{"id":824,"date":"2007-09-11T23:08:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T03:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/2007\/09\/11\/31-2\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T23:08:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T03:08:22","slug":"31-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"3:1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\">Only 5 players showed up for work tonight.\u00a0 When there is too many people around at the badminton, you&#8217;ll have to wait for your turn.\u00a0 But when there isn&#8217;t, you don&#8217;t get pump up as much.\u00a0 It&#8217;s only Simon and I.\u00a0 We played for a good 20 minutes before Sammy and his wife showed up.\u00a0 Then John.\u00a0 So Simon and I played 4 sets against Sam\/John.\u00a0 Was good.\u00a0 We lost 2nd set (was down 12:1 but\u00a0 we chased hard, lost 15:9 eventually)\u00a0and won the rest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\">It&#8217;s humid and hot.\u00a0 During the water break, John talked about his daughter who&#8217;s going to college next Sept.\u00a0 She wants to go to Harvard, &#8220;she likes the atmosphere of Boston..\u00a0\u00a0but\u00a0she won&#8217;t do any extra preparation .. has too many other obligations at school.&#8221;\u00a0 Although she\u00a0had perfect scores on SAT II, but only has 2100 on SAT.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;m thinking NYU or Cooper Union .. .. but if the tuition is an upward $40k at NYU, then I&#8217;d rather it be Harvard .. but I don&#8217;t think she can get in ..&#8221;\u00a0 Whatever, I&#8217;m just listening.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'\">Boston is a great city, a college town.\u00a0 It&#8217;s my distant #2 choice after NY to live.\u00a0 Heidelberg is another cool college town,\u00a0so is Cambridge (UK).\u00a0 \u00a0Geneva is also a good place to live, it has water for summer and ski is just short drive in the winter time .. but for a Chinese or Asian in that matter,\u00a0US beats out Europe by a large margin.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 5 players showed up for work tonight.\u00a0 When there is too many people around at the badminton, you&#8217;ll have to wait for your turn.\u00a0 But when there isn&#8217;t, you don&#8217;t get pump up as much.\u00a0 It&#8217;s only Simon and I.\u00a0 We played for a good 20 minutes before Sammy and his wife showed up.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}