CAMELOT FANTASIES

ok here are your 3 traits/qualities:


1. ruggedly and fiercely independent
2. self assured and confident
3. intelligent.



 

ok here are your 3 traits/qualities:


1. ruggedly and fiercely independent
2. self assured and confident
3. intelligent.



 

Dunno herc darling. It's like you are trying to say the same thing in three different ways. hahahahaha.

Are you in great trouble because of this? Are you under pressure? lol.

Okay, I'll grant Independent, confident and intelligent. Two more for you to go. Mind you, I am trying to explore so that I can pursue my career in that direction.

Actually it used to be more like this before I cut it short. My friends love my new haircut. They think it totally suits me.

Actually it used to be more like this before I cut it short. My friends love my new haircut. They think it totally suits me.

well change is good and it is all about how you feel and look anyway.

if you and your friends approve and love the new look then try it out for a while.


and then one day surprise the world again and go with longer hair. long hair can work too if it is done right.



shorter hair will certainly be more manageable in the morning anyway when you rushed for time and getting ready for work in a hurry.

I think Andy has a logo. I remember seeing a bunch of them but not sure which one he's going to go with. They were quite nice. Again, not sure if they were going for it seriously or if this was just something they were playing around with. I remember seeing those on Murray's World last year I think.

The one in the middle on the 3rd row looks devilish.

People should not make big deal about this straight sets loss by Andy against Fognini. As I said last night, Fog is essentially a clay-courter. With the exception of one or two events, where he made the finals of a hard court, he has all his other credentials on clay. Even today, he's not good enough on any other surface but clay. So Andy was faced with a very good claycourter who's been in form since last year. Not to mention, Andy also had to play against a very loud crowd and he had deal with stomach flu just prior. So there were a few things that did not work out in his favour to begin with. Andy could have hung in there for a longer bit but he did have to play everyday and on Saturday, he had to finish his own match and then play the doubles again. The doubles was very tight. Andy did the best he could given the circumstances. Fog was fired up after the doubles loss and Andy underestimated him perhaps slightly. I still think at this point, Fog would have won the match since Andy hasn't won a title since Wimbledon. On top of surgery, he was also in a slump because of Wimbledon I'd say and right now, he's coming out of it. This is a very vulnerable time for him right now but he's getting there of course.

Andy can still have a very strong and proud career despite not having good results on clay on his resume - though never say never. As good as people tend to make Federer out on clay, only 10/12% of his total titles belong to clay. And we all know his only RG title came at the expense of Soderling taking Nadal out first. He did not really beat Nadal to win it.

And not to mention, about 70% Nadal's titles are on clay and 8 out of 13 of his Slams came at RG. And that alone put him as one of the great players of all time.

Sampras didn't do much on clay but his results on grass and hard are outstanding along with his six years straight at No. 1 and the fact that, no one owned him in his era. Even Nadal is slightly getting owned by Nole lately (3 all in Majors since 2011) though it will be interesting to see where things stand once it all ends.

So Andy has nothing to worry about. He's great on 2 surfaces - grass and hard and he has 5 to 7 good years left in him. So he can achieve plenty relying on those 2 surface and become one of the greats if he's in for it. Not sure if he will but he has the potential and he's got 2 great surface in his favoure. He'll just need to do average on clay and perhaps when it all ends, he'll have a few clay titles in the bag as well.

Now on a completely unrelated matter, I found this bit about the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin quite interesting as I started digging his religious background and upbringing.

"Vladimir Putin was born and raised in Leningrad, U.S.S.R., now known as St. Petersburg, Russia.

Putin had, in classic Soviet fashion, a secular upbringing. His father was a “model Communist” and a “militant atheist,” though his mother was a devout Eastern Orthodox Christian1 and she had young Putin secretly baptized into that church.2

It was merely symbolic, however, as Putin went through the bulk of his adult life–rising through the ranks of the KGB and the Soviet Communist Party–conforming to Soviet secular convention.

It wasn’t until the double-whammy of 1) his wife’s car accident in 1993 and 2) a life-threatening house fire in 1996 that Putin began questioning his atheism. During a vulnerable moment before Putin departed for a diplomatic trip to Israel, his mother gave him a baptismal cross. He said of the occasion:

    I did as she said and then put the cross around my neck. I have never taken it off since.3

Now, Putin has become a bit of a zealot. He seems to want to reestablish a pre-Soviet combination of church and state, saying:

    First and foremost we should be governed by common sense. But common sense should be based on moral principles first. And it is not possible today to have morality separated from religious values.4

Furthermore, Putin has proposed compulsory religion and ethics classes for Russian students.5"