Manchester United beat Malaysia XI 3-2!

I got back from the Manchester United versus Malaysia XII match a few hours ago and it was a thrilling experience! Manchester United won 3-2 and although I wasn't that satisfied with the way they played which eventually led to the 2 goals that Malaysia XII scored, I was satisfied that Owen scored the final goal, just as I would have liked it. Apparently, I still wonder why they called the Malaysian selection Malaysia XI. It was more like Malaysia XX! Seriously, they were substituting every 5 minutes after half time so that everyone could get a chance to play and that kind of spoiled the game.

The crowd around Bukit Jalil was crazy, seriously. I was with Hiu Jian and there were tens of thousands of others in the stadium, not to mention all the lousy touts outside. The cheers and jeers were really something to behold. I'm not sure if this is the first of many to come or just something I'd do once in my lifetime, but I surely hope the next time this happens, it will be in Old Trafford, where the real action is!

Anyway, after the match, I went to Endah Parade to rehydrate. Yes, it was another few cups of Coke at the McDonalds and then I was ready to go again. Went to Melissa's to pick up to capo and wait for Weiyang to fetch me and that was it.

Apparently, there's going to be a second match between Manchester United and Malaysia XI because their tour to Indonesia was cancelled thanks to the Marriott Hotel bombings.


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Time to get busy again ...

Time to get busy again ...

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Is it just me, or ...

... is my life getting more and more boring?

... am I running out of things to do?

... are there very few good movies this summer?

... is the world conspiring against me?

... do I miss college?

... do I miss my friends?

... do I miss having to wake up at 6 a.m. and pretend that I'm not sleeping?

... are my blog posts getting shorter and shorter and way less interesting?


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Vanilla Milk

I wanted to post this a few days back, but the internet connection failed me, so behold =) ...

Of all the things I know and fully or partially understand, there's just one puny little thing in this ironically bizarre world that I certain do not understand at all! Why is there vanilla flavoured milk? It cannot possibly come from the cows in our dairy farm unless they have been genetically modified to produce vanilla oils, so some high ambitious, yet unknowingly idiotic mad scientist must have added the vanilla extract into the milk in the first place! So tell me, you sad bane of the human society, does it actually taste better? Does it make the milk a thousand times more nutritious? Does it gives us human super powers or less susceptible to sexually transmitted diseases or some incurable malignant infection? Or simplest of all, does it make it lower the lactose content and make it safer for the lactose intolerant?

It happened again, today! My dad went shopping and bought me milk because I do love milk! And when I untwisted the cap, ripped off the foil cover and poured myself half a cup, I felt something bad was going to happen. Much to my expectations, as soon as I tilted the cup so that the seemingly lovely liquid mixture of milk will flow into my mouth, I tasted the most hatred taste when associated to milk: vanilla! I swear I tried my best not to swear at that moment ...

Don't get me wrong. I love milk more than I love most other types of food. And I don't mind vanilla in pastries and confectionaries, but vanilla and milk is just plain disgusting! I remember there was once a few months back when I took a gulp vanilla flavoured milk and the taste was so strong that I got a headache that didn't recover until the next day. I knew I wasn't allergic to vanilla so from that day on, I took a personal decision to boycott all vanilla flavoured milk! So evil scientist, why would you want to harm this innocent little boy who loves milk so much? If I hated that flavour so much, imagine how many million other people in this world you might teach to hate milk throught your wondrous formula ...

I don't know anyone who likes the vanilla taste in milk. I believe it's an abomination and anyone who loves it should be annihilated so as to not ensure it's survival, Darwin's style! Come on, if you just cannot learn to enjoy the original fragrant smell and taste of milk, just stop drinking it and seek your nutritions from some other less-harmful-to-people-like-me source! I know eggs are a good source of nutrition, but please don't come up with some fanciful flavour for eggs because I, too love eggs!

So to all vanilla milk lovers out there, curse you! I hope you all die in the deepest depth of hell for science is your excuse of masking the lovely smell of milk with some odd combination that's worse than baby puke ...

P.S. Sorry if I have offended anyone =)


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2009 Wimbledon Championships: Roger Federer!

History has been rewritten! Roger Federer has just won the 2009 Wimbledon Championships after what seemed to me like the longest game of tennis ever! It was much much longer than last year's Federer-versus-Nadal stint, which already brought a lot of attention. The score, if I remember it correctly was 5-7, 7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 16-14. I can't remember accurately the tiebreak score though ...

Federer's win is his 15th Grand Slam title, which puts him in front of Pete Sampras, who has 14. So he currently has the most career Grand Slams. I don't have to be a tennis fan to say that that is great ...

Roddick did play his best, but it just wasn't good enough

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Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)

Yes, people. It is true! The king of pop has passed away in coma about an hour after cardiac arrest. It was shocking news to me when I woke up and Weiyang broke the news to me. I didn't expect him to die, because he is quite young.

I think I'll always remember him as the young kid who sang "I'll Be There" to the world (I thought it was a girl's voice!). Late in his years, I learned to hate the image that he brought up upon himself. I don't care about the lawsuits, the child molestation cases or the comeback concerts. I just hated that he went for plastic surgery trying to look better. I loved his look in Thriller! I still think he should have maintained his look despite having vitiligo and lupus ...

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Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen

I just watched Transformer 2: Revenge of the Fallen and I think the movie was great! I loved the CGI that went into the movie and enjoyed the plot as the movie played. I highly recommend this movie to anyone. Too bad it's PG13 =D ...

I found this to be the coolest of all robots. It's called Destroyer and it's made of 7 robots! And unsurprisingly, it's job was to ... destroy!

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