Update
The table-tennis women team event semi-finals was really, really a firecracker of a match-up. I love the offensiveness of Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu against the defensive pair Park Mi Young and Kim Kyung Ah. Li came really close to beating Kim in the singles match, Wang could have performed better than Dang Ye Seo (quite an attractive player by the way, both play-style and looks wise), but I think the heroine of the day is Feng Tianwei, who won both the opening and final match to ensure our progress to the finals. No one could have watched her match against Park Mi Young without an exclamation mark as each combined offensive prowess with well-placed shots and intense positional play.
Pleased Nastia won her gold in gymnastics, not pleased Yang Wei outshined the silver and bronze medallists.
I idolise offensive players/teams in most sports if not all; I believe we all do to some extent. Maybe it's got something to do with their recklessness, their risk-taking attitude that lies at the heart of an offensive. At the very least these players usually possess some level of showmanship for the audience.
On the other hand I admire quiet, steady players too, maybe because it is stylish in itself to stare back calmly, passively even, in the face of offensive pressure. We would like to think the best players are the ones who combine offensive moves with steady, tactical play. Well perhaps, but I feel there are some areas where one single show of brilliance is and should be enough to win the show, if not the game itself.
Anyway, hope Federer comes back soon. Don't really like Nadal.
I unknowingly signed up for two philosophy modules which are new courses, and the result of this is that one of my classes contain, by way of majority, year 3s and 4s despite it being of level-2000, and some of those year4s are actually honours students. I probably wouldn't have joined the class if I knew this, but now that I'm in it, I'd like to see how the senior students from various disciplines (some from the sciences as well) interact with each other.
I also went to MICA for an interview and met an Indian "astrologist" on the way back, more of those next month.
Pleased Nastia won her gold in gymnastics, not pleased Yang Wei outshined the silver and bronze medallists.
I idolise offensive players/teams in most sports if not all; I believe we all do to some extent. Maybe it's got something to do with their recklessness, their risk-taking attitude that lies at the heart of an offensive. At the very least these players usually possess some level of showmanship for the audience.
On the other hand I admire quiet, steady players too, maybe because it is stylish in itself to stare back calmly, passively even, in the face of offensive pressure. We would like to think the best players are the ones who combine offensive moves with steady, tactical play. Well perhaps, but I feel there are some areas where one single show of brilliance is and should be enough to win the show, if not the game itself.
Anyway, hope Federer comes back soon. Don't really like Nadal.
I unknowingly signed up for two philosophy modules which are new courses, and the result of this is that one of my classes contain, by way of majority, year 3s and 4s despite it being of level-2000, and some of those year4s are actually honours students. I probably wouldn't have joined the class if I knew this, but now that I'm in it, I'd like to see how the senior students from various disciplines (some from the sciences as well) interact with each other.
I also went to MICA for an interview and met an Indian "astrologist" on the way back, more of those next month.
3 Comments:
ljw is not as calm as ftw especially when she's under pressure.....anyway, great tat we get into the final n secure a medel in olympic after so long.....
whether y3s or 4s, it is the fighting spirit n hardwork.....
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is the table tennis final more impt than pm's n day rally live telecast? on the other hand, one is yearly event but the other is 4th yearly n with final, it may be every 48 years....
is the table tennis final more impt than pm's n day rally live telecast?
DUH.
I suppose you were asking a rhetorical question.
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