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Monday, August 18, 2008
Olympics badminton final
It's been a looong time since I last updated my blog haha. And I'll break this "silence" with my favourite topic, badminton. =p
As most Malaysians already know, Lee Chong Wei, our men's singles player has won the silver from the Olympics. Although hopes were high on him getting Malaysia's first gold, he couldn't manage it yesterday and just cracked under pressure. It's not easy playing internationally, with the whole nation's hopes on his shoulder, so it doesn't matter...continue to jia you Chong Wei.
Read more about the Olympics badminton final here!
Yesterday's struggle to find a place to watch Chong Wei in action was pretty dramatic. After trying to stream a channel since Saturday, I did not manage to get even a single channel running (just got a bunch of P2P programs all over my desktop). So, our options to watch the badminton final was to find someone who has managed to stream or go to comm hall and watch. But, the Singapore against China table tennis final was also going on....so the comm hall was packed with urm....PRC-s.
Therefore, me, Shu Lin, Swee Yee, Alex and other badminton fanatics (includes Wei Jian, Ah Chua, Ju Ee, Shareen) went over to Chin Wee's room to catch the match. Since he has proudly publicised that he managed to stream it. However, around the beginning of the 1st set only, it got disconnected. So for around 5 mins, we were just staring at the live score figures (with Lin Dan's score going up and up).
Then, we saw that the Singapore table tennis team were on the brink of losing, and decided to migrate to the comm hall to watch RTM1 after it finishes. When we reached comm hall, just nice....we caught the last point, gold medal point for China. Like the speed of light (slightly slower), Alex already changed the channel to TV1...yes yes...slowly a crowd built up and it was a fight between the PRC-s and the Malaysians there (see who clapped louder...I think we won...just that there were very few chances to clap since Chong Wei didn't do well).
All in all, it was great to catch this very important match with so many other fellow Malaysians who all just wanted to see Chong Wei bring glory to our nation. Although you didn't win, we're still proud of you Chong Wei. :)
As most Malaysians already know, Lee Chong Wei, our men's singles player has won the silver from the Olympics. Although hopes were high on him getting Malaysia's first gold, he couldn't manage it yesterday and just cracked under pressure. It's not easy playing internationally, with the whole nation's hopes on his shoulder, so it doesn't matter...continue to jia you Chong Wei.
Read more about the Olympics badminton final here!
Yesterday's struggle to find a place to watch Chong Wei in action was pretty dramatic. After trying to stream a channel since Saturday, I did not manage to get even a single channel running (just got a bunch of P2P programs all over my desktop). So, our options to watch the badminton final was to find someone who has managed to stream or go to comm hall and watch. But, the Singapore against China table tennis final was also going on....so the comm hall was packed with urm....PRC-s.
Therefore, me, Shu Lin, Swee Yee, Alex and other badminton fanatics (includes Wei Jian, Ah Chua, Ju Ee, Shareen) went over to Chin Wee's room to catch the match. Since he has proudly publicised that he managed to stream it. However, around the beginning of the 1st set only, it got disconnected. So for around 5 mins, we were just staring at the live score figures (with Lin Dan's score going up and up).
Then, we saw that the Singapore table tennis team were on the brink of losing, and decided to migrate to the comm hall to watch RTM1 after it finishes. When we reached comm hall, just nice....we caught the last point, gold medal point for China. Like the speed of light (slightly slower), Alex already changed the channel to TV1...yes yes...slowly a crowd built up and it was a fight between the PRC-s and the Malaysians there (see who clapped louder...I think we won...just that there were very few chances to clap since Chong Wei didn't do well).
All in all, it was great to catch this very important match with so many other fellow Malaysians who all just wanted to see Chong Wei bring glory to our nation. Although you didn't win, we're still proud of you Chong Wei. :)
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