Old Trafford, Wed 29 Nov 2006

This was by no means United's classiest performance this season, but three goals and three points keeps the Reds in front of Chelsea at the top of the Premiership.

The bonus for Sir Alex was that he gave valuable rest to regulars such as Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Louis Saha and Nemanja Vidic and still secured victory. The Reds boss made five changes to the team that drew 1-1 with Chelsea three days previously – Patrice Evra, Darren Fletcher, Mikael Silvestre, Kieran Richardson, John O’Shea all stepping in. The changes to United’s side meant an as yet untried strike partnership of Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney, as usual given a ‘warm’ welcome from the Everton fans who used to idolise him. For the Toffees - without star striker Andy Johnson due to a hamstring injury - David Moyes had to rely on James Beattie and James McFadden to try and find the goals to end a run of five away games without a win. In truth, though, missing United loanee Tim Howard and injured midfielder Tim Cahill as well, they would undoubtedly have settled for the point they have earned in their last two league visits to Old Trafford. Michael Carrick, still searching for his first goal for the Reds, had his powerful shot blocked by Nuno Valente on the edge of the area. Fortunately the ball ricocheted out to Ronaldo, who struck a low shot into the bottom right corner of Richard Wright's goal. It was a goal that would prove vital. It had a settling influence on United and, because Everton’s lack of firepower up front, left the opposition with a mountain to climb. Everton’s fans made clear their passionate dislike of their former starlet, Rooney. At one point, deep in United’s half and receiving a barrage of abuse, Rooney kissed the United badge on his shirt. But he soon made the most telling gesture possible. Receiving a pass from O'Shea just after the hour mark, he turned away from Mikel Arteta whilst also drawing Joseph Yobo out of his right-back position, creating space for Evra to run into. And when the French left-back received the 21-year-old striker's pass, he took an aggressively direct line towards goal and fired a fierce shot through Wright’s legs to make it 2-0. The points were as good as wrapped up. But the Reds weren’t finished there. As the clock approached 90 minutes and the life appeared drained out of Everton’s challenge, United grabbed a late third. A Rooney shot was blocked by Yobo, but the ball bobbled out to Evra on the left. His cross found O’Shea in space inside the box and with impressive nimbleness O’Shea steered the ball past Wright into the top corner with the outside of his right boot. This game didn't come with the fluid brand of football United fans have been used to in recent weeks, but this was an important three points. The victory also sees the Reds' unbeaten run stretch to ten league games, having taken 26 points from a possible 30. With Chelsea not in action this weekend, the Reds could potentially go nine points clear of the Blues with victory over Middlesbrough on Saturday and Manchester City seven days later. Jose Mourinho's men are, after tonight’s win over Bolton, not in action until the Sunday after City visit Old Trafford in ten days’ time.

Source&Pic: Manchester United
Clips: Soccerpulse

Superheroes

You gotta acknowledge the work done by the Americans in portraying all these awesome superheroes that we all 'wish' to become because they are charming, powerful, strong, too good to be true, bla bla bla and so on.

(American) Superheroes:

Batman

Superman

Spiderman

And Malaysia answers by:

Cicakman

What can I say? Malaysia 'Boleh' !

Drama!

Now that Marissa is gone, can Taylor live up to be Ryan's new girl? (Not sure yet). Although she might be the annoying, chatty, blabber girl but I'm sure your all school girl -Taylor will be much better than the ever so troubled Marissa. In terms of look, don't you agree that Taylor has something that Marissa doesn't? Maybe its just me but I'm pretty sure she does look better than Marissa. Oh well.

Autumn Reeser - Taylor

Mischa Barton - Marissa

I was never a Marissa fan - more of a Summer fan :D but theres something about Taylor, don't you agree? Ahhhh...the drama! And not to forget, Prison Break Season 2 Finale is out (this year). If I'm not mistaken the last episode of season 2 will be out in mid of January 07.

Prison Break Season 2 Cast

Thanks to Jae, you can download Prison Break Finale (The Killing Box - Episode 13) here!

Old Trafford, Sun 26 Nov 2006

United fans didn't know whether to laugh or cry after seeing their team maintain a three-point lead over Chelsea but miss a big chance to double it. Manchested United 1 Saha (29) Chelsea 1 Carvalho (69)

The Reds led at half-time through Louis Saha's exquisite strike but were pegged back when Ricardo Carvalho's header from a Frank Lampard corner went in off Saha with 20 minutes remaining. At the final whistle, it seemed a better result for the Blues as they celebrated in front of their travelling fans. Sir Alex Ferguson kept faith with the eleven who dictated but lost the Celtic game in Glasgow - his strongest eleven in many people’s eyes. Chelsea’s team, however, showed two changes from Wednesday’s defeat to Werder Bremen - Lampard and Carvalho returning at the expense of Joe Cole and Khalid Boulahrouz. Chelsea kicked off attacking the Stretford End, to a cacophony of boos as they negatively worked the ball back from Didier Drogba and Andriy Shevchenko on the halfway line to skipper John Terry at the heart of their defence. Cudicini was well beaten by Louis Saha’s wonderful finish in the 29th minute. Chelsea’s midfield seemed to open up as Rooney played a pass from the centre circle into his strike partner’s path and although both Terry and Carvalho were back behind the ball, Saha kept his head and picked his spot, caressing a left-foot shot inside the left-hand post. This moment of beauty was followed by an ugly episode, Drogba planting his elbow into Vidic’s face as the two players competed in the air. Without the benefit of TV replays, Webb waved only a yellow when really a red was warranted. Carvalho the goal-saver turned goalscorer in the 69th minute when he leapt to meet Lampard’s corner from the right and powered in a header which hit Saha on the line and came down off the crossbar. TV replays later showed Saha had himself headed the ball - he could yet be credited with an unwanted owngoal by the dubious goals committee. Joe's namesake Ashley had his name taken for a foul on Ronaldo - and then chanted in disdain by the fans. Cristiano played no further part - he was replaced by Darren Fletcher, while John O'Shea came on for Saha. With United's two most potent threats on the day withdrawn, there was to be no dramatic, air-punching finale for the home faithful. Instead of euphoria there were feelings of relief that Chelsea's second-half improvement didn't produce a second goal and concern that the substituted players could miss the next Premiership assignment in just three days' time.

Source: Manchested United
Clips: Soccerpulse

Just Another Weekend

Funny how weekends past so quickly and weekdays takes forever. Another 4 more hours and I'll be glued to the TV crapping my pants out, hoping Man Utd will dominate Chelsea. Yesterday, I went out with Ben, cX, Bryan, Fong, Nick and Chan to play DotA in Clutch Gamers again. We went to Murni's for dinner and the watermelon juice jumbo I ordered could burst your bladder, no joke. Ah, forgot to mention - thanks cX for the skins :D

Nano Skins! Anyone want one?

Today was quite a tiring day, played futsal in Sports Plaza with Jin's Monash friends and then headed to King Yi's to played basketball with Justin, Kurwin, Paik Qinn, and Jin. Once again retarded-ness was seen in everyone. Alright, thats all for now...going to mamak with Bryan and Kurwin and then heading to Breakers later for foos.

Talking about foos, next week is the Inter CG Human Foosball!
As announced by Ying Ying :-

No, by joining this event we are NOT volunteering ourselves to be strapped hanging by our hands from huge horizontal beams in a giant foosball table replica. How fun would that be anyway? This game is where we really get to participate. The best thing (for me that is) is you hardly need to run around like real football!! (In fact, you can’t!) At least you won’t be butt-stationary this time though (Unlike indoor volleyball) Just be prepared for a lot of crab-like movements, you know, walking/running sideways…Ronald McDonald shoes might help too! Invite your friends to come to this fun sort-of-sports event. Things are getting serious in the points race for the Inter-CG competition, so select your teams wisely. Remember to be there on time at 4.00pm!

And a random video :- Best Foosball Player in the world?

Where Is Everyone?

Sigh, I just realized this holiday is not much different from my previous holidays. This time, I'm free but majority has A Level exams, work and other random craps. I've already asked for an internship in L'oreal for the sake of burning time and gaining valuable experiences. Hopefully that will turn out well.

So what have I been doing this week?

Yesterday, I met up with Jia Liang and two of his other friends (Sheng & Kev). Went to Clutch Gamers in SS2 and played a couple of DotA games and watched Jia played his WoW after that we decided to play futsal [out of the blues] and we called our futsal buddies. Ended up playing at Sports Barn with Ian Soo's team BUT only had around 30 minutes game time thanks to the 'round one - Jin'. Somehow I'm kindda addicted to futsal, so if anyone has a game or anything... call me!

The day before yesterday, played Captainball with the CG people for the first time ever since I've come back. It was heaps of fun - sweaty, raining, crazy people running around but sadly I had to leave early for my mum's opening of A Cut Above in Midvalley. Pop up there around 7ish and was gladly in time for the ceremony. Saw heaps of Malaysian celebrities, the usual who's who in town. Amber Chia, Carmen Soo, Gloria Ting were the few models to name. Also met my 'kai ma' and it was great to see her after 3-4 months.

Today...I'll be going to the 'shoe factory' a.k.a Pertama with Ben and cX. They both need to buy sports shoes and I'm going there for the fun of it. I think Keith might join us later after his breakfast with his SAM friends. Sadly, Jin can't join us..awww. Pity huh?

I am currently obsessed with My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade!

Hacker

How is it possible for someone to be that Godly in Pro Evo?

Celtic Park, Tuesday 21 November

United need a point from their final group match against Benfica after losing 1-0 in dramatic fashion at Celtic Park. Celtic 1 (Nakamura 80) Manchester United 0


A stunning free-kick from Shunsuke Nakamura in the 80th minute sealed a shock victory for the Bhoys and secured them a place in the final 16, ahead of the Reds. To rub it in, United missed a golden opportunity to salvage the situation when Louis Saha had his last-minute penalty brilliantly saved by Celtic's Polish goalkeeper Artur Boruc. Saha spearheaded arguably Sir Alex Ferguson's strongest eleven - the only change to the side that had tasted victory in their last four league games saw Gabriel Heinze replace Patrice Evra at left-back. Having missed the chance to seal qualification in their last match earlier this month when they slipped up in Copenhagen, the Reds set about their task with great purpose and vigour and gave Celtic a lesson in the art of keep-ball. The movement of United’s front four - Cristiano Ronaldo, Louis Saha, Wayne Rooney and Ryan Giggs - caused Celtic all kinds of problems, but in truth the home side did a pretty good job of making things uncomfortable for themselves. Wasteful in possession, their play was littered with mistakes. Celtic held out in the chaotic closing moments to secure a place in the knockout stages of the competition for the first time. For United it was another European away night to forget. Now they have another nailbiting match with Benfica to endure - thankfully at home.

Source: Manchester United
Picture: Soccernet
Clips: Soccerpulse

Thriller (Indian Version)

What is there to do when you have so much free time? Watch every single shit you can find in Youtube and this is what I found quite peculiar.



The real Thriller used to freak me out so much when I was kid. I remember screaming when I watched it for the first time :p

The Answer

Ah Hah! Remember typing failure into Google Search Engine and it gives you the President Of The United States site? Try typing the answer to life the universe and everything and you'll be surprised.

Maybe Its a sign. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Poems In The Restrooms

Good poems by not so famous poets in restrooms, pretty interesting.

A budding poet trying his BEST
Washroom Graffiti 1
Here I lie in stinky vapor,
Because some bastard stole the toilet paper,
Shall I lie, or shall I linger,
Or shall i be forced to use my finger.

Before he graduated to be a poet, he wrote this...
Washroom Graffiti 2
Here I sit
Broken hearted
Tried to shit
But only farted.

Someone who had a different experience wrote this....
Washroom Graffiti 3
You're lucky
You had your chance
I tried to fart,
And shit my pants!

Perhaps it is true that people get inspiration in toilets....
Washroom Graffiti 4
I came here
To shit and stink,
But all I do
Is sit and think.

There are also people who come in for a different purpose....
Washroom Graffiti 5
Some come here to sit and think,
Some come here to shit and stink,
But I come here to scratch my balls,
And read the bullshit on the walls

Bramall Lane, Sat 18 Nov 2006

United will defend a three point lead when they take on Chelsea thanks to Wayne Rooney's ruthless finishing. Report: Sheffield United 1 Gillespie (13) Manchester United 2 Rooney (30,75)

The striker's clinical couple, one in each half, took his tally to three goals in four days, following his return to the England scoresheet in midweek. But it wasn't all plain sailing for Sir Alex Ferguson's men as they pursued a seventh Premiership win on the spin. Ferguson's former fledgling Keith Gillespie, playing for his fifth team in the top-flight after spells with United, Newcastle, Leicester and Blackburn, headed home a shock opening goal for Sheffield United in the 13th minute. Pressure from Colin Kazim-Richards forced Rio Ferdinand to make a hasty clearance from the right-back position and when Blades' left-back Derek Geary whipped in a great cross to the far post, Gillespie sneaked in behind Patrice Evra to beat Edwin van der Sar. Ferguson's men equalised from open play in the 30th minute. Giggs fed Neville and when the captain curled a low pass into the box, Rooney killed the ball with his right foot and despatched it beyond Kenny with his left. A difficult feat, made to look easy. Evra's cross from the left had a different outcome, beating Hulse and crucially dropping over the head of Davis for Rooney to fire a first-time shot across Kenny and into the net. With 15 minutes to go, United finally had the lead and on the balance of play they would surely not relinquish it. There was still time for Kenny to make a sublime save - denying Saha - and for Ronaldo to produce a ridiculous miss, spooning the ball over an open goal following Giggs' sliderule pass and Rooney's inspired backheel. The home fans had a chuckle but the last laugh went to the visiting supporters, who'll now follow their team to Glasgow - for a meeting of the top sides in England and Scotland - and then back to Manchester for that game against Chelsea. Should be quite a week.

Source: Manchester United
Credits: Guys at SoccerPulse

Home Sweet Home !

Touched down at KL at 6am, did the usual routine and got picked up by Dad from Sentral and had mamak for breakfast! Roti Telur+Teh Ais ....Mmmmmm.

Shock of the day:
Me: Dad, so how big is Cayman?
Dad: Which Cayman are you talking about? I have 2 Caymans
(Cayman is the name of my dog)
Me: Huh? We have two dogs?
Dad: *strange look* I don't know

Fair enough, I was a bit puzzled by my Dad's conversation and after finishing my breakfast, we headed back home and while Dad was parking the car I was surprised to see a CaymanS Porsche parking next to my Dad's car lot.

Strange enough, I asked my Dad 'So, who is the new rich neighbour?'
No reply from Dad
*look at number plate*
*wtf? its Mum's number plate!*

I was stunned, literally speechless. Guess what? My dad won the car off a charity event. A free Porsche ! Wtf ? I realize Cayman the Dog must be really lucky since my Dad always wanted a Cayman and he named the dog Cayman because he couldn't get the real thing. Faith? Huh.

The Cayman S

Anyway, Lesson of the day: Technology Shopping in Australia > Malaysia

My Sexy Pink iPod

Went shopping today (Midvalley & 1Utama) and found out that retail stores are selling 4gb Nanos for RM920+ and if you were to get it in Australia it will cost around RM700+. Not only that, iPod skins in 5 are sold for RM85 in Australia but in Malaysia it ranges from RM170-190.

iPod FM Modulator

Upset of the day - Bought this iPod FM modulator for the car for RM115 and found out that you could get a device like this for a price of RM45 in Australia. Ouch. The saddest bit: I was so sexcited to get my iPod working in the car and it turns out that the ciggy lighter in the car fused and now I have to head down to EON tomorrow morning to send the blardy Gen-2 for service.

On the lighter side, I bought NEW clothes which is always good. Thanks baby for accompanying me the whole day. Love ya.

School Is Out Forever / Adventures of Benny Sum

Exams are out! School Is Out! No More uniform ever! No studies for around 4 months! Wooopeee! Ahhh, I've never felt so good before and on top of it, I'm flying back at 12:45am tomorrow!
Muahahahhahahahahaha

Why do I love going home?
1) My baby <3
2) Parents
3) Friends
4) CG
5) Palymra
6) Food!
7) Shopping
8) Car

Checklist - No More Exams

So after the Indonesian exam which ended at 2pm I was starving badly therefore I decided to go to the city for food and Ben of course wanted to go and celebrate - 20 minutes later he came to McMeckan ...........

Lets just say I'm covering his blush

For the first time ever Ben drank so much alcohol that he is completely fucked out of his mind. He said so much shit that was ridiculously funny and I thought he was fine at first. Met cX in Melbourne Central and went to Nandos for lunch, at that point Ben was feeling dizzy and he just sat down on the table ordering us to do stuffs for him. I ordered my hot peri chicken and cX ordered extra egg, extra chicken, extra avocado, extra whatever burger for Ben which he insisted. Fair enough, my food arrived first and Ben threw a tantrum and the next thing I know he kinda passed out and slept......not for long his hands just went -splat- on my chicken and chips. wtf?. Then his burger came and the way he was eating it was so babyish and not only he finished his burger he ate all my chips and ordered another. By then he was completed down, he slept for 30 minutes in Nandos while me and cX just laughed our asses off. Then we headed to n2c because Ben insisted he wanted to play DotA. After registering our IDs we sat down and joined a game.

*looks at Ben*
Ben: ZzzZzzzz
Marcus&cX: *swt*

After 2 Hours of gimping me and cX thought Ben was sober enough, so we left the cafe and the most horrible thing happened. Ben puked twice in the arcade and we were forced to do community service to clean up his dirty deeds. I guess this is where Ben's day ended. He was so sick that I had to send him home to his aunt's in Tooronga. Thank God I decided to walk him home rather than dropping off at Kooyong, he obviously puked again and I felt good after sending him back or not I'll be thinking too much at the airport. Hah

Ben - Get well soon bro. See you in M'sia.

So why was Ben so fucked?

Bottle of Jacob's Creek 750ml Wine $11.90
Lunch at Nandos $14.80
Bottle of Pump $3.00
Sleeping at n2c $5.20
Watching cX mopping the floor - Priceless.....Free
Watching the smartest person drunk for the first time ever and last ever - Priceless

Yes, Ben did dunked a bottle of wine in 2minutes and had a can of Cougar. Why? Ask him.

Drink with responsibility! Look at what me and cX had to go through! Thank God for sober Ben to say ' I'll never touch alcohol in my life again ' Good On Ya! Rightyo gotta pack my stuffs and say my last goodbyes to the peeps in the boarding house.

All Ready For Indonesian !

Ok, me and Ben have done every single Indonesian paper for VCE available and we got nearly 100% for every paper so I guess we're set for tomorrow.

Visited every teacher that taught me this year and gave them a gift of appreciation to receive some grace for the up coming results for VCE. Met Bu and said our goodbyes and Bu replied 'you guys are linguistically fine'. Hah.

Another 20 Hours till the end of VCE, I am so excited. Another 30 Hours till I fly. I miss home

so badly. The first thing i want for breakfast is

dried pan mee !! Ok, time to chill out now. Going over to Paddy's to play PES.

After Indo, its party time. Check out the stuffs
me and Ben bought. Never knew wine was so cheap in Australia. Safeway Liquor are selling wines for $2 per bottle! Well of course we didn't buy that for our teachers, we're not that pov =P

Images Of Scotch College

Something to reflect on.......

Meares Oval

The Torch

Scout Hall

Library (Left Building) and the Swimming Pool (Right Building)

Memorial Hall

Yarra River

Cardinal Pavillion

James Forbes Academy

The way to The Hill

Chapel

Main Oval

Scotch College '06 The Last Stand

Ok, I know the topic sounds gay but Ben insisted it was cool. Well, Term4, the term of terms, the ending, the final hurdle, the last stretch......the end. As a Year 12 student you always thought that the last term would be the term where teachers just put so much pressure on you. You'll be locked up in your room, burning midnight oil but this is not the case as a Scotchie. The amount of events and parties and argh...it was just endless. Term 4 began with a kick to the chin - Methods and English trials on the first day back, can't they be even funnier with that? Just 3 weeks in to the term and that's it, school is over. All sorts of gathering, valedictory, parties were all organized to say our goodbyes. It started out with the school valedictory dinner then followed by the boarder's valedictory dinner, Year 12 boarder's dinner with our duty masters, presentation night and of course 20th October 2006 - our final assembly.

First off; our Year 12 Boarders Valedictory Dinner

Mr. Glover presenting gifts to the Year 12s which we have to pay for (wtf?)

The Year 12s table

Year 12 Presentation Night - The night where every year 12 is given a red Bible which is a traditional gift from the school and it is also one of the most boring-est presentation ever! It goes for 3 whole hours and we're not allowed to move from our seats at all. It was so boring that I could actually kill someone. Before the presentation night, Mr. Galbraith (Dean of Boarding) had dinner with us in the Cardinal Pavillion and of all nights Spotless had to serve us such 'edible' food - Butter Chicken with Rice. WOW.

The long wait for 'good' food
Presentation Night - 'Awesome'

Ah! Not to forget, our dinner with Mr. Glover in the Kooyong Tennis Club was g-g-great. Had oysters for appetizer and a medium done steak. Yummy. Lots of cam whoring from the Deano, Sanft, Conor and Bizzy. Took a tour around the club - Mr.G was kindda advertising the club to us and tried to persuade us to join it. Hah.

I look so stoned....

The size of the chicken was the size of the plate. Bizzy: 'this has to be a mutant'

Cam whores

The night was young and fun was just beginning. We all decided to head down to Bubbie's house to get smashed, sadly Bubbie wasn't able to join us and Manton pulled out from drinking. So it was the rest of the Year 12s Mormons that dranked. Pretty funny the stuffs we do when we're drunk. I vaguely remember lighting up Louis' hair with his lighter and he went crazy and almost killed me. Somehow or rather we found a shopping cart and we got Louis in it and slammed down to a light post. Dumbass.

Something interesting - Kwok shot gunning beers.

Kwoky shot gunning a beer

Before I lighted up Louis

Asian blush, Kwok is not Asian

Dinners, dinners, dinners just keeps coming. Then there was the unofficial boarder-parent dinner in Melbourne Club which has to be one of the gay-est club ever. No mobile phones, must have clean shoes, ties being done up neatly and all those gay stuffs. The only thing good about this place was the free flowing alcohol which I did not use to my advantage. We were all required to give speeches about what we thought about Scotch boarding and I think everyone done well for their impromptu speech.

Free flowing alcohol = Louis = Screwed

The Asians (4 Malaysians + Korean) Hah

Fag Alert - Fong (Far Left)

Alcohol = Bad picture, gay people (Manton&Louis)

Highlight of Term 4 - Muck Up Week! Lets just say its a week where the Year 12s go crazy and do whatever they want to the juniors. Im proud to say that we're the craziest and most keen Year 12 group [ever] as we started mucking up a week earlier then expected. Started off by letting off fart bombs in the junior rooms, putting fish oil all over the carpet and cupping people with flour while they are sleeping. That night was a disaster, no one could sleep and the smell could make you puke on the instance. Other stuffs that we did can be seen in the photos below:

Year 11 mattress left on the roof

Took every single chair and dumped it into Steiger's room

All school shirts hanging on the Year 12s corridor

Bombing (water) Hackett

Tied up all the Year 11s, funny how they were screaming to get out

School shirts in the basketball court at 1am+

Every single mattress of the juniors dumped into the Year 11 block

And you'll never be able to experience this unless you're boarding! The final event was the final assembly (Torch Ceremony) and every Year 12 student was required to take the torch and across the stage and pass it on while songs such as Forty Years On, College Anthem, Boating Song and College Song was played. Every students yelled their hearts out and show their expression on how school is out - FOREVER.

Lighting up the torch by Justin Liew

School Vice Captain (Darby) and School Captain (Bubbie) holding up the torch

Chapel service before the assembly

Jocks - Triple colours award

Teachers Band entertaining the Year 12s

Finding for seats in the Memorial Hall


One word to describe Scotch College 2006

Perfect