Did you watch the exciting 100m Final? New World Record set by Jamaican, Usain Bolt - 100m in 9.69 seconds. I was kinda sad that Tyson Gay didn’t qualify for the Finals and Asafa Powell came in 5th. Women 100m Final was another exciting race. Top 3 are Jamaicans hehe. My favourite was Muna Lee from the States.

And did you watch the 200m Heat and Quarter-Final today? Mauritian athlete, Stephan Buckland, is qualified for the 200m Semi-Final. Also, Bruno Julie, beats Venezuela’s Hector Manzanilla in the boxing tournament quarterfinals to clinch the first Olympic medal for Mauritius! Allez maurice!

Bruno Julie of Mauritius reacts after defeating Hector Manzanilla Rangel of Venezuela and during a men’s Bantamweight 54 kilogram quarterfinal boxing match at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. Photos from Yahoo.

Right now we are watching the Beijing Olympics live on TV. They are showing the 10k race. What an amazing running pace they are doing! We watched the 100m heats and quarter finals earlier today. Dar was all excited. Track and Field is indeed his favourite event. As for me, apart from track, I also enjoy watching gymnastic. Beijing has definitely changed since 2000. Would really love to visit that city again especially those places that I still remember and used to hang out - Sanlitun, Dongximenwai, Wangfujin… I wanna eat their street pancakes too hehe.

Anyway… time is flying by fast. It’s already mid August. I’m flying to Perth in about a month. I’m excited but at the same time not so looking forward to because I’m not going there to enjoy myself a.k.a holidays. We will be having lab classes everyday throughout the 2 weeks there and have to finish our 3 reports. This is my busiest semester.

Nowadays you can find me at a kid’s fitness gym almost everyday for a couple of hours and dealing with very young kids most of the time (10 months to 7 yrs). The tone of voice that I have to use is totally different from my normal everyday tone or when coaching. I’m still trying to adjust to that tone haa.

It’s almost midnight here. Night!

My latest painting.

I’m quite lazy to blog these days. Classes have started and most, if not all, of my weekends are burnt… I’m coaching kids on a part time basis. It’s fun but can be tiring too. My first session was a little nerve wracking, but once I did the first one and then the second, the rest went fairly quickly. Met up with my ex colleagues some time ago for dinner and movie. If you haven’t watched Wanted yet, you have to! Mum sent some thyme and coriander seeds and I’m trying to grow them. The thyme isn’t doing too well unlike the coriander.

We spent the day at Sentosa. The weather was lovely.

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My 2nd abstract (18′ x 36′). I messed up the right part but managed to patch it up by painting over the old paint. I’m using better oil paint (georgian oil colours) and brushes now and I can feel the difference when painting.