Thursday 11pm

Today was a very quiet day, Makati streets were empty more than I have ever seen before. I had a very lazy day trying to recover from this tourney, Thursday was a day off, semi finals are tomorrow and Finals on Saturday. Keeyan is through to the semis, he's only turned 9 in September but you should see him play......... incredible.
There is 2/3 players that I would love to take home with me, Keeyan and Carla both 9 years old but awesome players and I have a soft spot for both of them. These asian players are away ahead of their counterparts in the UK, they are put under match pressure as soon as they play, in the Uk we protect that age group from any pressure and the parents even complain that they are still under too much pressure. This may be one of the reasons that the Asians are so far ahead of us in this sport. Over here the players have to deal with all the spectators standing courtside and your opponants supporters cheer and scream at every mistake you make, at home we protect then from that, no-one is allowed courtside other than coaches and we only applaud when our players play a good shot but not when the opponent makes an error. These tourneys are played over a full week and players have to take days off from school for each round that go through on, that would never happen in the UK, education always come first, I can't even get some players to compete on a Saturday as they attend school even then, oddly enough it is the Asian british players that refuse to play as their parents push them in their education.

I will put some video on this weekend, it just takes so long to edit it. But hopefully will be worth the wait.

Would you adam and eve it, the UK is just as bad as the Phils, I tried to do a simple transfer of cash from the Alliance & Leicester to another bank account that I have, I put in my 9 digit account no, then my 12 digit ID number and finally my 5 digit pin number.... is that enough... no.... during the transfer it asks for 2 digits from my password..... which one is that ???.... so it doesn't work and locks me out of my accounts but says that I have to ring them to renew my password.
I ring them in the UK and get put on hold while listening to some crap music which is costing me lots to listen to...... I get through to an advisor........ asks me lots of questions regarding 3 accounts that I have with them... I know the exact figures as I had access to them at the time (problem was only during transfer)... is that enough.... no she said I haven't given her enough security answers even though I have answered all her questions correctly... apparently the automatic answer machine should have asked me questions before I spoke to her.... ok I say just ask me the questions yourself and I will answer them......... sorry she says I can't do that... what are the questions I ask..... sorry she says I can't tell you........................what can I do then to solve this problem............ she says ring the auto phone .... but I have been told online that I must speak to an advisor to change my password.............. sorry she can't help and suggests that I ring back....... I'm getting a little bit peeved by this time.
I rings back.... go through the auto security questions..... no problems so far and speak to a security advisor... I answer all her questions and she is satisfied and tells me she is going to transfer me to another advisor that can give me a new password.............. Nooooooooooooooooo please wait as I can't go into another queue my phone is running out of credit........... I'm transferred.... the voice says you are in a queue and will be answered in approx 5 mins............. 3 mins later my phone is cut off as the credit has run out !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I search the site for an email address to complain to........... sorry you can only contact the Alliance and Leicester by telephone..................arrggggggghhhhhhh !!! Where's that rope !!