A Life Less Ordinary

earlier this week, my newcastle was drawn in the fa cup 1/4 final away against chelsea. ouch! even though WE knocked them out last year in the 5th round, it will stilll be a really tough game. you know, chelsea won the league last year and arguably the strongest team in england. at the same time, im really hopeful we can win this year cup, since this will be my 10th year as a toon (how about that for a loyalty?). so, i figured out 9 ultra genius tactics to defeat the londoners. im so excited, bring them on!

1. tie arjen robben’s shoelaces together
we know he is the brain of chelsea’s attack from left and (sometimes) right flank, i figured it would be the simplest way to kill his feet. (if thats not enough, do the same to the rest of chelsea players..)

2. hope (pray) that frank lampard’s fiancee will give birth 5 mins before kick off (or if you have a penny, give him a prank call!)
lampard gets the ball, he touches it once and twice, he bangs it and becomes the second world’s best player!
eventhough he had recenly been linked to sociallite paris hilton, he and his fiancee are actually expecting their first baby soon. obviously frank would be given a time off when that moment comes. so, whoever play them in the next few weeks can fancy thir chance of not having to face him! im sure it would be easier day for us, yet joyous for lampard.

3. tell hernan crespo that he is shooting at the wrong goal
crespo gets them plenty of goals. however, we know he is having some difficulties with the language and still learning. so, if you are sitting anywhere close to the pitch, shout at him to shoot at the other goal. he may (or may not) get the goals for us instead.

4. urge joe cole to wear his yellow suit
joe cole is the probably the worst dresser at chelsea, it is no secret anymore that one morning he walked into chelsea’s training ground in a yellow suit
and everyone at the spot instantly burst into laugh. how fun would it be if his teammates and some 40,000 fans in the stadium can laugh at him every time he touches the ball?

5. when you are leading by one, line up your 10 outfield players in front of your goal
newcastle, liverpool and man u have all done that. the simplest way to beat chelsea is to get a single goal in the first half, then try to hang on until the game ends. however, often they show enough resillience to hit back and win the game, so you need a better plan to make sure they will not score after you do. i think this will do just enough, they cant win with a goal down, can they?

6. swap your kit with chelsea’s
chelsea’s brand of football is the one that passes the ball around neatly from the back, all the way to the opponent’s box. they do that patiently. so, i advise you to get into the merchandise store at match day, throw your own kit away and wear chelsea’s replica. on the pitch, they will pass you the ball at all time.

7. let eleven most recent playboy playmates in lingerie to play for your team (if they made this year’s calender, you can expect an easy win)
so, hernan crespo , peter cech are happily married, even john terry has a super gorgeous blonde girlfriend and he shows just as much loyalty as he does to chelsea. but how about the younger fellas? glen johnson, wright-phillips, carlton cole etc will be powerless to resist the irresisitable.

8. entice mr roman to take full control of lokomotiv moscow
why would a russian billionaire invested heaviliy on a foreign team? because russian teams were anonymous, none of them have won a major european cups in the past ten years and their national team is underachieving. however, a team from moscow named lokomotiv won the uefa cup last year by surprise!. mr roman had already hinted that he has a hidden desire to see his nations excel at higher level, last month he declared that he would be willing to pay guus hiddink’s salary if he coaches russian national team! so why not lokomotiv?this isnt a good sign for chelsea, if they cant maintain their best form and keep their hero mr roman happy.

9. don’t bother…
if you can’t beat chelsea, why not consider becoming one of their fans??

funny how it all just fades away

to soul decay from the things the world can say, or can i say?

everybody needs a little moment of truth, when u find a new

a new way to live with themselves

nobody ever had a clue, on what to do

when they had a little feeling called love

nothing ever had to wait, if they came to hate

cause u can hate anything before u even try to love it

love is a chemical

straight from your genitals

its never a spiritual

never unconditional

love is a chemical

nature is radical

never a spiritual

its mathematical

everything that is ever known today, is all the world can give you

dont believe in love or hate, its a little chemical

yeah, im sorry that u never understood

it would be so good

if u look around and find out for yourself

u need a little push or shove

to test your love

will that person burn for u?

love is a beautiful way to face the day

but everybodys got it wrong! everybodys got it wrong!

love is a chemical

straight from your genitals

its never a spiritual

never unconditional

love is a chemical

nature is radical

never a spiritual

its mathematical

everything that is ever known today, is all the world can give you

dont believe in love or hate, its a little chemical

i dont want to be the one who has to look back, knowing my whole life was a lie

i dont want to be the one who has to regret, everything i kept inside

i dont want to spend another minute caring for the things that dont mean anything at all that i never have to give a damn about!

i will never be, i will never be your sacrifice!

Id just realized that friendster now has a new feature where you can declare your status as ‘its complicated’. oh, if ross had played friendster by the time he moved in with rachel and their newborn baby emily, he would had chosen that instead of ‘domestic partnership’, dont you think?. but c’mon that is one extreme case, so here i listed down some possible situations and if you find yourself currently in one of them, you may begin to consider changing your status.

As a boy, its complicated because..
1. i dont know what the hell is that, but it sounds better than being a complete single

2. im in the middle of my incomplete puberty and cant understand the pattern of my sexual behavior

3. i dont believe in a relationship

4. i dont want to be in a relationship

5. im addicted to one night stand

6. i caught my girlfriend, the sluttiest bitch ever, kissing some guy passionately at her bday party. when i said i was fine with it
she was too dumb to tell from my voice that i lied. she still dumped me the next day

7. i failed to recognize that her best friend was actually not as bitchy as my ex made me thought she was. i was going to make her my rebound girl when my ex manipulated
her to think im the biggest colossal arse alive

8. then i ended up having affair with her divorced yet really hot mom, 36 hours after i and her daughter broke up.

9. im just one pathetic loser who refuses to move on

Being a girl, i found it complicated because
1. i know the kind of guy i want and i have set my own standard

2. actually i dont know what i want and i have been pretending to have my own standard all along

3. im running out of patient rejecting friend request and/or cliche moronic message, such as ‘hai, salam kenal. add gue dong’, mostly from male strangers. 83% of them have at least 105 maniacs they never met in their friends list,
70% thought Alexander is A+ movie, 51% supported man u before switching to arsenal last year and now chelsea,  and 99% agreed inool is a goddess while rhoma obviously isnt popular

4. i burn candles for my prince charming every thursday night. as a little ritual while i wait for him to step into my life

5. i already have a super rich (old) boyfriend and keep looking for mr right

6. i still think of my ex, nearly half decade after we ended it, and believe he is my mr right. although the moment we broke up could be a clear sign that he isnt, i find it hard to be honest with myself

7. i regularly visit his profile page, his blogs with a tiny hope that every relationship he has will eventually fall through

8. im beginning to regret that when that thick glasses computer geek guy, whom not as pig as i assumed at first, asked me out last week i should have accepted it. now hes dating my bitchy best friend, i was supposed to manipulate her to think how arse he is earlier!

9. i dont know what the hell is that, dont ask me to explain domestic partnership too

3. St.Patrick’s Day : the one with the holiday season

St.Patrick’s Day is about having someone to love and to share with during the holiday season. Even though at the end of it you may lose that person anyway, we always have the choice to close it in the most wonderful way

The intro of the song is something that is quite significant to me. John’s acoustic was simple yet it feels like a breathtaking story is about to be told. At that instant I do not want him to start singing. When something starts sure somehow it will end, and it is uneasy to stop something that goes so well. But that is the idea of the song, ending a relationship when the love is still in the air, before anything that goes against it sets in, so that we can keep it as a wonderful memory for the rest of our life.

Holiday season is one period which you hardly want to go through all alone. When November begins ‘comes the cold’, you ‘break out the winter clothes and find a love to call your own’. It is not necessarily has to go somewhere. In fact, St.Patrick’s Day is an example of a relationship that is right from the beginning intended not to go anywhere. Seasonal kind of it although still ‘who knows what will be.’

It is arguably effortless in getting the best out of a relationship during these few months. Plenty of celebrations, gathering and parties assure lots of quality time together. When December comes, ‘no one want to be alone at Christmas time’, and even when it gets colder on ‘January, we are frozen inside, making new resolutions a hundred times’ is still enjoyable when you share it with someone you love. Since then you need not to figure out who is your valentine on February. Anyone can be guaranteed to be ‘safe til St.Patrick’s Day’! that is the last day of the season.

Things often get though afterwards, with the summer getter closer means less excitement ahead and everything may seem to turns dull. When all the fun is fading away, the survival of the relationship in this period is depending on the way it went in the previous months, like there is a need to take a step back and evaluate how it has been going on so far. I suppose that is the idea of having the initial agreement that it would not go beyond St.Patrick’s Day. When at least either one feels it wouldn’t work in the end, the right moment to close it is when the love is still in the air.  It is never be so pleasant to end something that goes really well, but given the possibility of going through a long painful feelings when it gets bad may be just not worth it. ‘If our always is all that we gave, and we someday that that away’ it will be just alright when we not take the right moment to quit for granted.

There are times when you do not want to miss a single wonderful moment without sharing it with someone you love, but there are also some hard times you rather go through it all by yourself, if those times may in the end change the way you see that someone.

the new season of english footy kicked off last weekend, how exciting! so im gonna share 9 tips to help you survive the next 10 months!

1.know your team

update your knowledge on the epl once awhile. newspaper will do, but i know some of them write garbage so often. so i recommend www.planetfootball.com a site from skysports, the most reliable source in the eye of my mates in north east too.

how embarrasing you may get, when you were in a big gathering with fellow fans then the facts to back up your opinion are false, malu la!

it could be a little different with the female fans i say, when they know more than john dykes this sure urge the boys to read more while in case they mention ronaldinho is handsome, we know thats just a part of their cuteness…

2.wear it with pride

miss keys dont like footy but she said ’some people think, physical things defines whats within’, when you wear your team jersey more often than not it represents your identity.

some harshly think wearing imitation means you are a fake supporter but i disagree with it. when financial is an obstacle it shall not be a big deal. we know those huge sporting corps are blood sucker , exploiting asian cheap labour force, intimidating the fans. one tip from me, if your budget is in the region of rm150, you may try your luck by paying visit to lots of soccer boutiques. some of them sell their stock half-price to a slightly damage goods, such as a little dirt. buy it and apply some detergent at home then you get your original team jersey ready now! there are plenty of them in bukit bintang area.

if your budget is around rm40, you can get the one sold in the sidewalk. additional rm15 gives your favorite player name written behind. you can identify yourself the one look obviously fake and the one produced in the same factory as the original.

hint: normally they are sold only in XL size, check if they made in thailand and you may find some of these in stalls around sogo in KL.

3.bet with brains

im against making extra bucks this way, but in case you do, use your head! not your heart! betting is a root of poverty, so better play safe.

i have one tip, and so far i have received mixed reaction.. say you support manch united and due to play newcastle (who has the best supporters in the world!), place your bet on newcastle instead! so when newcastle win, you can take your crush on a date to a fancy restaurant the next day! (or buy a new kitchen for your missus..) but if manch do win (due to a bunch of luck) at least you still have the satisfaction! but of course la.. if thats the case, without trying to be bias, you know its better to put the money on my NEWCASTLE!

4.booze moderately

drinking is harmful for your health and destroys you moral too, but if thats your culture do so sensibly, particularly when you need to drive home alone. when your team lose or even win shall not be a reason to get drunk, you know its up to the 22 people and refs on the field to decide the score. you just watching.

5.know the magic words

swear as much as you want, we cant blame you to be involved so much in the game. however it can be really bad when you are watching in mamak or at home with your kids or in laws still up. so have some quick learn on these new words http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/

6.singing when you are winning!

when your team won the previous night, go and tell everyone you know!. wear your team jersey to the office, campus or where ever you go. feel free to make fun of the supporters you’ve beaten. use number 5. but dont go over the limit. ps: only applicable for teams other than newcastle.

7.pick your game

remember that your relligious duty, job, school and family is more important than 90mins of kicking and screaming. in case you have important presentation, test or even bringing your kids to school the following morning, know there are some games that you can actually skip and see just the highlights. if you have a recorder, then record it and watch the following day. however sometime you may have to try to escape yourself from hearing the results from buddies and newspaper huge headlines. often its just way toooo difficult.

8.youve got something going on there!

know that your local league also need your attention. they need your support to make it more attractive and watchable league. dont you want to see your nation playing in the world cup someday?

9.and most importantly, make your queen happy..

very important. when there is no game on telly, take your wife/girlfriend out, give her a long good quality time together. between kickoff and final whistle you may not think how much important she is in your life. so to compensate that, make her happy, remind her that football is just a hobby that you can put aside and she is not, tell her how shes the only person you are in love with everyday.

you never now what ‘extras’ you are getting before bedtime…

2. Neon : the one with the college party girl

The most interesting part of the song is that, it was produced twice: included in two separate album, recorded in different style and end up leaving some kind of separable impression.

The first version i heard was the one from acoustic album Inside Wants Out. John showed off his ability to play a folk, and I think he is good. However, it was much more of a proving point of his guitaring skill rather than an exposure of the content of the lyric. But then few years later John corrected the flaws in the first version when he delivers it with a jazzy rhytm in Room for Squares.

Neon represents the bright night life of Atlanta, early days of John’s career, or any city where life is about going to clubs and endless party. The entire song tells a story of a guy who feels like he does not belong to Neon. The type of guy who enjoys one intelligent conversation with a girl in a Starbucks over 91 small talks with 91 female party animals in a Zouk.

His life is like in a collision when he met this girl who, during daylight, seems to be really attractive to him and they just have so much fun when they are together. When he starts falling for her, he realizes that once’ the sky blue gets dark enough/to see the colour of the city lights’ and particularly when ‘a trail of ruby red and diamond white/ hits her like a sunrise’ he and she are two people from a complete different world.

Although that he deeply cares of her and has so much worries whenever ’she is out to lose herself’, she seems to be pursuing her interest of partying until moring and it slowly began to be a self destructive habit. It does not give so much comforts for him for sure. He feels she is slipping through his hands before losing her completely, either when she finds out she wants to be with someone pretty much just like her or when his insecurities and too much concerns eventually scares her.

Deep inside he wants to fight to keep and help her out, but he is totally unsure if a college girl who gets home in the morning  4 times a week while irresponsibly spending her parents money would ever listen to him. He ‘knows he cant be her angel now’ like pretending to know whats good and bad for her or telling her to grow up, what would she thinks of him then?. It is not like he cant accept her unconditionally, but when you know someone you care is heading into the wrong way arent you suppose to do something about it?. Things are more difficult to decide when he knows that ‘would take her anyway’ if he can, he knows he would make further sacrifice for her. So, shall he stay? even at the expense of being someone else but himself? because he simply likes this girl soooooo very very much.

1. No Such Thing : the one with the real world

I have no doubt whatsoever to include No Such Thing as one of his best ever. It was in fact the first song of John i listened to 3 years ago on the radio. The part where he shouts the high pitch ‘ ..i wanna scream at the TOP OF MY LUNGGGSS..’ was very catchy, and indeed i could hear it in my head again and again for weeks until i decided to logged on to the radio’s web to find out the guy behind the microphone.

One great thing about it is that nearly everybody in this world goes through a term in life where you just dont know what you want, must or shall do. For some of us back in high school experience the time when we wre told to see the school counsellor to ‘take a seat/ take you life’ and have a college application form then ‘plot it out in black and white,’ and while you write your name in block capital letters you listen how right away after the graduation you would be a part of a ’such thing as a real world.’  but is that what we really need?

Some of your family member, i believe, once confessed to you how their college education does not relate to their current career. It is increasingly acceptable, I admit, to have 6-7 jobs from the day of graduation til retirement and John here was reminding us the importance of taking a stepback to find out what you really wanted to do in life.  Your family, and obviously the counsellor, so long as you have the financial ability would tell you ‘to stay inside the line’ but you are the one who know that ’something better on the other side’. It is, and i recommend, those who just completed their high school, if you are unsure of what you want or need you do not have to ‘take the so-called right track fading white hats grabbing credits’. You will be working, say, 30-40 years and it is just alright if you are lost for just a few years. Your life is not a textbook with key answers listed in the appendix, it can provide some guidance but in the end you are the decision maker. We do not want to get older, and wishing for anything better cause some ‘tiny tragedy’ happened early in our lives, or do we?

Why would i chase your shadow all my life
And be afraid of my own
I’d rather be with you
I’d rather not know
Where I’ll be than be alone and convinced that I know

Everything I know has let me down
So I will just let go
Let you turn me inside out
‘Cause I know I’m not sure
’bout anything
But you wouldn’t have it any other way

When the world keeps spinning round
My world’s upside down
and I wouldn’t change a thing
I’ve got nothing else to lose
I lost it all when I found
you and I wouldn’t change a thing
No, you and I wouldn’t change a thing
(words by lifehouse)

We live our lifes running in a circle. While the world keeps spinning round, we sometimes unconciously try too hard just for the sake of keeping pace with it without ever questioning why. At times, i just want to be numb, not knowing how things are going to end up and thats because i just do not know enough about them. Allah knows all my insecurities and secrets; how much i try to be what im blessed for and not what i desire, how long will i strive for certain things until i finally give them up, how will i in the end just turn to Him and let him design the path for the rest of life. Im wanting what i want is what He wants. I will just let Him turns me inside out. Remove me from worry, make me a knower, let me begin to understand everything, open up my door and get me out of the darkness in clean and happiness…

eh.. blog?

im not sober enough to dee it

later bye!