so, last night i was up till around 6 watching the olympics figure skating pairs live. my gosh it was breathtaking. especially the china duo who skated to paganini's variations on a fugue, the way they choreographed their programme was fantastic. and then there was this young canadian couple who did a really sprightly programme that was cute in so many places- and she's only 18! i am definitely wasting my life here. eventually i was a bit disappointed when the russians won because their performance was less interesting than many others, but their twists and pivots were PERFECTLY in sync, even when they played it back in slow motion. it was crazy. it reminded me a bit of when alina kabaeva won the all arounds for rhythmic gym at athens. i guess maybe the key to being safe is to be boring.

apart from that, the other big even was the JGs on friday. i was actually kinda worried the night before because it's my first time taking a team at the nats by myself and obviously i don't want to get my ass raped by some unknown secondary school. that would be embarrassing. anyway i was relieved that everything we anticipated came out, but it was too bad that the girls were nervous so they didn't make full use of the rebuttals we prepared, plus one of them dropped a whole page of her substantive. sigh. and that would definitely have made another kickass first prop speech, so i was disappointed to say the least. ah well, on the whole i was quite proud of my work =D and, i was hugely shocked when the other school i coached won their round even though we've only trained like twice. call me a lousy coach but i definitely was not expecting that! i guess in C div there always little surprises in store, haha.

otherwise, movie reviews!

fearless- apparently it's super hyped because it's jet li's last kungfu film, but this of course meant nothing to me since i've never actually been a huge fan of jet li or kungfu. anyway, apart from the usual blood spattering there were a few really stylo sequences, like the bit where jet li is about to topple off a 5 storey high scaffolding but stops himself by doing a gravity defying YOGA POSITION. as mark pointed out, who ever knew yoga could be so handy eh?

match point- an EXCELLENT woody allen film! johnathan rhys myers totally lives up to his gay rep, although mandy maintains that nothing can beat his gay jog in bend it like beckham. i actually quite agree. plus, this time he wears lots of suits and we all know suits limit how gay you can be. the plot was amazing and in fact very disturbing, especially when he murders an old lady and his pregnant mistress with a SHOTGUN. i mean ordinarily you would just think how retarded is that! but the way he did it was so clever that it made up for the stupidity of the shotgun. the unnerving bit was how he managed to get away with it by a disgusting stroke of luck. if it happened in real life it would totally be the cue to say 'there is no God'. anyway scarlett johanson has this very unusual sexiness about her- she's sorta voluptious and hot in a very unconventional way. very 50s kinda thing. but overall the movie was excellently shot so everybody should go watch it!

whee, off to lunch now! :)