Blog update 1 : Nottingham Games & Badminton

December 27, 2008

1) Malaysian Society Nottingham Games
When i say the word Nottingham, i get sick of it. Partially because i've been to that place# 3 times in the space of 6 weeks ! Nevertheless, i will be going there again next year because i have more friends there now !

Starting on the bench is my favourite..

2 hungry monsters digging into my uber pasta

Kings Imperial Bath

Effect of good food and no sleep

dead , asleep

no one is getting pass me ...

look at me concentrating on a game play .. look at my 2 circles

never gonna get pass me

First up was the Malaysian Nottingham games, a yearly sports event organised by Nottingham Malaysia society. The team was there to defend our title and the team members were all hyped up and ready for it. I, on the other hand, have not touched a basketball for at 3 weeks and prayed i will still be on form when the games looms closer.

To sum it all out, i was stuck in the dreadful hall again the hall day, only managed to step outside for a quick look at the girls playing netball. Imperial dominated yet again this year, with Nottingham coming in second. It was a tight game but Imperial sustained the pressure and topped Nottingham by 5 points.

How does it feel taking a techinical foul free throw while leading 3 points with 40 seconds remaining. Everyone just watches you .. Intense

Imperial Crew braving the cold to show our power

WE won the tip off

Charging foul .. stupid referee

Took half a dozen free throws, sush, ugly postuer

IC dominates !!!

Thanks leb for this amazing picture..

I miss this boy so much ..

Champs !!! real trophy !!

Photo time !!

The whole IC team and supporters !

Loving this people !!

2) Nottingham Games Badminton ( Busa)
This yearly event brings around every single badminton player studying in University across the whole United Kingdom. The reception this year was amazing, they had Richard Vaugham, a former world number 9 as the top seed and Lim Kenn, a former Malaysian back up squad player as second seed.

Still sober and cold !

Minnows like me, trained hard for the competition but we do enjoy the social afterwards organise by the Notts committee. At least i lost with style in both my games. Although it was second round, we manage to bring our opponents to a setting for mixed doubles and we lost closely to the 5th seeded pair in the doubles event.

Let us start having fun !

My partner, and the guy we lost to ... His other partner was asleep :P

Badminton team rock on !

3 unknowns.. Don't think they even play badminton

Enough of the dreadful training and games, we partied the night away. Starting out with drinks in the hotel room, each of us had at least 3 shots each as a show of appreciation or punishment for bad game play. Thanks to Katie who set the rules if someone qualified for the quarter finals, we have to take an additional 2 shots each.

Victorious Imperial !

Sobering up

Fish and Chips is always a tradition for the team

Nandos for the team !

Music was good at first at Walkabout. Being the smart Asians we are, we couldn't be bothered to pay for the special band/ticket we just took the emergency stairs upstairs to join the whole badminton crew !!!

I really do enjoy myself when i'm with the team . .Always full of energy while partying.

3) Badminton Social, Karaoke and Partying

The badminton club booked an awesome place at the Imperial China Restaurant for dinner and we paid only 18 pounds for some really good food which includes Lobster noodles ! Plus, we had 2 meat dishes some sides and thanks to the pescetarian Beth, we had extra 2 seafood dishes !

The whole team wanted cheesecake so badly we faked Beth birthday so that we could have the cake in the Karaoke place without being charge, Malaysian restaurant will use the term 'corkage' in this situation. We sang our hearts out and a few of us lost our voice !

starting with shots is always a bad choice

then you get stripped off

and you start acting cute

awwh.. i love my partners

ain't us cute ?
The club members called it a night after Karaoke but the team was determined to show their energy ! We went on to Walkabout and partied the whole night away. With Beth and Zhern having an exam the next day, everyone was aware not to get too drunk but Zhern and Devina finally got soo drunk they were guided home ...