Cerita ni sebenarnya dah lame jugak la. Tapi setiap kali aku teringat citer ni, konpem aku akan tergelak.
So mak aku ni ada jaga 6 orang budak. 3 tu dah sekolah, so tinggal 3 lagi yang akan stay kat rumah aku all the time (umur range 2-3 tahun). Dan mak aku ni suka masak sarapan untuk bagi budak2 tu.
Pada hari tu, mak aku masak cekodok. Then ade budak ni, nama dier Aina (tapi kitorang panggil dier "gemok" je; agak kejam tapi dier memang dah biasa). Dia dah sekolah, tapi hari tu dier cuti sekolah. Dier pun tanya lah kat mak aku, "Mak, sarapan ape hari ni?"
"Cekodok", balas mak aku.
"Cekodok? Apa barang cekodok.....", sambil menunjukkan dari dalam begnya sebungkus pizza ala-ala yg Giant punye, bukan Pizza Hut punye.
Mak aku pun, melihatkan ke-belagak-an budak ni + show-off yg tak boleh blah, mintak pizza tersebut daripada budak tu. Then mak aku agih-agihkan pizza tu dekat budak-budak yang lain. So Aina tu pun dapatlah merasa sekerat sahaja pizza yg dier bawak, walaupun sebenarnya dier nak makan sorang-sorang je.
p/s: Ok la, maybe korang tak rase benda ni lawak. So maaf la kalau menghampakan korang hehe.
So the tiger did die last night. I'm truly sad about the outcome of the game against Singapore. Even more hurtful, I was among the 85,000 fans in the stadium who tirelessly chanted so that we could see our predicted result (it's a consensus that fans wanted 3-0 win). However, we just can't afford to win every game. If we did, we wouldn't know how to improve our game in the future.
Technical review:
It's also true that we didn't have much chance in the box, but now I'll jump to the obvious: midfield and defense. We really felt the cost of losing Safiq Rahim as the main engine of the attack. So Malaysia tried to change the game to side flank of the field. We have Amirul Hadi as a very good ball controller, and the speedy Kunalan (up to now, I'm still impress with his speed). However, this will never be a good tactic against the large-size (and fake) Singaporean defense lead by the "mat salleh sesat mane ntah". Whenever these 2 wings wanted to cross the ball to the middle, the striker will never have the chance to even make the header. Instead, they should be more creative in passing game. They needed to do short passed and make a patient buildup before Safee Sali pass the defense and make a shot.
Similarly to our defense. We just don't have the strength in the air. It will be chaotic moment whenever the first ball fly towards our defense. We need to have a tall defense. Wait, this is wrong. We need to have a tall and strong defensive back. (Wing back doesn't have to be tall, obviously). This reminds me to the Terengganu defensive back and captain, Marzuki (I dont remember his full name though). Maybe he's unproven national player yet, but it's worth the try. Also, our defensive back need to stay composed and calm. Every clear ball have to leave the box convincingly (damn, is this the right word?). I always see them panicky whenever the opponents got the ball in the our box.
The man of the match:
Everyone who saw the match will definitely point to this man: Khairul Fahmi. For me, he did all the hell of the jobs for the rest of team. Remember the save on the top-corner free kick? How about he winning the one-on-one encounter against the Shi Jiayi? If he stays playing this way every single match, he will definitely be given a chance to play overseas. And from my standpoint, even as far as the English Premier League (it's not wrong to dream, right?). Malaysia, you already got your future goalkeeper!
I will consider Malaysia a bit unlucky for the defeat. Congratulations Singapore? Na,ah! I'm not too pro to say such thing. For fake nationality and shitty playing style, they don't deserve any credit.
I will never give up on this Harimau Malaya team. There's a long way to go for us to be as great as Japan or South Korea (No, Australia is a fake Asian country. They don't belong to AFC, and I'll never bless them in there). As long as they play well enough, the Malaysian fans will always back them even from afar. Go Harimau Malaya!
Honestly, I'm not a big fan of basketball (either playing or watching it). I watch NBA only if I feel I want to or if the game is damn important (like the NBA finals). However somehow I find shooting basketball into the hoop is kinda addictive. That's why I downloaded the "Arcade Hoop" apps on my phone, and ultimately, that's the reason I bought a basketball hoop (illustrated in the above pict).
So you wanna play hoop with me, just come to my house. Well, of course it's not a full court.
p/s: I just had the Boss mocha which causes me hardly feel asleep. That's strange, because as far as I know, I'm pretty allergic to coffee (no, it means that whenever I have coffee, I'd easily feel asleep, which is totally different with most of us). Either my body is getting normal, or Boss mocha is damn good.
If you're Asian, you should be proud of yourself right now because of 2 reasons:
1. Japan won the Women World Cup by beating United States (gosh!). Along the way, they beat Germany, the three-times defending champion. How cool is that, huh?
2. Because of a sport named "Sepak Takraw". Sounds familiar right? See the video below.
See, even the title itself speaks how amazed the Western to this sport. You can go to the Youtube page and see the comments from the other side of the world.
Actually I got this video from my American friends via Facebook. Their responses to this video are actually more epic than the sport itself. Below are their reactions.
(Btw thanks for the indonesian guy, he really made my day lol)
So if you're saying that Asians are inferior than the West, then think again. We've got our own uniqueness and strength, so don't be afraid to be Asian. It's just the matter of time before the West discovers the true Asia.
Just a short note. Remember the "self" feature in php? It enables a script to submit to itself, so that if the form validation fails, it can simply go back to the script. However, this basic feature somehow is not available on Codeigniter. Which is kinda pain to accept. Of course, there are several workarounds for this problem, but gosh I wish they could make this feature official. Ok, back to work.
p/s: "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" -Dylan Thomas-
A better Malaysia should look like this (Just how many smileys in my blog already)
Before going to bed, I just wanna to say several words about my thoughts lately. There have been too much threats on students who already been given scholarships from government, so that they've had their mouth shut and keep themselves from politics stuff. The reason is simple: We need to be grateful of our lucrative scholarships. If I convert my monthly allowance in United States, I should say that's more than what Malaysians can earn in their full-time job. (Alhamdulillah, I shall say).
I've been believing that reasoning for the fact that if a person gives us something, than we should make good to that person. However, lately I think, who gives us our scholarships? The government, or the citizens? What's more important is, why are we given that scholarship?
This is quite late for me to realize this, but now I think we're given scholarships so that we can expand our knowledge and thus our thinking (Duh!). However, our thinking is crippled if we're bound to see only one side. We need freedom to apply our thinking. What's the point of having learned something overseas but then when we come back Malaysia, we can't use just that?
So if you say that we need to support one side only and abandon the other, then what's the point of our scholarship? I'm not saying we're clever enough, but if we support the other side, we have our own reasoning. Such reasoning is based on our thinking and our observations from overseas. Our Malaysia is still far from perfect, so we try our best to implement the good side of wherever we've gone. Yes, I'm saying that budaya-budaya kuning should be abandoned.
So how to be grateful? That's simply take any good chance overseas, whether in learning, practical etc etc. Try learning what's not in Malaysia, or rarely available in Malaysia. That way, we can spread such knowledge. Saying that we're not grateful by having freedom is a bad call. It's like government bribing us to do whatever they want. That's not true at all.
Government want us to make a better Malaysia. So here we come.
(p/s: I am telling my thought. Owh yeah, did I say "several words" earlier? Wow this is actually too much)
Cerita pendek lepas sampai ke Lapangan Terbang Sibu:
Sampai airport. Lapar sikit, so pergi kedai makan. Bila tanya akak kat kedai makan, "Kak, ade ape je kat sini", dia jawab "Tak ade ape2". Lepas tu ternampak peti ais krim (luar kedai makan). Nak bukak tapi rupa-rupanya berkunci. Tanya mak cik dekat peti ais krim tu, lepas tu dia jawab "Owh ni bukan mak cik yang jual". Pergi turun bawah ke kedai runcit. Ternampak peti ais krim lagi. Ada harapan ni. Tengok2 peti tu kosong habis, tak ada ais krim langsung.
I was installing SQLite for Ruby in my Ubuntu server when I saw this stuff:
I can't believe such geeky team would ever do such thing like, ehem, the "<3 <3 <3" thing. So cheeky but I guess it's done by a girl. So that's still okay.
