Memorial it sure was...

kinda had gotten into the habit of going someplace out of Dallas for every long weekend. this time though for the Memorial Day one, things would be different. After a hectic previous weekend at Austin, my roommate and i decided to stay put in Dallas....agenda was to catch up on sleep, relax, play a lot of xbox tennis, car servicing, house cleaning, gymming, swimming....
and i'm glad i managed all of it...

one not-very-good thing that came outta the weekend though, is my badly injured heel. If only the swimming pool lights were on yesterday, i'd have known exactly where to expect the floor while jumping right in! (not to forget my clumsiness in picking the wrong end of the pool)

Top Spinning on the Xbox...

I've been playing that game for a few weeks now...and must say I'm hooked!
It's got some really neat graphics, awesome realism and feel....and i love the attitude feature where a player gestures at or taunts his opponent after winning a point...or might just throw away his racket when he loses one!

It's a pretty old game (came out in Oct 2003), and the players that you get to choose from reflects that - Sampras, Kuerten, Grosjean, Michal Chang, Hewitt, Kuerten, etc.
I wish they'd rope in King Federer at that time...but for now we'll have to play without him....Top Spin 2 includes him and a lot more of the current players and supposedly has better graphics (it better have...cos it's out only on the Xbox 360..and THAT is just wayyyy too expensive...maybe i'll put it up on my wishlist for my next bday)

For now, i'll just sit back and feel cosy with my sweet Xbox classic and the older version of the game.....but maybe i shouldn't get too comfortable too...cos these days i'm on a winning streak against my roommate....and i sure don't wanna lose that... :)

and yet again...

ok...so seeing how popular blogging is getting these days, it again pushed me to log in here and jot down a few. Now i didn't even remember much from my previous posts, but well now i know that I'm 1.5 years into my G35 dream....and still don't think i can afford it....yes, it IS a little disappointing....did i make a mistake then by logging in to blog?
i feel for the most part I always like thinking positive...and so i shall say NO to that.

I've always for the last few years felt that i suck at managing time....i just want to do so many things at the same time....I know i do manage a few (or at times a lot) of them, no doubt...but i also know that to manage those things and the rest more efficiently, I need to plan more sensibly and also need to be on top my "plans".
In the recent months I've come into contact with a few extremely talented people who can do a HUGE number of things within the 24 hours of the day, it didn't even sound credible at first. and I also know that i'm not a 18-year old anymore.....changing my habits would've been much more easier back then....
BUT in case you've forgotten, I think positive....and i know we can change anytime, bring new habits into our lives, throw old ones out, learn a new instrument, a new language....anytime of our lives...all this, only subject to the one condition that our minds are open. We shouldn't hope that we change.....we should KNOW it...