United taught a footballing lesson

No, I will not resort to violence a la the incident in Cheras where a Barca supporter was slashed. United were simply outplayed by a better team. Hang on, that will just insult Barcelona. They were handed a footballing lesson.

United started out full of confidence, but quickly discovered they were ahead of steam. Barcelona did not just pass the ball well and retain possession, they caress the ball. Exquisite triangle passes and all. Right from their defender - an ex-United player - to the great Lionel Messi. The two midfielder on show, Xavi and Iniesta were just breath-taking. Park Ji-Sung and Anderson were just no match. They were like men against boys. Even Sir Alex did not complain with the outcome. United were just beaten by an awesome team. It could have easily been three or four nil. Two nil was just respectable.

Well, time to regroup, and with that I mean, to participate in a lucrative Asian tour! We will come back better next season.

Photo Migration

The Croc at MidValley .... part of my Gallery

After sorting out almost 7500 pictures I accumulated over the years, I decided to migrate them into a vault in my SmugMug account. It has facility for presentation and even selling my stuffs. The galleries are certainly much neater then flickr.

The Champions League fever has certainly hit me hard. Can't stay still the whole day. Can't get much work done. I was about to leave to get some tandoori when I was writing this and my mate @palmdoc has his supply of Tiger Beer all stacked up. I am certainly in Veron shirt right now ......

The match will only start at 2.45 am. Don't think I will be able to sleep till then. For some reason I have a mixed feeling for this one. Certainly not much in the same way of resentment last year when we faced Chelski. The fact that bully boy Terry slipped like a old lady before bursting into tears like one while taking the pen, made my day .... hang on, make it my year! If we were to loose tonight, it will be certainly against a better team. Come on you Reds! 

Lovely T Shirt

Lovely T Shirt, originally uploaded by Haris Abdul Rahman. Those who attended MRSM will definitely understand the last line on the T-shirt.

Yes, it's Monday. After a hectic weekend with the birthdays and all, I settle for a spot of badminton. I plan to spent the rest of the week cooked up with my planned proposal because the feedback I got from Melbourne was not very encouraging. More alterations and all.

As for the T-shirt, I thought i was a classic one. Only those who attended MRSM would understand what was written. The last line is the first line of the song all of us were forced to sing. The line really stuck in our head.

The session last night was rather different because one of my senior, Razali (Dato' Razali to all you peasants), the Deputy Youth and Sports Minister turned up as well. He was suppose to have a camera crew with him, but because he came late they had to reschedule. Usually around 12 people turn up for the session. Instead more than 30 came. I wonder what the attraction was. The funny thing was some of them I don't even know, and all they did was grinning while Razali was there. Typical I thought!

He was surprisingly fit because we thought he would've given up after a couple of games. The last time he came was a couple of months prior to the UMNO Youth election. Now that he is a Deputy Minister, I can imagine that his time will be more limited. However kudos for at least trying to spend some time with his old buddies. And yes, we still call him Razali!

We spoke about my time in UMNO before and how I can't continue now with my work commitment. He can't stay after the games for teh tarik as he has an engagement this morning. We were back to NZ this time around but the mee ladna was not as nice. I have to have a word with the cook then!

Happy Birthday Idlan

The Piano, originally uploaded by Haris Abdul Rahman.

Delivery for the piano arrived yesterday and we did well to hide it from Idlan. Surprised him when he woke up this morning, even before he brushed his teeth. He seems to be enjoying it, and I managed to connect it onto my MacBook. Walla, Idlan has started recording on Garageband.

We stayed at home throught the day since we were planning dinner tonight. Should be fun. Will blog later.

Going through the old photos

Manchester United v Real Madrid, Champions League Quarter Final 2003, originally uploaded by Haris Abdul Rahman.

My son, Idlan will be turning 5 tomorrow, so I took today off to run errands and stuff. No party this time as we decided to have dinner outside with the flu going around in the house. We bought him a piano, that will be delivered later on this afternoon. Trying to hide it away will be a challenge. I told my wife to give up on trying to hide it away. 

Since my MacBook Pro is running rather sluggishly in the last few months, I decided to clean up the drive and reinstall the OS. It's running smoothly so far. Backed up all the old pictures into a hard disk and stumbled across the old pics. I decided to migrate them a every so often into my flickr account. I thought I post these ones on today's entry.

Oh Shoot! I lost my copy of CS4. Have to go to Low Yatt later then .... hehehe!