Of Random Thoughts & Musings

This post came too late as the Edge Coaster adventure happened in December 2008. Yes, I persuaded myself into getting into that edge-of-the-seat ride - literally - just to get a feeling of the spectacle.

True enough, I felt that I was being thrown into nothingness, into the void that every Cebuano knows to be MacDonald’s Jones. My uncle is a member of Club Ultima so the ride was basically free.

Rates include 390 for entrance fee (good for two people, with free snacks) and 500 for the ride itself (good for two people). Basically, you need to spend 500 pesos each for the whole experience.

Prior to the ride, the attendant puts… Continue reading

Truly, the four-hour-twenty-three-minute finals between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal was a match full of drama. It is full of emotions, especially that Roger is chasing to equal Pete Sampras’ record of 14 Grand Slam titles (currently, Roger has 13), and Rafa was wanting to be the first Spanish to win the Australian Open Title on his best ever performance at a hardcourt Grand Slam - yet!

As the clock approaches dawn, the match became increasingly tense, and perhaps, the mental pressure that Nadal has inflicted on the mighty FedEx’s psyche is getting through. With a series of unforced errors from the world No. 2, he gave Nadal his first Australian Open… Continue reading

Figuratively, yes, I did surive a heart attack. This is after the semi-final match between my Rafa and Fernando Verdasco of Spain (Rafa’s friend and team mate at the Davis Cup). The match lasted 5 hours and 14 minutes! And every minute of it was nerve-racking, heart-pounding and jaw-dropping!

In all fairness to Verdasco, he did everything he could. He had almost 100 winning shots, compared to Rafa’s 52! In the end, experience really mattered. In the 5th set, at 4-5 (Verdasco serving), he double faulted, and Rafa broke him and win the match!

The match came down as one of the historic matches in the Australian… Continue reading