Photo of the Week

Camera: Canon EOS 400D

Exposure: 25 sec

Aperture: f20

Focal Length: 18mm

ISO Speed: 100

Exposure Bias: 0 EV

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PFA Player of the Year; Ryan Giggs

I read his book last year; 'Giggs-The Autobiography'. The first sportsman autobiography book that I had read indeed. Sometimes it is cruel but somehow it must be said. Some players are wonderful, even great, when they are playing for their clubs but somehow when they play for their country they fall short of expectation. Whereas, there are another group of players that are marvelous for their nation but their nation just could not produce enough quality players to make a decent team. Such was the case for Wales and Ryan Giggs.

Giggs is a player with tremendous talent. I still cannot find a 35 year old who still runs at defenders as he does. He does the same for his country of origin but sadly to say he has gone nowhere. He runs just the same but into a brick wall. The thing is he keeps running at the wall over and over again for his beloved country. He started donning his national colours at the age of 17 and finally he said enough is enough. He is tired running into the brick wall of failure.

The point is one player does not make a team. The team should consist of several players to goalkeep, to defend and to attack. To make the grade into a final, like the world cup final or European championship final, you need a good team with several good players. Sad to say that Wales only has Giggs. Bellamy is a great that never was. His indiscipline has gotten him no where. George Weah was another player to be placed in this category. He was voted world’s best player but he never got the same accolades with his national team.

I still remembered the time when Giggs came to Malaysia with Manchester United. I was form 3 that time. My friend and I skipped the prep hours and went back to our dorm just to watch ManU vs Malaysia match on tv3.. Spirit! :-) Although he was playing against a 122 (is it that still? Opsss,its 161 now!! cannot believe that no huh?trust me) ranked team in the world, he still played his best. It doesn’t matter if you beat the team 10-0 but the key is you must give it your best. Which is something I cannot say for the rest of the squad. The team cannot ‘save face’ the Malaysian team or else they will never realize how far lagging they are. That is the mark of a true sportsman.

A sportsman should be true to himself and should be true to his paying fans!

For the first time, he has won the precious award in his glittering career- he is the Professional Footballers's Association of the Year!!! :-) Congratulation to you Giggs!

Mosaic Collection: Rose Festival 08

كهيلڠن

ساي امت سديه كران تله كهيلڠن تمن يڠ ستيا كڤد ساي سجق تيڬ تاهون دهولو. تيدق تاهو اڤ ترجادي ڤدڽ تتاڤي دي تله تياد. سديه سمڤأي تيدق تركلوار اير مات اين. موڠكين سوده تقدير دان تيبا ماسڽ اونتوق دي ڤرڬي. تياد لنسوڠ تندا-تندا يڠ منونجوقكن دي اكن ڤرڬي. سميڠڬو سبلوم ڤمرڬيانڽ، ساي بارو فورمتكن ناديڽ دڠن تتيڠكڤ يڠ بارو. دي كليهاتن چريا دان برڬرق دڠن لنچر سكالي. ببراڤ هاري كمودين، دي ڤدم دان هيلڠ سچارا تيبا-تيبا. ساكيت جنتوڠ اڬقڽ. ڤواس ساي ممبري بنتوان كچمسن كڤداڽ تاڤي دي تيدق ماهو باڠون. ادوه، بركچاي هاتيكو.... سلاڠ ببراڤ هاري، سساورڠ تله منجاتوهكن لنس چوميل 50 مم ساي، دان بادنڽ بركچاي دوا. تيدق داڤت دسلامتكن لاڬي. اڤ مالڠ ڤوڽا نصيب لا، هيلڠ ساتو، ساتو لاڬي هيلڠ. مان ماهو چاري ڬنتي كدوا-دواڽ؟ دويت ڤون سوده تياد. ڤنيڠ سوڠڬوه كڤالا ساي. ڤلباڬاي مسئله. نصيب-نصيب . سلامت تيڠڬل كومڤوتر ريبا دان لنس چوميلكو. اكنكو ايڠت جاس-جاس كاليان. سكين.والسلام. Go and learn JAWI if you want to read this post

Moment

Current Reading: Lightbown, P.M. & Spada, N. (2006). How languages are learned?

Current Music: Use Somebody by Kings of Leon

Mood: Wide awake

Smells: Nescafe and lavender

Sounds: Silence

Temperature: 15 Celsius

Thoughts: 1st assignment worth 50% from overall marks??damn!

Mosaic Collection: SBE 2008

Photo of the Week

Camera: Canon EOS 400D

Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)

Aperture: f4.5

Focal Length: 300 mm

ISO Speed: 100

Exposure Bias: 0 EV

Flash: No Flash

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Musim Lara

Kuterlena

dek hiburan warna kedaunan

musim luruh

luluh hatiku

Kuterjaga

dengan ketukkan salju di jendela

mengejutkanku dari

lamunan panjangku

kuterasing sepi

dikelilingi pasir debu putih

terhampar dingin

sedingin hatiku

Bunyi air mengalir

salju cair mencairkan hati batuku

musim bunga menjelma

memberikanku haruman

tika kelam menyembunyikan cahaya

tika cahaya kemalu-maluan

kulihat di sudut jendela

kau timbul di balik panggilan senja

Senja kini cerah

pabila mentari garang

menusuk tubuh dinginku

memecah sunyi hati

-fman024-

Farewell Summer 09/08, with the end of Day Light Savings tonight. I'm going to miss summer season in New Zealand so much.

Selamat Datang Autumn

Coldplay Coldplay Coldplay

A very belated short review from the Coldplay concert last 2 weeks. This is my first ever Coldplay concert and easily the biggest I've seen. I'm nothing short of being blown away. There were so many highlights, I can't name them all because i'll basically be writing a transcript of the concert. So, i'll just post the photos to do all the talking..

Starting performance by local artist...em,can't remember her name.

2nd performance by Mercury Rev. Mantap gle

5 min before Coldplay came out

Badut cleaner menenangkan hati penonton dgn tarian break dance-nya

Penonton membanjiri Vector Arena

The time that we have been waiting for so long!

Suspend bro! suspend! haha

Yeah!!

Photo taken by Afiq..die sesat jauh dr stage.

Haa,I don't know the order of the concert starting this photo.dah campur dgn gmbr dr jack.

Oh ya,photos were taken by Afiq and Jack, I can't bring my camare along-I bet u know why..

Penat la nk komen semua gmbr..

"Those have been the two biggest chanllenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt."-Chris Martin

Out came the balloons for Yellow, everyone had fun with those, great way to keep the crowd entertained because everyone loved them.

"That's my life, man. it doesn't make any sense but it's a lot of fun." –Chris Martin

;)

Everyone was dancing along to 42 by the middle section of the song. Fix You was a massive singalong like Yellow.

Viva La Vida,crowd went nuts. Great great great performance of it. Then Lost got a play. Afterwards, the boys disappeared off the stage and then reappeared in the crowd .

"That's what we have to remember: We're only on our third record. Pokemon was huge for a while, but that hasn't really lasted. At this point, I feel like we're the new wazzzzup!"-Chris Martin

Jonny Buckland-Lead Guitarist

Jonny Buckland on the whole band: "Will is the man that says 'no', I'm the man that says 'yes', Guy is the man who says 'maybe' and Chris is the man who says 'what about this...' " haha

Politik came on, everyone bounced along to it. Lovers in Japan was perfect! felt like we were in Japan

“If you get a permanent marker and you draw six squares on your tummy, it gives you an abdomen. From a distance, the girls will be impressed – let me tell you that from experience.” - Chris Martin

Chris bounded back on stage and The Scientist was played,acoustic. Just like what I wanted.

Jonny on Guy: "Although he looks very handsome, he is actually a bit of a geek. I admire his ability to get excited over gadets." =)

Chris on Guy: "If he wasn't in Coldplay, he would be in prison.." hahaha

Chris berlari-lari

Berlari mcm org gile

Penuh bersemangat!

Lari lagi..pergh...

Wooohooo!!

Pancit dah..hahaha

Tau pun letih..xde tempat lain nk baring..
Kantoi garu punggung !!
Cover baek punya...
Lama berbaring..

Chris Martin on himself: "I'm really passionate about surfing, actually scrap that - I'm most passionate about chocolate! If I wasn't in Coldplay, I would be playing piano in a gay bar." haha

Pindah kat belakang tmpt audience utk 3 lagu

Guy Berryman-Bassist

Will Champion-drummer/backing vocalist/multi-instrumentalist

"The biggest misconception is that there is a band called Coldplay that is all about Chris Martin. We as a band know this is not the case. It is a real democracy. Coldplay is a real joint effort of four people being passionate about music and the collaboration between these four people which results in recording albums."-Guy Berryman

Guy on Chris: "If Chris ever joined another band, he would join a traditional Scottish pipe band." hahaha

"You know, everytime I travel to America by plane there is that questionnaire and I have to inscribe my job. I never know what I should write so I change it every time. sometimes I write 'musician' and sometimes 'husband of a very famous hollywood-actress'".-Chris Martin

Magic Ball

"I dont want to be in U2, I am already in

the best band in the world" -Chris Martin

Afiq tertido sbb penat sgt.

Well, its hard to pick a favourite moment as it was all great, but personal highlights were Fix You, The Hardest Part, Politik and of course Life in Technicolour II..plus my favourite song, The Scientist......brilliant. If you havent seen coldplay I highly recommend it. One of, if not the greatest band that I have ever seen live.

p/s; Saja letak gmbr byk,nk bg otai jeles..hahaha