As I’ve promised before, I’ll post my paper here once it’s finished. So, just click the link above and read it. Hehe.
Archive for May, 2008
20
May
08
IGCC: The Whole Part
Okay, after David Cook, here comes David Archuleta. A 17 years old boy who greatly take America’s breath away.
David Archuleta was born in Miami, Florida to James Jeffrey Archuleta and Lupe Marie Archuleta. He has three younger siblings, Amber, Daniel and Jazzy, and an older sister, Claudia. Archuleta’s family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah when Archuleta was thirteen and currently lives in Murray, Utah, where Archuleta is a student at Murray High School. The only regular job he has had was over the summer of 2007 as a sound “techie” at a park amphitheater. He once suffered partial vocal paralysis but refrained from risky surgery and feels he is almost fully recovered.
Archuleta started singing when he was six because he was inspired by a Les Misérables video. “That musical is what started all of this,” he said. He started performing publicly at ten years old when he participated in the Utah Talent Competition singing “I Will Always Love You” by Dolly Parton; he received a standing ovation, and won the kid division.
Archuleta’s mother is from Honduras, and much of the music he listened to as a child, according to an interview aired on American Idol, was Latin-influenced. She also “was big on dancing” according to Archuleta, and would “make” him dance to traditional music with his older sister. He also listened to jazz music, he said, from his father’s collection as well as gospel, pop, rock and “soulful music”. In a later interview he also revealed that his dad was a jazz musician. Archuleta also enjoys Broadway musicals.
On his American Idol “Fast Facts” page, Archuleta cites his musical influences as Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, Kirk Franklin and Bryan Adams. When asked to list his top pop artists, he cites Natasha Bedingfield, Natalie Cole, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Bryan Adams, Kirk Franklin, and Robbie Williams. He also cites Tamyra Gray and Elliott Yamin as his favorite former American Idol contestants. Like Yamin and another singer he admires, John Mayer, Archuleta aspires to infuse his pop selections with a soulful vibe.
Here is Archuleta list of performance in American Idol.
| Week # | Theme | Song choice | Original artist |
| Top 24 (12 Men) | 1960s | “Shop Around” | The Miracles |
| Top 20 (10 Men) | 1970s | “Imagine” | John Lennon |
| Top 16 (8 Men) | 1980s | “Another Day in Paradise” | Phil Collins |
| Top 12 | Lennon/McCartney | “We Can Work It Out” | The Beatles |
| Top 11 | The Beatles | “The Long and Winding Road” | The Beatles |
| Top 10 | Year They Were Born | “You’re the Voice” | John Farnham |
| Top 9 | Dolly Parton | “Smoky Mountain Memories” | Dolly Parton |
| Top 8 | Inspirational | “Angels” | Robbie Williams |
| Top 7 | Mariah Carey | “When You Believe” | Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston |
| Top 6 | Andrew Lloyd Webber | “Think of Me” | The Phantom of the Opera |
| Top 5 | Neil Diamond | “Sweet Caroline” | Neil Diamond |
| “America” | |||
| Top 4 | Rock and Roll | “Stand by Me” | Ben E. King |
| Hall of Fame | “Love Me Tender” | Elvis Presley | |
| Top 3 | Judge’s Choice | “And So It Goes” | Billy Joel |
| Contestant’s Choice | “With You” | Chris Brown | |
| Producer’s Choice | “Longer” | Dan Fogelberg | |
| FINALE | Previous Song | TBA | TBA |
| New Song | |||
| Coronation Song |
Can’t wait to see their performance!!
This week, on Tuesday, American Idol 7 will hold the very last stage of this season competition. And I will give you a sneak-peek to each finalists. I’ll begin with David Cook.
Cook was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Blue Springs, Missouri. Cook’s interest in music began early in life; he received his first guitar at the age of 2. He began singing in second grade, when his elementary school music teacher gave him a solo in a school choir performance. He proceeded to perform in virtually every Christmas and PTA program. He also participated in choir and drama programs in middle school and high school. At Blue Springs South High School, he performed in musicals, including The Music Man, West Side Story, and Singin’ in the Rain.He had also been an avid baseball player during high school. After losing interest in sports, he focused more on music. He earned a theater scholarship to the University of Central Missouri, but he abandoned theater after two semesters, graduating from the school in 2006 with a degree in graphic design.While in college, he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. After his college graduation, he relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma to pursue his career in music, telling his family, “I just want to give myself until I’m 26 years old to get a job.”
Cook was the lead singer and guitarist of the band Axium from 1999 until 2006. He formed Axium in his junior year of high school with drummer Bobby Kerr. One of the band’s songs, “Hold,” was picked up by AMC Theatres Movie Tunes and was played before previews on over 20,000 screens nationwide. Axium was also named one of the top 15 independent bands in the country in the “Got Milk?” independent band contest, and it was chosen as the best band in Kansas City in 2004.
In 2006, after the breakup of Axium, Cook relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and joined the regional touring band Midwest Kings, playing guitar, bass, and singing backup vocals. He recorded one EP, Incoherent with Desire to Move On, with the band in 2006. He also worked as a bartender at several Tulsa clubs, including Blank Slate and Rehab Lounge.
Cook released a solo independent album, Analog Heart, in 2006, the year he graduated from the college. It was written from 2004 to 2006, and he designed the artwork as well. The album was chosen as the fourth-best CD released in 2006 by website Music Equals Life. Cook also won the Urban Tulsa Weekly’s “Absolute Best of Tulsa” award for “Best Locally Produced, Independent Album” in 2007. He had completed recording his sophomore album before his appearance on American Idol.Over the weekend of April 18 to April 20, 2008, Analog Heart was listed as the number one album for “Today’s Top MP3 Albums” on Amazon.com. Soon there after, the album was removed from Amazon.
Here is the list of Cook performance in American Idol.
| Week # | Theme | Song choice | Original artist |
| Top 24 (12 Men) | 1960s | “Happy Together” | The Turtles |
| Top 20 (10 Men) | 1970s | “All Right Now” | Free |
| Top 16 (8 Men) | 1980s | “Hello” | Lionel Richie |
| Top 12 | Lennon/McCartney | “Eleanor Rigby” | The Beatles |
| Top 11 | The Beatles | “Day Tripper” | The Beatles |
| Top 10 | Year They Were Born | “Billie Jean” | Michael Jackson |
| Top 9 | Dolly Parton | “Little Sparrow” | Dolly Parton |
| Top 8 | Inspirational | “Innocent” | Our Lady Peace |
| Top 7 | Mariah Carey | “Always Be My Baby” | Mariah Carey |
| Top 6 | Andrew Lloyd Webber | “The Music of the Night” | The Phantom of the Opera |
| Top 5 | Neil Diamond | “I’m Alive” | Neil Diamond |
| “All I Really Need Is You” | |||
| Top 4 | Rock and Roll | “Hungry Like the Wolf” | Duran Duran |
| Hall of Fame | “Baba O’Riley” | The Who | |
| Top 3 | Judge’s Choice | “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” | Roberta Flack |
| Contestant’s Choice | “Dare You to Move” | Switchfoot | |
| Producer’s Choice | “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” | Aerosmith | |
| FINALE | Previous Song | TBA | TBA |
| New Song | |||
| Coronation Song |
Hope you’re doing great in the final!! I’m a big fans of yours.. Hahahah
Ngga kerasa ya? udah seminggu kita disuguhi tayangan bulutangkis sehari 2 kali. Jam 1 siang dan jam 6 sore. Seluruh Indonesia bersuka. Senayan dipenuhi pengunjung, toko olahraga diserbu (hanya untuk beli kok atau raket bulutangkis ;p), jalanan dalam kompleks perumahan dipenuhi anak-anak yang bermain bulutangkis. Bulutangkis. salah satu dari sekian banyak hal yang bisa membuat bangga bangsa ini. ngga heran kalo “Visit Indonesia 2008″ juga menggunakan perhelatan piala Thomas dan Uber tahun ini sebagai batu loncatan promosi.
Akhirnya piala yang lepas itu belum juga bisa direbut kembali. Kedigdayaan Cina masih terlalu kuat untuk dihentikan bangsa lain, atau ini cuma masalah persiapan tim semata?Tim putra Cina menunjukkan bahwa mereka masih yang terbaik saat ini. Tim putra Korea akhirnya berhasil menjajakkan kaki di final piala Thomas untuk pertama kali setelah menorehkan kekalahan pertama Indonesia dari mereka. Tim putri Cina pun berhasil mempertahankan piala Uber yang sudah diraih sejak 1998. Bagaimana dengan Indonesia?
Banyak yang berubah kalo menurut gw. Kenapa? karena tahun ini ternyata tim putri lebih baik secara keseluruhan dari tim putra. Sejak Cina berhasil merebut piala Uber dari Indonesia pada tahun 1998, putri-putri kita ngga pernah bisa bicara banyak dalam perebutan piala Uber. Paling sedih ya tahun 2006 lah. Indonesia ngga lolos ke putaran final!! Torehan sejarah buruk untuk perbulutangkisan putri Indonesia. Dari catatan itu, masyarakat Indonesia ngga terlalu berharap banyak dengan tim Uber kita. Kenyataannya? Perjuangan mereka luar biasa. Semangat mereka luar biasa. MEREKA LUAR BIASA.
Nonton final piala Uber? Untuk tunggal, kita emang ngga bisa bicara banyak. Mereka jauh lebih kuat. Postur, teknik, strategi lengkap. Pas pertandingan penentuan, Lu Lan lawan Adrianti Firdasari, gw sampe jijik ngeliat bola silang Lu Lan. Karena itu bagus banget. karena itu bikin mati langkah banget. Karena itu… makin memperlihatkan perbedaan kelas tunggal kita dan mereka. Tapiiiiii untuk ganda, jangan salah.
Pertandingan kedua, ganda pertama Indonesia, Lilyana Natsir/Vita Marissa melawan ganda putri no.1 dunia Yang Wei/Zhang Jie Wen. Mereka kalah? iya. Tapi kalah secara permainan? kita kecewa dengan penampilan mereka? yakin banget gw, seluruh Indonesia pasti bilang ngga. Ngga bakal ada yang kecewa sama mereka, karena itulah permainan yang terbaik dari mereka. itulah yang terbaik yang bisa mereka berikan. Dan standing ovation buat itu. Cantik. Apa yang mereka tampilin tuh bener-bener ngga bisa dilupain. Kalah 12-2 di set ketiga ngga bikin mereka patah semangat. apa yang terjadi? kedudukan berbalik kan? 15-14!! Bener-bener di luar akal sehat gw. mereka bisa membalikkan keadaan!! gw yakin kaki mereka sebenernya udah ngga bisa digerakkin tuh, cuma karena semangat ngga mau kalahnya aja yang bikin mereka bisa terus gerak. Adanya Susi Susanti di tim ini sangat memberikan pengaruh besar buat tim. Susi bisa bertindak sebagai motivator bagi anggota tim untuk tetap bersemangat.
Semangat itu yang ngga keliatan di tim Thomas. Semifinal paling jelek tuh kalo menurut gw. Ngga ada yang mw ngejar kok itu. payah banget. Dari awal, Sony bener-bener ngga memperlihatkan mentalnya sebagai tunggal pertama Indonesia. Dia tuh tunggal putra terbaik Indonesia looooh. Tapi yang gw liat dy masuk lapangan ky cuma dengan kapasitas: PEMAIN no.1 JAWA. payah banget. Cupu. Main ky ngga pengen menang. Ya udahlah, dari awal kejuaraan ini digelar, gw emang udah putus harapan sama si Sony ini. Harapan terbesar emang di nomor ganda. Indonesia emang ngga pernah keabisan stok pemain ganda bagus. tapi begitu juga dengan Korea. Kido/Hendra emang no 1 dan ganda Korea itu cuma ranking 3, tapi apa yang terjadi di lapangan? Kita kalah. Hendra off banget hari itu kalo menurut gw. Kido ky main sendirian, dan tiap kali bola dipukul ke arah Hendra, pasti pasangan Korea dapet angka. Hendra bilang ganda kita ini kalah kekuatan tangan dibanding mereka. Satu masalah akhirnya terangkat ke permukaan. Bisa jadi ini masalah kesiapan fisik? Mungkin. Tapi bukan itu yang gw liat pas kekalahan Taufik. Dia malesss. Titik. Abis perkara. Lee Hyun Il bener2 nguasain lapangan, dan entah kenapa di bayangan gw, hari itu emang Taufik ky kerdil banget di hadapan Lee. Lee menang segala-galanya d. Ngga ada kepuasan setelah nonton pertandingan ini. dan selalu itu yang terjadi setiap kali gw nonton tim Thomas Indonesia bermain. entah kenapa. sampe akhir gw ngga bisa liat semangatnya. Mungkin kita perlu seorang seperti Susi Susanti sebagai motivator? Siapa yang bisa ya? Paling mungkin itu, memanggil pulang Rexy Mainaky. Kynya dy pas banget jadi motivator buat tim putra Indonesia.
Setelah semua euforia ini selesai, apa yang bakal terjadi ke depannya? Prediksi gw, Cina entah kenapa kynya piala Thomas dan Ubernya bakal direbut negara lain 2 tahun lg. Cina udah ngga sekuat 4 atau 2 tahun yang lalu. Baik di putra maupun di putri. Di putra, Korea kynya bakal muncul jadi kekuatan besar, Malaysia bakal mencari bibit baru untuk posisi tunggal, Denmark juga harus secepatnya menemukan pengganti Peter Gade. Hati-hati dengan Jerman, dari apa yang gw liat di Jakarta ini, putra Jerman bakal berkembang pesat. Indonesia juga jangan sampai berdiam diri aja. Evaluasi dari Piala Thomas ini harus segera diperbaiki, kalau memang masalahnya di fisik, segera perbaiki fisik pemain. dan satu lagi, REGENERASI. jangan sampai kejadian putri-putri Indonesia terulang lagi. hidupkan kembali pelatnas pratama. bisa jadi bibit2 unggul muncul dari sana. Di putri, sampai 2 tahun mendatang, setiap negara sepertinya masih akan mengandalkan pemain yang sama, sehingga perkembangan setiap tim akan sangat bergantung pada perkembangan pemain tersebut. Tetapi, putri Indonesia pasti akan berbicara lebih banyak setelah ini.
Semoga semangat itu selalu berkobar dalam diri tiap pemain Indonesia. Semangat yang dititipkan masyarakat seluruh Indonesia. Semangat kebangsaan lewat olahraga bernama BULUTANGKIS. SEMANGAAAAATTTTT!!!
I sort of grabbing the news from yahoo and AP. While last night, it hasn’t been confirmed, it is now. She retires from pro tennis due to her faded motivation. I conclude the news from yahoo below.
LIMELETTE, Belgium (AP)—The determination that helped Justine Henin beat bigger, stronger opponents time and again was fading.
“I decided,” the 25-year-old Belgian said, “to stop fooling myself and accept it.”
Henin retired from tennis Wednesday, an abrupt ending to a career in which she won seven Grand Slam singles titles and spent more than 100 weeks ranked No. 1.
She announced her decision at a news conference 1 1/2 weeks before the start of the French Open, where she has won the past three titles and four overall.
Put simply, she realized she was burned out, and became the first woman to quit the sport while atop the WTA rankings.
“I always based everything on this motivation—this flame—that was in me. And once I lost that, I lost many, many things,” Henin said.
Surprising as her departure was to the rest of the world, it seemed somehow inevitable to her.
After reaching the final at each Grand Slam tournament in 2006, she won 10 tournaments in 2007, including two majors. But this season, she started to find it an ever bigger chore to pack her luggage to travel to tournaments. Her legs felt heavy when she should have been dancing in the backcourt, ready to turn another one of those sparkling backhands into a winner.
When she was hurt, she no longer minded if an injury lingered. Ever since being discovered as a child prodigy, tennis was everything to Henin. Now, though, tennis was making it clear that her time was up.
“Everything became harder,” Henin said. “I felt, deep inside, something was getting out of my grasp.”
She lost 6-4, 6-0 to Maria Sharapova in the Australian Open, then 6-2, 6-0 to Serena Williams at the Sony Ericsson Open in April—the worst loss for a top-ranked player in nine years.
At last week’s German Open, Henin lost 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 to Dinara Safina. Then she pulled out of this week’s Italian Open, citing fatigue.
“At the end of the match in Berlin, (retirement) all of a sudden was there as something evident,” Henin said.
Her announcement came a day after one of the greatest female golfers in history said she’s quitting: Annika Sorenstam, owner of 10 major titles and one of six women to complete a career Grand Slam in her sport, is walking away at the end of the season.
Henin, however, won’t have any sort of farewell tour. She is retiring immediately.
“I had reached my limits, and I feel strong and relieved that I could take this decision,” she said. “There are plenty of things that I can do. There are no regrets. I did everything I had to do in tennis.”
In addition to her four French Open titles, Henin won the Australian Open in 2004, and the U.S. Open in 2003 and 2007. She has been ranked No. 1 since Nov. 13, 2006, except for a seven-week period last year when Sharapova held the top spot, and won nearly $20 million in career prize money.
“She was a great champion,” said Williams, who lost to Henin in a contentious 2003 French Open quarterfinal, “and she gave me a world of trouble.”
The only Grand Slam title to elude Henin is Wimbledon, where she was runner-up in 2001 and 2006.
“Winning Wimbledon would not make me happier than I am,” she said.
Winning again at Roland Garros would make no difference, either, no matter how much that event means to her. Henin dedicated her first victory there to her mother, who died of cancer when Justine was 12. When Henin won there last year, it capped a reunion with her father and siblings, from whom she’d been estranged for several years.
“That was awesome. It was a great feeling, and I am going to keep that feeling forever now,” she said. “I won Roland Garros four times, three times in a row. I don’t have to live that moment again. I know how it was.”
Throughout her career, Henin has had to beat the odds.
With her 5-foot-5 3/4 , 126-pound frame, she had to figure out how to deal with foes who could hit the ball harder. With a superb one-handed backhand, amazing speed and grit, she rose to the top of the sport.
“She always challenged herself to play her best tennis no matter what the circumstances. She was just a real fighter, so I think that was really what made her best,” Venus Williams said.
“Justine Henin will be remembered as one of the all-time great champions in women’s tennis, and a woman who made up for her lack of size with a will to win and fighting spirit that was second to none,” WTA Tour CEO Larry Scott said. “It is rare that an athlete leaves at the very top of her game in this day and age, but Justine has always played by her own rules, in the very best sense of those words.”
Henin was away from the tour for months at a time in 2004 and 2005 because of an energy-sapping blood virus and assorted injuries, including to her knee and back. In early 2007, she divorced from Pierre-Yves Hardenne and dropped his last name.
Throughout last season, Henin said she had finally found a balance in her life between personal self-fulfillment and doggedly pursuing tennis titles.
Now it appears that changed. Perhaps she took note when Kim Clijsters— another Belgian who was ranked No. 1 and won a Grand Slam title—retired at 23 last year. Clijsters has since married and become a mother.
Dressed in a simple white T-shirt and jeans, her brown hair in a ponytail, Henin spoke in French for nine minutes before taking questions Wednesday. She never lost her composure and held the microphone firmly.
The news conference was at the Justine N1 academy in a village about 20 miles outside of Brussels. It has a smattering of her beloved clay courts, where she wants to train and coach youngsters.
Family and children may come, but for now, and for once, there is no rush.
Well, I guess she’s still too young to retire now, and I know she will be in her top form again in no time. But, she is the one who know herself best, and this thought of retiring must be a very long thought before she has definite decission. So, lets hope the best for her and her life afterward.
She’s the greatest in her generation comparing to all her competitors. and I am really gonna miss her one-backhand move after this.
WTA currently world number one Justine Henin announced that she quitted tennis. The 25-year-old Belgian made the surprising announcement at a news conference Wednesday, less than two weeks before the start of the French Open. She has won that clay-court major championship four times, including each of the past three years.
“This is the end of a child’s dream,” Henin said. “This is a definitive decision. Those who know me know it is serious.”
After winning ten titles last year, including her 6th and 7th grand slam on French and US open, Henin has been in one of her worst season so far with nothing but loses before semifinal since February when she won the Antwerp tournament.
“I thought long about this,” Henin said, her voice cracking and eyes watering. “I started thinking about it late last year. I was at the end of the road. I leave with my head held high.”
All of this was still a breaking news and none has proven it right. So I’ll get back again later.
13
May
08
Piala yang lepas, ayo diuber!!!
Apakah anda memperhatikan acara kuis yang digelar setiap pertandingan Piala Thomas atau Uber ditayangkan? Judul post kali ini merujuk kesitu.. Apa gara-gara gaya si Adul yang cukup menjijikkan? hahahha gw ngga tau juga. Tapi tag-line yang bagus menurut gw..
Indonesia ramai!! Senayan heboh!! hahaha.. tapi emang iya lhoo, liat ngga sih waktu pertandingan pertama tim Indonesia? rame parah.. dengan teriakan-teriakan plus stick bomb-nya, Senayan jadi cukup heboh.. dan ini diakui lho sama tim lain, ky Denmark sama Korea yang juga ngerasa disemangatin sama penonton Indonesia pas lawan Malaysia (yah, masa iya kita dukung Malaysia? hahahaha bcanda d).. untung dengan dukungan yang udah heboh ky gt, Indonesia ngga kalah.. malu ngga sih kalo sampe kalah?
Format Piala Thomas dan Uber 2008 ini masih sama seperti 2 penyelenggaraan terakhir di Jakarta 2004 dan Sendai 2006. 12 tim dibagi menjadi 4 grup yang masing2 terdiri atas 3 tim. Tim yang menjadi juara grup langsung maju ke Perempat Final, sedangkan 2 tim lainnya harus bertanding dalam babak yang dinamakan babak ‘playoff’. Cina masih menjadi unggulan utama baik untuk piala Thomas dan piala Uber dengan Indonesia menjadi unggulan ke-2 untuk piala Thomas dan ke-5 dalam piala Uber.
Piala Thomas
Penghuni tim piala Thomas Indonesia bisa dibilang masih orang-orang lama ky Sony, Taufik dan Simon di tunggal sementara Candra Wijaya dan Nova Widiyanto di ganda untuk menemani Markis Kido/Hendra Setiawan dan Joko Riyadi/Hendra A. Gunawan yang kebetulan baru pertama kali berlaga di Piala Thomas. Dengan anggota tim ini, diharapkan Indonesia bisa merebut kembali piala Thomas yang pada 2 penyelenggaraan terakhir direbut oleh Cina. Bisakah? Mmm, kalo ngeliat penampilan tim di 2 partai kualifikasi, menurut prediksi gw, BISA, tapi berat banget. Kenapa? Ya ampun, masa lawan Thailand yang menurut gw isinya anak dugem semua itu cuma menang 3-2??? Payah banget. 2 tunggalnya kalah. dan yang kalah itu orang2 yang harusnya menaaaaaang!! Ah, kesel gila gw nontonnya.. Sony ngga semangat, Taufik ngeremehin. payah banget d. Untung gandanya bagus.
Lawan Jerman, walopun menang 5-0, menurut gw mainnya masih belom pol ah. Jerman masih bisa sampe poin 2 digit gt, bandingin sm Cina yang Lin Dan menangnya bisa sampe 21-3 gt? Despite lawan yang beda, kalo pake logika ya, kenapa lawannya Lin Dan cuma bisa dapet 3 poin? Kalo ngga dy bikin 3 pukulan winner, berarti Lin Dan yang melakukan 3 kali kesalahan (menurut gw yang terakhir lebih masuk akal hahahaha). 3 KALI dalam satu set. TIGA. Jumlah kesalahan yang sedikit banget kalo menurut gw. dan pemain Indonesia belum bisa meminimalisir itu. masih banyak salah-salah ngga penting karena ngga sabar ato placing bola yang terlalu lebar dan panjang.
Tapi gw yakin kita pasti bisa!! Taufik juara Olimpiade, Kido/Hendra ganda nomer 1 dunia, masih ada Candra yang juga juara Olimpiade dan Nova yang juara dunia ganda campuran, kita pasti bisa!! Kuncinya ada di semangat dan motivasi ngerebut piala itu sendiri. Semangat bisa ngalahin capek kok. Jangan nganggep remeh lawan, inget yang kejadian sama Taufik pas lawan Thailand, kacau banget. Jangan sampe gt lg. SEMANGATTTTT!!!!!! Gw pasti nonton ke stadion kalo Indonesia masuk final.
Piala UBER
Tim piala Ubernya juga ngga terlalu beda jauh sama tahun sebelumnya. Masih ada Maria Kristin dan Adrianti Firdasari sebagai tunggal pertama dan kedua. Ditambah Pia Zebadiah yang jadi tunggal ke-3 dan Fransiska Ratnasari yang jadi tunggal ke-4. Di ganda, jebolan ganda campuran Lilyana Natsir/Vita Marissa jadi andalan utama ditemenin Greysia Polii/Jo Novita sebagai ganda kedua. Ganda cadangannya Endang/Rani Mundiasti. Skuad idaman? Bisa iya bisa ngga. Tapi itulah yang terbaik yang ada di Indonesia saat ini. Setelah Susi Susanti sama Mia Audina, emang belom ada lagi yang pemain putri Indonesia yang cemerlang banget kan? Soal kans? Jelas Cina yang jadi favorit nomer 1. dan menurut gw emang mereka masih bakal juara tahun ini. Tapi, ngeliat penampilan putri Indonesia di babak kualifikasi hari minggu dan senin kemaren, harusnya MEREKA bisa MASUK FINAL.
Terus terang aja, gw ngga nyangka tim putri kita sebagus itu. Mereka jauh lebih bagus dibanding 2 atau bahkan 4 tahun yang lalu. sekarang udah jauh lebih mateng secara mental maupun teknik. Mungkin ini buahnya regenerasi yang dilakuin sama PBSI. namanya juga regenerasi, jangan ngarep bisa instanlah yaa. mungkin udah 6-10 tahun terakhir mereka semua yang masuk tim ini dipersiapkan untuk jadi pilar bulutangkis Indonesia di masa depan. masa depan itu kapan? mungkin sekarang? atau bisa 2-4 tahun ke depan. asal banyak diturunin di pertandingan internasional, di perebutan piala Uber 2 tahun lagi harusnya kita udah bisa jadi ancaman utama Cina.
Anyway, pertandingan pertama lawan Jepang, KEREN. perjuangannya itu lhooo. keren parah. pantang menyerah. hehehe. cewe Indonesia kuat-kuat!! haha. Maria Kristin pun bisa menang sbenernya menurut gw. cuma ya itu, kurang sabar aja. tapi yang paling ok si Greysia Polii-lah. anjiss, ky cowo banget mainnya. bersemangat gt dy, yang nonton jadi semangat juga kan jadinya. Hebatlah perjuangannya mah. Si Pia Zebadiah juga tuh. dengan jurus netting meliuk (ini namanya bikinan gw haha), ngga ngerti gw gimana bisa pergelangannya meliuk gt? alhasil lawannya mati langkah. hahahha.
Pertandingan kedua juga bagus. Udah lama kan ngga liat putri-putri Indonesia ngalahin lawan dengan skor 5-0? hahahaha. kalo yang kemaren ngga nonton lumayan sayang juga tuh. bagus kok pertandingannya. sayangnya Belanda ngga menurunkan tim utama kynya. mungkin strategi juga, karena paginya mereka baru tanding lawan Jepang dan menang 3-2. Indonesia keren!! hehehe seneng banget bisa ngeliat tim putri mainnya semangat gt. yakin banget gw banyakan yang pengen nonton tim putri dibanding tim putranya. hahahha. oia, mungkin yang paling banyak fansnya ya si Polii itu. hehe. main ok, wajah imut, pasti banyak yang langsung ngefans tuh.
Di pertandingan perempat final besok, tim putra bakal berhadapan dengan Inggris dan tim putri dengan Hongkong. semoga penampilan yang udah ok sekarang bisa ditingkatin lagi dan harapan seluruh bangsa Indonesia bisa tercapai dengan terebutnya kembali piala Thomas dan kalo bisa piala Uber. kita semua di belakang kalian. INDONESIA, ayo main yang bagusss!! hehehehhe. satu yang pasti, INI KANDANG KITA!!!
Piala yang lepas, ayo diuber!!!
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Happy Birthday..
Hari ini, orang yang berarti banget buat gw ulang tahun yang ke-22.. Happy birthday.. dimanapun kamu, aku selalu ngedoain.. Baik-baik selalu yah.. Miss u too much.. hehehehe.. I hope I can be the first and also the last person to greet you happy birthday today..
Happy birthday to you..
Happy birthday to you..
Happy birthday dear ndut..
Happy birthday to you..
** wishing u all happiness in the world.. and wish you were here..
I love you.always have.always will…
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