Thomas and Uber Cup update

The Malaysian Uber cup team's journey has come to an end this evening as they lost to Korea 3-1. Only Wong Mew Choo able to win in the tie and now Malaysia hope is all on the Thomas Cup team which will be facing China on Friday afternoon at 1PM. It will be a tough encounter for Malaysia team but with high confidence, they should be able to do the upset. I guess it will be a tight encounter where the result should be at 3-2 and will depends on the last single to decide the match.

Besides today's Malaysia action, China's Uber cup team almost got shocked by Netherlands where China lost 2 of their 3 singles match but able to gain ground on through their doubles and advanced with 3-2 score line.

In Thomas Cup, Korea who opted to face some easy route before reaching the Final almost hit the nail as they won by 3-2 over Denmark where they lost their first singles and first doubles but able to win the last 3 encounters to advance to Semi against Indonesia who have an easy game over England.

Thomas and Uber Cup

It's sad for me as exam is around the corner while overlapping Thomas n Uber Cup together thus making me wanna watch but cannot watch.. Anyway, to those who are interested in getting the latest news below are some links that u can get the latest results..
http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=20003
this link have the draw and also the live score.
http://thebadmintonblog.blogspot.com/
this link provides live scoring update by the blogger with live commentary.

2 Matches, 2 Titles

Barclays Premier League will have its last game of this season played on this coming Sunday, 11th May 2008. Til now, title yet to decide whether Man Utd or Chelsea will win it but Man Utd have the edge as they lead by large goal margin and they are playing against Wigan away but Wigan has already secured next season's top flight football so won't be a tough match. Chelsea on the other hand will be hosting Bolton at Stamford Bridge where they yet to lose a match for more than 80 matches at home. If both win their matches then Man Utd will be crowned champion. Because of this tight affair, the Premier League chiefs are minting two sets of winners’ medals and will use two trophies for Sunday’s final fixtures. The paper claim the real one will be at the JJB Stadium for United’s trip to Wigan, while a replica will be taken to Stamford Bridge for Chelsea’s clash with Bolton.



After the season's last game, 10 days later, both team will meet again at Moscow for Champions League Final and both will be desperate to win it. To me of course i want Man Utd to win it. So hopefully unlike last season where Man Utd got the league while Chelsea got the FA Cup. So make it a double this time!!!

Another Finalist

After Man Utd secured a place in the Champions League final, their opponent for the match on 21st May is Chelsea who won the match 3-2 and aggregate of 4-3 over liverpool. It has been a tremendous match as end of 90 minutes its tied at 1-1 but in the extra time, Chelsea attacked frequently and got their goals through Lampard and Drogba. Liverpool tried to come back but able to find a goal through Babel long range shot. In the end, it has been a wonderful night for Grant and his players. This season will have a wonderful ending on whether Man Utd or Chelsea will able to do a double cup success or one a piece. Goals for the Chelsea Liverpool match can be seen from here. Enjoy.

Moscow Here We Come

To all man utd fans, wednesday morning has been a wonderful day as Man Utd progress to the final of Champions League defeating Barcelona 1-0 at Old Trafford. Paul Scholes is the man that put Man Utd through and here is the goal that sent Man Utd to Moscow for the final and waiting to meet either Liverpool or Chelsea.

Sepang F1 Malaysian GP - Race Day

23rd March 2008, the race day of this year's F1 in Sepang, Malaysia. The race starts at 3pm but in order to get a parking slot and not stuck in the traffic, we decided to leave around 12noon to the circuit but somehow we still got stuck in the heavy traffic towards the circuit. This year seems to be more spectators and from the official spectators count, this year has the highest attendance compared to the last 9 years. We reached there around 2pm and because my uncles need to have a look at those official merchandise, we walked to the welcoming area and they were able to get some caps and t-shirts. I was looking for Kimi's cap which is also the one that Kimi wears during the race weekends but failed to find as only Massa's cap is left available sale. After getting all the needs, we went to our seats and immediately i went to the lowest row so that i could get a better view for photoshooting. Throughout the race, i was hoping for accidents to happen during the first corner and also for the rain to come but both didnt happen and was quite a 'boring' race. In the end, Kimi won the race followed by Kubica then Kovalainen. There were only few race incidents but all happened at other parts of the circuit rather than the corner that i was sitting.
p/s: All the photos below can be used as wallpaper for your desktop. There might be some repeated photos of previous post but this time it is sharper and its 1024*768.

DC trying to overtake Alonso from inside

Sebastien Bourdais, first timer here..

Heikki Kovalainen of Mclaren Mercedes

Jenson Button holding on to his position

Lewis Hamilton trying to overtake Mark Webber

Kovalainen attacking the corner

Kimi overtook the backmarker

Kimi on his way to win the race

Force India's Fisichella

Hamilton after the race

Battle of the 2nd generation drivers between Piquet Jr. and Nakajima

Trulli leads Hamilton as Hamilton attacks the corner

Rosberg trying to overtake Sato

This season's safety car, Mercedes-Benz CL63 AMG

The start of the race

Alonso in his Ranault

Both Aguris at the back of the pack

DC leading Alonso and Heidfeld

Alonso holding off the challenge by Nick and Button

F1 Malaysian GP - Qualifying

Here are some quick updates from me on Saturday's qualifying.. Went to the circuit with my dad and we reached there just nice that the session just started. When we were on the way there, the weather seems to be getting more and more cloudy thus we thought that it might rain halfway through the session but somehow it manages to wait for 1 hour before rain starts to fall. Ferraris were able to get the front row while Mclarens booked the 2nd row and tmr will be a tight fight down til the end of the race..if rain falls before start of the race, we might have a nice race where i guess less than half of the grid finishes. Below are some pics that i took for today's qualifying, enjoy...

Nico Rosberg

Trulli

Sato

Vettel

Webber

Hamilton

Both Mclarens

Massa

Nakajima

Nick passed through Petronas logo

Kimi

Kubica

Kimi again...

Massa chasing Kimi for pole and he got it

Hekki attacking first corner

DC on the attack

DC again

Bourdais

Button being chased by Piquet

Alonso...

MotoGP - Sepang Test

It's new year and many are posting their CNY photos but mine, are still in the CF cards as i forgot to bring my card reader back to my home so gotta post something else. Previously i went to Sepang for MotoGP test session and posted few photos here and as promised, now im going to post the other few names i mentioned which are Rossi, Stoner, Pedrosa, Vermeulen and Melandri. All the photos can be used as wallpaper except Melandri's as the ratio is not 4:3. Enjoy!!


Stoner in garage discussing the problems with mechanics

Rossi back to the pit lane

Australian Chris Vermeulen

Marco Melandri having a posing session with his bike

Dani Pedrosa on the wheels of his Repsol Honda

MotoGP Preseason Test @ Sepang Part1

As preparation for the new season of MotoGP begins, all teams are here in Sepang from 22/01/08 until 24/01/08 for their first test of 2008. I took this opportunity to get a hand on shooting some of those new bikes and their new livery. Here are some shots from their first day of testing where Ducati have some problems with their bikes and limited their run while many fell off the track and limited their run too.

The fastest man on Day-1, Randy de Puniet in his Honda machine

Australian rider Chris Vermeulen in his blue Suzuki machine

Team Alice's new rider Toni Elias

Former team mate of Rossi, Colin Edwards in his new Yamaha YZR-M1

2006 World Champion, The Kentucky Kid in his Repsol Honda

Team Kawasaki test rider, Olivier Jacque

Rossi's new team mate, Jorge Lorenzo, the current 250cc champion

Rizla Suzuki new recruit, veteran rider Loris Capirossi

I'll post up other shots later which includes Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner.