dinner semalam....best

salam & good day all

seminggu jugak aku tak update blog ni, Arsenal kalah punya pasai...hahaha. tensen aku, tambah lagi tensen dengan a few other issues, terus takdak mood aku nak update. selalu aku cakap kat bini aku; 'tak rasa la nak tulis apa2'. so macam tu la

sampai la semalam dinner time. bini aku buat segala macam benda pon dia grill..hehehe. atas request aku jugak. pernah sekali masa aku kat Malaysia tengok dia masak menda ni kat Melbourne ni, macam sedap saja. aku pon request la semalam dia buat camtu gak. tengok pon rasa macam dah sehat sikit, belum makan lagi ;-)

maka, terjadilah dinner kami semalam dengan makanan macam gambaq kat bawah ni

 

benda2 makan dalam pinggan2 gambaq atas ialah

1. ayam drumstick
2. ayam kepak
3. ayam fillet
4. asparagus
5. carrot
6. terung (urgghhh...tapi ku telan jua)
7. tomato (urgghhh x2..tapi ku telan jua)

semuanya grill, dan terasa sunggoh sehat. maka dengan ini aku berikrar akan belajar macam mana nak buat masakan ni sebelom aku balik Malaysia :-)

tu la dulu buat masa sekarang. nanti update lagi. ciao.

operasi mencari McDonald halal di Melbourne; MISSION GOOOOO!!!!

salam & good day all

hari Sabtu lepas bini aku jumpa supervisor untuk review terakhir lukisan2 final project dia. bila supervisor dia dah kata everything looks good, happy semacam la makcik sorang ni..hehe. terus dia ajak aku meng'initiate'kan operasi mencari McDonald halal di Melbourne. aku pon apa lagi, terus sarung kasut ja

disclaimer : operasi mencari ni untuk aku sahaja. bini aku dah memang pernah merasa dah McDonald halal kat Melbourne. so sebenarnya bukan la operasi, cuma bini aku nak tunjuk kat mana McDonald halal kat Melbourne ni ja...muehehehehe

MISSION GOOOOO!!!

from left : ketua pasukan operasi memulakan perjalanan.
kelmarin lunch tapau kat sini la. kebab ayam dia ma rvellous!!

from left : tu dien dah nampak dah tram stop.
ketua pasukan operasi enterframe...bwahahahah

from left : stop #4 untuk menunggu tram ke McDonald halal. tram #1 atau #8.
tu dien tram #1 mai dah. masuk, jangan tak masuk.
then berenti kat tram stop #127 untuk ke McDonald Brunswick. 

from left : daripada jauh dah nampak McDonald.
sebagai menghargai ketua pasukan operasi, bagi la dia enterframe banyak2 kali sikit.

from left : ketua pasukan operasi melangkah masuk untuk melengkapkan operasi.
halal certificate untuk McDonald ni.
sekali tengok staff McDonald ni macam muka somebody kat Scope Int daaa...

from left : haul for the day, 3 burgers, 2 fries and 2 drinks.
amek hang, the damage to the pocket. AUD22.05

from left : pandangan atas.
pandangan sisi.
pandangan hadapan dengan kotak burger sudah dibukak maksudnya...sudah ready untuk di NGAP...muehehe

maybe akan ada orang kata "ceh! pi jauh2 sampai Australia susah2 pulak nak makan McD. bukan takdak kat Malaysia". tu la hangpa taktau, sebab dah ada kat sini la kena rasa McDonald halal tengok, bukan senang ni nak jumpa. tapi rasa dia tak banyak beza pon la. tadi bini aku baru cakap yang KFC halal kat sini rasa dia lain, so the next operasi will be untuk mencarik KFC halal la pulok..muehehehehe.

semalam selepas mengerah tenaga berjalan kaki mencari tempat printing lukisan2 bini aku, berenti jap makan kat Blok M. nanti2 la aku buat entry pasal tu. tapi apa yang aku bole kata, menu Ikan Balado dia memang terbaik la. till then, ciao.

pictureOfTheMoment updated 101031

salam & good day all

as per the entry title, aku update pictureOfTheMoment hari ni dengan gambar stesen tram mana patut berhenti kalau nak carik McDonald halal kat Melbourne ni. stesen #127 ye tuan2 dan puan2 :-)

more on that in the later entry. ciao.

short summary on the match last night; Alex Song rocksss!!!!!!!

salam & good day all.

last night the plan was to watch both Arsenal match and also the Malaysia Cup finale match, but as I actually already expected I was not able to watch the Malaysia Cup finale due to no online streaming available for the match. even the RTM website doesn't help much, when they actually advertised in their official website that they have the online streaming service. but then, that should not really surprised me eh? hehe

anyway, was able to watch the Arsenal vs West Ham league match, and my hope for not-so-cold weather was fulfilled. maybe because it's already raining all day hence the night doesn't feel all that cold anymore. my short summary of the match as per below.

The Starting 11.

as per predicted in my previous post, le Boss will start Andy instead of Theodore in the LWF position. well, maybe some other time we'll be able to see Theodore on that said position as a starter.

The Substitutes.

Theodore for Denny Boy (min 67)

Super Nik for Andy (min 80)

Manu Eboue for Marouane (min 90)

The Final Result.

Arsenal 1-0 West Ham

Alex Song min 87

The Team Performance.

sure we all love the 4-0, 5-1 win but sometimes this kind of result will tell you more about the team. we keep on going with our game up until the final minutes, and I like it very much. we never gave up with our football identity up until the end, and in the end it proved to be just enough for 3 points. yup, 3 points is what matter the most with both Chelsea and Man U also winning their respective league match last night.

to sum it up, I am very proud with the team performance last night.

The Individual Performances.

standout performances from the defensive unit as a whole. they've look a lot better as a unit in recent matches. I'm not sure it's the effect of new found confidence in Lukasz or the effect of leadership from our new signing especially Seba who we all can see is vocal during the match. maybe it's the combination of both. Bak and Gael even go forward on attack with purpose and final ball now. Lukasz did his job very well again last night. and something I noticed was that our back 4 was all French last night. must be only the second time that happened.

Cesc was clearly carrying a knock, and still able to provide a number of killer passes. Samir took the deep lying playmaker role quite well when Theodore came in the second half. and Alex Song, our marauding midfield maestro. I guess people will not complain now that he always seems to found himself in the attacking moves which supposedly left his 'purpose' as a defensive midfield. bullshit la I tell you, we never played with defensive midfielder no more this season.

disappointing performances from Andy and Denny Boy. and to a lesser extent; Marouane. Marouane looks really tired and he could use a period of resting now that Nik is back. Denny lost the ball too much for my liking, and most of them are from his own mistakes i.e. heavy first touch and lack of positional awareness. surely Jack will take back his place now that he had finished serving his 3 match ban.

and on to Andy. let's give him a place on the bench for few games eh le Boss. can be good to rest him, he seems to always played an awful lot of international matches. cannot be help la I think since he is the Russia international team captain. but also, and more importantly maybe he will realize that he can be dropped if he keep on performing as how he's been doing so far this season. I'm quite sure Theodore will relish his opportunity to play on the left side if he got it.

The MOTM.

surely Robert Green deserve the MOTM for the match, but from our side I'm choosing Alex Song to be our MOTM.

that's it for now. and oh, Kelantan win Malaysia Cup after getting their revenge on N9 from last year final. congrats to them. ciao.

West Ham coming to the Emirates. and also Malaysia Cup finale; both tonight

salam & good day all

it'll be a late night again for me tonight as Arsenal will be playing at home to West Ham in a London derby league match at 0100 my local time. I just hope it won't be 9 degree celsius again as what I experienced last week, TWICE. it was so cold, I was shivering on both occasions.

anyway, we are coming to this match on the back of back-to-back away clean sheet victories last week. wow! it is actually feels weird to say that. I mean how often did we have a clean sheet recently, not to mention back-to-back away at that. maybe there are some hope for our GK department after all..hehe. we are still without Robin, Kieran and the Verminator through injuries. we also be without Jack as he'll be serving his last match suspension from the red card he received during the match against Birmingham. Aaron is still on his road to recovery. I don't think we'll see him playing at all this year, while I fully expect him to start his on-field recovery next year. anything good occurs during this year will be considered bonus for me.

with that being said, I'm hoping that we'll start like this tonight.

I always want to see how Theodore will do on the left side of our attacking pay ala King Henry used to do last time around. and with Andy mixture performances this season we should be trying it now, at home against opposition who known to play open football (but then who knows maybe they'll park the bus also tonight..hahaha). adding the ammo to that suggestion is that now Samir had proved to be an excellent goal threat also. my understanding of why le Boss keep on playing Andy even though at times (and most of the times to be honest) he doesn't bring much into our play was that Andy provides excellent goal threats. and in our team especially when Cesc was not available we just do not have enough of it (goal threats) to be able to drop Andy.

but I know that le Boss will start with Andy on the LWF position tonight. so let's just hope for the best. I know we will win as long as we keep on attacking from the very 1st minute.

also tonight is a Malaysia Cup finale, a repeat of last season final between Kelantan and Negeri Sembilan. I'm still looking around the net for a way to watch this online, even though I'm not expecting much. here's hoping for a good match, for the sake of Malaysian football.

ciao.

insiden sorang2 dan memalukan pagi sabtu

salam & good day all

my other half went to see her supervisor for early round of final reviews for her final project, so aku sorang2 kat rumah pagi tadi. lepas kemas2 rumah, aku pon masuk toilet nak mandi. tiba2...

(bunyi berdering2 seperti bunyi telefon)
aku : (bergegas2 keluar dari toilet dan angkat telefon) hello
(bunyi berdering2 masih kedengaran)
aku : hello hello..moshi moshi
(bunyi berdering2 berhenti)
aku : (sambil menoleh dan melihat pintu)ceh, bunyi interkom ropa2nya

ya, sunggoh bengong aku. bunyi interkom pon tak perasan dan pi angkat talifon pulak..muehehehehe

ciao.

oh yeah!!!! we're into the last eight of Carling Cup

salam & good day all

today I'm up early. for Subuh and for the Carling Cup round of 16 match between Arsenal and Newcastle at St. James Park kickoff at 5.40 am local Melbourne time and it was so cold it's freezing. last time I watched Arsenal match around this time, it was 9 degree celcius. that was last Monday morning and I'm pretty sure this morning it was just as cold as that time.

does not feel like writing a hell lot about the match so am going to just write the summary of the match and what I think of it.

Starting 11

Substitutes

Bak for Kieran
Cesc for Denny Boy
JET for Super Nik

Final Result

Newcaste United 0 - 4 Arsenal (Krul o.g., Theodore x2, Super Nik)

Team Performance

we did OK. after blistering start we did slow down quite a bit and Newcastle does made it hard for us. le Boss really seems to take this competition seriously, he even sent out Cesc for the last 20 minutes. some may argue that he sent Cesc in because our captain needs some game time but I'd prefer to see it as statement of intent on how serious he view this competition. and also it also proved that we are currently having enough depth in the team to take all competition seriously.

Individual Performance

standout performers were Wojciech, Laurent and Super Nik. we absolutely MUST ensure Wojciech sign the contract extension A.S.A.P!! Theodore getting back to form just nice, 2 very well taken goals. if Cesc had played from the beginning I really fancy Theo getting more than just a couple of goals.

disappointing performances from CVela, Johan, Denny Boy and Eastmond. CVela looks like he is not suited at all to be playing that wing forward position. maybe a loan move will do all parties good ala young Jack last season. Johan seems weak and not good at all, though he did improved a lot in the second half. Denny Boy and Eastmond together just doesn't work in this match. as if they are both the same players, poor positionally most of the times, passing sideways all of the time, bad 1st touch etc. maybe nerves or in Denny Boy case, getting back to match fitness.

MOTM

it's really hard to choose from Wojciech and Laurent, but I'll go with Wojciech. this is the first time I watch him in a full match, and I now realized what the buzz was all about. get him sign NOW boss!!!!

that's it for now. ciao.