An unforgettable moment now as my blog achieved another great milestone; welcoming this 1000th post!

Wow….wow!…Just wow! It’s kind of hard to express my feeling at this moment, when I realized I have written a whopping amount of 1000 posts at my one and only blog here, and all that 1000 posts are from also one and only single author (that’s me). That must be a very great achievement to my blog, and of course I have no other way but to congratulate myself over here for my continuous effort and contribution to reach such a mark and would continue to strive for much more goals in the near future.

I am happy enough and proud over what I have did since from approximately four years ago (back in 2008) when I started this blog to express things that I find interesting or that has influenced me in some particular fields such as architecture, wonders, sports, etc. The blog is growing, with more posts coming in and the posts are now delivered in much more formality and standard compared to the early ones I have written few years ago. My blog went through each year, from 2008 till the present year, 2012 with much more successful feedbacks, statistics and achievements. My blog passed the 100-posts mark, 200-posts mark, 300-posts mark, and so on, until this post, on which the 1000-posts mark is covered.

Yes! This is exactly my 1000th post of this blog. It’s definitely not easy to reach this point, and now I’m really glad that I finally made it on this day, 15th of August 2012, in the middle of the month, just few days after the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games concluded. This month is also the 36th month in my blog’s operation and that marked the fourth anniversary of my blog which is going to come very soon end of next month. I believe there are not many bloggers out there that could reach this milestone, and even if they did, I think many would find it very challenging to reach that breakthrough in less than four years. I’m in that situation now but I managed to achieve that, and so I think you would not get to know my feeling or thought right now. It’s just unbelievable and cool! Haha…It’s like fireworks exploding out from my heart!

There is still room for improvement, and I would continue to expand my blog to higher and better level with more interesting, informative or appealing posts in the future. Your continuous support is essential to the success of my blog. Without the increasing number of hits/ views to my blog, I wouldn’t have that effort to reach until this far, until to the 1000th post breakthrough I have accomplished right now. Ahhh…I finally made it! I finally made it! This 1000th post finally came! I’m truly grateful to welcome this post after waiting for so long. It’s 1000! Not 1o or 100 for a small blog like mine here. Now, I don’t think it’s a ‘small’ blog already.

Malaysia achieved nine gold medals target

Before the 16th Asian Games, Guangzhou 2010 began two weeks ago, Malaysia had set a target to accomplish, which is by winning at least 9 gold medals from the games. Previously, in the 15th edition in Doha 2006, Malaysia won 8 gold medals and is placed in top 12 ranking.

Hence, for this current edition, Malaysia wished to gain one more gold, and yes, on the third last day of the games which is going to end this Saturday with another splendid ceremony (closing), Malaysia bagged its nine gold medal from women squash team final. Eventhough Malaysia did not win any gold from badminton which is very much anticipated, but the nation won gold from karate, squash, bowling, etc.

Currently, Malaysia is placed in top 10 ranking, a step further from the previous edition, with China leading all the way, with almost 200 golds grabbed. However, can Malaysia go further by winning gold medals in number of two digits, which means 10 or more? There are still two days to go before the games officially ends. If Malaysia achieved 10 gold medals, then it would be much exciting.

Intense pressure is much on the athletes after failure to secure gold in badminton, which seems like making the target out of reach. Luckily, athletes on other sports saved the day by winning at the top position. Anyway, by now, Malaysia had quite a number of silver medals but with less gold medals. Luck is not much on our side this time. More sports are being contested this time, so Malaysia should bagged more medals, but China had sent a large strong team with support of own nation, many have been grabbed by them already.

Anyway, the games will end by this Saturday, and the closing ceremony will begins at 8pm at the same venue, on the Haixinsha Island. It is going to be another marvelous ceremony as expected after what we have seen from its surprising opening ceremony exactly two weeks ago.

The top ten ranked NOCs at the games are listed below with their current medal standings:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	181	104	91	376
2	South Korea (KOR)	72	61	85	218
3	Japan (JPN)	39	68	86	193
4	Iran (IRI)	19	11	23	53
5	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	15	18	32	65
6	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	12	12	33	57
7	Uzbekistan (UZB)	10	17	20	47
8	India (IND)	10	14	29	53
9	Malaysia (MAS)	9	17	13	39
10	Thailand (THA)	9	7	31	47