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!

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]

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!

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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.