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| Posted: 10 Oct 2012 06:59 AM PDT WRONG VENUE IT was wrongly reported on page 3 of StarMetro on Oct 9 that Kuala Lumpur City Hall plans to hold the Deepavali bazaar at its Sports Complex in Brickfields. The DBKL Sports Complex in Brickfields was actually the venue for the registration of traders wanting to take part in the Deepavali bazaar this year. The error is regretted. FLAVOURS WEEK Want to embrace Death by Chocolate or Duck from Head to Tail? Keen to learn how to make Italian breads or pasta from scratch? Celebrate the Week of Taste with Flavours, The Star's premier food magazine by signing up for a three-hour cooking class beginning this Saturday till Oct 21 at the French Culinary School in Asia, KL or Jaya Grocer, Empire Gallery Shopping Centre in Subang Jaya. The special RM200 gourmet package includes a cooking class, a subscription to Flavours and either a RM150 hamper or RM100 product voucher. For details visit theweekoftaste.com.my/workshops or call 03-2026 9188 fast to book your place. MENTAL HEALTH SEMINAR The Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (MCCBCHST) Selangor branch in collaboration with the Malaysian Mental Health Association is organising a seminar on the religious perspectives of mental health issues on Oct 13 from 9am to 1pm at the MMHA office at Jalan Othman, Petaling Jaya. For details, call or SMS 012-3007377 (Alvin) or visit www.mccbchst.org and www.mentalhealth.org.my. BLOOD DONATION DRIVE Kinrara Metta Buddhist Society will be organising a blood donation drive at B2, Jln Bangau 11, Bandar Puchong Jaya on Oct 21 from 10am to 4pm. Free health services and DIY workshops for headache and back pain will also be held including a public talk on "How to Face Death" by Dr. Goh Pik Pin, VP of Kasih Hospice Care Society, on Oct 14 from 10.30am to 12pm. For details, call 012-3732699 (Jon) or visit www.kinrarametta.org. CHAKRA MEDITATION 7 Chakram conducts weekly free Chakra meditation sessions and the learning and sharing of practical techniques as a tool of Art of Living Right to enrich and simplify your life towards happiness on Fridays from 7.30pm to 9.30pm and Sundays from 9am to 11am at 7 Chakram Resource Centre, 40A Jln Awan Hijau, Taman OUG, Off Jln Klang Lama, Kuala Lumpur. Call 03-7987 9188 or 012-6017771 or email 7chakram@gmail.com or visit www.7chakram.com SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY SMK Taman Yarl Alumni Association Kuala Lumpur is having their 20th Anniversary Celebration on Oct 20 from 3pm to 7pm at SMK Taman Yarl Open Hall to raise funds for improving the school facilities. For details, call 016-2367722 (Wai Lun). |
| Kuala Lumpur shuttlers fail to bag a hat-trick Posted: 10 Oct 2012 06:59 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR lost their grip in the boys' Under-12 section at the national junior inter-state badminton mixed team championship in Kedah recently. They failed in their bid to register a hat-trick after their previous back-to-back victories in 2010 and 2011. In the team event decided over 11 matches from three age-groups — Under-12, Under-15 and Under-18 — the eventual winners Penang ended Kuala Lumpur's campaign with 6-4 win in the quarter-finals. Kuala Lumpur coach Abdul Halim Abu Bakar admitted they suffered the setback mid-way through the tie when their top ranked boys' Under-12 candidate Chia Weijie could not deliver a crucial point in the singles. Weijie went down tamely 16-21, 12-21 to Penang's Lee Wei Hong in 20 minutes. "It was unfortunate that he (Weijie) had a really bad day on a wrong occasion. He definitely performed below his true ability and could not get his game going. His opponent (Wei Hong) was all fired up to score an upset," said Halim. For the past two years, Kuala Lumpur had a good run with emerging talents surfacing in the boys' Under-12 section. This season, the duo of Weijie and Lim Chong King registered impressive results in the boys' Under-12. Besides winning in the singles, Weijie bagged a double when he forged the victorious partnership with Chong King in the doubles at both legs of national junior zone meets and they also went on to live up to their top billing at the Malaysian Schools Sports Council (MSSM) championships and the national junior circuit grand prix finals this year. Weijie was also the boys' singles runner-up at MSSM and national junior grand prix finals. In addition, Chong King captured the boys' singles title at the MSSM. After staying undefeated in the group stages with two convincing wins over Terengganu (11-0) and Sabah (10-1) in the recent team event outing, Kuala Lumpur were setting their sights to book their place in the final. In the tie against Penang, the Under-18 mixed doubles pair of Darren Issac Deva Dass-Chow Mei Kuan and girls' Under-18 doubles combination of Erica Khoo Pei Shan-Goh Yea Ching provided the other two points for Kuala Lumpur. Penang scored an easier 6-3 triumph over Johor for the victory while Selangor defeated Perak with the similar 6-3 margin in the play-off for third. Although Kuala Lumpur will be missing the services of Mei Kuan and Erica, Halim said they can still count on several national junior trainees based up Bukit Jalil to beef up their line-up for the team event tournament next year. "We will have to identify and develop a new batch of emerging shuttlers to continue our domination in the Under-12 age-group. "We will be revisiting the drawing board and be more results orientated in our approaches. Currently, we have almost 90 trainees going through the paces in the state programme. We are considering to reduce the number of players in the training squad for the coaches to devote more personal attention on them in training. "Our immediate aim is to retain players showing encouraging progress. We are going to focus on a quality group of youngsters with great potential. "They need to set their goals to go beyond earning their places in the state training squad and gaining entry to compete at the national junior tournaments," he added. The trio Tam Tong Pei, Hoo Pang Ron, Aaron Ng Long Wai are expected to make an impact in the boys' Under-16 section while girls' Under-16 trainees Loh Bao Ying, Johana Adryana Saha and Yap Karman are also on the right track in stepping up to the challenges next year. |
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