Malaysian Night 08: KAWAN!

Malaysian Night is once again back and it will be held for 2 nights: Friday(29/2) and Saturday(1/3) night.

That's all the updates for now. Until then, hear from me soon!

Dunlop Table Tennis Masters in Royal Albert Hall!

Dunlop Masters returns after 3 decades and will be held for the first time ever at the ever-gorgeous Royal Albert Hall, UK on the 17th of March 2008. It will be contested by some of the world's top players like Timo Boll for instance; a German player currently ranked 4th in world. A top Chinese player will also be present.

Some quick background information:

It is a six-man competition for huge prize money encompassing 2 quarter-finals, 2 semi-finals and a final. We're not only expecting to see world class table tennis but also the presence of 'special guests' that apparently, will take the breath away! Specially installed big screens, featuring action replays and interviews with the players as they happen on court, will add to the sense of this occasion.

Best available tickets are currently at £15. Proceeds all go to charity!

I really would love to go and want some company. Anyone up for it? Do let me know as soon as possible!

Nottingham Games 2007

Nottingham Games this time was once again a rather successful one for me although I failed to bag any gold medals for Imperial.

I was not expecting anything out of this since I only practised a day before the competition and guess what happened to my beloved ping pong bat....

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it broke!!!

How unlucky things were :(

Had to use Hua Aun's bat in the beginning and the games I played were soo awful! I then used a friend's bat (another player in the same competition) which happens to be almost the same as my broken bat. Things turned out to be so much better after that.

Overall, I managed to bag a silver medal for Mixed Doubles category and a bronze for Singles. Both matches were extremely close and I thought I could have gotten 2 golds for that! Aihh.. Anyway, that's it for this year. Don't think I'm actually looking forward to next year. And honestly, I thought Nottingham Games would be the last ever ping pong competition I'll ever enter. Have been taking part in competitions for every year since 2001. It's probably time to retire in this and move on to probably another sport? Hehe.

Anyway, below are some of the pictures during Nottingham Games:

Met Subha and Jia Wei in Notts (Wei is not in this picture though)

Me in action!

Group picture with the players and organiser

And lastly, the champion and I!

Malaysian Night 2007

Malaysian Night 2007 was seriously a BLAST! Here are the pictures/videos as promised: *it'll be a miracle if you can spot me in the videos!* LOL. DVD will be out later! :P

PICTURES:

Before the show

Opening Dance

Stomp Dance

Dikir Barat. IC BOLEH!

Lion Dance
Modern Dance

Finale Dance

The audience! Can see Kim Hong! =)

VIDEOS:

Opening Dance (sorry for the bad quality! Hopefully, someone will upload a better version in youtube. Anyway, I doubt you can spot me in the video =P)


Stomp Dance (you should be able to see me in this, I hope)


Dikir Barat 1


Dikir Barat 2


Dikir Barat 3


Modern Dance: footloose! (I was the one doing the cartwheels! =))


Finale Dance (supposed to be the gay-est dance of all but I thought it was alright)

feel free to give your comments! =)

Malaysian Night Fever

Woohoo! Imperial College's Malaysian Night will be in 4 days! FOUR! Pressured? LOL!
To be honest, I'm quite worried of several things. Some are fine though.

Short Review of the dances I'm in:

1. Opening Dance: I think Chloe, Yih Lin, Colin did a great job by polishing up the moves. It looked really messy and terrible initially, but now, I think it's quite good =)
2. Bhangra: Hmmm, not too bad as well. Only thing I'm worried about is: the stage's so crowded!!
3. Lion Dance: I always thought it was terrible. It's probably because I always have this weird feeling when I do the routine. But, nevertheless, it turns out to be quite good to the rest of the people, so yeah. Quite happy about it
4. Modern Dance: Whee! I love this dance. Its very funnn!!
   
5. Stomp: Not ready yet, in my opinion. We seem motionless! Ok, maybe not we but me!
6. Dikir Barat: Errr, no comments. It's the worst among the rest of the dances I'm in :S so many things to remember!! :(
7. Finale: Appeared to be the most gay-ish dance of all but it's improving :) at least, I don't think it's THAT gay anymore! Kudos to Wei Li!

So that's about it! Will probably upload the videos of my Malaysian Night once it's over!
We gonna ROCK on Sat! =P

First lion dance performance for CNY!

*Note: The content of this video may be rather obscene to certain people. If you think you'll be offended in anyway, please do not view it =) And, it's my FIRST performance! It has mistakes here and there (that is if you can point it out) but do forgive me okayy? Overall, our captain was impressed and we did pretty well!





Give me feedbacks about it :) And, hope you like it

Imperial Centenary Launch Day

30th Jan 2007 marks the Centenary of Imperial College London. It's a day of celebration for all the people at the College. Unfortunately, lectures were not cancelled and had to go on as usual :( Nevertheless, the celebration was rather impressive.

It all started off early in the day when the Queen Tower's bells were rung to herald the start of this momentous year for Imperial. Music was then played throughout the day. When I reached College, it was somewhat different to me. Not because there were balloons everywhere but I felt a slight change in environment. People were exceptionally jovial, excited and boisterous.

I had my lectures until 12pm and then, FREE to join the celebration! Lunch in SCR (Senior Common Room) was awesome. And, it's cheap!

Menu for the day. Only for £1.50!


This was what I had. I should have taken the Salmon! It would have been much better.

Imperial even has its own red wine :S

After lunch, we headed to Queen's Lawn and started taking photos. There were jugglers as well.

Me, Shin Hung and Deng Wei [At Queen's Lawn]

London Fire Brigade! This vehicle is maintained by the people from the Mechanical Engineering Department

And, the interesting part: They allowed students to enter Queen's Tower!
For your information:
The Queen's Tower is 287m tall. There are 324 steps from the ground to the base of the dome.

They lock Queens Tower for a very good reason: This is where students of Imperial committed suicide in the past.

We waited for about 2 hours to enter Queens Tower :S


We were all bored and decided to take more photos. LOL




In Queens Tower


Top of the Tower!


Royal Albert Hall from the top of the tower!

We had a free Centenary Cake!

Happy 100th Birthday Imperial!

Busy Week

Sorry for not being able to blog for the past week. I was seriously tied up with tests, projects etc.. (using it as an excuse to get away lol).

Not that my week was mundane, really! It was rather exhilarating, indeed. Ah, if I were to blog about every event which happened last week, it'll be too lengthy. I shall provide a summary:

27 Nov: Kavitha had her birthday celebration. Food was great. Met loads of cool new people!
28 Nov: Christmas Test. Screwed.
29 Nov: My sister, Caroline's birthday! Too bad I can't celebrate with her back home :(
30 Nov: Cheryl and Anita's birthday. We had a gathering at Starbucks; Cheryl and Anita had their own plans, so we planned to meet up and hang around! lol. That night, went for my first musical theatre: Les Miserables.
1 Dec: LSE's Malam Bakti. Gosh! No one should miss it. Really had a good laugh that night.

And now, as for this week, my personal tutor-Prof Peter Cheung, was kind enough to bring us(his tutees) for a dinner at an Italian Restaurant in South Kensington. (can't recall the name of the shop)

Prof Peter Cheung (the one sitting next to me) and his tutees

Oh! Not to forget, my hall's Christmas Party! It will be on this Saturday and I seriously got no idea of what to get for my hallmate. By the way, it's a guy not a girl unfortunately. Lucky draw! Any suggestions people? Something different, preferably.

Happy Birthday Cheng Chun!

Yesterday was the birthday of a dear friend(senior), Cheng Chun. Just incase you guys were pondering about who he is and how we became good friends, here it is. To Colin especially, you're the one who always brings up this question, "What's with you and Cheng Chun?" Believe it or not, we're BLOOD RELATED! Cheng Chun's my cousin! lol. Anyway, here is how the story goes:

Remember the period when I was DEAD bored and had nothing to do while awaiting for my A levels result? That was the time when I actually joined ICUMS(Imperial College Union Malaysian Society) forum and added every senior who displayed their MSNs. And, ah! There it goes. I think the FIRST person I chatted with was Colin; if I'm not mistaken. Then, Cheng Chun. Anyway, that doesn't really matter. I added both of them and had a good chat with them. Colin was rather quiet(I think he had something to do that time) but Cheng Chun, on the other hand, was remarkably talkative! Hence, I actually talked to him and asked him more about life in IC, London, etc. And, being the patient one, he actually entertained and answered every single doubt I had. However, the amount of questions I had were incredibly a lot! My parents were bombarding me with TONS of questions that I couldn't answer! As a consequent, Cheng Chun and I decided to meet up (can't remember who came up with that idea). So, he's actually the FIRST senior I knew :)

We planned to meet up at Mid Valley, since it's nearer to his place and I know how to drive there. And, my goodness! When I first knew him, he told me he was VERY PARTICULAR about punctuality. Being me - the one who's always late, honestly, I was afraid that I would be late and he would be pissed with me. To be honest, I almost banged a car on my way there(Don't worry Cheng Chun. It's not your fault. Don't feel sorry about it. I shall blame it on my clumsiness). For those who wished that to happen, sorry to disappoint you. =P I seriously tried not to be late, but in the end, I still went late. This time it's due to the jam. Really!! Not my fault :(

Anyway, it was my first experience in meeting up with a stranger i.e. someone I've not met before. Therefore, I decided to bring backup - Jade! hahahaha. jkjk =P
Since Jade told me he would be at Mid Valley too, I thought maybe I can meet up with him as well.

And, what actually triggers my curiosity is the statement made-up by Cheng Chun when he first met me: "You look EXACTLY like one of your senior, Colin! Look out for yourself during Freshers Camp and remember what I've said". And, honestly until today, I still don't seem to see the resemblance between Colin and I albeit many people acknowledging it.

Let's fast forward a couple of months to 26th November 2006: Cheng Chun's birthday. Honestly, I felt extremely bad for accepting the dinner treat from him and not buying him any presents. I seriously think I should but I don't know what he likes! :S arghh. Anyway, we(me, Cheng Chun and Kevin) had dinner at Mandarin Kitchen. Food was SCRUMPTIOUS! I love it a lot. Thanks Cheng Chun, once again. I think the meal was rather expensive: I would estimate around £60 to £70. Cheng Chun didn't wanna reveal the price. Worst of all, I was the one who ate the most! Now, I seriously feel very guilty :(

Birthday boy and I at Mandarin Kitchen.

Jee Wayn, Cheng Chun and I (at Deeparaya Dinner:an old event) I thought of putting it up since the picture I had with the birthday boy is rather vague.
And, FINALLY

My clone! The senior(Colin) who looked like me apparently