Jason’s Exodus

1) I reckon Sam Stosur is allergic to Melbourne Park. I wasn’t surprised, but, well, Tomic is still going. Speaking of which …

2) I recall watching Tomic’s match against Djokovic in the Wimbledon quarter-final. In that game, I noted that whilst Tomic’s A-game was clearly very good, his B and C-games just could not match Novak’s. This year, Tomic appears to be a more mature player. He clearly knows how to win a tennis match, and he also doesn’t appear to be a jerk – always a plus. Time is on his side, and so even if he fails against Dolgopolov tomorrow, in the coming years I think we’ll see him becoming a consistently top player.

3) As far as sports on television go, tennis is a strange beast. In the early rounds, there are heaps of matches going on at the same time, but the attention is generally given to the big names or Aussies. However, with matches involving big names in early rounds, they tend to be walkovers. That can, sadly, also apply to the Aussies. This means that, well, it’s not that entertaining. Now, seven does cut to more interesting stuff on the other show courts every so often, but I’d rather watch something that was interesting all the way through. Then again, tennis matches don’t tend to be interesting all the way through. The first few games of a set can be somewhat bland if the two are holding back for a bigger, more important game in the set a little further. Not often do you see people going all out in the first game of a set.

4) I’d rather watch a bunch of bikes riding competitively in South Australia with the voice of Phil Liggett commentating than the tennis. Well, Australian coverage of tennis anyway. I hear John McEnroe is a much more exciting commentator. Anyway. I am not afforded this opportunity because nine are a bunch of n00bs. Instead, they offer such fare as The View and Days of Our Lives. As if I’m going to watch a highlights package at 11:30 at night! I’m not waiting up to watch that! Maybe they assume that because Le Tour is on at that kind of hour, cycling watchers are used to destroying their sleep time? People stay up that late to watch things LIVE, not as HIGHLIGHTS.

Going into this series, I wasn’t entirely confident that Australia had what it took to take down the likes of Dravid, Tendulkar and Laxman. I thought that there might be a draw or two.

Well, screw that.

India are a pale shadow of a test team. Bangladesh could well be more competitive than this. None of them have made a ton in this series. Whilst at the SCG, on a batsman’s paradise, they threatened to do so, they failed to convert into 3-figures.

On the other hand, Australia seem to have innumerable depth of pace talent. In the series against NZ, Mitchell Starc was, well, another guy. But yesterday he showed us how good he can be, especially when he got Tendulkar out. I cannot believe that we have destroyed India. I cannot believe that I have lost so many potential days of watching cricket because they have failed to make it to day 5 these three times, and to day 4 at the WACA. I do hope that India plays a whole bunch of different guys in Adelaide ‘for the heck of it’. They have nothing to lose now, they may as well throw in their young guys (if they have any). Let’s hope we see a good 5 days of test cricket next week.

PS. I hate you channel 9 for taking the Tour Down Under from SBS and then putting it on at 10:30 at night. I could’ve had some sport to watch in the afternoon if it were on SBS.

Obligatory Christmas post so you all know I’m still kicking.

This year has seen a lot of action, both in my life and around the world.  Who would’ve thought that we’d have seen so much protest action, in particular, the Arab spring?  Let us hope that true peace can come again to that part of the world.
So let us celebrate again the coming of he who creates shalom, our Lord and Saviour.  Have a great new year peeps.

So, it’s official. The Student Union is still useful because I have to get the gowns, etc. through them. :p

But seriously, yes, a little bit of not-yet has become now. A little bit more will come through in a few months, when I’ll be walking the steps to the stage at Angel Place and shaking hands with the Archbishop or duly reverenced representative as he gives me a little piece of paper saying that I successfully completed 4 yrs of Moore College with a distinction average.

It’s all I really wanted to know. Well, I didn’t need to know the honours part, though the marks from the transcript are curious enough. I didn’t know, for instance, that another mark would’ve sent my church history paper into HD land. Geez, maybe I should’ve cleaned it up a bit more. But I am content. I originally had more modest thoughts about where church history would sit in the marking equation. Also, I think these are the highest marks I’ve pulled for a ministry subject. How nice of Archie. Enough of my product will be lying around in JB’s document depository (let the 4th year understand), though I don’t really want to read my own stuff again.