Today is a very exciting and tiring day for me. KULM and LUMSS organised a sports event in the university sports centre from 9am until 1pm. There were a badminton tournament (men and ladies double) and a futsal match between undergrad and postgrad. Winner of the futsal match will receive a 'Piala Pusingan Presiden KULM'. I partnered with Huzaimi for the men double and our wives were also partnered with each other. We had to play against 5 other doubles with two sets for each match. Ladies double is a knockout tournament and since our wives were beaten in their first match, they were no longer involved in the tournament. Not like they care so much, because it was a very tiring match for them (they lost 17-14, 9-15, 13-15 to Linda and Nitty, the eventual runners up).
As for the men double, Huzaimi and I are considered top seeded and we lived up to the reputation by becoming champion (we won all 10 sets that we played). Bazlan/Ijan came second and Ken/Lopes were third. Jun/Nazihah easily beaten Linda and Nitty in the ladies double final. We all received our medals but it was quite funny when we realised that both winners for men and ladies were actually receiving a cricket medals! It seems that the shop has misplaced the 1st place medals.
During this tournament, they have various kind of activities for the children like 'tarik tali', egg and spoon etc. It was a very lively affair with all the music and the laughter. And all the kids were given presents and sweets.
The final event is the most anticipated one, where undergrad will play against postgrad in a futsal match. Since there are only 5 undergrad players, they imported Tun, KULM President as one of theirs. Postgrad team has 7 players, all of them just finished playing badminton previously. The game started in balance where both team trying to get an early goal but undergrad seems to have an upper hand. However, postgrad managed to get an early break when I managed to assist Huzaimi to score the first goal of the match. Undergrad just couldn't recover from that goal as we added two more goals from Asmadi (another assist from me) and myself.
Second half started just like a first half where the undergrad were trying very hard to get their first goal and managed to do so when Tun scored from an acute angle. However, Tun quickly managed to score an own goal afterwards when he deflected the ball into his own net from my corner kick. The postgrad managed to put the final nail on the undergrad coffin with another goal by Asmadi. So the final result is 5-1 to the postgrad team. We presented the cup to Tun for him to keep since he is considered a postgrad leader (being a KULM President).
Afterwards, the undergrand wanted a futsal rematch. Maybe once we finish basking in the glory (which could take several weeks, or even months) then we will think to consider a rematch, hehe.
*Thanks Jun for the pictures 
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