Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Have you heard the one about the Englishman, the Chinaman and the German?

I haven't, but I'm pretty sure the Englishman has the worst of it. But I'm home now at last, after two long flights (Guangzhou-Dubai and Dubai-Birmingham, setting the clocks back four hours for each one), I've had no sleep for a day and a half by my body clock, I've had about half a dozen breakfasts in that time, and I'm very confused about what time and date it is at the moment. There will be sleep, followed by full reporting of the 19th World Memory Championship as and when I can fit it around the excessive work I'm going to need to do at my day job for the next two days.

In summary, Wang Feng is awesome. Johannes Mallow is also awesome, and I was a lot less non-awesome than I expected to be, so I'm a quite satisfied bronze-medallist right now. Thanks for all the messages of support and congratulation, everyone!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations Ben! You can now use China in your mental journeys :)
Having just hauled yourself half way round the world and competed in a competition like that you must be exhausted physically and mentally. Take it easy Zoomy.

Bear said...

Results not updated on memory-sports.com, 'xyz' can check it here-

1.http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.memo-camp.de/highscore%3Ftype%3Dwk%26wk%3D174%26daten%3Dwrl&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.co.in&usg=ALkJrhjmtRwqOrMtdkeU9MGsIe081oumtA

2.http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.memo-camp.de/highscore%3Fdaten%3Dwrl%26type%3Ddisz&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.co.in&usg=ALkJrhhPjJ2c2kVadG-wS80q-y96rcpW6Q

Take rest, Zoomy :)