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sze fei-izzuddin

fabu8238 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:50:06 +0800

They way they perform since winning the big one last year is telling - fail to proceed in last 3 quarter-finals. Sze Fei playing like mixed doubles partner. Like this better retire...shameful

Lazada is so bad

fabu8238 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 17:52:35 +0800

I had this bad experience with Lazada. Their courier service delivered to wrong address and tagged the product as delivery completed. When I came home half an hour later I found that the courier had delivered it to a wrong address from its delivery photo in whasapp. Immediately messaged him of the error and of course courier treat it as not his problem.

So i requested refund from lazada due to non-delivery of goods and after 2 days still under admin review - no action/ no goods/no refund. Honestly I am boycotting them from now on they really suck. So easy to solve and treated as so difficult.

Pearly and Thinniah

fabu8238 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:59:40 +0800

This pair lost again as I expected. IMHO they are over the hill and still young 24 and 27 but physically gone.

Uber Cup

fabu8238 — Sat, 04 May 2024 06:17:42 +0800

ASY & Yamaguchi not playing in semis tdy - China and Indo look higly favoured to meet in final

Nuclear war imminent?

fabu8238 — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:53:30 +0800

According to news sources the Kremlin has warned Netanyahu that Iran has nuclear warheads. This is followed by Iran's warning that Iran will respond with weapons it has never used before if Israel was to attack Iran a second time. Given the hardcore lot running Israel we have never been closer to a nuclear war than now. It will not surprise me that things will escalate....

Malaysia Open badminton commentator

fabu8238 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:47:40 +0800

Was watching the match between Chen YF and Intanon and heard the commentator saying "elongate the game"! Who hires these commentators and is there such a shortage of quality ones?

Kumamoto Masters

fabu8238 — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 16:44:21 +0800

Still to be decided are men's singles and doubles but highly possible it will be all china affair in the men's doubles, confirmed in the mixed and women's doubles. So highly possible China will sweep 4 of the 5 finals tomorrow. Japanese fans should be praised as they have sat through a difficult afternoon watching all of their players lose but remain disciplined and seated.

SEA Games

fabu8238 — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 13:43:41 +0800

Sorry wrong post

Ng Tze Yong

fabu8238 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 21:18:03 +0800

Just watched our NTY - almost after every point in the 2nd set he:

- towels himself down on the face and then legs
- changes shuttle
- requests court to be wiped

honestly I think if he could he would go to the toilet or canteen for a drink! He is the most boring and frustrating player I have ever watched. What has become of malaysian badminton!

Naturalised Sportsmen and women

fabu8238 — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:09:39 +0800

The recent SEA Games in Cambodia we saw the host nation fielding players from many other countries with the sole objective of you know what. It just tarnishes the principles of fairplay and downgrades the games. I had not expected this to in the coming FIFA Women's world cup but I was surprised to note that the Phillipines had qualified for the first time! Checking further of their full squad perhaps not more than 3 or 4 are players born in the Phillipines. Most are us born.

Somehow this does not seem right. The world seems to be getting weirder and weirder.

A potential new singles world champion

fabu8238 — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:09:06 +0800

Priyanshu Rajawat fast, smooth in movement and good temperament almost beat Ginting. Why was he not playing in the sudirman cup? None of our singles players can take on this young man from India.

Biggest pain of staying in Japan

fabu8238 — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:26:19 +0800

There are no public bins for you to throw your rubbish in Japan. The only place you can throw is in your hotel or whatever place you stay. Public places have no bins simply bcos they do not hv workers to dispose of rubbish. You need to collect yr own rubbish, have a bag for storing it while you are travelling outside before returning to yr hotel.

Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik

fabu8238 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 20:44:55 +0800

Just finished watching their sf loss to the chinese pair. What struck me was their mental strength is very weak. Let's face it they have totally lost confidence so they are no match for their opponents and playing in more competitions will simply kill them. Just look at Soh's face - he fears the game. Can't even stand in the court steadily, quick serves nervous like hell.

The start of the end of the US Dollar

fabu8238 — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 18:33:17 +0800

One of the strongest pillars towards the use of the US Dollar as the world currency in the last 50 years has been the financing of oil trades in USD. This pillar is now crumbling with the SAUDIS ready acceptance of other currencies to finance oil trades. Obviously they would not have dared to ditch the USD if they did not have a security backing probably from Russia and China. The Ukraine war demonstrated to the Saudis that the US is not invincible and they have been quick to seize the opportunity.

The question I ask is what happens when there is less demand for USD? Obviously the dollar will weaken as sellers rush to sell dollars. What will the Fed do? Raise interest rates again? This risks further US banks insolvency. Raising interest rates would also mean the US will have more interest to pay for its 31 trillion debt. So what is the likely course? Press the button for a complete and fresh reset. I hope not!

US plans for war against China

fabu8238 — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 21:53:04 +0800

US Army secretary reports that included in the plans would be to store weapons and supplies needed by the armed forces in Japan, Australia, Singapore and Philippines. This the plan still subject to agreement by the countries but quite sure resistance may only come from Spore as Japan and Australia US lapdogs.

Covid Vaccine adverse events

fabu8238 — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:47:39 +0800

https://youtu.be/BPHJ0rw0gdU

Data from Dec 2020 to June 2021 show 300,000 individuals having 3 to 4 adverse events from covid vaccines

India Open

fabu8238 — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:14:25 +0800

First time I ever seen 2 walkovers conceded at final stage both being chinese men and female doubles pairs. Playing too many tournaments?

PL Manager's salaries

fabu8238 — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 18:59:31 +0800

Premier League manager salary list:

1. Guardiola (Manchester City): £19 million

2. Klopp (Liverpool): £16 million

3. Conte (Tottenham): £15 million

4. Porter (Chelsea): £10m

4. Rodgers (Leicester City): £10m

6. Ten Hag (Manchester United): £9 million

7. Arteta (Arsenal): £8.3m

8. Hasenhuttl (Southampton): £6m

9. Lampard (Everton): £5 million

9. Moyes (West Ham): £5m

9. Gerrard (Villa): £5m

12. Lallana (Brighton/Interim): £4.7m

13. Marko (Fulham): £4.5m

14. Vieira (Crystal Palace): £4m

14. Eddie Howe (Newcastle): £4m

16. Marsh (Leeds): £3.5m

17. Lager (Wolves): £2.5 million

18. Frank (Brentford): £1.5m

19. Cooper (Nottingham Forest): £1.5 million

20. O'Neill (Bournemouth/Interim): Unknown

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