[[ Squash sport ]]

( Our malaysian Sport princess Nicl David )

(Prince racket )







~Squash is a racquet sport played by two players (or four players for doubles) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball. Squash is recognized by the IOC and remains in contention for incorporation in a future Olympic program. Squash has been recognized as the world's healthiest sport.

~The game was formerly called squash racquets, a reference to the "squashable" soft ball used in the game (compared with the harder ball used in its parent game Racquets.


~Court~

~The 'softball' or 'international' court size was codified in London, England in the late 1920s, at 32 ft (9.75 m) long and 21 feet (6.4 m) wide. The front wall was provided with an "out line" 15 feet (4.57 m) above the floor, connected by a raking "out" line meeting the "out" line on the back wall at 7 feet (2.13 m) above the floor. The front wall also has a "service line" (originally called the "cut line") 6 feet (1.83 m) above the floor with a 19 inch high (48 cm) "tin" acting as a 'net' (originally sheeted with metal in order to make a distinctive sound when hit by the ball). The floor is marked with a transverse "half-court" line and further divided into two rear "quarter courts" and two "service boxes", as shown in the diagram above.

~The traditional "American" court for the U.S. game, (now referred to as "hardball squash") is a similar size, but narrower at 18 feet 6 inches (5.64 m). The floor and wall markings differ slightly from the "International" court and the tin is lower, at 15 inches (38 cm) high. However, hardball squash was replaced by softball in America as the standard version of squash and has since almost completely died out.

~A "Converted Court" is the result of converting racquetball courts to squash. Racquetball courts are 20 feet (6.1 m) wide and 40 feet (12.2 m) in length, so it is relatively easy to install a back wall, producing a squash court of 20 feet (6.1 m) wide by 32 feet (9.75 m) long.

~Balls are manufactured to these standards by Prince, Dunlop, Pointfore, Wilson, Black Knight and others. The "double-yellow dot" ball, introduced in 2000, is currently the competition standard, replacing the earlier "yellow-dot" ball. There is also an "orange dot" ball, which is even less bouncy than the "double-yellow dot" ball, intended for use in areas of high altitude such as Mexico City, Calgary, Denver, and Johannesburg. The lower atmospheric pressure at these high altitude regions means that the ball bounces slightly higher, resulting in the need for such a ball.

[[ PlayStation Portable - PSP ]]

( T3 Model )







~The PlayStation Portable (officially abbreviated PSP) is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on May 11, 2003 at a Sony press conference before E3 2004. The system was released in Japan on December 12, 2004, in North America on March 24, 2005, and in the PAL region on September 1, 2005.

~The PlayStation Portable is the first handheld video game console to use an optical disc format, Universal Media Disc (UMD), as its primary storage medium.Other distinguishing features of the console include its large viewing screen, robust multi-media capabilities, and connectivity with the PlayStation 3, other PSPs, and the Internet.

~Sales of the PSP have (with cyclical exceptions) lagged behind its main competitor, the Nintendo DS.Nevertheless, the console is "the most successful non-Nintendo handheld game system ever sold". After the release of a remodeled, slimmer, and lighter version of the PlayStation Portable, titled Slim & Lite, in early September 2007, sales quadrupled in the United Kingdom the following week and increased by nearly 200% in North America for the month of October. The Slim & Lite had a minor redesign including a new screen and inbuilt microphone, and has since been followed by the PSP GO.

[[ Violin - music instrument ]]

~The violin is a string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello. (The double bass's inclusion in the violin family is disputed.[citation needed])

~The violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, regardless of the type of music played on it. The word violin comes from the Middle Latin word vitula, meaning stringed instrument , this word is also believed to be the source of the Germanic "fiddle". The violin, while it has ancient origins, acquired most of its modern characteristics in 16th-century Italy, with some further modifications occurring in the 18th century. Violinists and collectors particularly prize the instruments made by the Gasparo da Salò, Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Stradivari, Guarneri and Amati families from the 16th to the 18th century in Brescia and Cremona and by Jacob Stainer in Austria.

~A person who makes or repairs violins is called a luthier, or simply a violin maker. The parts of a violin are usually made from different types of wood (although electric violins may not be made of wood at all, since their sound may not be dependent on specific acoustic characteristics of the instrument's construction), and it is generally strung with gut, nylon/steel composite, or steel strings.

~Someone who plays the violin is called a (violinist )or a (fiddler). The violinist produces sound by drawing a bow across one or more strings (which may be stopped by the fingers of the other hand to produce a full range of pitches), by plucking the strings (with either hand), or by a variety of other techniques. The violin is played by musicians in a wide variety of musical genres, including Baroque music, classical, jazz, folk music, pop-punk and rock and roll. The violin has come to be played in many non-western music cultures all over the world.

[[ Poems for friendship ]]

~TRUE FRIENDSHIP ~

True friends are for life
Until the end
They're more than special
They're your bestest friends.

They're the ones you can go to
When you're in despair
The ones that'll help you
Even when you got gum in your hair!

They're the ones who'll laugh
And go laughing with you all through the night
The ones who'll help you
Help you with all their might

To have a good friend
You have to be one
So be nice to one another
So you can be friends forever
And that\'s how to be the best friend you can be.


~ A BEST FRIEND ~

A best friend
is always there,
whether you need advice,
or a pep talk,
or even a shoulder to cry on.
A best friend
listens with her heart
and is always honest with you,
even though the truth
may not be
what you want to hear.
A best friend
knows all your secrets,
understands your fears
shares your dreams.
A best friend
never stops believing in you
even if you give up
on yourself.
you are
that kind of friend
to me.
And no matter what happens,
you always will be.
You are my best friend....
my forever friend.


~ My Friend~

My Friend when I think of you.
I think of all that we've been through.
All the times we argue and fight,
I know deep inside that it isn't right.
I, then feel bad and alot of pain.
It feels like I've fallen from the sky like the rain.
I love you dear friend with all of my heart.
But now that you're gone I've fallen apart.
I'm getting better as the days go by.
I wish sometimes this was all a big lie.
I pray to you every night.
It's like you're my fire, a burning light.
My dear friend, I miss you alot.
I still wonder why you were put in that spot.
I know you're in a place much better than here.
Watching and helping me with all of my fear.
Our friendship my dear friend,
we will have to the end.
Friends til the end is what we will be.
Someday we'll be together,
together you and me.

~Izit got meaning this two poems ? Hope u all think it how was friends really important in our life . We sure must appreciate our friends so much . ~

[[ Three Secrets to Academic Success ]]

(Success )
(Success Logo )
(Graduate student )








1) Plan: Ask yourself—Was Richard, the winner of the tv “Survivor” program, really the person who would have been most likely to actually survive on a desert island? Probably not, but he won because, unlike many of the other participants, he had a strategy, a plan. The first secret is to figure out and implement your own scheme, your own method to succeeding in this class and in college generally. Be something of a gamesman: successful people determine in advance how they are going to approach a task, whether it is cleaning out the garage or impressing a boy or girl or something more academic. Don’t just drift, hoping that things somehow work out by luck or magic or wishful thinking. Figure out your best way of learning and earning (the grade you desire) and then do it.



2) Pretend: One of the most important secrets to success is to learn to “pretend.” You don’t wait till you really truly 100% sincerely feel like getting up in the middle of the night to comfort a crying baby, you just do it. Many things in life are like this, from marriage to praying. If you wait to be “sincere” you may never get anywhere. “Pretend” to be a better student than you think you really are: always come to class on time, “act” like or imitate students who get A’s and somewhere along the line you will discover that you have reinvented yourself. A priest friend tells me that this is even true of prayer: if you pray every day, even if it feels fake, you will discover down the road that you are different. Don’t wait for sincerity to strike you like lightning—to pray “sincerely” or wait to start a diet or an exercise program until the stars are all perfectly aligned-- or you may never get where you want to go, which is the classical definition of freedom.



3) Pleasure: On the other hand, right attitude can be crucial. To do some th
things, perhaps all the really important things, well, you must enjoy the experience. Helping people in trouble, kissing a pretty girl, playing with a toddler, for example: if you just do these things as a means to an end, you are likely to come up short. Many students seem to come to the university with strictly extrinsic motivations—that is, they want to get “certified” with the credentials (such as a diploma) required to get a good job and thereby live well materially. These are not bad goals. The problem is that learning, like marriage, is so fundamentally experiential that it must be approached with intrinsic as well as extrinsic motivation. If you marry a girl whose company you do not enjoy just for the extrinsic goal of having grandchildren in your old age the chances are it will not work. The final secret I want to share with you is that to succeed academically you must enjoy the experience of the library and books and computers and lectures and seminars, that is, of learning. This should not be difficult because, as Aristotle said, there are only two intense human pleasures: doing and thinking. If you do not learn to enjoy thinking you have blown off half the human experience.

~The problem is that some students, perhaps because of too much extrinsic motivation in public school, come to us associating learning with “work”. This is unfortunate, because if you approach the university experience as a chore or a duty, something to get through, somewhere along the line—regardless of how strongly extrinsically motivated you may be—you can easily find yourself sleeping in, missing class, forgetting to do assignments, and the next thing you know, you are asking, “Do you want fries with that?” If this is you, if you have not yet learned that learning and thinking are fantastically pleasurable, go back to the previous secret: for the time being, pretend. The first time you tasted salsa or iced tea maybe you had to pretend to like it so you did not hurt your mother’s feelings but then, one day, you notice, Hey, this stuff is good! In particular, if reading—the single most important academic skill—is not yet fun for you, take a first step of doing some reading for pleasure every week. Read a Harry Potter novel, for instance. Allow yourself to experience the pleasure of it. At first you have to pretend a bit, to act as though it is more fun than it actually seems to be. If you keep at it, though, in a few months you will find that you are different. You are beginning to enjoy reading. Once you begin to take personal pleasure in reading, you will read more and read more insightfully. As that happens, you will (as if by magic) become a much, much better student. If I could share only one secret with all incoming freshmen, this would be it.

[[ Magunatip dance ]]

( Magunatip dance )
( our school dance group which perfom at KDCA hall )
( My dance partner )



~This dance belongs to the Murut’s tribe of Kuhijaw (Kwijau). The "Magunatip" word is derived from the "apit" word, which means "trapped". In this dance one must master and show their agility and dexterity in jumping and putting their feet between the clapping bamboos without being trapped. This dance does not usually require any instrumental music because the rhythmic clapping and stamping of the bamboos produce a loud, harmonised, beat and interesting sound or rhythm. This dance is usually performed to highlight any festive occasion .


~Performed by the young men and women of the Kwijau community in Keningau, Sabah.

~The dance involves jumping steps and the dance is a display of the skill of the dancers that maneuver their feet in and out so as not to get their feet trapped by the bamboo. The 2 bamboo poles are usually approximately 6 feet long and are held by 2 dancers that beat them together and over a shorter length of wood or bamboo creating an interesting rhythm.

~Sometimes there are even 4 poles that are held by 4 dancers. The tempo can be increased to further display the skill of the dancers.

~Among the musical instruments used are the gong and bamboo. Both are percussion instruments that provide the rhythm for the performance.


~Ask me more if want know more about this dance . hha , i like to dance Magunatip So much . HHa . Not so pro yet laa . hha . k . That's all . chawww !

[[ Practise Squash ]]

(Me , Mike lee)
Hmm . Suppose to blog this post on (10/4/10-Sartuday) , but i damn tired and lazy . Ghost . hha , Okie . On (10/4/10- sartuday), around 1pm , i went out to Stadium Likas
For my Squash practise , it was my sister who drive me there . I arrived there at
1.50pm . As i walked in to the court , i was so shock when i saw there's a boy sleeping there . Well , i dont care much about that though .

During that time , my coach that is named Bryan and the other trainee havent arrived yet , while waitimg for them , i changed my regular shoe into sport shoe and i start to do some warming up .

Soon after that , all of them have arrived . I greet my coach by saying "HAI" to him , he replied my greeting by calling my name "MIKE" and he passed me the squash ball . Then i went to court 3 for my practise .

I start doing my practise with some swing . I feel kinda sad to know that my swing are so bad that caused the ball to fall into my difficult position that for me to hit . These happen becaused my arms dont have enough energy to make a strong swing .

Few minute after that , my coach come to and advise me to control the ball in moderate speed , he also taught me how to service the ball . I also try and do it .
There's was a trainee could played very well , compared to my playing . I'm still no good enough . I feel Jeolous ! Oh man !! Ghost !! hha , i know he is form 5 student , but i dont know which school he is attending .

Then , around 3 something i took a short break . I sat down and take my water to drink it and resting my self . As i rest , i heard my coach give out order to the other trainee to do jumping movement 500 times . Ghost! Those trainee imediately complain they are too tired . Well , it is expected becaused they are only primary student .

MY coach then told them that playing squash is not an easy task , he also said that the girls have more improvement then the boys , then he shouted at the girls to jump more faster . Inside of me , i feel like laughing already , but i sympatize them also . Around 4pm , our squash practise have ended . My dad come to fecth me home .

Today (11/4/10 - sunday) i didnt go to practise . I alreday sms my coach to inform him my absent today . I dont feel like going to practise today and to add more my whole body is in pain . Then around 12 something pm , my cousin come to my house and catch a movie with me . So we went to watch movie together . It was funny to watch movie with her , caused while she was watching , she keep saying that her tears is about to faling down . I laughed at her sensitivity . hahahaha! Thats all . Thanks to read my this not really interesting story ya . Hha ! ChaWWW !