Obviously, it’s the World Cup fever all around us. But I’ve decide to skip talking about World Cup in this article because I’m pretty sure you are tired of reading anything regarding the World Cup after the enormous amount of facebook statuses, comments and articles regarding the World Cup. It’s better that we shall move on to other stuffs.
Motorsports
Let’s start with motorsports. There’s only one word to describe it for now - dominance. In Formula 1, the Mercedes team is in total control, winning 8 out of the 9 races of this year’s Formula 1 season. Their drivers - Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have totally dominated the rest of the field. While last year’s dominant team - Red Bull, which won 13 out of the 19 races is struggling to cope with the pace of these Mercedes cars. I’m not really a motorsports fan, but I do follow motorsports closely. It’s the lack of competition in these events that drives people like me away from watching the sport.
If you think there are not enough competition in Formula 1, look at this year’s MotoGP. There’s only one winner till now - Marc Marquez of the Honda Team who has won all 8 races since the start of the season. That’s just total dominance. Surely, you must thinking: “Where are the rest of the guys out there, are they even racing?”
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games is happening at the end of this month. This time the games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland from 23 July to 3 August. For those who don’t know what Commonwealth Games is, it’s a multi-sport event among former British territories. It’s one of the largest sporting event in the world with 70 countries expected to take part in. For Malaysia, it’s certainly an event that captured a lot of attention. For a country that is not a strong sporting nation, it’s a bright opportunity for our athletics to show their talent to win medals.
There’s isn’t an official announcement regarding the overall gold medal target for this year’s game, but the morale around the Malaysian camp doesn’t look good. Badminton, traditionally a sport dominated by Malaysians shuttlers in the games, just set themselves a two gold medal target at this year’s games considering Malaysia had won four gold medals each in the 2006 and 2010 games. One interesting fact about the games is that sports like Lawn bowls and Netball are played only in the Commonwealth Games. This means that you basically can’t find these sports being played in other major multi-sport events.
Summer Movie Season Review
A week ago, I went to the cinema to watch the latest instalment of the Transformers franchise, Age of Extinction. Everybody watches movie regularly knows what you will get when you watch a Michael Bay movie. You are not going to get incredible storyline or plot, but what you will get are special effects of visual and sound. One word to describe the movie - awful. I mean it’s so bad that you feel so relieved when the movie ended. Bear in mind, it’s 165 minutes long! The action scenes inside the movie were intense, but it seems like the producers doesn’t know when to stop it and the actions scenes just keep rolling and rolling to a degree when you feel so annoyed. The plot of the movie was just horrible and absolutely destroys the movie franchise. I just wonder what are the plans for the future as a fifth and sixth Transformers film have already been confirmed.
That’s all for July!
Motorsports
Let’s start with motorsports. There’s only one word to describe it for now - dominance. In Formula 1, the Mercedes team is in total control, winning 8 out of the 9 races of this year’s Formula 1 season. Their drivers - Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have totally dominated the rest of the field. While last year’s dominant team - Red Bull, which won 13 out of the 19 races is struggling to cope with the pace of these Mercedes cars. I’m not really a motorsports fan, but I do follow motorsports closely. It’s the lack of competition in these events that drives people like me away from watching the sport.
If you think there are not enough competition in Formula 1, look at this year’s MotoGP. There’s only one winner till now - Marc Marquez of the Honda Team who has won all 8 races since the start of the season. That’s just total dominance. Surely, you must thinking: “Where are the rest of the guys out there, are they even racing?”
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games is happening at the end of this month. This time the games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland from 23 July to 3 August. For those who don’t know what Commonwealth Games is, it’s a multi-sport event among former British territories. It’s one of the largest sporting event in the world with 70 countries expected to take part in. For Malaysia, it’s certainly an event that captured a lot of attention. For a country that is not a strong sporting nation, it’s a bright opportunity for our athletics to show their talent to win medals.
There’s isn’t an official announcement regarding the overall gold medal target for this year’s game, but the morale around the Malaysian camp doesn’t look good. Badminton, traditionally a sport dominated by Malaysians shuttlers in the games, just set themselves a two gold medal target at this year’s games considering Malaysia had won four gold medals each in the 2006 and 2010 games. One interesting fact about the games is that sports like Lawn bowls and Netball are played only in the Commonwealth Games. This means that you basically can’t find these sports being played in other major multi-sport events.
Summer Movie Season Review
A week ago, I went to the cinema to watch the latest instalment of the Transformers franchise, Age of Extinction. Everybody watches movie regularly knows what you will get when you watch a Michael Bay movie. You are not going to get incredible storyline or plot, but what you will get are special effects of visual and sound. One word to describe the movie - awful. I mean it’s so bad that you feel so relieved when the movie ended. Bear in mind, it’s 165 minutes long! The action scenes inside the movie were intense, but it seems like the producers doesn’t know when to stop it and the actions scenes just keep rolling and rolling to a degree when you feel so annoyed. The plot of the movie was just horrible and absolutely destroys the movie franchise. I just wonder what are the plans for the future as a fifth and sixth Transformers film have already been confirmed.
That’s all for July!
By,
Zhe Xu
7th July 2014
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