Bolton 0 - Man Utd 4

My cousin bro passed me the torrent link to download the recent Man Utd game against Bolton Wanderers away in Reebok Stadium. Touted as their best performance for recent years especially the first 25 mins, I was tempted to see how good we were.

I gotta say I was not very dissapointed. A few slick passes and a couple of 1-2s shows that Man Utd post Van Nistlerooy era has been playing very fluid football.[So can we attribute Man Utd demise off late is because of the style of play is too Ruudy oriented? which resulted in stale movements]

I can see Saha + Giggs + Rooney + Evra [at times] starting to built a very good understanding with their slicing and one touches. Ronaldo having a rather quiet game at times shows his mettle, outrunning his opponent. But I gotta say I am encouraged with the prospects of Carrick-Scholes partnership. Though not up to my reserved expectation, I can see Scholes is trying his best on the field very contrast to his jogging days. Carrick has made a couple of long visioned passes which is a trademark of a world class passer.

Having said tat, are we EPL champ material yet? I doubt so, maybe its still early to tell. We need to play more of such fluid football week in week out and try playing it longer instead of just 25 mins. Maybe we havent peak, see how after Christmas ...

[Lyrics]Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own

We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel

Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Now you all know where I got the nick for MSN, YM and GTalk.
Soalan Cepumas -> Wat are the 3 words ?

The week it was ...

A week started off with a mid-distant trip to Southern Malaysia to Liang wedding luncheon with 2 beauties. Jalan2 cari makan in Melaka with guided navigation by dearest Pinky -> yummy. Tired, sleepy and energy-less

The next few days has been pretty boring except for some hours of senseless button PS2 bashing with Okami and FIFA2007. And that is how I call life without direction and aim. I am a bagged-eyed, senseless zombie. Sleeping and eating is all i do for the next 3 days. But then at least I settled "something" that has been burdening me for the past 1 month ... shoulders has been very light ever since.

Went back to Seremban on Friday with Auntie and I saw light in life for the first time in ONE week ! All those merry hoo haas has enlightened my rather quiety and hollow life of late. Made a few delicious curry puffs and the eating gala has started.

Watched Dog Bite Dog, loath it ....

Good new, Man Utd bashed Bolton 4-0 with Rooney bagging a hattrick and Ronaldo taking the other one. But Chelsea is still on our trail with a 2-0 win. Damn u BLUES .. get off our tail !

Finally the hoo haas of the Zakaria saga is coming to an end ... but as one story ends .. another unfolds .. LRT services has been giving lots of probs off late but the final scene was rather uncompromised for me ... a LRT deck overrunned ? This is such a BIG LOOF !

Racing GP, my expectations from both legends for F1 and MotoGp suffers from similar fate. Schumy dreaded in the first few ... only to mount a serious comeback but the be dampen last minute due to mechanical failure.
Tis week, Rossi whom I hope that can add another feather to his cap, lost his crown to Hayden ... a Double Blow for 2 of my pickcs this season. To add salt to my wound, Ross Brawn is leaving Ferarri for a one year sabatical with Schumy being offered the post of Special Assistant to Jean Todt. Will Schumy take it ?

A hell of a week? NOT !

Movie Review - Dog Bite Dog

Me bro commented about this show that he watched in a DVD he bought recently. He gave full thumbs up for this one noting that this one is rather different from those silly HK movies of late and I was thinking hey why not ? With the recenly influx of darker HK genre of films which harps on the grim yet successful Infernal Affairs saga which spawns equally society boggling movies such as "mobster-Democracy" Election 1 & 2 and a few more I think this is worth a shot.

The synopsis of Dog Bite Dog is pretty simple, no it aint ur next door Cinapek uncle rearing Rottweilers biting ur opposite indian neighbours Cina-auntie Beijing Shih-Tzu. This movie potrays Pang [played by Edison Chen who threw away his heartthrob image to don his first challenging role] a brutally bred and brought up Cambodian assasin being illegally shipped to HK to do a job on a barrister lady [whom the order was placed by her judge husband because she asked for a divorce which will take half of his wealth away]. Playing catch and mouse with the HK police force, Pang found himself lost in the cosmopolitan city and therefore seeks way to survive including bloody and brutal massacare of those who are in his path. The one who always on his tail is Wai [played by former funnymen Sam Lee but now an exaggerated SOB in an unwelcomed scene] who from time to time gone berserk with the downfall of his beloved comrades tries all his best to track the physco Cambodian maniac down hence the cat and mouse.

Recipe for a good and grim HK adventure? Not quite ....
Well HongKies are always masters of exaggeration ... this movie promote hatred, cruelty and brutality to the max. Blood are shed everywhere until there are no pints reserved for the blood bank. You witness the brutalest of murder even the beheading of POW are mere-childplay. I was disturbed with one scene where Pang took the ice breaker and slit in right to the throat of the police officer he held hostage [ I think Sharon Stome handles ice breaker the best].

As for the relevance of the homework done on how Pang was brought up, I cant comment much because I hv no depth knowledge about this but I thought I bumped somewhere abt children being raised to kill each other brutally. Art of survival to the max ... the most efficient way to nurture the PERFECT ASSASIN. Heartless

But for all that Dog Bite Dog offers, as usual I will ask back another question to those who brought this to the screen ... wats the message behind this show ? Sheer violence wihtout humanity values ? Or rather blatant promotion of hate of a heartless Cambodian physco assasin who found himself lost in the cosmopolitan city of HK? Call me narrow or shallow but I might not be artistic enuff to understand this ... but then HK movies are a bunch of crap which is riding on a direction-less [oh understatement] .. I would say that their industry is into no direction at all !!! Its just that they simple coax up a brutal, heartless and sheer violence show to the audience who enjoy movie without thinking ? I know I am not a moviegoer who does not think whilst watching ...

To top things, the ending is ridiculously stupid and at times hillarious. Sam Lee, my advise to you is that your business lies elsewhere in comical role, you cant play eye-lash shaven hard kicking phyco SOB maniac ... its not ur cup of tea. Your sheer exaggeration of the character is laughable at times ... and if this is how HK celebrate such movie that generates the future of HK movie scene, its rather pitiful for them as they are dying ... and worse than Malaysia because at least we have Yasmin Ahmad as the saving grace with Sepet and Gubra.

I cant be that cruel anyways, the saving grace of this show actually lies in Edison whom I think did an Oked job in potraying a confused lad running away from the law. At times his potrayal is less convincing but I reckon if he plays more of such roles will do him good than of those his heartthrobbing roles of late.

To sum it up => DOG BITE DOG .... I think it the Dog dropping in front of my neighbours gate smells better ...

Ciaoz

The day i rot in boredom...

The entire DeepaRaya was supposingly making me all hyped up with one week to go [October 19]. Liang supposedly wedding luncheon on the following Sunday [21st October] was supposed to light up a week of refreshing fun and eventful holidays. Moreover, the jalan2 cari makan at Melaka with 2 of xST's and Kok Seng was supposed to be fun. Well fast forward -> Good times flies fast, before I could utter my NRIC Number backwards its 0900 hours on a cloudy morning of 23rd October 2006. Liang wedding luncheon has already gone, the jalan2 cari makan adventure has pass thru all i find my stomach full of Malacca finest gourmet.

A great start to an eventful evening? God I am dead wrong, else I wouldnt be sitting here writign this uneventful blog rite?

The next few days was spent on senseless button bashing on my beloved PS2, gosh how do i live without my PS2 filling my void. After 2 days of mindless senseless and meaningless button bashing of PS2, I find myself havign a big gap to fill. One day, 24 hours of no objective no direction ... OMG wat is this kind of life ? I aint want this kind of life when I negotiate with the CREATOR to be brought to this world !

Today was supposed to be working day for most of my friends, and I am left alone at home looking at the top of my ceiling, marveling at the fan turning ... Spent about 2 hours preparing for the upcoming LANDesk training presentation for my client and then ... its boredom all over again. IM-ing with a couple close acquiantances managed to fill in for another 2 hours [thanks to TYTan,Michelle,Joey,Fuishi,Philip,Brother Tianhong for filling the gap]... and then boredom strucks again ...

My body,soul,spirit and energy is dwindling ... I am lying on my bed with nothign to think .. nothing to do... My soul is wounded like it has never been ... flesh is rotting with maggots of boredom eating the bits part by part .. consuming my flesh of soul. The foul stench from my rotten soul stinks the entire world i am now. I am turning into a zombie of my own boredom. I now hope that the holiday end faster before I turn into a mindless, directionless zombie. A modern walking Frankenstein.

And then I still have 12 days of burnt and non-carry forward annual leaves yet to clear ... Oh GOD why me ? Its unfair !

The Gauntlet Has Been Thrown: Morning Crew vs Big Bang Breakfast Show

The recent buzz surrounding the airwaves especially on local English radio station is about the new FlyFm Big Bang breakfast Show hosts, pairing the ever witty Fly Guy with the ever bubly Phat Phabes. Unsurpisingly this will not come good with Malaysia top English station Hitz.fm whom more or less ruled over morning airwaves for English station listeners.

Hitz.fm Morning Crew has long dominated the airwaves with their funny, witty, bubbly and at times "over" deejays. It was in fact, Fly Guy whom with Lil Kev tat started the Morning Crew hype that dominated the morning airwaves. It was Morning-Crewmania for those who tune in during the morning and many find these guys simply irrestible. However good times are over for them and also their legions of fan listeners when both of their services were terminated due to disputes in their contractual obligations .[ I could still remember that they were to interview by then outgoing Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir when suddenly the issue arised]. Hitz.fm initially has difficulty in finding replacements for the celebrated deejays which has been quite worrying for them since Morning Crew has a huge followers who has not fail to tune in to their favorite morning show. Eventually the pairing of Rudy and J Lo seems to work out a chemistry which give a glimpse of hope and Morning Crew breath sight of relief .... until J Lo was reassigned to HyperDrive slot and Jay Jay will fill in together with Rudy and the New Hitz.fm New Morning Crew. These new pairing was the best since Fly Guy and Lil Kev left the much celebrated radio station. More than a year has passed since the new Morning Crew gone on air and they have been quite of an entertainer minus some unnecessary "events" [especially the April Fool Gotcha 2005, that a very lame one].As for Hitz.fm paymaster, business are as usual ... Morning Crew once again dominates the airwaves ...... errr .... that wat they would like to think ... until now.

Fly FM, a spin off from Malaysia Premier Media Consortium -> Media Prima, was launched earlier this year with Fly Guy [surprise surprise, Hitz.fm .... look whos back ?]. If thats not enough, the morning show which is helmed by the ever witty FlyGuy would add another mouth bubbly radio icon .... no its not Lil Kev [though I hope it is] .... its Phat Phabes ... who jumped ship from .. guess who ? .. yes .. Hitz.fm. The bubly Phat Phabes will now join FlyGuy for FlyFm Bing Bang Breakfast Show and with these two guys around .. I would put my money that these 2 guys would give the morning crew a run for their money. Expect funnier, crazier breakfast show with these 2 guys around.

Unsurprisingly, the benefactors of the close fight are the listeners themselves .. who also hv to endure the sight of needing to choose ... which one to tune on to ? Morning Crew or Big Bang show ?

I dunno abt u guys out there ... but I hv now saved 95.8 as my second favorite channel ... and if they are good enuff ... for the first time in over 4 years [since i get my car]..... Hitz.fm will be dethroned as my favorite radio channel .....