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Olympics Updates
As soon as I came back from the dinner immediately they started the Men's 100m Final match.
Jamaica's Bolt Usain was super fast, he broke the world record with timing of 9.69s, the previous record was 9.72s.
If you've noticed, during the middle of the race, he had almost a 2-person gap between him and the next fastest runner. He did slow down before crossing the finish line. What for?
But it's a good tactic la! Now he just want to break record by 0.03s, so that in future races, he could slowly break this records with ease.
What's interesting is out of the 8 runners of this final match, 3 of them came from Jamaica. So I could say Jamaica is runner producer lor! Bolt is tall, hence the long legs. The only con I could see is that his oxygen intaking ability is not as good. His muscle cells might need x amount of oxygen to do work, but his lungs could only take in y amount of oxygen (where y < x).
One more interesting observation I've noted is African countries would more likely to dominate the medal positions in these athletics' contests. Reason why? Because the training for this types of events is rather simple and cheap - you just need a pair of shoes and volia! You can start running liao.
Swimming you'll need a pool; badminton you'll need a court, a racket and shuttlecocks. Cycling you'll need a bicycle. All these infrastructures and equipments mean money. African countries can't possibly maintain that or even afford that.
My uncle did a simple calculation for the speed those people who go for these ultra-explosive but short distance events and those who go for long distance ones. He found out that the speed of those marathon runners is just half of those 100m or 200m ones.
For short distance: 100m takes 9.69s.
For long distance: 100m takes 17s.
For my first ever 16km run: 100m takes 36s.
See the difference?
Swimming
Michael Phelps is just too god liao. He's the godlike figure in Olympics history liao. To him, sweeping 8 medals is like breathing oxygen for us.
Table Tennis
Today is just the day of table tennis lar! Whole day just telecast table tennis matches.
Team bronze match - Korea beat Japan 3 - 0. Japanese lack experiences. Most mistakes are committed when the ball can't go over the net. All players look young nia. One of them is a mixed blood, looks cute though. rfrf
Team gold match - China thrashed Singapore 3 - 0! As expected. But the first 2 games, i.e. individual games, China 放水 let Singapore win the first round. 之后就出一点pattern来吓你们，然后就通杀到片甲不留。新加坡队的都不够中国队打，酱打过？ Then the last round, the double match... 中国更毫不留情，杀到很痛快。 快、狠、准…… Nice game from the Chinese.
But then again, if Singapore happens to get gold. Would we get one day off tomorrow? rfrf Like national day off like that lor... LOL~
Some funny pictures:
What they call her auntie...
Something rarely seen...
Marathon
A bit disappointed on the Chinese runner. Could have gotten silver and bronze 1. But never mind, I didn't expect this to be China's strength in the Olympics.
Badminton
Sama-sama la... Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei tio thrashed by Lin Dan. But on the consolation side, Lee Chong Wei got a silver medal. Not too bad liao la.
Have been puzzled how the table tennis team competition is carried out. I went over to the official websai of Beijing Olympics and this is what I found out.
"The teams competition will be held in 2 stages. The first stage is group round robin; the second stage is knock-out.
In the first stage, the 16 participating teams will be divided into 4 groups of 4 teams (Groups A-D). The 4 highest ranked teams will go to Group A to D respectively. The remaining teams will be drawn in ranking order, 2 at a time into Groups A, B, C and D. The group round robin system will be used to decide the places in each group.
In the second stage, the winning teams of each group shall play-off, in a knockout semi-final format for the Gold and Silver Medals. The second placed teams of each group and the semi-final contest losers shall play-off for the Bronze medal.
A team match at the Olympic competition is called a "contest". Each contest consists of 4 Singles matches and 1 Doubles match. All Singles matches and Doubles match in a contest are the best of 5, with no other differences from Men's and Women's Singles Event."
What's group round robin system?! I can't figure out what is it lor...
Then I went over to the Chinese version of the explanation, only then I can fully understand the game format of the team matches:
"团体赛——第一阶段，将男女各16支队伍分为4个小组进行单循环赛。第二阶段，获小组第一名的队通过半决赛和决赛，产生团体赛的金牌和银牌。获小组第二名的队只能争夺铜牌。通过小组第二名之间的对抗，获胜的两个队和半决赛失利的两个队进行铜牌的半决赛和决赛，产生团体赛的铜牌。"
It's so much shorter and simpler in Chinese lor. No technical term. I can comprehend and digest very easily. Went back to the English version but still can't make a picture out of it. Proud to be a Chinese lol...
Is it the person who can't do a proper English write up? Or is it my English CMI?
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Recently received a letter from CMPB, inviting me and my parents for tea session about the Accelerated Citizenship Scheme (ACS).
Up till now, I still don't know whether to take up the citizenship or not. I mean what's the WOW factor for me to born here, live here and die here?
PR also not bad what, later 如果一边很惨，可以跑回去. Somemore I have been PR for 20 years, kena don't enjoy those benefits for 20 years liao. Used to it liao. LOL~ Sometimes, people just have to be independent.
And where's my new SAFRA card? I'm the only one still haven't receive the new card leh. =.= But I also can't be bothered about it, cincai la.
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