Commercialism in Sports

I have said this in my earlier posting. Yes, it is time to change.

IBF want female players to ‘get glamorous’

The International Badminton Federation (IBF) are calling on their female players to wear more glamorous outfits, complaining that the traditional style of dress is too old fashioned.

The IBF deputy president Datuk Punch Gunalan said at the World Championships in Anaheim on Sunday that he wished the women would dress more like Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova.

“We are too old fashioned,” Gunalan said.

“Nowadays the girls are becoming a little better dressed. We need to be in the fashion world. So we would like to see players wear more appealing clothes to the public. By appealing, I mean use it for everyday use. So when people walk around, they would want to wear it. Unfortunately we are far away from that. Let’s take Maria Sharapova. Look at her tank tops. It is pretty.”

New Zealand bronze medallist Sara Runesten-Petersen said that she is in favour of anything that will attract more fans to the sport as long as it isn’t forced on them.

“I wouldn’t mind it. I can’t wear skimpy tops because of my shape but some of the girls have beautiful bodies so there is nothing to hide,” said Runesten-Petersen.

“Lots of girls wear skirts and skimpy tops why not when they play sports?

“I wouldn’t want to play in just a bra but a (tank) top is fine. Why not when you are a girl, look like a girl. But it should be up to the individual and not enforced.”

Olympic champion Zhang Ning, of China, said that she had no objection as long as it was done tastefully.

“It is acceptable to me,” said top seed Zhang. “The tank top is all right, just not the string top.”

Gunalan said that he was talking to attire manufacturers about coming up with some new ideas.

“There is too much monopoly right now for one company, Yonex. We need to get companies like Reebok, Nike and Adidas involved,” he said. – AFP

Yeah, they should sack the designers at Yonex. The earlier they do that, the better.

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Cerita Julia

Cheewah, tajuk bukan main bagus lagi..

Dapat cerita ni dari e-mail sorang kawan.

Subject: Fw: Pandu cermat jiwa selamat


"Abang ni, pakai tu elok-elok la sikit," kata Julia lembut sambil membetulkan pakaian Ahmad. Ahmad tersenyum memandang isterinya.

"Cantik isteri abang hari ni," Ahmad mencubit pipi Julia lembut.

"Ayah, ayah, cepat la yah," Liz dan Lin meluru masuk ke bilik kerana dah tak sabar-sabar nak bertolak pulang ke kampung.

"Yelah, yelah, ayah dah siap ni."

Julia hanya tersenyum melihat suaminya itu melayan karenah anak-anak mereka yang comel dan manja.

"Abang, dah lama kita tak balik kampung macam ni,ye?"

"Iyelah, maklumlah abang ni sibuk dengan urusan perniagaan. Baru kali ni abang ada peluang untuk cuti panjang." Ahmad berkata kepada isterinya tercinta.

Perjalanan daripada KL ke Teluk Intan mengambil masa lebih kurang empat jam. Liz dan Lin dah pun terlelap kat kerusi belakang. Begitu juga dengan isterinya, Julia.

"Tak sabar rasanya nak tiba kat kampung," Ahmad berkata dalam hati. Sedikit demi sedikit Ahmad menekan minyak keretanya.

Semakin lama keretanya semakin laju dan Ahmad semakin seronok. Ahmad dah tak sabar untuk segera sampai ke kampungnya. Pedal minyak ditekannya lagi dan Honda Civicnya mula memecut.

Ahmad cilok kiri, cilok kanan. Habis semua kenderaan dipotongnya. Bangga betul Ahmad masa tu. Terlupa dia sekejap pada anak dan isterinya yang sedang tidur.

"Eh abang, kenapa bawa laju sangat ni?" tiba-tiba Julia terjaga dari tidurnya.

"Tak ada apa la sayang, rileks... cepat sikit kita sampai kampung nanti."

"Sabar bang, sabar. Biar lambat tak apa.... jangan laju sangat bang, Julia takut." Julia cuba memujuk Ahmad supaya memperlahankan kenderaannya.

"Rileks Julia, tak ada apa-apa," Ahmad terus memotong bas ekspres di depannya tanpa was-was.

"Haaa..kan, tengok. Tak ada apa-apa kan?" kata Ahmad setelah berjaya memotong bas ekspres tadi.

"Sudah la tu bang."

"Ha... tu ada satu lagi bas ekspres. Julia tengok abang motong dia aaa...." Ahmad terus masuk gear 3, pedal minyak ditekannya hingga jejak ke lantai.

Ahmad terus membelok ke kanan untuk memotong dan.... di depannya tersergam sebuah lori balak yang besar dan gagah dan........BANG!!.

"Julia....bangun nak," sayup-sayup terdengar suara emaknya.

Julia membuka matanya. Dia terlihat emaknya di situ. "Mana abang Ahmad mak? Macammana dengan suami saya, mak? Liza, Linda....mana anak-anak saya
mak?"

Bertubi-tubi Julia menyoal emaknya. Julia tak dapat menahan kesedihannya lagi. Julia menangis semahu-mahunya di depan emaknya. Emaknya memandang Julia tepat-tepat.

"Macamana dengan suami Julia mak, abang Ahmad?" Julia masih terus menangis.


PANGGG!!. Kepala Julia ditampar oleh emaknya dengan tiba-tiba. Julia terdiam. Kenapa emaknya buat dia macam tu?

"Banyak la engkau punya suami! Muka dahlah tak cun, study pun malas, kerja pun takde, ada hati nak berlaki. Apa punya anak dara la kau ni?? Tu la, tidur lagi senja-senja macam ni! Dah! Bangun pegi sembahyang! Asar pun dah nak habis!"

Emaknya terus merungut sambil berlalu keluar.......dan Julia tersengih keseorangan.Rasa macam nak masuk dalam tin biskut!.

hahahahahadhari.......

Moral Cerita: Solatlah Asar dulu sebelum dipelempang oleh Ibu anda...

Trying and still trying...

THIS IS MY THIRD/FOURTH ATTEMPT TO UPLOAD USING THE ADD IMAGE FEATURE. I GIVE UP.....where's my picture?

Can someone help.

My youngest - also wanted to become a spider girl.
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Let's try again

Arrghhh...still didn't work.

What happened to my two pictures that I tried to upload just now?

Why the first time was easy?

Spiderweb

This post is to test the new 'add image' feature that Blogger just incorporated. Let see.......how it works.......

Whoa that's rather easy. Only thing is that it takes a while to upload the picture.

These are my daughters with their cousin.






I'd actually uploaded another 2 pictures. But didnot know where they ended up.

Minyak Naik?

Aarrgh - Part 1

Heard over the radio this morning that PM quashed the rumours about the increase in petrol price which was expected to take effect today.

Buang masa aku balik rumah cepat-cepat lepas main futsal malam tadi and then isi minyak kereta NAZA Ria yang memang jenis telan minyak punya kereta.

Note: I even got an email from a staff about the purported price increase together with a gentle reminder that salary revision is overdue. Aaarrgh....


Aarrgh - Part 2

Maria Sharapova lost to Venus William in the Wimbledon semi-final match last nite (Malaysian time).

Venus 1 Goddess 0

HOWEVER hard she tried, however loud she grunted, Maria Sharapova could not save herself at Wimbledon last night. The Princess of tennis and reigning champion was overpowered and outshrieked by Venus Williams as the American booked her place in tomorrow’s final. The Russian teenager just crumbled against the force of Williams, who won 7-6 6-1 in 101 minutes.

This was the best match of these championships — but it was also the noisiest.

Excerpt from The Sun Online.


Aarrgh - Part 3

Tak de sorang pun Malaysian badminton players survived the third round of Singapore Open. Singles and doubles sama aje kantoi.

Malaysia Boleh

A joke making rounds.

After digging to a depth of 100 metres last year, Russians scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1000 years, and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network one thousand years ago.

Not to be outdone, in the weeks that followed, American scientists dug 200 metres and headlines in the US papers read: 'US scientistss have found traces of 2000-year old optical fibres, and have concluded that their ancestors already had advanced hi-tech digital telephone 1000 years earlier than the Russians.'

One week later, the Malaysian newspapers reported the following:

'After digging as deep as 500 metres, Malaysian scientists have found absolutely nothing. They have concluded that 5000 years ago, their ancestors were already using wirelss technology.'

Proud to be a Malaysian.....

Thanks to Aliran Monthly [2005: Vol25. No.2]

Serve Them Right

Two brothers being sentenced to caned with six strokes of rattan by the Syariah High Court in Kuantan for drinking alcohol in public. Read more about it here. In pleading leniency, the offenders told the court that they were of lower income group. Stupid fools. If you don't have the money, go and drink syrup - it's much cheaper that the stouts that you drank.

That should serve them a good lesson and other Muslims too. Islam prohibits drinking of liquor. Period.

Lawak Pagi Senin

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Lawak Pak Pandir

Dah lama tak update this blog. Dapat lawak ni dari email seorang kawan.


Cerita 1

Satu hari kecoh Pak Pandir panggil wartawan datang kerumah dia. Bila wartawan-wartawan sampai mereka pun bertanya "Ada apa yang menarik ni Pak Pandir?".

Pak Pandir pun kata.."Tenguk ni..aku tanam pokok rambutan tapi tumbuh pokok ubi kayu..hehehe".

"Waaa pelik ni Pak Pandir..cuba cerita kat kami..."

"5 bulan dulu aku ada tanam pokok rambutan kat sini..aku ingat lagi sebab aku ada tandakanya kat sini..."

"Dengan apa Pak Pandir tandakan?" tanya wartawan....

"Dengan batang ubi kayu", jawab Pak Pandir.


Cerita 2

Alkisahnya..hebohlah satu kampung....Pak Pandir mendapat tiket kapal terbang untuk menjadi tetamu Halim Othman dlm Pagi di ERA. Walaupun hanya kelas ekonomi..tapi bagi Pak Pandir...itu sudah cukup mengembirakanya.

Dipendekkan cerita..hari dijanji telah tiba..Pak Pandir pun sudah menunggu seawal subuh di lapangan terbang.

Kapal terbang sampai..Pak Pandir pun naiklah. Masuk jer kapal terbang, Pak pandir terus ambik tempat.

Sebelum kapal terbang berlepas, pramugari pun memeriksa penumpang supaya semua duduk ditempat masing-masing dan bersedia untuk berlepas..

Sekali pramugari nampak Pak Pandir duduk kat kerusi bisnes klass.. setahu
dia.. tak ada penumpang bisnes klass hari tu..

Dengan budi bahasa pramugari tu tegur.

"Pakcik, Pakcik tak boleh duduk kat sini.. boleh tak Pakcik pindah duduk
dibelakang..?"

"Eh.. bagus sungguh bude bahasa orang kapal terbang nii (pramugari)..takpalah nak.. Pakcik selesa dah kat sini.." (*mana tak selesanya...bisnes klass).

Mati akal pramugari tu.. semua pramugari dan pramugara (kecuali yang
terlampau) datang silih ganti..sakit kepala..

Pilot yang menunggu lama nak berlepas, bengong kenapa masih belum ada isyarat kata ok dari ketua pramugari.

Dia pun keluar tengok..pramugari sorang tu cerita..

Pilot tu pun pi lah kat Pak Pandir.."Pakcik.. boleh tengok tiket?"

Pak Pandir kasi tiket..

"Ooo.. Pakcik nak pi KL yer Pakcik?"

"yer nak..."

"taapi Pakcik.. kerusi nii pi Johor Bahru Pakcik.., kerusi belakang baru
pegi KL!"

"yerker nak.. nasib baiklah anak bagitau.."

What day is today?

I'm confused.

What day is today. I know today is Thursday, but are we celebrating anything today?

I was confused because I saw a lady selling flowers (look like an Indonesian employee being sent by her florist-boss) in front of my daughter's school main gate this morning. There was a small manila card that read, 'Bunga untuk Hari Guru'.

Asked my daughter, "Hari ni Hari Guru ke?", because I thought the Teachers' Day was yesterday. "Tak de lah" was the reply I got. Normally schools throughout the country will celebrate Teachers' Day on the same day.

Later heard over the radio (ERA and MixFM) that today is "Hari Jururawat Sedunia".

Poor flower lady, she should be selling flowers in front of HKL.

Car-less

This picture was taken yesterday morning when I was crossing the road to get to my favourite coffeeshop for breakfast. It was about 8.40 a.m. The road was so deserted I thought even a snail could make it to the other side safely.

I could proudly say that I contributed to this car-less scene because I took LRT to work yesterday instead of driving.

The truth is - many roads were closed because of the NAM meeting. So I decided not to take the risk. Better to take LRT than to get stuck in the traffic jam. Lucky me.


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Greed

Today's the Star and Malay Mail reported a (stupid) millionaire lost his RM3.0 millions to black money scam and a lady interior designer lost her RM200,000 in a Nigerian e-mail scam.

Why are these people are soooo f***king stupid? Though it was their money, but why are they so dumb? Didn't they ever read newspapers? Similar cases have been highlighted too many times in the news and they still fell prey to this bogus scheme. According to the paper, this year alone 12 cases have been reported with losses amounting RM3.9 million. Last year, there were 24 cases with losses amounting to more than 1.0 million.

The police, quite rightly pointed out that they were also investigating the victims as the police believed that the victims must have realised they were getting involved into something illegal but went ahead anyway, driven by greed.

Yes, there's nothing more than greed. In the case of the millionaire, he already have millions (of course, otherwise he would not be called one), three wives and 13 kids (as reported in the Star). He sold off jewellery belonging to his three wives as well as two houses and a car to raise the money and made out 20 payments totalling RM3mil over the past year before it dawned on him that he had been duped. What else do you want? More money?!!

Lots of money but nothing in the head. In this case, his eyes and mind were 'blackened' by GREED. Enuff said.

Pindai

Can you guess what "Pindai" is?

Clue - its a malay word. And I just discovered that there is such Malay word when I went to Low Yat Plaza with a friend today.

Both of us were heavily bogged down with works but just too lazy to continue and too tired to finish them. Needing a break, I called Y, he told me he was bored and was reading newspaper to kill off his time. Fetched him and off we went to Low Yat. Spent more than two hours at one particular computer shop. I bought a new sleek looking rectractable mouse for RM35.00 while my friend bought the similar mouse together with other stuffs.

It was while browsing there I saw these words "Cetak, Salin dan Pindai" written on a photo printer box. Curious, I checked the English version - it says, "Print, Copy and Scan".

Fuh, lucky I do not need to take any Bahasa exams anymore.

P/s: My kids sure gonna love me more today. I bought them new cartoon DVDs.

Geram @ Era

Heard this over Radio ERA when I was driving to office this morning.

Caller (female) : I geram sangat kat satu mamat minggu lepas.
K1 (radio announcer1) : apa dia dah buat kat awak?
Caller: dia bawak kereta kejap-kejap laju kejap-kejap brek.
K2 (radio announcer2): masa tu awak tengah drive kat belakang kereta dia lah?
Caller : ya
K2: awak ada nampak tanda 'P' tak kat kereta dia?
Caller: tak, takde
K1: agaknya dia saja nak test skill memandu awak kot?
Caller: sebenarnya ade ceritanya......bila saya dah geram sangat saya pun saing dengan kereta dia. Rupanya....ada makhluk kat atas peha dia....
K2: apasal? dia bawak kucing ke?
Caller: [tergelak] ada perempuan.....saya geram sangat, saya terus potong kereta dia dan buat emergency brek....mencanak dia....
K1 & K2: [gelak gila]
K2: lepas tu apa jadi?
Caller: lepas tu barulah si pompuan tu bangun betul-betulkan tudung...
K2: betul-betulkan kerusi [gelak lagi]
K1: masa tu siang hari ke tengah malam?
Caller: siang hari buta...lepas tu dia dah malu agaknya...terus dia pecut kereta. Hisssh, geram betulll....

Fuuh dahsyat makhluk2 kat Malaysia nih. Macam-macam ada.....

To K & K (Kiran n Khairil) you rocked this morning.

p/s - dulu aku tak de lah suka sangat kat Kiran masa dia on air sebelah malam dengan one lady announcer, tapi sejak dia pair dengan Khairil dalam 'Pagi di ERA', menjadi-jadi betul. Memang tak miss dengar pagi-pagi on the way to office.

Broadband, that is not

Bloghopping and surfing is extremely testing my patience in the last few days because of the lousy services from Streamyx. Jeff is screaming mad and others as well.

It's a kind of habit to me to click on some sites and read blogs in between doing my works. Just to keep up with the latest news and read some interesting blogs - at the same time it helps release some stress.

So it's time we users to gang up and demand our rights to quatlity services by these ISPs. There is online petition going on right now. Please click here to sign up.

The last time we had this online petition on Maybank2U fees proved to be successful and showed that if we scream loud enough, those st***d people will listen.

Pokku's magic

I was mesmerised with this beautiful poem I came accross in Pokku's blog.

It's no ordinary poem to me. I read, read and read again and again. Serio bulu rhoma. And I don't realised that the pronounciation/recitation in 'Merang language' could be so different.

Today is the First of April

S*********t. Should have known.

But I don't expect Malaysiakini would also follow these April Fool's day thingy. See this and this. Tak guna betul.

I cannot forgive M'kini for this stupid thing.

The one who wrote the piece must be suspended like these two pranksters.