WHO COULD TAKE OVER THE SPIDEY SUIT?

If you have not heard about the news that Sony Pictures has scrapped the plan for Spider-Man 4 and instead going for the reboot button for a new fresh air, where were you? It comes to no surprise because of politics in ideas and opinions, director of three previous Spidey movie Sam Raimi and Sony were in head-butt situation over the script and what's not. For sure, those hopes to see Sam Raimi making another Spider-Man movie with the familiar faces like Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst will not materialize. Read here, here and here for more.

So, Empire Online has been kind enough to make this. Well, as always, I'm not the kind of person who loves to predict what is going to happen. I am not a fortune-teller and I am not so into fortune cookie either. But, let's ask yourself this - DO YOU NEED ANOTHER SPIDER-MAN THAT GOES TO HIGH SCHOOL (AGAIN)?

What did the fortune teller back at Empire Online told you? Oh, here are top ten choices for the next Peter Parker.

(1) ZAC EFRON

High School Musical lead and considered as studio frontrunner. Young, charming but too pretty for Peter Parker role.

(2) JIM STURGESS

You have seen in Across The Universe and 21. Good actor and have great fond for his role in Sony's 21 but he is 32.

(3) REEVE CARNEY

Current choice for planned Broadway Spider-Man. Not a familiar face you may know but this option is good too.

(4) ANTON YELCHIN

As Kyle Reese in Terminator Salvation and Chekov in Star Trek. Impressive year for this lad but I hope he don't speak Russian if he is indeed Peter Parker.

(5) DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Who else if he is not Harry Potter? Still young and will probably need to drop his British accent for the role, and also he is too short for Peter Parker.

(6) ROBERT PATTINSON

Edward of Twilight may venture into Spidey? Possible and since he is the biggest young people draw at the moment. The issues were his hair and pale face.

(7) JAKE GYLLENHALL

Tobey Maguire's brother in Brothers and also will be bigger in Prince of Persia. His name appeared when Maguire wasn't able to return for Spider-Man 2 because of back injury. But he is too old for a reboot.

(8) AARON JOHNSON

He will kicking ass in Kick-Ass. His role in Kick-Ass looks the same with the reboot settings - in a high school and as a superhero.

(9) JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT

He is from (500) Days of Summer and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. If Marc Webb is in, I think he will be too. He is versatile - romantic (Summer), action (G.I. Joe) and funny (3rd Rock From The Sun) but he is approaching 30.

(10) JOSH HUTCHERSON

Bridge to Terabithia, Cirque Du Freak and Journey to the Centre of the Earth star. He's 18 and what an appropriate age for the reboot. But again, he is even shorter than Harry Potter or maybe his growth spurt has accelerated.

So, here are the top ten guessing names for a possible replacement for Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker. What say you? Yet still, is it necessary to have another Spider-Man movie that deals with high school?

CONGRATULATIONS TO TEAM MALAYSIA PART 1

The current SEA Games is still far from over. We all realized how small this event is when you started to compare it with Olympic, Commonwealth or even Asian Games. But these small achievements are always better than none.

As at 5.00pm Sunday, December 13, the Malaysian team has collected 18 gold medals at the Laos 2009 SEA GAMES. That is 45% of the 40 gold medals which Malaysian Olympic Council had targeted earlier prior to the event.

Here are the rundown of the gold medal winners for Malaysia until NOW...

TAEKWONDO

Middle Weight (67-73 kg) Women - Chan Che Chew

DIVING

10m Platform Women - Pandelela Rinong
10m Platform Men - Bryan Nickson
10m Platform (Sync) Women
3m Springboard Men - Yeoh Ken Nee
3m Springboard (Sync) Men

KARATE-DO

Kumite (68kg and above) Women - Jamalliah Jamaludin
Kumite (84kg and below) Men - Mohd Hatta Mahamut
Kumite (55kg and below) Men - R Puvaneswaran
Kumite (68kg and below) Women - G Yamini
Team Kumite Women

SWIMMING

200m Individual Medley Women - Siow Yi Ting
100m Breaststroke Women - Siow Yi Ting
100m Freestyle Men - Daniel Bego
400m Freestyle Women - Khoo Cai Lin
100m Freestyle Men - Daniel Bego
400m Freestyle Men - Daniel Bego

ATHLETICS

400m Hurdles Women - Noraseela Khalid

TOTAL: 18 GOLD

Can Malaysia grab another 22 or so?

TMUSIC FESTIVAL THANKS TO NUFFNANG

I know I seldom blog about events in my blog but here it is. Thanks to Nuffnang, I got a pair of tickets for this Saturday's TMusic Festival at Bukit Jalil National Stadium from 7pm to 12am. Here is the proof:

TMusic Festival, a collaboration between Tiger Beer and Galaxy event and of course with Nuffnang, will features the greatest musics from the Oriental World. This five hour long concert features a host of regional acts such as Joey Yung from Hong Kong, David Tao from Taiwan, James and Chin from Thailand, and Kelvin Tan from Singapore, among others. Local acts are also there to entertain such as Z-Chen, Eric Lim and many others.

I hope you will enjoy yourself there. See I win from Nuffnang themselves and I didn't win from other people's blog. Always have the same and only famous people who get the chances to attract more people into their blog by giving out passes! So what!!!

ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE MATCHDAY 4

This is last week's EPL result and I have to say Liverpool escaped another humiliation. I wonder what people are suggesting Mr Rafael Benitez will do? Say bye bye to Anfield or continue this kind of form?

Obviously Manchester United benefited from a precious victory against The Gunners. Thanks to Diaby's mistake by netting the ball into own net, it could have been a point a piece for both.

Anyway, here are the last weekend's results:

MATCHDAY 4

Saturday, 29 August 2009

CHELSEA 3-0 BURNLEY

Stamford Bridge, London (Att: 40,906)

CHE: Anelka 45", Ballack 47", Cole 51"

BLACKBURN ROVERS 0-0 WEST HAM UNITED

Ewood Park, Blackburn (Att: 23,421)

BOLTON WANDERERS 2-3 LIVERPOOL

Reebok Stadium, Bolton (Att: 23,284)

BOL: Davies 33", Cohen 46" - LIV: Johnson 40", Torres 56", Gerrard 82"

STOKE CITY 1-0 SUNDERLAND

Britannia Stadium, Stoke-on-Trent (Att: 27,091)

STO: Kitson 42"

WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 1-1 HULL CITY

Molineux, Wolverhampton (Att: 27,906)

WOV: Stearman 46" - HUL: Geovanni 2"

MANCHESTER UNITED 2-1 ARSENAL

Old Trafford, Manchester (Att: 75,095)

MANU: Rooney 58" (pen), Diaby 63" (og) - ARS: Arshavin 40"

Sunday, 30 August 2009

PORTSMOUTH 0-1 MANCHESTER CITY

Fratton Park, Portsmouth (Att: 17,826)

MANC: Adebayor 30"

EVERTON 2-1 WIGAN ATHETIC

Goodison Park, Liverpool (Att: 17,826)

EVE: Saha 62", Baines 90" (pen) - WIG: Scharner 56"

ASTON VILLA 2-0 FULHAM

Villa Park, Birmingham (Att: 32,917)

AST: Pantsil 3" (og), Agbonlahor 59"

GREEN TEA GIVES YOU EPL RESULTS MATCHDAY 2 AND 3

I checked back my recent posts and I realized I forgot to update one. Well, as a football fan, I totally forgot to mention about last week’s English Premier League results – how saddening! Anyway, update has to be done and on this post I will present to you again regarding Match Day 2 and Match Day 3.

MATCH DAY 2

August 18, 2009

SUNDERLAND 1-3 CHELSEA
Stadium of Light, Sunderland (Att: 41,179)
SUN: Bent 18” – CHE: Ballack 52”, Lampard 61” (pen), Deco 69”

WIGAN ATHLETIC 0-1 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
DW Stadium, Manchester (Att: 16,661)
WOV: Keogh 5”

August 19, 2009

BIRMINGHAM CITY 1-0 PORTSMOUTH
St Andrew’s Ground, Birmingham (Att: 19,922)
BIR: McFadden 90” (pen)

BURNLEY 1-0 MANCHESTER UNITED
Turf Moor, Burnley (Att: 20,872)
BUR: Blake 18”

HULL CITY 1-5 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Kingston Comms Stadium, Kingston upon Hull (Att: 24,735)
HUL: Hunt 24” – TOT: Defoe 9”, 44”, 90”, Palacios 14”, Keane 78”

LIVERPOOL 4-0 STOKE CITY
Anfield, Liverpool (Att: 44,318)
LIV: Torres 4”, Johnson 45”, Kuyt 78”, Ngog 90”

MATCH DAY 3

August 22, 2009

ARSENAL 4-1 PORTSMOUTH

Emirates Stadium, London (Att: 60,049)

ARS: Diaby 18", 22", Gallas 51", Ramsey 69" - POT: Kaboul 37"

HULL 1-0 BOLTON WANDERERS
Kingston Comms Stadium, Kingston upon Hull (Att: 22,999)
HUL: Ghilas 60”

MANCHESTER CITY 1-0 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester (att: 47,287)
MANC: Adebayor 17”

SUNDERLAND 2-1 BLACKBURN ROVERS
Stadium of Light, Sunderland (Att: 37,106)
SUN: Jones 31”, 53” – BLA: Givet 20”

WIGAN ATHLETIC 0-5 MANCHESTER UNITED
DW Stadium, Manchester (Att: 18,164)
MANU: Rooney 55”, 64”, Berbatov 58”, Owen 85”, Nani 90”

BIRMINGHAM CITY 0-0 STOKE CITY
St Andrew’s Ground, Birmingham (Att: 21,694)

August 23, 2009

WEST HAM UNITED 1-2 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Boleyn Ground, Upton Park, London (Att: 33,095)
WHU: Cole 49” – TOT: Defoe 54”, Lennon 79”

BURNLEY 1-0 EVERTON
Turf Moor, Burnley (Att: 19,983)
BUR: Elliott 34”

FULHAM 0-2 CHELSEA
Craven Cottage, London (Att: 25,404)
CHE: Drogba 38”, Anelka 76”

August 24, 2009

LIVERPOOL 1-3 ASTON VILLA
Anfield, Liverpool (Att: 43,667)
LIV: Torres 72” – AST: Lucas 33” (og), Davies 45”, Young 74” (pen)

ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE MATCHDAY 1

So, you shall see this lion logo banner more often. Why not when the English Barclay Premier League (EPL or BPL - and which ever would not be a matter at all) has begun and all we need is to endure a 10-month long football league that accumulates to about 380 football matches.

Enough said, Manchester United goes into the new season as a defending champion but may face some difficulty defending it since two jewels - Ronaldo and Tevez will not be around - there goes about 40 goals. Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea are looking strong at the beginning of the season as ever, been the traditional Big Four. Manchester City is looking good as well as Tottenham and several other teams.

Fine, forget about those introduction and let us look at last week's match results.

EPL MatchDay 1

CHELSEA 2-1 HULL CITY

Stamford Bridge, London (41,597)

CHE: Drogba (36", 90"); HUL: Hunt (27")

ASTON VILLA 0-2 WIGAN ATHLETIC

Villa Park, Birmingham (35,578)

AST: - ; WIG: Rodallega (30"), Koumas (55")

BLACKBURN ROVERS 0-2 MANCHESTER CITY

Ewood Park, Blackburn (29,584)

BLA: - ; MAC: Adebayor (2"), Ireland (90")

BOLTON WANDERERS 0-1 SUNDERLAND

Reebok Stadium, London (22,247)

BOL: - ; SUN: Bent (5")

PORTSMOUTH 0-1 FULHAM

Fratton Park, Portsmouth (17,510)

POT: - ; FUL: Zamora (13")

STOKE CITY 2-0 BURNLEY

Brittainia Stadium, London (27,385)

STO: Shawcross (19"), Jordan (33" OG) ; BUR: -

WOLVERHAMPTOM WANDERERS 0-2 WEST HAM UNITED

Molineux, (28,674)

WOL: - ; WHU: Noble (22"), Upson (68")

EVERTON 1-6 ARSENAL

Goodison Park, Liverpool (39,309)

EVE: Saha (90"); ARS: Denilson (26"), Vermaelen (36"), Gallas (40"), Fabregas (47", 69"), Eduardo (88")

MANCHESTER UNITED 1-0 BIRMINGHAM CITY

Old Trafford, Manchester (75,062)

MAN U: Rooney (34"); BIR: -

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2-1 LIVERPOOL

White Hart Lane, London (35,935)

TOT: Assou-Ekotto (44"), Bassong (59"); LIV: Gerrard (55" PEN)

MAN OF THE WEEK

CESC FABREGAS (Arsenal)

MatchDay 1 belongs to Cesc Fabregas, a Spaniard talent inside The Gunners. He simply explosive on that day, producing 2 assists and scored 2 goals on his own.

FLYING TAXI IN TAIPING, BUT IT DIDN'T END UP WELL

Anyone in Taiping saw this?

Yeah, this is a flying taxi, the one and only such in the world that was built by a company called Avcen Ltd which is based in Britain. Since 1998, they have been actively testing, assembling and promoting the use of Jetpod, an aircraft that can hover around at the height of only 200 metres in average and can be commercialize as a flying taxi with capability to taxi 8 peoples. The flying taxi is due to be ready in 2010.

However, today something initiates as big event to test the Jetpod turned ugly. The Jetpod, tested by its inventor Michael Robert Dacre, 53, who was piloting the taxi, crashed and burst into a ball flames during a test flight at Tekah, somewhere in Taiping I guess. (As reported here at The Star)

The crash happened at 12.30pm Sunday, killing Dacre, who is also Avcen's managing director.

According to Wikipedia, Jetpod is a design proposal for a very quiet aircraft that can take off and land in a short distance or acronym as STOL - 125 metres to be exactly. It is not really a helicopter but it can be used as a military aircraft for transportation, medium-range air taxi or as an executive transport. It can reach a maximum speed of 550km/h. (pictures from here)

THE H1N1 SAGA IS HERE...

The outbreak of the Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic seems like to be the most talked about story yet so far. It was only last month that the total of cases of reported to the Ministry of Health was only less than 150. However, a full month later, the number of cases leaps more than 600% to over 1,100 cases. Only in this week alone, 4 deaths were reported.

I sensed that with the outbreak been a little beyond and out of control where more than 50 cases reported daily, it was not that hard to convince myself that someday the outbreak will eventually hit the area inside my campus fences. What feared the most were that the outbreak will become more widespread and situation might get worst with time.

The prediction eventually came true on Sunday (July 26, 2009). Not that I am glad that this thing had happen but the implications will not be pleasing at all. With the difficulty to content the widespread, the pandemic will eventually hit the campus finally if not now. With the announcement that the Influenza A (H1N1) has finally arrived, my campus was officially shut down for a period of a week.

Guess what happen and that day, it kinds of making me frustrated and irritated.

DAYS BEFORE: There were reports of students in the hostel fell ill with showing symptoms of flu-like

SUNDAY (26 JULY): An estimated more than 50 students were ill and shows flu-like symptoms in the hostel. Suspected cases of H1N1 were reported and the hostel administration received letter from the MOH to shut down the hostel for a week for quarantine purposes.

MONDAY (27 JULY):
8.00 am – Class as usual as if nothing had happen. I arrived at my campus and there are many students still around.
9.26 am – Some students informed our lecturer that the students should go back to the hostel or their home with immediate effects. Hoax or false alarm you may call it but it eventually was true.
9.54 am – Now I felt limbo because since there were official announcement been made on the official university site or from any notice board, I cannot leave just like that. The administration was still discussing whether total shut down is necessary (WHAT!!)
10.40 am – Morning classes for my faculty has been cancelled but afternoon classes still in limbo.
10.52 am – I went to library but it was closed. I realized that the laboratory, computer lab and clinics were closed, leaving me nowhere to go.
12.30 pm – Afternoon classes were cancelled but classes for the next day remains in limbo. For update, we have to stick ourselves to the Facebook. (AGAIN WHAT!!)
2.54pm – I received text from a friend of mine that the classes will be suspended for a week.

What irritates me is the fact that they were so limbo and inefficient in taking actions.

1. If there are students been infected and been asked to close down the hostel, why didn’t they do it in the first place on Sunday night? They still allowed students to leave the hostel for classes when quarantine was supposed to be undergone. So what happen to the “Quarantine”?
2. If the hostel was closed, why didn’t the campus been closed at the first place? If no one was supposed to leave the hostel, how many people will attend for classes then? With more than half of the students staying in hostels, would it be logical that classes still be held?
3. When instructed to return to the hostel and while other students from other faculty have done so, why do we have to wait for so long for a so-called ‘Official Decision” to be announced? If the classes needed to be suspended in the wake of such circumstances, why would they need to discuss for such a length until a decision was made?

Logically, should they take the actions sterner and appropriately in the first place? Why risk more local transmission among the students who went to the campus because they didn’t shut down the hostel in the first place? Why would take a long time to decide what to do?

In emergency time when outbreaks occur, would you expect things like this to occur? Blame it on the bureaucracy, please! Things like this should not have happen. Failed professionalism, failed mentality. That’s Malaysia.

COME LET'S VOTE FOR SIPADAN

Sipadan Island is a tropical oceanic island located on the south-east of the Malaysian state of Sabah, offshore of the town of Tawau. Located in the Celebes Sea (Laut Sulawesi) and right at the heart of the Indo-Pacific basin, the centre of one of the richest marine habitats in the world. More than 3,000 species of fish and hundreds of coral species have been classified in this ecosystem.

Sipadan Island is actually a mushroom shaped atoll rising six hundred metres from the deep sea floor, with the island rises above the corals that covered above the millenia old extinct volcano cone on the seabed. Although Sipadan is recognized as one of the five best spots for diving, the designation of Marine Park status for the island since 2005 means diving activity will become scarce and a rare seen phenomenon and accommodation was dislodged from the island ever since.


However, this in line with the establishment of the need to protect the oceanic life and natural ecosystem that consists of the schools of green and hawksbill turtles nesting and mating, schools of barracuda and big-eye trevally in tornado-like formations, pelagic species such as manta rays, eagle rays, scalloped hammerhead sharks and whale sharks.

Realizing the natural wonder awesomeness in this tiny rain-forest island, recently Sipadan Island was named as one of the official nominees into the selection of the New 7 wonders of Nature.

The New 7 Wonders of Nature will be an online competition that features an international worldwide voting to select for top 7 nature's iconic landmarks around the globe. Sipadan Island is one of 261 qualified contender to eyeing for the Top 77. Therefore, anyone can vote as long as you have registered your e-mail with them.

This is the official website for the Malaysian Sipadan entry into the The New 7 Wonders of Nature at www.votesipadan.com.


And this is how the selection for The New 7 wonders of Nature will be done. So far, sipadan Island ranks #5 and may stand a good chance to enter the Top 77 nominees. I hope we can reach the Final 21 as well.

This is how you can help our own Sipadan Island to gain more international recognition into The New 7 Wonders of Nature. Follow these simple steps and you will make our country proud.

ONE. Login to http://www.new7wonders.com/nature/en/. You will see the below notice been posted on it. Read on.

TWO. Optionally, you can search for Sipadan Island through the list of nominees given. Or you can just go to the URL link of http://www.new7wonders.com/nature/en/nominees/asia/c/SipadanIsland/. Click "Vote now for Sipadan Island".

THREE. You will be linked into the voting page.

FOUR. Part one of the voting - please register your e-mail and fill in the necessary particular. Remember you need a valid e-mail OK!!

FIVE. Fill in the seven nominees of your choice. The most important - Sipadan Island (Malaysia) should be placed at #1 of the voting list. The rest fill of the 6 nominees on your top 7 can be choose from anything of your choice on the list. (However, I would suggest that you do not place any of the 6 nominees comes from any of those Island category. I forgot to tell you that Sipadan Island is under Island category and there are 7 categories)

SIX. Submit your vote.

SEVEN. Go to your e-mail inbox and check for an e-mail notification by New7Wonders.

EIGHT. Click on the link given in the e-mail to validate your vote. remember to validate because if you don't, your vote is not considered.

So what are you waiting for. Vote for Sipadan Island. Vote for our proud island to enter the list of international recognition. Sipadan is truly a natural wonder island for the world. Remember, you have till 7 July 2009 for voting, but please do so soon.

Green Tea World!! supports Sipadan Island. So how about you?
Thanks for your supports!!

"This mushroom-shaped island is known amongst divers around the world for its unique seascape and exceptional beauty. A rich variety of marine life shimmers through the translucent waters surrounding this oceanic island." - http://www.wordtravels.com/

The very famous late French underwater explorer and filmmaker, Jacques-Yves Cousteau once remarked about Sipadan Island “I have seen other places like Sipadan… 45 years ago. Now we have found again an untouched piece of art.”

iPHONE 3G BROUGHT TO YOU BY MAXIS

iPhone 3G was first released back in July 2008. After 8 months, finally the Apple's dear darling has arrived in our shore in the recent weeks. iPhone as it is always occur in many countries, can only be legally operates under a single telco provider. In Malaysia, the job of telco provider is handed over to none other than Digi Maxis. Understandably, Maxis is the largest mobile telco operator in Malaysia, so I am not surprise Apple grants them with the sole license in Malaysia.


According to an informant from Maxis itself, the iPhone 3G sold more than 1,800 units upon the first 3 days of release in a show exhibition in Kuala Lumpur. This number is not impressive but still a good track number to track considering the still underdeveloped and under-used 3G services in Malaysia. How many are willing to make a video calls I wonder? Here, I am not promoting anything about iPhone 3G or Maxis, but merely to inform and to share with you about these pieces of informations.


iPhone can be used to surf the web, listen to music, watch videos, download apps from App Store or even just to make calls and SMSes. Therefore, Maxis has formulate plans revolving iPhone 3G by introducing iValue plans for the customers. The plans are divided into four, depending on data usage, talk time, capacity and length of contract period.

iValue Plans from Maxis

iValue 1

Monthly RM 100 for 500MB data and 333 minutes of talk time
Airtime rate of 15sen/SMS rate of 10 sen
12 months contract - RM 1900 (8GB); RM 2290 (16GB)
24 months contract - RM 1510 (8GB); RM 1890 (16GB)

iValue 2
Monthly RM 155 for 1 GB data and 667 minutes of talk time
Airtime rate of 12sen/SMS rate of 10 sen
12 months contract - RM 1780 (8GB); RM 2160 (16GB)
24 months contract - RM 1260 (8GB); RM 1640 (16GB)

iValue 3
Monthly RM 250 for 2 GB data and 1500 minutes of talk time
Airtime rate of 10sen/SMS rate of 10 sen
12 months contract - RM 1490 (8GB); RM 1870 (16GB)
24 months contract - RM 680 (8GB); RM 1060 (16GB)

iValue 4
Monthly RM 375 for 3 GB data and 2500 minutes of talk time
Airtime rate of 10sen/SMS rate of 10 sen
12 months contract - RM 1080 (8GB); RM 1470 (16GB)
24 months contract - FREE (8GB); RM 260 (16GB)

Other extra plans offered by Maxis are those who are currently signed up to a Value Plus Plan; under which are Value Plus 80/150/250 and 500 only. In which the monthly commitment is applicable as the original plan offers and you have 6 months contract, with FREE 500MB data per month for 6 months. Price of the phones are RM 2540 for 8GB and RM 2960 for 16 GB.

Other informations you need to know:

• All iPhone 3G are subjected to a year warranty by Apple
• Talk times of domestic voice air times only
• Port-in (switching from other network) are only eligible for a 12 months contract
• The list of plans and pricing subjected to terms and conditions stated

So, are you iPhone 3G-ing? If so, get one now at any Maxis Centre. Too bad iPhone does not come with Digi!!

WHAT A LOSS FOR THE CHAMPS

This weekend, as a Malaysian, we are saddened by the fact that our Malaysians' World Number One had lost, yes both of them. If you are been a noob, out-dated from the news world, let me remind you that Malaysia has two World Number One title in two different sports.
On Saturday, our World Number One in Woman's Squash Single player, (Datuk) Nicol Ann David lost for the first time after a winning streak of 56 matches. Unbeaten since November 2007, she was finally brought down to earth by the World Number 4, Natalie Grainger of the United States when she lost the Final of CIMB Kuala Lumpur Open at Berjaya Times Square; 11-8, 10-12, 11-7, 5-11, 11-6 with the match took about 51 minutes.
On Sunday night, our another World Number One in Man's Badminton single player, (Datuk) Lee Chong Wei was beaten in the All England Super Series final against rival and former number one, who else if not Lin Dan of China. He lost in a straight game but surely he did better than last year's salvaged final of the Olympic where he only settled with a silver medal. In fact, it was Lin Dan that did a lot of unforced errors.
On another note, a young rising Chinese badminton star is meteoring the Woman's Single category. Wang Yi Han, aged only 21, muscled over Tina Rasmussen of Denmark to win the woman's All England title. She certainly did a great job but still made a lot of errors during the game in what I would thought it reminisence the Man's final. Watch out for this name, Wang Yi Han. She may be the next Xie Xingfang and I don't know why my friends said she looked pretty especially in one of the photo below (the one with Cheng Hong).

By the way, because I am still talking about Wang Yi Han, I found out some interesting point for you to ponder. Now compare these two pictures of the two badminton players.

Wang Yi Han of course.

and...Sony Dwi Kuncoro.

Are they long-lost siblings or something?

SONY ERICSSON 2009 QUARTER ONE NEWS

It's been reported that Sony Ericsson products that are new in the market were found to be malfunction. I'm not sure how true is this statement but judging by some other aspect, I prefer to stay on the dark since I'm not into buying a new phone. However, looking at the new products from Sony Ericsson which was available for the year 2009, it's hard to imagine that they are malfunctions.

For the year 2008, SE made a bit of loss, in fact seeing its market share to drop significantly. Nokia still control the market shares, followed by a strong challenge by Samsung. SE ranks fifth after LG and struggling rival, Motorola. However, SE began to climb back and it was reported to be on position number three based on sales in Quarter 3 2008. For the year 2008, SE sold 96.6 million units of mobile phones.

The sales are significantly aided by the success rollout of SE Xperia-1, C905 and Play Music Plus. The year 2009 will be fueled by the following models - some are already on the market while there is one waiting for releases.

For the latest range of products, W395 which already released in the market incorporates a significant music blaster with its two built-in stereo speakers that creates a thumping sounds and basses. It also has a 2.0 Megapixel camera with a 2" laser screen. It gives your music a boost!!

How about C510, a 3.2 Megapixel camera phone with the Cyber Shot features. It will be strictly personal with features like face detection and Smile Shutter, blog friendly features with blogspot and Youtube-enabled.

C903 is an upcoming camera phone. With tagline of Great images need to be seen, it is auto-rotating screen with a TV-out function, face detection and Smile Shutter, a GPRS locator, Geo Tagging and slider 5 Megapixel camera. The phone will be available in within 6 months.

A sound quality champion, W705 features a turbo music download online with its Wifi and HSUPA 3G turbo feature. It allows fast music download fro Youtube or any podcasts while providing a clear music solution, shake control, Count Your Step, and 4 GB memory to feed the capacity of 3990 songs.

There it goes, four new models and considered latest after the Xperia X1 and C905...Enjoy!!