Asian Games 2010 - Finale

Congratulation to all participants and thank to all winners, those who contributed medals be it GOLD, SILVER or BRONZE, the importantly all of you are winners. For those who did not win anything, that is okay, as long as you gave your best.

Onward to London 2012, its the Olympics.

Update Asian Games 16

Tomorrow 27 will be the last day of the games, the closing ceremony gonna be something to wait, if the opening ceremony is anything to judge by.

As for the games itself, Malaysia fair quite well and if everything goes well, our tiger should be able to get at least 10 gold, maybe more. Today the Men Field Hockey team might just make history, win the eluded gold all this while after continuously winning bronze. An by doing that, an opportunity for an automatic place in London Olympic 2012. good luck guys.

Lee Chong Wei (the Datuk makes him old) was good and display better games as compared to the finals of the Beijing Olympic, but he forgot how to smash and that shows clearly. Lin Dan ... well as much as you wants the Gold, he is just too good.

But,

the diving team are just superb, although winning silver, they got class. The Dragon are still a class above the rest though, then again they outstrip just about anybody in total medal tally.

Asian Games 2010

16th Asian Games, Guangzhou, China

Malaysia 1st Gold, came from Chai Fong Yin through Wushu, while Ibrahim Amir managed a silver from 'Pool' 8 balls. 3 Bronze medal add up the final tally as of yesterday.

Badminton Team gold - China gold.

Football - 2nd round lost to Iran (1-3)

Golden Anniversary

Today ... 50 years ago, a boy was born to a couple in Kampung Raja Uda, Port Kelang. Named Aminalrashid bin Mohd Hussain. How time passes.

May Allah bless him always with his hidayah and many more wonderful years.

the dragon ....

After so very long holding on to the Uber Cup, the Chinese finally had to let go as the South Korean girls gave their all to take home the prestigious cup. It was a well deserved win for them. At least now most of us can agree that you can beat the Chinese if you work hard enough.

However, as for the Thomas Cup, well they Great wall is just to strong, and as much as you do not want to admit, Lin Dan and gang are just too good. The Indonesian were no match just like our squad as they got squash by the same margin, 3-0.

Well what can we learn from them and the South Korean???

Badminton ...

How sad can you be ...

The Uber Cup squad being squash by the Indonesian and the Thomas Cup squad, did not even come close. Totally outplayed by the Badminton superpowers. Today the South Korean will try to take home the Uber Cup from China, as the Indonesian try their luck against the Chinese.

May the best team wins.

As for our team ... back to the drawing board, but whatever they decide, it should be for the good of badminton in general, look at short term, mid term and long term in total. Since there's been so much talk about KPI and NKRA, BAM and the MSN/Sport Ministry should be more forward looking.

Thomas Cup - Uber Cup 2010

The finals this year is set at Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur.

We last won the prestigious cup way back 1n 1992, wow that is what ... 18 years ago. As long as the players took the game seriously, and make sure make the least mistake, their chances is as good as anyone that they meet. Before this format of play, you get points for how well you create points when you hold serve, or the mistakes your opponent makes. Now, you get points on your winning shots and your opponents mistakes, no matter who serves.We are just as good, if not better provided we believed in ourself.

Yet to win the Uber Cup, but ever since the competition, we have one of the better teams for such a long, long while. Our chances are always better when it comes to the Thomas Cup though.

Just do not give any excuses ... the H1N1 or whatever, just go out and do it.

Okay .. go for it guys. We wants the cup to stay he ... in Malaysia.

Good luck.

The right game to choose

Off all the games played today, which one should one choose. More so here in Malaysia, the Education Minister has decided that come next year 2011, all school going students must play at least 1 sport. For the general group, it should not be a problem, however, for those who are quite active and athletic this could be a situation of choice.

Football also known as soccer in the US, is one sport that attracts crowd as well as write up. The FIFA World Cup is one event that equals probably the Olympics.

However, not all can excel in the game but even more so, if you think that you are good enough, compared to others you are not even close. The example are here in Malaysia, just yesterday the best of Malaysian League Selangor FC got thrash by Sriwijaya, Indonesia by 6-1.

So even if you like Football so much ... how far can you go???

Table Tennis or Ping Pong

Well does it matter ?

I enjoy this game, in fact both my wife and are quite good (not competition level though) at it, and now we are getting our children to learn the game. Its a low investment a, table, 2 to 4 bats, a net and some balls and you are set. The game is not as easy as it seems, but it is quite easy to learn if you are consistent.

Now this is a game that most people can get involved and who knows by 2020 Olympic Games, we can have a solid representation.

I am game ... are you???

Racquet Sports

Racquet sports are divided into at least 5 known games. Tennis, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis or also known also as Ping Pong and Racquet Ball.

Except for Tennis that are considered major sports because the American excel, the rest are considered quite a mediocre sports or game. However, all this game except Squash and Racquet Ball, are an Olympic sports.Squash are working their way and IOC might consider it as an exhibition game comes 2016 or latest maybe 2020.

Therefore if we consider this sport, it might be worth our while to seriously develop it.