didnt leave...the weather was shite so we had an excuse to veg. she gave me the best directions. i had to take bus frm her plc to the city and walk to the train station. sheffied was purdy. the sun was high and the rain was falling...so it wasnt cold...and things were sparkly like...and sheffield station is just surrealness. fountains, water flowing down shiny metal walls...

hehe i knew i was in sheffield when some bois on the bus were discussing snooker and the smallness of the balls vs the largeness of the pockets or some such thing...and star wars vid games... :) its fun to spy.

baaba day

trump lost. but it was bootiful. he made a comeback from 4-1 down to level at 4 all and then higgins won 6-4...rest o the day has been spent hanging out with dad's friends' daughter kaavya. happy me. chilluns make me happy. conveniently id been experimenting with stencils last week and had em cut out in my room...so she drew teddys and rabbits and commanded me to draw too...yellow stars and pink flowers...got messy with paints and everything...hehe she got a lil daub of green on her nose...she doesnt seem to grow really...everytime i see her she's still small..talking more now tho...she was all fascinated by the sticky things on my window...i have these circles and an elephant and blah...she called them 'jelly bubbles' :D good day. she got all comfy with me and didnt want to stop painting :D and then i carried her down the stairs when they were leaving and all...cause her mum was carrying other things.. :)

it's so easy to make out when ppl r good with chilluns...its a good test...i tend to like ppl who know how to be around chilluns...there r some ppl who r too organised (idiots who r all omg u can only paint in the bathroom cause i dont want my neat whiiite house to get dirty) or just dont like chilluns...

NOT selby's day

meh. day won (5-4) decider was super devastating. selby made a come back and made it 4-4 after being like 3-0 down or something...:'( i is heartbroken. corny jokes come to mind about the vampyr beaten by the day n shite. but am not in the mood. anyways, tomorrow:

trump vs. ronnie
day vs. cope
higgins vs. ding
carter vs. davis

all of which r much less tension than today. cause honestly i dont want any of em to win as much as i was rooting for selby. (id love for trump to win...but really does anyone see it happening? despite the genius of trump that is) the only one which am not sure bout is the higgins/ding one. but u never know. i was so sure about today too.

x_x

update! tomorrow's matches!
who i think will win/who i want to win

trump vs. higgins
(so happy! i so was not ready for him to beat ronnie. at the mid session interval, they were asking whether he'd missed the boat, letting ronnie level at 2-2 n all that...deciding frame was much excitement and tension tho. booti!)
and
carter vs. day (because carter is de-growing on me...when contrasted with trump who just small smiled after winning...the drama-ness of carter pains me...of course the real drama queen was peter ebdon :/)

snooker 5

pfft. now that stephen hendry is out of the grand prix (that century was bootiful tho), i have a personal top 5 who am all for:

1. mark selby (the vampyr)


2. john higgins


3. judd trump (the hair)


4. ronnie o'sullivan


5. ali carter

judd trump is my new boi. he's 19! watched him beat joe perry yesterday. awesomeness. the long potting. the genius. wow.

i heart stephen

spent a nice afternoon watching snooker (with the pater...i love everything about it...the way the commentators r never wrong...the sound the balls make...the funky positions they stand in all serious when planning and making shots...impossible seeming shots going in...its like omg miracle. wow. its happy on so many levelss). gilbert vs hendry. much tension last frame. so many times i didnt want to watch. wanted hendry to win so bad. and he did. maybe some other time when dave gilbert isnt playing hendry i cud be on his side. he seems like nice boi. cute. he shud win stuff. :) but my love shud win always. then i will be happy happy happy. cute interview afterward. he made jokes. and was just...stephen hendry. :D

listening to the new keane album now. feel to loop :)

1234!

1
just applied online for another job...i am eternally hopeful so am feeling sort of positive about it. but that's not the whole truth. the other half or 3/4th of me is so hideously resigned to the downhill slump that my life is in at the mo that i see absolutely nothing coming of it. and i hate feeling this way. the big blue eyed inner child in me is dying. he's got some rare blood disease [possibly: "Stick-it-to-da-man-noisis" ala the school of rock :) he may be dying but he maintains his dark sense of humour ;)]

2
watching the snooker world championship is super relaxing when the people playing are just completely perfection like. eg: liang [full name: liang wenbo - my new hero! o course my snooker god for eternity is stephen hendry - lowe!!]...also mark williams was playaing so awesomely that everything sounded just right...the cue making contact with the cue balls..the balls making contact with each other...falling into the pocket...lol today watching liang and swail [he is not fun to watch...its not neat...lol i sound v finicky] i possibly imagined i could hear the sound of him chalking his cue...good sound even if i did imagine it...

3
i have discovered a fool proof way of identifying accents! yesss! i listen to the person speaking and identify who it is that they sound like/where have i heard this voice before. in this case i was listening to the snooker commentary and realised that he sounded just like spike from notting hill and he was welsh in the movie [and in real life :)] and the commentator was terry griffiths who is indeed welsh!

4
creepy but interesting fact from the mag shortlist and confirmed by the bbc: hitler invented the olympic torch. ohh the things that get lost in the murky past...very orwellian...everything is very orwellian...he was just eerily all knowing and god i dont know for the life of me how he didnt end up killing himself...just looked it up..he died suddenly of a hemorrhaged lung.