Pestabola Merdeka 2008

We lost the final on penalties (5-6) to Vietnam...big deal!!.I'm proud of our boys!!..The whole tournament we score 18 goals and conceded none...we are just unlucky in the final...I went to the final on Sunday... although we lost I know that our boys give their all...kudos to the Vietnamese...they play high quality football in that final...I always rate the Vietnamese team highly because of their performance in the 2007 Asian Cup which they went until the quaters...

The problem is that FAM invited so many below par team like Nepal,Myanmar and Bangladesh.. I think the FAM wanted the stadium to be filled with PATI's...Maybe FAM invited Afghanistan on a humanitarian basis ( I can live with that)... Although we won 4-0 against nepal and myanmar..there's nothing to shout about...it's expected...the true test is Vietnam and we were unlucky...

I think that our game is too one-dimensional...we rely too much on our flanks...we need to mix it up a bit...the Vietnamese show us that the short-passing game is best suited for south-east Asians... our players seldom move off the ball...and if someone made a terrific run no one pick him up... all of our moves is created from midfield...when our playmaker was marked he couldn't set the game.. the thing that baffle me is that from what i see the Vietnamese did not have a playmaker...their game is short-passing two touch football...and their movements was superb...I think we should study the way vietnam plays...if we can implement it I think we can be more successful..

What we lack is a natural born playmaker or a midfield general...the last one was Yap Wai Loon back in 1995..after that all of our playmakers are not up to par...bacause of that i think we should play a short-passing two touch game...but not too defensive...I think we have a good striker in Safee Sali...Khyril Muhymeen is a natural winger...for the first time in 10 years we have two solid goalkeepers in Helmi Eliza and Syed Adney...what we need is too play according to our strenghts... for me coach sathia is doing a good job so far..not great but we are improving playing and ranking wise...

Some people wanted a change in the head coach position of our national football team... I think that will be a step backward...people who knows their football know that the ultimate test for this malaysian team is the AFF Suzuki Cup (used to be called Tiger Cup) in December...after that we can better assess our TIGERS...

The Love of My life

Now let me tell you about the "love of my life"...A fiery romance that is now in its 17th year...yes... this romance/relationship started when i was 8..A whirlwind romance that gave me elation and ectasy.. sometimes even makes me cry...Mates,this is the story of my love affair with Selangor F.C...

It all started in 1991, I was 8 at that time..I went to my almarhum pak itam's house..there i saw him with my pak uda watching some footie on tv..being an inquisitive child, i asked them.. "what are you watching?"..."football" answered my pak uda..."our football?" i asked.."yes,Selangor Football"...then something magical happened...i sit with them and watch the highlights of the 1991 Malaysian Cup highlights...i was lovestruck (still am)..I swore allegiance and loyalty towards Selangor and my life changed forever....

We didn't win anything for the first five years of "our romance"...i suffered many heartbreak... the 1991 Malaysian Cup Final..we lost 3-1 to Johor ( damn you ervin boban!!)..after that my heart was broken once more..we lost the 1994 Malaysian Cup semi-final to Singapore(the eternal ENEMY!!)....however i kept on believing...

I was rewarded in 1995 when ken worden brought local (i mean selangor boys lah)young players into the team...their are a hungry and determined lot...with ken worden brand of short-passing game we won the 1995 Malaysia cup...and keep the cup for two more years!!!! WE WON THE MALAYSIA CUP 3 YEARS ON THE TROT!!! 1995-1996-1997....this was the best selangor side i've ever since...however i was not honest in our "relationship"...i have a mistress..in 1995 i started "seeing" Manchester United on the side...when we hit rock bottom and were relegated in 1998 i started to stray....however we settled our predicament and ramble on....we won the cup two more times in 2002 and 2005...this year we made it to the final of the F.A and Malaysia cup but were beaten by the same scoreline (3-2) by the "better" Kedah side

This year Selangor hired the first "professional" manager in Malaysian Footbal History...Zakaria Abdul Rahim or Abang Zek did quite well in his first year and endeared himself to the shah alam faithful...At the end of this season abg zek presented his visionary plan in making Selangor the best in asia by 2015...his plan is to qualify and win the AFC Cup next year....by doing so we will qulify to the AFC champions league as a "wildcard" entrant...and ultimately lift the AFC Champion League by 2015...

I have good feeling about next year...the 2009 have a good mix of experience and youth... adding three more selangor boys to the squad was a good move by the new coach (k.devan)...the only questionable move was the addition of k.nanthakumar(nantha) and khairul anuar baharom(acong)... you see sometimes nantha is not comfortable on the ball and often lose possesion...acong on the other hand is 34...and deemed too old by the shah alam faithful...however i have great faith in both of them...they are true proffesional and i know they will lead and be the catalyst of the selangor revival 2009!!!

MERAH KUNING ITU SELANGOR!!

farewell and godspeed

I was shocked to hear that Faisal Tehrani has retired from blogging...Faisal is one of my major influences in writing...I've read most of his historical fiction books..the latest one "Saasatul Ibaad" was the best of the lot!!
In his last entry Faisal ask forgiveness to anyone that he has wronged or "hurt" by his writing or actions...you see Faisal is goingto perform hajj and I didn't suspect anything because it is quite common for pilgrims to seek forgiveness before starting their journey to the Haramain...
However I was shocked when one of my mates who knows Faisal quite well tell me that apart from going to hajj Faisal was retiring from the blogsphere...and he already deleted his blog tehranifaisal.blogspot.com..
I really enjoyed Faisal's writing be it in his blogs or his books...furthermore I am greatly influenced by his view that "writers must be responsible and educate their readers".. and that "writing is one form of Da'wah"...well Faisal...I can only say godspeed and Fi Amanillah...moga-moga haji abang Faisal ialah haji yang mabrur..amiin

Lepaq performing arts Cafe, Hartamas

Last friday night I went To a place call lepaq cafe at Hartamas..I went there to see an acoustic performance of a "shoegaze" band called "WITHERSPOON"..At first i was a bit reluctant because a shoegaze band performing an acoustic set...mmm..interesting....furthermore it's in Hartamas of all places...the second most pretentious place in KL (to all pretentious Hartamasian, YES OFFENCE)... However after finding out that there is no cover charge (you see we malaysian love free entrance to anything...we prefer not to pay for concerts,theatre,sporting events etc....) I rushed down there with a mate of mine who happens to know the frontman of Witherspoon..

We arrive there at 8.40...what I notice is that the hotness per capita ratio is quite high here...I personally think it is the one of the highest in the country...the performance is going to start at 9pm...the band arrived around 9.20.. typical malaysians!!they started their performance around 10...the set is semi-acoustic not a full acoustic set as i thought earlier...for a first time semi-acoustic performance Witherspoon has exceed my expactations...

the acoustics of the cafe is quite good...it has a very cosy ambience...the food and drinks was ok and the prices is similar to your neighbourhood cafe/kopitiam...for a place to hangout and relax, lepaq performing arts cafe have my sealed approval...I will definitely frequent the place mainly because of the music and the high hotness per capita ratio..

For further information on Witherspoon..

*Witherspoon will be performing an "acoustic special" on the 27th November at lepaq performing arts cafe..I'll definite be there!

Patriotism

During a round of teh tarik and other concoctions that will surely contribute to diabetes in the future, a mate of mine asked me..."How can you say that you are not a patriot and yet you love this country and her people?"
well mate,let me tell you why...the ruling class and establishment has been using "patriotism" to make the masses become more obedient and follow all of their oppressing policies,rules and laws..whoever who does not "kow-tow" to them is a "traitor" and deemed to be "un-patriotic"...
for example the united states declared "war on terror" after 911..the country was divided by this.. there are pro-war and anti-war individuals and groups....the anti-war people were deemed un-patriotic and un-american just because they are against the policy of the establishment...
back closer to home..i think most of you are familiar with the legend of hang tuah and hang jebat... to put it simply hang tuah is a patriot while hang jebat loves his country and her people and that's why he goes against the tyrant sultan and stage a coup...like he said.."raja adil raja disembah, raja zalim raja disanggah.."(the translation of this qoute can be found at wikipedia)..
hang jebat rebelled after the sultan decreed that hang tuah was to be executed because he was found guilty fooling around with one of the sultan's concubine (a slander that was spread by hang tuah's enemies in the palace itself...)..jebat who thought tuah was dead rebelled and ran amok..he killed all of tuah's enemies and took the palace by force...because tuah was dead,nobody can stop jebat..at this time the sultan regretted executing tuah..
at the end of the story hang tuah killed hang jebat after the sultan found out that hang tuah was still alive after all and ordered him to kill jebat..although hang tuah considers hang jebat his "brother" because as a patriot he must follow the sultan orders...
people who love their country and fight to protect or liberate often found themselves taken by the angel of death too early...just like che guevara, hang jebat and burhanuddin al-helmy(just to name a few)...if they live they will live the hard life often mistreated and forgotten...such individual is Allahyarhamah Shamsiah Fakeh who died just 3 days ago...although we share different ideologies and believes.. i have the deepest sense of respect towards her because the freedom that i am enjoying now is the result of her struggle...
I hope every Malaysian loves their own country and her people...Let's us all EMBRACE MALAYSIANA...

Terserempak dengan Hishamuddin Rais @ Tukar Tiub

Salam pagi buta komrad sekalian..
Tadi selepas menonton Revolusi '48 (memang terbaik Fahmi..tak sabar aku nak tgk full-version film ni!!)di Annexe Central market..aku dan member aku rasa nak layan teh serai wangi kat bau-bau cafe...tiba di cafe kami pon ternampak dengan hishamuddin rais...aku pon jadi malu-malu kucing sebab hisham ni hero aku dan pengaruh besar kepada aku dalam penulisan blog aku yang memang tak sampai setahun jagung..
tapi bila aku nampak hisham cam nak blah aku pon terus bangun dan hulurkan tangan untuk bersalam...lalu aku berkata "excuse me hisham...I just want to shake your hand" sambil aku berkata demikian ekspresi wajah aku macam tok jib kalau jumpa ziana zain...lalu hisham pon berkata "oh,ok..hisham...kau ada baca blog aku tak?"...aku pon menjawab "ye"..sebelum aku sempat cakap yang aku memang on blog dia 24 jam...hisham pon ternampak kenalan dia dan terus menegur brader tu...lepas tu dia blah...
itulah kisah aku berjumpa ngan hishamuddin rais..tapi memang tak sangka ar dia akan tanya aku pasal blog dia..haha..oklah...sekian..wassalam..

*blog hishamuddin rais @ tukar tiub

Nasi Kandar Kudu Bin Abdul

hello there...it's only like 10 minutes to lunchtime...lunch for me is the most important meal of the day...if you are having a shitty day...a good lunch can lift yer spirit up...when the clock hit 1pm.. most of us will be wasting 5-10 minutes asking a very rhetorical question.. "where to lunch ah?".. at the end we always end up eating at the same place...

well today boys n girls i'm recommending you the best nasi kandar in K.L.... NASI KANDAR KUDU BIN ABDUL...located at JALAN T.A.R...across maju junction mall...if you missed it there is something wrong with yer eyesight...after mamak jln bunus and their heavenly gulai rusa (DAAAAMMMNN!!) has gone...kudu bin abdul is THE BEST NASI KANDAR IN K.L...

not many people know that this used to be p.ramlee's favourite nasi kandar place in K.L as Panggung Wayang P.Ramlee used to be is just in walking distance...P.ramlee usual are ...ikan goreng,daging kicap rendang n telur masin...I'll recommend you their ayam goreng bawang and daging kicap rendang(heavenly)...kudu created this daging kicap rendang..his original recipe (well Mr.Kudu..I SALUTE YOU!!).

for those of you who wants a lighter meal they have yor typical mamak fare..but something must be wrong with you..you don't go to a nasi kandar place and order mee goreng...it's UN-MALAYSIAN to do so.. hahaha...the price for a nasi kandar meal at Kudu's I think per person is not more that rm10..if you pay more than that then you have one hell of an apetite...

the best thing about kudu bin abdul is that the recipe is not traditional penang style...it's has it's own original and wonderful taste..we can say that nasi kandar kudu bin abdul is a K.L style nasi kandar( i know some of you might beg to differ..but i don't give a damn...it's my blog..haha)..

our penangites friends might say this is not nasi kandar(we all know how fussy penangites about their food)...but i'll say to them "this is the garden city of lights(k.l)..not pearl of the orient (penang)..so shut up and eat yer food"...show some respect to Mr.Kudu and his daging rendang kicap...if any of you have a problem with this nasi kandar, you'll have a problem with me..comprende??...

well i'm off to melawati to try this nasi padang place my hill-side friend recommended to me...he told me that this place has been operating since 1982...don't worry i'll give you my two cents about the place lunchtime tomorrow...so read the same blog...same url tomorrow..selamat menjamu selera...have a nice day!! : )

Top of the morning to yer!

hello there...because of the passing of Shamsiah Fakeh..I've decided that today I'll post feelgood and "fluff" "pieces"..things that will make us smile and proud to be Malaysian..no malaysian politics for today..it's too depressing...and I'll would think that Shamsiah Fakeh wants us to honour her armed struggle for independence by celebrating the fact that WE ARE MALAYSIAN...AND PROUD TO BE ONE...that's all I have to say...au voir..

Al-Fatihah untuk Shamsiah Fakeh

Kesedihan yang menyelubungi pemergian Pak Samad maseh lagi dirasai ...dan hari ini kita dikejutkan dengan pemergian Tokoh Pejuang Kemerdekaan yang berhaluan kiri, Shamsiah Fakeh.. Beliau sudah selamat dikebumikan selepas asar di tanah perkuburan Islam sungai besi... semoga roh allahyarhamah ditempatkan bersama mereka yang beriman..amiinn....Al-fatihah...

p.s:maaf entri terlalu singkat..saya terlalu hiba untuk menulis...

Kisah Pemilihan Agung MCA 2008

Salam sejahtera komrad sekalian...

pertama sekali saya ingin mengucapkan tahniah kpd Dr.Ng Yen Yen kerna berjaya menjadi wanita pertama memenangi kerusi naib presiden MCA...ini kali pertama seorang wanita berbuat demikian dlm parti MCA (rasa-rasanya dalam sejarah politik Malaysia ini pertama kali kot)... dengan kemenangan ini sekurang-kurangnya "girl power" dapat bernafas kembali di politik Malaysia...

sejak Kak Pidah dan Kak Jat kena lipat masa PRU 2008..."girl power" dalam politik malaysia macam dah nazak...nyawa-nyawa ikan...kemenangan dr.ng yen yen harap-harapnya dapat mengembalikan "keseimbangan"... keseimbangan itu penting...kalau tengok filem star wars..Yoda selalu sebut "balance in the force"...dan sepatutnya anakin skywalker membawa "balance to the force"...tapi akhirnya dia jadi sith lord..kita tak boleh marah anakin..sebab kalau dia tak jadi darth vader..tak wujudlah filem-filem star wars...(kita bincang pasal star wars di entri yang lain...dah nak terbabas dah ni... : )

mesti ada keseimbangan dalam politik...antara parti pemerintah dan parti oposisi...antara suara wanita dan lelaki dalam parlimen...antara kaum muda dan kaum tua...

berbalik semula kepada pemilihan agung MCA 2008...seperti yang saya jangka..chua soi lek juga menang kerusi timbalan presiden (sila lihat entri "towering malaysia-dr chan chew lun)... kenapa dia boleh menang..sebab dia "powerman" hahaha...gelak pon gelak jugak..sekarang soi lek "powerman" dah jadi orang no.2 dlm MCA...dan tahniah juga kepada tee keat sebab dapat kerusi nombor 1...tapi rasa-rasanya tiada apa kesan besar kat politik malaysia kot..sebab parti-parti berdasarkan kaum di Malaysia ni ibarat "kubur kata mari..rumah kata pergi"... saya rasa kalau tee keat betul-betul nak menyumbang kepada kepentingan nasional..bubar jelah MCA tu... ini kerana kita tak perlukan pemimpin "orang melayu" , pemimpin "orang cina" ,"pemimpin "orang india"... KITA PERLUKAN PEMIMPIN "ORANG MALAYSIA"...

lalu ka ting pon berkata..."umno is too dominant"...wah....dah pencen baru datang semangat bertarung???..tak takut hisham tun hussein hunus keris ke...memang umno terlalu dominan... sume kena ikut cakap depa...Tsunami PRU 2008 sebab semangat "A.B.U"-"Asal Bukan Umno"... MCA hilang undi Cina sebab bersekongkol ngan UMNO...yelah..bila orang cina bersuara sket.. keris dihunus..dahlah pegang keris pon tak betul...sekali aku lipat berterabur tulang rusuk.. takleh nak bawak bincang langsung...orang cina ni dah lama kena "kencing" ngan umno...dengan orang melayu dia cakap "jangan sokong Pakatan...sebab ada D.A.P...derang tu anti-islam dan anti-melayu"... kat orang cina dia kata "jangan sokong Pakatan..sebab ada PAS...nanti derang menang...derang buat Hudud..habislah sume orang cina...habis sume kena potong tangan nanti..."
inilah kenyataan yang maha rasis dan merupakan satu penghinaan yang amat besar kepada kaum tionghua di negara kita...kalau aku berbangsa cina dan ade orang umno cakap camni depan aku..aku tumbuk muka dia sampai beratur gigi masuk perut...kenapa orang cina nak takut hukum hudud...kenapa nak takut kena potong tangan.. orang cina ni sume pencuri ke??...kepada komrad-komrad sume..renung-renungkanlah..selamat

Towering Malaysian: Ishak Ismail-Kisah Pak Cik Sahak

salam sejahtera komrad sekalian...
hari ini, Isnin 20 Okotber 2008, aku telah membuat keputusan maha berat...sume kerna sorang pemandu teksi....setelah memboikot utusan malaysia selama 10 tahun...akhirnya aku beli jugak hari ni...kenapa? hari ni bukan hari ahad yg dimana dlm utusan ada pancaindera.....aku terpaksa berhenti memboikot utusan sebab pak cik Sahak...tapi semalam jela..terkejut aku..harga rm1.50..nipis je..penipu rasis bangsat utusan nih!
Apa yg spesel sgt pasal pak cik sahak ni sampai boikot utusan malaysia selama 10 tahun dihentikan?...haa..ni kisahnye..Pak Cik Sahak ni pemandu teksi...tapi bukan calang2 pemandu teksi...dia ada sarjana (masters) dlm "corporate communication"... Pak Cik Sahak menerima ijazah Sarjana Komunikasi Korporat dari Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang pada Majlis Konvokesyen UPM Ke-32 semalam kot...respek btol aku ngan pak cik sahak...menjadi kebanggaan rakyat malaysia dan kaum veteran...umur dah setengah abad tapi masih nak timba ilmu...
kita ni yg muda belia malas...malu lah sket ngan pak cik sahak...lepas baca kisah pak cik sahak ni terbakar lak semangat aku nak sambung sarjana... kepada komrad yg tgh buat sarjana ke professional paper ke...bila dtg time susah tu dan korang nak give up..ingatlah pak cik sahak... bayangkanlah umur 50++ masuk dewan kuliah...belajar ngan budak yg lagi muda dari anak dia..bila ditanya kenapa sambung sarjana..pak cik sahak cakap dia nak jadi contoh yg baik kepada anak2 dia....bila ditanya pasal rahsia kejayaan..pak cik sahak kata yang dia menelaah 2 jam sehari..Dia menelaah dalam teksi sambil tunggu penumpang..respek!!

tapi mesti korang akan kata...selalu je org tua dpt sarjana...takkan ar sampai kau beli utusan yg kau dh boikot selama 10 tahun...ada 3 sebab..

1. ni berita frontpage utusan...selalunye pasal politik rasis takpon umno..naik jelak aku..tapi hari ni tidak..tu yg spesel...siap ada gambar pak cik sahak dlm teksi berjubah konvo...takdela muka pak lah ke tok jib dan bik mama di muka depan utusan hari ni..
   
2. pak cik sahak ni spm gred 2...dapat je spm terus keje...dah berpuluh2 tahun keje barulah timbul semangat nak amek ijazah...dah abes ijazah sambung sarjana...betapa tingginya semangat pak cik sahak ni...respek!!!
3. pak cik sahak ni sepupu bapak aku..kira pak cik aku..tu yg lagi bangga tu...btol ar kata orang...orang minang ni berjiwa besar, bersemangat tinggi dan intelek... hahahahaha... aku berdarah minang... hahaha..okla..selamat..

*artikel utusan tentang pak cik sahak.

p.s:if any of you want an english version of this entry..just drop me an email...then I'll post it..

Towering Malaysian-Datuk Chan Chew Lun

With all the political bullshit going on in this country...the mudslinging..poison pen letters... MCA holding its party election...UMNO with its nominations...the political shenanigans are in full-force in Malaysia,tanah tumpah darahku...you know the funny thing is that the MCA acknowledging the fact that they must change...however why is Chua Soi Lek is on the ballot for deputy president? judging from his libido and mojo he will win hands down!

Umno or its real name UMNO BARU is experiencing the same paradox..they want to change and yet muhammad muhammad taib is offering himself for the VP post ...emmm..interesting... Don't let me get started on MIC..It's seem that they suddenly cease to exist...With significant numbers of Indians joining PAS via Kelab Penyokong Pas..MIC is dying or already dead...and Samy Vellu..well just put it this way...Samy is being Samy...

In my opinion...there are 3 major problems with this country...UMNO,MCA and MIC...you put them together you get RACIAL POLITICS...the root of all that's wrong with this country...well let me it clear to all you BN ultras...MALAYSIAN ARE SICK AND TIRED OF RACIAL POLITICS...IF THE 2008 ELECTION WERE FREE AND FAIR RACIAL POLITICS WILL BE ALREADY DEAD AND BURIED...comprende?crystal?

With all these politician sulliying Malaysian Politics...one Malaysian stood above the rest..and made Malaysia proud that man is Datuk Chan Chew Lun...you see Datuk Chan is a naturalist based in KK... and the worlds longest insect is named after him "Phobaticus Chani" or Chan's Megastick...

"Chan said he had been collecting all types of stick insects since 1981 and had even written a number of articles about the creatures.He would go out to meet villagers and ask them to obtain specimens of the insect for him.

“One day in 1989, I met a farmer who handed over this huge stick insect he found somewhere at Ulu Moyog in Penampang district and I realised that it could be a totally new species,” he said.

He eventually sent the specimen to Bragg late last year. It resembled a pencil-thin dark green bamboo shoot measuring nearly 56cm if its twig-like legs were counted. Its body length was 35cm, beating the previous record held by Phobaeticus kirbyi."

-picture and excerpt from the star 18/10/2008

Datuk Chan received global recognition not by poison-pen letters or mudslinging but via hardwork,dedication and doing something that he loves...DATUK CHAN CHEW LUN, I salute you!!

I blog therefore I am...

salam...
It is a known fact that blog is short for web log...From what i know a log is like a journal of a ship captain on a voyage...e.g:"captain's log 19/10/2008"..sort of an old version of the black box.......however why is it called "log"... why don't just call it captain's journal...
in the quest of getting an answer to this irritating question, I ask the wisest man I know..the man said to me..."it is because in the old days the captain wrote his journal on a log..that's why it is called "log"...
well that makes sense...however what I'm thinking right now is the fact that if this wise man is pulling my leg,he surely pulled yours...hahaha