DJARUM INDONESIA SUPER SERIES 2008

Final Results (22/06/2008)
Men's Singles (MS) :
Sony DWI KUNCORO (INA) BT Simon SANTOSO (INA)
Score: 19-21 21-14 21-9

Men's Double (MD)
Mohd Zakry ABDUL LATIF - Mohd Fairuzizuan MOHD TAZARI (MAS)BT Tony GUNAWAN (USA) - Candra WIJAYA (INA)
Score: 19-21 21-18 21-14

Women's Doubles (WD)
Vita MARISSA - Liliyana NATSIR (INA) BT Miyuki MAEDA - Satoko SUETSUNA (JPN)
Score: 21-15 21-14

Women's Singles (WS)
Lin ZHU (CHN) BT Maria Kristin YULIANTI (INA)
Score: 21-18 17-21 21-14

Mixed Doubles (XD)
Bo ZHENG - Ling GAO (CHN) BT Thomas LAYBOURN - Kamilla RYTTER JUHL (DEN)
Score: 21-14 21-8

Source


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Semi Final Results (21/06/2008)
Men's Double (MD) :
i) Tony GUNAWAN (USA) - Candra WIJAYA (INA) BT Thien How HOON - Soon Hock ONG (MAS)
Score: 23-25 21-15 21-15

ii) Mohd Zakry ABDUL LATIF - Mohd Fairuzizuan MOHD TAZARI (MAS) BT Sung Hyun KO - Yi Goo KWON (KOR)
Score: 21-13 21-18

Mixed Doubles (XD) :
i) Bo ZHENG - Ling GAO (CHN) BT Flandy LIMPELE - Vita MARISSA (INA)
Score: 21-17 21-9

ii) Thomas LAYBOURN - Kamilla RYTTER JUHL (DEN) BT Nova WIDIANTO - Liliyana NATSIR (INA)
Score: 22-20 22-20

Men's Singles (MS):
i) Sony DWI KUNCORO (INA) BT Chunlai BAO (CHN)
Score: 15-21 21-13 21-16

ii)Simon SANTOSO (INA) BT Kenichi TAGO (JPN)
Score: 21-16 13-21 21-18

Women's Single (WS)
i) Maria Kristin YULIANTI (INA) BT Ning ZHANG (CHN)
Score: 21-14 20-22 22-20

ii)Lin ZHU (CHN) BT Hongyan PI (FRA)
Score: 17-21 21-16 21-16

Women's Double (WD)
i) Vita MARISSA - Liliyana NATSIR (INA) BT Yili WEI - Yawen ZHANG (CHN)
Score: 21-15 14-21 21-18

ii)Miyuki MAEDA - Satoko SUETSUNA (JPN) BT Shendy Puspa IRAWATI - Meiliana JAUHARI (INA)
Score: 21-19 21-15

Results' Source

Aviva Open 2008 (Singapore)

Final Results
Men's singles:
Lee Chong Wei (MAS) bt Simon Santoso (INA)
Score: 21-13, 21-5

Women's singles:
Tine Rasmussen (DEN) bt Zhou Mi (HKG)
Score: 21-19, 21-17

Men's doubles:
Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif-Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari (MAS) bt Gan Teik Chai-Lin Woon Fui (MAS)
Score: 21-18, 21-17

Women's doubles:
Du Jing-Yu Yang (CHN) bt Wen Hsin Cheng-Yu Chin Chien (TPE)
Score: 21-16, 21-19

Mixed doubles:
Nova Widianto-Liliyana Natsir (INA) bt Anthony Clark-Donna Kellogg (ENG)
Score: 17-21, 21-14, 21-9

Source
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Semi Final Results
Mixed doubles:
i) Nova Widianto-Liliyana Natsir (INA) bt Songphon Anugritayawon-Kunchala Voravichitchaikul (THA)
Score: 21-18,21-19

ii) Anthony Clark-Donna Kellogg (ENG) bt Rasmus Bonde-Helle Nielsen (DEN)
Score: 21-16,21-18

Women's singles:
i) Tine Rasmussen (DEN) bt Wong Mew Choo (MAS)
Score: 21-10, 22-20

ii)Zhou Mi (HKG) bt Saina Nehwal (IND)
Score: 17-21, 21-19, 21-11

Women's doubles:
i) Du Jing-Yu Yang (CHN) bt Ha Jung Eun-Kim Min Jung (KOR)
Score: 21-19, 21-14
ii) Wen Hsin Cheng - Yu Chin Chien (TPE) bt Vita Marissa - Liliyana Natsir (INA)
Score: 20-22, 21-12, 21-16

Men's singles:
i) Simon Santoso (INA) bt Andrew Smith (ENG) Score:
21-11,21-14

ii) Lee Chong Wei (MAS) bt Peter Gade (DEN)
Score: 21-18, 21-12

Men's doubles:
i) Gan Teik Chai-Lin Woon Fui (MAS) bt Mohd Razif Abdul Latif-Tan Wee Kiong (MAS) Score: 21-16,21-16

ii)Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif-Mohd Fairuzizuan Mohd Tazari (MAS) bt Cho Gun Woo-Yoo Yeon Seong
Score: 21-17, 21-15

Source

Puzzle

Broadcast Date in Japan:18th April 2008

Synopsis
Actress Satomi Ishihara stars in her first mystery drama with "Puzzle." She takes on the role of Misako Ayukawa, an unqualified English teacher who happens to have a brilliant mind for solving puzzles. Along with 3 of her students (played by Yusuke Yamamoto, Ryo Kimura, and Kento Nagayama), she tackles various cases occurring around her school.

Cast
Ishihara Satomi as Ayukawa Misako
Yusuke Yamamoto
Ryo Kimura
Kento Nagayama
Sansei Shiomi
Sayuri Iwata
Aki Asakura
Chiaki Sato



Source and More details
http://www.tokyograph.com/articles/Spring_2008_Drama_Preview
http://jdorama.com/drama.1278.htm

Official Site: http://puzzle.asahi.co.jp/

My Review
Personal Opinion of this interesting high-school-related-detective drama is that at the end of drama, there is only 2 person I could remember: One is Satomi Ishihara, the main female lead and Iwata Sayuri, the girl who always flirt with the 3 students and acted smart but always ended up with nothing. (Actually I missed her in Jigoku Shojo although there were mixed comments from other viewers)

The drama started with a sense of humor and it did went well throughout the drama. However, I felt that the teacher's bond with the 3 students can be strengthened. Every time we saw her sabotaging them and they are (quite) disgusted with her fakey-double character. But yet they seems to be comfortable with her tagging along their dates which always leads to mystery solving situation. I was quite looking forward for them to show a display of a stronger bond (I mean, come on, what they have been through? It should have meant something) but nope, even at the end, the teacher care much for her own life then the 3 of them.

Anyway, I felt that this is an entertainment for mystery solving drama lovers who doesn't like too heavy suspense-filled drama. Enjoy~

My trip to MacRitchie Reservoir

Oh~ What a Sunday...
After planning in less than a week, and finding out how to get there (bus 52, 74, 166. 157), me and two of my friends "embark" on a trip to MacRitchie Reservoir for photo taking session.



Meeting Time: 7am <- okay, all of us wasn't on time.

It was a gloomy weather and it started raining just when the three of us was all ready to make our way to MacRitchie Reservoir via bus 52 @ Clementi. Not affected by it, we went ahead and took the bus which seems quite fast (although the cab fare from MacRitchie Reservoir back to Jurong was like $14+)

On reaching our destination, we made our way, stopping very often to capture the sun, the lake and the insects, towards the Treetop and a lot of people exercising at the area seems amused by the three of us. You see, one of my friends was taking a Nikon D40 camera which is very attention grabbing while me and my another friend were using those normal digital camera. (And how I wish I had my hands on a D40 or something along that line.)





Apologies for destroying the pictures but my skills are not good enough so please do let me know if you have any comments so I can try to improve my photography skills.







The spider web was nice the sunlight was just right, but somehow my camera just went off with a flash and it seems to make the color a bit unnatural (IMO)

The path to the treetop seems to take forever to reach (and I really thought I would just give up and head home as the path was sooooooooo long). I think the three of us walked like 1 hours or two and we still see the sign indicating that we are still 4km away from the destination.

Finally at the Treetop...




Make a guess the distance that we walked to reach the Treetop?

Almost 8km....

When we finish walking the Treetop, my mind was actually going "FINALLY! Time to head home!!" But the route to the exit proved to be even tiring. With the guidance of the signboards, we thought that exit was just 1.1 KM away. Although exhausted, we kept our pace. Just when we thought we saw the light, it's a false hope for the Exit that was mentioned led us back to the entrance path to the Treetop (which I tell you, at that moment, even if you tell me the Exit is up there, I would rather walk further down to other Exit then back up there as my kneecap seems to be breaking apart.) and the exit was actually like 2.7 KM away...

So we walked and walked and walked...walked ....... walked ......... walked

It really a long walk before we finally exit the place and found a cab home...

Conclusion! Never go to MacRitchie Reservoir if you are not familiar with the route and be 200% prepared. Bring water (COLD beverage would be the best), towel (for your precious sweat), and tons of determination