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I am very sure every football fan in Malaysia knows of the ongoing row between the AFC and well Manchester United since like half of Malaysia is filled with MU fans. This is all because MU's tour match in KL clashes with that AFC Cup which I've never even heard off. I guess AFC realises how unknown their 'Cup' is that they dare not face the competition from MU. Come on, no one I know would actually bother watching unless they hear that Malaysia plays Japan or something.

AFC wants MU reschedule their tour but MU won't budge even after a meeting a few weeks ago. Even PM Badawi wants the match to go on because of the VMY 2007 campaign. The match is of national interest and it was organised by Tourism Malaysia so AFC have no business at all to bother. Even Khairy Jamaluddin has expressed his support for the match to go on.

Imagine how shocked I was to find some of the comments of these damn unopen-minded jakun malaysians in the papers on why the MU match should be cancelled. Just comes to show how some malaysians still have this fucked up kampung mentality ..

• How can Manchester United get us the Merdeka feeling? Looks like we still love the people who colonised us
• We got Merdeka from England 1957. We r Asians. Don't support them again. Our future with AFC.

Football is about uniting the world and it has nothing to do with supporting your past colonial leaders .. Vision 2020 ain't gonna work with you jakuns around ..

This comes kind of late but I watched Pirates of the Caribbean 3 at Times Square aka. lala-land last Saturday. Wanted to catch it on Friday at KLCC but no one wanted to tag along.

I must mention that Saturday made me hate Times Square even more. There was this fucked up lala-convention to promote some taiwan tv show with that lesbo-like S.H.E. woman and some fahrenheit guy. The whole entrance was filled with these *insert word* people. Just looking at the way they dress and talk makes me wanna puke. Borders seems to be the only place to regain a touch of the real word in that dreadful mall.

1st things first, I was kind of shocked at first to find out that Pirates 3 was almost three hours long but then again it's worth it considering it cost me Rm 11 for a ticket. Two and a half hours for the second installment was long enough that I was holding my bladder to the max throughout the movie.

There had been many mixed reactions about this movie but personally I found it nice. It may have been rather draggy at certain parts but Jack Sparrow's lame yet spontaneous acting can definitely overcome any boredom whatsoever. Pirates is one of the few series-like movies which have to be watched from the start. If not, you'll just end up dozing off like my sis's friends sitting next to me . Haha

I must add that the animators involved in the production have done a pretty good job with special mention for the various fight scenes. Coolest being the part where two ships were sucked into the whirlpool of water. The topsy-turvy way of getting out of Davy Jones Locker was something interesting too. I must say that they could have done something better when Calypso reappeared bcoz I found that a little crappy. Who could forget the part where Will proposed to Elizabeth and well the way they were unofficially married.

The idea of the Brethren Court was plain cool. Its like a United Nations for pirates. The location of the fourth meeting was another fascinating animated one with odd looking structures and lights. The Mistress Cheng there was very freaky (chinese female pirate lord) while the indian pirate lord was just strange. There was a Spanish one too , Villanueva !!

I found the ending to the movie so-so. I think it would be difficult for the producers to create another sequel with such an ending. Elizabeth and Will evolving from being lovers to pirate lords ain't very appealing to viewers in my opinion. It was a relief to see that the 'fish-people' in the Flying Dutchman had transformed back to normal humans.

Chow Yun Fatt was very lame at the beginning with all the "more steam" parts. Plus, what kind of pirate lord resides in some stinky old bathhouse filled with low-class pirates. "Welcome to Singapore" was even worse. Since when did Singapore which is supposed to be Temasik become a pirate 'hub'. Why not something like "Welcome to Larut" .. fine, that's even lamer. The movie's depiction of Singapore was one hell of a under-statement though.

Something many of us including myself didn't know was that there was actually a scene after all the credits where they showed Will and Elizabeth reuniting 'after 10 years' with their apparent son which was strangely the little boy whom was about to be hanged when he started summoning for the Brethren Court .. my sis only bothered telling me after the movie ended ,, arghh

Overall Rating : 3.5/5

I still want to catch a few more movies during the holidays ie.

1. Blades of Glory
2. Shrek 3
3. Ocean's Thirteen
4. The Last Mimzy
5. Fantastic Four 2
   

-adios y hasta luego-

Cloud Nine

Not many of you know but there was a new addition to the Spanish royal family (!!) last month. The Crown Princess Letizia gave birth to her second child which was yet another daughter. The delivery was done at Ruber Internacional which I can proudly say I've been to and where my mum went for her check-ups while in madrid.

Infanta Sofía de Borbón y Ortiz was born at 4:50 pm on the 29th of April by means of a caesarean section. She weighed 3.3 kg and was 50cm long at birth. Infanta Sofía was named after her grandmother, Reina Sofia. She will most probably be given the additional name of de Todos los Santos (of All the Saints), at her christening making her Infanta Sofía de Todos los Santos de Borbón y Ortiz.

It thus remains a question as to whom would assume the throne in time to come. Unless Infanta Sofia's elder sister becomes Queen Leonor, Crown Princess Letizia would have to conceive again to produce a male heir. I give my upmost respect to the simple Spanish royalty who are loved and admired by their people. The difference between them and the British or Japanese royal families is so obvious. Crown Princess Letizia didn't even suffer from any stress related disorders unlike Crown Princess Masako who could not bear a male heir to the Chrysanthemum throne or face the media. Maaflah tapi saya tidak berapa suka akan keluarga diraja di Malaysia.

Video of Infanta Sofia's first appearance outside Ruber

Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark also welcomed their new daughter who has yet to be named on the 21st of April. It is a Danish tradition that the royal babies only be named during their official baptism. A very 'perasan' tradition if you ask me since news of Infanta Sofia's birth was announced in Spain through SMS. By the way, Crown Princess Mary is actually an Australian who met her husband in a bar during the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Sounds like every girl's dream fairytale but it is true ..

Enough of royalty and babies, I will now move on to my favourite subject - airplanes. If you think i'm insane, you might as well skip the next part. Don't even bother letting the pictures load .. haha

These are some of the new airline liveries I so absolutely love ..

Cathay Pacific's livery to celebrate the delivery of its 100th aircraft. This B777 has surely flown a lot as it has been spotted at many airports.

This specific livery doesn't look permanent but it's aim is to promote Hong Kong. Well, it does state "Asia's World City". I guess it's similar to MAS's 'Freedom of Space'.

Qatar's new one is one hell of a eye-candy to me. This new livery comes at a right time when they are rapidly expanding their network. Their old one looked really outdated. I like how the fonts are now much bigger and that their antelope-like logo gas been enlarged. Thumbs up for QR. Most probably gonna fly QR to beirut at the end of the year.

This Jet Airways livery was launched about two weeks ago and this is the first aircraft with it. Definitely looks better than their old livery. Much more modern-like which makes you wanna fly with them.

United Airlines livery ain't very new but I just like the different shades of blue. The logo on the tail looks fantastic too. I feel that they should do something like extend the words "UNITED". Very empty body towards the tail.

This one here is dedicated to jiam since she was uberly excited when I first mentioned how the outside of the Aer Lingus plane was coloured. I'm not lying and this ones from Ireland. They were asked to fly to KLIA but had not enough aircraft to do so.

Another golden livery to entice travellers. Belonging to Gulf Air the proud-est sponsor of the Bahrain Grand Prix. I guess they copied us since their circuit is located really close to the airport that you always get a picture of their planes together with the track. Sad to say that their livery does not attract enough passengers on their flights.

LAN's livery is really nice too. I guess i'm easily attracted to bluish liveries. Funny thing is that this livery only looks good on certain aircraft (my own opinion of course) ..

Last but not least, we have Finnair which is supposed to have started their Helsinki flights via Bangkok to KLIA last week. There's no news about it on their website or our local news. Perhaps they decide to postpone the launch ?! Many have enjoyed Finnair's advertisements over the past few years. My favourite is the ad promoting their business class lie-flat seats which includes an animated panda travelling. You can watch it below ..

-adios y hasta luego-

In About 120 Words

I have been a very lazy blogger. Lazy's just not the right word .. boring / non-existent seems more like it. Though it would be more logical to say that I was on hiatus, I must admit that I was either too bored or lazy to blog. Notice that these giant pauses in blogging always occur at about the same time every year.

A LOT has been happening since the 4th of April. The mid term holidays are going on at the moment which probably means that this blog would hopefully be getting sudden spurs of posts. These two weeks of holidays has been a much needed yet awaited one. My time this year's been passing like the wind. It's been homework and studying ever since form 5 started.

Then, the exams came. Doubt so if I would need to explain all the stress involved in cramming as much facts as possible in that precious brain of ours. Brandon has been a very bad example to follow in the two weeks that the exam was on. Procrastination just fills my life forever. You have matthews in the first week of may going "If you don't start studying now, you are a fool". I have that ringing in your head but the moment I reach home, there's take a nap, go online, watch more tv whispering in my ears. It wasn't till the weekends before the exam that I started revising. Some was even done the night before till like 2 am once.

Thank god I could go through every paper considerably well though I was dozing off half way through some of the papers. I actually had to be woken up by that goldfish dorothy during moral. I just hate moral and don't be surprised if I end up going for classes after school with matthews. Probably gonna fail miserably again. All I could remember was the first nilai (don't we all) and the last three. You can only imagine much tembak-ing I did in the span of two hours. In spite of all this, me and jiam share the same sentiment of eagerly wanting the holidays to end soon so we could get hold of our marks. Not sure whether you all out there got the same feeling but it is plain strange. Better just enjoy the holidays first.

Anyway, this is what's been happening throughout my apparent hiatus ..

Mummy back again --> but from beirut this time .. rather last minute as she had to attend my step-bro's graduation in manila first. Left April 23 .. was here for about 2 weeks

beloved hip mamma

Good Charlotte Live in KL (21 April 07) --> yet another 'let's wait and see whether I get to go' event .. my cousin surprised me with the 2 extra tickets he won from some MTV contest. Lo, One Buck Short and Estranged were the opening acts. They were boring except for Lo. GC's performance was not what I expected. Long and under-rated. Having Joel go "I wanna move to Malaysia" about 3 times ain't entertaining at all. Muse was so much better =)

Sports Day (21 April 07) --> Mummy got lost on the way there. Almost left out of the march past because I forgot my tie. Thank god for Johann's extra tie. Nothing spectacular. Yellow house won and red house was last

Physics PEKA Practical test --> Performed horribly. So little time given yet so many tasks to do. Couldn't finish a lot and simply screwed my measurements up. Yeah, I still cannot connect my own electrical circuit .. pathetic.

May was rather uneventful. Studying, exams and now holidays ..

So as not to bore you people any further, I'll just be posting some pictures of our favourite reality tv stars. Everybody loves their reality tv stars ! X)

Eric and Danielle - they won the Amazing Race All-Stars edition

ANTM Cycle 7 winner Caridee !! -- my favourite to win other than Brooke

I still hate Melrose . . she should have committed suicide after losing .. so i hoped


Another consecutive season of AI with me hating the winner. Sorry you Jordin fans but she's not appealing to me at all. I was counting on Melinda all this while but looks like she wasn't 'hot' enough for the american audience. Blake wasn't that bad too but his beat-boxing was just inappropriate at times. Hands down, i'm remaining 100% anti jordin.

-adios y hasta luego-