Now, Singapore is aiming for another medal in Table Tennis Women’s Singles. Unfortunately, my favourite paddler Feng Tienwei has just lost to the World no. 1 Chinese paddler Zhang Yining in the Quarter Final. How I wish she would only take on this World no. 1 paddler in the Semi-Final or Final! Feng Tienwei has ever beaten Zhang Yining in an international tournament before, and her scores against Zhang Yining are in fact, very close.

Fortunately, the other more senior Singapore paddler Li Jiawei managed to enter the Women’s Singles Semi-Final. This time, she will take on Zhang Yining too! OMG! Zhang Yining is really a very powerful paddler and it’s not easy to defeat her. Nonetheless, we will cheer for Li Jiawei! =) “Live” telecast of Singapore’s Li Jiawei Vs China’s Zhang Yining at 10am on 22 August at Channel 5 (Singapore Time).

Here is a snippet of Singapore playing against China in Table Tennis Women’s Team Final in Beijing Olympic 2008.

Table Tennis Team Women Victory Ceremony Video

This Kawaii FUKUHARA Ai is not only a world class paddler who represents Japan, but she is also popularly known as a sweet and bubbly girl with a baby face that always wears a big smile! She played against the World no. 1 Zhang Yining (again!) in Table Tennis Women’s Singles Preliminary round but lost the match and is out of Beijing Olympic Games now.

Here is a cute snippet of Fukuhara Ai playing against Zhang Yining, with a Japanese song!

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Always blogging, even busily watching the exciting Beijing Olympic Games! Well well, the photo below was taken from Mount Faber (花柏山). MOUNT Faber? It may sound like a “mountain” but it is just a small hill standing at a height of 105 metres. The highest hill in Singapore is Bukit Timah Hill with a height of 164 metres only.

At Mount Faber, which is part of the 9-km long Southern Ridges, you will enjoy the panoramic views of the central business district area, cable cars that connect to the touristy Sentosa island and other areas in the South. The photo below depicts the typical skyline of Singapore, with tall commercial buildings located in the business district area that loom over the colourful residential buildings.

Do you still remember my “Bridge Jump” pic taken from the Henderson Waves on my first post about Singapore? Here is the continuation of that post now. At a height of 36 metres, Henderson Waves bridge is the tallest pedestrian bridge in Singapore that stretches 300 metres across a chain of greenery.

This undulated bridge has a unique design with wave-like structures that also provide shelters to pedestrians.

Er… who’s this damsel on the Henderson Waves? Not leaping this time…

In olden days, this area around Kampong Glam was allocated for Malays and other Muslims. There are many nicely preserved shophouses too.

While snapping at this row of vintage shophouses, a sulky man who looked like an Arab (most probably not Singaporean) was pretty pissed and told me that I need to seek his permission before I could take picture. Frankly speaking, as you can see from this photo, I didn’t even aim at his cafe, I was only interested in the row of shophouses and apparently, I don’t think he even owns them. So what if I took a picture of his cafe? I thought I would be giving him FREE publicity at my blog! Hmm, or perhaps he lamented because he actually wanted me to interview him instead? Some super-ego fellow and attention seeker … =P

From the above photo, the mosque hidden behind the trees is now unveiled below. This is the magnificent Sultan Mosque, one of the most important mosques in Singapore. Didn’t bring a tripod, so it was hard to capture a clear and good one at night.

I hardly drop by Kampong Glam, so was surprised to see this little shop with a robot at the entrance. This is “Children Little Museum” that sells traditional games played by our parents. But what really attracted me was this big robot of a good old design.

The safest zone in Baghdad. =)

A sneak at Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (MRT). Top right photo illustrates an above-ground train station whereas the one below shows an underground (air-con) train station.

Welcome to Singapore Changi Airport - Terminal 3!  The new terminal is opened on 9 January this year. And tell you something, many Singaporeans like to visit Changi Airport for the plane viewing malls and restaurants. It’s a cosy hangout for family and friends! I have been wondering if there is any country whereby its people like to visit its airport so much! So folks, even you are not entering Singapore, transit at Singapore and explore our Airport! *wink* *wink*

Featuring some of the local tea break: half-boiled eggs with peanut thick toast and a cuppa milk tea. =)

Feeling bored while some macho men were shampooing the car…

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21 August 2008 Latest Update on Table Tennis Women’s Singles: Li Jiawei and Feng TienWei are into the Quarter Finals! =)

17 August 2008: Singapore Table Tennis Women’s Team has finally won a Silver medal in Beijing Olympic Games 2008, after 48 years of dry medal drought!

Beijing Olympic 2008 Table Tennis Women’s Team Results:

Gold: China
The superb China team won 3-0 against the Singapore Women’s team.

Silver: Singapore

Bronze: South Korea
South Korea won 3-0 against Japan.

And, CONGRATULATION to our neighbour - Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei - for grabbing a Silver medal in Badminton Men’s Singles in Beijing Olympic 2008! Malaysia Boleh! Coincidentally, both Singapore and Malaysia each has a Silver medal on the same day, really good kawan! =) Continue Reading

There are some negative criticisms saying that these girls are China-born Singaporeans, they play for Singapore for the $$ sign, so nothing to be proud of if they get a medal for Singapore, after 48 years of dry medal drought. A silver medal means S$750,000 for Singapore Table Tennis Women’s Team. What do you think? Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comment box.

15 August 08: Singapore Table Tennis Women’s Team is into Beijing Olympic 2008 Table Tennis Final! Yahoooo!!! The girls fought very hard against the mighty South Korean Team, won 2 single and 1 double out of 5 matches and they made it! Salute!

The Women’s team (from left): Fang Tianwei, Wang Yuegu, Li Jiawei

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I was in India on a Friday night, oh yeah, missed out a word “Little”.

Little India is Singapore’s Indian heartland, yet another cultural heritage site in Singapore. It used to be a division where Indian immigrants would reside in olden days, but under Singapore government’s policy for racial harmony, the immigrant population (just like Chinese and other immigrants) was spatially segregated into different parts of the islands.

This is Veeramakaliamman Temple, one of the oldest temples in Singapore built by Indian pioneers who came to work and live in this island.

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Are you watching the Summer Games now? Did you watch the grand opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games? It’s simply extraordinary; even though I watched the ceremony on TV, I’d say it’s AMAZING!

Thankfully, there are huge collections of fabulous photos taken from the “Bird’s Nest” stadium last night, some are so fascinating that I wanted to post them here to share with everyone!

The “Historical Footprints” fireworks were awesome! We didn’t expect anything like this. The “Footprints” started the first scene over Yongdingmen, southernmost of Beijing city’s central axis, creating a 300 metres long footprint. (In my previous post, I mentioned about the north-south Imperial Axis.) Continue Reading

Welcome to Travelerfolio! This special post is set to be published on 08.08.08 at 08:08 pm! Did you notice something? 08:08 pm is also 20:08, which is the year 2008 ! Be the first to comment now! All are welcome to post as many comments as you like!

When you are reading this post, you are either still watching or just finished watching the much anticipated grand opening ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games which also starts on the same day at the same time this post is published, that is at an auspicious time at 08:08pm!

Some interesting facts/stories about Beijing Olympic Games:

Beijing 2008, the Games of the XXIX Olympiad

“One World, One Dream ~ 同一个世界同一个梦想”

This Olympic Emblem known as the “Dancing Beijing“, is a Chinese Seal with the character “京” (pronounced as “Jing“) engraved for the Olympic Movement by China, a country that the largest population in the world, with 1.3 billion people from 56 ethnic groups. “京” | “Jing” is the latter of the great ancient capital of China - “北京” | “Beijing“. You will notice that the “Dancing Beijing” has open arms, a gesture to welcome the world to join the Olympics.

The “Bird’s Nest” is China’s new National Stadium that will serve as the main venue of the Beijing Olympic Games and the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games will be held in it too. It is considered as the most unusual and beautiful stadium in Olympic history. Continue Reading