Olympic - Badminton Day 3

Our Malaysian men's singles and women's singles had cleared their early rounds. However, our women's doubles are already out.

Lee Chong Wei, as the 2nd seed for the Olympic Games beat Ronald Susilo with a straight set of 21-13, 21-14. He will proceed his journey tomorrow against Naviskas Kestutis(Lithuania). I personally think he won't be a treat to him.

Uncle Wong

Wong Choong Hann being the most shocking one for me. He beat the 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist, Taufik Hidayat with a straight set of 21-19, 21-16. That's pretty impressive for me, he is on fire today. I hope his fire will go on until the end.

As for our women's singles, we have Wong Mew Choo. She did well in her first 2 matches, guess it was not a problem to her. Her next match will be on Wednesday and a tough one I suppose, she is going to face the 3rd seed, Lu Lan(China). Just hope that she could be consistant in her strokes and avoid unforced errors.

So, what about our men's doubles? They will be starting tomorrow!
Koo Kien Keat/Tan Boon Heong will be facing the Japanese, Sakamoto Shuichi/Ikeda Shintaro.
Whereas Lee Wan Wah/Choong Tan Fook will be against the Korean pair, Lee Jaejin/Hwang Jiman. All the best to them! Hope they won't be an upset to us this time.

Can they make it again?

Malaysian doubles pairs in training session.

Talking about upsets, today the biggest upsets to me was the China pair for women's doubles. Yang Wei/Zhang Jiewen(China) was defeated by Miyuki Maeda/Satoko Suetsuna(Japan). They are the 1st seed for the game and they're already out in the early game. Haha...I hope that Choong Tan Fook(Zhang Jiewen's boyfriend) will be not be distracted by this.

Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium

This new building was specially built for the Olympic Games. I really like this building, the design is nice and the interior looks great! Perfect place for a badminton match. Haha!

First World Record Broken

Michael Phelps of the United States swam his way to Olympic gold in Beijing on Sunday morning. He was the first to break a World Record in this year's Games, clocking 4:03.84 in the Men's 400m Individual Medley, surpassing his previous record setting time of 4:05.25.

Journey begins

Celebrating his win

The winners


Who will be the next record breaker?
Stay tuned for more...

Source:
- Men's 400m Individual Medley: Phelps smashes WR for Gold
- Photos: Michael Phelps sets new world record to take first swimming gold

08.08.08 - A Day To Remember

08 August 2008: -
"Beijing welcomed the world to the Games of the 29th Olympiad on August 8 with an Opening Ceremony. Athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees marched through the Bird's Nest led by the flags of countries from around the world."

I watched the live opening ceremony on TV just now. Wow...I would say it was awesome and fantastic. Very beautiful! It's something we only can see once every 4 years, it's worth the time watching. The 'Bird Nest' was full, approximately 91000 people were there. History was made!

Drummers performing

General view of drummers

Performance with sailing boats

Taiji performance

Acrobats performing the Bird's Nest

Beauty!

The gigantic globe

The Chinese flag raised

Olympic flag escorted into the National Stadium

Delegation of USA of 600+ athletes.

Delegation of China with also more than 600 athletes.

Lighting the cauldron

Fireworks go off after the torch

Stay Tuned!

Sources:
- The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

The "Water Cube"

What's Up?

"The blue-colored National Aquatics Center (NAC), nicknamed the "Water Cube" and located by Beijing's North Fourth Ring Road, was inaugurated and delivered for use on the morning of January 28, 2008."

Venue: National Aquatics Center
Location: Olympic Green
Total land surface (sq. m.): 65,000-80,000
Seats: 6,000 permanent and 11,000 temporary
Functions during the Games: Swimming, Diving, Water Polo, and Synchronized Swimming
Groundbreaking date: Dec. 24, 2003

I really like this building, very unique especially when the lights are on during the night. It just looks like an aquarium.

Nightscape of the 'Water Cube'

Interior

Swimming arena

Jump!

Top view

The "Water Cube" and the "Bird's Nest"

1 more day to go!

Sources:
- National Aquatics Center

The "Bird's Nest"

"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness." - Elbert Green Hubbard

What's Up?

"On the morning of June 28, China's National Stadium resonated with cheers. After years of hard work, the "Bird's Nest" is now completed."

This is the "Bird's Nest" I'm talking about...

Venue: National Stadium

Location: Olympic Green

Total land surface (10,000 sq. m.): 25.8

Seats: 91,000

Functions during the Games: Athletics, Football

Groundbreaking date: December 2003

Designer: Herzog & DeMeuron (Swiss) and China Architecture Design Institute

A general view...

Night view. Magnificant!

Sparkling Bird's Nest at night

Seatings...

Stadium's shopping center

Entrance to the shopping center.

Seriously, I never knew a shopping center would exist in a stadium. Something I will never expect of.

Sources:

- National Stadium
- The National Stadium
- Bird's Nest delivered for use

Count Down...

4 More Days To Go...

The 2008 Olympic Games! An historical event that happens every 4 years. There will be about 28 sports in this game with hundreds of events, top athletes from all around the world will come together and compete. Approximately 10,500 athletes are expected to participate in the Games, with around 20,000 accredited media bringing the Games to the world. Besides that, there are 31 venues where all the different sports will take place. Out of that, 12 of them are newly built, 11 are existing and 8 are just temporary. The "Bird's Nest" and "Water Cube" are my favourite. Wonderful architecture and great design! I'll post up some photos in the next few days.

As a sports fan, this is something that I will not miss out. I'll get to see all the top athletes performing. This month I'll be busy catching up with the games. All the best to our national team. I'll be looking forward to our national badminton team, hope they will bring back at least a gold medal for us.

For this month, I think I'll be posting more about the Olympic events. Guess I'll be posting random stuff whenever I feel like. Haha!

Stay Tuned!

Sources :
- International Olympic Committee
- The Official Website of the Beijing Olympic Games

Done For Now...

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." - Epicurus (ancient Greek philosopher)

What's Up?

My first semester exams are over now, I was mentally abused these few days. Haha...finally it's time to rest. I sat for 4 subjects this week and it was tiring...

On Monday, it was Critical Thinking... What a good subject to start for the week! I've totally no idea how is it going to be, just hope it turns out well...

Chemistry was on the next day... Loving it...but don't know how will it be. Just hope I won't disappoint myself this exams.

LOL...the following day was the best. Physics! Haha...I really don't know what's with the teacher. I think he is just too lazy to set new questions, almost all the question came out was from the previous exercise he gave us. Well, for me I don't think it's a good thing to do. How can you even call that a test?

Thursday no test = sleep! Perfect time to rest my mind and I actually slept almost the whole day. Supposed to study Mathematics for the next day, but end up......

I sat for my last paper, Mathematics today. Among all the papers, this was the most disappointing one. I just don't feel happy with it at all! 8 marks gone just because I can't do that question. Sad... I thought I will do better than the others but I don't think it will happen now...

Anyways, it's already over. No point arguing over it now. We'll see about the results next week.

Just a reminder to myself... I just have to work harder to the next exams which will be somewhere in November. Don't want to disappoint myself again!

Good Night!