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Malaysia Bag First Gold At 16th Asiad


From Zulhilmi Supaat

GUANGZHOU, Nov 15 (Bernama) -- Malaysia bagged their first gold medal in the 16th Asian Games here through Chai Fong Ying in wushu on Day Three of the Games which officially began on Saturday.

Besides this, Malaysia also captured the first silver through Ibrahim Amir who was in action in the 8-Ball Pool Singles final.

After today's competitions involving Malaysians, the national contingent's medal tally stands at one gold, one silver and three bronze, which puts Malaysia in eighth position in the medal standings.

As of 11pm tonight, hosts China lead the medal standings with 53 gold, 20 silver and 19 bronze followed by South Korea (18, 13, 18) and Japan (13, 25, 23).

Not only did Fong Ying win the gold, she also successfully defended her Tajijian gold that she won when making her Asian Games debut in Doha, Qatar four years ago.

However, Ng Shin Yi, her compatriot in the event had to be satisfied with fifth placing.

The silver was all the more sweet for the 49-year-old Ibrahim on the personal level as he had returned empty-handed in the last two editions of the Games.

In the final today, Ibrahim lost 4-7 to Kuo Po Cheng of Taiwan. At the Guangzhou Velodrome, national cycling ace Mohd Azizulhasni Awang booked his ticket for tomorrow's semifinal of the men's 200m individual sprint after defeating Hassanali Varposhti of Iran in the quarterfinal.

Dubbed the `The Pocketrocketman', he posted 10.781s in the first sprint and 10.982s in the second to overcome the Iranian.

Tomorrow, Mohd Azizulhasni will be up against Doha gold medallist Zhang Lei of China and two Japanese riders, Kitatsuru Tsubasa and Nitta Yudai.

In the women's event of the same, Fatehah Mustafa failed to advance past the quarterfinal after being defeated by Kim Wongyeong of South Korea.

In the team pursuit, the Malaysian quartet of Mohamad Akmal Amrun, Muhamad Adiq Husainie Othman, Amir Mustafa Rusli and Mohd Rizal Tisin lost to the Iranian team but managed to rewrite the national record in the event.

The Malaysians' time was four minutes 18.596 seconds while the Iranians did 4:15.225s.

Team manager Datuk Naim Mohamad said the 4:18.596s erased the old mark of 4:20s set by the same four at the World Championship in Beijing in January.

Meanwhile, the national football squad bid goodbye to the Games when they lost 1-3 to defending champions Iran in the knockout stage.

Though without key players because of injuries and red cards, K.Rajagobal's boys can take pride that they gave a good account of themselves

Tomorrow, though the Malaysian contingent will be celebrating Aidiladha, which is celebrated here one day earlier than Malaysia, there will be no let up in the quest to meet the nine-gold target that has been set for the team.

Attention will be focused on Mohd Azizulhasni and Malaysian tenpin bowlers Shalin Zulkifli, Esther Cheah and Zandra Aziela Ibrahim who will begin the hunt for gold in the women's individual event at the Tianhe Bowling Alley.

The men's and women's badminton squads will also be starting their campaigns in the individual events at the Tianhe Stadium tomorrow.



-- BERNAMA

Stompin Sabah 2010 (Concert)

#Celcomstompingsabah

Hi readers,

Last week I went to the Stompin Sabah 2010 Concert. I was being sponsored by Nuffnang. Around 1.00pm I go to the Jesselton Point to redeem the tickets and I met Hafiz one of the in charge there. I thought the ticket that I’m going to get is the normal one. But then I got the VIP tickets!! Thanks Nuffnang!!

The location of the event same as last year which is being held at Jesselton Point aka Sabah Port. Me and my friends arrived there around 7.00pm and the rain getting to be heavy on that night. The concert starts at 7.00pm starting by the U.O.X Bands. Thanks to Nuffnang and Celcom cos me and my friends not ‘wet’ as the crowds in the arena ahahaha….. But the im ready to get wet and enter the Arena Zone..!! Jumping and Stomping around while ‘bathing’ with the rain actually the real experience.

Enough the talking let me show ya the pictures..!!!


My Vip Tickets!!




Xpax Logo!

The performances by local act and international. Hosted by Jin from Hitz.fm . Toi the angklung man was so much fun... he played the hit single from wondergirls ‘Nobody but you’ using angklung. After that Shawn Lee take the stage with his beat boxing style. He is the current world no 9. MC Vibe also make his appreance together with Shawn.



The Dancer



Jin from Hitz FM


Toi plays the angklung.. Nobody but u!





The crowds was having so much fun in the Arena Zone

Pictures below is some of the performances that i managed to captured. This bands came from Singapore and they called themselves as Wicked Aura Batucada... whoaaa.... what a name huh..

Their vocalis was so much enegertic! Jumpin here and there.








“KK is the best... we will come again in December!!” Jin from Hitz Fm

The most awaited performance is from the Malaysia Queen of Rock. Ella! She sung her hit single such as Rama-rama, Permata Biru, Dua Insan Bercinta and many more... People were very enjoy and Ella really know how to entertain and she owned the stage!!







The young talented guitarist all the way from Ranau. Dicken


The show still not over yet... more to come.. next performances by the legendary guitarists which is Man Kidal and Joe Wings. Both of them really captured the moment. All of us was amazed with their style and skills of ‘goreng’ the guitar. Guitar Battle also happened between both of them and Dicken.












Man Kidal gave Dicken an applause!

The rain is stop but not the show...!! Next Ella make her 2nd and last appearance. Its already Sunday!! Yeah we have so much fun until forgot that Saturday already leaving us... huhuhu... Ella really know how to interact with her fans. No matter how it is. Until at one point there is one guy jumpin straight to Ella and she just being cool and relax! Yeah!!!






Simple outfit make her easy to move jumpin.. head banging...







This is the last scene which is all the artists came up to the stage and sung our beautiful local song “Sayang Kinabalu” Ella also doing some of the Sumazau movement with her beautiful backup singer.



Man Kidal and Toi was enjoy with the crowds that shouting their name..




I was having so much fun attending this concert. Eventhough it was rain a bit but still it was new experience… The concert ended around 1.00 AM Sunday morning. =) Next year they will try to bring more international artists. Thanks to Nuffnang becos sponsoring me.. Im hoping that next event I will get more sponsor task to do… very happy doing this.

See ya!

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post by Nuffnang in collaboration with Stompin' Sabah 2010

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