How to celebrate a win like a Frenchman

The French players are always passionate especially when it comes to celebrating a win.

Julien Benneteau must be overjoyed defeating by Robin Soderling in their third round match at the French Open tennis tournament.

The world no. 55 celebrates by kissing the red clay court.

Then of course we love the part when he takes off his shirts!

Not enough of that, Benneteau takes off his Asics Gel Resolution shoes and throw them to the spectators.

However that's where he stops.

(Images from AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Andy Murray and Maria Sharapova are gay icons

It's official that Andy Murray and Maria Sharapova top the male and female tennis-pin ups amongst the gay community in the UK.

Gawd, the English gay men and gay women really have bad tastes.

Research conducted by dating website gay-PARSHIP.co.uk puts Murray and Sharapova atop a long list of players gay men and gay women would most like to date with.


Top 5 Male Tennis Pin-Ups are:

1 Andy Murray 24%
2 Mark Philippoussis 20%
3 Andy Roddick 18%
4 Roger Federer 18%
5 Rafael Nadal 14%

Speaking before his second round at the French Open, Andy said: "I'm flattered. The more fans I have, the better."


Top 5 Female Tennis Pin-Ups are:

1 Maria Sharapova 33%
2 Anna Kournikova 28%
3 Serena Williams 14%
4 Martina Hingis 11%
5 Ana Ivanovic 8%

Anna Kournakova might have hung up her sneakers a while ago, but that doesn’t stop her taking the second place.



(Images from andymurray.com and Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

It's a clear and sunny day!

It's clear in Roland Garros and hopefully there will be no more rains that will delay the French Open.

Say bye bye to my ear block!

It's also a clear and sunny day for me! Finally my ear block is gone. I've went through suction with an ENT specialist, Prof. Prepa at UM Specialist Centre yesterday. It's painless and in fact it's quite a cool experience (that's exactly what Che-Cheh convinced me).

Guess what? After the procedure, I can't stop smiling from ear to ear. It feels like a heavy burden has been lifted off my shoulder (or ears). I wasn't comfortable at the beginning and even a little bit now because it feels like I've just discover my superpower hearing. Now I realized how sound polluted our environment is!

Thank you everyone especially my loved ones for their patience, love and understanding. I know I've been moody for the past 2 weeks due to 'I can't hear you, you can't hear me' and 'you don't understand me' kind of situations. Thanks a lot to my boss for her understanding as well. And I can't thank enough of my blogging circle of friends here for your support and advice!

By the way, a lot of people have suggested that Prof Prepa is a very good ENT specialist. Now I'm one of them. I'm going to get him a thank you card later after work.

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Listening to my own voice (part 2)

Finally this morning I said to myself I had enough. I've been suffering for a week now due to ear blocked and it has been affecting my work, relationship and my lifestyle. I can't communicate properly due to partial hearing loss.

I thought probably Cerumol has helped me to loosen the wax and it's time to get a small procedure done. I am not entire mentally ready for the suction but I just can't take it anymore. Meeting an ENT expert is my last resort. Thank you to Che-Cheh for giving me some advice and confidence. It does help!

So I went to UM Specialist Centre (UMSC) and was consulted by Prof Dr. Prepa. I was told to use the ear drop (Cerumol) for few more days (in a correct way and sufficient amount) until the wax has loosen. And by Friday he'll have the suction procedure done.

Hence I still have to bear with the echo of my own voice inside my head. Haih... I need a dose or two of the French Open matches to numb myself already.