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Table Tennis-Singapore set for rare medal
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- Reuters
- , Friday August 15 2008
(adds match details)By Simon RabinovitchBEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Singapore was guaranteed their first Olympic medal since 1960 -- and only its second of all time -- when they beat South Korea on Friday to advance to the women's team championship in table tennis.A weightlifting silver in 1960 in Rome has stood as the city-state's only Olympic medal.Singapore will face the winner of a semi-final between China and Hong Kong. If Singapore's women lose the championship match on Sunday, they would still take home the silver.Fired up by a vocal pro-Singapore crowd, world number nine Feng Tianwei was the key player, launching the contest with a rapid-fire win in the first match and closing it with a classy and controlled victory in the tense final match.Singapore beat the previously undefeated South Korea three matches to two in the best-of-five contest.Fans were treated to perhaps the finest table tennis of the Olympics yet in a match between Beijing-born Li Jia Wei, Singapore's top player at world number six, and Kim Kyung-ah, South Korea's best at 11th.The contrasting styles of Li's aggressive topspin and Kim's defensive chops proved the perfect blend for rallies that regularly topped 20 hits.Li, who has been frazzled by nerves on big occasions before, showed impatience toward the end, rushing her forehand. Kim fell to her knees after sealing the win, 5-11 11-8 9-11 11-6 and 11-9.But Li rebounded in the next match, pairing up with world number seven Wang Yue Gu to swat aside their Korean opponents in doubles play, 11-7 11-6 and 11-9.Wang dropped the next match in straight games to Korea's Dang Ye-seo, bringing Singapore's unflappable Feng back to the table for the deciding match. Despite the acrobatics of Korea's Park Mi-young, Feng prevailed 11-7 12-10 3-11 and 11-9, winning when the Korean committed a rare error, faulting on her serve.The three Singaporean players were all born in China, as was their coach, Liu Guodong, the brother of China's men's coach.Though they have been the most successful of the many Chinese table tennis emigres around the world, they have not always had the full backing of native Singaporeans.Li has lived in Singapore for 13 years, but she speaks little English -- its language of government and commerce -- and instead prefers to converse in Mandarin.
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I cannot migrate
If I migrate, wife would have to stay at home to look after the kids.
So I stay in Singapore and get maid to do all the housework. So wife can go out to work. As a graduate, she would not want to stay at home and cook, wash, and change diapers. She is a graduate, he wants to be lady boss, not housewife.....
So how to migrate? Unless I migrate to Indonesia where I can have 2 maids, 1 gardener and 1 driver for $100 each....
I was just wondering how come some educated Sinagpore women can choo to migrate and become housewives in USA, Canada, Australia, or Europe?
Would you choose to be a Housewife in Australia?
Housewife.......becoming extinct in Singapore soon.....
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California bans restaurants from using trans fats
By STEVE LAWRENCE, Associated Press Writer
Saturday, July 26, 2008
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(07-26) 03:43 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) --
California on Friday became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant food, following several cities and major fast-food chains in erasing the notorious artery-clogger from menus.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation that will ban restaurants and other retail food establishments from using oil, margarine and shortening containing trans fats.
In a statement, Schwarzenegger noted that consuming trans fat is linked to coronary heart disease.
"Today we are taking a strong step toward creating a healthier future for California," he said.
Violations could result in fines of $25 to $1,000. Food items sold in their manufacturers' sealed packaging would be exempt.
New York City, Philadelphia, Seattle, Baltimore and Montgomery County, Md., have ordinances banning trans fats, but California is the first state to adopt such a law covering restaurants, said Amy Winterfeld, a health policy analyst for the National Conference of State Legislatures.
California and Oregon already had laws banning trans fats in meals served at schools, she added.
Governor of California bans trans-fat........
Will Singapore government also ban ? Or will fast food chains give donations to PAP to turn a blind eye and let them continue to poison Singaporeans?
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Today $590 from CPF monthly is ok.
In 2030, 32 years from now..........maybe your economic rice would cost $30 a plate....
In 1908, one plate costs 3 cents
In 1958, one plate costs 30 cents
In 2008, one plate cost $3 (300 cents)
The price increased 100 times in 100 years.
Only 3 cents in 1908.........today $3.........tommorrow how much?
When we are old........how much? can afford or not?
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Try getting a boyfriend at 40......you can probably get only Ang Mors or divorcees......
And at 40, there are railway tracks on your face, and the chances of giving birth to an abnormal child is several thousands times higher.....no expiry date, you say ?
Incidence of Down Syndrome with Increasing Maternal Age
Maternal Age at Delivery Risk at Term 32 1/725 33 1/592 34 1/465 35 1/365 36 1/287 37 1/255 38 1/177 39 1/139 40 1/109 41 1/85 42 1/67 43 1/53 44 1/41 45 1/32 46 1/25 47 1/20 48 1/16 49 1/12
http://pregnancy.about.com/cs/downsyndrome/l/bldownssyn.htm
If you give birth after 30, you face greater risks of getting a Mongoloid child. By 49, it is 1 in 12.....
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Who will visit you when you are old? Your relatives? ya, once a year during Chinese new year. Then you die and decompose inside your house. When the smell becomes unbearable, your neighbours will call the Police.........and bundle your body away like a dead dog.....
So better raise a family.....you will need a family when you are old....
Growing old with family members around you......this should be the ideal situation....
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one day you will sit with other old single men, looking at the world passing by.....if you don't have a family.......but have some savings.....
Collect boxes if savings dry up.......nowadays, no job for old people even in MacDonalds
But if you have children to take care of you whenyou are old :
Which is better ?
So go out, join cc, social clubs, youth groups etc
make friends.......and join marriage bureaus., or ask friends to introduce prospective marriage partners.........don't be shy.......or else end up lonely and die alone.....
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Listen to cantonese love song- guy falls in love with girl he sees daily at MRT. But she don't even notice him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jID-UWSd6I0
Do you have a secret love too?
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FORT WORTH — In a few days, Francisco Martinez will land in Iraq.
When Martinez steps off the airplane, he will be in the country that took his only son, a 20-year-old skateboarder and budding graphic artist whose loss is felt every single day of his father’s life.
This deployment — in fact, his entire enlistment — is completely his doing. Nobody forced this on Martinez, except maybe the sniper who put one well-placed bullet in his son Spc. Francisco G. Martinez on March 20, 2005, in Ramadi.
Joining the Air Force Reserve, after a 17-year break in his military service, was Martinez’s way of making sense of and coping with his son’s death, a way to remember him by being around young men his age serving their nation.
Protecting others
Martinez leaves for Iraq with all the usuals — rifle, night-vision goggles, cold-weather gear, a sleeping bag, in all hundreds of pounds of gear issued by the U.S. government.
Martinez is old enough — 44 years — to be the father of many of the men he will share a trailer with in northern Iraq.
A computer programmer and systems analyst accustomed to a six-figure salary, Martinez now wears the stripes of a staff sergeant, the equivalent of a buck sergeant in the Army, pulling down half (about $4,400 a month) of what he used to earn.
He will be deployed for six months
http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/753969.htm
Will this happen amongst Singporean parents?
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