Gold or Silver Olympic medal for Singapore

Wow…History has been made, a moment which will be remembered by many Singaporeans at least for the next 4 years from now. Singapore wins its first Olympic medal in 48 years on 15th August 2008 when the women's table tennis team made it into the final of the team event by beating South Korea 3-2. It has been a long wait for Singapore since our weightlifter Tan Howe Liang won the only silver medal for Singapore's at the 1960 Rome Olympics.

I must say they are the first Olympic medal winners since Singapore independence in 1965.

Today Feng Tianwei was the heroine. She gave Singapore a good start by winning the 1st set and secured Singapore the final spot by winning the crucial 5th set.

Singapore will face China in the final on Sunday. It is either a gold or a silver medal for Singapore, although most people will think China will win, but we will keep our fingers cross, because anything can happen when it comes to a final match.

Well done to the women's table tennis team…you have done us proud! =)

Here are the Semi-final results: Singapore beat South Korea 3-2

Feng Tianwei (SIN) bt Dang Ye Seo (KOR) 11-5, 11-5, 11-2

Kim Kyung Ah (KOR) bt Li Jiawei (SIN) 5-11, 11-8, 9-11, 11-6, 11-9

Wang Yuegu/Li Jiawei (SIN) bt Park Mi Young/Kim Kyung Ah (KOR) 11-7, 11-6, 11-9

Dang Ye Seo (KOR) bt Wang Yuegu (SIN) 11-8, 14-12, 11-9

Feng Tianwei (SIN) bt Park Mi Young (KOR) 11-7, 12-10, 3-11, 11-9.

Community Shield 2008

Manchester United won the 2008 community shield last night, the match featured last season league champion’s Manchester United against the FA cup winner’s Portsmouth. It was the repeat of the FA cup semi-final fixture between these two teams, which Man U lost at home by 1-0. Last night match was not very exciting; both sides have equalled chances to score.

The match ended 0-0 draw and had to settle by a penalty shoot-out which Man U won 3-1 on penalties to cling the trophy for the 2nd consecutive year. It was also a sweet revenge. Man U’s Tevez, Giggs and Carrick all successfully converted their spot-kick, Defoe scored the only goal for Portsmouth, his teammates had missed two and one was saved by the veteran Edwin Van Der Sar, the hero who had made 3 clean saved (3-0) also from a penalty shootout in this community shield against Chelsea last year and again made the crucial saved from Chelsea’s Nicholas Anelka to win Man U the Champions League last May in Moscow.

Hope this is a good start for Man U and hope they will win all the competitions along the way throughout this season. Cheers!!! =)

080808...Special Date Special Day

Today is a special day…8th August 2008…080808…too many Chinese it is an auspicious day because of the Triple ‘8’ digit…hahaha.
Well, I think to many people to be able to see this date is really special, because the next 080808 will be 100 years later in year 2108. In fact this is the 2nd time in my life so far to see such a special day, 20 years ago, I remember the date 080888, which was even more special. =)

Here are something to remember in this special date.

1) Heehee..Its friday..weekend mood..and also National Day eve.
2) Beijing Olympic finally begin, today is the opening ceremony.
3) This is the most important one..Singapore pools give a TOTO
jackpot of big prize of 8 million+..Wow!!! 9 of my team members
each contributed $10 to share buy the ‘hopefully can win
tickets’..wish us good luck and make this day even more special to
remember...haha! =)

National Museum Light Festival

HiHi..See these pictures!!! This is not done by photoshop…Okok..I know it can be done, but my photoshop skill is not up to that level yet, anyway, if I know how to do it, I would have decorate it with Manchester United logo, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool..the list goes on..haha!

These pictures were taken by my director last week when he went to the National Museum light festival. Later that night, I took bus 190 which had passed by the place and so lucky that the bus stopped at a long traffic and the nice spot enable me to witness this amazing light changing design on the building façade. Altogether I saw three different designs; the changing interval was about 30 sec…I think so.

I have never seen such an amazing thing before, there were a few big light boxes located at different areas, I believe this was where the graphics were being thrown out onto the building, but how it can be done so accurately and fitted nicely on each column and cornices is really amazing. I don’t know how it was being done. Anyway, I really appreciate this masterpiece of art-lighting graphic design. :)