tough group

came in this morning to work and got ping'd about the latest draw for the groups stages of the EUFA Champs league. oh boy.... here we go again

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=566834&sec=uefachampionsleague&cc=5901

this the fixtures for the 5 times winners:


GROUP D
September 16
PSV Eindhoven v Atletico Madrid
Olympique Marseille v Liverpool

October 1
Liverpool v PSV Eindhoven
Atletico Madrid v Olympique Marseille

October 22
Atletico Madrid v Liverpool
PSV Eindhoven v Olympique Marseille

November 4
Liverpool v Atletico Madrid
Olympique Marseille v PSV Eindhoven

November 26
Atletico Madrid v PSV Eindhoven
Liverpool v Olympique Marseille

December 9
PSV Eindhoven v Liverpool
Olympique Marseille v Atletico Madrid


Looking at the spread, undoubtedly MU and Chelski got the easy routes.
Arsenal have their shares of troubles facing Porto, Fernebache, and Dynamo Kiev.

Well, it's not liverpool if we don't do it the hard way.... (hope this doesn't come back to bite me in the arse...)

http://117.120.1.155

after the latest turn of events in the malaysian political scene, seems that the BN govt has taken a step that may end up being a kick in their own face.

Malaysia Today, run by the ever resourceful RPK, has been censored by BN's communications body. Could this be a turning point in

a) internet as we know it?
b) the government?
c) (false sense of) freedom?

Go ahead and read the unbiased report from Malaysian Insider

It's interesting that a government body like the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission's (MCMC) is hellbent on blocking 1 website with political vocal power, while millions of pages containing online betting, pornography, religious malpractices, racism, home made weapons, and countless other 'damaging material' is widely allowed, and even ignored.

What say you, oh fellow Malaysian? But then again, i think this is the first year where 'Independence' (of which celebratory feeling i think is severely hampered) may have a new notion altogether.

We're through!

Dirk Kuyt scored late in extra time after an expected tough display by the Belgian Liege side to send Liverpool into the group stages of the UEFA Champions league. A hard fought game, the Reds came out with all cylinders on fire, pinning the youngsters into their half for the first half hour. slowly the tide began to turn as Standard began to play on the counter. Second half was more of the midfield battle, with neither keeper tested seriously.

Extra time loomed after a goalless first leg, and Liverpool piled on the pressure, which finally told as Babel came more into the game. His late cross into the box was duly met by the tireless Kuyt late into the second half of extra time. Standard Liege troop home with their heads held high, as they've been worthy opponents. Great things are bound to come from these young Belgian champions, but for now, Liverpool are back where they belong amongst the elite of Europe

YNWA

finger nails chewing time....

it's a nerve-wracking , nail biting, neighbour cursing, god swearing time tonight. i may be just rambling here, on edge... but the european season is at stake here. All the best to the Reds.

YNWA

winds of change? or the lesser of evils? time will tell

like me new shoes...

i managed to get me a pair of court shoes (for me weekly badminton sessions). searched around for a wee bit, but didn't manage to turn up nothing. was a walkin in the mall last sunday, and happened upon a store with not just me size, but also with an added discount. so me gots em.

i up and tried em this morning, and i dare say, me was pleased with the result. the fit was good, as was the weight of em. dang things didn't even 'bite' me. looking forward nowadays to using em more regularly now. :)

Anfield is abuzz!!

The season started a week ago, and LFC got off to a start with an away win at the Black Cats. 3 points were obtained with a second half stunner from distance by Torres.

This time around, Boro came a calling to Anfield, and with a new look electronic advertising board to usher in the new season, looked set to be a cracker. But most of the action was even-sided with Boro not letting the Reds settle, and giving it a go themselves. Of course, 20 mins from the end, they were rewarded when Mido smashed one in to stun the home crowd.

I was sure glad when we responded with some good chances of our own. A Xabi cross was handled, and surprisingly, ref Riley played on. The ball ended up at Carragher's feet, and he duly smashed it goalwards. A sweet deflection turned it in, to setup a nerve wrangling last few minutes.

Deep deep into injury time 94th minute), in came a cross from Xabi, and with defender Huth only managing to glance it away from Keane, it bounced into Stevie G's path. A cracking of a screamer into the top corner set off Anfield to celebrations galore. I'd say we won it ugly, but i'll take it as it's sure better then dropping points at home.

YNWA

WTF... are u freakin kidding me????

yes it happened again.... and somehow i'm still don't know why i'm surprised anymore..... another foreign artiste is banned from performing. and this one a teenage rocker from Canada...... are you kidding me... no wonder we have no youth problems if the government policy is to cancel any semblence of western influence on the youth nowadays.... what the fuck!!!

and no i'm not a big fan of her, but if this kind of act is deemed too sexy, then how the hell are any of the other world class , and worldly talented artistes ever going to be here....

i guess we malaysians best bet is to attend concerts at our southern neighbours hospitality...

Laurence Fishburne Officially Joins CSI

Source: CBS

August 18, 2008

Oscar nominee and Emmy and Tony Award winner Laurence Fishburne (What's Love Got To Do With It, The Matrix, "Miss Evers' Boys") has officially joined the cast of the CBS Paramount Network Television and Jerry Bruckheimer Television series, "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," on the CBS Television Network. His character will debut in this season's ninth episode.

Fishburne will play a former pathologist who is now working as an itinerant college lecturer, teaching a course in criminalistics. His focus is on understanding criminal behavior, how and why people commit acts of violence - tendencies he disturbingly sees within himself. In the course of a murder investigation, he comes into contact with the CSI team and ultimately joins the Las Vegas Crime Lab as a Level-1 CSI.

"CBS asked us, 'Who's at the top of your dream list?' say CSI executive producers Carol Mendelsohn and Naren Shankar. "Without hesitation, we said Laurence Fishburne. He is a powerful and intense actor, with an incredible range. We had the opportunity to see Mr. Fishburne in 'Thurgood' on Broadway a few weeks ago, and it was a truly profound experience. The actor disappeared and Thurgood Marshall was standing there on the stage. Mr. Fishburne is also a talented writer and director. If you distill 'CSI' down to its essence, it's a collaboration-and we are so looking forward to collaborating with Mr. Fishburne. For all of us at CSI, this is truly a dream."

"I am elated and delighted to be joining the cast of 'CSI,'" says Fishburne. "I look forward to a wonderful collaboration with the creative and talented team of such a successful and distinguished show," he added.


(article is copied from www.comingsoon.net)

long time ago....

hhmm it was quite a few days ago from my last post eh ...wonder why.

I think it was back to work last weds, and what a busy week it was. Mcafee crisis, resources as usual, planning for a Ipoh Road-trip-makan-excursion, meetings, and trainings planning etc... woah woah WOAH... well anyway... got thru that one. now for another.

Didn't make it for the road-trip....cos my babe was down with a fever... and i couldn't bear to leave her alone... so stayed back (hope u guys had a fun time...). Turned out to be a productive day anyway. Had lunch, and then got some groceries. Came home after that to get jasmin her rest, and i managed to get working on some after hours work ....somehow that damn excel was cursed i tell you.
Corrupted when transfered from office, couldn't ge the query to work, then managed to find a copy online...worked on it somehow... and sent it off by the end of the day.

My honey felt much better in the evening, and decided some culinary therapy was in order to get over her um weekend. So, i had a great dinner to make up for the missed outing, hehe. Pork Curry, Tauhu Sambal, and topped with vege crackers ... hhmmm i have to admit I overate hehehe.

Now for the week ahead. what's in store? who knows. At least i'll be looking forward to my badminton session tomorrow.

got it in my mail..

this year by kiddo sis did me a biggie by sending me my Rakhi by post. I always told her to keep it until i visited, and always seemed to forget about it when i did. So got home from work on Saturday, and was very pleasantly surprised to open a card from her, and lo my rakhi was in it! yeaayyy.

Thanks Suman. Love ya lots.

( for those who don't know what Rakhi is... see here and here for more info)

aarrgghh

just as the Olympics season has started, and now as the dawn of the BPL is upon us, my Panasonic 29" Flat Screen TV decided to do the unthinkable..... it shorted! damn it... was watching telly last night, and suddenly the pics had lines across it like someone set off a EMP next to it....... then if got ok.... but alas, it was a false sense of relief. 15 minutes later, the EMP went off again.. only this time.. the picture was reduced to a condensed image about 2 cm thick... and then poof!! it was gone.... and there was a smell of some electrical component getting shorted..... u know the one i'm talking about... it's as if a lizard or cockroach decided to take a walk thru your main circuit board and then ZAP!!... ...... what will i do.... being 4 years old, whatever warranty i had should have been as expired as the food in the office fridge!

all signs pointed to the obvious... time to get a LCD or plasma hahahah.. but then reality hit home. my voice of reasoning (my wife) suggested we call up Panasonic to see if they could fix/service/repair/crush the LCD dreams the tv first... (hehe kidding hon). So i called em up, and they'll be sending someone over tomrrow to investigate the fault.

Hope i can have it up and running soon. Fingers crossed.

talented comic passes on

Just days after being hospitalized for pneumonia, actor and comedian Bernie Mac passed away at the age of 50 at Northwestern Hospital early Saturday morning. The news comes just one day after reports that Mac was recovering and would be released from the hospital in a few weeks. Career highlights for the Chicago native include his FOX sitcom 'The Bernie Mac Show' and his co-starring role in the popular 'Ocean's' series opposite George Clooney and Brad Pitt. He had recently completed the movie Old Dogs and has two movies opening in November, DreamWorks' animated sequel Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Malcolm Lee's Soul Men. Mac leaves behind Rhonda, his wife of 30 years, their daughter Je'Niece and a granddaughter Jasmine.

Mac suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease

R.I.P Bernie.

good evening commissioner....

I watched the Dark Knight for the third time today. come on.. u know u want to as well... so don't be too quick to judge me :p

We all know how good the movie is, the strength of the story, the emotionally depraved display of the prince of mayhem, and the background story with regards to the untimely demise of one the industry's young stars.

But today i realised how two main characters were well depicted in this episode of the Gotham saga. I've always held the talents of Gary Oldman and Aaron Eckhart in high esteem, but their performances this time around, well i am almost at a loss for words.

Oldman plays the role almost as if Jim Gordon just walked off the pages of the DC comic books. For me, it's as if he IS Jim Gordon.

I'm glad Chris Nolan showed the progression of Sgt Gordon over the two movies, developing the character. Wonder if there will be enough sequels to depict the aging of his movie kids, to eventually introduce Barbara Gordon to become the Batgirl, maybe even starting off a new franchise??

Difficult to say, but who knows.

Another actor who (i feel) has been constantly improving and is great fun to watch, right from Erin Brockovich up to Thank You For Smoking, is Aaron Eckhart. When i found out he was going to play Harvey Dent aka Two face, i was thrilled to say the least. I mean this would be a good step up from Tommy Lee Jones's (no disrespect to Jones) version in the earlier Batman franchise (the kiddie version i would say).

And boy, you know how they say when you place the right toys in the right kids hands, you get magic? well i said it hehe.


Watching the switch from knight in shining armour to evil incarnate personified, with such raw emotion and conviction actually provided the platform for which Bale, Ledger, Oldman et all to combine ensemble with outstanding results.

We can only look forward to the next installment of the series.

ps: just in ::

The Dark Knight broke yet another record as it passed up the $400 million in just 18 days (!!!). The previous record was held by Shrek 2, which needed 43 days (!!!) to reach the mark, followed by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which took 45 days (!!!).

hoho hoho ho haha ha ha hihi hi hi ho ha......

ooh my newest addition to my increasingly costly new passion(?) .... my baby bought me an early birthday present. yeay yeay yeay!! thanks darling!!

nature in view

donno y.. sometimes i like to look out from my balcony (or the windows from my doorless balcony) and the first thing i always see, is this tree next to the USM lake.
Big, solid, and standing alone peacefully. I assume there's gonna be a few comments about this post.. but hey, it's my blog!! :P

Woohooooo

sometimes when u enter competitions, you hope against hope, and sometimes u think .. it's never gonna happen.

But u know, i've been sometimes lucky enough to win the odd small prize. This week i got a pleasant surprise, when a package arrived from Citibank... for a competition my darling and i entered a couple of months back in Queensbay. Yeay! another home appliance. now to figure out where to put it. hehehhehe

woah! woah!

damn time flies.... i just realised it's been a few days since my last post. More and more friends have been asking about my Blog... and since i'm passing that around, thought might as well keep to the standards i presume i have.


Well went back to Taiping last saturday after work, went to pick up my Jaanu who had gone home for the weekend with Ranveer. HHmmm got to sleep on the punjabi manja, had nice thosai from Aulong market in the morning, then had good home cooked food for lunch, which was followed by a cendol in the afternoon; however i think the cendol fella either had an off day, or he also succumbed to the pressures of cost (in between the lines = wasn't very nice). Then as we were leaving Taiping, i stopped by town to pick up a special request by George.

Seems there's this kind of big pau, which they sell in Ipoh and Taiping (but i never heard of). So with some unsure directions from another colleague, i trid to locate it. Lo and behold, the foot long PAU!!


hhmm not bad.. tastes nice, and it's soft as well. It's also not as sweet as the ones we usually buy. well.. this is a new option for desert!! haha.