Badminton meetup
My first foray into meetups took place yesterday. It was brokered by Google, and my agent was the international site www.meetup.com. The commonality: badminton, of course. I need to work on my defenses and that requires working on my offense as well, so I made a decision to improve my smashing too. I needed more playmates :o) and I needed variety.
I chose the group Badminton Buddies because they were playing in the Central Singapore area. Last night the venue was the HDB Hub, which had 4 rubberized courts and clean-smelling locker and shower rooms. The meetup was to be at 8pm so I had time to go home, have dinner, and take the 15-minute walk to the venue. Very convenient indeed.
When I arrived they had already started warming up. I found my host, Daniel. He had a warm smile, short spiky white hair, tanned from outdoors (I think). There was no formal introduction to the rest of the group, and I later learned that there were a lot of first-timers like me. We had an Indonesian national player with us (I wanted to ask for an autograph!!), and his ankle injury did not deter him from jump smashing. Incredible power, I feel my racquet will break if I return his smash (and succeed). 
I played mostly women’s though I wanted to play doubles with NP guy (nat’l player). There will be a next time. I can wait. Can’t say I learned much that night, but the returns are not nil either. It’s time to hit the books tonight, and do some shadowing.
But first, I must finish creating my input files, test records, and data preparations. Yep, time to get back to work. =D
