Kedah 0-0 Kelantan dan tragedi celup tepong

salaam & good day all

20 October 2010, jam 2330 aku dengan setianya mengadap laptop Apat yang aku pinjam ni dan dengan penuh semangatnya membukak Google Chrome browser dan jugak application Internet Super TV (Super la sangat..haha). separuh akhir Piala Malaysia antara Kedah dan Kelantan akan bermula dalam 15 minit lagi dan aku konon2 la nak bersedia awai sikit. bukak website HKC, tengok kat chatbox ramai ni malam ni. biasa la, malam game stadium maya kat HKC pon ramai. lepaih tu aku teruih klik RTM1 kat Internet Super TV tu, dengan yakinnya menunggu keluaq stream untuk RTM1 sebab dalam sejam sebelom tu OK ja, dan takdak masalah apa pon tengok stream RTM1.

aku switch sat pi ke chatbox HKC. alamak! khabaq tak baek. ada beberapa forumers yang claim strem RTM1 tak jalan..huhuhu..dengan penuh 'anxious'nya aku bukak window stream RTM1 tu dan damn! memang takdak pon. try untuk the next half an hour pon sama ja sebelom aku give up. potong betui la, aku dah gila bersemangat dah daripada siang lagi. siap kena marah lagi dengan bini sebab bukak lagu hijaukunig kuat2 dalam rumah..hahaha..anyway seri 0-0 dan khabarnya main macam hampeh. tapi look at the bright side, at least tak concede dan this will force Kelantan to win this weekend untuk depa layak masuk final. a score draw for us will be enough. semoga Super Internet TV ni tak jam la weekend ni. lama tu aku tak tengok Kedah main. last sekali tengok masa lawan Perak awai musim haritu ha.

ni dia lagu keramat kita, PULUN KEDAH PULUN!!!!




semalam dinner bini aku buat sotong dan udang celup tepong. fuhh..memang cantik menarik kau memang the BOMB la. punya la menarik, aku tak sempat nak tangkap gambaq sebab tak tahan nak makan..hahaha..tapi ada pulak tragedi yang memang potong betui ke'enjoy'an kami melantak sotong & udang celup tepong tu. boleh pulak sos Lingham yang aku baru beli Ahad lepaih rasa macam masam sikit. then bini aku tengok sikit tarikh expired dia.

1st picture ialah the sos Lingham yang aku cerita ni. 2nd picture is the expiry date which read '170410'. oh, the horror! it's 6 months expired man. patut la masam semacam ja. terus rasa sakit perut walaupon tak sakit pon sebenaqnya, it's all in the mind ja.

then aku belek2 lagi sekali tarikh expired dia sebab rasa cam pelik pulak expired dah 6 bulan tapi kedai tu still jual. ropa2nya aku ada jumpa 1 lagi tarikh bawah tu, expired dia read '30-10-2011'. hilang sakit perut aku...hahahaha.

tapi awat yang dia masam aku pon taktau. botol besaq pulak tu, tensi aku. macam nak kena beli lain ja ni..huhuhu

ok la, it's Friday and have to get ready for prayers. ciao.

Arsenal 5-1 Shakhtar Donetsk. perfect for us and welcome back Dudu

salaam & good day all

so I was up as early as 0420 today morning to watch the match. the match itself does not start until 5.45 am but I was settling down for prayers and getting pumped up for the match and Dudu return to the Emirates.

on to the match. we never get out of our second gear but yet we won 5-1. we are not performing that well, but  we never need to do that in this match. Shakhtar doesn't seems to recover at all from their GK howler that presented us the opening goal in the first half, which was coolly (and luckily) converted by Alex Song. further goals followed from Samir, Cesc (penalty), Jack and Marouane while Shakhtar replied with a late consolation goal by who else, Dudu. that has got to be the first time I ever saw the Emirates celebrated an away goal like that. practically everyone were on their feet, applauding and chanting Dudu's name. even the man himself obviously holding up his tears when asked in the post match interview the question on the Emirates faithful reception towards his appearance. you'll always be welcomed at the Emirates Dudu.

match rating followed.

Lukasz - not much to do, but did OK with what he had to do. slowly gaining confidence back and hopefully he will turn out to be what le Boss keep on claiming; a world class GK he always saw in training. (6)

Manu Eboue - typical Manu Eboue performance. strong on attack, and decent on defensive duties. lack of attack from Shakhtar meant that he spent more time on their half all game. (6)

Laici - OK performance. thought he could and should do better for the Dudu's goal, but that is taking nothing away from the coolness of Dudu's goal. other than that, satisfactory match for Laici. (5.5)

Johan - got a penalty for us. also lost his man a few times when defending. other than that, doing perfectly fine for a player who miss the whole of last season. a very good 4th choice defender for any club. (5.5)

Gael - thought he did good. always making himself available for the passes and always provide option when attacking. if only his deliveries in the final third are good, we ought to score a few more from it. (6)

Jack - getting better by the match. and it is good to finally see how the partnership of him and Cesc work. and I like what I see. get a goal also, a wonderful goal at that. MOTM for me. (7.5)

Cesc - painfully obvious that he is still lacking match fitness. of course la, he just came back from a month absence. but also painfully obvious is his class. should be better in the coming matches though. (6.5)

Alex Song - I'm getting tired of people criticizing Alex Song for attacking too much, for not be the 1 sitting in front of the back 4 and protect them in the traditional DM style. we do not play like that. we play with 3 CMs who attack and defend when needed to. heck Alex Song even got a goal and an assist in this match. (7)

Samir - he looks to be stepping it up (at least goal-scoring wise) this season but still find himself stuck in the wing forward position, such as the quality we have in the midfield. but still he goes on with his job, and even scored. the problem I have with players like Samir and Tomas playing the wing forward position is that they did not offer enough penetration through the wing position while players like Theodore and Andy do just that. (6.5)

Tomas - see Samir above, without the goal. (6)

Marouane - he is yet to fully in synch with the rest of the team, but he is getting there. scored a goal, even manage to have a look at the linesman before doing that. ingat komik bolasepak Jepun ka? hahaha (6.5)

Denny Boy (sub) - doing OK when coming on for Cesc. the thing I like the most about Denny Boy is that he always making himself available for the ball and always tried to keep the fast ball movement going. looks like also he bulking up quite a bit this season. (5.5)

Theodore (sub) - came in to play the CF role but failed miserably. put him on the RWF and I can assure you he'll look a different player. tried hard, too hard perhaps but nothing comes out for him. (4.5)

Andy (sub) - see Theodore above, but slightly worse. (4)


also, my local team playing the 1st leg of Malaysia Cup semi final at Darulaman Stadium tonight against the mighty Kelantan. the game will be played at 2345 at my local time here so another late night for me tonight. probably will come out with another entry for that before the kick off.

till then, ciao.

bengong me & Dudu return in 1 hour time

salaam & good day all

was supposes to write something about Kedah Malaysia Cup semi final match against Kelantan and Arsenal Champions League group match again Dudu's Shakhtar Donetsk last night but due to certain reasons does not materialize. 'certain reasons' in this case were

1. Kedah match was tonight, not last night. good thing my wife had a chat with my brother who's in Kedah right now. if not I'd look like stupid idiot waiting for the match close to midnight here last night.
2. so after that me and my wife decided to watch some movie first. we took up the challenge of 'Frozen'. damn that movie sucks big time. fall asleep after the second guy fighting the wolves.

so here i am, up at 4.30 in the morning (most of all because I haven't perform Isya' yet...huhu) and writing something about all the above 1 hour from kickoff time.

so news are that Cesc and Theodore are available. Robin, the Verminator, Bak and Koci still not though. seriously what the hell is up with our injuries situation. looks to be worse by the season. really, somebody should have take a look at it and come up with permanent solution. so with all the news re: injuries, comeback, suspension, league commitment on the weekend etc, I'm expecting the team to be as per below.

Lukasz

Manu Eboue   Laici   Johan   Kieran

Denny Boy   Alex Song   Jack

Theodore   Marouane   Tomas

with Carlos Vela, Nik and Samir to come in as substitute in the second half.

should have been a straight forward win if the team concentrate enough and play to their usual ability. my main worry is that our defensive play as a group seems to be very, very poor. we just did not defend very well, full stop. I'm not sure what really was the cause for this but someone ought to have a look at it (paging Mr. Arsene Wenger). and by saying 'if the team concentrate enough', I mean to not let mind game such as this affect how we perform tonight.

it's time for Subuh prayer now. will be watching the match after that. here's hoping for a good entertaining game, and an Arsenal win la of course. till then, ciao.

oh, and 1 other thing not to be forgotten. welcome back Dudu :-) I'm sure Gooners at the Emirates will be giving you superb reaction later on

Arsenal 2-1 Birmingham : a late review (and a short one at that)

salaam & good day all

I know it's been 2 days since the match, but I'd promised myself I'll do a review on that match so here I am writing a review for it. anyway will only do a short and brief review of it since I'm planning to post up a couple more entries today

their goal.

the header was unstoppable from Lukasz point of view. it's the kind of header that you (as a GK) will be damn frustrated that you are not able to do anything about it because it is very slow. but a well placed header to the bottom corner at that. defending the cross and the header could be better though.

the penalty/the dive/Marouane the 'diver'/our equalizer.

the penalty was the correct decision. and Marouane did not dive. there was contact, and he fall after the contact. yes, he did ensure that the referee know of the foul but it was not a dive.

our winning goal.

coolly taken by Marouane. he and Jack seems to have a very good understanding of each other.

Jack dismissal.

a deserved red card but I prefer to look things on the brighter side. now he will get his much needed rest, and hopefully he will learn from this. at least learn to gain revenge on other thing Jack, and make sure the referee did not see it..bwahahahaha

MOTM.

Jack deserve this just ahead of Marouane in my opinion. I'm not sure whether am I supposed to be happy or sad that an 18 year old midfielder is our best player so far this season.

will post up a couple more entries on the Kedah semi final match and Arsenal CL group match later on. till then, ciao.

pictureOfTheMoment updated & later post

salaam & good day all

just get back from doing some groceries shopping and the bank, my other half deposited some money in the fear that both of us will spend them all on makan2..hahaha. as per the entry title suggest, pictureOfTheMoment had been updated from my lil girl Ain Sofia > 1 year old photo to this photo

this is what we (me & my wife) will first see when we come out from the apartment that we are currently staying in. to be exact, this is how the right sided of the view looks like.

a few things that later I'd like to write about today.

1. Arsenal performances against Birmingham short review
2. early preview for the upcoming match tomorrow early morning and Arsenal related news
3. Kedah also playing tonight, Malaysia Cup semi final

will do the writing a bit later on. now off to kitchen for me. nope, not cooking today but helping (albeit only in potong2 bawang..hehehe) my other half in making laksa..yummy

till then, ciao.

what happen when you leave your blog unattended for more than 1 year

salaam & good day all

it'd been more than 1 year since I last updated this blog when I opened it back yesterday. and my other half noticed something weird on my last post, in the comment column. apparently i have 39 comments for that entry, which quite a high number of comments for a blog who only have 2 viewers (my other half and my lil sister).

so with curiosity in mind, i clicked and on it. and both of us burst to laughter after that.

apparently, only the 1st comment was a valid/counted comment. all the comments after that are spam comment. never had any kind of similar spam comment attack before, hence I think my un-knowledgeability (or stupidity for never anticipate this..hahaha) can be forgiven.

so, that is what will happen when you leave your blog unattended for more than 1 year.

ciao.

i'm back

salaam & good day all

yeah, i'm back updating this blog of mine. thought that it'd served me better if i have 1 place to merapu about whatever this head of mine having interest on and 1 other place just to upload picture with simple description of it. this other place to upload my picture is of course my opera picture blog.

anyway, am re-arranging my page now. do not know that we can amend the width of the column in the page.hahahaha..mengong me. will post up entries after finish with that. in the meantime, this blog will look messy from time to time before i complete my blog make over ;-)

till then, ciao.