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Oh yay i finally have something to blog about, yet shamefully i don't really have any photos to share with you guys. I'm still not used to having my camera around my neck like a lot of people, i find i have to always to be very protective of it and restrict my movement quite a bit.

Anywho, yesterday i went to the australian open which i haven't been for three years so i was incredibly excited. while in the previous post i may have been a bit annoyed, i was quite happy with the schedule of play for wednesday. so i arrived a little late and met up with V and S, we bought the Hisense tickets, but it was filling up pretty quickly so we got seats that were quite far up the stadium but it was alright. So first of all we walk around the promotional village thingy, which is basically a bunch of pitched up tents of different sponsors of the tennis, offering varying services and activities. it was so different to previous years, it used to be quite a distance from hisense arena. Now it's right outside hisense, and they have a blue matting laid out on the ground, i thought it was pretty cool. We mainly just wanted the freebies and didn't want to participate in anything really. while garnier didn't sponsor the tennis anymore which means no more of their awesome goody bag but that was ok, i still most of the products from the last time i went to the open. So we got some freebies, i cannot be bothered describing them so i just took a photo of them.

So off to our first match, which was Wozniacki vs King. We only came in about halfway during the match. As Wozniacki is the no.1 is was a pretty boring standard match. Seriously i didn't even know who she was until a couple of days ago. i felt sorry for King because she was beaten quite badly, 6-0 6-1 i think. 

then we left to walk around for a bit and trying to navigate our around, actually there were quite a few matches that we wanted to see but there wasn't enough time. we went to autograph island and saw Soderling, but we weren't allowed in the line because there wasn't enough time, but we did see him though, so good enough i guess. then we went back to see the Verdasco vs Tipsarevic match, it was quite intense. Everyone was expecting Verdasco to win as he is the higher ranking player, but he was down two sets when we came into the stadium. The match was awesome to watch, as there were many intense moments and fantastic shots. by the end of fourth set, i think Verdasco twisted his ankle a bit but he kept playing. when it was break time, there was a medic called, and everyone (well at least V,S and I thought so) thought it was for Verdasco, he ran over to Verdasco side but then he turned around and made his way over to Tipsarevic, which surprised us. We felt so stalkerish and creepy when we were watching through V's binoculars Tipsarevic getting his thigh rubbed with some ointment by the medic. And by the fifth set, i think Tipsarevic's leg was getting to him because Verdasco improved immensely and won the set with 6-0 and thus winning the match. The one thing that was bugging me was that it went on for around 4 hours, which we wouldn't be able to see Djokovic play. 

Then afterwards we saw the Sharapova vs Razzano match, it was alright, but still wasn't that exciting, although at the beginning, sharapova was lagging behind but eventually she caught up. her grunts were quite annoying after a while but i guess she's gotta do what she gotta's do. S and I left around 3/4 into the match because we needed to go to another thing. I didn't want to leave so early because i wanted to see Djokovic but it was alright because the Verdasco match was pretty awesome.

We were leaving to go have a picnic and moonlight cinema-ing for Sh's birthday surprise. It took us forever to find the actual location of moonlight cinema but eventually we made it. We were meant to go in through gate D which was right outside the tram stop we got off, but we totally missed the gate. and walked further down the avenue originally i was going to see the movie but then backed out because it was a scary movie and i didn't think that was able to handle it. we had a picnic before hand, and as always our picnic were awesome. I ate so much, partly because the food was right in front of me. Then we had to leave because the movie was starting, also we got told off by the worker at botanical gardens because apparently it was closed at 8. the botanical garden is so pretty and awesome though it was a little scary walking through it when it was getting dark, the bushes/trees kept making noises.

well that was my wednesday. Hope you guys also had a fun Wednesday too :)

Love Squealer,