Well, if you can't read and understand that sentence, then you're too slow! It's funny how suddenly all the articles came up all at once at the IBF website, oh well, better late than never. Seems like they've fixed the problems and the articles are coming out sooner. Will try and get them in faster and faster. This next article is the one all you Australian hot blooded males have been waiting for. It has a feature on your darling Tania Luiz, so enjoy! Can't write in the article but have to offer my condolences to you boys who're thinking of making her your wife..she's already taken! (not married, but happily taken as she'd put it). Ok, better go and write some more! A
Okay, time for Kwun to take down all the pictures of Tania on the site. Leave Reiko Shiota's up please -dave
Tze Yang try ur luck!!! Hi there Tze Yang, U really sound desperate for tickets, I know exactly how u r feeling :crying: What happened to my friend and I was on 19/3, we went for the mixed team qf, saw Malaysian team won then we wanted to see the sf at night but tickets were sold out. Then, the next day, we found out that the malaysians would be playing against the English, u just cannot imagine how desperate we were for tickets. We managed to get tickets for the bronze medal match NZ VS India, after all the go india go india inspiration ( well they won unexpectedly) and knowing that Malaysia has never won a gold medal in this even before, there's no way that we would give up the final match on that night, even though there were no tickets left .We had all these "evil" thoughts of getting in there without a ticket eg. hide in the toilets, pretend to be volunteers etc etc just to see the Malaysian team played.....Now I think back, u can go very far if u r desperate, even beyond ur imagination. But, of course, these were just bad thoughts, don;t even think about them because u'll embarass ur country if u do it . So, what we did in the end was to ask around for tickets, we tried all the NZ spectators because we assumed that they might have tickets for the final in advance. Luckily we didn;t give up, in the end this lady from NZ offered her tickets to us because she said there's no point for her to go to the final since NZ had lost. So, yeah, we got the tickets!!!! And that night was just unforgettable as what Adelina76 had reported...I still cannot get over it! SO Tze yang, please try ur luck!! U never know!!!
My expierience as an IBF writer! Hey guys! As you all know, this is my first stint as an IBF journalist and reporter at the recently concluded Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. Before I describe my experience, I just want to say that it's not all glamour and fun but lots and lots of hard work. To give you an idea, think of it this way. One's normal office working hours goes from 9 to 5, 8 hours. I was there for 11 days. 9 of the 11 days, I work from 9am until 1am. That's a 16 hours day. Besides badminton, there were weightlifting and boxing in the same building but I did not even have time to step next door to have a look as I was either always at the badminton hall watching the games, interviewing the players or at the media press centre writing up my articles, sorting out the photos and sending them to IBF. Still, the amazing bit? I managed to talk face to face with many of my badminton idols, interview them thoroughly, get juicy details, get their autographs and also met lots of officials and other people like me who loves the game and have given a lot to it and received back in abundance. I have also managed to get Wong Mew Choo's shirt which she wore to beat Tracey Hallam in the mixed team final, unfortunately, also the same one where she lost to Tracey in the women's singles final. Also managed to get one of the English team's shirt..don't laugh but up till now, I still am not sure whether the shirt belongs to Gail Emms or one of the other girls, but definitely one of them! I also managed to squeeze in some time here and there to do a very small amount of sightseeing, like the beautiful south bank by the Yarra river and also the infamous Victoria market. Of course, I must also mention the great catch up session with the BC people in Melbourne, like Badfever, Twodogs, Maz, FEND, Loh, Kong-19, Kim and Hagene who I would never had got a chance if I wasn't writing the articles. I hope you guys had as much fun reading them as I did writing them. Here are some photos taken that I would like to share with you all. Hopefully, this experience will be a launching pad for more assignments with IBF including the big six star tournaments and the Thomas / Uber Cup. Please keep your fingers crossed for me. Last but by certainly not lease, all thanks and gratitude to Raphael Saschetat who made all this possible for me through his contacts with IBF. Thanks Raphy. I owe you one!
Description of Photos I still haven't worked out how to label my photos. So here in the old fashion way are the description of the pictures. 1. The professional journalist at work..yeah right! 2. Blurry pictures of gold medalists in women’s doubles – Chin Eei Hui / Wong Pei Tty and myself 3. Bronze medal winner, Chetan Anand and myself 4. Women’s doubles player, Donna Kellog, her bronze medal and moi! 5. The proud and promising Indian team 6. Gold medalist in women’s singles – Tracey Hallam and yours truly 7. Bronze medalist in women’s singles – Susan Hughes of Scotland and me. 8. Silver medalist in women’s singles – Wong Mew Choo and myself 9. The BC Melbourne group hard at work! 10. William Milroy and Tamara Sun with me after their match of last 16 against Simon Archer and Ella Tripp of England. See Milroy’ racquet’s broken! Big smasher that boy!
I think you did a great job on the articles minus a few typos here and there and looking forward to more (TC/UC?) although I still can't believe that you gave up your lawyer profession (temporarily?) but badminton still rules, eh? Great photos too. Recognize Loh from previous pics and would guess that the two young un's are Fend and Kong-19.
Good to see that Loh and kong-19 are sporting the new range of team-wear released by BC. Kwun only needs to release matching shorts and shoes!
I saw that match on TV. Milroy realised the shaft had broken and attempted to play the next shot discarding the handle - holding only the broken shaft...all in all it was highly entertaining. However this does leave a bitter aftertaste (on global TV) on how durable BK racquets are. In another match, the camara captures Tamara Sun sitting in the audience. This was after their defeat. She looked mighty cheezed off.
"and many other senior New Zealand and Australian players. Aamir Ghaffar of England, Wong Choong Han, Choong Tan Fook, Wong Pei Tty and Wong Mew Choo of Malaysia will most likely also retire before the next Games." Sorry i just read this and wondering, isnt WMC only 23 yo?she should still be in the next games wouldnt she?unless shes no longer msia no.1 I quite like the overall article though...hehe
