Version 2.0

At 4 am today, I've re-launched my blog. Well, its actually just giving it a little face lift. Decided to use one of the Blogger templates and edit it myself cos well, I couldn't get the bloody RSS thing to work with my previous template.

Its pretty much the same hence v2.0 instead of a new name. And I've cleaned out all the moldy blogs. If you don't see your link here its maybe 1) you haven't update in a gazillion years 2) I haven't read your blog before (so please drop a link ! Old friends maybe?) or 3) you are just not that interesting :P.

Been watching the new season of Hell's Kitchen patiently on Youtube for the past few weeks, and now its down to the final 3! Hooray!! Prefer this 10x more than American Idol :D. Simply admire Gordan Ramsay... after Sir Alex, he's the next person I look up to. What is it with the Scots?? There seems to be that added fire and passion in everything they do...Lol..


Think your boss is a pain in the ass??

Speaking of singing, Don gave me this Youtube link bout a woman named Susan Boyle. I'm sure most of you have watched it already on youtube, but if you havent click here. Tried to find a link to embed it but seems like its been disabled on all the providers. I tell you, you'd be super surprise and like everyone watching or watched, you will be stunned! I've never seen Simon Cowell so happy before! hahaha..

Anyways, looking forward to this weekend as we take on the Spurs at home and Barcelona take on Valencia in a mouth watering tie. :D I dread the day the season ends. Dah le this season no summer events.. How la how?? haha..

Liberated...

Finally did the thing I wanted to do since a year plus ago... No, I didn't blow up TAR college, though the army camp was right next door, so access to c4 was quite convenient. Instead I filled up my withdraw form from the college and shoved it right back at em'!! Yes, so as of now I'm officially not a student of that place anymore... I feel so Goddamn liberated sial.. like the heavy ball and chain on my feet have been cut.

This means I'm finally able to quit what I've been doing right now and move onto newer pastures. Yes, my parents finally accepted the fact that this course is not right for me. And the only regret I have is that I won't be able to make my pilgrimage to Old Trafford during my summer course. Oh well, sometimes the road is not so straight after all huh?

No doubt it has been an expensive experience for me during the past 2 years. But hey, shit happens rite? And if there was one place to screw up, it is at TARC. Made up my mind that I'll continue to study, cos heck, with the current economic status and my qualifications, I seriously doubt I'll be able to find a good job. Those kuli-5 bucks n hour-or < RM1500 jobs can la. But it'll most likely be a dead end job for me.

I've already decided to pursue a degree in management but I'm not sure where yet. Choices have already been narrowed down so I'm just waiting for their offer letter and then I'll have to sit and think again. Yes, after much thought, I made up my mind that this is the most realistic and logical choice and one that I can have an interest in. I know that my vast experience in Football Manager doesn't count for shit, but the reasons are clear eh? The higher you go in an organization, the more you have to deal with management right? With this, I'll have a head start hopefully.

I realize I tend to be persuaded easily by the opinions of others, case and point : parents 'persuaded' me to join TARc for the good education and future, or some salesman 'persuaded' me to buy sum shit from him for a good cause. Just throw in a reason and I'm almost always there. And now, my parents are kinda 'persuading' me to go back to Malacca and study in MMU. I've already made up my mind long ago that I never want to study so close to home. Phang and Yong will share my view on this. So I really really wanna stand strong on my stance and try to jedi mind trick them to let me study in KL. Pros and Cons definitely shows studying back home is way better but I suppose the parental control thing triumphs all in to my favor right?

So, as for now, I'll be kinda free, running here and there. Doubt anyone would wanna hire a temp staff for 1 month only right?

On another note, I'd be supporting Arsenal tonight, for once, hopefully they will get the right result eh?

Formula 1 this season is going boonkers seriously, Red Bull 1-2 finish in Shanghai and Jensen Button in 3rd again?!! If anyone was to make this prediction at the end of last season, they'd be shot in the head!

Ah well.. life goes on...

A Weekend of Speed, Rain and Late Late Drama..

So the 2009 edition of the Malaysian GP came and went, and boy was it one to remember, not necessarily for the right reasons. As most of you already know, it rained out. So bad in fact that the race had to be red flagged and was not restarted. I for one can't remember the last time that had happened. My day however started a little earlier than the prematurely ended race... had already left the condo with 3 of my friends + my girl at around 12. Yes she came along as well for her very first formula 1 experience. We expected to reach SIC before 3 but due to several delays and a need for lunch, we only left KL at 3!!


This year's ticket

And we could already see the rain clouds heading down south as most of the journey to Sepang was accompanied by dark rain clouds. It did drizzle a little bit but to our surprise, when we actually reach Sepang, it was all sunny and bright! I was saying to the rest of em, the bomohs must be really working hard today huh. Wonder how many did they use. But no matter how powerfull they were, one thing they couldn't prevent was the traffic jam! Massive massive jam which only happens once a year here. Took us almost an hour to get from the toll to the carpark!


The action gets underway

But once we were at the entrance, that familiar feeling of adrenaline, excitement and joy flooded my systems. There was a sea of people there. Reports said ticket sales dropped by 40,000 tickets cos of the current economy crisis, but judging by the people that were here, I don't think it had any impact on them. And you know you are kinda late when the national anthem is singing and you are still at least 400m away from your seats. Gives me a reason to not stand still for once!


Dark sky above the SIC..

This time round, I was seated at the south tower, like right before the final corner, there la I sat. It was actually quite a good place to sit can see most of the final corners and a big screen wasn't that far from us. So that makes it 3 different part of the track in 3 races! Woohoo!! Race got underway and as expected the 3 cars with the diffusal had a bright start, getting past everyone after just 3 laps. Was pretty much of the same througout the next 20 + laps or so, sad to see McLaren with only Hamilton left battling at the middle of the pact.


Racing in the wet at 200+ km/h ... Beat that Rempits!

Then around lap 27+ it all started to change, could see dark clouds looming in with lightning and thunder along side. Rain did eventually came, but it wasn't as bad as I've seen before. I base this on the splatter left by the cars behind them. Still wasn't as high. Saw on tv at the German GP where the splatter from the car was at least 10 ft high and driver visibility was near 0. But the rain did get progressively heavier and by lap 33 the flag marshal in front of us decided to wave the red flag which signifies the stop of the race. I explained to my dear that they would restart the race once the conditions get better and if its within the 120 minutes and that this kinda things often happen in f1.

Well, one thing good that did turn out from the rain was we decided to try our luck entering the grandstands facing the pits since there were no one guarding the entrance. Usually there will be a couple of people checking tickets at the entrance of each section of the grandstand to make sure you get what you paid for. But since it was raining, the fella also took cover some where else la. So we kinda sneaked into the section where all the Petronas Malaysia staff was seated. All wore the same shirts, those with Ferrari or McLaren at least wore the Petronas cap!


It was like this for quite sometime..

So we 5 sesat fellas just coolly, sat down couple of seats opposite the podium! And they even have free drinks! Now those who have been to F1 will know that there is no such thing as a RM1 bottle of water let alone a free drink. We asked the guy taking care how much and he said it was free. So what else, we grabbed a couple of bottles of water and some can ice lemon tea! As we sat down, we did get a couple of 'who the fuck are you' stares from the people around us. But we just buat slumber ni. Sadly though, the race was not to be continued and what was left was the trophy presentation.

Would've been great if the race did restart. Then I can say I got to sit at the RM1200 seats for only RM100! Well, I did get offered 2 RM1200 seats earlier in the week but I declined cos 1) I already bought my tickets 2) Sit with own friends better than sitting with dad's friends in a way that don't have to answer those questions ya know, and I get to curse openly! hahaha.. So when it all came to an end, Jensen Button won again no thanks to the rear diffusal, Heidfield got second without the diffusal! and Glock got 3rd. Sad Hamilton only manage 6th = 1 pt but happy that Ferrari finished outside the points!!


Najibs' first order of duty was to present the trophy to Button.

If getting into the circuit was a bitch, than getting out was a bitch and a half! It started to rain again which caused the already muddy roads at the parking to get even muddier. Some of the cars coming out of the parking looked like they've been through a rally race! A Golf GTi had its disc breaks in a shit.. was creaking (if thats the right term) the whole way, a Lotus Elise was no longer blue but brown, and a Harrier looked like it got a full mud bath!

We actually wanted to go to the after party since my girl gilakan that Jamiroquai band, but seeing the number of people queuing to get in, we said fuck it! By the time my friend got his car out of the parking, it was already 830! And with the jam ahead, I estimated that we would make it back just in time for the Match! But bitch ass luck got worse as we had a flat tire along the way. A F1 pit crew takes roughly 4 seconds to change a tire (they do all 4 simultaneously so counts as 1)... we took 20 minutes! All in all, it was not the best race I've attended in terms of value for money, in terms of excitement, it was okay.. But will I come back given the chance? In a heartbeat!!


I'll never get bored with moments like these! Get in there!!

So by the time we reached to the mamak was 20 minutes past the kick off time. Ronaldo had already put us ahead with a superb freekick into the top corner. But what was to follow really bitched me off. Villa scored 2 goals from 2 headers..Free headers!! Defenders dunno mark what! I thought 'oh wel, here we go again....'. Yong already sms-ed me saying he'll go to work emo tomorrow. But on the 80th minute, that boy Ronaldo did it again, a swing from his left boot and in the ball went! 2-2 game on!! I thought ok.. good result la..

But the best was yet to come, the win from the dead attitude so famous in the 90's came back. And 2 minutes into injury time, about the same when that Jew scored for Liverpool, up stepped Macheda with a sweet Cryuff turn and an unstoppable right foot curler into the top net. Reminds me alot of Thierry Henry at his best. I swore the whole mamak stood up and shout! At least me and my friend did!! High 5 me so hard I thought my skin tore! lol... Left the mamak with a sore throat! EPL title here we come!!


Ladies and gentleman introducing Federico Macheda

For those of you who don't like or don't understand football, its moments like this that will make you change your mind!

Hmm... guess it's a long enough post this time.. I should be coming home this weekend to discuss kinda serious matters with my parents. IF I'm able to go out, we go watch Fast n Furious ok Phang?