In my past 4 yrs in Malaysia, one thing I loved is the obsession of Malaysians for Sports & Music. Go to any café (even Mamak’s shops) and you will find LCD’s placed at each corner displaying Football Match or some Rock Concert !!! Having ban on consumption of Liquor, Malaysians have discovered spectacularly impressive way of having Mass Hang Over !!!
While drums, bong-pongs, flags & caps start creating its mesmerizing impact on you, the ageless beautiful angels ensure that for no reason you won’t believe that you are a part of some fairytale magic !!!! Once addicted to this hangover, nothing seems enticing any further.
Yesterday I had one more booze of the same.. It’s a season for Malaysian Open Superseries for Badminton. Semifinals scheduled on yesterday. Fortunately all semis were in between top 10 shuttlers in all categories. Being a shuttler myself, I did not waste the opportunity to see games of top guys. It was a mind blowing show. As perfectly predicted by Newton’s 3rd Law, for every action in the court was an equal reaction in stands !!!
However, Newton’s 3rd law was no longer applicable when Hot Favourite Malaysian Pair was outclassed by Chienese Pair, !!! Reaction turned from scalar to vector with its direction pointed towards Chinese players and its magnitude was multiple times the action !!!! Whoever defeated Chinese thereafter got a Hero’s Welcome ….
When one of the singles between World no 2 -World no 3 found to be all Chinese, crowd became nervous. Not understanding whom to support, first few minutes were like a sea of confusion where everyone looking across before banging drums or bong-pongs !! Soon the shock wave died and stands started enjoying the game. As they said, beauty wins over brain, slowly the support shifted towards more beautiful shuttler between those two, who unfortunately could not win the match despite the cheer...
The last match of the day was of Local Hero who is World No 1 with Chinese shuttler (World No 3). As expected the whole stadium moved in another world and nothing could be heard except “Boleh !!! Malaysia Boleh !!!” , “Go Red Go !!!!!” and drum beats …. Crowd gone crazy seeing their Hero had edge over his counterpart in the game. Then the golden moment came which everyone was awaiting since the beginning of the day. All the walls of stadium stared shaking when the Hero smashed the winning point. Cheer & Uproar in the stadium was reflecting as if these down to earth people eat, breathe and sleep the sport.
Unknowingly tears rolled down on my cheeks !!!!
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