Man Utd 4 - 3 Man City

Did any Man Utd or City fans miss this game? If you did, oh well, go watch it again even though you already know the score line! Fantastic game. Arguably one of the most exciting matches I've watched. It certainly ranks up there together with 3-2 Juventus game and the 2-1 Bayern Munich Champions League Final.

Well, the defenses of both sides were horrible! But I guess thats what it takes to have a 7 goal derby thriller eh... Actually watched the highlights over and over again and man, what a great match it was and I have so much to comment about each of the individual players.

Tevez? Whose Tevez? Well, no doubt he was a pest to Ben Foster, but if Van Der Sar was the one between the sticks, wouldn't that mean that Tevez's contribution was rather menial? His a Striker, and a striker needs to score. Given that beautiful chance of hitting the net, he hit the post instead! I guess that is why Fergusan hesitated to sign Tevez. When you are about to sell someone like Ronaldo, you need a goal scorer, someone who finishes. Tevez clearly does not have a very good finishing, all he has is stamina and energy to run around, in which we already have in Park Ji Sung and Rooney. Anyway, it was great to see the Man Utd fans booing at Tevez because he deserved it. His just a hypocrite.

Rooney is certainly in fine goalscoring form and if he keeps playing and scoring like that, he can easily cover up for the missing goals by Ronaldo. Rooney is my favourite Man Utd striker after Cantona and I always say, Rooney gives me the excitement as much as Cantona did whenever he had the ball, I always knew something great was gonna happen.

Berbatov.. arh.... You know, I'm actually an admirer of Dimitar Berbatov's skill. His one touch, hold up play and team work is great. His ability to hold the ball and pass it to another team mate is great as well. He has the skills, he has the legs, but you know what I think he lacks? Luck... He scored against Wigan... yeah.. when will he score against a big side? If he scores rarely this season, I'll say, lets give Macheda the chance. =)

From this match, I can deduce 1 thing about Ben Foster... He may be a good goalkeeper, but he is nowhere near on replacing Van Der Sar. In all the matches he has played this season, he perfomed well again Wigan, Birmingham, Tottenham... but in matches against Chelsea and Man City, he sucked. What can I say? Unlike Fletcher, Ben Foster isn't the player who savour the big games. Fergie should start looking for Van Der Sar's replacement and probably hold on the Kucszak in the mean time!

Fletcher reminds me of the Paul Scholes of young. Low profile, not anytime the fan's favourite but always showing up in the big games and scoring the kind of goals I call "ghosting" goals. Like Paul Scholes, he will stay out of the box and pop into the box to guide in a header into the net whenever a cross comes in. In this occasion, he scored 2, courtesy of 2 Giggs cross. Fletcher may lack the skills of the killer pass of Scholes, but he certainly can tackle better, if not, at least tackle without being caught! HA! =P

It was nice to see Man Utd passing the ball around neatly in the final third, but after letting in 2 goals, the pass from Rio Ferdinand was horrible in the last minute! For a moment, I was trying to deceive myself into believe that it wasn't Rio, it was Anton Ferdinand. But reality is such. We haven seen Rio Ferdinand made many mistakes, but this one was mistake which could have been a nightmare if not for Owen.

And oh boy, I was about to stand up and leave for the gents when extra time when into 95th minute. I thought it was over until there was a free kick and I thought, why not just sit down for awhile more and see what happens. Free Kick taken, wasted, ball thrown back into the box and somehow fell to Giggs in the middle of the pitch and tadah! A defense splitting through ball to Owen who gladfully took this perfect opportunity to finish the game and become Man Utd's new hero! (Try learning that Tevez!). Our new no. 7 may not be in the starting line up, but with his scoring touches like this, he may well be our next baby face assassin! Owen may not have been doing very well at Newcastle, but with players like Giggs around him, he'll certainly be smiling more often than he used to and very soon, he'll be on his way to South Africa with England!

My favourite player of the game? Ryan Giggs... Did anyone mention that he is now 35 years of age? I actually dont' believe that is is 35. I think he is deceiving the whole world, he is actually 25. What does he eat for meals? Energizer batteries? This veteran never seem to die out of energy. People who don't really know Giggs might think he is a goalkeeper. Being a midfielder requires a whole lot of stamina and physique and Giggs even though at 35, has it all. Only Goalkeepers remain at the top of their game at ages like 35 but for Giggs, he doesn't seem to care. With 2 excellent crosses for both Fletcher's goal as well as an excellent pass to Owen, one you'll see from the likes of Scholes, can anyone name me someone else more fitting of the Man of the Match award? My personal MoM is Giggsy!

Oh yeah, my thumbs up for Bellamy, who took advantage of Sloppy defending from the devils and finishing with 2 beautiful goals. If not for Owen scoring to help the team in Red win, I wouldn't have taken the time to erm hm.... admire your goals (not your character though!).

And just for anyone who wondered what was the significance of Sir Alex Ferguson's substitution in the 93'rd minute? Well, if anyone would like to call it other stuffs, personally, I call it a saint's judgement. It was a soothsayer's substition. One which bought Ferguson 30 seconds in addition to 1 min from Bellamy's celebraton, and the 30 seconds in which Owen scored the goal in the last of it. It was as though he visionalized Owen scoring in the last second and used his final card to buy that 30 seconds for Owen to win the game for United.

To win the Premier League, you need luck! And from this Match, Man Utd had plenty of skills plus luck. City? They had some luck, but ran out of it. =P

This will be a very interesting season!

Perth, Australia - Plane Ride

So yeah, I was saying earlier that I'm gonna post about my trip to Perth, Australia. It was actually for my Sister's Wedding, which went perfect in my opinion but I'll talk more about that when I come to that day. =P

I don't really want to type alot, just want to share some nice pictures. Took Jet Star asia for the first time. Wasn't that comfy, but can't expect much for a cheap flight right? Flight left on time and arrived on time but 1 thing I found extremely irritating was the passengers that was onboard the same flight. Its like as though the whole plane was filled with families with kids and toddlers! Well, not like there is anything wrong with it but the noisiest among them sits directly behind me! 2 toddler girl and an infant boy. They talked, played, shout, screamed, laughed, cried for the entire 5 and a half hour journey!!!! Can you imagine that? In addition, they were also kicking my darn chair! OMG!!!!! -_-"""

Yeah... try wondering what the parents were doing! (playing with the kids...). So freaking inconsiderate! Blarhz! I wish I could just give them some sedatives to shut up for a couple of hours and let me have some rest!

Anyway, the plane ride was horrible, actually the worst part of the trip (duh...). However, now that I have a pretty cool camera, I decided to pass my boredom by taking some nice pictures while on the plane! There's more on my flickr album, but here are the nicer ones!







Here's how the inside of the plane looks like.



Enjoy the day scenery of the clouds from the plane view!













And we finally arrive at Perth International Airport, after 5 and a half hours of plane ride! In fact, it arrived about 10 minutes earlier then scheduled!



Lastly, if you'll like any of the scenery photos, just let me know and I can send them to you (Provided I know who you are! HAHA!)

House Lizard

House Lizard, or whatever it is called, is a reptile commonly found in everyone's home down here in Malaysia as well as Singapore. Highly agile creatures, they crawl from wall to wall to feast on insects such as mosquitoes and flies. Try attacking them and they might leave a tail behind which will start jumping up and down, making you think as though the lizard has suddenly gone berserk while the real Lizard has actually escaped. Their pretty harmless although some people, especially the female gender, finds them rather disgusting or what we call "gerly". =P

In any case, here's a picture of what the house lizard looks like.



As a final piece of note, this is what someone does when he is super lame + Super bored.

The picture is a result of boredness on one fine weekend, while this blog post... is just me being lame. =P

The Colonoscopy

A joke shared by my colleague some time ago... Maybe come the weekends, I will share some pics and info from my recent trip to Perth!

For now, here's a joke abt the mgmt.... =P



All the organs of the body were having a meeting,
trying to decide who was the one in charge.

'I should be in charge,' said the brain,
'Because I run all the body's systems, so without me nothing would happen.'


'I should be in charge,' said the blood ,
'because I circulate oxygen all over so without me you'd all waste away.'



'I should be in charge,' said the stomach ,
'because I process food and give all of you energy.'


'I should be in charge,' said the legs,
'because I carry the body wherever it needs to go.'


'I should be in charge,' said the eyes,
'Because I allow the body to see where it goes.'


'I should be in charge,' said the rectum,
'Because I'm responsible for waste removal.'


All the other body parts laughed at the rectum
and insulted him, so in a huff, he shut down tight.
Within a few days,
the brain had a terrible headache,
the stomach was bloated,
the legs got wobbly,
the eyes got watery,
and the blood was toxic.
They all decided that the rectum should be the boss.
The Moral of the story?
The ass hole is usually the one in charge!

Monsters.Com Bug???

Arh... Since its a public holiday today, I ended up staying at home, doing random stuffs and out of the blue chance about this Monster.Com bug which I could reproduce pretty often until after I recorded it! Now seems a bit hard to repro but I'll just show it for those who are bored and want to see a boring video of a boring bug. ^_^

Heres what to look out for:
1. Top of the page, look at the "Hi blar blar" section
2. Bottom of the video, there u can see its saying "Welcome back Joseph"

The funny thing is, when it got to someone else's page, when I click home, I go to their domain (eg Singapore, Philippines).

I suppose when I click Home and click back log in, it somehow detected the last guy that logged in to Monster.Com, rather than me. :)

Oh yar, I couldn't do the same thing on IE, only FireFix. Maybe Monster has issues with FireFox. =P

Malaysian Ah Long Vs The Police

Shared by my colleague Jonathan.

	THE COPS	THE AH LONGS
SLOGAN	"Mesra, Cepat & Betul"	"Mesra, Jika Cepat Bayar"
TEAM SIZE	89,197	3,403
HIGHEST RANK	IGP, Tan Sri	Tai Kor, Datuk
LOWEST RANK	Constable	Mah Chai
RANK ID	Pips On Uniform	Tattoos On Body
HOME GROUND	Bukit Aman	Bukit Bintang
FIREPOWER	Revolver, Semi Automatic	Meat Cleaver, Molotov Cocktail
STANDARD ISSUE	Hand Cuffs	Knuckle Duster
AFFLIATION	Interpol	Intertriad
SQUAD CAR	Proton Wira, Waja, Perodua Kancil	Proton Aeroback (With Extended Spoiler)
WANTED LIST	Displayed At Stations, Published In Papers	Displayed On Lamp Posts, Phone Booths
COMMUNICATION	Encrypted Wireless Network	Random Pre-Paid Cellphones
SPECIAL SKILLS	Surveillance, Investigation, Interception	Stake-Out, Ambush, Bone Re-Structuring
CROWD CONTROL	Water Cannon, Dog Unit	Fire Bomb, Killer Bees
BACK-UP	PVR, RELA	Car Repossessors, Club Bouncers
RECENT WIN	Stopped Siti Nurhaliza Hate Mails	Financed Euro 2004 Betting Activities
RECENT DEFEAT	Lost 1 Police Station To A Food Court	Missed 1 Food Court Financing Opportunity
RECRUITMENT	Via Mass Media	Via Friend Of A Friend Of A Friend
DISLIKES	ACA, Lawyers	MCA, Lawyers
FAV MOVIES	Police Story 1 - 5, Serpico	Jaws, Loan Shark, Mean Streets
FAV QUOTE	"Tengok Tengki?"	"Macam Mana Mau Settle?"
FAN CLUB	Rakan COP	Rakan TELCO

Know Your Customers

Something my colleague shared with me..

A disappointed salesman of Coca Cola returns from his Middle East assignment.
A friend asked, "Why weren't you successful with the Arabs?"
The salesman explained
"When I got posted in the Middle East , I was very confident that I would make a good sales pitch as Cola is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem I didn't know to speak Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through three posters...


First poster: A man lying in the hot desert sand...totally exhausted and fainting.
Second poster: The man is drinking our Cola.
Third poster: Our man is now totally refreshed.
And Then these posters were pasted all over the place
"Then that should have worked!" said the friend.
"The hell it should have!? said the salesman. didn't realize that Arabs read from right to left"