there was the cute indian man who came all the way from india (duh! haha) to watch the tournament. he's been here for three years already but isn't coming back next year (so he says.) i think this year's organisation pissed him off quite a bit la. but hope he still comes! 'cos we (candy and I) didn't have the chance to take photo with him!! yucks la he's here everyday except the last day when i brought camera to take photo with all the interesting people. arggghh
yah there was another guy from china (not sure if he's working here or came here specially). he's damn funny la!! everyday we'll print the match schedules out and people will take. so on this particular day there were a lot of matches being played and the schedules thingy was 3 pages long. so obviously to save paper we printed on both sides. then he only saw the 1st and 3rd page and was asking us "what happens from XXXX to XXXX (time)" (in chinese of course) hahaha i was like uhh.. zai zhe li, pointing to the 2nd page. and i laughed LOL. aiyah he so cute he laughed at himself too and was like trying to explain that in his company they only print on one side.
the funniest thing was the next day he came back (the schedule was only one page), candy and I recognised him la and were like smiling at him because of what happened the day before. then he realised we were laughing at him and he said in a joking tone "xiao she me!?" HAHA. so cute! totally cheered up my whole day.
i wanted to take photo with him too!! saw him on sat when i brought my camera but i was talking to this survey-person. and i thought "never mind, there's still one more day, can take tomorrow what!" but ARGHHH he didn't come back!! so in the end i was in quite a bad mood on sunday. no indian man no chinese man. to think we were joking about giving posters to both of them (cos of the excellent entertainment they provide) and making them take photo together. sighh
and of course with this job comes an ALL ACCESS backstage pass that allows us to take a sneak peak of the indoor stadium. even the room we had to report to was classy. "support artiste room". sounds so nice la. lol. i didn't know they had so many AUTOGRAPHED posters hanging along the backstage corridors.
random thought: i want to work in sistic next time!! then can see all those big stars. and i really want to steal the posters..hahaha
and then there's the chance to meet ALL THOSE HOT GUYS and girls
candy and I were desperately finding excuses (things to photocopy) to pop by the tournament secretriat room by the longest way we can think of to meet all the people doing warm-ups and cool-downs and stuff. saw people like PETER GADE (3 times!! hahaha ok so what if i intentionally went down at times i know he'll being doing warm-ups? lol. he looks damn young for his age) - he's the champion of the tournament btw, BAO CHUNLAI (this chinese player, he's supposed to be good, PLUS PLUS PLUS. he's YOUNG.. only 23!! haha. quite shuai but super fair. shall elaborate more on him when i post photos), RONALD SUSILO and his super cool coach who drives a motorbike home lol (erm my only comment is that he's not very tall but he seems like a nice guy), then there were the few people that i don't know the names of.
oh i saw donna kellogg too (doesnt it remind you of the brand of cereal?) she's quite pretty!
i guess non-badminton fans (like myself actually, haha) must be bored by now.
photos!
the info booth. (see those papers under the blue bar? most of it is homework. LOL there was a lot of spare time la!)
ok i know this is damn small but on the left it's bao chunlai and on the right it's peter gade.
haha i was supporting bao chunlai 'cos he's ASIAN and LEFT HANDED!! (ok lah he's cuter AND younger) but he lost anyways.
you see the man beside the pillar (and dustbin) wearing the china windbreaker
that's BAO CHUNLAI!! lol! and he's JUST OPPOSITE the info booth la.
probably the most exciting thing that happened on sunday
but too bad for the bunch of annoying people who kept asking to take photos with him
he left!
gade after his win. couldn't get close shots where i was. =/
but here's a closeup! not at singapore open though. this was thomas cup
guess his age!! tag okk. he's still quite hot for a relatively old man. lol.
HE'S MY NEW IDOL!! HAHA
(at this point in time i know xueli's going "i took photo with him!!". arghh yes i know)
oh yah! there's the cool worker guy candy likes haha but didnt manage to take photo of him too.
HE SMOKES >.<
well there's always next year to take more photos! =/
