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June 2014



I guess I don’t need to remind everybody what’s the world’s biggest event that is happening in June. It’s none other than the FIFA World Cup Final happening in Brazil. As usual, I won’t throw my support for any national team. Malaysia, as usual are NOWHERE close to make the World Cup. I just wished that this would be a good tournament after my disappointment in South Africa 4 years ago.

But if there’s a team I wished to see them win, it’s probably Germany. There have been playing very consistently over the past 10 years in international tournaments, from the qualifying round to the finals, whether it’s the World Cup or the Euros. This time around they are possibly having one of the best squad of all 32 teams. So, perhaps this is the best time for them to lift the World Cup trophy. I do expect some teams to play well in this tournament. Brazil should perform well in their home soil. Spain, well-known with their passing game are in it to defend their title. Another hot favorite-Argentina, with star players like Messi, Lavezzi, Aguero are all ready to make an assault at the title.

Over the month, I managed to catch up with some movies that I missed last year and watch some new movies that is currently on the screens. The new X-Men movie, Days of Future Past was one of the best movies of this summer. It’s quite possibly the best movie in the franchise. I love the main focus of the movie which was more than just mutant’s powers. I’m always critical of superhero movies because of their boring and predictable plot. Of all superhero movies I’ve watched, this movie is the closest you can get to Christopher Nolan’s highly-acclaimed Batman trilogy. Meanwhile, the new Spiderman movie was a big let-down even though Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone put up a strong performance in the movie.

A glance to the world on what’s happening around the world. The kidnapping of the 276 female students in Nigeria is still nowhere to be found. A local terrorist group called Boko Haram claimed responsibility for this incident. Sadly, it has been more than 2 weeks since the incident happened and authorities are again nowhere close to make a breakthrough.

An update on the missing plane. (I know you probably are tired of reading anything related to the plane unless the plane is found). Authorities announced that those pings discovered in the Australian oceans in early April doesn’t belongs to the plane. So, this means the rescue mission is back to square one. Meanwhile, Immarsat and the Malaysian government have released the plane’s satellite data. With all these latest development, experts’ calculation and analysis of the plane’s data is once again questioned. Are we looking at the right place? Did these experts did their calculation correctly? Is somebody trying to hide something? All questions remains to be answered and sadly, we are nowhere close to answering these questions.

Doha has recently opened a brand new airport. Qatar Airways will move their operations from the old airport to this new facilities that promises to provide services that are able compete with other middle-east airlines hub like Abu Dhabi and Dubai. This new airport also further establish Middle-East as the latest transfer hub for passengers flying around the world. Airlines in the region have massive aircraft orders under the belt. Most notably, Emirates Airline for having another 90 Airbus A380 yet to be delivered to the airline. That’s all for June, until then, see you next time!


By,
Zhe Xu
June 5th 2014

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