good ol' weekend
i had an AWESOME weekend. well, not *that* awesome, but more fun than the normal wake-up-at-noon-study-all-day sorta weekend. Let's start on Friday:
Fri: after class, went with classmates to Trader Joe's just to get away from New Haven. didn't need anything, just hung out with them for a bit. Got back to dorm, overate for dinner so didn't feel like going to my hip-hop class. instead, my neighbor (same guy i mentioned before) was bored too, so he ended up showing me some ballroom "hip-action" moves! hehe, he's real serious about his ballroom dancing--prob as obsessed as i was about badminton at one point! he's pretty good too, "silver-ranked". we talked a while, and for the first time, i finally connected with someone in New Haven. he has a cute friend he hangs out with...i gotta figure out how to get all of us out together! =)
Sat: Conneticut Open badminton tourney! since my old mixed parter and i had that fight, i had to find another guy. My “temporary” partner and I were slated to play #1 seed first round, and i thought i played decently, but I guess my partner thought otherwise and continued to complain about our loss for the next 30 min straight! Stuff like, “Why do you keep hitting cross-court? You know that’s a death sentence in doubles!” “Why do u clear so much?” “That guy was totally picking on you—I was like, dude, hit to ME!” “Why can’t you stay up more?” BLAH BLAH BLAH! It was driving me nuts! Especially since I personally thought he plays/played worse than me! I kept quiet for awhile, then finally had to give him a piece of my mind, which finally made him shut up. Hehe. I personally didn’t mind his “criticism”—I’m quite used to it from so many years of training with badminton guys, but it was just annoying ‘cuz I’d much rather talk about something else than a game of the past. Anyhow, he apologized, and ended up playing really awesome for the rest of our matches. We played our last two matches at 10pm (yea, long wait time) and finally won Open Consolation at nearly midnight and got $10 each! Better than nothing I guess!
Since we were near one of the biggest casinos in the world (Mohegan Sun), we decided to check that out for a bit after the tourney. It’s HUGE and GORGEOUS!! I wish I had brought my camera to take photos, but it was in the car. We ate a pretty nasty buffet, and got back around 2am.
But the BEST part of this tourney was that I was asked to play mixed by one of the best players prolly in the country! He’s HELLLLLAA good!! =) unfortunately, the tourney he asked me to play is the Pan-Am international tournament in Miami in late april..and I probably have class/exams to deal with. So…i prob can’t go, tho I’d love to play in an international tournament. that'll be a first for me! but still, it’s quite flattering to be asked! =) unfortunately, my current women's double partner also asked me to play the big Boston Open in march, and as nice as she is, i really would like to find somebody who pairs up with me better...the two of us really get nowhere in competition. =( like this one, she had an allergic reaction to her meds, missed nearly every shot (whiffed or hit out), and i ran all around her scooping up shots 'cuz she couldn't see where the bird was! plus, there are quite a few really good girls out here (better than bay area!), but i just have to get into their little ring....now how do i do that.... =P
Sun: Woke up pretty sore. Felt tired all day, didn’t do much. At night, I went to a graduate social-dinner party thing where they randomly put 8-10 grad students (we had law, med, MBA, phd in econ, finance, biochem, EE) and we have pot-luck dinner at somebody’s house. It was pretty cool—realized there’s much more to Yale than I knew, and also that I know NOTHING about politics! They were analyzing why USA has a two-party political system and why it can’t change, etc etc…as well as New Haven/NYC politics, Bush stuff—I had not a clue about anything! Haha, poli sci and history are definitely my weaknesses! So I had to stay pretty quiet through most of it, but it was still fun to eat home-cooked food and meet people. I brought a “Yale Bakeshop” cake that I ordered (‘cuz I have no kitchen to make anything, and I was assigned desserts), and it was DELICIOUS! Chocolate with raspberry preserve filling, and bit of cream cheese icing. YUM!
Fri: after class, went with classmates to Trader Joe's just to get away from New Haven. didn't need anything, just hung out with them for a bit. Got back to dorm, overate for dinner so didn't feel like going to my hip-hop class. instead, my neighbor (same guy i mentioned before) was bored too, so he ended up showing me some ballroom "hip-action" moves! hehe, he's real serious about his ballroom dancing--prob as obsessed as i was about badminton at one point! he's pretty good too, "silver-ranked". we talked a while, and for the first time, i finally connected with someone in New Haven. he has a cute friend he hangs out with...i gotta figure out how to get all of us out together! =)
Sat: Conneticut Open badminton tourney! since my old mixed parter and i had that fight, i had to find another guy. My “temporary” partner and I were slated to play #1 seed first round, and i thought i played decently, but I guess my partner thought otherwise and continued to complain about our loss for the next 30 min straight! Stuff like, “Why do you keep hitting cross-court? You know that’s a death sentence in doubles!” “Why do u clear so much?” “That guy was totally picking on you—I was like, dude, hit to ME!” “Why can’t you stay up more?” BLAH BLAH BLAH! It was driving me nuts! Especially since I personally thought he plays/played worse than me! I kept quiet for awhile, then finally had to give him a piece of my mind, which finally made him shut up. Hehe. I personally didn’t mind his “criticism”—I’m quite used to it from so many years of training with badminton guys, but it was just annoying ‘cuz I’d much rather talk about something else than a game of the past. Anyhow, he apologized, and ended up playing really awesome for the rest of our matches. We played our last two matches at 10pm (yea, long wait time) and finally won Open Consolation at nearly midnight and got $10 each! Better than nothing I guess!
Since we were near one of the biggest casinos in the world (Mohegan Sun), we decided to check that out for a bit after the tourney. It’s HUGE and GORGEOUS!! I wish I had brought my camera to take photos, but it was in the car. We ate a pretty nasty buffet, and got back around 2am.
But the BEST part of this tourney was that I was asked to play mixed by one of the best players prolly in the country! He’s HELLLLLAA good!! =) unfortunately, the tourney he asked me to play is the Pan-Am international tournament in Miami in late april..and I probably have class/exams to deal with. So…i prob can’t go, tho I’d love to play in an international tournament. that'll be a first for me! but still, it’s quite flattering to be asked! =) unfortunately, my current women's double partner also asked me to play the big Boston Open in march, and as nice as she is, i really would like to find somebody who pairs up with me better...the two of us really get nowhere in competition. =( like this one, she had an allergic reaction to her meds, missed nearly every shot (whiffed or hit out), and i ran all around her scooping up shots 'cuz she couldn't see where the bird was! plus, there are quite a few really good girls out here (better than bay area!), but i just have to get into their little ring....now how do i do that.... =P
Sun: Woke up pretty sore. Felt tired all day, didn’t do much. At night, I went to a graduate social-dinner party thing where they randomly put 8-10 grad students (we had law, med, MBA, phd in econ, finance, biochem, EE) and we have pot-luck dinner at somebody’s house. It was pretty cool—realized there’s much more to Yale than I knew, and also that I know NOTHING about politics! They were analyzing why USA has a two-party political system and why it can’t change, etc etc…as well as New Haven/NYC politics, Bush stuff—I had not a clue about anything! Haha, poli sci and history are definitely my weaknesses! So I had to stay pretty quiet through most of it, but it was still fun to eat home-cooked food and meet people. I brought a “Yale Bakeshop” cake that I ordered (‘cuz I have no kitchen to make anything, and I was assigned desserts), and it was DELICIOUS! Chocolate with raspberry preserve filling, and bit of cream cheese icing. YUM!
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