It is easy when one is winning tournaments to be gracious and kind, and then very one thinks you are a gentleman.but when one has lost - as I knew he would - the real Federer is exposed for all the world to see.
Federer said he lost because the light was bad - not because he came upon a better player than himself. Any one can see that Federer was out played from start to finish. The match had no right going to five sets. The only reason it did was because Federer had over thirty aces which is what I consider cheap points.
If there were no tiebreaks the match would have been over in three set. I am sure Federer noticed that Nadal out rallied him over and over again. That is a clear indication that one is playing a superior player.
I am glad Nadal has won his first Wimbledon title. My third son would be glad also If he were here Nadal is his favorite player, he would be so disappointed to have missed the match.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Friday, July 4, 2008
GOD BLESS THEM ALL
There are people out there gnashing their teeth, and butting their heads over who will make the finals and who have made the finals of Wimbledon. And I am one of them. As I predicted there will be a Williams sisters final, and I am pleased about that but there seems to be no doubt that Federer and Nadal are going to be the finalists on the men's side.
If Federer wins all I can say now is God bless him, one should always admire excellence. I will now be rooting for Nadal though, as my boy Murray is out, having come up against a phenom that is Nadal.
Poor Dementieva, such an excellent player. I had always thought she looked like a beautiful house wife, not this year though, she has changed, still beautiful but now with new muscles in the arms and legs, she looks the part of a serious athlete and it shows in her game having reached the semifinals of a grand slam for the first time. But what did she mean by it being a "family decision" about who between the Williams sisters will in Wimbledon.
I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt that she was having a "communication" problem. She does not seem in any way to be a devious person. But Venus was quite right to make her path clear. As a black athlete one has to be even more vigilant to nip stories or non stories like these in the bud.
I am going to sit back and enjoy the womens finals tomorrow and as I type the mens semis has just started. It will all be over on Sunday and then there is the Olympics to look forward to yeaaaa.
If Federer wins all I can say now is God bless him, one should always admire excellence. I will now be rooting for Nadal though, as my boy Murray is out, having come up against a phenom that is Nadal.
Poor Dementieva, such an excellent player. I had always thought she looked like a beautiful house wife, not this year though, she has changed, still beautiful but now with new muscles in the arms and legs, she looks the part of a serious athlete and it shows in her game having reached the semifinals of a grand slam for the first time. But what did she mean by it being a "family decision" about who between the Williams sisters will in Wimbledon.
I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt that she was having a "communication" problem. She does not seem in any way to be a devious person. But Venus was quite right to make her path clear. As a black athlete one has to be even more vigilant to nip stories or non stories like these in the bud.
I am going to sit back and enjoy the womens finals tomorrow and as I type the mens semis has just started. It will all be over on Sunday and then there is the Olympics to look forward to yeaaaa.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
The Prince is Coming Home
I always seem to be in preparation for the return of one of my sons. Two weeks ago my second son returned home from Chicago where he is a student, for a ten say visit. This was a surprise visit for his girl friend, she had no idea he was returning, diamond ring in hand to surprise her with an engagement party.
It was a really special moment, every one had gathered at my home, and then my son arrived we had not seen him since Christmas so after the hugs and kisses we awaited the arrival of his girlfriend. She was tricked into coming to my home. After she came in side she moved to give me a hug and then she heard my sons voice. She spun around and was shocked silent, she did not say a word, just kept looking at him to make sure he was really there.
After his girlfriend sat down, he knelt in front of her and whipped out the engagement ring. He then proposed to her in front of our family and friends.
She answered a very quiet 'yes' we had to ask her to repeat, she is a very quiet girl.
Within the next ten days the house was very lively with he and his fiance and their friends in and out of the house.
But the ten days came and went and it has been two weeks now that he has gone back to Chicago and I am now in preparation for my third sons visit.
He has been gone for two months training in the army. I am looking forward to seeing him I suspect he would be changed, he would be thinner and somehow different. He and I are very close having spent a lot of time together at home. We have somehow come to have the same views, interests and opinions as two people will if they spend a lot of time together. We both like gardening, tennis and politics, he also loves football and has a keen interest in what is going on in the middle east.
I am in danger of changing from a damn empty nester to a part time empty nester.
It was a really special moment, every one had gathered at my home, and then my son arrived we had not seen him since Christmas so after the hugs and kisses we awaited the arrival of his girlfriend. She was tricked into coming to my home. After she came in side she moved to give me a hug and then she heard my sons voice. She spun around and was shocked silent, she did not say a word, just kept looking at him to make sure he was really there.
After his girlfriend sat down, he knelt in front of her and whipped out the engagement ring. He then proposed to her in front of our family and friends.
She answered a very quiet 'yes' we had to ask her to repeat, she is a very quiet girl.
Within the next ten days the house was very lively with he and his fiance and their friends in and out of the house.
But the ten days came and went and it has been two weeks now that he has gone back to Chicago and I am now in preparation for my third sons visit.
He has been gone for two months training in the army. I am looking forward to seeing him I suspect he would be changed, he would be thinner and somehow different. He and I are very close having spent a lot of time together at home. We have somehow come to have the same views, interests and opinions as two people will if they spend a lot of time together. We both like gardening, tennis and politics, he also loves football and has a keen interest in what is going on in the middle east.
I am in danger of changing from a damn empty nester to a part time empty nester.
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES 2
What decides the minimum wage, how is it calculated, what must its buying power be. I do not know. I am not an economist. If there is an economist out there please enlighten me.
The TT dollar was floated against the US dollar. The ratio of the population against the Gross National Product. George Bush says we can no longer qualify for favourable nation status because the country is too rich. All of which leads me - a lay person - to believe the minimum wage should be at least 40.00 an hour, and it is in some parts of the country. A mini apartheid.
So why you may ask am I the only person who thinks the minimum wage should be that amount? Well I am not, do you think that little boy was the only person who noticed that the emperor had no clothes on?
When I was a little girl, a worker was considered a very respectable person. It did not matter where the person worked, the fact that they worked was enough. That person could rent a house pay bills, buy groceries and get married. Now if a person is working you first have to ask where.
People are saying a lot that prices are so high, well they are not, when you compare the inflation of your parents generation, to other generations this period is the lowest it only seams high because salaries have not grown in step.
People are also saying that the crime situation is bad, this is also not true. With any other country that is as rich as ours and with so much poverty, there would have been a lot more crime. I believe there would have been riots in the streets. So where are the riots? well there are two reasons why there are none. Number one is that this is not a godless country, like say China and number two is that the people of this country are really well brought up with a strong sense of family. Also there are extended families to lean on for support.
So who are these other people who know that the minimum wage is too low? Well there are quite a few. First there is the emperor himself who for what ever reason thinks it best to remain quiet. Then there are the merchants and manufactures who are direct beneficiaries of the low minimum wage they for obvious reasons will remain silent. Then there are those who despite the minimum wage receive a high salary. These people also choose to remain silent -shades of the house nigger - They have a sense of entitlement, a feeling that, "I have sent my children to school you should have too" or "I worked hard in school you should have too." They may even be thinking that some how if the uneducated earn more - they will end up with less.
There is obvious danger for the haves from the havenots. you know the people for whom working for 10.00 an hour in not an option. There is the danger of being kidnapped, robbed, hit by a stray bullet. And generally this risk is accepted, with the firm belief that this will happen to someone else, not them.
This evening the Minister of Finance was basking in the glory of the idea of this country being rich. She boasted of the smart card and the other poverty relief measures that they have implemented. She should be so ashamed of herself.
My advice? Take advantage of the wonderful opportunities in the country right now.
EDUCATE YOURSELF.
The TT dollar was floated against the US dollar. The ratio of the population against the Gross National Product. George Bush says we can no longer qualify for favourable nation status because the country is too rich. All of which leads me - a lay person - to believe the minimum wage should be at least 40.00 an hour, and it is in some parts of the country. A mini apartheid.
So why you may ask am I the only person who thinks the minimum wage should be that amount? Well I am not, do you think that little boy was the only person who noticed that the emperor had no clothes on?
When I was a little girl, a worker was considered a very respectable person. It did not matter where the person worked, the fact that they worked was enough. That person could rent a house pay bills, buy groceries and get married. Now if a person is working you first have to ask where.
People are saying a lot that prices are so high, well they are not, when you compare the inflation of your parents generation, to other generations this period is the lowest it only seams high because salaries have not grown in step.
People are also saying that the crime situation is bad, this is also not true. With any other country that is as rich as ours and with so much poverty, there would have been a lot more crime. I believe there would have been riots in the streets. So where are the riots? well there are two reasons why there are none. Number one is that this is not a godless country, like say China and number two is that the people of this country are really well brought up with a strong sense of family. Also there are extended families to lean on for support.
So who are these other people who know that the minimum wage is too low? Well there are quite a few. First there is the emperor himself who for what ever reason thinks it best to remain quiet. Then there are the merchants and manufactures who are direct beneficiaries of the low minimum wage they for obvious reasons will remain silent. Then there are those who despite the minimum wage receive a high salary. These people also choose to remain silent -shades of the house nigger - They have a sense of entitlement, a feeling that, "I have sent my children to school you should have too" or "I worked hard in school you should have too." They may even be thinking that some how if the uneducated earn more - they will end up with less.
There is obvious danger for the haves from the havenots. you know the people for whom working for 10.00 an hour in not an option. There is the danger of being kidnapped, robbed, hit by a stray bullet. And generally this risk is accepted, with the firm belief that this will happen to someone else, not them.
This evening the Minister of Finance was basking in the glory of the idea of this country being rich. She boasted of the smart card and the other poverty relief measures that they have implemented. She should be so ashamed of herself.
My advice? Take advantage of the wonderful opportunities in the country right now.
EDUCATE YOURSELF.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES
This is not a post, it is more like a pre post. I am way too busy to write this post today, I have a lot of plants to pot in preparation for the Christmas season. I wish I had Tootsie to give me some advise on that.
So why, you may ask do I post at all. Well I wanted to give my millions of readers a chance to wonder -what the hell does she mean by THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES.
So till tomorrow, bye.
So why, you may ask do I post at all. Well I wanted to give my millions of readers a chance to wonder -what the hell does she mean by THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES.
So till tomorrow, bye.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Sex and the City
I was invited to go see Sex and the City today. I immediately refused. then later I wondered why. why cant I go to the beach, why cant I go to a party, why cant I go see sex and the city.
It could not be because Nelson Mandela still needs a visa to enter the US to prove he is not a terrorist. or that Serena and Venus were shuffled off to an unfavourable court on Monday to play their matches. Or that there is the tiny doubt that even if Barak Obama becomes the next president of the US nothing may really change for black people there. Or that the minimum wage in this country is 10.00 (1.60us) making work not an option for too many people so they are killing each other over turf and what ever else gangsters fight over . or if they do work, they must work two jobs like Hope's mother did and then something will slip through the crack, like Hope did. Or that my nephew is in a bit of trouble, or that I am unemployed, or that I may be suffering from PMS right now. All I know is that there is no way I am going to see Sex and the City.
It could not be because Nelson Mandela still needs a visa to enter the US to prove he is not a terrorist. or that Serena and Venus were shuffled off to an unfavourable court on Monday to play their matches. Or that there is the tiny doubt that even if Barak Obama becomes the next president of the US nothing may really change for black people there. Or that the minimum wage in this country is 10.00 (1.60us) making work not an option for too many people so they are killing each other over turf and what ever else gangsters fight over . or if they do work, they must work two jobs like Hope's mother did and then something will slip through the crack, like Hope did. Or that my nephew is in a bit of trouble, or that I am unemployed, or that I may be suffering from PMS right now. All I know is that there is no way I am going to see Sex and the City.
Monday, June 30, 2008
ha ha ha- the whole of Great Britain only now know they have a champion to support. But it was a thrilling match, Andy Murray was two sets to love down and Richard Gasquet was serving for the match when every thing changed, with thrilling shots at the net the match went to a tiebreak the crowd got into it and at the end of it Andy had won the match and no one could believe it . Andy's expression was a sight to see.
It has been almost seventy years since a Brit has won Wimbledon. Murray has never beaten Nadal nor has he ever been past the quarters in any grand slam -before now- Andy is now on every one's radar so their expectations of him is now different.
I am going to continue to root for him, and I believe he will win the championship but even if he does not, there are many more to come. I saw his mother in the crowd rooting for him she must be so proud.
It has been almost seventy years since a Brit has won Wimbledon. Murray has never beaten Nadal nor has he ever been past the quarters in any grand slam -before now- Andy is now on every one's radar so their expectations of him is now different.
I am going to continue to root for him, and I believe he will win the championship but even if he does not, there are many more to come. I saw his mother in the crowd rooting for him she must be so proud.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
It is Murray time
I like Murray for the championships, but that could be wishful thinking, after all there is Federer and Nadal waiting in the wings. I just feel like this is Murray's time, he is ready, he is in front of his home crowd, he is fit, he is looking good. I know I know Federer has won it the last five times and he does not have the good grace to miss a grand slam for one reason or another, but I can see a difference this year, a chink in the armour, all in all I think one way or another, this year,
Federer is going down.
On the women's side it looks like a Williams sisters final we have not seen that in a while. This will be a great culmination of their careers. Clisters retired last year the sport misses her, she is one of the ladies who could give the sisters some competition. I do not see any one else who can do that this year. Of course there are the giant killers which means that on any given day any one can take any body out. This time though I think Serena and Venus want this bad.
I feel for Safina and I also feel for her brooding brother Safin - in advance- so many hopefuls and only one can win. How do they do it, put themselves out there for us to enjoy and critique.
Well, like Hillary Clinton, I too seem to have found my voice. Two weeks ago I could not post a word to save my life, now it is almost a post a day.
Federer is going down.
On the women's side it looks like a Williams sisters final we have not seen that in a while. This will be a great culmination of their careers. Clisters retired last year the sport misses her, she is one of the ladies who could give the sisters some competition. I do not see any one else who can do that this year. Of course there are the giant killers which means that on any given day any one can take any body out. This time though I think Serena and Venus want this bad.
I feel for Safina and I also feel for her brooding brother Safin - in advance- so many hopefuls and only one can win. How do they do it, put themselves out there for us to enjoy and critique.
Well, like Hillary Clinton, I too seem to have found my voice. Two weeks ago I could not post a word to save my life, now it is almost a post a day.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Go Home
Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic and Novak Jokovic are not the Serbs who washed up on the shores of the Australian continent earlier this year. They are no longer hungry.Where is the fire.With two grand slams under their belts it is not surprising that Jankovic is the only one left in the Wimbledon tournament.She is yet to win a grand slam.
Sharapova's outfit was the best I have ever seen at a grand slam. The more you looked at that outfit the more you saw. The trousers the jacket were excellent and the blouse was even better. If she had put as much effort into her game as she put into her outfit she would still have been in the competition. I am looking forward to seeing her in the US open.
I am so glad Justine Henin is now retired, it will give an opportunity to so many young women to get a chance at winning a grand slam. Federer is another one who should retire. he has won 14 grand slams just think of the hopes and dreams that could be fulfilled in the lives of so many young men.He has nothing more to prove,he should toddle off with his beautiful girl friend Mica and have a happy life.
Serena and Venus Williams should also retire although the way the American men crashed out of Wimbledon I am sure most Americans would not agree with me they are the only ones keeping the flag flying. To tell the truth I will miss both sisters if they should retire. I look forward to their outfits and their larger than life personas.
I have no one to talk tennis with now that my second to last son in now training in the regiment. He and I are the tennis and political junkies of the family.Thank you for letting me bend your ear.
Sharapova's outfit was the best I have ever seen at a grand slam. The more you looked at that outfit the more you saw. The trousers the jacket were excellent and the blouse was even better. If she had put as much effort into her game as she put into her outfit she would still have been in the competition. I am looking forward to seeing her in the US open.
I am so glad Justine Henin is now retired, it will give an opportunity to so many young women to get a chance at winning a grand slam. Federer is another one who should retire. he has won 14 grand slams just think of the hopes and dreams that could be fulfilled in the lives of so many young men.He has nothing more to prove,he should toddle off with his beautiful girl friend Mica and have a happy life.
Serena and Venus Williams should also retire although the way the American men crashed out of Wimbledon I am sure most Americans would not agree with me they are the only ones keeping the flag flying. To tell the truth I will miss both sisters if they should retire. I look forward to their outfits and their larger than life personas.
I have no one to talk tennis with now that my second to last son in now training in the regiment. He and I are the tennis and political junkies of the family.Thank you for letting me bend your ear.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Me ...............a blogger
Hi there all you people out there in blogland I wish I had something I can share with you guys. Any thing I write I think that is way too inappropriate. what I will do though is wait until I can post pictures and let them tell their own story. So until then see ya.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Who are these women
My son is getting married yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa right. He is my second of four sons. I know I should be happy, and I am but...
They say I am not loosing a son but gaining a daughter, trust me I feel like i am loosing a son.
He is in his second year of college. He is 24 years old He is on a partial scholarship and he is a straight A student.
the girl is one year older than him and she is very quiet and unglamourous she is also an excellent student.
Some days ago I met with the prospective in laws. It was no fun.
We are well into wedding planning and I find it easy to agree with most of their plans and with most young people they think they know best.
It is a bit strange being invaded by all these strange women. I wish back to the good old days when parents choose the wife for their sons. I will not let my sons choose curtains far less a wife. All in all I have been lucky no hoochy mammas well almost none.lol
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