♥ K a r i n a ♥
Monday, December 17, 2007

No doubt I didin't really like "Rhythm of the winners" at the beginning of the trip. However, the song have been ringing in my head ever since returning from the clean city of Korat aka Nakhonratchasima. Words will not be able to decribe how excited and happy I am being able to be part of the cheering team. The Sea games have officially ended on 15th of december with the Thais leading the overall medal tally with a total of 183 gold medals and MALAYSIA at second place with a total of 68 golds! What an amazing achievement! I'm glad that I was able to be there to celebrate and share the joy with fellow cheer members. It was indeed and incredible and unforgetable experience. Time flies. From the very first day of convincing two of my good friends and joining the competition to how much time I have spent trying to get permission from my parents and the first day at Korat. Everything is worth doing.

Without further delaying, I shall start writing on the trip:

On the 8th of december, we gathered at KLIA with excitement to board on our flight to Bangkok. The journey was long. We left KL at aproximately 9:30pm. Reached Nakhon Ratchasima at 4am having the hotel people giving us a warm welcome with flowers and complimentary drinks.




I will just roughly summarise which sporting events did we catch live.
Didin't get a chance to sleep the day before. 7am is the time we all gathered for breakfast before proceeding to our first destination where wushu was held. By the way, the wushu team bagged a total of 2 gold, 2 silver and a bronze medals. We had some ping pong action after that. Our men singles lost to the Thais. Our women's team however did better on the second day with Ng Sock Khim getting into the finals. The ping pong team menaged to get a silver and two bronze medals. We had some dance sports action after that. Our team did relatively well to bag a bronze medal at the Latin American Rumba event. It was nice watching swimming and my idol, Daniel Bego live in action. The event contributed a total of 7 gold, 8 silver, and 8 bronze medals to the overall medal tally. It is indeed an impressive achievement. We managed to catch some athletics actions. Athletics contributed a total of 7 gold, 3 silver and 9 bronze medals. It was unlucky for Ngew Sin Mei losing her gold to Thailand by about 10 cm in the triple jump event and Mohsiew wei lost her gold medal in the 100m hurdles event. Lee hup wei did great though. BASKETBALL was the best game I have witnessed throughout the whole trip. Our women's team did incredibly well dispite the pressure given by the enormous crowd of Thai fans. They clinched the gold medal by beating them by just one point. 61-60. I reckon that they worked incredibly hard for throughout the whole match and certainly deserved to win. Cycling was interesting to watch! I have never seen it live and it certainly is different to watch. Met JOSIAH NG! one of my biggest idol and he is HOT. Managed to take one picture with him. "Alex, I'm waiting for the pictures" :) The cycling team managed to get a total of 4 golds, 4 silver and 4 bronze medals. Gymnastic was nice to watch as well and the team certainly did great. Crystal Lim and Fong siew ting came out as great gymnast. The gymnastic team managed to obtain a total of 4 golds, 2 silver and 5 bronze medals. One of the biggest contributor would have to be Karate-do. the team managed to secure a total of 8 gold medals, 3 silver and 5 bronze medals. Well done! What a fantastic achievement. Tekwondo did relatively okay with 2 of our world class athletes bagging 2 golds in the event. Elaine Teoh and Che Chew Chan did great. We also managed to get 1 si;ver and six bronze. Pentaque was a little boring to watch. It is similar to lawn bowl except for playing under different floor conditions. we only managed to get 3 bronze in the event. We were late for the archery events. Only managed to mingle and chat with several athletes and coaches. Malaysia managed to secure a total of 2 golds, 2 silver and 1 bronze medal. Beach volleyball was the last event we watched. The weather was scorching hot. Dispite being under the hot sun, our cheer team still continue cheering. We did relatively good in the event bagging a bronze medal.

My purchases throughout the whole trip are:
A pair of converse sneakers from KLCC before heading to KLIA for our flight
Sea games polo shirts
Sea games necklace and keychains
Sea games stickers and plush toys
A pair of Levis jeans and a pair of jeans from the local Thai brand
Thai snacks and instant noodles

We went to the mall in Korat twice and 2 night bazaars.


Overall I had a great trip. Alright then, I shall leave you with the pictures from the trip. Till then, good night and take care:)

Me doing face painting
Pictures taken from one of the members.

Edited*

Went over to the PC fair yesterday and managed to get several good deals. Bought some computer accesories, a sonic gear EVO speaker and the Olympus E410 SLR camera. Finally got the camera that all of us wanted for quite some time.

~KaRiNa~♥ Hot couture @ 7:30 PM