arsenal wins the battle of the Bridge..

unstoppable shot from van persie ( photo taken from Getty Images)

the team has high confident..honestly i'm little bit worried when i saw the team line-up...putting denilson and song at the middle will always be risky but they perfomed well throughout the game [particularly in the second half...chelsea took the lead through unlucky first half own goal by djourou who tried to clear the cross from bosingwa..the score remained the same in the end of first half..first half performance was not too bad for us...we had few decent chances to score...with what was shown, i'm still believe that we can score equaliser in the second half provided if we can dominate the central midfield...for the first 15 minutes in the second, chelsea dominated the game, but things changed after we got equaliser through wonderful blast from van persie..then he scored his second with a tight angle unstoppable shot ..chelsea tried to fight but we responded well and stopped them from playing...it is a sweet victory and like i said before the game it is a test of our character and with the self believe...we can go further and challenge for the title...

edel's wedding

edel and wife

family photo taken while attending the other wedding

got few weeding invitations for this weekend but just managed to attend two of them. One of them is edel's wedding. At laaaastttt my friend...He is a good old friend of mine and we grew up together in sibu. We were classmate at the lower secondary level at SMK Kpg Nangka, Sibu. Back then, we spent our past time playing snooker. It is not easy to beat this guy anyway. Now he is a civil engineer serving for DID Federal. Last station that he served was IADP Kelaka Saribas and now is somewhere in Johor. My wish to edel and his wife is selamat pengantin baru, semoga berbahagia ke anak cucu. We spoke last friday and I did ask him few questions such as kawu ready kah? (are you ready for it?); pandei kawu? (do u know how to perform it?)..he just laughed and confidently responded ..hehehe

new CEO for the club

new CEO of arsenal, please sign a new defensive midfielder and centre back

Arsenal has announced the appointment of Ivan Gazidis as the new CEO for the club. South Africa-born, 44 year old Oxford graduate will start his duty in January 2009. With his impressive credentials especially in sport marketing and managing players' contracts should help the club to grow further...this news is not a typical football news but the appointment of the CEO is so important right now which at least, can release the burden of the manager in dealing with complicated players' contracts and signing the best players to play for the club...i really hope he will be busy in getting new players this january....

Arsenal in the knock-out stage..hoooraay

first official duty for captain fabregas....a late finish by bendtner from a wonderful pass by the new captain enough to seal our place in the knock-out stage....wenger summed it up "it was a more steady than spectacular performance". . this win will surely give badly needed confidence for the team as well as the fans....well done gunners..coming up next the blues at the bridge.....

Captain Fabregas

King Fabregas

the good news of the week is already out..it is confirmed now that King Fabregas is the new captain for arsenal to replace gallas..he will start his duty for tomorrow champ league match at home against dynamo kiev..this is a new era for arsenal and i really hope arsenal will bounce back and start winning again...i'm away at the moment attending a meeting in EPU,KL..this is my third KL meetings in a row for the last 3 weeks...

easier say than done

disappointed with the result against man city..though knew the result earlier but still wanting to watch the delayed match....ideally for the game like this, ceteris peribus at least we get is a draw..but things seems to be different this season..thats why i found it difficult to accept and swallow it..i thought with gallas gone (temporary), the players will be motivated to fight and win the game..honestly the performance is better the earlier match against villa..the defense let the team down plus poor perfomance by the central midfielders(song and denilson)...obviously the club is crisis and the past 2 weeks are the darkest period of the year for the gunners all over the world...hopefully it will change pretty soon...

gallas gone..

there are so many things happening at the arsenal club but the moment of truth for this week is william gallas stripped of arsenal captaincy after his bizarre comments made on the team mates (which i don't want to elaborate more..)..not exactly sure whether he refused to join the team or being dropped by the manager for man city game as there is no officially release on this by the club..as usual...personally i'm not a fan of the former captain as his blunders has cost us a few games..he seems to have no leadership quality to influence and bring the team to the next level...now he is gone, its time to start a new era for arsenal..the most qualified player to replace him in my opinion is none other than KING Fabregas..although i would not dissappointed if the next best candidate, Clichy is to be appointed ...several first team players won't be available for the game i.e sagna,eboue,toure,adebayor, walcott,fabregas and gallas against man city tonight..it will be interesting to see young players like ramsey, wilshere, gavin hoyte taking their places..come on gunners..lets fight and win...

good old days 2

geng bas sekolah

soccermate 1998

streetwise

some of the photos back then...noticed that those are the days when I was still fit and slim..maybe today I'm twice as big as before...

good old days

taken from Day & Night Magazine _December 1996 issue

guess... who is the messenger?...yeah!! must thank apes for this photo and slash for keeping this photo then eventually passed it to apes... ok next is introducing the band:
lead guitar: Apes (left: wearing cap)
second guitar: Slash (right :wearing black jacket)
bassist: Hermz (not in the photo)
vocal1 but posed as a guitarist: Sahad (white T-shirt)
drummer: Alem
crew: Garf (the big guy who sit at the back)
vocal2: myself..hehe(the one with mic)

yo-yo performance by arsenal

2-0 defeat...fourth defeat of the season....can safely said that our title race is finally over...the game against villa is the worst performance for this season..yet another one..hmmm how many more to come this season?...it is not me to decide but the manager should be responsible to avoid this to happen again...disappointed not only only with the performance but the commitment as well ..the team showed no fighting spirit at all throughout the game...leadership is no way to be found..dunno who is going to be blamed for this!....proven time and time again that gallas has no leadership quality..apart from that the team badly need a proper defensive midfielder and a decent cetre back..of course this matter has been raised by the arsebloggers even before the start of the season..but wenger ignored it instead trying to be creative experimenting song and denilson to replace hardworking flamini....january transfer window is around the corner..i think its better to sort this problem before we don't even qualify for champ league next season...Got to travel again this evening to attend POIC meeting in KL tomorrow..

Photos Taken During KL Trip

my two princesses: dida & fifi enjoyed themselves at the national zoo

Photo of my 3 Divas at the Aquaria

photo taken by my eldest daughter right in front of the national zoo

it is not a typical well planned vacation..in fact it is a last minute kind of thing..both my daughters have never been to KL and this is their first time using flight!!.. bringing kids for this kind of trip is not easy..really!!...anyway i must salute and really thankful to my both daughters for behaving well MOST of the time during the short trip. Surely this kind of the trip to KL would not be last and still more to come...may be sabah is our next destination...

back to kuching

just came back from KL...all of us really tired but we enjoyed our short trip to KL..we managed to visit Aquaria and National Zoo..of course a place of fun for my kids..missed carling cup match against wigan but got the news that the young squad defeated wigan first team squad (only without haskey) 3-0..well done young guns.........

hard fought victory

at last something to cheer us up..after a disappointing weeks with one lost and 2 draw finally we get our victory against the last year double champion, manyoo...wow! that was a stunner, two goals from nasri enough to secure our win though manyoo did pull back one goal through da silva..both teams really fight throughout the whole period of the game but the team that took their chances eventually won...every gunners are looking for the team to respond prior to this game, this victory had been an emphatic answer for all of us...keep it up gunner...

arsenal vs manyoo..

don't want to say much before the game...so no prediction..no preview for this game..hope for the best...go gunners...

KL trip..

both my wife and I will be off to KL this week for official duties..she will go earlier,tomorrow then straight to Melaka to attend SDSI Expo..she will only be back to KL on saturday..while I'm supposed to go this sunday as meeting will be on monday...as both of us will be off to KL then might as well bring along together my two kids..after all both of them have not been to KL or to be specific outside Sarawak..so my family will have a short vacation after all....yeah!..unexpectedly..i can't go earlier as i 'm still have 'special duty' at my boss's house this saturday....so before sunday, i have to babysit my two kids...handling the elder one (5 years +) is a little bit easier than the younger one. who just 1 year +...my wife is still breastfeeding her..tomorrow's night she will definitely cry all night long missing her mum....that is a challenge for me...same goes to arsenal tommorrow morning..facing fenerbenche at home should be no problem..go gunners...

crazy defending...against stoke city

why nasri and walcott did not start is questionable..with 2 goals from throw in showed our weakness and soft spot at the centre back...it is not a new issue and in fact it has been there for a while...surprisingly the manager has not addressed this problem this season and instead still depending on the same bunch of players who keep on making the same mistakes all over again...spending hours reading arsenal bloggers responding from the outcome of this match.. it is no surprise that most gunners all over the world are questioning the decision made by arsene wenger lately....some are even calling for his head which i dare not touch at the moment..i do not wish to elaborate further about the game, suffice to say that overall performance was very poor..the only positive coming from this match is clichy first ever senior goal..well done clichy..he has been a fighter for our team and keep it up..crucial matches next..we need to bounce back to restore everybody confidence which is very low at the moment..