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When I think backOn these times
And the dreamsWe left behind
I'll be glad 'causeI was blessed to get
To have you in my life
When I look backOn these days
I'll look and see your face
You are there for me
[CHORUS:]In my dreamsI'll always see you soar
Above the sky
In my heart
There always be a place
For you for all my life
I'll keep a partOf you with me
And everywhere I am
There you'll be
Well you showed me
How it feels
To feel the sky
Within my reach
And I always
Will remember all
The strength you
Gave to me
Your love made me
Make it through
Oh, I owe so much to you
You were right there for me
[Repeat chorus]'Cause I always saw in you
My light, my strength
And I want to thank you
Now for all the ways
You were right there for me
You were right there for me
For always[Repeat chorus]

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EEEEEE! MATH MYE! my ultimate fear is finally here....and well, over. but still, i am sure i flunked it. i mean, who woulldn't if they left 4 major questions blank? it will be a total miracle if i manage to pass, seriously, like duh... oh, and the exam was freaking hard. my hand was freaking shaky, my paper was freaking crumpled. my eyes were freaking closing, my legs were freaking shaking, my mind was freaking spinning and everything was in a blur until i noticed the teacher saying: you may start. paper 1 was fine. but i am sure i would fail paper 2. i did not know how to do almost all of the equation and simplification questions! yeah, i know, i suck at math horribly. can't seem to get all the questions right for like....even if i go to tuition for a zillion number of times for 10 consecutive lives in like an eternity.....well, okay, i am exaggerating. sigh....chinese was no better, i am feeling very emotional over letter writing. i wrote down the recipient's address instead of the sender's one! aaaah! my mom is going to kill me! instead, skin me alive, i may suffer a fate worse than death....okay, yeah, figuratively. but argh! i am totally depending on science now to pull my marks up! please, let me have an easy science paper!!!! yeah, like that will happen. crescent girls' school is not for show, it also has a reputation for setting extremely difficult papers. and no, when i say difficult, i mean its like raffles and nanyang. okay, and i mean it, like, seriously. no, i am not exaggerating this time.
and tuition.....argh, i can't bear to talk about it, since i seriously have no mood to go to tuition. sure, i am falling asleep like....basically every session! but i seriously have to keep awake in science its my only hope now.
nothing is new except roger federer won monte carlos! yay! over nadal! go roger, you rock forever!

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okay, i asure you that this is going to be a long one. want to know why? that's because it is a biography of the greatest tennis player of all times and my favourite tennis superstar and idol: roger federer.
Roger Federer (pronounced /ˈrɒdʒər ˈfɛdərər/[1]; born August 8, 1981) is a Swiss tennis professional, ranked World No. 1 since February 2, 2004, for a record 221 consecutive weeks.[2] Many tennis critics, past legends of the game, and his own peers consider him as having the potential to be the greatest player in history.[3] In 2008, he was named Laureus World Sportsman of the Year for a record fourth consecutive time.[4]
Federer has won twelve Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Open, five Wimbledon, four US Open), four Tennis Masters Cup titles, and fourteen ATP Masters Series titles. In addition to this, he holds many records in the game, including having appeared in ten consecutive Grand Slam men's singles finals (2005 Wimbledon Championships through to 2007 U.S. Open).
Contents[hide]
1 Personal life
2 Tennis career
2.1 2001
2.2 2002
2.3 2003
2.4 2004
2.5 2005
2.6 2006
2.7 2007
2.8 2008
3 Playing style
3.1 Equipment and apparel
4 Records
5 Awards
6 Career statistics
6.1 Grand Slam singles finals (14)
6.1.1 Wins (12)
6.1.2 Runner-ups (2)
6.2 Tennis Masters Cup singles finals (5)
6.2.1 Wins (4)
6.2.2 Runner-up (1)
6.3 ATP Masters Series singles finals (21)
6.3.1 Wins (14)
6.3.2 Runner-ups (7)
6.4 Career finals (82)
6.4.1 Singles (71)
6.4.1.1 Wins (54)
6.4.1.2 Runner-ups (17)
6.4.2 Doubles (11)
6.4.2.1 Wins (7)
6.4.2.2 Runner-ups (4)
6.5 Singles performance timeline
6.6 ATP Tour career earnings
7 References
8 Further reading
9 Video
10 See also
11 External links
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[edit] Personal life
Roger Federer was born in Basel, Switzerland,[5] to Swiss-German Robert Federer and South African Lynette Federer. He grew up in suburban Münchenstein, ten minutes from Basel and close to the borders with France and Germany. As a boy, Federer was very emotional and was kicked off practice courts occasionally.[citation needed] Federer was also a talented football player[citation needed]. He had considered becoming a professional football player but instead decided to pursue tennis. He continues to support FC Basel, his hometown club and is a fan of Italian club AS Roma.[6][7] When he was younger, he liked to watch Marcelo Ríos in action.[8] Federer especially liked Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg and Marcelo Rios and has cited them as idols.[5]
Federer currently resides in Oberwil, Switzerland and is dating former WTA player and Slovakia-born Miroslava Vavrinec (Mirka), who retired from tennis in 2002 after a foot injury. The two met at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Federer launched a fragrance called RF Cosmetics in October 2003.[9] He considers Swiss German his first language, but also speaks German, French, and English fluently[6] and conducts press conferences in all three. His favorite vacation spots are Dubai, the Maldives and the Swiss mountains.[6] [10] He is also a good friend of golf superstar Tiger Woods. Federer is Roman Catholic, and met Pope Benedict XVI while playing the Rome Masters in 2006.[11]
Roger Federer is highly involved in various charities. He established the Roger Federer Foundation in 2003 to help disadvantaged people and to promote sports to young people. He was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF from 2006. Since then, he has visited Tamil Nadu, one of the worst tsunami-affected areas in India, and South Africa. He has also appeared in UNICEF public messages to raise public awareness of AIDS.

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i finally changed my skin, thanks to hwee min, she taught me how....okay, she did it, news update on roger federer: beat david nalbandian at the recent monte carlos tournament. yay! federer's better than ever and moving on people! i love him! did you see how he defeated nalbandian? they were playing on clay...and they could slide on the surface too! how cool is that?! i know its MYE week and i should be studying, but still....who can resist tennis? i mean, its better to watch than soccer games, thats for sure, maybe not in a guy's point of view, sigh, what can i do? i dun think a dozen people running on a field chasing a ball is very gratiying. unlike, tennis, look at the poise, the game and everything! i just love it!
mom's being on my heels lately, since its mid year exams. yeah, i've also been studying very hard( i think so), so i can get good results, but i am a major flunker in maths, so getting 80 percent and over is like....mission impossible 4, yeah, maybe i could make a movie about it and ask tom cruise to play the title character....yeah, maybe, its totally wishful thinking....on my part. now the tv series in my life is gossip girl. i've read the books, and on tv its even better, to me(although some may not think that way)...ah hem, but as the saying goes....great minds think alike......(sorry, i just humiliated myself).
i am going to go off now, to try to get a cbox....yeah, wish me luck people, for my exams and getting a cbox successfully.;D

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i hate this, yeah i noticed i changed font, thank you very much. it's because i have simply nothing to do. you know why i dun want to put a cbox in my blog? that is because i dun want anyone to spam on it, thats what happened last time to my first blog. which is very irritating....to me. you know what, this font is pretty nice. its very spacious and large and easy to read! gosh, i got to go, its already time for tuition! tata for now!

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god, i have this tendency that i would fail my MYE for english!!! especially for the letter writing part! god! how do i describe my first impression of the school? so instead of writing about my first impression, i explained the entire thing. which is, i know, very ridiculous. yeah, since i totally forgot about my first impression of the school. oh, and i think the composition was very well done! okay, i am not blowing my trumpet! but still, i wrote about a family outing i disliked. in which there are 1 minor problems and 2 major problems. which i know is idiotic. and i can't seem to concentrate today. and i drafted the summary 4 times! cos every single time there's like an extra word or two, but in the end, i handed up with one extra letter at the back. but then i wrote 100 words at the end of the letter anyway, a slight miscalculation. aaaah! now i have to get ready for math! my biggest fear, especially in equation!!! sigh, people, wish me luck
sorry that my entries are so short, i seriously have nothing to write.

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you know, i hate exams, and that has to be the understatement of the year. this is so not going my way. i dun have the mood to study, to revise and....to train, nowadays i am simply too tired. yeah, and guess what, i hate this. MYE english is tomorrow and i haven't even started revising yet. sure, i mean, i did read up a few articles, but thats it. its not what you willl call proper revision, as none of my revisions are as shabby as this one. and the thing which is unacceptable is that even thought it is near the exams i am BORED!!!! i don't know what came over me, but i really don't have any interest in anything anymore. this is so unlike me, this year, mom didnt revise and recap with me, but i depended fully in school and during tuition sessions. but, as usual, my math sucks, especially on the darned topic called equation. i can't seem to get the signs right, and they are just simply so confusing. my mom said that she will get me a new pair of badminton shoes if i get a 80 percent for every subject, which is deemed impossible since i know my DNT sucks as my entire artifact is ruined by.....sad to say....myself. i guess i am just not good at this. and another weak subject is actually science. if i revise, i can do well, but only in direct questions. questions like convection and radiation i cannot do, as they are simply too indirect. meaning they are not straight from my notes, thus additional from this, i have to copy down some frequently asked science questions and that certainly sucls, since i copied down one whole chunk of notes on the topic of heat. and yeah, i created a new account on friendster, but sigh, i seriously dunno what i can do there. now, i am posting during curriculum time, as i dun really have time to post at home, as i spend half the time reading and copying notes, oh and on msn. and sometimes on facebook and friendster. but thats it. i dun play any online games, but occasionally i watch some videos on drama and sports, especially tennis. updates on roger federer: he recently beat 137th seed(dunno his name) in monte carlos open. and oh, roger rocks on forever!

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god, this is supposed to be lscep lesson and is supposed to be interesting! but apparently, its kinda bored, and for one reason- i am going to sleep. yeah, i suppose i have nothing better to do than to post on my blog. havent done so in a long time, maybe i should do it during every lscep lesson. yeah, i think i will. oh, yes, and this april 26th is fiorina's birthday! happy birthday fee! f.y.i, people, her blog url is: musiq-rockz-mysoul.blogspot.com
yeah so people, go visit it. i havent put it as a link yet, but i am going to do so when i get home, and lscep has officially come to an end! oops, gotta go
ms shervon is walking towards me

20:26
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ok, peeps, i am going to repeat everything i said in class today...."I WANT MY CLASS TEE TO BE POLO WITH COLLAR! sigh....but apparently polo was.....fighting a losing battle. yeah, i was disappointed, but we settled for crewneck. and yeah, the material chosen was cotton. and we are deciding on the design as i typed out this post. yeah, and the colour up for nominations are green and black and green and black and green and....gosh, what the hell am i typing? sorry, what i mean is colours who are running are green, black, and well.....others are not out yet. i am so bored and there's a science test later on! this period is suppose to be PE. well, the only consolation will be that i dun need to go for my 2.4 km run. yeah, it was the great(sweet escape). and yeah, apparently the class commitee decided on a design, they have decided to write some kinda stuff like.....we're bonded, are you? i mean, its ridiculous. can we just like....keep the design simple? we can just ask the company to draw up a jigsaw or desks and chairs and put the names of our classmates in. isn't it more nicer and simpler? and oh, less time consuming too. yeah, and i want a poem on the front! look, i 've even thought of it:
roses are red, violets are blue
c2is bonded,
what about you?
see, its like totally proffesional, isn'it? i mean, the class wanted the bonding thing, and its even included in the poem, so pro right? i am so going to copyright it, patent is and even trademark it. the idea is so fresh and original. and yeah, jigsaw puzzle we can put to the back, and the girl we will put beside the poem, and heey presto! it's done! finito! see? all those time we wasted wasnt even worth it. i mean, this design is simple yet sophisticated at the same time. and forget about nicknames! just put your real names! god, your parents chose these names not for you to change, but to keep, people!!!! where are your sense of filial piety? (okay, maybe not that extreme.) but still......the entire tee should be black!!!!!! gosh, i am so emo now. and i want to get back to sleep! woke up so early this morning and the class commitee wanted to use first period to discuss the class tee. i mean, we should get ms lin's approval first, cos green and clack is such a weirdo combination.
ok, i have to go. more later!

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i am so gonna puke, its raining like....every single day! no fair! i want sunny weather! and i am going for my 2.4km run tomorrow, and i haven't even had a single practice, i just got back from badminton training and i am tired, tired, tired, i mean, you would be, after you played with a professional player who has a coach as a father, you would feel like you died and went to crescent heaven. that was how i felt. my finger was bleeding like mad today and did not bother to stop. i had to get ice, water and plaster for it, and oh, there is still math homework! math! math! math! please, i am not enthusiastic about it, i am protesting against it, since i hate math i totally flunked the first to tests in math, and i had to go for retest and remedial. seriously, the thing s that i am just freaking weak in dumb algebra. if not for algebra, i would not need to stay back on monday for remedial. i would have gone home and played games for all i care. seriously, you would think like me. after all, the saying: great minds think alike. i totally agree. not that i have a big head to contain a big mind, but well, you get the idea. i am so freaked out! oh, yeah, and sticky. gotta hate her. push everything to me, i have badminton practice! not sleeping practice! she has no idea what it is to be like in badminton, cos she's in girl guides'. yeah, right, guides. i am so gonna puke. she says: you have no idea how tired i get in guides, its very, very, very tough. yeah, right, tough. i am so not gonna believe it's tough ever since i saw her an the guides stringing bead necklaces in the canteen, stringing bead necklaces! we badminton girls are upstairs in the hall, slugging it out for tournaments, people! not treading bead necklaces! its time for her to use her brains! and everytime i make a remark, she wil stare at me with those evil eyes of hers, obviously i look away and start fooling around, cos unlike some people, i dun hold a grude for long, cos i am not that petty.
okay, enough about the catfight. oh, yeah, i totally flunked DNT. ergonomics i spelled as economics, yeah, and i got into so much trouble, since i forgot to bring home the textbook before the day of the test, not that i really care, since i want to bring up my science, english and chinese. well, chinese, i've been falling asleep every single lesson, so its quite hard to raise the marks for chinese. but still, the lesson is still very boring, and often i would wish it is recess, even when chinese is the period right after recess!
okie, guys, i have to go now! lotsa homework....*ugh*

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sigh, homework, homework, homework, what else is there?
i was so fed up with homework that i gave it up and went to play the piano. it was then i realised, after passing grade 8, i have already lost all my music pieces and scores. i then asked my mom where to find them, and she said in the attic. the attic was a creepy place. but sigh, i still went. i rummaged through the place and found lots of pieces. song from a secret garden, sona, sundial dreams, enchanted garden and my favourite, pachelbel's canon or widely known as canon in D. so, what do you think? i obviously played my favourite, duh! i haven't played it for quite a long time, with my busy schedules and stuff. i havent played it in more than 6 months, and i had so much trouble sight reading it. i finally managed to play it. i mean, it was 6 months, not 6 days, 6 hours, okay? sigh, how i enjoyed the piece. once i started playing, there was absolutely no way i could stop. i am listening to it as i typed out this blog post. yep, i am listening to the orchestral one. i am so damn mesmerixed by this song, and i have no mood to do my homework at all!

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