I aM baCCKKKK!!!
And it's gonna be very very difficult to blog about 12 days so i'll just talk about the highlights.
I've seen how sports can get incredibly political when you pit two countries against each other. Yes. It's worse if bias judging takes place.
Because of this 12 days, I can safely say wasn't idling for the hols.
Thailand
Nakhon Ratchasima Province นครราชสีมา
(8th Dec-15th Dec)
"Jetted off at night on a Lufthansa Boeing 747. Delayed. Reached the Suvarnabhumi airport midnight-ish. Reached hotel at Korat at 4.30 thai time aka, 5.30 Malaysian time. Barely 3 hours of sleep, we head off to start our first day cheering for Malaysia.
Our schedule nearly killed me."
The
It's really spectacular how we exceeded our targets. Azalina said 64. We bagged 68!
So you see, there's only about 40 of us who had to move from stadium to stadium, uni to uni, mall to mall. Thailand sent off their own army off cheer leaders for every event! Blimey, talk about National pride!
For the Women's Basket Ball Finals against Thailand, we took like a small corner at the basketball court, somewhere under the score board. The rest of the stadium was local people. It's just us against the whole stadium. Imagine that.
We waved the flag like a bunch of crazy people (I had the biggg humongous flag for full 7 days), the others bashed their kompangs like mad. Thai was leading with a small difference but we picked off half way through. Till the final second, we beat the Thais by 1 point.
The most memorable has to be Women's Basket Ball and Ping Pong. :)
Even though Ng Sock Khim got a silver, nobody expected her to beat the thai player who ranked Top 10. She did it though and even asked us to stay for the finals against Singapore but we couldn't. She played hard though. I really like our local atheletes. Those that we met were really nice and humble. It's sad some go unnoticed by the public.
I dunno what's with chasing for gold. When you watch it live, Silver, bronze... is just as good. It's how sporting you are that counts.
Sidenote:
+Btw. Josiah Ng, (Malaysian cyclist) is really tall in real life. Check out the legs ^^,
+Daniel Bego
+The hot Ping Pong dude. What is his name?! >_< (oh. i found out) Muhd Shakirin IBRAHIM.
+Beach Volley ball - It was 5-ish. Armed with suntan, we cheered under the setting sun ignoring the heat. We lost to thai in the finals but it's ok. They pwned!
+Dancesport is still not recognized by the OCM. It's about time they did. There are people out there fighting to get it recognized.
No pictures for now (maybe later) coz my camera died on Day 2 in the gymnastics stadium. Will post some when I get it.
The people
Thailand has been incredibly kind to my noobness in Thai. (River = Menam. Help me remember that.) Despite the language barrier, the Thais overall were really really hospitable. Always smiling and friendly. The local cheer team also helped cheer Malaysia on at some matches. The locals we meet were also really jovial. The tour guide (Lek) was also really friendly to show us what was along the way. (Poor thing, she got kacau-ed by old poke
To top it all off, one staff from a random hotel helped when the three of us got lost searching for a street market in Korat. :P
I should've brought along a language-guide.
The food
I am someone who can never hold spicy food. I cannot tahan. If you let me down a bit of wasabi, you can see instant colour change on my face and I will be downing truckloads of water after that.
Sooo... yaa. You get the gist of it.
The choices for breakfast was the same everyday. So it's the usual koko crunch, milk, pan cakes, thai honey (slurp), sausages and eggs. We usually grab nonsense for lunch but it's okay. Had fillet-o-fish for 2 consequtive lunches. 0.0! Dinner was something I always look forward to.
Tom Yum - OMG. *drools* It is DA bomb!
Thai Curry - OOOOOHHH~!
Meat and Veggie skewers - ok. the green thing right at the bottom is probably jalepeno pepper (or some crazy mutated spicies). DO NOT consume.
*breathes smoke*.
BTW The weather doesn't help.
The Internet Connection
It's. A. Rip. Off.
In a Nut Shell
To sum it up, it was overall a really good experience. I'm glad i went for it. Still, it ended a lil abruptly. I was just getting to know everybody then poof! I'm at the airport again walking aimlessly to find the gate for my flight back home. To look at it, at least it was long enough for me to get enemies. LOL.
Can't believe i sang on the bus. T__T
I came back to KL on the 15th and remained there until today.
KUALA LUMPUR
(15th - 20th)
I remember complaining about the jam at the fly-over in Bandar Sunway and the LDP. I change my mind.
THE JAMS IN TOWN ARE FAR MUCH WORSE. *swallow thick lump down throat*
That aside, the deco in KL is really pretty and Chrismassy now. LOL. I spent most of my time at Bukit Bintang since I was staying around there. Did some shopping with gran and mum!
There's this gigantic christmas tree thinggy in Pavillion and I got to see a choir carolling on the tree. It was actually a spiral platform. Go check it out. I'm sure they'll have it again.
The Bulgogi in Food Republic in Pavilion level 1 IS DA BOMB! *slurp slurp* Try it. :D
I still haven't gotten my J. Co. donuts though. :(
Got a flu on the second day. Wahlaoo.
I saw PPG, Dexter and Deedee in Pyramid.
>_<
I can't believe I was grinning watching them.
Well. It's fine because I find it hard to believe alot of things that I do.
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