News Bits: 3/22/10 Edition

Maggie Cheung is having a second career…as a music producer. She composed, sang, and edited four songs with a small music team for her ex-husband’s film. In terms of her singing, it’s getting better, according to her friends. (I would not put too much hope in her having a hit album then…)

S.H.E.‘s Ella seems to be quite a klutz… a funny and cute one at that. First, she hurt her hand on one of the costumes that she wore for their new music video (their outfits were dangerous looking though), and now she fell when wearing stiletto heels. While her fellow group mates Hebe and Selina have an easier time with wearing heels, Ella would rather not wear them unless she has to for a performance or work purposes. (Poor gal – but tomboy to the core! Tomboys unite!)

Vancouver Watch 2010: Ohno’s Last Race(s)

This will probably be my last Vancouver Olympics post =D And then, it’s back to the dramas!

I watched the 500m race that was Apolo Ohno’s last individual race. No matter what he says, he definitely caused the Canadian Tremblay to fall. In a race at high speeds and the slightest of bumps can cause a crash, any prolonged hand contact on another can definitely be seen as a push.

Vancouver Watch 2010: Women’s 3000m Relay

Here’s hoping that the Olympics website does not crash as the 9,000 angry emails get sent from South Korea.

Assuming you’ve watched, or even if you haven’t you will hear about it soon, the 3000m short-track speed skating for women’s was tonight. As expected, the South Korean team led, aggressively making their way from third to first. The Chinese women’s team were favored to win (although I don’t know why), but they lagged behind in second despite their early lead.

The reason? Near the final laps during the switch off from one skater to the next, the South Korean speed skater nudged the Chinese speed skater with her skate, pushing the Chinese woman out sideways just a bit, but enough for South Korea to get further ahead.

Vancouver Watch 2010: Ohno/Celski vs. South Korea

I am going to preface this post by saying I am expressing my opinion only, however biased I may sound.

Last night was the 1000m short track final, with the two Koreans Lee Jung Su and Lee Ho Suk winning gold and silver respectively, and Apolo Ohno winning the bronze. I’m sure the Koreans are very happy because all of their countrymen who made it through to the end won the top two positions, and so Ohno is faultless for winning bronze. The week before during the 1500m race, when Lee Ho Suk and Sung Si Bak wiped out, there was a negative backlash against Ohno for it.