heh last night i decided to go and watch the aviva opennnn! feel the rush! hahaha it was damn cool :D thanks to my sister's friends we got to sit in the vip area. wahhh so close to the stars! before we went i asked my sister if our cheap seats meant we would hardly be able to see anything. and she said: can see the match but cannot see faces :( then we met her friends and tadaaa we could see the match AND the faces!

we reached just in time for the start of li li's match! before her match started the whole stadium was like really quiet and you could only hear the players' footsteps and the twang of their racquets. when li li started to play, all of a sudden, the spectators like came alive. hahaha SINGAPORE mahh!i thought she played quite well in the first set... unfortunately for her, in the middle of the second set, they announced the commencement of a new match. peter gade! my sister said he's the top seed. and all the people who were cheering for her got up and moved toward the court for the gade match. massive migration! heh heh i followed so i could have a look at this angmoh who has stolen the singaporean hearts!i must admit there's something quite attractive about him. not in the hottt sense but as a pro player. haha my sister and her friends= mad peter gade fan club! they were sitting in the frontest row taking pictures and screaming GO PETER! hahah so cute. most of the spectators were like that. i felt so bad for the china guy (chen yu) he was playing cos it sounded like nobody was supporting him :( anyway it was supposed to be an easy match but it turned out to be super exciting and scary! haha not good for my heart at all! i found myself holding my breath and my pee cos i didn't want to miss anything. the match was so exciting that not even the arrival of singapore badminton king could distract the peter gade spectators!dum dum dummm. i didn't spot li jia wei in the audience though. haha anyway peter gade won 2-1 so my sister went to watch ronald susilo beat the nguyen tien minh (vietnam) while i stayed to watch chen hong obliterate bjoern joppien (germany). poor german guy. seriously outclassed. he kept swearing "bullshit!" and possibly other german terms i don't recognise.

next exciting match that got everyone moving again was kenneth jonassen (denmark) vs shoji sato (japan)!(obviously the angmoh in the back is jonassen and the asian guy in red in the foreground is sato) wah it was really really really exciting :D i think sato is uber cool. he's tiny and he looks like he's perpetually on a sugar high! jumping around like a mad person the whole time. jonassen was HUGE and steady. he won in the end :( oh well. i was so happy i went! well worth the $5! :D :D

then when we were leaving the stadium, my sister suddenly screamed: "omg they're all there!!!!" haha the players were hanging around outside the stadium waiting to go back to their hotel. so being the groupies that they are, my sister and her friends dragged me to help them take photographs. gade was nowhere to be seen. UTTER DISAPPOINTMENT. haha but still they had sato and jonassen.