March 3, 2004
.: Smack my bird up
There's a community centre just down the road from my apartment that, among other activities, holds pick up badminton games twice a week. Chris gave me a racket for Christmas and we've been meaning to head over and hit some birds and tonight was the first night we did so. There was a pretty diverse group of people there from a couple of guys our age to Roy the really old guy who drives in from Stittsville just to play. I got off to a very shaky start, but by the end of the night I was doing pretty good if I may say so myself. Roy was a big help in bringing me up to speed. One problem I had was the fact that, as a southpaw, everyone else there was a righty. I hit more than my fare share of my partner's rackets. Hopefully I can keep that to a minimum next week.
And yes, I stole the title of this post from the Yearbook's badminton page. I think Rishi came up with it originally.