Saturday, September 27, 2008

Battle of the Sexes Part 2?

There's a major blooper on main page of the the tennis section of Yahoo! Sports: a headline reads "Jankovic, Sela to meet in Beijing Finals". I did a double take when I read that and thought, isn't Sela an ATP player? Or does he have a sister playing in the WTA? So I clicked on the link to the article whose title was obviously corrected and now reads "No. 1 Jankovic, unseeded Sela into finals in Beijing". Phew! For a while I thought it was a "remake" of that match between Billy Jean King and some male tennis player long time ago.

Correcting the conductor

The newly formed resident choir of our parish--for which I'm singing alto!--held its third rehearsal earlier tonight. Our conductor was pretty sharp as usual, quickly correcting us whenever we sang sharp or flat and when we were tended to drag or rush with our singing. That is, except for a few minutes when we were all singing together and because we didn't sound right, he kept interrupting to check on the singing of the altos. This happened two or three times until--as much as I hated to embarrass him by correcting his singing--I mustered the courage to approach him and say, "Ikaw yata ang late," referring to the tenor part which he was singing incorrectly because he kept coming in a measure late.