yeah! congrats to singapore for getting into the women's table tennis finals and has guaranteed a silver for our nation. It was such a nerve racking, annoying yet victorious game!

The first game was easily taken by feng tianwei. The 2nd match was totally nerve racking as li jiawei meets her nemesis kim kyu ah, and it's like the athen's replay when she lost her confidence halfway through the game. She still couldn't control her emotions against this really strong chopper. Indeed, like what the commentator says, her(kim's) annoying ability was really on jiawei's nerve and they played an agonising 5 sets.

The 3rd game was well played by the singapore duo without much difficulties. no wonder they're ranked 2nd after china pair. I thought the game would have ended with wang yuegu's victory in the 4th game but looks like Dang who lost badly in the 1st game was totally on form suddenly and she beat wang yuegu to 3-0. but it was a jangly game as both scores were so close. with the 2nd set seeing a 14-12 win to Dang. She was so fast, accurate and aggressive!

The final game was the exhilarating 1 when Tianwei took the 1st 2 sets from Pak. It almost looked like an emphatic victory for tianwei but she lost the 3rd set to Pak with 11-3. and finally, the last, nervous 4th game saw singapore winning with 11-9. The Korean was so dejected cos it's anybody's game! She's really good at defending, with her strong backhand defending most of tianwei's smash, but her smash prevailed as she became increasingly aggressive.

The koreans really know how to place their players. aggressive Dang with attacking feng tianwei. and they avoided placing any of the choppers with the more patient wang yuegu who's better dealing with choppers. and the 2 choppers with li jiawei and feng tianwei, who are weaker against choppers. I initially thot all was over when the 5th game was called in, cos feng isn't really good against choppers. but her smash was so superb that it prevailed over Pak's chop! I was so happy when i saw her smash killing Pak's defence. Indubitably, kim's defence is much stronger and solid than pak's cos pak's couldn't really take some of tianwei's smash which might have been more well dealt by kim. haha and the funny thing was when both wang yuegu and kim kyu ah was sent out due to incessant prompting.

Yeah, Singapore finally prevailed over such a strong enemy and is able to face China on Sunday! what a stupendous victory!

anyway, this morning woke up at 3.30am to send huiqing at the airport with kelvin. he came over to my house for a stayover be4 i drove both of us there. it was really quite an emotional farewell i feel. almost teared when i hugged her but i din. I think it's really much harder at the gates! Dun really know how will i deal with my emotions on 3rd Oct; may just cry.


yeah 2 of us~ we also shun bian sent off the other 3 dsta frens who are going to illinois. yup! all the best to them and to u too, hq~ keep in contact ya~


and this is huihan whom i sent off on wednesday! was also another emotional separation for him and his family~


and i find this foto quite funny. that was baba~