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back to volleyball

After months of abscence from volleyball court, i was back last night!

Since working, i tried to play badminton, tennis, swiming in order to "compesate" the time for volleyball. But i was always lazy to go to swim, feel pressured while playing badminton....em..................

until last night when i picked up volleyball again, i finally realized how different volleyball is to me when compare to other sports. I enjoyed sooooo much and besides a bit of muscle pain, i am looking forward to next weeks practice!!

viva volleyball!

waiting for ibata.....

When will i receive your reply????

anyway, i think you are always the best, the best also with araki!!!

DASKO - volleyball team or dinning team???

On monday, i went for dinner with my beloved volleyball team. Although i haven't restart my practice, we were all hitting off really great and all of us enjoyed the fantastic dinner!

Happy birthday to Lydia, Joanna (Janet) and Ma Ting!

It's almost full team that night, a lot more people than in practices???

Dragons beat Carp, win 6th straight

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Rookie right-hander Kenichi Nakata has brought stability to the Chunichi Dragons' rotation, hurling his second strong outing in eight days in a 3-1 victory over the Hiroshima Carp at Nagoya Dome.

The Dragons stretched their most recent winning streak to six games as Nakata (4-2), who started the string on Aug. 21 by tossing seven shutout innings to beat the Yokohama BayStars, scattered six hits--including Kenta Kurihara's 10th homer--and struck out nine over seven innings.

Nakata, who hadn't made a start for more than three months before taking the mound last week, got behind when Kurihara jumped on mistake in the fourth inning and sent it over the fence in center for a 1-0 lead.

But Masahiko Morino drove a pitch from loser Kenny Rayborn (2-2) into the seats in right with two aboard to account for all three Chunichi runs in the bottom of fourth.

It was Morino's first homer this season at Nagoya Dome.

"They scored on us first, but we came right back and put up some runs in the bottom of the inning," the outfielder said.

"I wanted to be aggressive [in the at-bat] from the start, and at least come out of it with a sacrifice fly," said Morino, who added that he knew he had gotten it all.

The second-place Dragons, who kept pace with the front-running Hanshin Tigers with their second six-game winning streak, travel to Koshien for a three-game set that starts on Tuesday.

GO GO DRAGONS!! BEAT TIGER!!!

Jogging in Richmond Park

Last friday, Minori went to Kingston and stayed in my dom that night. Saturday morning, i went downtown with her to enjoy a great breakfast. Before that, i never notice there are so many nice little cafe for breakfast. I FEEL SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!! Saw a very cute baby there:

After Minori left to central london for her book shopping, i went back to my dom and my dear flatmate - joey (whom had already finish all assignments and exams) ask me to go jogging with him. I still remember the last time i jog was quite long ago. Although i still have 2 assignments waiting for me, i decided to get some exercise.

Richmond park is really very pretty, i didn't went to the pond last time. So this time it was really beautiful to see so many swans, here are some of the pictures of them:

Pretty swan shot............

Pretty swans with pretty girl.................

Ready to take off.................

We jog for almost 1 hour and a half, i was sooo tired that i just lie down on the grass. However, i didn't notice that there are soooo many deer SHIT on the grass.....so when you see this picture, you can imagine i was acutally lying on.....................yurk!

And probabaly this is the one will POO those SHIT..........hahaha

Anyway, i was really dirty and tired when i went home....what a nice time!

Basketball night

I could never imagine i am playing all kinds of sports here in UK........

As i grew up, i decided to focus on volleyball instead of playing all kinds of sports as i do in my early days in school. However, at the year of 2004 - 2005, everything changed.

I am now playing tennis, badminton and even basketall tonight! Someone in our hall somehow managed to a 3 on 3 basketball court in one of the small school downtown. That's why tonight we get the chance to play basketball. There were a total of 11 people there including me, so we decided to play 4 on 4. I am glad that although i am the only girl among them, they still let me play with them. Hor Hor, to be honest, i haven't been playing basketball since high school, however, i still manage to score some points (not many though) for my team!

I think most of the guys there really love playing basketball and really haven't been playing for a while, coz they become so different when they play, everyone is very serious. Lastly, a lot of them have muscle cramp until there were only 6 people left, i got the chance to play towards the end!

I think when you got little chance to exercise, you always wanted to grap every chance, that's why i think all kinds of sports are fun to me nowadays.....

My dear teammates, i hope i will still remember how to play volleyball when i come back!