Congratulations to my niece for graduating from the 8th grade at St. Joan of Arc. She will be going to high school next school year, time flies doesn’t it?! lol
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Daily Archives: June 16, 2009
Oscar Velasquez
Last month, we celebrated Oscar’s birthday by doing the Baltimore Spirit Cruise. It was an hour and a half cruise of fun, good food, and good music. Definitely a good way to just relax and enjoy the company of your friends and the view of the water. Afterwards, we went to the Hard Rock Cafe, the ESPN Zone and we had dinner at Fogo de Chao. We had our cake back in our place and continued the fun by playing charades! Fun night!
Tennis
Every time I play a real tennis match I get this butterflies in my stomach. I don’t know why but I’m always like that. Of course, it does affect how I play because I tend to play it safe. What I mean is I don’t hit the ball as hard as I use to (like in practice). Any advise that you all can give me?
Anyway, I had my first official tennis singles match last month and surprisingly, I won! It was a 3.0 USTA Mens League and I actually couldn’t believe it myself. I won on a 3 set match, 7-6, 3-6, 6-4. I even twisted my ankle a lil bit on the second set. But I kept on playing, didn’t feel it really during the match but afterwards, I couldn’t even walk. But yeah, singles is a lot of fun. I like playing singles better than doubles now! lol
We played at Baker Park last weekend for the districts, we won the Baltimore County 6.0 League Mixed Doubles. Our team gets to compete with the other counties in Maryland and it was a great experience. This was the second time our team gets to the districts and last year, I lost my match. I think the score was 3-6, 4-6. But this year, I did a lot better. That’s because I had a lot more confidence on myself and I have more experience (considering I’ve only started playing tennis 3 years ago!). So we won my match, the scores was 6-3, 6-1 against Frederick County.
Congratulations, by the way, to Roger Federer for winning the French Open this year. He has tied with Pete Sampras with the most grand slam titles. I was hoping he would win it when Rafael Nadal got crushed by Soderling in the 4th round. With Pete Sampras not winning a French Open title in his career, in my opinion, Roger just became the best tennis player ever. Also, with Roger winning the French Open title, he also became the 6th player to achieve a Career Grand Slam.
Roger Federer winning the French Open 2009
late pics from April
I’ve been really putting off my blogging times for awhile now and I’ve decided tonight that I should start writing again. Well, am just going to put up some pics about what happened in my life during the month of April. Let’s see, it was my brother Hadji’s bday on April Fool’s Day, then it was Yali’s bday on the 15th, my Ninong Rudy’s bday was on the 18th as well as Laurenti’s, then it was Evelyn’s birthday on the 22nd (which was Earth Day). Anyway, this first set of pics were taken at Todai Restaurant located in DC (which was a great sushi buffet place btw!) following some bowling action at Arundel Mills Mall.
Now this set of pics was taken at the Melting Pot located at Towson celebrating Eve, Yali and Laurence’s bday. After dinner, we actually went to a comedy stand-up show of T-Rexx which was a lot of fun. It was held at the Comedy Factory at downtown Baltimore.