Archive for November 2nd, 2008
Postponements
Time to catch up on local chess. There are several local tournaments that have been postponed.
2nd KEC chess open which originally scheduled for 9th Nov 2008 has been postponed to unconfirmed date.
OUG (CKK ) CHESS COMBO POSTPONE TO 30 NOV 2008
Please take note!
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A memorable World Youth Chess Championship 2008
My howler stories aside, the World Youth 2008 was definitely a memorable experience. Players and arbiters were treated like VIPs. The event was so big it was highlighted on Vietnam’s national TV (live!) and even appeared in front page headlines in local newspapers. Tell me if you know any other country that gave such media [...]
Howler in Vietnam
It’s departure time and I’m not brain dead enough to miss my flight back to Malaysia.
However there was one last mistake to make and it was a big one. Yasser Seirawan calls bad blunders a howler and this qualifies as one. What I did was plain silly, stupid and absent minded.
There were two x-ray machines [...]
Good morning Vietnam
I slept on the seats of the airport. No shame here as the other benches were also occupied by other sleeping passengers. Russia arrived at the airport in the wee hours of the morning at 3am. The kids slept on the chairs. They left at 6am.
I got about 2 hours of sleep and I [...]
Malaysian biscuits in Vietnam
Bought some cookies and menthos to much on while waiting …
Bought them at Parkson’s home supermarket store. It’s 6,500 VND each for the biscuits and and 8,500 VND for the Methos. I bought it using the money I withdrew from my ATM card. I remembered that my PayPal Debit card also acts as an [...]
Dinner outside
One good thing about the Ho Chin Minh airport is that it’s situated right in the middle of the city. A short walk outside and I’m in Parkson shopping centre which houses a food court and some fast food. The shopping is just a stone throw away from the airport but my problem is I [...]
Playing chess at the airport
Sitting down alone now I am looking thru some pictures I took just before the Malaysian team left for KL.
I bet you don’t see this often at any airport.
Blitz chess while waiting. A foreign participant (8 years old) our junior player, Nur Nabila.
Time flies when you are playing blitz. Looks like fun but [...]
Blogging from Ho Chin Minh airport
Since I have more than 20 hours to kill, I might as well blog from the airport. There is no Internet here so this blog posts will be at least a day late. One of the resons I like Windows Live Writer as you can write blog posts and save to be posted later.
I [...]
Zombified and doing stupid things
Today was the most embarrassing incident I had in Vietnam and it happened on the last day of my visit. I thought my flight was tonight at 9:40pm and I followed the rest of the Malaysian junior team to the airport who were catching the 7:00pm plane. It turned out my flight was for [...]
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