Federer's fifth, bak kwa, a miracle recovery and TAA reminiscences

My favorite memories of the past week:

1. Federer winning his fifth consecutive Wimbledon title. Enough said.
2. My boss was given some good ol' bak kwa by an old friend visiting from Singapore. She shared some with me when I went to her office to discuss certain administrative matters with her. Yum yum! Haven't had bak kwa for ages (even if I've eaten some just once or twice in the past)!
3. Our little refugee pigeon who apparently came down with salmonellosis is somehow recovering. It looked terrible for several days, refusing to eat (thankfully it at least managed to take a sip of water a few times a day), producing green faeces, its neck twisting in odd angles (neck torsion) and staggering/rolling around due to wing/leg paralysis. The poor thing. But last Sunday I noticed that the neck torsion ceased. Then Monday, it looked more alert; was looking around, as if for food; and managed to stand up again. It even flew up to the top of its house the other day. And as of today, it was walking around the floor of its cage (though it was still slightly limping), eating a bit of crushed pigeon pellets and beating its wings whenever it would see or hear me greet it. It was truly some minor miracle. I'm praying it makes a full recovery.
   
4. I visited an old friend's weblog yesterday and laughed when that I saw that his latest post was a "reprint" of some TAA notices and reports my friends and I used to write and send one another (coincidentally almost exactly four years ago to this day). We often arranged to meet at the tennis courts in campus to "play" tennis every Sunday back then and even got together to watch tennis on tv as well. I thought it was funny how we were "obsessed" with tennis just then and christened our group the TAA, for Tennis Addicts Anonymous. The emails we sent each other served as some kind of a newsletter of our group. Such were the good ol' days of (our) tennis.