Superfan Jeg welcomes Rosicky

Czech playmaker Tomas Rosicky has signed a long term contract with Arsenal in a deal reported to be around 7 Million pounds. Jeg was delighted about the latest transfer made by Arsenal and admitted it was an unexpected one.

"Tomas Rosicky is a player who is too expensive for Arsenal. But somehow there is a minimum fee release clause in his contract and Arsenal were swift enough to secure his services," Jeg spoke to the press.

Rosicky is touted as one of the best playmaker in the world who scored the decisive winner againts Norway in the World Cup Play-off second leg.

Czech Republic is currently second in the FIFA World Ranking

Arsenal: Almost Champions

Today Musreen reminded me about Arsenal's loss to Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League Final 2005/06. An voila, I am writing the entry now. I know it's a bit late but let us re-cap a bit about the 90 minutes-action-packed football drama. Before that let us look at the match rating:

Jens Lehman 7 (off 18')
Emmanuel Eboue 8
Ashley Cole 7
Sulzeer Campbell 8
Kolo Toure 7
Cesc Fabregas 8
[Mathieu Flamini]
Gilberto Silva 6
Robert Pires 6
[Manuel Almunia 6]
Freddie Ljungberg 7
Thierry Henry 7
Alexandre Hleb 8
[Jose Reyes 6]

Everyone knows I am an avid fan of Arsenal. Since 1996. Since Overmars joined Arsenal. I remember I was the only person in my batch who supported Arsenal. In KMYS, only a few of us turned up for Arsenal's FA Cup win to clinch the Double. I remember Francois and Shidi. Maybe Kudin. So, it is an understatement if someone said I was sad over the defeat in the CL Final.

Henry missed a sitter in the third minute and he should be kicking himself out there for missing a glorious chance.

Although Lehmann made a mistake by clipping Eto's fast legs, but I consider it a harsh decision by the referee. Barcelona should be given the goal prodded in by Frenchman Giuly. And yellow card should be given to the culprit Lehmann. I thought it was gonna be a penalty. I was worried sick. But to lose the giant German at a very early time is like an anti-climax. It's like when you are watching porn and suddenly ur mom banged the door to ask you to send her for dinner. Something like that.

Eboue should be warded as the best supporting actor when he was adjudged to be obstructed by Gio. And free kick was given. This is the only high point for Thierry when he curled in the free kick and found Sol who was terribly unmarked by Oleguer headed the ball home. It is a goal finally this time for Sol who had two goals disallowed in crucial matches as this. Both for England.

The best actor? Still that guy Messi. Theaterically, agonisingly lying on the ground as if he was been shot.

Arsenal were galant and brave in protecting the lead and even the unfancied Almunia had a fingertip on to Eto'o's furious strike. Thierry missed another chance and that was simply why he didnt get an 8 or 9 for his match rating.

With 14 minutes to go, it all happened so quickly. It was so quick indeed. With the space of only 5 minutes, Arsenal conceded two goals for the first time since 10 CL games. Henrik Larsson was introduced and he made a very2 huge impact. The Swede who is on the verge of returning to his home country fed Eto'o after protecting the ball from the hapless Toure. It was a controversial goal. Eto'o strayed offside. But you cant blame the linesman. From his angle, you can never say Larsson passed the ball to Eto'o. Larsson was shielding the ball and quickly passed the ball u see. So I guess the linesman thought the ball didnt hit Larsson. But was a through ball. This is football. Maybe with the help of instant replays might help in the future. But then, football would never be as entertaining.

Suddenly Belletti got the winner for Barcelona. It was a poor judgment by Ashley to let the cross passed through. And Manuel Almunia was not at his best. (Like he had his best before). He failed as a keeper. It is a basic technique for goalkeepers to have the NEAR post covered. And both goals tore Manuel into shredded plastic cards. At the NEAR post.

What a lame Spaniard keeper. He must be angry with Arsenal for not giving him more minutes of play and betrayed Arsenal and gave the title to the Spanish side.

Reyes and Flamini were introduced where both of them replaced players who had a great game. Reyes and Flamini were useless on the pitch that day.

I dunno who to blame. Wenger? For replacing the effective Cesc? Thierry? For missing chances to kill off the game. Or Almunia?

Or maybe I should blame the Arsenal Board, like my friends said, "Tak Berkat. Arsenal diperintah Yahoud". I am not anti-Semitic. I am not a racist. People should realise that the Arsenal Board promote peace between the embattled Israel and Palestine nations. They fully sponsored an academy in Tel Aviv and also had Palestine-Arabs children in their academy. And yes, they are playing the most beautiful game on the planet, side by side with the Israel-Jew children.

Of course I am mad at the innocent killings made by the Israeli government. Their excuse was the attacks were targetted at the terror-group leaders. Ya, it is bullshit. But the Muslim terrorists are equally bullshit. Killing the innocent Israelis too. Car-bomb, suicide-bomb, van-bomb, bus-bomb, killing old helpless ppl, mothers, children, Jews in their temple, fellow Muslims Shi'ah, Sunni you name it. Call yourself a Muslim Jihad Group? Guess what? You guys are going to hell for your terrible deed.

I am not God. But I know they are not doing any good also.

It's sad. It is very2 sad. More saddistic than the Arsenal's loss.

Pics from the BBQ Tuesday

The Bhoys on Tuesday. Piah, Nain, Big Show, Nizam (face covered), Arwin and Azrul. Picture taken by Azrul. You might wonder why he is called Big Show.

This is why. An average Asian man would be 170cm (me). But this guy is just good enough for the national's football team.


BBQ and badminton? The chics trying to 'hadam' the Kenny Rogers-like roasted chicken with a game or two. Good idea.

Si panggang and Si Pencuri Ayam. Aku si pencuri.

Pretending to be not scared of the ghost stories. Looking up at the sky so high. When suddenly, Si Penanggal datang menjelma....
Can't find the pics with galah panjang game. Should be a memorable one. Anyone got that pic?

Bbq Tuesday

For a second straight day I've been sleeping all day and night. It was a torrid and mind bulging time improving my project paper. It was not worth of my time. Since it is official my grade is B-. That Tuesday I headed to Shah Alam and saw my touch and go balance reduced to RM2.40. No more passing the Shah Alam toll this time i guess. Ah well, there'll be one more time. To take my scroll in a few months unless I chose to use the non-toll route Glenmarie.

What the hell am I bragging pon aku tatau. I am here to talk about the bbq. So I drove my car into the faculty and forgot to top-up to call Piah to stay over his house for a short while before going to Baiduri for the Bbq. Ah, there was no need. Right about to park my car I saw Arwin, Nain and Piah. But what the hell's Arwin doing here? I cud understand Piah and Nain wanting to send 2 copies of their project like I wanted to do.

"Ko buat apa sini?"

"Hah? Ada actuarial day"

Ye la tuh. How many actuarial day in a semester they want to organise? So I knew he was joking. I asked them to wait for me. And they did so went up the stairs to hand it the report. Met Hanafi on the way. Still hopeful he would give me a good grade. So here we go again Hanafi bragging about this and that yada yada yada and went for my breakfast at 4.30p.m. SS2. Ikan keli dah abis! So during our meal we were still talking about Hanafi and project and how miraculously Asrep got a zero for his group project. Maybe mistakenly keyed-in by Dato' kot. 20 actually kot probably he missed on the key '2'.

Originally, Apeq asked us to help him out on the potong bawang Tunas Puteri session. Haha. Well, not this time. Feeling a bit down with the project I opted to do easier things. Went shopping with Arwin (the driver), Nain (Chief Khadam) and Piah (Kuli Pertiwi) to get some charcoal and stuff from Nana (the Sleeping Beauty)'s house. I was wearing this Burberry shirt, the same shirt I wore in a weekend outing. So I knew I had to change. And I was on my pagoda shirt all day.

So we headed back to Baiduri. The potong bawang and marinating session was done by Apeq and Asrep. "Maleh!" Asrep barked at us when we chose to betray him. Not to forget how he pulled Piah into a heated telling off about his gay-like body shirt in which I agreed.

And I got myself back in my Burberry shirt. Apeq complimented later that I looked taller in the shirt. Come on man. My height is average ok. Haha. So we all had fun starting up the fire using paip getah motor. I had many Kambing-Q or Ayam-Q parties (Babi-Q kan haram bak kata Pakcik Surau that night) before but that was the first time I saw how to start a fire in the most busuk bau getah way. But it was damn efficient. Who needs a fire starter? "This is a brillliant idea," I thought. And it was the first time I saw people using water by sprinkling it onto the red hot charcoal to control the fire. Lots of things I learned that night. Arwin came up with the joke that former Tunas Puteri members are good at Babi-Qs so he urged ppl not to over-rely on him because he was from the Kadet Bomba. Bomba padam api, get it?

You can't get it here coz it's all written. But I got one trivia made up by Raja that night quite handsomely, but to the annoy of some ppl in the group. Gimme a break. I know I am good at spelling bees. hahah! He said, "This is a new way to spell McDonald. M-A-C-D-O-N-A-L-D. So, kalo McChicken M-A-C-C-H-I-C-K-E-N bunyi dia...?" The rest replied, "McChicken!". Good. Forwarding the trivia to Didi Raja asked again. "Kalau M-A-C-H-I-N-E??". Spontaneously I answered, "Err.. Machine?". Then suddenly I got some accusations that I heard of the trivia before. What did u expect for me to say? "Mac-Hine?" Haha. But it was a good attempt anyway. Raja by the way is good at magic tricks. Teringat aku kat SHuen. Shuen is also good at magic tricks. And ironically, both are computer geeks. (Bill Gates is a self-proclaimed geek so I expect both to go far in the industry, be it in the music industry since Shuen is now so into I'm Sprung hahaha).

We had some ghost stories. Somebody wanted to throw me a phone when I was about to start my ghost story coz she thought I was gonna bertapa? What was wrong with her I dunno. Main galah panjang dekat badminton court Baiduri tu. Huda scored all the points to take our team to glory yeahh!! Gelak2. Jerit2. Main badminton. So it was fun. Masak ayam tu mmg perkara biasa ah. Well, atleast I didnt here any complaints about the food. "Nak sedap2 beli Kenny Rogers".
Suddenly when Pak Guard and 4 frens came to us and asked us to pack and go. "Sapa leader sini?" Haha tetiba je tanya pasal leader. Its not like we are having an illegal demonsration. "REFORMASI!!!" Hahaha!

So we kemas2 and headed to Hakim Tujuh plak. Borak2 panjang sampai kol 5.10 pagi. Gossip. Citer2 lecturer. A bit confidential stories pon ada regarding a friend. Haha. It was hillarious.
At about 5.30 I reached home and sempat Isya' and terus Subuh. Scary jugak dok teringat citer2 hantu tol, Karak Highway etc. Gila ryte. And slept until 2.00 pm.

I know it's a long blog. So, later-later lah.

Chow

It's all over

Ah well, everything that concerns UiTM in my life is over now. But I didn't end it in the most handsome manner. It was my project presentation on that Saturday. I came rather early considering it was one gloomy start of a weekend where usually I oversleep purposely. I waited for so long for this day to come. That day I thought it was gonna be smooth and everything would be over and I can finally enjoy football with much enthusiasm.

Sadly it didnt go that well. I was positioned as the last candidate to present. Should have come later. I was so nervous as if I knew I would screw up. "I think that's all I had to say about my project. Thank You. ANy questions?"

Suddenly, Mr Hanafi started to open his mouth and said, "Nak bagi hard ke soft comment nih.."
And without giving me the chance to defend myself, he accused me of doing this and that. Things that I didnt do, things that we all in the class wudn't expect him to say about my project.

"I know this program ni Mr Sam yang buat.. I can ask him you know.. if this is his work," he said, assuming things in his imagination.

"This is not a project. You are only proving that Mr Sam's program works well"

"Hahaha..!" Zuraizam laughed while the rest sat down quietly in shock, unexpectedly. Some friend huh?

I took a sharp stare at him but he was not aware of it.

There you go. I was bombarded with accusations. Something that never happen in my life before. Knowing that I would blow up if I tried to defend myself, I took a breather and nodded everytime the accusations were read. I know I will defend myself later. And I did. Mano-e-mano.

B- was the grade for my project. I saw it with my own eyes. B-. Underservedly. First and foremost, it wasn't Mr Sam's program. Mr Sam would never give you his program in a complete algorithm. He will only give an idea of how we can design a program. Everybody knows that. And Mr Sam teaches General Insurance. My project was about Life Insurance. Can you see the difference? Sure u can. But not Hanafi. Maybe he feels he's a god. He knows it all.

It was a sad ending. I know I did well in our group project. As the MC. As the joker. As the person who thought why not give the best for the group project? Pleased the lads. The lecturers. "Let the grade in which I am giving to u reflects your attitude." Ah well, I dunno whether to thank him or to hate him. Only time will tell.

In my opinion he's being bias. He said he is not pin-pointing me. But I know from what I see he's actually discriminating. Well he said it himself. He sees me and Piah as intelligent students. So, he expected more from us. The rest he doesn't really care. Especially the females. He said females are less intelligent but hardworking. So they deserve better grades and less bombardment. Clearly this is a discrimination. And it's unfair.

At least I'm still taking positives out of the day I was humiliated, embarrased. Maybe I was bad at the presentation. Maybe my results for the project were not clearly stated. But it's nice to hear some collegues were backing me up.

Maybe lady-luck forgot to smile on that day. I was always lucky all this while, during my time in UiTM. Sometimes I dont think I deserve a good grade. But just when I thought I was gonna wham it.. this thing happened.

Hmm on the bright side, I'm done. And I am itching for a new challenge. Since Tuesday I slept all day. Yup sleep is good. It's like living in a fantasy.

I'll blog on Arsenal's Almost Champions, BBQ Party and Futsal Finale in my next entry.

Chow