HURRRRRAAAYYY!!! LeeChongWei FINALLY WON! He has been losing to LinDan for almost 5 consecutive matches between them. And now, ChongWei has finally done it! He sure makes us, supporters of Malaysia waiting for this moment to arrive……for soooooo long…..

Most importantly, he won in this Swiss Open. My mom noticed this kind of “winning-spirit” when he started walking into the stadium. He didn’t have the usual losing spirit. I’m so glad he at last won over LinDan.

LinDan has been “cursing” all the time during the match with ChongWei. He can be seen being unsatisfied with the line judges several times in the second game, throwing his racket off at the bench and got caught doing net fault(though he denied it).

 

FINAL RESULT IN SINGLE’S MATCH (latest at 10.15pm +8GMT)

LeeChongWei (Malaysia) bt. LinDan (China)

21-16, 21-16

 

Waiting for KooKienKeat-TanBoonHeong vs MathiasBoe-CarstenMogensen……

FINAL RESULT IN MEN’S DOUBLES (latest at 11.55pm +8GMT)

KooKienKeat-TanBoonHeong bt. MathiasBoe-CarstenMogensen

21-14, 21-18

 

The Denmark players are surprisingly not bad at playing this match. They tried hard but in the end, we won. Congratz to ChongWei and KKK-TBH!

 

Final Result:

LinDan(China) bt ChongWei (Malaysia)

21-19, 21-12

 

It’s just frustrating to see ChongWei lost to LinDan again. Although LinDan has only entered 8 championships last year compared to ChongWei who entered more championships, he still maintains his fitness and skills or should I say talent?

According to TheStar newspaper one time, a badminton coach mentions that ChongWei needs to join more competitions as there are no other single’s players in our country that up to par for him to spar with them. LinDan has a choice to join less competitions since there are like triples the talented players in their country than ours. So, LinDan can do the sparring with his juniors or “seniors” instead.

Somehow, I think the old ChongWei is still not back yet. FYI: ChongWei won the Malaysia Open in Kota Kinabalu in 2006 where he won over LinDan. What’s the shocking stuff here is the comeback ChongWei did from pt13 – pt20. Explaination: When LinDan was at his pt20, ChongWei was only at his pt13 but ChongWei came all the way back and won the championship.

 

Malaysia Open 2006 (part 7/7)

 

I am curious why ChongWei has lost to LinDan for countless of times. From my point of view, it’s either ChongWei has degraded or LinDan has improved.

Been busy with oncoming exam next week from Wednesday to Friday. But, still I need some entertainment, right? Okay, this is the result for the semi-final of All England Open Badminton Championships, for Malaysia only. I lazy to post all the results.

 

Latest at 10.03pm (GMT+8):

MALAYSIA bt INDONESIA

LeeChongWei bt Taufik Hidayat

21-8, 21-13

1. Official Dragonball American website
The official American website for Dragonball: Evolution is finally here!
Note: I can't seems to visit that site. Most probably a lot of people are going to that site as well.

Reelz Channel has the domestic movie trailer for Dragonball: Evolution
Domestic Trailer

Reference :Dragonball - The Movie (dbthemovie.com)

2. Magneticky-homeworks
Okay, school has barely just started about 2 weeks ago and I'm like having homeworks here and there. Finish once and tomorrow "poof", they come again. Why are the homeworks so attracted to us(students)?!? I think all my friends are experiencing the same problem. Worse of all, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO! Especially for Add. Math. Been thinking for like half an hour for just 1 question.

Worse of all, I became such a pessimistic person this year. Kept whining "I'm so sleepy, I didn't do my homeworks, & I hate school!" every morning when I'm at school. I think Denise (sitting beside me in class) already can expect what I want say to her everytime.

3. Know Something Today!
I think everyone should give a visit to this page. It's about weird things that can happen to our body. In short, weird diseases/syndrome/ or "body anomalies"(as they said).

Warning to age under-18 people : The webpage contains some obscene pictures that might not be suitable for people like us. Well, it's okay for me though although I'm 17.

Top 10 Bizarre Medical Anomalies

4. Korea Open 2009
Feel a little bit sad for Malaysia especially badminton fans like me. Lee Chong Wei lost to Peter-Gade Christensen in the men's single. I think it's fine to lose sometimes as nobody is perfect on this planet. Another thing is that I can't believe Denmark took 3 titles from the total of 5 titles in the tournament. Peter-Gade, Tine Rasmussen(gonna rank no. 1 in the world now after winning this) and BoeMathias-MogensenCarsten are the winners.

Ket sam, our Malaysian team were in 3 finals. We won only 1 of them. KooKienKeat-TanBoonHeong bt the other opponent pair from Chinese-Taipei. Disappointment was surely from LeeChongWei who lost to Taufik Hidayat. I can understand JuliaWong lost to ZhouMi but not from the World No.1 men. Anyway, this is the final result:

1. LeeChongWei vs SonyDwiKuncoro
First Game
At first, I don't really that intense watching this match. Anyway, I was eating my chicken rice while watching them playing. So, I thought this should be easy for ChongWei to win this match as he had won over that Indonesian player for many times. Talking about the match, actually LCW could have won the first game. From 1-11 points, both players were not really that far apart. It's like every time LCW wins 2 points, Sony wins a point. But then, things changed in the second half. LCW was leading 16-12 at a point. After that, I don't know what happened. Sony kept winning points and amazingly ALL THE WAY, HE JUST REACHED HIS 21st POINTS AND IN THAT 16-21 POINTS PROCESS, LCW ONLY WON 1 POINT. Only the first game had lasted for 21 minutes. That is already equivalent/more to the total time of LCW needed win over the Danish player in semifinal!!! It is obvious LCW having some bad control here...

Second Game
Hoping that LCW will fight back in the second game. Usually the pro players will fight back in second game if they lost the first game. But, things just got worse. From the very first half, LCW already let Sony won 5 points ahead of him. After he won 5 points, only LCW won his FIRST point. What's wrong with him? If I'm not mistaken, when Sony won his 11th point, LCW was at his 3rd point. I couldn't really remember....I only know that in the whole second game, LCW was trailing very far behind from Sony. The deficit points between them were always 10 points. So, practically, there was no way for LCW to win that second game and "apatah lagi" the match.





2. ChinEeiHui-WongPeiTyt vs ChengShu-ZhaoYunLei
First Game
Practically, I didn't really watch them playing. There was always no excitement to watch women's doubles. Because, the Chinese players dominate it at every final of most of the tournaments. In fact, I already forgotten that our Malaysian pair is fighting in that final. One thing I really admired our Malaysian pair is that they can win over that Indonesian pair, VitaMarissa-LilyanaNatsir in the semifinal. That's how PeiTyt-EeiHui got into the final. THEY BEAT THEM!! It's pretty extraordinary as Indonesia is famous for their women players. For example, the legendary Susi Susanti ( my mother always call her "Susah-Hati"). I never get to watch her play before because I was small at that time. So, I got to know her from my mom. My mom said that she always lose in the first match to her opponent and fight back in the second game. No matter what, she will win her matches.

Second Game
Okay, back to original topic. So, where am I?!? Oh ya, talking about EeiHui-PeiTyt first game. I just know that they lost the first game to that amateur pair from China. I couldn't really believe that they can win over our Malaysian-really-experienced-players. EeiHui-PeiTyt are a really "lau-chiau" pro players. Anyway, I also didn't watch the second game. So, I can't write a review about that. But they won the second game. But, look at the score below. Isn't that something really "KENG"? The Chinese pair only managed to get a total of 5 points. Were they over-confident or what? I think they thought that our Malaysian pair sure cannot win one. So, that's why they fight like s***. It was too late to know that they were wrong!


Third Game
In that third game, I didn't watch the very beginning. I did watch the whole second half. Sad ending. Now, the Chinese pair said "It's Pay Back Time" because our Malaysian pair played really bad in the first half of this third game. At a point, our Malaysian pair was trailing from 5-11 (I couldn't really remember too). Then, in the second half our Malaysian pair did a lot of silly mistakes, (eg. served too low, smashed out, wrong backline judgement). In the end, they Chinese pair got to their 17th point and our Malaysian pair got their 9th point. As I was watching until this moment, my heartbeat got faster with every point our Malaysian pair won and every point we lost.

Until a point where the scoreboard was 17-19. It was so "Kin-Chiung" at this time. I thought they could stand a chance to win the match. But wait, after this our Malaysian did a mistake and the Chinese pair won their 20th point. Three matchpoints for the Chinese. I still have the hope on our Malaysian pair. I know if they are not nervous, they might have won it. Then, the Malaysian pair did win their 18th points. I was hoping they get to force deuce at 20-20. But, my hope was crashed when Chinese got to their 21st point when EeiHui/PeiTyt thought one of the Chinese's hit was "Out". And that concludes the whole match and we LOST, AGAIN! But, I know they tried their best. Try harder next time!

There were 2 hopes that our Malaysian players might win one of the finals. But, luck was not with us. We lost both of the finals. Too bad, too bad......Anyway, I enjoyed watching my favourite sport EVER after having a hard time doing my Add. Math...

Wednesday, 13 August 2008
Just 1 point needed.....
OMG!!! Saddest day so far for this olympic games!!! First, Wong Mew Choo lost the first set to the world ranking no.2, Lu Lan (7-21). Ya...Mew Choo only managed to get 7 points in the first game. Then, on to the second set. The game was very tight as each player didn't really leave a big gap in the points scoring. However, Mew Choo was pretty much leading in the second set until she got to 20-15. She just needed 1 point to win the second game and moves on to the rubber game. But............., she let off the 5 game points and let Lu Lan chased to her. The heat was on at that time when both players got to 20-20. Both players were very anxious to finish off the game. So, in the process the players kept doing silly mistakes like net errors. In the end, Lu Lan won the match point because Mew Choo hitted too hard and the shuttlecocks was flew out of the back line... Actually, I would have been this sad too if I would have watched the match between WongChoongHann and Yu-Hsing Hsieh of Taipei yesterday. But, too bad I overslept..cheh!(only found out this morning)

Sunday, 18 May 2008
Cia-Yuh!!!!!!!
This word can be heard echoring the Senayan Stadium when China was playing against Korea in the Thomas Cup. "Cia-Yuh" means 'gambatte'/'berusaha'/'go for it'. For 3rd consecutive times, China has won the Thomas Cup and for 6th consecutive times, China has won the Uber Cup. Undeniable, China is good in badminton especially in the women contingent. It's not easy to retain a cup for 6th times. Well, China has done it again this time as they won the two cups and Malaysia however has to wait for another 2 years before has a chance to win the Thomas Cup back.

Practically, in my opinion China is good in every single things from sports to technology(although I admit that the most of the "MadeInChina-Products" have no safety precautions). But they are very creative in other ways. I guess China is competitive in many things because of its enormous of human population;

Beijing Olympic Theme Song( We Are Ready)

Saturday, 16 May 2008
Sob.....
Yesterday was probably my worst, saddest day ever in this month. Officially, Malaysia had lost in the Thomas and Uber Cup altogether. Before this, the women contingent in the Uber Cup had lost to the Korea team. Now, the men contingent had lost too. They had lost to the China. I had came home early from school yesterday just to watch the first match between LeeChongWei and LinDan. Good enough, ChongWei had won the match. I was really happy at that moment.

Then into the second match. Sadly, the highly-expected-to-win Malaysian first doubles, KooKienKeat-TanBoonHeong had lost to CaiYun-FuHaifeng. I did expected them to win the match but I guessed they ran out of luck that day. Well, after that I hoped WongChoongHan would had won the third match between him and BaoChunLai. But, things were not going the Malaysian way. He also had lost to the Chinese shuttler.

I was thinking if the second Malaysian's doubles would had lost to the second Chinese pair, then it was 'bye-bye' time for Malaysia. Fortunately, MohdFairuzizuanMohdTazari-MohdZakryAbdulLatif kept the Malaysian flag flying after they won the fourth match over XieZhongbo-GuoZhengDong. I was so,so nervous during the match. I was really scared that Malaysia's hope to win the Cup would had just ended there.

Well, the last match was just another expected match. I expected that HafizHashim would lost to ChenJin. True enough, the Chinese won the match and so the road was over for Malaysia. I saw that Hafiz was having some really hard time with the Chinese shuttler. His mood changed very fast from having a good form to a sudden drop of form. Hafiz could not keep up his form and his consistency. This resulted in his lost to ChenJin. Misbun was standing at the side, showing the expression of sadness. Nothing was more sadder for me at that particularly moment Hafiz lost the last point to ChenJin. HAIZ......

I felt hopeless and totally devastated that Malaysia had to wait for another 2 years before they can compete again after they had last won the cup in the year of my birth year which was 1992. We had waited for 16 years and still in the chasing for the cup. Ironically, yesterday was 16 of May. Maybe that was a good sign for Malaysia, saying that enough is enough. Malaysia is going to win the back cup the next time. Let us all hope this way...

After that, I felt totally not knowing what to do and I slept. The time was only around 6pm and I slept from that time to the next morning of 9am. I didn't even had my dinner or my BATH!!!! Unbelievable!!! My sleeping time was 15 hours. Great, woke up this morning in my school uniform. You would not had wanted to imagine that...

1. LeeChongWei bt LinDan (21-12, 21-14) 36 min
2. KooKienKeat-TanBoonHeong lost to CaiYun-FuHaiFeng (16-21, 17-21) 39 min
3. WongChoongHann lost to BaoChunLai (18-21, 7-21) 38 min
4. MohdFairuzizuanMohdTazari-MohdZakryAbdulLatif bt XieZhongBo-GuoZhengDong (21-17, 21-15) 47 min
5. MohdHafizHashim lost to ChenJin (12-21, 16-21) 42 min

Happy Teacher's Day.....
Actually, yesterday was also the Teacher's Day. I went to school although I knew that was not much to do. In fact, I had gone to school just to eat the pizza that my ex-form teacher promised to 'belanja' us. However, the party was not on that day. So, practically the whole time in school was about watching performances and sleeping. I didn't buy anything for any of the teachers. Well, that's how unappreciative I am but I still didn't forget their deed. Always in my heart...(perasan case).


I came home earlier yesterday just to watch the semi-final of Thomas Cup. So, I went home by car-pooling with my friend because I knew that I would had reached home by at least 3pm if I had followed the bus home. Unfortunately, my friend's car had a minor accident near Green Lane. I felt the car's sudden stop as I was sitting in the back of the car. Luckily, no one was injured and there were some damages to both cars involved.

Pizza......
Just now, I had dinner with my family in Sungai Nibong at the Pizzahut. We had mushroom soups, a seafood-topping pizza, pepsi for drink, pastas and chicken meat. Delicious is the only the word that I can describe the food. I made history there too. For the first time, I didn't use my hands to eat my food and I used the most energy to eat a chicken wing. Instead, I used the supposed-to-used fork and knife to cut the meat. Usually, I would just used my hands as I felt easier this way. But, I managed to do it this time without following my usual ways. Hahaha....('funny')

Xtra: Pizza Online Game

Korea-China Thomas Final...
Tomorrow is the showdown between China and Korea. I think China has a better chance to win the cup as I think if the Korea had not used their tricky trick to lost two match ups, they would not have met China in the final now. Korea has probably lost somewhere in the quarter-final. Actually, I do not support both teams but in this case, I just want to say that if Korea were to win tomorrow, it is not a good win. They did not put up neither a good fight nor the spirit of sportsmanship.