Malaysian Sepak Takraw is really going deep shit

After being humiliated by Indonesia, now we were brought down to the ground by minnows Japan and South Korea. Though we lost in rubber sets, but we were the power house for this sports.

The coached said that we had younger team and the opponents were more experienced. Damn, First off all, the coach and the entire management of sepak takraw should be sacked, because, you people are too old and don't know nuts about sports management.

Moreover, if their mindset is just to swindle money and play racial politics and being power crazy, the sports would even go deep shit.

I'm just wondering, when we will be getting our 1st gold medal after 20 years in Asian Games.

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8 gold target looks bleak

Datuk Lee Chong Wei could only manage a bronze and lost to his nemesis Lin Dan. If he could have had better focus on 1st set, he would have won it as he was leading 20-16.

Bowling could only give 1 silver from 6 events. Cycling could only managed 1 silver and 1 bronze. Shooters and archers put up good show, but became the brides maid.

Takraw was crap, hope they will atleast qualify for finals for individuals.

Now, entire contingent is putting the pressure on Karate and Diving to deliver the medals.

I think, we should never put a target in future. Else it will be pressuring. It was the same in Olympic 2004, when the entire contingent put the presure Josiah Ng and he couldn't deliver.

Pink Run - 28 Sept'14

One of my target for 2014 was to do below 5minutes pace for a 5km race. Finally I achieved it. For this race i was with my garmin watch and rudy project specks. As this is my last race before my marathon, just wanted to ensure, it's not a poor performance.

As the race started, I followed the leading pack. That made me to dry my energy because I went on 4 minute pace. Thereafter, I slowed to 4;30, and the rest just overtook me. That made my aim of getting into top 10 going into smoke. But I ensured I'm in the top 20.

The route was flat with 2 flyover, which is uphill. But being in a fast pace mode, I could not reduce my pace to more than 5 mins.

It was good, that there was 1 water station and clear signage with marshals. The route was around setia alam housing area. I have ran there 2 years ago. almost 3km, we were running together with 12km runners. But we didnt face any congestion, as the road was wide and we were running with middle group.

As we reached the last flyover, that's the last km, and i was just looking for the welcome centre building. I could see signages, setia city mall. Only last 500M, I could see the welcome centre building.

I tried pushing, but could only close the gap. The 1st placing in ladies category was around 200M in front of me.

Though I was not placed in top10,but I was happy with my timing of 23:06 and got into top 20.

Good thing was, I manage to catch picture with Miss Malaysia 2010, Tanuja Ananthan and Super model, Marion Caunter.

Time to focus on my marathon after this.

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Malaysia got the 2nd gold, but the rest faltered

It was equavelent to an international finals, between Nicol David and Low Wee Wern. Though We Wern tried her level best to overcome her opponent but Nicol showed that she is still strong to get the gold medal.

Nevertheless, there's no worries, as Wee Wern is ready to step into Nicol's shoes, as she is reducing the gap with the top players. In addition, Nicol is strong for 2 more years, thus, we have more titles to be earned for the country.

Nevertheless, for men section, veteran and 2 time gold medalist, could only manage a bronze. But he as the oldest player on the court. The worry was , no other national players could come close to semifinals. It's something that PSA must look into seriously, else, we wont even have medals for next asian games.

Sepak Takraw had bad start by loosing 2-1 to Indonesia. We were still making silly mistakes, including tekong could not kick the ball pass the net. The last gold was won in 1994. I think we need to wait for another 2 edition to get a gold medal for this sports.

Bowling too bowled blank when Malaysians were not on podium for both singles event. Nevertheless, the strength always in trios and team. We hope, we will get something golden outing from there.

Badminton as expected had bronze in team event, but lee chong wei could not take revenge on his world championship loss to Chen Long. Surprisingly, south Korea, beat China in finals and got the gold medal and Thomas cup winners, Japan was not even on the podium.

The worse thing, players like Chong Wei feng could not even match lin dan, which means, we really need a successor for lee chong wei.

For cycling, azizul only managed 4th place for sprint event. He was very close beating the Chinese for bronze medal but wrong strategy caused him a medal. Hope, we will deliver medal in keirin.

Shooting produced consolation results, where nor suriyani taibi achieved silver medal and her team got bronze in 10M rifle.

YB KJ is confident of achieving 8 gold medals, but for me, we can do more than that.

Cost to host world cup football

I was reading ACCA member magazine June 2014 edition.

There was write up on cost to organise world cup football.

Here's the list:

2010 (South Africa) - USD 12 billion

2014 (Brazil) - USD 13.3 billion

2018 (Russia) - USD 20 billion (estimation)

2022 (Qatar) - USD 65 billion (estimation)

Though, the host gets sponsorships from sportswear, tv rights, beverages, textitles etc. Nevertheless, there's a big chunk of amount need to be spent as organising cost.

Some countries do it to get more tourist, but what is it's already a country whom always gets tourist like russia and brazil. Anyway, it's something to consider for malaysia before they bid for 2030 world cup.

Jason Crimpson words

I was reading the ACCA member magazine for May 2014 and there's was a write up of Jason Crimpson, Director Asia Pacific Shared Service Centre.

He gave valuable tips and lessons and the main highlight was:

1. Be reliable in everything you do
2. Be willing to volunteer for challenging assignments
3. Spend time to understand the capability of system or tools
4. Get to know people and how the business works and be passionate about it

This is something lacking among the fresh graduates, especially those i have seen for the past 2 years going to big 4, whom don't have the marketability and ability to work in the firm.

Azmin Ali is the New MB, Anwar shown the exit door

PKR deputy president has been sworn in as new Menteri Besar, replacing Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim yesterday. Though, it was expected on his appointment, as he was the 2nd choice after Wan Azizah. Nevertheless, Sultan showed his power by ensuring, there wont be any female leader leading the state.

Azmin whom is also Anwar's protege do have the look and caliber of being politician. But the question is, will this change can bring down or change the perception of Rakyat to change their mindset to opt for BN during the next election. On his 1st day itself, he has started to dig the water agreement, next he would hit on states reserve and investments.

Anwar, whom was hoping for his wife to be the leading person had double impact when his role as advisor has been removed due to cost saving purpose. This includes his office, where it's closed.

Moreover, azmin's wife Shamsidar was a scandal during the 1998 sodomy trials. Will it repeat?

Anyway, I hope the state will grow and become a model state for the country.

2XU Run

I didn't want to presure myself with too many long distance running. Thus, I took part in 5km, it's my first race for 2XU.

Though it's one of the expensive race, but the goodies were good for the package we pay. I also wear the new compression tights and socks given in the goodie bag.

I was there early to have adequate warm up. As the race started, i followed the starting pack with gap of 50M. It was uphill at the beginning itself, followed by another short one at 2km. At 1km, I ensured I'm in the top 10 group. After2km, I couldn't see leaders exept for the person in front of me.

I was in the same pace as beginning. I tries to increase it after 3km but couldn't. Maybe, need to do more speed work. There were adequate marshals and even water station plus distance marker.

The things which I wasn't comfortable was, using the same route without any barrier in between. Luckily I was in the front group, so didn't mix much with the slow runner group. Nevertheless, when we reached the entrance of lake gardens, we had to mix with 10km runners and 21km runners. So I had to squeeze in between to go to finishing line. I was satisfied with my timing of 18:51 with placing of 8. It's just almost 3 minutes between me and the winner. But winner, Navin is a current sukma athlete, so he is in form to produce results.

My next run will be pink run next sunday.