Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The 8minute London 2012 Performance
I had a slight annoyance when the mayor of London Boris Johnson took over the flat. And indeed, it's being ridicule all over the world now. His coat unbuttoned, hands in pocket, messy hair, goofy attitude... Apparently he is famous of his messy hair.
And flew David Beckham there, just to appear and kick the football once. Kind of stupid... And messy dance, don't know what they are trying to tell. When the double decker bus's door opened, the crowd rushed to the door, pushing and pulling, were they trying to tell us Londoners are like that? Then the kid walked on the adults, what are they trying to say? That the kid is sacred that she can't walk on the ground? Or that London kids are rude and they walk over adults' bodies? I don't get it. Do you?
McDonald's commercial
It just show people go, "Ehm, you know, it's kind of er, ehm, kind of er.. you know, kind of, kind, kind of good!".
What the hell... IT IS EXTREMELY ANNOYING. And I'm definitely NOT "loving it" (McD's commercial line : I'm loving it.)
You know? it's kind of, kind of, you know? kind of, kind of er, KIND OF ANNOYINGGGGGG.
Monday, August 25, 2008
I wanna do the JingJing dance
the Jing Jing dance,
the Jing Jing dance~
I wanna do the do the Jing Jing dance,
the Jing Jing dance,
the Jing Jing dance~
the Jing Jing dance,
the Jing Jing dance~
Come on everybody do the Jing Jing dance,
the Jing Jing dance,
the Jing Jing dance~ !!!!!!!!!
True Spirit of the Games
From Rediff.com
The true spirit of the Games
August 27, 2004
Twelve years ago, on a warm Barcelona night, Pyambuu Tuul staggered towards the Olympic stadium determined to finish what he had started.
The last athlete competing at the 1992 Games, the Mongolian marathon runner was long overdue and he ended up being cheated of his moment of glory after four hours of agony.
The King and Queen of Spain gave up waiting, the closing ceremony was set in motion and, surrounded by six police motorcycles and with an ambulance in attendance, Tuul was shunted on to a warm-up track to complete his race.
Twelve months earlier, Tuul had vowed to run in the Olympic marathon when he regained his sight in one eye after 13 years of blindness. His race ended without a spectator in view.
Tuul's tale of athletic courage has been repeated many times since the first Olympic marathon was run in 1896 from Marathon to Athens, a course to be repeated on Sunday in the final act of the 2004 Olympics.
In the 1968 race, John Akhwari of Tanzania hobbled into the Mexico City stadium, bloodied, unbowed and very much last. He had injured his knee in a fall but ground through the pain to finish one hour behind the winner, Ethiopian Mamo Wolde.
Asked why he had carried on, Akhwari replied: "My country did not send me 5,000 miles to start the race, they sent me 5,000 miles to finish the race."
The idea of competing and completing, rather than trying to win medals, has a special allure for marathon runners.
INJURED LEG
In 1996, Afghanistan's Abdul Baser Wasigi appeared in the Atlanta stadium nearly 4-1/2 hours after starting the race. He had injured his leg shortly after arriving in the U.S. and was forced to walk much of the marathon.
Crews were preparing for the closing ceremony but volunteers removed tarpaulins covering the track and persuaded the band to stop their rehearsal and pipe Wasigi across the finishing line.
"This is what the Olympics is all about - the spirit of competition," said the official in charge of the venue.
A strong favourite to finish last on Sunday is Gil da Cruz Trinidade of East Timor, a new entry to the Games. His personal best is about 45 minutes over the world record and he is in the race thanks to a wild card granted by Olympic officials.
"The most important thing for me in Athens is to finish," said Cruz Trinidade this week.
He will hopefully enjoy a better reception than Tuul did in 1992.
His day had begun badly when he dropped and broke his glasses. The 33-year-old patched them up with sticky tape and set off hoping nothing else would go wrong.
His finishing time of four hours four minutes was 56 minutes slower than the second to last athlete, Hussein Haleen of the Maldives, who had collapsed at the makeshift finish and was rushed to a nearby clinic.
After finishing, Tuul gave the thumbs-up to a couple of journalists. "I am just a runner. As the last runner in the Olympics I am very much satisfied," he said with a smile.
Great people, these are. I salute them. I don't think I can continue a race or competition when I'm injured or when I know I am "long overdue" at the finishing line... Great people.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Beijing Olympic closure
I just lovvveee Olympics. It's really a great thing people all over the world can compete in one place.
Btw, I've taken a liking with the mascots after watching their "funny dance". Asked my brother to buy me one from Beijing since he was there. I like the panda Jing Jing. But the toy Jing JIng doesn't look so cute. So bought the Ying Ying instead. I like its eyes. Quite cute hor?
Look at these videos. I think they are taken at about the same time but taken from different people. Isn't it so crazily cute and hilarious?? The way it shakes its hands... Sooooo funnyyy.... I want to copy the way it dances and dance like that too~!! ahahahha.aa.aa...
*27/8/08 note : Gee..... these 2 videos are no longer available in youtube due to 3rd party copyright issue.... but there are stil so many Olympic mascot videos in youtube! Why these 2??? Geez.....
Saturday, August 23, 2008
American sunflower
I stood on a chair in an attempt to take a good look of the flower. But... even standing up on a chair, I am shorter than the flower. hahahahaha...
Friday, August 22, 2008
Beijing Olympic Mascot
I want to find the video again and I couldn't find it. I looked through allllll the videos under "fuwa", "beijing mascot", "olympic mascot", etc etc. And I still couldn't find it. THIS IS FRUSTRATING!!!
I've been searching for hours. Ridiculous. There's one which was recorded during Spore vs China's table tennis final, similar with that. But not that one. I searched my internet history but somehow I couldn't find it either. UUURRGGHHH..... anybody sees that video please forward to me..
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Miko video
Anyway, I'm using Youtube now. So I made this video and upload to youtube again.
Stupid Maserati driver
The owner of this Maserati sports car, thinks his car is so great that it requires 2 parking lots. (The two people beside the car were not the owner)
"SUPERB" parking skill he's got there. Right in the middle of 2 parking lots and right on top of the line separating the parking lots. How BRILLIANT! Let's celebrate this brilliant driver! Yay!
I felt like to write on a paper: "If you cannot park, do not drive." and put on his windscreen. WHAT AN IDIOT DRIVER.
Perhaps he (or she) deliberately do this, so that people will notice this brilliant sports car. Little does he/she knows, it makes him/her looked extremely stupid. A moron driver.
Monday, August 18, 2008
After the lost
But the way he lost that match, made LD looked superb. LCW wasn't in a good form. He wasn't the same person in semi-final. Maybe LD's cool face intimidated him.
I am really "buay song" (indignant). LCW and LD's ability is not too far apart. If LCW is in good form, he can very much win LD. We lost on the mentality weakness that's so typical to Malaysian players. Now everybody sees LD as the hero.
I am very disappointed with LCW's performance, he wasn't the usual self yesterday but if he can overcome the mental barrier he is a very good player. My colleagues and I were talking about this and I said I've never seen top ranking players lost in such an ugly way (LCW rank 2nd in the world). And my colleagues who is one of Spore's so called "foreign talent" from China, commented "You all have been befuddled by the ranking system. Ability is the most important thing."
HELLO??!! What is the ranking system based on?? All ranking system is based on ability, based on how many world class tournament they've won, and we've all been befuddled by the ranking system???!!! If one does not have the ability, will he or she win world class tournament??? Gosh... RIDICULOUS!
India won a gold medal in shooting. He commented, what lousy Olympic, let Indian win a gold. I was like ???????!! People from poor country cannot win gold?!! That particular athlete trained for 10years to win this gold. What right does he has to say "lousy". RIDICULOUS! One is poor or one is rich is NOT what we based on to judge people. Unless you're judging "the world's richest" man or woman. Funny thinking man. I know he's patriotic. I know he thinks everything from China is the best. But that's not always the case. The world doesn't live only the Chinese. We should not be so narrow-minded.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Lost, again, for no good reason
At one point, Lin Dan had a comfortable lead of 8:0! Eight Zero!!!!!! This is totally unacceptable. LCW made sooooo many unforced errors. Lin Dan completely controlled the game from the very beginning. He gave LCW a lot of cruel smashes at the net. It was excruciating to watch...
Singapore table tennis lost as well. But the Spore team girls put up a good fight. But the China girls were just too good for them.
Our LCW... still cannot escape from the curse that's pestering all Malaysian players. They always succumb to pressure at the very last, important game. They just cannot maintain their good form until the every end. LCW is world number 2. The game should not have look like this. He should not have lost until so ugly. We had a 50:50 chance if he's in good form. But right after the game started, our chance had fallen to 20:80.
I would have cheered on if he put up a good fight. But... he did not. Just like what our double coach Rexy commented about Koo Kian Keat and Tan Boon Heong, "I cannot understand how a player can played so brilliantly in one game and suddenly become extremely lousy in another." Same it goes to LCW. I've never seen a top seeded player lost such badly, and ugly.
It was so excruciating to watch that I changed channel. Heartbreakingly disappointed, not by the lost, but by the way he played this game. Maybe he's overwhelmed by the 300k ringgit that he'll be receiving for fetching a silver medal for Malaysia...
18/8/08 Note : LCW apologized to the people of Malaysia, said he couldn't catch up with Lin DAn's pace and he has got no excuse for the lost. Well, at least he doesn't make excuses, Malaysian players often gave funny answers/excuses for their lost.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
The fastest man on earth
(18/8/08 Note : Jamaican won all gold, silver and bronze in the women's 100m sprint!! Amazing!! What an ending!)
Just how fast a human can be? at running, at swimming, at jumping? Athletes are breaking records in every game. Michael Phelps, for example. And nobody even come close to fight with him for the gold most of the time. He is in such comfortable lead all the time. How did he do that?
I wonder just when, when will human stop breaking records? Where is the limit of human body? It's just so amazing that these athletes just won't stop breaking records. Amazing stuff!
Olympic fever
I really love Olympic games. How often do we get to watch world class athletes compete? Apart from the popular games like football, basketball, tennis, etc. I enjoyed watching gymnastics, diving, badminton, table tennis, etc. By the way, yesterday I was searching on the olympic website for table tennis's schedule and the live result page. Instead of searching for "table tennis", I searched for.... "pingpong"... Brilliant.. hahahahha...
Other than in the Olympics, gymnastic and diving are the competitions which we only get to watch for a few seconds during the news. So, we can only watch the whole thing in Olympics and other games like Asian Games. And it's not often. It really doesn't do these athletes justice.
But WE HAVE TO WORK DURING ANY OF THESE GAMES, Olympics, Asian, Commonwealth, etc... So we don't get to watch as much as we like. It's really frustrating. Since the spirit of these games, is for harmony, everybody in the world should be allowed to take off days from work and watch the games. Am I right or am I right? hahahaha...
10 years ago, me and ST went to watch the opening ceremony of Commonwealth Games in KL. Being in that stadium was fabulous. But the opening ceremony itself... to us Malaysians, it's just like another national day parade, you know? An angmoh we met enjoyed it tremendously, but we didn't. It was disappointingly no creativity.
Then we came back and supposed to go there again after a week. We've purchased tickets for gymnastic, badminton and diving. But what the fuck. I fell sick after I came back. And I was sick for 6,7 days. I have never been sick for that long in my life. And it had to happen during that period. I was so sick that I can never make the trip. Feeling very guilty towards ST, because she has to go no matter what. She wanted to go alone but I said that was too dangerous. In the end, luckily her sister was free and I passed all my tickets to her. That was something that I really feel sorry for myself. Money spent for all those is one thing. But there could hardly be any chance of going to such games again. I'm not loaded, I can't afford tickets for flight and tickets for the games in other country. Even if I can afford, who wants to go with me? No one loh.
If Malaysia ever succeed the bid to host the Asian games, then maybe I can go. But Malaysia just lost the chance er, was it this year? Forgot. And Asian games cannot be compared to the Olympics. But for the cities that have the ability to host the Olympics, I don't think I can afford to go. So.... dream on.................. TOTO!!!
Friday, August 15, 2008
Lee Chong Wei - hooray!!
What a day!! Singapore's table tennis also won in semi final team event! They too will get at least silver medal! The game started from 2:30pm, there's no live broadcast on the net, only live result that refreshes every 15seconds, so I had been looking at the scores since then. The last game, was around my knock off time, I walked home super fast just to catch the last set between China and Korea. Damn such an exciting game! My heart almost jumpedut of my mouth. hahahah. Although it wasn't my country, but still, Singapore, our neighbour mah. Afterall, the players had been training for so long, very happy for them. They created history for Singapore.
And my heart haven't calm down, then started our badminton semi final. Le Chong Wei won first set without much trouble. But second set he lost without much trouble too! So I was very very nervous to watch the third game. In this new scoring system, you cannot afford to fall behind. Once you did, it's very very difficult to chase back the score. And LCW had been leading, at one point 7:1!! But later the Korean gave a good chase and LCW was 11 Korean was 10. Damn!! My heart almost stopped!! LCW played well, thank god he didn't make much mistake. And WE WON!!!!!!!! EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sooooo happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D
I hope both these two countries get gold and the government announce one public holiday for all!! hahahahahahaha.... Chances of Spore doing so is not high and they face a tough challenge facing the Chinese team. Msia LCW will face world number one Lin Dan. Hard to say too.. PRAY PRAY!!!!!!
Hard to laugh
I don't know. I just feel down.
Also also maybe because friends are drifting further apart as we grow older. So, hardly anyone's there to laugh with you...
Actually there's no subject in this post. I am just suddenly attacked by "down virus". Just want to grumble.
Find it no meaning to live like this. People always say must find a purpose in life. Purpose? Money. No money, there's only this much you can do, whether to help others or help yourself.
I wish I was born on secluded island. But of course, if I really was born on a secluded island, I would probably be dying to leave there and head for the city. It's all just nonsense talking.
When people talk to me (not close friends), sometimes I find that I have to "prolong" and fake my laugh a little bit. Else it'll look rude and cold. But I hate that. But we have no choice. This is just the way it is.
I really don't like human life.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Dolphin shoes!
What shoes to wear? Sandals are good but once they got wet it is extremely uncomfortable and it takes a longgg time to dry. Thinking to buy a Crocs. But I'm really poor now.
So, what to wear? What to wear?
The answer is this :
A S$5 school shoes. I used to wear these when I was schooling. Because I don't like those with shoe laces. I think these are very girlish and I liked them very much. I saw these in a neighbourhood shop, so I thought, why not? So I bought them.
Then I thought it's a little plain and sort of weird as I'm not a secondary student anymore, obviously... Actually these are the shoes that was very trendy some time back. But they draw cartoons and images on it which makes it very very pretty. But those in shopping malls, cost S$29 or so.. EXPENSIVE. I love it but I can't bear to say goodby to my S$29 in exchange with these shoes.
So, I decided to draw things on it myself. Ta-da-~ Yes, it's dolphins, AGAIN. Cos I am only good in drawing dolphins. Cos I have drew dolphins many many times... it's easiest and fastest for me. Actually I wanted to draw a Lilo and a Stitch. But the shoes material is too coarse. It will look really ugly if I have to draw fine details like eyes and lips. So, too lazy to think of anything else. Dolphins it will be. These are a bit boring.... but I'm really too lazy to draw other things like seaweed, corals, etc... So.. this'll do~
Saturday, August 09, 2008
2008 Beijing Olympic (2)
He was really really high up, must be scary up there. After one round of "running", he pointed his torch to touch a wire or something. And the flame shot up a spiral cone shape thing into the cauldron.
My friends liked it. I didn't think it was all that awesome. It looked cool, as it was really really high up but I don't think it was difficult to achieve. Looks cool, but not exactly awesome.
So, my guess was right, I still like the Barcelona and Doha one. Barcelona's lighting method (lighted with arrow) was simple, but not so easy to achieve and without the help of advanced technology. Same it goes to Doha's. The idea was not complex either (horse run up the ramp). But again, not that easy to achieve for both the man and the stallion AND without the help of advanced technology. And it looked really grand.
But there's one part 2008 people doing taichi and formed a circle. They can do some other formation and form back the circle very fast and very precise. That was pretty awesome.
Friday, August 08, 2008
2008 Beijing Olympic
In the beginning part, the Olympic symbol of 5 circles raised from the floor into the air, pretty awesome, like magic.
After that came the part of the Olympic theme song, performed by the amazing Sarah Brightman and a famous Chinese singer. Sarah Brightman dressed in a beautiful gown whereas the male Chinese singer....... T-SHIRT. Ya, t-shirt.. Gosh.... Why didn't he wear something formal??? A tuxedo or something. It's almost an eyesore seeing him standing next to the beautiful Sarah Brightman.
By the way, Sarah Brightman was really awesome. Although the song wasn't nice. This is Sarah Brightman's second performance in Olympic Games, amazing.
I looked back the passed major games opening ceremony, in particular, 1992's Barcelona Olympic and 2006's Doha Asian Games. These two are my FAVOURITES.
If I remember correctly, the 1992 Barcelona Olympic song was broadcast long before the game started. This should be the way isn't it.. Afterall the game is only 10+days. They should let people listen and learn the song. But China kept it a secret until the ceremony. They announced the singers only 1 day before the ceremony. Why the secrecy??? Everything is so secret with the Chinese. And may I say it again, the song wasn't nice at all. You hear it once and you'll totally forget it. (9th Aug Note: Ohhhh, how forgetful am I...?? I had been listening to the Beijing Olympic song over and over again on radio.. and I had been saying it wasn't nice. And I forgot about that completely..)
Whereas the Barcelona song, check it out here. It's a CLASSIC.
I love Sarah Brightman and Jose Carreras.
The lighting of the torch in the Barcelona game, was REALLY impressive. It was lighted by an arrow. Absolutely amazing. I believe watching that at that time, people must have hold their breath before the arrow fell into the cauldron.
And then there was the 2006 Doha Asian Games. I don't remember the song, was it the one sang by Jackie Cheung? Wasn't very impressive either. But the opening ceremony was EXTREMELY impressive. Especially the torch lighting part. The prince of Qatar rode on a stallion up an extremely steep ramp of 25 degrees. The horse almost slipped! as it was raining before. But the prince controlled the horse and reached the top to light the cauldron. Whew.. I remember my heart almost stopped when the horse stopped momentarily... Gosh, can you imagine the shame if the prince and the horse fail to reach the top and worse, tumble back to the ground??? Thank God that never happened. It was like watching the Arabian Night story.. A prince! On a horse! ha! Amazing. And btw, the prince is very handsome. hehe.
Beijing Olympic opening ceremony is not over yet. I am looking forward to see the lighting of the torch. But I believe Barcelona and Doha will still be my favourites.
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
8 million
Perhaps it's because I am really out of money. Fucking run out of money. Last month our trip was cancelled and I was supposed to end the month with the money intended for the trip. But, gone. Everything gone. NO more money left, shit. I don't know where I spent those money.
I NEED money (who doesn't??). I need the 8million toto money that's giving out this Friday. I need money!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, August 04, 2008
Fridays at checkpoint
The Spore Checkpoint was soooo packed when I reached there at 7+pm. And that day, the officers fenced up and controlled the number of people going into the queues of the access card lanes. It was a good thing.. Else we always squeeze like nobody’s business in the queue.. People behind will push no matter what, especially Indian ladies. I’m sorry to say this, but they like to squeeze and push. And they like to stay close, literally, “glue” to you in the queue. Oh it was soooo fucking annoying. And I hate the body contact, no matter what race they are. I also hate other girl’s long hair have any contact with my body, Indian or Malay or Chinese. And you know how long those Indian women’s hair can be..
I was in the “safe zone” (meaning people queue nicely when closer to the lane) when the railings was knocked to the floor. Immediately it was close to chaos, everyone ran to the queue. The officers kept yelling, “DON’T PUSH!! DON’T PUSH!” But no one was obeying. Everybody just wanted to get in the queue.
I think they should place 10 Gurkhas at the fenced area to control the people.
Why can’t those people understand? If everybody queues orderly we’ll get out of there faster. But no, they want to be the FIRST to get out of there, so everybody pushed and pushed. Sooner or later there’ll be accident happens if the checkpoint officers do not do anything about it. It’s getting from bad to worse. Probably because more people have opted to stay in JB and travel everyday now, since the rent went up tremendously.
It’s just plain annoying, to go through this every week. But I have to go home, and I don’t want to go home on Sat morning. So.. can only bear with it and curse whoever that pushed me.
Friday, August 01, 2008
Ajisen
Anyway, after nearly 2 months (gosh!), it's finally completed. Won't be uploading it soon though, have to view it with my friends first.
Just now went eat Ajisen with Gabriel. I overeat every time I go Ajisen. Half a bowl of Ajisen ramen I'm full already. But I finished almost everything, almost. And I was so full till the verge of throwing up. hahaha... it's a torture really. But it's just sooooo tasty...........