Tennis Masters Cup - yawn, yawn

Hmmm... the Tennis Masters Cup is turning out to be rather boring. To be fair, it's not because people are not playing properly or anything but more that this is supposed to be the year-end big match-up among the top 8 players in the world but obviously it's not. Only interested in watching Coria, though he is wearing some horrible body-hugging orange tee with shiny black stripes, and Nalbandian. Anyway, Coria is out, having lost 2 matches already, and I'm sure he is going to get creamed by Federer tonight. As I write this, he has lost the first set already. I must, say, though, his wife is beautiful, with her beauty queen looks. Not that that has anything to do with anything...

Last night was Gonzalez versus Gaudio and I thought who cares about Gonzalez versus Gaudio, and there was nothing else worth watching so I turned to Channel 55 and guess what, they are showing a re-run of the K serial Jewel in the Palace. As I said before, this is a really slow-moving show. They took one whole episode last night to prepare and present food for the Queen Mother's birthday. So why was I watching that whole long episode? Guess I wanted to know what happened to the kidnapped lady from the imperial kitchen (forgot what her title was) and who won the food preparation contest. And we have to wait till tonight's new episode to find out who won and when the kidnapped lady will return. I hope I don't get addicted to this show. There are 42 more episodes to go. Imagine sitting through 42 slow-moving episodes. Though I have to say that the show is interesting.

On weekends, though, there is this new K serial Love Story in Harvard, in which a cute girl (3rd year medical student) is pursued by 2 guys who speak incredibly atrocious English in the scenes where they have to speak English. Lovely environs, which turn out not to actually be Harvard but some place in California.

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A lesson in love

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